I am currently feeding my drama addiction--Asian drama addiction, that is. Well, given my interest in rewatching BOF, HYD and recently "Meteor Garden"--the Taiwan adaptation of HYD manga series.
So I enjoyed it alot and to my surprise, I find Vic Zhou (the actor who played Hua Ze Lei) rather very attractive now than before. I was so into Dao Ming Se & Shan Cai pairing that I closed my doors to any Hua Ze Lei & Shan Cai shipping. I mean, I already love the story. Why should I want it any other way? I was very religious to it not knowing that Vic Zhou is actually more handsome than Jerry Yan (the actor who played Dao Ming Se).
And he keeps popping out of nowehere in the series which made it rather infectious and had me more curious of him than ever. So I searched the Tube for any movies or dramas that he had starred on, which were very interesting (especially that one Japanese movie he starred in called "Tea Fight").
What made it more intriguing is that I found a series which he and Barbie Xhu (Shan Cai of "Meteor Garden") starred on together! I was so shocked. The series was called "Mars" which was also an adaptation from the manga of the same title. It's a story of a shy artistic girl, Qi Luo (Barbie Xu), approached by the care-free and play-boy Chen Ling (Vic Zhou), who asked Qi Luo for directions to a hospital. In a split-second Ling forgets what the hospital name was. Hurriedly Qi Luo draws a map for him, unknowing that she was drawing on the back of one her drawings. Ling thanked her but she ran off before she could hear him, he then noticed the picture and was touched. The next time they had seen each other, Ling told her about the picture but Qi Luo ignored him and said he could keep the picture. Ling was very touched by the picture and that drew him closer and closer towards Qi Luo. But his past comes back to haunt him when a new student arrives as well as Qi Luo's past comes back. Feelings will collide when you have a jealous ex come to stand up and fight for Ling against Qi Luo and a known admirer confesses his feelings to Qi Luo.
Not very much appealing with the overview, isn't it? But when I started watching it, it got me hooked. I mean, it maybe is an another story of a playboy finally falling in love but somehow it never cease to capture my heart everytime. Because in real life, you rarely see them around.
Okay, back to the drama. So there I was with my eyes glued to the screen waiting forever for MSN's SoapBox to buffer every part of each episode (By golly, it takes forever for this player to buff! It could've been much easier to watch it if it was uploaded to a different player like from Veoh, LiveVideo, etc. Anything except SoapBox), the scenes became pretty familiar to me.
I then searched the internet and found out that this series was aired on QTV before, which is a channel owned by GMA-5.
Still I continued watching it. Turns out that this series is actually darker and a little mature in content because it involves critical issues that may not be able to handled by teenagers such as suicide, violence and psychopathy. The coming episodes become darker and depressing and it felt like a black hole was seeping them away from happiness and love, which actually for a little while becomes a little suffocating and a little boring but still curious of what's gonna happen next.
What I like most about early 90s manga is that they always make space for humour in their pages which is awesome because TV adaptations still put them in between episodes. It makes it even more interesting to watch and it builds the characters more.
Right now, I'm halfway in whole of the series. Usually, I'd finish this by 1 or 2 days, but MSN's SoapBox is so uber slow in buffer. It may take me a long while I guess.
After I'm done, I'm planning to read the manga online or blog the story of the TV adaptation one. Either way, I'm still gonna be sharing it with the rest of the world.
So I enjoyed it alot and to my surprise, I find Vic Zhou (the actor who played Hua Ze Lei) rather very attractive now than before. I was so into Dao Ming Se & Shan Cai pairing that I closed my doors to any Hua Ze Lei & Shan Cai shipping. I mean, I already love the story. Why should I want it any other way? I was very religious to it not knowing that Vic Zhou is actually more handsome than Jerry Yan (the actor who played Dao Ming Se).
And he keeps popping out of nowehere in the series which made it rather infectious and had me more curious of him than ever. So I searched the Tube for any movies or dramas that he had starred on, which were very interesting (especially that one Japanese movie he starred in called "Tea Fight").
What made it more intriguing is that I found a series which he and Barbie Xhu (Shan Cai of "Meteor Garden") starred on together! I was so shocked. The series was called "Mars" which was also an adaptation from the manga of the same title. It's a story of a shy artistic girl, Qi Luo (Barbie Xu), approached by the care-free and play-boy Chen Ling (Vic Zhou), who asked Qi Luo for directions to a hospital. In a split-second Ling forgets what the hospital name was. Hurriedly Qi Luo draws a map for him, unknowing that she was drawing on the back of one her drawings. Ling thanked her but she ran off before she could hear him, he then noticed the picture and was touched. The next time they had seen each other, Ling told her about the picture but Qi Luo ignored him and said he could keep the picture. Ling was very touched by the picture and that drew him closer and closer towards Qi Luo. But his past comes back to haunt him when a new student arrives as well as Qi Luo's past comes back. Feelings will collide when you have a jealous ex come to stand up and fight for Ling against Qi Luo and a known admirer confesses his feelings to Qi Luo.
Not very much appealing with the overview, isn't it? But when I started watching it, it got me hooked. I mean, it maybe is an another story of a playboy finally falling in love but somehow it never cease to capture my heart everytime. Because in real life, you rarely see them around.
Okay, back to the drama. So there I was with my eyes glued to the screen waiting forever for MSN's SoapBox to buffer every part of each episode (By golly, it takes forever for this player to buff! It could've been much easier to watch it if it was uploaded to a different player like from Veoh, LiveVideo, etc. Anything except SoapBox), the scenes became pretty familiar to me.
I then searched the internet and found out that this series was aired on QTV before, which is a channel owned by GMA-5.
Still I continued watching it. Turns out that this series is actually darker and a little mature in content because it involves critical issues that may not be able to handled by teenagers such as suicide, violence and psychopathy. The coming episodes become darker and depressing and it felt like a black hole was seeping them away from happiness and love, which actually for a little while becomes a little suffocating and a little boring but still curious of what's gonna happen next.
What I like most about early 90s manga is that they always make space for humour in their pages which is awesome because TV adaptations still put them in between episodes. It makes it even more interesting to watch and it builds the characters more.
Right now, I'm halfway in whole of the series. Usually, I'd finish this by 1 or 2 days, but MSN's SoapBox is so uber slow in buffer. It may take me a long while I guess.
After I'm done, I'm planning to read the manga online or blog the story of the TV adaptation one. Either way, I'm still gonna be sharing it with the rest of the world.
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