Since... err... Wednesday, I think... or perhaps Tuesday... I have been secretly rewatching another of my favourite childhood series, Wan ju gak gak (huan2 zhu1 ge2ge). Twenty-five sweet episodes, ever so entertaining, and also so tear-inducing...
It's not supposed to end yet! There are another forty-eight or so episodes to go! I am unspeakably pissed at my computer, or at the disks, or at fate, that just when I had found something to ease my boredom and also improve my Chinese, it is cut short. The rage bubbles inside me. It must work, there's no way -
Let me explain from the beginning. My computer only has a CD player, so I can't watch anything on it that's on DVD, it can only read CDs and USBs. I would dearly like to watch DVDs on my computer, but if I ask my dad to install a DVD player, he'd totally get suspicious about why I'm watching DVDs all the time. So imagine my ecstacy when I found some well-beloved VCDs of my childhood that I could watch in the privacy of my own room! Yes, 'twas a leisurely few days when I watched the first part of the series, watching up to ten 45-minute episodes in one day (that was Friday night, so I decided to milk it for all it was worth). And now that it's over, I've smuggled the second part into my room too, and it plays fine on my computer, but no matter what I do, I can't get it to play Canto!
You see, the thing with bilingual VCDs is that you have to turn off either the left or right speaker/earphone, or else you get a jumble of both languages. Let me tell you, it was worth me deafening one ear at a time to listen to Canto without the noise being detected my my family. But with the second series, I've tried turning off both headphones one at a time, but each time, it's still only Mando that comes out. Argh!!! What do I do? Why me? I don't understand!!! When I first watched the series, I was in like year two and hardly knew any Mando at all except for my Chinese name (maybe not even that). My Canto, however, was very fair. I must have watched it in Canto. But why doesn't the canto work now??
I think that we bought the first part for real, while the second part was fake. But that doesn't mean anything, because no matter what tv shows my dad buys or downloads, he would definitely get them in Canto unless there exists no Canto version. In all honesty though, I have no idea. The storyline seems completely new to me. Rewatching it after nearly ten years, I seriously don't remember anything at all about the storyline. I remember brief flashes, but most of the times it's unreal to me that I've ever watched this. I have no idea what's going to happen next, and I cry as if it's the saddest thing I've ever seen, not the saddest thing I've ever seen twice.
Like today, I watched the last four episodes in a row and I cried during each one of them, 'cause people were being whipped and nearly dying and things. and I used up like eight tissues blowing my nose.
Here is one line that I quite liked:
Guy: Did you miss me?
Girl: No.
Guy: Well... do you have anything else to say to me?
Girl: ... that "no" was a lie.
Expected knowledge would be that the guy and the girl met before the girl went into the palace to become a servant, so the guy can only see her once in a while, which why he's all like "do you have anything to say to me" and yeah.
Anyway. So unbelieveably pissed that I can no longer continue watching through to the end!! *throws tantrum*
God, and my major Modern History essay is due in two weeks, and I have no idea what I'm going to do... *scared*
Time to procratinate some more.