The Awakening Story
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The Awakening Story is a 2000 TVB
drama series. The story mainly surrounds the main character waking from a 16-year coma
after a car accident and how she deals with the changed world, and her husband's infidelity.
After waking up, her personality is what you call 'clueless'. While her husband, Philip is holding a good position in his company, he is smart and successful, she is still dealing with her surroundings. She was basically unmatched for her husband, for they had two different personalities. Her youngest son, Chai, wanted to be a professional hairstylist. Philip opposed to the idea while his mom thought it is a good thing for her son to follow his own dreams. While their youngest daughter, Hing Yan, wanted to date and then to marry Lok, but her dad opposed to it, because he is unemployed and don't seem to be able to take care of her, however, her mom gave her blessing to them.
The main character's husband thought she was not good enough for him. She was stupid, annoying and messed everything up; like his computer. He spends time with a smarter girl from his company. They fall in love and become a couple, whilst hiding the fact from his wife.
Eventually, she finds out more about her husband's affair with the girl and divorces him. Their older daughter blames it on herself because she can't forget how her mother fell into a 16 year coma for her. Her mom, as always, encourages her to not think that way and she finds a lover.
Her mom always wanted to not be so useless and dumb and starts learning more about technology, business and etc..... She tries to find a job, any job, even being a cleaning maid, and gets an extreme makeover. She starts gaining more knowledge and gets an even better job. She even surpasses her former husband, and he falls in love with her again.
Television Broadcasts Limited
Television Broadcasts Limited, commonly known as TVB, is the second over-the-air commercial television station in Hong Kong. It commenced broadcasting on 19 November 1967...
drama series. The story mainly surrounds the main character waking from a 16-year coma
Coma
In medicine, a coma is a state of unconsciousness, lasting more than 6 hours in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light or sound, lacks a normal sleep-wake cycle and does not initiate voluntary actions. A person in a state of coma is described as...
after a car accident and how she deals with the changed world, and her husband's infidelity.
Main Plot
After Shuet woke up from her coma, it is slowly revealed that 16 years earlier, Shuet was trying to leave her husband and family because of stresses and loneliness. That was on her first daughter, Hing Ga's birthday who was throwing a tantrum earlier about getting a birthday cake earlier. Shuet left the family but then realized that she could not live without her family and decided to come back. After purchasing the cake and on her way back, she was hit by a car resulting in the coma.After waking up, her personality is what you call 'clueless'. While her husband, Philip is holding a good position in his company, he is smart and successful, she is still dealing with her surroundings. She was basically unmatched for her husband, for they had two different personalities. Her youngest son, Chai, wanted to be a professional hairstylist. Philip opposed to the idea while his mom thought it is a good thing for her son to follow his own dreams. While their youngest daughter, Hing Yan, wanted to date and then to marry Lok, but her dad opposed to it, because he is unemployed and don't seem to be able to take care of her, however, her mom gave her blessing to them.
The main character's husband thought she was not good enough for him. She was stupid, annoying and messed everything up; like his computer. He spends time with a smarter girl from his company. They fall in love and become a couple, whilst hiding the fact from his wife.
Eventually, she finds out more about her husband's affair with the girl and divorces him. Their older daughter blames it on herself because she can't forget how her mother fell into a 16 year coma for her. Her mom, as always, encourages her to not think that way and she finds a lover.
Her mom always wanted to not be so useless and dumb and starts learning more about technology, business and etc..... She tries to find a job, any job, even being a cleaning maid, and gets an extreme makeover. She starts gaining more knowledge and gets an even better job. She even surpasses her former husband, and he falls in love with her again.
Main cast
- Damian LauDamian LauDamian Lau Chung-yan is a Hong Kong film and television actor, executive producer and film director. Lau has starred in many television drama series of various genres, produced by Hong Kong's TVB and ATV.-Early career:...
(劉松仁) as Philip Suen Hok Kei (孫學祺) - Liza WangLiza WangElizabeth Wang Ming-chun, SBS, commonly known as Liza Wang, is an accomplished diva, actress and MC in Hong Kong. She is a well-known personality in Chinese-speaking communities. She has been nicknamed "The Big Sister" in the HK entertainment circle...
(汪明荃) as Lam Ho Shuet (林皓雪) - Louisa SoLouisa SoLouisa So Yuk Wa is a Hong Kong actress in drama and TV series. She is considered the "Cooking Mistress" after winning the comedy cooking show Beautiful Cooking...
(蘇玉華) as Susan Chiu Cheuk Lam (趙卓琳) - Maggie Cheung Ho YeeMaggie Cheung Ho YeeMaggie Cheung Ho-yee ; not to be confused with Maggie Cheung Man-yuk, is a Hong Kong actress, under contract to the television channel TVB.Born in 1969, she competed in TVB's 1994 Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant, reaching the final five but not placing...
(張可頤) as Rose Suen Hing Ga (孫慶家) - Joe Ma (馬德鐘) as Fong Sing Heem (方誠謙)
- Patrick TangPatrick TangPatrick Tang is a Hong Kong singer, actor, and TV show host who has been involved in numerous drama and movie productions. He was born 6 May 1974 in Hong Kong. He has three sisters. He started his career with TVB, where he has been from 2000 to the present day.-Television:-Film:-External links:* *...
(鄧健泓) as Stephen Suen Hing Chai (孫慶齊) - Myolie WuMyolie WuMyolie Wu Hang-yee is a Hong Kong actress for the Hong Kong TVB television station and a singer under contracts with Neway Star-Career:...
(胡杏兒) as Sheung Ping Ping (常平平) - Tavia YeungTavia YeungTavia Yeung Yi is a Hong Kong actress under Hong Kong's Television Broadcast Limited or TVB. She has starred in numerous popular Hong Kong television series such as Vigilante Force, Twin of Brothers, Dicey Business, Heart of Greed, Moonlight Resonance and Beyond the Realm of Conscience.- Career...
(楊怡) as Suen Hing Yun (孫慶欣) - Ellesmere Choy (蔡子健) as Chan Wing Lok (陳永樂)
- Lo Yuen Yan (盧宛茵) as Foon (戴襯歡)
- Lo Hoi PangLo Hoi PangLo Hoi-pang is a Hong Kong actor for both TVB and ATV, and a singer. Lo attended TVB's Training Classes in 1973. Among his classmates are Chow Yun-fat and Ng Man-tat.-Filmography:*The Legend of the Book and the Sword...
(盧海鵬) as Fong Gam Pang (方錦鵬) - Law LanLaw LanHelena Law Lan is a Hong Kong actress. Law Lan is popularly cast as a type of mystic in many Hong Kong horror movies.-TV series:-Films:*The Kid *Story of the White-haired Demon Girl...
(羅蘭) as Guan Sing Nam (關勝男) - Jeung Hak (張松枝) as Dickson Tong Lap Shun (唐立信)
- Natalie WongNatalie WongNatalie Kei Ying Wong , born on 15 July 1976 in Hong Kong is a Chinese actress affiliated with TVB in Hong Kong.-Miss Hong Kong start:...
(黃紀瑩) as Rachel Au Seen Ying (歐倩盈) - Simon Lo (魯文傑) as Kim (羅金寶)