Thinking back, I believe I have not taken notice of any particularly good local production, not because I bear some sort of grudge against Mediacorp and similar. I must admit productions such as "Chu1 Lu4" (that was many years back) actually successfully coaxed me into returning home on time.

During the past few years, I have resorted to purchasing bricks of HK TV Serial VCDs since channel 5 and 8 could not anymore satisfy my psychological hunger for productions encompassing good cinematography and language. I sometimes cannot comprehend the intentions of the local producers. What's with all that 3D effects (honestly they are no better than FF7)? Are you trying to assure us that we are not too technologically backward, in any case you have conviced me otherwise. And looking at recent productions, neither the English nor Mandarin used seems to be able to put the production on international standards. Singlish is ok though, sounds pretty good in the Jack Neo films.

To the producers of local TV Serials-

1) Please send your artistes for some training in lauguage skills, don't put the country to shame.

2) Please refrain from producing anything other than Singlish productions, until your artistes (and scriptwriters too) can speak without sounding too constipated.

3) maybe the focus should be placed on developing Singlish, let's give us Singaporeans a chance to develop something to call our own. We not good at using any single language, but we're quite the master of mixing them up in a comical way.

Well of course the government would never approve of such a thing as "Developing Singlish", since they all pride themselves as being oh-so-good in English. Well we could adopt the following replacement strategy -

1) Broadcast only the News, and do it repeatedly.

2) Fine people for the usage of Singlish. Nobody would say no since we've all gotten too used to fines.

Bloody hell I have lost track of what I am talking about... nevermind, my brained is quite drained for today...