Sunday, April 29, 2007

who lives in a pineapple under the sea?

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS!! (shouting out loud!)

I saw an episode of Spongebob during the killer exam week (of note: last week) at lunchtime. This time Plankton is back to the Krusty Krab to continue his mission of stealing the secret ingredients of Krabby Patty! Cut the story short, as usual mission unaccomplished and he returned to his Chum Bucket restaurant crying his failure and envying Mr Krab's fabulous and successful life.

Things don't just stop there, he decided to use one of his latest inventions of body switching machine to swap his misery life with no one else but his most envious Mr Krabs! So he did, and woke up in his dream life as the manager of Krusty Krab. But yeah, life is a one big mysterious ocean, you'll never know what you're gonna get - he started to realize that Mr Krab's life (now his life) isn't as good as he thought it'd be. Not only that he had to bear with Spongebob's erratic questions on every ordeal, the daughter Pearl (a shark) who's zillionth time bigger than he is who's by just walking into the restaurant threw him bouncing up in the air, but now he has to save his tasty secret recipes of Krabby Patty from being stolen by his big-red naked enemy from across the road - Krabs!!

Fav quotes at this time -

Mr. Plankton
: He's back!!
Spongebob: Yeah! But the worst part of it is - (Krabs jumps down behind Mr. Plankton)
Mr. Plankton:
Good grief he's NAKED!!!

Heu heu..

The fights began and once again Spongebob saved the day, this time by catching Krabs using his cannon clothes. Krabs, failed to steal the formula walked back to the Chum Bucket while promising out loud that he's gonna be back the day after, and the day after, and the day after.. to keep trying to steal the formula. Mr Plankton, now freaking out, realized that everything was just not worth it, stripped his shirt off and pressed the button on the belt to switch back to his old life. He woke up in his ordinary life as the ordinary Plankton, and ate his wife's (Karen the computer) hologram dinner on the dinner table happily...

The End.

Moral:

As human we can't escape from having the feelings of dissatisfactions of what we have, and look on what others have as things far greater than our's and envy their lives so much. The odd thoughts of, "If only I have that kinda money.." and "I wish I have that skin.." or "Why do I have to be like me and not like him/her?" linger around the minds dampening the self-esteems and without being realized turning us into a bunch of ungrateful people, or at worst, putting the blame on God for our poor destinies. (nauzubillahi min dzaalik..)

Maybe we should just take a moment and think; about other people in the world who don't even have the money to buy rice to eat, or the people whose skin has burnt and crippled beyond repair, or the people who have just few more months to live from some terminal diseases - aren't we all far better the way we are than these people?

Thus for once and for all, let us all be grateful for what we have. The grass isn't always greener on the other side of the fence as we thought it'd be..