Hand me the remote, please?
Before being addicted to internet, with plurk, facebook, tumblr and wordpress!, my eyes are firstly affected by the radiation due to overexposure to television. I would regret if not being able to watch an episode because of certain circumstances. I can live a whole day in the comfort of our home, flipping channels, watching dvds as long as enough food would be there to accompany my solitude. I love the feeling of enthusiasm upon watching my favorite shows, whether it is scripted or not, reality show or not, I don’t care as long as it does not bore me and a glimpse of my interest is restored. However, due to my addiction with surfing the net, I am not anymore eager to following every episode. (Wooahh, what am I becoming?) Nevertheless, here are some of my favorite tv shows in random order. (I am conquered by my laziness so the descriptions below is provided by wikipedia.com)
1. Project Runway. Project Runway is an American reality television series on Lifetime Television, previously on the Bravo network, which focuses on fashion design and is hosted by model Heidi Klum. The contestants compete with each other to create the best clothes and are usually restricted in time, materials, and theme. Their designs are judged and one or more designers are eliminated each week.
Heidi Klum has an exquisite beauty I can't compare to other models.
2. Fear Factor. The show pits contestants against each other to complete a series of stunts better and/or quicker than all the other contestants, by doing this in the fastest time, for a grand prize of US$50,000. The show is hosted by UFC commentator and comedian Joe Rogan, executive produced by Matt Kunitz and directed by J. Rupert Thompson.The first stunt is designed to physically test each of the contestants, like jumping off a building to the next. Usually, the two men and the two women, or the three teams, that complete the stunt the best under whichever restrictions (such as the fastest, or furthest distance, or number of flags collected in under a certain time) would move on to the second stunt. The rest would be eliminated. The second stunt is meant to challenge the contestants mentally which can involve ingesting a revolting insect, such as a cockroach, or being covered in tarantulas. It could also involve getting close to an animal which many people would find intimidating. Contestants were typically not eliminated after this stunt unless they could not (or refused to) complete it. The third and final stunt is usually something from a action film. In order to avoid ties, it is the only stunt where the contestants race against the clock as well as each other. It usually involves doing an extreme type stunt, such as flipping a car or escaping from a sinking aircraft fuselage. The player who wins this round wins the prize, usually $50,000, and has the privilege of being informed “evidently fear is not a factor for you”.
"Fear is not a factor.."
3. How its made? is a Canadian documentary television series that premiered in 2001 on the Discovery Channel. The show is a documentary program showing how common, everyday items (including foodstuffs like bubblegum, industrial products such as motors, musical instruments such as guitars, and sporting goods such as snowboards) are manufactured, and is filmed to simplify overdubbing in different languages, for example avoiding showing a narrator or host onscreen, and most often also not having employees of featured companies speak on camera. An offscreen narrator explains each process, often making use of puns. Each half hour show usually has three or four main segments, with each product getting a demonstration of about five minutes, with exceptions for more complex products.
I feel like your time slot in D.C. changes everyday. I can't catch you.
4. America’s Next Top Model (often shortened to Top Model or abbreviated as ANTM) is a reality television show in which a number of women compete for the title of America’s Next Top Model and a chance to start their career in the modeling industry. The show was created and is hosted by former talk-show host and model Tyra Banks, who also serves as the head judge and executive producer of the show. The first “cycle” premiered in May 2003 and was one of UPN’s highest rated shows. The show’s seventh cycle was the first of the shows among regular programming on UPN’s successor network, The CW, and thus far is the network’s highest rated series. The show will continue until at least the 2009-10 season. The opening theme is performed by Tyra Banks and is produced by Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins. Banks co-produces the show with Ken Mok and Anthony Dominici for 10 by 10 Entertainment and Bankable Productions, syndicated internationally by KingWorld (and its successor CBS Television Distribution), and domestically as a “presentation” of VH1. For the 2006-2007, 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 television seasons, ANTM was the #1 show in average viewers on The CW.
Tyra Banks is slim in this pic. 
5. Iron Chef (料理の鉄人 Ryōri no Tetsujin, literally “Ironmen of Cooking”) is a Japanese television cooking show produced by Fuji Television. The series, which premiered on October 10, 1993, was a stylized cooking competition featuring accomplished guest chefs challenging one of the show’s resident “Iron Chefs” in a timed cooking battle built around a specific theme ingredient. The series ended on September 24, 1999, although occasional specials were produced until 2002. The series aired over 300 episodes.The program has an eccentric flavor even for a game show. Its host is the flamboyant Takeshi Kaga, known on the show as Chairman Kaga (鹿賀 主宰 Kaga Shusai ). Its production values are highlighted with extensive commentary made by two regular commentators and one to two guest commentators (who also serve as judges). The commentary presents thorough background information (e.g., ingredients, past history of contenders) to give a viewer context for what is happening in the kitchen; it also serves as entertainment, as friendly banter is shared among the four commentators.
Bon Appetit'
I’ve noticed that all of these except #3 is a reality show. Perhaps, I am captivated with people following their dream and pursuing it amidst all the painful comments of judges and their competitors.
Robert Kincaid, fifty two, is a world class photographer of National Geographic. He met Francesca Johnson, an Iowa farm wife home alone sitting at the front porch looking at the splendid views and playfully thinking of her childhood dreams. She is married to Richard Johnson, a farmer, has two beautiful children and is left alone while her family is flickering at the city. Kincaid is given a job to capture the famous covered bridges of Madison County; bringing his Nikon camera and a truck named Harry, he lost directions and asked Francesca where Roseman Bridge is. Being bored and all that, Francesca, forty five voluntarily invited herself to accompany Kincaid through the Roseman Bridge. After that, she invited him over dinner and they felt a spark of connection between them. Both poetic and passionate, they get along and shared the happiest four days of their lives (obviously having intimate moments). At the last day (because Richard and the children would soon arrive), Robert asked Francesca to go with him, travel around the country and enhance the beauty of wisdom given to her. Unfortunately, Francesca did not go with him, because she thought of her “responsibilities as a wife and a mother”. He accepted her decisions wholeheartedly and left. After long long years, she received a mail saying that Robert is dead and left his cameras and other personal belongings to her. Later, when Francesca died, her children discovered everything about her illicit love affair through the journal she has written and suddenly proclaimed her as a dedicated mother (without thinking that she has done adultery). She requested them to cremate her body and spread her ashes over Roseman Bridge, where Robert’s ashes are also spread.
This is the third time I’ve read Thomas Cook’s novels. Although The Cloud of Unknowing and Peril are both equipped with a powerful aura of suspense and enigmatic approach, I am not really engrossed in Thomas Cook. He is an author who can bring goosebumps to my bones yet, I think something is yet to be polished in his works. (Well, I would rather bury my nose on Cook than on Patterson). Ironically, though he is that good, I’ve never heard of his name before- proclaiming how brilliant he is unlike some authors. While my mind is drifting away (because of my failing grades in our prelims), my eyes are stumbled upon this tattered book-Instruments of Night. Without reading anything from the flaps of this battered book and looking at its very cheap price (PHP 2o.00), I thought “Why not give it a try?”
Lovely Moreno
