It Started with a Kiss aka ISWAK

Ok a little different, now the picture's teh link, i won't have that little text at the bottom.
Ok the drama that just about ever romance seeker has seen, it's one of the staple romance dramas, It Started With a Kiss. It's adapted from the japanese manga Itzaura no Kiss (mischevious kiss), and put into drama form by Joe Cheng and Ariel Lin.
Personally i wasn't as into it as i expected or as other people woulda expected. It's a nice story, but at the time i was watching it it seemed really cliche. I understand the romance, and it really does a well job, and i really believe that it was done wonderfully and that every romance drama fan should watch it. I just personally for some reason wasn't really crazy about this drama.
It's teh classic, person likes other person of opposite gender. The object of affection is this perfect person, smart, cute, the envy of everyone, basically, all the things the liker isn't. In this case, Joe Cheng plays a genius student that girls have a crush on and guys envy. Ariel Lin plays a lovestruck girl determined to marry him, but the problem is their first meeting is her confessing and being rejected. By sheer coincidence, which makes the plot a bit weak but seemed necessary for it to actually work, her house crumbles in an earthquake that destroys only their house (WTF?), and by more luck, her dad's close friend sees it and has them live and his house. Final coincidence, guess who's the son of the family friend? Yeap, they end up living together. Somehow, he turns out to actually like her, and all is good in the end, a definite feel good ending. It seems waht won him over was her persistence, but really there wasn't much to draw him to her, especially with other people who actually were better, at least in my opinion, than her. But of course, the very cute-ness lies in teh fact that despite her being the least likely candidate, he still chose her, so it makes the girls go AWW, and the manly men cringe in their stomachs at the utter cliche cuteness of it.
So with that, despite my personal lack of excitement for it, i still highly recommend it. On a side note, Joe Cheng's laugh is scary....and eeringly weird.