Boys Over Flowers (Korean Hana Yori Dango)
The second Korean drama series that I will be featuring here is none other than the wildly popular Korean comic adaptation version of the famous manga series Hana Yori Dango, Boys Over Flowers or Boys Before Flowers!
Synopsis:
Boys Over Flowers is the story of a poor but strong-spirited high-school student Geum Jandi. After saving a student from [...]
Movie Up-to-date(s)
Argh, writer’s block has striked yours truly again! ‘Banging my head against the wall’ I am seriously lacking the creative juices. Thank goodness I did not seriously contemplate making writing as a career (though I did have a mental fling with the idea) or else I would definitely be a ‘fried squid’ (the Cantonese expression i.e. [...]
Cheers
Cheers Theme Song
Making your way in the world today, takes everything you’ve got.
Taking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot.
Wouldn’t you like to get away?
Sometimes you want to go
Where everybody knows your name,
and they’re always glad you came.
You wanna be where you can see,
our troubles are all the same
You wanna [...]
The Happening
I’ve been a fan of M. Night Shyamalan’s movies since watching the breakthrough horror film ‘The Sixth Sense’. It was not so much spine-tingling as the telling of a story about a boy coming to terms with his fears of being able to see and communicate with spirits. Of course the chill factors were not lacking but [...]
3 Dads 1 Mom
Those who know me well will know that I’m a fan of Korean television series (KDramas) and movies. It started with the small screen airings of ‘Autumn in My Heart’, ‘All About Eve’ and the massively popular ‘Winter Sonata’. These three dramas were the pioneers of the ‘hallyu’ or Korean Wave which is defined as the aspiration to [...]
Indiana Jones 4
Not long ago, EL and I caught the highly anticipated fourth installment of the Indiana Jones movie series, ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ (what a mouthful of a title). In my opinion, ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’ was the best of the previous three installments thanks largely to the wonderful chemistry [...]
