Zee TV Woes

Just like Sun TV is a "plague on your house" paraphrasing Shakespeare, the Hindi equivalent of Zee TV is similarly running riot in the non-Tamil speaking households in Singapore. Whoever said we should restrict our analyses to Tamil KLKs. Hear first hand from Shaheen [Click name for link]:

The only reason i am here is that i just realised, just as sun tv rules the houses of many (i noe this courtesy of another blogger), an equally irritating phenomena called the zee tv has hit my house damn bad.

i mean i noe its been around but i just realised the severity of it... you wont believe this but just as i sit here typing this post, my mother darling is sitting right beside me discussing her favourite prime time drama with her sister in law on a bloody LONG DISTANCE CALL to london!! i mean what the hell, i hope she realises that the call charges arent the same as calling someone in pasir ris.

the bloody zee tv programs are soooo important to her, she refuses to answer my calls, or anyone's calls for that matter, when her darling characters are crying on tv... the irony of it is that the characters are ALWAYS crying... EVERY SINGLE DAMN EPISODE! and noe what, when i get back frm school, she's more concerned abt telling me what happened to Saloni or Bani during the shows... i could bloody hell have had a horrible day at school but her darlings matter more... and she talks of them and sympatises wth them like they are some frens of hers... and noe what, it aint something relative only to her... seems the entire pakistani population in singapore has been strck wth this phenomena.

my aunty bought a self timing cassette recorder specially to record the dramas for her while she is away.

the other day, another uncle was telling me that when he got back, his wife would serve him dinner half heartedly and sit infront of the television set to watch them cry too.

i went to this pakistani shop in serangoon that day and EVERY LADY there was discussing the dramas like their lives depended on it.

"i lock my little daughter( 7 years old) in the room when i watch the dramas otherwise she'll be going 'mummy this and mummy that'."

what the hell, she is 7 for god's sake..gosh!

"my son will come and tell me what exactly happened during the dramas so accurately. clever boy"

gone case la. no comments

and noe what, as someone's husband rightly pointed, its like sitting infront of the television hearing the same lines again and again... cos, in every episode, someone is crying and another is consoling him/her saying, 'fikar na karo sab thek ho jayega' (dun worry all will be well).

and true enough, i went back to watch all the dramas that day, NOT ONE begged to differ

what's gonna happen of all our mothers and aunties?

*voiceover: fikar na karo, sab theek ho jayega*