Tag: Mainland Chinese Drama

[Nirvana in Fire] Scenes from the original screenplay translation – Part 1

In case you’re avoiding spoilers – this would’ve been in around episode 49, replacing this scene… Where Xia Jiang openly accused Mei Chang Su being Lin Su in front of the Emperor and Prince Jing which wasn’t in the original novel. (The draft of this post has been sitting there for about a month…

February 3, 2016
[Unboxing] Nirvana in Fire novels from Books.com.tw

Happy 2016 everyone!! I’m still working on that proper year end reviews post so just to take a break from it, I decided to write something I haven’t written before…. unboxing! I see people do this on beauty / tech blogs (I’m sure they do so in other types of blogs but that’s just what…

January 2, 2016
Nirvana in Fire: An epic journey (plus all the feels)

I started writing this post the next day after I finished Nirvana in Fire aka Lang Ya Bang (瑯琊榜), the epic 54 episode Chinese drama starring Hu Ge, Liu Tao, Wang Kai plus many other fine actors (and actors/directors!) This is technically not a review, it’s more like – some thoughts on the reasons why…

December 24, 2015
Detectives and Doctors: Episodes 1 to 21 thoughts

Summary: I wonder if I can go the distance and finish this, or should I jump ship when I still have the chance? Oh yeah, don’t watch if you’re afraid of snakes. (I put this summary right at the start just to give you an idea how frustrated I feel with this drama right…

August 17, 2015
Will Pan returns to dramaland after 4 year absence – Bu De Bu Ai with Xu Lu

I’m not going to lie. Will Pan is one of my biases not necessarily because he makes ‘great’ music – let’s face it lyrics like “Cause you’re my baby, my baby my baby my baby, my baby my baby baby~” isn’t going to win any song writing awards (even if I love this song cos…

April 18, 2015
Songs from The Virtuous Queen of Han + photos from promo event

With The Virtuous Queen of Han aka Wei Zi Fu (衛子夫) finally getting an air date – August 20 (!), we finally get to see the opening theme, one of the sub themes plus a preview of the ending song! (Cfensi has heaps of information about this drama) Maybe I’ve been craving for a new Raymond…

August 8, 2014
Drama version of Tiny Times will now be a Youku weekly web series

To be honest as time went by the less I became interested in this drama. Tiny Times (小時代) is of course the adaptation of Guo Jing Ming’s famous novels which became a very commercially successful movie series. This drama version, by Taiwanese Director Chu Yu Ning (aka Director Winnie) starring Ivy Chen, Li Yi Feng, Andrea…

June 15, 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
Loved in the Purple / The Purple Hairpin ending thoughts

A little while ago Dee wrote this comment on my previous post about Loved in the Purple / The Purple Hairpin (紫钗奇缘): I endured all the way to the end hoping for a final twist in the plot but it was disappointing.. If you have not finished this series, don’t waste any more of your…

December 25, 2013