Tag: Melvin Sia

4 Upcoming Taiwanese Dramas to keep an eye out for

It’s a pity that Taiwanese Dramas are mostly known for their happy (sometimes mindless) rom-coms. But once in a while there’re ones that break out of this tradition but receive much less audience attention. Actually, this post was supposed to be about A Touch of Green only, but then I saw these other three on the…

April 23, 2015
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…

February 11, 2015
[Upcoming TW drama] Bad Romance with Annie Chen, River Huang, Melvin Sia and Yang Ching

ed: This drama changed its name to Boysitter. The Chinese name 魔女搶頭婚 remains the same. A few days ago, TVBS announced the cast of its upcoming drama Bad Romance (魔女搶頭婚) – Annie Chen, River Huang He, Melvin Sia and Yang Ching! This will be the 5th drama produced by TVBS (the first four being –…

August 30, 2014
Fortnightly Roundup No 18 – 28 July 2014

I feel more accomplished these past two weeks but then instead of finishing an already aired drama, I started another two currently airing dramas. Plus, no progress have been made on reviews I’ve been meaning to write for like… ages. WATCHED DRAMAS Marry or Not Eps 36 to 40 (COMPLETE) – Unfortunately I think…

July 28, 2014
The Way We Were – Story Outline & Theme Songs

Even though I still have four episodes to go for Rock N’Road, TVBS’ follow up series – The Way We Were (aka 16 Summers / 16個夏天) starring Ruby Lin, Leroy Young, Tiffany Hsu, Melvin Sia and Jason Tsou will be premiering on PTS this Saturday! (19th July) 9pm on a Saturday is not exactly a…

July 16, 2014
[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
Weekly Roundup No.1 – 11 August 2013

Ever since I went back to using a RSS reader regularly, the first thing I open whenever I go online is Feedly. In case anyone is wondering a RSS reader allows you to subscribe to ‘feeds’ – most blogs have them, so I know right away if someone has updated without visiting each site individually.…

August 11, 2013
Dragon Gate’s Alice Ke and Melvin Sia on the cover of TVBS Weekly

After two episodes I’m feeling a bit conflicted about Dragon Gate (飛越龍門客棧). On the one hand, the storyline is a bit confusing and the ‘action’ scenes just do not have a sense of urgency. On the other hand, I am absolutely loving Tammy Chen’s Jin Xiang Yu and Melvin Sia’s Xiao Dao. (not necessarily as…

August 10, 2013
The cast of Dragon Gate takes countdown to a new level

Taiwanese Drama Dragon Gate (飛越龍門客棧) starring Sunny Wang, Alice Ke, Tammy Chen and Melvin Sia is premiering tomorrow night and I really wish I can watch it live because all the main cast will be chatting with fans on their Facebook page! (Seems like a trend these days? With other currently airing dramas like “Love…

July 25, 2013
Dragon Gate photocall, where is Melvin Sia?

Yesterday (10th), the press were allowed to visit the set of “Dragon Gate“, with the leads Tammy Chen, Sunny Wang and Alice Ke in attendance. But the other lead cast member, Melvin Sia is absent. When he finally arrived, the press had already left causing much shock for him. So… was this deliberate or just…

July 11, 2013