My To Do Lost

So...as I said on my last post...there were a few things I wanted to get done this week

1. Update Take 2 √
2. Post up a little something on my FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE (in my personal blog) √
3. Post up review for Gem of Life√
4. Update A Truthful Lie √


As you can see there will be a bolded checkmark thing beside the things I have done =D

I'm BACK!!!

WOW! Can you imagine that I survived my first year of university by watching a lot of TVB, korean and japanese dramas? That's sadly what I did...which was a bad idea. I should've spent the time reading my text, solving homework problems and reading a lot of other stuff...but instead I sat at my desk and stared into my laptop. That explains my total train-wreck of an average. It's not BAD...it's just not good at all...it's so 'not good' that I didn't even make the Dean's list...there goes my scholarship...*tear*

Anyways...let's get back on track.

So...I initially thought that I would be updating my fanfics today...but...after seeing my EXTREMELY depressing physics mark...it totally destroyed my mood and inspiration to write...which is why I'm sorta blogging to let off some steam. So...what does this mean you might ask? Well...let me show you the line-up...for this week

1. Update Take 2 (yes...the fanfic that is NEVER updated...will be updated)
2. Post up a little something about first year...in my personal blog
3. Post up a review on Gem of Life...
4. Update A Truthful Lie
5. To be announced...


Well...that's this week's line up of events...so...be sure to come back to my blog...or visit my fanfics...and check those out...(they'll be coming up...one at a time...from tomorrow until Sunday) and then...we'll see what I will come up with next.

Below is a video that I posted up on Youtube...under a different account and it is a piece that I wrote...to me it still sounds a bit unfinished...but I did improvise the ending of it...so ya. Check it out, I hope you enjoy and...forgive me for screwing up my own piece of music at the beginning.

That's a Wrap!

What a year 2008 was...I’m in total shock that it’s over...

For me 2008 was a year of change, moving forward from high school where I could sleep in class but barely did, to university where I shouldn’t sleep in class but did. University has been tougher than I had originally expected...and thus, it took away my time for writing fanfics and updating my blog.

In the year 2008 I watched 10 out of the 26 TVB series that was released...and I’m still watching Gem of Life...a series that is a bit older for me to watch...but still very watchable nonetheless. After being a TVB fan for so long, I thought I should explore what other types of dramas had to offer. So, 2008 became my year of exploration, watching both Japanese and Korean dramas. And I was amazed...by the difference in the storyline they had compared to TVB’s.

But TVB did end up offering quite a number of high quality dramas this year...I was shockingly pleased with quite a few of these dramas. Well, most of them didn’t satisfy me in every way possible, but the drama did its job as a whole...to entertain. I think the drama that I actually liked the most out of all the dramas I watched this year...was in fact not a TVB drama/series. It’s sad to say that the one drama I enjoyed most...was in fact a Korean drama entitled World Within or something along those lines.

TVB dramas may be something I watched since probably when I was born...but over the years the realization that a lot of what it has to offer is more idealistic or extremely unrealistic just loses my interest. TVB has produced several dramas that deal with the day to day lives of families...the inner struggle and all...but fails to do something...something that...the Korean drama I found myself enjoying actually displayed.

Anyways, back to TVB...I did enjoy quite a few of the series they had produced this year like Catch Me Now, My Class or Yours, The Four, and A Journey Called Life. Yes, those series only had about 20 or so episodes...and I found myself not losing interest. You may say that these four series are not memorable, and I would not argue that point with you for the fact that I agree that they are not memorable..

but sometimes I watch certain series for the sake of entertainment...and these four series served its purpose. And plus I’ve learned quite a few interesting things from two of the four above mentioned series...

Of course there were disappointments this year as well...like all of the sequels. Yes, some of the sequels had higher ratings than their prequels or supposed prequels (cough, moonlight, cough). But the saddening part is those series tried too hard...

Let’s take an example from Moonlight Resonance...it achieved a remarkable high rating, it took home several awards yet I didn’t find myself loving it at all. In fact, the only characters I enjoyed watching from Moonlight were Ha Yu’s, Moses’, Susanna’s, Tavia’s and Michelle’s. Those five people stole the show for me. Their acting was up to par...or met my expectations, and their characters were very likable in a more realistic manner...compared to characters like Raymond’s, Linda’s and Bosco’s, which were horrific. I must apologize to fans of Raymond before continuing this blog...for I hated his role with a passion. His role resembled Moses’ role from Heart of Greed...but Raymond’s role was ridiculous. How could there possibly be such a nice guy like that...actually it is NOT possible. Raymond’s portrayal of the character made him look stupid, naive and in a way made it seem like he was too good to be true. Moses’ character in Heart of Greed on the other hand, was a nice guy as well...but more realistic...since he had fantasized about being with Linda’s character...which makes it seem very logical. It’s a shame that TVB tried so hard to make Raymond’s character likable, that it backfired and made me hate his character SO VERY MUCH!

Ah...I’ll continue this rant later in the year when I actually decide to write reviews on the TVB series I’ve watched in 2008...or at least a few of them.

Moving on to 2009, what will I do?

First off, I’ll finish my Christmas Special, and then I’ll finish Tired of Being Sorry...which was supposed to be finished eons ago. That would leave me with A Truthful Lie and the fanfic that is on and off of hiatus, Take 2. Hopefully, I won’t randomly decide to start another fanfic before I finish A Truthful Lie...which I hope will become a tear jerker...lol

As for TVB series...my plan is to watch a couple of the sequels, any series with Tavia or Ron or Bobby or Jessica in them, the grand production with Gallen, and the series with Nick Cheung.

Lately, I’ve been sick of seeing Raymond and Bosco on my computer screen/TV...and the good news is, apparently Raymond only has one series next year...which I might consider watching, if it’s a modern one. As for Bosco...TVB should just stop giving him roles that make him look like a useless human being in the series. I know my words are a bit harsh, but hey, it’s not like I’m criticizing his acting or anything. I just find his recent roles useless...but on a good note...I do enjoy listening to one of his songs, which I don’t remember the title of. Oh well.

Also...I will...continue to watch The Gem of Life until the very end...I will be patient with it and let it grow on me because I do find it a bit interesting lol

Well...

I wish everyone a year filled with joy, laughter, good health and good luck!

Random: Life

As you have noticed, I have not updated my fanfics or this blog lately. The reason is due to being occupied with so many other things. Yes, I've stated many many times how this is my first year of university and so time management might become an issue with me...so I can only ask you as my readers, as my supporters and I know this might sound sort of weird, but as my virtual friends, to be a little patient with me. I might not update once a week or even once every two weeks but I will update, as long as you continue to support me.

They say first year of university is quite a big change from highschool and I have to say I do agree with what they say. University is different, it's bigger, there's more people and you have to walk a lot more to get to classes. Luckily, I'm staying on residence, which makes the amount of time I take to transport myself to class less. I do like staying on residence, but sometimes I do miss my bed at home, I miss my little sister refusing to go to bed because I'm still awake working away on my fanfics and telling my mom that I'm doing my homework. And of course I just miss my family as a whole, but I guess it's time for me to grow up.

Life is like a blank notebook, I know that comparison has been used quite often, but I'll use that again. At first you're the blank page, not knowing anything, but as time goes by, your story is written in it, memories; the good and the bad, the people you meet; the friends you make and the life lessons you learn. I'm not a fan of keeping a diary and I have never kept a diary...but I do remember each and every event that I have been through and it's funny when I think about the past. When I turn back to the pages of my notebook that is securely left in my head, I can say that I've lived...and most importantly, I'm still living. I'm doing the things I like, and I'm enjoying myself.

If you are not in university or college and would like to actually find out more about how it's like you can definitely leave a comment and I'll be glad to tell you about my first two weeks here. =D

Now...onto another subject.

I really have to say thank you to everyone who's been commenting and asking about how's school going and everything for me. I really feel 'loved' and so I really need to say thank you to all of you...without your support I don't know if I would've been able to make it through the two years of writing fanfics. At the back of my mind I will always be reminded that I'm a very lucky person...not only do I have a family that loves and supports me, but I also have many people who support me online as well...Thank You.

My fanfics are coming along just fine...and you'll be seeing an update very soon...as soon as I finish typing/editing the chapter. I'm no perfectionist, but I don't want my ideas to be conveyed the wrong way...I really want you to read/imagine what I've envisioned lol...

So...last week I updated Tired of Being Sorry...and I did not get a chance to update A Truthful Lie as of yet...but don't you worry I will update that this week.

A general announcement that I'd like to make is that if I ever update my fanfics i will do so either on a Tuesday night or a Friday night depending on my workload. As for this week you can definitely find A Truthful Lie being updated sometime tomorrow evening and I do hope you will enjoy it.

Also...I think I'll write a series review for Moonlight Resonance once I'm done watching it! and if I have time lol...

*hug*

An Overdue Review: The Seventh Day

Seventh Day is basically a ‘korean-like’ drama. That was what I thought of it when it started filming. To me most Korean dramas, their goal is to support the companies selling tissue paper. I’ve noticed whenever my mom or someone watches one of those ‘touching’ Korean dramas, they end up finishing my box of tissues. Most of these ‘touching’ dramas end up with one of the lead dying of cancer. Honestly, what really is the possibility of getting cancer? Why is it such a popular thing for these ‘touching’ dramas? So When I heard that Seventh Day would be like that, I automatically assumed that one of the leads would get cancer. How? I didn’t really care.

The Seventh Day was a series that I never once thought that I would look forward to watching. It was one of those series that I thought that I would probably skip just because I didn’t feel like it had that ‘attracting’ power. When it came out, I thought I’d give it a try, since I really had nothing else to watch. The first few episodes were ‘meh.’ They weren’t draggy, but neither were they interesting. I thought that I would give up on the series...but since I still had nothing better to watch, I continued to watch it. The more I watched, the more I noticed myself being entertained by it. I have to admit that Bosco and Natalie really helped pull the series through. Yes, Kevin and Niki are the ‘main’ pair, but their storyline was nothing close to entertaining. Watching Kevin and Niki was entertaining in the sense that they had so much chemistry together, but...their storyline was just so ‘bleh.’

Some scenes I enjoyed watching in first half of the series would have to be the ones with Bosco and Natalie, when they were trying to get the other to ‘fall’ in love with them. These storylines are often used, but no matter how many times they are used, they are still very entertaining to watch. I just loved it how both Don and Sasa had their own motives. Usually one of the two would be ‘innocent’ and the ‘innocent’ person would be the one who would get hurt when the truth comes out. But in this case, while proceeding with their plans, they actually fell in love. At one point Don even thought about dating Sasa if she wasn’t a rich girl. But of course that couldn’t happen; TVB had to add their own drama into it. Don finds out that Sasa is in fact not a rich girl at all, so he decides to avoid her, thinking that she would actually leave him. But at the moment, Sasa actually ‘loved’ him. Thinking that he was ill, she tried to do things to accommodate his needs. When she found out that the only reason why he wanted to go out with her was because he thought she was rich, the tables turned.

Watching Natalie and Bosco trick each other was highly amusing. Watching Natalie torture Bosco during their ‘relationship’ and when she found out the truth was also amusing. Watching Bosco realize that he actually loved Natalie was cute. But this only occurred during the first half of the drama...

The second half of the series no longer had the highly entertaining Natalie and Bosco bits, but were filled with the more emotional scenes brought to us by Kevin and Niki. It was starting from episode 11 that moved along Kevin and Niki’s storyline. From the beginning of the series we all knew that Niki had some hereditary illness, and knew that her mother had died from it. From episode 10 we found out that Kevin was somehow linked to someone’s death. But we knew nothing more than that.

Kevin’s Ah Wing ended up quitting his job at the coffee shop. Niki’s Ah Yan finds a postcard from some anonymous person at Ah Wing’s apartment. (dum...dum...dum...) At this moment I already thought that something will happen between them. Niki’s character, who is quite naive didn’t trust Ah Wing. Apparently from the writing she could tell that it was from a woman. Taking her cousin’s advice, she decides to give him ‘the silent treatment.’ When she finally received his messages he was in Japan. Japan? Wasn’t that where that old man accused Ah Wing of killing his daughter? (Gasps) This must mean that it’s linked to that ‘other’ woman.

Ah Yan ends up going to Japan to find Ah Wing...this is where it was supposed to get really exciting, which it was...sort of. Now we have a storyline with one person having AIDS and the other having cancer...wow...so ‘Korean-like.’

Since I’m not too fond of going into details, I’ll skip ahead to the ending. I have to admit that the ending was much better than I had expected. I expected that Niki would die...like just die because the surgery didn’t go too well. But I was wrong...she lived. I really liked how Ah Yan’s daughter was born on the same day as Sasa’s. And watching Ah Wing and Don congratulate each other was quite amusing as well. The best part about the ending has to be how Kevin was narrating and he’s standing in a field of snow when someone throws a snowball at him...and then a couple of seconds later you see that scene again, he looks a bit older. That was the moment when he mentioned Niki died, and the person throwing the snowball at him was his little daughter. I think TVB did a smart thing with that, maybe because I’m still young and haven’t watched enough series, but I think that this was actually an original thing. I liked it. As for Don and Sasa, after all of the misunderstandings, they got back together. Don’s comic idea thing was cute.

All in all, this series was actually enjoyable, and a lot better than I had expected it to be. I guess I just have low expectations for TVB now a days since, all their ‘master-pieces’ and ‘grand-productions’ are not always great. So I’d rather have low expectations and not get disappointed than have high expectations and get a feeling of great disappointment.

As for the star of the show...it has to be (drum roll)

JACK!

He is the cutest and smartest dog I have ever seen on a TVB series. The interactions between Ah Yan and Jack were amazing. I loved it how he always knew when she was lying, when she wasn’t feeling well and was always there for her. I’m pretty sure if Jack was human, Ah Yan would’ve easily fallen for him.

Random

There are only a few weeks left until summer break is over, and then it's back to school for me. Well, technically it's not 'back to school' since this will be my first year of university, something that I've always looked forward to. I guess I'm feeling a bit confused at the moment since I really don't know how exactly I feel about going to university. There are just so many things to do at the moment that I feel as though I'm busier than when I was in school. They say that summer is meant for relaxing, but I've noticed that over the past couple of years my summers have been more stressful.

Maybe I'm getting a bit older, maybe I have more things on my mind or maybe...I've lost that enjoyment I once had for summer break. This summer has been the most uninteresting out of all summers, it seems as though the only thing that is occupying me is planning for university and piano...and of course as a hobby writing fanfics. But really...I want to do the things I've done in the past when I was little. Spending those carefree hours outdoors with my family, flying kites, having a picnic, bike rides, tennis...the normal things I would do. I really hope that by the end of August I'll be able to do those things...even skipping rocks would make my summer a bit more 'fun.'

Speaking of 'fun,' I've written a song that is completely childish humour, so if you would like to listen to it, please don't complain about the content or be offended by it in any way shape or form...this is completely for the sake of entertainment.

http://www.imeem.com/people/T5Johj/music/HwPG9Z60/jennifer_dang_aka_randomness_ft_linda_dang_the_fingers_a/

Alright...I've been working on a song for A Truthful Lie...it's actually the subtheme...but I'm having some difficulty recording it so...if you'd like to hear it, it should be available in 2 weeks for next week I will restrain myself from the computer altogether to prepare for my piano exam...something has been delayed for quite a while now. I'm really excited about it for it is the main thing that is holding my summer back, yet it's one of my greatest hobbies and I think when I play it makes me feel great. And it allows me to really express myself, just like any other form of art...

Speaking of which, I should be updating Tired of Being Sorry...tomorrow since I don't want to delay it's update any further. Tomorrow's update will end with a poem that I've written months before and it fits perfectly into the chapter, and you will see why.

So...keep a close eye out for it...

Question: Have you been watching the Olympics lately?

NEW FANFIC!!!

Alright...So...

How has everyone been doing? Hmm...let's see...Tired of Being Sorry will end by August...and if you remember, I've mentioned multiple times about a new fanfic...so...here is my MV for my newest fanfic and most importantly the song that you hear in the background is not only written by me but also sung by me. I know...my voice is not that great...but whatever...it was fun. =D

*The recording is a bit bad...since I'm an amateur but...hopefully you'll enjoy it.*





So now you know the main characters in my newest fanfic...well then...I'll let you know when the foreword will be up...and so on.


=D