The Pampered Generation

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It's funny how we've come to depend on things so much that when it's not there, we tend to complain about it. A couple of nights ago, it was pouring quite heavily over here and naturally Astro, the local satellite TV station would have its transmission interrupted.

Now this was during the time my two boys normally watch their cartoon shows and the moment the transmission went off, they were complaining away about the whole thing. My youngest boy started ranting about not having anything to do and that he was going to be missing his cartoons and all that.

I told him to just watch the regular terrestrial stations and he said that they have lousy shows and not much cartoons and he wanted me to call the satellite station and scold them. I found the whole situation hilarious. They're so depended on Astro that when it's down, they're practically lost and don't know what to do. A pampered lot, that's what they are!

Imagine how lucky they are to be born in an age where they can choose anyone of 50 over (I think) channels to watch. Back in my days, we had only two channels and even then it was in black and white. You had no choice back then. If you didn't like what there were showing on either of those two channels then too bad cos you can't channel surf like these days.

I remember we had this black and white TV, the cabinet kind that had doors and all that which you could close at the end of the day. It actually looked like a cabinet, I guess that's why they called it a cabinet TV... hehehe. And even then, the transmission was grainy at times. And watching anything being shown live was like a one in a million thing.

These days things are so much more different. Most of the things we watch on TV are really current and even the sporting events shown are live. Take for instance sports. I'm not really a huge sports fan but I do love watching sporting events and I'd rather watch it live than a delayed telecast.

Sometimes it's so much better watching in the comforts of your own living room, with a can of beer and a packet of peanuts, especially if you're into things like the NFL. Gee, why am I talking about the NFL? I don't even know a single thing about the NFL... hehehe. Sometimes you just get sidetracked about what you actually want to write. I'd better get out of here before I start talking about the big bang theory, quantum physics or something even more complicated! :D
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