Sometimes I really wonder who reads my blog. Seriously. I only told a handful of ppl about it. I've been tracking the counter right below my blog. And the number increases by like 50. Haha. So who are you? *Gonna start asking ppl to remove me from their links. xD Not gonna privatise my blog though.

More jokes to read. =D I think I've posted some before. No harm done right?

Sam: Would you punish me for some thing i didn't do?

Teacher: no, of course not.

Sam: good, because i didn't do my homework.

How can you tell when a lawyer is lying?

His lips are moving.

A female officer arrests a drunk. She warns him, 'You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be held against you.' The drunk replies, 'Boobs!' ^_^

It takes 7 seconds for food to pass from mouth to stomach. A human hair can hold 3 kg. The length of the penis is three times the length of the thumb. The femur is as hard as concrete. A woman's heart beats faster than a man's. Women blink twice as much as men. We use 300 muscles just to keep our balance when we stand.... The woman has read this entire text. The man is still looking at his thumb lol

During a recent company password audit, it was found that a blonde secretary was using the following password:"MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofySacramento" When asked why she had such a long password, she said she was told her password had to be at least 8 characters long and include at least one capital.

Chemistry Teacher: ‘‘Can you give me the formula for water?’’ -

Student: ‘‘H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O-.’’ -

Chemistry Teacher: ‘‘Where did you get an idea like that?’’ -

Student: ‘‘You told us the other day it was H to O.’’

A blondewalks into the library. She walks up to the counter, SLAMS a book downand screams at the librarian, – “This is the WORST book I’ve everread!” “It has NO plot and far too many characters!” The librarianlooks up and calmly remarks – “So, you’re the one who took our phonebook…”

Children: You spend the first 2 years of their life teaching
them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next 16 years
telling them to sit down and shut-up.

Drama Updates

Veoh is now legalised in our country again. Hurray! Haha. For those who don't know, veoh is where you can download series, movies. It actually works like youtube. Only downloadable youtube. And its banned in most countries now, so the tv producers or anything can't claim the rights so wheee! Haha.

These are the dramas I'm watching lately. Most are still airing, so I haven't watched the full thing. The latest that I've watched and I feel is the best:

Cinderella's Sister.

I guess in correct grammar it should be Cinderella's Stepsister. But in korean, i don't think they use stepsister.. Do they? And the title is Cinderella Unni. Direct translation would be as the above. Anyway, instead of the usual Cinderella story, this story is about Cinderella's Stepsister( I know is obvious in the title). Somehow, I like the idea. The show is about.. Good ppl may not be good and vice versa. The summary in wiki:

Eun-Ju (Moon Geun-Young), who lost her father many years ago, finally moves gets a new family home when her mother remarries. Although things seem to have turn the better for the cynical Eun-Ju, she immediately faces problems when she meets her new step-sister Hyo-Seon (Seo Woo). Hyo-Seon with her bright character is the apple in her father's eyes and the clear favorite in the house. Furthermore, Eun-Ju's mother also seems to have fallen for the charismatic personality of Hyo-Seon.

Making matters worse for Eun-Ju, Hyo-Seon seems to like Eun-Ju's prince Ki-Hoon (Cheon Jeong-Myeong). Eun-Ju decides then and there to take matters in her own hands and exact revenge on her Cinderella like stepsister ...

Hmm. I'm not really satisfied with the summary. Its more like (I'll use the character's name instead of the korean names here so you won't get confused) Cinderella's mom is truly fantastic in lying. The cliche Cinderella story is that Evil Stepmom tortures poor Cinderella and asks her to do chores. In this story, evil stepmom cares more about Cinderella and ignores her own daughter. I guess there's no other way to make the stepsister shine if ppl are pitying Cinderella(who's not the main character here). Anyway, in comes Prince Charming who's not really a prince here. He's the bastard son of the president of some wine making company who gets beaten up when he was young. So Prince Charming and Stepsister has something in common. Cinderella is the usual doe-eyed, overly manja-ed daughter who loves everyone and the stepsister is the bitter one. But its quite understandable for the stepsister cause before her mother married the dad, her mom has been.. depending(is that the word?) on other guys and they end up running away from them. So stepsister been through a harsh life. I thought the drama was pretty realistic (Partly because I told Meepo that ALL dramas are unrealistic). Anyway. I was thinking it was realistic up until the moment the stepsister and prince were in a BUBBLE and was floating up to the MOON. I was like ??!@#!!@ . Hahaha. Turns out thats how happy the stepsister felt or something. Pretty irrelevant scene to me. Anyways, its not even aired yet in Malaysia And I've only seen till episode 4. AND I WANT TO SEE episode 5. Episode 5 is about 8 years later. They ended with a cliff hanger. It was 8 years later and Cinderella told stepsister that prince charming was dating her. End. GRRR.

Anyways.. I recommend this. Go watch, go watch!

Oh. And first impression for dramabeans.

CINDERELLA’S SISTER (KBS)

In my latest Oh My Lady recap, I mentioned the issue of a drama making an emotional connection with the viewer, and how Oh My Lady has been slow to build that rapport. In contrast, Cinderella’s Sister is very good about establishing that connection right away, and I felt myself drawn from the start.

Tonally, the first episode wasn’t angsty or tragic, and was surprisingly light. Not light in a fluffy way, but in a way that is humorous and heartfelt. (I suspect that the drama will grow heavier later, but am thankful it starts briskly.) I feel confident saying that of the three Wednesday premieres, this was the strongest first episode and while none of them sucked, it was a pretty obvious first-place. The pacing is assured, the scenery beautiful. The acting is outstanding, not just from the leads but everyone. (That would be Moon Geun-young, Seo Woo, Chun Jung-myung, Lee Mi-sook, and Kim Gab-soo. Taecyeon is not in this episode.)

Without giving away too many plot points, the gist of the story is this: Eun-jo (Moon Geun-young), somewhere in her mid-teens, is the daughter to a woman who keeps shacking up with horrible men — drinkers, beaters, lowlifes. Mom Kang-sook (Lee Mi-sook) goes from one man to another, and Eun-jo bears this stoically although she’s sick of living like this. Hyo-sun (Seo Woo) is a bright, lovable girl whose father owns a makgulli (rice wine) company. Meeting Kang-sook stirs her longing for a mother figure, and Hyo-sun does her best to push Kang-sook toward her father. Ki-hoon (Chun Jung-myung) is a good-natured employee of the makgulli company and a caring, mature older brother figure to Hyo-sun, who adores him. Though his interaction with Eun-jo is brief, he’s the only person who’s able to get through Eun-jo’s tough outer shell.

Moon Geun-young as Eun-jo is the main draw by far, and she does her cynical, hurt, defensive role well. She makes Eun-jo relatable and unique, and acts with convincing intensity. I love Chun Jung-myung so I’m thrilled merely to see him back onscreen again, but I’ll admit he doesn’t have much to do in this episode. However, his gentle, smiling presence in itself gives his character a warm aura. I am keen to see how their relationship unfolds, and by keen I mean VERY. I’m invested already.

That said, I think Seo Woo is almost as strong as Moon Geun-young. Yes, she most certainly overacts as the young schoolgirl. I suspect some viewers will find it annoying. As in Tamra the Island, I find Seo Woo’s girlish exaggerations cute rather than contrived, because they seem genuine to the actress herself, and not put-upon to force cutesiness. I am also being a little lenient because she’s playing a young teen, and will revise my opinion if she doesn’t grow out of it later. All that said, it’s the crying scene where she really stands out, and she makes Hyo-sun’s tears not only sympathetic but entirely believable. I was impressed.

Kim Gab-soo is excellent as the quiet, withdrawn father. You won’t find a trace of his creepy villain (Hon, Partner, Tazza) in this character, who is alternately gruff and vulnerable. Lee Mi-sook is the perfect stepmother to Cinderella, and she plays Kang-sook with layers of complexity. In fact, everyone plays their characters with layers, which is why I have a good feeling about this drama. It’s not simply reversing the Cinderella fairy tale, it’s subverting all the relationships and creating something new with them. I find that really compelling.

Next is Oh! My Lady.

Ok. I admit the main reason I watched this was to see Choi Si Won's acting. Haha. Apparently, he is the real life Gu Jun Pyo(from Boys before flowers), minus the attitude. His father owns one of the top 3 biggest supermarket in Korea, and he has the looks, 6 packs, and has all the good qualities and yada yada yada. haha. Mind that I'm actually talking bout Si Won here. Not the drama yet. For those who don't know, he's in Super Junior. Haha. Kyu should star in a dramaaa! I'd definitely watch, no matter how boring it is! haha. Anyways...

Review by dramabeans which I agree whole heartedly..

Cute show. Challenging, no. But amusing, generally yes. It pretty much delivered what I expected: some conventional setups and kdrama cliches, with a cute lead boy (Choi Siwon may have the body of a man but he’s firmly in boy-man territory for me) and a lovable leading lady. (I am SO glad to see Chae Rimback on television.)

Oh My Lady feels like a remix of several familiar stories and dramas, so it’s not wildly original. Its charm is in the characters and the relationships, and if things continue the way they’ve started, I think it’ll be a fun, light watch.

Oh! My Lady is the combined drama of Full House and ok.. I can't remember the titles now. Gah. But throw in a couple of kids. Leading lady(LL) has a kid which she dumps at ex husbands place in order to work for movie star aka Siwon the leading man(LM). LM has a kid who was dumped at his place. LM can't let the public know about the kid, big scandal and what nots. Haha. LM hires LL to take care of kid and keep the secret. Somehow, LL has no where to stay so she stays with LL's big house. Cliche. And I just found out from this drama that Si Won can actually sing. Lol. Cause he usually gets the song parts that are.. Not really challenging, I didn't see his ability? Anyways. Haha. This drama is ok. But.. Doesn't get me that hooked.

Next up is... Personal taste.

I wasn't interested in this drama in the first place. Have no idea why I downloaded it. I didn't really like Lee Min Ho(Gu Jun Pyo from boys over flowers). Now that I've watched it, I still don't think its good. Slow storyline. I was practically fast forwarding the whole video. haha.

Anyways, long summary from dramabeans.

PERSONAL TASTE (MBC)

I said that Cinderella’s Sister had the best first episode, in that it’s the best-produced and most cohesive package. But Personal Taste is my pick for the most fun and laughs — it’s cute, well-cast, and has a freshness to its humor. The jokes aren’t wildly original, but they’re presented well and feel new for a kdrama. (I mean, a gay-blowjob joke on Korean television? Ha!) Also, every deviation that the drama has made from the novel has been for the better (so far).

If you’ve been following the novel posts, you’ll get the gist. If you haven’t, here’s the deal: Kae-in (Sohn Ye-jin) is an upbeat and good-hearted furniture designer, if naive and rather dense. She is badly hurt by her boyfriend, whom she believes is going to propose to her when he is in fact marrying her friend the next day.

In a series of chance encounters, she gets off on the wrong foot with Jin-ho (Lee Min-ho), an architect who works at a rival firm to her ex. She thinks he’s a pervert at first, but then gets the impression that he’s gay. Jin-ho, who considers her a clueless blunderer, doesn’t bother correcting her. In the next episode (we aren’t there yet), Kae-in agrees to let Jin-ho move in, fed up with straight guys and liking the idea of having a gay roommate. Little does she know that Jin-ho has an ulterior motive: he badly needs to win a building project, and needs to study her house in order to do so, as she is the daughter to the famed architect who built it.

Spot-on casting, for sure. Sohn Ye-jin is perfect as Kae-in, showing the character’s positive personality even as she bumbles through various encounters. She also lets a naivete and vulnerability shine through, making it easy to root for her. Everyone, from the main cast to the supporting members, has that extra spark that draws you to them and their roles. I have a feeling the sidekicks are going to be a hoot. I even like Kim Ji-suk’s take on his character, who is nowhere near as awful as the book character; you can see he’s conflicted and remorseful. He’s just also a wuss.

Lee Min-ho may be young (he’s even younger than Im Seulong despite playing his hyung), but he wears Jin-ho’s airs perfectly. I’ll be the first to sing Lee’s praises, but I was worried that he wouldn’t be able to emerge from the Boys Before Flowers shadow — which is considerable — or live up to expectations, particularly since he’s taken over a year to choose his next project. I think he does quite nicely.

You might say that of course I like Personal Taste because I expected to like it — but I think liking the idea actually makes it harder to live up to the hype. Episode 1 is a little unstable at times and the pacing is uneven in the first half, but in the second half it starts to gel and really work. At the end of the hour, this is the drama whose second episode I wanted to see the most.

Authors note: I wanted to see Cinderella's Sister most. Followed by Oh! My Lady. Then this. =D

Birth of the Rich

The drama follows the story of a man, Choi Suk Bong, who believes that he is actually the son of a rich father and heir to a chaebol group. He meets Lee Shin Mi, who is actually a chaebol heir but acts nothing like one, with her scrimping and frugal ways. Although they get off to a rocky start, with her help, he struggles towards his goal of attaining wealth.

One thing REALLY irritating about this drama is it ALWAYS ends with cliffhangers. Making me lose my sleep. LOL. This drama is ok, but kinda kiddish plots. The drama revolves around which rich dude is actually his father. From DNA confirmed tests to the wrong DNA used and stuff, so his predicted dad is always changing. I feel obstacles were thrown in this show to continue the storyline. But it is entertaining and pretty funny. =D Ohh. One other thing. I actually like the spoilt brat in this show. The other girl. hahaha. She's funny. And pretty. Her and her cake obssesion. Not bad.

Chuno aka The Slave Hunter

Has finally ended. Haha. I didn't really like this show and didn't understand why it had such high ratings. Or maybe its cause I'm not interested in historical korean dramas? Hmm. But I liked Hong Gil Dong, Chang Jin, etc. It was pretty boring to me with irritating plots. Nice scenery was all it had. Seriously. The leading lady was irritating me. Half of the episodes revolved around her and her love triangle . At the beginning to the middle, it ALWAYS ended with the slave hunter NEARLY finding her and stuff. Gish. Won't recommend this. I didn't understand the director. Maybe theres some hidden depth in the show that I was too shallow to understand. Lol.

Scandal In Old Seoul

This drama is set in the 1930's when Korea was under the rule of Japan. Na Yeo Kyeong was the owner of a book store and she was also a freedom fighter. Seon Woo Wan was the playboy son of a rich family and he became involved in the independence movement through a bet with his co-workers to win Na Yeo Kyeong's heart. His father paid for the education of his worker's son, Lee Soo Hyeon, and was disappointed to find him working for the Security Branch of the Japanese government. Cha Song Joo was a famous gisaeng who ran a high class brothel.

Getting lazy to type, so, its ok. Not bad. Few boring parts, but moving. Quite entertaining. Better than chuno.

TM Thingi in Port Dickson

One good news: My laptop is finally back new and improved with windows 7 and 320 GB. xD It goes even smoother now. Wheee. I do have a lot of updates. But is lazy to type so abolished the idea the next day usually.

Anyways. The point of this post is the TM thingthat i went. Was actually lazy to blog but since i already told ppl i was gonna blog about it...

I'm not writing the exact full name because ppl can just google the name of the bengkel next year like what i did for the bengkel this year. Haha. And the world will know about this blog. Anyways..

The first day

Departed from granma’s place at 7? About 7. Slept the whole way. But it was quite fast la. Found the place at about 12. The locality was quite good. There was a beach, (Port Dickson is mainly famous for its beaches: What I remembered from the essays last time). The rooms were comfy, with air cond, and ok beds and tv. No astro of course. And the toilet was ok besides the sudden change of hot to cold water. First day was boring. Signed in, got into room. Saw no roomates yet(they went out already). Spent the day reading storybooks. xD When we signed in, the person just directed us to our room, no other info. After asking around, another girl said they’ll come knocking on our room doors at 6.30. Went down at 6.30, they said to gather at 8.30. -.- By about 7, my roomates came back and we did intro and all that stuff. They’re friendly. Haha. And they introduced me to our neighbours via connecting room doors which was very handy later on. Neighbours were friendly too. Its amazing how we can keep crapping. haha. One of my neighbours is from Penang too! Gasp! My first friend from Penang. Btw, the camp is for the whole Malaysia. Anyways.. we decided to go down a little earlier which was fortunate cause they were serving dinner already!! We thought dinner was at 8.30 but actually 8.30 we were suppose to go in the dewan. Aina was like, "Tu lah, mereka nak save kos sebab tu tak nak bagi tau". Went in the dewan.. Lady gave us briefing.. She was like congratulations for making it here.. Everyone here are very smart, bla bla bla, said we were to maintain our grades if we were to get the scholarship, but she thinks it wouldnt be a problem for ppl there. She also said, for overseas program, only 70 were picked out of 4000 over applicants.. So I sat there wondering.. How the hell did i get in, esp when the ppl there all had like straight A+'s. =/ Hahah. Common conversation there is to ask name, state, what other scholarships you applied. Haha. Seriously. When ppl talk, its all bout JPA, or MARA or smth. Then we were supposed to hand in our results slip and certs and stuff. You know, usually we just gather it together and stapler it or smth. But there are ppl who like.. BINDS their stuff, with plastic cover and everything siap dgn resume. I was like O.O And all had like a book thick pile. Hahah. Anyway, once we were done with the briefing, we went for supper. Oh, did i mention they provide SIX meals per day? After that, me and roomates watched monster house. Oh and.. Great thing about my roommate. Two of them love k pop too. =D So can talk about Super Junior and SS501 and stuff, latest updates, SNSD. And they know the dances of Gee, Oh! and Devil Run. I was like.. Surprised. They dance very well. Haha. Down to which part and everything. Recorded a video but can't post it up cause they weren't.. wearing their tudung and stuff. But still =D

Second day

Again they mentioned to kumpul at 8.30 neglecting to mention about breakfast. But we already knew their nefarious plans to starve us, so we went down early. xD Second day was full of ice breaking. We had a total of 227 ppl around. (mixed ppl who applied for MMU scholarship). And first, they asked us to group ourselves by our states. Penang had about 13 ppl... all from seberang side and stuff. Get this, we were supposed to introduce and memorize the names. Selangor had the most members. From there, we were supposed to find other group members like grouping us by our month of birth, name initials, etc etc. By the third group, i just about given up with all the names being a blur in my head. Haha. The process from then is just, nods head when being told name, and tells own name. Hahaha. Then we had various activities including chicken dance, indian dance, sing a long. Chicken fight dance. LOL. Then they separated the overseas and local, then arranged us in order of A+'s.. divided us into groups. Then we had discussions, which i only participate when asked. Haha. Oh. There was one we were supposed to pick someone and like.. talk with them then present about her. I partnered one of my room mate, and we talked about funny incidents and those kind of stuff, presented also about that. What the other ppl did was, talk about the qualifications of the other party. Like.. they received how many A's for pmr, did what in kk, is the president of what and what. I was like.. Ooopss.. "About me" is a wide range right? lol. And I know this is blatantly obvious, but i just HAVE to add that over there, you can practically see brain neurones zinging about in full speed. Their brains. Discussions, discussions, debate. Then we were given an EQ test and asked to think of incidents and how we felt. With that, our facilitator ended with giving us the 1000 piece puzzle that everyone will remember when thinking of our beloved bengkel. hahaha. They had alphabets at the back to give us clue which area it was from, but it was already scribbled and blancoed out by previous camp ppl. -.- Some pieces can see la. So we started sorting out the pieces and our place was kinda dim, so it was kinda testing our eyesights too. Haha. All of us getting sarcastic while doing the puzzle. Haha. Our puzzle wasn't easy because all you could see was RED. And YELLOW. Grr. And everyone HATED F4. HAha. It was the taiwan F4. Not the Korean ones.

At the beginning.. Still laughable...

After one hour... And getting no where.. Grr. Hahaha.

I think everyone had one or two hours of sleep only. And yet the puzzle remains.. incomplete.

Our leader didnt sleep at all. Two nights in the row. At like 6, me and my room mate went up, didn't even brush our teeth or anything. Just plonked down on the bed and it felt like only 10 mins i was being roused again.

Third day

Surprisingly, I didn't feel sleepy the next day. We had more discussions. And we went down to the beach. Haha. Without our facilitators permission. He saw us all hot and sleepy and allowed joyce to lead us around the building. She lead us to the beach. xD Port Dickson beach is not very different from Penangs. haha. Then they asked us to make something in 30 minutes. Something that telekom would buy and sell. We only could use what we found. We got cardboards, cans and stuff. And we separated into groups cause we needed to make it formal and stuff, the opening ceremony, greet him and everything. We had kompang sounding dustbin players, which was me and 3 others. Hahaha. And the the other girls greet and iringi, then the guys designed the project. When the dude came, he was actually pak ali, another groups facilitator, we greeted, and we had 2 ppl presenting our item, which was a hybrid teleporter, which was supposed to replace our public phones cause by this, you can video conference and teleport objects la supposedly. Pak Ali started by saying, I didn't understand a word you're saying, Why are you questioning me, This is kindergarten work(which it wasn't!!!), and all the hurtful stuff la. Then he picked up our project, and tossed it in the pond

The pond behind us. That was where our group was most of the time. Everyone was of course shocked, i myself was wondering.. What is his problem??? Oh btw, since the first day, all the facilitators were like insulting us and stuff like kamu dari terrenganu? oh, sebab itulah muka macam penyu. and stuff. They were testing our reactions and stuff. So when he threw our project(we didn't even take a pic of it), it all suddenly came to me that it was a test, and also confirmed when Pak Ali turned around, he was smiling a bit, but apparently i was the only one who noticed that. The others was angry. And our facilitator, Pak Man, added fuel to the fire and stuff. We had a discussion on how we felt. When we went back to our rooms, everyone found out as we discussed with each others bout the various ways their project got ruined. Some got stepped on, kicked, and stuff. My roommate had their project stepped on BEFORE they presented and then was blamed for being unprepared. As we assembled for the night, Pak Ali walked in, and said, nampak muka-muka semua yang benci aku sekarang. hahaha. Then he said he think we already know it was all planned and stuff. Then we continued our puzzle... I chaoed at about 3.. The guys continued doing it.. And i was asleep when...

Finally, it was done. You see the red? All very nerve racking. haha.

The Last Day

We just saw a bunch of videos, like the video we seen of the ppl who had no hands or legs but manage life, and appreciate our parents, and who's packing your parachute thing. sang more songs, danced. Then we dismissed. After taking pictures, balik.

our waterfall...

Group A. This is our full group of 23 ppl. =D

p/s pictures were all stolen from ppl. My dad took my camera.

And i think my chances of actually getting the scholarship is close to 1%.. But I have to say i don't regret going. Make new friends from all over Malaysia. There were ppl from Sabah as well. It was an experience. Truly. And there was a point where we talked about optimism and stuff. And its really ironic. Cause when i reached penang, i saw this show, Becoming a billionaire, its a korean show, the hero was contradicting one of the characters who was talking about optimism as well.. He said, "Therefore, you need to ignore everything that is negative. Isn't that right? So, that would mean that you can't get upset, when you're stuck in a traffic jam. If you're going to be stuck in traffic, learn to enjoy that time. Listen to radio or music, or talk to your lover on the phone. But this is the kind of thought I have, aah, it sucks to be in a traffic jam, there are big problems with the roads of Korea. Not only do I get annoyed, but I feel the need to do something in order to make things better. This means that the power to change the road system of Korea is derived from negativity, not positivity. Negativity isn't the power that eats away the power of affirmative, I believe it possess the power to surpass the ability of affirmative in your life.". The facilitators lie so many times, i found myself doubting everything they say towards the end of the bengkel. haha. In the start, they asked us to forget that we came for the scholarship, but they keep on talking bout scholarships. so. -.-