Saturday, November 3, 2007

killing time


So i've got about 45mins before dinner, I just took a walk through the park so now its time to unwind with some local tv, heres whats showing at 4:15pm on a saturday afternoon in Guangzhou China

Before PETA gets after me about that picture to the left, that creepy crawly crawled into the glass during the night, long after I was asleep, a drunk little cocroach in the morning we woke up to. He was having a nice little friday night and into saturday


Channel
1-6 Red static - I assume its a patriotic thing
7 China pink shirt vs china in blue shirt ping pong, both have short shorts on
8 news, no idea whats going on, some guy moving propane tanks with his bicycle
10 anime cartoons, i'll come back to this later
11 cell phone commercial
12 cell phone commercial, i think its the same one
13 soap opera, 2 cute girls talking about something dramatic, and now their in the doctors office
14 horse racing, yellow helmet is leading at the 1200 mark
17 kite flying by what i imagine samuri's wore in the day, this one deserves a picture, it'll be posted later.
19 british version of blues clues or the wiggles, IN ENGLISH!
24 circue de solei? local version i think
27 old karate movie, mustache wearing hulk hogan haired guy with huge upward pointing eyebrows
29 asian man pattern baldness commercial, hosted by totally bald man
31 scooping of beans, pistachios, and other round objects i dont recognize, now guy in wrangler t-shirt bragging about whats in his bag
33 CMTV, e's in the background as decor
36 ultimate tree house, soap opera occuring in this amazing swiss family robinson looking creation
37 credits of a karate fight movie
44 chinese version of what looks like saved by the bell, but more dramatic
45 looks like the spanish channel sunday programming
47 phil mickelson teeing off in golf tournament IN ENGLISH!
54 walker china ranger, i think, lots of guns, suit wearing guys vs actual army. note to self, bamboo is aparently bulletproof
55 collegiate vollyball
57 monkey dressed guy, seems to be a series show of planet of the apes, riding pony's, and wearing crowns.
64 "cover queen" the local version of proactiv
68 Ernie from burt and ernie puppets on a mans shoulders, giving him advice in song, looks like that e station again. Ends with one of the ernies dressed up in SF Giants baseball jersey.
69 school girls in catholic schoolgirl dress, and guys in male equivalent. leaving school
76 looks like local version of desperate housewives, and guys in sweater vests
77 cirque de soleil is back!
78 karate punch to the adams apple, intro to soap opera
79 Miss Chinese cosmos pageant, this girls talent is gutting a fish with a huge knife, and dancing now... i think i'm going to stop changing channels

82 SpongeBob SquarePants IN ENGLISH! ok now i'm watching this about 15mins after watching and not understanding any of Miss Chinese Cosmos

Now you get the idea of what there is here on TV, its pretty amazing.

Heres some pictures for you visual people















that dragon is about 12' tall, standing i'd be up to about his flames nearest his mouth