my 2011 in dramas

There’s not much. I have no compunction of dropping a drama if 1) something annoys me 2) so it loses my interest. Perhaps I have a short attention span. But then, life is too short to waste on stupid dramas. So here are the dramas that managed to sustain my attention: My Princess, South Korea…

my 2011 in interviews

(This has got to be the fussiest blog post I had to do. Editing audio is really mafan!) To paraphrase Forrest Gump, journalism is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get. Sometimes you get an assignment to interview someone and it happens to be a celebrity. Sometimes also the interview…

my 2011 in travels

I’m looking at my passport to remember the travels I have done this year. Not many compared to previous years it seems. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (March) My first trip in 2011 happened to be for the Jay Chou concert in Kuala Lumpur. To be honest, KL is not really one of my fave cities in…

behind the story: Mike He

(This is part of the series on behind-the-scenes while covering celebrities.) This may as well be an apology letter to Mike He. And @marylngoh would know why I would need to make that apology to Xiao Mei. Whenever I have a trip to Taipei, I always ask my friends who I should interview. Of course,…

movie: Go Lala Go!

I’ve always wondered why Xu Jinglei is China’s most famous blogger. I thought, there has to be a reason, in the same way there has to be an explanation as to why she is considered one of the four big actresses in Chinese cinema alongside Zhang Ziyi, Vicky Zhao Wei and Zhou Xun who are…

movie: Love Is Not Blind

This holiday weekend turned out to be some Mandarin-language movie marathon of sorts. I’ve watched Go Lala Go (China), My DNA Says I Love You (Taiwan), Sophie’s Choice (China) and the surprise hit in the mainland this year, Love Is Not Blind or 失恋33天. The film has been tagged in some articles like this as…