APPLE (:

Hello, old world.

I miss my own lonely banter, considering the fact that this blog is still kind of a newcomer, so it's just mostly me and my thoughts... (:

I'm currently rediscovering Twitter now, so if anyone has a Twitter account come, search me at @qicheng9481. Thanks! :D

And oh yeah, just watched "You Are the Apple of My Eye" yesterday.

I would give my comments in Mandarin but this computer doesn't have the right software for that.

So I guess I'll just be doing this in English then (:

For one, I've never actually finished the book.

For two, I don't actually HAVE the book.

For three, I'm currently reading it from an iPod/iPhone app (:

For four, so far it's really really good.

For five, there is no for five, I just wanted to keep the momentum coming...

Anyway the movie is rated 18+, but aside from the masturbation scenes and some fairly mild cursing, it's actually quite harmless and quite romantic.

You Are the Apple of My Eye (那些年，我們一起追的女孩) is a 2011 Taiwanese romance film based on the story of the same name by Taiwanese author Giddens. Giddens also made his directorial debut when he self-directed this film. The film stars actor Ko Chen-Tung, who plays Ko Ching-Teng, a prankster and a mischievous student who eventually becomes a writer. Actress Michelle Chenalso stars as Shen Chia-yi, an honor student who is very popular amongst the boys in her class. 

This movie has broken records in China's movie box office, beating CJ7 which previously topped the list.

There's lotsa buzz flowing around about this movie, basically because it really is THE movie, the one that makes people stop and think: HEY, I DID THAT ONCE!

It's something that we can all relate to, simply and beautifully etched out onto film.

This movie mainly revolves around the lives of a group of teenagers who go to school, worry about exams, fool around, rebel against teachers and fall in love (and masturbate .___. , but let's not talk about that...)

Personally what did it in for me and made me cry the most of the second half of the movie where the conversations between Ko Ching-Teng and Shen Chia-yi.

Some of the things they said were epic and really tear-jerking, so kudos to Giddens for the stuff (:

Here are some of my all-time favourites...

1. 我想成为一个很厉害的人, 让这个世界因为有了我而有一点点的改变。而我的世界，不过就是妳的心。

2. .沈佳宜: 谢谢你喜欢我。

柯景腾: 我也喜欢当年喜欢著妳的我。

3. "沈佳宜，你相信平行时空吗？或许，在另一个时空，我们是在一起的。”

4.  “你不懂了，如果你真心喜欢过一个女生。你就会发现真心祝福她跟别人永远幸福快乐根本是不可能的事。——对啊，像我们这种背后放箭的才叫做真爱。”

5. “我错了，原来当你真的真的真的非常喜欢一个女孩。当她有人疼，有人爱，你会真心祝福她永远幸福快乐。”

6. 分手，只需要一个人同意，但“在一起”，可是需要两个人同时认可才能作数。恋爱就是要这麽不确定才有趣，不是吗？

And my absolute favourite...

沈佳宜：“柯景腾，你特地办一个比赛，把自己搞受伤，你怎么会这么幼稚阿!”

柯景腾：“对幼稚，就是幼稚，很幼稚!”

“我就是幼稚，才会喜欢你这种努力用功的女生。”

“我就是幼稚， 才有办法追你追这么久。”

沈佳宜：“那你就不要追了阿! 笨蛋!”

柯景腾：“对啦!我就是笨蛋啦!”

沈佳宜：“大笨蛋~~~!”

柯景腾：“对啦! 我就是大笨蛋才能追你追那么久!”

I mean, do guys like this even exist? o.o Okay, I'm sure they do, they just have husbands.

Y'know, the whole time in this movie, the girl is always the grown-up one, and the guy is the immature one...

But I'm starting to wonder, maybe the world's not like that anymore?

Sometimes guys don't feel so much, don't emote so much that they have the time to really think things through, and maybe, maybe they're the mature ones.

And girls well... me, maybe I'm the one that's living in the bubble of my own world, the one where I think everything is lovely and I smile and pretend to smile even though everything's so not fine.

Ugh, I'm derailing again.

I'd seriously recommend this movie to everyone who's anyone who knows Mandarin. Seriously, try it.

It may blow your socks off :D

It certainly did for me, not that I was wearing any socks. Figure of speech (:

And ohmygoshhhhhhhhh, the official soundtrack for the movie is beautiful. It perfectly describes the whole situation in the movie and can really be related to when in bad times.

又回到最初的起点 记忆中你青涩的脸

You hui dao zui chu de qi dian ji yi zhong ni qing se de lian

我们终于来到了这一天

Wo men zhong yu lai dao le zhe yi tian

桌垫下的老照片 无数回忆连结

Zhuo dian xia de lao zhao pian wu shu hui yi lian jie

今天男孩要赴女孩最后的约

Jin tian nan hai yao fu nuu hai zui hou de yue

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又回到最初的起点 呆呆地站在镜子前

You hui dao zui chu de qi dian dai dai de zhan zai jing zi qian

笨拙系上红色领带的结

Ben zhuo ji shang hong se ling dai de jie

将头发梳成大人模样 穿上一身帅气西装

Jiang tou fa shu cheng da ren mo yang chuan shang yi shen shuai qi xi zhuang

等会儿见你一定比想像美

Deng hui er jian ni yi ding bi xiang xiang mei

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好想再回到那些年的时光

Hao xiang zai hui dao na xie nian de shi guang

回到教室座位前后 故意讨你温柔的骂

Hui dao jiao shi zuo wei qian hou gu yi tao ni wen rou de ma

黑板上排列组合 你舍得解开吗

Hei ban shang pai lie zu he ni she de jie kai ma

谁与谁坐他又爱著她

Shei yu shei zuo ta you ai zhe ta

[Chorus]

那些年错过的大雨 那些年错过的爱情

Na xie nian cuo guo de da yu na xie nian cuo guo de ai qing

好想拥抱你 拥抱错过的勇气

Hao xiang yong bao ni yong bao cuo guo de yong qi

曾经想征服全世界 到最后回首才发现

Ceng jing xiang zheng fu quan shi jie dao zui hou hui shou cai fa xian

这世界滴滴点点全部都是你

Zhe shi jie di di dian dian quan bu dou shi ni

那些年错过的大雨 那些年错过的爱情

Na xie nian cuo guo de da yu na xie nian cuo guo de ai qing

好想告诉你 告诉你我没有忘记

Hao xiang gao su ni gao su ni wo mei you wang ji

那天晚上满天星星 平行时空下的约定

Na tian wan shang man tian xing xing ping xing shi kong xia de yue ding

再一次相遇我会紧紧抱著你

Zai yi ci xiang yu wo hui jin jin bao zhe ni

紧紧抱著你

Jin jin bao zhe ni

Repeat *

Repeat **

Repeat Chorus x2

I think my favourite line is is "曾经想征服全世界, 到最后回首才发现, 这世界滴滴点点全部都是你" (:

I raped the YouTube Replay button for this song .____. Seriously.

It's too too too too too good.

I'm trying to find the piano score for this song.

This is the nicest so far, posted by Isabel on Facebook (:

Time's running up! I'm getting going, if that makes sense...

Yours with a cherry on top and seriously in love,

Qi Cheng.