Lazy Days....

Been a little lazy these few days but now am impatient to getting back to really working on Maya. Moreover, I will have to hand in another assignment next week so I can't really laze about too much.

But the last few days were very relaxing and rejuvenating. Went cycling and swimming, watched an ATV tv series (Legend of Fang De and Miao Cui Hua), did some Maya homework and generally did everything in a leisurely pace.... nice. =)

A little bit about Legend of Fang De and Miao Cui Hua. This series stars Patrick Tam as Fang De (Fong Tak) and Amy Kwok as Miao Cui Hua (Miu Cui Fa). Amy Kwok has been one of my favourite HK tv actresses for a very long time. I like her almost as much as I like Ada Choi. Amy has a really great onscreen smile and everytime she smiles in that goofy but endearing fashion, my heart melts. =) All in all, it wasn't a bad series. Amy and Patrick were very good in their respective roles and they had a lot of chemistry. Their characters were also rather interesting with Patrick's character and another male character (Chan Chin Pang's Lui Lou Fu) being the most interesting in the series. I also really like Fong Tak's mother and the actress who plays her. She, Amy and Patrick had a lot of chemistry too and the three were quite hilarious together. Chan Chin Pang was also really good as Lui Lou Fu and Lui Lou Fu himself is a very interesting character. The Mainland actress who plays Chan Siu Wan, Mui Cui Fa's shi-mei wasn't bad too.

The major letdown for this series was in the last section after the birth of Fong Sai Yuk. If you know your Chinese tv series and your Chinese folk heroes then you'll know that Fong Tak and Mui Cui Fa are Fong Sai Yuk's parents. The first portion before the great 18 year leap forward deals with the lives of Fong Tak and Mui Cui Fa when they were young and when they first met.

The series succeeds in the beginning not just because of the very good performaces from the leads but also because it had a whole host of interesting characters and relationships. Except for Luk Tung Tong, the big bad guy in the beginning, none of the major characters are 100% good or 100% bad, instead, they are deeply flawed. But the series doesn't get bogged down in a quagmire of overly serious issues. Instead, the series mixes in the right amounts of drama and comedy to give these characters far more dimension then the usual tv series.

Unfortunately, it suffers from a problem many Chinese tv series suffer from and that is, they don't know when to stop. They really should have stopped after the birth of Fong Sai Yuk. The latter section involving the young people got rather boring as their story seemed so ordinary and juvenile compared to the generation before their's.

Alrighty, that's it for now. Before I go, here's two pix of my toy collection. =D

cheers