• Name: 曾少宗 / Ceng Shao Zong
• English name: Figaro Zeng
• Also known as: Zeng Shi Yu / Xiao Tian Tian (Sweetie Pie)
• Profession: Actor, Singer
• Birthdate: 1981-Nov-18
• Birthplace: Taiwan
• Height: 178cm / 5ft 8in
• Weight: 64kg
• Star sign: Scorpio
• Blood type: B
• Band: Comic Boyz (disbanded)
• Hobbies: taking pictures. writing. designing things. playing computer games. playing with animals
• Favourites: watching movies. hanging out with friends. when I am by myself  
• Dislikes: mean people. liars.

SHOWS/MOVIES

• TV Shows
  • Xing Fu De Jue Ze (TVBS, in production)
  • Taste of Love (MediaCorp, 2008)
  • They Kiss Again (CTV, 2007)
  • KO One (GTV, 2005)
  • Starry Night (CTS, 2005)
  • Devil Beside You (CTV, 2005)
• Movies
  • To Kiss or not to Kiss 青吻 (2006/2007)

LINKS

• Figaro’s official BLOG

IMAGES

yet another one of my fav mangas have become an anime!

Vampire Knight
ヴァンパイア騎士

Yuki’s earliest memory is of a snowy night in winter, when she was attacked by a vampire and was saved by another, Kaname Clan. Ten years later, Yuki Cross, the adopted daughter of the headmaster of Cross Academy, has grown up and become a prefect for the school with two purposes: to protect the Day class students (humans) from the Night class students (vampires) and to protect the true identity of the Night class students from being discovered by the Day class students. Her fellow guardian, Zero Kiryu, a childhood companion whose parents were killed by a pureblood vampire, is now determined to kill them all and refuses to trust them. Through a cruel twist of fate, Zero becomes a vampire himself, having been bitten by a pureblood vampire four years before, Shizuka Hiou. Kaname, Yuki’s savior, leads the group of Night class, with the help of Takuma Ichijou (the vice president).

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 I’ve spent most of my free time lately re-watching Samsoon, a korean drama.

내 이름은 김삼순
My Lovely Sam Soon

Kim Sam Soon (Kim Sun Ah) is a baker who has a talent in making pastries and cakes. On Christmas Eve, she caught her boyfriend, Min Hyun Woo (Lee Kyu Han), cheating on her and breaks up on the same night. On that same night, she accidentally went into the men’s restroom and met Hyun Jin Hun (Hyun Bin), a somewhat callous fellow but sometimes considerate guy. By sheer coincidence, Jin Hun needs a baker for his restaurant Bon Appetit and Sam Soon is unemployed. Sam Soon is hired as the restaurant’s chief baker and the two fights like cat and dog. Nevertheless, they started to have feeling for each other and Sam Soon agreed to post as Jin Hun’s girlfriend so his mother would leave him alone. Things got complicated when Jin Hun’s ex-girlfriend Yoo Hee Jin came back from the States intending to win him back.

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excuse me while I take a moment and scream!!!
。゜（≧▽≦）゜。
One of my favorite Yuu Watase mangas has become a japanese-drama!!!!

Zettai Kareshi [ 絶対彼氏 ] ‘Absolute Boyfriend‘ (Kanzen Muketsu no Koibito Robot ‘The Completely Perfect Boyfriend Robot’)

• Format: Renzoku
• Genre: Romance
• Broadcast network: Fuji TV
• Broadcast period: 2008-Apr-15 to 2008-Jun
• Air time: Tuesday 21:00
• Theme song: Okaeri by ayaka
• Official site: http://wwwz.fujitv.co.jp/ZK/index.html

Synopsis

Robot maker, Kronos Heaven, finally develops “Night Tenjo”, the perfect male humanoid programmed to be devoted and completely loyal to his lover. The company chooses temp worker Izawa Riko to take part in a 5-day free trial. At first, Riko only sees Night as a household appliance. But when she finds out how deep Night’s devotion to herself is, Riko finds herself falling in love with him. Joining the love triangle is Asamoto Soshi, a distinguished young executive at her company who has feelings for her. –Fuji TV

Cast

• Hayami Mokomichi as Tenjo Night
• Mizushima Hiro as Asamoto Soshi
• Aibu Saki as Izawa Riiko
• Sasai Eisuke as Shirasagi Yuki
• Ueno Natsuhi as Ito Mika
• Satoi Kenta as Hirata Hajime
• Nekoze Tsubaki as Adachi Kyoko
• Komoto Maki as Sato Nozomi
• Kaji Masaki as Tanaka Yoichiro
• Yamada Meikyou as Asamoto Shiro
• Minemura Rie (峯村リエ) as Yoshioka Tetsuko
• Erena as Ono Chiho
• Sakuragi Ryosuke (桜木涼介) as Morikawa Yasushi
• Watanuki Shoichi (綿貫正市) as Dei Takeru
• Irie Jingi as Hayashi Kota
• Yamamoto Kei as Asamoto Kazushi
• Nakamura Shunsuke as Asamoto Masashi
• Sasaki Kuranosuke as Namikiri Gaku
• Maya Miki as Wakabayashi Fujiko

the show is still airing and I have only got the first 5 episodes so far … I’ll keep you updated on when they are complete and try and make a fan vid to share with you guys ^^v

 well, today I am going to buy one of my childhood favorite shows, so I decided to share it with you all.  I remember when Showtime picked it up when I was a little girl in the early 80’s and I was hooked.  I watched it every time it was on … even if I had to fight my older brother to get to - haha

Robin of Sherwood, retitled Robin Hood in the US, was an acclaimed 1980s British television series, based on the legend of Robin Hood. It was made by HTV in association with Goldcrest, and ran from 1984 to 1986 on the ITV network. The show starred first Michael Praed then Jason Connery as two different incarnations of the title character, and was created by Richard Carpenter. Unlike previous adaptations of the Robin Hood legend, Robin of Sherwood combined a gritty, authentic production design with elements of real-life history and pagan myth. 

There were three series, comprising a two-hour opening episode and 24 hour-long episodes, although the pilot is sometimes screened as two one-hour episodes. It was shot on film, and almost entirely on location, mostly in the north and west of England; HTV West in Bristol was the base of operations.

Together with Richard Lester’s offbeat 1976 film Robin and Marian, Robin of Sherwood is one of the most influential treatments of the core Robin Hood legend since The Adventures of Robin Hood, featuring a realistic period setting and, somewhat contradictorily, introducing the character of a Saracen outlaw.

Michael Praed played Robin Hood (or Robin of Loxley) in the first two seasons. His “Merry Men” consisted of Will Scarlet (played by Ray Winstone), who used to be known as Will Scathlock, before changing his name when his wife, Elena, was raped and trampled to death with horses by some Brabancon mercenaries; Little John (played by Clive Mantle); Friar Tuck (played by Phil Rose); Robin’s adopted brother Much (played by Peter Llewellyn Williams); the Saracen Nasir (played by Mark Ryan); and Lady Marion (played by Judi Trott). As in the legend, Robin is opposed by the Sheriff of Nottingham (Nickolas Grace) and Sir Guy of Gisburne (Robert Addie), as well as the Sheriff’s brother Abbot Hugo (Philip Jackson) (representing all the greedy abbots in the legends). Robin is assisted by Herne The Hunter (John Abineri), who sometimes appears as a forest spirit representing the powers of light and goodness, and sometimes as a mortal man.
At the end of the second season, Robin of Loxley is killed and Robert of Huntingdon (played by Jason Connery, whose father Sean Connery had played Robin in Robin and Marian) replaces him as Robin Hood. During the course of the season, the new Robin discovers that he is the half-brother of his nemesis Guy of Gisburne (an idea suggested to Carpenter by the fact that both actors had blond hair). However, due to the show’s cancellation at the end of the third season this particular story arc was never resolved.

here is my omage to Robin of Sherwood … just a little fan video for you all to enjoy

okay, I figured I wrote twice abouyt how much I like Shun Oguri so I figured that I might as well write a little about him as well

most of this is pasted info from DramaWiki and Wiki - pedia  

Shun Oguri (小栗 旬) is a Japanese actor, who gained a rise in popularity by starring in the hit TV drama, Hana Yori Dango, and its sequel. His most recent role in TV drama is in Hanazakari no Kimitachi e as Sano Izumi, the lead role. He also won an award for his movie Crows Zero.

Shun made his way into the acting industry not because he knew he had a great talent for it and not because he was pursuing a passion of his, but because he was an avid admirer of Uchida Yuuki, a Japanese actress. He loved her acting and was a very big fan of hers, and because he wanted to meet her, he joined theater and acting classes. He admits he didn’t really like theater or the acting classes, but somehow, his ambition to meet his idol — and the pretty girls in his class — kept on driving him. Now, Shun says acting is his life and wouldn’t want it any other way.

His first debut role was as the bullied and abused child from the drama Great Teacher Onizuka in 1998, when he was about sixteen years old. His acting attracted him great attention and from there, he moved onto bigger roles. His breakthrough role is arguably Rui Hanazawa from Hana Yori Dango, though his first lead role in a drama was as the famous Shinichi Kudo from Detective Conan. Oguri has more than enough talent for lead roles, but he has stated that he actually prefers playing the supporting roles. Besides acting, he is also a DJ. He is hosting a radio show called All Night Nippon. An impressive actor, he stars in roles such as a deaf person in Summer Snow, a desperate virgin in Stand Up!!, Hana Yori Dango (Boys Over Flowers) as quiet and cool Rui Hanazawa, and Gokusen as the gangster “wannabe” Uchiyama Haruhiko (Uchi). Recently, he starred in the drama Hanazakari no Kimitachi e as Sano Izumi.

Oguri’s best friend is Takashi Tsukamoto, an actor, model, and singer. Oguri and Tsukamoto acted together in a drama — Stand Up!!.  Since starring in Hanazakari no Kimitachi e together, Oguri and Toma Ikuta are very good friends. In interviews, both Oguri and Ikuta have said that they call and mail each other very often.

Today I am watching a few of the episodes to Hanazakari no Kimitachi e  (花ざかりの君たちへ) again  （≧▽≦）ღ

♥ - this is the japanese version with Oguri Shun (o^-^o)

♥ - in english the title is ‘for you in full blossom‘ with the tag line イケメン♂パラダイス … meaning ‘Ikemen [cute guy] Paradise‘ 

‘The drama is based on the popular manga of the same name by Nakajo Hisaya. Horikita plays the protagonist Ashiya Mizuki, a Japanese girl in the U.S. who one day sees the young athlete Sano Izumi compete in high jumping on television. She begins to idolize him. Sano gets injured one day in America while trying to help Mizuki escape from some gangsters. He stops high jumping ever since. Mizuki blames herself for the incident and decides to go to Japan and help Sano find his love for high jumping. However, Izumi goes to an all-boys school, so Mizuki disguises herself as a boy in order to meet with him again.’

here’s a fan video I made for the show ^^v

today I’m watching the taiwanese drama ….
They Kiss Again (惡作劇2吻)

This drama is the sequel of “It Started With A Kiss”.

Who ever said that life after marriage is perfect? Even after marriage, Xiang Qin and Zhi Shu experience problems and interferences within their marriage such as mistaken pregnancy and misunderstandings.

However, Xiang Qin is not the only one having problems with her relationship. Her friend, Chun Mei gets pregnant with her boyfriend, Ah Bu. She doesn’t know what to do and asks Xiang Qin to help her.

In his medicine course, Zhi Shu meets a new rival who wishes to outdo him. Xiang Qin changes to a nursing course and makes four new friends. One of them, Qi Tai, likes her and wishes to replace Zhi Shu due to his coldness towards Xiang Qin.

Several events will lead to Xiang Qin’s breaking down to tears, such as Zhi Shu’s coldness. But will all these events lead to the break down of their sturdy bond or further strengthen it? And how will their lives turn out to be?

Also, there’s another obstacle for Xiang Qin. Will she get her nurse license to be by Zhi Shu’s side? Will she survive the nursing course?

Only the couple can find the answers inside of themselves. (wikipedia)

I have finally got around to watching the japanese show ごくせん (Gokusen).

‘The story of a young, idealistic teacher who enters Shirokin Gakuen with hopes of making a difference in the students’ lives. However, Yamaguchi Kumiko is in for a rude awakening when she finds that she will be the homeroom teacher of 3-D, the hardest class to maintain in the school. The students have multi-colored hair, sloppy uniforms, and show absolutely no respect to her. The leader of the class, Sawada Shin is lazy but bright and shows some interest in Yamaguchi when he notices that she is very different from other teachers. The students try to bully her to make her quit, but their attempts don’t get them very far.

What the class and the rest of the school does not know is that Yamaguchi Kumiko is actually the 4th generation heir to the Ooedo Group, a notorious yakuza clan. Even though her family would like her to take the title of Ojou when her grandfather dies, they have accepted the fact that Yamaguchi would rather be a teacher.

Eventually, the students learn to respect their quirky teacher because of her devotion to them, and even give her a nickname: Yankumi.’ ~ dramawiki

So far I truly love the show.  As a bonus it has one of my fav actors in it, Oguri Shun!!