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LOL wtf at the bad ENGRISH! how can this even be published in am album??
anyway! I HAVE A NEW ASIAN FRIEND in my language class! when i arrived today and i saw a girl with black hair i was like YAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!! FINALLY! (believe me when i say that you get sick of hanging out with angmohs if you do it too often. come on asians are so much cooler!) and this is the first time i have a girl japanese friend! (junko is not counted and act-jap people are not included) but she has the dreaded name of moe. which is sad. she herself thinks that its a bad name. anyway this calls for a celebration!!!!!! woohoo!
5.42am
080210
the game of let's-boycott-somebody-in-the-class that is going on now in my class is in its full blown power. the status of the boycotted person is like beyond low because he/she doesn't even eat lunch with the class anymore and nobody wants to sit with him/her. and every lunchtime is gossip session! where they point out all his/her faults. ok so today, they were saying how the last time we did portraits of the class, he/she was the only one who nobody made a portrait of. and guess what cool hobo olivier said? he said:that doesn't mean anything. and while they continued gossiping, he was more interested in my opinion to whether cedric's hair was dirty that day.
ZOMG RIGHT! zomggg! i wish he could be my classmate in university!!! i hope my uni has many many hobos!
why is erika toda so ugly in liar game 2? why is matsuda shota so ugly in liar game 2? actually matsuda shota is ugly even in liar game 1. he is lucky his character is so cool his ugliness doesn't matter.
anyway. why do we call our mothers mama? when did it change from niang to mama? and when you look at the chinese characters, niang is so much better.
娘: the woman who is good.
妈: the woman who is a horse.
whoever changed it is obviously an mcp or very observant.
2.07am
060210
once again, i am dedicating another post to the beloved 萌 who are so assholish you won't even believe it.
this is not a decoy. they are really very 下贱.
remember how i told everyone that they refuse to pay for my language school fees and never tell me. i already sent an email about 3 days ago and i am patiently waiting for their reply as to WHY THE F*** THEY TERMINATE PAYMENT WITHOUT INFORMING ME FIRST AND NEVER GIVE ME A REASON WHY (talk about empty promises man. this totally takes the cake of all cakes). and today i FINALLY received an email from beloved 萌. so i was like "yay. they are so quick". turns out, THEY ARE FORCING ME TO GO BACK THIS YEAR FOR THE OBS THAT I MISSED LAST YEAR AND TO 顺便 GO FOR SOME STUPID ATTACHMENT (WHICH BTW IS ONLY FOR YEAR 2! HOW CAN THEY ANYHOW PUSH FORWARD LIKE THAT. FOR GOODNESS SAKE! IM NOT EVEN IN UNI YET! WTF!). can somebody please tell me WHY THEY HAVE TIME TO THINK UP OF ALL THIS NONSENSE WHEN THEY GOT NO TIME TO EVEN LOOK AT MY EMAIL?? even the comic illustrator which i emailed only YESTERDAY was able to give me a reply today! WTF!
WTF
WHAT THE F*****************************K!
on a completely unrelated note.
ZOMG SO HANDSOME!
2.20am
010210
hi. here i am writing my freaking personal statement AGAIN. for the nth time, i am writing "i want to be a mangaka in the future" and for the nth time i am writing "because art has to be understood by everybody" and for the nth time i am writing "i believe art allows us to discover the secrets of the world" and for the nth time, i am feeling very irritated because i cannot squeeze out any achievements in my jc years. achievements meaning participating in any xxx Workshop for Talented Youths or xxx Summer Camp for only the Wise and Intellectual or xxx Competition that Non-Godlike People Cannot Enter. don't you all procrastinators and slackers hate writing your personal statement? because you know you wasted your jc years gossiping and lazing around instead of actively signing up for stupid stuff like the above above-mentioned?
and the sample personal statements are just totally fake. there was this guy who was applying for the government and he said he was Deputy Head Boy (with capital d, h and b), House Captain (with capital h and c), Senior Editor (with capital s and e) of the yearbook, Current Event Editor (wtf with the caps! STOP IT!) of the school's newspaper, active member of the Yorkland swim team and trumpeter in the school orchestral band. no shit? are you being serious here? i don't think its legal to use steroids to aid improvement. does he even have a life outside of school? does he go out with friends for birthday bashes or just freaking SLOW DOWN for a second to look at the world? well no. obviously he is the type of student that nus just looooves to produce. will you even believe a personal statement like that? i would set it on fire if i were the jury.
you might think its because he is applying for the government that's why he's so haolian. but there's this person applying for a maths course who was equally or if not MORE haolian. he said that for his o levels he didn't take up a maths because it clashed with his timetable but he learnt it independently and in the end he "achieved the maximum number of A grades ever in his school's 25 years history." ok. WTF? do you need to be so 臭屁? i wouldn't be impressed with a personal statement like that. do they even seem real to you? it seems so fake and impersonal. i hate it. i would burn his personal statement if i were the jury too.
but too bad im not. and too bad 90% of the juries in the world are made up of assholes who think that people like that are Great (with capital G) and the rest of us who just don't have that much solid and concrete evidences of our personal development and growth just have to go eat shit and die because nobody cares about what you have learnt that cannot be seen on your academic transcripts or cip forms. and too bad now i have to continue with my puke-worthy personal statement. and too bad now i have to try again to squeeze out my printed-on-paper achievements. and too bad i am going to stop blogging now. bye.
5.07am
220110
do you remember in secondary school (especially sec 1 and 2), it is very popular to outcast one or more person in the class? the whole class will gang up and "boycott" that person so that he/she becomes friendless and be degraded to the ranks of the outcast. and note that this is different from the real outcast who has been outcasted since the start. the "degraded outcast" is usually one of the more popular ones at the very start when everybody still don't know each other well.
i thought i left it all behind in sec 1 and 2. and i can't believe i have to re-live this situation over here at the freaking old age of freaking 20. my class is outcasting this person who used to be the most popular in class and had a gang of his/her own. i don't need people to tell me i can tell. (somehow over here, when i talk less, my observation skill ups 50%) and it seems that they are trying to recruit me into their club of "let's play the outcast game". ZOMG! i am very old. i am like the 3rd/4th oldest in class. leave me out of it! plus i don't even know how to gossip in languages other than singlish!!
i'm not saying that i don't like my classmates. and i'm not saying that the "soon to be outcast" is without faults. i can tell why they don't like him/her. but i am old. and i cannot communicate well. so i think i will just stick to watching by the sidelines. and pretend i don't know anything because of the language barrier.
5.50am
200110
we received this assignment to do 20 portraits. and today cedric was doing his autoportrait as one of the 20 portraits. and then i heard olivier say: ca resemble un garcon du manga pour jeune filles.
...
HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA! ZOMG! olivier is damn funny i tell you.
12.59
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you know how everybody keeps saying ken chu is so fat now? i was watching momo love and i didn't find him that fat. and if they say he grew a lot fatter, it implies that he used to have some kind of slim skinny figure and a sharp angled face before. i went to watch meteor garden (because that was his first work and we can safely conclude that it was during his slim days) and HE LOOKED THE SAME PLEASE!
this is ken chu in momo love period (ie. now):
this is ken chu in meteor garden period:
come on people! give him a break! he doesn't even look THAT MUCH fatter! his putting on weight is not worse than that of elvis presly or diego maradona! he just looks more clean-shaven during the meteor garden days and look a bit duo4 luo4 now (as compared to his fellowF4 JVKV).
and also more obiang because he never change his floppy hairstyle (unlike
vanness and vic who chop their hair off).
as he said, its just shui2 zhong3 la!
4.34am
110110
i finished my pseudo-pointillism illustration project! never in my life have i undertaken such a tedious task. i always try to find the easier route out. brush strokes as thin as pencil lines! on a3 some more! i must be out of my mind. i blame it on the illustration teacher who completely psycho-ed me to do it in that manner. but he is still my favourite teacher! i think it is once or twice in a lifetime that we get to meet teachers who really can inspire and make you want to work hard because their praises actually make you really happy inside. sadly, more that 99.999999999999% of the time, we meet the bloody shits who only want to sit high high up and when they praise you, you feel this cold chill going up your spine because you can sense you are becoming their pawn in their evil plans of conquering the shady organisation they all originate from. ok better stop this depressing train of thought because i am going to become one of them like real soon. and it is so depressing to think i will be surrounded by darkness and evil auras all around me.
by the way, we are having some sort of food shortage here in europe now. no thanks to the lameass snow which makes everything get stuck. so now the suppliers cannot supply food to the supermarkets because their vans and lorries cannot move because of the snow. and the supermarkets are all BARE. whoever says snow is very pretty and that they like winter the best is an asshole. i have friends here telling me to being them with me when i go back to singapore.
and my sister got 11 points for o levels! zomg i am so shocked! i completely expected a 18 points and above mark (she exam time still go and watch her super junior videos and go facebook)! wtf 11 points! that is like completely unexpected with a b3 for english! B3 you know! that's like the equivalent of a b grade! and i got b for gp! i never knew she was so smart. who knows what point she would have gotten if her friend didn't introduce her to superloser junior!
go watch momo love!
i just started watching it and it seems nice! hopefully it doesn't go downhill like ah zhai (which totally sucked at the end). and the star of the show is totally HUANG JING LUN!
and the 4 crazy brothers of course. i think ken chu is quite funny as the head of the crazy brothers. huang jing lun is damn good at acting as a loser! i have never seen a loser character portrayed so well before! everytime he comes out i feel like laughing. and i like jiro too!
because he has a very normal look! as in ping2 min2 look! the civilian face. like jay chou and eason. i like stars who have that look. because it reminds us that they are human too. and they seem more real and down-to-earth. infps like him! chip likes him too! she will say "zomg! i like wang dong cheng!" followed by "i think he is more shuai than wu zun lor." I KNOW YOU SO WELL RIGHT MISS YIP! NO TURBULENCE THIS TIME!
i re-read saiyuki gaiden. and i am feeling so depressed now. because it is a damn depressing story. why must konzen die! why must goku be left alone! why must goku forget all his friends in tenkai! goku is so cham ok! he has to endure all this shit for 500 years and its not even his fault!
so depressing. winter makes me feel very down. because it is cold and the sun sets very early.
6.18am
301209
i am back from the REAL land of romance and arts - the capital of dvorakland! i have no idea why the rest of the world thinks that the capital of baguetteland is the most romantic and most artistic in the world. capital of baguetteland (CBL) is dirty and crowded and messy and arrogant. capital of dvorakland is romantic, scenic, cultured and even though it is overflowing with tourists from EVERYWHERE (for once, not just people from panda-land) it is not as messy as CBL.
do you know that dvorak-land is really a very cultured place? they have museums dedicated to art and music, art galleries, shops with classical music and dvorak postcards, theatres and concert halls that are superbly constructed, etc etc. and what do we have in sushi-land? shops with yamapi id cards and vending machines selling canned bread. it is only asia that is so hung up over idols and boybands. these type of entertainment is non-existent here. the best they could come up with was jonas brothers. which applies more to the tweens. in asia, we can have aunties gushing over monsieur bae and the young adults swooning over farenheit. i am not saying that asia is lousy (because i like asia the BEST), just that somehow or other, asian youths are slowly beginning to lose sight of the meaning of life. somehow, idol-worshipping has mutated into their most important priority. i blame this on those idol-making-big-shot-companies who were able dig out the need for a hero that would otherwise remain undiscovered in our youths. and i blame it on their ability to manipulate this need and twist it so that money goes rolling into their banks.
actually do you realise that the taiwanese boyband industry is dead? it used to be flourishing! with F4, 5566, K-One, G-boys, Ke Mi Xiao Zi, etc etc. now what it left is farenheit. slowly one by one they just disappeared from the music scene. in fact, i had a hard time remembering ke mi xiao zi. i only remembered them as the band that sang the chinese version of the ketchup song.
i think i really sound like some idol-hater. but i'm not! i do enjoy idol-worshipping at a certain level. but the thing is, we cannot lose our rationality in this kind of thing. it is necessary that we are aware that there are very strong marketing and packaging strategies lying behind the innocent facade of gay dancing male entertainers that are out to eat up our pocket.
did you know that a.c. grayling is a total anti-christian? he is so hilarious is discussing the absurdity of some of the views of the church. and he always says that the church people like to burn their opponents at some "convenient stake". half his chapter on Christianity in his book "The Meaning of Things" is spent ridiculing the church and their refusal to change their teachings with the changing times. GO A.C. GRAYLING!
and again! we are nearing the end of a year! and it is time for the obligatory HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR 2009!
1) mr sng left T-T
2) we graduated T-T
3) we received a level results. some may have rejoiced, others maybe not, but it is a relief nevertheless to end the excruciating period of waiting.
4) applications to universities and complaining about how such and such uni is so elitist but we have no choice but to get in because we want to make sure we have a job in future.
5) volunteering at the zoo as zookeeper with francesca and khoojoosok and meeting all the nice zookeepers at rainforest kidzworld!
6) frantic searching for jobs. koh and gang ended up with ruby who vivi couldn't stand and quit, while the rest continued for the sake of their pay.
7) jiayin got conned by the fengshui card making company.
8) yoshito usui went mountain-climbing and died T-T
9) michael jackson died T-T
10) chip went home to dim-sum-land
11) cecilia left for mapletree-land
12) cecilia got over dr.chin *gasp*
13) teary goodbye to cecilia's handphone
14) numerous frustrating occasions with 萌 that is still continuing to this day
15) ponned many 萌 occasions due to a. laziness b. unwillingness to rub shoulders with the group of people i dislike the most c. reading wrong dates on calendar.
16) lessons at alliance francaise with shanez and pascal!
17) la vie en rose! je ne regrette rieeeennn~!
18) library volunteering madness with jude, yingxian, munyi and yixian. where we told stupid stories about tufty mufty and cookie who could read and made up indian accented voices for rusty
19) made the stupidest craft kangaroos and mouse. eg the edith piaf kangaroo, the hong lian jiao kangaroo (which totally seduced the kids to join its cult), the prostitute mouse, etc. one wonders just what the hell we are teaching the kids.
20) making use of the opportunity that chip's mom was not at home towreck havoc celebrate birthdays and watch videos and play
monopoly in her house.
21) hanging out at esplanade all the time.
22) planning for the walk from pasir ris to boonlay that never saw the dawn
23) cycling trip at pulau ubin where phua wore the hottest pants of the year.
24) day cycling trip with youbao and jobina that ended up in rain.
25) doing portfolio lazily and half-heartedly.
26) going back to school to visit ms phua and listen to her complain about mundane stuff.
27) going back to school to eat the new desert stall ice jelly with lots of lime
28) going back to school to eat yong tau foo.
29) dhs homecoming. i don't even remember what we did after that.
30) pencilling the stupidest story the history of all stories. and dealing with an extremely boring script with lots of action (mouth-action that is) and learning that verbal insult is very hurting indeed and that everything can be solved with a BIG HUGGGG. what? are we teletubbies now? -__-
31) going to france.
32) going to switzerland.
33) going to belgium.
34) going to prague.
35) visiting the famous bridge of avignon.
36) receiving fullmetal alchemist #23 from chip.
37) meeting handsome simone designer of tokidoki at toy and comics convention.
38) seeing chui wolverine choking on cigar.
39) seeing batman drink water.
40) reading vagabond. zomg GODLIKE monsieur INOUE! we all bow down to you.
41) visiting vivien's hall.
42) catching up with lamlee and donovan!
43) writing gp essays in french. tough shit.
44) splurging at kinokuniya's 10th anniversary where everything was 20% off. i couldn't resist! i am a total bookworm.
45) helping vivien look for avant-garde dresses for her hall-clubbing- party-whatever-i-don't-really-know-what-it-is.
46) teoheng.
47) meeting sewook my bestie.
48) nearly got into UAL T-T
49) got rejected by nus medicine. HENG ah. what even possessed me to apply? oh right. parents.
50) finding out that most pandaland men are fat, smelly and ugly.
51) disappointed my sister because i didn't go to paris in time to help her get a signature from her idol. does she think paris is as big as siglap shopping centre??? what are the odds of me meeting him even if i were really in paris at that time??? i never even see zoe tay in real life despite living in the same city as her for 19 years! plus he is not even good-looking!
52) missing pe.
53) blood donations + failures at blood donation.
ok 53 events in 365 days! that's like 1 event every 6.886792 days. hooray for another eventful year! and now we look forward to 2010! the year where many of us turn the dreaded 20! (ZOMGGGGGG!) and some of us turn 22! and even more some of us turn 23 (you know who you are)! may the year of the tiger be a good year!
zomg!! i just checked the chinese horoscope! it is a bad year for the snake but a good year for the horse! why must the tiger curse me like thisss!!!!
4.08am
241209
i wonder if 萌 has an anti-choo system in their email.
(this is not a decoy)
is there a firewall that blocks all my email? how come everytime they need to ask me for important documents (eg bank details) twice? i already sent it over! why must they act like they never receive anything! ZOMG! obviously they are outcasting me even before i join their shady organisation! just because i suck at talking to random people i just met as if they were my best friends! just because i don't like to hang out and be all chummy with the authorities! wtf. i am totally going to die in my 5 year inside. i will start praying for my sanity from now on. and do more good deeds.
and it is not my fault i dislike talking to people i just met as if i knew them my whole life. if i'm not the least bit interested in their what they do or their opinion on things, i don't want to pretend like i am. don't you find people who are automatically on people-mode when they meet new people very irritating? who knows what they are actually thinking! its like they ask you about your life and your opinions when they barely met you and deep down inside you know they are going: i don't really care about you but i'm just asking to show i am nice. i don't see why we should bother with all these stupid niceties. it's not as if both parties really care about what the other thinks. we all only care about ourselves (when there is no friendship yet of course). the way the world works is so bizarre.
i wonder if i'm going to be stuck my whole life pretending to be interested in what random people i am not particularly concerned about have to say and saying random things that the other party doesn't really care about.
this is not an emo post. its called an observational post.
i'm back from belgium! the coolest country ever! the comic museum is enough to put it high on my list of cool countries. the way the city is designed, its a gros n'importe quoi. its like the capital has this heck-care attitude and do as they please easy going charm to it. they can place their gothic cathedral right smack in between 2 ugly commercial buildings. it's a country that has beauty within its ugliness. i'm not kidding when i said i'm a big fan of screwed-up things. the more people dislike it, the more i like it. this explains my love for mediacrapcorp.
and i think travelling alone is quite nice even though its tiring having to plan everything yourself and keep an eye on your belongings all the time. it is especially so when my sole candidate for a travelling partner always insists on quantity over quality. which is the complete opposite of my view. how she managed to cover 10 tourist places of interest in 1 day is beyond my comprehension. because i managed to cover only 4 or 5. are nus people all like that? all jaded and prepared to conquer the world with the mindset that they must get the most quantity-wise? we must take the most subjects! we must get the most marks! we must get the most money! we must get the most experience! we must get the most friends! we must get the most! THE MOST! THE MOSTT! that will be their chant as they dance around their books. why is our education system in such a sad state. there is so much more to living than just getting THE MOST. ok i better stop this topic because i'm starting to sound like a hobo with no big aims to earn big money.
ohoh! and during my stay in the brussels hostels, i met 2 very interesting people! one was a korean from the school i almost went to (if not for cash problems and parental disapproval) --- JANG JANG!! LONDON COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION!!!!!!! her name was ha-na! and she gave everyone in the room a sweet. zomg. all the koreans i have met so far are so nice! first is sewook who is my buddy in class! and now ha-na! and the other person was an art teacher in switzerland and guess which school she graduated from -- CENTRAL ST-MARTINS!!!!!!!!!!!! ZOMG! what a coincidence right! 1 university of arts london student, 1 university of arts london alumni and 1 university of arts london almost-student. (if not for 萌 and their stupid policies of "no you cannot go to uk because we have too many uk people" i would be in university of arts london) the csm alumni let me read a book about art and music that was super nice and inspiring! someone up there must like me! or i have done many good deeds in my past life. anyways, THANK YOU WORLD! for letting me experience all the nice thing!
and apparently the gross comic that i did will be launched in january. and the editor sent an email to all the creators and pencillers regarding this supporting publication info which will give the reader (if there were any in the first place) some infos on the creators and pencillers. well, the editor sent an email to all creators and pencillers except me. apparently, he missed out my email. i am a forgotten participant in this competition. i would have preferred it if they continued to forget me. (but not for the pay la!) but noo, now i must present them with info with regards to:
Personal -
1. What are your top 2 comic concepts of all time, and who were they by?
2. Who or what, if any, has influenced your work the most?
3. Which comic can you remember first attracted you as a kid? 4. Who would you like to say thank you to? (Eg. This could be friends, family or any of your team members etc)
5. What's your favourite food or dish? (Choose 1 only)
i am so tempted to ask them whether they can don't publish my name anot. i don't want any part in this gross monstrosity!(except the cash) or at least publish it under a different name. and i am so tempted to answer questions 1-5 with completely not-me answers. so for question 4, i would say: i would like to thank my wonderful creators for giving me this chance to work on this brillant and awe-inspiring story. and for question 3 and 2, i would totally put down all the works of CLAMP. and for question 5, i would look up the name of some stupidly named french dish and give it to them. except this would not work if they were to publish my name. so i think i will ignore the email and pretend i never see it. (as i have gotten so damn good at with ailin)
i seriously hope they send my pay soon.
7.53am
081209
i miss going for lessons at alliance francaise. i miss talking to simon about biology and payments. i miss talking to simonxi about vocabulary. i miss talking to joris about homework. and i miss talking to my bestie sewook the most. (he told me stories about kimchi-land and its food and the language and what his name means)
and there is this girl in my class who is good in illustration and photoshop. but somehow i get the feeling from her that she has 2 sides to her character. the outer friendly one and the inner selfish one. i think this kind of people are very scary. i don't doubt that she would do well in the industry and maybe i'm reading too much into it. but i just get this feeling very strongly from her. and the girls are slowly forming a humongous clique of their own. consisting of girls minus choo. choo hangs out with olivier and cedric. I WANT A FEMALE FRIEND! and also there's this extremely gay guy called mikael. whom i think is very gay. i was going to show the videos he made with everybody back in singapore. but apparently it is not compatible with the singapore server. in the video, he wears stuff like a big yellow shirt and purple boxers and shakes his hips vigorously to the music. nobuta is not the least bit gay when compared to his video.
i finished watching you're beautiful!
the 2nd korean drama i have fully watched to the end.(i really don't like korean dramas one. but i have no choice because jdramas are in a slump and mysoju refuses to fix its broken links to beyond the realm of conscience.) and all i can say about it is: 赞!!!!!!!!!!!
i will hereby give you 9 reasons to watch it and 1 not to!
1)Male Lead: Jang Geun Suk
he is so hilarious as vocalist hwang tae kyung (a little like chiaki in nodame but more mean). always saying mean things and scowling at everybody in his field of vision. and i totally couldn't recognize him as the same guy as the trumpeter in beethoven virus. i admit when i first saw his character in episode 1 i was going: wahlau lame. this kind of character again. kdramas so boring. where is my beyond the realm of conscience??? but it slowly grows on you as the series progresses. the way he says " Go Mi Nam. (insert mean phrase)" totally leaves an impression.
2)The Hairstylist
the hairstylist is imba creative. the characters have the most screwed up hairstyles ever.
seriously? 1 topknot + pony tail? bird's nest? paul twohill hair? and there was even one with a bowl like hair cut with a strand of hair sticking out at the middle of the forehead. funky beyond believe. i am a total fan of screwed-up stuff.
3)Chiobus
CHIO BO! i already know that girls in kimchi-land are damn chio (i don't care whether more than 50% had plastic surgery) but i think this girl is very chio. and she got supra nice legs. and even the minor beyond belief actresses are pretty.
4)Jdramas in a slump
i have no idea why this is happening. it used to be so promising during the nobuta period. with nobuta wo produce, proposal daisakusen, 1 litre of tears, hana kimi, galileo, nodame cantabile, my boss my hero, seigi no mikata, teppan shoujo akane... now it is producing nonsense like buzzer beat! koshite akuma! mei-chan no shitsuji (bloody butler craze) and the stupid wine show that i got bored of after 15 minutes. nowadays i rather watch mediacorp dramas than jdrams. goes to show how big of a slump it is in now.
5)16 episodes
as we all know. kdramas have been going an average of 100 episodes ever since big golden intestine (with 70 episodes) was such a big hit. remember how channel u used to have the same freaking show at its 7pm timeslot for one whole year? yes i am talking about 19岁的清纯 and 加油金顺. must she struggle with the liver affair for almost 10 episodes? to make matters worse, her mother just had to be han shang gong from big golden intestine. you're beautiful moves at a fast enough pace and there is no *gasp* why are you my brother/sister! now we cannot be together! nor is there any issue with regards to organ donation.
"are you sure you don't need a liver transplant?"
"...nO! X("
6)no history
seriously i cannot stand historical kdramas which have been sprouting out like weeds ever since big golden intestine. it is so complicated because we are not used to kimchi-land's dynasty. we are only familiar with panda-land's 5000 years of history. i can't even differentiate the emperor from his officials or the queen from her senior maids. you're beautiful has no guys walking around in pail-like head gear nor women in oversized costumes and stuffing their hands inside their costume.
yawn.
7)Good chemistry
8)Filmed when kimchi-land becomes freezer-land.
because it is hard work to film in winter and dress as if you are not really in winter. hard work always deserves support and applause. especially if they are trying their best to produce something that sets out to entertain.
i totally can sympathise. especially since i'm already wearing 6 layers of clothing at grenoble when its 8 degrees.
9)stupidest hallucinations
and 1 reason not to: poetry like dialogue
i'm all for imagery within words. but too much of that talk about stars and light and who can see who make my head hurt. i'm sure people don't actually talk like that. what's with kimchi-land's obsession with stars. even sewook has a name meaning bright star.
5.59am
LOL wtf at the bad ENGRISH! how can this even be published in am album??
anyway! I HAVE A NEW ASIAN FRIEND in my language class! when i arrived today and i saw a girl with black hair i was like YAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!! FINALLY! (believe me when i say that you get sick of hanging out with angmohs if you do it too often. come on asians are so much cooler!) and this is the first time i have a girl japanese friend! (junko is not counted and act-jap people are not included) but she has the dreaded name of moe. which is sad. she herself thinks that its a bad name. anyway this calls for a celebration!!!!!! woohoo!
5.42am
080210
the game of let's-boycott-somebody-in-the-class that is going on now in my class is in its full blown power. the status of the boycotted person is like beyond low because he/she doesn't even eat lunch with the class anymore and nobody wants to sit with him/her. and every lunchtime is gossip session! where they point out all his/her faults. ok so today, they were saying how the last time we did portraits of the class, he/she was the only one who nobody made a portrait of. and guess what cool hobo olivier said? he said:that doesn't mean anything. and while they continued gossiping, he was more interested in my opinion to whether cedric's hair was dirty that day.
ZOMG RIGHT! zomggg! i wish he could be my classmate in university!!! i hope my uni has many many hobos!
why is erika toda so ugly in liar game 2? why is matsuda shota so ugly in liar game 2? actually matsuda shota is ugly even in liar game 1. he is lucky his character is so cool his ugliness doesn't matter.
anyway. why do we call our mothers mama? when did it change from niang to mama? and when you look at the chinese characters, niang is so much better.
娘: the woman who is good.
妈: the woman who is a horse.
whoever changed it is obviously an mcp or very observant.
2.07am
060210
once again, i am dedicating another post to the beloved 萌 who are so assholish you won't even believe it.
this is not a decoy. they are really very 下贱.
remember how i told everyone that they refuse to pay for my language school fees and never tell me. i already sent an email about 3 days ago and i am patiently waiting for their reply as to WHY THE F*** THEY TERMINATE PAYMENT WITHOUT INFORMING ME FIRST AND NEVER GIVE ME A REASON WHY (talk about empty promises man. this totally takes the cake of all cakes). and today i FINALLY received an email from beloved 萌. so i was like "yay. they are so quick". turns out, THEY ARE FORCING ME TO GO BACK THIS YEAR FOR THE OBS THAT I MISSED LAST YEAR AND TO 顺便 GO FOR SOME STUPID ATTACHMENT (WHICH BTW IS ONLY FOR YEAR 2! HOW CAN THEY ANYHOW PUSH FORWARD LIKE THAT. FOR GOODNESS SAKE! IM NOT EVEN IN UNI YET! WTF!). can somebody please tell me WHY THEY HAVE TIME TO THINK UP OF ALL THIS NONSENSE WHEN THEY GOT NO TIME TO EVEN LOOK AT MY EMAIL?? even the comic illustrator which i emailed only YESTERDAY was able to give me a reply today! WTF!
WTF
WHAT THE F*****************************K!
on a completely unrelated note.
ZOMG SO HANDSOME!
2.20am
010210
hi. here i am writing my freaking personal statement AGAIN. for the nth time, i am writing "i want to be a mangaka in the future" and for the nth time i am writing "because art has to be understood by everybody" and for the nth time i am writing "i believe art allows us to discover the secrets of the world" and for the nth time, i am feeling very irritated because i cannot squeeze out any achievements in my jc years. achievements meaning participating in any xxx Workshop for Talented Youths or xxx Summer Camp for only the Wise and Intellectual or xxx Competition that Non-Godlike People Cannot Enter. don't you all procrastinators and slackers hate writing your personal statement? because you know you wasted your jc years gossiping and lazing around instead of actively signing up for stupid stuff like the above above-mentioned?
and the sample personal statements are just totally fake. there was this guy who was applying for the government and he said he was Deputy Head Boy (with capital d, h and b), House Captain (with capital h and c), Senior Editor (with capital s and e) of the yearbook, Current Event Editor (wtf with the caps! STOP IT!) of the school's newspaper, active member of the Yorkland swim team and trumpeter in the school orchestral band. no shit? are you being serious here? i don't think its legal to use steroids to aid improvement. does he even have a life outside of school? does he go out with friends for birthday bashes or just freaking SLOW DOWN for a second to look at the world? well no. obviously he is the type of student that nus just looooves to produce. will you even believe a personal statement like that? i would set it on fire if i were the jury.
you might think its because he is applying for the government that's why he's so haolian. but there's this person applying for a maths course who was equally or if not MORE haolian. he said that for his o levels he didn't take up a maths because it clashed with his timetable but he learnt it independently and in the end he "achieved the maximum number of A grades ever in his school's 25 years history." ok. WTF? do you need to be so 臭屁? i wouldn't be impressed with a personal statement like that. do they even seem real to you? it seems so fake and impersonal. i hate it. i would burn his personal statement if i were the jury too.
but too bad im not. and too bad 90% of the juries in the world are made up of assholes who think that people like that are Great (with capital G) and the rest of us who just don't have that much solid and concrete evidences of our personal development and growth just have to go eat shit and die because nobody cares about what you have learnt that cannot be seen on your academic transcripts or cip forms. and too bad now i have to continue with my puke-worthy personal statement. and too bad now i have to try again to squeeze out my printed-on-paper achievements. and too bad i am going to stop blogging now. bye.
5.07am
220110
do you remember in secondary school (especially sec 1 and 2), it is very popular to outcast one or more person in the class? the whole class will gang up and "boycott" that person so that he/she becomes friendless and be degraded to the ranks of the outcast. and note that this is different from the real outcast who has been outcasted since the start. the "degraded outcast" is usually one of the more popular ones at the very start when everybody still don't know each other well.
i thought i left it all behind in sec 1 and 2. and i can't believe i have to re-live this situation over here at the freaking old age of freaking 20. my class is outcasting this person who used to be the most popular in class and had a gang of his/her own. i don't need people to tell me i can tell. (somehow over here, when i talk less, my observation skill ups 50%) and it seems that they are trying to recruit me into their club of "let's play the outcast game". ZOMG! i am very old. i am like the 3rd/4th oldest in class. leave me out of it! plus i don't even know how to gossip in languages other than singlish!!
i'm not saying that i don't like my classmates. and i'm not saying that the "soon to be outcast" is without faults. i can tell why they don't like him/her. but i am old. and i cannot communicate well. so i think i will just stick to watching by the sidelines. and pretend i don't know anything because of the language barrier.
5.50am
200110
we received this assignment to do 20 portraits. and today cedric was doing his autoportrait as one of the 20 portraits. and then i heard olivier say: ca resemble un garcon du manga pour jeune filles.
...
HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA! ZOMG! olivier is damn funny i tell you.
12.59
150110
you know how everybody keeps saying ken chu is so fat now? i was watching momo love and i didn't find him that fat. and if they say he grew a lot fatter, it implies that he used to have some kind of slim skinny figure and a sharp angled face before. i went to watch meteor garden (because that was his first work and we can safely conclude that it was during his slim days) and HE LOOKED THE SAME PLEASE!
this is ken chu in momo love period (ie. now):
this is ken chu in meteor garden period:
come on people! give him a break! he doesn't even look THAT MUCH fatter! his putting on weight is not worse than that of elvis presly or diego maradona! he just looks more clean-shaven during the meteor garden days and look a bit duo4 luo4 now (as compared to his fellow
as he said, its just shui2 zhong3 la!
4.34am
110110
i finished my pseudo-pointillism illustration project! never in my life have i undertaken such a tedious task. i always try to find the easier route out. brush strokes as thin as pencil lines! on a3 some more! i must be out of my mind. i blame it on the illustration teacher who completely psycho-ed me to do it in that manner. but he is still my favourite teacher! i think it is once or twice in a lifetime that we get to meet teachers who really can inspire and make you want to work hard because their praises actually make you really happy inside. sadly, more that 99.999999999999% of the time, we meet the bloody shits who only want to sit high high up and when they praise you, you feel this cold chill going up your spine because you can sense you are becoming their pawn in their evil plans of conquering the shady organisation they all originate from. ok better stop this depressing train of thought because i am going to become one of them like real soon. and it is so depressing to think i will be surrounded by darkness and evil auras all around me.
by the way, we are having some sort of food shortage here in europe now. no thanks to the lameass snow which makes everything get stuck. so now the suppliers cannot supply food to the supermarkets because their vans and lorries cannot move because of the snow. and the supermarkets are all BARE. whoever says snow is very pretty and that they like winter the best is an asshole. i have friends here telling me to being them with me when i go back to singapore.
and my sister got 11 points for o levels! zomg i am so shocked! i completely expected a 18 points and above mark (she exam time still go and watch her super junior videos and go facebook)! wtf 11 points! that is like completely unexpected with a b3 for english! B3 you know! that's like the equivalent of a b grade! and i got b for gp! i never knew she was so smart. who knows what point she would have gotten if her friend didn't introduce her to super
go watch momo love!
i just started watching it and it seems nice! hopefully it doesn't go downhill like ah zhai (which totally sucked at the end). and the star of the show is totally HUANG JING LUN!
and the 4 crazy brothers of course. i think ken chu is quite funny as the head of the crazy brothers. huang jing lun is damn good at acting as a loser! i have never seen a loser character portrayed so well before! everytime he comes out i feel like laughing. and i like jiro too!
because he has a very normal look! as in ping2 min2 look! the civilian face. like jay chou and eason. i like stars who have that look. because it reminds us that they are human too. and they seem more real and down-to-earth. infps like him! chip likes him too! she will say "zomg! i like wang dong cheng!" followed by "i think he is more shuai than wu zun lor." I KNOW YOU SO WELL RIGHT MISS YIP! NO TURBULENCE THIS TIME!
i re-read saiyuki gaiden. and i am feeling so depressed now. because it is a damn depressing story. why must konzen die! why must goku be left alone! why must goku forget all his friends in tenkai! goku is so cham ok! he has to endure all this shit for 500 years and its not even his fault!
so depressing. winter makes me feel very down. because it is cold and the sun sets very early.
6.18am
301209
i am back from the REAL land of romance and arts - the capital of dvorakland! i have no idea why the rest of the world thinks that the capital of baguetteland is the most romantic and most artistic in the world. capital of baguetteland (CBL) is dirty and crowded and messy and arrogant. capital of dvorakland is romantic, scenic, cultured and even though it is overflowing with tourists from EVERYWHERE (for once, not just people from panda-land) it is not as messy as CBL.
do you know that dvorak-land is really a very cultured place? they have museums dedicated to art and music, art galleries, shops with classical music and dvorak postcards, theatres and concert halls that are superbly constructed, etc etc. and what do we have in sushi-land? shops with yamapi id cards and vending machines selling canned bread. it is only asia that is so hung up over idols and boybands. these type of entertainment is non-existent here. the best they could come up with was jonas brothers. which applies more to the tweens. in asia, we can have aunties gushing over monsieur bae and the young adults swooning over farenheit. i am not saying that asia is lousy (because i like asia the BEST), just that somehow or other, asian youths are slowly beginning to lose sight of the meaning of life. somehow, idol-worshipping has mutated into their most important priority. i blame this on those idol-making-big-shot-companies who were able dig out the need for a hero that would otherwise remain undiscovered in our youths. and i blame it on their ability to manipulate this need and twist it so that money goes rolling into their banks.
actually do you realise that the taiwanese boyband industry is dead? it used to be flourishing! with F4, 5566, K-One, G-boys, Ke Mi Xiao Zi, etc etc. now what it left is farenheit. slowly one by one they just disappeared from the music scene. in fact, i had a hard time remembering ke mi xiao zi. i only remembered them as the band that sang the chinese version of the ketchup song.
i think i really sound like some idol-hater. but i'm not! i do enjoy idol-worshipping at a certain level. but the thing is, we cannot lose our rationality in this kind of thing. it is necessary that we are aware that there are very strong marketing and packaging strategies lying behind the innocent facade of gay dancing male entertainers that are out to eat up our pocket.
did you know that a.c. grayling is a total anti-christian? he is so hilarious is discussing the absurdity of some of the views of the church. and he always says that the church people like to burn their opponents at some "convenient stake". half his chapter on Christianity in his book "The Meaning of Things" is spent ridiculing the church and their refusal to change their teachings with the changing times. GO A.C. GRAYLING!
and again! we are nearing the end of a year! and it is time for the obligatory HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR 2009!
1) mr sng left T-T
2) we graduated T-T
3) we received a level results. some may have rejoiced, others maybe not, but it is a relief nevertheless to end the excruciating period of waiting.
4) applications to universities and complaining about how such and such uni is so elitist but we have no choice but to get in because we want to make sure we have a job in future.
5) volunteering at the zoo as zookeeper with francesca and khoojoosok and meeting all the nice zookeepers at rainforest kidzworld!
6) frantic searching for jobs. koh and gang ended up with ruby who vivi couldn't stand and quit, while the rest continued for the sake of their pay.
7) jiayin got conned by the fengshui card making company.
8) yoshito usui went mountain-climbing and died T-T
9) michael jackson died T-T
10) chip went home to dim-sum-land
11) cecilia left for mapletree-land
12) cecilia got over dr.chin *gasp*
13) teary goodbye to cecilia's handphone
14) numerous frustrating occasions with 萌 that is still continuing to this day
15) ponned many 萌 occasions due to a. laziness b. unwillingness to rub shoulders with the group of people i dislike the most c. reading wrong dates on calendar.
16) lessons at alliance francaise with shanez and pascal!
17) la vie en rose! je ne regrette rieeeennn~!
18) library volunteering madness with jude, yingxian, munyi and yixian. where we told stupid stories about tufty mufty and cookie who could read and made up indian accented voices for rusty
19) made the stupidest craft kangaroos and mouse. eg the edith piaf kangaroo, the hong lian jiao kangaroo (which totally seduced the kids to join its cult), the prostitute mouse, etc. one wonders just what the hell we are teaching the kids.
20) making use of the opportunity that chip's mom was not at home to
21) hanging out at esplanade all the time.
22) planning for the walk from pasir ris to boonlay that never saw the dawn
23) cycling trip at pulau ubin where phua wore the hottest pants of the year.
24) day cycling trip with youbao and jobina that ended up in rain.
25) doing portfolio lazily and half-heartedly.
26) going back to school to visit ms phua and listen to her complain about mundane stuff.
27) going back to school to eat the new desert stall ice jelly with lots of lime
28) going back to school to eat yong tau foo.
29) dhs homecoming. i don't even remember what we did after that.
30) pencilling the stupidest story the history of all stories. and dealing with an extremely boring script with lots of action (mouth-action that is) and learning that verbal insult is very hurting indeed and that everything can be solved with a BIG HUGGGG. what? are we teletubbies now? -__-
31) going to france.
32) going to switzerland.
33) going to belgium.
34) going to prague.
35) visiting the famous bridge of avignon.
36) receiving fullmetal alchemist #23 from chip.
37) meeting handsome simone designer of tokidoki at toy and comics convention.
38) seeing chui wolverine choking on cigar.
39) seeing batman drink water.
40) reading vagabond. zomg GODLIKE monsieur INOUE! we all bow down to you.
41) visiting vivien's hall.
42) catching up with lamlee and donovan!
43) writing gp essays in french. tough shit.
44) splurging at kinokuniya's 10th anniversary where everything was 20% off. i couldn't resist! i am a total bookworm.
45) helping vivien look for avant-garde dresses for her hall-clubbing- party-whatever-i-don't-really-know-what-it-is.
46) teoheng.
47) meeting sewook my bestie.
48) nearly got into UAL T-T
49) got rejected by nus medicine. HENG ah. what even possessed me to apply? oh right. parents.
50) finding out that most pandaland men are fat, smelly and ugly.
51) disappointed my sister because i didn't go to paris in time to help her get a signature from her idol. does she think paris is as big as siglap shopping centre??? what are the odds of me meeting him even if i were really in paris at that time??? i never even see zoe tay in real life despite living in the same city as her for 19 years! plus he is not even good-looking!
52) missing pe.
53) blood donations + failures at blood donation.
ok 53 events in 365 days! that's like 1 event every 6.886792 days. hooray for another eventful year! and now we look forward to 2010! the year where many of us turn the dreaded 20! (ZOMGGGGGG!) and some of us turn 22! and even more some of us turn 23 (you know who you are)! may the year of the tiger be a good year!
zomg!! i just checked the chinese horoscope! it is a bad year for the snake but a good year for the horse! why must the tiger curse me like thisss!!!!
4.08am
241209
i wonder if 萌 has an anti-choo system in their email.
(this is not a decoy)
is there a firewall that blocks all my email? how come everytime they need to ask me for important documents (eg bank details) twice? i already sent it over! why must they act like they never receive anything! ZOMG! obviously they are outcasting me even before i join their shady organisation! just because i suck at talking to random people i just met as if they were my best friends! just because i don't like to hang out and be all chummy with the authorities! wtf. i am totally going to die in my 5 year inside. i will start praying for my sanity from now on. and do more good deeds.
and it is not my fault i dislike talking to people i just met as if i knew them my whole life. if i'm not the least bit interested in their what they do or their opinion on things, i don't want to pretend like i am. don't you find people who are automatically on people-mode when they meet new people very irritating? who knows what they are actually thinking! its like they ask you about your life and your opinions when they barely met you and deep down inside you know they are going: i don't really care about you but i'm just asking to show i am nice. i don't see why we should bother with all these stupid niceties. it's not as if both parties really care about what the other thinks. we all only care about ourselves (when there is no friendship yet of course). the way the world works is so bizarre.
i wonder if i'm going to be stuck my whole life pretending to be interested in what random people i am not particularly concerned about have to say and saying random things that the other party doesn't really care about.
this is not an emo post. its called an observational post.
i'm back from belgium! the coolest country ever! the comic museum is enough to put it high on my list of cool countries. the way the city is designed, its a gros n'importe quoi. its like the capital has this heck-care attitude and do as they please easy going charm to it. they can place their gothic cathedral right smack in between 2 ugly commercial buildings. it's a country that has beauty within its ugliness. i'm not kidding when i said i'm a big fan of screwed-up things. the more people dislike it, the more i like it. this explains my love for media
and i think travelling alone is quite nice even though its tiring having to plan everything yourself and keep an eye on your belongings all the time. it is especially so when my sole candidate for a travelling partner always insists on quantity over quality. which is the complete opposite of my view. how she managed to cover 10 tourist places of interest in 1 day is beyond my comprehension. because i managed to cover only 4 or 5. are nus people all like that? all jaded and prepared to conquer the world with the mindset that they must get the most quantity-wise? we must take the most subjects! we must get the most marks! we must get the most money! we must get the most experience! we must get the most friends! we must get the most! THE MOST! THE MOSTT! that will be their chant as they dance around their books. why is our education system in such a sad state. there is so much more to living than just getting THE MOST. ok i better stop this topic because i'm starting to sound like a hobo with no big aims to earn big money.
ohoh! and during my stay in the brussels hostels, i met 2 very interesting people! one was a korean from the school i almost went to (if not for cash problems and parental disapproval) --- JANG JANG!! LONDON COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION!!!!!!! her name was ha-na! and she gave everyone in the room a sweet. zomg. all the koreans i have met so far are so nice! first is sewook who is my buddy in class! and now ha-na! and the other person was an art teacher in switzerland and guess which school she graduated from -- CENTRAL ST-MARTINS!!!!!!!!!!!! ZOMG! what a coincidence right! 1 university of arts london student, 1 university of arts london alumni and 1 university of arts london almost-student. (if not for 萌 and their stupid policies of "no you cannot go to uk because we have too many uk people" i would be in university of arts london) the csm alumni let me read a book about art and music that was super nice and inspiring! someone up there must like me! or i have done many good deeds in my past life. anyways, THANK YOU WORLD! for letting me experience all the nice thing!
and apparently the gross comic that i did will be launched in january. and the editor sent an email to all the creators and pencillers regarding this supporting publication info which will give the reader (if there were any in the first place) some infos on the creators and pencillers. well, the editor sent an email to all creators and pencillers except me. apparently, he missed out my email. i am a forgotten participant in this competition. i would have preferred it if they continued to forget me. (but not for the pay la!) but noo, now i must present them with info with regards to:
Personal -
1. What are your top 2 comic concepts of all time, and who were they by?
2. Who or what, if any, has influenced your work the most?
3. Which comic can you remember first attracted you as a kid? 4. Who would you like to say thank you to? (Eg. This could be friends, family or any of your team members etc)
5. What's your favourite food or dish? (Choose 1 only)
i am so tempted to ask them whether they can don't publish my name anot. i don't want any part in this gross monstrosity!(except the cash) or at least publish it under a different name. and i am so tempted to answer questions 1-5 with completely not-me answers. so for question 4, i would say: i would like to thank my wonderful creators for giving me this chance to work on this brillant and awe-inspiring story. and for question 3 and 2, i would totally put down all the works of CLAMP. and for question 5, i would look up the name of some stupidly named french dish and give it to them. except this would not work if they were to publish my name. so i think i will ignore the email and pretend i never see it. (as i have gotten so damn good at with ailin)
i seriously hope they send my pay soon.
7.53am
081209
i miss going for lessons at alliance francaise. i miss talking to simon about biology and payments. i miss talking to simonxi about vocabulary. i miss talking to joris about homework. and i miss talking to my bestie sewook the most. (he told me stories about kimchi-land and its food and the language and what his name means)
and there is this girl in my class who is good in illustration and photoshop. but somehow i get the feeling from her that she has 2 sides to her character. the outer friendly one and the inner selfish one. i think this kind of people are very scary. i don't doubt that she would do well in the industry and maybe i'm reading too much into it. but i just get this feeling very strongly from her. and the girls are slowly forming a humongous clique of their own. consisting of girls minus choo. choo hangs out with olivier and cedric. I WANT A FEMALE FRIEND! and also there's this extremely gay guy called mikael. whom i think is very gay. i was going to show the videos he made with everybody back in singapore. but apparently it is not compatible with the singapore server. in the video, he wears stuff like a big yellow shirt and purple boxers and shakes his hips vigorously to the music. nobuta is not the least bit gay when compared to his video.
i finished watching you're beautiful!
the 2nd korean drama i have fully watched to the end.(i really don't like korean dramas one. but i have no choice because jdramas are in a slump and mysoju refuses to fix its broken links to beyond the realm of conscience.) and all i can say about it is: 赞!!!!!!!!!!!
i will hereby give you 9 reasons to watch it and 1 not to!
1)Male Lead: Jang Geun Suk
he is so hilarious as vocalist hwang tae kyung (a little like chiaki in nodame but more mean). always saying mean things and scowling at everybody in his field of vision. and i totally couldn't recognize him as the same guy as the trumpeter in beethoven virus. i admit when i first saw his character in episode 1 i was going: wahlau lame. this kind of character again. kdramas so boring. where is my beyond the realm of conscience??? but it slowly grows on you as the series progresses. the way he says " Go Mi Nam. (insert mean phrase)" totally leaves an impression.
2)The Hairstylist
the hairstylist is imba creative. the characters have the most screwed up hairstyles ever.
seriously? 1 topknot + pony tail? bird's nest? paul twohill hair? and there was even one with a bowl like hair cut with a strand of hair sticking out at the middle of the forehead. funky beyond believe. i am a total fan of screwed-up stuff.
3)Chiobus
CHIO BO! i already know that girls in kimchi-land are damn chio (i don't care whether more than 50% had plastic surgery) but i think this girl is very chio. and she got supra nice legs. and even the minor beyond belief actresses are pretty.
4)Jdramas in a slump
i have no idea why this is happening. it used to be so promising during the nobuta period. with nobuta wo produce, proposal daisakusen, 1 litre of tears, hana kimi, galileo, nodame cantabile, my boss my hero, seigi no mikata, teppan shoujo akane... now it is producing nonsense like buzzer beat! koshite akuma! mei-chan no shitsuji (bloody butler craze) and the stupid wine show that i got bored of after 15 minutes. nowadays i rather watch mediacorp dramas than jdrams. goes to show how big of a slump it is in now.
5)16 episodes
as we all know. kdramas have been going an average of 100 episodes ever since big golden intestine (with 70 episodes) was such a big hit. remember how channel u used to have the same freaking show at its 7pm timeslot for one whole year? yes i am talking about 19岁的清纯 and 加油金顺. must she struggle with the liver affair for almost 10 episodes? to make matters worse, her mother just had to be han shang gong from big golden intestine. you're beautiful moves at a fast enough pace and there is no *gasp* why are you my brother/sister! now we cannot be together! nor is there any issue with regards to organ donation.
"are you sure you don't need a liver transplant?"
"...nO! X("
6)no history
seriously i cannot stand historical kdramas which have been sprouting out like weeds ever since big golden intestine. it is so complicated because we are not used to kimchi-land's dynasty. we are only familiar with panda-land's 5000 years of history. i can't even differentiate the emperor from his officials or the queen from her senior maids. you're beautiful has no guys walking around in pail-like head gear nor women in oversized costumes and stuffing their hands inside their costume.
yawn.
7)Good chemistry
8)Filmed when kimchi-land becomes freezer-land.
because it is hard work to film in winter and dress as if you are not really in winter. hard work always deserves support and applause. especially if they are trying their best to produce something that sets out to entertain.
i totally can sympathise. especially since i'm already wearing 6 layers of clothing at grenoble when its 8 degrees.
9)stupidest hallucinations
and 1 reason not to: poetry like dialogue
i'm all for imagery within words. but too much of that talk about stars and light and who can see who make my head hurt. i'm sure people don't actually talk like that. what's with kimchi-land's obsession with stars. even sewook has a name meaning bright star.
5.59am