!Saturday, March 10, 2007
spell HOLIDAY.
I came back home so bored, I watched a whole bollywood movie on tv. It's much better than I thought (apparently the whole booty-shaking, tree-dancing, song-singing etc. doesn't last throughout the movie). And the jokes (ok, judging from the subtitles) are really funny. I swear, I might even convert to vasathasam (sp?) channel permanently. Ch 8 shows are getting either too whiny, too doctor-based, too fantastical, or keep on starring joanne peh.
And I read miss tan's blog about korean dramas, and I was reminded about something I wanted to say-
ALL KOREAN DRAMAS ARE THE SAME. period.
At first there was the weepy korean dramas- girl has long hair with curls, is always wearing pink/ flowers, has bambi eyes, likes to act shy, cries practically 3/4 of the time, speaks in a wispy voice. Then there's the brooding male who is always either:
1. rich
2. is some bigshot president of a multimillion dollar company and rich, or
3. works in some dreamy artistic profession (photographer is always the best choice) and can afford it cause he's just discovered he has a long-lost billionaire granddad.
So girl meets guy just as guy's ex-gf has left/died, long tormentful relationship, cry cry cry, girl gets accepted by guy's family but suddenly discovers she has cancer of some sort, cry cry cry, girl lives or dies (depends on how many people are actually still watching the show in the end).
AND IT'S ALWAYS CANCER. In autumn in my heart they did lukiemia (which is cancer cause it's bone marrow cancer), in winter sonata they did brain cancer, in stairway to heaven they did eye cancer. Practically every cancer is being taken up, sooner or later directors will have to use toenail cancer or armpit cancer or something.
And then koreans discovered plastic surgery, and more and more koreans just became prettier and prettier it wasn't enough just to be pretty at all! No! You must be pretty and funny at the same time! Enter new wave korean dramas like my girl or my lovely samsoon, where
Girl is born poor, wants to get rich, has some weird quirks, meets super-rich, young, hot billionaire who likes her character, has some major goof-ups and some tussle with an extremely pretty rich girl who wants the billionaire too, wins in the end cause she's got character, both live happily ever after.
ALL KOREAN DRAMAS ARE PREDICTABLE.
Normally I would just forget about it, but I'm so pissed because my daddy fell for the korean drama ploy and bought this:
Just looking at it gives you diabetes. And you know something's fishy when the guy wears a pink shirt.
p.s. I think I've blogged about korean dramas briefly before, but arrrrrgh I can't help it lah. Something must be done before our society turns into mushy goo.
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spell HOLIDAY.
I came back home so bored, I watched a whole bollywood movie on tv. It's much better than I thought (apparently the whole booty-shaking, tree-dancing, song-singing etc. doesn't last throughout the movie). And the jokes (ok, judging from the subtitles) are really funny. I swear, I might even convert to vasathasam (sp?) channel permanently. Ch 8 shows are getting either too whiny, too doctor-based, too fantastical, or keep on starring joanne peh.
And I read miss tan's blog about korean dramas, and I was reminded about something I wanted to say-
ALL KOREAN DRAMAS ARE THE SAME. period.
At first there was the weepy korean dramas- girl has long hair with curls, is always wearing pink/ flowers, has bambi eyes, likes to act shy, cries practically 3/4 of the time, speaks in a wispy voice. Then there's the brooding male who is always either:
1. rich
2. is some bigshot president of a multimillion dollar company and rich, or
3. works in some dreamy artistic profession (photographer is always the best choice) and can afford it cause he's just discovered he has a long-lost billionaire granddad.
So girl meets guy just as guy's ex-gf has left/died, long tormentful relationship, cry cry cry, girl gets accepted by guy's family but suddenly discovers she has cancer of some sort, cry cry cry, girl lives or dies (depends on how many people are actually still watching the show in the end).
AND IT'S ALWAYS CANCER. In autumn in my heart they did lukiemia (which is cancer cause it's bone marrow cancer), in winter sonata they did brain cancer, in stairway to heaven they did eye cancer. Practically every cancer is being taken up, sooner or later directors will have to use toenail cancer or armpit cancer or something.
And then koreans discovered plastic surgery, and more and more koreans just became prettier and prettier it wasn't enough just to be pretty at all! No! You must be pretty and funny at the same time! Enter new wave korean dramas like my girl or my lovely samsoon, where
Girl is born poor, wants to get rich, has some weird quirks, meets super-rich, young, hot billionaire who likes her character, has some major goof-ups and some tussle with an extremely pretty rich girl who wants the billionaire too, wins in the end cause she's got character, both live happily ever after.
ALL KOREAN DRAMAS ARE PREDICTABLE.
Normally I would just forget about it, but I'm so pissed because my daddy fell for the korean drama ploy and bought this:
Just looking at it gives you diabetes. And you know something's fishy when the guy wears a pink shirt.
p.s. I think I've blogged about korean dramas briefly before, but arrrrrgh I can't help it lah. Something must be done before our society turns into mushy goo.