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  • Constellation Women Series: Aries Eps 1 to 4 – The Good, The Bad (and worse)

    Constellation Women Series: Aries Eps 1 to 4 – The Good, The Bad (and worse)

    I posted about this drama some months ago and it finally aired last month! Constellation Women Series: Aries stars Janet Hsieh, Xiu Jie Kai, Chloe Wang and Patrick Lee and the idea is obvious – it aims to bring astrology into the storyline. Apparently, FTV already did a similar thing back in the 90s, there…

  • Dear Mom Episodes 1 to 25 thoughts

    Dear Mom Episodes 1 to 25 thoughts

    Since I was away a few weeks ago, I’m now WAYYYYY behind on Dear Mom (我的寶貝四千金), SETTV’s currently airing daily drama. I don’t usually watch Taiwanese daily dramas, because they are normally over 70 episodes and they adopt a shoot-as-you-air format. Scenes we’re watching tonight could’ve been shot a day or two ago. Needless to…

  • Bolin Chen and Yang Zi Shan’s vintage glamour for GQ Taiwan

    Bolin Chen and Yang Zi Shan’s vintage glamour for GQ Taiwan

    Since 20 Once Again (重返20歲 aka C version of Miss Granny) was released overseas a couple of weeks ago – who saw it?! Unfortunately I missed its ruin in the cinemas here which I’m kicking myself for since I was really looking forward to it. 🙁 But at least Bolin Chen and Yang Zi Shan…

  • Sonia Sui, Christopher Lee and Hans Chung in GQ Taiwan: Who is Mr Right?

    Sonia Sui, Christopher Lee and Hans Chung in GQ Taiwan: Who is Mr Right?

    January has traditionally been not such a good drama-watching month for me. Besides drama-ing, a major fandom in my life is tennis. Although my favourite has now retired and I don’t follow it as much as I did, I still watch a lot of it in January because a few tournaments (including the first grand…

  • New Year, New Theme!

    New Year, New Theme!

    The last time we changed themes around here was over a year ago! Although I like the previous one a lot (it might’ve been love at first sight! LOL) but it’s time for a change right? Looking at it now though, it’s not all that different. 😛 I actually started working on a dark theme…

  • [Upcoming TW Drama] Rose Battle with Tammy Chen, Yao Yuan Hao, Jason Tsou and Nana Lee

    [Upcoming TW Drama] Rose Battle with Tammy Chen, Yao Yuan Hao, Jason Tsou and Nana Lee

    After taking a break for over a year, Tammy Chen Yi Rong is back for TVBS’s new drama Rose Battle 哇!陳怡君 aka Wah! Chen Yi Jun (its previous name was ‘My name is Chen Yi Jun’). Filming had just started on the 8th of January with the full cast finally announced. Previously, Cash Chuang and Kingone…

  • Another one of those year end review posts

    Another one of those year end review posts

    Compared to the last two years, a great thing this year is that I don’t have to work between Christmas and New Years! I was hoping to catch up on some dramas – as you’ll see below I’ve started a few with the ‘intention’ of continuing on but then life just got in the way,…

  • Time Roamer: An interview with Gregory Wong

    Time Roamer: An interview with Gregory Wong

    Just in my last post on HKTV’s The Election, I mentioned my favourite character right now in that series is Cheung Kwai Lung, portrayed by Gregory Wong 王宗堯. I’m very happy to see him back on the TV screen because back in 2008, he filmed Who’s The Hero (勝者為王) with a pretty decent cast including…

  • The Election Episodes 1 to 4 thoughts

    The Election Episodes 1 to 4 thoughts

    After all the initial excitement of HKTV’s launch, it’s time to dust off the hype and actually view it for what it is. Does The Election live up to the hype? If you read the comments on JayneStars (which I tend to avoid most of the time), the reactions are mixed. On the one side,…

  • [WINNERS ADDED] DP.com’s First ‘Choose your cover’ Giveaway!

    [WINNERS ADDED] DP.com’s First ‘Choose your cover’ Giveaway!

    [UPDATED January 2nd 2015] Happy New Year!! Thank you so much everyone for entering, I will be contacting these winners individually on which covers to send etc!   The winners drawn (in order) are: Michelle (via comment), Foreverjaasmine (via Tumblr), Littlecloverstar (via Tumblr) and Ifrah Saeed (via Comment)   For completeness purposes: Link to the spreadsheet…

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