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[Upcoming TW-drama] The Way We Were with Ruby Lin, Leroy Young, Tiffany Hsu and Melvin Sia

News about the TVBS/CTS/Ruby Lin produced The Way We Were (16個夏天 / 16 Summers) had been floating around for a while and finally it started filming recently!!! Back in May last year during the TVBS launch of its drama division, The Way We Were was announced to be the third drama being made by TVBS (the…

April 2, 2014
Fortnightly Roundup No. 12 – 23 March 2014

I thought I was making progress climbing out of this slump but looking back it doesn’t feel like I’ve watched much these past couple of weeks. Maybe it’s just the ‘illusion’ of making progress because I watched the first ep of Rock N’ Road and got the motivation back for 100% Entertainment again. WATCHED…

March 23, 2014
PMAM Episodes 1 to 10 thoughts

Taiwan has always given me the impression that it’s a rather conservative country. I’m not from Taiwan so this impression is just formed by watching their TV shows and a few visits. However, despite the talks of tradition, Confucius teachings and whatnot, like other parts of Asia there’s also plenty of scantily claded females on the covers of…

March 19, 2014
Dylan Kuo-centric stills from upcoming C-Drama Love is Brave

As much as Dylan Kuo keeps saying he wants to move away from the rich guy roles, it doesn’t look like he’s been offered much else because guess what he plays in the upcoming c-drama Love is Brave (一場奮不顧身的愛情 / Yi Chang Fen Bu Gu Shen De Ai Qing) – a guy from a rich…

March 16, 2014
Upcoming C/TW dramas which might pull me out of this slump

[Updated 3 April with airing dates for Lovestore at the corner (April 18) and Prince William (April 25).] I guess it is a bit of slump when I’m not uber motivated to follow on-air dramas! So are these upcoming dramas going to help? I guess none of them are on my MUST watch list…

March 12, 2014
Ivy Chen & Shawn Yue’s new movie Close Friend’s first character posters

I thought about this post’s title for a bit, because upcoming movie Close Friend (閨蜜 / Gui Mi) has a pretty damn good looking cast besides Ivy Chen and Shawn Yue (That would be Vanness Wu, Wallce Chung, Fiona Sit and Yang Zi Shan). Plus it has a well known Hong Kong director attached to…

March 10, 2014
Fortnightly Roundup No. 11 – 8 March 2014

This post will be quick, I think. Because if anyone was reading my irregular updates on the sidebar, they would’ve noticed I haven’t watched much of anything lately. I keep seeing news about upcoming dramas that are neither here nor there, by that I mean yeah… I want to see (insert actor) in a drama…

March 9, 2014
[Friday5] Aarif Rahman (Lee) songs

Earlier this month I saw some stills of Fan Bing Bing’s new c-drama The Empress of China (Wu Ze Tian) and amongst the cast is her rumoured boyfriend – Aarif Rahman aka Aarif Lee aka 李治廷. Well, I don’t know whether they are actually dating or not but my first reaction was actually – *GRRRRR/SIGH*…

February 28, 2014
A Time of Love (Part 3: Korea) Recap

At a coffee shop, Kim Dong Sung / King (Youn Jung-Hoon) is waiting for someone. He is about to leave when Linda (Linda Chung) arrives saying she’s only late for 45 minutes. She wants to learn basic Korean conversation in three weeks. Since he lived in Hong Kong before and understands Cantonese, she wants him…

February 26, 2014
Fortnightly Roundup No. 10 – 18 February 2014

This post is way overdue I know! The ‘drama slump’ bug must be contagious because that’s what I feel like at the moment. I am not watching any on-air dramas and I watched the second last episode of A Good Wife at least two to three weeks ago and still haven’t finished it! >< Is…

February 18, 2014

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