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Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Waste of time
I always feel that watching shows is a waste of time. Especially those serial drama which one episode is about 1 hr and the story is like 20-30 episode PER season. This will add up to watching the show 24 hrs per season per show.
Imagine the amount of stuff we can achieve during this period?

I believe that such drama is just an idealise interpretation on how the director views the world. Something like the games which involves fantasy. People tend to be addicted in such games as they wanted to know how it is like living in such fantasy world. Hence, instead of spending precious time to immerse yourself to view the world others conjure, why not create a world of your own in reality?

You cant achieve anything just by sitting infront of the screen receiving endless useless visual information, can you? There are just so much goodness in the world that can be done.

That is why during my army/ntu days i was never really a fan of much shows and games.

However, my believes are challanged upon attending the chinese cinema's module. Apparantly, there are things that we can learn from this expensive form of Literature. That includes understanding the culture, plight and believes. Watching films therefore became justified for me. Afterall, I need to watch the films for the exams.

Probably it was the containment of not watching shows for a long time, that made me wanted to watch more. Especially the downloading speed is very fast over here. Before i realised it, i have already immersed in shows and more shows....
Maybe it is another story for film scholars, but for me i really feel that i couldnt really learnt anything if i passively take in visual information. Perhaps a show once in a while is good, but so many shows back to back will lead to proactive interference effect that recent shows will be forgotten. WE will know the storyline but cant remember the details. It will seem as thought I had seen alot but actually didnt absorb anything at all.

And everytime I spend hours watching shows, I will feel awfully guilty.
The time i waste could be used to achieve much more like learning or doing great stuff. I know that if this goes on, i will lose the self that make me special and unique. No different from those little people who doesnt persuit their goals and dreams.

Since when do slack people shine? They just grow fat like what is happening to me now. I have to shine even brighter now, for the people on the other side of the Earth to be able to see me clearly...


Catching the falling leaves ...[11:55 AM]
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