EDIT: Ok, so I've been getting a lot of emails asking for sheets that I don't even have! PLEASE click on my link, hover your mouse on the 'here' word and it'll take you there. PLEASE don't read the other users comments and ask for sheets that are not on my list. You can request sheets that I don't have but don't count on me too much, for (1) the sheet music you asked for may not be found online, (2) I have a life, so I don't spend hours online looking for sheets, (3) I often look for ones that I am familiar with and would like to add to my collection and (4) your sheets will most likely be online, you just have to know where to find it, and be patient... if you desire that sheet, then you must endure countless keywords and pages to look for what you want. Or better yet, purchase one! You get the original that way...>_<
Hello!! Here in my bLog, I will put up my suggested asian dramas and movies to watch. If you guys know any more dramas or movies that would fit in here, please tell me, and I will look it up. I'll be happy to answer any of your questions, but please be nice!...Hehehe...>_< I would like to thank Youtube, Wikipedia and other sites that let me use their things. Thanks!!
Thursday, December 27, 2007
MUSIC SHEETS...\^_^/
EDIT: Ok, so I've been getting a lot of emails asking for sheets that I don't even have! PLEASE click on my link, hover your mouse on the 'here' word and it'll take you there. PLEASE don't read the other users comments and ask for sheets that are not on my list. You can request sheets that I don't have but don't count on me too much, for (1) the sheet music you asked for may not be found online, (2) I have a life, so I don't spend hours online looking for sheets, (3) I often look for ones that I am familiar with and would like to add to my collection and (4) your sheets will most likely be online, you just have to know where to find it, and be patient... if you desire that sheet, then you must endure countless keywords and pages to look for what you want. Or better yet, purchase one! You get the original that way...>_<
For Horowitz/ My Piano
Genre: Music, Drama
Kim Ji-su (Uhm Jung Hwa) is a 31-year-old single woman who once wanted to become a famous pianist like Horowitz. Her dream was shattered but she was able to go on by teaching children to play piano. One day, she discovers a young boy Gyung-min (Shin Ui Jae), who is a musical genius. She starts to give him intensive music lessons, preparing him for competition, but it does not turn out well. But later, when all seems lost, Ji-su is utterly shocked when she realizes that Gyung-min carries a secret that will change her life forever.
A Moment to Remember
Synopsis:
Genre: Drama, Romance
Divided into four segments, A Moment to Remember follows the theme of discovery in a relationship and the burdens of loss caused by Alzheimer's disease.
Su Jin (Son Ye Jin) meets Chul Soo (Jeong Woo Seong). They fall in love and live the life they wanted. Su Jin then tends to forget things now and then, pushing her to seek the doctor. She finds out she has the genetic Alzheimer's disease. At her tender age, she is going to forget everything. She tried to keep it a secret from Chul Soo, who finds out later. Can the couples' love bloom when one is going to forget everything that happened between them?
Oh, another tear jerker. People said that this movie was like The Notebook, but I haven't seen The Notebook, so I don't know what to say *sorry*. Man, I really wish that a man like Chul Soo would appear in every woman's life! Right?!
Get Karl! Oh Soo Jung (Drama)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Go Man Soo (Oh Ji Ho) is also known as Karl Go. Formerly fat, and formerly in love with the popular and pretty Oh Soo Jung (Uhm Jung Hwa), Man Soo is now a lean, sexy golf pro worth a whole bunch. Because he was cruelly hurt by Soo Jung eight years ago, he's become cold and detached when it comes to love. Meanwhile, the tables have turned, and while he's now a hottie, Soo Jung isn't doing so well herself. Eight years ago she was a hot young thing, but now, at 34, she's not exactly where she hoped she'd be. Now that Man Soo's back, he's going to be making sure what goes around comes around.
Here goes the 'First impressions are not everything' thing. Revenge is also not that good of an option. Think about everything before ecting on it.
200 Pounds Beauty
Synopsis:
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Hanna (Kim Ah Joong) is a lip sync vocalist for Ammy, the famous Korean pop singer. Even though she is always ignored because of her appearance, she has been a bright and lighthearted girl until Ammy humiliates her in front of Sang-jun, her secret love. At last she makes a decision of a lifetime to have plastic surgery all over her body. Will her unrequited love be returned?
Friday, December 21, 2007
Jenny, Juno
Genre: Romance, Comedy
The plot centers around the relationship of a 15-year-old couple, Jenny (Park Min-ji) and Juno (Kim Hye-sung), who meet in school. When Jenny discovers that she is pregnant, she and Juno decide against having an abortion, opting for parenthood instead. They try to conceal the pregnancy from their families for as long as possible, but the truth is revealed eventually, and their parents do not approve.
Baby?... Huwhaat?!...hehehe... Sugar coated?? Yes. Good movie? Yes.
Crying out Love, in the Center of the World
Genre: Romance, Drama
Isao Yukisada directed and co-wrote this romantic melodrama, based on a best-selling novel by Katayama Kyoichi. A typhoon is approaching town when Ritsuko (Kou Shibasaki) discovers a mysterious old cassette tape that leads her to abruptly abandon her fiancé, Sakutaro (Takao Osawa). When Sakutaro realizes where she's gone, it leads him to take a journey of his own. Sakutaro (played by Mirai Moriyama as a teen) goes into a deep reverie, thinking back to his high school years (which are shown in flashback), when he developed a powerful crush on a classmate, Aki (Masami Nagasawa). Aki was beautiful, poised, and athletic, and seemed on the verge of escaping their small town. With the encouragement of his best friend Ryunosuke (Issei Takahashi) and his uncle (Tsutomu Yamazaki), a wedding photographer, Sakutaro pursues Aki. She's drawn to him, and encourages him to open up to her in cassette recordings that they exchange. Their romance is blossoming when Sakutaro learns that Aki is gravely ill. As he relives his past, it becomes unclear whether their respective journeys will reunite Sakutaro and Ritsuko.
*sniff*...This was a sad movie, really. It just proves that love travels through time, and tape recorders...>_<...a must watch! Please have some tissues handy for this award winning film!
My Little Bride
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Boeun (Moon Geun Young) is an ordinary high school girl who worries about grades and has a crush on her school's baseball team ace, named Jungwoo. One day, Boeun's grandfather orders her to marry Sangmin (Kim Rae Won). When they were young, during the Korean War, Boeun's and Sangmin's grandfathers had promised that they would become in-laws. Despite the grandchildren's opposition, they are forced to marry because of the strong influence of Boeun's grandfather. Boeun's undercover married life begins: She pretends that she doesn't have a husband and starts dating Jungwoo. Boeun believes that she can manage both men and live a double life. Everything goes smoothly until Sangmin visits Boeun's school as a student teacher.
Wahehehehe....funny!...Then it gets sweet in the end, but still funny...wahehehehe....
Yamada Taro Monogatari (Drama)
Genre: Comedy
Arashi members Ninomiya Kazunari and Sakurai Sho star in this comedy series based on "Yamada Taro Monogatari" by mangaka Ai Morinaga. Ninomiya plays the title character, Taro Yamada, whose family lives in extreme poverty. But because of his looks, intelligence, and athleticism, others mistakenly believe that Taro comes from a prosperous family. In contrast, Sakurai plays Taro's best friend Takuya, who really is from a successful family and who often helps out Taro in various ways.
Aaaaww...It's just a feel good drama with the family. There are some tear jerking moments with the kids in there...awww... And you can just feel the love of 'An-chan'...awww!!
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Summer Time Machine Blues
Synopsis:
Genre: Comedy
Summer Time Machine Blues is based around a group of friends in a science-fiction club who spend their days fooling around at the club house. The boys decide to play a game of baseball as their friend Yui Ito (Maki Yoko) takes pictures of them nearby. After the game, the boys return to the clubhouse and head off to the bathhouse leaving the girls, Yui and Haruka to develop their pictures. While they bathe, Niimi (Yoza Yoshiaki) gets angry because he thinks someone stole his Vidal Sassoon shampoo. On their way back, Takuma (Eita) decides to sneak off to buy tickets at the theater for a sci-fi B movie. He hopes that he can ask Haruka (Ueno Juri) out. But when he returns to the clubhouse, his friends act very strangely as to where he has been. They make him explain what happened, but through a series of chain events, Daigo (Muro Tsuyoshi) accidentally spills Coke all over the air-conditioner remote control after being hit in the face. Everyone rushes to try to clean the remote off, but it's too late. The remote is broken and they cannot turn on the air-conditioner. This immediately becomes a problem as the day becomes hotter.
A couple of the boys try to fix the remote and try to find replacement fan while they wait. In their search for a new fan, the boys discover a strange machine. They fool around discovering that it is a time machine as they travel into the past. Around the same time, a strange traveler appears and greets himself. He dresses strangely and states that he is from another year, but no one believes him. Meanwhile, the scientist the boys gave the remote control to broke it completely. The boys have no choice but to go into the past to steal the remote control before it was broken and bring it back to the present. But as soon as they step back one day, they run into problems beyond their control.
It was confusing at first, but it gets good. The switching of times was a little numbing, but when you can tell that they were in the past or present, you'll get it. It was funny too. Eita and Ueno Juri is in it too!...ALL FOR A REMOTE?...wahehhehe
The Classic
Genre: Melodrama, Romance
Ji-hae (Son Ye Jin) and Soo-kyoung are friends attending the same university and both have a crush on Sang-min who is in their drama club. The more clamorous and outgoing of the two, Soo-kyoung, asks Ji-hae to do her a favor - write a love letter to Sang-min (Jo In Sung). Ji-hae pours out her own feelings for him on paper, but sadly in her friend's name. Touched by the letter, Sang-min is attracted to Soo-kyoung, and Ji-hae, feeling uncomfortable and even guilty, tries to avoid him. And yet by coincidence or by fate she keeps running into him. Ji-hae has lived alone with her mom since her childhood, when her dad unexpectedly passed away. Her mom is now on a trip abroad, and to wile away her solitude she starts cleaning the attic. There Ji-hae finds a secret box, in which her mom kept the memorabilia of her first love story of some decades past.
Wow! Probably one of the best movies I have seen so far! It is soooo good! Have tissues handy ok! The story looks so real and the acting is very good. The love is clearly there even between time. Hope you guys got what happens in the end!...
Spring Waltz (Drama)
Genre: Romance, Drama
Will the tragedy of spring be repeated years later?
To escape debt, Lee Su-ho’s father escaped to a remote island where his friend has a young daughter Eun-Young, who is the same age as Su-ho. After being abandoned by his father, Su-ho sought to leave, but his mind changed after being touched by Eun-Young’s pure heart. A series of unfortunate events ensue, and Su-ho disappears, while Eun-Young (Han Hyo Joo) is sick in the hospital. Years later, while traveling in Germany, Eun-Young meets the talented pianist Chae-ha (Seo Do Young), a man with a cold exterior with a few words, who bores a resemblance to Su-ho. As their love start to develop, truth unfolds… Can their love endure the harsh spring tragedy many years ago?
Another piano drama?? Not really... it was very interesting till the end. You can actually feel the love that the two actors have given. There was an obvious chemistry between the two, and the cute Daniel Henney butts in...woot...hehehe...
Hana Yori Dango- Seasons 1 and 2 (Drama)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Makino Tsukushi (Inoue Mao) is the only poor student at Eitoku Gakuen, the school of the ridiculously rich and privileged that is ruled by Flower 4 or F4, a group of four boys who come from extremely powerful families: Domyoji Tsukasa (Matsumoto Jun), the leader and heir of the Domyoji World Finance Group; Hanazawa Rui (Oguri Shun), the introverted son of a large company; Nishikado Sojiro (Matsuda Shota), a player who is the heir of a tea ceremony school; and Mimasaka Akira (Abe Tsuyoshi), a madam killer with ties to the underground. If a student gets on the F4’s bad side, he/she gets a red notice and is bullied and driven out of school.
Makino hopes to pass her days quietly-- without drawing any attention to herself-- but one day, she stands up to Domyoji in defense of her friend. The next day, Makino gets the dreaded red notice. Even though she is harassed, Makino decides to keep going to school because she is a “tough weed”. She declares war right back on the F4. Her resolve gets the attention of her crush Hanazawa Rui and oddly enough, rouses romantic feelings in her worst enemy, Domyoji Tsukasa.
Unstoppable Marriage
Silence (Drama)
Synopsis:
Genre: Romance, Drama
Tada, Kimi wo Aishiteru/ Heavenly Forest
Synopsis:
Genre: Drama, Romance
The story is about a photographer called Makoto (Tamaki Hiroshi), who travels to New York during Christmas to look for his best friend, Shizuru (Miyazaki Aoi). The two first met when Makoto attended his university entrance ceremony. Due to his inferiority complex, Makoto tends to shy away from other people but Shizuru managed to make him open up to her. Because of their friendship, Shizuru also ended up taking an interest in photography and the two often went to a forest to take pictures. Shizuru wants nothing else but to be by Makoto's side so when he started liking another girl called Miyuki (Kuroki Meisa), Shizuru decided that she too will like Miyuki and becomes her friend. One day, Makoto asked Shizuru what present she'd like to receive for her birthday. Shizuru, who wanted to enter a photography competition, had an idea to take a picture of the two of them kissing in a forest. Makoto agreed to do this and the two kissed for the very first time. Ever since that day, however, Shizuru disappears from Makoto's life.
Waterboys
Involves a super strong and cute girlfriend, crazy DDR moves, nosebleeds, a panty-sighting, burning the afro, a love confession from the gay friend, and impressively choreographed synchronized swimming performances.
Watch five high school boys make fools of themselves as they try to learn synchronized swimming... in Speedos!!!
FUNNY!!!...This was a great, out of the box movie that yall should watch!!....>_<
Snow Queen (Drama)
This drama was sad!... Get some tissues handy!
Smiling Pasta (Drama)
Hmm.. I think this was my first Taiwanese drama since getting here in the States...hehehe....oh well....
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
My Girl (Drama)
Lee Jun Ki...wahaha...Lee Da Hae is pretty good here too...hehehe...
Nobuta wo Produce (Drama)
Devil Beside You (Drama)
Synopsis:
Genre: Comedy, Romance
After finally getting the courage to confess her feelings, Qi Yue (Rainie Yang) was handing her love letter to Yuan Yi (Kingone), but by a stroke of bad luck, he did not see and walked passed her. The person standing in front of her was the troublemaker of the school, infamously known for his devilish ways – Jiang Meng (Mike He). The devil will get what he wants, and the object of his desire was Qi Yue. Although having a cruel exterior, Ah Meng’s heart is kind and caring, which truly touched Qi Yue. The big problem remained – Ah Meng is the son of the man Qi Yue’s mother is going to marry. Even though they were not related by blood, who will accept this step brother-sister relationship? What is to become of their relationship when other lovers come into the picture?
Isn't Mike He hot??
Full House (Drama)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Han Ji Eun (Song Hye Kyo) is a naive writer who got swindled out of everything she owned including her house by her best friends. Stranded in China, She managed to borrow money from an actor Lee Young Jae (Bi/Rain) to return to Korea. On her return, she found out that her house was bought by Lee Young Jae. In an attempt to get her possessions back, she entered in a contract marriage with Young Jae for one year. In spite of losing all, Ji Eun manages to be cheerful and takes things in strike and the business relationship between the two becomes personal as they start to rely and care for each other.
Funny...teehee....this is great...hehehe...
The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince (Drama)
Secret/ Bu Neng Shuo De Mimi
Synopsis:
Genre: Drama, Music
The story is about a high school student Ye Xiang Lun (Jay Chou), who studies in a school for the musically and artistically gifted. Ye’s piano skill is unmistakably a notch above others. On the first day of school, while wandering through the piano rooms, he hears an unknown and alluring melody played by a fellow female student, Lu Xiao Yu (Kwai Lun Mei). This is where the story takes off.
Waaaa! Awesome piano skills man! Ugh, I feel like a newbie now! But still, when you watch this movie, try to remember all the tiny details, coz it will help once it is over. Try to watch it a second time and piece it all together again. Great movie!Nodame Cantabile (Drama)
Shinichi Chiaki (Tamaki Hiroshi), is Momogaoka’s top student. Born into a musical family, he is talented in piano and violin and has secret ambitions to become a conductor. An arrogant multi-lingual perfectionist who once lived abroad in the music capitals of the world as a young boy, he feels mired in Japan because of a childhood phobia.
They meet by accident. Nodame quickly falls in love, but it takes much longer for Chiaki to even begin to appreciate Nodame’s unusual qualities. Their relationship causes them both to develop and grow. Because of Nodame, Chiaki got the opportunity to lead a student orchestra and begins to have a broader appreciation of people's musical abilities. Because of Chiaki, Nodame faces her fears and enters a piano competition. Opportunities open up as both begin taking risks, stretching themselves far more than they ever thought possible.
Kagen no Tsuki/ Last Quarter
Synopsis:
Genre: Drama, Romance
Do you believe in love after death? On the eve of her 19th birthday, Mizuki (Kuriyama Chiaki) doesn't have a lot to celebrate about. Her mother recently committed suicide, her stepfamily bothers her, her boyfriend has been cheating on her and her best friend has betrayed her. Hurt and disillusioned, Mizuki runs from everything and is drawn by some unknown force to a dilapidated estate. Deep within the house Mizuki discovers the mysterious Adam (Hyde), playing a hauntingly familiar melody on the guitar. Melancholy and full of secrets, it seems that Adam, and the house, have a strange, irresistible link to Mizuki. Can Mizuki's boyfriend and a couple of well-meaning schoolchildren uncover the secret of what happened 19 years ago and free Mizuki before the last quarter of the moon falls?
Hanazakari no Kimitachi e (Drama)
Goong/ Princess Hours (Drama)
After 14 years of living in England with his mom, Lee Yul (Kim Jeong Hoon) appears all of a sudden. He is Shin's cousin as well as the former Crown Prince. Everything seemed to be going normally until Chae-kyung's optimistic spirit wins the heart of internally lonely, Yul. As the Crown Prince Shin and simple-minded Chae-kyung's relationship appear to developing deeper feelings, a series of scandals are exposed to the public right after the pair were officially announced married. Will love prevail all in a world of political pressures and martial hardships? Or will being in the spotlight of the public be too much for the young newlyweds to endure?
Swing Girls
1 Litre of Tears (Drama)
Synopsis:
Genre: Drama
15-year-old Ikeuchi Aya was an ordinary girl, the daughter of a family who works at a tofu shop, and a soon-to-be high schooler. However, odd things have been happening to Aya lately. She has been falling down often and walks strange. Her mother, Shioka, takes Aya to see the doctor, and he informs Shioka that Aya has spinocerebellar degeneration - a terrible disease where the cerebellum of the brain gradually deteriorates to the point where the victim cannot walk, speak, write, or eat. A cruel disease, as it does not affect the mind in the least. How will Aya react when told about her disease? And how will Aya live from now on?
This is a video of my friend playing one of the insert songs, Konayuki. Sorry about the crappy quality, my phone can't handle the greatness of the song and the pianist...wahaha...
This was such a great drama! I really suggest watching it! A box of tissues will come in handy!!