25 days till christmas

so the TVB 40th anniversary awards was the other day. since watching the awards from a couple of years ago, i've already said that TVB needs to embrace the 'american' way of award shows. the TVB award show reminds me slightly of the emmys but a lower class one. so here are a couple of things that TVB can learn from the emmys. 

1. try getting press coverage for the stars on the "red carpet." with the emmys, E!, hollywood, ET, etc. all crowd around the carpet to get the first interview with a special star. TVB could give the fans a little more smirk by allowing perhaps EBuzz or Scoop onto the red carpet to interview these artists about their feelings, what they are wearing, yada yada yada. i think that would be a lot more fun to watch than just seeing them arrive in a car, dash down the red carpet like they're running away, and onto the stage. 

2. better presenters. the presenters who kept pointing out that they were being "rolled" was weird. its like, okay, don't point it out, just keep talking, it's a live show of course they're going to rush you off. some of them were talking about things that didn't even make sense or wasn't remotely funny. 

3. better camera men. was it just me, or did the camera men that night did not know how to capture the best moments? the cameras did not stay on the nominee's when someone lost or when someone won to capture their facial expressions. plus, they need more cameras. if the presenter is talking, and doodoo interupts [which is unprofessional] then another camera should be focused on her as well. the point of the awards show is to capture everything. 

4. host the show in a grander area. perhaps a nice hotel or something where there are dinner tables so everyone's relaxed and among their choice of guests, or where the artists can sit in the audience with everyone else so that the only people on stage are the presenters, the hosts, and the performers if there are any. every year, the TVB award show is held in that crappy looking audience hall that makes it look so low class. so even if the artists do wear nice stuff, their backdrop doesn't match them, making it seem weird. 

5. a professional voting board. the emmys have what they call the academy, which is a board of professional people from every aspect of what it takes to make a show, who casts their votes. TVB awards are completely rigged, there is no denying it. we all know. TVB has favorites and those favorites are who wins that year. thats pathetic because that means that you actually encourage brown nosing and not actual talent.

6. better award categories. instead of crowding everyone into these stupid categories and making new ones to please the audience [ie the favorite mainland whatever award], come up with actual award categories that make sense...like, the best villain, or best on-screen kiss. [best on-screen kiss isn't actually from the emmys. hehe. it's from the mtv awards. but i still like that category] but like, the best villain award? everyone wants to be evil at one point in their career, and some do it really well. like drive of life ng wai kwok or even shirley yeung in the brink of law. they were gOOd

and if you guys have watched the emmys before, notice that the show as an hour of fashion, and at least three hours of the award show. i never understand why TVB has to rush through their awards like a dying chicken. 

28 days till christmas

BACK and FAT from the weekend! 

usually we get two days only for thanksgiving, but me...i believe in making your own vacation days. so i took a whole week off. =D sheemeeh. our classes didn't teach anything, don't look at me like a good little chinese kid. 

[DONT READ IF YOU DIDN'T WATCH THE DRIVE OF LIFE YET]

so i finally finished the drive of life when i had the time to, and it was actually a pretty good series...past like, the twentieth episode. i have to admit, i hated the theme song when i first heard it for the first ten times, but after that, i loved it. especially steven chou. or whatever the heck his name is. the good thing about it was it's length. 60 episodes does sound daunting but it was just enough to drag out to make the ending come together nicely unlike HOG and most TVB series which have super bad endings. the characters were well thought out and the plot was well written. some of the things that went on, i could guess, but other parts i couldn't and that was fun.

 

damian lau as "wah mun hon" - lemme tell ya...he was GOOD. he played his 'big man role' real nice, i actually felt bad for gigi wong who played his wife at times. when he broke his legs, that scene when he first woke up in the hospital was very powerful; he depicted his character real well in that scene. and i love his furrowed face through most of the movie. it must have been tiring to do that the whole time. when he walked on that cane, i was convinced that he needed it. excellent job on his part. [i get a crack out of his real chinese name lau chong yun = worm man. hahahaha]

liao jing sheng as "wah mun hong" - i didn't like him and his nose. his nose looked funny. im sorry, i don't mean to be mean...sorta, but his nose did look like a bull nose, and when i was watching the whole time, i couldn't help but focus on that one detail. BUT when i wasn't watching his peculiar nose, i did notice that his acting was okay. i think the voice over could have done better... i hate voice overs

michael miu as "wah mun shek" - i guess it's good acting that made me hate his childish nature. but during TDOL i didn't really think he was that attractive. i loved loved loved his outfits though. but i didn't get that 'george clooney' effect from him. 

gigi wong as "hui zam yun" - what the hell kind of name is that?? when damian first called out her chinese name i was like, what?? out of all the elegant names someone can pick from so many chinese letters someone decided to call her zam yun. it just ruins it all. she was pretty good in her role, but i think it could have been better. i felt like she didn't have such a hard grasp on her character. with a series this long though, i guess maybe she was afraid that if she got too into it, she couldn't get out of it?? i don't know. 

sheren tang as "wong siu fun" - i've always thought she was a good actress, and she just got better. this woman goes from evil to semi-evil to whole heartedly good, and the transition that she provides for her character flowed nicely with the plot. it wasn't forced much like i thought gigi wong's character was. 

raymond lam as "wah zhun bong" - his relationship with charmaine sheh gave me butterflies in my stomach just watching. i felt like there was so much chemistry between them that it made it very believable. he as a whole was pretty okay. but i don't think that this was his best. he's cute...but i don't really know about his acting. i don't think it's been max-ed out yet. [i know raymond fans will kill me, but i'll say it for bernice too. i love that girl, but she still hasn't done her best yet. <-- more on awards later]

jessica hsuan as "wah ching yu" - i hated her...character. i kept fasting forward when she and joe's scenes were on. i could not stand how she was being so ignorant towards what people were telling her. i kept shouting at the TV at her character. well done, but i didn't like her hairstyle in her earlier years. ugly

joe ma as "ngai wing bew" - i think he was mediocre. compared to ng wai kwok [his uncle] he pales. you can't have two evil ngai family men and have one of them mediocre. it doesn't work. 

charmaine sheh as "wing sau fung" - i loved her character. she's always been a great actress in my eyes, and this time she was no exception. i really liked how she lets the character evolves, and props for her to have such great chemistry with raymond. 

myolie wu as "fong bing ye" - another bad chinese name. every time they said her name i couldn't help think about that word in chinese 'bing' meaning...to beat you up, i guess. it sounds so vulgar...the name. it doesn't role off your tongue nicely. overall, her character was okay. its not realistic. at some point i remember saying to my TV, don't be stupid, move on retard. 

feng shao feng as "wah zhun mun" - he's cute. when he got together with that girl i got mad. she was ugly. the pairing in the end with myolie was MUCH better. other than that, i can't think of anything else to comment about him.

ng wai kwok as "ngai teen hung" - ooohh, i loved this guy. he was evilly good. TVB should come out with a an award title as the best villain. [what is up with mainland favorite actor/actress?! thats not an award] 

toby leung as "wah ching lum" - she's not a significant character to me, but i'm putting her in here because i want to bash her character. this girl is already not that pretty and so i love how they cut her hair to make her look uglier. in her scenes when she gets into a fit about her parents fighting...c'mon! they were saying that she was a college graduate meaning that she's about 22/23. and i can tell you that a 2-something does not cry that way and does not throw a fit that way. and she made her relationship with michael miu too relationship-y. it made me want to gag. 

overall, i love how the whole production tries to promote china. i like how they manage to slip in a few phrases that brown-noses china throughout the series. i really do like the length of it, but the upcoming diamond one with 80 episodes is too much for me. i don't know if i want to spend time to watch that one. 

p.s 

i really like this new song by landon pigg : coffee shop

32 days till Christmas

happy turkey day! 

i've finally had a chance to escape to write a small post. hehe. celebrating in new york is a lot more fun than celebrating in stinkin' jersey. 

always a new yorker at heart

don't forget to eat plenty and don't forget about family. that's important. NOW GO GET FAT! 

*and by the way, 106.7 lite fm has starting playing christmas music!!! (a new york station)

39 days till christmas

lets face it, boys and the things they do are weird... 

1. they like to smell your hair. i don't know what the fascination is cause i mean...you wash your hair too, so it's bound to smell fruity at some point. when a guy smells their girlfriend's hair, it sorta, well, it reminds me of that guy from Charlie's Angel's, Thin Man when he cuts some of the girls' hair off and smells it. [shudders] its creepy. 

2. they like to stuff their mouths. its an obsession to look like a squirrel... to me at least. why do you have to prove that you have a bigger mouth than the guy sitting next to you? its okay if you can't stick your fist in your mouth...its normal. 

3. they don't wash their jeans periodically. lets face it ... this is just gross. because god knows that they'd rub their greasy hands after eating chips onto their jeans, and whatever else they might touch during the day. it's not even not washing it for a day or two...it sometimes becomes a week. imagine all the flavors you can find on that jean by the end of the week. granted that i will never be the one to lick and see.

4. they like to observe their bodily functions. ie. farting, burping. really, who wants to know how far the sound of your fart went, how deathly the smell is, and if you farted successfully without anyone knowing? that's just gross. don't talk about what color your poop was, or how yellow your snot is after your flu. we don't want to know. 

5. they grab their crotches...in public...all the time. i don't understand this one. do they think that they're in their own bubble for that long moment where no one could see them when they do it? dude, surprise. we saw you do it, and its disgusting. you don't see us girls reaching down there to scratch ourselves. 

*i was doing a little research before writing, and asked a guy friend of mine. and this is what our conversation was like:

me -  what do guys do that girls don't? thats considered disgusting to a girl?

friend - use logic

this kid needs to be defenestrated 

little kids are awesome || 41 DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS

me - wow, its finally cold enough for me to see my breath when i blow out!

little cousin - yeah... i wonder if when you fart, you'd be able to see that too?   

flowers 101

on my way out of class today, i saw a guy standing in front of the building's front doors with a bundle of flowers in his arms. it was such a cute sight, because he had his ipod headphones on, and you could see that he was SO embarrassed, but he still stood there even though people were looking at him weird. it was THE cutest things. so, needless to say, that you sweet guy, because you inspired my newest post. 

RED

love, respect, passion, courage

PINK

happiness, gentility, grace, faith, thankfulness, admiration, confidence

YELLOW

friendship, joy, happiness, zeal, jealousy, caring

WHITE

innocence, purity, serene, heavenly, silence

PEACH or CORAL

enthusiasm, desire, sweetness, modesty, joy

PURPLE

faithfulness, passion, hope

the most common flowers people tend to go for are: carnations, daffodils, iris', lily's, orchids, roses, sunflowers, and tulips

carnations - given when we were little kids in elementary school and we had no real money to buy our moms a mother's day gift. these carnations probably sold so well because they came in all possible colors, including BLUE! a real frenzy with little 5 and 6 year olds. 

daffodils - probably the cutest looking flower that everyone has at least heard of. it looks like a bell, which is pretty cool...but not as cool as the other ones, once you've gotten to see them...

iris - not only does this double as a human name, these flowers are pretty and purple. no, they are not lavenders. 

lily - is another one that doubles as a human name. they look kind of mixed. they have a little bit of white and purple in them...with a huge antenna sticking out of it's center...a little alien to me. 

orchids - one of the hardest flowers to grow, to my understanding. i think most people like to receive these flowers for bragging rights when it does grow, and perhaps as a symbol of the relationship. (ie. it's hard to piece together, but once it buds, its a beautiful and simple thing.)

roses - THE single most common flower. it's edible too. they come in a couple of colors, but of course, red is the most famous one for being a sign of passion and love. 

sunflowers - these flowers are seriously the size of a kid's face. they're funny to look at. and plus, you can eat sunflower seeds...

tulips - ...just graceful looking. no one really buys them for anyone alone, but maybe in a whole bundle. 

my favorite flower? it has got to be the the bird of paradise

 

flower color meanings - credit to www.flowerparade.ca/index.html

46 days till christmas

I'VE BEEN WAITING ALL YEAR LONG FOR THIS, AND ITS FINALLY HERE!!!!

STARBUCKS PEPPERMINT HOT CHOCOLATE!!! 

i hate coffee, but i love starbucks. ...no, i dont think im being irrationally contradicting, because starbucks has drinks made for non-coffee drinkers like me. and no, it does not take the fun out of drinking starbucks. 

now that starbucks has finally started the season off with their decorative cups, then it starts the cue for me to begin counting down to christmas. i know thanksgiving still hasn't come, but really...who cares about thanksgiving. =D

a girl

so in light of my running and me actually making an effort to stay healthy and skinny, here is a list of why its so hard to be a girl:

1. yeah, im trying to stay healthy and skinny by running but what is my reward as a girl? granted, i do get to get rid of my spare tire and thighs, BUT NOT MY BOOBS! it completely doesn't make sense that God would give us bigger boobs during pregnancy because you already can't see your feet but not only that, now you can't see the whole bottom half of yourself BECAUSE of your enlarged boobs. what kind of common sense is that??

2. speaking of pregnancies, women are praised for being the major procreator...so why must we bear through labor? why can't it be a smooth sailing, minus the morning sickness, the stretch marks, and the contractions? 

3. our dear, monthly best bestest friend. this friend does not go away until we are about in our 50s. during our youthfulness, we obviously will be active, wear white, and many other things. but now with this monthly friend, whom may i add does not always get here on time...its like a major guessing game sometimes...it is recommended that we should not wear white in case the uber RED clashes with the uber white and frames you out of the thousands of people you might be apart of. aside from that, this monthly friend also brings along bloating, cramps, and mood eating. which is not good. 

4. menopause. yay, our friend is done. but WAIT! you get hot flashes, extra mood swings and more wrinkles! SURPRISE! 

5. who ever said that being a girl means being easy to dress? sure, we might have cuter clothes when we were toddlers, but when we get older...yeah, right. look forward to extremely bland colored old people clothes...while our male counter parts enjoy looking younger with their clothes as we age... 

what kind of cruel game is this God playing? it's not funny. 

i think im coming down with something...meaning my nose is leaking, my head is pounding, and my cheek bones kinda hurt too. i needed a good laugh, and i remembered russell peters. he's like, the greatest indian canadian comedian i've ever watched. FUNNY

*warning -- extremely funny, don't watch with any food or drink in your mouth*