Tuesday, 19 March 2013

TV Dramas

As I had started to write this post, I had titled it Another Untitled Post. But as this developed, I ended up calling it drama. No, not lots-of-things-going-on-in-my-life drama (though there are aspects of that), but I just couldn't stay away from one of my favourite hobbies of all time: TV drama. 

I have my theory driving test tomorrow =) When I pass that, I can book my practical driving test. So I should really be revising for that right now. That was until I decided I needed a cup of tea, then decided to write a post. So all was going well until I had decided to let myself get distracted. 

As most people know, I'm a big fan of watching TV, whether it's movies, TV programmes/dramas (American, Taiwanese, Korean or Japanese). I've actually been pretty out of touch with dramas recently. I'm a big fan of How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory, and I have been up to date with those for a long time, and each week is an agonising wait for the next episode. 

Last year, a friend of mine who is also an avid fan of How I Met Your Mother recommended Modern Family. After a very busy year, I've finally caught up to all the episodes of Modern Family. Yay! I realised how much I hate being up to date with all of the latest episodes. It always feel so empty once I've finished watching something. And usually for the next few days, I keep on finding things to watch. 

So I've finally watched Looper yesterday. It was pretty much how I expected it to be, except that I have a very, very, very bad and annoying habit of spoiling things for myself. After a short while into the movie, I Wikipedia'ed it. (I'm sorry for turning Wikipedia into a verb.) Any how, so not long into the movie, I know what happens. I did save the last bit of the movie as a mystery... I stopped at the last two or three paragraphs. As I watched the movie, it didn't take me long to give into temptation and just read the last few paragraphs. So I even knew what would happen at the very very end.. So... that's the story of how I spoiled a movie. 

Oh oh, I also finally watched Kung Fu Panda 2. Ohhh, why have I waited so long to watch the second one! The first one was alright, not my favourite, but definitely worth watching once. But the second one is totally amazing. Maybe I was just in a weird mood, but it made me laugh so much. I enjoyed it so much that I wished my little cousins were next to me so I could watch it with them (though I do think they may have already seen it). 

Recently, I've also been watching a Taiwanese drama called Once Upon A Love. I know it sounds corny, that's what I thought at first. This was a few months back, if not longer, but I've seen the name of this drama a few times, then I finally gave it a try. And man, it's pretty good stuff. I've been a bit out of touch with all these Asian dramas, especially the idol ones just because I think I've grown out of them. I'm no longer that teenager who watches all these idol dramas about love and everything where I can predict the whole storyline within the first five minutes. Once Upon A Love is totally different, it's not about this young girl who meets this young, good-looking guy, where they have a misunderstanding upon their first encounter, then they somehow become more acquainted and then starts liking each other, etc, etc. I don't really know how to summarise it, but if you have like twenty hours to spare or something, it's definitely worth a try =) 

That's enough of talking, or writing, to be accurate. I think I better get back to my theory revision.