Why there are two A's in "Balance"
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dvampyrlestatI swear that phrase was the only thing I could think of when "Subject" glared at me. And I don't even really wonder why.
How did everyone spend their Easter weekend? This early I apologize for this one being long....
How did everyone spend their Easter weekend? This early I apologize for this one being long....
In my country, it could only be one of three things. One: hit the beaches (the island of Boracay is still a big hit for locals and foreigners). Two: take a road trip up to Baguio City, my city, which is dubbed our country's summer capital because of its climate (it's elevated, you see). Three: stay home and do whatever.
I can't do One, because I'm not really a beach-ocean girl, and the beaches are bound to be crowded anyways. I can't do Two because I already AM in Baguio, and going out would be inviting stress, what with the influx of people. There's the reason why Tourism was never high on my list of college degrees.
Needless to say, I went for Three. And tried to catch up with....err, non-Nihonggo visual assimilation.
So I had a marathon of the 13 episodes of GOSSIP GIRL. Out of curiosity, more like, because my friend has all 13 episodes on .mp4 and practically shoved it down my throat, ordering me to WATCH IT. It's the Holy Week, right, so I was unusually obedient. More like resigned.
I've never read the books, not even laid a finger on them. I don't even know who wrote them. Chick-lit was never my fare. Cecelia Ahern is not chick-lit, is she? And I only read Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic books because my friend (yes, same friend) very nicely lends them to me even without my asking. While they're a fun read, I'm not really too impressed. And how one's outrageous spending habits backed up by more outragous logic behind each purchase can be excused simply because 'she has a good heart' is beyond me.
I'd say it's nothing special. Typical TV fare with a good-looking cast, not-too-new themes. But surprise surprise. I actually found myself having a bit of fun watching the exploits of the filthy-rich kids of the Upper East Side, led by the best friends Serena van der Woodsen and Blair Waldorf. Who wouldn't? Some characters are just deliciously evil while being sympathetic.
But I must say my favorite character would be the only un-rich (and need I say, moral voice) among the lot, Dan Humphrey. I watch him, and I thought, "I WANT HIM FOR MY BOYFRIEND." Not drop-dead gorgeous, but has a charm. Not rich, but has gold for brain. Has a spectacular (and sometimes self-deprecating) humor to compensate for the lack of blings. Any repartee with him would be worth looking forward to. And the actor who plays him plays him with such zest that he owns each scene he's on.
I also rewatched a couple of movies that's been sitting on my lap for the longest time. I have now watched ONCE twice (Gawd, I love how that sounded!), this beautiful small Irish film with great music...I was gloating a bit when it won for Best Song at the Oscars despite - three? four? - competition from the film Enchanted. I was reminded why I love Irish music. When you hear it, you feel it's....Irish. *cough*
I rewatched STEP UP again, because the sequel's coming up, I wanted a review. Boy, Channing Tatum sure could dance. Then there's AUGUST RUSH, yet another music-infused film. (Mix Jonathan-Rhys Meyers and music and a heartfelt story and you can never go wrong.) Oh, and I've only watched JUNO recently. Haha! Very beautiful film, owing most of it to the screenplay, I must say. Darn. Does one have to be a former stripper to come up with such a gem?
I put off watching EASTERN PROMISES because I feel I might need more mind-conditioning before jumping in. It is, after all, Viggo. In a badass role. This time with a Russian accent. (Still reeling from his Spanish Alatriste.) 'Nuff said.
Gosh, a lot of films coming up. THE KITE RUNNER is showing next week and I literally clutched Sheryll's (my bestest friend) arm when I saw the poster. "Oh, wow, we HAVE to WATCH THAT, and if you're not coming with me, that's OK because I'LL WATCH IT EVEN BY MYSELF!" It's one of my favorite books, you see. Then there's PRINCE CASPIAN...what else?
Oh, the week before, though, I met up with my high school classmates who came home for the weekend, and we watched 10,000 BC. Not my popular choice at the time, but for lack of options I was again resigned to go. The trailer was misleading. See, I was expecting something Apocalypto, only a prehistoric one. There wasn't even blood in the movie. And I found the final battle....anti-climactic? I love the CGI of the spear-tooth (tiger), though. My gawd, he looked gorgeous.
On the Jdrama front, I checked out the first three eps of FIRST KISS. (I know you've seen it all! Cut me some slack, lolz!) First scene and I was cringing. They could've spent a few more hours coaching Inoue Mao with the English pronunciation. She's supposed to have spent most of her life in the Orange County, for pete's sake!
But Eiji and Shizuku made me tear up yet again last night when I watched the hardsubbed ep 9 of Bara no nai Hanaya. I love that series. So beautiful. (I ought to rename this post to beautiful because I've said it many times already.)
Sho's radio show....also Shige's....are going off the air, it seems. I hear hearts breaking. :) But here's my positive alter-ego saying, "there will be a better one". As I've said, they are two of the smarter JE guys, so it'll be a total waste to not let their brains work.
Hana Kimi's having a special, though. And that's so enough to excite me. (Ohno's butai, Time con, Dream A Live alb included). But if anyone, anyone at all, has the DVD of Hana Kimi, or knows anywhere where the DVD specials can be downloaded from, give me a nudge, coz we're looking for it. Thanks in advance.
Now time to wrap this up before I put anyone to sleep. (Not that I'd mind, in Haru's case.) XDDD
I can't do One, because I'm not really a beach-ocean girl, and the beaches are bound to be crowded anyways. I can't do Two because I already AM in Baguio, and going out would be inviting stress, what with the influx of people. There's the reason why Tourism was never high on my list of college degrees.
Needless to say, I went for Three. And tried to catch up with....err, non-Nihonggo visual assimilation.
So I had a marathon of the 13 episodes of GOSSIP GIRL. Out of curiosity, more like, because my friend has all 13 episodes on .mp4 and practically shoved it down my throat, ordering me to WATCH IT. It's the Holy Week, right, so I was unusually obedient. More like resigned.
I've never read the books, not even laid a finger on them. I don't even know who wrote them. Chick-lit was never my fare. Cecelia Ahern is not chick-lit, is she? And I only read Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic books because my friend (yes, same friend) very nicely lends them to me even without my asking. While they're a fun read, I'm not really too impressed. And how one's outrageous spending habits backed up by more outragous logic behind each purchase can be excused simply because 'she has a good heart' is beyond me.
I'd say it's nothing special. Typical TV fare with a good-looking cast, not-too-new themes. But surprise surprise. I actually found myself having a bit of fun watching the exploits of the filthy-rich kids of the Upper East Side, led by the best friends Serena van der Woodsen and Blair Waldorf. Who wouldn't? Some characters are just deliciously evil while being sympathetic.
But I must say my favorite character would be the only un-rich (and need I say, moral voice) among the lot, Dan Humphrey. I watch him, and I thought, "I WANT HIM FOR MY BOYFRIEND." Not drop-dead gorgeous, but has a charm. Not rich, but has gold for brain. Has a spectacular (and sometimes self-deprecating) humor to compensate for the lack of blings. Any repartee with him would be worth looking forward to. And the actor who plays him plays him with such zest that he owns each scene he's on.
I also rewatched a couple of movies that's been sitting on my lap for the longest time. I have now watched ONCE twice (Gawd, I love how that sounded!), this beautiful small Irish film with great music...I was gloating a bit when it won for Best Song at the Oscars despite - three? four? - competition from the film Enchanted. I was reminded why I love Irish music. When you hear it, you feel it's....Irish. *cough*
I rewatched STEP UP again, because the sequel's coming up, I wanted a review. Boy, Channing Tatum sure could dance. Then there's AUGUST RUSH, yet another music-infused film. (Mix Jonathan-Rhys Meyers and music and a heartfelt story and you can never go wrong.) Oh, and I've only watched JUNO recently. Haha! Very beautiful film, owing most of it to the screenplay, I must say. Darn. Does one have to be a former stripper to come up with such a gem?
I put off watching EASTERN PROMISES because I feel I might need more mind-conditioning before jumping in. It is, after all, Viggo. In a badass role. This time with a Russian accent. (Still reeling from his Spanish Alatriste.) 'Nuff said.
Gosh, a lot of films coming up. THE KITE RUNNER is showing next week and I literally clutched Sheryll's (my bestest friend) arm when I saw the poster. "Oh, wow, we HAVE to WATCH THAT, and if you're not coming with me, that's OK because I'LL WATCH IT EVEN BY MYSELF!" It's one of my favorite books, you see. Then there's PRINCE CASPIAN...what else?
Oh, the week before, though, I met up with my high school classmates who came home for the weekend, and we watched 10,000 BC. Not my popular choice at the time, but for lack of options I was again resigned to go. The trailer was misleading. See, I was expecting something Apocalypto, only a prehistoric one. There wasn't even blood in the movie. And I found the final battle....anti-climactic? I love the CGI of the spear-tooth (tiger), though. My gawd, he looked gorgeous.
On the Jdrama front, I checked out the first three eps of FIRST KISS. (I know you've seen it all! Cut me some slack, lolz!) First scene and I was cringing. They could've spent a few more hours coaching Inoue Mao with the English pronunciation. She's supposed to have spent most of her life in the Orange County, for pete's sake!
But Eiji and Shizuku made me tear up yet again last night when I watched the hardsubbed ep 9 of Bara no nai Hanaya. I love that series. So beautiful. (I ought to rename this post to beautiful because I've said it many times already.)
Sho's radio show....also Shige's....are going off the air, it seems. I hear hearts breaking. :) But here's my positive alter-ego saying, "there will be a better one". As I've said, they are two of the smarter JE guys, so it'll be a total waste to not let their brains work.
Hana Kimi's having a special, though. And that's so enough to excite me. (Ohno's butai, Time con, Dream A Live alb included). But if anyone, anyone at all, has the DVD of Hana Kimi, or knows anywhere where the DVD specials can be downloaded from, give me a nudge, coz we're looking for it. Thanks in advance.
Now time to wrap this up before I put anyone to sleep. (Not that I'd mind, in Haru's case.) XDDD
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Date: 2008-03-24 11:53 am (UTC)LOL
Sometimes it's nice to just do nothing special. Or do you need to go for the 3 always?
Gossip Girl.. Sounds familiar, but honestly except for some British comedies & older shows such as X-Files, I have no idea about Western TV series XD Have heard quite a lot about Juno - is it worth watching or just ok movie?
I haven't seen First Kiss. But what if Mao's character spend most time locked in some room. Then her bad English would be understandable XDDD
A lot of j-dramas seem to be coming up with either movies or movie-like SPs.. Hana Yori Dando, Hana Kimi, Galileo, Kurosagi...
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Date: 2008-03-24 02:04 pm (UTC)I cringed at the 'always' part. lol. I'd like to think I am a nonconformist. :D So....no. Not really.
Gossip Girl, in terms of TV ratings, do not rank alongside, say, Grey's Anatomy or LOST, but it has a certain charm to it. JUNO is worth watching. You know those movies where you find yourself hooked to just the dialogue, and along the way you forget that the lines being delivered were actually written and rehearsed? That's how it was to me. IMO, it is very much worth watching.
My best friend was a sucker for X-Files....until Mulder went out of the picture. (And there I thought her main motivation was the storyline....*rolls eyes*)
Locked up in a room? Yeah, right. Her personality is so outgoing, almost close to warui, haha! (but the American kid understood her, or so the scene went. :D)
Galileo has an SP?! All i knew were the Kurosagi and HYD films, then the HanaKimi SP...oh and the SP SP. Err...I meant the Security Police SP....
Oh wow....
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Date: 2008-03-24 02:42 pm (UTC)I have nothing against David Duchovny in X-Files but he surely wasn't the main reason for me watching the series :D But I'm sure your friend is not the only one like that. I remember back then "everyone" was drooling at Duchovny..
I should update my j-drama knowledge.. But I doubt First Kiss is a kind of drama I like.
They started filming the Galileo movie in mid-January. I think it's meant to be out in autumn. I'm looking forward to it ^^ As well as Hana Kimi SP.
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Date: 2008-03-25 01:09 am (UTC)First Kiss was also so-so for me. Normally when I have a drama I like, I feel like I should finish it. Pronto. Sleep becomes unimportant. I don't feel such an urge with First Kiss. :D So average.
You need to update your Jdrama knowledge? I need to update my Kdrama one. :D
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Date: 2008-03-28 01:26 am (UTC)When it comes to k-dramas I have k-drama period going all the time. But when it comes to j- & tw-dramas I sometimes watch them a lot and then there are times when I watch them 0. Is it similar to you with k-dramas?
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Date: 2008-03-28 06:03 am (UTC)Everything actually started with kdramas for me....then I couldn't seem to find anything that interested me because most have th same trend (four lead stars. two guys, two girls, love square....)
But i think it's changing now, and the last I watched was Coffee Prince and Time Between Dog & Wolf? The first one was because I was curious, and the second because it was Lee Jun-ki. (That reason was enough, I tell ya.)
I am contemplating watching THE DEVIL and LOBBYIST next....(I have a feeling you're going to recomment THE DEVIL, haha!)
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Date: 2008-03-28 10:16 am (UTC)I'm so gonna recommend The Devil LOL
That drama simply has it all! Not the usual stuff. And good ending makes the drama even better. The drama is so good I'll make my siblings watch it when I go hometown hahaha.
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Date: 2008-03-28 10:32 am (UTC)Eom Tae Woong (did i get that right?) is one actor I think highly of since I saw him in Resurrection. Now that is one hell of a series! So I am gonna check THE DEVIL first, then. The Lobbyist can wait. :D *now if only i can have a free weekend.....*
would there be a need to strongarm them just to make them watch the whole thing? XDDD
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Date: 2008-03-28 11:33 am (UTC)The Devil doesn't only have him but Joo Jihoon too. And his emotionless face is perfect in the drama. I also like Shin Min Ah in this one. Oh, and music is good. But now I will stop blabbering about it XD
Older of my two younger sisters wanted some crime/mystery drama (after seeing Galileo) and I mentioned The Devil so she asked it. But of course, since I take the discs with me I need to make everyone else watch it too hahaha
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Date: 2008-03-28 01:35 pm (UTC)In Goong, I was leaning more toward the other guy, Joo Jihoon's cousin. Haha. And I haven't watched enough of Shin Min-ah. (when A Love To Kill was aired on local TV here, it was up against Dae Janggeum on another channel, and I watched it over ALTK). Maybe when my to-watch-list gives way a bit, I will be able to check it out.
I remember now. My best friend already watched THE DEVIL. Lolz. I think I'll just borrow her copy.
So no persuasion needed, eh? It's great that they show the initiative to want to watch it, without you having to impose. XDD