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I love Seinfeld. Something about that series is just different and genuinely funny. And over here, it’s on TV every day! It’s hard to pick a favourite, but the chronologically backwards episode is right up there. The one where they go to India for a wedding.

Anyway, recently Jerry Seinfeld gave an interview in some magazine, and here’s a gem about parenting:

Seinfeld has three rules of parenting, what he calls “the poison Ps.” The first is Praise—“We tell our kids, ‘Great job!’ too much,” he says. The second is Problem-solving—“We refuse to let our children have problems. Problem-solving is the most important skill to develop for success in life, and we for some reason can’t stand it if our kids have a situation that they need to ‘fix.’ Let them struggle—it’s a gift.”

Just as he’s explaining the third P—“Giving your child too much Pleasure”—a woman comes in the deli with her three young daughters and buys them all huge cookies. “Can you believe this?” Seinfeld says, gesturing like his TV counterpart used to. “It’s 5:30 p.m.—when will they have dinner? At 8?”

It explains so much. It explains all those whiney contestants on American Idol who can’t believe that 1) Simon is telling it like it is – ie they suck and should stop singing forever 2) they don’t have any talent 3) they aren’t going to be a hit anywhere on earth.

It’s a good thing I boil my water before I drink it, but someone please tell me if I catch a case of delusion, thanks.

Spent a whole day watching Macross Frontier. I love the animation! Also I finally understand KF’s fascination to those Valkyries. Then we started on the SDF Macross* series, and man, it’s a throwback in time!

Anyway I found the traditional formula to successful Japanese dramas!

1. Androgynous male protagonists
2. Love triangle
3. Lame-ass male with the unenviable task of choosing between two chicks and the lack of a spine rendering him unable to even try
4. The shy cute chick
5. The demure go-getter chick

The newer dramas are a little more quirky and less formulaic. Those are less predictable, blah. Anyway.

* Super Dimension Fortress. I just had to put that in to look all Macross geeky and cool.

Thanks to Simon Cowell, the role of British (actors) on American tv: the eccentric, narcissistic, blatant truth touting, weird antic loving truth-sayer.

See: House. Hell’s Kitchen. Lie To Me.

Case closed.

I had a productive day today. I set out and did something I was putting off for a bit at the office – well, make that two things – and then after that I headed to the gym for about an hour. I’d say it’s a good start to a new regiment.

I’m trying to stay motivated, trying to focus on a new goal – to fit into some of my older clothes – so I don’t have to buy anything new for my cousin’s wedding next month. You know it’s starting to go downhill from here when your younger cousins start tying the knot. As always, I take my hat off to anyone who goes the whole nine yards with a wedding ceremony and banquet. I think Nature intends that there will always be a few brave souls who’ll give the rest of the world an occasion to celebrate because a selfish b***h like me won’t do it.

Been keeping up with the latest season of The Apprentice (you can now watch full episodes on Yahoo! TV) and it’s great to see a slightly more promising bunch than the previous season (the one Sean won).

My favourite to win this season is James. He reckons himself an internet man, but what’s impressive is that he runs his own site. Ok, so it’s yet another social networking site, but hey, at least he’s trying. I’m always partial to geeks, so hey – hope this one makes it!

Ah – the wonders of the internet.

Scratchy calls me a tv slut, but honestly I do watch good stuff! Just that I’ve varied tastes.

My current favourite right now is Bare Beauty, a 1/2 hour lifestyle docu-tainment program which is kinda fun. The host, Anita Kapoor lends the show a light, unpretentious, lonely planet meets martha stewart style which is highly entertaining. Kinda like what you’d expect a beauty videoblog to be like.

This was a fun body scrub recipe from today’s episode, which she spent in Sri Lanka.

Cinnamon Body Scrub
• 3 tablespoons of cashew nuts, pounded into a fine enough consistency for a scrub (and please, no honey roasted. raw works better)
• 1 teaspoon ground chamomile
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 1 tablespoon yogurt

Mix the stuff above up, if it’s too chunky, add more yogurt. When it’s nicely mixed up, add in half a teaspoon of ground cinammon, and mix it up again.

Apply to skin and leave it on for 10-15 minutes. Then rinse off with warm water.

Sounds very spa. Sounds like something that needs to be done by the beach. Maybe because she was mixing it up by the sea in this segment.

If you want to catch Bare Beauty, it’s on Arts Central on Mondays at 9.30pm. You can set yourself an alert here, but other than that, the Arts Central site is practically useless.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. CSI Miami is so hard to watch because David Caruso is idiotic.

So apparently this really happened in Japan – some hardcore gamer geek dude, meek as a mouse and the quintessential loser meets the perfect girl in the train, but is unable to make eye contact even. So along comes a drunk who harrasses her and he finds the balls to stand up against the man.

The gamer geek dude, who haunts a chat type IRC channel for single men in Japan, gets online and shares his experience. So when the perfect girl sends him a thank-you gift in the form of a pair of Hermes cups and saucers his channel friends finally give him the courage to pick up the phone and call her up for a date.

And thus the story of Train Man and his Miss Hermes is born. A few years later, it’s made into a movie and a tv series, and it’s the tv series I’ve been watching for the last couple of days. It’s not as entertaining as the Korean dramas, and it’s slightly confusing because of the weird subtitling, but otherwise it’s not bad entertainment.

It’s amazing, and it’s amazing that it was based off a real event. Now what I really want to know is if Train Man and Ms Hermes eventually got married or something. Banzai for internet themed romances!