I’m now hooked on TVBS Asia channel every weekday night from 9pm to 10pm. Nothing can pry me away from my TV set.
First it was The Swinging Ladies, and now it’s Feels Like I’m Falling In Love (Houxiang Houxiang Tan Lianai), a surprisingly modernistic China mainland produced drama complete with Beijing flavour. This is a feminist plot along the lines of Sex and The City and focuses on the romantic adventures of four swinging single Chinese women in their 30s. But minus the saucy sex romps.
It has an interesting cast including pop singer Na Ying and the production style is almost cinematographic. The pace is snappy and the drama is well packaged with tasteful settings and clever dialogues. Each episode examines different aspects on love, marriage, women as well as men and I especially like scenes of the ladies dissecting their relationships within the Book Bar run by one of the protagonists. Hehe…definitely my kind of escapade.
Consider these dialogues and monologues:
All of us have a soulmate. Unfortunately, like an apple cut into half and thrown into different parts of the world, some of us may not possibly find our other half in this lifetime.
Falling in love and getting married are totally different. You may find love, but not marriage. Likewise, you may find a marriage, but not necessary love.
The possibility of a marriage exists for all of us. Well, it’s just somewhere around the corner.
We constantly pursue our notion of perfect love ignoring the fact that love in itself is imperfect. That explains why people are constantly disillusioned when they’re in a relationship.
Newly married women tend to tell their single women friends that marriage is a wonderful institution, the passport to a lifetime of bliss. In reality, that is (HAHAHA) far from the truth.
Older single women are always viewed differently in society. Either they are considered a threat, or they’re considered frigid.
Sadly, women are always judged by their looks. Pretty women are never deemed capable, even if they truly are, and even by their own kind.
I’ve tried my best to keep the essence of these quotes but these are really better heard in Chinese. Better still, watch the drama. I like it particularly because I can relate pretty well with the women in the story. I was like them a decade ago, looking for the perfect love and my soulmate. I could never bring myself to date men just for the sake of trying out, not even when they were obvious marriage material. The process of falling passionately in love was just too big a deal for me.
And have I found it? Heh. I’m not telling…yet!
Dunno leh, I think not really possible to find a perfect guy (example:Min Zheng Hao in Da Chang Jin) in this world. Sad rite? Hehehehe.
Comment by Ashleigh — Wed, 31 May 2006 @ 3:48 pm
On the contrary, I believe in fairies, pixies, gnomes, dwarfs whatever but I never believed in real love, the type that makes you go weak in the knees and brood over, not til I would say, I met MM. That guy really make me go soft and mushy! There are good times and there are bad times. Marriage is never perfect; we are merely helping each other grow into a more perfect person with each passing day.
Comment by domestic rat — Wed, 31 May 2006 @ 5:09 pm
Sounds like a very nice series. I wonder if they show it on TV here.
I really don’t turn on the TV at home, and don’t know what is on. I’m very worried if i watched anything interesting, I’ll get hooked, like I used to before I have Zara..
Those were the days where I rush home for work so that I can watch that TV series.. rain or shine or even if work was piling up. I’m worried I cannot self control so I totally don’t watch at all nowadays.
Comment by zara's mama — Wed, 31 May 2006 @ 5:27 pm
I am not a romantic girl and quite frankly, I don’t know if I actually went through the “passionately in love” phase. But I do believe I have found the soulmate and later, to find him as my perfect love..
Or perhaps I think that only because I am still newly married? When is someone considered NOT newly married?
Comment by Erika — Thu, 1 Jun 2006 @ 1:04 am
Hmm…when i first met hubby, i already have the feeling that ‘he’s the one!’i don’t know why, but somehow i just knew then…
We’ve known each other for 10 years, married for 6; i would still say ‘he’s the one’ for now…haha…so far so good lah..
Comment by Eileen — Thu, 1 Jun 2006 @ 10:29 am
I agreed wif Ashleigh… i hv given up the tot of man like min zheng hao, they never exist on earth.
少女怀梦总是思…
Comment by wtpgrr — Thu, 1 Jun 2006 @ 2:32 pm
Nevertheless, i agreed falling in love is a nourishing thing. The sweetness make a girl grow and a woman glow
Comment by wtpgrr — Thu, 1 Jun 2006 @ 2:33 pm
Ashes & Wtpgrr:Wah, you two fans of that Min Zheng Hao ah? Haha…he very nice meh? My TK better lah…But ladies, this one fiction lah…in real life, got better ones. Really one. Just that we don’t get to meet only. HAHAHAHAHA…
DR: Lucky you. To find someone you love and to marry the man. Yeah, marriage is something that needs work.
ZM: I was also like you. I didn’t watch TV for awhile. But I watch during this time belt cos this is Gavin’s milk time and he sits and watches with me too.
Erika: I don’t know when it ends officially. For me, it was probably after childbirth.
Eileen: Hey, that’s nice to know that your hub is the one for you. Cherish the moments!
Comment by sesame — Thu, 1 Jun 2006 @ 5:10 pm