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This episode continued with Mandy’s job search. She was so picky, LOL! Well, I guess she had a point regarding the requirements with knowing how to drink, please others, etc. It began to feel like some special “socializing” abilities rather than just the normal professionalism that employees had to acquire for their job titles. Anyway, Mandy soon met with her mother at a restaurant for tea time (?) and found out that her mother had set up a meeting with the matchmaker, Chong Sze Tim. (Yeah, the same matchmaker and wedding planner who helped Dee with the whole wedding arrangement in the previous episode.) Mandy was still hostile–or at least semi-hostile–toward her while exchanging some words. Her mother of course interfered. However, Mandy’s attitude changed when the subject changed to that of wedding arrangements. Yup, she had already talked to Ling regarding the whole making money out of the wedding business when they met up for lunch, so it was only right that she snatched at the opportunity when Madame Chong brought it up. Like it was an easy road since her attitude just killed everything and Madame Chong wouldn’t want to commit suicide by accepting Mandy as a student. LOL! That would lead to major blood pressure problems in the near future. On a personal note, I don’t know, but I liked Yoyo’s character so far. It was kind of different from her previous roles. It was not too good, too dumb, too kind, or too cruel. There was this mixture of caring for her family yet she had this attitude that just drove people insane at times. In other words, NOT perfect yet not completely hateful either.
To steer away from that side of the main cast to the other side, LOL! Yeah, so I didn’t mention about Madame Chong’s family, right? So here goes. Evergreen Mak and Kristal Tin were part of that clan. Then there was their son Zhong Chung Leung (Vin Choi)–more like stepson to Mrs. Zhong. There was also Ma Hui Ching (Natalie Tong), who was Madame Chong’s daughter. In a way, they were a family business. In the previous episode, we found out that Chung Leung didn’t transfer his tuition fees to Hui Ching so now he couldn’t go to Australia to study because he had enrolled somewhere else to pursue a girl. His father was more than mad but couldn’t do anything about it–even after some major persuasion with the school. To top it off, they had another thing to worry about. Their main photographer, Summer (Kevin Cheng), was not back yet because of delays and couldn’t make it in time to take pictures for one of their clients. Mrs. Zhong immediately came up with some medical excuse for Summer and tried to edge out of it. Nice? It seemed that Kevin was portraying somewhat of an irresponsible person–for once? NOT sure, but we’ll find out in a bit.
Because of Summer’s inability to appear at the time, King (Lai Lok Yi) tried to cover for him by offering his service when he was turned down by the customers since they did not trust him–though he was supposed to be the backup photographer and was more than qualified to help them with the photo session. After much frustration, he left again. So much for being nice and trying to help, I guess.
On the other hand, Madame Chong was offered a case to help this one family with an upcoming wedding but one of the requirements was that she was still happily married. This was the thing that couldn’t be fulfilled but Phoebe (Kristal Tin) jumped in to say that it was true and used crafty words to seal the deal. Madame Chong couldn’t turn it down so she had to seek out her disciple to handle the ceremony. She had no idea that her loud mouth disciple was the reason for her downfall. Or what seemed so because the disciple engaged in an argument with Lady Wong and accidentally spilled the beans regarding Madame Chong’s past. That got into the tabloids and caused Madame Chong’s reputation. I seriously did not blame Phoebe in this case since she wasn’t totally lying. Yes, she was manipulating the words to make it sound good yet she wasn’t bashing or picking on Madame Chong. She was just using good words to make Madame Chong’s reputation good. I blame the nosy disciple for not knowing when to shut up. Anyway, Madame Chong went to their client’s office to try and explain but the rep wouldn’t hear her. Luckily, the boss came and told them that she would see Madame Chong. After some explanation, the lady boss said that she didn’t care about Madame Chong’s past but admired her for her talents and wanted her to arrange the wedding and be there for the ceremony.
Back to Mandy’s side, Mandy somehow landed a job since it was Ling’s cousin’s wedding. She tried to pull it off but failed major time because she wasn’t paying attention when Ling was passing on information to her. Despite her crafty words and manipulation, she wasn’t convincing. But coincidences of all coincidences or maybe it was just planned that way so the plot would unfold later, but Madame Chong’s reception was also at the same hotel/restaurant. So they went head to head and had some exchanges. Mandy was still the typical Mandy, arrogant as always, LOL! Madame Chong didn’t want to argue with her anymore. Yet the little respect Mandy showed toward Madame Chong was letting her get into the Taxi first. But Madame Chong refused and so Mandy abandoned her courtesy and headed home. Yup, Madame Chong was shaking her head.
The episode ended with Mandy sitting on her bed and counting the red packets. It showed that she had failed major time. Need to be more convincing. If only she would know that she still had a lot to learn.