JDorama review: Manhattan Love Story

Title: Manhattan Love Story Broadcast dates: 10/9/03 - 12/18/03 Number of episodes: 11 Genre: Romantic Comedy Cast: Matsuoka Masahiro, Koizumi Kyoko, Oikawa Mitsuhiro, Morishita Aiko, Matsuo Suzuki, Sakai Wakana, Funakoshi Eiichiro, Tsukamoto Takashi Plot: A rag-tag group of customers that frequent a cafe called Manhattan fall in and out of love with each other. What is good: Matsuoka can be hysterical as Tencho, the owner of Manhattan. What is bad: The show doesn't really get good until about episode 4. Letter rating: C

This show both annoyed and amused me. Parts of it were absolutely awesome. Unfortunately, most of the beginning episodes are terrible. Also, the show could have ended at episode 7 with no problems. Instead, they dragged it on for another four episodes. The ending was still surprising and funny but it seemed tacked on. Would I watch it again? No. But I'm definitely going to try to track down more of Matsuoka's dramas!

The boring part of work

There are few things worse than a conference call. I keep getting stuck in these calls about some new computer software that the company is thinking about purchasing. As if conference calls weren't bad enough by themselves, these are extremely boring and usually most of the conversation doesn't relate to my job. We'll hit on one or two topics that pertain to me then the rest of the conversation is about something completely different. I will be so glad when the higher ups finally make a decision so I can get back to working.

A new jdorama review on Monday!

I will be watching the final episode of Manhattan Love Story today. (I'm glad I remembered my media player. Now I don't have to sit through commercials telling me to buy term life insurance for someone over 60.) A full review will be posted sometime Monday. If I'm not too busy, it'll be up first thing Monday morning. Now I have to figure out what to watch next. I'm not sure I have anything ready! Eep!

Favorite Friday

Yes, it's Friday. Here is a very terrible song with "Friday" as the title. The song is so bad that it will inevitably show up as hold music or ambient music in some franchise soon. I just know it. I'll be standing there, waiting for my french fries when suddenly....."It's Fryday, Fryday." Hey wait....that might be cool. (And yes, her overprocessed voice makes Friday sound like Fryday. There's just a little too much emphasis on the 'i' sound.) Here you go. You tell me what you think:

Collectibles generally aren't worth much

I don't understand why people would buy silver bullion bars or those "collector's" coins you see on TV. You know, the [booming voice]Obama Gold Coin[/booming voice] or whatnot. These things aren't going to go up in value. If they do, they still won't be worth very much because the companies tend to mass produce them. They are a lot like Beanie Babies. (I bought Beanie Babies but I bought them because they were cute, not because I thought I'd make a fortune off them.) I just imagine these people showing up on Hoarders with piles and piles of collectible plates. At least you can snuggle a Beanie Baby!

Dating Site Taglines

I frequently joke with my husband about visiting free online dating websites. With taglines like "It's OK to look," it's just asking for married couples to try to cheat. Though, when I say "Hey Honey! It's OK to look! I'm logging on!"...he replies by tickling me. Ah, I hate being tickled! At least we get some fun out of it. But those sites really should come up with a different tagline. "Using an online dating site doesn't make you a loser!" :)

Acid?

As I was starting off yet another annoying day at work, I came across a link for Acid cigars. I chuckled to myself. Why would a cigar company want to name themselves Acid? Doesn't it sound like something that will kill you? Well, OK, smoking will kill you anyway but acid would kill you quicker if you ingested it! I suppose it's supposed to be edgy and hip. It just comes off as weird. Then again, I'm not into cigar culture. Maybe it's extremely popular and people love them. I just would have picked a different name.

A cute doormat?

We have a huge doormat on the porch of our house. Unfortunately, it's always getting blown all over the place and I hate it. I found these Personal Creations doormats that are so adorable. While my favorite is the one with the little flip-flops, I don't like advertising how many people are in my household. I feel the same way about those stickers people put on the rear windows of their cars. At least there are other cute doormats. I wonder what I can talk my husband into....

Quack Quack

I'm pretty sure everyone has seen the commercials for Aflacs disability insurance with the duck quacking at everyone. In case you didn't realize it (I'm not sure how you couldn't though...), Gilbert Gottfried provided the voice for said duck. He made some tasteless jokes on Twitter about the earthquake in Japan and, as a result, Aflac fired him. I, for one, say "Good job Aflac!" A disaster is not something to joke about - whether it's Japan or New Orleans or anywhere. We should be coming together to help each other, not point and laugh at someone's tragedy. Bad form Mr. Gottfried.

Cars

I had three serpentine belts replaced on my car this past weekend. Shortly before that, the rear brakes on my husband's car started making a squealing/grinding noise. (He calls it grinding; I call it squealing.) So, of course, when I left for work yesterday morning, I hear some squealing from my brakes. Though I'm pretty sure the noise has stopped on my car. Sometimes my car just 'complains' about being woken up in the morning. I believe my husband is taking his car in Thursday morning for a look-over. I'll have to listen to my car more carefully to see if mine needs to go in (again) as well. Blah.