User:Universal Emerald

Introduction/ Bio
Hi, I'm Universal Emerald. I'm an Asian not living in Asia and speak fluent English. I love to help out on this Wikia from time to time when I have access to my iPad or a computer or when I'm not having technical difficulties. At the moment, though, I don't have much time to edit because of life, a.k.a. high school.

I've been a fan of BoBoiBoy since 2011 (you can read my BoBoiBoy journey/history down below) and have been hooked back into it. I mainly fix things up on Episode or Character articles and my main project is writing English Transcripts for the Episodes. Help with those is always appreciated.

The Discovery
A few years ago (I think it was back in 2011) I visited my lola (that means grandma to those who aren't familiar with Filipino culture) 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 the episodes often just replayed and 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…and then Forgetting About It All Again (or the Reforget if that makes sense)
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. I had actually also discovered Wikias at this time but I wasn't as into them then as I am now. Plus, no offence to anyone here but, I was kinda put off this Wikia becuase of grammar that didnt make sense (I'm slightly OCD) So once again, unfortunately, I gave up on BoBoiBoy 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. I decided to come back to this Wikia because the translations of the episodes were actually quite decent after thorough inspection, even if some parts didn't make total sense. In fact,this Wikia actually helped me to take a different approach to understanding what the characters were saying. I would watch the Malay episodes and guess what they were saying based on what the Wikia said (confusing, right?).

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. I would also refer back to this BoBoiBoy Wikia to see if any translations were available, and many actually were. It was still a bit difficult though 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!