..:: 575.. The One With Series ::..

yesterday was at a wonderful dvd store with kelvin, NUS big shot, and i wondered why he didnt choose to become a salesman. he practically watched almost all the dvd series they had on their shelves. he recommended quite a few shows which i hesitated to buy as i knew our tastes were not quite the same.

Dexter, Hustle, Entourage, Boston Legal were his strong recommendations
Gossip Girl was interesting, likewise for Dirt and Nip/Tuck

shall watch a few episodes of those before i decide to buy their series. dvds here are dirt cheap and they are of good quality. i still love my grey's anatomy, 6 feet under and prison break. i was so slow to realise that 'the L word' is actually about lesbians. i am intrigued by this kind of shows cos they always show a lot of personality and interesting behaviors.

now i cant wait for antm to be released. cycle 10 ended just last sunday and it is the only cycle that i did not manage to download in complete series. throughout the cycle, i loved lauren and claire but they were eliminated for the right reason i guess. lauren for her inability to do commercials and claire for her 'one-look' and not being versatile. but i thought they should have let stacey ann go first cos she was also bland, just that tyra keeps harping on her nice jawline and i dont really like her 'model 101' poses, so unnatural. i think for the covergirl (reads: cover the man in you) shoot, i prefer whitney's then fatima and anya last.







i thought whitney's walk on the runway was not at all high-fashion but the judges said she showed her style. o_O she really looked like strutting in a shopping mall. anyway whether anot the show is rigged, a full-figured model has to win to give hope to aspiring models.

but seriously at the end of the day, designers make samples of their works based on a certain build, that's why models have to be of certain height and frame to fit those clothes.

enough of models, back to serious matters. yesterday at about 2.28pm, i could hear sirens and horns from vehicles near my office. only then i realised it was the 3-minute mourning. just puzzled why they wanted to horn for 3-min, cos i thought it is usually moments of silence?

plus, in beijing and shanghai, orders went sent to the entertainment industries to close for 3 days, that includes my fave KTV. o_O though its a nation tragedy, somehow i feel that as depressing as the situation was, we still have to move on. cease entertainment to remind people that they should not enjoy with this incident going on? no TV programs, 24-hour news on the tragedy... it has become so hard for people to move on.

maybe its a different mindset that i have, wouldnt label it as a singaporean mindset. i mean things happen, we feel remorseful and we help in whatever ways we can and we should move on. i was quite disturbed by the repeated news and the voice of the broadcasters telling the people how they should unite and stay strong. how the army and the medical teams sacrifice for the country... of course i know they did and we honour and appreciate, but they dont have to make it so blatant that it almost looks like a propaganda.

maybe singapore has not encountered big incidents, the last one was probably SARS. but i remember that time, they had hourly update and some campaign song by phua chu kang. people still move on, tv still showing comedies and life goes on. maybe i'm comparing apples and oranges but u get the idea.

as china focuses on their own disaster, they had no room for the myanmar cyclone which killed at least twice as many people. no report on other countries or any other news except the olympics and the earthquake.