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Pursuit of Happyness

You guys should try this:
http://www.superfate.com.cn/channel_fortune/index.php

For those who would like to watch the feel-good show, it's quite good. Earns a 8.5 out of 10 points for me. Spoilers below, so don't read on....

The gist: the movie was about Chris Gardner, who was a high-school graduate, working as a salesman peddling some scanning machine. Business was slow, and the family was behind in their rent and tax payments. That was in 1981.

Chris had a 5-year old kid, Christopher, who went to day-care at SF's Chinatown, ran by Mrs Choo. Outside his day-care was a wall mural with the word "happiness" spelt wrongly as "happyness". The wife got too stressed working double shifts to pay for their bills, that she left Chris pretty early in the show. (That's not to imply that she wasn't a good mum. She left rather tearfully and reluctantly cos she couldn't take the stress.)

So one day, Chris saw this man with a red ferrari and asked him what he was doing to afford that car. Man told him he was a stockbroker. Chris asked how do ppl become stockbrokers? Man answered you just need to be good in math and can talk to ppl well.

Now Chris was quite good in math. He applied to be an intern at Dean Witter and wiggled an interview slot by impressing the HR guy with his skills in the Rubric's Cube. Yep, he was as amazing as the Math prof that solved the Cube in 30mins! Guess what, he got arrested the night before the interview, cos of his outstanding parking tickets! and he got to the interview room dressed in a singlet and jeans!! But he still managed to wow the bosses and got the job. BUT (and this is the big but) only one intern will be employed at the end of the internship while the rest would not be able to enroll in any internships at other companies!! What's more the internship didn't come with any base pay!!!! He had 4 scanners left for the 6-month internship, how was he to make ends meet for his boy and himself??

So he moved to a motel (cos he had no money for rent), was subsequently evicted and had to stay in the train station toilet. That scene really did it for me. Will Smith sobbing his heart out, with his son lying on his lap asleep. Toilet paper strewn all over the floor and ppl banging on the door trying to get in. He had to lug his luggage to work everyday and rush down to the homes to queue for a room everyday at 5pm, thereby shortening his working hours.

He finally managed to secure the position of a stockbroker by working his ass off, and went on to open his own company which he sold off recently for millions. Phew, his gamble really paid off.

There were several scenes - where he was running after gypsies, from cabbies, lugging his luggage, lugging his scanners, trying his very best to do something about his life - that were pretty touching. I thought it was good.

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