Boys Over Flowers Best Episode Yet…

Have you ever been in a noisy pig pen before? I have and the sound of whining pigs had almost damaged my eardrums.  If you were in my room 15 minutes ago, your eardrums are probably broken right now. It’s amazing my neighbors didn’t call 911. Our euphoria sounded like pigs getting butchered one after another. That’s why my brother seldom watched comedy with us. The volume of our laughs is abnormally high. It’s been such a long time since I have showed this much reaction while watching anything on screen.

That is how exciting Episode 8 was. It was full of good ol’ Korean humorous antiques of which they are best at.

First Impression: Triangle

Ah, this drama is a BREATH of FRESH AIR.  I can just inhale….exhale…. and not see a single male born later than 1980 parading on my screen.  I’ll say “johnny boy” but Inagaki Goro of SMAP is a Johnny, after all.  And this is excluding the children in the flashbacks.

There are moments when I reach my boiling point of all the kiddie dramas, albeit packed with eyecandies.  Okay, who am I kidding with?  We all like our eyecandies.  If they have Ito Atsushi here instead of Eguchi Yosuke, I won’t be gushing as much.   On the contrary, Mizushima Hiro might not be enough to sit through the entire episode of Mei-chan no Shitsuji. I might come back and finish the 1st episode to see if  I can squeeze something intelligible out of it, but that is wishful thinking.

Now, Triangle, on a first episode-basis is awesome beyond words.  Episode 2 may not have brought the same impact as the debut episode, but let’s pretend I haven’t seen episode 2 yet.  The soundtrack and direction style of this drama made me realize how most kdramas pale in comparison with jdramas (based on such criteria).  I mean, no matter how enjoyable and grand (props-wise) BOF is, you just have to admit, Hana Yori Dango is superior in terms of camera work and music direction.  Oopps, I’m getting sidetracked again.

Boys Over Flowers is now on addiction stage

Tell me, when was the last time that you watched a Korean drama which has reached your can’t-wait-for-the-next-episode stage?  I’m not talking about high-caliber dramas, but rather the chick flick kinds.  The kinds which really flesh out the (fan) girl in you.  For me, it was so long ago that I can’t name one from the top of my head.  But I have one right now. At episode six, or even earlier than that, Boys over Flowers has finally reached the stage of what I call “fan girl high.”  I don’t even think guys watch this the same way we do, you know.  All the squealing, giggling, smacking…or is it just me, myself, and I who do that?

Today is a happy day

At 2 PM (Pacific) today, our results for Module 1 was finally posted after almost 4 weeks of waiting.  I was holding my breath during the entire time so I wasn’t in the mood to blog about CASB for a while.  I have never worried about exams before.  If you must know, I *love*the feeling of writing exams.  The best part for me was putting that pen down and handing the paper to the prof.  DONE. FINISH. Now I can get out of here.

Hana Yori Dango – the movie

As requested here is a detailed spoilerish summary of the movie.  This isn’t really like me, giving away spoilers.  But when one bashes, one needs material.  Bash? that’s what I intend to do.

Just to warn you, this post is overly nitpicking on details that were enjoyable to most.  It was not that bad for a kiddie movie.  It was cheesy as it was supposed to be, but I still can’t help but complain.  Because that’s what I’m good at.  Therefore, I highly discourage you from reading this post unless you’re a hater and you want some company on your side.

[First Impression] Boys Overs Flowers

We know the story by heart now so I’m not going to waste time summarizing the plot.

What I am going to write about is “How to watch the Korean Hana Yori Dango stress-free” although others will argue that it should be “How to endure the Korean Hana Yori Dango” – I disagree.  It’s not so bad.  I’ve watched the two episodes and I am satisfied the minute I x-ed out of my mplayer.  I giggled and hit my sister with a pillow with all of Jun Pyo x Jan Di scenes.  Not bad at all for a romantic comedy, I say.  I am going to love this and no inner warfare on preference between the Japanese over Korean is going to ruin it for me.  How will it ruin it for me?  Well, if Jandi transforms into an annoying Shancai(Meteor Garden) or screwhead Chaegyung (Goong), I will still watch but I’ll bash with no mercy.  Second, if it gets draggy, I will still watch but only Jun Pyo’s scenes and fastforward all the others.  And finally, if I do end up bashing it, please ignore my posts.  I don’t want you to hate it as well.  Like I said, I loved the first two episodes but after reading a few comments here and there criticizing the Korean version or saying the Korean is better than the Japanese, my own opinion of the drama gets affected.