I'm not a traditional guy in the sense of how I live my life and how I program my mind, but in this case, I'll stick to the traditional way, which is, every meaningful journey deserves a happening beginning. If you think this is a review on a show, yeah, it is. It's just that the main character would be me, and the plot circles around my life as a member of tv.com.

        The story begins with an average 19-year old kid, who's taking his final oral examination on Medical Physiology. This is his second year as a foreign student in Moscow, and from the look of it, he isn’t doing very well with the test. We can get the idea that there’s something wrong. There’s so much passion in his eyes, but something is blocking him from speaking out, and he doesn’t dare to look directly into the eye of his lecturer. At last, the lecturer has decided to give him the green light. After thanking him and God, Billy gets out of the lecture hall with great relieve.

        Billy goes back to the hostel to start packing. His flight back to his hometown in Asia is only 6 hours away, and there isn’t much time left. He needs to make sure that he cleans his room before he leaves. After all, it would be another 3 months before the summer break ends, before he returns to Russia for his studies.

        While packing, his roommates and friends ask how he is doing with exam and all. “I’d passed, and that’s all that matters now.” He is very careful with what he says, and he does not want to give other people satisfaction of knowing his results. There’s a tough competition going on, and he has to be cautious not to be hunted down. It’s a medical school: the slightest mistakes you make with your tongue might bring you down in later days. There are enemies, people to prey for others’ failure, people who gratify themselves from others’ suffering. He’s trying to hide something, a dark secret, and he knows he cannot afford to choose the wrong friend. Is this secret the reason he can’t reach out, and subconsciously blocking himself from being successful?

        Before he leaves for airport, he’s decided to call his mom. Melinda asks for the exam, and he tries to avoid the question and being discreet with the results. It seems like he used to do extremely well back in high school, and now we know there’s private issues bothering him. Billy is concerned about things in the house, but Melinda brushes it off by saying that she will only tell him once he arrives home. “Your sister is sick. For Wilson, well, I don’t hope for anything from him anymore." Billy tries to hold back his tears, but he can’t. Luckily Melinda doesn’t know. He needs to be strong for his mother and his family. If he falls, that’s the end of everything. At least that’s what he believes.

        There’s a little time left. Billy chooses to make full use of it, and checks into his account in tv.com. He also sends a private message to someone, someone with a screen name ‘bjs544’. “Hey, I miss you. Talk to you when I get back. Love, Billy.” For the first time since the starting of the show, we realize that he is happy. There’re sparkles in his eyes. Now, back to his activity in tv.com. Here is the only place that he feels totally free, and he can post his mind without the fear of being judged or victimize by other people’s greed and evil thoughts.

        Finally, the cab to fetch him and his traveling mates to Domodedovo International Airport has arrived. After loading everything, he turns around, having a final look at his apartment, telling his friends, “Yes, everything will be alright,” “I wish…”  he whispers, and he looks skeptical about what he just said.

        Why is he holding himself back? Who is ‘bjs544’? What is the deal with his family, does the secret have anything to do with it, or his private life instead? All the stories will be revealed, in the first season of this (boring8)) drama ‘My Life’.