Thursday, May 15, 2008

wed 5-14 - Juan Q - Juan is deep in kimchee, Pau thinks this couldn't be, and we get to meet Hillary

Hey, a quickie because I'm stuck working since I have jury duty tomorrow.


Juan tells disbelieving meddlers, Sandro and Pau, that Hillary is really busy and going here and there, and wouldn’t have time to come in. They tell him, "But you said her business was having problems" he says well, she’s still busy and he wouldn’t presume to bother her with something silly like this. Pau throws in that if she is so open and laid back like he said, then it shouldn’t bother her to come in.

He explains that he doesn’t want to mix the two, presumably work and play. Sandro says that he was thinking maybe they could make a strategic alliance with her company that would benefit everyone involved and essentially it would be worth her while to come in.

Just then Laura calls and Juan takes advantage of that opportunity to lay it on thick to her, that he wants to suggest a strategic fusion and will talk to her tonight about it.

Juan continues that they have mutual respect so he’s not going to assume her schedule or desires will permit her to come in to Farell and agrees he will discuss it with her. Pau is still convinced this is a ruse.

Juan bubbles that he shouldn’t be such a bigmouth and he should subscribe to less tongue and more gray matter.

Pastor and Anga discuss Yadi’s traits that are similar to his. Pastor says could be coincidence and if he tells her he’s her Dad it would be like a novela, imagine that.

Anga says he won’t say anything, he just wants to make up for not being there as Dad. He’s excited at the possibility that Nid Mich could be his grandchild! Pastor is still skeptical.

Ana seeks the wondrous advice of Nidia/ Dr. Laura.

Jito runs with Flor to get her despensa ( box of food items and supplies for less fortunate folks).

He is enamored with the woman handing out the boxes, turns out she is Hillary Paris!!

Fer yells at Juan about what is he going to do now. Juan tells Fer he is supposed to quash his crazy ideas. Fer says it’s not his responsibility and anyway you are too stubborn. We see Fer is the pessimist, and Juan the optimist. Fer says they are sunk, Juan still is thinking of a way to work it out. There was a Chinches Brava somewhere in here.

Hillary asks if Juan needs anything and Flor chimes in he needs nothing he’s rich, his Dad helped me go to school. Juanito says he’s like you, and I bet he’d like to help. She asks what he does and Juanito explains he’s part owner of a huge important business. Of course you knew this was coming. So Hillary gives Juanito her card and says she wouldn’t mind meeting his Dad if he really would like to help.

Ana is nervous about what she’s feeling, she feels bad about respect for Samuel. Nid tells her she’s the real widow and even she doesn’t feel bad about moving on. Go for it. Ana says she isn’t like that and is worried about what people will think. Oh please.

Colgar tacones

Fer’s wisdom is for Juan to admit defeat to Pau but Juan replies not, Mandarina en Gajos.
Fer suggests to say she’s out of the country...Juan says no she’s too photographed, they would know where she is, yeah then there is no photo of you with her, either, Fer reminds him. He starts looking in the phone book but Fer says no millionairess is in the book. He says he’s looking for the agents of Pablo Montero his buddy who may know her.

Mar and Pau discuss Juan’s face when they asked him to present Hillary. Pau still doesn’t believe Paris would look at him. Mar says but you and I did and Pau says it’s different, we had this connection this caring, etc. Mar looks unconvinced.

Flor doesn’t want help from Juan and disappears into her house obviously agitated.
Ana tells Nid she’s only boinked Samuel. Nid can’t believe it and compares her to las Carmelitas Descalzadas. Nid offers her services as sex consultant.

Jito complains to Profe that Flor is mad but doesn’t know why. Lorenzo asks if he’s sure about that.


Juan gets through to Pablo and finds out he doesn’t know Hillary. But, he finds out there is a fashion show tonight that she is attending so he asks Fer to go with him. Fer says no way, he’s busy.

Laura calls again, and wants to know when they are getting together tonight. Doh, Juan is stuck refusing again and wants to do it another time, but he’ll see her tomorrow because she’s coming in to the office, remember? We earn another Chinches Bravas.

Mar is telling Pau Juan will be humiliated in front of everyone if Paris doesn’t show up. Pau says he deserves it and while they are discussing this, the foghorn tells Pau she has an e-mail. Crack me up. Not a little ding, or click, but a honking foghorn that takes over her entire screen. Good thing they don’t do any real work there. It’s from Sandro, that Hillary is coming tomorrow. Across the hall, yet another Chinches Bravas. Juan wants to murder him.

Lorenzo enlightens the young Jito to his first experience of jealousy. He suggests that Flor likes him and that she’s mad from the kiss. He thinks he should ask her to be his novia, he agrees he likes her.

Juan yells at Sandro...another Chinches Bravas.... He claims Hillary is busy, but Sandro thinks that she is very accessible. San suggests that Juan is acting as if maybe he really doesn’t have her as his girlfriend. Juan thinks he’s starting off wrong here, but Juan takes the bait and gets mad and assures that Hillary will come. Gray matter Juan, think gray matter.

Nid advises (Escote cadencia caminar) to walk with a swing and sashay, to pull in your butt and push up your chest. Ana promises she’ll think about the advice. She’s off, and just then Perafan comes out complaining about the phone ringing and no one answering, and Nid complains about him being her nightmare of a husband.

Ivy excited to see maybe meet Hillary, Pau not so much. She’s been the girlfriend of all these famous singers etc, there’s no way she’s the girlfriend of Juan. Ivy says well guess we’ll see tomorrow. She thinks Juan will invent a bunch of reasons why she couldn’t come.

CL yells at San for eating with Mar. San apologizes. CL asks if he’s interested, and San replies she’s very special and pretty, but CL says not as much as Pau. He thinks San is wasting his time with the secretary when he should be worrying about Pau. Sandro says don’t you think the secretary is important? Turst me I'm doing my job. Cl eventually comes around and agrees.

Sandro wants to sleep. CL wants him to call Pau. He doesn’t, so CL makes the call and invites her to dinner. She agrees and gives him the address, which of course he already knows.

Jito tells Pa about his "angel" who kissed him. Juan is proud of his son’s querendoness. Jito asks him about his first love and I think Juan tells him that he was always a girl chaser. Jito says oh, by the way, she gave me her card because I offered that you would help her with her care packages. He’ll look at the card later; now, Jito needs to take his bath.

CL picks up Pau and earns the icy stare from Ana. As her usual cynical self, she admonishes that he shouldn’t bring her back late. He promises to treat her like a cenicienta.

Juan goes to the event, but alas, he is stopped by the bouncer for not having an invitation. Caray! He didn’t say it.

He begs the bouncer for help because it’s a question of love, can you lend me a hand?

Ana invites Fer to dine with her and Ana. Willy shows up and invites her to dinner and will take no excuses. She says she’s dressed horribly. He says go change then. Fer promises to care for Ivy.

Juan tries to find an alternate way. Ok there is the Chinches Bravas. He’s stuck in a window trying to get in.

"Sandro" is at it again and took Pau for her favorite enchiladas and she questions that as well. Question man is back and she gets annoyed. He tells her she makes him feel like a new man.

Juan gets out of the window, but falls on a smoking man. Juan tells him he’s sorry but he lost his invite. The guy says here, take mine. He wants to drive home but Juan (public service announcement) says you are too drunk I’ll call you a cab. Smoking man is muy agradecido.

Sandro asks Pau to go dancing, as friends. He found CL’s membership to a club. Gee where is this one going?

Juan and the doorman: Here is the invite. Where did you get it? Here is the invite. Where did you get it? Here is the invite. Where did you get it? Here is the invite. The doorman smirks as Juan dances past.

Once inside he is looking all around and asks if a guy saw Hillary. He obviously doesn’t know what she looks like and approaches a woman who is not she and once he greets her as Hillary she thinks he’s casting a line and tells him to go be with his abuela.

Just then, who walks in, but Pau and Sandro/ CL/ CL as Sandro. They sit, and as Juan is looking around for Hillary, what does he see? He can’t believe it. His Palomita with the devil.

And Chinches Bravas!

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Comments:
Haven't seen the show yet (this cold is sending me to bed at ridiculous hours) but your recap made it sound like a really fun one, full of slapstick and crazy "Nidia/Dr. Laura" advice.
While I was away, I must have missed the history on your new tag name...I'm assuming it has something to do with Fuego...but what!!!????
Inquiring minds want to know. Thanks "K". Gotta rush off to work now.
 

"Querendoness"...that's too funny.

JudyB, even though you haven't seen this ep I think you are right. It seemed much more slapsticky and goofy than that bogged down middle part we have been enduring. It was more like JQ was at the beginning, i.e. wacky and predictable. Of course there are still the CL(as Sandro)/Paula scenes that are a drag. But the Sandro/Marely scenes are very sweet.

K Fuego, I cannot believe you were able to whip out this recap between working and jury duty! You continually go above and beyond for us. Thank you!
 

Kfuego...yes, you were funny and right on, in spite of time pressures and I just tagged it for you so no one will miss it!!!
 

I gotta ask: What (really) does "Chinches Bravas" mean??
 

quick recap, F de R de R, and a hoot to boot...anon#1- my last post from yesterday came in as anonymous- user error no doubt. What was confusing me was that I thought that once a member of the club, that you wouildn't need to decipher the word, now I know that you always have to so so, thanks. Again, I had to restart my computer, and had to reestablish the relationship, no problem, but just puzzling...Mike- "chinces bravas" means "brave or aggressive bedbugs". That's our Juan for you...dd
 

Maricruz will give you the best translation although I think this is an interjection that is specific to the character Juan and no one else in the Hispanic world uses it.
The noun "chinche" can mean nuisance or pain in the neck. Also can mean thumbtack. As a noun it can be either masculine or femininine and obviously for Juan it's femininine since the adjective is "bravAs.
Bravo/a as an adjective means fierce or angry.
So if you were to translate it literally it would be "fierce nuisance" or somesuch thing.
However I remember Maricruz brought up the similarity of the verb "chinchar",( to pester, to annoy) with another verb, very vulgar, which refers to sexual congress. I won't spell it out for you but it does begin with the letters "chin....
It's in my big Oxford dictionary but really, I can't write it here, it IS very vulgar and I don't want to offend anyone.
Anyway, Juan might be using it as a benign form of that vulgar term. Whatever the case, he's clearly expressing annoyance...extreme annoyance, if you wish, saying "what a friggin' mess"!!!!
At least that's my view. Weigh in readers if you agree or disagree.


So Juan may be using a benign version of that, as we might when we say "shoot" or "darn" of "friggin'" when in fact we're thinking of a harsher word.
 

And yes, as Dorado Dave pointed out, chinches can also refer to bedbugs....and what could be worse than "fierce bedbugs" biting you all over.
So however you want to think of it, it ain't a good thing for our Juan, that's for sure.
 

yes, I provided a literal translation, I'm certain that it is a Juanism, unique to him, but I might adopt it. It's like "holy cow!", or "holy smoke", really meaningless; which I have used translated literally in spanish, and believe me exclaiming "Vaca sagrada", or "Humo sagrado" will raise someeybrows, if not a chuckle from most people. Gotta keep everyone on their toes, right? all in good fun, and it's taken that way...
 

Thanks Kris for a rapid wonderful recap of some madcap scenes. Let us hope that this is the signal of fun, fun, fun up to the end.

A comment on what Nidia called Ana: The barefoot Carmelites (Carmelitas descalzas) were an order of nuns joined by Teresa of Avila the mystic poet at age 19. Now a Saint, she lived from 1515 to 1582 in Spain. The Carmelite Order with sections of both friars and nuns took not only vows of chastity but vows of poverty and toil, hence the shoeless part of the name. So NIdia is telling Ana to get a LIFE already.

And how do I know this little bit of obscurity? I was reading Teresa's poetry last year in a class on Spanish literature and culture of the middle ages. Teresa's poetry is so transcendental and mystic it is almost hard to believe she was not drinking or smoking something hallucinatory. Perhaps the hallucinations came from hunger, they didn't eat too well either.
 

Wow Cheryl...thanks for that info on the "descalcadas"...I read some St. Teresa in English, years ago, when I was interested in mysticism, and she definitely was in an altered state.
One can become that way through prolonged prayer and fasting. I'm just way too ADD to make it myself.
 

woops...sorry, meant "descalzadas"
 

Kris, with work and jury duty—as others have noted—you’re a wonder! Great recap and thanks! (I love it that you like “deep kimchee” too).

“Sandro says that he was thinking maybe they could make a strategic alliance with her company that would benefit everyone involved and essentially it would be worth her while to come in.” Sandro is so reasonable and wise! CL would be busy thinking how he could trump someone while Sandro is looking at the logic in it all.

“Ana says she isn’t like that and is worried about what people will think. Oh please.” LOL! Well said, K.

“Fer suggests to say she’s out of the country...Juan says no she’s too photographed, they would know where she is” Finally! Juan says something with a tad of wisdom in it! He’s finally thought something through! Too bad it won’t last, huh?

I laughed out loud to hear Nidia talking about the Barefoot Carmelites again. The first two weeks, in one of my first recaps for this novela, Delirio told Ana that Samuel had left all his money to the Barefoot Carmelites (I think that may have been part of the faked will). I hunted and hunted for the Descalzadas definition. That was when I decided to buy all the extra dictionaries. Cheryl, thanks for the cultural fill-in.

Juan could have saved himself a pile of trouble by just looking at the card Juanito has. I suppose we’ll see that tonight some time. Oh, this show is so predictable!

What’s a cecienta? Teenager?

Jeanne
 

K, what a funny recap, you are so good at summarizing. I love your new "name", is it maybe because you were born on January 6? Judyb, you are completely right about chinches bravas. Sylvia thank you for the info on Las carmelitas descalzas, I've heard about them before, but I didn't know they were a real order of nuns. Jeanne I think that CL/Sandro said "Cenicienta" Cinderella, meaning that he would bring her back before midnight.
 

It wasn't I who provided info on the Barefoot Carmelites. Thank cheryl NM for that one.
 

Maricruz, thanks for that! It makes perfect sense now.

Jeanne
 

Thanks, all. Sorry I left a few things hanging...sometimes I write one memory word or a note for myself but I neglected to fully develop them in my rush. Thanks for helping out with all that everyone.

Actually, my new name is in honor of Fuego and the bakers three (or sort of three), and the sweet hermanos "REYES" ;) I resigned to change and forwent the Pirates, but I carry them in my heart for sure. :)

Man Ana is killing me. Acting all prude and worrying about what people will think. I din't elaborate in the recap, but come on!! She was the lover of a married man for years, and had his illegitimate child, all despite knowing he was wed and had his own family. Barefoot nun, my pompis!!!
 

Every woman that walks thru the elevator doors on this novela has bigger boobs than the next..Must be running a lunch hour special on who gets a "set" bigger than the other.?

I thought Yadira had made a u-turn,and I had begun to like her again,however, her pawing on Sandro last night puts her back on the "hot crotch" list as having zero class.
 

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