Yes Ariel is 1 year older than Mike, and 2 years older than Rainie...but she looks so young! Her face isn't that type that grows old easily~

uhm.. i guess noone has 11 , 12 , 13 esp T_T .
i personally think , Xiangqin should give Zhishu up at around Esp 7 or 8 , it would be more exciting , everytime i only see Xiangqin think abt Zhishu and sometimes too much .. boring sometimes , but love to see Ariel , lolz when she smiles she looks so so happily , i think she has a most beautiful smile if compare w/ others TW actresses .. rite now my fav r Ariel and Qiaoen

well i dont think that she shud give up..
because according to xiang qin;s character..
she is really stubborn..so wen she likes something she like sticks to it.
and itz cuter that way..how she ACTAULLY ONLY liked zhi shu for 5 straight years and didnt like anyone else..


and ya...ariel has the CUTEST smile EVER!!
itz soo sweet and innocent looking =)

one more question , did Ariel sing the ending song ? i saw she sang that song in a show on youtube . i wanna have this song and i checked it in previous pages , all the links dead , does anyone share me that song , thankz alot

I though Ariel was only 23..... but i do know she n Mike are a year apart. But she looks 20 from the way she dresses in ISWAK and Love contract. For funtions n stuff, she looks her age.

While waiting for ISWAK2 , we should reviews some of the scenes behind ISWAK!

Here are some pictures. (some of you may have seen it before, not sure if it was ever posted in this thread since I am forgetful )
















Poor Ariel has to stand on the box to get a little closer height to Joe.

hahaha itz not bcuz of Ariel is short , itz bcuz of Joe is too tall , they still look good together

No the ending song was not sung by Ariel but by another taiwanese singer Wang Lan Yin,Ariel sabg that in the ISWAK special that's all~I think Ariel sang well too~I hope she releases a solo album..I'll definitely buy!!
Ok, I'll upload the Kiss MV and song in a while..



haha thanks for those pics rumikochan~Well said, not that Ariel is short but Joe is kinda a bit too tall...for Asian men...haha but yeah they still look cute and good together~very sweet couple! They got the 'couple' look..or 'Fu Qi Lian'...they look good if they were a real couple~
So funny Ariel had to stand on boxes to reach Joe...hehe I think it's pretty funny and cute...

hey....rumikochan....thanks for da pics...*muaks*...i din realize that for all the scenes in the pics...ariel actually have to stand on a box...hahahaha...but...box or not...they both still look cute together..

actually the two kinda reminds me of full house...cos rain is very tall where else song hye kyo is short...but the two still make a cute couple...and i think the same goes to our ZS and XQ

i actually think their height difference is one essential part that makes the series successful. It's very cute to see a very tall guy with a short girl and they still make a good looking couple.

Yup like everyone, I think they look so adorable bc of the height difference.

I really like the gym(tennis) outfits that Ariel's wearing. It's quite nice. Too bad, don't know where to buy them!

Yup, tall guys seems to give the impression that they can always protect their other half. And in ISWAK, I can definitely tell that ZS is very protective of XQ (well....at least that's the case after they got back together).

kinda off topic, my signature is not showing up when i post something. is this my problem or maybe AF is having problems. anyone knows?

I think AF has changed the layout of the page. It's one signature per page per user. So if you scroll back up, the first post you've on the page will have a signature only.

Where is Joe Cheng's page? I cant find under taiwanese male artist???

I got the same problem before. Apparently, Joe has another name, called Brian. So if you check under
Brian Zheng Yuan Chang, that's Joe's page.

[font=Arial][size=6][b]omg is it just me or is this everybody too? my friend recommended ISWAK & i was like ok i'll watch it & i did & i was so obsessed! i'd stay up till 2 AM just watching it & it wasnt 100% emotional like stairway to heaven or MG1 (didnt watch MG2 yet) but i was so INTRIGUIED! & i skipped over many parts to hurry up the series so i could finish it & i thought i'd feel better when it was finished. cos i was getting sick of being so anxious to go home from school & watch the series, it felt like a complete ADDICTION! but when i finished it, i was depressed for a few days in school, all i thought about was ISWAK this, ISWAK that & how when i grew up, i want a guy exactly like zhi su! even his cold-ness is kinda nice cos it keeps the girl interested & wanting for more & he isnt predictable but i swear i'm in love with this series & i've never felt so sad after something ended & i wished for a sequel & i finally found out a few days ago that there's gonna be one! 2007 is a long wait tho, but i hope it's worth it! [color=#006600]btw, can anybody reccommend some taiwanese/chinese tv series that's very much alike ISWAK & isnt totally emotional, like u'll fall in love with the characters & all? thanks! if you can tell me any, just reply to this or IM me at paperthinhart

HAHA!! You're EXACTLY LIKE ME!! =) *only you SERIOUSLY have to finishing watching all the parts you skipped! ^_____~ hhee, all my friends are like "AHHHH, you're ISWAK obsessed!!!!" LOL AND, OMGOSH, I WANT A GUY LIKE ZQ tooooooooooooooooooooooo!! *sighs* but 2007/2008 seems like a *LONG* time!!!

Yes!!!It would look like the guy can protect the gal in times of danger or anything..it's actually very sweet..it gives gals a better sense of security too~



I like the scenes where ZS And XQ wear the blue tennis outfit in XQ's dream..I think they look super cute together!!!



YEAH!!!!THIS IS THE FEELING MY FRIENDS AND I GET TOO!!!I INTRODUCE ISWAK TO THEM AND THEY ARE LIKE COMPLETELY ADDICTED TO ISWAK TOO!!!THEY THINK ARIEL IS VERY CUTE AND JOE IS SIMPLY TOO HANDSOME AND COOL IN IT!!!!YAAYY!!!GO ISWAK!!!

i am suddenly suffering from "ISWAK-withdrawal syndrome" again... even though it was clsoe to 2 months since i watched the last episode of ISWAK...

cos i still cant find a show that is as good as ISWAK... to replace the void in my heart that is left by ISWAK after it ended...

SAME FEELING!!!!!!!
hahaha... and I finished ISWAK episodes 1-17 in just three days... hahaha
after two weeks when the few episodes came out...
i couldn't wait
but then watching the ending kind of made me have mixed emotions
like I'm happy but at the same time I wanna cry cause a good story had just been finished..
when I got to know of the sequel i was overjoyed.. haha
but then it will come out in 2007...
a long wait
i hope they could adjust the shooting schedules..

Brian o.O lmao omg i was going crazy trying to search for his page...thanks a lot

haha...same here. I was actually kinda depressed after ISWAK ended because my Sundays were suddenly freed up. I was so used to waking up early on Sundays to watch ISWAK and I mean very early. In order for me to watch each eps live, I have to wake up at 5:30am!!!
ISWAK is way too good and addicting. ZS and XQ is simply funny, cute, and sweet. I tried watching other series afterward like AQMFS and BOL, but it's just not the same.

^^Hehe yeah all of us got ADDICTED to ISWAK!!I guess all of us are watching ISWAK repeatedly am i not right?XQ and ZS are simply too cute together!!!

i so agree with u. i cant seem to watch other series after watching iswak. i was going to start on devil beside you two days after i finished iswak but i just can't... until now i can't watch anything... its either i listen to iswak ost or i rewatch iswak. i miss ZS and XQ and the whole jiang family. they're all so adorable.

i watched dis series already but only up to the 15th episode `sigh` i wana watch da end lol but still dis movie was really good in a way but it was always sad an dat was da problem an dere wasnt exactly dat much excitement in it unless u mention da kisses an da hospital scenes lol

i skipped over the parts where ah jing was obsessing over xiang qing cos he's a freak & u just hate his character cos hes sucha waste of time (or maybe it's just me) & i basically skipped the whole episode when they were on a date at the zoo. it was stupid. i only wanted to see scenes with joe & ariel & that other girl who looks mixed cos it added drama

yes im totally into joe! i want a boyfriend that is like him...down to his cute nose to his hurley hair!!!!!!! but then one thing is....his laugh....when they were showing the NG's its pretty bad o.O lol it was like a cakle and i was like wtf? is that his acutaly laughing?? that is so scary! XD hahaha but then he is so ctue!!!! i am soooooo suffering the withdraw sympton T_T

i enjoy watching ah jing. he actually contrasts XQ's character when she's after ZS.

i so agree with u. i cant seem to watch other series after watching iswak. i was going to start on devil beside you two days after i finished iswak but i just can't... until now i can't watch anything... its either i listen to iswak ost or i rewatch iswak. i miss ZS and XQ and the whole jiang family. they're all so adorable.

hahaha same thing here lubridem! omg, i thought me and my cousins were the only ones that were crazy like this! i used to go home after school and finish all my hmw as fast as i could so that i could spend the rest of the day watching ISWAK and whenever i wasn't watching it i kept on remembering the funny and cute scenes and laughing for no reason like an idiot, my friends thought i've gone crazy hahaha!!! but now i feel no motivation to finish my hmw anymore, my days seems to be so boring...i can't watch another thing eitheir, i try to watch another series but i always end up stopping in the middle cuz compared to ISWAK they all seem to be boring and the characters just can't be good enough! i only wanna see ZS and XQ!!! i rewatched ISWAk like twice already and i don't wanna continue doing it cuz i don't ever wanna get sick of it!



i agree 100% w/ u! i hate watching ah jing too, he's so freaking annoying!!! i hate the way he talks, he sounds retarted (sorry if anyone likes him, i don't mean to offend anyone here, just giving my opinion) and the scenes where he & XQ were on a date was really a waste of time! thank god XQ didn't let him kiss her in the end, or else i would freak out! ok, i felt sorry for him, but still...she can't kiss anyone other than ZS!!! i know, i'm too obssessed hahaha! '

apparantly they're making a sequal to it, i can't wait for it to come out

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! ME TOOOOO;; I didn't even borther to watch the zoo part and the train part!! xD Sorry to say this, but I *DISLIKE* Ah Jin in this series!! hehe, he's cute---but I really don't like his character! xD tooooo mushy and really gross in a way! I mean he's cool looking but you won't think he'd act this way!! x|

--I didn't like the other girl, until the ending: where she's talking with her grandfather!! Awww, soooo emotional so I actually liked her then!

that girl with the grandfather came off as one of those girls that would give up her boyfriend if he loved another girl but stayed with her so she'd be happy u know ? like she didnt seem like a total jerk like that other mixed girl with the curly hair that went to college with zhi shu (the one who also liked him - XQ's competition). like she was so selfish but that girl with the grandfather was just one of those girls u label "sweet & kind" as soon as she appears in the drama.

im actually fine with ah jin.
but he was just there in between zhi shu and xiang qin thatz why people didnt like him...
but if i met a guy like that i wil be happy..
i mean he ONLY liked xiang qin for 5 WHOLE years and he didnt look at ANY OTHER GIRL.
i mean he is PRETTY good looking guy...
hahaha....

and the grand-daughter girl..i didnt like her in the beginning cause she was in between things.but then she was SOO nice ..

and ZHI YU i actually HATED her...she pissed me off SO much..UNTIL i knew for sure that zhi shu ONLY treated her a friend then i didnt hate her AS much..haha..

Wow... this is definetly the cutest, sweetest, most addicting; BEST SERIES I've ever seen!!! I heard all the buzz about it but never watched it until 4 days ago... I was hooked automatically! Finsih watching it in 1 and a half days... now there's nothing that seem to be good enough for me anymore... I WANT MORE JOE AND ARIEL!!! So cute.... hoping the sequeal would come out already.... they're trying to torture us I tell ya, 2007 is too damn long

hey guys is that 2 or 3 months that we do not have ISWAK OMG i miss it so bad
i try to spend time by watching Prince return to frog and i have to admit that htis is the funny drama but how can't i feel that it was missing somthing that ISWAK had .
i am looking forward to the second part
i did read the manga but how come i feel so excited about the drama maybe ISWAK has the magic thta make everyone falls in love with
to ISWAK fans " Guys , do oour best to keep up this topic and make it the greatest topic ever"
love ISWAK

Me too, I am fine with ah Jin. At first I did found him quite annoying..lol..but I think approx 3/4 through the serie, I was touch by what he did. It was the part when he took the lunch that XQ make for ZS and it was quite cute that without trying, he was like, it got to be the best thing...and then he took a bite..aaah..poor ah Jin, even he was soooo disgusted with the food!! hahaa....but then he thought of it again and said something like it's make by XQ so he'll eat it and he did! That was pretty sweet although that's not enough to make me change my mind that XQ is best with ZS cuz they're the cutest couple ever!

Come to think of it ZS must has been eating XQ's cooking as well!! hehe..Poor ZS!

Haha....I knew XQ's cooking was bad, but I didn't know it was that bad until AJ ate it. The expression on his face was just terrible. But AJ is very cute that he ate all her food but kinda dumb at the same time too.
And ZS has been eating XQ's food regardless, even though he teases her about her cooking he still eats it. That shows he has already fallen for her.

yeah, i thought ah jin was really annoying untill about eps 7/8 when i realised what he's doin to zq is the same with whats xq is doing to zs except we all no xq would be with zs....so she got the better deal.....so sad when he was like used by xq towards the end.......just thinking about it makes me wanna cry......

Yeah AJ is another nice guy but ZS looks sooooo coool

But it's just an acting tough, I believe the real food doesn't taste that bad . They just put a lot of sauce into it .

i dont think XQ was really using AJ. she thought if she dated him enough, she'd fall for him just like she fell for ZS. he was more like a rebound.

haha....in that case, AJ did a superb job then because the expression I saw on his face really made me think the food was nasty. I also remember XQ cooking this one dish call 大陸牛奶妹, I think it was milk and vegetable...hehe...it looked quite funny to me. I wonder if there's such a dish.

does anybody have any reccommendations to what asian dramas may be very similar to ISWAK? & just as good?


btw i recommend stairway to heaven. it was pretty sweet.



i dont think XQ was really using AJ. she thought if she dated him enough, she'd fall for him just like she fell for ZS. he was more like a rebound.

Hmm...if you haven't watched Full House, that's one I would recommend. I think it's somehow sort of similar to ISWAK. Haha...or not but it was still good. But nothing can be at the same level as ISWAK, ZS & XQ was too cute!!!! I think ZS is the ideal perfect guy for a long of girls. Well...with the face of Joe, that makes it even better!

ohhh mannn , i didnt know that Ariel sing very well , look at this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0SCUPGc45c...rch=Ariel%20lin , she sings very very well . does anyone have this song , i really like it and i did ask someone before but nobody share it to me , so sad T_T

that song is translated into English is Practical Joke
she was singing this song in Chinese new year . Yeah she is a great singer , i have another song thta she sang and it is prety good also her voice is great

Can u plz share it to me ?

for those who havent heard the song CHA CHA>.
MUST..itz REALLY good theme to secret garden 2..
the MV is even better cause ariel is SOO pretty...

and if you want ariel's LIVE verison of pratical joke..
PM me with your email .... and i will send it to you....

i juz re-watched the breakfast scene in episode 15... so sweet hehe

i like the way ZS smiles... got a cute dimple on the left cheek... so cute hehe... juz realised i am the opposite of ZS cos i got a dimple on my right cheek hahahahahaha

^^^Yes, Joe has a dimple on his left cheek..very cute!!!

walked into the VCD shop today wanting to see if there are any good taiwan idol dramas to buy and watch... but i can't find any cos i realised i have been comparing those VCDs in the shops with ISWAK... can't seem to find anything that i feel is watchable after watching ISWAK... well... except DBY but i watched that way long time ago already...

now tink i will juz save up my money and wait for ISWAK2 to come out den i buy the VCD haha

btw for those who dunno joe cheng has a dimple on the left cheek... i will highly recommend them to watch the breakfast scene in episode 15 cos got close up of him smiling and showing the oh so cute dimple *drooling*