Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Korean Drama: Chae Rim

I've written about several Korean actress in my previous articles, but it is not complete without this actress. Yeah... she is Chae Rim. Not the prettiest but very cute and her trademark smile is one of her main attractiveness, a smile that can make people happy. She look young and pretty with her straight short or long hair, but can look that old and ugly with her curly hair.

No matter what, she is still special to me because she is the lead actress in the first Korean Drama that I ever watched, All About Eve. Her acting role in that drama as a nice and pity girl has catch people heart and make her easily to remember.

Chae Rim has quite long and successful career as an actress. She starts acting when she was 15 years old and has been involved in many drama. In most of her drama that I have watched, she got role as a girl who experienced beautiful love life and have a happy ending, but quite pity that it was not applicable in her real life. She has quite short 3-years marriage life... but don't worry, she still very young and still has so much time to find her true and everlasting love and live happily ever and after.

Friday, April 11, 2008

Music: Michael Learns To Rock

Michael Learns To Rock (MLTR) is my favourite band in the 90's and still valid even until now. They started well-known through their 1st hit single, The Actor, which was featured in MTV channel where I can still remember how they looked like especially the costume and hair! The band name was a bit strange and unusual but probably it was the one that might make people curious to know about it and pay attention.

I like almost all of MLTR songs, all such beautiful love songs. Songs like Sleeping Child, 25 Minutes, Breaking My Heart, I'm Gonna Be Around, Out Of The Blue, Paint My Love, That's Why, and You Took My Heart Away are always be in my music playlist. But among those, 25 Minutes is my most favourite one.

They started with 4-members group band but then one member left the band for a solo career in 2000. The lead singer, Jascha Richter, is the one who wrote most of popular MLTR songs.

Monday, April 07, 2008

Music: Queen

QUEEN was my next favorite band. They are one of most well-known British band after Beatles era. It was during my senior high school time, in the 80's. I like most of their songs. They were among the first band which using modern sound effect in their recordings which quite distinct at that period of time. And their music not just pure rock, it's what I called sweet rock because it quite colorful, rich of melodies, and full of variances.

Songs like Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You, and We Are The Champion are their signature and most popular songs during that time and still nice to hear those songs nowadays, especially Bohemian Rhapsody which very strongly associated with their success. And, We Are The Champion, become one of a 'must' song to sing to celebrate a winning.

It's a pity that their lead singer, Freddy Mercury, died due to AIDS which was quite shocking. One of his song recorded before he died, Too Much Loves Will Kill You, probably a warning message to other people not to follow his path.