After stopping work, I've been doing my dissertation on and off. Met up with some friends in between and had a couple of retail therapies...big ones...haha... Life's been pretty mundane and hardly fruitful lately. Kind of bored and kind of aimless, even though I have a 10k words dissertation waiting for me to complete.
In the midst of trying to get myself to work, I was recently distracted for a few days by this Taiwanese drama which is currently being aired on Channel U. Its called 'Angel Lover' 天使情人. I hardly enjoyed any Taiwanese drama cause they are usually boring and exaggerating. But this one drew me into watching it because it was somewhat different from the usual stuff by Taiwanese directors. Probably because it was a co-production with mediacorp...but that doesn't mean mediacorp is any good...:P
Anyway, that 2 episode aired on every Friday night at 1130pm wasn't enough to suffice me and so, I started to search for subsequent episodes...haha..from where...oh well..:P Anyway, its already at its 20th episode and will end on the 40th. Initially, I was rather drawn into it by the innocent and funny acting by the main actor, Mingdao(明道). But as I checked out other episodes, I began to appreciate the story and lessons behind it.
The entire series' being made up of around 8-10 mini stories where the lead character(MD) was tasked to help certain characters to move on with life and break away from their current lifestyle and problem which are usually bad and these people are ALL pretty girls...haha but that's not the entire catch. What drawn me into the show was whenever MD starts to chant about lessons learnt from his grandma (ah-ma), which he attempts to pass on to those people he was tasked to help. They are hardly any big idealistic statements, just plain and direct yet makes so much sense to many situations of our daily life. Kind of reminded me that sometimes, things aren't as complicated or as troubled as we see, looking at things on a simpler and slightly naive side might sometimes yield unexpected resolution to the problem.
I always feel that many of us, especially architects and architects-to-be are so caught up with work that we kinda forget what exactly are we striving for. At times, when we face problems, we tend to exemplify the situation that we feel its beyond our ability to resolve it. While in actual fact, it may be just as simple as a situation of making a right choice. If you really can't make a choice, then toss a coin and let 'fate' decide it for you. I always make people do that when they cannot decide which design to take or what to eat...hahaha. Well, it sounds stupid and hardly helpful, but it certainly helps things to move on faster than wasting time. This is just an anology and does not apply to all. Just trying to say that sometimes, the best solution is the simpliest solution...haha..SO CLICHE!!!...but you can't deny it somehow :P
Anyway, each mini story kind of touches different aspects of the pretty much common situation some of us may or may not face at certain point of time. There's even one on architects..hahah. Anyway, the show mostly end up with pretty heart-warming happy ending. So those people who are bored and feeling life sux lately, try looking up this drama. It might cheer you up a little. Oh the soundtrack's not too bad either.
