Judging By The Sound Of It

Leggie's posting of a mandarin song reminded us that we were supposed to hunt down a song from a long time past: the song that's played at the end of a Justice Bao episode.

Yes. Justice Bao. The very first ones in Mandarin where a story arc finished within the week rather than drag on for ages. When MetroVision first showed up we'd a bit of a hassle as the telly antenna wasn't able to receive the channel clearly - s'either RTM and TV3 were on VHF while MetroVision was on UHF or the other way 'round. So we lived on hopes that reception was good, since MetroVision brought many new series during prime time. It was MetroVision wot brought Justice Bao, Picket Fences and Sailormoon into our life.

Only Justice Bao suffered in terms of reception because we hadn't gotten a reception booster then - but that didn't stop us from tuning in glued to the seats, going all panicky when static and grey crept in at odd times and rainy days. The family heart the early Justice Bao :) It was such a change from the other Cantonese serials. Instead of a long-drawn drama of goodness knows how many episodes in all, there were simple story arcs of some 5-10 episodes, each getting slightly longer (if we remembers the first case/story arc only took one week).

Fun watching Justice Bao shouting 'Execute' and throwing the wooden piece, or his attendants banging their staves on the floor whilst murmuring 'Silence/Seriousness' (something like that). And following the cases, wondering if the story arc will end with that episode or continue...and then there's the teaser scenes that play during the end credits :D

OK. Back to the end credits song first. As we can't read Chinese and don't understand Mandarin (yes, banana, go go banana!) we have noooo idea what the song's about nor able to make out if the song is listed somewhere in the credits. But during those times the family collection of cassette tapes proved providential - Richard Clayderman's 'Flower Heart' album has the song, titled 'New Dream Of The Lovers'.

Maybe one day we'll find it.

So anyways, how did we get our brain latched back onto something like Justice Bao in the first place? Sometime after Chinese New Year this year - sis asked us to look for a certain chinese series title (heck it surprised us that she still watches chinese serials) so we decided to try Speedy 1 Utama. While that proved fruitless we spotted some eye candy that caused us to brake and examine the nearby shelves :)

And saw this.

Now RM3 per VCD for something that we could appreciate wasn't anything to sniff at. We can't remember why we didn't pick up any then - probably because there were too many and we didn't know what episode we were picking (we would preferably get a story arc where we've watched before, or has been translated in those bilingual chinese novels) - but we didn't get any. Maybe we were afraid then that we would just buy every single one then.

So when Leggie posted the mandarin song the itch in the brain to go pick up any box of Justice Bao VCDs flared. Of course, there was the chance that the VCDs won't be selling for RM3 anymore, but we wouldn't know until we try. And then we also came across this:

Justice Bao DVD!

Flustered with choice we finally picked up a box of 4 VCDs - goodness knows what the story's about as there's no English translation of the title but we thought what the heck, so few VCDs surely short story arc, should be early episodes one lar. Mana tahu when we dropped by Mage just now Wong nicely informs us that its only half the story arc. Fuggggg! It was around then that it dawned on us, "Ya-hor, VCD can only hold 1 hour's worth, which is one episode."

-_-'

It's been a long time back when we switched to DVDs. Maybe getting the DVD next would be a better idea, it'll cost the same. Anyways, another bag of chips tonight while we find out what story arc this is. Probably wouldn't understand anyways, can't hear can't read.