I love watching TV...who doesn't? It distracts you from the trials and tribulations (and usually turmoil) of your real life and gives you an opportunity to switch off and unwind without actually going anywhere physically.
But since I came back to Malaysia, watching TV has become increasingly annoying...wondering why?
I just couldn't understand these local programs (that includes a certain music channel by the way which is owned by a Malaysian company)...not because of the language barrier - because there are a wide variety of English shows, but because of the presenters/actors/hosts etc...
Has anyone ever noticed that all these people are not real?
Stop, wait - they are real people...but how much of the population do these people represent?
I have been away, and in the place where I was, you will find people on TV - REAL people...short people, tall people, Indians, Africans, Jamaicans, Chinese, people who aren't the best looking people, people who are simply stunning...the list goes on...
And this realisation spilled over to the adverts I saw on the local TV too...
Who are those people in the the adverts? And for God's sake why are there no people of colour in the advertisements? Do these companies only want porcelain-white coloured people to purchase their products? And thinking back, I don't think I have come across an Indian on an advert...or reading the news, or presenting anything...
What's going on?
When is this blatant racism going to stop?
And don't get me started on the adverts for whitening products....
In fact, whilst abroad, I saw a program (a chat show)where the subject was whitening products..better still, the host said that she had gotten the idea after a trip to MALAYSIA where she had seen these adverts on the local TV...
HOW EMBARRASSING
Now the whole world can know about the racism here!
So what's the moral here...?
If you want to be on tele, you have to bleach your face, or have at least one parent who is white...and if you're Indian/African/Jamaican or have a hint of a tan - don't bother, just stick to the home videos.
Isn't that just sad?
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
The problem with...
...Malaysian graduates (local unis):
1. mono-lingual
2. memorise to get through...parrot learning
3. taught just to pass exams...err...so what happens when you go out to work?
4. no problem solving skills
5. charisma?
MORAL: read as much as possible...watch the news...not just in Malay...question lecturers...encourage inquisitiveness
...Malaysian drivers:
1. 'Its all about me' attitude
2. zero courtesy
3. 90% (my own educated guess) paid for their licenses...
4. never indicate
5. never give way...and worse still horn at me and curse when I stop to give way!
MORAL: go home and stop driving you selfish ba$tards!
...Malaysian men:
1. want a woman to cook, clean, look good, and work...and have kids
2. want a woman who works but is not in a better position than them
3. meet you in a club when you're wearing a tight short number...but once you're officially dating them, tell you not to go clubbing and not to wear such revealing clothes
4. don't like you being too independent/opinionated/driven/intelligent
5. restrict your friends...or even tell you to cut some off
MORAL: don't complain when we dump you for your crappy mentality and resistance to change - and for God's sake go and learn how to cook!
...Malaysian food/drink:
1. full of coconut milk
2. full of belcan
3. use condensed milk in tea/coffee
4. everything is fried - even the fruits!
5. fat in everything - and in vast quantities!
MORAL: don't complain about fast food when the problem is the local food...just look at fried noodles, nasi lemak, cendol...
1. mono-lingual
2. memorise to get through...parrot learning
3. taught just to pass exams...err...so what happens when you go out to work?
4. no problem solving skills
5. charisma?
MORAL: read as much as possible...watch the news...not just in Malay...question lecturers...encourage inquisitiveness
...Malaysian drivers:
1. 'Its all about me' attitude
2. zero courtesy
3. 90% (my own educated guess) paid for their licenses...
4. never indicate
5. never give way...and worse still horn at me and curse when I stop to give way!
MORAL: go home and stop driving you selfish ba$tards!
...Malaysian men:
1. want a woman to cook, clean, look good, and work...and have kids
2. want a woman who works but is not in a better position than them
3. meet you in a club when you're wearing a tight short number...but once you're officially dating them, tell you not to go clubbing and not to wear such revealing clothes
4. don't like you being too independent/opinionated/driven/intelligent
5. restrict your friends...or even tell you to cut some off
MORAL: don't complain when we dump you for your crappy mentality and resistance to change - and for God's sake go and learn how to cook!
...Malaysian food/drink:
1. full of coconut milk
2. full of belcan
3. use condensed milk in tea/coffee
4. everything is fried - even the fruits!
5. fat in everything - and in vast quantities!
MORAL: don't complain about fast food when the problem is the local food...just look at fried noodles, nasi lemak, cendol...
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Malaysian-Indian-movie-men...
So I was walking along some road in PJ state today - with my dad might I add, when some loser guy makes this sound at me. It was a cross between a fake European-esq air kiss and a curry-mee noddle slurp...yuck!
So, much to my dad's horror, I turned around and informed the guy that making such sounds was in no way an appropriate means of attaining a young lady's attention (let alone affection). I then continued to ask him if he had ever gotten a girl that way...He just stared and blinked back. I figured that either he didn't understand me, or he wanted to curse at me but held back on account of my dad being there.
It's not the first time a guy has made that awful sound at me - and I know for sure that I am not the only lady out there who has been noodle-slurped at. I really don't know how these guys get girls at all - but that is definitely not the way to go about it!
I figured out that these guys - sadly Indian, are getting their 'inspiration' from the Indian movies - correction - Tamil movies.
Before I go on, I must state that I do not condone the watching of lame, unimaginative Tamil movies, where people chop limbs off of others in fights, and men drink, smoke and work and women stay at home and cook...where the men come back at 3am drunk and the women meekly ask "have you eaten?". Hell no. That is not what I watch.
In the Tamil movies, guys make ridiculous noises at the girls - and almost always make stupid - and usually insulting comments at girls when they walk past them.
And next thing you know, the loser guys here are mimicking this pathetic 'tactic' and us girls are getting the bad end of it all.
In the Tamil movies, the 'cool' guys smoke and chop people up in fights.
Hang on a minute...that's exactly what the (self proclaimed) 'cool' Tamil guys in Malaysia do too...
In Tamil movies the 'cool' guy is never an investment banker, or a CEO of a Fortune 500 company...but a cab driver, or a jobless troublemaker...
Yes...I do believe that is yet another thing that is evident in the Tamil community here...
See a pattern folks?
I know I speak for hundreds of young Tamil girls in Malaysia when I say that I hate it when guys make comments at me/to me when I walk past them - and I can guarantee that it will not yield any attention from myself or any other self-respecting young woman. In fact lately, it has been getting quite the opposite...I have resulted in questioning these guys about the success rate of their tactics merely to baffle, annoy and perhaps...maybe...provoke a little thought in their Tamil-movie-infested brains...
We women deserve to be wooed. Where are the gentlemen? The ones who approach us confidently, slightly smiling, and use exciting double-entendres and un-heard of lines, that leave us in a daze and wanting more?
Well, wherever they are - it's not here.
So don't blame us girls who go off and find men outside of Malaysia. They know how to talk to us. And even better still, they know how to listen too.
So, much to my dad's horror, I turned around and informed the guy that making such sounds was in no way an appropriate means of attaining a young lady's attention (let alone affection). I then continued to ask him if he had ever gotten a girl that way...He just stared and blinked back. I figured that either he didn't understand me, or he wanted to curse at me but held back on account of my dad being there.
It's not the first time a guy has made that awful sound at me - and I know for sure that I am not the only lady out there who has been noodle-slurped at. I really don't know how these guys get girls at all - but that is definitely not the way to go about it!
I figured out that these guys - sadly Indian, are getting their 'inspiration' from the Indian movies - correction - Tamil movies.
Before I go on, I must state that I do not condone the watching of lame, unimaginative Tamil movies, where people chop limbs off of others in fights, and men drink, smoke and work and women stay at home and cook...where the men come back at 3am drunk and the women meekly ask "have you eaten?". Hell no. That is not what I watch.
In the Tamil movies, guys make ridiculous noises at the girls - and almost always make stupid - and usually insulting comments at girls when they walk past them.
And next thing you know, the loser guys here are mimicking this pathetic 'tactic' and us girls are getting the bad end of it all.
In the Tamil movies, the 'cool' guys smoke and chop people up in fights.
Hang on a minute...that's exactly what the (self proclaimed) 'cool' Tamil guys in Malaysia do too...
In Tamil movies the 'cool' guy is never an investment banker, or a CEO of a Fortune 500 company...but a cab driver, or a jobless troublemaker...
Yes...I do believe that is yet another thing that is evident in the Tamil community here...
See a pattern folks?
I know I speak for hundreds of young Tamil girls in Malaysia when I say that I hate it when guys make comments at me/to me when I walk past them - and I can guarantee that it will not yield any attention from myself or any other self-respecting young woman. In fact lately, it has been getting quite the opposite...I have resulted in questioning these guys about the success rate of their tactics merely to baffle, annoy and perhaps...maybe...provoke a little thought in their Tamil-movie-infested brains...
We women deserve to be wooed. Where are the gentlemen? The ones who approach us confidently, slightly smiling, and use exciting double-entendres and un-heard of lines, that leave us in a daze and wanting more?
Well, wherever they are - it's not here.
So don't blame us girls who go off and find men outside of Malaysia. They know how to talk to us. And even better still, they know how to listen too.
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