Monday, July 30, 2007

Let's the sequel begins ...




Season 2 of popular KBS drama 'Full House' is in the process of full-scale production.

Park Chang Shik of Kim Jong Hak Production stated on the 30th, "To make season 2 of 'Full House', writer Jo Jong Hwa is already in a full year's work and at present has successfully completed the script until the 3rd episode. We are also considering oversea locations."

The script and the casting of the main characters will be approached at this latter half of the year and the shooting and broadcasting of the show will happen next year. The director is as yet undecided.

Mr. Park said "The 'Full House' drama in 2004 received great love from many viewers and it was so successful as to receive offers from Chinese and South-eastern Asian countries to broadcast it on their television networks." and "If 'Full House' season 2 is just produced well then there is a high possibility that there will be great success not only in Korea but in Asia." It is yet unknown whether Rain and Song Hye Kyo, the main characters in the first season of this drama will be cast.

The KBS drama 'Full House' that aired in 2004 in August was a modern love story based on a sweet comic story and acted out by Rain (Young Jae) with Song Hye Kyo (Ji Eun) who were received as an extremely beautiful couple.

Credit to :
source: NATE news


Here comes the confirmation from Korea after the long wait on the news of a sequel from China media, first broke out last year. You better don't disappoint me. A sequel is not a sequel if it's not without the original cast and production team. Yes, Full House will not be Full House without the original Lee Young Jae, the original Han Ji Eun, and the original production team. We have seen way to many failure in the past (MG2 - same cast, different production team).

I don't want to get my hopes too high and get disappointed later. Looks like the 2 of them want to work together again (that's what they said in front of everyone last time), but I don't know if their schedule permits them to do so. I know she wants to make it big on the big screen before returning to the small one. But this could be a way-too-good-to-pass-on opportunity, of course not to mention it could help them to be out of the hidden closet. On the other hand, they might consider this is a step backward on their career as one of them is a soon-to-be Hollywood star and the other one is a critics-love movie star. Not too sure if they both want to dive back into the small screen after all this.

Looks like 2008 will be a busy year for me, 3 on-off screen couples could be/will be back. So far, only 1 pair is making a sequel at the moment , let's hope this pair will do as well. Although the last pair is still unknown (trouble with management company plus copy right issue), but just hope that the project will come through soon (or collab on something else, doesn't need to be a sequel).

Monday, July 23, 2007

女大18變

I was dragged to a "Chinese baby shower" last night and saw lots of people that I haven't see for ages. Most of them look the same, some look are little older (or younger), but got to catch up on everyone's life,.

To my surprise, it's one of the little girl that I haven't see for more than 13-14 years. Like all other little girls, they all grown up faster than you can want them to. She has all grown up to be like a young lady, with heavy makeup, mature clothing, and 3 inch high heels. While I was snooping around, playing catching up, I found out that she is a mother of 2 children. Her oldest daughter, who look exactly like her when she is young, is 4 years old already. This kind of news is not surprising in society, but I just never thought of it will happen to someone so close by, someone who I practically "grow up" with.

Sunday, July 15, 2007

手塚 治虫 遊記



I finally made a trip to SF after 365+ days of absent. This time, my destination is Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Yes, I'm not a big "art" fan, but I was there for the Tezuka: The Marvel of Manga exhibition. Osamu Tezuka is a very famous mangaka (Japanese manga artist) at my time. Although I'm not a big fan of his, but sure enough I have seen/heard of Astro Boy (鐵臂阿童木/小飛俠阿童木/原子小金剛), Balck Jack (怪醫秦博士/怪醫黑傑克). Just recently, one of his manga, Dororo (多羅羅/怪俠多羅羅), was made into a movie starring the hottest sob in Japan (IMO), Tsumabuki Satoshi (妻夫木聡). For those of you who are thinking about going to the exhibition, let me warn you, don't have high hope on it. You won't find a lot of details on the each of the manga. They just show one or two sample pages and a brief description on what it is about. Most of all, they don't have all the manga shown in the exhibition. To my surprise, they didn't even have Mitsume ga Tooru (The Three-Eyed One, 三眼神童/三眼小子). Although they don't have a full collection of his manga on display, but it has opened my eyes on the ones that I'm not too familiar with, like Fushigi na Merumo (Marvelous Melmo). It is a very cute manga targeting for girl teens. It sort of remind me of Magical Angel Creamy Mami (我係小忌廉), one of my old time favorite.


After the exhibition, we went to Mango Medleyfor lunch. Food is delicious, but the portion is small. Mango is their specialty so they used alot of mango in there dishes (ie: mango shrimp salad, mango bacon fried rice, etc). We ordered a FAST meal of the day (mango bacon fried rice), bacon mushroom spaghetti with cream sauce, and curry shrimp stir fired flat noddle. All of them are very yummy (or because we are so hungry) . We also ordered mango dessert (mango crepes, mango grapefruit , and mango almond jello). I guess I haven't had mango through out the year, so having lots of mango in one meal is very fulfilling .

Special thanks to Ms. S for sharing the picture.

Thursday, July 12, 2007

一曲多語 - 解語花

omg .. Joey, what did you do this song? How can you make it so?? You have ruin it, I'm telling you, the TV rating will go down all because of you.

原裝正版:해어화 (解語花) - 최혜진 (Choe He Jin) (황진이 OST)


國語版: 解語花 - 容祖兒 (韓劇 黃真伊 主題曲)


粵語版:解語花 - 容祖兒 (韓劇 黃真伊 主題曲)

Sunday, July 01, 2007

遇到

I have been draw into ISWAK recently. A part from the drama, I love this song from the OST. The 2 lines in bold really reflect my current thought.



遇到

作詞:楊若儀 作曲:黃慧雯 編曲:林邁可 主唱:方雅賢

你身上專屬的陌生味道
是我確認你存在的目標
不用來回張望來知道
竟是我們相隔著一個街角

這麼久了,我還是可以看到
感覺你到底對我多重要
不會被天黑天亮打擾
你每一次的溫柔我都想炫耀

我們繞了這麼一圈才遇到
我比誰都更明白你的重要
這麼久了我就決定了
決定了你的手我握了不會放掉

我們繞了這麼一圈才遇到
我答應自己不再庸人自擾
因為我有的我自己知道

只要你的肩膀永遠讓我靠


music source: http://www.imeem.com