Dramas of a Sunday evening...

Am through episode 19 of Green Rose which continues to be very good. I especially loved ( otp spoiler )

I decided to take a little break from that drama then because I can't marathon without a break and, in interests of clearing my drama slate, I continued my watch of Love Story in Harvard. Finished ep 5. The law stuff in it makes my head hurt more even than the English, I am not super keen on the leading lady (she is OK but she doesn't make me love her like most of kdrama heroines do) and at least so far, it's a bit too fluffy, but:

1. Kim Rae Won is full of adorable. He is so full of adorable, he covers the rest of the cast. And Hyon-Woo is one of those rare well-adjusted laid-back, fun guys you see so rarely as protagonists in drama. He'd actually be someone fun to date in RL.

2. KISSING. OMG, the first kiss ('touchdown!') was the most adorable kdrama first kiss ever. And the way they kiss in the bathroom and giggle and everything and she is all 'I need to brush teeth first' is...so cute. They arean incredibly functional OTP. (Though girl, if KRW is opening his mouth to kiss you, at least pretend to open yours, don't hold your lips together so tightly, it looks weird).

Anyhow, once I am done with GR, my drama slate is confusing.

Should I:

1. Rewatch Goong or My Girl, one of dramas I adore
2. Watch a wuxia drama
3. Watch a Lee Dong Gun drama
4. Watch Lovers.

Heeeeelp :) (And I am not even mentioning the other ones I have).

Dramas of a Sunday evening...

Am through episode 19 of Green Rose which continues to be very good. I especially loved ( otp spoiler )

I decided to take a little break from that drama then because I can't marathon without a break and, in interests of clearing my drama slate, I continued my watch of Love Story in Harvard. Finished ep 5. The law stuff in it makes my head hurt more even than the English, I am not super keen on the leading lady (she is OK but she doesn't make me love her like most of kdrama heroines do) and at least so far, it's a bit too fluffy, but:

1. Kim Rae Won is full of adorable. He is so full of adorable, he covers the rest of the cast. And Hyon-Woo is one of those rare well-adjusted laid-back, fun guys you see so rarely as protagonists in drama. He'd actually be someone fun to date in RL.

2. KISSING. OMG, the first kiss ('touchdown!') was the most adorable kdrama first kiss ever. And the way they kiss in the bathroom and giggle and everything and she is all 'I need to brush teeth first' is...so cute. They arean incredibly functional OTP. (Though girl, if KRW is opening his mouth to kiss you, at least pretend to open yours, don't hold your lips together so tightly, it looks weird).

Anyhow, once I am done with GR, my drama slate is confusing.

Should I:

1. Rewatch Goong or My Girl, one of dramas I adore
2. Watch a wuxia drama
3. Watch a Lee Dong Gun drama
4. Watch Lovers.

Heeeeelp :) (And I am not even mentioning the other ones I have).

Dramas of a Sunday evening...

Am through episode 19 of Green Rose which continues to be very good. I especially loved ( otp spoiler )

I decided to take a little break from that drama then because I can't marathon without a break and, in interests of clearing my drama slate, I continued my watch of Love Story in Harvard. Finished ep 5. The law stuff in it makes my head hurt more even than the English, I am not super keen on the leading lady (she is OK but she doesn't make me love her like most of kdrama heroines do) and at least so far, it's a bit too fluffy, but:

1. Kim Rae Won is full of adorable. He is so full of adorable, he covers the rest of the cast. And Hyon-Woo is one of those rare well-adjusted laid-back, fun guys you see so rarely as protagonists in drama. He'd actually be someone fun to date in RL.

2. KISSING. OMG, the first kiss ('touchdown!') was the most adorable kdrama first kiss ever. And the way they kiss in the bathroom and giggle and everything and she is all 'I need to brush teeth first' is...so cute. They arean incredibly functional OTP. (Though girl, if KRW is opening his mouth to kiss you, at least pretend to open yours, don't hold your lips together so tightly, it looks weird).

Anyhow, once I am done with GR, my drama slate is confusing.

Should I:

1. Rewatch Goong or My Girl, one of dramas I adore
2. Watch a wuxia drama
3. Watch a Lee Dong Gun drama
4. Watch Lovers.

Heeeeelp :) (And I am not even mentioning the other ones I have).

I venture into odd reading waters and Telugu movie industry

Does anyone else have books in every corner of their house? I basically have books everywhere. I have proper, bona fide, bulging bookshelves in the living room, dining room, and the office/library (which is where Mr. Mousie and I hang out the most actually), but I also have books in the kitchen (mainly cookbooks), a few books in the bedroom (though I literally only sleep there, you never know when you want something to read).

I also keep books in the bathroom. They are my 'bathtub' reading, random fluffy things I don't mind getting wet (thus my antique edition of Keats stays out :D). I just bought two books to add to that bathtub pile: two books in Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series. They are romantic fantasy, or fantastical romance. Depends on your definition I guess. They are all an interconnected series, but since I have no idea of the order, I just got two random ones. Besides, they are hardly convoluted on plot.

Ms. Kenyon seems to realize that one modern woman+one immortal ghoul hunter with severe trauma+hot sex=winning combo, so that's basically the books (some sort of immortal dark hunter society and the women who fall for them). She's clearly onto good thing :P They seem to be as brainless as popcorn but just as addictive. Consider it shoujo manga in print form. Of course, since the other thing I am reading for fun is about Hittite legal system, I am getting mental whiplash :D

In other news, tonight I get to watch my very first Telugu movie, Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana (just try saying it fast).

Telugu movie industry is based in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. It is (according to wikipedia) the largest producer of movies in India, yes, even more prolific than the much more famous Hindi-speaking Bollywood. Of course, vast majority of these movies are horrible and never seen outside AP (despite being somwhat more prolific than Bollywood, Tollywood is nowhere near as good), but a small portion are nice and get a wider distribution. NN is one of them.



Supposedly a very popular and cute romantic comedy, NN, starts when a NRI [Non-Resident Indian] youngster from London (Siddharth) comes to India with his parents to attend a family wedding. Here he sees a comely young girl Siri (Trisha) and falls for her instantly. She also has a thing going for him, but doesn't come out openly. So where is the hitch? Her brother Sivaramakrishnan (Srihari) who has brought up her in life, doesn't like rich people. From Siddharth's side, his mother (Geeta) is opposed to the idea of her son going for a poor girl. But Siddharth is adamant and steadfast. So Sivaramakrishnan throws the gauntlet, and gives him a piece of land and asks him to come up with more produce than he could.

Produce, people! Seriously. How adorable is that. Proving you are the better man through better farming skills.

Awesome.

( Pictures that redefine adorable )

I venture into odd reading waters and Telugu movie industry

Does anyone else have books in every corner of their house? I basically have books everywhere. I have proper, bona fide, bulging bookshelves in the living room, dining room, and the office/library (which is where Mr. Mousie and I hang out the most actually), but I also have books in the kitchen (mainly cookbooks), a few books in the bedroom (though I literally only sleep there, you never know when you want something to read).

I also keep books in the bathroom. They are my 'bathtub' reading, random fluffy things I don't mind getting wet (thus my antique edition of Keats stays out :D). I just bought two books to add to that bathtub pile: two books in Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series. They are romantic fantasy, or fantastical romance. Depends on your definition I guess. They are all an interconnected series, but since I have no idea of the order, I just got two random ones. Besides, they are hardly convoluted on plot.

Ms. Kenyon seems to realize that one modern woman+one immortal ghoul hunter with severe trauma+hot sex=winning combo, so that's basically the books (some sort of immortal dark hunter society and the women who fall for them). She's clearly onto good thing :P They seem to be as brainless as popcorn but just as addictive. Consider it shoujo manga in print form. Of course, since the other thing I am reading for fun is about Hittite legal system, I am getting mental whiplash :D

In other news, tonight I get to watch my very first Telugu movie, Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana (just try saying it fast).

Telugu movie industry is based in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. It is (according to wikipedia) the largest producer of movies in India, yes, even more prolific than the much more famous Hindi-speaking Bollywood. Of course, vast majority of these movies are horrible and never seen outside AP (despite being somwhat more prolific than Bollywood, Tollywood is nowhere near as good), but a small portion are nice and get a wider distribution. NN is one of them.



Supposedly a very popular and cute romantic comedy, NN, starts when a NRI [Non-Resident Indian] youngster from London (Siddharth) comes to India with his parents to attend a family wedding. Here he sees a comely young girl Siri (Trisha) and falls for her instantly. She also has a thing going for him, but doesn't come out openly. So where is the hitch? Her brother Sivaramakrishnan (Srihari) who has brought up her in life, doesn't like rich people. From Siddharth's side, his mother (Geeta) is opposed to the idea of her son going for a poor girl. But Siddharth is adamant and steadfast. So Sivaramakrishnan throws the gauntlet, and gives him a piece of land and asks him to come up with more produce than he could.

Produce, people! Seriously. How adorable is that. Proving you are the better man through better farming skills.

Awesome.

( Pictures that redefine adorable )

I venture into odd reading waters and Telugu movie industry

Does anyone else have books in every corner of their house? I basically have books everywhere. I have proper, bona fide, bulging bookshelves in the living room, dining room, and the office/library (which is where Mr. Mousie and I hang out the most actually), but I also have books in the kitchen (mainly cookbooks), a few books in the bedroom (though I literally only sleep there, you never know when you want something to read).

I also keep books in the bathroom. They are my 'bathtub' reading, random fluffy things I don't mind getting wet (thus my antique edition of Keats stays out :D). I just bought two books to add to that bathtub pile: two books in Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series. They are romantic fantasy, or fantastical romance. Depends on your definition I guess. They are all an interconnected series, but since I have no idea of the order, I just got two random ones. Besides, they are hardly convoluted on plot.

Ms. Kenyon seems to realize that one modern woman+one immortal ghoul hunter with severe trauma+hot sex=winning combo, so that's basically the books (some sort of immortal dark hunter society and the women who fall for them). She's clearly onto good thing :P They seem to be as brainless as popcorn but just as addictive. Consider it shoujo manga in print form. Of course, since the other thing I am reading for fun is about Hittite legal system, I am getting mental whiplash :D

In other news, tonight I get to watch my very first Telugu movie, Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana (just try saying it fast).

Telugu movie industry is based in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. It is (according to wikipedia) the largest producer of movies in India, yes, even more prolific than the much more famous Hindi-speaking Bollywood. Of course, vast majority of these movies are horrible and never seen outside AP (despite being somwhat more prolific than Bollywood, Tollywood is nowhere near as good), but a small portion are nice and get a wider distribution. NN is one of them.



Supposedly a very popular and cute romantic comedy, NN, starts when a NRI [Non-Resident Indian] youngster from London (Siddharth) comes to India with his parents to attend a family wedding. Here he sees a comely young girl Siri (Trisha) and falls for her instantly. She also has a thing going for him, but doesn't come out openly. So where is the hitch? Her brother Sivaramakrishnan (Srihari) who has brought up her in life, doesn't like rich people. From Siddharth's side, his mother (Geeta) is opposed to the idea of her son going for a poor girl. But Siddharth is adamant and steadfast. So Sivaramakrishnan throws the gauntlet, and gives him a piece of land and asks him to come up with more produce than he could.

Produce, people! Seriously. How adorable is that. Proving you are the better man through better farming skills.

Awesome.

( Pictures that redefine adorable )

OMG OMG OMG they are making Hana Kimi into a jdrama!

OMG OMG OMG OMG!

Hana Kimi is being adapted into a jdrama.

*dies*

*dies*

*dies*

My favorite jdrama actress, Horihita Maki (of Nobuta Wo Produce and Kurosagi fame) is playing the adorable Mizuki, who cross-dresses to go to an all-boys school to be close to her high jump idol Izumi Sano.

And (meganbmoore, are you sitting down?) OGURI SHUN IS PLAYING SANO!!!!!!!

OMG.

OMG.

Hanazawa Rui gets his own drama. Where he will finally gets the girl. And he gets to be Sano. EEEEEE! And there is such a huge height difference between them (he is 22cm taller! That’s what, over 8.5 inches? EEEE). And it’s Maki and Oguri Shun playing an OTP. OMG. Seriously. OMG

OMG

OMG

OMG.

And Ikuta Toma (who I’ve only seen in cameo in Hanadan but who was pretty) is playing Nakatsu.

I am officially dead.

Seriously, I have no words for the awesomeness.

Pics:

Maki:



Shun (Sano):





Toma (Nakatsu):



I am dead now.

Kthnksbye.

OMG OMG OMG they are making Hana Kimi into a jdrama!

OMG OMG OMG OMG!

Hana Kimi is being adapted into a jdrama.

*dies*

*dies*

*dies*

My favorite jdrama actress, Horihita Maki (of Nobuta Wo Produce and Kurosagi fame) is playing the adorable Mizuki, who cross-dresses to go to an all-boys school to be close to her high jump idol Izumi Sano.

And (meganbmoore, are you sitting down?) OGURI SHUN IS PLAYING SANO!!!!!!!

OMG.

OMG.

Hanazawa Rui gets his own drama. Where he will finally gets the girl. And he gets to be Sano. EEEEEE! And there is such a huge height difference between them (he is 22cm taller! That’s what, over 8.5 inches? EEEE). And it’s Maki and Oguri Shun playing an OTP. OMG. Seriously. OMG

OMG

OMG

OMG.

And Ikuta Toma (who I’ve only seen in cameo in Hanadan but who was pretty) is playing Nakatsu.

I am officially dead.

Seriously, I have no words for the awesomeness.

Pics:

Maki:



Shun (Sano):





Toma (Nakatsu):



I am dead now.

Kthnksbye.

OMG OMG OMG they are making Hana Kimi into a jdrama!

OMG OMG OMG OMG!

Hana Kimi is being adapted into a jdrama.

*dies*

*dies*

*dies*

My favorite jdrama actress, Horihita Maki (of Nobuta Wo Produce and Kurosagi fame) is playing the adorable Mizuki, who cross-dresses to go to an all-boys school to be close to her high jump idol Izumi Sano.

And (meganbmoore, are you sitting down?) OGURI SHUN IS PLAYING SANO!!!!!!!

OMG.

OMG.

Hanazawa Rui gets his own drama. Where he will finally gets the girl. And he gets to be Sano. EEEEEE! And there is such a huge height difference between them (he is 22cm taller! That’s what, over 8.5 inches? EEEE). And it’s Maki and Oguri Shun playing an OTP. OMG. Seriously. OMG

OMG

OMG

OMG.

And Ikuta Toma (who I’ve only seen in cameo in Hanadan but who was pretty) is playing Nakatsu.

I am officially dead.

Seriously, I have no words for the awesomeness.

Pics:

Maki:



Shun (Sano):





Toma (Nakatsu):



I am dead now.

Kthnksbye.

Green Rose, Which Star Are You From, and watchlist ramblings

Who knew that a bare brush of the hands would leave me squeeing incoherently, like a 12 year old?

Green Rose has a certain emotional restraint, almost Victorian in its repression, in the scenes between Jung-Hyun and Soo-Ah, two lovers reuniting after three years apart, but with neither being able (for plot and emotional reasons) to openly acknowledge the other that just…

Just…

OK. I am incoherent again.

( Spoilery babbling )

OK, oh no.

Another kdrama entered contention for my next big drama watch. Which Star Are You From with Kim Rae Won (the kissing fiend, all his dramas have a lot of kissing, LOL). Argh. At this rate, I am going to go a bit nutty trying to narrow it down. Dramas are evil for a person with a short attention span and grabby tendencies, like me. I keep spinning ‘this one next, or this one, or that one?’

I’ll make myself wait though. This one is in my Top 10 ‘to watch soon’ kdramas though.

But these pictures make it hard:



( More pics )

So far, the Ten ‘soonest watched’ kdramas are (order fluid and changes every day :D)

( Lengthy watchlist ramblings )

Green Rose, Which Star Are You From, and watchlist ramblings

Who knew that a bare brush of the hands would leave me squeeing incoherently, like a 12 year old?

Green Rose has a certain emotional restraint, almost Victorian in its repression, in the scenes between Jung-Hyun and Soo-Ah, two lovers reuniting after three years apart, but with neither being able (for plot and emotional reasons) to openly acknowledge the other that just…

Just…

OK. I am incoherent again.

( Spoilery babbling )

OK, oh no.

Another kdrama entered contention for my next big drama watch. Which Star Are You From with Kim Rae Won (the kissing fiend, all his dramas have a lot of kissing, LOL). Argh. At this rate, I am going to go a bit nutty trying to narrow it down. Dramas are evil for a person with a short attention span and grabby tendencies, like me. I keep spinning ‘this one next, or this one, or that one?’

I’ll make myself wait though. This one is in my Top 10 ‘to watch soon’ kdramas though.

But these pictures make it hard:



( More pics )

So far, the Ten ‘soonest watched’ kdramas are (order fluid and changes every day :D)

( Lengthy watchlist ramblings )

Green Rose, Which Star Are You From, and watchlist ramblings

Who knew that a bare brush of the hands would leave me squeeing incoherently, like a 12 year old?

Green Rose has a certain emotional restraint, almost Victorian in its repression, in the scenes between Jung-Hyun and Soo-Ah, two lovers reuniting after three years apart, but with neither being able (for plot and emotional reasons) to openly acknowledge the other that just…

Just…

OK. I am incoherent again.

( Spoilery babbling )

OK, oh no.

Another kdrama entered contention for my next big drama watch. Which Star Are You From with Kim Rae Won (the kissing fiend, all his dramas have a lot of kissing, LOL). Argh. At this rate, I am going to go a bit nutty trying to narrow it down. Dramas are evil for a person with a short attention span and grabby tendencies, like me. I keep spinning ‘this one next, or this one, or that one?’

I’ll make myself wait though. This one is in my Top 10 ‘to watch soon’ kdramas though.

But these pictures make it hard:



( More pics )

So far, the Ten ‘soonest watched’ kdramas are (order fluid and changes every day :D)

( Lengthy watchlist ramblings )