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Awhile ago I kinda promised/hinted at my top drama lists. I have a top ten for jdramas, a top 5 for twdramas, and a top 3 for kdramas. I kinda wanted to make it fancy, and I might still one day, but as for now, I'm content with just posting it.

I'm doing 10 jdramas, 5 twdramas, and 3 kdramas because of my viewing habits. I've watched way more jdramas than anything else. Or at least, I've finished more jdramas than anything else (I start twdramas a lot, but don't finish them a lot), and I haven't watched many kdramas at all. So yeah. I also want to do a top asian movie list sometime too, but I'll stick with this for now.

So here is my top 10 jdramas. The other lists will come shortly (I have them written already, so there shouldn't be that much delay).

( Top 10 Jdramas )

Tomorrow I'm invited to an awards ceremony at work (where I may, or may not be getting an award... I'm not exactly sure how it works), so I inevitably have to dress girly and fancy. I work in an extremely casual environment (as long as we wear lab coats and safety glasses we're fine), so I like, don't have clothes to wear. I'm going to have to dig in my closet. Maybe I can fake the illusion of fancy clothes by wearing heels...

I also joined a gym today, so I get to have fun gym-times tomorrow. I also, of course, do not own work out clothes. This is going to be a fun filled day, clothes wise.

But, main topic; all day today I flailed over the awesomeness that is Mukai Osamu. As I have stated previous, I fell in love with dear Osamu in Hachimitsu to Clover, and often try to explain his hotness in that drama. But I apparently never capped the thing. So tonight, I decided to dig out the old H&C DVDs, and cap him. Of course, then I got caught up watching the drama, and had to stop myself. H&C is my favorite jdrama, and very nearly my favorite drama ever (It's current position is third, only next to Love Contract and Coffee Prince).

... I randomly just left to feed a raccoon (who was eating squirrel food) some of my light oatmeal bread. Hey, you never know, it could be counting calories too!

Anyway, so I decided to take some caps of Osamu in Hachimitsu to Clover, because apparently not that many people have seen it, which is a TRAVESTY, because it's SO GOOD. So much so that I basically refuse to watch the anime or the twdrama because I would immediately hate them because they are not jdrama H&C.

But regardless, enjoy the Osamu.

This boy is teh sex...
( Random caps from episode 1-4 of H&C. Mostly Osamu being hot... )

I finished watching Hachimitsu no Clover. I LOVED IT SOOOO MUCH. It was perfect, EXACTLY what I needed. Apparently I needed a malancholic story about growing up and finding yourself. Takemoto-kun's story really touched me, because while he didn't have ANY real aspirations (whereas I have too many), we both are clueless as to how to live our lives.

( spoilers )

But yeah, it's an AMAZING series, really. I wish it were longer, or had another season! Now I want to watch First Kiss again... I need to watch more jdramas!

So the other day I wrote about the best sesame bean curd EVERRRRR. Tonight I got some yummy vegetable udon from the same place (it was cheap too! The udon and some rice was only like $7!). I like udon. My family doesn't really, they think it's slimy... Incidentally, I'm always amused when I find japanese dishes at a chinese resaturant. Not that it's uncommon, but it still amuses me. My favorite chinese restaurant serves a TON of polynesian dishes...

I started watching the 3rd episode of Love Storm, and hey, Megan Lai appeared! She was REALLY pretty in it too.

I could talk more about how my life is currently intensely stressful right now, but nah. Dramas are more fun.

Sometimes in Honey and Clover, they play the ending song, and the lyrics are shown in romaji. I get all confused, because I'll see a word like "ni", or "wo", and I'll automatically think Mandarin, and translate it as such. Stupid mandarin and japanese, trying to screw with me!

I want to continue watching Bull Fighting, but it's no subbed fully yet...

So I might watch another jdrama. Lisa, should I watch Last Friends, or will it break my heart (*cough* Summer Snow *cough*). Also, you should totally watch Honey and Clover. Toma-kun is so endearingly adorable, I just want to kidnap him (but not in a scary way, in a "OMG you're so cute I love you" kinda way...)

( Drama/Anime List update 24Sep08 )

Yay! One more off the list!

EDIT: Oh! I forgot to mention! I finally learned how to hold chopsticks the "right" way (Chinese style). I'm glad I learned the other way first though, because there really was no way I would have been able to even hold the damn things the correct way when I first learned.

Also, I totally ate salad using chopsticks today! And they were japanese style disposable chopsticks, so I got to break them apart! And I didn't mess them up either! Yay me!

OMG honey and clover totally rocks my world. Seriously. Toma-kun continues to wear the awesome Boston Univsersity sweatshirt (squee!!), and in the last episode his friends uncovered his large porn stash! So cute!

I was practicing my Mandarin tones last night, and I seem to have finally gotten the fourth tone (descending), but now I'm having trouble with the second tone (rising). Whenever I pronounce it, it sounds like the third tone (wiki calls it the "dipping tone")... So yeah. Tonal issues abound.

(Randomly, on the wiki page for Mandarin, it has some sample phrases, and one of them is; "How much will it cost to get to Munich?" (Dào Mùníhēi xūyào duōshǎo qián?).... odd. Also odd, but for some reason, other than english, the foreign language I hear spoken the most in dramas is german. It's weird, and funny... last episode of Honey and Clover a character spoke german. And I totally understood what he said! Dao Ming Si spoke german in Meteor Garden too... granted he wasn't any good at it, but whatever.)

I feel like doing nothing today. I'm so damn tired, and just sick of work. I'm so sick of work it's not even funny.

I'm STILL at work. Because apparently my computer doesn't want to play Bull Fighting, I decided to rewatch some of Love Contract. Rewatching it makes me realise just how goddamn much I love it

( Love Contract: Ending anaylsis! Also, comparisons to Summer Snow and Honey and Clover, and the differences between different asian countries dramas )

Now that I'm done analysing dramas (I can't help it, I analyse everything. Incidentally, why I'm so damn good at sorting out meaning from poetry, and film... and stuff. That, and I think in metaphors)...

By the time I get out of here, I'll have spent nearly 11 hours at this place. Gah! And dear God is it cold here....

OMG do I love Chinese rap and metal! I especially like when they combine.

And geez, can the S.H.E. girls sing! Hebe and Selina have really nice voices, but Ella's voice is the best. It's really lovely! I wish I could sing (well). BTW, Ella is the Mizuki character in the taiwanese Hana Kimi.

Lisa-> I totally wrote a response to your email yesterday, but lucky me, accidentally deleted it. And now I like, don't have the energy to rewrite it! I'll respond... eventually!