go-kekkon omedeto gozaimasu

OMG! My aunt is going to be married TOMORROW!! And she's probably only about 25~ish? OMG OMG OMG! Tsk my mom is so slow at getting me in touch with this. Well at least she told me that her wedding ceremony is going to be tomorrow! *laughing out of nowhere* omg this is soo weird.

You see everytime I go back to Indo she's always the one who's willing to skip work (sometimes) or go away somewhere during the weekend. And now... TT_TT she's taken. Well she's already taken since I went back there (aka already has a boyfriend but now gonna be her husband) but she's always willing to go with me alone and she's so fun and tomboyish and childish and funny and it somehow feels like she's ageless or rather will 'never' marry (hahaha I'm being mean now) but also it's like I'm missing a great friend now...

*sigh* and now she's going to be married... hehe I'm being selfish I know... But I really am going to miss having the out-of-this-world person that I always hang around with. You might think that she's still gonna be the same but I'm sure that that it won't be the same now... o well... I'm really happy for her, don't get me wrong, I just kinda wish I'm there to congratulate her on her very special day and not being there feels like I kinda missed out a bit ^^; but I kinda already know from long ago that she probably will be married but don't know when.


Otherwise, may all their days filled with happiness, and immense wealth and well-being. I will pray for their happiness all the way across the sea ^^. I just have to remember to congratulate her tomorrow though :P

Goong

BEWARE! VERY VERY LONG POST! This is seriously Marina's fault LOL XD I'm kidding... I have always followed the manga until the day when I don't have the time (or really the will) to read them anymore... You see, M-chan (sorry it just sounds so cute) introduced me to the real-life cast drama of Goong (english name--Palace or Princess Hours) that has been adapted from the Korean manhwa.

The plot is set around modern-day constitutional Korean monarchy (just to let you know I'm pretty sure Korea don't have monarchy anymore, I think...). Our heroin, Chae-Gyung, is a typical normal high schooler until one day she was told that she has to marry the Prince of Korea because of a promise made between her late grandfather and the late King of Korea. As always with dramas there are greeds, love, lusts, treacheries that our characters have to go through. The story really revolves around 4 main characters though.

CASTS (note, the cast list does not correspond to the photo below): Yoon Eun-Hye as Shin Chae-Gyung (aka the commoner who became the crown princess), Jo Ji-Hoon as Lee Shin (aka the crown prince), Kim Jung-Hoon as Lee-Yul (aka the ex-crown prince, watch the story it's too much of a pain to write it down), Song Ji-Hyo as Min Hyo-Rin (aka err... hard to describe watch the drama then) those are the 4 main characters really... (photo below: from left, Hyo-Rin, Yul, Chae-Gyung, Shin -- I admit Shin doesn't look good in this photo XD)

VERDICT: so after seeing the whole 24 episodes in less than a week's time (plus the additional frustration of having to go back and forward the pages trying to find the right episode sequence, when one stupidly realise you can just go to the person's page and go through the neat list of episodes without having to look through the main page trying to find it... if you don't understand don't worry) I can say that this is probably a drama for the romantics. What makes this appealing is not only the incredibly beautiful, pretty, handsome looking casts but also the very intriguing idea of a 'Cinderella' story in a different kind of uptake. But this differs from the terribly too soapy and often predictable (even though I admit the ending was pretty corny) storyline where it is also has its so-funny-you-could-die-from-laughter moments.

COMMENTS: (I'm definitely going to be a loose canon now) OMG!! Shin is so cute XD ok I know that M-chan likes Yul better but I don't know... there's definitely something appealing about Shin (or real-life actor's name, Jo Ji-Hoon). Maybe just because he has the 'aura', and he's also apparently a model! Mwahahahaha... I think Yul (real-life name, Kim Jung-Hoon) is cute too but I still prefer Shin though (hehe), to make a plus he's actually taller than Yul too, which makes him even more attractive (KYAA!) aiyaa... I'm really not someone who idolises someone else but Jo Ji-Hoon is really a frickin'-good-lookin' man! A~nyway... I better not spend that much time drooling over him. Seriously, I can't remember all of the good looking characters that I adore from my drama-obsessed past (yes, there was a time when I bought god-knows-how-many frickin' asian dramas and watched till god-knows-what-time). There were good-looking guys, but I just can't remember them. And it's such a hassle to remember their asian names anyway coz it takes so much effort for my feeble brain, so I just ignore. And Yoon Eun-Hye is soo cute as Chae-Gyung! She so fits the part.

What I hate about this drama is that the characters are sort of... howdoyousayit? ... dumb? There's a heck lot of confusing emotions and uncertain relationships. I don't know whether it's to create suspense or maybe it's just because relationship in modern-day Korea (or any Asian country for that matter) is like that but seriously it's driving me nuts! I just want to slap them all and say "just bloody tell that other person how you feel!" or "just bloody ask him what he feels!" aiyaa! it's so frustrating having to be in this suspenseful modes when everything could be done in half a second. Like any Asian dramas there are a lot of parts where the characters misunderstand each other and this is yet another frustrating moment for me. But I guess that's sort of the signature of dramas and mangas and what-not. It's just frustrating at times. I do admit that I like the storyline but it just takes too long to finish (it's probably better to read the manga because it happens faster I guess... but the manga is different than the drama though and the manga is not even finished yet). The end gets a bit tedious with bloody-hell-how-many-more-do-we-have-to-go-through amounts of flashbacks and conversations. So I skipped most parts from episode 20 onwards (but I didn't fast forward episode 24 because it's the final ^--^). And plus the acting of the young actors aren't really that convincing, although I have to say the chemistry between the two main casts slowly began to be more comfortable gradually throughout the episodes than in the beginning.

OVERALL: It is a cute drama that I kinda recommend to those who are a romantic at heart and probably who are into the manga (sorry I kept saying manga out of habit, but I guess it should be manhwa instead). It has cute scenes that just make you giggle and it also gives equal sympathies for all of the characters (although surprisingly enough the amount of comments empathising Yul is overwhelming when I knew from the beginning that he's greedy for wanting the Bigungmama aka Crown Princess, who is already MARRIED to the crown prince aka Chae Gyung already married to Shin, but it seems that everyone is soo enthralled into getting Yul to go with CG instead... it's soo annoying reading the comments, if you don't understand this part don't worry ^^;). That is all for this series. I'll watch another series that M-chan recommends me later when I finally get the break (WOOHOO!).

-- tsk damn I should really have done my motion graphics for tomorrow but I can't be bothered +__+ because it's so goddang tedious and boring and Idon'twannadothis TT^TT ttasukette~!--

ps. Ji-Hoon kawaii ne~! XD (*sigh just wanna say that) if you want to you can have a look at an interview he did with a magazine talking about Goong over [here]

pps. I spent more than 30 minutes on this post! XP help~!