Yay! Free time!
I'm pretty caught up with work (I have six files but they don't need to go out until next Monday, so I have plenty of time to work on them) so I can slack off now! This morning, I went through our taxes a second time. The first time, I forgot we have to pay back our homebuyer's credit, so that's a bummer since I thought we were getting $1,700 ish back. But $1,200 isn't terrible either. State, we're going to have to pay about $100 since I somehow messed up on the tax table the first time around (still don't know what I did, so hopefully Henry will double check my work).
With that pretty productive (personal work) morning, I'm going to go off and talk about drama related things!
I started playing Chinese Paladin 2 yesterday and it actually wasn't that bad even if the texts are in simplified Chinese. For the most part, I can guess what random words mean and, even if I can't guess, they're probably not important enough. So I pretty much played through the intro, which was just my character wandering around talking to various people to get to the main plot. While doing that, I was watching Chinese Paladin 5. As inoffensive as it is, the romance gets draggy and I'm kind of looking forward to its end. With that and with starting a new drama with my mom this Sunday, I'm looking at other dramas to potentially watch in the future. And they are:
Love Me if You Dare
This is some sort of suspense/thriller/romance that the internet seems to speak highly of (although they also loved Nirvana in Fire). The drama is produced by China but stars Taiwan's Wallace Huo and a bunch of Chinese actors I know nothing of. Since it's some sort of suspense/thriller/romance, there's a apparently a twist so I actually didn't read the plot! So...all I know about the drama is from screenshots.
I'm guessing it's about a person trying to solve crime(s) while wearing actual gloves on his hands...
...and it sure is tiring and requires him to lean on his girlfriend/spouse/floosie in his downtime...
...and whatever daytime occupation she holds must be pretty tiring too since she's constantly leaning on him in her downtime...
All screenshots look like they're modeling something rather than there being anything thrilling going on. So...okay?
When a Snail Falls in Love
This is also some sort of suspense/thriller/romance written by the same person that wrote Love Me if You Dare. It sounds amazingly short at some 20-ish episodes that are 30 minutes long, so that's kind of cool. It stars Wang Kai (Prince Jing in Nirvana in Fire) and a bunch of other Chinese actors I know nothing of. As with Love Me if You Dare, it possibly has a twist so I didn't read plot asides from there being a woman that draws her life as comic strips where she's the snail and Prince Jing is a lion.
I wonder if being described as the snail is some sort of common Asian women thing?
Whatever it's about, at least it seems like Prince Jing is ready to break some woman's neck while kicking some guy's ass, instead of just leaning about and modeling stuff.
Perfect Couple
This is a period comedy/drama starring Wallace Huo (Chang Qing in Chinese Paladin 3) and Tiffany Tang (Zi Xuan in Chinese Paladin 3), the superior couple from (obviously) Chinese Paladin 3. Maybe at some point, they were like, "why were we playing second-fiddle to annoying leads Jing Tian and Xue Jian instead of being leads in our own drama?"
The summary I read sounds incest-ridden (unless Tiffany Tang's character isn't her mother's biological daughter) where Tiffany Tang marries Wallace Huo's character in some sort of ploy to see if he's her mother's son (???) and they fall in love. Based on pictures, the drama has various things that I like, such as mistaken identities, a bunch of people doing stuff together...
...foolishness (but hopefully not the crazy mainland China variety)...
...nice costumes and bright colors...
...and a couple that seem to be able to tolerate each other's presence
I didn't read much more on the plot, because spoilers! But drama rule ensures that the two will fall in love (so maybe they're not biological siblings and it'll be cute, like Clueless, instead of just being icky) and, since it's comedy, live happily ever after.
Aaannnd, I'm going to do some real work, then probably eat and then slack off some more after that. Ah, it's good to be free!
With that pretty productive (personal work) morning, I'm going to go off and talk about drama related things!
I started playing Chinese Paladin 2 yesterday and it actually wasn't that bad even if the texts are in simplified Chinese. For the most part, I can guess what random words mean and, even if I can't guess, they're probably not important enough. So I pretty much played through the intro, which was just my character wandering around talking to various people to get to the main plot. While doing that, I was watching Chinese Paladin 5. As inoffensive as it is, the romance gets draggy and I'm kind of looking forward to its end. With that and with starting a new drama with my mom this Sunday, I'm looking at other dramas to potentially watch in the future. And they are:
Love Me if You Dare
This is some sort of suspense/thriller/romance that the internet seems to speak highly of (although they also loved Nirvana in Fire). The drama is produced by China but stars Taiwan's Wallace Huo and a bunch of Chinese actors I know nothing of. Since it's some sort of suspense/thriller/romance, there's a apparently a twist so I actually didn't read the plot! So...all I know about the drama is from screenshots.
I'm guessing it's about a person trying to solve crime(s) while wearing actual gloves on his hands...
...and it sure is tiring and requires him to lean on his girlfriend/spouse/floosie in his downtime...
...and whatever daytime occupation she holds must be pretty tiring too since she's constantly leaning on him in her downtime...
All screenshots look like they're modeling something rather than there being anything thrilling going on. So...okay?
When a Snail Falls in Love
This is also some sort of suspense/thriller/romance written by the same person that wrote Love Me if You Dare. It sounds amazingly short at some 20-ish episodes that are 30 minutes long, so that's kind of cool. It stars Wang Kai (Prince Jing in Nirvana in Fire) and a bunch of other Chinese actors I know nothing of. As with Love Me if You Dare, it possibly has a twist so I didn't read plot asides from there being a woman that draws her life as comic strips where she's the snail and Prince Jing is a lion.
I wonder if being described as the snail is some sort of common Asian women thing?
Whatever it's about, at least it seems like Prince Jing is ready to break some woman's neck while kicking some guy's ass, instead of just leaning about and modeling stuff.
Perfect Couple
This is a period comedy/drama starring Wallace Huo (Chang Qing in Chinese Paladin 3) and Tiffany Tang (Zi Xuan in Chinese Paladin 3), the superior couple from (obviously) Chinese Paladin 3. Maybe at some point, they were like, "why were we playing second-fiddle to annoying leads Jing Tian and Xue Jian instead of being leads in our own drama?"
The summary I read sounds incest-ridden (unless Tiffany Tang's character isn't her mother's biological daughter) where Tiffany Tang marries Wallace Huo's character in some sort of ploy to see if he's her mother's son (???) and they fall in love. Based on pictures, the drama has various things that I like, such as mistaken identities, a bunch of people doing stuff together...
...foolishness (but hopefully not the crazy mainland China variety)...
...nice costumes and bright colors...
...and a couple that seem to be able to tolerate each other's presence
I didn't read much more on the plot, because spoilers! But drama rule ensures that the two will fall in love (so maybe they're not biological siblings and it'll be cute, like Clueless, instead of just being icky) and, since it's comedy, live happily ever after.
Aaannnd, I'm going to do some real work, then probably eat and then slack off some more after that. Ah, it's good to be free!