These few months have been greatly influenced by the effect of coronavirus. Many conferences and flights are cancelled; plans are postponed until undecided time. A month ago, my country was declared zero case, which I dont believe in much since almost all neighbouring countries are affected and how can there's no case at all? Early March there were two confirmed positive cases, and the whole nation goes wild. Disposable mask and hand sanitizers are out of stock; people went to buy groceries to stock them in their home. I am working in a hospital and masks are essential themselves because we treat patients all the time, not knowing if they have respiratory infections if we dont do anamnesis and physical examination well enough. Some patients even disclose their health history even if we ask them, which is nonsense for me since 80% of the diagnosis is built from a good anamnesis. Masks are sold out almost everywhere and if not, they are selling it in an extremely high prices. It's different from Korea where all informations about the spreading are shared to the community so that everyone can take precautions from it. Government advises to reduce grouping in large community, avoid crowded places, wear masks, hand sanitizing, and they even make a drive thru to check COVID-19 for people with flu symptoms. Im amazed with their fast and hardworking measurement; the government here should learn from them in handling the diseases. Of course I cant avoid to reduce contact with other people because of my job. Washing hands frequently and avoiding from getting sick are the only things we can do right now. Hopefully this will end soon and everything gets better. Stay safe everyone!
Just finished this drama and I looooove it! It's been ages since the last time I watched a good Taiwanese drama. It tends to have different genres compared to mainland cdramas; they focus more on idol dramas. I accidentally found about Someday or One Day when I browsed on drama fan accounts on Instagram. Searching for the reviews, it's highly rated by many drama lovers and there's Alice Ke as the main lead; of course I need to watch it! She's been one of my favorite actress since Marry Me Or Not in 2015. The story starts with Huang Yuxuan (Alice Ke) in 2019, who has lost her boyfriend for two years, Wang Quansheng (Greg Hsu) and still couldnt move on. She believes he's still alive since there's no news about him after the airplane accident. One day, a mysterious package is sent to her consisting of a walkman and a cassette of Wu Bai's Last Dance. Listening to it inside the bus, she is thrown back to 1998 and lived as Chen Yunru, a highschooler in Tainan, having the exact same face but different personality. Yunru is a timid girl with no friends except the popular Li Ziwei (also Greg Hsu) and Mo Junjie (Patrick Hsieh). Junjie liked Yunru, but Yunru confessed to Ziwei she liked him. Ziwei rejected her to respect his bestfriend. She was surprised to see Ziwei having the same face with her boyfriend but lived with a different name. Having no clue why she could be back to 1998, she tried to figure out what happened in the past with the help of Yunru's diary she got from Yunru's uncle in 2019. Yunru died in 1998, and her uncle gives her the diary hoping she can prevent her death and searched for her killer. Living back and forth between 1998 and 2019, Yuxuan changed Yunru in a good way; she became the happy and outgoing girl who rose to be one of the favorite girl in the school, made lots of friends, and joined the basketball team. Ziwei and Junjie were confused because she definitely wasnt the friend they knew, but both of them kept quiet while trying to figure out what happened. After some time, she told them about the truth that she came from 2019 and named Huang Yuxuan searching for her boyfriend Wang Quansheng, but of course no one believed her. The story goes on with Yuxuan trying to find the connection between her and Chen Yunru, and what happens between Wang Quansheng and Li Ziwei. Ziwei starts to fall in love with the new Chen Yunru because of her bright and lovable personality. Another thing happens in the present is that Junjie died in 2009 because of suicide in the exact same place Yunru died, and Ziwei had a car accident making him unable to walk normally. I watch this drama meticulously because many people say they are giving clues in tiny details but still I need some time to understand how everything connects. It's highly addictive in a unique way; there's friendship, love, family, murder, and mystery about what is happening in this time traveling period. Alice Ke's acting as both Huang Yuxuan and Chen Yunru are amazing because they have completely different personality; Yuxuan is a firm and outgoing woman, knowing what she wants in her life while Yunru is a very timid and introvert girl, trying to live her life and making no one realize about her existance in this world. Greg Hsu isnt also a newcomer, but this drama is probably the breakthrough for his career. His emotion is delivered well to the audience although this is his first main lead in drama I guess. Patrick Hsieh also acts really well, not to mention how the chemistry between Alice, Greg, and Patrick are the perfect for one another. Finished watching it in four days, I finally understand why it gets a lot of hype and currently is the most watched Taiwanese drama. And there's even an extra scene after the ending which satisfy me a lot! Highly recommend this one. Happy watching~!
Rate: 9/10
Synopsis:
The year is 2019. The 27 year-old Huang Yu Xuan terribly misses her boyfriend Wang Quan Sheng, who has been missing for two years and is presumed dead. Her birthday wish for this year is to "see him."
The year is 1998. The 17 year-old Chen Yun Ru is in love with a boy who doesn't feel the same way for her. Her birthday wish for this year is to "become the girl Li Zi Wei likes."
One day, Huang Yu Xuan receives a walkman and a music cassette from an unknown person. She falls asleep listening to its songs and wakes up to see Wang Quang Sheng sitting by her side. She believes she has finally been reunited with her boyfriend, but there's a very big twist. She learns that she is no longer a 27-year-old woman but a high schooler named Chen Yun Ru, who is in the hospital recuperating from a head injury. The year is now 1998. And the man by her bedside is not her boyfriend after all, but a schoolmate named Li Zi Wei.
Trapped in what appears to be the past, living another person's life, Chen Yun Ru's death in 1999 will be her death if she doesn't figure out how the girl landed in the hospital.
All the while, Li Zi Wei finds himself strangely drawn to the girl who used to be Chen Yun Ru, despite the fact that he knows his closest friend Mo Jun Jie has had a crush on her. Can true love find a way to bridge a seemingly insurmountable time gap? (mydramalist)
Yes Kim sabu is back! To be honest I was watching it in the wrong order lol I watched the second season first because everyone said it's good, then around ep 6 I decided to watch the first season which made me totally in love with both seasons. The star of the drama is of course Kim sabu, not to mention how I love all Doldam Hospital's staffs and happy to see most of them are back for the second season. In this season, the newcomers are Cha Eunjae (acted by Lee Sungkyung), a second year CS fellow who is ambitious and always thrive to be the best in her field and Seo Woojin (acted by Ahn Hyoseob), a second year GS fellow who is being outcasted by every hospital because of his malpractice in the past. Both of them are classmates and rivals at med school and now working togethed at Geodae hospital. Cha Eunjae has a panic attack whenever she's inside the operation room and always nauseous or faint before the surgery starts. This happened first during med anatomy practical session and she fainted when Seo Woojin was about to start the dissection. Because of this she was sent to Doldam Hospital to calm down and manage her situation. As for Seo Woojin, he ran out of the hospital because everyone was degrading him. Kim sabu met him once at Geodae and offered him to work at Doldam Hospital because they were out of staff right now and promised to help him paying all his debts. Eunjae and Woojin met again at Doldam, working as teammates and once again Kim sabu taught them about humanity, friendship, and love. I personally like it but couldnt help to compare with season 1 and I must say I like the main actors more in previous season. Seo Hyunjin adn Yoo Yoonseok are perfect match with each other and radiate all positive vibes thorughout the drama, whereas Lee Sungkyung and Ahn Hyoseob do a great job as a newcomer here. Not to mention Yang Sejong is doing a cameo as Dr Do In Beom. I miss him a lot! His character is annoying but lovable and you cant hate him at all. This will be his last acting in drama as he is expect to enlist military soon this year. During wrap up party, they said they were ready for another season and Im more than excited to see Kim sabu and Doldam staffs again! Hopefully they can cast Dr Yoon Seojung, Dr Kang Dongjoo, and Dr Do In Bum again for the next season. Totally in love with this drama!
Rate: 8.5/10
Synopsis:
Three years following the events of Dr. Romantic, Kim Sa-bu (Han Suk-kyu) comes to Geosan University Hospital to recruit a general surgeon. He finds Seo Woo-jin (Ahn Hyo-seop), a doctor with a troubled past who is ostracized by his fellow doctors, and offers him the job. In the meantime, Cha Eun-jae (Lee Sung-kyung)
is suspended after making another mistake in the operation room and has
no other choice but to follow the two doctors to Doldam Hospital. (wiki)
Just a week ago, I've got a notice from the group saying that TVXQ would come and perform in an event at a theme park outside my city. I freaked out, mostly because this week I need to participate in a training last for the whole week. They came on Friday and you all knew how amusing the traffic in Jakarta was and it made me almost impossible to watch them live in the venue. Sad by the news, I saw the updates two days ago that they will come to SM Entertainment office in here and it's really close to my office omg I put my luck in it, waiting for almost an hour with other Cassiopeia and here it was!! I saw them right in front of me, standing tall and of course handsome and charming lol It was not my first time meeting them but still I was swooned over by how charismatic they were. Both of them smiled and waved to the crowd, made a short visit to the office and interviewed by local entertainment news as they needed to catch up to the venue soon. It was indeed a short period lasting for around one hour and half. Nevertheless, Im happy and hopefully I have the chance to meet them again. I've been their fangirl for more than 10 years and they are my source of happiness when I feel down and tired, since everybody has their own way of relieving stress right? No need to mind other people's business. Have a great day!
Yes, finally I tried to give this movie a shot. After all those reviews I read (even before they won FOUR awards in Oscars), I just finished watching it yesterday and I loved it. Unique and unpredictable storyline are the winning points of the movie combined with brilliant casts and actings. Hence, I will write this review from my point of view as a person who has been given the spoiler to the details by my friend lol
The story starts with Ki Taek (played by Song Kangho), the head of four-member family, living in a basement with his wife Chungsook, son Kiwoo, and daughter Kijeong. Four of them are jobless and try to do everything to make ends meet. One day, Kiwoo's friend, Minhyuk, comes to his house and tells him to take over his job as a tutor in the wealthy Park family since he will go abroad to continue his study. Previously, Kiwoo has taken university entrance exams for four times but he failed to pass all of them. With his sister's help, they fraud the university certificate to make him convincing enough as a university student with the alias 'Kevin'. With his knowledge, he successfully convinces Mrs Park to allow him teaching their daughter. After a few meetings, the daughter falls in love with so-called Kevin. He also observes that their younger son is hyperactive and unsociable but he loves art; Kevin recommends his sister Kijeong to Mrs Park to teach him art but this time Kijeong acts as a world-class art therapist 'Jessica'. One day, Jessica finishes class late and Mrs Park tells her driver to take Jessica home, but she purposedly left her underwear in the backseat and trapped him so that he would be fired. All the plans go well and this time their father Ki Taek acts as the new driver for Mr Park, posing as a driver with tons of experience driving Benz. Not satisfied enough with the situation, they trap the head of the household assistant saying she has a TB infection, coughing blood the whole time where actually she has pear allergy and they put pear powder all over her body to make her coughing and sneezing. The assistant gets fired and now their mother Chungsook is the new house assistant. One day, Park family wants to go camping to fulfil their son's wish and it's supposed to be a 2D1N trip. Ki Taek and his family stay in the house as if they are the owner, eating everything inside the fridge and drinking beer, enjoying the hot bathtub to the fullest. The plan goes on smoothly until someone unpredictably knocks the door and it turns out to be the old house assistant. This is when everything starts to go wrong. She wants to take her belonging left in the basement since last time she didnt have the time to pack it. It takes a lot of time; Chungsook is curious what's left in the basement, and she is surprised to see her trying to open a secret door behind wine rack. The secret behind the door is something you'll never think of, and even if I already knew beforehand about it, I still surprised at how the writer can think about this idea. The rest is what you should watch by yourself (or else it would be too much spoiler). The main leads are all experienced actors and actress in Korean movie industry; their actings are on point!! Song Kangho is a regular award-winning actor and Im happy for him that he gets even bigger recognizition now. His acting is top notch, as an unemployed man yet a loving father, protecting his family till the end. The siblings are annoying at first, but you can see how they love and take care of each other. The way they smoothly prepared for the family member to work in the house one by one is also another plus point of this movie. Parasite is said to be inspired based on true story of Christine and Lea Papin, two French sisters and live-in maids who were convicted of murdering their employer's wife and daughter in early 20th century. If you enjoy Korean movies like I do, this one is highly recommended and you need to watch it to know why they deserve all the Oscars. Kudos to the director Bong Joonho and the Parasite team!
Rate: 8.5/10
Synopsis:
Ki-Taek (Song Kang-Ho) is poor and unemployed. He lives with his wife Choong-Sook (Jang Hye-Jin), son Ki-Woo (Choi Woo-Sik) and daughter Ki-Jung (Park So-Dam) in a damp, insect infested semi-basement apartment in a low income area of Seoul. When Ki-Woo takes his friend (Park Seo-Joon)
to a nearby convenient store for drinks, he learns that his friend (who
is going to study abroad) is leaving behind a good paying private
tutoring job. His friend wants Ki-Woo to takeover the tutoring job while
he is abroad. Soon, Ki-Woo enters the life of the wealthy Park family,
with Ki-Woo's own family lurking in the periphery. (asianwiki)
I know Im late to just finished this drama yesterday, but it didnt appeal me much in the past. Starting to watch it since Im watching the currently airing season 2 and it's awesome. Medical drama always has its charm to attract me, perhaps because I could relate about the workload and environment they portrayed in the drama. After finished watching the first season, all I could say is I like it more compare to season 2. The veteran leads, storyline, characters, their acting, etc propose a perfect formula to the whole drama. The story tells about Han Suk Kyu as Master Kim (alias for dr. Boo Yong Joo), a triple board surgeon specialist in General Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery, and Neuro Surgery, who suddenly disappears from the world and no one knows where he is. Seo Hyun Jin acts as dr Yoon Seo Jung, a CS fellow has a trauma from her past where her fiance died in a car accident on the day she was proposed. Yoo Yeon Seok acts as dr Kang Dong Joo, a GS fellow who was badly treated in the past because of his poor family background and he desired to be the best in his field. Master Kim works in Doldam Hospital located in suburb area and that's the place where three of them meet. Dr Yoon runs to the forest to escape from the fact that her fiance has died and injured herself; that's how Master Kim finds and takes her to the hospital to give her emergency care. She then devotes herself to work in the hospital to learn more from Master Kim. Dr Yoon and dr Kang met when she was her senior and he's an intern in Geodae Hospital's emergency unit. He fell in love with her because of her unique personality but then she suddenly disappeared and no one knew why. Five years later he is a GS second year fellow, getting transferred to Doldam Hospital because he failed a surgery on a VIP (being trapped by the hospital's director). Annoyed when first arrives in Doldam, he is surprised to find dr Yoon working in the hospital and even more surprised after finding that Master Kim was the one who helped him in the past. Story unfolds about how they try to help each patients and fight against the power of money, teaching them about humanity, friendship, and love. I love how they try portray each cases as real as possible, since in some medical dramas they dont really describe about the treatments or even carelessly do it only for the drama. I learn a lot while watching it and even amaze at how they can diagnose the disease in mere minutes??? In real life, we are delayed mostly by incomplete facilities which cant be compared to what they have in Korea. Some equipments are even rare to been seen here in my workplace. Han Suk Kyu's acting as Master Kim is beyond awesome; he is portrayed as rough outside but warm inside his heart. No wonder he got SBS Daesang in 2016. The romance is only a bit between Seo Hyun Jin and Yoo Yeon Seok and it isnt the main point of this drama. All the medical staffs work in a harmony and most of them are back again in season 2 although dr Yoon, dr Kang, and dr Do are absent. If you havent watch it, I highly recommend this drama! Definitely a great drama to start my 2020~^^
Rate: 9/10
Synopsis:
A story about Boo Yong-joo (Han Suk-kyu), a genius and triple-board certified surgeon, who was once at the top of his field and used to work at Seoul's
top hospital, Geosan University. After a traumatic incident, he
disappears and changes his name to Kim Sa-bu. He begins working at a
small hospital named Doldam, located in Gangwon Province. He guides Kang Dong-joo (Yoo Yeon-seok) and Yoon Seo-jeong (Seo Hyun-jin) to become great doctors by teaching them to fight against power and money for the sake of patients. (wiki)
Hello peeps! How are you? Yes, finally Im back to blogging again after a long time. I changed my previous blog's url which caused some hackers to get my url directly. I didnt know about this, and when I browsed on why I couldnt get my url again I just knew when you have blogged for a long time and your blog traffic was quite high, they will target on your blog (probably this is what I understand for now). This makes me lost my passion in writing and I left my blog for more than a year. The internship also took my time a lot; I didnt even think to write after I finished my shift as it's been too tiring and draining my energy. I've finished the program in September last year and currenty staying in another city to get another new experience. I will try to write more in the future with some drama and movie reviews like what I used to do. Have a great day!
