Tuesday, 30 June 2015

Picture Spam: Ella Chen 陳嘉樺 and Lin Bo Hong 林柏宏 for June iWalker 愛玩客

I think the June photo shoot with Ella and Lin Bo Hong is not only a favourite of mine, but also a favourite of all the SPOP, SETTV, iWalker channels (They're all part of the same media organisation). So many beautiful pictures on Instagram as well as a BTS video. If you're interested, you can read the original article here.




Ella Chen 陳嘉樺 and Lin Bo Hong 林柏宏 iWalker 愛玩客 June Photoshoot Behind the Scenes translations

If I have time I want to translate this video. Ella is always so funny and charismatic that I'd love to share what she says with you all. You can watch the video here...I'll try my best to translate this video...but not promises!

iWalker 愛玩客 Magazine Update: Ella Chen 陳嘉樺 and Lin Bo Hong 林柏宏 for June iWalker 愛玩客

I love Ella and I'm pretty sure I always will. She has such a lovely, genuine personality and is lots of fun. I also think she's made an amazing transformation from spunky tomboy to a pretty, stylish and cute little lady. Anddd...this month, she's the cover star of one of my favourite magazines, eat and travel log, iWalker. Check out this pretty summery lovers photo shoot with Lin Bo Hong!

I'm sorry that I don't write about Ella much in this blog...I suppose it's because she doesn't do as many dramas anymore. One of my favourite tomboy dramas of all times was Ella's Down with Love, Co-starring Jerry Yan...Actually, I'm pretty sure the first ever Taiwanese drama I watched was an Ella drama (It was Hana Kimi with Ella and Wu Chun, in case you were wondering). But Ella is such a beautiful star, both inside and out, and I'm sure I'll have plenty of opportunities to write about her as she develops her solo music career, as well as her S.H.E projects. While I liked S.H.E, I haven't checked out Ella's solo stuff yet. Maybe I'll do that!








Sunday, 28 June 2015

What's New for These Dramatic Days? #3 Competition Winners + Translation Updates

Competition Winners!

Thanks to those who entered my first ever blog competition...I'm sorry I couldn't give you all prizes, but I'm thinking of holding another competition sometime, so stay tuned. The winners are:

Pleasantly Surprised/ Puff magazine: Elaine Ng



Murphy's Law of Love/ Danson and Ivelyn magazine: Rachel Lin



Say Again Yes I do/ Mandy magazine: Rose Kwanjai



Congrats guys! Thanks again everyone else for entering.

Winners, please read below. If you fail to contact me within the next week, I may redraw the prize! So please contact me asap, thanks!

For the Winners: Please email me with your full names and addresses, including street address, country and postcode to my email: these.dramatic.days @gmail.com. I may ask a question about how you entered to ensure you're the right winner. Once everything is checked, I will post your prizes out to you later this week (By the latest, I will post by Thurs-Fri)


Translation Updates

I've been up to a lot of different translating lately, though if you follow me, you may know that I don't always post my translations in order :D (Just a personal preference to keep things in chronological order). Anyway, Here's an update of my projects:

Pleasantly Surprised Translations

I'm halfway through both these translations. They should be done soon:
Episode 13 BTS with Puff and Jasper and the Figaro Crew
SPOP photoshoot 1 July 2014 with Puff and Jasper

Morning Call

New Lyric translations and also fixed up audio/video links for old songs:
Behind Youth (我們背對著青春)
Silent Poem (無聲之詩)
Everything is Asleep (一切都沉睡了)
Green

Instagram Update: Taiwanese Celebrities support the legalisation of same sex marriage in the U.S.

I love Taiwan for many reasons...but one of the main reasons is because it's a country full of very progressive, open-minded and friendly people (from what I've experienced as a tourist.) And I'm glad to this this is reflected in my favourite Taiwanese celebrities.

Yesterday and today many celebrities celebrated the legalisation of same-sex marriage in the US by illuminating their Facebook and Instagram Facebook pictures with rainbows stripes. Although I myself am not same-sex oriented, and many of these celebrities aren't either, I'm glad we're all celebrating equality. Here are a few of my favourite celebrities that showed their support:


A more complete list of celebrity pride photos can be found on Koala's Playground

Monday, 15 June 2015

What's New for These Dramatic Days? #2 Win an SPOP 華流 magazine!

Hi Everyone,

To celebrate the success and fun of this blog and related Instagram and Facebook accounts, I'm holding an SPOP competition! Ever wanted to own an actual SPOP magazine? Well, now you have a chance...All titles are 2014-2015 titles and come with freebies (Puff magazine comes with a mini cartoon Pleasantly Surprised bag, Murphy's magazine comes with a Murphy's mousepad and Many Wei's magazine comes with a Pleasantly Surprised 2015 Calendar [Hehe, seems random to be giving away a calendar...but you can use it for the next 6 months!]

Why is there no Jasper magazine?! Actually he features heavily in both the Puff and Mandy magazines. It was by accident that I didn't get covers with him on it. Sorry! (Please note: The prizes will only be these titles. No changes, unless I say so. I get these magazines from a friend, so I don't know where she buys them from.)

To win One of these magazines, you just have to do one of the following:

 


To enter the competition via These Dramatic Days Blog, do all these things:
1. Click the 'Follow' button on the right side of my home page under my name
2. Then leave a comment on this blog post and tell me which magazines you want in 1,2,3 order. The comment can be a simple 'Hi!' or 'Thanks' or anything relating to the post. Please nothing rude or inappropriate or you'll be excluded.
(Please do not leave contact details on your comments! If you already follow me, simply compete 2 and 3. I'll find your name when I check followers before making the draw)

OR

To enter the competition via These Dramatic Days Instagramdo all these things:
1. Click the 'Follow' button
2. Like a picture and comment to tell me which magazines you want in 1,2,3 order
(If you already follow me, simply compete 2 and 3. I'll find your name when I check followers before making the draw)

OR

To enter the competition via These Dramatic Days Facebookdo all these things:
1. Click the 'Follow' button
2. Like a picture and comment to tell me which magazines you want in 1,2,3 order
(If you already follow me, simply compete 2 and 3. I'll find your name when I check followers before making the draw)

I'm not asking for any personal details, So just ensure that you keep an eye on my blog to see if you've won. Then email me at these.dramatic.days@gmail.com and I'll get your details and send your prize out to you.

You only have to enter in one way, but you have to do all the steps to be entered into the draw. You can enter in more than one way if you want a greater chance of winning.  I will try to match each winner's preference, but I only have one of each magazine, so please don't ask to swap prizes. I'll draw first from those who entered on my blog, next those who entered on Instagram and last those who entered on Facebook.

I won't keep your details after the competition or send you junk mail or anything (I'm not a business, just a girl with a hobby). But I simply need a way to contact you if you're the winner.

I will draw the winners on the 28th of June, 2015 and I will announce the winners across my Blog, Instagram and Facebook. Good Luck!

Friday, 12 June 2015

Morning Call's 輕晨電 Lyrics: Behind Youth 我們背對著青春 Translations. First lyric video and itunes release for Behind Youth.

All this focusing on 3 dramas at a time has meant that I haven't given much thought to Morning Call 輕晨電, one of my favourite indie bands, but also the band that Jasper is in. I've still been listening to their songs, but I haven't posted much on their activities :s Sorry, Morning Call. I still love you guys a lot.

Last year while I was on a bit of a blog hiatus, Morning Call toured around 5 cities/venues in Taiwan. They then performed at Grasslands Festival, a music festival for university students and they've been hinting about releasing songs. Now they finally have a music video for one of their songs 我們背對著青春! It's more of a lyric video with all the lyrics of the song displayed to a really awesome indie clip that moves across various filtered landscapes (Their original clip had more of a mirroring effect of urban landscapes....But since then, the band has put the clip on private, so I've linked you to their live video performance of it. Jasper was busy so they put his picture out on iphone, so he'd be there in spirit). But the aesthetics are so poetic and I just love the dreaminess of this lyrics video. Do you want a translation of the lyrics? Sure you do....It's right under the music videos and Chinese lyrics.

The other good news is that you can now listen, stream and purchase their song 我們背對著青春 on the following music sites and platforms: itunesINDIEVOXKKBOX, Omusic, myMusic, QQ音樂, 蝦米音樂, 網易雲音樂, AMPedmusicStore, DiGi Music...What are you waiting for? Go buy Morning Call's new single and help support a talented Taiwanese indie band!

New Official lyric video


Online video performance from Official YouTube page





我們背對著青春

如果說這世界已沒有悲傷
如果說這世界已不需要逃亡
如果說這世界已莫以名狀
我想我終將無法歌唱

如果你離開只因看不清前方
如果你留下只因理不清立場
如果你拋下那些堆疊的景象
我想我們也因此成長

da~la~la~
人們不厭的沉溺世界的瘋狂
da~la~la~
共同成就著彼此善變的堅強

如果說這世界仍善於遺忘
如果說這世界還拘泥著夢想
如果說這世界仍吹捧著信仰
我想我終將放棄希望

da~la~la~
人們不厭的沉溺世界的瘋狂
da~la~la~
共同成就著彼此善變的堅強
da~la~la~
人們不厭的迷戀膚淺的嚮往
da~la~la~
共同成就著彼此脆弱的猖狂

我們持續聽著
屬於這時代的搖滾樂
直到彼此青春
Ah~

我們持續聽著
屬於這時代的搖滾樂
直到彼此青春
Ah~

我們持續聽著
屬於這時代的搖滾樂
直到彼此青春
Ah~

我們持續聽著

Behind Youth

If this world had no sorrows
If this world had no need for escape
If this world had no words to describe
I think I would eventually be unable to sing

If you depart only because you can't see clearly ahead 
If you leave only because the reason is not clearly positioned
If you throw down those stacked layers of scenes
I think we've also grown up consequently

da~la~la~
People don't mind indulging in the madness of the world
da~la~la~
The common achievements of each other's fickle strength

If this world remains good but becomes forgotten
If this world is still constraining shown dreams
If this world is still excessively admiring known convictions
I think I would give up hope

da~la~la~
People don't mind indulging in the madness of the world
da~la~la~
The common achievements of each other's fickle strength
da~la~la~
People don't mind indulging in the madness of the world
da~la~la~
The common achievements of each other's fickle strength

We continue listening
To the rock n' roll music belonging to this generation 
until each of us is youthful
Ah~

We continue listening
To the rock n' roll music belonging to this generation 
until each of us is youthful
Ah~

We continue listening
To the rock n' roll music belonging to this generation 
until each of us is youthful
Ah~

We continue listening

Monday, 8 June 2015

Puff Kuo 郭雪芙 TVBS interview and Photoshoot

Puff, my beautiful Puff. She will always be my one of my favourite leading ladies. Not only because she's so beautiful, but also because I also like her way of life, her philosophies, and her personality from what I've gathered from all her BTS videos, her interviews and her personal social media pages.

These photos for TVBS actually came out last week and I was so happy looking at them. But then they totally slipped my mind between all the drama translations, private translations and stuff I had to do. Here is a picture spam though. I'm knee deep in translation projects, but I'd like to do this one when there's time. Might be awhile though!

But the sad thing I've gathered from skimming through these articles is that Puff has been cheated on 3 times by ex-partners :( Isn't that sad? But she's learnt a lot from those experiences and it's made her a better person. She also says that she struggles with fame in that she's often asked to shoot nude scenes and sexy photos, which she's not actually comfortable with. It's great to see her stand her ground about her career though. I really admire her integrity and strength. Go Puff! I hope she's doing some great things in 2015 too :) 









Friday, 5 June 2015

Second Fan Meet for When I see you again他看她的第2眼 with Jasper Liu, Mandy Wei and the entire cast

Ah, a second fan meet for When I see you again. This fan meet was pretty short, more like an introductory fan meet with the whole cast. I really liked the Instagram shots that Deyn and Zooey took together...Just like old Pleasantly Surprised times! Jasper has a bit of a crazy suit. But the man always looks nice, doesn't he? I will try to translate this when time permits
























Thursday, 4 June 2015

Fan Meets announced for When I see you again他看她的第2眼

It is the weekend of fan meets, I tell you. I'm pretty tempted to just board a plane to Taipei and just attend them all. It's not going to happen, but now you have the chance to go on my behalf, especially if you're already in Taiwan. In any case, I'll update this post and post the pictures after they occur :) 


When I see you again 他看她的第2眼 is hosting their second fan meet for fans tomorrow. Details as follows.

Date: Friday, 5th June, 2015
Time: 1:00pm
Time when you get your number: 11:30am (but you'll want to be there really early on. Like maybe 6:00am -_-;;) 
Address: 三立電視文創劇場(台北市內湖區舊宗路一段159號) (Old Zhong Road, Taipei Neihu section, No. 159). Sanlih Cultural and Creative Theatre, Neihu Section. Jiu Zhong Lu / Old Zhong Road, Section 1, No. 159. If you do go, most taxi drivers know how to get there as soon as you say Sanli TV station.