This is too much...

I've been told that the Chinese (referring to nationality here, nothing racial) are darn copycats. Well that's because they are damn innovative and well, they innovate other ppl's ideas (i dun quite agree though...). They are also darn good at makin imitation goods. Who doesn't go to *insert province name here* and buy a good pair of nikes for a quarter of the price they are charging us here in *insert local shopping mall name here*. Well half the price if not a quarter. Heck my dad even bought a set of golf clubs when he went to Guangzhou that time to play golf. A full set ok? Long wit the driver and the putter. The golf shoes he bought for me isn't quite the comfy type though...

And I always thought to myself that only certain Chinese nationals do it. Those established ones work on their own ideas. I was wrong.

Stick yourself to your Astro set and pay attention to the ads. Blast the speakers out loud whenever you see a CCTV ad. One of it is the one I'm talking about. It starts off juz like any other CCTV ads: beautiful sceneries, ppl, ppl on bicycles, ppl eating, ppl working and stuff. All of a sudden your PC turns itself on and in a moment it turns itself off. WTF? Aiks they are using Windows XP's boot up and shut down tune in the ad, both of it god damn it! Producers couldn've used any tune/song they want from any artiste or culture they want and I wouldn't say a word.

But Window's XP's tune? The one that more than half of the world listens to whenever they switch on their computer and/or shuts it down? Damn it even a standard one kid would've recognized the tune straight-away man... "Mommy are you playing the computer?" Sheesh... If ya wanna imitate ppl, dun do it so obvious la... At least not an obvious tune la... I've never heard of MS giving out licenses to TV channels to use it's OS tunes in the channel's ads...

This is the extreme Chinese imitations can go... Maybe they are juz too desperate finding a tune for the ad. Sheesh the tune doesn't even fit into the ad ok?

Since we're at the topic of Chinese imitations, I would like to voice my concerns on the game show featured on TVB* Asi* every Sunday at Primetime. Yes I'm talking about that one. Yes that one. Sheesh it imitates games from other game shows you noe, most notably the Super Trio game show. First the one where you have to convey the msg thru body movements to another person and pass the msg to the last person. Then the one where you have to get wacked when you laugh (from getsu no gakai, a japanese game show. Gosh the japanese only make one episode using this idea and the taiwanese use the same idea almost throughout the season!). And now this. The one where you get showered if you answer the question wrongly. Damn it, this one was a hit for Super Trio, and now they are using it. It's so lame seeing ppl taking other ppl's ideas to create the same effect. It doesn't work ok? And it's not even interesting to watch anymore...

EDIT: Post edited.