So apparently, it’s my third year on wordpress though I started blogging on Blogger in 2001 and moved to vox until it closed down. So in honor of my third year here, I decided to do an All-Asian Fangirl-Related “List of Threes”: Films: My Sassy Girl Infernal Affairs The Classic Dramas: Meteor Garden Lucky Seven…
Not that I’m counting down to Valentine’s Day but it may be a perfect excuse for a blog post. As it is, dramaland is littered with dream boys and perfect men that sadly, exist only within the script of the writer and the confines of the small screen. Real life is far more… gritty. But…
(For all my fan-friends from old and new fandoms) Or a fan’s spark is never gone. How did you start as a fan? I’m sure everyone has their own story to tell, the artists they’ve fangirl-ed (Dear Oxford Dictionary, please include fangirling/fanboying–for the sake of gender equality, spazzing and kyaa as new words) and the…
[May contain spoilers] I first watched Takeuchi Yuko in PRIDE with Kimura Takuya. It took me a while to get over that drama and the next time I saw her was in BE WITH YOU. Fast forward many years later when she co-starred with Matsumoto Jun in NATSU NIJI. I can’t blame producers if they…
And with these words: “zutto zutto” and a name that I got from the HIDAMARI NO KANOJO special (good thing I could catch the name even if I can’t understand Nihongo to save my life… wakarenai!), I found the singer and one of the songs in the film’s OST: Yamashita Tatsuro. Ain’t Internet great. And…
I’ve seen SMAP’s performance of their 50 hits on SMAP x SMAP (to celebrate their 22nd year since their CD debut–thanks for pointing that out @FindAiba), which can be watched here. As I said on Twitter, something has to be said about the group’s agility (at their age) and longevity, all things considered. And as…
I wanted to write about this on Monday, when the “great reveal” is made; when we shall all know whether the extra wrinkles, sleepless nights and the paranoia were all for nothing or whether we should start preparing for our hiatus from the fandom world. But I had to get it out of my system.…
I used to think that Fujiki Naohito was a poor copy of Kimura Takuya when I first watched him in PROPOSAL DAISAKUSEN. It must be the physical resemblance or the hair. I thought, the roles that were too minor for KimuTaku or were rejected by him landed on Fujiki-san’s lap. But many dramas later, I…
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