Blog: To Do List

Okay, so I thought I keep a little tab on things and let on with what I’m currently doing as in blog posts and whatnot.

Music Reviews: I actually need to re-organize my music collection again.

• Nicholas Teo’s Let’s Not Fall In Love Again – Honestly, I’ve been procrastinating though I already scanned images and listened several times.
• Eric Suen’s Never Said Goodbye – So procrastinating, right?
• Shine Huang’s Shine album – It had some songs from Endless Love, lol.
• Yang Mi’s Close To Me – Talking about catching up, right?
• Nicole Wang’s Queen of Chanson Melody – I found it browsing around one day and purchased it
• [CANCELLED] Jacky Cheung’s Private Corner – Don’t ask, I just never gotten around to it. People are so freaking touche lately that touching ‘their’ god seems too dangerous. I’m not going to commit suicide AND sink my blog when I know NO one will let me off on this one.
  
• Jacky Zheng’s Yuan Qing Ge – I totally forgot about reviewing this.
• Eric Suen’s A Second Thought – YUP, got it.
• Angela Chang’s Visible Wings – YES, I got it anyway.
• Amber Kuo’s Hear, There, and Everywhere
• Cecilia Han Xue’s They Say
• Wilber Pan’s The Story of Billy
• Just Singing And Dancing OST
• Freya Lim’s Love, Suddenly
• Cyndi Wang’s Love Or Not

Movies Reviews:

• Linger
• Tea Fight – YES, I meant to do this a long time ago but I kept getting into other obsessions. Major apology to Vic fans!
• Love You 10,000 Years – I actually haven’t watched it yet though I have the dvd, lol. Talking about being behind.
• Dancing Without You – Again, still haven’t watch though I got it.
• Magic To Win – Got this awhile back.
• Citizen King – Johnson Lee’s movie
• Sleepless Fashion
• Any Other Side

TV Series Reviews:

• Gu Jian En Chou Ji 1984: Part III – OMG, I totally forget that I didn’t finish posting it. BUT I need to watch the last bit again to remember accurate, lol. However, notice that I divided it into 10-years gap SO hope it wasn’t too much of a cliff hanger.
• Legend of Star Apple – Episode 6 – YES, need to finish the episode summaries.
• Love Together (FTV) – Episode 3 – Honestly, I know, I’m lagging on bringing out reviews for this though I finished the drama ages ago already. YET couldn’t help it. I will get back into trying to finish the review since I’m watching it again recently and lifting off some quotes, etc.
• Only You (TVB) – Episode 2 – YES, I finally finished it and had some notes, just need to write the posts and post it up, etc.
• [CANCELLED] Show Me The Happy (TVB) – Finished this ages ago, but haven’t gotten time to do the review. NOT really. Might just scrap it off since it has been a long time now but might come back. Don’t know.
• [CANCELLED] Life at Sanyuan County – Honestly, I had some beef about this and wanted to get things out of my system. OR maybe I’ll just forget about it since I should focus on the positive anyway, right?
• [CANCELLED] Tiger Cubs (TVB) – I thought it was decent, but was lazy to do a review for it.
• [CANCELLED] Bountiful Blessings (Singapore) - Interesting take on things but just need to do the review.
• Ji Gong 1995 (TW version) – Need to get this out, but had too many notes regarding it so will be awhile.
• [CANCELLED] King Maker (TVB) – Finished, just need to write review for it.
• Detective Di Ren Jie – Mainland China version, NOT others
• Detective Tang Lang – On the boiler, NOT really that hype over it anymore
• The Legend of Dragon Pearl (TVB) – This seemed so long ago BUT just watched it recently, just hadn’t gotten around to the review. Sounds too familiar, right?
• Li Wei’s Resignation – YES, I totally forgot about this too but I think I will review it sometime in the future
• The Blood Sword (ATV) – Kenny Ho’s version
• Lord of Imprisonment – Totally forgot about this too.
• Zhong Wu Yan – Episode 1 – NOT on top of my priority list but might as well put it here for tracking purposes.
• Autumn’s Concerto – Episode 1 – Also the same as the previous but just keeping track here.
• Mei Ren Long Tang – Episode 5 – I’m hoping to be able to keep up as it airs. But we’ll see.
• [CANCELLED] Just Sing And Dancing – Actually planning to watch it during airing as well. I decided to do individual,l random posts on it instead of the typical episode summary.
  
• True Love 365 – Episode 2

Translations:

• Full Moon Curved Sabre – It’s an ongoing project AND probably the most challenging because wuxia is actually VERY hard to translate.
• More songs – Mostly Viet, but we’ll see.
• More articles – IF I could just do it, lol.

Special Profiles: Stuffs that still need to be fine-tuned, mostly graphics

• Bianca Bai
• Cynthia Wang
• Denny Tang Feng
• Enson Chang
• Eric Huang
• Jacky Chu
• James Chu
• Joanne Zeng
• Ken Chang
• Margaret Wang
• Penny Lin
• Sophia Chou
• Yvonne Yao

Couple Posts + Pages – Seriously, been lagging because I couldn’t make up my mind regarding it BUT possibly will focus more on it when I’m done with fixing the ‘special profiles’ section.

Fan Fiction:

• Hide & Seek – Chapter 5 – Vic & Cyndi
• Honey In Tea – Chapter 1 – Joe & Janine
• Neurotic: Tainted World – Chapter 2 – Wallace, Nic, Tony, Angela, and Calvin
• Payback – Chapter 2 – Xiu Jie Kai, Cynthia, and Nic
• Slanted Thoughts 2: Edge of Darkness – Chapter 5 – Wallace, Tammy, Nic, Angela, Amber, and Yvonne
• The Dating Game 4: Bridge of Hope – Chapter 11 – Joanne, Jacky, Sophia, Ehlo, Angela, Wallace, and Yvonne
• Poster to-do/re-do:
  • Haunting Past
  • Payback
  • Scheming Nature
  • Slanted Thoughts I
  • The Dating Game 4
  • The Other Extreme

Other Randomness:

• Dian Wan Da Lian Meng – I finished catching up to all the remaining episodes already. Just need more cushion posts to bring it out.
• Finally launching the “Song of The Week” sagas.
• More “Favorite Quotes” posts.

*To-Do List will be update from time to time OR it will disappear when I finally finish aka all caught up with stuffs (LOL)…

True Love 365: Episode 2

*WARNING*: MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD. If you DO NOT want to be spoiled, please DO NOT read. You have been warned.

This episode continued at “Happiness Began”. Bi Ting was presenting some of the wedding arrangement ideas to two clients while Xiao Q mopped nearby. Unsure of what was going on, Bi Ting wanted to steer the clients away from Xiao Q’s bizarre behavior. Yet it was all in vain because Xiao Q ended up chasing the clients away with her strange talk. Bi Ting’s career was already hanging on a thread. So how could she dive out of this situation without hurting Xiao Q’s feelings? But it was hard to blame Xiao Q for being so overly emotional. A loved one just died. How was she supposed to just put a plug on her emotion like that?

So at Mao Ba’s memorial ceremony, Bi Ting once again bumped into Yu Xiang. (If one haven’t noticed yet, Mao Ba was actually Xiao Q’s cat, NOT a real person. But he still deserved a good send away.) Yu Xiang was really so full of himself, thinking that Bi Ting was in love with him. Yet it seemed like he was the one in love with her since he couldn’t stop smiling even after she left.

Meanwhile, on the Tian Cheng front, we sort of got why Xiao Die didn’t like her father as much. Or seemed to exude indifference in front of him. Honestly, he kept making excuses to go places – whether regarding business or not, abandoning her for others to look after. Lucky it was grandma and grandpa this time. What about previous times?

Back at the Yu Xiang and Bi Ting encounters, they just have to meet like that. She almost got run over by him upon rushing out of her apartment and attempting to chase after her mother. Instead of irrationally running like that, she had an alternative. She ordered Yu Xiang to give her a ride to the bus station, interfering with her mother’s bus. What was even more hilarious was after exiting, she even told him to wait there for her. A car chase ensued as Bi Ting found out she was too late to stop her mother at the gate. Yu Xiang had no choice but to follow her instructions, which was strange because given his past records, he wouldn’t cave in so easily. Or was it because he didn’t want to question her sanity anymore after hearing the word ‘mom’? Despite all the craziness Yu Xiang got himself into during the chase, was he reconsidering Bi Ting’s character in general after witnessing such a touching scene between mother and daughter? (And no, he wasn’t a bit touched by the whole incident because he managed to charge all the fees for the night’s trip.)

The random talk between the men versus women side, it seemed like both Jun Jie and Shu Xin were quoting Meng Zi at one point or another. They might be a match instead of how the initial details had projected with Yu Xiang and Shu Xin getting along because they had some similar interests. Though Shu Xin did enjoy the talk with Yu Xiang but it was already established from the previous episode that she was interested in Jun Jie. But that was so sad with how the guys lose so badly to the other side.

And while the two sides were talking about randomly and enjoying their leisure time, Bi Ting was out and about doing errands, mostly laundry at first and then griping over Yu Xiang’s matter for the other parts of the day. She was indeed unlucky after having met him. How was she supposed to survive for the rest of the month now? Noodles was becoming her best friend now. At least there was still Xiao Q coming over to cheer her up, temporarily. Xiao Q was actually making a trip over to play Cupid, trying to introduce her cousin to Bi Ting. Bi Ting, of course, rejected the offer yet agreed later on after learning of the guy’s occupation. No, she wasn’t trying to latch onto him because of his wealth, more like his connections.

on Jun Jie’s front, he managed to run into Shu Xin while he was at Subway, trying to get some food before heading back to work. The other thing was, he was troubled by the new architectural structure and how he had built the model. Because one of the ladies at work had mentioned something about its layout that had caused him to realize something was definitely missing. The funniest thing was, he managed to solve the problem from a leaf that was caught in Shu Xin’s hair. His discovery with the leaf with holes and its projection of sunlight through the leaf had gotten him so excited that he had kissed Shu Xin on the forehead to thank her. Running back to work, not able to wait, he was unaware of what he just did. Shu Xin was more than shocked of his sudden gesture. Yet she was happy, right? That was also the end of the episode.

*Image was captured by DTLCT

Dian Wan Da Lian Meng: Zhao Jun Ya & Xiao Xiao Yu – Part 43

More randomness. But look at their strange characters, lol. No more poking fun of each other this time. Well, NOT yet. But they were just discussing about students getting time off from school, etc. More time for games, lol.

What? She was teasing him about his appearance, not looking like his character but a certain someone? LOL! I wonder why he didn’t return the attack? Or was he saving it for later? (Must admit that the ‘Transformers 3′ game looked quite exciting. But then again, it usually look easier on screen versus actual execution, lol.)

Too intense with talking about games. Well, that was the purpose of the show, right? LOL! But it was funny how he was picking on people playing games on smart phones.

Excited to play games, lol. Understandable.

He was already in pose. It looks like someone’s even more anxious to play games? LOL!

Oooohh, boxing. No wonder she was standing so far away, lol. Wouldn’t want to get hit, right?

And he wasn’t kidding about sweating. (I thought he was exaggerating again, lol.)

They got so excited describing the moves, lol. But I could see how cool it was when looking at the clips from the new version of ‘Street Fighters’, one of my favorite games so seeing it brought back some memories, lol.

*All images were captured by DTLCT

Mad Doctor Qin Mo

I didn’t realize that Zhao Jun Ya’s role in the drama was that big until I forced myself to go through with it. Actually, I didn’t watch like really watch straight from beginning to the latest episode, but it was more like skimming. I gave up on it since the first episode and there were just too many good dramas currently airing that it was too hard to catch up. So I decided to do some ‘skimming’ to see what was going on, wanting to find some motivation to perhaps watch it more ‘properly’. Anyway, while the majority were fighting over whether Jin Da Hua should be with her Guan Jun Ge or Terry, I was fawning over Qin Mo. It’s not because I dislike James or Chris, because I actually quite like both of them in some past dramas. It’s just that in recent years, my focus has majorly gone to Zhao Jun Ya. So to get back to the role Qin Mo, how was he?

Qin Mo is just like the post title said, he’s a mad doctor. His daring nature overrules the typical logical and compassionate stereotypes of a doctor. Qin Mo actually reminds me of Dr. House with his craziness, but his attitude isn’t terrible. It’s just that he’s willing to take risks. Not to mention his happy expression upon thinking of wild theories or wanting to face major challenges.

And I so know that he was drawing up a crazy plan to help Terry’s career, among other reasons. But just look at him when he was about to help Da Hua take off the bandages. In fact, he was so into the idea of his that he looked beyond overjoyed when they were carrying out the plan of finding a replacement for Liang Yan temporarily. He was like a mad scientist wanting to execute the latest project as soon as possible and see the result. It’s no surprise that he’s proud of his abilities so when Terry’s driver asked him to find a way to change Da Hua’s personality, he was upset that they didn’t appreciate his effort thus far, stating that he was only responsible for the appearance front, the other matter was all up to them.

While we’re on that subject, look at him when Terry confronted him about listening to him in the first place, finding a replacement for Liang Yan, etc. Qin Mo, who was remorseful toward his actions previously – about lying to Terry and keeping Terry in the dark regarding to Liang Yan’s actual health condition, totally turned insane and said he had helped Terry secure his job. Then both guys just went ballistic from there, losing control all together, laughing out like maniacs.

His relationship with Terry? Is it just good friends or much more? The reason why I’m even putting that on the table is because of what Chris said in episode 8′s BTS. Okay, not so much as said but more like the words flashing in front of him while he was sitting there talking about their scenes together, etc. Was he talking about Jun Ya’s role or Jun Ya? LOL! But still something to think about.

Back to the serious side, I must agree with Chris when he said that Qin Mo is a role that is hard to act. And I’m not saying that because Chris had praised Jun Ya. But it was more like I wasn’t expecting much because of the amount of screen time Jun Ya have. I was glad to be wrong this time around because it proved that the amount of screen time does not equal to significance, not all the time. Sometimes a person appearing so little could have such a big impact with the overall picture. There was little time to show what kind of character Qin Mo was and what he have to bring into the overall story. Yet Jun Ya really brought out the role well. I’m actually quite proud of him. Though it might overlap with some of the previous roles I saw of him, but this one contain more complexity than that. There was the craziness with wanting to experiment and push the limits, making some medical history. But there was also a side of him that was willing to take the blame and show whatever support that he could. His point of view was different from Terry, thinking that Terry didn’t need to know and standing by helplessly if Terry had known about Liang Yan’s real condition; Terry, himself, rather be by her side and take care of her, be with her until the last moment. Yet that decision he made for Terry didn’t make him despicable. It was his way of protecting Terry, even if it had robbed Terry of the time spent with Liang Yan. Indeed, in the end, he realized he had made the wrong decision hence breaking down completely after Terry left the scene.

One of the questions I kept in mind while watching some upcoming scenes was: Was it Qin Mo’s fault that Du Liang Yan met with her accident? Many might be saying right now that if it wasn’t for that, we wouldn’t have a drama to see. Yet I really want to address it if it were to happen in real life. Was it his fault? Because he did put in a word for Liang Yan during their meeting that one time. Putting aside the fact that Jun Ya portrayed the role since I just said I want to visualize the situation if it were to happen in real life, I didn’t think it was his fault. Why not? That’s just his opinion. He can’t predict the future. And the most important thing is Terry knows he’s crazy, why find him to help talk Liang Yan out of it? I’m not putting the blame on Terry here since Terry was really cautious in wanting to protect Liang Yan, like always. I’m just saying how people’s opinions shouldn’t be the sole reason for what would somehow happen in the future, i.e. Qin Mo’s crazy, don’t take him seriously kind of thing, especially anything daring in nature. Though I will say that I knew his “crow’s mouth” was a hint that something would happen on that trip. (I’m referring to the part where Terry said what if something happened to Liang Yan and he said he would cure her.) The tragic incident that happened to Liang Yan was like unpredictable really, since people go travel and hiking all the time on mountains but it just so happened that Liang Yan got unlucky. I find it a bit unconvincing that she was fine walking toward the mountainside to watch the view yet couldn’t step back as safely? Well, that was why it was call an ‘accident’ in the first place. But it was like seriously? Turning and making her way back would turn into such a mess? (I blame the unconvincing plot, not the actors/actresses involved.)

And oh yeah, the final point that I want to talk about is the one I mentioned with the whole ‘small role yet big impact’. It was the crazy Qin Mo who suggested to Terry about seeking out a replacement for Liang Yan’s spot within a year (which was the deadline he made for himself to cure ‘Liang Yan’ or die trying). Again, if there was no such bizarre plan, there would be no drama. But honestly, that was crazy. Crazy but not out of character for a person like Qin Mo. He even freaked me out from time to time with his expressions whenever he mentioned regarding to his attempts to cure Liang Yan or anything medical related for all it matter. Even when he was explaining to Liang Yan’s father that he had cooked up the plan in the first place and kept Terry in the dark during the initial process, his expression was turning ‘insane’ again as he went on to say how he would ‘cure Liang Yan’. One minute he wanted to defend his friend and explain away, and somewhat showing fear of Mr. Du. Yet the next minute he looked like a maniac as he went into further details of wanting to find a cure for Liang Yan. That was why I felt Jun Ya did very well bringing into this role. So little time yet so much could be learned of the character from his acting.

Notice, I’m not using the whole ‘small role, big impact’ excuse to make Jun Ya shine and sink the other characters. Of the skimming that I did, I found that James and Chris did very well in their characters, even Nikki impressed me with her double roles. But this post is solely dedicated to Jun Ya so that’s why I only focus on his character as Qin Mo.

To think that I was saying how I was fawning over Qin Mo yet I haven’t really tie it back together. It’s not just because of Jun Ya portraying the role. Like I said before, it has to do with the fact that Qin Mo’s such a complex character. He’s like bordering on good versus evil. It’s so hard to hate him yet so not easy to relate to either. Not totally. If it wasn’t for the focus on the triangles and many other formulas coming into play, the character Qin Mo has a great potential for some expansion of screen time. Yet I wonder if that would end up ruining his mysterious aura all together. So not to be so greedy, I decided to settle on the fact that he has a great contribution to the drama itself.

I don’t know how long this drama would be, but will Qin Mo appear again? If so, I’ll probably find some more random stuffs to talk about him.

*All images were captured by DTLCT

365 Days by JPM

(Credit: itsJPMofficial)

Song Title: 365 Days (365天)

Lyricist: JPM Wang Zi/ Qiu Sheng Yi (王子/邱勝翊)

Composer: TAEMU

Key:
Bold = Chinese
Maroon = Pin Yin
Blue = English

Every day every night
給我的愛一瞬間 變成永遠 每年都不改變
gei wo de ai yi shun jian    bian cheng yong yuan    mei nian dou bu gai bian
Give my love a moment to become eternal, every year never changing
Every day every night

每天一睜開眼就希望你能在我身邊
mei tian yi zheng kai yan jiu xi wang ni neng zai wo shen bian
Every day, upon opening my eyes, I hope that you could be by my side
能不能三百六十五天都能和你見面
neng bu neng san bai liu shi wu tian dou neng he ni jian mian
Is it possible to meet up with you for all 365 days?
第一次強烈感覺
di yi ci qiang lie gan jue
The first intense feeling
無法抗拒的感覺
wu fa kang ju de gan jue
The irresistible feeling
I’m going crazy now

你的出現會讓我馬上陷入瘋狂
ni de chu xian hui rang wo ma shang xian ru feng kuang
Your appearance has caused me to sink into madness immediately
達到沸點
da dao fei dian
Reaching the boiling point
想跟著你的獨特氣味一起 環遊世界
xiang gen zhe ni de du te qi wei yi    huan you shi jie
Wanting to travel around the world with your unique scent
關於你的消息 都能成為我焦點
guan yu ni de xiao xi   dou neng cheng wei wo jiao dian
Any news pertaining to you could become my focus

對你的愛怎麼會 那麼濃烈
dui ni de ai zen me hui   na me nong lie
Regarding to your love, how could it be so strong?
天天對你想念
tian tian dui ni xiang nian
Longing to see you every day
Every day every night
給我的愛一瞬間 變成永遠
gei wo de ai yi shun jian   bian cheng yong yuan
Give my love a moment to become eternal
每年都不改變
mei nian dou bu gai bian
So each year it won’t change
Every day every night

每天一睜開眼就希望你能在我身邊
mei tian yi zheng kai yan jiu xi wang ni neng zai wo shen bian
Every day, upon opening my eyes, I hope that you could be by my side
能不能三百六十五天都能和你見面
neng bu neng san bai liu shi wu tian dou neng he ni jian mian
Is it possible to meet up with you for all 365 days?
第一次強烈感覺
di yi ci qiang lie gan jue
The first intense feeling
無法抗拒的感覺
wu fa kang ju de gan jue
The irresistible feeling
I’m going crazy now

你的出現會讓我馬上陷入瘋狂
ni de chu xian hui rang wo ma shang xian ru feng kuang
Your appearance has caused me to sink into madness immediately
達到沸點
da dao fei dian
Reaching the boiling point
想跟著你的獨特氣味一起 環遊世界
xiang gen zhe ni de du te qi wei yi   huan you shi jie
Wanting to travel around the world with your unique scent
關於你的消息 都能成為我焦點
guan yu ni de xiao xi   dou neng cheng wei wo jiao dian
Any news pertaining to you could become my focus

對你的愛怎麼會 那麼濃烈
dui ni de ai zen me hui   na me nong lie
Regarding to your love, how could it be so strong?
天天對你想念
tian tian dui ni xiang nian
Longing to see you every day
Every day every night
給我的愛一瞬間 變成永遠
gei wo de ai yi shun jian   bian cheng yong yuan
Give my love a moment to become eternal
每年都不改變
mei nian dou bu gai bian
So each year it won’t change
Every day every night

你的甜蜜微笑 讓我神魂顛倒
ni de tian mi wei xiao   rang wo shen hun dian dao
Your sweet smile caused my mind to go crazy
聽你撒嬌 讓我陶醉
ting ni de sa jiao   rang wo tao zui
Listening to your tantrums made me infatuated
整夜睡不著
zheng ye shui bu zhe
Unable to sleep the whole night
I want you baby
I love you lady
I want U
I love U
I want U I love U
I want U I love U

一見面 心跳快要到極限
yi jian mian   xin tiao kuai yao dao ji xian
Just one look drove the heartbeat to its limit
讓時間 會凍結
rang shi jian   hui dong jie
Let time freeze
許個願 我要你在我身邊
xu ge yuan   wo yao ni zai wo shen bian
Making a wish, I want you by my side
那最好 是永遠
na zui hao   shi yong yuan
Its best is eternal

對你的愛怎麼會 那麼濃烈
dui ni de ai zen me hui   na me nong lie
Regarding to your love, how could it be so strong?
天天對你想念
tian tian dui ni xiang nian
Longing to see you every day
Every day every night
給我的愛一瞬間 變成永遠
gei wo de ai yi shun jian   bian cheng yong yuan
Give my love a moment to become eternal
每年都不改變
mei nian dou bu gai bian
So each year it won’t change
Every day every night

對你的愛怎麼會 那麼濃烈
dui ni de ai zen me hui   na me nong lie
Regarding to your love, how could it be so strong?
天天對你想念
tian tian dui ni xiang nian
Longing to see you every day
Every day every night
給我的愛一瞬間 變成永遠
gei wo de ai yi shun jian   bian cheng yong yuan
Give my love a moment to become eternal
每年都不改變
mei nian dou bu gai bian
So each year it won’t change
Every day every night

每天一睜開眼就希望你能在我身邊
mei tian yi zheng kai yan jiu xi wang ni neng zai wo shen bian
Every day, upon opening my eyes, I hope that you could be by my side
能不能三百六十五天都能和你見面
neng bu neng san bai liu shi wu tian dou neng he ni jian mian
Is it possible to meet up with you for all 365 days?
第一次強烈感覺
di yi ci qiang lie gan jue
The first intense feeling
無法抗拒的感覺
wu fa kang ju de gan jue
The irresistible feeling
I’m going crazy now

給我的愛一瞬間 變成永遠
gei wo de ai yi shun jian   bian cheng yong yuan
Give my love a moment to become eternal
每年都不改變
mei nian dou bu gai bian
So each year it won’t change
Every day every night

*All translations were done by DTLCT and does not guarantee or ensure its accuracy 100%. Feel free to correct or suggest accordingly.

Visible Wings

This album comes in several versions (as most albums do nowadays), I got the one that included a photo album titled “Be With Angela” with a set of simplistic shots against several more glamored ones. As far as the songs go, it might be just me but the songs sound better on the actual CD than when I was listening to it with the loaded online versions.

1. That Girl. Catchy and inspirational. After listening to it several more times, I managed to let it sink in. It’s not a bad song, just need to understand more to appreciate it. It’s just that it’s different from her usual soft, inspirational ones so it might not be as accepted.

2. Keep Walking Despite The Rain (淋雨一直走). Another encouraging, inspirational one. Not bad at all. I like some of the imagery used for the lyrics.

3. How Have You Been Recently? (最近好嗎?). Average. This goes toward the typical ‘love hurt’ songs. I felt it could have been better.

4. Visible Wings (有形的翅膀). This song is actually a good song on its own, like a standalone song. Yet the production team had to bring it onto themselves to link it back to her previous hit song “Invisible Wings” hence reducing its significant all together. Because this song has its own good points. However, it couldn’t be compared to “Invisible Wings” – both vocal wise and lyric wise. Not to mention the power the other song exuded made it even more addicting and inspirational. This one is wordy and not as memorable as the other one.

5. I Haven’t Changed (我沒改變). This song is actually quite ironic, considering how her style had changed since the last album. But seriously just focusing on the lyrics only, quite good and some of the things are actually true because she hadn’t changed with her hardworking attitude thus far. This song actually stand out more than the previous two songs. Not that those are really bad, just that it didn’t catch on for me. Not quite yet.

6.  Not Listening (講不聽). Supposedly catchy song and leaning on the ‘pop’ side. I will admit it’s quite upbeat and trying to draw attention. Yet it didn’t get to me.

7. Honesty. It has been awhile since listening to Angela sing in English. It’s not like it’s a bad song yet I feel it’s so bland. Serious, lol. Not sure it was the way she sang it or it was the mixing. Or maybe the theme is just so overused with honesty and all those lying stuffs, etc. I actually like some of her past English songs more.

8. If I’m The One For You. Kind of touching, somewhat sad, and bitter at the same time. LOL! Kind of passive at times. Not too begging or too trying to please the other party. Talking about the words here. I was actually surprised this one sort of grew on me.

9. Prince’s Illness(王子病). Playing on the “Princess’ Illness”, this song indicated that the guy population has some ‘issues’ too (lol). Upbeat and somewhat addicting. I thought it was quite cute actually. One of the rare cute songs nowadays that I don’t mind, lol.

10. Brothers And Sisters (兄弟姐妹). OMG, I actually really, really like this song after listening to it more carefully. So carefree and so hopeful. About friendships mostly, not just limiting relations to just families. Sometimes families aren’t just about blood relations. Relationships could be established through different encounters. The free-spirited feeling of the song had somewhat affected me too. Though it felt like a typical pop song, but the words made it so nice. Aside from the upbeat parts, it made me thing of the general ‘jianghu’ stuffs with some of the lyrics used. (LOL)

11. It’s Me (是我). Touching in a sense. Okay song for me.

So final favorites? #1, 2, 5, 8, 9, and 10. With 8 being the weakest link.

I actually wasn’t going to get this album because I felt it was really weird to only like some songs in it. But I caved in after much consideration, and honestly, I don’t regret it at this point. Though this album kinds of lean toward general pop more than her usual inspirational and/or more realistic styles from the other albums, but I got used to it after several more listens. Not to mention, some actually surprised when I listen to those more carefully.

Fans might have noticed that this isn’t her best one, but I’m letting her off this time because of the change in the company and still experimenting with several styles. Hopefully her next one will be more up to par against previous works.

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