I have a deep, dark confession to make.

I am fascinated by Chinese wuxia drama serials. Beneath this air of English superiority (HAH!) lies a dark desire to follow wuxia drama serials to the death.

Despite the rather predictable and garbled plot and the poor English translations of rather poetic lines, I still find myself drawn towards such shows. The plot usually revolves around a hero who is naturally gifted in the arts of wukong (AKA martial arts) learning a multitude of high-level skills and having love affairs right, left and centre. He defeats the evil villain threatening to invade his country and the story, rather predictably ends with him being the leader/chief of some martial arts sect.

However! I am still hopelessly addicted to this genre! Maybe it's because the actors and actresses do feats of acrobatic stunts (and still look cool! And! un-sweaty!) Or maybe it's because it's the one genre IN THE WORLD in which old geezers are pictured as the heroes! Other than the young and good-looking cast consisting of the hero and his bevy of beauties, the rest of the martial arts exponents are people with long, flowing white beards and questionable sanity.

Whatever it is, these shows are the ASIAN equivalent of cheesy western movies. And! As such, I should sniff at them with all the English pomp that i can/should muster. Come on! Some of the skills are translated in a manner that is incidentally humorous! I mean! Dog-beating skill? Somebody call the SPCA will you? Bah!

Anyway! Since we're on the topic of confessions... I have to say that i was rooting for Sanjaya during his stint at American Idol. American Idol is so hopelessly boring now. We need some Sanjaya to give it back it's sparkle! On a related topic, I think the media should stop taking pot shots at Sanjaya!

I'd like to see those media people sing their heart out.

Hmph.