Travelogue: A Nick of a Time
I know that I owe ChawTimes a timely update and I’ve never updated it since, well……It was since 8th January, and now its 24th January. A total of 16 days, 22 hours and 24 minutes from the last update. Bi-daily, I owe it 8 posts >.<
No,no..I’m not escaping from the responsibility here, and I will surely make up for it. Before we go to the contents, lets review a little bit of what the past recent weeks had happen to me. This will be a brief update, do not expect me to pour everything that happens here….Its too many, damn too much to write them here! LoL (Actually, I don’t know what I supposed to write, anyway, here goes =.=)
(Okay, just ignore the paragraph below altogether)
From my last post, I had my Histology and Anatomy test on 15th and 21st January respectively. How did I do it? Well, this is not a place for me to announce my results, to boast about it, to laugh at other peoples, to humiliate myself, to degrade myself, bla-bla-bla….
(Start reading here, because the previous paragraph was spontaneous)
To my great surprise and enjoyment, my internet condition had improved greatly during the study weeks. Sounds like a bad sign doesn’t it? Haha…Nevertheless, the speed went up to a whole new level and it pretty much topped my excitement! Usually, it just got over 1xxkb per-secs (Don’t boast about how fast you internet were, I know), and went damn ass slow during the evening and got worse as the sun sets. I virtually can’t surf the net at night. But that was before, for now, I’m glad the speed is good. I also find that the russian like celebrating new years! Well, yeah who don’t? But, they kinda take it to a whole new level, by cutting off every telecommunication that was viable for 24 hours prior to New Year and reconnect exactly at New Year! Gosh, they wouldn’t want to know how many trouble I get for that >.<
Second thing, Blog Ring. This had been in my mind for a while. I’ve been wanting to make a Blog Ring (or the native language-BlogLinking-), but frankly speaking, I haven’t found one that really suits my mind. My criteria for Blog Ring is not high, I just expect it more professional, using one type of language altogether (no mixing please) and provide a theme (at least a general theme, but more specific theme would be awesome). I’m not being an ass here, but I just had to have some expectation or else, this blog would be nothing.
Third, memories are bound to be remembered. Okay, that was not a statement, it is a fact and don’t you play word game with me, I’m good at it. The other day (when I went to the toilet), I heard my housemate, Jasper watching a Taiwanese drama, which is one of my favorite and oh-you-must-watch-it drama! Its titled Fated to Love U (You, vanity sake). The lead casts, Chen Chiao En and Ethan Ruan has great chemistry and it just moved the heart for you to keep on watching till the end. By far, its one of my best and loved drama. (I’m not sure if this is an idol drama but, with Chen Chiao En in it, I would say no)
Ratings
Plot: 7/10 (Nice to watch, but a bit unrealistic)
Character Strength: 9/10 (Awesome)
Sentimental: 9/10 (Awesome)
Appeal Factor: 8.5/10 (I’m giving the extra 1/2 points because of the good timing and cheesiness that it had)
Overall: 8.5 (Over Great but not that awesome because, although it had a good start, the last few episodes doesn’t appeal much for me)
The ironic thing is that my other housemate, Jackie, was also watching another of my favorite drama, entitled The Greatness of a Hero. This is a period drama casting Kent Cheng as Chancellor Dik Yan Kit in the period of New Zhou Dynasty. His portrayal of the character made me stuck with his persona for a while, he is really a great actor and I love all of his acting starting from him acting as Fei Mao (Its a cantonese series during the 2003 drama airing in TV2, but I’ve forgotten the title)
Ratings:
Plot: 9/10 (Although this is a typical Good versus Evil and good always wins in the end, the drama packed and arrange the events carefully and there’s never a dull moments)
Character Strength: 9/10 (Strong casts with strong persona, one word “Excellent!”)
Appeal Factor: I like Kent Cheng very much and he’s kinda the appeal factor I’m staying, by staying I mean finishing it in a marathon fashion. The other character that I like was the villainous King Wei portrayed by Wayne Lai. He is such a talented actor and I personally loved all his actings and much to my surprise, he and Stephen Ma had acted together for a number of series already. This, I’m going to dig in deeper into the TVB drama histories.
Sentimental: 9.5/10 (Over the top awesomeness, actually, I planned to give it 10/10 but since this series made me cried, I’m going to shove off the last 1/5 points ^_^ , this is not a bad gesture!)
Overall: 9.5/10
Another drama is the newly released during the end of 2009 TVB drama, Beyond the Realm of Conscience. This really is my type of crack and it is very good! It had strong casts, starring Charmaine Sheh, Kevin Cheng, Tavia Yeung and Moses Chan. All of them are renowned Hong Kong stars and had won TVB awards for their actings. I’m not going to put up a lecture about how good it is here, you just have to watch it yourself to judge it.
Plot: 9/10 (Very intriguing start and gets nasty as it goes to the end, by nasty, I mean nastily great!)
Character Strength: 9/10 (Role of the villain in this drama is really emphasized and much more pronounced than of the kind and good character. This made me realize what a good actress Tavia was!)
Appeal Factor: 9/10 (The fact that Charmaine Sheh in it made me start to watch, but I also like the chemistry between her and Kevin)
Sentimental: 7/10 (Not very sentimental and kind of bland, this drama has all the rush and suspense but lack the melancholy that I sought in every great drama that I like)
Overall: 8.5/10 (You have to watch this!)
Video Sharing, I found this video lurking inside my subscription box, so I decided to take it out to share!
Travelogue: A Nick of a Time
Now, lets get serious. As the examination weeks sets off and the weeks of winter holiday surfaces, everyone are busy with their winter plans and packing to get out from this hellish winter in Moscow and go to somewhere cold? Yeah, they are going to Europe for winter holiday. I, for once am no different, in fact, I’m going to Switzerland this winter for 1 weeks vacation in the land of nostalgic chocolate, ancient cheese, glittering watches and multi-culture. I’ll be going there on this 26th January on 12:15pm from Moscow to Helsinki and then from Helsinki to Zurich. This is just a short introduction to the next travelogues post that I will write for updates here. I’m bringing my trusty iPod Touch along so, with it, I am able to jot some little update on ChawTimes. For the full updates and stories, they have to wait till I get back and get my pictures done! As for now, I’m going there alone, as a backpacker to experience the joy and fun to do backpacking travel and set my sight for Zurich and Bern which I will visit for my stay in Switzerland. The vacation last for 1 week from 26th till 2nd February, so the fastest full update should be up on 3rd or 4th of February (if I’m lazy). So, wish me a safe journey and I look forward to hear what you do for the winter holiday! Till next time!
I prefer solitude and quiet but I’ve never said that I dislike company, in fact, I love them.
