Summary of MG2 Episode 8: 

Scene opens with the continuation of the interview between Mei Zuo & Ye Sha.

Ye Sha: “You must be really worried.  Your relationships are so close.”

Mei Zuo: “Isn’t this a “life style” report?  Why did it become a “gossip style” report?”

Ye Sha (laughing): “Oh Sorry.  I’m very curious about F4’s things.  (pausing)  Then what have you been up to lately?”

Mei Zuo: “Nothing much.  Playing ball, watching movies, go to the Pub and listen to music.”

Ye Sha: “Senior, you like going to the Pub?  Then could you recommend a few good ones?”

Mei Zuo: “There’s so many Pubs around, you still need me to recommend one to you?  (pauses, thinking)  Well, there’s this Pub around here that the atmosphere is pretty good.  We always go there.”

Ye Sha: “Really?  Then what’s the name of it?”

F3 is sitting at a table in a Pub drinking.

Xi Men (takes out something from his pocket): “Oh, right.  This is Ah Si and San Cai’s postcard from Spain.”

Mei Zuo takes it to read it.  Meanwhile, Ye Sha just came into the Pub dragging Dao Ming Si behind her.

Ye Sha (pulling Dao Ming Si along): “This is the place.”

Ye Sha looks in and sees F3 sitting at the table.  She turns back to Dao Ming Si.

Ye Sha: “Come on.  What’s wrong?”

Dao Ming Si looks like he doesn’t want to go in.

Ye Sha: “Ok, to go in or not, you make the decision.”

She turns to leave and Dao Ming Si calls out to her.

Dao Ming Si: “Hey, Ye Sha.”

Ye Sha (looking back): “I’m leaving first.”

Dao Ming Si: “Hey!”

Ye Sha leaves and Dao Ming Si had no choice but to slowly walk into the Pub.

Back at F3’s table:

Lei (after reading the postcard): “Seems like their tone of voice is the same.  (pauses)  Ah Si and San Cai is now taking different paths toward the future.”

Xi Men: “Without Ah Si here, the feeling is sort of weird.”

Dao Ming Si walks slowly around the Pub toward the bar area.  He finds a seat at the end of the bar and sits down with his back to F3’s table.  F3 is sitting only a couple of feet away.  A girl walks up to F3’s table and drapes herself over Xi Men.

Girl: “You haven’t been out to hang around for so long.  Come dance with me.  How about it?”

Xi Men: “But I have something to do and I have to speak with these guys.”

Girl: “Oh please.  You always use this excuse every time.  Come.”

Xi Men: “Why don’t you ask Mei Zuo?  Mei Zuo dances very well.”

Girl: “I don’t care.  I want you to dance with me.  Come.”

Xi Men: “Another time ok?”

Girl: “Come.  Now.”

Lei can’t seem to stand it anymore, so he turns and walks away from the table toward the bar area where Dao Ming Si is sitting.  But he stood a couple of seats away from Dao Ming Si.  Dao Ming Si sees him standing a couple of seats away and turns his face to one side so that Lei can’t see him.

Xi Men: “Be a good girl.  I’ll dance with you another time.”

Girl (still not giving up): “Now.”

Xi Men: “I have some business now.”

Girl: “Let’s go dance now.  Since you haven’t been out to play for so long.  How about it?  Let’s all go to dance together.  Let’s go.”

Xi Men:  “Today is my day with the boys to get together, don’t ruin our fun, ok?”

Girl (finally seeing that she’s not able to convince Xi Men, gives up): “Ok, I’ll let you go this time.  Next time, you have to remember to call me.  Ok?”

Xi Men nods his head at her.

Girl: “Then I’ll see you next time.  Bye.”

Xi Men waves at her.  The girl walks away but was stopped by a guy at a table right behind F3’s.

Guy 1: “Come.  Come.”

Guy 2: “Did you see our Senior Xi Men?  So cool.  So handsome.”

Guy 1 (speaking to the girl): “Stop staying over there playing dumb.  Why are you trying to suck up to the asshole?  Senior Xi Men is an asshole.”

Mei Zuo makes a move to stand up, but Xi Men stops him.

Guy 2: “Come.  Drink beer.”

Guy 3 (speaking to his other 2 friends): “He comes from a very rich family.  You guys?  How can you compare?”

Guy 1: “That’s right.  Of course you shouldn’t even be talking to him.”

Guy 2: “I don’t believe that.  When they were in school, they’re really all well-behaved.  Look guys.”

Guy 2 gets up and walks over to F3’s table where only Mei Zuo & Xi Men is sitting.

Guy 2: “Senior.  (pouring a cup of wine and handing it to Xi Men)  Just pretend I was that girl before and have a drink.”

Xi Men (looking at the cup the guy just poured): “I’m sorry.  I think we’re not sitting at the same table.  Please go back to yours.”

Guy 1 (calling out to his friend): “Hey Michael.  Come back.”

Guy 3: “They are the very famous F4.”

Guy 2 (still sitting at F3’s table): “It’s F4?  I think it’s F3.”

Guy 1: “Yes.  You are right.  There’s no F4 now.”

Guy 2: “F3… Funny… Funny Three.  Let me cheers one with you guys.”  (holds up the cup again)

Xi Men and Mei Zuo just sit there smiling their fake smile at him.  All of a sudden, Mei Zuo gets up out of his seat and pushes his hand in the guy’s face.  And a fight breaks out.  Dao Ming Si is still sitting to one side looking at the whole scene.  Lei, who was still standing by the bar, very calmly takes out a wad of money and hands it over to the guy behind the bar counter.

Lei: “Your Pub’s going to need to renovate.”

Mei Zuo & Xi Men finishes hitting all the guys and started to walk away.  Suddenly, one of the guys gets up and picks up a bottle and goes after Mei Zuo.  Dao Ming Si sees the guy and quickly walks over and grabs the guy’s hand that was holding the bottle before he can hit Mei Zuo in the back.

Guy (looking surprised at Dao Ming Si): “What are you doing?  Let go!  Dao Ming Si.”

Dao Ming Si struggles with the guy and pushes him away.

Guy (gets up): “I’ll remember this!”  Then he runs away.

Lei (standing there looking at Dao Ming Si surprised): “Ah Si.”

Mei Zuo (after snapping out of his shocked state, rushes over to Dao Ming Si and grabs him by the shoulders): “Ah Si!  It’s really you.  Ah Si.”

Dao Ming Si suddenly pushes Mei Zuo away toward a table.

Mei Zuo (rights himself, turns in shock and surprise): “Ah Si?”

F4 stood there looking at each other, then Dao Ming Si slowly walks pass Xi Men and toward the door.

Xi Men (calls out to Dao Ming Si as he was walking by):  “Ah Si.”

Dao Ming Si pauses for a second then continues walking out then started running.  F3 hesitated for a couple seconds then ran after Dao Ming Si calling his name.  After running for a while, F3 finally manages to corner Dao Ming Si on an overhead bridge, with Xi Men & Lei standing on one side and Mei Zuo standing on the other.

Mei Zuo (out of breath): “Ah Si.  What are you running for?”

Xi Men (also out of breath): “Take a closer look.  It’s us.”

Dao Ming Si just continues to stare at them breathing heavily.

Lei: “Ah Si really doesn’t remember anything.”

Mei Zuo: “He has to remember!  If not he wouldn’t have helped us before.”

Xi Men (talking to Dao Ming Si): “Doesn’t matter what you remember, what you forgot, come back with us.  We will help you to remember.”

Dao Ming Si tries to get pass Mei Zuo.

Xi Men (shouts out): “AH SI!”

Dao Ming Si (shouts back angrily): “How did I know guys like you?”

Xi Men: “But for the past 20 years, the four of us have always been together.”

Dao Ming Si: “How can I be like you guys?!?!  I’m not that kind of person!”

Mei Zuo (yelling): “What nonsense are you talking about!”

Lei (talking to DSM): “Why don’t you just ask yourself the reason for helping us out before?  That’s because between all of us, no matter who gets into trouble, anyone of us would come out and help the another first thing.  Even if we lose our life, we don’t care.”

Mei Zuo: “Ah Si.  (grabbing Dao Ming Si by the shoulders)  Because we are the best…”

Dao Ming Si (throwing Mei Zuo’s hands away and starts running again): “Get away!”

F3 continues to run after him.  They ran until they are by a railroad track.  The red signal is on for ‘no crossing’ because there’s a train that would be coming soon.  Dao Ming Si manages to run across the train tracks to the other side but F3 couldn’t get across in time.

Dao Ming Si (on one side of the track, yelling back at F3): “I HATE MY PAST!”

Mei Zuo (yelling back from the other side): “WHAT NONSENSE!”

Lei (also yelling): “You can hate your past but you can’t forget San Cai!”

The train runs past just as Lei was finishing his sentence.  When the train passes, Dao Ming Si is already gone.

F3 is at a place somewhere, Xi Men & Lei is standing there silently while Mei Zuo is sitting down.  Mei Zuo gets up suddenly and kicks at a soda can in anger.

Xi Men: “What are you doing Mei Zuo?

Mei Zuo: “How can he forget everything?  EVERY little thing, he’s forgotten.”

Xi Men: “Just think of the good side.  When he helped us before, that is totally Ah Si’s personality.”

Mei Zuo: “So he does remember right?  He helped because of us right?  Right?”

Lei: “Mei Zuo.  Admit it.  Ah Si really doesn’t remember anything.  Did you forget what he said before?  He not only questions us, but he also questions his past.  No?”

Mei Zuo: “In the past, he’s such a bully, likes to give red tags – I’ve never said anything against it but always follow his ways.  This time if he would only listen to me for once!  Why can’t he just listen to me this once?”

Mei Zuo (frustrated, shouts out): “AH SI!!!”

Dao Ming Si is walking in the streets all the while having flashbacks of the scenes that just happened.  He sees the billboard ad again and stops to stare at it.  Meanwhile, San Cai is sitting in front of one of the electronic billboards, waiting for Dao Ming Si to call.  Then she goes home and stares at the lights that Dao Ming Si put up for her in the design of the meteor necklace, in MG1.

Dao Ming Si finally goes back to the apartment, where Ye Sha is sleeping.  He tries to take off his shoes without waking her, but he made a lot of noise and she woke up.  Dao Ming Si picks up the photo of him and F3 and sits down on the floor to stare at it.

Ye Sha: “You’re back.  So what happened?”

Dao Ming Si: “Happened?  I ran away.”

Ye Sha: “Ran away?  Why?”

Dao Ming Si: “I don’t know…  It’s just that…  Ye Sha…  Do I have to find my past?”

Ye Sha: “Isn’t that what you wanted all along?”

Dao Ming Si: “What if…  I’m saying what if I don’t like my past?  Then why do I have to go look for them?”

Ye Sha (pointing to the picture in Dao Ming Si’s hands): “You’re saying you don’t like them?”

Dao Ming Si: “I feel that my past is not something that I should have memories of.  Doesn’t matter if it’s family or friends, it wasn’t what I was hoping for.  (pause)  Didn’t you say I was very lucky?  I could live all over again?  Then shouldn’t I start over and live “Ah Sing’s” life?”

Ye Sha: “Living a new life is very hard.  Do you feel it?”

Dao Ming Si: “I’m going to look for a job tomorrow.”

Having said that Dao Ming Si goes over to the table and fills out a working paper.  He wrote his real name, Dao Ming Si, on it but then he stares at it and crumbles it up.  Then he takes another paper and writes the name Ah Sing.

Next morning, Dao Ming Si is walking all around looking for a job.  Finally he comes to this breakfast café called Orange, which has 3 workers there.  The boss is named Ah Lun, his wife is named, Yi Ling and a worker called Da Xin.  The café seems to be very busy.  Dao Ming Si walks into the café and goes to the stove counter where Ah Lun is frying eggs.

Dao Ming Si: “I want to ask if you are hiring?”

Ah Lun stares at him and takes his working paper and puts it in his pocket.

Ah Lun (continues to fry eggs): “What’s your name?”

Dao Ming Si: “I’m called Ah Sing.”

Ah Lun: “Ok.”

Dao Ming Si (surprised): “Am I hired?”

Ah Lun (looking very busy): “Didn’t you say you are looking for a job?  (looking at Dao Ming Si)  Hurry.  (he motions to the plate of food on the counter)  You have to be quick, fast and precise.”

Dao Ming Si understands and picks up the plate of food and walks over to Da Xin.

Dao Ming Si: “Sorry.  Can you please tell me where Table A is?”

Da Xin (looking at Dao Ming Si): “Table A?”

Dao Ming Si: “Table A.”

Da Xin (looking over at Ah Lun then back at Dao Ming Si): “Oh, Table A is facing the streets, Table B is in the back.  (yelling to Ah Lun)  Table C wants another order of French Toast, egg omelette, a cup of tea, a cup of chocolate, a cup of milk.  Fast ok?”

Dao Ming Si brings the plate of food over to the customer.  Then he walks back to the stove counter.

Dao Ming Si: “Is there anything else that needs to be done?”

Ah Lun (reading the order on a piece of paper in one hand and oiling the stove top with the other): “What did you say your name was again?”

Dao Ming Si: “My name is Ah Sing.”

Ah Lun: “Ah Sing, you come in.”

Dao Ming Si walks behind the stove counter and Ah Lun hands Dao Ming Si two eggs.

Ah Lun: “Here.  Two fried eggs.  I have to go to the bathroom.”

Ah Lun walks away while Dao Ming Si stares at the two eggs in his hands not sure what to do.  Then he takes the spatula and tries to crack it open.

Ah Lun (coming back): “Hey, what are you doing?”

Dao Ming Si: “Well, I’ve never…”

Ah Lun (shocked): “You don’t know how to fry an egg?  You can’t even fry an egg?  Aye move over.  Sorry then I can’t hire you.  You can’t even fry an egg, you won’t do.  Don’t bother me.  I’m very busy.  Go.”

Dao Ming Si walks out from the back counter, pouting.

Customer (calling out): “Lao Ban, can you please clean this table?”

Ah Lun: “Oh, ok.”

He throws a towel on the counter, calling out, “Da Xin.”

Da Xin: “I can’t.  I’m busy now.  Yi Ling.  Yi Ling.”

Yi Ling: “I’m taking an order.”

Dao Ming Si stands there remembering Ye Sha’s words that living a new life is very hard.  He then reaches over and takes the towel and goes to clean the table.  Ah Lun tries to stop him but Dao Ming Si didn’t listen.  Ah Lun, Da Xin, and Yi Ling all stare at Dao Ming Si cleaning the table.

San Cai is having lunch with her parents at home.

San Cai (putting down two dishes of food): “This is the dish that Dad must eat everyday, carrots.  And mom’s favorite dish, omelettes.”

Dad (fake laugh): “Dad is very happy.  Can taste San Cai’s cooking.  Doesn’t matter if its stir fry carrots, even if it was raw carrots, dad would eat it.  Just pretend I’m a rabbit, I’ll eat it everyday.”

San Cai (picking up her bowl and chopsticks): “Then let’s eat.”

San Cai starts eating but mom & dad just sits there staring at her.

San Cai (noticing their stare): “Ma, what’s wrong?”

Mom: “Mom and dad is really worried about you.  We watch you leaving early and coming back late from work everyday.  You are not happy.  At night, you hide in your room and cry.  Mom and dad is also hiding in the room and crying.  (starting to cry)  I don’t know what to do so I go to the temple and pray.  Why does my daughter have such a hard life?”

San Cai: “Ma, I’m fine.”

Dad: “Right.  Nothing’s wrong.  Our whole family is fine.  Look, dad is selling cars now and I’m getting better and better at it.  San Cai is fine now.  As long as our family is happily together everyday, no matter what happens we can fight against it.  Right?  Dad’s happy then San Cai’s happy.  San Cai’s happy then Mom’s happy.  We would be very happy.  Let’s eat.”

Xi Men gets introduced to the employees at work.  They wanted to give him a pretty assistant, but Xi Men said that if he gets a pretty assistant, he won’t be able to concentrate on his work.  So Xi Men hand picked a guy wearing glasses to be his assistant.  Xi Men and assistant walks into his office.

Assistant (opening the door for Xi Men): “Please come in Master.  Master Xi Men.”

Xi Men (walking in and looking around the room): “Call me manager.  Don’t call me Master.”

Assistant: “Oh ok.  Manager.  Manager what time do you eat lunch?  Is there anything special that you like to eat?  Or don’t like to eat?  Also, Manager what time do you like your coffee break?  Should I have someone…”

Xi Men (interrupting him): “I’m here to work.”

Assistant (bows): “I’m sorry.  I’m sorry.”

Xi Men: “Can you please get me the reports for this quarter to look over?  Also, have a meeting set up for 2:00 p.m. this afternoon.”

Assistant: “Today?”

Xi Men: “Is there a problem?”

Assistant: “Eh, Master.  No, I meant Manager.  Today is your first day of work.  Um, nothing.  I’ll go tell everybody about the meeting.”

Assistant leaves and Xi Men sits at his desk.

San Cai is getting ready to leave the house.  She opens the front door and finds Mei Zuo standing outside waiting for her.

San Cai (surprised): “What are you doing here?  Hey, why did you wake up so early today?”

Mei Zuo: “What?  I can’t wake up early?”

San Cai (seeing the look on Mei Zuo’s face): “What’s wrong?”

Mei Zuo: “We’ve stopped the electronic billboard advertisements.”

San Cai: “I know.”

Mei Zuo: “Can you find someone to work for you this morning?”

San Cai: “Why…”

Mei Zuo: “Please?”

Mei Zuo & San Cai arrive at a beach.

San Cai (standing with Mei Zuo and staring out at the water): “Wow.  This feels so comfortable.  Haven’t been to the beach for so long.”

Mei Zuo: “Do you still remember our first trip together?”

San Cai: “Of course I remember.  You and Xi Men both brought along a girl.”

Mei Zuo: “Did we?”

San Cai: “Yes and they both have very good bodies too.  Made me feel very self-conscious.  And you guys also…”

Mei Zuo (interrupting San Cai): “We saw Ah Si.”

San Cai (quickly turning to face Mei Zuo): “Where?”

Mei Zuo: “At the Pub.”

San Cai: “’So where is he now?”

Mei Zuo: “He helped us in a fight and then ran away.  We couldn’t catch up with him.  He really doesn’t remember anything.  I saw him in a torn T-shirt and jeans.  From his expression, behavior, I suddenly feel very scared.”

San Cai: “Scared about what?”

Mei Zuo: “He doesn’t want to remember his past.  He just wants to live the life he has now.”

San Cai: “Then he must be living very well now.”

Mei Zuo: “Maybe.”

San Cai: “Then I don’t have to worry.”

Mei Zuo: “San Cai, Are you not worried that Ah Si will never come back?”

San Cai: “What’s the point of worrying?  Isn’t it true that even you guys couldn’t catch him?”

Mei Zuo: “At the time when Ah Si was standing in front of us, I had this really weird feeling.  There’s a part of me that suddenly envies Ah Si.  He lost his memories, lost his identity, but he has found a care-free new life.  Do you know, in another 2 days, I’ll have to wear a suit, wear a tie and live this boring working life?  Can you see me like that?”

San Cai (smiling): “Definitely would be very handsome.”

Mei Zuo: “Well, of course.  But I don’t want to be that me.”

San Cai: “But this is the way the world is.  There’s not one person who can live the life that they want.  But don’t you feel that’s the surprise in it?”

Mei Zuo: “What surprise?”

San Cai: “Because most of the time, we can’t have what we want, so when you finally get what you want, you would feel extra happy.  (pause)  What I said is true.  Like now, if we come to the beach everyday, then it wouldn’t be so special anymore.  But if we come once in a while, then we would feel that the water is extra blue, the wind is extra comfortable and the feeling’s extra good.”

Mei Zuo: “You dry cracker San Cai, you are very special.”

San Cai (smiling): “Right.  Because you are around pretty girls everyday, so of course, I become special.”

Mei Zuo: “San Cai.  You are finally better.  I was worried that once the electronic billboard ad is stopped, you would break down again.”

San Cai: “Dao Ming Si is living his new life now.  How can I stay in the past and not move forward?  We never know what tomorrow will bring unless we welcome it.  Mei Zuo, you have to experience your new life.  Good luck!”

Mei Zuo: “Ye.  Jiao You.”

Both started yelling “jiao you” out to the water.

Back at the café, after the peak hour for business has passed, Ah Lun and Da Xin is sitting at a table counting the money while Yi Ling is fixing her make up.

Da Xin (looking at Dao Ming Si’s working paper and whispering to Ah Lun & Yi Ling): “Don’t you guys think its strange?  His last name is Ah and his first name is Sing.  And the rest is all blank.  Very weird.”

Dao Ming Si is in the back counter cleaning up.

Ah Lun (speaking loudly so that Dao Ming Si hears): “Who cares what his last name first name is.  He can’t even fry an egg, how can I hire him?”

Da Xin (whispering): “Don’t be so rude, ok?  He’s been cleaning tables all morning.  Right and he’s still washing dishes now.”

Ah Lun (still speaking loudly): “I didn’t tell him to do it.”

Da Xin: “Hey, you are so bad.  He’s helping you out and you’re saying stuff like that.”

Ah Lun: “Hey I’m kidding.  I open the shop all day and only earn this little money.  Of course, I have to count everything.”

Yi Ling: “But until now, he still hasn’t rest at all.  (pause)  At least he’s more serious than Da Xin.”

Ah Lun: “Hey, how can you compare him with Da Xin?

Da Xin (speaking to Yi Ling): “Right.  You compare him to me, what’s wrong with you?  Me and Ah Lun are good friends.”

Ah Lun: “What I meant was, my café has one lazy worker is enough, if there’s another lazy worker, then you be the boss and I’ll let you hire me.”

Da Xin (speaking to Ah Lun): “Hey you turnip cake.  You scolding me?”

Ah Lun: “That’s the way it is.”

Da Xin (getting loud): “You scolding at me?”

Ah Lun (getting loud too): “I scold then I scold.”

Ah Lun and Da Xin both started pushing at each other and arguing at the same time.  Ah Lun almost falls against Yi Ling who was putting on her mascara.

Yi Ling (yelling): “What the heck are you two doing?”

Ah Lun and Da Xin both quiet down and sits down quickly.  Ah Lun then continues counting the money and then pulls one bill aside to give to Dao Ming Si.  Yi Ling seeing him pull only one bill, reaches over and pulls out another.  Ah Lun stares at her for a few seconds then relents, not daring to contradict her, and takes the money over to the counter, where Dao Ming Si is still cleaning.

Ah Lun: “Ah Sing.  Eh, thanks for your hard work.  I’ve thought it over and decided that we just can’t hire someone who can’t fry an egg.  (hands Dao Ming Si the money)  This is the money for your work for today, ok?  Hurry up and go look for a new job, huh?  Stop wasting time here.”

After saying this Ah Lun walks back to sit down at the table and Dao Ming Si just stares at the money that he is holding.

At the pastry shop, San Cai’s boss is putting out some heart shape cakes in the display case.

Boss: “Look.  Pretty?  This is especially made by the chef for Valentine’s Day.”

San Cai: “Oh that’s right.  In another couple of days, it will be Valentine’s Day.”

Boss: “We get lots of business during this time.  But the part time workers are all taking off on Valentine’s Day.  I can’t find anyone to work.”

San Cai: “Lao Ban Niang, I’ll work overtime.”

Boss (happy): “You can work overtime?  But, your tall, handsome boyfriend, he’s not celebrating with you?”

San Cai (at the mention of Dao Ming Si, she hesitates a little before answering): “When two people are together, every day can be Valentine’s Day.  It’s ok.”

Boss: “That’s good then.  I’ll pay you extra then.”

San Cai: “Thank you Lao Ban Niang.”

Boss: “You’re welcome.  I’m the one that should thank you.”

Dao Ming Si is riding his bicycle when he stops at a grocery shop.  He buys a huge bag of eggs to bring home so that he can learn how to fry an egg.  After many tries, with Ye Sha helping him, at cracking the egg, frying the egg, burning the egg, Dao Ming Si finally manages to fry the perfect one.

Next day, back at the café.  Dao Ming Si walks into the shop again.

Da Xin: “Hey, why are you here again?”

Dao Ming Si: “I’m here to look for a job.”

Ah Lun: “But I already told you yesterday… (sees Ye Sha walking into the shop)  Welcome!”

Da Xin & Ah Lun both stare at Ye Sha with their mouths open.

Da Xin (with eyes open wide): “Wow!”

Ye Sha walks over to a table and Da Xin pulls her chair out for her.

Da Xin: “Miss, please take a seat.  One person?  What would you like?”

Ye Sha: “I want a fried egg.”

Ah Lun: “Oh, fried egg.  No problem.”

Ye Sha (pointing to Dao Ming Si): “I want to eat the egg that’s prepared by him.”

Ah Lun (looking from Ye Sha to Dao Ming Si and back again): “Him…”