Mood: Fresh.
Listening to: Goo (Koo) Hye Sun's Love Story.
Reading: High School Debut *hiatus for like a couple of days*.
Watching: SHOWS: Tree of Heaven.
What's up n****'s and o***'s? For those of you who are tired of guessing that saying I put on my last blog I'll finally uncover the meaning. "Noona" and "Oppa." Both of the sayings mean older people. Noona "older sisters, older girls" and Oppa "older brothers, older boys." I find 'oppa' is really cute. But I find it pretty annoying when British/white fan girls mix in the Japanese and Korean subculture together. e.g "Oppa is so Kawaii!" "Kawaii" for those of you who don't know (which should be simply impossible if you're reading a blog of an Asian fanatic) means 'cute' in Japanese. If you're going to say is older bro is cute then do it one language. I'm still going to mix my Korean puns together with English though. XD Okay this was a pretty long intro...anyways,
I finally decided on a new drama after going through a lot of peoples choices for their Korean dramas. I settled on Tree of Heaven! <3 :) :D <3 IT'S BRILLIANT!
Seriously it's probably one of the best Korean dramas, I've ever seen! It's 70 minutes each episode (I know similarities to other K-dramas/Full House) and I probably would've done a daily blog about it but I was so addicted I'm nearly finished it! It only has 10 episodes and I think I know the reason why...although it's incredibly endearing and is very unpredictable it definitely has its twists and it's really sad! D: You'll basically cry almost every episode. I almost couldn't handle all of the tearing. I do recommend it however, be cautious to who you're watching it with - you don't want to be spilling out tears with your metal cousin. DX That was a horrible caution but I guess it could happen? Anyways, it's probably the most amazing drama I've luckily encountered. I might be giving you so much hope you'll hate it after but I think it's weird how it wasn't that much advertised. :/ Okay, I'm probably killing you without the synopsis. Btw, it's a Korean/Japanese drama together. I forgot to mention it because a lot of the first couple of episodes are basically just Japanese haha. Here's the synopsis *from DramaWiki*:
Hana is a bright young girl who lost her father at a young age. When her mother returns to Japan, she comes with her new Korean husband and his son Yunsuh. Yunsuh’s mother died during his 10th birthday and after her death, he becomes autistic. While Hana is fond of her new step-brother, he wants nothing to do with her. When their parents leave on their honeymoon, Hana’s mother leaves the children with her deceased husband’s sister who will manage their inn during the trip. While they are gone, the aunt and her daughter Maya abuse Hana and make plans to sell the inn in order to pay for gambling debts and college. Despite all of this, Hana finds comfort in her brother who begins to open up to her and eventually speaks after his 20th Birthday and the day his mother passed away. Yunsush's mother died on the same day as he was turning 10, 10 years ago. As they start to have feelings for one another, Hana is afraid to love him. She soon leaves with her "senpai", Fujiwara Ryu, who also likes her. Later on, Maya gets jealous, and decides to make Hana's life even more miserable.
I wish there was Wikipedia to give a better description because that only explains three episodes and there is ten and it gets really intense after the three episodes. Plus Lee Wan's acting was incredible <3 he's literally an angel and I can't believe he hasn't been active in acting for a bit. His facial expressions fit every part of him and he even scared me in the beginning. He's supposed to be really mean and whatnot but opens up to Hana blahblahblah.
If I've really gotten you addicted I'll post an MV here. Here is a more accurate MV of Tree of Heaven: WARNING THERE ARE MASSIVE SPOILERS, ESPECIALLY NEAR THE END, I DON'T RECOMMEND GOING PAST THE 4-MINUTE MARK!
0___0 Since it's so sad and I'm almost finished it, I still need more suggestions on which dramas to watch. Here are some suggestions I've picked up from yesterdays search and some I've had for awhile but I haven't picked up on *excluding all movies* - Korean, Japanese -weirdly enough not Taiwanese-:
Hong Gil Dong,
Who are you?,
Hello! Miss,
Anmitsu Hime 1/2 SP,
The World That They Live In,
My Name is Kim Sam Soon.
The ones I've been really picking up on is Hello! Miss, The World That They Live In and My Name Is Kim Sam Soon. These are quite old but memorable dramas, am I right? They're all SURPRISINGLY Korean. -.- Sorry, I don't like to favor but they're really good. Bahaha. xP There was this one special (not drama) Amnitsu Hime 1/2 that was Japanese that I wanted to watch with Inoue Mao and Uchida Asahi! <3 (he's in Tree of Heaven) but he doesn't come into Amnitsu Hime until the second special. Fail. :/ Which ones looks most appealing? I know all three that I suggested are pretty big, especially My Name Is Kim Sam Soon. x[ I think I might watch the special because it's really short and then maybe Hello! Miss? D: It has Lee Da Hae - a lot of *ahem* boys *ahem* people like her so it can't be that bad. 8D Btw I've been keeping active in the K-Pop culture, everyone hear about Yoon Eun-Hye's new drama, Take Care of My Lady and her new photoshoot? It seems pretty stella.
More of K-pop news;; Song Hye Kyo (Gyo) and fellow actor Hyun Bin from 'The World That They Live In' has are officially going out! xD OMFG. It's not a rumor it's official and it has been announced! At least we know there will be more gorgeous looking babies coming from them to share.
Moving a little more me-involved in the Korean culture, I'm glad to say I'm taking apart of Korean's own twitter site. That's right ladies and gentlemen or should I say noona's and oppa's - if you haven't heard of the Korean twitter to get in touch with your favorite celebs (most recently G-Dragon from Big Bang joined and 2NE1 from before) you should now: featuring - ME2DAY.NET A weird title but it doesn't matter. XP It's all in Korean so have fun trying to register and stalk G-Dragon all of you oversees fans/non-Korean fans. I know for all of you crazed fans you'll find a way to register even if you can't translate Hangul. Like I did, add me: http://me2day.net/maddi I even got my own name as the username (it's usually taken) haha. Trust me it was hard trying to register, I eventually want on yahoo answers to ask my fellow Koreans to translate the registration form. D: Luckily, someone did and I got to register but I can't fill in my personal information or anything haha. My first status update was, "lee wan saranghae." Figure out the translation yourselves. XD
Okay all noona's and oppa's, time to say goodnight! :)
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-Cinney.
