Life Art

I.T. specialist FONG CHI-CHUNG is young, scrupulous and efficient. He takes very good care of his subordinates, too. In return, they support him wholeheartedly. While chatting with his mother WAI-LING, CHUNG discovers that she has become a more amiable person than before. He finds out later that it is because she is learning calligraphy from renowned calligrapher YAM CHING-CHUEN. Affected by him, she has become less rigid in her opinions. CHUEN is very excited, as his daughter YAM CHI-WAH, who has gone to Beijing for two years, has returned. WAH has a bent for art. She has won countless awards for her works and illustrations since childhood. An accident has left her right hand paralyzed. She finds herself inferior ever since. The company that CHUNG works for is cooperating with an I.T. company in Mainland China. Executives of that company have come to Hong Kong to visit CHUNG’s company.… ...

On their way home, CHUNG keeps on reproaching WAH for not helping LING. CHUNG’s superior, KO BUN, blames CHUEN YING-WAI, leader of CHUNG’s opponent team, in a meeting. BUN assigns CHUNG’s team to take over the project that WAI’s team is working on. CHUNG is the programmer responsible for the cooperation with the Mainland I.T. company. However, his Putonghua is so bad that he cannot communicate with them. As a result, WAI, who speaks fluent Putonghua, steals his limelight. WAH bumps into JAOSN, a classmate of hers at Peking University and who is a Singaporean. The two have a good chat. Learning that CHUNG would like to learn Putonghua, LING takes him to CHUEN to learn from him. CHUNG knows then that WAH is CHUEN’s daughter. TAI-WAI meets LIU SIU-BING at a wedding banquet. TAI-WAI and BING used to be lovers, but they fell out at the Marriage Registry.

WAH goes to the shop a friend of TAI-WAI to buy a digital camera. CHUNG happens to be also at the shop. When he sees that the salesperson is trying to sell WAH some old models, he steps up to give her some advice. The relationship of the two has improved. CHUNG has no mind in his Putonghua lessons for he finds CHUEN’s teaching too slowly. JASON invites WAH to go shopping for furniture with him. They go to BING’s gallery to buy some paintings afterwards. BING feels that JASON has had a crush on WAH. In the evening, BING goes to CHUEN’s place for dinner, during which she tells CHUEN that JASON is running after WAH. JASON expresses his love for WAH, but she refuses him right away. CHUNG goes to Xiamen for business. He throws up at the hotel after work. He tries to seek help from the hotel staff but they cannot understand his Putonghua. Fortunately, he meets CHUEN. CHUNG hurts WAH accidentally.… ...