Yo ah yo.. Buay buay yo (881)

Just home after watching "881" with my siblings. It was a nice show, very local and full of old memories of "getai". Most of the show was spoken in hokkien but luckily there's English and Chinese subtitles. It was also somehow like a musical show as many hokkien nos. were performed. This show made me realised how much society has changed whereby this trade is slowly disappearing and even existing ones dun have the gist of traditional "getais" anymore.

This show is actually dedicated to a male getai singer, who spent about 30 years on the stage, who died recently. The story is more or less about 2 gals who grew up in different environment but came to know each other and became as close as real sisters. They were then groomed to be getai singers and were very well-liked. One of the gals eventually surrended to cancer and we teared quite abit.

There were funny parts too and some parts were quite stupid with special effects with ridculous actions but still succeeded to win some laughters.

The hokkien songs were actually sung by a pair of sisters who were very famous last time (my aunt and mum will know them) - the Pearl Sisters. Those songs were really quite nice and meaningful, which I guess pop songs can never ever be able to compete.

A show worth watching, especially when its so familiar to us (people born b4 the 80s). I wun mind watching it again when the VCD is out...

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