Love Contract 愛情合約

This drama is quite hard to decide on. For one, its ending was horrid, but how the ending was different and special made it quite appealing. Also, I hate when dramas feel very lonely and desolate at the end. I hate how at the denouement, it seemed as if everything dropped and turned and everything was turned around. You can see how conservative I am, about how a story should be traditionally written. But, on another note, they did live happily ever after at the end, even though nothing was really solved. But you could also say that they reached understanding through love and forgiveness. Yes, this drama confused me quite a lot.
On to acting, this is the second drama I’ve seen that stars Ariel Lin. Again, her acting is flawless. Her portrayal of a tomboy is perfect yet, because of her nature, a bit of her girliness shows. After I found out that Love Contract was Mike He’s first big role in a drama, I forgave him for his acting. Very well done, for a model, but you have to admit, Ah Mong and Ah ken are exactly the same. Yes, Ah Ken is a little more gentle and artisty, but nevertheless, there is no difference.

This drama scared me a lot. I got the feeling of two lovers trapped in a world of misfortune and misunderstanding. The loneliness they felt scared me. –_- Like, at first there was so much people around, then the dad person ran away, Ah Ken’s mom died, Shiao Fong’s sister went away, photographer guy left. Then at the denouement, dun dun dun, Shiao Bai dies and Shiao Fong’s half dead. And for the rest of the last two episodes, it’s Ah Ken wandering around with Shiao Fong recalling all these events and it’s so sad. T-T That’s when you feel that sad loneliness down in the pit of your heart slowly rising… well, yeah, you get the point…
I’m falling behind on all these reviews. Gotta get writing…

Ariel Lin Snoopy CM for 7-11

YAY! Ariel's recent CM for 7-11. I first saw it on YouTube and didn't know it was a recent one. Until I saw the commercial repeatedly on the online TV that my mom watches. I wonder if my cousins have any of those snoopy things. they were all wild over the Doraemon magnets in the summer, hehe.

On other things, Ariel has come back from New York!! Now she can start filming ISWAK 2!! YAY, cannot wait!!! heeeheeehehehhe. I heard she went to the same school as Paris Hilton's cousin, talk about a very very small world! I hope she enjoyed her time there. I think learning is a good excuse for not doing dramas. Haaha, thats a bit cruel. Its just I think going to school is more important than doing show biz. But who doesnt want to be a celebrity eh?

Rainie Leaves Guess Show

January something was the last episode of Guess Guess Guess that Rainie will host, maybe forever, maybe not? They had a little memorial clip for her at the end of the show and there were all these other celebs commenting on her and stuff. Then she had a graduation ceremony, on account of her never graduating in high school. Ah Ya was in the memorial clip, she was kind of different... she talked kind of different too... Well, she's coming back soon, is that a good thing? All the replacements were ok... but they weren't Ah Ya!!!

Rainie claims she's been very busy, that's why she had to leave Guess. She has the new drama, Exchange Love coming up with Mike He. Is she also doing another album? I'm not sure, I'm really not sure actually... it just came to mind. She'll be singing in the drama won't she? Most definitely I would think.

Back to Guess show, I saw a clip of an old episode, is was just when ShiaoS left and Ariel Lin was the replacement. I wish Ariel Lin could host for Rainie. But that is IMPOSSIBLE. Ariel Lin is 10x way more busier than Rainie Yang! I think anyways. On the episode after that last Rainie one, Big Sister Peach from YoYoTV hosted in place. She was pretty good, a good replacement I would think. We'll see how the others will fare.

More Later. Please comment.

Meteor Garden II 流星花園

I hate this sequel! It totally ruined the story! A waste of my time. The story, the first part of it, with Dow Ming-She going missing to until they found each other again took about 15 episodes! Really the whole story was ruined by Yea-Sa. I really hate her. Of course she’s not the whole why I hate it, the story was structured really badly. After they found each other, things began picking up pace. Why waste 13 episodes being apart? Exactly opposite of what the audience wants. The only reason I watched this was because I was so pumped about Meteor Garden I. The parents got more annoying too. The ending was really crummy too. Yea-Sa all of a sudden just sends a letter and says, Oh what the hell, I’m going to give up on Dow Ming-She now. Let’s get drunk some time! And then Dow Ming-She and San-Tsai got back together again in the last 15 mins episode. Enough said, sequels are bad, bad BAD. I’m now forever searching for a sequel that is actually good. I’ve heard The Outsiders II is good. But I’ll have to watch the first one first eh? I’ll begin soon, and continues if it is to my preference. Of course, It Started With a Kiss II I will definitely watch.

Meteor Garden I 流心星花園

This drama is also very good, even though it’s quite a bit older than the others. It’s another manga remake, which way be why the story is so good. Even though F4 except for Zai Zai looked really old fashioned, I still loved them. But Zai Zai hasn’t changed in 6 years, which is kind of weird and creepy. I liked Jerry’s earlier hairstyle, the Dow Ming-She one that came down when it was just washed. But then he changed to his now hairstyle which has also stayed the same for almost 5 years. I recently saw him at some awards place. Jerry did a really good job acting in Meteor Garden though, considering his real personality, which is quite the opposite of Dow Ming-She. I don’t really like Dah-S to be honest. But she’s crucial in the story so I can’t really say she shouldn’t be there. I’ve got to find out what happened to F4 after all these years. Zai Zai is still acting, his last drama was Silence. Jerry I saw recently, apparently, he has a rumor about being with Lin Zhe-Lin. They were all awkward. Ha Ha! I don’t like Lin Zhe-Lin at all, she can’t even speak English. Che! I’ll put Meteor Garden II in another post since I have quite a different opinion about it.

The Rose 薔薇之戀

Saw some of this a while ago. Don’t like it much though, it’s messed up. I respect the whole gay thing, but I don’t support it. People are too spoiled now a days. They’re so fragile, one hour in a world war scene and they’d be dead.
The thing that turned me from this was the sibling love. Totally inappropriate. I think, from a description I read, that all loving in this drama is between two people with some blood relation. That’s very messed up, gay, lesbian, bi I can tolerate and understand but this I just can’t. I have to admit, Joe Chen was pretty good at his role, even though I really hate it. Enough of this though. No pictures.

It Started With a Kiss 惡作劇之吻

This is my ultimately favourite drama. I LOVE THIS DRAMA! It’s the best drama ever made and broadcasted in Taiwan. Also, the best drama I’ve ever seen! I like it so much that I don’t know where to start…I’ve already written a paragraph stating that I like the drama…


Anyway, to the more important part, WHY I like this drama. (Gosh, I’m using so much CAPS). Well, first of all, it is, to put it simply, totally HILARIOUS! (There I go again…) The drama is so carefree; no pressure at all on the audience, except for maybe the suspense of Zhe- Shu’s way of liking Shain-Ching. There was also the fact that both Ariel Lin and Joe Chen are professional actors, which eliminates the constantly annoying bad acting of some of the main characters in other dramas. As you should well already know, It Started With a Kiss is a manga made drama. There also exists a Japanese drama from the same manga. It is widely known that the Taiwanese version is much better than the Japanese version. Considering the time it took to film it, half a year instead of the usual 3 months, it should be and deserve to be rated higher. I’ve heard that Shian Ching is really annoying in the Japanese version, which is not suprising because the character could easily go from the protagonist to the antagonist. This also proves that Ariel Lin is in fact a really good actress. Zhe-Shu is also quite different from any other character Joe Chen has played, which is also impressive. Or am I wrong? Correct me if I am.


Another thing is the character of Ah-Jin. In the manga, Itazura na Kiss, Ah-Jin is this totally ugly freak that nobody gives a shit about. But in the drama, Ah-Jin isn’t that bad. He’s hilarious without being annoying and in actual fact he’s not unattractive. It made me cry at the end how he worked so hard for Shian-Ching but never got her. Now on the other hand, if it were some one quite different, I would’ve told him to give the fuck up.


I’ll post the MV for the end song here, I actually didn’t find out about it until about a week later, I was all panicky, like, where’s that scene where they’re drawing hearts on the window, did I miss something, was there something cut off? I searched a forum then found out about the MV and went to YouTube and watched it. I loved how they filmed it separately, like an extra after the drama. I still have the last two episodes on my computer and I watch it whenever I feel like it. I love the ending, how they didn’t totally change but it was still a happily ever ending. But I didn’t like how the wedding turned out, bad attempt at creating humor. But all in all, it deserves 1st place.