User:Universal Emerald

Introduction/ Bio
Hi, I'm Universal Emerald.

The Discovery
A few years ago (I think it was back in 2011) I visited my grandma in the Philippines. Because I was a young kid and I didn't really know what to do in the house, my brother and I mainly watched shows on Disney Channel Asia, which was pretty much the only kids channel that was in English. Our favourite show was BoBoiBoy. We tried to watch as many episodes as we could while we visited there but by the time we had to leave, we had only watched up to Season 1, Episode 16, which was the one where BoBoiBoy and his friends were just turned into Draught pieces.

Forgetting About It All
The next time we went to visit my grandma again, I went on to Disney Channel Asia and found that they had stopped airing BoBoiBoy. I was very disappointed because I really wanted to find out what happened to BoBoiBoy and his friends after they were turned into Draught pieces. Without BoBoiBoy to watch, my brother and I had to find other ways to entertain ourselves. I never truly forgot about BoBoiBoy after that, I always kept his memory in my head, I just thought there was no way I could watch now. That all changed a few years later (again, I can't remember how many years).

The Rediscovery
Somewhere around the year 2015, I got really bored. I got so bored I started racking my head for something to entertain myself with and suddenly unearthed my memory of BoBoiBoy. Even though I didn't think it would work, I decided to search it up on YouTube because I knew that a lot of the time people would upload videos of TV series', only to have their videos deleted because of copyright stuff. I didnt think the episodes would be there because I didn't think that BoBoiBoy was too popular at the time and since it had been around 4 years since I had last seen it, the series was probably over. So you can imagine my astonishment when I found a complete official collection of all of Season 1, in English! Not to mention a complete Season 2 and an in-progress Season 3! And I thought the series was over!

I got super excited and told my brother about it (he wasn't as excited as I was at the time but he's always like that). My brother and I watched all of Season 1 from the start to jog our memories and it was so awesome! or "memang terbaik!" 😉 After that, I tried to find English versions of Seasons 2 and 3 but after a few hours of scouring YouTube I sadly couldn't, so once again, I gave up on it for the next few months.

The Second Rediscovery (or the Re-rediscovery)
Eventually, I remembered BoBoiBoy and decided to search for English versions. I did find a few Malay scenes from the episodes that were fan dubbed and fan subbed but I didn't start watching those until early 2016. So I decided a different approach. I would watch the Malay episodes and guess what they were saying. Already knowing that "terima gasih" meant "thank you" gave me an idea of how fast they spoke in Malay and how words were spelt so here's what I did. I would listen and look very carefully at what the characters were saying and if I recognised anything that sounded like separate words, I would guess how to spell it and enter it on google translate and figure out what they were saying. It was difficult because they normally talked really really fast and it was hard to pick out the separate words but I actually ended up teaching myself a lot of Malay words. I still need google translate from time to time because there are still a lot of words I don't know but I have definitely improved.

The Present (May 2016)
At present, I have caught up on all the BoBoiBoy episodes and am eagerly awaiting the next episode. Which at the moment, is part 2 of Season 3 Episode 25. I was super hyped for the new movie and found out it was the highest grossing Malaysian movie or something. I still really wanna watch it but I live in New Zealand so that's gonna be a bit tricky😁. Anyway, this series has just gotten better and better with each episode, especially Season 3. On the wikia my big job is editing the Episode pages (I don't know if anyone else noticed but we do have duplicate episode pages) and making English transcripts for the episodes so people like me can understand what the characters are saying. If any Malay speaking users can help with these I would be most grateful.

That's all for now! Bye!