Libera me, Domine, de morte æterna, in die illa tremenda

I decided to follow the rest of my peeps, and do my top 12 drama boyfriend list.

In response to cranberrysheep's Drama Boyfriend Playoffs, I listed my top 12 (well, technically it was 13, but who's counting) ideal drama boyfriends. And then ambergold and princess_dexter made more detailed posts, and well, I decided to as well!

And because I wanted pictures (and since a lot of my choices are from dramas I watched ages ago, when I didn't know how to screencap) I didn't have any ready to use caps, so I spent awhile going through my big ol' folder of drama discs. But this also meant I spent awhile rewatching my favorite parts of various dramas. But I'll get to that later.

Amusingly about half are from twdramas. Apparently I still love me some Taiwanese men after all ;P. Oddly, a lot of my choices are from unpopular dramas as well. And I totally have actor repeat offenders (three of them, actually!)

Anyway, list! (Note, the frst 5 aren't really in any concrete order. I love them all too much to choose between them)
( Top 12 drama boyfriends )

For some reason, a ton of poeple on youtube are calling Qi Xiang by the wrong name. they keep calling him Qiang Xing...which don't really sound THAT similar, and are spelled (in pinyin) totally different.

I'm back to watching A Game About Love. It was a little draggy there for awhile (not BAD draggy, just draggy), but now it's getting exciting again! It's a love square! (Well, actually, a love hexagon...)

I didn't post the Love Contract ep summary on time... Instead I fell asleep really early, and forgot my notes, and it was all just a comedy of errors. I did post it last night though! It took me around 2 or 3 hours to write up completely... now if only I could put the same dedication into my schoolwork, ne?

My other (secret) project isn't coming along. I've been too tired, but it will! Promise!

In other news, I'm at work again today (but only for an hour or so), and on the way here I got stopped by the police for accidentally taking an illegal right hand turn. I didn't see the sign that said not to. They were nice though, and only gave me a warning. I was afraid for awhile they would say something about me not wearing glasses (my license says I need glasses to drive)... I should really go change that. I don't need glasses anymore! It still kinda weirds me out...

Several things;

- I've been MIA for awhile due to my recent obsession with A Game About Love. I ADORE it (but then, don't I adore everything?!). It's so sweet, and lovely, and friendship-ey! Qiao En is really good in this role. Her character, Duo Li, is sweet and sincere. More like Xin Yi from Fated to Love You, than her characters in Prince Turns to Frog, or Ying Ye 3+1. Sam and Xun Jie are great too! Their friendship is portrayed so well. And both are fantastically adorable and hot in the drama. Yu Qiao, who plays Qiao En's sister in the drama, kinda annoys me though. I think it's her voice.

- Randomly speaking of Fated to Love You, I read somewhere that there is probably going to be a sequel! Sequels are rare (the only ones I know of are the Meteor Garden sequels, and They Kiss Again (sequel to ISWAK)), but it's not terribly surprising, considering FtLY is the #1 twdrama ever. I guess they originally were going to do a period piece, but then decided against it. That would have been awesome though!

- Haven't started my Love Contract project yet, but I will soon (maybe even tonight!). I've actually been taking notes to start my NEXT project... but that one is still a bit away.

- I just read about a kdrama called Love Story in Harvard that I so want to watch now! How could I NOT... I mean, it takes place in HARVARD. It's be so freaking awesome to watch an asian drama where the setting is a place I see EVERY DAY (yes, I see Harvard everyday... it's on my way to work, and very hard to miss).

- I've become more sure that my plan to study Mandarin in Taiwan is the right thing for me. It's still a ways away, so I have plenty of time to reconsider. Plus, one of the community colleges near me offers Chinese... so I might sign up for a beginners class. And apparently they don't teach hanzi in the class, which is good, since they'd probably teach simplified anyway. So this way, I can learn some basics, and then I'll be slightly prepared for Taiwan. Also, I want to learn in Taiwan specifically because they teach traditional hanzi. Right now, more than anything, I want to do Chinese studies (in particular, Taiwanese studies).

- It's also really annoying learning mandarin in simplified, and then having to translate it into traditional via my trust dictionary. Stupid simplified!

- Lastly, found a car today! Very possible that I will buy it. It's cheap, and looks nice. So yeah!

( Drama/Anime/Manga List update 11Oct08 )

Soooo after some thinking, I've decided that my first project will be.... Love Contract! Despite it's obvious flaws, Love Contract is one of my favorite dramas. I'll be posting episode summaries and a full scale review first. I should start sometime this week, but it's all dependant on how much time I have. Also, if my comuter decides to work...

(Yesterday, accidentally (and quite stupidly, I might add) got ANOTHER virus on my computer. BUT I did manage to get rid of the new one, plus the old adware that I couldn't get rid of. Turns out Spybot is not self-updating, so I updated the software, and it got rid of the adware and viruses easily enough. Yay! Now my only problem is, IE isn't working well, so I downloaded firefox (because safari annoys me), and right now I'm just trying to figure out how to work it...)

In other news, I've recently become a fan of Jolin Tsai. I think the comparisons between her and Britney Spears are terribly unfair (or maybe they were made when Britney was still popular (and not crazy)?)... I like her songs, her videos are really good, and she can act! Plus, according to wiki, she's pretty damn smart too. Her MV for 特務J is phenomenal! The dancing in it is really good (the pole dancing amused me, but she was wicked good at it! And the ariel silk dancing was really beautiful)! I've only seen part of the music movie for 特務J (which was subbed by Intangible! I'm going to have to download it!), but it was also really good! And SAD. And is it just me, or does Kim Jae Won look a ton like Hiraoka Yuta in the MV/movie?! For a minute I thought it was Hiraoka-san (even though I knew it wasn't)... Hiraoka-san is super cute! He was so good in First Kiss

I recently read an interview (english version here) with Chen Qiao En. She spoke about the hardships she faced early in her career (her alcoholism, not leaving the house, not getting any work, etc), and I thought it was very interesting. She seems like a relatively down to earth, kick-ass girl. I really do like her a lot.

I'm trying to download A Game About Love, but the torrents are NEVER seeded, which means it's really really slow. But I'm excited about this drama! I got a small taste of Sam/Qiao En in Prince Turns to Frog, so seeing them pair up in this drama will be fun! I COULD youtube it, but meh. I probably won't. I'll be too busy rewatching Love Contract anyways...

Oh! And I KNOW there is a subbed version of Seventh Grade out there somewhere... I just need to find out where exactly. I think it would be nice to see Seventh Grade after I finish Love Contract (again), since like, all of the cast of Love Contract is in Seventh Grade as well.