Story from Multiple Eyes

This post maybe kinda TL;DR but since I love these 3 series so I have painstakingly tabulated the difference between these 3 series.Heheh.. so, enjoy :P

The mothers in the show  (the one that is in their 40s) are always, hot and thin.

The character that you worshipped in TV because he is ever so cool (*cough* Grissom *cough* House) and whose some people are delusional enough to think they shared their traits, NEVER watch tv. At the very least, do not watch TV as incessantly as you do. 

Same goes to other characters who make constant reference to pop culture or TV reference are never shown watching TV, while that much knowledge of TV shows shown by the characters required a min of 4 hours TV time almost every day. 

The baldies or the fatties always get the hotties. 

You can be making barely minimum wage but still can afford an apartment to yourself.

Guys are constantly asking random strange women for their numbers. (Maybe it didn't happen only to me?)

People on TVs only have these job: Reporters, doctors, lawyers, mysterious businessman (who constantly traveled but you have no idea the wares they are peddling about), writers/editors, cops or any govt officials (super secret or not), chefs (and anyone in the food industry but never the butchers).

The women woke up with their make up still on. (This constantly happened in Malay TV drama)

The character: a naive, kampung girl who don't have any money and had just misscarry. But yet, when the character was shown termenung di luar bilik dengan kain batik, her hair is immaculately shiny and highlighted in brown streaks.

The kitchen is ever so spotless, even if they are cooking up a storm. 

You rarely ever used the power adapter for your laptop. I guess all those wires are so messy and in TV land the battery life of a laptop must be some kind of perpetual energy one.

I wish I can type this in my own blog but my hosting keep going down. Schmuck!! (Mental note: Need to change hosting next month. This month pokai already)

So, the World Cup has officially ended with Spain emerged as the winner even though the final match was a bit blergh. Seriously, I was begging for the game to end without caring who win when it was additional extra time. C'mon, a football game without any goal is so BORINGG!

For this post, I am just gonna put some interesting facts (from my personal p.o.v) and pictures about what happened for this World Cup. After all, this is a wrap-up post, aight? 

And... last but not least...

i) Bend it Like Beckham Lampard.

Sempena demam World Cup 2010, meh nak story sket perihal bola selaku peminat bolasepak yang tak seberapa hardcore. CAUTION: Post ini akan dirojakkan dah tidak boleh digunakan sebagai contoh karangan terbaek untuk Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia subjek BM.

Aku start didedahkan dgn bola sepak waktu sekolah rendah lagi. Bukan sebab aku terer, tapi sebab aku ni kaki bangku. Maka jeles teramatlah kt star2 bola waktu tu. FYI Akmal Rizal is my schoolmate, mmg budak ni terer main dari dulu lagi.

Jadi bila dah tak reti sepak, maka terpaksa lah main bola kertas pakai kotak rokok / kotak ubat nyamuk atau kotak2 lain yang bole dilipat. Aku tau liga Italy dlo dari EPL, Lazio, Sampdoria, Fiorentina etc sebab semua team liga bola kertas ni ada pasukan Serie A masing2.


Masuk sekolah menengah. Masih tak reti2 nak pegi tengok Kedah FC main di Stadium Darulaman walopon time tu Kedah FC agak berjaya. Time sekolah menengah form 1, 1994, dah ada World Cup. Senior2 form 5 berjaya membawa keluar TV dari bilik TV dan dipertontonkan kepada semua pelajar di court takraw depan hostel. Mungkin dengan izin warden.

Form 1, mana tau lagi pasal World Cup... sungguh slowpoke.

Form berikut2nya... ada laa tau sikit2 pasal EPL dan Serie A. Itu pon dari game mahsyur Championship Manager (CM). Since aku tadak PC, maka dengar2 dari mulut peminat bola sajalah. Kegilaan aku terhadap CM memuncak time aku di U. Ohh laju sangat...

Form 5, kami antara batch unik yang mampu menonton World Cup 2 kali di sekolah. Waktu tu aku just join the flow. Rasa teringin nak tengok final antara Brazil (feveret ramai) VS France (bole kata underdog jugaklah). Sapa tak heran bila France tapau Brazil time tu. Bilik TV dihampar dengan tilam2 junior (terasa sungguh senpai time ni) dan ramai yang tidur dulu sebelum match dimulakan. Bila gol, aku terbangun, lompat2, tidur balik.

Fast forward sebelum masuk U, aku teringin nak tengok kehebatan game CM maka, beli laa satu lanun punya (waktu tu kedai PC game pirate belambak sangat2). Maka terjebaklah aku dengan satu ketagihan yang maha dahsyat, lagi dahsyat dari nikotin (can be taken together while playing the game lol). Setengah hari boleh hilang begitu saja dengan berlagak terer sebagai Encik Manager menguruskan team bola yang power. Aku ehem*menangEVERYTHING*ehem bila pakai Arsenal hahaha.


Masa masuk U, ada PC baru, sekali lagi terjebak walaupon time tu, CounterStrike pon sama naik. Hasilnya, keputusan CGPA yang xberapa membanggakan.

Masa bermain CM lah pengetahuan aku pasal bola makin meluas. Kenal habis segala star player. Yang super2 sub, yang muda2 high potential kenal habis walaupon rupa betul tak pernah tengok. Dan dengan CM lah, aku minat sedikit dengan EPL (English Premier League).

Minat sikit saja. Tak sefanat sampai beli jersey ori atau gantung poster permain terhandal (sedikit ghey bila terkenang penggantung2 poster bola). Minat tengok gameplay, minat tengok jaringan yang hebat2, minat tengok keeper terbang save bola yang hebat2, minat tengok player bergaduh.

Kalau letak rating 0 (HARAM TAK MINAT LANGSUNG) kepada 10 (SUPERFANAT KO KUTUK TEAM AKU AKU BUNUH KAOOO), aku maybe dekat 5. Team feveret kalah? Tarahal... tahun depan try lagi. Tak pernah pulak aku emo pasal bola.

So sekarang, 2010, tahun World Cup. Aku dah kahwin, dah ada bini. Dah ada TV, dah ada rumah sendiri. Tahun ni aku terasa nak try tengok apa rasa peminat2 bola sepak bila tengok live matches. 32 team terhebat seluruh dunia dengan kesebelasan (tak termasuk simpanan) yang terhebat berentap untuk satu piala. Apa aku rasa? Rasa agak best bila tengok perlawanan yang hebat, tambah2 lagi bila dapat lampu hijau dari isteri tersayang bole tengok kt mamak. Lagi hebat sorakkan, lagi meriah. Asal ada kerusi, duduk saja mana2, sembang saja dengan strangers, bersosial masa World Cup amat mudah.

Walaupun WC kali ni dicemari dengan keputusan kontroversi dan kekalahan awal team overrated (LOL ENGERLAND), dalam pentas WC, tiada pasukan yang invincible, tiada uber power player (LOL CRonaldo), ada macam2 kemungkinan. Di sini, tactics, disiplin, semangat juang, human errors, teamwork dan mungkin juga tuah yang menjadi faktor kemenangan.

World Cup adalah acara sukan dimana politik negara diabaikan, antara waktu2 tertentu dalam dunia dimana keamanan sempat dirasai walaupun hanya beberapa hari. Peminat duduk dimeja, bersorak bersama peminat2 yang lain tanpa rasa malu, tanpa ada double standard, tanpa ada -ism2 yang negatif.

The greatest game on earth? You bet!

P/S: Aku sokong Netherlands. GO ORANJE!

Vampire Diaries. It rocks.

I watched it initially because only because of Ian Somerhalder. Those who don't know him, need to see this and understand why come morning during the weekend, the first series I am itching to watch is Vampire Diaries.

The Hotness, It Burns. (I took that 'quote' from a forum btw)

At first it started kinda shaky. Everybody seems so cliche. The dreamy hunky vampire guy (reminisce of Angel), the bad boy (reminisce of Spike), Elena - (even seems to be abit like Sookit Stackhouse).

But then around episode 6 or 8, the series found it feet. And boy, it does so in time. The story does not meander. We can see the arc and the writers execute it nicely. Every episode ends with a cliffhanger, but the writers do not drag out the stories and beat it to a pulp. The characters, cliche as they were at first begin to branch out becoming more human, not caricature ( this is what 90210 does to their characters). A+ for character development. All of the characters are extremely likable, only 1 person make me feel stabby, but that maybe because she tried to kill Damon (Ian Somerhalder) so I am a tad bit bias. If I am so incline to channel TWOP Raoul the Gay Dragon I would say" DEATH TO THOSE WHO WOULD HARM OR TRY TO SINGED THE HOTNESS CURVED EYEBROWS!" (Sorry, that is an injoke for those who read TWOP recaps)

Like I said, I started to watch it to roll my eyes around, then the series begin to get quite good and compelling. Nowadays the first thing I looked forward comes weekend is eating breakfast while watching Vampire Diaries. It is that good.

Why does the show turned my dislike of the show to absolute love. 

1. I like that most of what they show is not pointless. Most character and scenes have impact to the main cast and the ripples from these characters and scenes can be seen many episode onwards.

2. The characters is not pathetic nor ditzy. Elena is meh at first then become awesome. Caroline is irritating at first then become ... I couldn't find the word yet. Pathetic? (Edit later: Ops! I know. A many layered person. She have great range). They know their weakness, they don't revel in it, they try to make improvement. Hence great character development.

3. Got great supporting older cast.Gossip Girl, Rufus and Lily are just not necessary to be always to be thrown obstacles in their life while here Alaric, Jenna and Uncle John is extremely watchable. Well, Jenna may need some improvement, but they know where to push her into the scenes. And not incorporate a story just for a sake of a story for the actor, e.g. Rufus and Lily.

4. The hotness of the cast does help also la kan. Aside from Ian Somerhalder, Paul Wesley (Stefan) have quite a chiseled abs that he likes to show off, Zach Roerig (Matt) is lovable and of course the girls are extremely pretty.

5. The vampires do not sparkle.

The finale was fantastic and frustrating because I don't want **** nor **** to die! And I have to wait months before I know if they really 'kick the bucket'.

Lets hope Season 2 does not sucks.

I take quite a liking into British series. I don't think it needed anymore explanation to it. It's different somehow. Another British series that I'm hooking up with is Hustle. To put it similar term to American series is Leverage but in more cooler way than Leverage. Hustle strictly about con man; and their long con game. Long con is con which involved complicated scheme than short con which always yield better results in term of monetary. Long con is like pyramid scheme. So, what so great about this series? First, it's all about long con. Second, it's all about 6 episodes per season. Yeah, shorter than mini series of American series. Third, it's brilliant.

The series itself doesn't involved much of hacking but more on social engineering and confident trick. The success of the con most of the time not involving hacking at all. I also found that the way they construct the con and the explanation come after the con successful just amazing. The emotion and dialogue is witty and real enough, unlike Leverage.

I just finish watching season 6 of Hustle. I found the cast of season 5 become better in term of chemistry and the con become more complicated. I like the mouse and cat games between Mickey Brick's team with Police and MI6. Brilliant, just brilliant. The witty dialogue and fourth wall breaking still there, make me feel at home. Season 6 brought back Kelly Adams (Emma) and Matt Di Angelo (Sean) with the original cast of Adrian Lester (Mickey), Robert Glenister (Ash) and Robert Vaughn (Albert).

What can I say? Just go and watch the season 6. :)

I'm not a musical person. I don't really watch musical per se. I found that most musical pursuing ballads, show music and theatrical kind of music. Those kind of music somehow not my cup of tea though I admit that I did listen to some ballads songs. However, I found that as long as the musical involved rock songs, I could accept it. I guess, it's all goes back to musical preferences. Bad musical is musical that having no rock music. I just can't tolerate it. Good musical need to have rock music. At least that's for me.

So, I found my love to musical bring me close to Glee. The adventure starts when I first listening to a friends music collection that contains musical mash-up of "It's my life" and "Confessions". And I thought, wow...that's cool. Ok, I been listening to "Don't stop believin" by Glee cast but somehow the mash-up get me attracted to Glee.

Another musical based movie that get me running high is Bandslam. Cool! I could see Vanessa Hudgens in different outfit than her High School Musical outfit. Aly Michalka is awesome, the songs selection just brilliant. I could just sing along and love the song. The storyline wasn't as bad as it could go but wasn't a masterpiece either. In overall, it did have few merits that could score point with musical crowd. Hint: The ska and indie crowd might having fun listening to the musical selection.

Now, I'm off to get the new episode of Glee. :P

I am not feeling my best today. Try as I can, I find myself hating anything I want to write. So I want to leave a little piece of TV news and comment a bit about it.

They are making a TV series about zombies. Its about damn time, I say.

The filming should start around this week and debut at the US this fall. I myself, can't wait. There'd been too much vampires series, not enough zombies. I just hope it don't sucks.

Now I am finding myself itching to buy the graphic novel series while waiting for the pilot to debut. Gah!