封神榜

Once again I've found back a bit of my past in the form of a TV show (c.f. Saint Seiya less than a year ago). As I double-clicked on episode #1 and waited for my long-suffering Real Player that took eternity to start, every single scene and face during the opening theme (and of course, the opening theme) came up to me, as vivid as if I'm settling down to a usual routine of TV. It eventually started. It was not exactly as what I had imagined. It never will be for such re-enactments. The faces were more blurry (due to the quality of the video), the actions looked more unnatural, the makeup more 80-ish, and a Taiwanese accent, unnoticed before, permeated the song.

Perhaps it is really the TV and nothing else that moulds the memory of every child. Perhaps if I had watched more TV in Singapore I would have liked the place very much. But since TV-less maturation has always been the definitive experience of my growing-up, I'm just gonna hold on to it.