Sorry for the dust piling up in this cyber space.

Last weekend, Kenny and I decided to spend our weekend less hectic, more relaxing and most importantly a non money-burden day. The most entertainment yet, money-free ways are through internet, drama and movie.

Everyone is raving about the recent Taiwan drama, “Hi, my sweetheart” which aired its season finale a few weeks ago.

Many many years ago, the Taiwan drama trend tsunami-ed the young hearts with super unrealistic, dreamy lovestory that could never ever happen in real life. Let me stress – NEVER!

The sad fact remains that people just LIKE to watch such fairytale storylines and hope for the slightest chance they would meet someone like the perfectly painted guy – will never exist. I don’t deny not going gaga over some of the guys but honestly not the crazy kind. Uh maybe i will just check on his updates and recent images.. but not stalk him every single day.

My favourite Taiwanese drama actor -  Jerry Yan (Because of Meteorgarden) and Mike He (Devil by your side)!

Let me tell you about the very typical Taiwanese dramas, their plots and the characters.

You must trust me with this! Eversince p6, I have been a drama fanatic. Way before downloads and streamings are easily accessible/sourced, I spent a huge portion of my pocket money from school just to buy VCD (DVD is exp and not really as popular now) from TS or Poh Kim continously. Until a point whereby I started introducing dramas to my classmates and literally renting them out by sets. Some of them I believe have failed to retrieve back till now.

The trend goes like this – Hong kong serial has always been popular and on-going. Concurrently, Japanese drama were as popular. My favourite drama is a J-drama which remains unbeatable from my heavenly charts of drama.

Still my favourite Japanese actor and actress!

Soon, it was overshadowed by Taiwanese drama during the Meteorgarden period, den all sorts of “Ou Xiang Ju” starts to pop out. This is the Ga-ga period. SUPER Rich and handsome guys + poor, not so pretty girls.

Not long after, the entire drama scene starts to be infected with – death, illness, separation, reunion, childhood.

Illustration: The couple knew each other since they were toddlers (happen to mature so fast to understand love), got separated somehow, finally got back together but realised one of the party was diagnosed with terminal diseases, either a very heart-wrenching ending or a good one.

Either way, 80% of the show = crying non-stop! Not saying that these shows have a poor storyline, but when such’trend’ appears, every type of drama from all over the world starts following! The heavily infected ones are Taiwanese and Korean. It then became very typical and boring. How good is it when you have expected the storyline? Needless of spoilers to be spoiled!

Soon, it became so darn boring and I don’t see the point in wasting my time watching so much of asian dramas anymore. Then, Jdrama died down a lot (don’t know why), Taiwanese storyline becoming ridiculous (too much cartoon and comic effect, not funny) and korean drama became too typical, HKdrama will watch whenever there are nice ones. So, my attention diverts to US dramas, when most popular during Heroes, Prison Break & Lost era.

I can write a 10 page long essay on dramas but I want to keep this post short by going into the focus now.

As I was saying, Kenny and I planned to watch “Hi, My Sweetheart” (I know the title sounds very uh.. typical)

Initally when my friends were urging me to catch it, I thought it will be just like any typical T-drama. Really skeptical about it. BUT I WAS WRONG.

NO HANDSOME GUY, NO DEATHS, PERFECT TWIST IN PLOT.

But still it retains the original flavours such as, the main guy being a rich dude, always having a super duper nice guy (usually the third party) who always be there for the girl but eventually sees the woman he loves with another guy, use of extravagant words like, “WO MEN YI BEI ZI DOU BU FEN KAI” (Will not part forever), there are worse lah, but I couldn’t remember and lastly most commonly used in ALL SORTS OF DRAMA – Amnesia (memory lost) OR car accident.

Despite all of the above, it is still a great show, with very well-balanced of humor and love.

What strikes me most are the twist of storyline and the purest love being protrayed. It is now an ugly, mushroom head guy calling the shots. Who knows if this serial could even influence young girls to appreciate inner beauty. I like how this show goes deep into researching the angle of the roles, reflecting on the pros and cons of someone’s life.

The love:  I could really feel the pain both parties are going through as if I was in their shoes.. The eagerness to be heard/answered and desperation to grasp that only chance (even if it is just 5 mins) to say the truth, so much that I can relate to it.. Many touching scenes, you just can’t control your tears.

Apart from all these drama moments, you can just die laughing at Show Luo!! Super multi-talented guy!!

The director has picked the best male and female lead suited for this drama. I must say Rainie’s acting and singing skills improved tremendously. No one can act better than Show Luo for the role. ( I never thought he is ever handsome, but in fact very charming after watching this!)

Definitely worth the wait for finally some good T-drama after all the years.

Lastly, embeding one of the theme song for the show – Yu Ai from Rainie Yang.

The combination impact of this song + the sad scenes in the show are sufficient to wet ur eyes! Enjoy!

BYE! Have a great day ahead!