Miss No Good Ep 7 Review

Xiao Hua and Do Zi are still trying to complete the task Si Le’s mother set out for them but Do Zi accidentally offended the person they were talking to and ended up getting a black eye, Xiao Hua tried to stop the fight which resulted to her getting hit as well. Shreak finds both of them and concocks a plan, he will help them finish their assignment if Xiao Hua can get Tang Men’s mother to come to the Mother’s Day special for Tang Men’s beauty show.

Xiao Hua gets the address for Tang Men’s family house from Si Le, as Xiao Hua arrives she starts to think about Tang Men’s childhood and how difficult it must of been. Tang Men’s mother is actually quite a nice lady who really cares about her son, its the father who disapproves of his occupation. The mother expresses that she has watched Tang Men’s show twice but because of her husband she does not want to cause any trouble by visiting him

As Xiao Hua goes home in defeat she falls asleep on her bed and dreams about Tang Men and the promise he must of made to an angel in order to gain his freedom. In the dream the angel says that in order for him to be free, he can never love. Xiao Hua wakes up and immediately phones Tang Men to tell him frantically, in response he once again yells at her and calls her stupid.

Xiao Hua, Jojo and Do Zi discuss what they are going to do about the dance competition, Do Zi suggest that they get Tang Men to style them. Tang Men then appears out of no where and wishes to speak to Xiao Hua. He tells her to give her all to the relationship she has with Si Le and try and love him. As they talk Tang Men continues to stare and her and she smiles at him (>_>) he then asks if she likes him… but den corrects himself and asks if she likes him as a friend in which she replies happily that she does. Xiao Hua goes home and asks her grandma to pray with her for Tang Men and hopes that his mother will come tomorrow.

Xiao Hua and Shreak wait for the mother to come but the show was about to start so they had to go back into the recording room. As Tang men continues with his show he suddenly sees his mother. Shocked he could not talk, so Xiao Hua spoke for him which resulted to tears coming out of his mums eye because of Xiao Hua’s sincerity… (and other things)

The mother runs out of the building with Tang Men chasing after her, she tells him that she’s proud of him and its good to see him healthy. Shreak and Xiao Hua follow standing by the door looking very funny because they have sad puppy dog eyes on their faces. Jiang Mi comes out and tries to comfort Tang Men but he wipes his tears away and walks off.

Xiao Hua and Shreak try and contact Tang Men but they get no answer, then Xiao Hua remembers about the package that she was meant to give Tang Men which she gave to Shreak to pass on. Shreak tells her in his weird (see pic 2 above) expression that he left it in his other bag at home LOL.

Si Le and Jiang Mi talk about what happened and Si Le comments about what a cute girl Xiao Hua is for getting Tang Men’s mother to come to the show, Jiang Mi looked pissed off because she still thinks Xiao Hua only wants Si Le for his money.

Tang Men’s mum arrives home to find her husband waiting for her, he asks her why she had to go and visit their son who has not contacted them in five years.

Mum: He is a good boy who is working very hard

Dad: If he was a good boy then he wouldn’t of followed his dreams and ignored our wishes, if he was good then he would contact us instead of ignoring us for five years

Mum: He has contacted us, all those letters he sent that you never even looked at and store apart before I could read them!

(Or something like that…)

Tang Men meanwhile is thinking about Xiao Hua and their “time” together, you can kind of see that slowly he is falling for her.

Jiang Mi finds Tang Men the next morning out for a run, she tells him that compared to Xiao Hua, she actually doesn’t understand him or know him (manipulation >_> the witch) and then says that when he knows he likes/loves Xiao Hua to tell her (because then she can prepare herself for heartbreak… yearight)

Xiao Hua waits for Tang Men at his house to give him the document and to see if he’s okay, at first he isn’t at home but while she wails about him, he appears. Her heart starts to beat really loud and stutters and she tries to explain why she is there.

Jino arrives with the confidential documents that Xiao Hua was meant to give to Tang Men, but actually what Tang Men received was the Cafe Menu. Remember in Ep 6 when Xiao Hua was with Jino in the cafe? Well he changed the documents. Now he is trying to blackmail the company and giving them 3 days to let him know their decision. Si Le’s mother asks who his source was, he tells her to ask Xiao Hua……. GAHHH

End of Summary -_________-

Dramas part one: Taiwanese

Honey and Clover/ 蜂蜜幸運草

Bah another Taiwanese drama that was also made into an Anime and Japanese drama *sigh* I don’t know what they are trying to do but this is going to have endless comparisons to the manga, anime and jdrama. Which brings me to the fact that like most Taiwanese dramas they want to make this funny which means exaggerations such as over the top throwing of people and weird expressions.

There are so many love square, triagles in this drama….

The 5th year architecture student Zhen Shan (Joe Cheng), who is gentle and soft on the inside holds a torch for Li Hua (Su Hui Lun), a lady boss of an architectural firm. At the same time, he becomes aware that his best friend, Ya Gong (Janine Chang) is also having a single-sided adoration for him…

Until the elegant and smart suitor, Ye Feng (Chen Yu Fan) appears, Ya Gong then realizes that she and Zhen Shan are the same. Both unable to respond to the affection given by other’s while being caught in the first love of their life…

A simple and honest person, architecture student Zhu Ben (Li Guo Yi), falls in love at first sight with the niece of Teacher Xiu Shi (Zhang Han), Xiao Yu (Yi Teng Qian Huang) who is a Fine Arts freshman. Zhu Ben’s 7th year senior, Chang Lin Tian (Peng Hu Yan) also falls for Xiao Yu at the same time. With regard to love, being young and ignorant, both have different attitudes and correspondence. But both have an unbeatable sincerity. In a friendship as sweet as honey, there are also many sour and puckery sides to the aporia of a one-sided love.

From: Dramawiki

Rolling Love/ 翻滾吧！蛋炒飯

This is yet another exaggerated drama but then again Jiro Wang is in it so what do you expect. The guy has a talent at portraying the characters that are….. over the top with a hint of sincerity. Danson is in yet another drama that has Jiro in it, this must be the best thing since sliced bread for the JiroandDanson fans. The two leads portray chiefs who come from different backgrounds but are both after one thing: Guan Xiao Shu 關小舒. The musically gifted girl who lost her eye sight due to an accident which Leng Lie 冷冽(Danson) feels the need to protect her although its not out of pity, Leng Lie thinks it so, therefore refusing his feelings. When she meets Michelin 米麒麟 (Jiro) she finds herself falling for him and his frank nature, as their relationship progresses all Leng Lie can do is watch.

Hot Shot/ 籃球火

It is also otherwise known as Basketball Fire, yet another drama related to the ecstatic sport~ First there was the famous MVP Valentine with the star appearance of the “then” boy band of the time 5566 and just last year Bull Fighting appeared with none other then Mike He (pretty boy of Taiwan) as the lead. Now there is Hot Shot, staring Jerry Yan, Wu Chun and Alan Luo. These three guys have a pretty wide spread fan base so even if the actual drama is bad, the loyal fans will be in it to watch them sweat.

Watching the making of this drama whom I’m pretty sure has the same director as Why Why Love may prove to be an okay drama but who knows since the only reason Why Why Love was bearable was thanks to Mike He….

Fated To Love You Ep 13- Rebirth!

This episode was quite a disappointment for me, maybe it’s because I was giving it too much credit and simply assumed that this was going to be THE one. THE Taiwanese drama that was going to soar beyond the rest but then maybe I’m too pessimistic, it just seemed that this episode was going back to the bad acting and annoyingly unrealistic plot that appears in most T dramas.

Xin Yi and Dylan arrive at Shanghai where she is to work for his gallery. He introduces her to his workers, who look very fashionable compared to how incredibly dorky Xin Yi whom they assume is a joke because of her obvious incapability and talent. As she starts her job the same routine continues as it did in Taiwan, she is once again the push over who delivers coffee to everyone and offers to do all their work for them. Dylan gets annoyed because it seems Xin Yi isn’t trying to begin again, she is simply going back to her old self (the one she wanted to leave behind). Dylan asks her, after all she’s been through, all the missed chances she has endured and finally getting away from all that to once again let the chance slip through her hands, how has she changed from what she went through in Taiwan.

Xin Yi: I’m not god, I didn’t come from Taiwan to change and just instantly do it… I really want to change and forget what happened
Dylan: I don’t see you trying! I didn’t let you come here to run away, If you’re going to be like this then you can leave tomorrow.

Xin Yi gets really upset and runs out of the gallery with Dylan chasing after her although she gets away, she ends up lost.

Cun Xi still wants to talk to Xin Yi, he doesn’t leave Xin Yi’s family alone, literally pleading with them just to see her once. Her mother lets him in, she starts to talk about Xin Yi and what she’s been through, tears fill her eyes as she speaks of her daughter. Cun Xi asks where Xin Yi is but her mother asks why would he care, he admits that he didn’t realise until it was too late but he cares for Xin Yi and he wants to see her. Xin Yi’s mother tells him to go back to Anna and leave Xin Yi be, Cun Xi persistently asks where Xin Yi is and how he wants to at least say sorry to her. He hands the two sisters an ipod nano, which contains everything she wants to say to her and leaves.

(I’ve discribed the scene quite unemotionally because I didn’t really understand most of what the mother was saying, since she was speaking Hokkien)

Cun Xi tells Anson to find Xin Yi, Anson pleads him to give her up and move on. He has also run out of lies to tell Anna about where Cun Xi is off to everyday which makes Cun Xi reply that there is no point lying to her because he is going to tell her the truth. Anna who is waiting for him in his office asks him if what he feels is love towards Xin Yi, Cun Xi tells Anna that he loves because she is so ditzy, because if he didn’t protect her then she might get hurt. Anna tells him that though she may appear brave, inside she isn’t really. She wonders what it would be like if they were to have a child, she talks wishfully about it and finally says that what happened on Grandma’s 80th birthday she was very sorry for because if it wasn’t for her then Xin Yi wouldn’t of lost her baby. Cun Xi asks where she will go which she replies by telling him that she was kicked out of the event in New York, she had hopped she would begin again with him but obviously that wasn’t going to happen.

Xin Yi comes across a group of old men by the river trying to come up with a name for the tea set sketch. Xin Yi asks if she could come up with a name, which the artists agreed entertained that a young woman such as herself could find such things interesting. She calls it “One and Only (唯一)” because the the tea plate needs the tea cup and the tea cup needs the lid, the three things are meant to be together even if the drawing itself makes it seem as if they are not.

The Artist walks with Xin Yi to the bridge where he starts to talk to her, she tells him why she came to Shanghai and how she has let her friend down ect She tells him about her husband whom she cannot forget.

Artist: Happiness is fragile and it can easily break (this is a chinese proverb- this is basicly what it means)
If you can’t forget the past then make it a part of you, you must know that you cant always look back that way you won’t move foward
Xin Yi: I want to move foward, i want to say sorry for the person who encouraged me

Thanks to the Artist’s encouragement she deletes the picture of Cun Xi and herself- finally letting him go?

With the help of the Artist Xin Yi gets back to the gallery, Dylan see her and runs to her embracing her saying he is sorry. In which she replies that she’s sorry as well for letting him down and that what he said was very right. Xin Yi tells him that she’ll try really hard so “please give me another chance”.

(If it wasn’t for the fact that this part is important I would give up right now -___-”" the acting of this scene was killing me, the whole dialogue was killing me)

Anyway the Artist turns out to be someone Xin Yi admires, the great sculptor who is very famous. The turning point of this whole episode is that Xin Yi learns under him. (I think it’s because the actress who plays Xin Yi also admires the Artist which is why her acting wasn’t quite believable)

As the story continues you see the changes that Xin Yi and Cun Xi go through. Xin Yi learns art and studies under the Artist with Dylan teaching her other facts. She changes her name to Elaine and gradually becomes a stronger woman leaving behind the pushover she once was.

Two years past and she becomes quite a talented artist although she is still new to the world of art you can see that as a person she has really grown. The people around her admire her and feel that she is a strong woman who seems to have everything: money, talent, a house etc. Dylan surprises her by putting her sculpture on sale at the gallery, he asks her if she will consider him (as a potential boyfriend) in which she replies by laughing telling him that’s the funniest joke she’s heard in a long time.

They end up walking by the river where Elaine places a bet, if her art piece is sold by the next day she will go out to dinner with him……

Additional Thoughts:

The next episode looks really bad, I don’t understand why they must go back to the same plots that are used over and over instead of carrying on as they did with a semi original story line. Well obviously in the next episode Cun Xi figures out where Xun Yi (Elaine) is and they have a great big corny reunion, if the next ep gets as bad as I think it is going to get I might stop watching -__________-”"

Fated to Love You Episode 12- Everything back to zero…

First I’ve got to say this is the turning point of the entire story, didn’t think they would put this twist in but I’m grateful they did. This episode as a whole was overly dramatic and some what boring at parts, the only funny thing about it was Xin Yi’s family. I must fess up that i skimmed half of the episode because after twelve episodes I’ve gotten sick of Cun Xi and his puzzled mind.

Cun Xi is with Anna (again) defying his grandmother and his responsibility he goes off with the woman he loves, proving to her that he is sacrificing everything to be with her meaning that the ass (excuse my language) is divorcing Xin Yi.

Anna asks Cun Xi if he intents to have no relation with Xin Yi after the divorce, even after he has confirmed that he won’t she still thinks otherwise. Cun Xi does actually intend to divorce Xin Yi but he isn’t so cold to leave her flat on her ass, he calls his lawyer (Xin Yi’s ex boss) to add new terms to the divorce papers which will ensure that Xin Yi will have a fruitful life. After Cun Xi leaves to see his lawyer, Anna picks up his phone to find pictures of Xin Yi and himself looking blissful before she came back. Jealousy piles up and like every drama the vicious girlfriend seeks revenge. She calls Xin Yi to arrange a meeting, handing her the old divorce papers, allowing her to believe that Cun Xi no longer wants her or her baby. A typical drama cliche is added as Cun Xi phones her to ask her to sign some papers (which she assumes are the divorce papers, not the ones he has altered), a misunderstanding occurs and she leaves. Anna silently cries to herself saying she feels sorry towards Xin Yi.

Cun Xi arrives at the hotel function expecting to find Xin Yi, after she rudely ended his phone call, but instead finds Anna sitting on the couch waiting for him.

Anna: “Xin Yi asked me to come in her place”
Cun Xi: “Why did she ask you to come?”
Anna: “Im not sure, maybe… because of the news of the divoce, she decided it would be better not to come”
Cun Xi: “Why would she think that?”
Anna: “She probably finally realised… she was going to leave anyway, now things can return to the way they were”

(note: this is not the actual translation, this is just the main idea of what the dialogue was)

Anna tries extremly hard to explain to Cun Xi that things were going to return to the way they were meant to be but Cun Xi states that he did not want things to end up like this. Anna throws herself at him and kisses him just when Xin Yi’s family walks into the room. Only they think that it’s Xin Yi and Cun Xi making out, then being the slow family that they are they begin to realise Xin Yi isn’t that tall and it was in fact another woman. A big dispute breaks out as Grandma and Dylan enter as well, they see the divorce papers on the floor and everyone has a big go at Cun Xi, leaving him very frustrated. Finally Dylan starts to clear things up which makes Cun Xi feel very guilty when he FINALLY realises just how much Xin Yi cares about him and how self fish he has been. He goes out to look for her with Anna pleading for him to not go but he goes despite her wishes. Xin Yi walks aimlessly around the park looking at a father and daughter play, she reassures herself that the baby will be fine and that she will look after him.

Cun Xi finds Xin Yi in the rain trying to keep the form of the sand baby she made but the rain kept washing it away while she cries desperately. Realising that Cun Xi came after her, she starts to run, still under the impression that he doesn’t want her baby. As she runs onto a street Cun Xi confesses that everything he is doing is for her own good but she still thinks other wise and runs away but a car comes out of no where and knocks her out.

(This is the part that was unexpected, I assumed that they would focus the story on Xin Yi and her baby but I guess not. )

They are rushed to the hospital where the doctor makes Cun Xi sign the papers to have the baby removed, this scene was quite nicely played out, I really believed Xin Yi when she started screaming for her baby which literally brought tears to my eyes.

Cun Xi sits in the waiting room while Xin Yi’s family gathers around her bed, everyone tries to be happy but her mood is nothing but sad. When Cun Xi asks to see her, she starts to scream claiming that she never wants to see him again.

The story continues as Xin Yi goes back to the island with her family, after talking to her mother she gets back to the house to find Dylan waiting for her. He asks her if she wants to begin anew, offering a chance to get away from everything and go to Shanghai with him. Mean while, Grandma and Cun Xi go through Xin Yi’s wish box which brings back memory, allowing Cun Xi to realise how much he cares about her. Grandma encourages him to get her back, he immediatly calls Anson to book him a ticket to the island but only to find that Xin Yi already left.

Fated to Love You Recap

The only reason that I would ever love Mondays is because all the good shows are uploaded onto youtube, I know that this is really late but I’m going to ramble on about the “new” Taiwanese drama- Fated to Love You. They have undoubtedly broken all records of being the number one Taiwanese drama of 2008, even if its only June.

I’m not sure if many people have heard of Ethan Ruan (Ruan Jing Tian) before FTLY but he was in Green Light Forrest along side Esther Liu (Sweety) and Leon Jay Williams which was how I heard of him leading to my 3 week obsession with Owen / Jin Ou Wen (his character in Green Light Forest). When I heard he was going to be in FTLY I got excited, not screaming “OMG” excited, just glad that there might be a drama to entertain me because I had gotten sick of They Kiss Again.

PLOT: taken from dramawiki

“A really unfashionable working class girl Chen Xin Yi has the desire to tie down her handsome boyfriend to be with her. Due to certain reasons, her boyfriend gets her to go on a love cruise and she started to ponder on how to lose her virginity and tie down her boyfriend. Xin Yi ended up taking cold medicine which made her drowsy and went into Ji Cun Xi’s room. Cun Xi is the sole male heir to his family’s company and has been in love with his girlfriend, Anna, for a long time. He planned to propose to Anna on the boat but she didn’t turn up on the cruise. An island owner added drugs into Cun Xi’s drink and Cun Xi became disorientated and returned to his own room. Xin Yi and Cun Xi end up having a one night stand. Xin Yi later finds out that she’s pregnant and Cun Xi’s grandmother forces them to get married. Will a couple forced to marry for the sake of their unborn child find love with each other?”

The drama just seemed like Cinderella to me come to think of it, if Prince Charming had a girlfriend and Cinderella got pregnant the two stories would be exactly the same….I mean you’ve got the evil stepmother (but in this case its the evil step mother in law, the fairy godmother (grandma) and the evil sisters ( except their more stupid…. then evil..)

I know this drama is entertaining, its different from other Taiwanese dramas but not so different that it is unique, you have the typical love square and the same predictable ending (unless suddenly near the end they do something gay and make one of the character die just for the heck of it).

OST Tracklist

99次我愛他 -元若藍
心願便利貼 – 元若藍 & 吳忠明
半情歌 – 元若藍
起步走 – 吳忠明
吹吹風 – 曹格
I’m OK
吹吹風 – 曹格
對摺 – 元若藍
心願便利貼 KALA
半情歌 KALA
99次我愛他 KALA
起步走 KALA
半情歌_療傷情弦 (吉他抒情版)
心願便利貼_浪漫溫馨 (溫馨版)
99次我愛他_夢幻音樂盒 (音樂盒完整版)

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