Saturday, September 09, 2006
Princess Hours (Goong)

Just finished watching Princess Hours (Goong)!! I was so addicted that I took a day's leave just to watch the entire series!!! It was disk after disk the entire day......Made Hele watch with me too (god....I am a terrible mother!) but she got bored after a while and crawled away....talk about not being ready to be a Korean buff Obasan....#$%@!!!

But yes, Goong is definitely worth watching. I thought FullHouse was a fluke (one of Korean's better makes ...of course having Rain & Song Hui Jiao helped a great deal) but after Goong, I finally understand why so many 'aunties'/obasan are so addicted to korean dramas... The men are simply so romantic....*sigh*...They say things like "I miss you...even when I'm looking at you, I am still missing you...." or "Thoughts of you run in my head and everywhere around you, I think of you so much that I cannot breath" or "I will wait for you even if it takes 2500 years...." or "My goal is life is small, so as long I can make you smile..." errmm...You get the drift... If Singaporean men can bare their soul or say such things....


Goong is a love story surrounding four 19 year-old students, 2 of whom are princes. The heroine is the absolutely cute and 'un-princess like' Shen Cai Jin who was betrothed to the crown prince. The crown prince had a former love who kept bugging him. To make matters more complicated, the ex-crown prince (cousin of crown prince) came back to Korea after 14 years overseas and fell in love with Cai Jin. The story encompasses ambition, palace tradition, rules & regulations, friendship, revenge and love which makes this story even more interesting. The heroes of the story? Xin Jun (crown prince) & Lu Jun (ex-crown prince) and their moving lines made me cry buckets of tears. I am especially moved by Lu Jun who had such unconditional love for Cai Jin. His concern, gentleness & thoughtfulness touched me so much that I used up 1 entire packet of tissue paper. Xin Jun is charismatic and tough 'man' character can make any women swoon...*sigh*...Watch it and you'll know what I mean....


On top of that, the songs are really good too. Click on this link to hear the theme song!:

mms://aod.mylisten.com/aod/0/20/071020_0920179.wma

Monday, September 04, 2006
'Crocodile Hunter' Irwin killed

I don't believe this! My fave naturalist is killed while in action! Animal Planet & National Geographic will never be the same! I actually think this guy is crazy but you've gotta admit it..he has lots of passion for the wildlife.

I have a feeling the stingray stung him cos' Irwin probably irritated the hell out of him...

Here is the BBC report:

Irwin with crocodiles Australian naturalist and television personality Steve Irwin has been killed by a stingray during a diving expedition off the Australian coast.

Mr Irwin, 44, died after being struck in the chest by the stingray's barb while he was filming a documentary in Queensland's Great Barrier Reef. Paramedics from Cairns rushed to the scene but were unable to save him. Mr Irwin was known for his television show The Crocodile Hunter and his work with native Australian wildlife. Police in Queensland confirmed the environmentalist's death and said his family had been notified. Mr Irwin was married with two young children.

"It is believed that Mr Irwin collapsed after being stung by a stingray at Batt Reef off Port Douglas at about 1100 (0100 GMT)," a police statement quoted by AFP news agency said.
"His crew called for medical treatment and the Queensland medical helicopter responded. However Mr Irwin had died."

The stingray is a flat, triangular-shaped fish, commonly found in tropical waters.
It gets its name from the razor-sharp barb at the end of its tail, coated in toxic venom, which the animal uses to defend itself with when it feels threatened. Attacks on humans are a rarity - only one other person is known to have died in Australia from a stingray attack, at St Kilda, Melbourne in 1945. "Stingrays only sting in defence, they're not aggressive animals so the animal must have felt threatened. It didn't sting out of aggression, it stung out of fear," Dr Bryan Fry, Deputy Director of the Australian Venom Research Unit at the University of Melbourne said. Experts say that while painful, stingray venom is rarely lethal and it would have been the wound caused by the barb itself, which could measure up to 20cm long, which proved fatal.

"What happened to Steve Irwin is like being stabbed in the heart. It has little to do with the venom and all to do with the trauma caused by the barb of the stingray," Dr Geoff Isbister, a clinical toxinologist at the Mater Hospital in Newcastle, Australia, said. Mr Irwin had built up what was a small reptile park in Queensland into what is now Australia Zoo, a major centre for Australian wildlife. He was famous for handling dangerous creatures such as crocodiles, snakes and spiders, and his documentaries on his work with crocodiles drew a worldwide audience.
But he also courted controversy with a series of stunts.

He sparked outrage across Australia after cradling his one-month-old son a metre away from the reptile during a show at Australia Zoo.

An investigation was launched into whether Mr Irwin and his team interacted too closely with penguins and whales while filming in the Antarctic, but no action was taken.
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer praised Mr Irwin for his work to promote Australia.
"The minister knew him, was fond of him and was very, very appreciative of all the work he'd done to promote Australia overseas," Mr Downer's spokesman said.