Random Friday

[alexandral]

A test that made me happy

I have completed the "blunt personality test" (taken from lage_nom_ai, Here) with the very surprising results.! I am "Almost perfect", and from the more serious explanation of the test, I am "Idealist" (Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving). "Thoughtful and considerate", "Intuitive about people", "Do not like to conflict", "Flexible and laid-back", "Perfectionists with high standards". :D

Battlestar Galactica
I am still in a day-dream state after "Unfinished Business" episode, you know, when you are thinking about someting dosing off to sleep three days in a row?

House
After conversation with umeedmerchant I have started watching second season of "House". Hugh Laurie is as entertaining as ever, and I am so much drawn to articulate sharp genius type in RL as well as in Fantasy Life. I can just stare at the screen for hours and listen to Dr. House’s snarky remarks. Also I absolutely unexpectedly like Dr. Chase very much this season too. And my dearest likes "House"; this is an additional plus!!!

Love Contract
I am plodding through this Taiwanese drama, but I am getting increasingly frustrated with the pointlessness and un-interestedness of almost all of the secondary characters. And there seems to be much of the screen time devoted to them. Some scenes I think are meant to be funny or evoke a feeling, but I just don’t seem to get any flicker of it. Even more, many "funny" scenes are plain disgusting in a manner of some teenage comedies. (I apologise very much to anyone who does like teenage comedies, but I am so well passed that stage in life that it seems that I want to wash my eyeballs after seeing even some of the trailers, this is just me!).

"Love and Honor" (Bushi ni Ichibun); Takuya Kimura
I am still so happy about the fact that as catdecember posted (Here), "Love and Honor" (Bushi ni Ichibun) beat "Casino Royale" on the first weekend gross in Tokyo. (It doesn’t mean I don’t like “Casino Royale”, am just happy for "Love and Honour")

I have huge expectations for "Bushi ni Ichibun", directed by Yôji Yamada. I have seen one of his films, "Twilight Samurai", beautiful and unusual romance with the most gentle, philosophical and heroic male protagonist. I hope for something similar (and with inimitable Takuya Kimura as additional plus)

To celebrate this, I posted some pictures of Takuya in dorama_chat

This is a preview (Especially for koalathebear :D ):





Good weekend, everyone!!!

Comments

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I had to go and add another one of your wonderful Good Luck! icons to my user icon list :D

EEEE! Icon angst! I thought I will never be having “icon angst”, but it is coming to it – I was really frustrated when I had to delete some icons this week.

the actress who played Ogawa put a lot of people off with her prickly portrayal of Ogawa. Also, most people think she's not glamorous looking enough.

This should not be a problem, as a fact – I noticed that about 80% of dorama heroines are prickly in demeanor. (and the rest of 20% are saints). But you are definitely right that the is not enough of usual angst. This is appealing to me now. :D

Another thing is that it's a fairly simple storyline but I like the fact that Shinkai and Ogawa despite their initial antagonism are friends almost from the start and are attracted from the start.

You are right – this is again very un-cliché!!

Mr Shinkai: I want you to man a much bigger ship, not a tiny one like this. Man a big ship and go places where there's only the sea, 360 degrees around the compass.

Shinkai: (translating for Makoto) He says you can't man a big ship if you're dumb

And this conversation is hilarious.

He's just an ordinary pilot who was bottom of his class but loves flying. :) I've watched the drama quite a few times and I suppose I count it as one of my 'comfort' watches - good for cheering one up and all that sort of thing :) Sorry for waffling....

This is what again goes against cliché’s (and one of my favorite cliché’s too), that a main hero has to be out of ordinary somehow. But it is really difficult to pull “ordinary guy” off, make him interesting to the viewers. I think Takuya did the great job. I also find “good Luck” very comforting, it gives a lovely message that even if we are ordinary (and oh man, I am ordinary so this is for me) we can do great things if we try hard.

And the other message is that the heart matters over the brilliance.

[koalathebear.livejournal.com]

You've been lucky if you have managed to escape icon angst until now. These days I'm getting a bit ruthless and swapping out icons quite regularly because there are always so many nice new ones to come along and I realise that I tend to reuse a certain number of favourite icons anyway :D

I agree that Kimura did an amazing job of being believable as an 'ordinary' and average person - who's also really attractive and appealing. He wasn't a player who slept around, but he was believable in that role

The series made me want to be a pilot :D I posted a thing on my Good Luck! website here (http://www.gel.com.au/koala/goodluck/miscellaneous.htm) about how the number of airline job applications in Japan increased when the series was airing :D Understandable!!!

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Indeed! I had an urge to be a pilot too when I saw it! Actually, this is one of my "unfulfilled" dreams, I want to learn to pilot a plane. I know, not now, but some day, I will do it. Flying lessons are only 3 times more then driving. My father-in-law's friend received the crash course in flying for his 60s birthday. :D