"96°C Cafe" - Viewers' Choice of Ending

The results were out.

Viewers' choice: Majority voted for Chuanzhi.

So, Chuanzhi is Yuchen's Mr Right.


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"96°C Cafe" Ending

"96°C Cafe" aired on MediaCorp's Channel 8 every Monday to Friday, at 9 pm. Last night was the last episode. Prior to the drama serial, prequels of 8 webisodes were released on xinfirst's portal progressively from 18 February to 11 March 2013.

The webisodes focused more on Yuchen (played by Julie Tan) and Liqiao (played by Desmond Tan), how Yuchen got the job at 96°C Cafe and how the two of them got along. There were other characters in the webisodes that were not shown on TV, such as Shuting (Yuchen's good friend played by Chantalle Ng), Zi Wei (Shuting's senior played by James Seah) and Yuchen's admirer (played by Zhang Zhenhuan), Liqiao's sister (Ruolin) and grandmother and many others only appeared on the TV episodes. 

Liqiao was a guy who had lost his wife in a car accident and unable to face up to reality, chose to go for boxing sessions to torture himself. Yuchen had fallen for him and wanted to help him forget his pain of losing his wife. On the TV drama, Yuchen had a new admirer, named Liu Chuanzhi (played by Ian Fang). Chuanzhi was always helping her and cheering her on when things did not go smoothly.

On the last episode, Ruolin finally decided not to marry Lao Jingfeng (played by Tay Pin Hui) and chose Tang Weida (played by Romeo Tan) who was many years younger than her. No doubt Tang Weida had done a lot of things to make her happy but it seemed that she was not really that happy when she was with him, so I find this ending a bit weird. I thought she got along better with Lao Jingfeng. It seemed to me that the scriptwriters wanted to make people feel that Tang Weida's efforts were not wasted, We were also told on the last episode that Lao Jingfeng had phobia of getting married, so it was a good thing they did not marry each other in the end. Although weird, I am still happy that Tang Weida's love and innocence had touched Roulin's heart.

As for Yuchen, Liqiao and Chuanzhi, at first I thought the ending was another "hang in the air" or "up to your own imagination" kind of ending. Actually, I hate this kind of ending. If it is up to my own imagination, I might as well be the one writing the script, ha! ha!. Fortunately, after the end of the show, we were told that we, viewers had a chance to vote for the ending that we wanted. We can go to Chinatown Point on 26 May 13 to vote for the ending we want. Whether Yuchen will choose Liqiao or Chuanzhi is entirely dependent on the votes. 

On rational grounds, I will vote for Chuanzhi. My reasons for choosing Chuanzhi over Liqiao:

1) Chuanzhi was always there for Yuchen.

2) Chuanzhi risk his life to save Yuchen.

3) Liqiao did not know how to treasure Yuchen and did not love her enough:

a) 1st time, he only started to woo her when she left 96°C Cafe for a new job. He then realised he needed her and liked her.

b) 2nd time, he suddenly went overseas when he found out his wife had cheated on him when she was alive. He claimed that he had lost faith in love. He only realised he still liked Yuchen when overseas.

Wah, only when the girl was not around, then he would start to miss her, what's the point. Should treasure her when she was with him. Although Liqiao had done up his cafe to be the dream cafe for Yuchen, Chuanzhi had done up the dream house for Yuchen. So, what will be the more popular ending? We shall see it on 26 May 13, at 10.30 pm, on Channel 8.

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《我们》 (“We”)

这首《我们》是梁文福比较近期的作品。这首歌是梁文福为《当我们同在一起》这部电视剧写的词和曲并且得到红星大奖2010的最佳主题曲奖。主唱是陈伟联。陈伟联是一名视障歌手。他是第一届 《绝对SuperStar》 的总冠军得主。 《绝对SuperStar》 是由新传媒举办的歌唱选秀节目，第一届是从2005年6月开始播出， 9月1日结束。他有一把很好的嗓子。

"We" was a more recent song written by Liang Wenfu. Liang Wenfu compose both music and lyrics for this song to be used as the theme song for MediaCorp TV drama "Together".  This song won the "Best Theme Song" award in the 2010 Star Awards.  This song was sung by Kelvin Tan who is a visually impaired Singaporean Singer. He was the overall Champion in season 1 "Project Superstar" singing competition.  ("Project Superstar" is a singing talent search competition organised by MediaCorp, the first season ran from Jun 2005 to Sep 2005). He has a very good singing voice.





歌词：

一条街有多长 年少就多长
我时常都回到 昨天去徜徉
那外面有多大 用笑声去丈量
你背影有多长 思念就多长

我们总是这样 借彼此肩膀
我们总是错过 幸福那一站
拥有了全世界可是你却看不见
我宁愿重回到那一年 牵着你去看明天
失去了全世界 还有你在我身边
能不能重回到那一年
你的梦 我的歌 蓝的天 叫永远


The lyrics roughly translate as:

Youth is as long as the street.
I always return to yesterday and wander.
Use laughter to measure how big the outside world is.
I miss you for so long.

We are always like that, lending each other our shoulders.
We always let happiness slipped away.
If I were to own the whole world but you cannot see it,
I would rather go back to that year, holding your hands to see tomorrow.
If I were to lose the whole world but with you at my side,
can we return to that year
where your dreams, my songs and the blue sky are eternity?