Life’s too stressful to keep thinking of stupid work..

So you can guess bah, from the extremely obvious title above, of what I feel everyday when I wake up and know its going to be another idiotic and crazy day ahead. There’s NOTHING to look forward to, and nowadays I count myself blessed if I can have at least 45 mins for lunch. Sometimes its not like I don’t have time for lunch, but that even when I’m eating, my mind is still thinking of the endless pile of duties and unfinished tasks in office. I seriously have no idea when (or if) things are going to get better.

I tell you Lillian Too is so spookily spot on for her reading this month (and I thought only ET was her fan). She said this month was going to be difficult and would need some effort from Horses to withstand the stress and hard work. But then, it seems things will improve for next month. IN FACT, it seems like its gonna be FANTASTIC! Humph….I seriously hope she gets it correct for next month as well lor. I myself do not know if I have the capability to continue enduring till 7th Nov. Wah lau, I suddenly feel for the first time in my life, 我的薪水真的很难赚! I was super super stressed last Fri, to the extent that I didn’t even want to eat dinner. At the end, I only took a little bit of the veggie and fish which my mom cooked (cos didn’t wanna waste the food), and didn’t touch a morsel of rice. THAT…as all my close friends would know…is something very rare as all who know me understand very well that I’m a彻彻底底的饭桶. Whenever we eat zhi char, I would be the only one asking for extra rice. Sigh….

So nowadays, in order to bring myself away from all the worries at work (when I’m at home), I’ve taken to watching dramas online. All sorts lah, Taiwan, Korea, HK. Wah, heard that currently there’s this new TVB series called 宫心计showing in Hong Kong which is creating quite a buzz over there. Its their annual 台庆drama, and the main stars include Michelle Yim (woo hoo!), Susanna Kwan (Sa 姨 in 家好月圆), Tavia Yeung, Charmaine Sheh and Moses Chan Ho. Wah, looks like there’s quite a lot of cast from the 溏心风暴 alumni here! Its a period drama set in the Tang dynasty, and similar to 金枝慾孽, it features the fighting and plotting within the palace. I love the theme song sung by Susanna Kwan, as how I feel towards the previous 2 theme songs she sung for 溏心风暴 and 家好月圆. Very good to K (heh).

But anyway, the show I wanna review is one which I would never have watched, if not for 福气又安康. While surfing the net for the latter show, I came upon this netizen who remarked that the plot somewhat resembled that of the recent Korean drama “Shining Inheritance” (also known as Brilliant Legacy). So I thought after 福气又安康, why not give this a shot too, since its also garnered one of the highest ratings and viewership for drama serials in Korea for 2009.

I swear this is the era where the best-looking guys in the show are not the main leads, whereas the average looking (or can even say erm..un-outstanding) one is instead the 男主角. Thus after reading this, can you give a guess who the male lead is? Yup, its the guy on the extreme right. When I first saw him, I nearly fell out of my seat. I was like “You’re telling me this is the male lead (Lee Seung Gi) for one of the best rated korean drama of 2009????” He got this puffy face look (when not smiling), and unkempt and unbecoming curly hair (for a GUY!), and best of all, I haven’t even seen him before in any previous korean drama! So how come he’s like so popular?

Well as I’ve always said, one really has to watch the show to understand. I would say this is nothing like Boys over Flowers, where the attraction are well, the boys lar. This is a show where the strength lies in the script, plot, lines, and of course, the depth of the leads’ acting skills. Both the male and female lead  Han Hyo Joo, are only 22 years old, but can act surprisingly well! And I also found out Lee Seung Gi is actually quite popular in Korea for his songs (apparently he can sing well too!). If going by looks, of course the guy in the middle (Bae Soo Bin) win hands down lor (great bod too! Heh). He’s the tender sweet oppa to the female lead’s character, but at the end of the day, its puffy-face Seung Gi who gets the girl. Yeah, life’s not fair, and this plot sounds not outstanding as well. But I tell you once you started watching it, you will not stop, especially after epsiode 5. I nearly gave up at episode 3, but am so glad I continued till the end. There’s 28 episodes in all, and I guarantee you wouldn’t feel that’s too long. It was never tedious and draggy, and I love it! It fully deserves all the hight viewership in Korea. Its almost a perfect drama.

I leave you now with one of Coco 李雯’s newest songs, 流转. Despite the 3 years hiatus, her voice is still as great as ever. I love her smile, and the great costumes in the MV. Oddly, I saw a slight resemblance of her to TVB’s 蔡少芬 in some of the shots. And interestingly, the first time I heard this song on radio, I thought it was sung by Sally Yeh!!