After the class discussion a question crept into my mind. Other then going on reality TV to get fame what else motivates people to go on reality TV? For fame there is only a chance of one in a gazillion, so why do people do it? For example, American Idols, many know that there is a slim chance that they will get in. However they take that chance and end up embarrassing themselves and then later on they want to sue the judges or the producer because such and such happens. Don't the people who goes onto reality TV shows know that the show was meant to make a fool of them live on national television?
The article mentions how reality TV chooses their people. Can this article be any true? On American Top Model, I can't help but notice that there is always that bitchy black girl and or a white girl. On the show there is always that nerdy white girl who is EXTREMELY SKINNY (or in another sense . . . anorexia). The show also to make it seem racial always have that Asian girl who have extremely low self-esteem who never wins. Did I forget to mention there is always that black girl who is really at ease and seem to do everything to the judge likings?
What is very interesting to me is...if reality TV are mainly based on voting people off or to keep them in the game, then why does all those American Idols viewer who tuned in and vote...could not make it to the voting pole for the election?
Friday, February 16, 2007
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Bad Family
We have all tried to recall something but can not due to memory block or interference. We all know how annoying it get us when we can not remember. Imagine being a child knowing that your memory is block and that you can not remember anything even if you wanted to.
Everyone wants to be respected by the person they like and everyone wants to fit in. Nobody wants to live a life they dislike.
Episode seven revolves around all these thing.
In this episode NaRim finally remember something when there was a power failure. The family then thought that if they react out what had happen they might help her remember. However even thought the "stage" family had only wanted to help, I believe NaRim felt pressured. She would feel depress and cry because everyone seem to be forcing her to remember when she could not.
Every have a time when they could not remember a event even thought it is right on the ends of their finger tips. We all know how stressful it is. How do you think a seven year old would feel?
This episode also introduced GongMin character to us a little more. Before he was just the fake brother found sleeping on the street who works at a salon and was called "master." As it seem he know owns a restaurant in which he and a girl he liked went to dine in. However he kept it a secret from her so that she will like him. What I think about GongMin is that he ran away from home so he wont have to get into business and instead do something he likes...become a hair stylist. However to make the girl he likes like him he took her to a nice fancy restaurant in which he owns. I think he, pretty much, is trying to live a normal teenage life.
Everyone wants to be respected by the person they like and everyone wants to fit in. Nobody wants to live a life they dislike.
Episode seven revolves around all these thing.
In this episode NaRim finally remember something when there was a power failure. The family then thought that if they react out what had happen they might help her remember. However even thought the "stage" family had only wanted to help, I believe NaRim felt pressured. She would feel depress and cry because everyone seem to be forcing her to remember when she could not.
Every have a time when they could not remember a event even thought it is right on the ends of their finger tips. We all know how stressful it is. How do you think a seven year old would feel?
This episode also introduced GongMin character to us a little more. Before he was just the fake brother found sleeping on the street who works at a salon and was called "master." As it seem he know owns a restaurant in which he and a girl he liked went to dine in. However he kept it a secret from her so that she will like him. What I think about GongMin is that he ran away from home so he wont have to get into business and instead do something he likes...become a hair stylist. However to make the girl he likes like him he took her to a nice fancy restaurant in which he owns. I think he, pretty much, is trying to live a normal teenage life.
Friday, February 9, 2007
Essay & Class
I think overall my essay should be OK. I did not really understand what was excepted of us much, such as how the paper should "be" like. Would be great if we have better examples then just essays from the book. I wrote the essay the way I thought it would suppose to be done so I hope it is right.
The think if we have got all the information on how to write the essay and everything all at once we would have know what is excepted of us. Handing us little bits of information as we process can make us confuse. Not to mention, sometimes making us rewrite our whole entire essay over.
I think working in small groups really help. We are not all great writer so getting some free backs from our peers helps. First I did not really like the idea of working in group. I thought that my group would judge my paper badly and what not so first I was really against it. However it was not so bad and my group was really kind so I think working in small peer editing group is of great help.
I think the class itself is very interesting, not what I thought 1020 is suppose to be like. I like how the class talks everything over, however I think it would be best if you (the instructor starts it off for us instead of just going "so what did you guys think about the reading?" I tend to shut down right when that question comes up. I think we, the students, would probably like it more if we were ask questions about a subjects first then go on from there.
The think if we have got all the information on how to write the essay and everything all at once we would have know what is excepted of us. Handing us little bits of information as we process can make us confuse. Not to mention, sometimes making us rewrite our whole entire essay over.
I think working in small groups really help. We are not all great writer so getting some free backs from our peers helps. First I did not really like the idea of working in group. I thought that my group would judge my paper badly and what not so first I was really against it. However it was not so bad and my group was really kind so I think working in small peer editing group is of great help.
I think the class itself is very interesting, not what I thought 1020 is suppose to be like. I like how the class talks everything over, however I think it would be best if you (the instructor starts it off for us instead of just going "so what did you guys think about the reading?" I tend to shut down right when that question comes up. I think we, the students, would probably like it more if we were ask questions about a subjects first then go on from there.
Monday, February 5, 2007
The Messengers
I was going to write more about "Bad Family" but turns out I went to the movie this week and wanted to write about "The Messengers" instead. However I will continue to write more on"Bad Family" in the future.
"The Messengers" first surprised me by being one of the many works done by my favorite horror directors, The Pang Brothers. I've been a great fan of their movie (although I haven't see a lot of them) ever since I saw "The Eye" and whoever haven't seen it I recommend it! Back to "The Messengers" (which I wasn't suppose to see due to religious purpose but went anyway) . . .
"The Messengers" starts off in a black and white scene with this woman and her son who seem extremely frighten. I think the reason for this scene is to confuse the viewer and to make them think of it as a true horror. As for the black and white picture, I suppose there is something that get to us when we hear those haunted music being play and there is no color other then black and white. I think the two colors alone works to make a feeling of fear and also to make viewer know that it was something like a flashback of some sort or something that had already happen.
This movie also involved a lot of crows. As horror lovers we all should know that whenever you see a crow or a black cat in a horror movie it's a sigh that something bad was going to happen. This movie uses extremely large crows. I guess the size of the crows makes a person fears them. I haven't seen a crow for ages now so I can't really say now big they really are, but in the movie they look above average size crows.
I liked how everything was happening but the ending . . . I did NOT like the ending much. To me the ending was stupid, it messed up the whole movie and not to mention made the "horror" movie "un-horror." Why? Well, you should go see for yourself why. The movie to me was very disappointing. Not one of the Pang's best work. It could have been better if the ending was different.
Friday, February 2, 2007
Interchapter: Reading and Writing About Images
Everything around us is a text, or a text is an image, we just sees it differently because of the how we were taught about them. Everything that surrounds us can be read and carries some kind of messages.
Just by looking at an image, a picture, or a setting we read it according to what we know. Every one have a different interpret of meaning of things. For example by looking at the two photos on page 370. The two photos shows two very different neighborhoods. People from the neighborhood pictured in the second photo would not thing too highly of the people living in the first neighborhood. To those people, the people living in the first neighborhood are low income, most likely criminals, who lives in a ghetto. The people who lives in the first neighborhood would think different of themselves and would think the people from the second neighborhood are high-class clean freak suburban-er. Either way both would view each other negatively.
Take Detroit and Warren for example. People in Warren are afraid to enter Detroit because they are afraid that they will get rob at every stop signs or that they will get shot by a drive by. Warren would think that they're the more sociable people because they live in a better neighborhood and knows how to organize everything. Detroit-er however would have a different view. Detroit to them would be home, a place in which they're free to wander in the streets and meets with friends. They would view Warren as a middle-high class people who wakes up every more and function more or less like a robot programed to do daily activities.
The reason why I use this example is because I have been to schools in the suburbs and I always get asked the same question. Do people die in front of your house?
Just by looking at an image, a picture, or a setting we read it according to what we know. Every one have a different interpret of meaning of things. For example by looking at the two photos on page 370. The two photos shows two very different neighborhoods. People from the neighborhood pictured in the second photo would not thing too highly of the people living in the first neighborhood. To those people, the people living in the first neighborhood are low income, most likely criminals, who lives in a ghetto. The people who lives in the first neighborhood would think different of themselves and would think the people from the second neighborhood are high-class clean freak suburban-er. Either way both would view each other negatively.
Take Detroit and Warren for example. People in Warren are afraid to enter Detroit because they are afraid that they will get rob at every stop signs or that they will get shot by a drive by. Warren would think that they're the more sociable people because they live in a better neighborhood and knows how to organize everything. Detroit-er however would have a different view. Detroit to them would be home, a place in which they're free to wander in the streets and meets with friends. They would view Warren as a middle-high class people who wakes up every more and function more or less like a robot programed to do daily activities.
The reason why I use this example is because I have been to schools in the suburbs and I always get asked the same question. Do people die in front of your house?
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Bad Family
I am really not a TV show fan. No matter how much I try, I just can not force myself to be loyal to a TV program. I have disgraced myself. Not really! ;p
For my television blog I decided to do it on a SBS comedy TV series I just bought, which has eight discs with a total of sixteen episodes. I have just finish watching episode one to six which was hilarious! The series is called "Bul Ryang Ga Jok" (or "Bad Family"), written by Lee Hee-myung and Han Eun-kyung and directed by Yoo In-shik. This series was aired on March 22, 2006 to May 11, 2006 in South Korean.
Here is a synopsis of the series from Fansites Hollywood K-DRAMA:
Cast: Kim Myung-min, Nam Sang-mi, Park Jin-woo, Hyun Young, Kim
Hee-chul
This drama is about a very impaired, abnormal family's with a wide
range of
characters. The thing is, the members of this "family" aren't all
really
related! They are a "staged" family. Oh Dal-geon (Kim Myun-min) who
was being
chased by gangster recruited a bunch of people to be a part of a
family of a
young child named Baek Na-reem (Lee Young-yoo). Na-reem has
amnesia and her real
family died in a car accident. It is to believed that
the "car accident" wasn't
really an accident. To find out the truth,
Dal-geon brings in people to play the
roles of different members of
Na-reem's family to help her regain her memory.
Kim Yang-ah (Nam Sang-mi)
was an orphan at a very young age. She had lost
her family, but plays a role
in this "bad" family. Ha Tae-kyung (Park Jin-woo)
is Yang-ah's boss who
falls for her. see how things heat up as Yang-ah,
Tae-kyung and Dal-geon
into a love triangle and how this family life isn't all
that sweet,
especially when some do not get along with each other!
Episodes: 16
Official Site: SBS
DVD: Not released
While watching the third disc (episodes 5 and 6) I thought to
myself "ANOTHER LOVE TRI-ANGLE!" I am not much of a fan of "love tri-angle" but it seems that all Korean dramas/series have them. What is so unique about that? However the first two discs which focus more on the child, Na-reem, and the
"family" was really interesting. It really made me wonder if many "big people"
like CEOs and the such really go through all these illegal stuffs just to obtain
their "higher" position. How Dal-geon got the "staged" family together was
something else. I could understand him using the people who were indebted to
him, but to pick up a kid who he had found sleeping on the street? He must be
really desperate, which he was.
So we have the daughter-in-law (who lost her only child a long time ago and sells to-go coffee on the street for a living) and the father-in-law (who is a dance instructor) are in a "friendly" relationship (they were already like that before the "family" was formed). The son-in-law (who sent his children to Canada for a better education and his wife [who cheated on him in Canada then later demanded for a divorce] to take care of them and who hasn't seen them for a long time now because he can not afford plane ticket to go visit them so he works as a debt collector to make money to
send to them) is starting to fall for the daughter-in-law (who is the woman that
is giving him so much trouble at work because she will not pay up the loan she
borrowed) and gets very jealous of her "friendly" relationship with the
father-in-law. The mother-in-law (who has an open street restaurant who gives
out free coffee for her customer seems to be "stealing" the daughter-in-law's
customer) and daughter-in-law despise each other (because of the business issue
that usually gets them into fist fights). The uncle (who is the founder of the
"family" and who is an ex-gangster, who is making just about everyone in the
"family" to work for him to pay off their debt to him) and the granddaughter
(who is trying to rise three younger brothers on her own since her parents died
some time ago, and who blames the uncle for burning down her boat in which she
made her living out of) are starting to fall for each other. The grandson...the
grandson (who is known as "yellow hair") is a total stranger. There was a part
in which some people were calling him "master," but he works at a hair salon?
Did you get all of that?
So far the series is getting really exciting and hilarious! Can't wait to watch more of it next week and find out what happens!
*i'm having a little trouble with blogger today* ><
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