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the only reader of my blog - hao-e - made a comment that i should start blogging about the TVB serials i have recently been watching en masse. Mum has been feeding me 20/30part serials every other week. So i truth, i have really conquered some cantonese dramas of late. i'm a TV junkie. i always knew i was something.

The latest of which is a xuan xuan drama where she's this "xi liang" person "li hua" (i.e. non-Chinese) who endeavours to make peace between the Tang emperor and xi liang by marrying "xue ding shan" who is a Tang person and he hates xi liang. (they supposedly have some yuan fen thingie, predestined to be together, and their union will bring about peace for both countries... blah blah) Hmm... So li hua manages to wiggle her way into getting the emperor to force ding shan to marry her. she endures all the criticisms and unfair treatment at the xue's house. Finally, ding shan falls for her and the 2 live happily ever after. my fav ending.

Before that, was the drama wo de ye man nai nai (in-law wars). also damn funny and entertaining. the guy is so toot, he's positively cute. or the other way around. haha. in-law relationships are never easy to manage (see previous entry), esp when the MIL is a manchurian princess, cousin to the empress, and the DIL was a bandit. haha. But of course the ending is, MIL becomes less critical and demanding, and they live happily (squabbling) ever after. again, my fav ending.

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