Drama - 桌球天王 (The King of Snooker)

It had been awhile since I last recommend a TVB drama. This particular show caught my attention mainly because it all revolves round snooker. Erm ... not that I like or play snooker ... in fact I DON'T ... but personally, I think it will be quite interesting to know more about the game itself.


The all-conquering snooker player Yau Yat Kiu (Adam Cheng) takes everyone by surprise when he suddenly retires from the snooker world. This comes as a huge disappointed to her daughter Yau Ka Kan (Niki Chow), who has always wanted to follow in his footsteps. She feels bewildered too, for although Kiu pretends he does not care about the snooker any more, he has set up an extremely difficult game in his restaurant. His purpose cannot be more obvious: he is waiting for someone to solve the game. Kiu comes to know Kan Tze Him (Patrick Tang) by chance. Noticing his flair for the snooker, Kiu decides to make an exception for Him and teaches him all he knows about the game. Later, Kan manages to persuade her father into taking her in as well.

Him fancies Kan, but she is fond of Lui Kin Chung (Derek Kwok), Kiu's bitter foe. Chung is a crafty person. In order to win the game, he fools around with Him's aunt Chin To To (Joyce Tang), who is also Him's manager. Him falls out with Kiu because of Chung. Both master and disciple come to settle their scores on a snooker-table in the end

Day 117 of JM's US Detachment Trip

Over the weekend, Oswald got a new friend ... and his fishy friends got a new place to stay :p



Now only waiting for Oswald to give them a name kekekeke :)

We also celebrated Owein's 2nd B'day over the weekend. In fact, the party was held yesterday. The turn out was good and everyone had fun especially the kids.

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Yesterday was also our 6th wedding anniversary. This year also did not get to celebrate it because hubby not in town ... so disappointed. But luckily hubby still remembers and had called to send his wishes :)

Drama - 赤子之心 (New Heart)

This drama will be about the growth and sufferings of the heart surgeons who work in the thoracic surgery department. Lee Eun Sung graduated from a newly established medical school in the provinces. He applies for a job at the hospital and has high hopes of becoming a great doctor. Nam Hye Suk graduated at top of her medical school. She is an absolute fundamentalist but starts to show her humane side once she gets to know Eun Sung. The problem is Choi Kang Gook just became the new head of the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. He believes that only doctors can save peoples’ lives and is a genius but he is also a stubborn surgeon who does not care for hospital policies. Only Eun Sung and Hye Suk apply to work in his department.

One day, a famous actor Lee Dong Gwon is admitted into the Hospital for arrhythmia surgery. He immediately falls for Hye-seok, who is his classmate from elementary school. He later gets jealous when he sees that Eun Sung and Hye Suk are getting closer to one another.

Day 112 of JM's US Detachment Trip

Hey ... check this out !!!

Oswald got a new friend ...


Oswald brought this little friend back after his school trip to Qian Hu Fish Farm today. Everyone who went for the trip today gets to go home with a fish. I guess the cost for the fish was already included in the $5.00 that was required to join the trip.

I bet the happiest person today will be Oswald. He had wanted a fish as a pet for the longest time.

Now let's see how long this fish can last with the bare minimum that is available at home. This tiny fish is house in a plastic container upon suggestion from my FIL.

I am still considering if I should get a proper tank for it. But then again ... if I do, where can I place it. That's another issue to be solved before I can even consider getting it a tank ... LOL!!!

Day 108 of JM's US Detachment Trip

中秋节 is round the corner, everywhere is selling mooncakes and lanterns. Oswald was quite attracted to the lanterns this year round and had even requested me to get him one. Since he too had to bring a lantern to school for 中秋节 celebration, I gave in to his request and told him to select one for himself. This is what he'd choosen ...


And because he got one ... I also have to get the same one for Owein to prevent them from 'fighting' ...

It is a SCAM!!!

** ring ... ring ... ring **

Me: Hello ...

Caller: Erm ... is this XXX?

Me: Erm ... no. I think you got the wrong number.

Caller: Oh, sorry.


The call ended at this point ... but less than a minute later ...


** ring ... ring ... ring **

Me: Hello ...

Caller: Erm ... I think I got the wrong number again.

Me: YA! What number are you trying to dial?

Caller: Erm ... 6XXXXXX (Caller dialed a mobile number but mentioned 6 as the 1st number ... suspicious!!!)

Me: The number you mentioned is confirm not my number.

Caller: Then what is your number?

Me: You are the one calling, why should I tell you my number?


Ended the call immediately and caller did not call back again.

What the ... is there a scam going on or what?

This is the 2nd time this year I got such a call. Where got caller who dailed a wrong number, ask back what's your number when being confronted one. And who in the right frame of mind would give the caller his/her own number in such a situation. I gave him a piece of my mind and cut his line.

DUH!

Drama - 春天华尔兹 (Spring Waltz)

春天华尔兹 (Spring Waltz) was the final feature of the season-themed drama series directed by Yoon Suk-ho. The other titles to the series are:

秋天的童话 (Autumn Fairy Tale)
冬季恋歌 (Winter Sonata)
夏日香气 (Summer Scent)

"If you truly love and miss that person, Then, love will come again when you meet that person again. Just like playing a game of hide and seek, No matter where he/she hides or even if you can't see him/her, He/she must be waiting at some place for you. Amid the countless chaos, Just like the sincere prayers of love. The people in love will surely meet again." - a quote from the 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 is sick in the hospital.

Years later, while traveling in Germany, Eun-Young meets the talented pianist Chae-ha, 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?

Drama - Hello! 小姐 (Hello, My Lady!)

Lively yet impudent Yi Su-ha (Lee Da-hae) has to find all means to earn more money to maintain her historical home "Hwa Ahn Dang". She meets Hwang Dong-gyu (Lee Ji-hoon) who asks her to see "Hwa Ahn Dang" to him at any cost by order of his grandfather.

Despite the conflicts between them, they soon fall in love with each other. Meanwhile, Gond-gyu's cousin, Chan-min (Ha Seok-jin), is also attracted to Su-ha's individualistic personality. While the tow of them vie to win Su-ha's heart, their grandfather has an order: whoever gets "Hwa Ahn Dang" will succeed his inheritance ...

Day 100 of JM's US Detachment Trip

Time is flying ... but still not fast enough ... hahaha hubby is away for 100 days liao but is still a long way to his estimate date of return (20 November 09) ... sigh.

Today I had made arrange with Rene and we brought the kids (Oswald and Cayden) to watch another movie ... G-Force. Movie screening at GV Jurong Point, 10:40am.


It is a comedy adventure about the latest evolution of a covert government program to train animals to work in espionage. Armed with the latest high-tech spy equipment, these highly trained guinea pigs discover that the fate of the world is in their paws.

I think the movie is so-so only lah ... being the only cartoon that is showing at Jurong Point. After the movie we went walking around leisurely around Jurong Point. Simply love the weekday atmosphere ... can walk around slowly and no need to squeeze with the crowd. I was looking out for a pair of shoe but too bad ... nothing caught my eye.

Lunch was at 鼎泰丰 ... yummy 小龙包 and delicious chicken soup. That's for the 2 mummies ... and the kids - pork chop fried rice. Oswald quite like it and because of that, I need not keep reminding him to eat ... eat ... eat. After getting our tummies filled ... the best thing to do is to head home for a nap ... wahahaha. By the time we got home, it was close to 3:00pm liao. Feeling tired, I too KO-ed together with Oswald.

Actually had plans to go prawning in the evening but due to last minute changes, plans was cancelled. Also, because I woke up late from nap, I did not have time to prepare dinner for Oswald. In the end, I headed out with him again for dinner ... this time, we took a bus to Lot 1. We ate dinner, shop around abit (finally found pair for shoe for myself) then we hopped on the train to head home. Stopped by MacDonalds for ice cream, a reward for Oswald for behaving quite well today, and then a bus ride home. The little fellow was quite excited with all his rides as he had been asking for it for quite sometime already.

Drama - 饼干老师星星糖 (Biscuit Teacher & Star Candy)

Na Bori (Gong Hyo Jin) is a 25 year old woman who desperately wants to be a teacher at the high school she was kicked out of due misunderstanding with her teachers over injuring a group of male classmates. After getting her GED, she rejects job offers from other high schools and works on becoming a teacher at her old high school so she could work side by side with her high school love interest, the art teacher Ji Hyun Woo (Kim Da Hyun).

However, the only thing that enables her to get the coveted job is by signing a contract to essentially babysit Park Tae In (Gong Yoo), a troublemaker who attends the same high school. Tae In, a lonely youth, quickly becomes the "king" of the high school, and enjoys playing mean tricks on Bori whose easy going personality attracts the majority of her students.

Noh Jemma (Choi Yeo Jin) is jealous of the relationship between Bori and Tae In, and goes out of her way to get Bori kicked out but she's not the only one against them.

Drama - 葡萄园里的那男子 (The Man Of The Vineyard)

Ready for more romance ... hehehehe :p

A romantic-comical drama that revolves around the life of Lee Ji-Hyun (Yoon Eun Hye), a city girl who wants to show the world that beneath her seemingly ordinary characteristics is an extraordinary girl who will some day achieve great things. Ji-Hyun is a striving young clothing designer, who hopes to have her own label one day. Her plans are put on hold when she reluctantly takes up a tempting offer from her granduncle. She had to work one year in her granduncle's vineyard in order to inherit it. In the vineyard, the challenge of adjusting to country life is made more difficult when she has to learn how to grow grapes under the supervision of the seemingly uncouth and unsympathetic man in charge of the vineyard, Jang Taek-Gi (Oh Man Suk).

Amidst conflicts and trials, Ji-Hyun and Taek-Gi learned to care for each other. As time goes by, Ji Hyun finds herself falling in love with the vineyard and the man in it. Through the mundane process of grape farming and the personal relationship of Ji-Hyun and Taek-gi, this story portrays how beauty and kindness can be found in everything and everyone when one looks beyond the surface.

Day 91 of JM's US Detachment Trip

We had 2 days for fun filled and 'actioned' packed days.

On 31 August 09, Oswald had a short day at school and Cayden got a day off both due to Teacher's Day Celebration, I'd made arrangement with Rene to go Warren Country Club to bring the boys BOWLING!!! It had been ages since I last stepped into a bowling alley to bowl ... LOL

Because the alley only opens at 2pm, and we were early, we had spent some time else where in the club. The boys had spent quite abit of energy climbing and running around in the indoor playground. After that, we went to the games room ... we played Daytona and Time Crisis ... the games there are so CHEAP ... only 40 cents per game!!!

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Yesterday, 1 September 09, we had made arrange to go to the Zoo. Picked Rene and Cayden up at about 10:15am and off we went to the Zoo. I got a big shock when we arrived at the carpark. It was packed with cars ... this was something which I did not expect to see on Teacher's Day holiday. Despite the crowd, we'd still decided to join in the fun since we were already there. We went ahead with our activities first because Rene got to wait for her SIL and friends. We headed to the Kidz World right away.

The water play area was crowded with people but we still managed to find some space for the boys to play. However, fun time in the water was really a short one. Not long after the boys started to play, the sky was invaded by dark clouds. I called Rene to stop her from joining me get gotted her to find seats at Ah Meng Cafe for lunch hoping to be able to wait out the rain. With the help of my FIL, we managed to changed the boys fast and reached the Cafe just in time to escape the rain. We had even decided to catch the Rainforest Fights Back show hoping that the rain will stop after that so we can continue with our activity.

But just too bad ... the show was cancelled due to the rain and we got to head home.