BAN TAIWANESE GAME SHOWS FROM ASTRO!
August 3rd, 2008 » 811 viewsIt’s 5.50am. Been watching this pathetic Mythbuster wannabe called “Smash Lab” for the past hour cause nothing good was on tele. Okay, at least it’s in english.
I have absolutely nothing to do here. NOTHING. I’m bored out of my mind. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO. How many times can I say that to reiterate the fact that I HAVE NOTHING TO DO. There’s Astro, but Mom is always watching Taiwanese game shows. I don’t know why she likes those shows, I don’t know how my brothers can stand it. When Dad’s home, the golf channel will be on instead and as boring as I think the game is, at least the channel is quiet. It helps too that the new generation of golfers are getting hottier. But Dad is in Jakarta now and so it’s Taiwanese game shows all the way. The people in there are so shrieky and I just get so angry and pensive whenever they’re on the idiot box.
What is a Taiwanese game show? Beats me, really. I can tell you how to spot one though. Observe the following:
1. The judges: A panel of women with a clear penchant for plastic surgeries seated in a row. There may or may not be a token male judge.
2. An ugly and/or obnoxious host.
3. A lot of special sound effects to follow after the ugly and/or obnoxious judge made a joke that is not funny.
4. Contestants who don’t seem to know why they’re there.
5. A lot of laughing and screaming and generally headache inducing sounds.
I don’t even know why I’m writing about this. I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO. My main laptop is at my bf’s so I can’t even catch up with work or process any picture. I tried to read but it’s too noisy in here. JIBBER JABBER CHING CHONG CHING CHING JIBBER JABBER. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think..I think I need more friends in Cheras.
Tags: astro, boredom, taiwan game show, taiwanese
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August 3rd, 2008 at 9:57 am
Hmmmm, Taiwanese Gameshows still sound better than my dates though. :-)
August 3rd, 2008 at 10:57 am
It really helps if you know Mandarin ya..
August 3rd, 2008 at 11:57 am
Have you seen the Super Trio Show! It’s in canto and it’s AHHHWWEESOME
August 3rd, 2008 at 1:05 pm
I agree that some Taiwanese game shows have little substance, but that last remark about “CHING CHONG” sounds like you’re another Westerner dissing Mandarin. Are all Malaysian Chinese so self-loathing and hate their common language?
August 3rd, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Taiwanese game show is only good for those who understand mandarin & looking for a couple hours of senseless entertainment.
Some of them are spicy like the super model contest a week or 2 ago where 10 couples wore bikinis and shot their model shot in downtown Taipei or somewhere like that.
No disgrace if one loath this show but if they keep churning this out then there must be a market for it somewhere!
I don’t think most of the fans of those shows come to this blog. This blog is in a different league.
August 3rd, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Cheras, Kim?
Come over to Setapak and I’ll show you one of the best Tom Yam and fruit juice in Kay El.
August 3rd, 2008 at 1:15 pm
dabs: aww *hugs
ky: mandarin sucks
kuzco: agree! love that shit hahaha!
james: there’s the thing, i’m not a westerner. im proud to be a malaysian chinese, taiwanese game show hating and all. thx.
wee tak: yeah i have no clue when it comes to that language. it’s a handicap :( ooh can beat jimmy & nong or not? :)
August 3rd, 2008 at 1:45 pm
I agree with you totally…and I dunno why my mum just likes to keep the that channel on. Grrrr…
Babe, I’m in Cheras!
August 3rd, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Oh btw, absolutely love the colours on ur blog and your header is so sexy, so you… ;)
August 3rd, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Even if I understand Mandarin, I still don’t understand many of those Taiwan game shows. My friends love watching the oh-so-famous ‘Guess Guess Guess’ show and when they laugh, I would go like “Huh? What’s so funny? What did they say?” @_@
August 3rd, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Hate that ‘weeeeeeetttt.. bong” sound.
Or the “kiau…kiau” sound. Fucking irritating.
And and and… the wasabi eating shit.
August 3rd, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Amen to that! Somehow those game show’s producers/hosts find pleasure in torturing the guest stars and audiences. What’s crazy is that people actually find it entertaining.
August 3rd, 2008 at 9:53 pm
kim: oh my i hear you! so where can we hang out here babe??
eryn: lol i just saw Guess Guess Guess on 8TV. thank goodness for subtitles. They were playing “guess which big boobed chick is a university student”. seriously wtf haha
dr. tan: weeeeeeeettttt bong omg exactly lol
c c: guilty pleasure i guess. i mean, i like jerry springer so…haha
August 4th, 2008 at 12:29 am
it’s seriously funny if u understand mandarin. i SO wish my mandarin is better so i can get what’s so funny. ahahah. i sometimes pester my mom to translate for meh…so ashamed of my banana-ness!
those ugly hosts are there only coz they are so funny. unlike HK hosts who are just boring. (like 8tv quickie hosts. ugh)
most canto/HK gameshows all steal ideas from the taiwanese ones anyways. and the taiwanese steal from the japs.
maybe it’s a housewife thing. my ma loves that shit too!! haha
August 4th, 2008 at 12:32 am
I’ve seen those. It’s pretty lame, but I’ve been a Japanese game show (on YouTube) on human tetris. That one was pretty good. I saw one ages ago (also Japanese game show) about this triathlon thing with a twist - people drink heaps of beer, get soaked in a tank of iced water for 15 minutes and see who gets to hold their pee for the longest period. The expression and grimaces of the final two contestants: Priceless!
August 4th, 2008 at 1:24 am
Tell me about it!
There was one particular show where they got people with problems like a guy and bring in his ex-wife to expose his “dirty secrets” to the public no less (like his erectile dysfunction etc.) and watch them argue!
Sometmes they even bring in the kids (who have been listening to the argument behind a screen) and ask them what they think of their parents etc. etc.
Quite…nasty
August 4th, 2008 at 2:58 am
Hey Kimberley :)
Love your header!!! looks so cool and it’s the size that’s astounding. well yea i guess i’m not the only one who thinks so <-referring to ur comment LoL
August 4th, 2008 at 3:11 am
naeboo: wish i knew mandarin too! but when they won’t stop talking or laughing in a language you don’t understand it’s extremely annoying :( japs are very physical and slapstick but the taiwanese seem to just talk and laugh a lot! maybe they were supposed to be witty
hb: lol i’d like to watch that!
cyren: yeah my mom has told me about that. very jerry springer/maury. i think human beings are generally morbid creatures.
samantha: thanks! :). haha the resemblance is uncanny!
August 4th, 2008 at 4:32 am
I only watch Guess, Guess, Guess last time lol.
August 4th, 2008 at 4:55 am
guess who else is from cheras!!!!!
August 4th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
did someone say cheras???!!! me mememememeeeeeeeee i’ll be back late august!!
btw kim, why your banner so drool-inducing wan? tak aci lah macamni, how to tear my eyes away LOLLOLOLOL
August 4th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
you are correcto mundo. i cant really appreciate most chinese talk / game shows cause i cant speak well in mandarin….*grin*. cantonese is ok. i often mispronounced the words and ended up swearing at people…..my friends are always pissed at me lol. but hey ! this is wat life’s all about. you get some, you lose some…especially when it comes to your favourite tv channel. my wife is watching the taiwanese freak show now….sigh..
August 4th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
simon: :D
pinkpau: cheras girls ftw! lol
chen: lol oi cuci mata you!
calvin: yeah i don’t mind cantonese also lol.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
same la, imagine how’d your mum feels when you watch ANTM, Amazing Race or Punk’d!
it’s not that bad if you understand Mandarin.
now they even got hokkien channel, lagi dahsyat! haha.
August 4th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Yah you’re lucky they aren’t watching Hua Hee Dai
August 4th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
it IS very witty! even with my half tong of mandarin i find it hilarious whenever JAcky Wu said sthg sarky. zomg he’s sooooo stupidly funny
August 4th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Reading some of the comments make me feel grateful that I can speak mandarin.
I speaka Malaysian Mandarin and when I wuz in China, I adjusted my accent so much that the mainland girl thought I was a Taiwanese….until I told her I am Malaysian and married.
That ruined it.
August 5th, 2008 at 9:27 am
i totally agree with u. hate it when they scream and when all the fake girls run around like crazy ppl!
August 5th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
i’m in cheras always available!
August 5th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
I don’t have Astro now. So, got no comments on those Taiwanese game shows. Even if I got Astro, I won’t understand their games or Mandarin.
August 6th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
LOL. omg the way your expressed yourself in this post sound so much like me and it cracks me up coz i can feel your frustration.
August 7th, 2008 at 7:02 am
lol @ ST
August 12th, 2008 at 1:05 am
I TOTALLY AGREE 100% WITH YOU. I hate Taiwanese game shows I’m always complaining about them to my bf because he likes to watch them!! ARGH ARGH ARGH STUPID TAIWANESE GAME SHOWS! I feel angry just thinking about them. Especially hate those DawnYang-esque girls on the show because we all know what reason they are there for, and who they slept with er I mean how they managed to get there.
October 15th, 2008 at 3:11 am
You’re an idiot.