Every time I think Bea can't become any more hateful, two-face and duplicitous - she does. I'm really quite appalled at how someone can be like this. I'm more appalled at myself for watching this show by the dynamics and some of the characters this season are really quite fascinating. ( Read more... )

I was horrified that the Canadian watches Big Brother UK and usually I just overhear what he's watching rather than watching it myself, but this season I've been drawn in by the drama. Tonight's episode pushed me over the edge with rage! ( Read more... )

The Canadian and I were a bit bemused by the bizarre mix of headlines the other day. Are they generated randomly? I'm not sure why the squirrel story is so significant as to be bunched with the others.


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I wrote before about an inexplicable WTF moment from episode 2.01 (Samson & Delilah) of the The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

The season finalepenultimate episode of the season contained another such moment! There's been much meaningless carnage and devastation to date, but the finale really took the cake. ( Read more... )

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During rare moments of free time, i.e. waiting at the hairdresser's, I was reading On A Chinese Screen, a rather strange collection of extremely short sketches by W. Somerset Maugham. I can't say I love the book, but it's interesting reading and there's something about Maugham's rather jaundiced view of life that I find quite intriguing. I went ( Read more... )

I'm in Canberra and as I generally buy books here and take them back to Beijing rather than the other way around, to pass time, I have been re-reading books that I've left behind at Mama Koala's. A lot of them are second/third category romance novels that I didn't like enough to take with me when I was posted overseas. In re-reading them, I can ( Read more... )

I am getting swamped at work these days and will eventually post about it (damn you Economic Tsunami), but in the interim, today I was horrified by this post in which I heard an audio recording of a "disgruntled customer lecturing a telephone operator at a well-known, city-wide food delivery company based in Shanghai ( Read more... )

The season 3 finale to Bones The Pain in the Heart a.k.a. The Kick in the Teeth enraged me because of what they did to Zack. I then wrote the post in which I said that was beginning to feel frustration with the show because it had lost quite a bit of the magic from seasons 1 and 2 ( Read more... )

Inexplicable WTF moment from The Sarah Connor Chronicles. ( Read more... )