Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Manga

If you do not know what is manga, it's actually means "comic" in Japan. And yes, I will be writing about manga today. :>>

I am so so So in love with manga. Have been reading them since young that i can't even remember when it is. However, i can still remember the first ever manga will be "Lao Fu Zhi" (Old Master Qi).

"Lao Fu Zhi" was the no. 1 thing that i would get when i visits the so-called Magazine Booth in the past. If you are my age, you will know that in the past, there were always a old granny/grandpa selling magazine and stuff by the road with just a table and a huge umbrella. Presently, you can still see them around but much lesser.

So enough about "Lao Fu Zhi".  At the age of 12 is the time that i started reading and collecting manga! Slam Dunk, Dragonball and Young Guns are the first few manga that I collected. Slam Dunk was mainly collected by my sister (nicely wrap) but later given to me. Dragonball was found being thrown away and Young Guns was the first ever manga I bought!

Now, i have hundreds of manga. I am so obsessed with manga that i can purchase the amount of manga that worth $100 at one go... Those days were crazy~ However, it have been quite some time that i bought manga. I started to read manga online since 17.  Though reading manga through the book is still the best, reading manga online is too convenient!

Lastly, i would like to take this chance and thanks those manga that i read for giving so much great times and helping me to improve my Chinese too. Thanks!

Comment below about which manga you like the best~

Monday, November 22, 2010

Dramas

I am someone who love to watch movies, Dramas, Variety Shows, anything that makes me laugh or allow me to feel emotional. Today, i will be writing about Dramas.

I have always loves to watch dramas. Be it Taiwan drama, Korean or Japan. However, for this post, I will only talk about Tw-drama and K-drama.

Taiwan Dramas
I have always love Taiwan Drama. i remember the very first drama that i watch which makes me remember about them will be the Meteor Garden.


This is the drama that brings the Tw-drama into a next level. And yes, i am one of them that watched them, forgetting hunger and sleepiness.

Taiwan drama have changed a lot. The present Tw-drama includes a lot overly exaggeration and funniest. Their present script are mostly about when a commoner meet a prince/princess or which a rich man became poor overnight. However, this is what us, the audience loves to dream of.

However, there is one thing that Tw-drama never change. That is to use manga story without changing any of the plot and script. That might be the downfall of Tw-drama. As a manga reader, watching a drama that bring the manga story to life is wonderful. However, things are just too simliar that we gets bored of it after a few episode. If we were to count the Tw-drama that cause a huge hit in the industry, it will an average of 1 every half a year.

In total, there is more to improve in the Taiwan industry. To me, Tw drama allows me to relax and laugh all I want. (Personally, I hope that they should not always use the Tw-drama to produce boy/girl bands or singer)


Korean Drama


Korean drama is the one that i first watch and causes my drama addictions. And if you remember, you will know "Autumn In My Heart".  This is the drama that makes me know Korea. The drama that started the K-drama industry in Asia.

In the past, K-drama have the signature of creating sad stories as most of the main character ended up facing death or separation. This is really something new in the past. Not much drama will cause us to tears and feels emotionally hurt or depress. However, for most audience, it started to became boring as no people wants to get depress and sad after watching a drama. And this is where their market starts to fall for a while in the Asian market (excluding korea?).


However, things changes when they heard the audience and do something about the script. They started to create a mixture of funny, romantic and sad stories which might kick off through "My lovely Sam-Soon" or "My Girl".



Seriously, i am totally in love with these two... Especially "My Girl", the storyline flows and they have a balance mixture of sadness, funniest, happiness and anger. From then on, the k-drama market keeps getting bigger and bigger. Many different kinds of storyline/drama are produced too. Not only that, they introduce their music world to us too~

Being a person who looks at the storyline first, The K-drama really makes a great job in pulling the audience into the stories and allows them to create their own imaginations. I personally loves K-drama. Though not all their drama caused very huge hit in the Asian industry, but once in a while, one of their drama can cause a huge wave to the Asian market. Causing more people to look forward on them.


So why am i talking about dramas? That's because I am depressed after watching a k-drama that i have watched before, "He's Beautiful"


Before i start saying why am i depress after watching this drama, I want to introduce you this drama if you have not watched them. Definitely not a sad storyline or anything stress. At times when i watched any drama/movies/anime that i felt is great, i will started to get depress and turned into a lost sheep. There is nothing to do with the storyline or their music. It's about myself. Somehow, all of these great movie/drama will  keep telling me that i should be part of their crew... They will keep leading me to think that what i am doing now is not what i want. Does any of you have these mixture feelings and thoughts after watching a drama/movie like me? Lets hope that i am just thinking too much...

Sunday, November 21, 2010

New Chapter

With this blog, I am going to open a new chapter of my Life...
Many things might change from this chapter but i will never give up...
Thats me~
Grace Seow aka ThatSunniMermaid(youtube)