I am back.
Because because becauseeeeeee….
KYYAAAAAAA!
I haven’t watched a single K-drama in 2 months, but for this, for them, for Dong-Hae, my shipper heart <3333, I don’t care if it suxballs, WILL WATCH NO MATTER WHAT!
Never gets old ~
credits: picture as tagged / video owner youtube
Ahhhhh how so sweet of this lil boy son of a chinggu of mine <33333 my first Christmas pressieeeee filled with love and fuzzzzzes. It’s been ages since I’d received flowers RL flowers (right, my life is dried up till the bone!) and this hand-made piece literally melted me heart on my very own knees, I’m all warm fluffy fuzzzzzz now ;))) thank you thank you for reminding me that I still have “market” teeeheeee~~
Christmas season this year has been unusually quiet and un-happening, less and without the usual booze-fest and BBQ parties, nada and zero invites AT ALL I start to wonder if it’s my problem. I see friends and peepz prepp-ing busy for the seaosn, I do feel green in envy but have no urge to join. Prolly due to work cramming up at 11th hour (usually near yuletide I’m all freed of workload) with an out of the blue first in years overseas work trip to start just 2 weeks ago, I literally had the lest of time and mood to actually prepare Christmassy stuff for my family and friends (still have time for Kdrama thou LOL). I should feel bad, right, I actually do.
I BOW I BOW I BOW I KNEEEEEL to the master with such PS skills.
Or should I say Song Hye Kyo and Kim Woobie for their ability to look good with anyone everyone in any picture.
It’s fan made, but just lookin’ don’t you want a Korean version of The Bodyguard already?
Best Eppie 11, best scene, best acting by Hwang Jung Eum in drama so far (in fact in ages!).
Min Hyuk’s heading towards unknown territory with YJ invading his mind 24/7, and I JUST LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!
That is ALL. I want to say more but I can’t find words.
JUST FREAKING WATCH THIS!
credits: DramaKBS @ Youtube
Oppa is the trend this year, it sure is.
Just when I thought nobody could beat or give Im Joo Hwan’s saintly brotherly character Jun Soo in Ugly Alert a run of his money this year, in comes a new contender for Best Oppa of The Year. Everyone’s been raving cookies and milk the past 2 weeks, TELL ME, who doesn’t want cookies and milk?!
Pretty tight competition Jun Soo, Oppa is pretty much awesomesauce here. No saint, but pure divine awesome.
One thing about Drama Specials, they’re always good hearty stuff, if not, qualitatively better than what we have on TV right now – most definetely. More humanistic, real and heartfelt. With more exquisite and focused direction, and most importantly, GOOD MUSIC. That’s the good thing yeah. The bad thing – it’s so short, too short that I end up crying craving wanting for more T___T. And I can’t freaking do anything about it! It was better with Like A Fairytale and Medley of Youth because they were 4-parters and I had time to part ways, but here Yeon Woo’s Summer, arrghhhhh, it was one heck of a fine piece, I loved it just as much as LaF and would rate it just about the same, but too short and I craved. ;/ I craved hard for so much more.
Seoul must have done something to me, to my head, I think I miss it too much to keep talking raving spazzing about the memories there. A week has passed and me my friends and I cannot get our experiences out of our head. We cannot stop T_____T It’s not much different a city from let’s say HK or Singapore, except it’s bigger more massive more crowded and condense, but there’s just a lil bit of me in there, not wanting to leave, somewhat rooted in the place. Perhaps it’s the K-dramas, the familiarity of what has followed me for almost 15 years, I felt at home. I felt I’d never left.
And when I said Seoul must have done something to my head, it did. I am now, actually very much out of my mind crackstatically addicted to a MAKJANG drama! Yes, I spelled it right, MAKJANG! The very combi of everything dramatic histrionic cliche and stereotype that you can ever find in a K-drama (you can name it this drama prob has it all) – SECRET.
What a wonderful and lovely piece.
Takes us back to school, to the youth and times of adolescence that we wish we could relive and re-experience just for the sake of nostalgia. Brings us back to times when feelings were fresh, when real friendships were forged, when curiosity was our friend. Medley of Youth aka Adolescence Medley does it spot on, taps on the best of your emotions being a high schooler, every single one of them, so real and relatable, you cannot miss, you cannot forget, and nor can you not outright say, it has never happened to you. Doesn’t matter who you are in the drama, Jung Woo, Ah Young, Yeok Ho or even the minor supporting of Deok Won or Won Il, there is someone in here, just like you and just for you.
Just cos I flail happy watching these 2 interact!
Translations [Starting from 00:50]
Screen: TMS Set – JG and TY’s first kiss
Director: *directs SJS and GHJ on how to do the scene* It feels a bit…
Director: You have to hold her like that… and you fall on him..
GHJ: Why are you standing like that? You’re just like a tree.
GHJ: Oppa shouldn’t you be hugging me?
[GHJ is a bit shy, but Gong Shil seems to be very happy about it.]
GHJ: *taps on SJS’s shoulder* Oppa did you see that?
[Kissing scene]
SJS: Why are you laughing?
GHJ: Didn’t you laugh too Oppa?
[Next “fake kissing scene”]
SJS: *curious what’s going on [GHJ was supposed to fall on his shoulder but I think she forgot lol]* What’s going on?
GHJ:Eh?
Director: You’re supposed to fall on him.
GHJ: Ahhh, I was supposed to fall on him.
[GHJ made another mistake.]
[Next ” kissing scene”]
[SJS’s lips seemed to have turned red – from GHJ’s lipstick I suppose LOL]
[Monitoring]
All: Naughty hands!
SJS: Naughty hands?
SJS: Then I should have slipped them into her dress.
*SJS and GHJ break into immense laughter.*
credits: Joo Won Lala’s Youtube / krdrama.com Chinese translations
I lovelovelovelove it when actors and co-stars are perfectly in sync. The story may not live up, direction may suck, but more often than not, it’s the chemistry and rapport between the drama characters and actors themselves which make me feel and connect a lil bit more with with the drama as a whole. This year hasn’t been the best of drama OTPs or bromances (last year and year 2007 were DA BOMBS for me), but you immediately know it when such fluttery aawwwww moments hit you, you know you’re hooked.
I’ve got my share of lovelies this year, the Ugly Alert OTPs (JSXDH and HSXJY) and the Who Are You alterna OTP HJXSO just to name a few. But none comes this close to the adorable pair of TMS. The electrifying combo of So Ji Sub and Gong Hyo Jin. I’d be lying to my face if my shippy heart didn’t flutter, if my brain didn’t over-think and over-analyse their constant teasing, flirtation and certain gestures of them off the camera telling us that something’s going on between them. But lucky I’m not as mad a RL shipper as I used to be when I was a teen, so either way, it’s all good when co-stars actually have so much fun together. Lovelovelove it!
So, just to mark my adoration for the year’s most adorable pair of co-stars, I’m going to do TMS fans a lil favour by translating their most recent BTS interview – which will make you go bonkers with their overflowing cuteness. It’s gonna be a word by word interview just cos summary in gist isn’t my thing, I’ll butcher everything up. But be still hearties, be prepared for the heart flutters to ensue! 🙂
Continue reading So Ji Sub and Gong Hyo Jin cuteness in SBS Late Night Interview [Eng Translated]
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