Tuesday, March 10, 2009

New TV-Show season has started

The new season has started!
Which shows am I currently watching:

The Apprentice
So far have seen 2 episodes... And must say so far I am not that impressed. On the first episode they need to make cup-cakes and sell them for charity. Honestly was quite surprised when I saw them seriously making cup-cakes. In my impression it was all about money, who cares the product! Think they should have focussed a lot more on using their celebrity power to get some $$$ in... At the end in total they raised about 120K? And that was done with 16 celebrities, that makes 7.5K a head. Would expect a celebrity that makes millions to have contacts that can easily pay more than that for charity (and probably more important being able to show off on national television that they do something good for charity).
The second episode, wow both teams seriously lacked any originality.... And both teams were a total mess during the preparation. Hope the show will start improving soon....

Hells Kitchen
Great show, althou quite confident certain people should have been fired but just kept on the show to keep pissing off Ramsey...

Breaking Bad
Interesting show. Not very realistic I guess, but do like the aspect of the good person gone bad after he found out he is terminally ill. Did have some moments in my life when I would think what woul I do when there is nothing left to loose...

Lie To Me
I like this show, but think you do have to take the concept with a huge grain of salt. Really doubt it would be so easy for certain people to read others that precisely especially when not being able to really focus on a specific person. But still makes for a great show...

Survivor (occasionally)
Still haven't really made up my mind for this show... I would like this show to move more back to it's roots. A real survivor! Just let them survive without all the games to get bonus items etc. Think it would be a lot more interesting to see, althou the general public might not agree with me here? (understand conditions can be harsh already, but handing out fishing gear etc. after the first challenge? Can't they let them suffer a bit longer if the people on the show have no creativity to make use of the natural equipment in their environment?).

Yea I realize I do watch quite a lot of shows, a bit too much free time.... Hope soon that will be over...and I can complain again about a busy work schedule ;).

Back.....after almost a year...shame on me ;)

Won't bore any readers with what has happened with me in the past year, as truthfully not that much....
Finally have something exciting to mention again ;) (partially a joke, getting a new watch was NOT the most exciting thing that happened in the past year! Just sometimes really loose interest to update my blog).

I got a new watch, the:

Suunto Advizor


Initially I thought of getting a watch with just a heart rate monitor. But then when my girlfriend mentioned she would be interested in other functions (e.g. digital compass) that obviously got me interested in these functions as well. There ain't too many choices out there when you want a watch that has heart rate monitor, digital compass, altitude, barometer etc. But did think this particular watch would be far above the budget I had in mind... Did check around in several stores, and thought I would end up giving all the watches I had seen some more thought. But then we came in the last shop (inside Sino centre). They were the first shop that had the Advizor in stock. Did check the prize even thou expecting it to be not too far off from the 3750HK$ suggested retail, turned out they asked 2580HK$ for it. At that point started to become quite hard to resist to get it ;). Still compared it with a T6 series watch (even thou that one is even more expensive...). Finally decided I would get it if they lowered the price just a little bit more, so finally got the watch for 2550HK$ (seems to me a really good deal?; please no comments mentioning you got it cheaper some other place because that would really make me feel bad ;).
Comments about the watch so far: it does have a lot of functions....a manual as thick as the bible... So still haven't figured out how to work anything beyond the basics. Still have some reading to do before can really put it through the test during any upcoming hiking practice or maybe during my upcoming holiday...