Archive for February, 2007
maybe your hands can’t tell much about you
woah it’s been another long self-proclaimed-but-not-announced hiatus from blogging. things have been really busy for the last few weeks, with take5 happening, and like tons of lion dance performances because it’s like chinese new year.
happy chinese new year, by the way.
there was this week when i had lion dance on friday, saturday, sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday and friday. and yeah the next day, saturday was new year’s eve.
like woah.
great.
anyway, recently i have been watching mtv boiling points on like mtv (wow!). it is really quite an interesting show cause it is kind of thought-provoking in some ways.
the show is basically candid camera style, and they put unsuspecting people in nonsensically ridiculous situations. so as the title suggests, mtv tries to make them reach their boiling points and once they swear within the time limit, they lose. as for those who do not swear, they earn 100 bucks! pretty simple.
it packages itself real well, even bringing in moral values by stating at the end of the show “so remember, it always pays to be patient!” haha.
yeah so today the episode was real funny cause there was this woman who went to this fortune teller’s house to get her fortune told (who the heck still does this in america?) and the fortune teller told her crap for 40 bucks. it was really hilarious!
she said things like “you are in your mid-twenties, you’re black and you really like to wear black.” like when the woman was obviously black, in an all-black outfit. so the woman insisted she moved on to talk about the future.
this part was like HAHAHAHA.
the fortune teller said, “in the future, there will be robots, and everyone will move about in jetpacks. there will be lots of computers.”
and the woman was like, “okay… what about my future?”
and the fortune teller went, “you no future. in the future, you will move around in a jetpack.”
lol! the fortune teller was really using bad english and stuff.
oh and i digress. oh wells anyway cause i thought this part of the episode today was really funny and figured that it would probably be on the net somewhere, so i was trying to search for it. i couldn’t find it, but i read quite a number of things people wrote about mtv boiling points in the short descriptions that google has in the search pages.
and they got me quite curious.
there were actually quite a number of bloggers who wrote about how they should treat each day like they were on mtv boiling points, and when they are faced with ridiculous situations, they should also think that they are actually on mtv boiling points. i suppose this thinking is supposed to help them to be more patient when dealing with people.
is that really healthy?
i would imagine that people would start feeling like this -
“i am so @#@$$%^*%$%@ pissed off and i really want to @!$!$$#%#^^%&%*& to this person who is giving me so much !$^%$&*&^((&&$%^ but i have to #!$!$!^$&^& control myself cause i might just be on mtv boiling points and i might just #!$!*^((*)*(! miss my 100 bucks by like two @#$^%#^&%*()*(@ seconds.”
i am probably missing the point here, but well most people subscribe to virtue ethics, and i think it is totally unacceptable to be patient just because there is a reward of 100 bucks at the end of it.
out of 10 people who are faced with bad service, probably only 0.5 persons is on mtv boiling points. for the other 9 people who are imagining that they will get 100 bucks once they cross that 10 – 15 minutes mark, they will be grossly disappointed at the end of 10 – 15 minutes, and they are going to flare up all the same.
people would probably say that if you can be patient for 10 minutes, your anger will probably be dissipated by then and you will be all cool-headed and be able to deal with all that stuff for the next one hour or so.
but is that really true? i think the general reason why people tend to flare up when faced with ridiculous situtations is that most of the time, it gets things done. when you are faced with bad service, flare up. cause most of the time, the service people would choose to appease you over ignoring you.
so things tend to get more ridiculous when you are like soft and gracious and stuff. and as things get more ridiculous cause you were real patient from the start, it is hardly possible that you would be more likely to continue being patient. (especially since you thought there was a reward at the end.)
right. well yeah, so we could be patient and firm and not use swear words right. which comes to my point that mtv boiling points is kind of wrong for using swear words as an indicator because it is all about the attitude! when it comes to treating a service person right, it is definitely not only about the swear words, i think at times, the attitude can be more hurtful than the swear words themselves.
so i guess mtv boiling points does help in some way, but definitely not enough.
all in all, if you want to be patient, imagine that the reward is that you will be happy at the end of it all, and have the strength to continue insisting so that you don’t go “never mind forget it”. or just be patient for the sake of being patient! should there be a reason? we don’t act on reason when we get angry either. sigh.
but from all this, we can really kind of tell how much 100 bucks is really worth more than one’s unquantifiable happiness right? or maybe it’s just that the 100 bucks will bring us more happiness than the happiness at the end of being patient.
rah anyway i just don’t think it’s right to treat every ridiculous situation like a mtv boiling points episode. why not treat every ridiculous situation like you’re going to be real happy at the end of it cause you were patient.
that’s greatness.
how do you treat life?
a journey that i was made to walk which i will do all the things that i love as if i had all the time in this world.
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