I want my TiVO!

Has Tivo come to us?

After years of watching Miranda sink into depression when her Tivo brokedown; Astro in 2006 is giving us AstroMax; record the live INXS supernova and playback only your favourite singer; while watching CSI on 17. Pause the channel while you decorate your porcelain? Suuuure why not. Of course its nice to be in Malaysia whre same programs are repeated on national television – flip to one national channel and you get an earlier ersion of CSI.  Its fun seeing Grisson marinate dead rat in sewer-like waters 4x in a month (on weekdays, on CSI Sundays, on national TV – never ending re-runs keeps me saying Eww to his relationship to Sara Sidle).

Just FYI i’m still in love with David Caruso.

Was gonna say, something needs to be done to his hair – but no. Horatio Caine is cool no change required.

Back to Tivo –

How much?

How much do i want it?

Advertising agencies are Lust Machines. They make you think you want what you don’t need and make you need it so much as if you won’t be able to breathe if you don’t depart with your money to acquire one. And I am my own lab rat. My skepticism have waned over the years (eg. Do you want to sign up free for life? 10 years ago: No. Now: ok lah wat document u nid?) – I’ll position myself as a consumer. If in 3 months i actually start placing an order for this tivo – then

i’ll step up and congratulate the ad team – they have managed to convince me.

The genie and the two dirty wishers can dream away on sales – Why wish for a car on an island not big enough to experience driving it? If they’re trying to tropicalize the quote ’selling ice to eskimo’ – they failed.

Are you Yaris?

kah kah kah… wat u tok2 one? I no understand your england so powderful.

get back to planet earth, Samwise – this is not hobbiton.

Speak English!!

(and pls take the yaris ad out of my sight forever)

Is it saturday?

A sensational story which beckons all kinds of conclusions and primetime slot from Larry King to Star News Asia begs A-Hallmarktype movie. I spent half my Saturday afternoon online searching and reading everything and anything on Jonbenet Ramsey and the person suspected for her murder. My headphone volume is maxxed to Jewel’s ‘Pieces of You’ – I don’t know what to think or say, I’m just reading articles upon articles of the same quotes repeated in every publication. I even reached a website of an ouija conversation with JBR’s spiritual guardian.

Perhaps my mind’s is trying to block formulation of rage. Or I’m just plain stoned, but I certainly was concentrating more on the lyrics from the song…

Shes a pretty girl, does she make you think nasty thoughts?
Shes a pretty girl, do you want to tie her down?
Shes a pretty girl, do you call her a bitch?
Shes a pretty girl, did she sleep with your whole town?
Pretty girl, pretty girl, do you hate her cause shes pieces of you?

Eternal Rest Grant Unto Her Oh Lord…

You want updates?

When we were kids, we look to our role models and emulate their quirks and habits to project a learned self to our peers. The bigger we talk, the better the impression we give.  How can we dare to say we don’t love ourselves? Even the grunge kid who sings of hate and suicide is self-possessed. He whines about the sad state of his life over marijuana, failing to realise that the most frequent word he uses in his vocabulary is ‘Me’.  Growing up is so hard for kids and the government is trying to ensure that none of you – gets to experience the bad things in life (like drugs, sex and rock and roll).

Those were the days my friends – riding on eternal bliss on the smokes emanating from your cola-filled bong. The biggest worry would be how to shut down the nagging noise of wisdom which seems to come from our parents (you have to have a degree boy…). Our pain is so significant we fail to realise how small it is until we have graduated, slacked and partied a few years – and found our place, inevitably – in a cubicle which will be your home for the next few years of your adulthood.

You are never grown up until you find yourself face to face with a problematic situation which is stuck like a caged bird – there’s no way out but sudden death; and listening to the word ‘death’ in my post kurt-cobain is a very real situation. This kind of new worry is painful. This kind of new worry is an acknowledgement of the process of growing. It’s not a broken nail; it’s not a cheating boyfriend or being stuck in a traffic jam. Everyday, situations piles up higher and faster; and when it hits; it forces you to take a step back and jog down memory lane to get to the root of it all. Where have all the flowers gone?

Probably fading from too much insecticide and too much of what you thought was love.

Most of us are utterly predictable. If they are interested in your name, it’s only because they are interested in getting into your pants. If they are interested in your job, chances are they will find you profitable to their career advancement. These are things to boast about at the coffee machine at work. Oh I had coffee with so-and-so, I’m working on getting a big-ass account which will guarantee my promotions. Why not. More money is always nice. What about the situation at home?

Is the stove constantly warm? Is the bed getting cold?

How do we tackle a problem which is four-walled by restrictions of religion? Indeed one needs not strictly abide to it but the consequences of doing so will affect everybody concerned. How do we go about it if the one person who has become your world has been living in a lie? How long will this lie go on for? Eternity – if no one will step up and address the situation.

Don’t ask why or how all this came about. Take it in stride and rally your family & friends for a positive support. All that used to sound so corny once upon a time ago, becomes the light which will stop you from groping for answers in the dark. Someone will be there to help you move forward.

What’s that line from Mythbuster again?

You are responsible for your own wake. Your decisions will ultimately decide your path in life. And when you find the courage to do that, you will realise there will be those who have been walking right behind you all the way –