ITWY OST: "Tip Toe Love" by Hong Pei Yu

You Qing, please take this road. NOW. 

Ahem. Would I be bursting anyone's bubble if I said that this song is about You Qing and Ding Li Wei?  

Hang in there, my ITWY comrades. Repeat after me: S-i-n-g-a-p-o-r-e

You know you're at the point of no return when Show has become a persona non grata overnight and you find yourself still as enamored as ever. YES, I LOVE THIS SHOW, haters be damned! You Qing's an arrogant bitch? (Whatever, she's better than those cookie-cutter heroines in dramas everywhere.) Ding Li Wei's a creepy bastard? (Ahh, how I loathe to hate him.) Da Ren's a wimpy Beta Male who tells everyone (EVERYONE!) he loves You Qing except the poor girl herself? (This one I love to hate, lol. But serenade me with your ukulele and all shall be forgiven.)


Geez, it sure can be tough to justify this show. Now I know how those BOF fanatics must have felt...


Anyhoo, us ArLin fans must come equipped, lest we fall into the dark pit of frustration and headdesking. Put an ice pack to your forehead and chant this with me: "I shall not expect anything till Singapore." I think we all have already been spoiled with these, but let's remind ourselves, shall we? After the jump!

In Time With You Closing Theme: Wings by Ariel Lin

I have to say, this song is not my cup of tea; not that it sounds horrible or anything, it's just so... vanilla. Makes me go Zzzz in the middle of it. 

Though the Ariel-fangirl in me will not leave this song untranslated. So, listen to what You Qing has to say and get your ITWY-induced sugar rush now!

In Time With You Opening Theme: "I'll Still" by William Wei

Yay! Finally a happy song! I say happy because even though it's about a leaving a loved one, I can picture Da Ren in the foreseeable future leaving for his business trips and missing wifey YQ in this manner. So yeah, happy song :)

William Wei aka. WeiBird sang, composed and written this himself! Impressive huh? He's one of my favorite singer-composers. I actually prefer the CD version as it feels "lighter", not so much going on with the accompaniment compared to that of the drama's. That being said, In Time With You has one of the best, and most importantly, NON-SPOILERY openings I've seen in years (how can you say so much yet so little? Now that's a teaser). And it's so sweet; especially the high school version of themselves - see-saw rofl.

ITWY OST: "Friend Of An Ordinary Friend" by Emerson Tsai

The lyricist of this song, Poppy Xong himself has confirmed that, indeed, this song contains a swear word, mwahaha! Though to be fair, I'm not sure it even counts (it's an acronym), but imo it suits the context. To the clueless ones, not to worry as it will be revealed later in this post :D

The Unsent Letter: "I'm willing to be responsible for you."

This song sounds breezy to the unsuspecting. Happy, even. But that's cause you probably only heard the cheeky line, "(You're) Not an ordinary friend, but the friend of an ordinary friend." Little did you know it contains such bleakness and resignation. Look at the last line, "In the end, we're just... friends"? So NOT how I want the drama to end. Gawd, if Da Ren ends up "just a friend" to You Qing and she goes on to make babies with that Ding fella... NOOOOO!!! *touch wood*

In Time With You OST: Translated Lyrics for "I Won't Love You" by Wilson Chen

Luckily, I'm on time with In Time With You
Ello! You can expect to see me returning from my cave whenever there's a highly addictive show airing (then again, "addictive" is subjective). This time, it's a TWDrama! Well well well, who'd thought. This is romance done well, w/o the usual twdrama slapstick routine (read: romcoms) or the OTTness (read: rom without the com) that has become inseparable from Taiwanese dramas.


Not that I mind funnies and OTTness, but once in a while the girl needs to de-suspend her disbelief, y'know? That's where this show comes in like a breath of fresh air. It's real AND a joy to watch. I guess you can call it the feel good version of the The Fierce Wife (which was real, but NOT enjoyable).