All the Reds

Hi! World Cup is fast approaching. I am not into football so much as I'd rather watch the Grand Prix, Cricket, or Wimbledon if given the choice. But there's one exception- the World Cup. Although I would be cheering for team England I will keep an eye out for other countries close to me and one of them of course is Korea. I visited the Cup's website for some infos on the timetables and line up so click here if you want to know. To watch about Korea's qualifying highlights just click here and for the England team here.

Below are pics of Yjssi for the All The Reds campaign.

Lifted from Fuyuka's blog. Thanks

Winter Sonata Anime Live Coverage

Hi there! How was the weekend? Are you excited as well for the live coverage of Winter Sonata Anime? I bet you are. April 26 can't come fast enough. ohh I'm truly looking forward to it. I wonder if the ending would be the same.

I'd like to hear a longer conversation between the two lovers though because they hardly said a word in the first and of course it can't end without a kiss..we would be sitting on the edge of our seats.. lots of time to prepare. ;-)

Thanks to tomato99 for providing us a translation of the forthcoming event.  

Source: JOB

Animation “Winter Sonata” ending scene to be shot in live-action!
Date: 29 January 2010

Animation Winter Sonata is currently showing at DATV(sky perfect tv chan.750).

Not only the drama fans but many people are paying attention to its storyline,

Animation “Winter Sonata’s” ending scene for the last episode will be airing with Bae Yong Joon and Choi Ji Woo’s live actions acting.

Last episode is scheduled to air on Saturday, 24 April.

(airing schedule date may change.)

This time, to commemorate the shooting of live action, “DATV” is planning a tour to watch this shooting.

100 registered members of Bae Yong Joon’s official site will be able to join the tour.

We will be looking forward to your entry.

(member registration before 31 January 2010 will be available for the entry)

For details of the tour, please see the DATOUR homepage（http://datour.jp/).

(notice on details of this tour, and application is scheduled to be released at 19:00 on Monday, 1 February 2010 )

[summary of Animation “Winter Sonata”]

airing schedule: every Saturday pm 12:00 – 12:30 (26 episodes)

(rerun: every Saturday pm 9:00 – 9:30 others)

homepage: http://anime-wintersonata.com/

2010 Korean Tour Video

I find this 2010 PR film of the Korean Tour Organization enchanting. The dark scene, fog covering the forest and the green canopy gave it a mysterious effect. The message is clear-discover the beauty of Korea and magical experience awaits you. With YJ's smile the journey begins.

Cheers Suehan & Xiaoyi.

an autograph

BYJ visited a restaurant in Jeju while filming for Arnaldo Bassini CF. Below is the photo of his autograph shared by Suehan in Quilt..

BYJ Photoshoot

Hello! It's good to see YJssi doing a new photoshoot.Recently he was spotted on a Gim Nyung Yacht at Jeju. Despite the windy condition fans gathered to have a glimpse of him. Hopefully we don't have to wait long for more. Many thanks to suehan &byjfan for sharing the link. :-)

photos.

Cute Animations

Hi! I hope the weekend has been a good one wherever you are. These lovely drawings of Koshuka cheered me up after a tough weekend at work. I hope they'd bring joy to you too. Posted by Style/BYJ Gallery. Also thanks to Liezle for sharing.

Edible Rambling

Hi! It's pretty quiet in Baeland. Apart from the law suit BYJ filed against a tour agency organizing tours for Japanese tourists which signalled a huge warning to those who would like to use his name for commercial purposes without his consent whilst tramping on his own right to privacy. This serve them right. I hope this would be the end of the story.

Looking at the brighter side. It's the festive season just around the corner. Abundance of tempting food sprouts like nobody else's business and parties don't help at all. Plus it's winter time. It's getting difficult to shed those extra calories. I have decided to keep myself active apart from work by using the bike..it's too cold to jog and trip to the gym doesn't even look appealing. So we'll see if it works. I've tried to avoid festive food as much as I can though..wish me luck.

However I'd like to share some of the food we had tried when we were in Scotland. Scottish food are quite different from the English as you would hardly taste salt in the former.

Let's take for example this chicken with vintage port pate with oatmeal biscuits. The port was noticeably strong that would surely leave a distinct aftertaste. It's not sweet nor salty either.

Alex had a pheasant with mince meat and Haggis which to me was an interesting combination but he certainly loved the Haggis, neeps (turnips), potato in whiskey sauce for starter.

Hope you have a lovely day wherever you are. :-)

Finally

Hello! So the waiting was over. I finally saw the film New Moon. I was praying there would be available tickets hence Alex and I went to watch the first screen show of the day. When we got to the cinema there were already 20 people in the queue. Not bad at all. As we got into our seats the room just got filled bit by bit. I was munching as much popcorn as I can perhaps due to being nervous and just anxious waiting. Anyway after half an hour of ads and presentations the film went on alright.

For me who read the books more than once it's a bizarre experience. I sat there anticipating every scene and obviously knew what would come next. Thanks to spoilers they have removed the element of surprise for me although I was nearly in tears on some parts. Perhaps I could relate there in some aspect but that's another story. I told myself I won't be watching spoilers with Eclipse.

Overall the film was really good. The werewolves obviously gave it a new depth which I think would appeal to many male viewers. Edward looked more matured in this one. I don't know if the trick there was to give more emphasis on him being the vampire and shift the attention to Jacob making the latter more appealing. In which case the message was quite clear after hearing some ladies reacting while watching him. The effects were pretty cool and as for the fight scenes they were relatively realistic and well choreographed.

New Moon is much different from Twilight. It plays on pain, abandonment, friendship, solitude but absolution in the end. True human sufferings- spices to most happy endings. Can't wait for Eclipse.


When I saw BYJ with the dogs it reminded me so much of the film.. well the wolf is out of the big bag now. Have a magical weekend.