Binge

Disclaimer: Long weekend just happened. This post is just about the usual, "How's your long weekend gone?",  "Just spent it binge watching" lame conversation. So read on. 

Just how do you exhaust your holiday free time? Me? I spent it Binge. Not outdoor stuffs but mostly watching TV Series and movies and books and films. I'm willing to sacrifice every outdoor stuff that there is for "just stayed at home reading or watching" experience. Mostly that or re-watching and replaying it in my head which makes me awake at night and groggy in the morning, I can't help but say, "Uuuuuggggh!!! why do I have to go to work!". This is how I define solitude, or maybe I'm just being, merely lazy. I would not say I'm an escapist, I don't want to delve into the "philosophical" aspect of it, because it's too shallow to philosophize over haha words I just love mixing them. The truth is just plain and simple: I AM NOT AMBITIOUS enough to spend my time uh, being ambitious - stuff that ambitious people do with their time. What I love to do is watch ambitious people go for it. In other words I am the audience to this big amazing world. It's so fascinating how I find words to elongate - for lack of a better term - such lazy experience haha moving on.

I have become an Arrow fanatic in span of two weeks, the series was just randomly pick out of boredom. It took me a while to appreciate it because I was so busy which loosely translate for "busy being lazy". It took episode two for the addiction to kick in. Then episode three of season one happened - I became an Olicity obsessed. I couldn't stop myself from watching, I barely even talk to my mother properly, just snatches of conversation here and there, even conversations through text messages and messenger chats, I ditched or just reply halfheartedly.  Totally a no use to the society when I am hooked into something either it be a book, a TV series, a movie, a reality TV, or a man I got a crush on. Pretty scary when I think about it. But like any other shallow addictions, it passes pretty quickly not until I exhaust, 1)  watching fandom made inspired by the series or the movie or the book 2) watching interviews 4) reading reviews 3) stalking the characters personal lives 4) replaying it my head 5) re watching it, and 6) blogging about it - the list could go on, one or two could be repeated, I'm not really that sure, I'm so undisciplined, I lack total control over my self which I grandly exhaust in the Arrow. I can't get over with the Olicity chemistry thing, the Felicity Smoak antics, of how handsome Stephen Amell aka Oliver Queen is, of how married he is haha and other things. I've got rid tons of series in my head over the years now (and tons of celebrity crushes for that matter) the Arrow would be just one of the lists. There's the Breaking Bad which tops the list. I was working in the network back then and work was extreme but when it provides rest, I binged watch it for four straight days. New season came out, work was - there's no way you could squeeze a binge watch - king of hectic, but as I said I failed at the disciplinary department, I managed to watch it in the middle of the week. The effect wore me out, I tell you. But yes, Breaking Bad is top of my "I'm very willing to sacrifice my reality for you series". Second would be Game of Thrones. Ultimate ultimate. The list could go on, there are Korean series, yes I do watch it. Movies. And books, don't even ask me about it. Just massive. Somebody once asked me about it, a friend of a friend who had no passion for such things, at all, I barely resist asking back, "would you really want to hear me talk about the books I've read and the series and the movies I've watch?" People who don't read at least one book a year, or doesn't watch movies or series as much as I do amaze me. And the ones who do, overwhelms me haha!

Every activity I put myself in bring out the randomness in me. Binge watching season's one two and three of Arrow straight for two weeks particularly made me appreciate the DC Comics characters more and I was able to differentiate between whose character is Marvel and DC haha! Aside from that, it got me very vocal about things which normally just stays in my head most of the time like texting my old producer and a friend, expressing how I miss them. Done this after a lousy sleep, it was yesterday, it was Monday. Re-read the entire thing after a very peaceful eight hour sleep the next day which makes it just a while ago, I couldn't be more embarrassed. What was I thinking when I typed that? "Ugggggghhh!!!!".