Did you watch the new drama “1988... Segaris Sinar” telecasted on Suria last night? Before the drama was shown on TV, from the preview shown on TV almost everyday, I can already kind of predict it’s a story abt some young people growing up in an orphanage/ institutional Home and friendship. And my intuition is right after all.
For those who have no idea abt it, here are the synopses I retrieve from Suriachannel website:-
1988... Segaris Sinar is a bittersweet drama that tracks the lives of seven bosom friends who grew up together in an orphanage.
Ranging from the ages of 8 to 15 when they first met, the series examines how the orphanage conditioned their upbringing and shaped their individual perspectives that subsequently affect their respective decisions and choices during adulthood.
Their resourcefulness, or lack of it, either makes them stronger emotionally or instinctively weaker when challenged by adversaries.
Just like the asterism Ursa Major, they gain strength from one another and seek inspiration from the glimmer of hope that their fragmented lives can offer.
Raised in a less privileged environment without the conventional father and mother nor even brother and sister as immediate relatives, these seven friends seek one another for emotional support. The series explores the eternal love and camaraderie that binds these orphans together as ‘family’.
This story reminds me of the residents of a welfare home I once worked for. On a contrary to the orphans, the children from that Home were sent there by the police or the Juvenile Court. The similarity between them is their fate - brought up in a regimented environment, far from families and relied on one another for support and solace.
We, who have never gone through that experience, will never understand their thirst for love, attention and freedom. How does it feel to live far apart from family? Under the supervision of strangers you know you can’t seek maternal nor paternal love from no matter how caring they can be?
I know you will admit, it’s tough. Even I can’t imagine myself being in that situation.
And it really pissed me when I heard sarcastic remarks people passed to these children that generally blaming their actions that led them to the Home. Each time such remarks passed through my ears, I felt electrocuted.
These children, majority of them, are victims of circumstances. Adults are the root to their delinquency. The bad examples they got from the adults resulted in their unbecoming behavior. But adults are the people who always pointing fingers at them. Why? Adults will never admit the mistakes they’ve done. That’s really sad.
If these children have conducive living environment, do you think they want to end up in a Home? Think and re-think...
For those who have no idea abt it, here are the synopses I retrieve from Suriachannel website:-
1988... Segaris Sinar is a bittersweet drama that tracks the lives of seven bosom friends who grew up together in an orphanage.
Ranging from the ages of 8 to 15 when they first met, the series examines how the orphanage conditioned their upbringing and shaped their individual perspectives that subsequently affect their respective decisions and choices during adulthood.
Their resourcefulness, or lack of it, either makes them stronger emotionally or instinctively weaker when challenged by adversaries.
Just like the asterism Ursa Major, they gain strength from one another and seek inspiration from the glimmer of hope that their fragmented lives can offer.
Raised in a less privileged environment without the conventional father and mother nor even brother and sister as immediate relatives, these seven friends seek one another for emotional support. The series explores the eternal love and camaraderie that binds these orphans together as ‘family’.
This story reminds me of the residents of a welfare home I once worked for. On a contrary to the orphans, the children from that Home were sent there by the police or the Juvenile Court. The similarity between them is their fate - brought up in a regimented environment, far from families and relied on one another for support and solace.
We, who have never gone through that experience, will never understand their thirst for love, attention and freedom. How does it feel to live far apart from family? Under the supervision of strangers you know you can’t seek maternal nor paternal love from no matter how caring they can be?
I know you will admit, it’s tough. Even I can’t imagine myself being in that situation.
And it really pissed me when I heard sarcastic remarks people passed to these children that generally blaming their actions that led them to the Home. Each time such remarks passed through my ears, I felt electrocuted.
These children, majority of them, are victims of circumstances. Adults are the root to their delinquency. The bad examples they got from the adults resulted in their unbecoming behavior. But adults are the people who always pointing fingers at them. Why? Adults will never admit the mistakes they’ve done. That’s really sad.
If these children have conducive living environment, do you think they want to end up in a Home? Think and re-think...
