Gah it has been forever I update the blog, I'm sooo sorry. I been busy with reading books and watching more dramas (mostly japanese) and I'm now a CSI fan. This is what happen when one is bored at home. I'm currently watching CSI- Las Vegas and found myself a hottie in the show ^___________^
This is my first drama review (beside the FH 2 ranting one) hopefully its okay haha ^_^
Anyways it has been a while my family finish VOH 2 and since I had a huge gap in between my classes, I begin picking up old dramas to watch and recently last month I begin rewatching VOH 2. I really do miss all the laughing from this drama and the characters so much.
I’m just barely up episode 250 (in Vietnamese) my guess is that it’s around 374ish in Cantonese. Steven Ma (Sze Gee San- Ivan) came out already and he lost all his fortune to his uncle because Ivan grew up as a spoil brat who wasted his money on random things. Nancy Sit (Yau Nim Chi) took Ivan into her family because his father saved Kam Wah this one time. When he enters into her family he was still a spoil brat wanting this and that and when the others Ah Yuet, Ah Lo and Gam got him a job at Ka Yan he took it for granted. At that moment Nim Chi lecture Ivan on his behavior and that he’s isn’t rich anymore. He got mad and declares that he doesn’t need them and that he can survive on his own. Later he learn from his mistake after being poor (hungry, homeless, etc) and decides to become a new leaf and start all over from scratch and he begins to work with the others at Ka Yan.
I have to say, its so weird seeing Steven as a spoil brat but good thing he change at the end. In most dramas, I see Steven as a righteous person, who is always honest, or jokes around a bit and goofy, but not really spoiled.
Steven’s character came in after Hawick decided to leave which sadden me. After Frankie (Kam Nin- Chris) left I was sad that one of the main characters left. I really love Chris as the older brother, he’s always there for his siblings and his family though he’s slow on the love thing but I really admire him a lot. When they added Hawick (Yau/Du Ka Sing), I thought that he wasn’t going to do a good job as Chris but he turn out alright. Even though Hawick doesn’t have the look to be the older brother of Frankie’s character I enjoy his performance. To be honest, I begin to have a crush on him ever since he appeared in show. ^_^Its just pity that he decided to leave and the storyline sorta went downhill a bit but with Steven appearance, things change.
If I have to choose between Hawick, Steven and Frankie, man its going to be hard. I love all three but I have to say I favor Steven the most out of three than its Frankie and Hawick. All three are talented actors but it seems that Hawick seems to be lacking something along with Frankie but I love all three guys. Plus I like Steven voice since I enjoy listening to his songs (yes I’m bias :D)
With Frankie’s departure from the show, Bernice (Wong Yee- Joey) left too. It’s just sad that these two are well known to be the golden couple in the ancient version but in this version they were not meant to be. I really love their scenes but too bad they barely have many scenes together since they don’t have much on screen time. The people that need to be focus on rarely have the much on screen time.
When Hawick, Frankie and Bernice left, I sorta wanted to give up on the drama but I continued to watch because of Bondy Chiu, Michael Tse, Kingdom Yuen. I really love the wife-husband relationship Bondy and Michael (Ah Lo and Ah Yuet) had. Bondy did a great job as Ah Lo (I have to say way better than the ancient version). Though she might be a mean and stingy but hey that’s life. I really love how dominate she is over Ah Yuet, instead of having a men dominate relationship it’s brings out the comedy of it.
I’m happy that Bondy is Ah Lo since I cannot imagine anybody else playing it. Her acting is really convincing, I remember one scene where Lily, Sugar and Gigi were talking bad about Ah Lo in the bathroom on how Ah Lo treated Ah Yuet badly, and Ah Lo was in one of the bathroom stalls listening to it. The tears in her eyes were really convincing causing me to tear up for her too. I have to say I favor Ah Lo & Ah Yuet over Chris & Joey in this installment.
I really love Ah Lo’s look after she straight out her hair, it brings the beauty out of her a lot and matches really well with her clothing style. I didn’t like it when her hair was sorta poof out, reminds me of an episode in Friends where Monica hair went poof out due to humidity at the place.
My other favorite character is Kingdom Yuen (Kam Sa Sa). Her character is really entertaining. Her love for Dai Kei (11th Brother) is really admirable. She’s famous for wearing yellow and mushroom hair but she later changed it due to an incident. After 11th brother found out her love for him, he was disguised and pushed her away causing her to be in pain and to move on she must forget him and later all sudden Wong Sheung fell in love with her due to her kindness and caring for people like his dead wife. Soon 11th Brother found out her other traits different from other women he been with and begins to love her. Ying Gei and her were best friends since high school but due to a misunderstanding became rivals.
I laugh at every time they get into a competition and the others (mostly Ah Lo, Ah Yuet and Lau Gam) suffer from the outcome of it, especially the tennis scene. Those three got beaten up by tennis balls! But later the misunderstanding got resolve and they became best friends again. The other thing I enjoy most from Sa Sa is imaginary world mostly relates to Return of Condor Heroes where she was Long Nu and 11th Brother was Yang Guo. I keep on laughing whenever she images things which is opposite from the original story haha
I’m gonna end the mid-review here and in my next post I will continue with the leftover characters ^_^
Also I want to thank MetalAZNWarrior website on VOH that I got the names from in pinyin since I can wrote their names only in viet and its weird.
10:21 PM xoxo DA
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Whoo-Hoo I'm back! Yes I know I been a way for a while but I sort of lost touch to do anything new for blogging but I'm back and if you have not notice, I have a new header up ^_^. I spend about 4 hours doing it so please do not steal it. I'm not good at psing that's why it took a long time plus it was hard to choose out of my Toma collection hehe.
Anyways time to catch up on TVB:
English Title:Rosy Business Chinese Title:巾幗梟雄 Cantonese Title:Gan Gok Hiu Hung Cast:Sheren Tang, Wayne Lai, Ron Ng, Kiki Sheung, Elliot Yue, Susan Tse, Kara Hui, and more Episodes: 25 Release-Ending Date:April 27, 2009- May 29, 2009 Genre:Period, Family Drama Themesong:"Red Butterfly (紅蝴蝶)" by Ron Ng
Synopsis: An incisive portrait of a business woman torn between duty and desire
HONG PO KEI's (Tang Shui Man, Sheren) engagement with Wuxi rice baron TSEUNG KIU (Yueh Wah) broke off many years ago when a natural disaster hit the country. Later when the country was running out of food supply her whole family was killed and she become a criminal. Over the years, KEI has never got over KIU. She has been trying to prove he is not as heartless as the others think. Fate has it that they meet again and she becomes his fourth wife. KIU's first and second wives, YAN FUNG YEE (Tse Suet Sum) and PANG KIU (Sheung Tin Ngor, Kiki), always make things difficult for KEI. KEI, who is an extremely clever person who never wastes time on trivial things, turns every threat into an opportunity. This makes KIU appreciate her wisdom and persistence. He entrusts his business to her and tells her to find a suitable successor for him before he dies.
Despite all the attacks in the family, KEI manages to keep the business in good shape. She has never forgotten KIU's last wish, too. By chance, she discovers that TSEUNG PIT CHING (Ng Cheuk Hai, Ron), KIU's second son, is not really a playboy but an upright person loved by everyone in the shop. She therefore guides and helps him in every possible way, but her efforts are met with CHAI KAU's (Lai Yiu Cheung) challenges. KAU seeks vengeance for being mistreated and wants a pay back from TSEUNG family. After rounds after rounds of battle wits and actual fights, KEI and KAU begin to appreciate each other. KAU even falls for KEI as time goes by.
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English Title:Just Love II Chinese Title:老婆大人 II Cantonese Title:Lo Po Dai Yun II Cast:Jessica Hsuan, Sunny Chan, Johnson Lee, Joyce Tang, Benz Hui and more Episodes:25 Release-End Dates:May 4, 2009- June 5, 2009 Genre:Romance, Comedy, Family Drama Themesong:none-instrumental
Synopsis: Shrewish husband V.S. Shrewd wife A bond between justice and affection
Career-minded magistrate KO HEI MAN (Hsuan Jessica Hester) gains full support from her loyal husband KOT KWOK KWONG (Chan Kam Hung, Sunny) so that she is able to concentrate fully on her works. At court, MAN strongly believes that everyone is equal before the law and she tackles every challenge confidently. At home, she never bothers about the household duties which are all taken by husband and any complaints filed by mother-in-law. MAN just takes things for granted but fate continuously to convince her that law cannot be applied to every situation.
MAN feels sympathized with HO SAU SAU (Tang Lai Ming, Joyce) who suffers from slight mental disorders. Trying to help, MAN allows her to come into her family but this creates an opportunity for SAU to replace MAN's role as a wife and a mother completely. KWONG is seriously injured during a car accident. His relative KOT TAK WAN (Lee Sze Chit) lectures KWONG how to fight against MAN and this leads to serious communication breakdown between the couple. Swindler HO SHI FU (Hui Shiu Hung) appears in MAN's life as a hopeless villain from the lower class but he is in fact the father of a senior official.
"Just Love II" is a story about law and human nature. How would the couple tide over the difficulties?
Credit: Astro On Demand
that's the end of what's airing on tvb, next post I'm gonna post up some drama reviews that I been working on. Hopefully it will be okay since its my first time writing drama reviews ^_^
1st review up will be: Virtues of Harmony 2 (mid-summary & cast analysis) 2nd: VOICE (with episode summaries & cast analysis) 3rd: The Four (summary & cast analysis)
3:02 PM xoxo DA
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Finally I got a chance to update once again! Here are the updates for TVB recent dramas!
English Title: The Winter Melon Tale Chinese Title: 大冬瓜 Cantonese Title: Dai Dung Gwa Casts: Sunny Chan, Louisa Lo, Nancy Wu, Liu Kai Chi, Rain Lau, Jack Wu and more Episodes: 20 (Cantonese) Release Date: March 9, 2009- April 3, 2009 Genre: Period drama/Fantasty Themesong:"Big Winter Melon" By Don Li and Lai Lok Yi
Synopsis: FAN TUNG (Liu Kai Chi) is one of the four deities under the Stove God. He has offended the Queen Mother of the West of being ravenous and gets imprisoned for 500 years in the winter melon. By chance TIN TAI KWAI (Chan Kam Hung) and his wife CHUNG PIK YUK (So Yuk Wah) free him from constraint. TUNG has crashed with KWAI's older brother TIN TAI FU (also played by Liu Kai Chi) accidentally and his spirit enters FU's body inexplicably while losing all his instincts. TUNG starts living in KWAI's house and getting closer to the family. YUK finds suspicious TUNG and she tries to unmask him by all means. Having failed in his attempt to return to Heaven, TUNG becomes reliant on the help of six little deities who assimilated his instincts released from the melon, and since then TUNG is aware of the fickleness of human nature. One day, FU's truant wife LING FUNG (Lau Yuk Chui) suddenly returns. She ruins everything and even causes the death of KWAI. In order to get his life back, TUNG illicitly breaks into the netherworld.
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English Title: The King of Snookers Chinese Title: 桌球天王 Cantonese Title: Cheuk Kau Tin Wong Casts: Adam Cheng, Niki Chow, Patrick Tang, Derek Kwok, Joyce Tang and more Episodes: 20 (Cantonese) Release Date: March 30, 2009- April 24, 2009 Genre: Comedy-sport-romance drama Themesong:"The Game of Fate(命運遊戲)" By Adam Cheng
Synopsis:The all-conquering snooker player YAU YAT KIU (Cheng Siu Chau, Adam) takes everyone by surprise when he suddenly retires from the snooker world. This comes as a huge disappointed to her daughter YAU KA KAN (Niki Chow), who has always wanted to follow in his footsteps. She feels bewildered too, for although KIU pretends he does not care about the snooker any more, he has set up an extremely difficult game in his restaurant. His purpose cannot be more obvious: he is waiting for someone to solve the game. KIU comes to know KAN TSZ HIM (Patrick Tang) by chance. Noticing his flair for the snooker, KIU decides to make an exception for HIM and teaches him all he knows about the game. Later, KAN manages to persuade her father into taking her in as well. HIM fancies KAN, but she is fond of LUI KIN CHUNG, KIU's bitter foe (Kok Ching Hung). CHUNG is a crafty person. In order to win the game, he fools around with HIM's aunt CHIN TO TO (Tang Lai Ming, Joyce), who is also HIM's manager. HIM falls out with KIU because of CHUNG. Both master and disciple come to settle their scores on a snooker-table in the end.
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Upcoming:
-Review on EU -New blog layout- and new header coming soon
11:34 PM xoxo DA
Monday, March 9, 2009
Ah it been a while I updated this blog so falling behind but hopefully I can catch up ^_^
English Title: The Greatness of a Hero Chinese Title: 盛世人傑 Cantonese Title: Sing Sai Yun Git Casts: Kent Cheng, Sunny Chan, Bernice Liu, Lelia Tong, Sonija Kwok, Wayne Lai, Raymond Cho and more Episodes: 20 (Cantonese) Release Date: February 9, 2009- March 6, 2009 (Overseas Release ONLY) (HK: Warehouse) [DONE AIRING] Genre: Period drama Themesong: "Forgone" By Hins Cheung
Synopsis: TIK YAN KIT (Cheng Jut Si), one of the most celebrated chancellors, is greatly trusted by Empress MO TSAK TIN (Chan Sau Chu). TIN's nephew MO SHING CHI (Lai Yiu Cheung) is jealous and he seeks every opportunity to frame him up. CHI accuses KIT for colluding with his daughter TIK CHING LUEN's (Liu Bernice Jan) husband SUNG TING YUK (Chan Kam Hung) of treason and an attempt to subvert TIN's throne. KIT is left speechless and his family members are all seized in order to TIN has been incited to action by CHI. KIT escapes in chaos but CHI threatens to kill his second wife CHO YUET (Sonija Kwok). The incorruptible and intelligent KIT is miserably caught in a dilemma and he feels helpless in every way. Would KIT be able to conquer the traitors eventually and help restore order from a tragic turnaround?
Credit: Astro On Demand
The Most Anticipated Drama has been out for a while now I'm slowly catching up on it too ^_^
English Title: E.U. (Emergency Unit) Chinese Title: 學警狙擊 Cantonese Title: Hok Ging Chui Gik Casts: Ron Ng, Sammul Chan, Michael Miu, Kathy Chow, Michael Tse, Elanne Kong, Kaki Leung and more Episodes: 30 (Cantonese) Release Date: February 16, 2009 - March 27, 2009 Genre: Police Drama- Action Themesong: Variation of Black and White (黑白變奏) by Ron Ng, Sammul Chan & Michael Tse Subtheme: Palm Print(手掌印) by Elanne Kong
Synopsis: JIANG SHI XIAO (Miu Kiu Wai) is released from jail in Taiwan. He returns to Hong Kong immediately and tries to find his daughter JIANG YOU YOU (Elanne Kong) so as to heal their relationship. By pretending to be friendly with the one who made him in jail, the gang leader TO YIK TIN (Lam Lei), XIAO is eager to get even with him, and also intends to draw two young policemen to his side in order to strengthen his influence. LEE PAK KIU (Sammul Chan) from the Emergency Unit is reluctant to get close with a gangster while CHUNG LAP MAN (Ng Cheuk Hai, Ron) from Special Duty Squad believes that XIAO could help them fight against TIN by acting as an informer. MAN develops a close relationship with him gradually but he has been dismissed before accomplishing the task. Afterwards, XIAO takes MAN under his wing and MAN devotes himself to the triad society. TIN always put XIAO on his guard and he asks his trusted follower LEUNG SIU TONG (Tse Tin Wah) to keep a close eye on XIAO. On the other hand, XIAO fights back by making use of TIN's wife CHING YEUK SAM (Chow Hoi Mei) to strengthen his power in the gang. XIAO eventually becomes the gang leader and he believes that everything is under control. However, the drug trafficking business keeps running into trouble abnormally. XIAO begins to question the loyalties among his confidants.
Credit: Astro On Demand
11:42 AM xoxo DA
Sunday, January 25, 2009
From the bottom of my heart, I wish you all a happy new chinese year! I want to wish my family and closest friends great health, success in your careers, happiness and all the best in the year of the ox- 2009!
9:05 PM xoxo DA
Thursday, January 8, 2009
English Title: Pages of Treasures Chinese Title: 入黃金屋 Cantonese Title: Yap Wong Gam Uk Casts: Paul Chun, Wayne Lai, Eric Suen, Shirley Yeung, Sonija Kwok, Mary Hon, Vivian Yeo, Lily Ho, etc Episodes: 20 (Cantonese) Release Date: December 8, 2008- January 2, 2009 (done airing) Genre: Modern Time Themesong: My Most Beloved (我的最愛) by Eric Suen
Synopsis: Bookshop staff FONG HOK MAN (Chun Pui) always believes that "knowledge is power". He tries hard to encourage his older son FONG SUM MING (Lai Yiu Cheung) and his younger son FONG SUM CHING (Suen Eric) to study more. Unfortunately, MING is not good at studying at all and he quits after secondary school. On the other hand, CHING is a very smart boy and MING works hard overseas to support CHING's further studies on computer sciences in America. The two brothers return to Hong Kong eventually and they work in the same commercial building. CHING works as a senior network security engineer while MING works as a junior security guard. MAN worries that the difference in their job ranking will hinder their relationship. MING admires a girl YUEN WAI CHUNG (Kwok Sonija) who opens a paper mud figure shop. MAN tries to help MING establish his career by buying a secondhand bookshop for him to operate. However, MAN doesn't realize that the virtual world is gradually manipulating his family. CHING meets a romanticist TSU HEI MAN (Yeo Vivien) at work which creates misunderstanding between him and his girlfriend, LUI YUEN YI (Yeung Shirley). MAN's younger daughter FONG SUM MEI (Ho Lily) indulges herself in the virtual world and she is suspected for stealing exam papers on the internet.
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English Title: Sweetness in the Salt Chinese Title: 碧血盐枭 Cantonese Title: Bik Huet Yim Hiu Casts: Steven Ma, Tavia Yeung, Raymond Wong, Joel Chan, etc Episodes: 25 Release Date: Januuary 5, 2009 (Overseas Released ONLY) (HK: warehouse) Genre: Ancient Time Themesong:How Can We Say About Love? (愛怎麼說 ) by: Steven Ma & Tavia Yeung
Synopsis: NIP CHI YUEN (Ma Steven), who works in the anti-smuggling camp, is determined to wipe out the Tau's Fort, which is the stronghold for salt smugglers. He pretends to be a down-and-out scholar. TAU SING SUET (Yeung Yi), daughter of the chief smuggler, sympathizes with YUEN and puts him up in the village. Later, they even become fond of each other. During an anti-smuggling operation SUET is badly hurt and has since been separated from YUEN and her family. Fortunately she is saved by WU TING HIN (Wong Ho Yin), son of salt merchant WU KIN (Kwok Fung). HIN takes her home. One day, SUET is horrified to see the dead bodies of her parent being hung on the wall of the city tower, and that the official standing on the top of the tower telling the public not to sell smuggled salt is none other than the man she misses day and night. She is heartbroken, and her love for YUEN turns into hatred that moment on. HIN finds a job for SUET at the salt company his family runs to help her get over her unhappiness. To repay him, she devotes herself entirely to the job. As time goes by, HIN starts to fall in love with her. However his critical illness making him hesitates to express his love for her. SUET's real identity comes to light when her younger uncle reappears out of the blue. HIN, for fear that his family will report SUET, proposes to her.
Credit: Astro On Demand
10:12 PM xoxo DA
Thursday, December 18, 2008
yay! I finally finish my new header and also thanks to Lin unnie who is sooooo awesome for helping me out on the coding for background!! love you sooooooooo much unnie!! *hugs*
this month header features....
*drum roll*
Raymond Lam!
This month is apparently his month since its his birthday last week ^_^ a bit late but eh hehe and the color is blue for winter!
English Title: Rosy Business 
English Title: Just Love II
English Title: The Winter Melon Tale 
English Title: The King of Snookers 
English Title: The Greatness of a Hero
English Title: Pages of Treasures
English Title: Sweetness in the Salt