Wednesday, August 30, 2006
I'm an MTV Kid. There will always be something about MTV that's got me hooked. It's not even solely about music videos. There are programmes like "Room Raiders", "Boiling Points", "Pop Inc", "Score", the list goes on...
Lately I'm really into "Tiara Girls" and "My Super Sweet 16". Each episode of "Tiara Girls" basically documents a certain girl's journey as she participates in a certain pageant. The pageant could be as big as "Miss Teen USA" or something more unknown like "Miss Val Verde" (yeah, I haven't heard about that before too).
Watching this show, as well as the other shows on MTV, gives me some insight into the lifestyle of the average American teen, or at least I think. Anyway, I really like "Tiara Girls" because of the glamour factor. Gorgeous, voluptuous teenage girls with perfect skin and teeth. What's not to like?
But goodness, some of these girls are stupid. Ignorant is probably a more accurate word. One of the girls thinks that Kennedy is the current president of the USA. My God, I'm not even an American citizen and I possibly know more about the country than she does. Another girl thinks that "abstinence" is the state of being absent from school. Jaw drop, roll eyes.
Speaking of rolling eyes, I was at the bus interchange yesterday, queueing (sp? I can never figure this out) for this bus. Then another bus comes along, and I can take that bus too, so I tried exiting from the lane. There were about seven, eight people in my way. So I was doing the "excuse me, excuse me" thing for the first few people in my way. Then there were three people left. First two were kids, and they automatically siam out of the way, since they presumably heard me saying the "excuse me" thing just now. The last one, was the kids' mother, a short overweight woman.
Now, her foot was in the way, but I was thinking, "I'm tired of saying 'excuse me', so I think I'll just squeeze through". Now come to think about it, that was pretty foolish, because the said woman is overweight. (No offence to other overweight people, unless you were that woman. But she's probably not very well-educated, and hence the chances of her reading this blog, or any other blog for that matter.) But well, I'm not, so it was quite possible. In any case, I was expecting her to move her foot out of the way without me doing or saying anything.
So, was I being self-centred in a way? Like, "Oh, I am all important and everyone will respond to my actions automatically so I do not have to say a word." No. I expected her to do that, because that is something I would have done for anyone passing by. Some sort of a wordless courtesy, perhaps? Would you have shifted your foot automatically if you saw someone about to pass by? Not like it's going to make your day to "trap" someone in the lane right?
Well this woman kept her foot there, and she said very loudly, "SAY EXCUSE ME CAN", so loudly such that everyone queueing (sp?) at that section of the interchange probably heard her. What's wrong with her?! Argh!!! So anyway, I was too tired to quarrel with her, so I just said, "Excuse me", walked past her, turned back and rolled my eyes at her.
What, now you're going to say that I'm being impolite? Whatever. I'm too tired to fight with you too.
Yeah, so where were we? Oh yeah. Tiara girls. Well, I want to be a tiara girl too! (Roll eyes)
And I don't know if I meant it.
♥ The lights faded at
11:10 pm
