痞子英雄 (Black & White)

It's been a while since I watched Chinese Series, in fact somehow I kinda avoid of watching series 'cos it's hard to stop once you started .. so anyway, friends were telling me about ZZ's (周渝民) new series, it's a very different from his sensitive role "Hua Zhe Lei" in or confident businessman "Qi Wei Yi" in or his other goofy and childish characters, instead here he acted as cop, he is a craven and cowardly ruffian who's interested in the chasing girls, but that makes it quite interesting and along the storyline, his character changed to more serious.

ZZ plays Chen Zai Tian aka "Pi Zi" and Mark Zhao plays Wu "Ying Xiong" -- that's how director Cai Yue Xun (the director of and ) came up with the title "Pi Zi Ying Xiong - Ruffian or Hero"

ZZ (痞子) acted as "an officer who relies on bullet dodging, ludicrous intuition, and mysterious information to solve numerous cases"

英雄's characters are righteous and a bit overly unyielding, this case solving expert will heedlessly crash cars, jump from buildings, and kill others every time in the hunt to capture a criminal. He's a man of justice who can distinguish what's right and wrong. He's the hero in his colleagues' hearts, while he's a crazy man to his team captain and officers of higher ranks.

From the news I read, initially Director Cai wanted to reunite F4 to act on this drama, but it was feared that having four handsome guys standing simultaneously in the light might cause the audience to obsess over them, which is a good point .. I personally don't think that this series can stand on the same level as Meteor Garden, they are totally different genre and it would definitely ruin the nice story plot if putting all F4 guys in the scene.

I have yet to finish watching the series .. but so far, it got me hooked! I could give 4 stars out of 5 and Mark Zhao isn't bad at all .. :D

The Proposal

This is Sandra Bullock latest movie released last month .. I like her a lot, I've watched most of her movies, not all but quite a lot and she is very an expressionist person in her characters of all her movies.

And Ryan Reynolds .. hmmm .. he is yummy. I've never actually noticed him as this gorgeous and hot guy :) I've seen his early works from TV series Two Guys, a Girl and Pizza place back in 1998. He was always this goofy and not-so attractive guy playing comedy movies like Just Friends, Van Wilder, Definitely Maybe 'till he took a serious role as Wade Wilson who soon to be Deadpool in X-Men Origin: Wolverine then I started notice him ..

Anyway, The Proposal is indeed a must-see movie specially for those movie lovers .. it cracks you up but at the same time it gives romantic feeling of being in love .. love truly comes unexpected and when it comes, hold on to it or you'll lose it for good.

Here is a synopsis of the movie:

Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) is the executive editor-in-chief of a book publishing company, Colden Books, who forces her assistant Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds) to marry her in order to avoid being deported to Canada. He grudgingly accepts, under the condition that he is promoted to the position of editor. When the government investigates, the two are forced to spend the weekend with his parents in Alaska in order to sell the lie. The family suggest they could marry the same weekend, and they reluctantly accept. They start to fall genuinely in love as they spend more and more time together. Because of this, during the wedding ceremony, Margaret decides she cannot do this to Andrew and confesses the business arrangement in front of everyone--including the immigration officer handling their case. She is then told that she has 24 hours to get back to Canada, and thus goes back to New York to pack her things. Upon doing so, however, Andrew shows up at the office and confesses his love for her in front of the entire office staff, proposing marriage all over again (taken from IMDB)

Pulang Kampung ..

If things go as plan, I'll heading "home" to my growing up place in 3 months time, which is I'll be spending Christmas and possibly New Year in the land down under .. yay! :D

This was totally take me by surprise, I did plan for a trip to Aussie in 2010 for my best friend's wedding but since this trip will be about 6 months in advance, I'm sorry B .. I guess I won't be attending your wedding, but miracle happens, so hope by then I have enough saving to go there again and witness your special day ^^



My trip this time will be a family trip .. my cousin (first grand child from my mom side) will be getting married in Hunter Valley - Wine Country, it's indeed a beautiful place. It's located about 2 hours drive North of Sydney. She has picked an awesome place, though it would be even more beautiful if she could pick in Autumn/Spring season to have her wedding instead of Summer, 'cos Summer in Australia is just too hot and dry .. anyway, this wedding would be a big reunion for my mom's family from all over the world as well, we will indeed gonna have a good time.

And surely I'll be heading down to Wollongong .. place I can still call home .. I'm so looking forward to see my friends there again and reminiscing those special moments. I'm also gonna be a tour guide for most of my family who has never been to Aussie .. Sydney and Wollongong in particular.


I really hope that 2 weeks would be enough for me to have that reminiscing feeling of being home after 7 years.

5 days to go ..

'till One Tree Hill Season 7 begins .. can't wait!! Now that Nathan is with the NBA, it's gonna be awesome .. but too bad no more Lucas and Peyton. Hope they would pop in every now and then ..

五月天 First Concert

My first MayDay concert was great .. the concert itself was actually awesome though sadly I didn't feel the hype 'cos I was pretty much lost with the songs, only few were familiar in my ears. But I enjoyed it ..

This was my 2nd time step foot in Singapore Indoor Stadium, of course it felt different .. the first was back in Oct 2006 for Heroes of Earth concert. Back then I could feel the hype even before the concert. This time, I was looking forward for it, but at the same time I felt something missing.

As for the crowd, this MD concert was definitely smaller than LH's back then, there were still lots of empty seats but becos it was a rock concert, you can actually feel the hype-ness from the fanatic fans. There were lots of fast songs and the fans were jumping, screaming and sang along with them.

I was practically a silent audience .. other than I don't know most of the songs, the guys were all speaking in Chinese which I was lost once again, I picked up bits and bits but overall I was pretty much out there. Though one thing I like the most was during the L.O.V.E shout out and how the guys warmed the stadium, it was amazing! It was different than LH's or DT's concert.

The concert went 'till 10 mins passed midnight .. it was surely an experience. Afterwards we headed to the usual supper place MD guys always go when they are in SG, but too bad we didn't see them.

Anyway, these are the best pics I took during the concert .. and somehow I liked these, it's not close up but it shows the whole stage with all of them on it. Well, what more you could get from side seat :)

Sweet treats from Japan

A friend from work just got back from his partying trip in Japan and brought us these sweets. These are some interesting flavour of KitKat .. they are original KitKat (red), Lemon Vinegar (yellow-white), Mango (yellow-red) and lemonade (blue). Imagine sprite flavour in a chocolate .. hmmm .. yummo!

I have yet to taste any of these, but it sounds interesting. Thanks Ndi.

Bankrupcty

My 6 days trip in SG resulted me with bankruptcy .. these are just parts of what I spent .. but a friend said that as long as the things you bought not available in Indo, then you're fine. Well, thanks man .. :)

My new-added collections of My Melody

And my original Season 4 of One Tree Hill .. yay!!

On my last day of the SG trip, I checked-in to the hotel and guess what there was a DVD player in the room. What could be better watching Nathan in action in a quite decent hotel room .. alone :D