High End Crush - an impossible crazy love story

It was my weekend project, a short drama with 20 episodes with about 15 minutes each. Some dramas are really dramatics and dense and sometimes you need a light drama to balance, that’s the case of this drama.

The story goes around an arrogant and rich man that runs an entertainment company, he founds an innocent girl that have lived almost her entire life isolated in the top of a mountain, she is kind and brutal at the same time. He tries to make her become a celebrity but in the process he falls in love for her.

Too stressed? watch it… Very busy? watch it… With a lot of free time? watch it…

Jung Il Woo was amazing as a crazy business man with no soul and feelings, it’s impossible don’t fall in love with him. He is funny too, what is extremely important in a comedy, I liked the transition between emotions, how he could be very comic and then very dramatic.

Jin Se Yun was very nice too, proving that to be a good actress you don’t need to expose your body and overflow sensuality, you can play a naive girl with a lot to show.

So, on Saturday prepare the drama, the popcorn and a good company to what it… Have fun and comment your impression on it!!!

Korean Nail Art

 

Another interesting thing in Korea is the nailing art... They are such creative people! The designers are so cute and elaboreted... Now let's talk about it!

THE DESIGNER
If you are like me and think that just enamels are more than enough, you don't know Korean nail art... they use different colors and mix them, add some small rocks, symbols and everything you can imagine. I can't do it... if I am able to put the right quantity of enamel in my nail I feel like a professional!

THE SIZE
The most beautiful nails are the long ones, after all what can you do in a microscopic nail?! Keep it long and allow the nail designer professional to work on it, but please, keep it in a normal long size, after all you're not a star of a scary movie.

THE PRICE
I heard from a Korean friend that a nailing can cost about $30 (thirty dollars!!!!). You have no idea how I think it's expensive, I know that it's pretty, such a beautiful work must be expensive, but come on, how can I pay $30 for something that will be destroyed in the first time I wash the dishes. NO WAY! I'm not that rich to spend this anount of money twice a month.

If you are like me and prefer do it yourself, you know how difficult it can be. Your left hand nails are pretty but when you try to do the same in your right hand nails, it's a disarter! When people ask to look my nails, I just show them the good hand work (my left hand)! I wish both could be so good!




That's why I prefer do it myself, of course it's not like a professional nailing, but I can live with that (and I won't be poor beacause of it).

To the Beautiful You (아름다운 그대에게)

My weekend project was this school drama called “To the beautiful you”, it has 16 episodes with one hour each.

The story goes around an Olympic golden medal boy, Kang Tae Joon (Choi Min Ho) that after some problems had decided to stop jumping and there is a Korean girls, Goo Jae Hee (Choi Seol Ri) that lives in the USA since she was 5 that watched his competition and was inspired by it to start running. So, Goo Jae Hee decided to move to Korea and study in his school disguised as a boy, because it's not permitted girls in this school.

Her dream is to watch Kang Tae Joon jumping again and she tries to help out… they share a room, but Kang Tae Joon isn't that easy to live with.

Actually they turned a creepy stalking story in a romantic one… if someone came from a country so far as the USA just to stay with me, I would be very scary and would call the police! But it worked well… another thing is that the antagonists  (the villains) here are not bad, you start hating them but turn out that at the end they change and you get to know their background… when you realize you forgave them and start loving them too. It's terrible,  I need someone to hate and scream with!!! LOL

Choi Min Ho was fantastic in this drama because he is an athlete indeed, I couldn’t count how many times he workout there, just to remember it make me feel tired! His body is awesome too, what helps to believe in the story.

Choi Seol Ri is fantastic too, she played a boy and it was very credible, she is pretty of course but her lips are just too big, Angelina Jolie would feel jealous about them… Maybe I’m a bit jealous too. She is young but I would like to watch more dramas with her.

It’s a cute drama, I would totally recommend it… especially with you like Olympic sports or just hot guy without shirts (there were many scenes with shirtless boys).

Korean hair and Blangs

Why do Korean girls love bangs that much? I found out the truth!!!! It's because it makes them look much more younger!!! Can you believe it?! If you don't, please watch the video above and understand all this...

It's totally unfair with the rest of us (girls around the world), come on, Korean girls have those cute small eyes and now with a simple hair cut they look younger, innocent and adorable... what's it? Karma? I'd like to be Korean too!!! And about the small eyes... can you believe they don't like it? Seriously... what's wrong with these ladies?! Your small eyes are so unique, they define you and make koreans even more awesome, please, don't try to make it look bigger.

Why do you want big eyes?!

I can't understand...

Now let's get back to the hair... Normally Korean people have straight hair, what is fantastic (I have curly hair and I can assure you that it's not funny), with straight hair you don't even have to brush it, just tie up and go out, it would never happen with curly hair... curly hair needs water to brush, a strong comb, hair creams, patience, magic, etc... and of course, when you finish to fix the curly hair, you can't touch it anymore or it will be destroyed!

As you could see in the video, Korean girls look younger with bangs... what is unfair... so what do you think of stopping using it to make things fair?! After all, Korean girls have cute small eyes, straight hair, lovely bangs and a perfect skin... what is left for the rest of us? mere mortals? lol

Now, let me be serious for a moment... How can someone be

so cute with bangs like that? I always wished bangs like yours, but I couldn't have it... I can't have bangs... I can't have So Ji Sub... Life isn't fair... kkkkkkkk

Look how wonderful it is... I just loved his bangs... (I'm talking about the bangs ladies, just the bangs...)

Moonlight Drawn by Clouds (구르미 그린 달빛)

Honestly, I don’t know how to start this post today... In the past 58 minutes I have experienced the most different emotions, I hated, loved, laughed and cried, all this just watching this wonderful Korean drama. You don’t need more clues to understand that I’ve loved it, right?

The story was amazing from the beginning to the end, nothing there disappointed me and I wouldn’t think in a best end even if I could live 1000 years. It’s a historical drama and I thought I wouldn’t like it because normally we don’t like old stuff, but I was completely wrong… It was incredible!! Ok… let’s talk about the main actor and actress.

Park Bo Gum really surprised me, he is just 23 but so talented, I was impressed with his acting and I imagine that play a historical Crown Prince isn’t an easy task. But he did it… totally perfect! Something that I couldn’t stop staring was his mouth (oh my Gosh, such a beautiful mouth with that cute lips…), doesn’t matter if he had to be serious or laughing, he was amazing. (So Ji Sub don’t be jealous, you are my favorite yet).

Talking about surprises… Kim Yoo Jung was fantastic as a eunuch, but are you ready to the most shocking part?! She is just 17 years old… yeah! 17!!! How someone so young can be so talented?! With 17 I couldn’t even remember the day of the week in that day (actually sometimes I can’t remember it either, even being older now), how can she remember all her lines and beside that act so perfectly as an actress. I’m sure I’m going to be shocked more times if this young lady keeps acting.

I’m quite sure that you have watched it and if you didn’t, please stop doing whatever you are doing now and watch it immediately! You won’t regret it, you will fall in love just like I did… 

Where is my Crown Prince? I want one now… How about you?!

Let's Fight Ghost - it won't just scary you but surprise you!

Let's Fight Ghost (싸우자 귀신아) is a drama about ghosts that can be scary and cute at the same time! A lot of people were watching it and I confess I was curious about it, how they would make a ghost drama romantic and scary. By the way, I love horror movies but I don't believe  ghosts or eveil spirits...

The plot is well written, it goes around a boy, Bong Pal (Ok Taec Yeon), that can see ghosts and makes money using his power, he has no consideration with the spirits and the only thing that matters is the payment after the work is done. So one day he receives a new hint about a ghost girl in a school and from that moment on his life changes. The female ghost, Hyun Ji (Kim So Hyun), isn't easy to take down and she beat him, beside the humiliation they surprisilly become friends and you start wishing that they could become something more... Several mysterious events surround them and he uses her ghost abilities to solve the problems they face.

 In this drama Ok Taec Yeon was good, however his acting skills lack in some points, maybe after getting some experience he can become an excellent actor, right now he is just good. It's important express certain emotions and involve the audience that is watching it... but I must say that he is really good in the action scenes!

This is one of the few times where I liked more the actress than the actor, as a ghost Kim So Hyun was fantastic, I cried and laughed with here several times and her ability with martial arts was satisfatory, I liked her acting in this drama! And she is cute too!

Movies and dramas with ghosts are the best to watch with your boyfriend or gilrfriend, this way during the scary parts you have an excuse to hug each other! lol

So, tell me... Do you believe in ghosts?

Post your comment below!!!

Kiss at the first sign!

Talk about kiss wasn't a big deal in my life, especially in this crazy world where people are losing their minds and being more and more explicit in their affective demonstrations. However, I was shocked after watch a Korean drama.

I was watching Oh My Venus and my heart was beating so fast while the kiss moment was approaching, my hands were sweating, my mouth was dry and I was locking in the bottle of my throat the scream of happiness for finally see them together. Now please, imagine my disappointment when the expected kiss was just a peck kiss (the lips touching quickly).

Both character were over 30 years old and that was the kiss?! Really?! Come on, kids around the world have shared deeper kisses than those two. After a moment of deep and profound reflection, I understood that I was looking the reflection of a whole culture, with different standards and different attitudes.

So, I asked a female friend about her experiences kissing, she told me that in the first date they never kiss and when they do kiss, they have a peck kiss first to later on start kissing for real. I thought it was just with girls, but than I asked a male friend and he told me that he never kiss in the first date and normally the first kiss is a peck kiss.

But of course there are open mouth kisses and with tongue too, but they don't do it in public or with someone they barely know. They keep these things for private moments… there are others ways to show affection than pressing your tongue in your boy/girlfriend's throat to everybody see.

My Korean female friend's first kiss was with 22 years old and my Korean male friend's first kiss was with 17. I don't have to say how in that moment I felt like Mary Magdalene, the prostitute… I will never reveal how old I was when I first kissed! Not even under severe torture (maybe just if So Ji Sub asks me… I can’t hide anything from him).

In the occidental culture people believe they have to make themselves happy, without a second thought… so it causes a disintegration of values, kids are not kids anymore, a kiss isn't a proof of affection and “I love you” is the same as “good morning” these days. However, the oriental culture (and more specific here the Korean) are trying to preserve their values and beliefs.

During the dramas I have been watching I could see that more than the story itself there was a group of values being thought. The respect to the oldest, the teamwork in schools, workplaces and life, the respect to the body through alimentary habits, and so forth.

 People there don't touch each other for no reason, their space and bodies are special that's why that even a simple and pure peck kiss has an entire different meaning. Honestly I envy those values and standards, I believe we have much to learn with the oriental cultures.

Kiss someone is good, but kiss someone you really love and care about is much better… so, stop kissing-first-and-asking-later and starting looking for the right person to kiss!

I’m curious now… How old were you when you first kissed?

Please post your comment!!

So Ji Sub - the personification of my dreams

If you have the immensurable pleasure to really talk with me in real life, you must know that I am a big fan of So Ji Sub and today’s post is about him. I wish he could read it as well, but for reasons that are beyond my control I believe he won’t (what must be the best since I will say some embarrassing things here). This is probably going to be the longest post I had published in this blog… maybe I could take this and make a book (or trilogy)… lol

First of all let me tell you who are my idols and why I consider them as my idols, in fact I have just 3 idols, I will talk about them in the chronologic order and not in importance order. 

The first of them is called Inuyasha, if you don’t know him maybe you haven’t seen his anime (a Japanese cartoon)… yes, he is a fictional character of a Japanese animation! You are probably laughing or rolling your eyes, imagining how crazy someone like me could be…

I watched it when a was a child/teenager and I was so in love with him that I dreamt with him once, a really romantic dream! I love his white hair, rude manners and a protective instinct that melts my heart… My first Idol!

After that there is Jonny Depp, an American actor famous for his character Jack Sparrow in Pirates Of The Caribbean, I must say that what fascinates me is his crazy look. What can I say?! I like crazy people… All my students could confirm it, I love use him in my examples, specially associated with the adjectives crazy, handsome and sexy…

Now, my last Idol but not less important… SO JI SUB!!!! I must say that he was responsible for my addiction in Korean dramas and consequently my interest in Korean language and culture… After I have watched “Oh my Venus” it was kind of inevitable.

And I am sure every girl that is reading it right now is shaking her head in agreement while her heart is beating as fast as a rocket, or as fast as the light speed (nothing can be faster than this). But I have plausible reasons to admire him as my most recent Idol.

Reason 1: his body

Come on… how someone can be so hot like him and at his age?! I am not saying that he is an ancient mummy (trust me, nothing in his abb would suggest it), but he is 39 years old, almost 40 (his birthday is on November 4^th)… A lot of men with their twenty something aren’t as hot as him. It’s against the laws of nature be so good looking like him, but I forgive him.

Reason 2: his talents

I first met him as an actor and I don’t have to say how amazing he was, you probably know it too… but then I found out that he is a singer and a business man, what is incredible is that he is awesome in every single area. He is known as a great professional and it’s something that must be recognized, someone so rich and handsome could be irresponsible as much as he wanted to, but no, he is a perfect gentleman.

Reason 3: destiny

I was destined to admire him, that’s something inexplicable… almost magical… I don’t know why I like him so much (as a human being and professional). So, I am going to ask a favor (something I have already asked to my Korean friends), if you have this incredible opportunity to meet So Ji Sub in person, before you faint or die from a heart attack (it was what would happen to me), please, tell him that he has a huge, enormous, immensurable fan in Brazil that admires his work and himself. I’m Adriana (아 드리 아나), but he can called me Drica (드리카) or whatever he wants… lol

By the way, that's the first time I truly envy a dog, I wish I could be Kiki for a day... just one day... Can you imagine So Ji Sub feeding me, washing my fur, scratching my belly… well, let’s stop here... no more wild ideas! kkkkkkkk

That’s not all, but I don’t need to say more, I tried to show my point and I believe you get it… Now, tell me, why do you like Si Ji Sub so much? Post you comment!

Splash Splash Love (퐁당퐁당 LOVE)

Splash Splash Love surprised me because it was extremely short, just two episodes with about an hour each one! I must be honest here, I'm not a big fan of time travel dramas, because normally the main characters can stay together.

Something that is totally understandable, it's difficult to abandon your famili and life in the future with all the commodities (internet, hot water, a toilet) to stay in the past, even if the love of your life is there. So I'm not interested in stories with no happy endings…

However against all my senses I started watching it… well let me talk about the story first and then I can tell you my impression on it.

The story goes around Dan Bi (Kim Seul Gi), a girl that hates mathematic and has a strange connection with the rain that allows her to travel into time… in the day she's going to make an important test to the university she runs away and jumps into a puddle.

She travels to the the past and meet the king Lee Do (Yoon Doo Joon), he understood she was an eunuch and allows her to assist him with mathematical issues. Time passes and they fall in love, however life in the past it's not easy...

Yoon Doo Joon was good like a prince, I almost didn’t recognize him from other dramas I have seen.

Kim Seul Gi was ok.. however she lacks in so many ways as a person who was transported to the past (maybe the plot wasn'thelpful)… she definitely won't be in my top 10 list! Sorry… But something remarkable about her is the ability of look like a high school girl, I would never imagine she was almost my age, an actress with 25 years old that plays a girl with 18 must be reconized by her acting skills (and good genes).

It's difficult to judge this drama once it's so short, but if you don't have nothing better to do you could give a chance to it… or maybe just take a nap… I don't know...