2008-07-07
No I would not like to buy a vowel because I can SOLVE THE PUZZLE!!
Today is Youth Day and in less than 11 hours, I will be spending the rest of what Miss Yong calls the "single good thing about all you young people" (ie. Youth Day holiday, haha!) with Rachel and Vivien eating the unbelievably good Indo-grill chicken at Far East and probably retreating somewhere to study. Yes, study. We studied on Friday also! Rach and I went to Bishan library to study after school and since RJ is so nearby, we called Viv and managed to catch her before she went home, so all three of us got to study together, yay! I think it is very telling how being able to study these days makes me happy. I appal myself every day, and not necessarily in a good way either :/
As my mother has run out of good Chinese shows (or Korean/Japanese shows dubbed in Chinese) to watch on tv around dinnertime, we have turned to Channel 5 as an alternative source of entertainment and I recently found out that they brought back Wheel of Fortune. Knowing how up-to-date I am with this kind of stuff, they probably brought it back ages ago, but nonetheless my new discovery has brought happiness and rainbows (the Wheel is so colourful! i wonder if you spin it fast enough, it turns white like the colour wheels we used to make in primary school science class?) to my life! :D Watching Wheel of Fortune now (and frequently yelling letters of the alphabet at the tv) makes me feel so nostalgic, because it's one of the gameshows I grew up watching, along with The Price Is Right (i remember the old guy! erh, Bob something. now it's hosted by Drew Carey. see, see, i KNOW these things!), Whose Line Is It Anyway (which is also hosted by Drew Carey and is one of the funniest, cleverest shows i've ever watched), Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, Hollywood Squares, and American Gladiators (which resulted in a lot of bolster fights because i used to pretend my bolster was that big padded paddle thing they use to knock opponents off the balance beam in one of the challenges. ok, who am i kidding, i STILL pretend my bolster is a gladiator paddle and i am getting quite good at it despite occasionally being beaten up by my sis during bolster fights since "the older one must give way to the younger one". occasionally.) But I still like Wheel of Fortune a lot, I think it's one of the reasons why I have pretty good spelling and vocabulary (all that subconscious childhood training!) and I like word play so much (anagrams! hangman! witty/lame puns!). I still yell letters of the alphabet at the tv, I still triumphantly declare that I can "solve the puzzle!", I still hurl abuse at contestants who buy vowels when the answers are so obvious, and I still repeat the answers over and over again (with increasing hysteria) while staring intently at the contestants as if I can somehow establish a psychic line that breaks the space-time continuum and inspires an epiphany in one of them. Gosh, I love that show. I hope Pat Sajack and Vanna White never die. I hope a lot of people never die. Neil Gaiman, Sean Connery, Robin Williams, the Pythons (though Graham Chapman beat me to it by dying before i was even born), Christopher Lee (and I mean Dracula-Count Dooku-Saruman Christopher Lee, not I-drink-and-drive Christopher Lee), Johnny Depp, all the really funny comedians out there... Erh, yeah, but my point is, I really really like Wheel of Fortune. That's all. ... Big money, big money! :)
Yes, one big insight into Amanda's childhood! Now you know why I become like that, hahaha! :D
feimao at 1:11 a.m.