The (Old) News
It happens all the time. Whenever there’s an earthquake in Indonesia, we’d be getting the tremors. And whenever we get tremors, there will be people recording the tremors on their handphones. These video recordings would then be sent to Mediacorp, which then shows them to us during the News.
And so it happened yet again yesterday. The newscaster (Neena Mairata) talked about it. And there were the interviews. Yes…the interviews about how the "victims" felt the giddiness and how everything was swaying all around them. I mean…is this so important that you need to put it up on the news? Yes we know there’s tremors, and what do tremors do? They make you feel giddy and things start shaking all over. What do you expect? Tell me something I don’t know!
Then they proceeded to show the various videos showing the effects of the tremors. Cutlery shaking. Chandeliers shaking. Even keys on the window grilles shaking. For added effect, they overlayed a blowup of the keys at the bottom right of the video, just in case you couldn’t see the shaking keys! And finally, there’s the customary fish tank with mini waves caused by the tremors (Fish: Hey look Ma! I’m on TV yet again!).
Do we really need to see this? Do we really need to know yet again about how some housewife felt when there’s tremors? Do we really really need to see the blow up of the keys on the window grilles? Do the home owners realise that potential robbers now know that they leave their window grille keys on the window grilles?
Fascinating stuff.
As for my baby, she’s more interested in the Weather. Somehow or other, she’d stop what she’s doing immediately and focus on the TV whenever she hears the weather jingle. I think she’s hypnotised by it! Or maybe she has friends in Dubai or Taiwan?
On another note, I was pleasantly surprised when I realised that the mosque I went to for Zuhur (afternoon) prayers had started giving out porridge after the Zuhur prayers. Usually they’d give out porridge after the Asar (late afternoon) prayers. I never thought I’d be able to get the porridge as I normally perform Asar prayers at home. That’s nice :)