Simply Ordinary

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Cast Character Name
Lam Ka Tung Lam Sai Wing
Kenix Kwok Kam Ah Tai
Jan Lau Chu Mah Lai (Mary)
  Ah Sec

Plot Rating: 3/10

Artist Rating: 7.75/10


General Background Information of the Characters

Lum Ka Tung is a pig butcher but eventually he becomes the mayor of the small village or town he lives in with the help of Jan.

Kenix plays a small village girl who has a love for pigs and raises them for a living.

Jan plays a upper class lady who comes into Ka Tung and Kenix's village with an underlying motive.

Cheung Kwok Keung is the cousin of the evil guy in the village.

Ah Sec takes over Ka Tung position as butcher after he becomes mayor. He lives with Kenix's family, but towards the end of the series, it was revealed that he was one of the King's men ("say dai si wai")

Episodes 1-10

Everyone in the small village trusts Lam Ka Tung's cutting methods and his accuracy for measuring the portions of pork he sells. Therefore, all the villagers purchase pork from his store. However, the antagonist whose name is "hau lo dai" in this series always hires someone to challenge his cutting techniques, but none of whom he hired ever succeeded in beating Ka Tung. Ah Sec also comes to challenge Ka Tung but fails. Ka Tung is known to most villagers as the best pig butcher.

Then one day, the old mayor of the village (played by na dok in Kindred Spirit) had a heart attack. The old mayor's health conditions took a drastic downhill effect. He was unable to walk or talk and was feed by his family members. As a result of the old mayor's condition, Hau lo dai seizes the opportunity to persuade the villagers that a new mayor needs to be elected. Hau lo dai hires a doctor to demonstrate the horrible effects of eating pork to the villagers. The doctor reveals to the villagers that consumption of pork will cause heart attacks to occur. Every villager blames Ka Tung for the old mayor's condition. The old mayor's condition starts to improve. With the help of Ka Tung, they are able to persuade three other people in the village to run against Hau Lo Dai. However, their plan fails due to Hau Lo Dai's blackmails. Instead, Hau Lo Dai nominates Lum Ka Tung to run against him knowing that he would pose no threats.

Hau Lo Dai and Ka Tung have to go through a series of test including both mental and physical tests. Each time Hau Lo Dai finds some way to cheat. One of their physical tests requires them to carry a bag of rice a certain distance through the village given an incense time. Hau Lo Dai arrives back in time with the help of his men. However, during the course of the test, Jan's carriage almost runs over a pregnant lady who goes into labor. Therefore, instead of carrying the bag of rice to the finish, Ka Tung carries the lady to the finish. Hau Lo Dai wants the judges to disqualify him for the election because he did not carry back the bag of rice in time. However, Jan's carriage arrives with the bag of rice which she gives back to Ka Tung. She makes a note of telling the judges that he shouldn't be disqualified because a mayor's responsibility is helping the villagers. During the course of the election process, Kenix sacrifices a lot for Ka Tung such as selling all her pigs and ruining her name in the village by helping him, but Ka Tung sort of takes it for granted. < br>
Jan also helps Ka Tung, but with an underlying motive. She helps him clear up his bad reputation in the village by hiring a professor to clarify that not only consumption of pork but the consumption of other types of meat would also cause heart attacks if a person does not exercise. As a result of the explanation, Ka Tung gains back the respect he had from the villagers. In order to get votes from the villagers, Hau Lo Dai starts to buy votes by giving the villagers money if they elected him to be mayor. After the election, Hau Lo Dai received more votes than Ka Tung, but was still unable to obtain the position as mayor because Jan brought in a picture of Hau Lo Dai giving money to villagers to get votes. Ka Tung becomes mayor. During all of this, Ka Tung discovers that he was adopted by Kenix's grandmother when he was a baby.

Ka Tung thanks Jan for all her help. He believes that without her he would not be able to be mayor. He trusts everything she says and is always going over to her place. Kenix dislikes her a lot. You can begin to see some jealousy developing in her. She is beginning to like Ka Tung unlike at the very beginning when they always have quarrels over small matters. Cheung Kwok Keung comes into the picture. He orders Jan to steal a precious Buddha.


Episodes 11-20

Cheung Kwok Keung threatens to reveal Jan's true identity if she doesn't steal the Jade Buddha. Jan gets injured in the arm. However, she is able to escape. Earlier, Jan tells Cheung Kwok Keung that their partnership would be over after she helps him steal the Buddha. The guards in the village have been unable to catch the thief in days. As a result, the higher authority figure orders Ka Tung, the mayor of the village, to also help find the thief and the stolen Buddha. After some meticulous deductions, Ah Sec realizes that the Buddha has to be hidden along the beginning of the path that the thief took because the thief would be unable to carry such a heavy object with an injured arm. Ah Sec is right and leads Ka Tung to the place where the jade Buddha is hidden. The higher authority figure extols him and gives him some money. However, he still has to help catch the crook.

The higher authority figure and Cheung Kwok Keung devise a plan to put Ka Tung behind the bars. (They want to get rid of him. This higher authority figure is kind of evil. Ie. He participated in some of the previous illegal dealings with Cheung Kwok Keung). Therefore, one night they hire someone to steal all the jewels from the jewerly store and frame Ka Tung as the thief. He gets thrown in jail and Jan is unable to help him. However, their plan backfires when the higher authority is asked by his former lover (Kenix's grandma) to release Ka Tung.

Kenix meets Cheung Kwok Keung by chance when his carriage almost runs her over. He knows that she dislikes Jan so he uses her to help him with his devious plans. Kenix is forced to stay at his house because her foot is injured and he takes advantage of the chance to urge her to let him change her appearance so that she can compete with Jan. He turns her into an "upper-class lady" in appearance and manners, but underneath, Kenix would rather be the "village girl who raises pigs". She makes her debut at a ball with Cheung Kwok Keung and Ka Tung is shocked by her make-over. Ka Tung warns her about Cheung Kwok Keung but Kenix shoots back at him by reminding him that Jan is up to no good also.

Later on, a precious necklace is brought to the village for display. Ka Tung wins the opportunity to be the guard of this jewel. Kenix and Jan compete to wear the necklace which is shaped like a teardrop. The lady who owns the jewel puts them through a series of tests. In the end, Kenix wins because during a dinner, Jan served a little piglet which made Kenix cry. The lady who owned the necklace said that she was seeking a female who could cry to wear the necklace because it was shaped like a teardrop.

In reality, Jan and Cheung Kwok Keung were both after the necklace. Cheung Kwok Keung provides the lady with a bulletproof chamber for Kenix to sit in so that the necklace would not be stolen. Jan had already made plans so that the rest of the guards were "her people". The day before the jewelry show, Jan and her people set out to steal the necklace. Ka Tung gets injured by one of the thieves so Kenix willingly comes out of the chamber to save him. They run outside and get on a carriage. Meanwhile, Jan (all in black and covered up) chases them and are about to kill them when Ah Sec shows up. Ah Sec gets kicked off a cliff by her. Kenix and Ka Tung fall down a hill and Jan steals the necklace when they are unconscious. When they awaken, they are accused of stealing the necklace.

Kenix and Ka Tung are both put in jail. Kenix's grandma begs the higher authority figure to release them but he is only able to release one person. Ka Tung takes the blame and thus, Kenix is released. Kenix meanwhile, found Ah Sec who is injured. Ah Sec comes up with a plan to rescue Ka Tung before he is persecuted. They hide him in an old house. Ah Sec reveals to them that Jan is the thief who not only stole the necklace, but stole some jewels from the palace. He also tells them his true identity as one of the King's men. Together they come up with a plan to force Jan to reveal her true identity.

As part of their plan, they try to make Cheung Kwok Keung and Jan not trust each other (playing them against each other). Ah Sec gets 4 of his friends to pretend to be Tzi Shi's (The Empress) eunuchs, who have come to the village to sell an even more precious jewel which looks like a veggie. Therefore, Jan tries to steal this "fake jewel" from them because their original buyer wanted this piece of jewel instead now but instead, she gets severely injured. She therefore blames Cheung Kwok Keung for his faulty information. When Cheung Kwok Keung sneaks back to the "eunuchs'" house, they pretend that Jan has stolen the jewel from them and pretend to commit suicide so that the Empress will forgive them. Cheung Kwok Keung believes this and thinks Jan is hiding the jewel.

On the day they were supposed to meet the buyer, they try to steal the necklace from each other instead. Jan kills Cheung Kwok Keung and tries to escape from the village with the jewel so that she can sell it to the buyer. The first time, she is prevented from leaving because of Ka Tung had robbed 6 more jewelry stores and therefore, many police were circulating the train station, hoping to find him. The next time, Jan held Kenix hostage. Ka Tung chased after them but wasn't able to find Kenix. That night though, he was thinking about Kenix and he accidentally ran into them at his butcher shop. He kills Jan with his pig butchering techniques.

After this incident, Ka Tung becomes very well-known and a lot of people from different villages came to hire him as their security guard/mayor. He plays a trick on Kenix and pretends that he has accepted an offer and was leaving. At the end, he stayed with Kenix and Ah Sec returns to the palace.

THE END

In my opinion, this series was really bad and the script was poorly written. Furthermore, there was no plot whatsoever. Even if you like to watch Kenix, this series is totally not worth renting.


8/28/98

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