COMPILED BY PEGGY FONG8 DAYS | 135Shuqi buys Xu Tao an
expensive suit to wear to
his meeting with the movie
investor. At the boutique,
she encounters a wealthy
woman named Jingjing, and
does not realise she is the
investor Xu Tao is going to
meet.
Xu Tao meets with
Jingjing for an audition.
He learns her husband is
dead and the loss has left
her struggling with mood
swings. He sets up a
surprise for her and she is
touched.
Jingjing gives the lead
role to Xu Tao, with one
condition.
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7.30pm Episode 55/130
Jingjing hints to Xu Tao
that he is to spend a night
with her. He sinks into a
dilemma.
Because of the Yalong
issue, Chen Feng picks on
Shuqi. She even threatens
to transfer her out. Shuqi
confides in Xu Tao about the
stress she is under at work,
and he feels bad about her
suffering.
Xu Tao chances upon
Max, who is verbally
abusive. Making up his
mind that he will no
longer let anyone look down
on him, Xu Tao accepts
Jingjing’s terms and
conditions.
Dazhi is harassed by
loansharks, as well as Chen
Feng, for debt repayment.
Trying to sell his shares, he
is shocked to hear trading
has been suspended due
to the steep plunge in share
prices. He tries in vain to
lure Xiaoqiao to give him
money to invest.
Ziyang and Wenjie are
asked to go to the pub to
fetch the drunk Wenqing
home. Wenqing hugs Ziyang
in tears and pours out her
woes about being rejected
in love. Wenjie is filled with
jealousy, but Ziyang fails to
notice.
MY FRIENDS
FROM AFAR
Taking on human form,
aliens reside on earth for a
mission, but things go awry
when they fall in love with
humans.STARS Shaun Chen (Yang
Tiansheng), Carrie Wong (Chen
Fengjiao), Aloysius Pang (Chen
Xianglin), Paige Chua (Yang
Tianning), San Yow (Zhou Zhiqiang),
Brandon Wong (Chen Xiaolong),
Sheila Sim (The Queen), Wang
Yuqing (Yang Zhongyong), Priscelia
Chan (Tianning’s mother), Zhu
Xiufeng (Zhang Huimei), Toh Xin
Hui (Chen Qingxia), Eelyn Kok
(Xu Xinmei) and Wallace Ang (Li
Hengxing).MON DEC 11
9pm Episode 6/25
Xianglin rescues Tianning inFengjiao decides to get
Tiansheng to teach them
how to lie.
Tiansheng explains to
the Chens the importance
of lying. He is exasperated
when they are unable to
perform what he is teaching
them. However, he grabs the
chance to use them to cheat
others of money.
Zhiqiang feels the weight
of his financial burdens.
When Xinmei calls to suggest
a holiday in Australia, he tells
her it’s too expensive. She
hangs up in anger.
Zhiqiang arrives at
Xinmei’s office to give her a
surprise. He witnesses her
behaving intimately with her
boss, Steve.
A-guang is cleared of
the allegations of beingstand the smell of durian,
Fengjiao becomes weak and
dizzy. Suddenly, she catches
sight of a scar on Durian
Girl’s first finger, where an
alien’s sensor is supposed
to be embedded.TUE DEC 12
9pm Episode 7/25
Qingxia is chosen to
represent her school in the
inter-school Mathematics
competition. Guanjun is
made a substitute and is
unhappy.
Qingxia is bullied by her
classmates again. As she
has promised not to use her
supernatural powers, she
tries to contact her comrades
to save her. However, they do
not respond to her signals.
Anxious in caseBurden of truth: Tiansheng comes to realise he is Durian Girl’s obsession.the nick of time. Thereafter,
she becomes even more
convinced he is an alien.
Due to a shortage of
manpower at the cleaning
company, Tianning offers to
hire Xianglin and Fengjiao as
workers. Both agree.
Qingxia scores better
than Zhou Guanjun, who’s
Zhiqiang’s son, and is first in
class. Her classmates think
she is conceited, and bully her.
Xiaolong suggests
Qingxia pretend to be dumb,
but she doesn’t know how.the “backside slasher”.
That night, the real culprit
appears, targeting Tianning.
Luckily, she is saved by
Xianglin.
Everyone is stunned that
the “backside slasher” is
Ling-jie. Having been mocked
by her husband and mother-
in-law for not being able to
have children, she hates
women with a good figure
and slashes their backsides.
Fengjiao and Tiansheng
are in a lift that Durian Girl
is also in. As aliens cannotsomething bad has
happened, Qingxia rushes
home. She finds them
depleted of energy, as a
consequence of inhaling
the smell of durian. They
suspect Durian Girl is the
defector.
To prevent Qingxia
from taking part in the
competition, Guanjun
attempts to trip her up. He is
injured instead.
On their first day at
work, Fengjiao and Xianglin
are assigned to the hawker