Why TVB, Why?

Howdy folks,

I thought I'd share some of my thoughts on the current TVB news and such. No, I'm not going to share any thoughts on the Raymond Lam scandal here...those thoughts...well...they'll obviously be in my update of The Stalker...DUH! But, I'm going to comment on what Sammul Chan recently said in an interview about TVB promoting others who are their 'biological' sons and daughters. I thought that he brought quite a good point to the table. In recent years the shocker of all shockers was when at a TVB anniversary TVB gave their best actor and actress award to well-deserving candidates, Sheren Tang and Wayne Lai, respectively. But...then TVB does something that's ridiculous.

And what did they do? Well...they played along with all of the hype generated and decided to make another series starring those two...which I have yet to watch because...I don't have the patience to do so. But what TVB also went on with was the Laughing gor character. Sure, his character was interesting...but...why TVB, WHY? Why did there have to be a movie, why did there have to be a reference to this Laughing gor character in your other series, WHY is there now a series that is strictly on Laughing gor, WHY?

Being a person who grew up watching TVB series...Michael Tse has never once crossed my mind as a great actor...he is no Wayne Lai...he is no Bobby Au Yeung...who all sprouted out to become leading actors through playing various supporting roles. Michael Tse got lucky with playing Laughing gor, because that character was indeed 'well-written' and I'm using this term VERY loosely. However, Michael Tse did impress me at one point in La Femme Desperado...but...again, his 'partner' was Sheren Tang, whose acting I have always loved.

So...TVB is promoting Michael Tse. So far this year he has one series released and another to be released. I know at this point Michael Tse supporters are going to attack me for saying this...but...WHY? Yes, it's true that TVB has already released two series with Kevin Cheng, two with Steven Ma, and two that has Bosco Wong (Yes, I'm just talking about male actors, don't worry...probably when Yes Sir, No Sir airs...I WILL have something to say about...Tavia Yeung). But...you see, readers, people of the world who have stumbled upon this blog...the characters that those actors played varied...but...for Michael Tse...he has been type-casted.

As you can see...even if he isn't type-casted...his facial expressions are identical...yes...Laughing gor is undercover as YUE CHI-HIU (on the left) and has time-traveled to become Ngo Siu-fung (on the right)...NO WAY!

I am actually very sick and tired of having to see Laughing gor in so many series...I mean Michael Tse...that I might just not watch Emissary...even though I do miss Sammul Chan. TVB should have let Pak-Kiu shine instead of marry that wooden girl...whose name is totally not part of my memory. To be very honest, I would've much preferred another installment of The Academy with Sammul and Ron leading the series...especially because from the last installment, not only did they share greater chemistry compared to previous series (which makes sense), but their acting has also improved...yes, Ron Ng's acting has slowly but surely improved.

So...WHY TVB, WHY?

My Apologies

Howdy,

I have to apologize for the fact that I CAN NOT update my fanfic tonight...the reason as to why lies with an assignment that is extremely absurd (which is due tomorrow).

I will try however to update the fanfic SOON...since it is my goal to update this new fanfic once every 2 weeks...and it has been 2 weeks...but i can assure you it won't 'leak' over onto the next week.

ALSO!!! When I update The Stalker...there is a high possibility that Take 2 will FINALLY be updated after a VERY long time.

RANDONESS...OUT!!!

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

It's almost the end of the week...tomorrow is prom...then...BAM! EXAMS...

Anywho...school has been getting on my nerves lately. Let's see why...

Well... We had a 'celebration assembly' and I felt that it was so wrong. Wrong in the sense that this celebration assembly was supposed to be on Asian Heritage. Asian, that must be all of Asia. So...that should include ALL the countries in Asia, if I'm not mistaken. But...it didn't include all of Asia...hmmm...let's see...it actually left OUT the majority of Asia. And can we all guess which Asians did this assembly NOT leave out? I'll give you a hint, stereotypically speaking they are 'brown.' I didn't want to be racist and actually put it NOT in quotations. So anyways...they didn't leave out countries like Pakistan and India, no...of course not. Not when the chair of the parent council who 'decided' to have the assembly is from one of those countries. Hmm...what does this leave me to say? It leaves me to say that it was a racist assembly. That's right, plain RACIST. I would NOT have said it was racist if, they wanted to celebrate Indian and Pakistan Heritage, no because it is what it is. But it was Asian Heritage, and to say Asian Heritage is just Indian and Pakistan Heritage is racist. It's like saying all Canadians are white. It's the same concept and that concept is WRONG. How can people not see how this is just NOT right? How do people fail to see that we just went against our own Canadian charter by administrating such an event. How is it fair to other Asian people from other Asian countries? IT IS NOT FAIR!!! I felt cheated of and lied to. This was the first year my school has done an assembly like this, and what happens, more than half of Asia is NOT included.

Speaking of Asia...let's go to something else before I continue to rant on about how I dislike my school for being racist.

The earthquake in China and its territories have killed so many innocent lives that I feel that my school should have gone over that, and have a little memorial thing for those people. But...half of my school consists of 'brown' people, and about a third is 'black' people. Why would they even bother with such a thing. And it makes me feel so horrible, even though I'm not chinese. Teachers always tell us to read the news and pay attention to things internationally, thus, they still were able to not do anything that is so significant like a mini memorial for the thousands of lives that were recently lost. What a shame.

Anyways...moving away from such a depressing thing, I recently finished the TVB series Catch Me Now. For a series that I never intended to watch, it was quite entertaining. The 21st century robin hood thing really works. I totally agree with his character when he says how some bad guys can't be punished by the laws, and thus, he needs to punish them using extraordinary means. This is totally true, we all know it. The law is there, but it can only do so much. Justice may or may not be served, but in the series it really shows you how there are different means to serving justice, the legal and illegal way. Overall I really enjoyed it, very interesting.

Now...my fanfics....Tired of Being Sorry should be updated this weekend...since I always have ideas for it. As for Take 2, I seem to be having issues finding a way to continue it, maybe I really lost that inspiration I once had for it. I don't really know. Recently I've been working on an opening theme for my new fanfic that should be coming this summer...I'm having difficulty giving the newest fanfic a title, thus, it's difficult to write the lyrics to the song. I think this fanfic will be amusing...and dramatic...and I'll leave it at that. lol

I'm tired, restless, and I have a calculus quiz on Prom day...I think I should study...well...that's all folks.

Life

People say a lot of things, like opportunities don't come to you, so you should grab any opportunity that passes you by. People also say that you should dream big...thus, people say a lot of things. It's funny how my life does not really reflect what people say. The greatest opportunities were always given to me, I never had to really grab it or take a hold of it. It somehow came waltzing by and took a hold of me. So...I continued to think that everything would be 'spoon fed' to me by someone...though, I don't really know who. Now that I'm in grade 12 the final year of high school...I realized that if I wanted something I should go for it. Grab it by its tail and not let it go. So I grabbed, and I missed. How funny it is to think that people say that you should grab the opportunities that come by you, when that doesn't seem to be working for me at all.

I wanted to get into this program in university, first thinking that it would just give my ego another boost, I applied. When I found out what the program was really able to give me, I wanted it...and tried to do as much as I could possibly do to get in. My efforts were wasted, I got rejected. I faced rejection with a laugh and moved on with my life. I applied for a scholarship, I thought that I would get it, just because I have a huge ego and I did a lot of extracurricular activities, but...I didn't. Opportunities seem to be just slipping away from my grasp one by one. Then, valedictorian...it's funny how...it was one of the few things that I ever wanted to do in high school. I thought it would be a true democratic system where who wanted to run would run, but it wasn't. It was a popularity contest, and the funny part is, only half of the graduates were aware of this popularity contest, which caused me to not get what I wanted.

One by one, opportunities are waltzing by, I try to grab a hold of them and they seem to just slip away, further and further away from me. Today we voted for the valedictorian, I sat there and listened. There was nothing that I could've done. Nothing. Why wasn't I up there? I asked myself, was it that I wasn't qualified enough? Was it that I'm not popular enough? Was it because I can't seem to represent my peers? I personally don't think so. I actually think that I would've been a much better valedictorian candidate than both of the people on stage. But what can I do? Nothing. I guess it's fate...that I can't get what I want....when I actually really want it.

It's funny how i always get things that I never truly want, and end up really liking it. I never really wanted to join any sports team...I ended up playing on multiple teams. I never wanted to do any extracurricular activities, I ended up being in almost all of them. I never intended to be in the student council, I ended up being president. But when I wanted to be valedictorian, I didn't get it. When I wanted that scholarship and to get into that program, I didn't get it. Does it mean that I should just want nothing in life and in return get everything? How does that make any sense? Why is it that when I want something so badly, I can never seem to get it? Why is it that nothing ever goes the way I planned it to go...how am I supposed to think of my future when already the events that take in my life just happens spontaneously.

I'm so confused, so upset, I feel like I'm being toyed with, yet I can't seem to do anything. Everytime I want to speak out, they say I'm complaining, everytime I want to take action, they call me a rebel. What am I supposed to do? Sit and stare at a wall? I'm tired of being seen as a lucky person, for having all that I have today, I'm sick and tired of being looked down upon because they assume I have connections to get my way through life when I don't. Half of the things I've ever done is because I did it at the spur of the moment. I guess I'll always be a spontaneous person, whatever happens will happen.

I never get what I want...nor do I get what I need...I just get things...that I would never think I could get.

My life sounds so very odd...what about yours?

My Apologies

I know that I said before that I would update this fanfic during the week/before the weekend but because of the many events that took place, I was unable to do so.

My week started off fine, as in everything went pretty well. Our school managed to come second in the Science Olympics (yes, I was part of the team). So the next day we come back to school...everything seemed to have spiraled downward for me.

It's funny how for all of the classes I have, I have a student teacher. I, as an extremely opinionated and creative student never get along with student teachers. I don't know, maybe I have the mentality that they are not really teachers, but rather students. STudents that are trying very hard to impress the teacher (my actual teacher). I find them to be somewhat pathetic and they tick me off. Maybe this explains why my marks are always dropping whenever I have a student teacher. So...I failed the math assessment and asian failed a bio assignment...

And remember...it continues to spiral downward. I come home to check my email...and what do I see...a rejection email from the university program that I actually wanted to go into. Now...with everything that happened...do you really think I was in the mood to update?

Of course not. I was disappointed at myself for not getting a higher average and disappointed with the typos that I found in my supplementary application for that program. Then the 'what if's ' started to pop in my head. I really hate those 'what if's' so very horrible in deed.

So...let me inform you of my update. The update will take place this weekend...I don't care how busy I am...but I WILL UPDATE this fanfic because it is my outlet. I really do enjoy writing...it's funny how I love writing, I love music...and yet I want to go into science. Maybe it's an asian influence, maybe I've been watching too many doctor related series...or maybe...just maybe...there is something in my past that motivates me to go into sciences and become a doctor.

Yes...this sounds like the story of a typical asian...but let's face it...that's the reality of an Asian person. Your parents will always want you to be a doctor, lawyer, pharmacist, engineer...and etc. Personally...I actually like those occupations, I love to argue, I love research and I like taking things apart, and cutting things open. Anywho...back to the fanfic.

The next chapter will arrive soon...very soon...hopefully, I'll finish writing it tonight, and post it up sometime during this weekend. HOPEFULLY.

Anyways...I finished watching A Journey Called Life, and I absolutely loved it...well more like really liked it...and now I'm starting to watch Catch Me Now. At first it didn't appeal to me at all, but...I thought it might be cool...so ya...


And this summer...there will be a fanfic...a very nicely crafted fanfic written by me. So far...I have the plot, and I'm working on the intro video and I already wrote a very short instrumental openning theme for it. Hopefully it won't be a disappointment.


TOODLES

Random

I finally finished all of my school exams about two days ago. I tried to not think about my exams...but couldn't help myself. Then the moment of truth came when I realized the many stupid little mistakes that I made and thought to myself 'why didn't i see that before?' It all came at that moment, that moment of realization...grrr...

Have you ever had those? You know...that moment when you couldn't think of the right words to say, or the right thing to write down...or the right thing to do. And then, hours, days maybe months later it comes to you. OUT OF NO WHERE! It's that moment when you decided to think about that thing whatever it was...and the answer just pops in your head like it was there all along waiting, just waiting for that moment when your mind someone wandered upon it.

But now I can't do much...the past is the past...I can only hope that I did well...and move on. A new semester will be starting...and I better be prepared. Two science and a math doesn't sound too fun...but it'll all be over soon enough...then it's the next part of life. The next chapter...university.


~sigh~

Now moving onto another topic.

So...I've been watching WOIL2 and SL2. I expected nothing from both series since I didn't really enjoy WOIL to begin with...and most of the cast from SL seemed to have disappeared. It's really sad how TVB wants to make a sequel for SL, yet it's a completely new cast with exceptions to Sammul of course. What I found to be very odd was Kenneth Ma's role as the new lead in SL2. He was the pervert in SL with the fetish for ripped/torn pantyhose...yet he's a lawyer in this one? I'm not saying I'm not enjoying his character...but TVB could've done better with someone else. As for WOIL2, for some very odd reason, Myolie's role reminds me of her role in GA, honestly, maybe it's those random day dreams that she has in this series, or the over exaggerated looks that she gives which really resembled her character in GA.

Speaking of both series...their theme songs are...below average. Kenneth butchered the theme song to SL2. And the sub theme for WOIL2 with Myolie and that Vincent guy is not that great...I actually prefer the sub theme with Myolie and Bosco...and of course Bosco's singing isn't considered anywhere close to being the greatest. That really says something lol

So far this year...there hasn't been a single series that is really worth watching...it's really a pity...but then again there are series that I am looking forward to like The Four...I haven't seen a wuxia series in ages and it's really killing me...I really hope that it'll be decent and half memorable...though...I don't like Kenneth.

There's something about him that I just can't seem to like. He's a bit old, but age doesn't matter, since I loved Damian in DOL. He's not that good-looking, but looks shouldn't matter, Bobby isn't handsome, but he's amazing. He's not charming? Well I don't really know the reason. Maybe I should give him time to 'grow' on me.

You know...there will always be actors or actresses that you don't seem to like and will never know the reason why...and for me...Kenneth Ma is one of them.