Looking at Twitter's trending topics, you'd think 50% of Twitter users are Indonesian teens. This supposition may not apply during soccer tournaments.

Bryan Leung is Feng Qingyang in the latest adaptation of Xiao Ao Jiang Hu. So he's now officially the go-to actor for "wise old teacher" roles in a Jin Yong series. Dicky Cheung is one of the four ( Read more... )

1. If this isn't a day for Bleach news. It seems Hollywood is going to make a live-action version after all. Then the TV series will end on March 27. Just when I suspected we'd have to suffer another year-long filler arc. The final manga arc can go straight to OVAs.

2. I've resumed watching Tiger and Bunny. So far the second half of the series ( Read more... )

200k words should have been written to meet my 2009 getyourwordsout goal, and I only managed 172k. Well, I wrote more than that, but those were the words that count.
For 2010 I made a pledge for 100k words. Should be feasible...shouldn't it?

Xiao Ao Jiang Hu 2001: Watched it up to episode 31, and my spoiler-free comments so far (on the series itself, not the ( Read more... )

So, like I said to access_identity, seeing the blurb for Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora made me realize that a description of my MC is less than dashing. All he knows is reading, studying, and learning martial arts. If Stephenie Meyer wants to be a popular teenage girl, Eve obviously wants to be a 22-year-old male geek.

Got a bunch of wuxia series from chibishun ( Read more... )

The most embarrassing dream last night: I meet Zhou Xun (2003's Huang Rong) and it turns out she speaks passable English so we talk for some time. *brb headdesking forever* This might have been caused by me being excited that she's going to play Xiao Ao Jiang Hu's Ren Yingying. Opposite Kaneshiro Takeshi, not Li Yapeng. (News)

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