First full day at ADP Room...

Gotta say that changing classroom needs a break in period. It's clear that a few teachers didn't like the ADP room coz it's kinda stuffy. Yeap... Did we open the windows today? I dun think so...

Day's juz kinda normal la. Normal topic discussion. Normal paper discussion. Normal teaching...

So today I'm gotta talk about the fast food chains here in Bolehland.

Ever noticed how they use their gimmicks to get us to eat it's latest product? I'm not against ads la, but i freakin hate it when they advertised something great and the product is different. Givin us something diff from wut we wanted. This is cheating! This is exploiting the consumers! Let's see a few cases...

Exhibit A

Mmmm... Yummy! Prawn Olio! Wit shrimps all over and mushrooms, must be scrumptious! If it looks nice, it should also taste nice too, right?

X-(

Okay... This looks a little plain... But heck this is wut I got that other day when we ordered. If you could juz scroll back up and count the shrimps for me. I'm super sure it's more than 3, which is how much shrimps i found in the actual product. I barely see any mushrooms. No need to mention the chillies la... 2 sahaja, and it's not evern that visible... I see red on the plate though... And mushrooms... And garlic... If only those were included in the actual product...

This is what i call "you order, you eat. You want a change, wait till i serve the other customers first" exploitation. Yeap. Do you noe how long we waited juz to get this plate of plain, oily, shrimp-countable-wit-5-fingers-and-have-2-to-spare spaghetti? By the time it arrived we were starved! Who so free wanna complain to get a change? Eat loh wut to do? This is exploitation...

Let's see wut's next.

Exhibit B

Mmmm... Nice huh? Chicken with specially made sauce and a nice big fat pita. This must be another nice meal, huh?

Honey I Shrunk The Pita!

(I chose the macaroni and cheese over the salad if you noticed)
Erm... I tot I wanted a "nice big fat' pita? Heck I can finish that up in a shot! I had to slowly eat the pita or not I would have to buy another one juz to taste wut's the taste again. I even purposely put the fork there for comparison, and the fork is a little bit smaller compared to the normal forks used. Sheesh... Ppl say 'wut you see is wut you get'. Well, with capitalists like the above examples, it's kinda lucky to even get half of wut you ordered.

There's another restaurant which is famous for things being small when they advertise it as 'big'. I didn't take any pictures of it so here goes with words. Ya remember the burger they advertise as 'big'? The one the guy holds up and imagine enjoying eating the burger coz it's big? "Ayam Resipi Tulen" translate it to english and you should get the idea. Damn it when i got the burger, it looks fckin smaller than the c0l0nel burger they offer. Where the F is the 'big' factor?

Now i noe you'll say "heck look at the fine prints la. It says 'For illustration purposes only'." Yes I know but they can't juz put the fine print and give the consumers something else, right? You promise it to be big, give big la... Why give small?

I wondered why nobody ever complaint to the consumer association huh?

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.