All Blacks All Banned

Joanne Wilson. Stephen Wilson. Danny Tauroa. Monica Tauroa. Nicole Wilson. Sarah Reeves. Tanya Chee.

To most (if not all) people, the following names make no sense to you. My heartiest congrats to you if that is the case.

If anyone, however, finds these names familiar, its probably cos like me you've been on SBS buses quite a fair bit this past week and have had the misfortune of catching the endless reruns of the "Down Under" episode of this show with Andrea De Cruz in it (i forget the title) whereby she and her co-host visit expats from different cultures each week. Needless to say, this week featured expats from Australia and New Zealand; and i've somehow possessed the bad timing of always seeming to kena the second half of the show (which is when the Kiwis come on) just about every single day on the bus at least once. Which in turn means that i'm now very well acquainted with the above people, and can for all intents and purposes dictate to you each and every word from the Haka (and that kamate kamate kaura kaura means to live, to live, to die, to die), and know that Maori women dance this thanksgiving dance with these swingy thingies called poi which look like giant white onions attached to a string, and that The Cellar Door is the only place that serves New Zealand food in Singapore.

I've nothing against New Zealand, please don't get me wrong. It's just the @#$% tv mobile that i'm annoyed at.

So, the bottom line is, if anyone out there even remotely able to influence the programming of tv mobile is reading this, please, for the sake of my sanity, at least make the effort to have more variety in your variety programming (cos at the moment the irony is that from the rate at which you repeat your shows, it might as well be labeled monotony rather than variety programming...). If not, one day - mark my words, you will read a news report headlined "NUS Student Goes Berzerk, Frightens Passengers Off SBS Bus". I'd have finally made headlines...

Good news for most people...