Pardon me while I digress......
I have run out of good Korean dramas on the shelves. so, the video shop oppa told me that I should try this Taiwan drama. Here's how they tried very hard to convince me. Incidentally, videoshop ajumma was off today...
Videoshop oppa: This story has a rich girl and a poor guy working in a restaurant.
Videoshop agasshi: The girl always quarrels with the guy.
Videoshop oppa: But the guy secretly loves the girl...etc etc..
Aini: Hmm...sounds like a Korean drama - minus the terminal illness. OK la. I try.
Videoshop oppa and agasshi: But not subtitle hor....
Aini: Oh.....hmmm....time to brush up my Mandarin.....
Update: 15.8.07
I am so sorry folks. I can't take it any further. I don't think I am ready to watch Taiwanese dramas yet. Perhaps I should start with Taiwanese movies first. Shorter and faster.
I watched 3 episodes of this drama, and all the while I was thinking " Hmm...what Korean drama should I watch next"...and at the end of the 3 episodes of watching Barbie and the (劉文正)Liu-wen-zheng-lookalike bickering non-stop, I said to myself. OK, that's it. I know this is a good drama, but perhaps...I will watch it again at another time.
Update : 20.3.09
I have decided to rewatch this drama and give it another go. This time with an open mind, and thanks to Meteor Garden, I kinda like Barbie Hsu.
After rewatching th whole drama, I guess I have to take my earlier words back. The drama is OK - kinda reminds me of Vineyard Man 포도밭 그 사나이 a while ago. The same kinda formula - rich girl thrown into life of average-normal-working classed people and slowly falling in love with the perfect-next-door-kampung boy.
Although I have seen him in Taiwanese variety shows, I have never seen Show Lo (with his 白馬王子's eyes) act before. The guy has a nice charm about him - the dark, handsome, chocolate brownie that I usually like. I like the way the hero, Qin Lang, confessed his love with tears in his eyes, to a "sleeping" Xin Lei. It's so ....nnniiiiccceeeee.......
With the non-stop bickering and the "tell, or don't tell" dilemma between the 2, I was kinda glad that the drama was only 16-episodes long. It has its high moments - I especially like the "shoe" scenes.
And I suppose they can do away with the unnecessary novel-publishing duo which took up too much air time.
I give this drama 2.5 pop corns - for making me cry when Show Lu cried.
