So this trip happened last 2017 but I just finished the video recently… and here it is!
Bohol 2021
Went to Bohol with bean and it was awesome!
Camphong: TGCF Vol 1
The first unboxing video I’ve ever done so obviously I have no idea what I am doing. I basically wanted to do a video when I saw how many shit were included in this package.
Tbh I can’t read these books but I would love to support the author and the artists in my own way.
Drama Review: Looking Up
Father-son feels and space stress. Overall it’s a good movie about chasing your dreams, life lessons, and family. ;w; I had a towel (because tissues are shit) and I finished my icecream in tears
Drama Review: Memory Lost
OKAY. So I’ve finished Memory Lost (3 seasons. 12 eps each) and maybe because it was split into seasons it felt like I wasn’t watching a long series and that it was easier to digest (hello as Flowers Fade). But maybe even if I don’t fool myself with that, I’d still binge the fck out of this series. Why? It was actually really good.
+1 again for Bai Yu starring in a series that is actually good.
The characters are nice and I liked the Black Shield team although the ending where everyone was given a girlfriend was ridiculous. But they were a cute group.
The effects are… better than Guardian at the very least but it’s not Lost Tomb Reboot. LOL That’s all I can say…
The fighting choreography though was so sooooo cool! It was dynamic and it flowed really well. AND IT WAS CONSISTENT! Like MC’s fighting skill that was introduced in ep1 was still as sharp until the last season. So yay. Also, Han Chen was OP all throughout anyway and I love all his fighting and parkour scenes. Now, I really do wonder if BY did his parkour scenes. Get those long legs working!
Now for the CP. I really ship them. They were not stressful at all. I like the slight tsuntsun bickering and MC was so cute when she reacts to Han Chen being Han Chen. And during season 1 I just wanted them to be together, so come season 2 where the sugar and fluff were there in almost every ep, my fangirl heart couldn’t stop watching. So I’m really happy that this is HE. They deserve each other ❤
Finally Bai Yu… HAHAHAHAHAHAHA the number of “Tangina Han Chen” I said should’ve been counted but I think I have like 3 on minimum per episode. KASI NAMAN. TANGINA HAN CHEN TALAGA. Sana all. He’s so OP and cool and even though he’s arrogant, he has all the rights. He is that good! But BUT. Although he is OP and shit, when his sweet side comes out, he can make any girl (by any girl I mean me) melt. So please please uncle, can you teach gege how to do a proper kissing scene… he needs guidance.
As of now, this is the coolest BY48 I’ve seen. He was not babey in this at all that I forget who I am watching. Bai Yu who? This is Han Chen. Wew. And I need to stop now before I say anything inappropriate… kasi tangina Han Chen.
Overall, I can rewatch this and maybe even recommend it.
Drama Review: Love O2O
Okay I’m done with Love O2O (both series and movie) SO IT’S REVIEW TIME!
For personal reference, here’s my livetweets
Okay when I first saw the series I was thinking, this would work here in the Philippines and lo and behold it was aired in GMA! (So siyempre pinanood ko rin yung Tagalog version ng mga gusto kong scenes at naubusan ako ng hangin sa kakatawa nagtatalog si xiao Bai)
Anyway, back to the review, this is a nice show. It’s not that stressful, the pacing is okay, characters are likable, the main protags have good chemistry, Bai Yu is adorable and they are drinking Yakult. So overall I like it.
If you ask me, I prefer the series over the movie just because the plot is more stable in the series than in the movie. For example, the car accident that was just mentioned in the movie, and then there’s whole thing with KO, which progressed better in the series. Also, please, the series had the Cao Guang and Erxi ship AND I LOVE THEM BOTH!
I also like Xiao Nai’s intensity in the series, although the movie Nai was more handsome for me. The characters were all handled better in the series, but mainly because they had enough time to handle them so I can’t hold that against the movie.
The villains are also okay. I mean I don’t even think the antagonists are that bad especially since the main villains all changed for the better in the end. The actual awful characters are merely background noises lol. AND NO. Cao Guang is not a villain. He is babey and I will protecc him!
So yeah, series > movie.
But the movie’s graphics though! And the direction!! Especially this scene in the library where Zhenshui Wuxiang appeared in the library, with Bei Weiwei running in the middle of their standoff and they were in front of her! That was really well done!
AND BAI YU WITH A FAN! aaaaah my heart!!
But the part in the movie where Zhenshui Wuxiang being beaten up made me laugh so much even my roommate was concerned. I’m sorry xiao Bai but I enjoyed that too much.
So, yeah… this is a nice watch. I didn’t regret watching this and I got the fluff I was expecting to get. I think I can recommend this to people who would want to watch a nice romance drama that’s not that heavy.
Okay next!
TuberoAU
So around January this year, before the world decided to go from bad to worse, I started to write this “Socmed AU” kind of fic because (1) I was amused with the concept and (2) I kinda want to try it myself. I had tried making a socmed AU thing for matsus but the fact that they were all inside the house thus, their interactions in socmed is kinda limited made me reconsider.
So I looked at the danmei fandom. There were already a lot of socmed AUs in the PH side of the fandom after one popped out and even at that time the bjyx fandom had their share of PH socmed AUs. I’ve been thinking of doing one for a smaller sized fandom so as to give a chance to other danmei as well as “para maiba naman”.
So I turned to the fandom that I have been obsessing about next to TGCF… Guardian.
Now you have to understand at that point, I have like three or four Guardian friends? And the other people in the fandom that I follow don’t know I exist. So no one will care about this shit.
So one day while we were going home from eating unli samgyup, I saw a Wanted Tubero sign and the rest, as they say, was history.
I didn’t intend to go deeper in the Guardian fandom. With it being finished (the translation was almost done by then too). But when I started on this I didn’t expect for it to be a rollercoaster ride all the way down.
I was updating almost daily and when I was most stressed, this AU gave me something happy to look forward to everyday. I was talking to everyone who reacted to it and I gained more Filipino fandom friends. And then in the middle of doing this I reread the novel and that plunged me deeper.
Then I discovered that I actually love the villain of the story and even shipped him with the cat. I don’t even know why I agreed to this ship but apparently I like it. And apparently I can’t get enough of them. I even started to forget I was supposed to write for the main ship because of them. I’M SORRY BUT THE MAIN SHIP IS ALREADY SOLID. They’re happy and they deserve it. So yeah. Focus shifted to solve this other non-canon rare ship.
Anyway the fic is done now and I swear it was so hard to part with this fic. I had pre-sleeping dreams of Mianmian just telling me to let go and finish it with me saying that I don’t want to let them go.
So yeah, after I finish the fic… I, as a person who does not know the meaning of letting go, did only what I do well. Start another fic with the same flavor of characters.
But this blog post is not about that… so back to TuberoAU. This loosely outlined socmed au gave me a lot of new things to learn about this very different way of storytelling. I played around with pictures and the tone of voices. I went on scrolling deeper and deeper into the actor’s weibo accounts. I made a video without a laptop. Overall it was a fun few months of my life.
So yeah, here’s the link to that story
Drama Review: As Flowers Fade and Fly Across the Sky
Done watching As Flowers Fade and Fly Across the Sky (like last last week ago when my connection is still not shit?!)
Here is my livetweet thread thing for my own reference.
Anyway, I really couldn’t review it properly back then because I hated the ending. Now that I have come to terms with the ending I can now say that…
this is shit.
If you want a drama with good character development, an interesting premise, a riveting plot, a male lead you can just fall in love with, and braincells. This ain’t it bruh.
The main male protag (NOT Zhu Yilong) is an annoying goody asshole that did not get a character development at all.
Who he was when we first saw him was still the same dude after everything
–and when I say everything I meant losing his love, forced marriage, falling in love with “someone else”, getting poisoned, getting injured, etc etc.
Still the same goody asshole with nothing up there in the head.
But enough about Mantian because I feel like Imma wanna punch something again. The plot was okay I guess: face-swap with amnesia, some pining and one-sided love, shallow political drama, Mara Clara, and ancient Chinese Vicky Belo fixing everything.
There were enough drama and sick people — there’s at least one person dying in bed every 2-3 episodes– to get you through 66 (OHMYFUCKINGGOD I’M CRYING 66!!) episodes.
But what made me watch this and made me stay was Hua Wuxie. This guy got ALL THE BRAINCELLS in this show and I’m glad that my fave is not dumb, nor was he insensitive.
Hua Wuxie made everything so bearable to watch.
He was beautiful. He could fight. He’s quick-witted. He’s gentle and kind and pure and adorable and did I say he’s was beautiful. Like arguably one of the most beautiful versions of Zhu Yilong out there.
None of these ungrateful shits deserve him… only his grandma deserves him. Because Grandma pampers him and loves him, she’s okay in my book. Okay maybe the princess was okay too because sometimes she has braincells and their chemistry was cute.
So unlike the last drama, Royal Sister Returns, this was not as stressful and Hua Wuxie did not suffer as much. He kinda was dying at one ep but heh of course ancient Chinese Vicky Belo is there so everything will be okay.
He also gets to have a nice happy wedding in the end.
BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE. THERE’S A FUCKING WAR AND THEY ALL WANTED TO GO TO WAR SO MAYBE HE COULD DIE THERE! IDK.
SO HERE. WATCH THE PRINCESS CRY HER EYES OUT WHILE WE SHOW THEM MARCHING OFF TO WAR
THE END
….I hate it here.
Okay Next!
Drama Review: Royal Sister Returns
Livetweet thread here
Okay I finally finished 御姐归来 Royal Sister Returns/ Princess is back. Ofc I watched this because of ZYL and YES HE DELIVERED. He pretty, he’s good! But if you don’t like shoujo plot and you don’t want stress, then this show is not for you.
This show drove me to work. TO WORK! Because I was so stressed with what I’m watching that working felt relaxing. I wish I was joking but I’m not. All of them just kept on hurting He Kaixin and the boy is still the goodest boy ever. It was so unfair.
Friday night with my X
So last Friday night I tried to make an effort to get back in touch with the people from my old company. I really don’t want to lose my connection with these people, as I have said before and again, they were the best team I ever had in my previous company. They were more than just officemates; I have grown with them, I have learned a lot from them… they were my friends.
And true enough they were surprised that I was there but as soon as I sat down and talked to them it never felt awkward and I never felt out of place. I was so glad that it was still this easy and that it felt like I was back into being that person I was 4-5 years ago. I haven’t been in touch with them for so long and we have went our own ways and have built our own careers and have became better and more successful but at that table we were still friends.
I really missed this.
As of writing, I still can’t forget the expression Butaboss and sir jun had when we talked about James that time. They were there when it happened and saw my worst. I can still remember clearly how Butaboss and sir Doods were when I talked to them about James and how much they cared back then. I remember how sir Jun saw me breaking down because I was reading “Orange” during the time when I wanted to die myself. They were really like my brothers and I can’t believe that even until now they still care about me.
I am typing this at work so I don’t want to cry, but to end this entry: I will be forever grateful to have worked with them. Thank you SA team, here’s to more gala and bonding moments with you this new decade!
One Day More 