This was over a week ago but I got lazy and didn’t update. Anyway, it seemed like Ruby had a wonderful night with friends.
Aside from Melvin Sia and Tiffany Hsu from her The Way We Were gang, there was also Derek Chang and Greg Hsu from My Dear Boy. Regretfully, Jason Zou wasn’t there. But Ruby did call Alec Su out on it in her tags, lol. What was a good bonus for fans was Wallace’s appearance. But I don’t know why people are surprised, because they’re married. Wallace always make time for his loved ones.
*All images were from Ruby’s Facebook page
Tag: Derek Chang 張軒睿
Year 2017 in Recap
When I thought that 2016 was a terrible year for me, I was wrong. 2017 continued to tank to a new level of crappiness. There were many frustrating things–one after another. It was like when I asked, “How much worse could 2017 be?”, it was like a challenge to the universe. So stuff happening in real life obviously affected how much time I have for this blog or attempted to keep some sort of activity. I did better than last year regarding updates, but that was a lot of effort, because I’m still way behind on some news that I wanted to talk about. Yet no time or more like didn’t feel like it at the moment. I continued to get drained to another level that I thought might not be possible–like several days before. Then the pattern just repeat itself at different intervals. I think somewhere along the way, I ended up revamping my blog by getting rid of the too random posts. Like those general update ones. Although my blog already is random on many levels, but I didn’t want to just post for the sake of placeholders too much. Anyway, here are some stats for this year.
Total Posts in 2017: 155 (11.7% of all time).
January: 18 (% of the year)
February: 10 (%)
March: 21 (%)
April: 20 (%)
May: 11 (%)
June: 18 (%)
July: 6 (%)
August: 4 (%)
September: 20 (%)
October: 14 (%)
November: 9 (%)
December: 4 (%)
Books Reviews: Sad, because I actually read a bit this year but didn’t feel like doing reviews for some of them. Maybe I’ll go back to do them later.
Movies + TV Series Reviews/Episode Summaries:
- Female Butler
- The Classic of Mountains and Seas
- The Four Horsemen
- The Legend of Wonder Lady
- The Maverick
Fan Fiction: Complete failure–unlike what I promised last year about getting things done. I started looking over some of the fan fics again and managed to get going on some, but I can’t promise on how fast it would be rolled out. I’ll get it out when I’m happy with what I wrote.
Songs Translations: I used “You’re Always Beautiful” to start the year, thinking that if I continue to retain some sense of positiveness, somehow things will get better. But it didn’t. Anyway, how was this year regarding translations? I didn’t realize I was that productive. Mostly, I tried to push the majority of 183 Club’s songs out.
Chinese:
- Confined Bird by Phil Chang
- Conquer The Whole World by 183 Club
- Courageous Happiness by Sweety
- Deceive by 183 Club
- Don’t Ask by Zhang Han
- Don’t Want To Leave by Nicholas Teo
- Eraser in the Head by Ehlo Huang
- Exchanging Lives by Calvin Chen
- Forgotten Happiness by Eric Suen and Rachel Liang
- Heaven of Love by Cyndi Wang
- Hero by 183 Club
- Hero in the Wind by Zhang Han
- Lemon Dream by 183 Club
- Listen With Your Heart by Van Fan
- Love On Sale by 183 Club
- Love Won’t Change In This Lifetime by Kenny Lin
- Make A New Start by Ming Dao, Ehlo Huang, and Jacky Chu
- My Heart Is Like A Cloud by Jimmy Lin
- Not Every Love Song Has Fond Memories by Jimmy Lin
- Once Again by 183 Club
- One Thousand Paper Cranes by Samuel Tai
- Painted Heart by Nicole Wang
- Petty and Low by Eric Suen
- Pure Love by 183 Club
- Resenting Heaven For Changing His Heart by Sophia Fang
- Suffer For You by Jeff Chang
- The Next Page of Me by Cyndi Wang
- The Years Like Song by Xu He Bin
- This Kind of Feeling is Love by Joanne Tseng
- Turning Back Is Hard by Phil Chang
- Will Never Change My Love For You by Hu Ge
- You’re Always Beautiful by 183 Club
Vietnamese:
- Chut Ky Niem Buon by Manh Dinh
- Dung Nhac Den Tinh Yeu by Lam Nhat Tien
- Hay Quen Nhau by Manh Quynh
- Lang Le Mua Dong by Lam Hung
- Nhat Nghe Tinh by Van Son
- Sai Lam Van La Anh by Nhat Hao
- Vi Tri Nao Cho Anh by Ly Hai
I didn’t want to do this update like I said last year. However, I felt like I needed to persuade myself to continue on. Not to mention, I want to keep some sort of teeny, tiny bit of hope that 2018 will actually be better. So we’ll see, right?
My Dear Boy: Wrap-Up
Yes, the drama has wrapped up already after several months of filming. The cast and crew seemed to get along quite well.
*All images were collected around the net hence belonging to their rightful owners.
My Dear Boy: Blessing Ceremony
Yes, this drama is finally taking off. It went quiet for a while that I almost thought it got scraped. Serious. Then saw Ruby’s page update today so excited. (Go here for articles.)
What’s even more exciting is the announcement of additional cast. Joining Ruby and Derek as part of the main cast are Archie Kao and Li Li Ren. Other cast include Zhang Ben Yu, Yan Yi Wen, Qu Zhong Heng, Greg Hsu, and Jenny Wen.
And yes, the Archie Kao that is married to Zhou Xun. That’s what the majority of the population that follows her career calls him. I know him as the guy who got robbed in CSI. (Yes, I never forgot or forgave after all these years.)
Anyway, what I find amusing is how Wallace has worked with Zhou Xun twice already, so now Ruby’s working with Archie, nice? Can’t wait to see what would come out of this collaboration and hope it would also be as successful. I silently wish that they’re paired together, but that would divert off course of the main theme? Watch the press conference below for more information.
*All images were collected around the net hence belonging to their rightful owners.
Ruby Lin’s Returning Project
I just saw an update on Ruby’s Facebook the other night so I went to search for more information. (Check here, here, and here for articles.) Ruby’s returning project will be with Prince of Wolf‘s Derek Chang. She will also be co-producer for the drama. Thoughts about the pairing? Because yes, it’s hard to ignore. I think it’s a bit of a stretch (understatement here), but I will try to see how the plot and acting will be.
*All images were collected around the net hence belonging to their rightful owners.