The Curtain Drawn Over TGD

The curtain has finally been drawn over the gardener's Daughter (La Hija del Jardinero) telenovela, some few hours ago, after 9 months and 10 days. This would make me to effectively break my emotional ties with that soap opera, and move forward to reach my dreams of serializing other telenovelas for our collective pleasures on this blog.

Luis Alejandro Montero paid the prize of 2-decades of treachery and perfidy - 10 years behind bars! I am not too happy about the repentance of Jennifer de la Vega, at the last minute. I would have wanted her punished with an equal penalty, with her 'comrade' and accomplice, L.A.

10 years behind bars or in a psychiatric clinic, would definitely have broken her pride and send her out of the beauty and fashion industry, and would make her to be ineligible for marriage. She was the chief promoter of mischief and misery for Luisa Fernanda.To pardon and release Jennifer to go home from the psychiatric clinic, after the so-called repentance, was unfair to Solozarno and Luis Alejandro. To me, Jenny does not seem to have fully repented, because, up till the last second, she was still expecting Carlos Eduardo to return to her bosom, not caring for the feelings and sacrifices of her emotional 'spare tyre', poor Guillermo.

I would miss "Mr. M-A-R-V-E-L-O-U-S"! Victor was another super comedian who spiced the wracking tensed moments throughout the telenovela. I am happy and, at the same time sad for Xochil. Happy because she would be marrying her heartthrob- Dr. Anzola. Sad because, she still felt unsecured, after everything. They are not soul-mates, and she is heavily prone to hit the bottle, being addicted to alcohol.

It looked like, half-way into this final episode, Don Fernando was substituted with another man with a bigger body frame than the old man that played that role for 179 and 1/2 episodes.

My good sister and friend Bola Oluyemi of Mums and Dads' Children, has written me and sent me the summaries of Catalina y Sebastian which would take off probably tonight. I saw that she had 'let the cat out of the bag', by 'greeting' me for my 10th marriage anniversary today. Shhhhh! it is a quiet family affair here. I don't have anointing for partying (like sister Omodesola would say).

I need to edit it (Catalina y Sebastian), to make it flow as we read ahead of the beginning. Lorenzo's Wife, I have an appointment with you for this month, so friends, keep praying for me to have the emotional and enthusiastic resources to pay off a significant part of my Telenovela debts this month.

The Sun Sets for Gardener's Daughter

What started like a Telenovela bang some nine months ago, is now coming to an end in the next few days, with the airing tonight of Episode 172 and 173 of La Hija del Jardinero soap opera. It is just about 6 episodes to go, that means barring possible disruptions by the UEFA champions league, final football match between Liverpool and AC Milan, tomorrow, Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007, the series should end with the Grand finale, next week Thursday.

Many of the early viewers have dropped off, because of the deliberate attempt by the script writers and producers to unduly prolong the the show, thereby boring many fans. But the next eight days would be a climax, as every fan would return and want to see justice done, love penalties awarded, the wicked emotional dribblers (Jennifer de la Vega and Luis Alejandro Montero) penalized, and nuptial victory won by the prime couple, Carlos Eduardo and Luisa Fernanda. (Luisa is not a loser, afterall).

In the midst of this change, the sponsors of this soap opera have cheated the viewing public by what they are bringing next, at the end of this season: Catalina y Sebastian. (Catalina and Sebastian).

This one is an 8-year old telenovela (1999), starring the popular telenovela 'Romeo and Juliet' of "Paloma and Diego" - Silvia Navarro and Sergio Basañez. I feel they were catching into our nostalgia for those wonderful couple, to bring a very old novela. They were much younger in that soap than "Cuando Seas Mia" (When You Are Mine) (WUAM) (2001).

It is ideal to bring "La Heredera" (The Heiress) (2005), where the two celebrities were the star actor and actress. It would have been a natural sequel to WUAM.

I do know that it is a huge fortune to buy the latest and current telenovelas (about half to 1 million U.S Dollars), than the cheap old ones. The promoters were only trying to maximize their profits. La Heredera is two years old, and it would have been only fair to buy and bring it now, afterall, 'The Gardener's Daughter' and 'Todo Sobre Camila' (All About Camila), were bought and brought for our viewing pleasure when they were barely three years old.

So, as the curtain closes on the gardener's daughter, we wish all our fans and readers a good time watching and reading. That was partly why we changed this blog's name from the gardener's daughter to TELENOVELA LOVE GARDEN. With the end of the gardener's daughter, we would still serve you other exciting telenovelas. Telenovela is all bout profound lessons in love.

Keep learning and enjoying yourselves. Ciao.

Adieu Consuela!

The chairlady of wickedness, Consuelo Alcantara, met with divine Justice yesternite. At exactly the same spot where Amelia died in a tragic auto accident, she met her divine Waterloo. Amelia's ghost appeared to Consuela, and she lost control of her speeding car and somersaulted into the deep pit, where Amelia vehicle had tumbled 3 years earlier.

Luisa Fernanda had gone to Consuela, threatening to open her can of worms, Consuela got frightened and decided there and then that she would kill the young lady. After Luisa Fernanda stormed out of Consuela's office, but not before cursing Consuela that, a terrible retribution of divine justice, would overtake her soonest, for all the evil she had done to her and her late mother, Amelia.

Consuela picked a gun from her drawer, pursued and trailed the taxi cab that was carrying L.F. Consuela's aim was to kill Luisa Fernanda before getting to meet the old man, Don Fernando Alcantara. Her car exploded on hitting the bottom of the pit.

Orlando was able to follow and witness the death of Consuela. He was heart-broken and good hearted enough to even described Consela as his mother-in-law. When she lost control of the steering, due to fright upon seeing Amelia's ghost, her car plunged into the deep pit and exploded.

Carlos Eduardo was foolish enough to tell the tale of his latest break-up with, and purported reunion of L. F and Alfredo, to Jennifer de la Serpent, as she made a quiet attempt to crawl back into Carlos emotional turmoil. He went to a bar, to get drunk and found Jenny. She seized the opportunity of his depression to become his miserable comforter.

The Only Heir To The Estate ...

What a sin! To be so hated and persecuted for being the only legal heir to a multi-million Dollar estate, and that, you were even ignorant of, for over two decades! That was the story of that young and beautiful girl called, Luisa Fernanda.

Rigoberto, the guardian angel came an apologized to Luisa Fernanda for her cowardice and silence for so long. She exposed Consuela's evil schemes all these years. She also warned Luisa Fernanda that Consuela was planning to kill her, in order to disinherit her.

It was moment of sober truth, to discover that where you have worked as a maid, was actually your inheritance, and the boss whom you have worked for, was not your boss, but your grandfather who had left all his fortunes, hundreds of acres of land and houses, factories, mortgages and properties willed to you, his unknown granddaughter.

That was the Will drafted and sealed, which caused the fears and schemes of Consuela. Luisa Fernanda later confronted Pedro Perez and challenged him for hiding such vital information about her heritage and maternal grandfather. Pedro was speechless, caught in his own serlfish schemes by Rigo's revelation.

Emotional Spare Tyre

The heightened drama got to a confrontational level between Victor and Alfredo Anzola. Victor accused him of being blind to the beauty and matchless virtues of Xochil, and that Alfredo only wanted to marry Luisa Fernanda as a revenge trophy, in his unending jealous battle against Carlos Eduardo. He even described Xochil as being "stupidly faithful" to Anzola.

On the other hand, Alfredo had unconsciously adopted a policy of keeping Xochil as a romantic "spare tyre" in his emotional journey with Luisa Fernanda. He knew in himself that, sooner or later, his emotional captive would loose steam, and his emotional tyre would burst. Because he dreaded that moment, that is why he kept Xochil in perpetual bond to himself.

Now, that dreaded moment has finally come. L.F told Pedro that she was fed up with this emotional psycho, called fiance, and would break up with him, to go back to Carlos Eduardo.

With the premonition that L.F was about to leave him for Carlos, Alfredo began to drown his tortured soul in a sea of alcohol, and also consoled his emotion with Xochil. It was like Victor's truth was the key that opened the floodgate of his bottled emotion for Xochil. They were both drowned in the ocean of unspeakable flood ...

Pedro behaved most irresponsibly yesterday when out of childish anger he rejected a copy of Fernando's original Will that Luis Alejandro brought for Luisa Fernanda. As usual with him, he was afraid that such favors might endear L.F to Montero. This not withstanding, Rigo is coming to reveal the truth to L.F tonite. More of these glimpses from the Site Map.

Expect me to serve you an appetizer in the next few hours in the form of the Grand Finale of Lorenzo's Wife (la Mujer de Lorenzo). This should wet the appetites of those who are asking for how it all ended. To keep you for the weekend. My weekend would be devoted to editing and flooding you with the snippets of this soap.

MamaJ was asking me a few days ago if I would start from where they are currently. The truth however is that, it is better to start from the beginning to the end. That way, we would not be accused of being selfish, by those who would come looking for the FULL STORY or summaries of La Mujer de Lorenzo - (Lorenzo's wife), in the future.

Posting all the snippets before the end of April would be best for us here. So I am giving myself a target of maximum 4 weeks, that also goes for the completion of Ugly Betty and Rebeca.

The Tempo Changes ...

Its just 32 more episodes to go on the gardener's daughter soap opera. It's going to be racy from now on, all the deliberate delays and prolongations would be cut down. After recovery from the dangerous push that Jenny gave her, Luisa Fernanda woke up to declare to Carlos Eduardo that she was ready to marry him and would break off all commitments and pretenses with Alfredo Anzo'lie'.

She broke the news to Pedro, of her desire to marry Carlos and break up her unfruitful relationship with Anzola. By this time, it was obvious that Alfredo was already sleeping with Xochil and Luisa Fernanda caught them, 'red-handed' in the act.

The 'guardian angel' of Luisa Fernanda, Rigoberto, swung into action, and let the cat out of the bag by going to reveal all the truth about Don Fernando being her grandfather. It was both a devastating and joyous tidings to her. She wept and 'laugh-cried'.

To enjoy the last 32 racy snippets from the current Episode 147 to the Grand finale, go to the Site Map.

Consuela Conned!

Cunning woman die, cunning man buried her! That was what yesterday's episode was garnished with in the gardener's daughter. Actress Alpha Acosta, popularly known as Consuela was dealt with by no less a person than, her accomplice in crime- Luis Alejandro Montero.

Her morbid fear to keep the stolen Will of Don Fernando from the suspicious hands of Vanessa, had pushed her to put the safe containing this indicting document, in the "safe" custody of her criminal friend, L.A. She had lied that it contained precious jeweleries inherited from her late mom.

The bubble has however burst yesterday, when her lips opened and she mistakenly let the cat out of the bag, that the small safe contained her father's stolen Will. That was enough for L.A take advantage of, he told her that he is going to pass it over to his own daughter, Luisa Fernanda, who was the ignorant but true heiress to the Don Fernando's fortune.

From now on till the next ten episodes when Consuela would die in a car inferno, she began a descent into hell, that none of her old tricks could rescue her from. More of this gists could be found at Snippet 146. For the full Summaries, you may go to the Site Map to capture whatever fish you may desire from the ocean of the gardener's daughter.

This actress got my curiosity and my research showed that she has acted in three telenovela stories in the past that broke records of viewing audience across the globe. They are "MORELIA" (1995), "Romántica Obsesión" (1999) and "La Hija del Mariachi" (2006). One of these days, we may roam into those telenovela territories.

The solidarity messages have continued to pour on me like the early rain, concerning the little illness of my last daughter, Gbemisoke, (who has since resumed schooling this morning), last week and over the weekend. Philip Effiong, Vivian from Abuja, Prof. Olofin from BUK, Kano, Omodesola, 5Alive, NewKing, ... I deeply appreciate your labour of love for my work and my family.

It is strange but true that, from the darkest corner of cyberspace, you people and others too numerous to mention, have helped to raise an enviable monument called the Gardener's daughter blog, worth more than $500 dollars in monthly revenue. That is more than the salary of a university graduate in Nigeria public service.

I love you all. Gbemisoke also appreciates your genuine concern and prayers. She says: "thank you uncles and aunties, big daddies and big mummies ".

Forgive Him!

Pardon me for being off air in the last 5 days. My 3-year-old daughter, Gbemisoke, got under the weather with vomiting and stooling, thank God, she is back on her feet hale and hearty, tomorrow she would resume school.

Pedro surprised me yesternite. For the first time, I now know the real selfish reason why he concealed the paternity of L.F, and connection to Don Fernando, was because he wanted to avenge his humiliation of 25 years ago by Don. The old man had threatened to shoot Pedro to death when he bore false witness by admitting that he was the one that impregnated Don's daughter, Amelia. Don then threw Amelia out of the house and sacked Pedro from his gardener's job.

He made sure that the old man suffered and never knew that L.F was his granddaughter. What an uncanny way to punish your assumed enemy. What Pedro forgot was that he needed the forgiveness of Marissa too, while withholding same from Don Fernando. It took Vanessa to lecture Pedro on the virtues of forgiveness, before he realized that he had held on for too long his bitterness towards Fernando.

In his selfish and silent fight against Don Fernando, Pedro forgot that he was unwittingly hurting the people closest to him most- L.F and Marissa.

Guillermo has started to play the hide and seek game with Jennifer de la Vega. They have a lot advertising campaigns to do across many countries, and he had secretly invited Xochil for an interview and possible training, to become a model, perhaps in readiness for Jenny's frequent mental somersaults.

Jenny would dribble him again tonight when she sees L.F beside Carlos on TV as he was being arrested and handcuffed for attempted robbery. Her obsessive instability would make her to delay or postpone her business trip with Guillermo, as she would want to show off her 'feigned' solidarity with Carlos. This, for her, is another plunge in her rivalry war with L.F.

That 'pain-in-the-neck' called Alfredo Anzola was in his ear-sore best when he challenged and accused Pedro for supporting L.F escapades with Carlos Eduardo. He acted as an emotional landlord when he accused Vanessa too of covering up for L.F.

These are the Snippet 139, Snippet 140, Snippet 141, Snippet 142, Snippet 143, Snippet 144, Snippet 145, Snippet 146, which I missed posting, you can follow up from there or go to read the full story or summaries from Site Map.

I would resume posting Rebeca today, notwithstanding the criticism of my hubby in his make money online blog over the weekend.

In The Middle of A Game

Guillermo has begun to suffer emotional hard knocks from the hands of Jennifer de la Cunning. He told his secretary after a disappointing outing with Jenny, that he just discovered that he was in the middle of a game between Jenny and her ex boyfriend.

He related how Jenny deceived him by pretending that she was his invited guest to the wedding of Ordonez. On getting there, he discovered that everybody at the ceremony were well-known to Jenny, and what more, the venue was the house of Carlos Eduardo, her ex boyfriend. He felt bad to know that Jenny was toying with his feelings while her emotional gaze was, obsessively still riveted on the fantasy restoration of relationships with Carlos Eduardo.

The unending game of revelation of Don Fernando's Granddaughter took another turn as Rigoberto partially let the cat out of the bag. Consuelo, in her traditional wickedness twisted that revelation by lying that Amelia was thrown out, not because of untimely pregnancy, but because of theft. She told the old man that Amelia and her boyfriend stole the old man's money and stocks from the steel plant.

She would later lie to the old man that his granddaughter, died in the auto crash that killed Amelia. This lie sent Don into another round of sorrow, and he had to escape from the house, to go and pour out his agony at the Park.

Jennifer de la Fury promises to go on the offensive in the coming week. She stumbled on Armando as he was telling Carol that he needed to be closer to L.F because she was his sister. Jenny was shocked and filled with fury to hear this truth. Not only would she order Armando and Carol to leave her house, because they were hobnobbing with her mortal enemy- Luisa Fernanda. She would also rush to leak the secrets to Marissa Gomez.

Caesar is about to send Carlos on an unpalatable assignment that may backfire. Having told Carlos about the stolen bank documents which L.A hid in his new office, Carlos was determined, and opted for the dangerous alternative of breaking into the place in the night to retrieve the documents. I wonder why he did not opt to report the matter to the police. They would have caught L.A in his wickedness. Perhaps it was as usual, to prolong the telenovela.

More about this story can be found in the Sitemap.

You Sleep With Him, He dreams of Me

The unending emotional skirmishes between L.F and Jennifer de la Fighter threw up another hilarious account yesterday. After being shunned and abandoned by Guillermo, for hiding the truth that she knew everybody at Lupe's wedding, and that the venue was Carlos' house. Jenny went to renew her warning to L.F not to come near Carlos Eduardo.

She threw up her old and jaded tricks that Carlos was still sleeping with her and could not be the love of L.F's life. L.F reassured her that she (Jenny) may be sleeping with him, but Carlos was always dreaming of her (L.F), while in bed with Jenny. This made Jenny to boil over with rage and with scarce restraint.

All is fair in war, so says a popular adage. Dr. Alfredo Anzola played foul yesterday when he descended to the ignominious level of lies in order to criminalize Carlos Eduardo before Luisa Fernanda.

He sought for and got more than what he bargained for. He took Carlos aside to warn him to desist from running after L.F. He lied that he and L.F have decided to go ahead with their marriage.

Carlos Lectured him that he would never win L.F's love by playing the pitiable victim chained to a wheelchair. He told Alfredo that he must have been happy and never wanting to recover the use of his limbs, so that his pitiable status would keep L.F chained to him.

Alfredo's ego was bruised by this verbal whip, when Xochil suddenly interrupted them, he shouted on her and asked her to leave him alone. Later when L.F found him, he lied to her that Carlos Eduardo threw him out of his house.

The drama was not concluded until Jenny's fantasy was shattered. She had gone to accuse Carlos of not looking in her direction throughout the wedding ceremony. Carlos bluntly told her, that as her ex, she should not bother him again. She was shocked, trying to clarify from Carlos what time did she become an ex?

Jenny walked away with all fury. Get ready for the raging fury of a jealous woman next episode! More of the episodes could be read at Sitemap

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Bola Oluyemi, my beloved friend and fellow woman blogger, just rescued most of us who have been asking for Snippets of the new telenovela "REBECA" being shown on MITV and TV3.

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Enough of This Blackmail!

I knew it. I knew that the emotional blackmail drum of Alfredo was beating too loud, and that manipulative drumbeats would soon burst. L.F woke up from being an emotional captive, she fought back with the ferocity of a goat pushed to the wall. She defiantly declared to Alfredo to stop his emotional blackmails and stop playing the victim. She told him to forget about her commitment marry him at all cost. She even advised him to go for psychological cure of his insane jealousy.

The greatest lesson I have learnt from this telenovela is RELATIONSHIP. Things ought to evidently go smooth for L.F and Carlos from now on. But it was not so. Marissa held on to a dying relationship with Jenny, the same way she held on to a dead relationship with L.A, until she was burnt by the hot ashes of that relationship.

My husband always say that: "You either BELONG or BEGONE!". Jennifer de la Vega does not belong to the Gomez Ruiz family, but marissa did not allow her to 'begone'. That was the principal reason why the reunion btween Carlos and L.F would be short-lived, because jenny who regularly hanged around Mrs. Foolish (Marissa), used took full advantage of that teetering relationship to break up the two lovers again. Jenny used Marissa as the ladder, and Pedro as the axe to cut the romantic reunion of L.F and Carlos.

Time For Vendetta

Now it is clear that Jenny recognized and appreciated the superior passion of Guillermo for her. After the 'bed-affair' between them yester-night, Jenny refused Guillermo's precious gift of a pair of specially carved earrings. She doesn't want to make the affair a formal one. She begged him for some time, and not to rush her into another relationship.

I asked myself: 'Time for what?' I concluded that Jenny is suffering from an obsession called "CARLOSMANIA". After such an intimate night with Guillermo on bed, to wake up the following morning and begin to plan vengeance against Carlos was something erratic. Jenny was indirectly telling Guillermo to give her time to plan her vendetta against Carlos.

Her plan now is to sabotage and frustrate any relationship between Carlos and L.F. Her new 'philosophy' seems to be proclaiming that: 'anything I cannot get must be destroyed so that no one else would get it'. She almost succeeded in this game, thank God to the foolishness of Luisa Fernanda.

Guillermo has a long wait in this new game. His patience would be tasked and stretched to breaking point. It is a nightmare for any man to be sentenced to the prison of 'fiance-in-waiting', only to discover that the lady he was waiting for ended up in prison for heinous crimes, or ended up in a mental sanatorium.

I have always maintained a harsh judgement on Pedro. His miserable role in tonight's episode was just unacceptable to me. It was simply selfishness at its uttermost heights. Pedro begged and warned Vanessa not to reveal the secrets of Consuelo, which made her to steal Don Fernando's Will and made her to ruthlessly deal with both Vanessa and L.F.

His excuse was that when such secrets are exposed, it would ultimately lead to the fact that L.F would know that Don Fernando was her grandfather. He said he wanted L.F to know the truth from him first, and not from outsiders.

It is unacceptable for Pedro to be wrapped in the arms of Marissa, enjoying a romantic bliss at the expense the pain of old Don Fernando and Luisa Fernanda. I have never prayed and would never pray that my blessings and joys be founded on the sorrows and misfortunes of other innocent people.

This is not the first time Ramiro Huerta, alias 'Pedro' or "Aurelio would be playing such miserable roles in telenovelas. Cuando Seas Mia (When You are Mine) he moral knees weakened and buckled when he allowed himself to be lured to sleeping with his best friend's (Diego) unfaithful wife, Berenice. Not once, not twice. Moral weakness is one disease too much.

More about Episode 134 could be found at Snippet 134 and 135. The full story could be read from the Sitemap.

Is It True?

A breath-seizing question was thrown by Don Fernando at Pedro Perez in La Paz: "Is it true that my granddaughter lives in your house?" Pedro, with a conscience seared with hideous secrets, was lost for words because he thought the old man had come to the knowledge that L.F was his granddaughter.

When Don eventually clarified that he meant Vanessa, Pedro and Rigoberto heaved a sigh of great relief. i am beginning to be bothered by the complacency and complicity of Rigoberto. This old guardian Angel of L.F seem to be slipping into criminal complicity with Consuelo. Everytime in the last two weeks when Fernando raised the subject of his biological granddaughter, it pains me to see Rigoberto evasive. I had expected her to use the opportunity of the La Paz trip to tell the truth to the poor old Fernando about his granddaughter.

Rigoberto seems more afraid of the subject even more that the real architects of the lies- Pedro and Consuelo, more about this in episode 133 and 134. If you desire to read the full story of la hija del jardinero, then, go to the site map for Gardener's Daughter.

My ambition this new week is to dig deeper into the La Heredera and Ugly Betty telenovelas. So far, my research has not produced a Spanish or English site for the episodic account of REBECA telenovela which fans are clamoring for.

Your Tricks Against You!

Vanessa Sotomayor was a product of a grand delusion. She was a 'graduate' in the Consuela's school of scams. She was filled with rage when she discovered that Consuela had sacked her boyfriend. She went t'o confront the 'wicked queen' on her 'throne' and in her steel 'palace'.

She delivered some lethal verbal blows on Consuelo. It takes a crook to catch another crook on a crooked path. Vanessa assured Consuela that, she had learnt not quite some few tricks from her, and would not hesitate to use it on her former tutor- Consuelo. She warned Consuelo that she would apply her old tricks on her for throwing her on the streets, and throwing her boyfriend- Orlando, into unemployment.

I consider it strange, that a woman full of wickedness could still have a space in her heart for romance with any man. Reuben is playing with fire, if he thinks that Consuelo is just a kitten like Lupe, whom he cheated on and dumped like a kitchen napkin. He has a shocking discovery awaiting him. He should have sought sound counsel from his best friend, L.A who never 'messed around' with the romantic snares of Consuelito.

To Die For Love

Carlos Eduardo was at his humorous best tonite, in La Paz. He caused quite a stir at the restaurant, when L.F staged a walk-out on him from the dinner that Don Fernando invited both of them to, for reunion purposes.

He shouted to the hearing of all ears at the restaurant, saying that he loved her, and would kill himself if she should walk out on him. He picked a knife and made a motion as if he would stab himself to death. L.F stopped in her tracks when she saw this embarrassing drama.

You and I know that Carlos is a sober and rational lover. He only said this much to get his rightly deserved attention and affection from Luisa Fernanda. he won't play the suicidal madness game of Jennifer or the insane obsessive game of Alfredo. The episode tomorrow would show how the prime lovers of this telenovela won out together in the La Paz skirmishes.

Talking about Alfredo, much expletives have been rained on him on this blog by commentators. Alfredo is not a sportsman. He behaved badly like a little sulking child. He refused to take responsibility for the woeful failure of his emotional shenanigan. His scheme to trap L.F in a loveless marriage has fallen once again, flat on his face. This guy was a bad loser. Everybody knew he was in bad mood, as he gave the cold shoulder to, and was rude to all persons who encountered him, from Maribel, to Don Fernando.

Tonight, hypocritical Alfredo and Xochil were doing 'their thing' - kissing passionately and were oblivious of the world or L.F. This was the same man who had been sulking all about because L.F disappeared into thin air with Carlos Eduardo. The bubble of hypocrisy would soon burst in la Paz. wait till tomorrow to see how this hypocrite would be defeated.

If the first kiss on his aborted wedding day was a mistake, this second one was on purpose and went deeper. The third one to happen in Mexico, would lead to a disgrace for Alfredo because, L.F would catch them in the act.

Don't forget to prepare for Jenny and her entourage in la Paz, including her new lover, Guillermo. You can go right ahead of the crowd and read the full story, and what happens at the next episode 131.

I'm Following My Love

The cupid warfare has shifted grounds to La Paz. Carlos managed to 'convince' his mom to begin immediately her physiotherapy there too. The only one missing in action in the La Paz battleground was Jennifer de la 'Fighter'. Don't worry, for she would soon divert the entire crew of the advertising agency (Guillermo is already a toy in her hands), from Vera Cruz to La Paz, she is not about throwing in the towel, as many may have thought three days ago.

L.F bumped into Carlos at bar on the ship, and was pleasantly surprised to see him there. When she enquired what brought him on board, he joyfully told her that, he was following his love. She was anxious that he would not provoke another round of jealous fits from Alfredo. He took her by hand and led her to where Marissa was sitting to show that his mom is his covert basis for the La Paz trip.

When Alfredo discovered that Carlos was on board with his mom, and that L.F had disappeared for sometime before then, he smartly concluded that she had been seeing and colluding with Carlos. His countenance changed, signaling the outbreak of emotional warfare in la paz. Carlos and L.F would surely win that battle this time.

Another noteworthy drama was the insanity of Alfredo that almost cost him his life. He forced a tired and dizzy Xochil to roll his wheelchair out of the cabin to search for L.F who had temporarily disappeared into thin air with Carlos. In the course of that dangerous adventure, Xochil lost her balance and consciousness, leaving Alfredo and his wheelchair freely rolling towards the sea. He would have cheaply tumbled over, into the sea and drowned but for the timely rescue by the stewards.

It was Russell O' Russell who commented on this blog yesterday with a profound quote that "Love is hot, when it doesn't belong to you, and all you could do, is let it go, but if you insist on holding on, be prepared to have your palms burnt up for life".

Alfredo is playing with a fire that may ultimately consume him. Further readings could be found at either episode 130 and 131 or the sitemap for the full story of gardener's daughter.

Enter, Guillermo

At last, Jennifer found the guts to call it quits with Carlos. The reason was obvious, another man has crept into her emotional orbit. He is the handsome Guillermo, the owner of an advertising agency who offered Jenny the star role in the Latin American campaign for a new product. He advised her that the best way to escape personal-induced stress, is to immerse herself in work, and the advertising campaign would be a good break for her.

There was no doubt that in this episode 129, the two of them were mutually attracted to each other. When Carlos came to visit her, she found a temporary courage to tell him that it's best to split up their fruitless 3-year relationship. Did I hear you say, 'good riddance'? You are mistaken, because the virulent greed and obsession of Jenny would push her back to the precipice of disaster, as she could not bear the re-union of L.F and Carlos, not withstanding the facts that she had by then started sleeping with Guillermo.

The character called 'Guillermo' was no other person than the famous 'Fabian' of Cuando Seas Mia, telenovela, (When You are Mine). 'Fabian' looked fatter and more matured in this soap, obviously because there was a two year difference between WUAM (2001) and gardener's daughter (2003). The voice-over was different for TGD, but it is the same Rodrigo Abed.

This new role was a sharp contrast to the one he played in WUAM. He was a hawk that loved only himself and his ambition to inherit the Sanchez-Serrano fortune. In this new role, he was a perfect gentleman who suffered the rejection of the woman he loved dearly - Jennifer de la Vega. He literally 'licked her boot'. The 'Fabian' that played and toyed with the feelings of countless women in WUAM, became a game for Jenny in this soap opera.

Within a twinkle of an eye, Consuelo sacked and threw Vanessa out of the house, now that Don Fernando had traveled out to La Paz, in California, for physiotherapy rehabilitation of his palsied hands. It was a pity watching this orphan thrown unto the streets by Consuelo.

It was also a refreshing surprise to see Maribel, L.F's kind-hearted prison mate, two years ago, become a nurse at the rehab clinic. She was the one who took care and conducted Don Fernando around the facility when he arrived at the premises.

If you have not read the whole story, don't forget to visit the site map and navigate through the whole story la hija del Jardinero, the gardener's daughter.

To Set You Free

The drama of Jenny's 'death' and resurrection dominated yesterday's episode. When she woke up on her hospital bed, she blamed Carlos for not allowing her to die.

She waxed philosophical when Carlos questioned her on why she attempted suicide. She said that she finally understood that he did not love her. saying: " ... I did it to set you free, so that you can go and marry Luisa Fernanda. for you to marry Luisa Fernanda, I have to be dead. I realize that I am the only one who is interested in this relationship. The only one who is guilty is me. You have never stopped loving the gardener's daughter. When you yelled at me for hitting her, which she deserved for kissing you, you took away my desire to live ... "

This lady, for the first time in this telenovela, told the truth with her stained and chronically lying lips. But because she remains unrepentant, she has become a keg of gunpowder waiting to explode anywhere and at any moment. She had to be handled with wisdom by Carlos. The Yorubas, of South western Nigeria, call such women nicknames like: "Pami'nku sori bembe soko". Literal meaning- 'headstrong wife daring a reluctant hubby to kill her'.


This suicide attempt scandalized the good name and reputation of the Gomez Ruiz family, as Carlos began to regret his attempt to abandon Jenny, Rosario came to strengthen his resolve not to go back into bondage of his emotional captor, who was now using her attempted suicide to draw sympathy and acceptance. As usual, AIThief 'stole' our entertainment fulfillment, by not showing this last portion of the episode 127 and Snippet 128.

Esmeralda remains one Grand Finale which I would post after this. Meanwhile, I have posted two episode: I Love Armando and Goodbye Little One.

Oh, Give Me a Break!

How many times have you used the above statement at the point of frustration? Well, better be careful next time, because it is a prophetically potent statement. When Carlos Eduardo made that statement at the height of Jennifer's nagging at the restaurant where they both went to eat, those words went like a piercing sword, and cut asunder the remnant of toleration, called 'relationship' between them. Carlos stood up and walked away, abandoning her and the food.

Jenny was shocked and sad at the same time. Luisa Fernanda has become a testy issue between them because of Jenny overreaching herself in hitting L.F with a hot jealous slap. That slap has now broken the cord of toleration of Jennifer's doubled-faced and mischievous activities. Carlos would pack out of her apartment, signifying the end of their relationship. This act would turn Jenny into emotional shipwreck and she would attempt to end her life.

I wish I could tell Marissa too, to give me a break from her folly. She testified in court that L.A truly saved her while she was drowning in the swimming pool. What she ought to have said was that she drowned and lost consciousness, and when she was revived, she saw the swimming attendant and L.A. She could not say he saved her. Her testimony weakened the charges of homicide against her and also nullified Leopoldo's testimony.

What this drama taught me was that Marissa was pathetically weak to the point of having been made to believe a lie for 20 years of marriage to L.A. When the time now arose to confront this lie, called Luis Alejandro, she was unable to purge herself from the permeating poison of 2 decades.

AIT relentlessly continued to violate and diminish our entertainment values. As it is usual with the TV station, they aborted the last epic minutes of the soap opera for the umpteenth time tonight. This acts breaks the flow of the telenovela, particularly when the next episode they transmit usually does not continue from the point of abortion. Too bad and too poor. Thumbs down for AIT.

Would You Go With Us?

Pedro succeeded in persuading L.F to escort Alfredo to La Paz. But the drama did not end there, L.F wanted Xochil, to join them on the trip. Scheming Alfredo made faces and signaled to Xochil to reject the offer.

That million Dollar question was all Xochil needed, it was a tacit endorsement of her love ambition for Alfredo by L.F. I strongly suspect that L.F is preparing an emotional trap for Alfredo, by insisting that a 'self-confessed-lover' of Alfredo, like Xochil should follow them on the trip, ... (unmmm wise girl). Never mind what Alfredo schemed, Xochil was included in that team on their trip to la Paz. And, ... things happened in La Paz that mouth cannot describe.

Lupe behaved typically like many of us women, when we are 'madly' in love. Just one night love-making with Mr. Ordonez has changed the man's status and nomenclature. She now calls him adorably by his hitherto, unknown name, ANTONIO. No more Mr. Ordonez. We knew him as Mr. Lic Ordonez, but now, thanks to Lupe, he is now ANTONIO. Every lover out there that desires a 'change of name', (you know what 'change' I mean), The God that visited, abandoned Lupe and scorned Ordonez (sorry, Antonio), would surely visit you too.

I pity many men who lose their 'titles' on the bed with the women who have always 'respected' them. For me, it was just normal and fondly to call your hubby by his first name. It does not mean a desecration of the man's dignity or position, it means adoration. The man even declared to her, to confirm the irrefutable affection between them, saying, " ... we were born for each other ... ". Lucky Lupe, accept my congratulations!

It is noteworthy to mention that our popular and handsome telenovela actor, Rodrigo Abed, popularly known as the notorious "Fabian" of the Cuando Seas Mia (When You are Mine) fame, would begin his appearance in the gardener's daughter from the next two episodes 127 and 128. This time he was an Modeling agency promoter. He fell in love with a wrong woman, Jennifer. Just as he did with a wrong woman "Babara", in Cuando Seas Mia. He was her agent.

I have been able to post yesternite, the episode 56 of ESMERALDA, I had to break it into pieces so you can 'chew' it well. I hope to post the remaining three episodes later today.