#1024 La Femme - Final

Chinese: 绝对佳人
English: La Femme
Genre: Drama
Episodes: 25
Country: Singapore
Year: 2008
Rating: 7.1

My Though:
Its not my style of serie, but its very teach full about the family.
The connection between the parents and children is very important.
Not only family but also friends.
Love your family! Love your friends is the quote of this serie! ^^

The 3 different story of 3 women, the most likeable is the one from Xin Hui & Quan He! Family support is very important. You can have friends support, but family support is more important! You want the best for your children but you can threaten them!

Paige acting isn't very impressive! Maybe because I started watching her in Crime Busters X2, what was her third serie. This one is just the second!

Tiffany character is so different from Fallen Angel.
I'm not really like her acting in here and I think she was way prettier in Fallen Angel. Is it because her style and her hair?



Summary:
Xiuhui is a strong-minded career woman who knows what she wants in life. When her husband’s choice to become a house-husband does not fit in with her plans, she decides to leave him. But when she is diagnosed with cancer, it is her husband and young son’s relentless support that mellows her.

Baoyu is a submissive wife and caring mother whose husband has an affair and walks out on her. But with the strong support of her mother-in-law, children, family and friends, she managed to get back on her feet again.

Minmin is a successful entrepreneur who has her reservations about marriage. After countless rejections, her disappointed boyfriend leaves the country to join a voluntary mission. He returns six months later to find her pregnant and thinks she has a change of heart.

Together, the three female protagonists complete the profile of today’s modern women and their dreams and desires

Cast:
Zoe Tay - Fang Bao Yu
Ann Kok - Lin Xiu Hui
Tay Ping Hui - Huang Quan He
Tiffany Leung - Qian Min Min
Desmond Sim - Zhong Wei Xiang
San Yow - Zhang Jia Jie
Shaun Chen - Liang Xing Xiong
Paige Chua - Qian Ting Ting
Nat Ho - Fang Bao Guo
Ng Xin Hui - Zhang Zhi Ya
Ng Chun Yung - Zhang Zhi Hao
Lin Yu Bing - Lisa
Hu Kang Le - Huang Ruong Xuan
- Bao Yu/Mani



Love:
Quan He
Ruong Xuan
Xing Xiong

Quan He & Ruong Xuan [Family]

Hate:
Jia Jie
Mani
Soundtrack:
Theme: 女人 by Cai Mei Yi
Sub: 局外人 by Cai Mei Yi



Memorable Scene:
- When Jia Ji want to divorce with Bao Yu. She got support from Min Min & Xiu Hui. The scene when they are playing a game was actually very touching.
- The so many proposal from Xing Xiong
to Min Min. The last one with the tree was the most romantic! Hehe
- When Xiu Hui is avoiding Quan He. Quan He decided to find her. Although He don't know where she is. When he found her. He want to support her @ her side. Although she didn't accept immediately.
- Min Min became a runaway bride! When Xing Xiong leave her, she got pregnant. She know she took the wrong decision and hope she can make it good!
- Bau Guo & Ting Ting hard life. They sacrifice many for their children, but a good lesson for young mothers & fathers
- Bao Yu's Cupcake shop ^^
ETC

[credits to mediacorp.tv, wikipedia.org]

#1023 La Femme

Another Singapore serie!
This time La Femme aka 绝对佳人
I actually have no idea why I watch this serie.
Except Paige there aren't any favo in here for me!
Maybe because Tiffany after finishing Fallen Angel?

I don't think the story is very attractive.
Its a modern family drama mainly emphasizing on the lives of three women of different traits.

In this case the women are Zoe Tay, Ann Kok & Tiffany Leong
This is the first serie of Zoe Tay after her birth of her second child.
Tiffany Leong's acting was great in Fallen Angel!
So I expect many of her!
She will be pairing up with Shaun Chen again.
This is Ann Kok's first big role as second leader!
Tay Ping Hui will be her husband is taking the male lead!
This is Paige second serie! I haven't watch her first one.
So I can't say how her acting is compare with the first one!

Other stars are San Yow, Desmond Sim, Nat Ho.

This serie contains 25 [boring?] episodes ^^

#824 My School Daze - Final

Chinese: 书包太重
English: My School Daze
Genre: Comedy/Education
Episodes: 20
Country: Singapore [Mediacorp Channel 8]
Year: 2009

Many online reviews compare this serie with the serie Let It Shine.
Another serie from Singapore about school with Felicia Chin as the leader.
I didn't watch that one, so I can't compare.

It's not really my genre of serie, but enjoy watching it!
It makes me want to go to school again!
The education of the children are very interesting.
Because you will see 4 different kind of education.
An inter scholar, a lazy scholar, 2 from a 'strict' family and one depressive.
The way how the children grown up.
In which way and in what kind of environment.
What Kind Are You?

Another serie of Rui En with Terence.
This one wasn't so interesting, but maybe the one with the most scenes together as lovers [Maybe except Your The One, But I haven't watch it]
I just prefer Metamorphosis!
Although there aren't really lovers in there!
But I still love it!

Summary:
Tan Xiangchun is a traditional, Chinese-educated senior teacher who deeply feels unappreciated at work because of his poor command of the English language. The younger generation no longer sees the importance of their mother tongue and moral education. As such, they despise and disrespect him. Gradually, Xiangchun becomes disillusioned with education and upon facing some health issues, dejectedly leaves the teaching line.

Xiangchun’s wife, Kang Qiaozhen, used to compile textbooks with the Ministry of Education (MOE). She had left her high-paying job for more flexibility in juggling her children and career, and started a tuition centre in the heartlands, hoping to carve out a great career in the education industry. Not wanting to be a loafer, Xiangchun becomes a staff of her centre.

Xiangchun’s younger brother, Tan Xiangfeng, is free-spirited and uninhibited by nature. A trend-setter, he’s a freelance DJ, model and because of his travel articles, is a celebrity of sorts. Their father died young and Xiangchun had been shouldering the responsibility of caring for Xiangfeng. As a doting elder brother, he even attends match-making sessions with his wife in tow, in the hope of finding Xiangfeng a suitable other-half. Because of this, Xiangfeng becomes involved with sassy teacher, Zhang Luoyun, and the two later become an item.

Luoyun belongs to the new generation of teachers who is skilful at using innovative methods (like bringing students for a ride in her sports car, giving them CDs of their idols, etc.) to bring her students close to her. Wildly popular with her students, she manages education like a career, with lofty ambitions of scaling the hierarchical ladder. Overly eager for success, she spoke harshly to her student, Ma Jialing, because the latter’s grades were below expectations, a move which hurt Jialing’s pride, thus many students started feeling uncomfortable with her. She had always been confident of being promoted to head-of-department, and upon not getting selected for promotion, she leaves teaching in disappointment.

Through Xiangfeng, Luoyun joins Qiaozhen’s tuition centre. To raise the standards of the centre, Luoyun suggests the starting of elitist classes, much to Xiangchun’s objection as it contravenes his philosophy that education should be non-discriminatory. The difference in ideologies causes Luoyun to leave the centre, and she brings Xiangfeng along with her. Together with Yu Xuan (her friend who had just graduated and returned from abroad) and Xiangfeng, she starts a premium tuition centre that accepts only outstanding students.

Tuition centres proliferate with parents’ over-anxiousness for their children to get ahead in life through academic excellence. Regardless of their children’s needs, “kiasu” parents usually jam-pack their schedules with courses and classes. Qiaozhen’s neighbour, Tang Andi, is a typical example. Due to his wife, Yao Guijuan’s, wish to groom their son for success, the two become a money-grubbing couple who think of all means to raise money for their son Dehua’s tuition fees. Andi, a hawker, even piggy-backs his wife for a medical drug test, causing much hilarity.

Dehua is an average student, but has a flair for cooking. He is “force-fed” with tuition so much so that he feigns spirit-possession, then runs away from home. Dehua’s talent gets discovered by a celebrity chef, who gives his parents a talking-to. Enlightened, Andi and Guijuan finally come to terms that their son is not academically incline, and no longer subtract the possibility of letting him pursue his career in the food & beverage industry.

A dedicated and hands-on parent, Qiaozhen never suspects anything amiss with her teaching methods. Her daughter, Tan Yixin, is a star pupil who excels in studies, badminton and music. Unfortunately, she loses out to Jiang Jun, a student from China who joins her class in mid-term. Unable to face her own “failure”, Yixin completely loses it, much to her parents’ shock. It is only then that Xiangchun and Qiaozhen realise that their daughter has high IQ, but near-to-no EQ. Their son, Yijie, lies to wriggle out of tuition classes because of his passion for badminton. Upon deliberation and co-ordination, the couple finally instil correct values in their children and acknowledging Yijie’s aptitude in sports, lists the Sports Academy as one of the choices for the latter’s secondary education.

Luoyun’s preoccupation with elitist education causes a rift in her relationship with Xiangfeng. Troubled, she gets to know that Jialing is suffering from depression because of her studies and parents’ divorce. Luoyun wholeheartedly helps Jialing. In the process, she comes to identify with Xiangchun’s belief that education should be non-discriminatory and subscribing to it, gives up upon her tuition centre’s elitist education, returning to becoming a down-to-earth teacher with MOE again





Cast:
Chen Hanwei - Tan Xiang Chun
Ann Kok - Kang Qiao Zhen
Rui En - Zhang Luo Yun/Isabel
Terence Cao - Tan Xiang Feng
Darren Lim - Tang An Di
Cynthia Koh - Yao Gui Juan
Chen Tian Wen - Ma Guo Liang
Lin Mei Jiao - Huang Li Qin
Zhang Lie - Tan Yong Ming
Eelyn Kok - Lin Yu Xuan
Apple Hong -Tracy Zhang

Boon Hui Lu - Ma Jia Ling
Zong Zi Jie - Jiang Jun
Liu Yue- Tan Yi Jie
Foo Fang Rong - Tan Yi Xin
Jarren Ho - Tang De Hua/Bang Bang Tang

Love:
Xiang Feng
Luo Yan
Gui Juan
Jiang Jun

Xiang Feng & Luo Yan [Lovers]
An Di & Gui Juan [Spouse]

Hate:
Yu Xuan



Soundtrack:
Theme: 书包太重 by Daren Tan
Sub: 给别人多一点时间 by Carrie Yeo


Rating: 8.0

Memorable Scene:
There isn't many! Maybe a few
- When Yi Xin apoligized to Jiang Jun, because she said some hurting words to him.
- The support from Luo Yan to Jia Ling. She didn't forget her and want to help her!
- The photoshoot of Luo Yan & Xiang Feng. Was Funny
- From fake to real. The relationship between Luo Yan & Xiang Feng

[credits: 6feeling, mediacorptv.com]

#816 My School Daze

I really don't know what I should watch
So I decided for My School Daze aka 书包太重
It's a Singapore Production that aired this year April/May

The story is about School!
What else if you see 'School' in the title! LOL
School, Education, Results, Tuiton Centre
It's not only about the 'big' peoples also about children
That's make the serie interisting!
Well that's my opinion

The leaders are Chen Han Wei, Rui En, Ann Kok, Cynthia Koh, Terence Cao & Darren Lim

Han Wei the fresh Best Actor winner taking another challenge to be a teacher!
Ann playing his wife and Terence is his lilttle brother who got a relationship with Rui En! Not sure but I think Eelyn will be the thirth part! Cynthia & Darren are a married couple who are the neighbours.

My watch is because Rui En. This her second and last serie of this year!
And like to watch her with Terence.
The 'fourth' serie where they gonna 'pair up together'.

Other cast are Eelyn Kok, Apple Hong, Lin Mei Jiao, Chen Tian Wen and a couple of childeren