Dramas nowadays

The Chinese drama I’ve been watching is beginning to turn quite perverted, I feel… Imagine the following scenarios:

• The sister is in love with the 2nd brother.
• The 2nd brother is in love with the 5th mother (step-mother) and it is actually mutual.
• The 1st brother almost raped the 5th mother.
• The 1st brother had at one time wooed the 4th mother.
• The 2nd mother fals for one of the servant and is engaged in some not-so-natural nights!
• The 6th uncle tried to convince the 4th mother to sleep with an army general for 8 nights to settle some debts.

Gosh… what kind of culture are they trying to promote nowadays. But aside for such distasteful relationships, the show evokes quite a lot of intrigue and curiosity. It started off with the 1st mother getting strangled to death and the father being kidnapped. Then a young lady claiming to be the 5th mother went to claim her position with a body supposedly of the dead father. Then there was intense rivalry among the mothers and even plots to kill. And everyone is suspicious of the intentions of the 5th mother. Of course, the 5th mother indeed seems to be a very mysterious person with some hidden agenda. And as usual, the fortune of such huge families with so much in-fighting seldom last long. So eventually, the family became poor or so it seems. Everyone wanted to leave and was almost about to leave when news of some hidden family treasure was leaked out. So again the rivalry started in search of this treasure! And so the story continues with all the twists and turns of a complicated wealthy family in olden day China.
The drama may be over-exaggerated. I mean I’ve not come across any family that is really in such deep shit. But rivalry amongst family members is not something new especially in a wealthy Chinese family. Brothers & sisters who grow up together end up becoming sworn enemies over material possessions. Very sad but true scenario in many families even in modern times. As the saying goes, “wealth seldom lasts for more than 3 generations.”

WEATHER UPDATE

The day started off quite pleasant with temperatures not quite as high as in the past couple of days (alas below 40degC). It was sunny but pretty calm. But the weather took a turn for the worse just after lunch. Winds suddenly started picking up and before I realize it, I was in the middle of a sandstorm. Had not had a sandstorm for more than a month and today’s was quite bad. This usually means one thing – it is going to get hotter soon! In fact I heard that it touched 47degC yesterday in Abu Dhabi. Wish me luck as I brave more sandstorms and the rising mercury! By the way, everyone is telling me that I am becoming darker with all the sunshine here.