Showing posts with label TV Shows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TV Shows. Show all posts

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Paws-to-ponder: You can't change your passion

A guy can change anything - his face, his home, his family, his girlfriend, his religion, his God. But there's one thing he can't change.. he can't change his passion.
movie "The Secret in Their Eyes"
Many of us urbanites, we live in the doldrums of our lives, each day waking/ working/ sleeping and waking again. Then the cycle repeats. Sometimes we look at others and wished we were leading our lives in a different way.

In today's Simpsons episode, Homer finds himself living the past 20 years of his life doing exactly the same things every single day. Same job, same home, same habits. He fishes out a stack of letters he exchanged with his Spanish pen pal, Eduardo from his childhood days and reminisced the crazy dreams and ambitions they used to share. To cheer him up, Marge invited Eduardo to meet Homer again to realize the things they wanted to do when they were kids.

I've been slightly inspired by these stories. Reel life, can apply to real life too.

What is important to you? Did you achieve what you set out to do? Are you happy with what you are doing now?

I find that if there is something that keeps coming back to you, something that makes you excited and that you'd gladly lose sleep over - that is an indication that you love it. Innately you'd want to experience more and get better skills to do the things that you love. You become focused and other thoughts melt away. Passion is powerful, it makes people strong and persevering.

If you are passionate about something, why not let it out a little more? Life would be much more fulfilling. You would be happier. As long as you're not going to harm or intrude on others' lives, that would be okay!

Unhappy about your life? Will you gripe or get up and change it now? 
In the words of Homer Simpson.. YOLO!

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Pinocchio the poser puppet

I cannot stand this Pinocchio guy la, he damn poser.


I mean okay la people say he's of humble background, say that his father Geppetto poor wood carver only work work work long hours in the day then no time to educate him like any other boy. That is ok la, I sympathise ok, I do. I know, life in Tuscan in the 1880s for Pinocchio and his ~PaPa~ very tough.

But this Geppetto ar, can actually carve the wood until the wood come alive, I mean, if he has this ability then.. then WoW already! Can go and sell his ability and earn money then can marry a wife and have a proper family already, then can have real sons.

Anyway its quite amazing la, this Pinocchio has no digestion system but he still wants to eat food some more, then so block-head also wan to go school some more. Damn poser, he thinks he is a real boy ar. His ~PaPa~ gave in to his should have sold him to a marionette theatre instead of sending him to school. Such a fascinating block-head sure can fetch a high price!

U noe ol' Geppetto went and sold his coat to buy him books leh! Then then then u noe wat that block-head did? Let's not talk abt the day when he kicked his ~PaPa~ as soon as his legs were carved. Let's also not talk abt him causing Geppetto to be nabbed by a carabineer (aka police officer in those days) because he was thought to have mistreated Pinocchio.

(Side note: I mean, how do u actually abuse a puppet? Really I cannot comprehend wat the carabineer had been thinking. If I were to see a wooden boy running in the streets I'd have called up the newspaper hotline already.)

Anyways, this poser Pinocchio ar, he thought he'd enjoy a marionette show like the rest of the humans. However as we all know, he is a poor boy yadaa yadaa. So he sold off his school books (that Geppetto had bought using the proceeds of selling off his only coat) and bought the tickets for the marionette show. Then he dumb dumb went and disturbed the marionette performance and in the end he was almost used as fire-wood for the marionette master.

The marionette master see him so poser so I guess he must have thought that a poser son would make a horrid son. He sympathised with Geppetto and gave some gold coins to Pinocchio and asked him to bring the coins to his ~PaPa~.

But guess what happened. Pinocchio the poser boy wanted to plant his gold coins so that they could grow into more gold coins - how greedy! - so he de-toured from his route home to plant his gold coins. Alas! He was almost tricked into giving up his gold coins, but he managed to sneak away from his trickers with the help of a fairy.

The fairy was nice to help this poser boy, but with his poser ways, he had attempted to lie to the fairy. And what happens when Pinocchio lies? His nose grew and grew and grew and grew... till he was pinned against the wall and could not move. The fairy had to hire a bunch o' them woodpeckers to chisel down his nose to regular size.

Poser boy Pinocchio and the fairy then agreed to stay together. Pinocchio was sent to fetch his ~PaPa~ from his existing home, but on the way he was tricked another time to continue his journey to a suitable place to plant his gold coins. This time, Pinocchio finally lost his coins to the tricksters.

Pinocchio went to the police to lodge a complaint, but the police thought he was too poser and thus threw him into prison. Some days later, the prison had a celebration and all prisoners were released. Thus Pinocchio was a free poser boy again, and headed home-bound.

On his long journey home, Pinocchio got into various types of trouble, due to his poser attitude. They are really so poser so I shall not discuss the details. Eventually his long absence from home was worrying his ~PaPa~, and his dear ol' ~PaPa~ began to build a boat to sail to distant lands to search for his poser son. Pinocchio rushed to his ~PaPa~ and tried to stop him from sailing off, but he was too late. Geppetto had sailed off and was swallowed by a dogfish! i.e. a monstrous, big, fish.

Pinocchio had earlier wanted to swim towards Gepetto, but as the waves were to strong, he failed and almost was drowned. A kind dolphin offered to give Pinocchio a ride to a nearby island. Poser Pinocchio met the same fairy from earlier, at this island. The fairy reminded Pinocchio of his wish to become a real boy, and told him to be a good boy before he is rewarded with the body of a real boy.

With determination, Pinocchio dutifully attended school. However, being the poser he is, he got into trouble once again, and was nabbed by the police (again). On the way to prison, Pinocchio escaped and poser-ly made his journey home.

When he returned, he saw the same fairy from above from above at his home. The fairy offered him a second chance to be a good boy. From then onwards, Pinocchio tried to set aside his poser ways to work diligently to be a good boy. He passed with flying colours (so cliché) and the fairy was very pleased. She promised him that the next day he will become a real boy.

But before the next day could happen, Pinocchio ran off with a playmate to a place named the Land of Play. In this place, lazy boys who kept playing and playing will automatically be turned to donkeys. But of course the poser Pinocchio did not know of this. He eventually became a donkey and was sold to a circus to perform dangerous poser-donkey stunts. One day he fell and hurt himself and could no longer perform, so he was sold by the circus owner to a drum maker.

The drum maker had wanted to drown the Pinocchio donkey in the sea so that he could skin the dead donkey and use the skin for his drums. The Pinocchio donkey went down the water, and a Pinocchio puppet resurfaced. It turned out that the fish in the sea loved to snack on poser donkey skin, so they had eaten up all the skin and what had remained was the naked puppet skeleton.

The poser Pinocchio dived back into the sea and was eaten by a dogfish. Pinocchio was so upset to be stuck in the fish forever, and then.. he saw a light in the tummy of the massive dogfish. He trailed the light along the squishy inner space of the dogfish, and was led to an old man - who coincidentally, turned out to be Geppetto (how poser!).

Pinocchio somehow managed to bring Geppetto and escape from digestion by the dogfish, and swam him to shore. They slowly made their way to a small house occupied by a poser talking cricket. The cricket allowed their accommodation in lieu of work done. As Geppetto was in poor health after staying within the dogfish for some months, Pinocchio volunteered to work at the farm for the cricket. After some months, he had amassed some wealth and he wanted to buy himself a new set of poser clothing and he went to town to search for one. On the way to the boutique, he met with a talking snail who told Pinocchio that the fairy from earlier from above from earlier was in bad health.

Pinocchio sympathised with her condition and donated all his money to the ailing fairy through the talking snail. That very night, the poser puppet dreamt that the fairy from above from earlier from above from earlier swang by and planted a kiss on his head. When Pinocchio awoke from his dream, he realised that he had finally become a REAL POSER BOY!! The fairy also left other stuff for him, like new boots and clothing, and a bag of gold coins. How convenient.

Poser puppet Pinocchio was then reunited with his ~PaPa~ after he had recovered from his bad health, and they lived happily ever after.. la dee da.

Such a poser-worthy story!! Eesh.




Wednesday, September 23, 2009

What colour is Doraemon?

Do you know Doraemon?


Of course u know Doraemon, practically the whole world knows Doraemon. Doraemon is everyone's favourite robo-cat!

And he is this guy's friend
Nobita

And he loves to snack on this
Dorayaki

Most importantly, we all know that Doraemon has a magic pocket that allows him to carry with him fantabulous futuristic gadgets!

Other things u may not know about Doraemon:

Doraemon had arrived from the 22nd century, and was sent by Nobita's great-great-grandson in order to improve the life of Nobita for the betterment of his future generations to come

Doraemon had been manufactured on 3rd September 2112, and he was considered a poorly produced product because he got hit by lightning during manufacture and thus malfunctioned in several areas

Doraemon weighs 129.3kg and stands at 129.3cm tall. In real life, he would measure up to the size of a very obese little boy.



Now, the fun part.

Doraemon, according to a spin-off from the manga series, was previously supposed to look like this
This translated to 3D terms would be


According to the story, Doraemon used to be a yellow robot cat. One day while taking a nap, a robot mouse climbed on Doraemon and proceeded to gnaw off its ears. When Doraemon realised what had happened to him, he was so sad and he drank a Sadness Potion that made his yellow paint wash off.

From then on, Doraemon was always blue and always afraid of mice.

Such a tragic but cute but cruel but interesting story! Poor Doraemon!

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Polly, Palak Paneer and the Electric Piano

Polly had a punishable day at work, so she needed a little fun and comfort. Polly visited Pushy to play games and watch tele together, and for dinner they ordered Palak Paneer from Brinda's.

Brinda's was new to Polly and Pushy. They learnt of it while running a search on Google, and saw that the delivery hotline was available 24h. The online Brinda's menu offered North Indian cuisine at afforable prices. Click the Brinda's logo for the contact number and menu.

Polly's rating for Brinda's is as follows:
  • Convenience: 5/5
  • Service: 4/5
  • Waiting time: 2/5 (Brinda's took 1.5h to arrive and Polly was starving when it did)
  • Deliciousness: 3/5
Dunno what Pushy has to say about his Brinda's.

Meal-time entertainment was Seinfeld. Pushy loves Seinfeld. Polly loves Pushy. So Polly loves Seinfeld.

After the food, Pushy wanted to brog. Pushy had earlier discovered the game Portal, so Pushy wanted to write about it. Polly was a little bored, so Polly went and fiddled with the electric piano Pushy has in his den.

Polly's love for piano had rekindled! But she sux at it.
O well, Polly's determined to play THIS. Sux or not.