I tend to poke fun at Filipino dramas because they’re most often overwrought. Subtlety is often overlooked. I usually can’t stand them. Whenever my parents pop one in the DVD player, I tend to flee for the hills. Now, my parents were lent a couple of DVDs of a TV serial from our neighbor. Each DVD is 4 hours long. When I say them watching, all I could do was roll my eyes. I mean, the series just kept going and going. Every time I ventured downstairs, they were engrossed in the story. I was getting annoyed by it.
However.
The unthinkable happened. Somehow, the soap-opera twists and turns lured me in. At first, I was kind of poking fun at the show:
“Oh my God, her pregnancy is so fake.”
“Someone shut that kid up!”
“Holy, overacting!”
After a while though, I got used to the whole thing and started paying more attention to the cheesy soap-plotline. Whenever I went downstairs, I’d ask my parents: “so what happened?” Forty hours of drama later, I’m sitting there with them watching the finale, almost totally absorbed. Frankly, I’m kind of embarassed.
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3 comments
Zi says:
Thu. January 4, 2007 at 5:47 pm (UTC -4 )
is it can be hugs tiem now, plees? you don’t require registration no more. yay.
are those soaps in tagalog or spanish? if they’re in spanish, they might actually be mexican telenovelas. oh, crap how they suck…
anyway. happy new year. i can shamelessly spam your blog. the spice must flow.
Jay says:
Thu. January 4, 2007 at 9:15 pm (UTC -4 )
Yeah, the soap was in Tagalog. Part of the reason I kept watching was because it was good training to help me get a better understanding of the language.
Yes…that’s the reason….
(happy new year to you, too)
kyleen says:
Fri. January 5, 2007 at 1:07 pm (UTC -4 )
“Yes.. that’s the reason…”
Heh. Tell yourself whatever you need to in order to sleep at night.
::giggle::