I'm Justine. When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead. True story.
I'm constantly broke and struggling to save enough money to fly to Korea to marry my future husband (see below).
This derp is my one true love. But I also love dramas, TV, music, movies, kpop and cooing over my beloved OTPs.
One day I will travel the world and do great things. In the meantime, don't forget to send the naked band boys on 30 December.
I accept all nationalities. Thank you. Xiexie. Kamsamhamnida.
I'm back from Seoul and I've summed up my week there in a Tumblr post
no one will read (lol I don't know why I bother really) so I won't do
it here. Instead, let me just use this space to spazz about this drama I
started watching yesterday. I haven't been catching up on the 101
dramas I started since I finished school since I was so busy with work
(I've still got Padam Padam, Rooftop Prince, The King 2 Hearts, Can You
Hear My Heart and K-pop the Strongest Survival to finish) but I couldn't
resist starting Queen In Hyun's Man today. I've seen gifs floating
around on Tumblr and I've always meant to pick it up once I was done
with all the other shows since I've heard such good things about it. I
wasn't feeling particularly inspired about the current batch of shows I
was supposed to continue and I've always liked Yoo In Na (can you
believe the girl is 30 years old?!), so I thought "hey why not?"
And
now a 9-episode marathon later... I have so much feels for this show I
need 10000 buckets just to contain them all and another 10000 for my
tears before I drown in them. The lead couple is just pure perfection I
can't even begin to describe. Their chemistry is so adorable and the way
they look at each other UGH /melts I shall attempt to summarise the
plot but I'm sure you'll have better luck trying dramawiki or one of
those sites because I am physically incapable of being coherent in this
state ok /typing through my tears right now/ lol ok I kid but anyway,
it's about this scholar, Kim Boong Do, (played by the fantastically underrated Ji Hyun Woo)
who supports the reinstatement of Queen In Hyun during the Joseon times
when a concubine Jang plotted and schemed her way to replacing In Hyun
as King Sukjong's queen consort. Boong Do was then given a talisman for
protection but when he was close to being killed by an assassin, he was
suddenly transported 300 years into the future in modern Seoul, which is
where he meets a rookie actress, Choi Hee Jin (played by Yoo In Na), who's just landed
her first lead role as Queen In Hyun in a TV drama. He later deduces
the mechanics of the talisman - which is basically he has to recite the
words on it to go back to his time, and be put in a life or death
situation during that time so that it can save him by bringing him to
the future. So that's how he travels back and forth with the intention
of seeing what he can find out in the future in order to assist in the
reinstatement of Queen In Hyun and bring his entire family to justice
back in his own time. And since Yoo In Na's character was the first and
only person he met in the future, she's in charge of sort of being a
teacher to him and helping wherever he can. (I wouldn't be able to say
no to him either, you can totally see it in her face whenever he smiles
at her - she literally melts)
Yeah, well, I
tried. What I love about the leads is that their relationship is so
simple and besides the fact that they're 300 years apart, it's quite a
mutual "I like you", "You like me" kind of relationship. And omg how
much do I love Boong Do? What a wonderful, wonderful male lead. He's
intelligent, but not arrogant, good-looking, but not drop-dead gorgeous.
I love how quickly he adapts to modern times, but in a wholly
believable way. He uses logic a lot of the times and it's just incredibly impressive. Hee Jin is an adorable counter too to his
slightly more serious personality. Yoo In Na isn't the best actress ever or
anything, but she's really easy to like and root for. And unlike a
million other dramas, you can actually see the building attraction that
the lead couple have for each other, and there's a lot more showing rather
than telling, when usually it'll be like "I think I'm falling in love
with you" and we're all supposed to believe it because it's the ~natural progression in the drama or whatever and they're the leads, even though all along they haven't been doing things that lets me believe that they could even be close to being in love with each other. Honourable mention goes to the second male lead Han Dong Min (played by Kim Jin Woo) who's Hee Jin's ex who dumped her 3 years ago on his way to super stardom. He is just wonderfully cocky, and childish, but in an endearing way - a character type that a lot of dramas need to inject a little humour into some of the scenes.
And
of course English subs would only be up to episode 9 - literally the
most nail-biting episode out of them all. It was so angsty, even though,
admittedly, it was more angst on my part. Ugh the separation period
always sucks, especially when it's done so well. It's like "it hurts,
but it hurts so good" if you even know what I'm talking about at
this point. It's just I want so badly for the two of them to be happy but that's not going to work when /spoiler/ one of them loses his memory and another one of them thinks she's going crazy /sobs/chokes/weeps/cries/screams/pulls hair out/throws laptop out the window /endspoiler/ I'll probably stop rambling, but oh my god, this is the same
level of infatuation that I had with Sungkyunkwan Scandal when it was
airing, but I can objectively (psh yeah right) say that Queen In Hyun's
Man is done a lot better, and the lead couple is so much more beautiful,
perfect, wonderful, amazing, I can't even right now ok bye.
I'm just sitting and staring blankly at my laptop screen, refusing to accept the reality that in one episode's time, I'll have to say goodbye to some of my favourite boys and officially my favourite drama of all time. I cannot say enough good things about the show, but I won't say anything at all because it's so hard to put into words all the feels I feel for this lovely, perfect show, with lovely, perfectly imperfect characters. Every one of them feels so real to me, I just want to curl up on my bed and cry, because they're not.
I'm waiting for subs for this new show called (LMAO I CAN'T) K-POP - The Ultimate Audition. I'm not even... The plot has been done to death: It's about this girl who wants to fulfill her hip hop dreams but because of circumstances, she has to ahem, disguise herself as a boy and join an all-male idol group, where she meets the lead guy, with whom she'll obviously find herself falling for. Sigh I can't even count the number of times I rolled my eyes just typing all that out. It's literally You're Beautiful 2.0, but the cast looks promising (and woohoo Mino is in it!) and Mir's sister looks beyond adorable! The ratings will probably be shit, as are all the shows I watch (sigh what does that even say about me) but I don't care.
I'll also say goodbye to Dream High 2 today, but it'll be more like, "GOODBYE!!!!!!!! (YAY FINALLY... I WON'T MISS YOU DON'T COME BACK AGAIN)" It's a freaking trainwreck show that I can't stop watching. All the characters are pretty much crap, except for my bb Yoo Jin, who won't get his true happiness because the love of his life is in love with a crappy-haired fallen idol played by a pretty terrible rookie actor, who ok admittedly, can be cute sometimes, when he's not doing his constipated crying face. Oh well. I got this far, might as well see it to its end.
In other non-drama related news, YAY HUNGER GAMES TOMORROW YAY YAY YAY I CAN'T WAIT I'M DEAD OK BYEBYE
I'm currently patiently waiting for parts 4 and 5 of episode 13 of Dream High 2 to be uploaded, and it's slowly killing meeeeeee. Thoughts: Ok, no, Dream High 2 will never surpass the greatness that is the first Dream High, and honestly, it's not even close to being comparable. However, I am crazy addicted to it, as I pray desperately each week for my bb Yoo Jin's happiness, one that hopefully involves Haesung. Okay, Dream High gush over.
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I am so tempted to gif this video. Yoo Min Kyu is such a freaking cutie. 20 seconds into the video and I'm already spazzing like a crazy person. Isn't he just lovely? 1st Look has the best photoshoot videos. Can we have a Sung Joon one soon, please? ;___;
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Besides spending my time fangirling over boys and dramas and such, I've also made the wonderous leap into humanity by stepping outside my house for the first time in a long time, in the hopes of having some semblance of a social life. I watched This Means War this afternoon, even though I swore I wouldn't. Well, I was wrong about it, and the movie was really good. I'm a little more partial towards Tom Hardy's character so I was a little upset that /spoiler/ she chose Chris Pine in the end /endspoiler/.
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Music-wise, I'm currently on an Epik High bender. I've downloaded part 2 of one of their gazillion albums (I think I'm gonna lose my mind trying to find their entire discography) and I'm so, so addicted to Flow. Listening to it makes me feel all badass even though haha I'm not. My precious Block B boys also covered Epik High's Fan as well and it was as amazing as you'd think it'd be.
I just love the official music video for the song. Basically, it's about this girl who gets a little obsessed with a celebrity (as you do) and she kidnaps him. Then she realises that he isn't really happy with being kidnapped so she decides to return him to where he belongs. And because he's a "star", and she's more than a little crazy, she attempts to build a rocket to send him back to space. But the rocket malfunctions and it ends with the celebrity dying in the explosion and her sprawled on the floor crying.
And yes, I realise the song is from 2007 and I'm like 5 whole years too late, but considering I was late to the whole k-pop (not that Epik High is k-pop, exactly) thing in the first place, that really isn't all that surprising. Anyway, I'm also currently downloading B1A4's first full-length. However it sounds, I'm sure it won't be as epic and mind-blowing as a Block B full-length would be, but since I'd probably have to wait at least a whole 'nother year for that, I guess this will do. I hope it's good!
I'm Justine. When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead. True story.
