Friday, September 19, 2025

The Great British Baking Show Collection 13

 

It's that time of the year again - The Great British Bake Off airing on Netflix every Friday. This season has interesting baketestants. One very beautiful girl, Jasmine, who is totally bald and Iain who's sporting a mullet. I like them both. 

I will try baking Paul's glazed donuts recipe. I've never made them using self-rising (with baking powder) flour in addition to yeast. Hmm..
Iain joking his girlfriend looks like Noel. LOL Now where can I get Noel's shirt?

Thursday, September 18, 2025

I Love KDramas

I still watch a lot of Korean and Japanese dramas. The first few months of 2025 didn't have interesting new dramas but recently, Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Disney+ have really promising shows streaming almost one after another that I have to schedule watching. These are the ones I watch as soon as they come out and the other shows can wait when I have the spare time. 

Netflix  
Bon Appetit, Your Majesty 
12 episodes 
tags: comedy, fantasy, gourmet cooking, historical/sageuk, romance, time slip 
Yeon Ji-Young is a French chef with a cheerful and determined personality. One day, she wins a French cooking competition, but she somehow finds herself transported to the Joseon era.  

My Youth 
tags: melodrama, romance.  

Amazon Prime
Confidence Queen 
tags: action, comedy, conmen 
Yun Yi-Rang is a con woman with a genius level IQ of 165. She has a unique way of thinking and cool charisma. She leads the con group Confidence Man.

Based on the Japanese series The Confidence Man JP currently streaming on Netflix

  

Disney+ and HULU 
Tempest
tags: action, drama, politics 

Seo Mun-Ju (Gianna Jun) is a diplomat and a former ambassador to the United States. She has built great trust in the international community through her insightful judgment and actions. She learns that there were political maneuvering behind an assassination case involving South and North Korea. Meanwhile, Paik San-Ho (Gang Dong-Won) is an elite mercenary. He is a mysterious figure whose nationality and past are both shrouded in secrecy. Seo Mun-Ju and Paik San-Ho together pursue the truth behind the major incident.

I started watching this intense drama just a few days ago and I was shocked at the assassination of the female lead's husband which reminds me of Charlie Kirk. It was eerie and jarring and I debated with myself if I will continue watching. The negative comments from people in the Middle East compelled me watch. They were complaining of too much Catholic church scenes. South Korea is a Christian as well as Buddhist country. They can stay away from the drama if they don't like seeing churches, lots and lots of crucifixes, the statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and people praying in churches. 

The writer and producers probably are noticing that their country is slowly being influenced to become a communist country and they made this drama to show the new president who is blatantly communist socialist that he and his Chinese buddy can't stop them making moving TV series with prominent Christian images and rituals. Good for Korea.

The series is short with only 9 episodes. I like it so far although it looks like the USA is the bad guy wanting to start a war with North Korea. [Our current President is all about ending the never ending wars so they missed the narrative there.] It is a work of fiction so I'll take it even if they are wrong. The action and explosive scenes look like an extended movie. Great production and worth sitting down for an hour and a few minutes per episode. Currently, there are 5 episodes shown and the rest will be streamed in the next 2 weeks. 

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Prayers for Charlie Kirk And His Family

Charlie Kirk, the young conservative founder of Turning Point USA, an American nonprofit organization that advocates for conservative politics on high school, college, and university campuses, was assassinated by ghouls. It's not hard to guess who these ghouls are. Souless Democrats, their voters, and media are ghouls always advocating for violence against conservatives and MAGA. They already tried to assassinate President Trump 3 times and still continue to advocate for violence towards conservatives, calling us NAzi, Hitler, and they want to punch us in the face (Gavin Newsom and the Hollywood demons). All Democrats who vote for Democrat Party candidates have blood in their hands. Prove me wrong.

Monday, September 8, 2025

Murder In A Democrat Run City

Democrat run main stream media never reported this horrific story that happened in August 22, 2025. They were silent as the grave and avoided publishing anything about it. It only became known when conservative media on X published the video of the actual murder. The democrat scum mayor published an equally horrible statement. All democrats are scum. And where are all the Ukkies loving lefties and democrats. They are all mum but had the time to eat cake for someone's birthday.

Proof is in the cake. Pure evil.
President Trump will look into and address the murder today. The democrats and their stenographers AKA main stream media have no reason to avoid reporting it now.

Thursday, August 14, 2025

Ties Of Shooting Stars


tags: japanese dorama, murder mystery, Keigo Higashino, Netflix
🌟🌟🌟🌟

From  Asianwiki
At the age of 11, Koichi Ariake discovers his parents brutally murdered in their home. Furthermore, Koichi must tell his two younger siblings the awful truth about their parents disappearance.
14 years later the three siblings still feel as much rage against their parents murderer as the day it happened. Then one day they locate the murderer...

From IMDB 

"When we grow up - We'll kill him together". Koichi, Taisuke, and Shizuna are three siblings whose parents had been brutally murdered when they were just in elementary school, and they vowed to avenge their death. Fourteen years later, their vengeful plan unravels countless new facts. A shocking revelation leads to an overwhelmingly emotional ending. What will become of the siblings who have lived their lives solely in reliance of their bond alone?
The Japanese dorama 10 episode series is based on a serialized book written by Keigo Higashino and was filmed in 2008. I had to watch because the main lead, Koichi, is played by Kazunari Ninomiya of the Japanese boy band Arashi. He was just 25 years old and looked like a little boy. [His bandmate Jun Matsumoto has currently 2 doramas streaming on Netflix which will be my next Japanese watch.]

The series is murder mystery and drama but loaded with the silliest comedy, some are so random and strange I just had to laugh. The sister was one day scammed out of her money. Koichi got the idea and started scamming people. He wrote the "script" and the sister and younger brother perform the scam. It was doing well and earned them some cash until they discovered the new victim is the son of the man they suspected had killed their parents. 

I enjoyed it and binge-watched for 2 days.

Thursday, August 7, 2025

Going Home In The Dark











tags: fable, horror, humor, mystery
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

From Goodreads
When hometown horrors come back to haunt, friendship is salvation in a novel about childhood fears and buried secrets by #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz.
As kids, outcasts Rebecca, Bobby, Spencer, and Ernie were inseparable friends in the idyllic town of Maple Grove. Three left to pursue lofty dreams―and achieved them. Only Ernie never left. When he falls into a coma, his three amigos feel an urgent need to return home. Don’t they remember people lapsing into comas back then? And those people always awoke…didn’t they? After two decades, not a lot has changed in Maple Grove, especially Ernie’s obnoxious, scary mother. But Rebecca, Bobby, and Spencer begin to remember a hulking, murderous figure and weirdness piled on mystery that they were made to forget. As Ernie sinks deeper into darkness, something strange awaits any friend who tries to save him.
For Rebecca, Bobby, and Spencer, time is running out to remember the terrors of the past in a perfect town where nothing is what it seems. For Maple Grove, it’s a chance to have the “four amigos,” as they once called themselves, back in its grasp.
It took me a few weeks to rate this book by Dean Koontz. I couldn't decide if it is worth 4 or 5 star or if it is really bad as some of the reviewers on Goodreads think. It is another good versus evil themed mystery but it is very different from previous books by Koontz. I felt it was written for young adults because on the first few chapters he breaks the fourth wall to talk to the reader to explain and define some words or terms which are not that uncommon. Example: in a fugue. People know what it means for sure. Some readers got distracted by the constant explaining. I didn't mind it because sometimes it is funny.

Dean Koontz once again ridiculed everything and everyone which is hilarious in my opinion. There are many many humorous LOL things going on with the three friends specially when they rescued Ernie from the hospital to prevent the mortician from getting to him. It was like Weekend At Bernie's

The book reads like a fable or parable and I think those who rated it a 1 star got offended at the very end of the story, when Koontz compared the evil blob to communists trying to destroy the idyllic town. The blob was defeated by the good blob which was older and bigger than it is. The moral of the fable is, keep the good growing to prevent the evil from becoming powerful.

Recommended only for Dean Koontz fans.

Thursday, July 31, 2025

American Eagle Jeans Ad


I never knew nor heard of the actress Sydney Sweeney because I turned off regular TV and most Hollywood produced movies and series for almost 20 years already. Her advertisement for American Eagle jeans triggered many people and calling the ad as Nazi propaganda. It is a play on the words genes and jeans.

I had to see for myself what the "controversy" is about and didn't find any "white supremacy"  message and decided the people triggered are just envious of this actress. If I were younger I'd buy that pair of jeans she's selling. 👖

Thankfully there are still sane people who don't agree with the triggered group.
 
 

Dunkin" Donuts also released a "triggering" ad with a young white blue-eyed actor. Let the fools cry on TikTok. I have ignored this actor's series on Amazon, The Summer I Turned Pretty, but now I'm adding it to my list. 😉


I have been wishing for beautiful people to come back on TV and movies and at last my wish has been partially fulfilled even if it is just advertisement. It's a step in the right direction because I am tired of watching fat ugly tattooed with questionable gender people on my TV screen. Beauty is back!

View at your own risk. May require eye bleach. LOL

Friday, July 18, 2025

Untamed


tags: murder mystery, Netflix series
⭐out of 5

From IMDB
A National Parks Service agent investigates a brutal death at Yosemite National Park.
Pros
> good not great cinematography because it was mostly filmed in Canada, not Yosemite
> there are only 6 less than an hour episodes

Cons 
> lousy script and story
> really bad acting; the raspy voice of both Eric Bana and Sam Neill is hard on the ears 
> all the characters are annoying specially the male and female leads
> clichés galore: alcoholic main character, troubled ex-wife, abusive ex partner of female lead (female lead character and her story is totally unnecessary; remove the character and the narrative will move along without her), uncooperative co workers, drugs (there's always drugs snuck in every Hollywood production)
> as predictable as the sun rising from the east, I guessed early on who is the despicable one.
> items introduced that don't help with the investigations and simply abandoned without explanation, example - the gold leaf tattoo on the dead girl.
- turned into almost slapstick comedy when the lead male ran out of bullets but was saved by the belle. 🙄

Not recommended

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Blood Ties











tags: Jo Nesbø, mystery, sequel, thriller
⭐⭐⭐⭐out of 5

Blood Ties is the second of 2 thriller book series by Jo Nesbø, The first is The Kingdom which I rated 5 stars out of 5

From Goodreads
By all accounts, Carl and Roy Opgard are doing quite well for themselves. Or at least they’re doing as well as can be expected in a small town like Os. Carl manages the area’s swanky and successful spa and hotel, while Roy runs a nearby gas station and harbors grand plans to build it out into an entire amusement park complete with a roller coaster. But when news breaks about a new highway to be built nearby, bypassing Os and leaving the town cut-off and isolated, it’s clear that something has to be done . . . even if the methods are bound to be dirty. Fortunately, Carl and Roy have experience with just that kind of work.
Meanwhile, the town sheriff has gotten his hands on new technology that will enable him to take a deeper look at a slate of unsolved murders from years past—including that of his own father. And just as the sheriff reopens his investigation, the death toll begins to climb. It’s like Roy says about his roller “Once it’s rolling, it’s too late to get off.”

I enjoyed the book although I was not too keen on the on and off romance going on with Roy and his woman, or rather young girl, because he is much much older than she is. 

The sequel is twistier than the first book and with more vile people who deserve their violent end. It is still a great read from Jo Nesbø who can write a really bloody novel with plenty of humor.

Highly recommended for fans of Nordic noir and Jo Nesbø.