Saturday 3 November 2012

how it all started

i started seeing chinese tv series when i was a kid. i remember it being the only thing up on tv every sunday morning. i dunno what it was about though. then came bioman, shaider, ultraman, masked rider black and all sorts of japanese tv series. it was a normal thing for a kid back then to watch these kind of stuff. i mean, everybody at school watches them. and you have to, or you'll be off the loop! haha!


anyways, years passed, and asian tv series came back to my life in the form of the taiwanese tv series meteor garden. it was translated or should i say dubbed in our language and i have to admit, i was not at all interested at first, but there's something about it that got me hooked! (or maybe because my dorm mates are watching it and since we only have one tv, i have no choice but watch it.) and it became a hit! everyone's watching it! even the show's soundtrack was being played in every radio station you could ever imagine. and even though the songs are sung in a foreign language, you can here people singing it (and that includes me, speaking of which, i think i could still sing a few lines...)


after that, korean tv series became the trend. there was my girl, full house, princess hours, coffee prince and the korean version of meteor garden (or should i say, hana yori dango), boys over flowers, among others. aside from the eye candies, the story line are light, quirky, heart-thugging and most of all feel good. it's the sort that you would want to imagine yourself to be involved with. there are also those that are more on the dramatic side like endless love, which is actually entitled autumn in my heartand winter sonata both belonging in the endless love series or what i like to call the seasons series.  


then someone introduced this korean movie to me - my sassy girl. it was the first korean movie that i've seen and the first i've watched un-dubbed. watching a show while reading subtitles is not a new thing for me as i'm a big fan of naruto, and i've pretty much watched a hundred eps by then. aside from my sassy girl, i also watched windstruck, my little bride, my wife is a gangster, spy girl, etc.

my curiosity grew, i began following actors and their works. i would search for old and new titles and without knowing it, i have started following the "currently airing" tv series. the first of which i followed was cinderella's sister. and now, i'm currently watching 5 tv series. ^_^