Hello! Gosh It's Oct!

Just gotten back from a lovely holiday from istanbul and Greece.

Thought I will hop over here and then with shock...OMG! I just realised I havent blog here for ages! Has it been 4 months since I last wrote anything?!!! Crap!

 Well, I was still watching drama but just not blogging them...lol. I mean nothing much to write since I canx translate Korean dramas and it's like a dry up pond in the Japanese drama Alley.

 However, there was a rather interesting recent award winning manga adapted Japanese drama titled "I.S-Otoko demo Onna no demo nai Sei" which means "inter-sexuality -neither male nor female gender".

The story involves 2 lead actress which depict how they had to cope with social and family pressures on dealing with the fact that they are born with the reproductive sexual organs of both genders. The thing I like about Japanese drama over Korean is that they do come up with edgier scripts, covers more interesting topics rather than just sticking to romance and historical or family stuff like the Koreans.

Unfortunately there seem to be a dearth in the "good looking young and able to act" talents in the current Japanese entertainment circle. I cannot stand the AK48 girls and all these new young people they are dishing out in the youth category. Just look at the reprise of the "花ざかりの君たちへ イケメン♂パラダイス, Hanazakari no Kimitachi e: Ikemen Paradise" and you can tell... Why on earth did they even bother to redo Ikeman Paradise is BEYOND my comprehension. Firstly, it's too soon and secondly but most important of all, they will NEVER BEAT the original Ikeman Paradise with all the hotties! Dont bother trying!

The actors and actress in the original drama were too well picked and perfect for the character they play! Seriously, no one played the role as perfectly for Mizushima Hiro as Nanba Minami and Ikuta Toma as Nakatsu Shuichi And I cannot envision any one else who played Mizuki as well as Horikita Maki. 

Then there is the Japanese version of "You Are Beautiful". Dear lord, I nearly died when I watched the first 2 episodes. It's like waiting for the train wreak to happen. When you have seen a good drama series, you want to bang your head in frustration when you see a super bad remake... I couldnt bring myself to attempt to watch them butcher one of my fav past manga "Ouran High School Host Club" either. Sometimes...some manga are just best left to anime and drawn work without adaptation to drama...

 That said. Watched another Japanese (2010) movie played by Ikuta Toma, titled Ningen Shikkaku / No Longer Human. 

It's adapted from a super famous Japanese novel from one of the master novelist. While I like Ikuta in Ikeman Paradise, I am not so sure about his performance here in the movie. I think while he was adequate, I didnt think that he fully grasped and portray the role very well. In the movie, he came across as a pure drunk and alcoholic who squandered away his artistic talent through his vices addiction rather than someone who was pained at his inability to blend and fit into the society and seek to find solace in drinking, and the love hate relationship he had with his senpai. It's hard to explain unless you read the book but still, it's a good movie to watch to pass time.

And then I had also been keeping busy with watching Japanese Anime...(are there any other? Lol!) Been following "Blue Exorcist" and "(青の祓魔師（エクソシスト）(Link to episode trailers), Ao no Ekusoshisuto," It's a good fun anime to watch and not to mention I LOVE the song Take off (dwnld) by 2PM (yes the Korean boy bands are taking over Japan by storm!)

A second on my watchlist as well is Nurarihyon no Mago (ぬらりひょんの孫) season 2.

With the change in producer, the season 2 is way cooler and more intriguing than season 1, not to mention better draw and less "cutie pie". I wont go into the story plot since you can google that easily but yes, they are certainly entertaining!

In terms of manga,  havent started on any new works but I did manage to find time to complete reading the not so recent series of "Shiawase kissa 3-choume". I must have mentioned this before in my older post, that is, if you have not started on this, I really recommend this to you guys. The characters are beautifully drawn and adorable!

 Truth is, I have kinda wean myself off Korean drama for a while. Alot of stuff on my plate and kinda short of time to do the other stuff I needed to do and also been travelling...It's bad to think of all the hours I had been spending on watching drama! Lol! Then again if I dont, what will I have to share with you folks right? 

Let me know if you think there are any good stuff I had missed and really shouldnt for the love of "drama" (wanted to say love of god but sounded kinda blasphemy..hahaha). Meanwhile, here's a friendly wave to all my other blog regulars...hope you gals are still hanging around and I havent lost you girls yet!

Missing Mizushima Hiro

Japanese Drama is really boring for me nowadays. Have no idea why they have taken such a bad turn.

I really miss Mizushima Hiro... It's such a pity that we wont be seeing him on TV anymore ever since he quit being an actor to become a writer. Sob Sob..he was one of my fav actor and now....but hey at least our fav actor has won a prize for his new work "Kagerou", winning the Poplar Publishing Grand Prize and best seller in terms of pre-sales alone.

Just a little update after such a long while, alive and kicking!

I know I must have disappeared into thin air for ages! Sorry about that folks. Just been incredibly tied up to be watching much drama and getting online.

However today, I am proudly typing my first blog piece here with my new MacPro. Okie okie...I know Apple isnt known to be a serious reliable gadget maker but seriously what choices do I have? IBM has been taken over by China on the laptop side to become Lenova and I will NOT buy that. Sony is a little too you know.."unsharing" in terms of their technology and difficult to get external parties to service it due to their unique parts. What is left is HP. Do I really want to suffer under a major MNC in return for a boring piece of metal and screen? Nah, not really. If I am going to be upset, let it be with a beautiful slim slick piece of aluminium.

Everyone been telling me that I do not need Antivirus and Anti spyware for MAC because no one ever hack into one. I have to disagree on it. Just because you never get robbed at home or you are living in a safe neighbourhood doesnt mean you do not need to lock the doors... Or that you dont need to ever need a medical insurance because you aint sick. Seriously, its very very dangerous to leave your PC online and wide open to invasion...

I havent bought mine and still mulling over if I should buy Eset  or Norton for Mac. Anyone out there has any ideas?

Regardless, I just wanted to compliment Apple today too. I bought my MacPro online but the power plug came in the US adaptor format. Didnt quite get the rationale since the purchase was done over the HK website. So I called to politely enquire if there had been a mistake. I was first routed to the US Apple care hotline. I am telling you, it is like a breath of fresh air, to FINALLY have a true blue authentic US centric call center. To be honest, I have been so accustomed to getting lines routed to China like what Dell and others did, that it took me 30secs to recover from the pleasant surprise! Ha! Of course they had to route me back to hong Kong to check my order. Even better surprise. Apparently, they seem to only ship this out in 2pin plug and so in goodwill, they will send me a world travel kit. Talk about fantastic customer service! I was truly impressed and even happier that they resolved a simple question with an immediate solution rather than just tell me too bad.

The point here isnt that I am happy to get something free, but rather, I was elated over the prompt and consumer focused service. I havent had that for a while dealing with big companies, so it was kind of like dream like.

I felt like I just had to share my very positive experience with Apple. So now with this world traveler kit, I no longer have to deal with cumbersome third party plugs for all my i-gadgets. Iphone, Ipod, Inano, Mac Pro my next trip back home to Oz. I am just short of one ipad2...still thinking about it but probably not.

Sorry this is not related to Drama, just me catching up with myself online and for couple of dramamate here who might care to know what this little blogger is doing:)

Hope everyone else is fine apart from busy!
With this laptop, hopefully watching video and blogging will be more of a breeze from now on! Though I must say it will still take a while to get use to the key boards and navigation functions:P

Ramblings :)

Sorry have been quiet for so long. Havnt been watching much drama except for the crappy korean "My Princess" or something like that..Booooring...

I had a better time watching the Taiwanese drama "Love Buffet". Aaron is looking quite good there with the Jappy haircut and overall look! the story isnt too bad too though a litle speed wont kill :)

Celebrated my birthday yesterday! Nothing much exciting happened really....another year older!

Super Junior-M has released their track "Too Perfect" in dual languages! Big bang too! Korean groups are taking the world by storm!!!



Mandarin version.


Big Bang Single: Tonite

A brand new year

My dear fav readers,

Sorry I have taken such a long hiatus...:) This is a long overdue message but I still wanna wish everyone a Happy New Year and may the brand new year brings us more entertaining and memorable drama series! Lol!

In case anyone has been remotely curious what happened.. well nothing much really except a lot of personal stuff going on and I just run out of bandwidth. Just been travelling alot the last few months, really alot and I feel exhausted.

During Xmas till New Year festive hols, I went to India with my better half (- v-). It was a good but super tiring trip, esp when I had a super bad strained neck that limited my neck movement to about 45degrees. It didnt help that India's roads are full of potholes and it was hours and hours of bumpy rides one after another. We hit New Dehli, hired a car and went to Rajasthan, to Jaipur, to Argra etc... And mid way thru, I feel sick and had the worst vomitting session ever. I never expected to see my fish dinner meal to be so well preserved after 6 hours in the tummy. Solid chunks....sigh.

The Rajasthan deserty countryside was beautiful with lots of mustard seed field that just have that beautiful yellow cheering up your spirits. The sleepy rural towns had lots of bright eye children who loved waving "Ta-Ta" at us as we drove by. The braver ones will run after us and board on the spare seats at the back of our jeep and hitch a short ride. It was fun. The simplicity of life, the simplicity of hearts.

I had a certain set of idea about India before I went, and after arriving, it wasnt near to what I imagined. To be frank, while I enjoyed my trip, it didnt feel as exotic or "different" as everyone made it out to be. Maybe I was told too much stories about the sights and scenery that upon arrival, it didnt feel that vastly different from another non-cosmopolitan Asian city. Sure, the roads had its funny set of non existent road rules, and they had tons of stores by the road sides which makes one wonder about the hygience with all the road dust and exhaust spilling fumes all over it...still, its not an uncommon sight in a non-affluent city. India, minus the language, was just another city to me. I wasnt in awe, in shock or even surprised. I was surprised at how easily I accepted everything before me as natural. I had Malaysia cousins and I used to visit them alot when I was very very young until my very young aunt passed away in an unfortunate accident. So The India before me didnt seem any different from the Malaysia that I rem in the early 80s except Msia was cleaner and had more Chinese. So to me, it was more nostalgic and heart warming than anything else.

I finally saw Taj Maha. It was a misty day. In fact it even rained with lightning and that was very strange for India;s winter which was to be dry. It was misty for many days. truthfully, while it was nice, again, I didnt find it spectacular. I dunno what I was looking for, but I didnt feel OMG as I stare a it. A lot of tourists were there and out of the flock of thousands, I couldnt locate a decent person to know how to take a proper picture for us. How sad is that?

Even after being back for so long, I havent download the pictures. I didnt feel any motivation to. How lazy.

And of course, I finally fixed up my computer and not from Dell. And I officially boycott Dell from henceforth. They charged about US$150 to inspect and quoted a ridiculous amount to replace my video card. A card that is outdated, they wanted to charge even more than the latest graphics card model? I couldnt locate anyone to send back my PC until 2 weeks later. Email to the contact always bounce or they are away on holiday with no backup. Even after getting my PC, the Dell service staff did not have the professionalism to assemble my PC back in the same proper state. They simply dumped the racks and loose screw inside the PC and that's it! I was appalled!

In the end, I went to a local computer shop, who fixed up my PC with the latest graphics card, changed my power supply as they told me my original Dell configuration was under powered thus damaging my original graphics card which should have lasted at least 4 years instead of 1yr. Including OS reinstallation and patches update and Antivirus and delivery, I paid 1/3 of the Dell's quote. Dell is such a bloody fraud and became such an unethical company. Profit over service. I hope it will fold soon. They do not deserve to carry on doing business with any consumer with that sort of money only mindset.

So my new PC has been reborn, and happy.  From this, I too realised how hardworking HK people are just to make a decent living. The technician who fixed and delivered my PC even stuck around for 2 hours to reconfigure all my settings, loading software, ensuring the new graphics card was in order - without additional charge. Seriously, I cannot imagine getting such service anywhere else. It almost made me feel guilty for having a comfortable life...

Alot of things to think about this new year.
I hope it will be a good year ahead for me, as well as everyone who has befriended me through this blog, readers included. I sincerely thank your invisible friendship and support and hopefully I will work harder on this blog and stop being so lazy:)

Have a great year ahead and till the next good drama!

Still Swooning over Hyun Bin, will it never end?!

My eyes feel like shutting from lack of sleep during my test

I was suffering from major insomnia last nite...and of coz my Jap test bombed in my face today....sigh...

The only consolation was that I wasnt the only one who thought the paper was hard...so that kinda cheer me up a little when I think about the "bell curve"theory....

After the paper, all my classmates and I could talk about NON STOP was Secret Garden and how Gooooooooooorgeous Hyun Bin is and How Adoooooooooooorable he is in here.

We were literally screaming and squealing like pigs in the restaurant everytime we mention funny scenes from the show! I suppose its a major ego dent and crusher to the table of guys sitting next to us since we barely even noticed their existence while they kept looking over according to another fren. The guys must be scorning at our bahvior but do we care? Nooooo!!

I guess after like 4 hours of idolising and going on and on about Hyun Bin - and dissecting Joo Woo every word and actions, it wasnt possible not to feel better. My gf even said she had the impulse to go back and rewatch some episodes which she missed some part of the dialogue. 


Will Sat not come soon enuff?!

I canx get enuff!!!

I really really shouldnt be watching Tv when I have a test on wed morn but I cannot tear myself away from my laptop...i am soo greedy for more of Ra Im  and Joo Woo! I found this cartoon before and it was so cute so I had to share:)

The first 10mins of episode 5 has already put me through a cycle of sadness, longing, and laughter! The part where Ra Im and Oska deliberately doing the admiration thingie and set JW gluping in disbelief is soooo farnee! When Hyun Bin couldnt help but mock and mimicked Ra Im with the cutesy "oOooppa" thingie he sooooo totally cracked me up , I couldnt stop laughing! JW is sooo like a little boy protesting about the "unfairness" and injustice towards him and Ra Im just keep baiting him! haa haaa

Ok...i just wanted to write this so that I can get it off my chest or I will gooo mad. Hyun Bin is soooo cute here! Even cuter than when he was sam shi in KSS. Now i have to motivate myself to study for 2 hours and treat myself to another hr of Tv. I think I will  not be sleeping early tonite..

Toying with the idea...

Am toying with the idea of summarising the K-drama [Secret Garden] but wasnt sure if its considered ëthical since I didnt actually do the actual translation since I do not understand Korean. But I lurrrrrve this series so much (up to epi 4) and its so funny I felt like blogging about it, even though I dun have a lot of spare time on hand at the moment esp now that my pri PC has officially crashed and beeped its final death to me this morning...yet yet yet...all i can think about this morning was the last few scenes of Hyeon Biiiiiiiiiiin which I watched last nite. Ooooo...this is baaaaaaddddd.....*starry eyes ,glazed look*

I figured if I just do a plot summary, its not exactly infringing someone's hardwork right since I didnt exactly steal the work but made references? Any thoughts? Hmmmm...

For some reason I couldnt find the raw last ep of Hotaru 2 so I couldnt summarise. Zhong Wu Yan is seriously dragging it out and I am losing steam on that as well....I am begining to suspect its either the series isnt going that great or that I suffer from short attention span....*chuckles*

I know I know....no updates for a long while right? Yeah I was off to Tokyo for a week and didnt have my laptop with me to login.

Watched a lot of TV in Japan but nothing grabbed at me. Saw a lot of new animations that looked really good and reminded me why I was sad again that Onemanga is down...I would have love to read these new series...

These will still be a quiet few weeks with couple of frens staying over for hols, catching up on my Jap backlog etc etc.

Has there been any other good shows later? I havent been up to date....let me know!!!!

Really sorry for my recent spate of silence and "absence"! Been really busy with many other things like travelling and catching up with frens who dropped by Hong Kong... Then next week heading to Tokyo for a week...time time I need more time!

Not to mention all these iphone games are seriously addictive and I couldnt get my fingers off my phone!! Anyone been playing "GodFinger All Star"?! Where u get to create your own planet with little characters to farm and build to collect gold as you bestow rain and sunshine? It's incredibly addictive!!

While not watch drama, spent a couple of days watching a relatively new Japanese anime Psychic Detective Yakumo /心霊探偵八雲 (Japanese title), about a guy with different coloured eyes and can communicate with spirits (ghosts) which helps in his investigation of mystery or murder cases.. That sets the tone of the anime but there are introduction of a bunch bad guys who seem to be after him for his powers? Not sure yet. However i like it.

Ep1


Ep2: http://www.megavideo.com/?v=VVZVFQPJ

Also covered an older anime called "Clannad" which features the story about a "delinquent" boy at school and how his path was altered after meeting another school mate who had returned school after a long absence due to bad health. It's not the comical hee hee haa haa sort of school theme anime but hell, this is one of the few touching anime I had seen for a while, moving enough to get my nasal feeling a little sniffy after a few heart rendering scenes....I think it has a good idea revolving around family relationship, friendship and showcasing the effects of a good peer influence....

Other than that..also been catching up on my novel Turncoat by Jim butcher...in between my Jap studies...so u can imagine...i m really pretty tight on time..

That said, I will still try to finish the summary for Zhong Wu Yan though it is venturing on being boring these recent 2 epis of 13 and 14. I actually fast fwd for ep 14 maybe because it is very predictable and to me, a little draggy. Maybe because I just miss the cheerful naive silly Xuan instead of the current serious brooding Xuan....It's not so funny these two ep as he had to deal with the reality of being broke, jobless and looking for a job where he couldnt seem to stay on to...while Wu yan is just plain sorrowful, feeling cut off and worried for him...

Some Updates, P.K, S.S and me:)

Sorry have been silent for so long as I was away for a week and doing some free lance work, that took up more time than I did....also had to spend some time on my Jap studies and esp with a fren who's having some private woes....It's hard to tear myself away but some reality doses here and there is good for me.

Been watching the ongoing series and S.Scandal is positively getting better!!! Now that Kuro's identity has been revealed, and the trial of the "homosexual behaviour" of the accused two has begun...this is gonna be a must watch. Luv to see if the guy finally revealed his liking for the female lead!!

As for Playful Kiss, still watching...still not impressed but dun hate it as much as the start. KHJ is still as eye candilicious but the script seem to be relatively disjointed, to a point of being dispassionate... Firstly there was suppose to be another male senior who confessed his love to Oh Hani, and when u think u could be someone interesting to stir the pot, just as suddenly he enter the scene, his exit was just as sudden without much accountability. It almost made his whole existence pointless if it wasnt for the fact that it leads up to KHJ declaring "Oh Hani will only like me.". errr..alrite dude.

When KHJ overheard Hani's best friends hints that she will be proposed to and she might marry the guy, I didnt quite get why KHJ will be waiting at the bus stop instead of dashing over to the restaurant to stop the proposal. Ok, even if I go along with the notion that Korean man are more MCP and less expressive of their emotions, errr...I couldnt reconcile how he could look so serious at one moment, and suddenly confessing his love and announcement of his intention to mary Oh Hani all in like 5 mins.... If it wasnt that I had the story line so etched in my head, I would have found the entire love progress a preposterous. As for the other high IQ female lead, honestly, I have no idea why the director made her appear as some ditzy head. From a mature serious character, she has swindled to some crazy ha-ha girl who is neither "scheming", "spiteful" nor adorable...No idea whose idea it was to try to turn her to be a little "cutesy" but it doesnt suit her face.

Overall, I feel neither here nor there for Playful Kiss up to ep 14. It's like taking a slow scenic train ride, where I know it will eventually get to the known destination. There are occasional smiles here and there but its about as safe and as exciting it will ever get....KHJ's acting skills has improved. Thre are several scenes where his expressions were rather apt and had me chuckling. Other than that, I am better off rewatching YAB.

Tv Drama aside, been a busy woman!

Firstly, bought myself a cisco router so that I can hook up wireless at home. It was simpler than I expected! Bought another portable backup harddisk too but that's been giving me trouble coz it keep hanging my PC. Sigh.... Bought a new toy and so am off to play with my new Kindle DX! No more waiting for paper backs in HK! Now I can read Jim Butcher's series as soon as it is out!!! Always wanted to have a Kindle but been procrastinating until I realised I have run out of space literally to store any more story books! (Since I dun throw out any books good or bad!)

Currently am also addicted to my Iphone game. Anyone is playing Pocket Frogs & Zombie & plants games on iphone/ ipad? My bro loaned me his ipad and I spent one whole week staying up just to play the zombie games trying to break all levels when I was back visiting my folks! I had a "scolding" from mum of course when she realised I stayed up whole nite till 8am, with my eyes glued to my ipad and not sleeping. I had to stop just to catch a wink so I wouldnt be late for my appointments.... Sigh....

As for footnote....guess what I am going to do during Xmas? Am heading to India! Yup! Off to see Taj Maha and hopefully I wont get sick! Friends have been reminding me to get jabs and stuff... cross fingers!
I heard India is a beautiful place with many lovely architecture and structures. It's about time I explore my own Asia backyard for a change! Well that's all for now my lovely readers. Be back next week!

Rambling of the wandering mind

I just wanted to watch something different for a change...so I ended up rewatching "Band of Brothers" over again! This is seriously the best war theme production I have ever watched and can never get sick of it (with Black Hawk Down ranking number 2 spot). I think its way better than "the Pacific" in terms of script and character development. Maybe its only because I really like Major Richard Winter played by Damian Lewis - one of my fav actor.

Then I moved on to reading some manga. Just started on this Korean series  "My bf is a vampire". It's only at chap 12. No idea how it will pan out yet. It has good premise but it doesnt have beautiful artwork as the Japanese counterpart. It's a little kiddish but I was a little intrigued by the concept of "gender" changing vampire ability. It's not exactly addictive but its not bad for a light read for a change.

Reread another book I have had. The slick, witty humor adminstered with a deadpan delivery never fails to entertain. Titled "When you are engulfed by flames" by David Sedaris. Give it a go if you are looking for a light honest funny read.

I should be sorting out the scandi pixs but I got tired after day 1 of pixs...think I took too much. haa haa. Need to filter out the repeats and choose the nicest to upload. Dear lord..this will take a while

Ok people...I am going to start on Sungkyunkwan Scandal soon, primarily since its so highly rated by your girls, and also coz it has one of my cute celeb Song Jung-ki in it. Since I lost access to KBS, I havent been able to see him in the Music Bank program anymore...

Will try to catch up asap and tell u girls what do I think. So much to watch and write...i havent even started on Hotaru! I feel a little faint from all the missing recaps I want to write up...At least my Jap tutor should be "proud" of me at my diligence to catch up on my Jap summaries... :P Hopefully she will cut me some slack for my test on wed...*mischievous grin*

Another note from me..

I was mulling about the best way to share my Scandinavia trip.

I'm a purist at heart (most of time at least) so I figure I really shouldnt swamp this site with my travel pixs...distracting the true purpose of this blog.

So instead, I had decided to branch out to another blog, that will solely be my "online photo album" instead. For for those who are interested, bookmark this site http://seen-thru-my-eyes.blogspot.com/, and I will slowly (super duper slowly) load my Scandinavia pictures up there.

It's gonna be another one of those harebrained ambitious project that I have been procrastinating...to have my own photos site. I just never found the time to do it. Hope this new addition will be as warmly received as this current drama site:) As usual, will be great to knowwhat you think of it:)

Home after a long trip from Scandinavia

It seems like forever but ladies, I am back!!! Though not exactly in a good shape with the sore throat, runny nose and indigestion.

Was feeling perfectly fine until the 3 hour wait in the BA lounge...must be the free wine and chips that did me in.... sufferrring... feeling pretty wooozy rite now but I just thot of popping a I am home note before I sleep *shamelessly waiting for the warm welcome,,,heh heh*

Losing track of all the drama but I will catch up soon. Hope my bandwidth can catch up with me. LOL.

PS: thanks for constantly chattin on the blog and so I dont feel so lonely out there :) Its good to have something to look forward to..though it may sound a little pathetic to some when I say I am dying to get back to my blog :P Heee

A moment for the dead...

Shall we take a few minutes to say prayers for the 8 Hong Kong tourist hostages who was shot to death last night in the Manila hostage crisis. What was supposed to be a happy holiday ended up as tragic senseless demise for some families, just because some Filippino ex police decided to seek "justice" for his sacking the wrong way.

I dont comprehend why he thought that killing innocent people will justify his cause or gather any votes in his favor? Is that what police officers trained to protect lifes suppose to do, regardless if they are in active duties? Shooting someone to death in cold blood? Anyone should know by now that the govt will never give in to demands of terrorists or individuals who hold others in ransom. Because giving in will only set precedence and give way to others trying to emulate the stance. So why do wayward people still persists in doing things that only serve to harm themselves further, and others in the process? Are some people just so selfishly stupid to never learn from the numerous past cases?

As the gunman slumped dead out of the shattered glass door,  I watched live on TV seeing him with blood gushing out of his wound, I was trying to make some sense out of all these mess and chaos. He never got what he set out to achieve. He died for nothing. He will never be there to "prove" his innocence in his extortion charge. He will always be blamed for his guilt in killing those innocent holiday makers. I was crossing my fingers when the first 3 hostages came out alive. However when the police stopped carting out the bodies after number 4, and I saw the cop inside the bus looking downwards on the floor, it was then I knew the remaining 7 people were dead. If they were not rushing to cart out the bodies to hospital, it only meant that time wasnt an issue anymore..for the dead. My heart fell...and hopes dashed. I cannot imagine family members who were glued to the TV for updates must have felt...

The most mortifying part wasnt just watching the rescue mission nor the shooting, what chilled my heart was to actually hearing people laughing in the background when the reporters were giving a live update. Not once, but several times! I think it came from the crowd milling around the reporters. How can someone be laughing at such a moment? I was more shock by that behaviour than the gunman;s behaviour! I hope someone could track that jackasre who was laughing and give him a serious smack on the head.

Violence never solve any problems. It is reprehensible. It only sets to create more problems. No matter what the Philippine Govt says or will say to account for the incident, it is all too little, too late. The dead will never see any sunrise again.

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Hello Again! The Drama Queen is Back:)

"Postcards from my trip home"

  

Happy to see me back in town again? Had a glorious week spent with family back in Sydney. Was totally filled to the brim with food, drinks and food again:). Smell the flowers, stroll along the beach, visits to the art gallery.... Life couldnt be better!

I know I should be summarising Hotaru episode but am dead tired from the trip and will "hurry hurry" as fast as I can. Hang on tight folks! The drama queen is back with a vengence:) Bwhahahaha!

Rambling: My Scandinavian trip outline

Been Busy planning my scandinavia trip. Well at least the rough outline is out!

1. Arriving on Copenhagen on 5th
2. Drive to 4hours Gothenburg on 8th, arrive afternoon and stay overnight.
3. Drive to 4hours Oslo on 9th and stay overnight.
4. Take Bergen train 7hours from Oslo to Bergen on 10th
5. Buy Norway in a nutshell from bergen to sighsee Sonefjord
6. Buy Hardanger in a nutshell to see 2nd fjord
7. Stay another day in Bergen and sightsee
8. Fly out of Begen back to Oslo. No idea what airline to take yet...need to book. sigh.
9. Stay 2 nights in Oslo and Viola back to Hongkong on 16th

Everything seemed pretty ok now except to try to buy the train tickets and getting the norway in a nutshell, plus booking flight back. Actually the only thing that is troubling me is trying to rent a car from copenhagen to Oslo.

I have NO IDEA which car rental is good. An travel agency tried to quote me 600euro a day! Just because I am driving across 3 states from denmark thru sweden to Norway. Seriously dude, 600euro?! Excluding toll and gas, that is like killing me!

I tried to call Avis rental in copenhagen and NO one picks up the phone like after 5mins. I have to hang up since its an international call and i am paying $$ to listen to music. Budget doesnt do drop off in another state. Havent tried Hertz... I am getting desperate. Why is renting a car so tough if the route is so common?
Sigh... I wish someone can drop me an answer in my lap now.

Still need to book places to eat. Havent done any research,. Getting desperate since I am leaving for Sydney next day and by the time I come back, its a week away from my Scandinavia trip. Will be too late to secure anything. Can u see my deep furrow frowns by now? And to top it up, I will miss Hotaru this week! Ahhhhhh!!! Shoot me already!

New layout

Thought I will try out the new template layout provided by blogger since my previous left navigation panel was getting abit too long! Havent really sit down to tidy up...prob will never happen but I shall still try:) What do you think? Prefer this or the previous?

Lilo sentenced! yeah!

I dont normally do tabloid but hey, that Lilo is finally being sentenced to Jail time.

She has been a trainwreaked for the longest time with no self awareness. When I saw this video (watch)clip of her incredulous expression of hers and audible "WHAT!" in court after the sentencing, it only goes to reconfirm what many had suspected, she has no idea of the severity of her actions and that she still believed she could have gone off scot free with her downward spiraling actions.

The min she uttered "what!" and broke down, it only shows that she had never truly repented or gave any serious thoughts of her action. I think someone who had been more in sync with the general notion would have been more sombre and accepting of the sentencing than that sobbing - protraying her denial state and out of touch with reality.

She thinks people are out to get her but she never reflected on her own actions. Why else is she always in partying scene and all. She said attending parties is part of her job but when you have a scram on u, I think no one would blame u if u choose to opt out in such critical moments. Plus are partying in clubs and yachts really advisable? It's hard not to form an adverse opinion when there are tons of more successful actress/ actors in Hollywood who are not constantly being shot for (negative) press, because they dont put themselves in questionable situation that serves the tabloid hounding. Natalie Portman for one, and Dakota Fanning another or Taylor swift serve to be better examples of what constitues a professional artist and not a celeb media whore for all the wrong reasons.

And honestly, why on earth is she on so many medications? Antidepressent aside, strong doses of painkillers? Come on, what sort of dental issues do one have to require painkillers? Even when I had my 4 wisdom molar extracted in one go, I didnt even take painkillers after one day. Did she have her jaws extracted or crushed that need painkillers? Seriously, this girl has issues.

Even when Britney went a little crazy, people felt sorry for her because she acted out her frustrations/ breakdown but she didnt act as if she was in denial of her problems. Smart move to go away from the limelight for a while too.

The problem with the industry is that now "sex/ sexy/ slutty" sells more than talent. Maybe that's why all the songs in the 60s/ 70s are still the best! With the sort of parents that Lilo has, she never stood a chance. Look at what her hideous media addictive mother turned Lilo's younger sister into? Are girls that young suited to be dressed like an over dolled sl*ty barbie?

Oh well, hopefully rather than raging at all the injustice, Lilo will sober up for good and wisen up. Otherwise, no one will ever feel sorry even if she does try to do something stupid like kill herself.