New cell phone & Goodbye Alan
I got a new cell phone finally to replace the old but very reliable hunk of Nokia I had before. The new phone I got is of a Chinese brand, Amoi. This Amoi M636 is nuts, it's like a mini computer. I'm not going to bother writing the features down because the list is too long. One of the coolest features is an English to Chinese dictionary. Soon you will be drooling over my M636 instead of my old Nokia 6something... Past few days I've been religiously watching this new soap opera called 再见阿郎 (Goodbye Alan). I don't know why I'm so into this Singapore soap but usually I hate these kind of shows. The acting is terrible and the stories are extremely depressing. I think I finally became hooked for the same reason all of us are hooked or was once hooked to Asian soaps at one time, the hotties. Yes the hotties on there along with the main actor (who looks me, I think) make this show irresistable. By watching these few days I've also figured out the main reason why these characters in the shows have such crappy luck. It all comes down to lack of communication. In this show, our main character Alan's current situation is the following; Alan's retarded friend was shot to death by accident, his mother was shot by accident, two girls are fighting over him (like that's bad), his fiancee was almost raped by his own brother, he lost his job, his dad lost his job, and did I mention two hotties are fighting over him? All this crap is happening to him because people are not communicating openly with each other and working together to figure out who is the root cause of all their misfortunes. Instead this show is spiraling fast to become one of those soaps where you see an average of 5 people crying at separate times per episode. How annoying and pathetic. Despite the fact that this show sort of disgusts me in the way they torture Alan, I am still hooked. Anyways, enough rambling, I'm going back to Shanghai after tomorrow for a coule more weeks then I'm coming back to Xiamen again. Xiamen has been great, there are many things happening everyday which surprises but I forget about them later so I don't write it in the blog.