When my notebook got zapped by lightning...

everything in it were gone: saved articles, drafts, photos and so on. Having experienced system crashes before, I did mean to save some of my recollections of 'Cold blood, warm heart' for future posting. For a change, I thought of saving them as drafts in my blog which would be safe and in sequence, to be posted when I have sorted them out for coherency. I knew saving as drafts in the notebook would be gone in a system crash. Yet, I did not expect the lightning to undo my work which was not saved as drafts in my blog.

One of the things I meant to comment about was the difference in character between two so-called brothers, Pong and Lap. Pong, being the eldest son of rich banker Yip Seng, was offered a position in the family bank as well as a place in their family home, but refused on a matter of principle: that his father was heartless to him and his mother for having abandoned them before when they needed him most. Lap, on the other hand, was eager to gain a foothold in Yip's family, by first getting to know Chris, and later, her sister, Grace, who married him.

His ambitions did not stop at being just a son-in-law with a high position in the bank. He wanted to become his own man, and got involved in drug dealings and money-laundering which got him in troubles which included one murder after another, out of necessity sometimes, to silence people who knew too much, including his father-in-law! He managed to control his uncle-in-law, Cheung, who was at his mercy because of his own ambition within the bank which depended on his good behaviour. Lap knew too much of his dirty deals.

Cheung, who had always been sidelined, was in charge of the bank after his brother was killed by Lap, thought he had an opportunity to shine by going international. Cheung was conned by Lap, who managed to use a nominee in an unknown company to secretly buy up the bank's shares in the market. It was Lap's greatest moment of glory to reveal himself at a board meeting as the new Chairman of the bank, which caused old Yip to have a heart attack.

What I find hard to believe in such stories is the portrayal of Lap as a successful billionaire one moment, and a fugitive who had nothing to cling to, soon after! How could he lose all his support within the bank, of his henchmen, and so on? Instead of a trial to get him convicted, Lap was killed by an assassin sent by a foreign drug kingpin because he could not repay his huge debts used in his successful auction bids against Pong over 3 pieces of land meant for his landmark project. An earthquake in Japan caused his project to fail. Lap had his field days in court when he was helped by a good criminal lawyer, time and again. Surely viewers would like to see him convicted in a trial and see his lawyer cringe for a change, instead of just being killed!

Pong stood to head the bank since he was the sole surviving son of Yip Seng. A case of not fighting for something, yet fated to have it on a platter. But being the reluctant corporate man, he opted out in favour of his step-nephew Hong.

I have actually written the final episode soon after viewing it on Astro, but alas it was gone with the lightning.

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