If you are living in Singapore, this is one song u will definitely be able to hum to the tune, whether if you are a Hokkien or not.
As long as u have a TV set at home, u will know this song, whether if u like it or not.
This song is the theme song for 爱 the Channel 8 show at 7pm, everyday. U read me, EVERYDAY!
And it’s very hard to miss the show. It hounds you everyday.
Though i watch more 台湾龙卷风, but i’m still quite in sync where the plot of 爱 is concerned.
It’s an interesting trend where Taiwan Chinese-translated-from-Hokkien is slowly garnering a big fan base here. Not forgetting the jokes where kids just says the darnest things, such as:
‘7点要做爱了’
(They are just telling someone that 爱 is gonna start showing at 7pm…. bleah)
Let me list down a few reasons for its growing popularity:
1) People need soapy, draggy drama with at least 300 episodes. Who doesn't love megadramas?!
爱 is about 700plus episodes. Singapore’s showing up to about 400+. Another 300+ episodes of dramas. 台湾龙卷风 has 345 episodes. Drama’s still boiling in Singapore.
My favorite: 台湾龙卷风 (more business-like, and more scheming drama)
2) People love and hate the baddies in megadramas
In 爱, the hated characters include:
-郭聪敏 (the guy who's narcissistic, who cheats women of their money, and ended up stricken with cancer. Screen time ended)
-谢明明 (the bitchy woman who married twice, cheated the first husband, and got played out by the 2nd one who schemes to cheat her money. she's still as 贱 as ever. U really love to hate her)
In 台湾龙卷风, hated characters include:
-叶美琪 (man-crazy woman, who's consistently stubborn, and unrepentent)
-黄平秋 (unscrupulous businessman, who betrays his own family, and ended up having a taste of his own medicine. He portrays as a useless bum these days. Very 贱 character)
My favorite baddie: 黄平秋。。。。 贱to the core of his being. It makes me shudder and yet i wonder: how is it possible that someone in real life is as 贱 as him??
3) People feels sad for those very 命苦characters in the show. Ahhh, don’t we love sappy characters!
In 爱: There's this blind gal called 娃娃, very poor thing. All because of 谢明明
In 台湾龙卷风: Yvonne was a very poor thing. Was raped by 黄平秋, went ballastic and went mental momentarily, and then was harmed to death by 叶美琪.
My favorite sappy character: Yvonne. Drama-max in her life.
U might have realized :I love Hokkien-translated-to-Chinese Hokkien dramas! Though i’m not at the stage where i’m CRAZY about them. i think they are even better than the 偶像剧. They are just way toooo exciting (albeit draggy)!!
Cheers to Hokkien Drama!!! Am proud to be a Hokkien (though watching more of these shows doesn’t/hasn’t improve my spoken/listening language in anyway,HA!!)… Oops, age is really catching up, i’m getting to be more LKK (lao koko if u know what it means)
Upcoming posts:
1) Celede Brekkie (OMG this is more than 2 weeks overdue)
2) Standchart Marathon!!! Oh yes, it’s 2 days away!!!
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