Oh 2020.

 What a year. 

Random pic of Bobby at the vet 

Who would have thought I will ever see a global pandemic in my lifetime. Someone always mentioned this on twitter. " What a time to be alive"

Its weirdly privileged of me to start the post out like this because as you know many have lost their jobs, lost income, loved ones during this time. So ... actually I have no conclusion. We cannot know also whats in store in the future for us, therefore I am thankful that we are surviving somewhat unscathed this year and only hopes it get better for all of us soon.

Rounding up 2020 in a musing sorta way is not gonna be my style for this post. 

I will start in a random order the things of note of my 2020. These are the few things I picked up or had happened this year. 

Covid

I do not want to state the obvious. But this have to be said. 

Mask is now a fashion accessories ( while also keeping us safe. Also good god stop selling the lacey bra looking one) so does Washing hands, socially distancing, schools closing, online lessons, many hours of cooking, empty cities early this year are all what we had seen/faced these past months.

Music

                                                     

Taking up the violin again. Still playing badly. No matter. Though I think my playing is better than before.

Start to learn by myself the piano too. So far so good. 

Its been good for me so far in taking up music again. It soothes down the demons inside so to speaks.

Travel 

In a year with no travel expected, we manage to go to Tioman twice. I love it both time. Also finally got to kayak again after quite a long time. 

Oh we also managed to go to Cameron Highlands which the kids super enjoyed the tea plantation, butterfly farm and strawberry pickings visit. Sharif didnt enjoy the ride up the winding mountain though as he puked thrice on the way. 

Hospital Stay

The youngest suddenly gotten feverish was admitted in August. At leas it was during the time when there was not much covid cases compared to now. Going to hospitals nowadays with more than 1k cases daily would be worrisomes. 

Raya in KL. 

Bobby terpaksa kena amik gamba raya

Because we were still in those strict MCO at the time , and no one was expected to travel out of state, we raya at our home. Well for us not at home la, we went to my sister house in turns. But its the first time we had done raya aidilfitri in KL and the cats dont have to endure boarding but spending their first raya at home with us!. 

I also manage to cook chicken curry for raya for my husband for his leamng eating. I cooked for raya (from scratch!) the first time evah!

Learning a new language via Duolingo. 

I talked about this before and I am still continuing my lessons in that app. My progress in Arabic is dismal though I think at least from zero knowledge I know some arabic. It is so hard to remember words in Arabic!

 But French lessons is going better than I expected, partly due to a lot of french words are part of the english language anyway. 

I can even understand some people tweets in French nowadays, if not fully but half of it. Its exciting! 

Skincare

This year. Maybe due to boredom, I try to put on makeup. I don't do makeup before, but I got bored. This turns me towards using more skincare because your makeup does not look nice if your skin is not nice (unless you have awesome skills). I also realized how nicer my face will look if I put in eyeliner. But my eyeliner skill is really shaky. lelz. 

Anyway, because of that, I followed a few skincare influencer and manage to gain a few knowledge on basic skincare routine and whats needed to improve my skin. I was so excited to try out a few things I had amassed quite some products.

I also put some of the skincare products on my bedside table because if I don't put it there I won't be wearing it as often. I quite like this organizer that I am using to store my stuffs.  

As for the result of my interest in skincare now?  I think there's a marked improvement on my skin where it doesn't look quite as dry and listless as before. Had a few breakouts which annoys me, but I am trying to battle it through so to speaks. 

Lost weight!

Relatable even if not related

I almost forgot it but I did try to lose some weight this year and only after lockdown I manage to succeed. During that time I manage to shed around 8kgs! 

. I still have a long way to go because I am not that consistent and my weight somewhat plateau now to my annoyance.  But I am happier I can fit into some of my old clothes back. Let's hope I will continue to move more and tampers down my cravings so I can get to my ideal weight. 

........

Anyway I think thats that? Maybe there's more but I can't think more. But thats the gist of this year and a bit more I don't divulge. 

My next post will be on 2021! 

A birthday gift

When my birthday was near my husband asked, so what do you want. 

I answered either

1. A night stay at the hotel all by meself. 

2. A YSL bag 

3. A piano. 

So he bought the third one. Lol. I was surprised it was not a stay at a hotel. 

I had always wanted to try to play a piano but since piano is a bit expensive so macam malas la. So now my husband decided to gift it it to me, I can play finally really learn to play it. 

I also think since I have a little knowledge in playing the electric organ I can manage to teach myself the piano, so far its been ok.  I will tell a bit more later I think. 

Been trying to teach the kids but they are not that interested. Aziz a little bit but then he is more into games and got busy a bit.

Aside from the gift, I asked for a day shopping at KLCC because I wanted to buy the L'Occitane Youth Serum which I love wearing. And eat some sashimi. 

Semoga muka makin jelita . Haha.

Oh I forgot about the cake. I was not impressed when I first took a bite, but then I put in the fridge and eat it when its cold, it was the best! I seriously love it and I especially love cold desserts, so to eat a cake that is best eaten cold is nice! 

Ending this post with a picture of sashimi because why not. 

Books Stash Update

As per usual , I will update my books buying habit here so I can track my books. Its easier to see this online. Maybe I should seriously consider an excel spreadsheet. Eh malas la. 

This time due to Covid, Big Bad Wolf Book Sale held their sale online instead. It was a bit of a disaster on the first few days tbh. The site was unstable with payment not going through and books list not updated appropriately. I am sure their IT Team was going through hellish week that week. 

Anyway I manage to buy some books mostly for the kids and a bit for me on the third day of the sale. I also bought a few more books by the end of the week mostly on school exercises book because those were cheaps. 

So below pics!

The Paws Patrol for the littlest one, the dinos books are for the second and the shark is for the eldest.

Buku latihan for the kids and extra-ish

And mine...

I had also realized trying to find last year posts that I didnt post my stash of last year. Huh, 

no matter so I am now updating it here. 

 

Graduated meself

 Let me update to the uninterested how my violin playing coming along. 

I try to record myself playing. It sounds bad. LOL. But I think its normal..  amateur with a cheap violin sounds like. Sometimes its good. Sometimes I wonder if I buy a violin worth thousands will it actually improve the sounds? I also do not want to find it out because I don't have loads of money to waste on a hobby. 

So I had finish relearning Book 1 of my Strictly Strings book and going to Book 2. Its quite ok la jugak learning using youtube ni. There's tonnes of stuffs out there people who taught the book using youtube, people giving simple tips and tricks in how to play the violin correctly. We don't have a lot of that 10 years ago. The downside is that there's no feedback how correctly I am playing it and I have to go by memory on what the teacher taught me how I should improve. There's also a few teachers offering online classes nowadays in these time and I am tempted, but I don't have much to spare. So youtube I guess is the way forward! 

Okla. Later.

Sigh

 Just feel like sighing. 

I had started another blog just for the point of reviewing because I feel this blog is too mushed up. Not sure whats gonna review. Probably more kdramas. I had been lagging on the kdrama review updated but more like I don't have energy of it. 

But I had also started to learn French and Arabic in Duolingo. The former is because I always wanted to learn that. And Spanish too ( I will learn Spanish next). Arabic because I am frustrated by the text books bahasa arab I have to understand to help my kids with their homework. I meant I get why it is in Arabic, but wouldn't it make sense to also include translated jawi into it so it is not just gibberish to the uniniated? I tried google translate but even that doesn't help me much. I had also kinda 'reprimand' the teacher for just giving vague instructions and expecting students to turn in perfect homework. I HATE vague instructions. This is not about spoonfeeding. It is about a clear precise instructions that you don't ended up wasting you and other people time. This is also the thing ALL people need to learn. 

Don't even let me get started on the kids textbooks nowadays? It is a lot of pictures with not much info. I think I know this is one way to reduce the heaviness of the books, but some of the information is not there??? I guess this is balanced out with the teacher instead teaching it (and have the infos in their guidebook???) but with this covid era where homeschooling is now the normal, they certainly did not expect that. 

Oklah ranting. Oh I provided my review on DuoLingo app there on the blog I mentioned earlier. 

Menu day to day

 

Just one of my meals. 

The lockdown had also forced us and me to cook more. The above is nothing special, just telur dadar, kobis lemak and asam pedas daun kesum with ikan tenggiri. 

I never made asam pedas, but the kids seems to like it so much and it is a simple meal actually. I always thought it is annoying to prep. But not really. I tried to make asam pedas daging last night, and it was good too except the kuah is much too pekat, next time need to add more water. 

I even tried to make mini chicken pot pies, where at first I want to try to do the pastry from scratch, but I remembered I had some pastry puff in the freezer and used that instead. I like how it turned out. I didn't take pics of it, because it is no beauty but it does taste nice. Maybe next time. I will try from scratch. If I can do that, maybe the next time I will do the beef stew pies ( I love those!) . 

Okay. Gonna have some breakfast now. 

Back to Quarantine

 

Back its not as strict as before. But the kids will be all at home and having to oversee their online classes again. I am not looking forward to that. 

Anyway aint this picture seems apt on what essentially I am going through. Playing the violin in my room and I also had just put there my newly bought masks. 

Don't you guys feel that nowadays you seen a lot of disposable face masks littering our streets. Its really annoying. I prefer cloth masks because while I am not like very environmentalistic (is that even a word), but I like trying to at least create less sampah in the world. Also cloth masks are cute. 

later. nak gesek biola. 

Recents

 Its October now. 

Our Covid cases are rising no thanks to the politicians. And right now I felt like they are really dropping the ball in handling the crisis. I wont say more because then the language will get more colourful. 

Anyway... whats up? 

Its been tiring. My little boy was in the hospital end of August due to high fever. My youngest ni while even sick , his energy is still really high. Then afterwards of course another great water crisis hit Selangor yet again. Its almost as dramatic as last year one. But the difference was last year I was handling it alone while this year I manage to get my husband to book us an apartment in Genting to get away for a while from the non water issue. Genting was boring btw. We ended up in Bentong for ice cream and nasi lemak. 

Then we went to Tioman. My 2 siblings and their family and my mom. It was good.

Last time we spent time at Bharat which was very peaceful and laidback, but payar beach resort is interesting too. 

Then my kid got mild chicken pox ( the same youngest one). And now we got covid cases rising and a lot of us are afraid to go out much. Lots of parents are also not sending their kids to school. I am not included in it, but lets not get into that. 

What I had been doing instead? Same old. Read. Kdramas. Play the violin. Binge on some shows. 

Anyway. I want to talk more but not feeling up to it more. Also its 2 am. 

Relearning old interest

Not sure who here from 10 years back still are reading my blog, but those who do maybe did read I used to take violin lessons. I took it for like 3 or 4 years? I was never good because I was lazy. I simply have no time to practice ( ini adalah alasan). During the PKP when I was going out of my mind I feel like I need to play music again. My organ had long kaput and now lying in dust. We enquired about fixing it ( which no one can confirm it can be fixed) but it was a 20 years old one and I am like it will probably cost as much as buying a new one. 

What I do have is my old violin, which need to be restring. That is a whole other thing where I was trying to buy it online but the shop sent a guitar stand instead which when they asked me to return and I asked for a confirmation of their shop address and fucking postage fees to be at least sent to me because that thing is huge (and i still havent got my violin strings!) they just went silent!!! I am banning that shop forever and it sucks more for them since that guitar stand is more expensive that my violin strings , but I have no use for a guitar stand. 

Then I thought it is easier to go to a physical store and buying it in Yamaha music shop instead (which is fooking expensive) and it broke and I gave up and went back online and ordering it from overseas since no one locals can be trusted! 

Thats the whole saga. 

Anywayyyy ... I am back learning the violin once again based on my memory and Youtube, and I am not sure if I got better, but I can shakily manage 2 notes of vibrato which I can't before so that's nice. Not sure how long does this self learning thing can keep up since playing the violin is HARD, so we'll see. 

Just briefly writing in

I am busy scanning in my son's homework. Kenapalah bila dah scan baru kau jumpa kesalahan? 

My raya was beshe2 je? 

Did you get back to your hometown? Well considering at the time, travelling to Sarawak is gonna be a big hassle and kinda uncertain (in terms of health safety) we are just at home at this time. 

Like I said I did cook laksa Sarawak. I really like one of these days to cook and make it really presentable for a photo. But most of the time I will be running around the kitchen like stirring, the slicing this, stirring again, mixed up things, washing up dishes. Jeez how does people like ribboncircus (I love her IG , she makes it so pretty and homey) makes everything looks good. 

I also bought just kurtas for the boys to wear on their first raya. I bought from Zalora and it is the cheapest I could get at RM40 per piece. Can't see the the other two eldest, but the colors are mint green and since for that color they did not have Sharif size, I bought a pink one. The eldest balked at the idea of wearing pink now, so Sharif is the only one have to wear pink. And i wore pink to match his. 

Yes our bookshelves are a mess. Tu pon I baru susun sikit. Pening sebenarnye nak susun bookshelf ni. 

Anyway, I am off to play my 2 points hospital . Later. 

Ramadhan in MCO

So it is the end of Ramadhan.

Had I fully utilized it. I have to say no. I also been in my period for half of Ramadhan. So thats that. Not that my 'perangai' is any better. 

Aside from that, this Ramadhan in MCO had its challenges. Finding new dishes to cook, finishing the many many food that my mom cooked, waking up almost every sahur to prepare meals when I am not a sahur person at all. I am also missing and not missing the raya bazaar. I miss going through the stalls of food, but the food we sometimes ordered from the taman whatsapp had been pretty great too and had never got a disappointment (tak sedap,basi,etc) like if you buy food from a ramadhan bazaar. 

What about Raya? I don't intend to cook much this Raya though because my husband will be buying lemang and my mom will cook sayur lodeh for all. There is a ketupat palas I will probably boil tomorrow. On the second day of Raya I will cook laksa Sarawak. I had already made the sambal belacan in advance yesterday.

I am so lazy to cook this last few days. Because I was baking and cooking for some stuffs. I will show what I made. I made just 2 cookies and don't feel like breaking out the raya cookie jar. 

Now it is time for me to kemas the house. First nak kerah bujang2 di rumah ni. 

Will update soon with pics! 

Selamat Hari Raya to you people and maaf zahir batin! 

IU - KDramas Best

One of the earlier Kdramas I watched was Scarlet Heart Ryeo and so IU is one of the actresses I am always excited to hear about if she is going to be involved in the projects. I found that also I watched a lot of her dramas. Not all, I think I didn't watch Bel Ami and don't intend to either and few of her minor roles, so I will list down starting from what I think her least best drama to the best.

DREAM HIGH

Plot:-

Anyone who haven't watched it well, I don't really want other people to watch this either but it got Kim Soo Hyun, Suzy and Taecyeon . And I really like Suzy here. What is it about? Its about a bunch of kids who went into this sort of music academy with the intention of becoming top/pop/kpop stars. The leading star of this was the above I mentioned earlier and IU was the supporting actress actually.

Review:-

It is kinda silly sometimes but it does have its moment. Its kinda fun to watch though and the songs are nice to listen to.  Basically I went into it expecting nothing but was entertained, so it was good. Definitely not gonna rewatch this.

How's IU here:-

I think it was her first drama. You can see the awkwardness a bit but she seems mostly natural enough. It doesn't really stretch a lot of her ability though, so she was just OK in this.

Chemistry with her partner:-

Well, she was not there to be against the female lead, but more of a supportive role. She also have her own romantic storyline that is kinda cute and both do well together in a cute a way.

Best work?:-

Considering this is her first acting gig, I say she did fine but I was not blown away.

THE PRODUCERS

Plot:-

Here also is where IU is not in the starring roles but it does highlight more on her acting ability. It again featured Kim Soo Hyun who works in an entertainment dept of a television network and how he navigate working as a newbie there under the supervision of the 2 'sunbaes' Joon Mo ( Cha Tae Hyun) and Ye Jin ( Kong Hyo Jin). And from working there he have to work with the popular singing talent Cindy (IU). 

Review:-

This was actually a pretty good kdrama. It featured 2 very well talented actors who played their characters brilliantly. So Kim Soo Hyun and IU fared well against the 2 stars. It does not featured romance heavily since it is more of a workplace kdrama type. 

How's IU here:-

This is one of the drama that makes me think IU can act pretty good. She was particularly good in all of her scenes that deals with emotions especially. The bitchy part she still have to get that right, as I feel there was not enough oomph going on. (which she did later in Hotel Del Luna). 

Chemistry with her partner:-

She have loads of chemistry with Kim Soo Hyun. They should totally be starring in kdrama together again one day. They don't have anything much together romantically but most of their scenes together are sweet. I stan this upcoming kdrama couple. Make it happened!

Best work?:-

A better work. 

MOON LOVERS : SCARLET HEART RYEO

Plot:-

The female lead (IU) was suddenly propel to Goryeo time in a body of a 16 year old girl. On her time there due to her peculiar ways, she caught the eyes of several princes . Of course there would be princes! 

Review:- 

Aside from the nonsensical plot, it is a really good kdrama where it have the usual palace politic drama and also heavy on the romance. Most of it was IU being the objects of affections. It starred all the hotties of kdrama world and introduced me to Kang Ha Neul and I think he is simply marvellous. Watch it if you like since it is quite fun and dramatic and melo. 

How's IU here:-

I have to say this is not one of her strongest drama. But I think this is the first time she was the lead? She was great in the first half of the drama where she have to be the sweet bubbly girl. But during the second half, where the emotional toll of all this palace drama now taking place I find her less satisfactory. She did not hit the right note of emotional despair and sadness and most of the time look kinda blank. But I can't really blame her since I think she didn't have yet the life and actor experience to carry that. I think she realized that too because she gets miles better afterwards in the later dramas. 

Chemistry with her partner:-

She have good chemistry with all of the cast. To me there's nothing like explosively good, but she manage to have pretty decent chemistry with all of her interests. That is no small feat. 

Best work?:-

No unfortunately. I even think when she was in the Producers, she was better. But this was such a nice kdrama for me to watch, I am fine with that. She was not terrible. 

HOTEL DEL LUNA

Plot:-

IU as Man-Wol is a caretaker of a hotel to the dead. She hired Chan Sung ( Yeo Jin Goo ) as the hotel manager. (malas nak elaborate. This series is hugely popular enough)

Review:-

It was a delightful dark and sometimes formulaic drama. I like the myth surrounding the hotel and the mystery of Man Wol past. All of the casts did splendidly well and it was quite an excellent drama except that it gets too melo sometimes and the ending is a bit meh to me . 

How's IU here:-

She was marvellous as the bitchy vengeful Man Wol. She really pulled of everything about the character quite well , especially the fashion she donned. The last episode leave me a little bit meh because they changed her to a sweeter nature unnaturally though I think it maybe more on the writing rather than the acting, but it feels a bit off to me. 

Chemistry with her partner:-

I know people love her chemistry with Yeo Jin Goo, but I feel it was great in a platonic way. She have pretty good chemistry with Lee Do Hyun though the man from her past. 

Best work?:- 

Not the best, but she is pretty darn good in here. She really is Man Wol and was entertaining to watch. 

MY MISTER

Plot:-

Ji-An is a struggling mid 20s years old working to support her ailing grandmother. Due to her past, she is a tough, morally flawed person who will do anything to survive. She worked as temp where (Lee Sun Kyun) Dong Hun worked as a thankless team lead engineer in a construction company. Dong Hun suddenly received a packet of money and Ji-An stole the money. In a set of circumstances, she ended up giving it back but found out through a series of events that Dong Hun wife is having an affair with Dong Hun boss. She takes advantage on that knowledge. 

Review:-

Writing that plot, makes it feel like I was writing of a JDrama plot. It makes me miss JDrama a bit. 

Anyway my review on this series, it is amazing! It is unlike most kdrama I had ever seen. It felt realistic in a slice of life way and harsh. My heart breaks for Ji An and Dong Hun. The music in this drama is outstanding, every cast is amazing and the life depicted feels achingly true. I feel like this is one of the best kdrama I watched if people can get past the heavy theme of the drama. It is serious, heartbreaking (but never veers to melodramatic), peppered with humours every now and then and feel so true to what you feel in life. 

How's IU here:-

This is after her role from Scarlet Heart, and I was blown away how good she was. She uses her eyes to show how tired, angry and frustrated she was with the world. Her body language is defeated yet defiant. She knows how to hold back and burst through a scene. After this drama, I am a staunch IU fan and will watch whatever she acted on. 

Chemistry with her partner:-

This is not the usual kdrama romance. It doesn't feel much of a romance either. It feels like a love story that you must start within yourself. But she had great interaction with Lee Sun Kyun and I wouldn't even mind if at the end it turned romantic. It seems almost natural. 

Best work:-

Most definitely is. Until I watched another drama/film, I say this is her strongest role and acting so far. Though I haven't watched Persona. That kinda film takes a mood and a determination I don't much have these days. 

New Stuffs to Do When in PKP/MC0

Note: It is now Day 33 of MC0 and I feel we are all getting a lil crazy. 

You know how people keeps on saying that during all this time we are forced to stay at home we should learn a new skill or gain knowledge. Well that would be nice. But also be free to not feel like we have to do all this stuff. This is a life altering event that is damaging to our health, economy and mental well being. The main aim is to flatten the curve and get through it with us and our loved ones alive. So... sometimes we need to keep this in mind.

Now back to the usual rambles of...  

What I have been doing in this PKP or MC0? 

- Making sure all the kids got their online classes without issues. It is such a hassle. But you know. We have to do it. But it such a hassle! 

- Making sure all the homeworks get to the kids, then to the teacher. I swear arr, I feel like I have my own homework and deadlines to keep up with all the printing, screenshotting, overseeing and the scanning I have to do. 

- The cooking and washing dishes. Oh my God. So many meals, so many dishes. When this is all over I just wanna NOT COOK for 3 days. I think 3 days should be a nice limit right. We can't eat outside forever. 

- Exercising. I lost weight I tell you! 8kg! Woohoo! I did portion control, lessen my sugar intake and went up and down the stairs 30 times at least and more. Of course this past 2 days I had been relapsing, sigh. I am only human. There were cakes! And I am so tired! But I don't want all this effort to go to waste so I will restart again okeh. Which is why I haven't yet made the famed Dalgona Coffee. Apart from menggunakan alasan diet to not do it, I feel it is easy enough tapi the real reason is that I really malas to break out the mixer la. I did make the bread pudding caramel because everyone was hogging gardenia at one point. Mad. (I also haven't made my own bread). 

My bread pudding. The kids love it and it does feel like it is good for kids because it is kinda filling. I prefer the usual creme caramel. 

- Trying to color. Not like I have all the time. I started on this particular Klimt page few months back dan baru habis sekarang. That took some effort I tell you.

- Bought a game in Steam. I bought 2 Points Hospital game which is based very strongly on the old beloved game I love which was the Theme Hospital.

The game is almost identical and it wasn't hard for me to start off since I am already familiar with the old one, so I can play the game happily immediately. The pics are from my phone because I can't be arsed to see how I can screenshot it using my MAC.

- I had also banned TV time during the weekdays. I feel this is kinda hard on them but also I feel this is good. I just wanted to encourage play if they are not doing their school work. Not just stuck watching TV all the time.

- Now while I know we should save, I am looking at Cotton On Body and itching to buy their bras. I love their lingerie because it is comfy and it is on sale. And let me look at it again!

So long for now!

Park Bo Young - Bests of

I love Park Bo Young. 

First of all she is so darn cute. Secondly she is the same height like me. So aku jua boleh bajet cute pendek like her!!! ( Ah let me have my fantasy) . 

I can't review all of her drama series since I didn't watch all of her works. Come on. I have my limits. 

So I will review the last 3 she was in... 

I won't go into much details. Just going with the flow here. So here... from worst to best. 

ABYSS

Plot:  
Cha Min ( An Se Ha) and Ko Se-Yeon (PBY) died, and they came back from the dead looking completely different from their old self. There is also the main mystery of the series - which is finding and catching the serial killer who killed Se Yeon.

Review: 
Absolutely a waste of my time. I hate it so much.  I wanna pile on it more but really, it is just not worth it. Just NO.

Was Park Bo Young OK in this?
She absolutely nailed it of course, especially when she have to play dual roles. But that's to be expected. She is a good actress.

Chemistry with the male lead :
Nada. I hate it. I don't know why but I am not feeling it. Maybe the guy damn kayu one? I feel like he is still finding his groove. You know who she had massive chemistry with? Lee Si Un. Yes, he is not that attractive in the usual pretty boy kdrama style, but when they banter with each other I swear I want them to hook up!

Best work? She did her best. But no. Because the script is such a massive pile of *****, nothing is redeeming.


OH MY GHOST

Plot :
Bong Sun ( PBY) who have a timid personality ,can see ghost ever since she was little. Then one day she got possessed by a ghost who is obsessed with sleeping with a guy because the ghost was convinced that she can't move on to the afterlife because she was a virgin. Suddenly the timid Bong Sun changes personality overnight to a brash impulsive girl and goes after the head chef/owner Sun Woo ( Cho Jung Seok). There's also a mystery involving some murders.

Review:
It was good. It changes from fun to dark quite suddenly but it doesn't feel like completely out of the left field. I love all of the actors here actually, they all played well with each other and are so so good at their characters. The transition of Bong Sun coming onto her own frustrated me a little, because I think they should have emphasized on it more so it does seems the romance is a bit  " Really?" . But still a highly recommended watch.

Was PBY great in here? 
Yes. Like I said she played dual roles well, and in here she absolutely shines. I love her more as the brash ghost personality though.

Chemistry with the male lead?
They did ok. It was reasonably romantic but it is also confusing to the male lead and the viewers in where exactly the affection lies with. The ghost or timid Bong Sun. Like I said before, it makes the romance seems off a bit because in my view the real interaction was when Sun Woo was interacting with the ghost. But honestly I think they tried their best there so I am fine with it.

Best work?
She is good here but I feel like there was still something quite lacking.


STRONG WOMAN DO BONG SOON

Plot:

Bong Soon (PBY) was born with a supernatural strength ability. She is ridiculously strong in a superhero way in a cute way, and because of that during her run in with a mob, Min Hyuk (Park Hyung Sik) a CEO of a game company who happened to witness her ability was hopelessly besotted and impressed. Which leads to him offering Bong Soon a job. There's also a mystery involving series of kidnappings. I am seeing a pattern here with PBY

Review: 

It was great fun kdrama. It was funny, Park Bo Young looks like she is having fun with this role and Park Hyung Sik and Ji Soo was also equally charming. The dark mystery kinda spoiled it a bit but it doesn't go really dark all the way, only the last few eps. 

Was PBY great in here? 

She was at her best. She absolutely shines in this role actually. She pouts, sulks, fall in love and kicks ass effortlessly. I really believe she enjoyed every second of it and it showed in her work. 

Chemistry with the lead? 

Hell to the YES! This couple gives me tingling butterflies! Park Hyung Sik could look at anyone so meltingly. Even Ji Soo is so achingly great in his interaction with PBY in this drama. My heart breaks for him a bit. 

Best work? 

Her best drama to date where it was fun and we love seeing her in it. 

Extra:

I had also seen the movie On Her Wedding Day. I think it was a really good sweet poignant movie. A must watch to appreciate Park Bo Young talent fully in a movie where it is less rigid compare to a kdrama. 

Love in the time of Corona - COVID19

Well... I just have to put that title in nonetheless.

Anyway here we are in the midst of a pandemic. The worst seen in this century, hundred thousands infected, tens thousands of death.

This is surreal. People are in isolation all around the world. If you try to talk people everywhere... they will be in their house. In solitude. Social distancing. Bored out of our mind. Itching to go out.

For Malaysia its been what? Day 12 of Restricted Movement Order? I will call it here as lockdown because that is a mouthful.

Weekends and weekdays had merged into one. I am now playing classical in full blast while writing this post because my playlists had gone on many many loops.

Now now... of course I should and need to be thankful, to be bored in this lockdown. It is a privilege. Some are forced to be stuck in a small 2 bedroom house filled with multigenerational families. Some are out of work and working side gigs to the best in this limited movement to get food on the table. Some are facing mental health problem. Some will face domestic violence.

To be bored in this lockdown, is a privilege.

But I can complain. Oh yes.

The TVs are conquered by the kids.
I feel suffocated.
I hate cooking so so so much.
It is sticky all the time.
I am coughing... am I next on the statistics?

I will continue my Kdrama posts later on. If I have all this time why not post eh?

Why not indeed.

Anyway. Be safe. Wash hands.