Sometimes When We Touch 超感應學園 is a new campus drama that premiered on August 7, 2021 in Taiwan. What caught my eyes with this drama is the OST, LOL… The opening main theme song is sung by the winner of the best new artist at the 31st Golden Melody Awards 第31屆金曲獎 in Taiwan last year, Chih Siou 持修. The song is actually from his debut album (in case you are wondering, yes, he’s a guy!) released in 2019, and he also sang this song after receiving the award (displaying a sense of humour if you look at the title of the song). The closing theme song is sung by 2 members of the Hong Kong’s Cantopop boy band, MIRROR – Keung To 姜濤 who also starred in this drama and Anson Lo 盧瀚霆 who recently starred in the Hong Kong BL drama, Ossan’s Love 大叔的愛.
(more…)August 20, 2021
August 19, 2021
August 16, 2021
Mr. Dior 迪奧先生 (Audio Drama Song)
Mr. Dior 迪奧先生 written by Lv Ye Qian He 綠野千鶴 is an extremely funny BL novel that I’m reading at the moment. It is set in the near future when mobile phone is obsolete and people are now implanted with a data chip in their brain that replaces the phone and can be controlled through a device they wear like a wristwatch. The only problem is that now everyone must be careful not to get their head bumped or hit as that could cause severe problem with the data chip and their brain wiring function.
(more…)August 14, 2021
Random Ramblings on BL Novels – Top 50 Chinese BL Novels
Jinjiang Literature City 晉江文學城 is a Chinese website for self-publishing and serialising novels online targeting female writers and readers. It was established in 2003 and is now the largest Chinese ebook site with about 80% market share of all online Chinese novels. In the last few years, many of the bromance TV series in China were adapted from the BL novels published at Jinjiang.
(more…)August 11, 2021
August 7, 2021
【用點心做點心】Chai Tao Kueh / Lo Bak Go 菜頭粿／蘿蔔糕
Chai Tao Kueh 菜頭粿 (also spelled either as Chai Tau Kway, or Chye Tow Kway) is a type of steamed rice cakes from Southern China made with Chinese white radish, luo-bo 蘿蔔, or chai-tao 菜頭 in Hokkien dialet, or daikon in Japanese. In Cantonese it is called Lo Bak Go 蘿蔔糕, and their version includes preserved meat. There are also variants of the rice cake made with taro or pumpkin. Due to its Hokkien name of chai-tao 菜頭 which sounds like 彩頭 meaning rising fortune, it is a rice cake popularly served during Lunar New Year for good fortune, either as is in slices after steaming, or pan-fried after it has cooled down after steaming. It is also a very popular rice cake in Malaysia and Singapore, but usually served as a stir-fried street food in cubes with eggs and preserved Chinese white radish (chai-poh 菜脯). Below are two cooking videos from Taiwan demonstrating the Taiwanese-style and Cantonese-style making of this radish rice cake.
(more…)August 5, 2021
Light (Taiwanese Short Film OST) 網絡短片《小光》主題曲
Light 小光 is a new LGBTQ short film from director Adiamond Lee 鑽石 who has directed other notable BL series such as Dark Blue and Moonlight 深藍與月光, HIStory: Obsessed 著魔, and Jump the Boy! 撲倒吧！男孩. It is also the fifth of the 10-film GagaOOLala LGBTQ series that will premiere on August 13, 2021. The 44-minute short film revolves around the story of an undercover cop and a male prostitute. The theme song is a duet sung by Afalian Lufic 盧學叡 and Derek Lin 林重鹹…
Afalian is from the Amis group 阿美族, an indigenous Austronesian ethnic community in Taiwan. He became prominent in 2007 after he took fourth place in the first season of the singing competition, One Million Star 超級星光大道. In 2019, he also released a LGBT song, Who Am I 我是誰. The other singer, Derek, is a Taiwanese YouTuber.
August 3, 2021
Check Out คืนนั้นกับนายดาวเหนือ (Thai Series OST)
Another new BL drama from Thailand. Check Out คืนนั้นกับนายดาวเหนือ is a spin-off from Skinship. Interestinly the Thai title translated as That Night with Mr. North Star which I think is a much better title than Check Out, which can be quite confusing for a drama title, LOL. Not sure if the story is a continuation from Skinship or new storylines as I only watched a couple of episodes from season 1 of Skinship and did not watch season 2 at all. According to the announcement video just released, Check Out will premiere on August 22, 2021 with Episode 0, which seems like it will be a prologue or prequel episode and not the proper series episode?
(more…)August 2, 2021
Best Sisters Forever (Taiwanese Short Film OST) 網絡短片《親親壞姊妹》主題曲
Best Sisters Forever 親親壞姊妹 is the third of the 10-film GagaOOLala series that first aired on July 2, 2021. It is a short film of about 38 minutes duration only. One of the stars is a well-known music composer from Taiwan, Kuo Heng-Chi 郭蘅祈 (known by his stage name of 郭子 prior to 2014) and the theme song sung by him is a cover of the song he composed way back in 1999 for Taiwanese singer, A-Mei 張惠妹, included in her millions-selling album 《我可以抱你嗎？愛人》 (Can I Hug You, My Love?).
(more…)August 1, 2021
Cotton Handkerchief 木綿のハンカチーフ – Hashimoto Ai 橋本愛
Yesterday Thai actor Perth Nakhun uploaded his rendition of a Japanese song, 木綿のハンカチーフ, on his YouTube channel. It was such a beautiful song and I love it. I then went looking for the version of the song he covered from sung by Hashimoto Ai 橋本愛, and then found out the original song was actually from 46 years ago, first released on December 21, 1975! Below are the MV of the song by Ai released in April this year and also the original version by Ōta Hiromi 太田裕美 from 1975 which was an upbeat song…
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Corner Café 