My life support: Discovery Channel.
My goal in life: Watch every episode of Mythbusters.
My other goals in life: Watch all other nice shows on Discovery.
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Anyway, I watched a fairly stupid show on National Geographic Channel today. I would say ‘fairly’ because I’ve watched worse, worse than what Mediacorp is known for producing.
That show is called ‘Is It Real?’. Sounds interesting yeah? It is about the mythical animal known as the ‘cupacrabra’. Sightings of this 'beast' dates back to the seventies, when farmers in Puerto Rico found their goats/ cows/ ducks/ chickens/ pigs/ whatever livestock dead with weird puncture wounds. Coming to no conclusions on what killed their animals, they pinpoint the culprit to a figment of their wonderful imagination, the goatsucker, or cupacrabra. Exciting. Then the show continues with how farmers in America also came across this dubious animal. This time, some said that this animal has wings, spines down its back and goggles-like green eyes. Wow, in other words, this animal they are dealing with is a freak. Nothing can get more nonsensical when this woman who claimed she saw the animal said that she felt the animal was trying to communicate with her. Crazy. I initially thought I was watching something educational; it turned out to be something detrimental. I became dumber after watching a bunch of farmers and scientist arguing whether the goatsucker is real or not. In the end, the culprits were unmasked, regular domestic dogs. I just felt sorry for Tricia, and myself for sitting in front of the TV for one whole hour, only to get fooled by humans who got fooled by dogs.
Well, nothing can win another crap show I watched on Discovery Channel a few days ago. It’s called ‘Lost Tapes’ and just as its title suggests, it should show authentic video footages of whatever recovered lost tapes of some awesome adrenaline-rushing adventures right? Yah riiiiiiiiiiight. All I got was a re-enacted footage done by not-so-pro actors; I cringe looking at their acting. It’s really difficult to stomach down. The storyline was bad too, about a group of friends entering a cemetery trying to see if some dog from Hades really exists(yes, another mythical domestic canine). If anyone were to see this green-eyed dog for three times, he or she will die. Okay, this is getting repetitive. Are Americans really so bored and have nothing to do but come up with silly such urban myths? Even so, can’t they be a little bit more creative and come up with another animal not a dog? Even a purple dinosaur would be more exciting than some green-eyed scruffy animal. GOOSHNESS! Another hour of my life lost watching nonsense. Thankfully there’s still Mythbusters.
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It is so painful to watch Taiwanese variety programme 食尚玩家.
I see the hosts go all around Taiwan sourcing for and tasting the best foods out there, while I’m in Singapore drooling over the TV and chewing my remote control.
Taiwan, I’m coming! June 10, come quick!
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