BrainDeath

I turned on the t.v. to Channel 8 last night and like a death ray shooting from the box, my IQ dropped a few points.

The show was a violation of my eyeballs, an insult to my intelligence and made my skin crawl.

The show in question? Its called Say It If You Dare. It involves getting a few has-beens (who should be damned to Dinner and Dance hosting hell) and a few foreigners in a round island lesson in the Mandarin language. The “guests” are made to learn select phrases of the language (which have no other purpose other than for the show, or to pick up girls) and are tested in tasks. What is the point you wonder. Its not as if they will speak it after taping stops, cos they are reading it off English on the cue-cards.

Its embarrassing even for the viewer to watch and so I can imagine how its like for the foreign guests who are made to publicly disembowel themselves as they are given a crash course in the language. The kick for the bored viewer (very very bored) is the bad pronunciation of Mandarin.

But the problem is, that the hosts aren’t that competent in Mandarin themselves. Imagine – getting Mark Ah-Beng Lee to host the show. Wah Lau. Its like getting the Queen to go to a club. Totally inappropriate.

I must shoot B1 for asking me to turn it on. He’s forced to watch it cos he’s on duty and his Specialist has it on the t.v. in the Ops Room. But then again, I might forget cos I just lost a few brain cells watching 2 seconds of the show.