Twdrama: Lucky Days (and some other stuff)
So obsessed with Harvest Moon it's not even funny. Damn video games, making me ignore other media! Anyone else play it?
I'm not a big gamer, and strategy and sim games are basically all I play (though I do love me some Mario, and the occasional RPG... though the more recent RPGs make me kinda dizzy... I get motion sickness REALLY easily).
Random other news: I went out today and bought some cool ass stuff for my nails. They are now black with red glitter, which is fantastic, since I love black nails (and also want to copy Dal Ja!), but never had a nice enough polish for it. I actually used my Taiwanese black nail polish, which has amazing coverage. Makes me wonder if it's full of horrible chemicals... Oh well. I also used some China Glaze, and finally Seche Vite topcoat, which is amazing stuff apparently. I also glued some Taiwanese rhinestones on, for good measure. I might take pictures later. Maybe.
I've been searching for a suitcase to take to Korea. My old one is basically destroyed, and I want a nice one, but also not one that is 8 million dollars. Apparently this is hard to find.
So, I heard about this drama the other day. Somehow it escaped my notice. It's called Lucky Days (or 第二回合我愛你, which means, essentially, "The second round of I love you"... in general). It's about the trials of a young couple who recently got married for the wrong reasons (in order to save money), and how that caused their relationship to break down. I assume the drama is going to focus on how they go about finding love again (thus the Chinese title).
I'm, uh, not too excited about it. It's not that is looks bad, just not my style (I like stories that are more about the start of a relationship, rather than the rescue of one). Also, I watch dramas mainly for the casts. I'm not familiar with either of the main actors (Chen Yi Rong, the main actress is an established actor, though she does mostly historicals and wuxia, thus me not having seen her in anything yet).
Though, since Lucky Days is a SETTV drama, I know a good portion of the character actors, including Lin Mei Xiu (who plays the awesome mother character in TONS of twdramas, and the not-so-awesome mother character in True Love 18), Chen Bo Zheng (a great older character actor), and Song Xin Ni (who I think is fabulous, and plays the 姊姊/older sister type very well).
(SETTV is known [to me at least] for using the same actors over and over. To an extent all networks do that, but SETTV does it a LOT. Out of the ten dramas Chen Qiao En has done in Taiwan, eight of them are for SETTV. I wonder if they have some sort of relationship with J-star...)
Anyway, I can't embed it, but a subbed preview is here. For now I'll post this unsubbed one.
(I LOLed during the scene where she's in the hospital, Chen Yi Rong's character is like "I don't have a husband right now", and the nurse is like "lets not get excited, miss". And the Chen Yi Rong's character is all like "我不是小姐, 我是太太!" (She's saying she's not a "Miss", but a "Mrs")... probably not supposed to be that funny, but it was so random, and filled with Mandarin I understand!)
As far as I can tell, it's not subbed yet (or rather, the first episode has been partially subbed on youtube).
Also, CTV pulled a fast one on me, and pushed Down with Love back another week. It will air on 31Jan09, with another behind the scenes airing today. Last week they said the first episode was airing this week... *sigh* I should expect this out of my twdramas already. Things are CONSTANTLY being pushed back.
I'm not a big gamer, and strategy and sim games are basically all I play (though I do love me some Mario, and the occasional RPG... though the more recent RPGs make me kinda dizzy... I get motion sickness REALLY easily).
Random other news: I went out today and bought some cool ass stuff for my nails. They are now black with red glitter, which is fantastic, since I love black nails (and also want to copy Dal Ja!), but never had a nice enough polish for it. I actually used my Taiwanese black nail polish, which has amazing coverage. Makes me wonder if it's full of horrible chemicals... Oh well. I also used some China Glaze, and finally Seche Vite topcoat, which is amazing stuff apparently. I also glued some Taiwanese rhinestones on, for good measure. I might take pictures later. Maybe.
I've been searching for a suitcase to take to Korea. My old one is basically destroyed, and I want a nice one, but also not one that is 8 million dollars. Apparently this is hard to find.
So, I heard about this drama the other day. Somehow it escaped my notice. It's called Lucky Days (or 第二回合我愛你, which means, essentially, "The second round of I love you"... in general). It's about the trials of a young couple who recently got married for the wrong reasons (in order to save money), and how that caused their relationship to break down. I assume the drama is going to focus on how they go about finding love again (thus the Chinese title).
I'm, uh, not too excited about it. It's not that is looks bad, just not my style (I like stories that are more about the start of a relationship, rather than the rescue of one). Also, I watch dramas mainly for the casts. I'm not familiar with either of the main actors (Chen Yi Rong, the main actress is an established actor, though she does mostly historicals and wuxia, thus me not having seen her in anything yet).
Though, since Lucky Days is a SETTV drama, I know a good portion of the character actors, including Lin Mei Xiu (who plays the awesome mother character in TONS of twdramas, and the not-so-awesome mother character in True Love 18), Chen Bo Zheng (a great older character actor), and Song Xin Ni (who I think is fabulous, and plays the 姊姊/older sister type very well).
(SETTV is known [to me at least] for using the same actors over and over. To an extent all networks do that, but SETTV does it a LOT. Out of the ten dramas Chen Qiao En has done in Taiwan, eight of them are for SETTV. I wonder if they have some sort of relationship with J-star...)
Anyway, I can't embed it, but a subbed preview is here. For now I'll post this unsubbed one.
Click to view(I LOLed during the scene where she's in the hospital, Chen Yi Rong's character is like "I don't have a husband right now", and the nurse is like "lets not get excited, miss". And the Chen Yi Rong's character is all like "我不是小姐, 我是太太!" (She's saying she's not a "Miss", but a "Mrs")... probably not supposed to be that funny, but it was so random, and filled with Mandarin I understand!)
As far as I can tell, it's not subbed yet (or rather, the first episode has been partially subbed on youtube).
Also, CTV pulled a fast one on me, and pushed Down with Love back another week. It will air on 31Jan09, with another behind the scenes airing today. Last week they said the first episode was airing this week... *sigh* I should expect this out of my twdramas already. Things are CONSTANTLY being pushed back.