1-7 October: China’s Golden Week
1-7 October: China’s Golden Week to celebrate its national day.
movie: Hotaru no Hikari update
Who missed Ahomiya and Buchou? Hotaru no Hikari is one of my all-time favorite Japanese dorama. I watched both first and second season and I’m looking forward to the movie adaptation of the manga by Hiura Satoru. There’s update from the Japanese press on the cameras rolling in Rome. I’m glad they retained Ayase Haruka…
drama: Office Girls on secret relationships
(Roy Qiu…why you so hot part 2) It’s the sixth week for Office Girls and I am liking how the story is progressing. I hope the Chinese Wikipedia is not accurate because it says that the drama will only have 10 episodes. WHAT?! Only 10 episodes of Roy Qiu goodness?! I love how the relationship…
movie: High School Debut/Koukou Debut… absolute miscast
Koukou Debut is one of my all-time favorite mangas together with Akuma de Sourou (Devil Beside You) and Nodame Cantabile. These three are the only ones in my manga collection aside from a few volumes of Ranma 1/2. So when I heard that they were going to make a live action of the manga, I…
drama: The Fierce Wife… a review, kinda
I have been reading and hearing a lot of good stuff about The Fierce Wife. At first I thought it was an American drama in the fashion of Desperate Housewives, The Good Wife etc etc so I wasn’t interested. But when I learned it was a Taiwanese drama, I was intrigued though I was also…
behind the story: Arashi
(This is part of the series on behind-the-scenes while covering celebrities.) My friend @kayteegee8’s tweet today reminded me that it has been five years indeed since the Asia Song Festival in Gwangju, South Korea, where I saw Arashi for the first time (KT’s second?). I was in Seoul, where KT was based then, for a…
Johnny Kitagawa: The Idolmaker
By Yasminka Lee in Bangkok Japanese impresario Johnny Kitagawa sets new Guinness World Records as the most prolific ‘idol band’ producer in the world If there is one person that fan girls of Japanese pop have to thank, it is Johnny Kitagawa. Without him, Japan wouldn’t have produced some of its most famous male idols…
quirky asia: in Harbin, they eat Kermit and Donkey
In one of the lunches during the Harbin media tour, they brought this to the table: There was no need to ask what it was. Hello Kermit. I eat frogs. At one of my favorite restaurants in Bangkok, they fry it with garlic. Arooy maak (delicious). Tastes like chicken. This one though I did not…
orange jasmine purple yam 