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dear drama, how will you end?
(Warning: May contain spoilers for those who have not started watching THAT WINTER THE WIND BLOWS.) With only five episodes to go, I am starting to get obsessed on how WINTER WIND will end. Only five episodes left and there are still sub-plots that are being introduced or hinted at. What makes this tricky is […]
SMAP & Arashi: the senpai-kōhai system
I make no secret that among Arashi’s senpais, I love TOKIO the most. I suppose it’s a reaction to how some Johnnys fans, particularly SMAP fans, react whenever Arashi is touted as the group’s “heir” to whatever collective fame and success there is in Japan’s idoru world. Besides, I’ve seen more TOKIO x Arashi interactions […]
R is for Roy, and for racing too
(Roy Qiu…why you so hot part 24) Yeah, just another Roy Qiu why you so hot post as there is no new Office Girls episode to spazz over. Now that Office Girls is done filming, Qiu Ze must be gracing the race tracks instead. Back when OG was still filming, he had already marked three […]
Roy Qiu, will you marry me???
(Roy Qiu…why you so hot part 22) Dang, a four year-old girl has beaten me to proposing to Qiu Ze. At the fan event of Office Girls where the cast turned over the Rilakkuma bears baton to the drama Love Forward that will replace them on the Sunday idol time slot, this little girl asked Roy […]
in Taiwan, there’s separation of politics and entertainment
As a political journalist with keen interest on Asian pop culture, I couldn’t help noticing that in this recent presidential campaign in Taiwan, the stars were nowhere in sight. Not that they have been very active in the previous campaigns of the candidates. I suppose they learned a very harsh lesson from A-mei herself when […]
drama: who’s HUNGRY?!
The first scene in Osamu Mukai’s drama, Hungry!, is of him showering interspersed with making breakfast. Whether there’s a connection between the two is up to the viewer but having Mukai-kun for breakfast is certainly not a bad idea. In fact, not a bad idea at all. Hungry! is about Yamate Eisuke, a rocker turned […]
movie: Sophie’s Revenge
All the time I was watching Sophie’s Revenge (2009), I kept wondering why Zhang Ziyi decided to invest in this film. Either she has money to burn or she believed in the project. Or both. I can imagine Sophie’s Revenge looking good on paper. As a novel or a comic book, it would have been […]
dammit, Roy Qiu, why you so pretty?!
(Roy Qiu…why you so hot part 20) Dammit, Roy Qiu/邱澤, why you so hot pretty?! That opening line by the way got me into a nasty fight with a Roy Qiu fan on Sina Weibo over a separate post (not in relation to these photos). The fan perhaps used Mr. Google Translate, which may have […]
well, hello 2012
I read this editorial today from the Malaysian paper, The Star, and these words struck me: “There is nothing magical about the calendar year, save for the fact that it puts some organisation and predictability into our lives. “And so, without fail, we make resolutions to help us navigate through the new year, knowing full […]
my 2011 in interviews
(This has got to be the fussiest blog post I had to do. Editing audio is really mafan!) To paraphrase Forrest Gump, journalism is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get. Sometimes you get an assignment to interview someone and it happens to be a celebrity. Sometimes also the interview […]
movie: Go Lala Go!
I’ve always wondered why Xu Jinglei is China’s most famous blogger. I thought, there has to be a reason, in the same way there has to be an explanation as to why she is considered one of the four big actresses in Chinese cinema alongside Zhang Ziyi, Vicky Zhao Wei and Zhou Xun who are […]
movie: Love Is Not Blind
This holiday weekend turned out to be some Mandarin-language movie marathon of sorts. I’ve watched Go Lala Go (China), My DNA Says I Love You (Taiwan), Sophie’s Choice (China) and the surprise hit in the mainland this year, Love Is Not Blind or 失恋33天. The film has been tagged in some articles like this as […]
movie: You Are The Apple of My Eye
(Dateline Taipei part 12) I was disappointed. I could no longer find You Are The Apple of My Eye in the theater listing on the newspapers. I thought, well, it’s been screening for months now, fat chance I’d have been able to catch it. When I interviewed Angie Cai in January this year, Apple was […]
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