Life dramatized

Recently, my brother had begun watching a bunch of VCDs from this chinese series - "Lo Po Dai yun". (Yes, I've lost the ability to type in chinese - help here please?) Since he watches the darn things right behind me on the laptop... well, let's just say that I got quite a lot of it too.

The show itself had some heart-warming moments, but quite a lot of it is just ridiculously over-blown incidents that have the two protagonists, the wife and husband, spinning around misunderstandings. I mean, half the stupid show was spent focusing on how they are misunderstanding each other over this guy, who was the wife's old boyfriend, and the various things that happen.

Then I look back into my life, and then I realize, you know, a lot of times things are pretty ridiculous. I mean, not as bad as what was on the show, but a lot of it could really, really be avoided if we were honest to each other and also less 'reactive' to things. And trust. It's really hard to trust someone else over your own senses and instincts, especially with the devil right there whispering words to you. Which is ridiculous, because you are also expecting the other person to be very smart and able to know completely that you are not happy at them for some specific reason, at the same time.

On the other hand, it's also really easy to be mad at someone for not trusting you, because your pride is right there, telling you, "Hey, he doesn't trust you - he thinks you aren't trustworthy! He doesn't look at the relationship between you two as important enough for him to trust!!" When all of this might just be happening because of some small things misunderstood, or just because one or neither side is willing to admit their problems, or to be the first one to talk to the other person. "It's his fault, he should talk to me first!" "It's her fault. She has to come to me first!"

Sigh.


And this is the ONE thing that you'd think that anyone would learn, but never do:

WHITE LIES CAN OWN YOU LIKE NO TOMORROW.
You know, our culture is one that accepts that a "white lie" occasionally is necessary and good, but the ironic thing is that drama shows of this era shows something completely different. If I learned anything from these (mostly stupid) shows, it's that white lies come right back to bite you in the arse, and usually MUCH MUCH HARDER than if you told the truth. Thing are better expressed honestly and fast, but sensitively, as silence can be even worse than saying something.


Misunderstandings DO kill. -_- God wasn't joking when He told us to be straight and honest with each other.




EDIT: Okay, let me make a correction. I thought that this show couldn't get worse. It did.

It's one of these shows that make me go "Zomg, what's freakin' WRONG with this show? WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE CHARACTERS???"

The guy character is ABSOLUTELY RETARDED and just listens to EVERYTHING. He doesn't even bloody think logically, and people just makes decisions for him. Meanwhile, the girl character is STUBBORN AS A ROCK, and the other girl is just PURE EVIL.

Sigh. It's a show that makes me want to wring someone's neck just by hearing it when my brother plays it.





李克勤 - 花園街的流星