Sunday 4 January 2015

Episodes 29 and 30 of 《信约:动荡的年代》"The Journey : Tumultuous Times" (Last Two Episodes)

Hong Dangyong married Zhang Min despite the fact that she was carrying Zhang Yan's baby. Zhang Min then gave birth to a boy and Dangyong treated the boy as his own. 

Zhang Jia was attacked and stabbed. He finally decided to leave the criminal underworld after much persuasion from Zhang Min, Dangyong and Minghui. He started a laundry business.

Three years later, Zhang Min was pregnant with Dangyong's child. 

One night, some policemen entered the village where Dangyong and his family stayed (not sure whether they were going after Dangyong or some other criminals). The dogs in the village started to bark and, thus alerted, Dangyong left his house and hid from the police. On that same night, Zhang Min's water bag burst and she went into labour. She got her son Hong Kuan, who was only 3 years old, to get the  midwife to come over to help with the delivery. Incredible!

Hong Minghui divorced Zhang Yan after her mum, Yazi, passed away.

Zhang Yan heard from Bai Gou about Hong Dangyong and Zhang Min's whereabouts. He went to the village and set fire to their house. The fire spread fast. Zhang Yan was injured and his leg got stuck under a chicken cage. Dangyong rescued Zhang Yan because Zhang Yan promised that he would own up to setting the fire and surrender to the police. However, as soon as he walked over to the police, he told the police that Dangyong was from the underground and was a wanted man. At that moment, Dangyong decided not to run away anymore. He studied law while serving his jail sentence.

Zhang Jia finally went back to the Zhang family. In addition to the laundry business, he also started a restaurant business and was doing  quite well.

Zhang Tianpeng went back to his company and was shocked to learn from a new staff that his company had been sold away two years ago by Zhang Yan. He suffered a heart attack and passed away.

In Britain, Zhang Yan was upset over the demise of his dad and got drunk. He then quarrelled with his girlfriend, Lulu and killed her. There was no mention of what happened to him after that. 

Zhang Jia was attacked by Bai Gou again and, this time round, he killed Bai Gou. Hong Minghui and Zhang Jia eventually got married. Minghui was pregnant at the end of the show.

Friday 2 January 2015

Episode 53 of "118"

"118" is currently airing on Channel 8, every day from Monday to Friday at 7.30 pm. 

In episode 53, Shanshan (姗姗)told Zhigao (志高) about some parents saying that the Primary 1 textbooks were too easy and that their children were already reading Primary 5 and 6 textbooks even though they were going to be in Primary 1 next year. She was worried that Viveka would lose out. Viveka was the daughter of Alex Lee (Shanshan's boyfriend).



Below were parts of their conversation.

志高:别担心,你没听说过拔苗助长吗?
对孩子的教育一定要循序渐进,千万不能怕输。

就好像灌香肠, 你不能拼命的灌。
你拼命地灌,很容易爆炸的。


姗姗: 可是大家都那么怕输, 我们这些不怕输的就惨了, 就一定被抛到后头了。

志高:每个孩子有自己的天资和领悟力。

学习、受教育不是一百米短跑,一冲就到终点的。
他就好像五千米,一万米, 甚至是全程马拉松 
过程虽然是很长有些孩子开始的时候跑的比较快,可是最重要的是谁可以顺利到终点。

These were translated as:


Zhigao: Don't worry. Don't you know haste makes waste?
Plan for a child's education in a systematic way. 
Don't be afraid to lose out. 
Take making sausages for instance. 
If you overstuff the casing, it'll burst eventually.


Shanshan: But everyone is afraid of losing out. If we don't follow suit, we'll drop behind the rest.


Zhigao: Don't be certain about that. 
Every child learns at a different pace. 
Learning is not a 100 m sprint.
It's more like a marathon.
Although it's a long process, and some kids may be faster in the beginning, what matters is making it to the finishing point.

Agree totally.