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Dog & Wolf

Friday, September 28, 2007 ( 12:17 PM )

You should watch Lee Jun Ki's latest drama titled:
Time between Dog and Wolf.

Synopsis

Howling wolves and dogs...

At dusk...The sun paints the sky with a crimson red hue...

Over the hills, the menacing shadow of my dog confuses me as it seems to take on the form of a wolf...

After his mother is brutally murdered by the Triad in Thailand, Soo-hyun (actor Lee Jun Ki) is adopted by NIS agent Kang Joong-ho, and he grows up with Min-ki (actor Chuong Kyung Ho) like brothers. Min-ki and Soo-hyun both become NIS agents later on. One fateful day, Soo-hyun meets Ji-woo (actress Nam Sang-mi) after last seeing her in Thailand when he was a child. They start dating. One day, Soo-hyun ruins a mission when the suppressed memories of the day his mother died surfaces in his mind. NIS Director Jung gives Soo-hyun an undercover assignment to infiltrate the Triad and Soo-hyun takes the job. Soo-hyun fakes his death and assumes a new identity to become a member of the Triad. With his fake identity and new name, he prowls the back alleys of Bangkok...

It's a fantastic love action thriller and I only have raves about it.

My heart stumped so many times bcos Lee Jun Ki's character had so many near deaths incidents in the show. Watch the video to know more. As the story unfolds, you will realise how good the plot is and be able to appreciate Lee Jun Ki, Nam Sang Mi and Jung Kyung Ho's characters and acting abilities. This is one of the best dramas in which the plot is good, the characters inside are all very well portrayed, just like Takuya Kimura's PRIDE.

Anyway, it's a refreshing change to see Lee Jun Ki shed his pretty boy (bishounen) image for a more masculine and manly image in Time between Dog & Wolf. Hee!

Labels: K-Drama, Lee Jun Ki, Nam Sang

jolin tsai

Sunday, September 23, 2007 ( 12:24 AM )

Wow, Jolin's latest album - Agent J is pretty groovy to listen to. Didn't expect her to be decked in shiny black leather suit with ultra-rebonded hair to fit the image of Agent J. IHMO, this is a fantastic marketing strategy to get people to buy her album, COS, she shot a 3 part music movie that's around 1 hour plus starring Kim Jae Won (flew to France), Stephen Fung (went to London) and Carl Ng (also went to Bangkok) just to promote her album Agent J. Sound damn interesting. I want to see the movie MV!! Who bought her authentic album?

特務蔡依林累趴忘了殺人【聯合報╱記者袁世珮／台北報導】

蔡依林化身「特務Ｊ」，到巴黎、倫敦、曼谷和不同帥哥談戀愛、出任務，不過拍片過程頻出糗，她被取笑是「迷糊特務」。但鏡頭前的性感女特務，鏡頭外很迷糊。她要在巴黎地鐵站殺人，卻因半夜拍戲太累睡著，對導演的「ac-tion」充耳不聞；在倫敦，因日本造型師準備的皮衣實在太緊，勒得她胃不舒服，該是下車殺人的鏡頭，變成下車就狂吐；到泰國，她應該要在迴旋踢時抽出裙下藏的槍，卻是腿一踢，槍就從胯下掉出來。

Damn funny, it sure ain't easy being agent J.

Labels: Jolin Tsai

bullish shitty now

Thursday, September 20, 2007 ( 12:10 AM )

Hello~

It's been really crazy these few days.

Feeling kinda sian,relieved, tired from everything.

FYP is really very trying for me. Prof asked me to come up with a totally new way of testing for adhesion of the powder coating. I have done so much literature review and there's more to be done. The company that is sponsoring my project, just keeps putting aeroplane on me. For the fourth time, I've been told not to go down to the company on the very day of the appointment that i was scheduled to go down. Dunno why lah. I feel pissed as if i'm unimportant and i planned everything nicely so that i can go down, only to be told not to go down.

I finally got a hall via eht kcabrood. Heh Heh. Dun tell you what it means. But finally, lesser time wasted on travelling. I really miss hall life....yeah....hope my roomie is easy to get along with. Hope i can slp well during my first few days in hall, gonna bring ear plugs in. I realise I have become very sensitive to noise and light, during my last sem's stay in hall. Cldn't really slp very well if there's noise and light in the room. Suddenly bcame a lightsleeper after I moved houses. I guess I became more accustomed to slping in a quiet environment when in the past, I can slp so soundly thru thunderstorms.

Haven't been very disciplined when it comes to studies. I'm very distracted at home by the computer and the internet. I'm always watching animes or lee jun ki's latest drama: Time between Dog and Wolf. I can't really study in front of the computer like last time anymore. I need to be disciplined and stop viewing online shopping blogs. If not I will overspend. Terrible me. Money is hard to earn and so easy to spend. HAIZ. I wish it was the reverse. Live in abudance. I must start going to the library at marine parade to study during weekends and recess week. I must!

Ciaos for now. Time to slp. This sem is really shitty for me. I hope I can do really well for this sem, at least all Bs again pls. I feel bullish shitty now. ROARS. goodnight!

SPREE

Saturday, September 15, 2007 ( 7:13 PM )

I am addicted to online shopping.
Blah. Blah. Blah.
It takes up alot of my time just to browse through the items offered,
but I feel damn happy after I make up my mind to buy something.
Say hello to retail therapy at the comfort in my own home!

Well, I've had some bad experiences with e-bay/yahoo online auction accounts,

whereby the clothes dun even look the same as the ones shown in the pictures.

I have stuff that I never touch cos I just couldn't fit in or the material looks yucky.

I told myself I will never touch online e-baying stuff anymore.

Yah, sometimes their S/M sizes are actually XS.

The danger of online shopping (for clothes) is that you don't get to try or touch the real stuff, and you buy the wrong stuff that actually doesn't suit you, although it suits the models perfectly. But pros of online shopping is that, you dun need to doll urself up, travel to the shopping centres and spend time shopping. It's fast and efficient at the click of a button.

I will never buy bottoms/skirts online, bcos i'm convinced that I need to try bottoms/skirts to make sure nothing goes wrong, cos my legs are longer and my body is shorter.
So I guess I'm somewhat inproportional.

Ever since Cordy showed me www.zipia.net, I became an advocate of online shopping and online window shopping.
I was so HOOKED.
SO many CLOTHES from Korea, and the models are damn cute/chio.
Yup.
t.Her, Pong by Rushe, Aidma are sone of my favourite Korean brands offered in zipia.
They even provide fashion for male metrosexuals.
Superb fashion style. BIG Thumbs up for ZIPIA.

Alrighty, enough said, I am just dying to do a mini write up!!

Current Sites that I've been visiting

http://www.lil-dresser.blogspot.com/

They bring in clothes from taiwan, japan and korea. The clothes there are very fashionable but are more appropriate for office ladies. I can't wait for their latest offerings from Korea, cos i know Aidma and t.Her are going to be sold! A little expensive but still reasonable. Prices range from SGD 19.90 to SGD 35 for tops and dresses. The owners of the blog reply to my emails very promptly and they were very polite. 4/5 stars for good service, I highly recommend them as they really take the effort to keep track of their inventory and are very nice people.

http://www.zipia.net/

This is a must-see website that offers wholesale or imports of the korean brands. There are many coordinations of how to wear different style of clothes and it's really very very gorgeous. This website is based in Korea, so the currency is in USD, conversion rate is 1.5, a tad too expensive for the miserable poor student. AND you need to spend up to a minmum amount of 500 USD, before they process your order for shipment. CORDY is doing a spree on www.zipia.net, ladies or guys who are interested, please go and see, cos the clothes are really really very nice. If you are interested in getting anything from zipia, pls dun hesitate to tell me or cordy!

http://www.shoplah.com/

Well, I've always gone to shoplah to see the clothes but never really dared to buy anything from them, until recently. They have a WIDE variety of CLOTHES at VERY AFFORDABLE prices. They have good schemes for memberships like discount of 10% for 3 and more tops, free postage fee if you post their blog link on your website. (For someone so GIAN PENG like me,when it comes to SALE, heh heh, i wld make a dash for it) Oh, and they are a registered company, so you can probably trust them.

I've read about some reviews from www.yebber.com that SHOPLAH's customer service isn't that good, as they take their own sweet time to reply to your orders or enquiries, and they dun bother to check their inventory until money's been transferred over to their bank account, which means you made a wasted effort in transferring the money only to find out that they ran out of stock. Inefficient and the reviewer said they didn't even bother to apologise for their inefficiency and was rather curt. If you dun mind waiting for their slow replies, you can try buying from this site. Better cross your fingers and pray and hope nothing is out of stock.

http://www.papergirlsshop.blogspot.com/

They have a very nice and sweet layout for their blog, which is a plus for me. The clothes are very nice, but quite expensive, considering the fact that majority of their clothes are from taiwanese big names like V.Jeni, MAZ, Cutie, Cat World etc. If somebody did a spree from these taiwanese big names, after a quick conversion from TWD to SGD, you will realise the clothes are actually damn cheap, below 20 bucks. Well, it's for the sake of earning profits, that they increase the price. If you're willing to spend and simply love the cutesy, adorable look, go view this website. Sometimes I get toothache from seeing too much of these sweet, cute models.

http://www.playbox.wordpress.com/

This online clothes website offers a wide range of clothes from cute cartoonie t-shirts and tops to bottoms & belts. From wut i see, they are offering clothes from taiwan V.Jeni & Cutie. The pricing is very very very affordable. I highly recommend this site if you're looking for cheap and cute clothes. But you must be fast, as they have very little instock quantities, 1-2 pieces for each design. They also offer pre-order items and I like this blog cos they offer belts, which most blogs dun offer, and at very reasonable prices. Their prices are way below $10. I'm like, WOW, cos belts offered in shops, often cost at least $20 and above. It's a must SEE.

http://www.mokoapple.blogspot.com/

This blog offers drugstore cosmetics from JAPAN, and the prices are reasonable and comparable to waston or guardian. They are currently doing a spree from Taiwanese online clothes boutiques like cutie, mr q, wonderland and BIGI MALL! Okie, I LOVE BIGI MALL, cos they offer beautiful bags at VERY VERY affordable prices. This blog is new, so they are not charging any handling fee for their first spree and there's free postage fee for 3 or more items and they do mass meet ups too. So basically, you just need to pay for the item in SGD (after conversion from TWD) + Shipping Fee + Postage fee. I ordered 3 bags from BIGI Mall spree, if anyone of you is interested pls tell me, I can get free postage for you guys and maybe get a discount from her regarding the shipping fee.

If you still aren't convinced about local online blogging shops, there's always the tried and tested online brand names like www.wetseals.com; www.forever21.com; www.victoriasecrets.com, all of which are in USD and have quality assured clothes!

Labels: Online Shopping

shot gun marriage

Wednesday, September 12, 2007 ( 12:27 AM )

Hi guys,

I've been really busy these few weeks, trying to catch up with my studies and managing 2 projects at the same time. I wld say this is one of the most info and time intensive sem ever, even worse than year 3. I'm really stretched and I can see the stress building up as more pimples start to appear on my face. Thank God I'm going to see the doctor soon, and I have no acne-woe days in months/years to come.

Well, I dun really have much to blog lately, and I'm certainly not in the right frame of mind to say funny, stupid jokes. One of my friends is getting married, and I was super shocked when I heard of the news, cos he's just 24 years old, a young chap who is working with SAF. It is a shot-gun marriage, his beautiful girlfriend (my age) of a few months is pregnant with his child.

Seriously, I have no right to comment abt his marriage, and I wish them happiness. Ya lah, it's the twentith century, why still so uptight abt stuff lidat?

I just thought that if I were to put myself in his girlfriend's shoes, I'll probably just cry and pull my hair out, bcos I dun wan to be a mother when I'm not emotionally or financially ready to start a family. I still remember telling my prof a few weeks ago that I dun see myself staying at home and becoming a housewife, spanking backsides and screaming at the little demons at home in the near future. I wld rather be a workaholic than be a stay-at-home parent. It's really scary to know that a woman loses the calcium in her bones to her babies, and become very vulnerable to osteoporosis from her thirties onwards.

I'll be torn apart between abortion and marriage or being a single parent. I'll definitely not head for abortion, bcos it means that I'm killing my own child and I dun wan to be bound by the guilt and regret in time to come. Marriage will definitely be the best option for the time being, but what would my relatives say about me? I think my reputation will go down the drain and I'll become the black sheep of my family, while others whisper behind my back and I live in shame for the rest of my life. What if the man I'm married to, no longer behaves the same way as he used to treat me before marriage and suddenly we can no longer find any common ground to substain the marriage? I think being a single parent isn't easy either. Without the help of my husband's salary/savings, I'll have to work my ass off to make ends meet. I wldn't be there for my kid who will be taken care by my parents or foster care, as I'm working. What if my kid turns rebellious and grows up to hate me for not giving him/her enough attention and for not giving him a dad?

Alright, I'm just entertaining some very negative thoughts down here, and I shldn't be so paranoid esp when I'm not the one who is in this situation. I just think that we are responsbile for our own actions, and sometimes people get so caught up in the moment, that they ignore the severe repercussions of their own actions.

Even for my guy friend, I feel that he is not ready to be a father and I dun think he is financially abled to raise a kid and a wife, when he doesn't bother to bring $ back home to his parents. He may feel very pressured and restrained by his wife and family members to be a dad when all his peers around him are all so carefree and enjoying life, doing wadever they want to, without having any second thoughts. Well, looking on the bright side of it, marrying and giving birth at a younger age means you can enjoy life much faster when your kids grow up and they cldn't be bothered with you lavishing attention on them.

My train of thought is really jumbled up right now. But I really despise men who refuse to be responsible for their own actions, and ask their pregnant girlfriends to abort their own child, just so that the child wldn't change their lives 360 degrees and make things difficult for themselves. If these guys didn't want to be responsible, then in the first place, they shld have used protective measures. I wld refrain from making sweeping statements about the opposite gender but it doesn't mean I advocate pre-martial sex. Just stating my opinions and feelings for my own reflections.

the big unknown.

Wednesday, September 05, 2007 ( 9:38 PM )

Translation

Life is important.

"Life is important", such a thing has been said several thousand, tens of thousands of times.

You are important.

If somebody says so, I can live with that alone.

For the sake of tomorrow, start [cherishing ur life] now.

This is a public advertisement.

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I was just minding my own business looking at music pvs on youtube, when I came across this prevention suicide campaign video. I was pretty shocked to know that the Japanese Government has to plead with its citizens NOT to commit suicide through the media. It goes to show how dreadful life has been for the Japanese people, that they choose to commit suicide.

I remembered watching Hard Gay commenting that Mount Fuji has now become a favourite hotspot for people who want to end their lives, and there was this sign at Mount Fuji that wrote to the public not to commit suicide and to cherish their lives and think about how their actions will affect their friends and loved ones.

Izzit the harsh education sch system that is driving the students nuts? Or izzit the sch bullies whom even the teachers in school can't even lay a cane on, driving masses to their graves before alzhemier strikes them at old age? Or izzit bcos the bosses in Japan are all slave drivers that majority of the workforce in Japan have to do OT very frequently? Perphaps insanity was just a few steps ahead of them, and they just lost it at that very moment.

Suicide is not the right way to solve your problems, it is just another foolish way of running away from your problems. Who knows what will happen to you in the netherworld after you commit suicide? Probably, your soul will run into more problems, problems you never anticipated before. The BIG Unknown.

bonnie pink

Monday, September 03, 2007 ( 10:54 PM )

Bonnie Pink
Perfect Sky

(Philharmonic Flava)

Translations © Sarah/Frecklegirl 2005

You don’t cry in your heart
I don’t burn in my heart for you
I’m looking for a perfect sky
I’m looking for a perfect sky

At midnight I quietly slip out of the house
The Gimlet I drank alone perked me up just a little
With my way blocked by a road under construction,
I wonder if even my continuing love for you will fall through too
I’m just full of nothing but feelings passing by each other, aren’t I? 　
When the morning glow changes to blue

You don’t cry in your heart
I don’t burn in my heart for you
I’m looking for a perfect sky
I’m looking for a perfect sky

On a sandy beach, I turn around like a wild goat
A hot summer’s great for dancing to my car stereo
I’m looking for a perfect sky
I’m looking for a perfect sky

In case we break up, let’s suddenly exchange a kiss
Wanting to be alone,

that was just a little bit of a lie, wasn’t it?
You think too much to be a child anymore
I can’t say I recognized you,

I wonder if that isn’t bargaining dangerously
As I expected, the day of reckoning has come,

it’s like the end of the rainbow is melting into the sea

You don’t cry in your heart
I don’t burn in my heart for you
I’m looking for a perfect sky
I’m looking for a perfect sky

Leaving it up to heaven, I jump like a mermaid
Just once I want a red-hot romance
I’m looking for a perfect sky
I’m looking for a perfect sky

You’re fine as you are, but
Hey, baby, when you’re lonely
Open up your heart
Even surfing is all right, but
Hey, baby, talk to me
I want to see a perfect sky with you

You don’t cry in your heart
I don’t burn in my heart for you
I’m looking for a perfect sky
I’m looking for a perfect sky

On a sandy beach, I turn around like a wild goat
A hot summer’s great for dancing to my car stereo
I’m looking for a perfect sky
I’m looking for a perfect sky
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I guess it's affinity that I always enjoy listening to songs that have heartwrenching lyrics.

Bonnie Pink ROCKS!

Labels: Bonnie Pink