Tuesday, August 26, 2003
I retract... I am a sucker.
I bought MG2 DVDs from my officemate.
And I also retract my earlier statements about it not being good.
MG2 is good. It was so good that I was glued to the television for 32 hours...
I was frustrated, though, for Vic Zhou's character. I mean, will he forever be the doormat in the DMS-Shan Cai relationship?
I mean the poor guy has been pining for his bestfriend's girlfriend for God knows how long. To think, Shan Cai had a crush on him first.
Maybe he's just a masochist. As soon as the girl he likes reciprocates, he runs to the opposite direction (Teng Tang Chin, for example).
He's a dream, and he's the dreamer. I just feel so sorry for him. I want to see him genuinely happy with a girl he deserves. After all the maxims that he had spoken, after all the headstands, after all that... sleep, he deserves to be happy.
What most fans should look forward to in MG2 is the Meizou-Xiao-something relationship.
Dao Ming Si is more handsome than ever, however, he lacks the superior attitude that made me fall in love with him in the first place. But who cares, it's Jerry Yan I'm after.
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Every Monday before I go to work, I reward myself with simple pleasures of life. I open the television and tune to Channel 53, Arirang.
Eversince "Sassy girl," I've been a fan of Korean movies and shows. "New Nonstop" came as a pleasant surprise.
It reminds me of “Melrose Place” minus the kissing and the backstabbing. When the characters are angry with each other, they fight in the common room, within the earshot of everyone else.
The show is composed of college students living in a dorm. Each has specific flaws that endear them to the audience.
They have
Min-yong, the thick-faced miser who’d go to the main branch of an electronic company 50 miles away, to have a fan repaired instead of buying a new one so he can save two dollars. He’s a free-loader, borrows things from his dorm mates and picks coins in the street (kinda goofy version of “Poor Prince,” except the guy looks like Kyun-woo). As expected, his best subjects are related to finance and management.
Da Bin, the rich girl in the house, hates Min-yong and vice versa. Their bonding session is composed of calling each other names--Min-yong the Miser, Da Bin the Fool. She would chase different men every week. Which is probably why her friends call her Da Bimbo behind her back.
Personally, I think there’s something going on between Da Bin and Min-yong. They’re just too preoccupied in hating each other to notice the undercurrents between them.
My favorite character is
Tae wu. He thinks he’s so cool, so cute and so desirable. In other words, he’s
feeling. His saving grace, I guess, is that he loves
Jinie so much he’d give his dessert to her, climb 100 steps of stairs to indulge her childishness and bungee jump with her twice even when he’s scared of heights.
Too bad she doesn’t see him in that light. She just considers him as a friend. Jinie’s bad because as soon as she learns that he’d try dating other girls to get over her, she’d stop him. You know, the usual bitch-in-the-manger.
Tae wu’s bestfriend,
Juan Hua could only watch helplessly in the sidelines as she becomes the unwilling witness to the one-sided love affair. It would be very painful for her to see him suffering over a girl because she’s secretly in love with him. It would be ironic when he’d warn her about not emulating his habit for loving someone who doesn’t reciprocate.
Da-na, the uneven butt,
Ha-ha, the funny guy and another lady character whose name escapes me at the moment, complete the cast.
As for the title, I have no idea why it’s called “New Nonstop”. New, I suppose, refers to either the characters or the show’s season. But why nonstop, I have no idea.
Too bad fans that have access, or even Arirang, did not make any official website. Sigh. Calling all, Koreans!
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