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First of all,  thank you my friends for the kind words.  I'm doing better, my family is doing better.  Sometimes we just need each other to just...be there. 

Thank you!

I just had time to lurk in weibo for literally a minute and there, it breaks my heart.

*sighhhh*  World, can you just be nice and give my Loverboy a freaken break?!  I'm about to be all for him to just quit this shoddy business and act in little theatres or whatnots out of the fugly side of things.

The SiWonYuanHong Hunan TV Cdrama has a mother lode of promos vids done, reporters on set for bts funtimes, all the biggie CN vid outlets will have it out in a day or two.. info fr drama's official weibo, and every source is retweeting the same info.

BUT! there wont be any Loverboy in it, omitting him a mention in a little tweet/weibo.    He's not even mentioned as he's not on set the day they do the taping and the presscon...blablabla.   If it's just that, I can kinda sorta let it slide.  BUT apparently the production did not even inform YH's management of presscon, 'forget' to tag and mention him in their promo weibos, even when they do, he's like an afterthought, mentioned after girl2...I'm sure YH doesn't mind this shiz...but for the official weibo, after YH's fans hollered the ragey neglect, to weibo a snerky one putting the 'blame' squarely on him 'not able to make it'?!?!? 

#转身说爱你#今天的媒体探班活动因为袁弘档期原因暂时没在剧组里，所以我们大家也很遗憾没有能够采访到他，不过各位粉丝不要担心，我们的第二波媒体活动上他就会出现在大家面前了，为了弥补大家特此献上袁弘“高富帅”照一张，感谢大家对我们这部电视剧的支持～ @袁弘欢乐粉丝团@缘聚袁居袁弘官方论坛

I mean if he's not on set that specific day...can't they tape a min or sth when he's literally skipping SLEEP for days on end and just add it in somewhere, even when it's rolling the credits?! It sounds a load of mean spirited Bull.  And this official weibo has to put his character's descripts: 'tall, rich, handsome' in quotation marks...and have always left out YH's baidu bar mentions (when it will go make every effort and fuss and @ every single Siwon fanclub under the sun), that and posting it with a pic of YH looking grumpy?!  The unbelievable amount of nasty snerk, it's a DARMN SHAME.

YH is a super thoughtful guy, IF he couldn't make it for his own reasons, he'll definitely make a shout out at weibo to inform his fans and say his sorry for inconveniencing, but his manager lady hinted she wasn't even informed, and is trying to smooth things out weibo-ing there will be 'second' wave of promo with YH included.  So yeah, co-Guy1 my behind.  I don't put all the blame on the production to neglect the existence of YH as one of the leads of the drama, I also blame his new management....things r not looking good, nowhere near where we hope and what YH deserves. *sob*  I do like SiWon in RL and I think he's talented enough, but he's a sorry excuse of an actor.  Plus, this is a bona fide Cdrama, u can't go dangling the interest of all the YH/BBJXPrince13 fangirls along and in essence he's just there to legitimize a SiWon vehicle.  Kidol is not THAT huge a deal to carry a Cdrama on normal TV screens when loads of ad $$$ and politicking  r involved.  I'm sure fr how things r looking today there is a cesspool of ugly shenanigans fr the SiWon's handlers to make him the one and only spotlight lead.  Nth against SiWon though, honest.  It is how things roll in Cdramaland.  I won't be surprised if Loverboy's scenes will be cut to bare minimum to fulfill whatever bureaucracy quotient just to get an airing in CN (they have a quota for the ratio of 'foreign' vs 'local' artists in any Cdrama to pass the censor bureau).

As a redbeanie smartlass snerked back: please cut out all YH's scenes so there is no need for us to bother watching it, but make sure to pay YH his wages.  Nobody minds.  BTW if there r more of these projects which he just have to be mentioned, let him skip the shooting or whatever it is, and just pay him, it's not a bad way of living.  *snerk*  WORD

I'm kinda interested in the drama till now tbh,  nth is telling me they don't care for it to suck.  But apparently I'm delusional.

Just another same old fangirly picspam.  When RL sux, we'll always have perfect dramas and perfect hotties to the rescue.


DAYAMMMNNNN!  When HuGe brings his A game, I honestly have no words but munch on tubs of ice.

( HUGE picspam )

Last but never least in my heart:





His dimpled smiles, his eyes....r all still the same.  And I'm almost sure it'll always be a constant that gives me a silly grin I can't wipe away no matter what.


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Do you know what life lessons I learned today?

1. I believe in these:

but no, combined, they r not as AFDFSGHDHFJGHDGAFasgkgjfhdfERWRYTE%$^%#^$%)*%($*#% as QIHM10.

*Everything is spoilers from this point on*

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And a baidu dearie has posted a better quality of the gayageum mp3 (just click on the .mp3 next to quaver) for ringtones and looping every waking minute of our lives from now on.  Sherlock has his Adler 'ahhhhhh~!' sms prompt, we have the classier gayageum, MUCH more classier but equally as effective sending all these tingles, hotflashes, blushing cheeks, profused sweating and raised BP/HR...everything...And QIHM fandom, I think we pwn'd SHERLOCK!  

I know I'll have heartpain but PERFECT heartpain never imaginable and the best ep ever AGAIN!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?  My heartstrings r soooo stoked they r humming that gayageum theme from now on.... I don't EVER deserve this, do I?!  Not that I wanna jinx it *oh plzzz stay awesome,plzzzz I need this to stay this PURRFEECT so I'll believe in unicorns aagain!*.    O MY WRITER-NIM-GODDESS~~~!  *BOWWWWWWW can I kiss your feet and dirt u just tread on?! Plz?!*

So one guess what I just did?!  Other then having mascara running down my face and typing while STARVING and slurping some too hot ramyun?!?!??!?


( gosh....plz go watch 9 and come fetch me... )

I stole all pics/gifs fr tumblr, sorry original posters, don't mind an absolutely flailing ahjumma *miannehhhh*

I no longer know how to phrase these coincidences happening around me, serendipity? Is there still any surprise left to accidental surprises if it's for the nth time?  Whatever it is, I've been watching a drama with a TWexiled KMT veteran Dad.

I started Crystal Boys, a 2003 PTS 20 eps drama, a few weeks ago.    PTS used to be the only source of TWdramas I watch.  I've read the novel it's based on by Pai Hsien-yung but somehow missing this.  It can easily be labeled an LGBT gem, which it is rightfully a seminal piece.  What gets me squarely in my guts so far though are the FatherSon and MotherSon family dynamics. 



A quote from the novel fr googlebook reviewer Tze-Wan:

“When I went to bed I thought of my own father. I recalled the time he’d pinned his Order of the Precious Tripod on my lapel, so seriously, so grandly. He probably thought I looked a lot like him, too. Too bad he had to go and pin all his hopes on someone like me. [...] No, I think I knew how much Father had suffered. In the months since I’d left home, my knowledge of the terrible agony he was enduring pressed down more and more heavily on my heart. That unbearable agony was probably what I was trying to hid from. [...] I had to keep away from Father because I knew I couldn’t bear to see the look of anguish on his devastated face. – Crystal Boys“

Fan ChiWei's A-Qing:The story is set in 1970s Taipei.  Our hero is the teenager A-Qing (adult by Fan Chi-wei, spot-on awesome) living with his nuclear family in the poorer quarters of  the city.  His father is a strict army man, a wrongfully dishonored and dismissed KMT veteran who fought valiantly in the civil war, being the lone survivor of his brigade....but he was held captive as prisoner of war and mistreated all around.  He's living off sympathy of other old comrades, with a low-paying job, barely scraping by.  Mom is much younger, clearly attractive when she's a young woman, now trapped in a dead-end marriage where her husband is more an authoritative daddy figure, to cope, she focuses all her energy in doting on her younger son, biased against A-Qing 'responsible' for her near-death labor during his delivery, leaving A-Qing squarely in the middle getting no apparent physical affection, through it all he's a gentle, warm, sensitive, caring soul who loves his family as much as he can.   I thought he'd be broken beyond repair at times, but he soldiers on.

A Qing with his younger bro, growing up.  He is his primary care taker, I'm such a horrible evil big sis by comparison.

Don't count this as spoiler because it's crystal clear in the opening sequence starting every ep A-Qing is gay and will be disowned, banished by his dad, beaten out of their home.  The next phase of his life happens around New Park, a notorious gay hangout spot where he finds his new make-shift family and struggles to find his own identity while being filial, combating the marginalization and trepidations being openly gay in a conservative TW in the 70s.   New Park is where we meet all the other characters, all having their own journeys,  Tony Yang's Zhao Ying and Joseph Chang's Wu Min to name a few.  tbh I'm not as rabid now after the first arc focusing on their family because the pace is a bit snailing even for a PTS masterpiece production (ie Not!idoldrama).

There is also the fact I enjoy the out of this world amazing performances of the veterans esp Dad by 柯俊雄 and Mom by Ke Shu Qin much more than all the young hot gay men combined.  They are very far from perfect parents, esp Mom, but we see how strugglingly they tried.  Whenever Dad is nostalgic, reminiscing the hard battles he's fought, all the brave noble deeds of his youth, of his bold, briskly dry homeland ShanDong...and we r fed the visual of this defeated yet proud old stately man still with a fight or 2 in him, but life and fate keeps beating on him HARD,  I can hear my heart shatters.  The style is stark, crude and real, the farthest of spectrum in cinematography as a LoveRain, I can almost smell the dinginess and feel the always humid damp moldy walls of their cramped squalor while I take the journey in time to the outskirts of the poorer 70s Taipei.

For those interested in the meatload,  there are a number of frank, appropriate hot steamy scenes, done with nice control, nth exploitative. I very welcome them not from the usual pervie side of me, but it's real and right for the ambiance and tone of the drama.  No cop out here.  They really kiss and make out,  It is a drama done with so much respect despite some artistic liberties for the beautifully sensitively written novel (which is translated to multiple languages), it's been on the top of many TWdrama lists from my critic friends.  There may be J subs coz I saw a trailer in Japanese, but other than that it's a rarer non-mass breed, so I expect eng subs nonexistent, there is never a bigger shame.  *sigh*

Yuan Hong rec'd an interview a while back, and I made a mental note to read it after his Mom replied with a sentimental tweet.  I had some time while baking this afternoon.  I ended up doing no baking and I can't make myself presentable for a girls' outing and I stayed in bed and cried my eyes out.  This is my loose translation of it.  I'm still balling, I have to keep swiping my drenched keyboard, eye blurred posting, so bear with me.

I have not been put through this reading an interview ever, living with this unbearable leaded heaviness.  Mr. Gao (高秉涵), 77, is a reputable TW lawyer before his retirement, leaving his hometown in ShanDong as a 13 yo, the year was 1948, after almost a decade of the SinoJapanese occupation, WWII followed by an ongoing nasty civil war with KMT at the losing end.

'Those who have not wailed in the darkness of the night, will never know Life fully.'  Its title, a quote from Mr Gao. 

'I boarded the ship trampling on corpses.'  Each ship could hold 10,000 passengers+/-, but there must be 10 times that number of  KMT soldiers and refugees swarming to board like a human tidal wave of flesh.  He's fled 6 months on foot fr his little village in ShanDong, Northern China to the archipelago of 'Golden Gate'/Kinmen off the coast of the mainland in Fujian, his leg wounded and infested with maggots.  Holding a twig for walking, he's completely lost, clinching onto his mother's every words, 'Follow the crowd, and, live on.' 

'You either tread forward crushing on those in front of you, or you'll be part of the 'path' of human flesh and bones.'  Saved by a general dragging him by his shoulder just as he felt a heaviness, another soldier was about to use him as a human carpet, his shoes were long gone, he's plodding on warm flesh.  No walking, he was shoved, skidding on top of the fallen.  That's how he boarded.  When the gates was closing, ship about to set sail, those stuck had their heads dicapitated, shooting everywhere along with severed limbs.  Rather than the visual, the 13 year old child was most traumatized by the horrifying cries from land, wails from the doomed with their only lifeline just out of reach.  Soldiers who didn't make it, opened fire at the ship, the deck was blood red.   He hid in the bathroom, cramped with 7 or 8 others, not a wiggle room to move a hair, all the way to TW.


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The video of the interview:


The lyrics of the song used in the interview is by the famous singersongwriter activist Lo Da Yu 鄉愁四韻, Four Melancholies of Home:


( lyrics (and translation) )

If you've heard of any meh/feh of this perfect precious drama atvm, plz holler, morbidly curious. I'm itching for things to snerk at.  The insane amt of perfection I'm watching is too good to be true.

A disclaimer: To all those antiquity-carrying time-travelers who MAY fall from the sky onto my cushy lap, thus saving ur life fr the impact, you can repay me with some form of TARDIS, or you, fyi.  My mission statement is to provide inviting beddings and company for all hotties of yore (and trap y'all here with me muuahhahahahaha) 
A flailing time-confused horsey fr 1690s and that's all it takes to pique my interest.. The pony is precious but had this happened in ep1 of QIHM, I may be spare the flailing by the time of this passing scene and carry on with RL, before the flailing and investing that is.   We were picking an old(er) movie of the night and I insisted on Back to the Future out of nowhere. And one guess on my latest music  to my ears?  The noise I make cooing at Chun and the J3, the 'awwwwww!!!'s, the 'cuutteeeee!!!' when I'm watching an ep of RP, and the ahhhhhhhhhhhh and gigglegiggles watching QIHM, so full of myself I am. QIHM is a much smarter drama all around, but RP has FOUR time-traveling hotties.  If 99.9999% of girls can go nutso over HanaDan's Flower4 who are either physically abusive with a fug perm, or loving his violin *coughisgaycough* too much, or is an STDpetridish with organized crime ties, or...I can't rem the use of the fourth one, a rich boy gigilo for older sugarmamas?!  I'll happily droolz at my harmless J4 darlings. I digress.




It started with Mom demanding some newish kdrama for quality bonding time. I sampled QIHM while packing, I must see the pony scene at least.  I don't care about Time-traveling, my stubborn head is not good with quantum leaps of faith and can be randomly bugged by an iota of logic fail, l still blame the clusterfck of Thousand Year Love.  As far as this genre goes, logic?!? Oh please, I'm snerking at myself.  And a whole drama of it?!?! I only enjoyed Life on Mars but is that strictly time-tripping or just tripping?  Sth as slapstick as RTP actually works better because what is the use of braincells anyway watching 6002, do I still have any?. I ended up watching QIHM 1, 2, 3 and 4 in one gulp, exploded into me crushing 2 hotties, ie my current crush count is 6 boys/men with sth to do with time-traveling.  It's a 'demanding' watch my end, I stop everything more urgent and watch every second, not because it is dense and convoluted, but every episode has a crescendoing buildup of sth quirkily awesome at every turn.   And I'm not the only one swearing it gets exponentially more perfect from ep to ep to ep to ep.  We're squarely at half point and not a moment did this whimsical gem let me down.

( ur time can be better spent looping QIHM )


[credit to original posters; fr tumblr]

What's new?  Back to back AWESOME RTP eps.  The plot is unravelling nicely.  We have CUTE.  We have a lot of 3 ducklings goodness.  OTP....is ahhh, really, like walking off my pages of shoujo manga.

For a change, I don't have a rant.

Now, this is the way to go build on the momentum fr 14!!!!



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[all gifs r fr tumblr and weibo; thanks and credit to the original posters!]

Don't wanna spoil too much because watching them poopypants pooping their pants or very short skirts r FUNNNN and so very satisfying!!!  And what an awesome loud ending!!!!  That face Chunnie made at the end of ep is again his campaign for giving him awards.  For couple eps now the scummies have their crappiest luck, we can be sure fr that trajectory there won't be any breaks for them and all they can do is to keep pooping them pants/panties.


And now we have yet another fresh lil twist (LiGak cosplaying a TaeYong being the real mccoy) I did not see that coming!   Can't wait for 16 (but keep those heartachy for us Gak scenes at MINIMUM m'kay?)