永遠的微笑 - 周璇


i am one of those who cringe at the idea of a channel8 anniversary gala. why copy tvb? esp when the gossip section of u-weekly talks abt like why are we copying the blue-red-green tv station to do 台慶, im those who will nod without even thinking.

but i guess i was wrong. the anniversary gala turned out to be so much better. the previous time they did one, i tot they tried a little too hard to deliver that nostalgia. like repeatedly playing the clips from 霧鎖南洋. but this time round i think they really put in some effort to see how they can present the past 45 years of tv to everyone.

and our national tv is already 45? that makes us even older than tvb. i didnt know this. our tv is so much like hongkong tv. during the 90s, our directors are from hongkong, our producers are from hongkong, isnt it strange that our dear channel8 is older than tvb?

it's nice to see them presenting the tv artistes in batches. especially when they got the bunch from the 1999 star search together. nick shen, vivian lai, qi yu wu, priscilla chan, jeff wang.. it was the time when star search was really an IN thing and i was sitting right in front of the tv on the finals to see who will win. and they got thomasOng too. hahahaha. yay.

and it's quite surprising to see that actually we have such a big bunch of people in mediacorp. esp after watching the tvb one yesterday. we are also as strong loh. maybe we can try getting the bunch of them here to dance for the opening other than just walking out and looking good. hahahahaha. we lack that celebration feel. maybe zoeTay and fannWong can come out singing some 'i love channel8' song. like the 一於去齊聲恭祝TVB song. and then have our mediacorp ceo come out with ms singapore. hahahaha. nice.

and the youtube video on top is 周璇's 永遠的微笑. i love it ever since watching election. there was this part during the gala when they showed 4 comedians who had past away, they started off with 蔡琴's 被遺忘的時光 and just when i was thinking 'not again..', they changed the background music to an instrumental version of 永遠的微笑. whoever thought of that, nice one.


on the other hand. watched TVB awards yesterday. i esp liked the part where they got the actors to enter in groups from 2 to 4 and to give a one-liner. like raymond lam's 'if i win today, i guess i have a lot of meals to..treat.' hahahahaha. nice. and wayne lai's 'i am 白果王[the one who always do not win]'.

萬千星輝頒獎典禮2008-最佳男配角--黎耀祥

but wayne lai won. 白果王 no more!! this is so overdued. even as 連子蓉 in MR, he is good. he is good in Steps, in Devil's Disciple, in When rules turn loose.. the most deserving award for this year's TVB awards. ha yu deserves his best actor too, but seeing him win is like seeing Martin Scorsese win academy award becase of Departed. yes. ha yu deserves it. but i think it should not be because of moonlight resonance but for when rules turn loose. and next year should be raymond cho's turn. raymond cho. without him, healing hands and forensic heroes would have been much more boring.


Mr.Children／花の匂い（Live ver.） 僕らの音楽

theme song for 「私は貝になりたい」. if 2216 is going to there for another 10 years. this might become one of the films for the course.

reading week reading week reading week. woo. im glad finally we are having a break from school. but again. this means that exams are here again. i just hope my CAP can go up. nevermind wat CAP i will obtain in the end. just up. i need it to go up desperately.

till now i guess my mid terms grades are acceptable. with the exception of PE which was a flop. urgh. i need to seriously mug for cs.

and after this sem, im sort of glad i chose to stay. and ee's not that bad as it sounded at first. at least i enjoy counting in binary. and of course the film module saved my rather boring sem. and talking abt that. i was thinking abt this that day; ichikawa kon made a docu on ozu and shunji iwai made a docu on ichikawa kon. i think iwai needs someone to make a docu on him too. if i make it big i'll make one for him. hahaha. but before that i need to make something BIG. like tokyo story or makioka sisters or lily chou-chou.

okay. need to mug from tmr onwards. and to munch on all the welfare packs food. seeyihui leaving for taiwan tmr. man. the house will be so quiet.

and ha yu won best actor. oh man. i tot it was a raymond lam sure win thing.

Mr.Children - 花の匂い

Rainbow Song (Niji no Megami)
Ueno Juri, Ichihara Hayato, Yu Aoi



It started with wanting to watch a webcast and i ended up watching a whole movie. haha. rainbow song starring Ueno Juri [Swing Girls, Nodame Cantabile, Last Friends) and Ichihara Hayato (All about Lily Chou-chou, Water boys 2) is not.. bad. i have to say i didnt watch a single of those pure-love movies from japan before this. because i felt that the stories will be very much similar to each other (think early korean dramas). koi zora, be with you and Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World etc. i didnt even bother looking at them. but this has ueno juri. ahhh. and im kind of liking ichihara hayato after repeated viewing of all about lily chou-chou so i tot maybe i could spend some time not thinking about c++ and then to watch a movie that can make me cry and cry. haha.

it turned out okay. but the script. urgh. so much improvement could be made to it. the concept is nice... but not brought out well. like the title rainbow song. im thinking the scriptwriter wants the rainbow thing to be the link between the 2 characters but it sort of lost its direction in the middle. and then the story diverge too much. yes the shots are beautiful but they are not helping with the development of the story. it could be refined!! wasted!!

this script was actually one that was submitted to shunji iwai under his script bowl thing which he set up on his website to encourage people to write scripts, send it over to him and then after judging by a few volunteer judges, if they feel that it's good they will pass it to a producer.

so it follows the story of this girl who has interest in film making [with a 16mm] and then how she met another guy and it follows till her death which spans over around 2-3 years.

like many others who have watched and made comments on their blogs, what made me continue watching and even to feel that it was a not bad work is actually the actors themslves. the acting is so good. especially on ueno juri's part. some time ago i read that the director for last friends got ueno juri down for ruka's role after watching her in rainbow song. ichihara hayato's lack of ambition, ueno juri's sabishi-ness (lonely sounds a bit funny. haha) it was so well done. urgh. if only the script was better. wasted wasted wasted.

Trailer

Mr.Children - HANABI (Live at ap bank fes'08)


mr children's songs. must.hear.live. niceeeee.

Mr.children GIFT （音楽戦士より）
Mr.Children - 少年 (Live) (when he still had his curtained hair.)