44^th Daejoong Awards

Daejoong is not as big or as famous as Baeksang but it still creates buzz..Jo In Sung, I love him and all, but he looks constipated here..Kim Tae Hee looks stuning, Lee Tae Ran looks phenomenal.

 

 

The Best Project : Family Ties

The Best Director:Bong Joon Ho, The Host

The Best Actor: Ahn Sung Gi, Radio Star

The Best Actress : Kim Ah Joong, S Line

The Best Supporting Actor: Kim Yoon Suk, Tazza

The Best Supporting actress: Shim Hye Jin  South of the Border

The Best New Director: Kwon Hyung Jin  For Horowitz

The Best New Actor : Ryu Duk Hwan   Like a Virgin

The Best New Actress: Jo Yi Jin  South of the Border

The Best Planning : Lee Jung Hak Lump Sugar

The Best Scenario :Sung Gi Young, Kim Tae Yong  Family Ties

The Best Cinematography: Park Hyun Chul  S Line

The Best Lighting : Lee Joo Saeng  Paradise

The Best Editing : Kim Sun Min The Host

The Best Mixed Media Technique : Shin Jae Ho, Jung Do Ahn

The Best Sound Effect : Jung Gwang Ho, Choi Tae Young

The Best Music Score : Lee Jae Hak S Line

The Best Art Design : Kim Gi Chul  Midair

The Best Costumes: Jo Sang Kyung Tazza

Special Award : Jun Do Yun

Merit Award : Shin Young Gyoon

The Most Popular Actor (Domestic): Lee Bum Soo
The Most Popular Actress (Domestic): Kim Ah Joong
The Most Popular Actor (Overseas): Jung Ji Hoon/Bi
The Most Popular Actress (Overseas): Kim Tae Hee

Photos:

 Bong Joon Ho

Shim Hye Jin Hey she is Yul¡¯s pretty momma from Princess Hours!

 

Kim Yoon Suk

 

Jo Yi Jin

 

Ryu Duk Hwan

 

Jun Do Yun

 

Jo In Sung

 

 

Lee Bum Soo, Kim Ah Joong

 

Chae Min Suh, Lee Tae Ran, Wang Bit Na

 

Jung Ji Hoon, Moon Geun Young

 

Kim Tae Hee, Sul Kyung Goo

 

Song Kang Ho

 

Shin Young Gyoon

credist: soompi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tokio Hotel

 

 

 

 

I just came across their video, Durch Den Monsun (Through the Monsoon) one day while surfing the net and I thought they were awesome…they are a German band. I thought they were j-rock so there anyway I just have to post them up. I have not listened to all their songs yet but I just have to say I think I like Tom, the one in dreadlocks. J

 

 

 

 

Band History:

Identical twins Bill and Tom Kaulitz (September 1, 1989) have been making music since childhood. They were musically promoted by their step-father, who is also a musician, although less active. In early 2001, in their hometown of Magdeburg, they met Gustav Schäfer (September 8, 1988) and Georg Listing (March 31, 1987), with whom they formed the band Devilish. From 2001 onwards, they played in talent shows and small-time concerts. After Bill Kaulitz' participation in a children's Star Search in 2003 (which he lost in the quater-finals), he was discovered by music executive Peter Hoffmann. In the end, Devilish changed their name to Tokio Hotel, ("Tokio", because of the large and lively city Tokyo in Japan which they love, and "Hotel", due to their constant touring and sleeping in hotels), and Universal Music took them under contract. Hoffmann hired David Jost and Pat Benzner into the team of creators and authors, and had them give the children instruction on songwriting and instrument playing. Shortly before publication of the first album, Sony terminated their contract. In 2005, Universal Music Group took Tokio Hotel under contract and developed an extensive marketing plan.

Credits: wikipedia, yahoo

 

 

 

Watch their Durch Den Monsun mv here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=vtr2c42C-_A

Watch their Monsoon (enlish version) here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=kfMnM5Y2rw8

Devil Beside You

 

 

 

Cast:

Ranie Yang – as Qi Yue: Qi Yue is a sweet and innocent sophomore in college who lives with her widowed mother. She is very shy and sometimes clueless, but she has a loyal and kind heart that shines even through the toughest of times. She harbors a crush on the captain of the basketball team, Yuan Yi, but her life was turned upside-down by Ahmon. Eventually, she falls out of love with Yuan Yi and starts developing feelings for Ahmon. Qi Yue is also one of the managers of the basketball team.

 

 

Mike He – as Jiang Meng: Nicknamed Ah Meng and Ahmon by his fellow peers, he is the son of the president of the school. He is a freshman at the college, yet he has power of his teachers due to his father's position. Ahmon is also frightening to a lot of people and is known to bully girls, yet he is also known as the "prince of seduction." Despite his cool composure and "bad" attitude, Ahmon has a gentle side and often sticks up for what is right. Li Xiang has a crush on him, which he does not reciprocate, but Ahmon has feelings for Qi Yue. Although she is his future stepsister, he does love her and enjoys teasing her. Ahmon also joins the basketball team and has faster reflexes that rival Yuan Yi's. Ah Meng also has a little brother.

 

 

Kingone Wang – as Shang Yuan Yi: Yuan Yi is a boy in Qi Yue's class (teasingly nicknamed "Ah Yi (Auntie in Chinese)", and is the captain of the basketball team. Qi Yue is initially in love with Yuan Yi for his gentle personality. Yuan Yi reciprocates her feelings and they become a couple. When Qi Yue falls in love with Ahmon, she breaks up with Yuan Yi, wishing not to lead him on. Yuan Yi is angry and hostile towards Ahmon at first, but gets over it and realizes his feelings for Qing Zi after she kisses him.

 

Tsai Pei Lin – as Qing Zi: Qing Zi is Qi Yue's outspoken best friend. She and Xiao Cai are the ones who encourages Qi Yue to confess her love to Yuan Yi, even though Qing Zi herself had a crush on him. Qing Zi cares for Qi Yue a lot and spends a lot of effort in helping her. After Qi Yue and Yuan Yi break up, Qing Zi starts dating Yuan Yi. Qing Zi and Yuan Yi's relationship is tested when Qing Zi feels that Yuan Yi is spending more time playing basketball than being with her. Feeling dejected, she meets with a stranger she chatted with online. She later gets into a tussle with him and Yuan Yi comes to her rescue.

 

 

Figaro Cheng – as Yuan Chuan Rang: He is nicknamed Ah Rang and the little brother of Ah Meng. Their father tried desperately to forget about him, and naming Ah Meng as the successor of the company. Ah Rang follows and stalks Qi Yue everywhere, trying to force her and blackmail her to like him, who in turn, does everything she can to stop him. He tries to ruin Ah Meng's name, and puts Ah Meng and Qi Yue in lots of danger. He is later softened by Qi Yue, who later feels sorry for him and reaches out to him, and becomes more open. Ah Rang actually really looks up to Ah Meng and sees him as a hero, and actually cares deeply about him, but his mother chose him instead of Ah Meng. This causes Ah Meng to envy his younger brother. Ah Meng would often ignore him and never look at him, and act coldly toward him. Ah Rang is also being helped by the school president's assistant who is in love with Ah Rang's mother, who does not reciprocate that love. Plus, Ah Meng had accidentally shoved Ah Rang into a vase that had severely injured and cut his neck, which was the reason for his hate. Because of this injury, he usually is weak and can collapse due to breath failure. [He has asthma] After a "fake" attack, he and Ah Meng rekindle their relationship and become brothers once more.

 

 

SPOILER WARNING…PLOT AND STORYLINES FOLLOW HERE

 

Synopsis:

Qi Yue (Rainie Yang) is a college student in her second year. Having a crush on the captain of the school's basketball team, Shang Yuan Yi (Wang Chuan Yi), she writes a love letter to him and prepares to pass it to him. Qi Yue, being clumsy, accidentally hands the love letter to Jiang Meng (Mike He). Jiang Meng, called Ahmon or Ah Meng by his friends is a freshman and the school's bully, smiles devilishly at Qi Yue as she gapes in shock, dropping the love letter carelessly and running away. Qi Yue soon hears from her best friends that Ahmon is the school president's son. Being rich and powerful, Ahmon and his gang go around bullying other people to amuse themselves. While walking around school, Yue runs into Ahmon. He shows her the letter and reads the front of the envelope out to her. Qi Yue then realizes that Ahmon picked up the letter that she dropped. Ahmon blackmails Qi Yue and threatens to print 1000 copies of the love letter and scatter it around the whole school if she doesn't become his slave. Unwillingly, Qi Yue is forced to cater to Ahmon's every desire.

 

Qi Yue hates Ahmon at first but as she gets to know him, Qi Yue realizes that he is simply "hard on the outside, soft on the inside" and is actually a nice person and just does things differently. In turn, Ahmon finds that Qi Yue is a unreasonably cute and innocent girl who is compassionate towards everyone and melts his heart. Very soon, Qi Yue finds herself flirting with her favorite devil and vice versa. As they start to fall for each other, Qi Yue is shocked to know that her widowed mother is about to marry Ahmon's father, which links them (Ahmon & Qi Yue) into a stepbrother-stepsister relationship. Things get really complicated. Ahmon and Qi Yue face many obstacles like Qi Yue's ex-crush and Ahmon's arranged date appearing at the same time, the disapproval of Ahmon's grandmother, the consequences of their love — the downfall of their parents' upcoming marriage, Ahmon's younger brother [more in biography] — Ahrang blackmailing them out of hate for his brother who wouldn't even notice him and so on.

 

Love conquers all for this these lovers as they face these obstacles together. Qi Yue and Ahmon gain the acceptance of their parents and Ahmon's grandmother, get through the pain of being separated for a year because Ahmon was in Italy getting to know his long lost mother, come to terms with Ahmon's younger asthmatic brother, reject the advances of Ahmon's date, and realize that reliving past crushes isn't the way to go and that people change.

 

 

 

What I Think:

Here goes my unorganized thoughts on this one.

The 3 leads actors.

Rainie Yang – as usual I love her to pieces. Her hairstyle is good, clothes are okay and she has great chemistry with Mike He and Kingone! I just love the way she pouts her mouth, and her range of acting has gone really big considering that she has done a bed scene with Mike He on this one. J

 

Mike He - I hate Mike He’s hairstyle; it reminds me of Dao Ming Zi’s pineapple-all-over-the-place hair! Waaaah! I think Kingone is cuter! Haha! This is the first time I have seen Mike act and he does fairly okay. He just seems to over –exaggerate a lot of things here…the way he smirks, smiles or whatever it is. He seems to like Rainie for real, coz you can feel their chemistry as if they are not acting. Is it true they are really dating for real?

 

Kingone Wang – Holy crap! He is like the Jiro Wang of ISWAK… Omg in the first episode, the bomb was already dropped on me!! Holy smokes, I think Yuan Yi (Kingone) is absolutely handsome!! Holy crap, I might as well day dream with Ranie on this boy! He looks a lot like Kwon Sang Woo, coz of the angular face, the smile. Holy Buddha I am really loving him, why the heck have I only seen this series now when this was aired in 2005? By episode 3, I already like Jiang Meng and Yuan Yi both…but Jiang Meng is going up my cuteness scale. Yuan Yi looks absolutely cute still in every jacket he wears, he makes it look good.

 

The downfall of this series: too many side stories happening around the main plot. Almost the whole ep 4 is devoted to YuanYi and Qi Yue’s best friend—imagine that!

All the complicated relationships: Jiang Meng & Qi Yue, Yuan Yi & Qi Yue, Yuan Yi & Qi Yue’s best friend, Jiang Meng’s dad & Qi Yue’s mom… so many complications arise that the focus was veered away from the main love triangle.

 

 

Must watch scenes:

@ The first scene where Ranie was holding her love letter for Kingone, omg that is the same scene as in ISWAK! At least Ariel Lin’s letter went to her beloved, hers made a detour! Haha!

@ Jiang Meng kissed Qi yue and Yuan Yi saw it.

@ Qi Yue sleeping in Jiang Meng’s bed the first time. Just because…

@Ahmon and Qi Yue in a bicycle, so cute together, and she held onto him tightly too. Them kissing in the middle of the road, stopping traffic.

@ Yuan Yi and Qiang Zi ran in the rain.. “The Classic” movie scene!

 

 

Rating:

8 Taiwanese Taicha out of 10

 

One of my fave scenes:

 

 

Credits: wikipedia, asianfanatics

 

V. Dubb by Vanness Wu

 

Track List:

1. Wo De Wang guo  (My kingdom)

2. Never let you go

3. FanG Shou (Let Go)

4. Just One Dance

5. Friday Night

6. wan shan Zai Ai (imagine this love)

7. Ling shi zha (zero time adjustment)

8. ma ma (MotHER)

9. Ru Guo (If)

10. eternity

11. Wan Shan Zai Ai ( Imagine this Love) house remix

 

Okay so Vanness Wu Jian Hao's new album was released last April 20 2007, and I just knew about it last weekend...hehe. He looks absolutely hot in the album cover and poster! I just noticed he has a mean 10-pack abs right there.

 

Check out the Never Let You Go MV, on the opening credits are Jae Chong, who is the main man of hip-hop group, Machi and Luke "Skywalker" Tsui, who does the mean dance moves for Machi.

 

According to Taipei Times, V. Dubb is now the number 1 mandarin album in the pop charts with 23.65% of the sales.

 

WATCH VIDEOS FROM THIS ALBUM:

NEVER LET YOU GO MV - 80S VIBE, USHER/JUSTIN STYLE, COOL NIKES

 

FANG SHOU MV - SECOND SINGLE, NICE STORYLINE

 

MA MA MV  - VANNESS' MOTHERS DAY GIFT FOR HIS MOM

 

 

Silence

 

 

 

Cast:

Qi Wei Yi (portrayed by Vic Zhou)

25 years old, intelligent, talented, excells in all areas. The confident Wei Yi has always believe that there's no "misfortunes" in the world, there's only "not try hard enough." Because of this, he's so strict on others that he's almost merciless. This is until his doctor tells him that he has liver cancer with only 3 months to live and when he meets Zhao Shen Shen again. Wei Yi slowly changes because of Shen Shen and lives the last 3 onths of his life nicely. Gradually he understands the meaning of pursuing life and love.

Zhao Shen Shen (portrayed by Park Eun-hye)

23 years old, Chinese-Korean, in an accident she loses her ability to speak. But this didn't bring complete misery, but instead it helped her to better understand how to use her heart to listen to and understand others. She didn't give up because of her mishaps and you can't see the inferiorities of disabled people in her. She substituted it with honesty and optimism. Though she can't speak, but the "love" in her heart is more intense than anyone else.

Zuo Jun (portrayed by Andy Hui)

27 years old. When he was young he was rebellious and playful, harming Shen Shen to become mute in an accident. Although on the surface it seems that Zuo Jun refuses to admit he's wrong, inside he holds himself responsible. To make up for his wrongdoing, he decides to protect Shen Shen from any kind of harm and unconsciously falls in love with Shen Shen. He's convinced that he's the only one who can give her happiness. In the name of love, he blocks Shen Shen and Wei Yi from development and doesn't hesitate to do sinful things. This is all because he wants to keep the girl at his side.

Mi Xiao Guang (portrayed by Megan Lai)

26 years old, Wei Yi's fiancee, serious, competent, independent, wants to use her abilities to have a breakthrough achievement in her career and prove her strength. Although there aren't many feelings between her and Wei Yi but they have a steady tacit understanding of each other. When Wei Yi suffers from cancer and dismisses their engagement, she couldn't help but reconsider what "love" is.

credits: http://lautan.indosiar.com

 

Other Titles: Shen Qing Ma Ma

 

 

Synopsis:

The story starts when Wei Yi is 15 years old.

Because of an accident Wei Yi was sent to the only hospital in the village. Getting bored while recuperating, Wei Yi accidentally discovers an old air-raid shelter hospital room. Through a secret in the room he unexpectedly meets a Korean girl, Shen Shen, 2 years younger than him who became mute from an accident. Furthermore, a simple and pure love aroused. However, they end up losing contact with each other.

Nine years later, Wei Yi is occupied with many business affairs. He bears his parents' expectations of him succeeding them. He doesn't have a life full of perils, making him confident as well as dazzling. One day Wei Yi mercilessly fired a worker. To his surprise, the next day a mute girl and a hoodlum guy came to ask for justice. Wei Yi never thought that the mute girl was the Zhao Shen Shen from 9 years ago.

Because of Shen Shen's righteousness, this mute girl left Wei Yi a deep and favorable impression. Because of fate, the two keep on bumping into each other. Even though they get mad over little things every time, but seeing the way Shen Shen does sign language Wei Yi felt like he was brimming with magnificent vitality. Argue for the sake of arguing with Wei Yi has become apart of Shen Shen's silent life.

At this time, a” misfortune" suddenly befallen him. His doctor verified that he had liver cancer and only had 1 more year to live. All of a sudden Wei Yi recalled a promise. The time capsule he and Shen Shen buried 9 years ago that said childhood memories would unlock 10 years later...

Wei Yi dismisses his engagement with his fiancée and goes to the place the2 agreed to meet at. As death drew near, fate arranges for Wei Yi and Zhao Shen Shen to meet again! Zhao Shen Shen was actually that mute girl.

With his life about to end, Wei Yi decides to hide his identity and slowly changes because of Shen Shen, living the last 365days of his life nicely. But Wei Yi's father Zhen Yang is furious that his son has changed because of an out-of-the-blue mute girl and decides to resolve this impediment personally. To protect Shen Shen, Wei Yi agrees to return to Taiwan to get treated. The day Wei Yi leaves Dalian Shen Shen accidentally finds out that Wei Yi was her love many years ago. She also finds out that Wei Yi only had 1 more year to live! The love deeply suppressed within her heart was completely dispersed at this moment. Shen Shen chases after Wei Yi's car, crying all the way and trying to call out to Wei Yi...Shen Shen's voice is finally back after 9 years!....

Source: bonbon of http://www.vicpower.net
Translated by Amy of Faithful 4ever - http://f4ever.azn.nu

 

 

What I Think:

I have already written a really awesome review for this series way way back, was that 2005, when it was first aired in ctv, everything in Chinese. My pc bugged down and I lost y Silence files, so I had to rewrite this all over again and remember the stuff I said way back.

 

Compared to Jerry Yan’s The Hospital (which aired almost in the same year, channel and timeslot), this one has a better storyline, the scenes were nicely written and constructed but I have to say that it really dragged on in the ending part. Some scenes were even cinematic.

 

Vic Zhou in Silence – there is another side of Vic’s acting that is revealed here. In Meteor Garden, he was relying in his manga-bishonen-good looks, in Mars he was strong and brooding, in Silence he was cool, unfazed and in control. There is just something about Vic that I just cannot point my fingers on but he has a great commanding presence and aura about him tat when it’s his scene, you just notice him..maybe it’s the distinguished handsome looks, or his sleek, suave suits. He still lacks depth in some of the crying scenes though and he has great chemistry with Park Eun Hye.

 

Park Eun Hye – She made mute seem so beautiful. Her sign language seems effortless, very natural. She was sweet, sincere and mild-mannered. Producers tailor-made this role for Eun Hye because she cannot speak mandarin, so they made her mute. I think this is the first time that I was so enamored by an actress whose role is a mute girl, and I am actually rooting for her to end up with Wei Yi.

 

Andy Hui – I respect him as a senior actor and all but there is just something about his face that bugs me…tsk aish…he does everything to break up the couple, I just want to freakin slash him of the screen, I guess that shows how good an actor he is. I mean come on seriously between him and Zaizai who would we choose? ^_^ And if you guys, like me have seen this series in its original ctv Chinese run, holy Buddha, it makes me go crazy the way he switches from Mandarin to Cantonese – because I can only understand Mandarin, and I sort of panic when he says lines in Cantonese.

 

Fast notes on supporting cast, Yellow is played by Kingone Wang Chuan Yi. He is the hottie whom Ranie Yang had a crush in Devil Beside You. He is just so cute isn’t he? I have a hard time getting over his cuteness factor.

 

Nice scenes:

@ Wei Yi first finds out about Shen Shen's true identity

@ Shen Shen asking Wei Yi to choose between the 2 postcards in the church, oh I love this scene

@ Wei Yi and Shen Shen are living together
@ Wei Yi reading the message that Shen Shen sent him, where she confessed that she liked him

@ Wei Yi hugging Shen Shen in the rain

 

 

Rating: 8 Taiwanese Taicha out of 10

 

My fave rain scene:

 

They look so cute at the premiere of the series...

credits: yahoo image search, fm974.tom,