The Little Nyonya

The Little Nyonya also one of the TV serial that worth to watch it, I never failed to watch every episode because it was really good. Each person of my family watched it, even we were in Malaysia for holiday, we would watch the TV first before we ate dinner.

The trailer

The Little Nyonya (Chinese: 小娘惹) is a 2008 drama serial on Singapore's free-to-air channel, MediaCorp TV Channel 8. The storyline, which circles around the biographical flashback of an extended Peranakan family in Malacca, is set in the 1930s and spans to over 70 years. The series was partly sponsored by the Media Development Authority of Singapore. It debuted on November 25, 2008 and concluded its run on January 5, 2009.

Produced by MediaCorp in commemoration of the channel's 45-year anniversary (45载光芒·8方贺台庆), the series has been critically acclaimed by both viewers and critics, and raked the highest viewership in the country in 14 years. The success of The Little Nyonya has also led to the show being broadcast internationally. The series also became the first ever Singaporean Chinese drama to be dubbed in Malay and aired on Malay-language channel Suria.

Plot

The story spans over 70 years, from the 1930s till the present day.

Huang Juxiang is born into a large Peranakan family where her mother is a mistress. She is gentle, beautiful and a fantastic cook. Due to a serious illness when she was 9 years old, Juxiang becomes a deaf-mute. Because of her handicap, she is ostracized by people. Right before the Japanese Occupation in Singapore, she is forced to marry Charlie Zhang, a rich Peranakan, and become his concubine. Juxiang resists the marriage and runs away from home. She then meets Yamamoto Yousuke, a young Japanese photographer, and after overcoming many obstacles, they finally get married and Juxiang gives birth to a daughter Yueniang. During the World War, Juxiang is injured and both she and her husband die, leaving behind their 8 year-old daughter.

The orphaned Yueniang eventually walks to her grandfather's house on her own. Her grandmother rejoices for her presence. Under the supervision of her grandmother, she learns to cook Peranakan dishes and sewing. She grows up looking exactly like her mother and is exceptionally beautiful. After the war, her maternal relatives who ran away to England to seek refuge there returned home. Yueniang ends up leading the life of her mother – always discriminated against, beaten up, blamed and tortured. She puts up with all this mistreatment to protect her grandmother.

Yueniang's beauty incurs jealousy from her cousins and attracts the attention of many rich Peranakans. However, she only has eyes for the penniless driver Chen Xi, who lies he has 10 younger brothers and sisters to look after. Chen Xi actually comes from an educated and wealthy family. Yueniang's kindness, purity and persistence move Chen Xi and he falls deeply in love with her, and hides his identity to be with Yueniang. Unfortunately, their relationship is filled with many obstacles and difficulties. Under pressure from his family, Chen Xi is forced to marry Yueniang's cousin, Zhenzhu, instead. Yueniang is then married to a butcher, Liu Yidao. Many things happen after this and it is revealed that the Huangs use misunderstandings and mistakes for granted and resort to off-board measures.

Yueniang is unwilling to accept the fact that her life is always manipulated by others and decides to end her own life. Yueniang's strong personality impresses Liu Yidao and they become sworn siblings instead. Yueniang decides to choose her own path in life. She begins learning how to run a business and in the process, she is framed and ousted from her business. Despite the odds, she manages save her declining family business. Soon, she marries the lawyer, Paul. She has no children as she has two miscarriages. So, she adopts Yuzhu's son as her own and names him Zuye. Zuye has two sons and a daughter. The daughter's name is Angela, in the present time. She has her business and sells cosmetics from overseas. However, Yueniang soon succumbs to intestinal cancer.

Black & White

Black & White (Chinese: 痞子英雄) is one of TV serial that I love to watch. I watched it in Malaysia. this TV serial had a lot of action scenes and it made me always wanted to watch it again and again, if you watch first episode , you will curios about what will happen in the next episode.


Black & White (Chinese: 痞子英雄) is a 2009 Taiwanese Drama starring Vic Chou, Mark Chao, Ivy Chen, Janine Chang. It was produced by Prajna Works and directed by Cai Yuexun (蔡岳勳) with location fliming in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.


The drama was nominated in 2009 for 11 awards at the 44th Golden Bell Awards, Taiwan. It won 5 awards: Best Television Series, Best Leading Actor in a Television Series for Mark Chao, Best Directing for a Television Series for Cai Yuexun, Best Art and Design for a Television Series and Best Marketing Programme.

The trailer

Cast:

Vic Zhou

Mark Zhao

Ivy Chen

Janine Chang

Xiu Jie Kai

Paul Chun

Xu Ai Xin

Zou Cheng En

Tang Guo Zhong

Kageyama Yukihiko

Kingone Wang

Episodes: 24

Broadcast Year: 2009-04-11

Synopsis:

Pi Zi and Ying Xiong are two cops who are as different as day and night. One does nothing except for drinking coffee and living a luxurious lifestyle while waiting for information from dubious sources to crack his cases. Another believes law and justice are the pillars of society and is constantly on the street catching criminals… a little overzealously for his superior’s liking. When a case brought these two top crime solvers together, sparks flied and a little light peeked into this dark city where the nation’s President is on friendly terms with the local mafia and twins kill people while drinking milkshake.

Another Song that I Like

Black & White [ 痞子英雄 ] Perfect Stranger MV

see other: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd72cOc1VEI&feature=related

Perfect Stranger - Jason Zou & Picks

Dive from the blue sky
to see who I really am

Facing my desire
with the answer
to start again, be brave again

What will stop in my way?
Who will challenge the fate
The test of pain and wrath

Are we living in circus?
Are we beat up by curse?
Cus I'm sure will take the race

( give my beat alive )
Holding my will
Cuz I've never met someone like you

( take my breath away ) Cus' I'm blind in your smile
Using tears buryin’ the lie

Oh~ Pretty Stranger
Rock my soul and world with a gentle kiss
Fly~ makin’ me fly
To eternal
Oh once again, the love we make
Until the sun has risen
Our life will bond together
Oh mine, perfect stranger

Would you dream about me?
Could you spend time with me?
I crave your lip life time

breathing in frozen fever
standing in burning winter
all the misery need you by my side

( give my beat alive )
Now seize the time
defeat the weak and break my runaway

( take my breath away )
Cus I'm conquered by your eyes
and I am losing all my mind

Oh~ Pretty Stranger
Rock my soul and world with a gentle kiss
Fly~ makin’ me fly
To eternal
Oh once again, the love we make
Until the sun has risen
Our life will bond together

Oh mine, perfect stranger

Oliver Wendell Holmes's A Familiar Letter poem

A Familiar Letter YES, write, if you want to, there's nothing like trying; Who knows what a treasure your casket may hold? I'll show you that rhyming's as easy as lying, If you'll listen to me while the art I unfold. Here's a book full of words; one can choose as he fancies, As a painter his tint, as a workman his tool; Just think! all the poems and plays and romances Were drawn out of this, like the fish from a pool! You can wander at will through its syllabled mazes, And take all you want, not a copper they cost,-- What is there to hinder your picking out phrases For an epic as clever as "Paradise Lost"? Don't mind if the index of sense is at zero, Use words that run smoothly, whatever they mean; Leander and Lilian and Lillibullero Are much the same thing in the rhyming machine. There are words so delicious their sweetness will smother That boarding-school flavor of which we're afraid, There is "lush"is a good one, and "swirl" is another,-- Put both in one stanza, its fortune is made. With musical murmurs and rhythmical closes You can cheat us of smiles when you've nothing to tell You hand us a nosegay of milliner's roses, And we cry with delight, "Oh, how sweet they do smell!" Perhaps you will answer all needful conditions For winning the laurels to which you aspire, By docking the tails of the two prepositions I' the style o' the bards you so greatly admire. As for subjects of verse, they are only too plenty For ringing the changes on metrical chimes; A maiden, a moonbeam, a lover of twenty Have filled that great basket with bushels of rhymes. Let me show you a picture--'t is far from irrelevant-- By a famous old hand in the arts of design; 'T is only a photographed sketch of an elephant,-- The name of the draughtsman was Rembrandt of Rhine. How easy! no troublesome colors to lay on, It can't have fatigued him,-- no, not in the least,-- A dash here and there with a haphazard crayon, And there stands the wrinkled-skinned, baggy-limbed beast. Just so with your verse,-- 't is as easy as sketching,-- You can reel off a song without knitting your brow, As lightly as Rembrandt a drawing or etching; It is nothing at all, if you only know how. Well; imagine you've printed your volume of verses: Your forehead is wreathed with the garland of fame, Your poems the eloquent school-boy rehearses, Her album the school-girl presents for your name; Each morning the post brings you autograph letters; You'll answer them promptly,-- an hour isn't much For the honor of sharing a page with your betters, With magistrates, members of Congress, and such. Of course you're delighted to serve the committees That come with requests from the country all round, You would grace the occasion with poems and ditties When they've got a new schoolhouse, or poorhouse, or pound. With a hymn for the saints and a song for the sinners, You go and are welcome wherever you please; You're a privileged guest at all manner of dinners, You've a seat on the platform among the grandees. At length your mere presence becomes a sensation, Your cup of enjoyment is filled to its brim With the pleasure Horatian of digitmonstration, As the whisper runs round of "That's he!" or "That's him!" But remember, O dealer in phrases sonorous, So daintily chosen, so tunefully matched, Though you soar with the wings of the cherubim o'er us, The ovum was human from which you were hatched. No will of your own with its puny compulsion Can summon the spirit that quickens the lyre; It comes, if at all, like the Sibyl's convulsion And touches the brain with a finger of fire. So perhaps, after all, it's as well to he quiet If you've nothing you think is worth saying in prose, As to furnish a meal of their cannibal diet To the critics, by publishing, as you propose. But it's all of no use, and I'm sorry I've written,-- I shall see your thin volume some day on my shelf; For the rhyming tarantula surely has bitten, And music must cure you, so pipe it yourself.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes~

MONGA

Monga (Chinese: 艋舺; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Báng-kah) is a 2010 Taiwanese gangster film set in 1980s Taipei. The film stars Ethan Ruan from TV series Fated To Love You and Mark Chao, also features Ma Ju-Lung from Cape No.7 and Rhydian Vaughan from Winds of September. The film was directed and co-written by Doze Niu, who also appears in the film.

About the movie 

“MONGA“ is an action drama that tells a story of youth days, with background of gangs in an epic poetry tone. This is a set of teenage diaries, melancholy and nostalgic praise for old time friendship, in memory of an era. The pursuit of dreams shared by a group of people.

Background

Monga, in the ancient native Ketagalan tribe's language means "canoe", which they used to trade goods at the intersection of Xindian River and Danshui River, is where the City of Taipei was born, where the rules were established and brotherhood had defended the gangs' interests for a century, then everything began to fall apart, in a gunshot, in one night, in the good old 1980s.

You have to fight them first, or they’ll fight you!

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There Mosquito and his fellows learned, in the streets of Monga, there is only one way to survive is: be stronger than your enemies.

Mosquito, Monk, Dragon, Monkey and A-Po, five teenagers joined “Prince Gang”, simply because Mosquito’s lunch was snatched on his first day transferred to the high school in Monga, and they are all tired of being bullied.

While they enjoyed their young gangster lifestyle and ready to take over the streets, the powerful others have casted greedy eyes on the prosperous Monga. The kids just knew nothing about it.

Before the Storm: the last Glory of the Old Town

Geta, the boss of Temple Front Gang, takes the responsibilities of explaining to the young gangsters the legacy that has been established by the founders of Monga, the fighting for resources and honors, the meaning of brotherhood, how dozens of gangs settled territorial arrangements inside a block within1km radius, and the value of absolute trust and reliability. 

Making Love out of Nothing at All

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In the 1980s, everything seemed so nice; even they didn’t know what it means. They didn’t know any word of the Air Supply song” Making Love out of Nothing At All”, but they are happy listening and humming to the melody. Mosquito couldn’t tell why he wanted to be a gangster, just like Ning couldn’t answer the question why she became a prostitute. They are making love of nothing at all, but they are happy, because they didn’t know anything…. 

The First Gunshot of Taiwan

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What Geta didn’t know about, was the storm that was going to destroy all that orders remaining and the last glory of the Old Town Monga. The Mainlander gang, the flooding fir arms, and new settlements between new forces were going to change his and the Prince Gang kids’ nice little world. 

The first gunshot of Taiwan happened in Monga. It was the first gun fire for private interest after the long dictatorship and rapid economic development; the first case of a junior gangster killing his own boss, after that, Monga was never the same…

the trailer of the movie

Official website:http://www.mongathemovie.com  

Favourite song

This is one of the songs that I like to hear. the title is Turn Around by Shirley.

The lyrics:

Ooh Turn Around

Every time that I get to see you smile it's all I need

Ooh Turn Around

I've got everything when I see you looking back at me 

The things I do I'll cross the ocean, baby, just to be with you

Can I let you know

That I cannot hide these feelings inside

Cause Baby I would love to make you mine

Standing right by your side until the end of time

If only I had the words it never seems to work out right

Could it be tonight?

Give me one more try

Ooh Turn Around

Every time that I get to see you smile it's all I need

Ooh Turn Around

I've got everything when I see you looking back at me

The things I do I'll cross the ocean, baby, just to be with you

Can I let you know 

That I cannot hide these feelings inside

Cause Baby I would love to make you mine

Standing right by your side until the end of time

If only I had the words it never seems to work out right

Could it be tonight?

Give me one more try

Give me one more try

Cause Baby I would love to make you mine

Standing right by your side until the end of time

If only I had the words it never seems to work out right

Could it be tonight?

Give me one more try

Just bought a new phone

I bought my new smartphone Blackberry torch 9860 two weeks ago. I still learn to use it, because this is my first time using blackberry. I also do not familiar with the application that provided. this is some of the review about this smartphone.

Design
With no keyboard at all, you might be forgiven for not recognising the Torch 9860 as a RIM device — at least at first glance. However, beneath the screen are four familiar buttons: Call, End (the latter doubling as the on/off switch), Back and the distinctive BlackBerry menu button inside. In the centre of this quartet is the small optical touchpad that's graced recent BlackBerry smartphones.

The Torch 9860 is a solidly built handset with a large metal backplate and tough front screen bezel and sides. At 135g it's not heavy, nor is it oversized at 120mm by 62mm by 11.5mm. The top and bottom edges are tapered, which gives the device an attractive look but rules out any ports or connectors.

The BlackBerry Torch 9860 has a 3.7in. touchscreen, lacks a keyboard and weighs 135g

The top edge does offer a screen lock button, but the headphone jack is on the upper right edge — an awkward location because a connected headset adds width and can snag in the pocket. The microUSB power connector is on the left edge; again, we prefer a top or bottom location for this.

These are problems we've encountered before and RIM needs to consider the trade-off between the aesthetics of curved upper and lower edges and good ergonomics.

A volume rocker sits on the right edge, with a small mute button in the centre. There's also a configurable convenience key on this edge, which by default launches the 5-megapixel rear camera.

All these side buttons are tiny — little more than slight protuberances on a narrow rubbery strip that sits between the backplate and the sides of the phone. We found them extremely awkward to use.

There's better news concerning the screen, which measures 3.7in. across the diagonal and has a resolution of 480 by 800 pixels. RIM's first touchscreen outings were the Storm and Storm 2, both of which featured the unpopular SurePress system.

This time, RIM has gone with the flow and employed a classic capacitive touchscreen that's comfortable and responsive. We like the way the left and right long edges of the handset curve slightly. This makes sweeping the screen feel very comfortable. The screen is bright too — perhaps a little too bright in low light conditions.

Features
RIM has learned the hard way that users won't settle for less than top-notch specifications. The Torch 9860 has a 1.2GHz Qualcomm MSM8655 processor, 768MB of RAM and 4GB of user-accessible storage. That can be boosted with microSD cards, although it's annoying that you have to remove the battery to access the card slot. Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n), Bluetooth (2.1) and GPS are all present, along with quad-band GSM and HSPA mobile broadband at 14.4Mbps down and 5.76Mbps up.

BlackBerry 7 OS, which we have discussed in our reviews of the Bold 9900 and Torch 9810, feels easier to handle on the Torch 9860's larger screen. The Torch 9810's screen 3.2in. measures and delivers 640 by 480 pixels, while the Torch 9860's, as noted above, is 3.7in. and 480 by 800 pixels. Sliding app menus up and down, moving around in web pages and email all feel a lot more intuitive on the new device.

The Torch 9860's 3.7in., 480-by-800-pixel display makes for a better on-screen keyboard experience

The on-screen keyboard benefits from the larger display too — and when you've no hardware alternative that really matters. Omitting the superbly designed BlackBerry keyboard on the Torch 9860 is a brave move by RIM.

RIM has tried hard to make this work, and we found the virtual keyboard responsive to the touch. There's the option of a two-character per button 'reduced keyboard' in portrait mode to accommodate the limited screen space.

Tapping any text field calls up the keyboard, so getting started with typing is straightforward. A downward sweep shuts the keyboard down. If you're a fan of BlackBerry keyboard shortcuts, you can hit the BlackBerry menu button and choose Show Keyboard, then use the shortcuts. It's more long-winded than with a physical keyboard, but doable.

One area RIM can do nothing about in the absence of a physical keyboard is that it takes marginally longer to use the excellent universal search tool. The tool is here, but you need to tap the on-screen search icon to call up a keyboard, and then start tapping. Moreover, results are obscured slightly as the keyboard takes up slightly less than half the screen area in portrait mode, slightly more than half in landscape orientation.

One aspect of the Torch 9860 we had a problem with was its lack of Flash support. More than any other BlackBerry device, the Torch 9860 lends itself to web browsing. Its larger screen and higher resolution make this so. But without Flash it really is hamstrung.

Performance & battery life
The Torch 9860 has a 1,230mAh battery. RIM handsets usually deliver pretty good battery life, but the Torch 9860's large 3.7in. screen means you may need to factor in a daily charge — particularly if you're a heavy user of Wi-Fi, mobile broadband and/or GPS. If you're frugal, you should be able to get by for a couple of days between charges.

The 1.2GHz CPU had no problems driving OS 7 and the large screen, and we were perfectly happy with the Torch 9860's overall performance.

This is a video about the Blackberry 9860

see also:http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=BlackBerry+Torch+9850+%2F+9860+review&oq=BlackBerry+Torch+9850+%2F+9860+review&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=3110l3110l0l4713l1l1l0l0l0l0l88l88l1l1l0