My Name is Kim Sam Soon - End, The Three Muskeeters - End, Rewatches and a New Book

Please Teach Me English This was adorable the first time I saw it and it is still adorable. Jang Hyuk is a dynamo and Lee Na Yong is consistently good. Also this film is probably the only Korean film where the caucasian actor is actually giving a good performance.

Libera Me This film is silly to the core. Filled with lots of WTF moments and plotholes. The film's only advantage is the hot hot HOT cast.

Rear Window I loved it. James Stewart and Grace Kelly are wonderful but of course the real star of the film is the director. One of Hitchcock's finest films.

I have started reading The Murder Room by P.D James. This is one of the books I have purchased last year at the second hand book fair. I have not heard of this writer before but I do love her now. She is not Ruth Rendell but has a certain honesty about her - not as cruel as Ruth's - which I really like in fiction. I love English writers.

Secret Garden End - My Name is Kim Sam Soon

Secret Garden was oh so good for 16-17 episodes and then it went quickly downhill with episodes acting as filler. Nevertheless Hyun Bin is adorable - my current dream man - and Ha Ji Won is vastly entertaining. I loved the secondary couple too!

Not suprisingly I needed to keep watching Hyun Bin so instead of starting Marry Me Mary, I keep on watching My Name is Kim Sam Soon which is very entertaining but I wish there was a kissing scene in every episode. Yeah Hyun Bin is that good an onscreen kisser.

Meanwhile The Three Musketeers is slowly coming to an end and I'm sad. It is a very good novel.

Secret Garden IV, V, VI

Secret Garden gets better and better with each episode. Now they had a body swap and this was caused by Ra im's father!!!!! Of course these two don't know the cause and they tried to kiss it out - heh. Joo Won maybe an asshole but I like his honesty and I think it is very important since I'll for one believe him when he admits his love to Ra Im.

Poor action school Sunbae, I hope that he'll find an OTP too! I'm thinking Oska and Seul will reunite since it is obvious that they love each other. I also think Oska is hot (and I LOVE it when the lead guy and the secondary guy are both hot - I had the similar experience in What Happened in Bali)

Secret Garden Episodes I, II, III

I'm in love with this drama. The male character Kim Joo Won is claustrophobic (and he may have more illnesses we don't know yet) and kind of a jerk where women are concerned but at the same time he is refreshingly honest and kind (at least to Ra im) Gil Ra Im is a stuntwoman who is poor but very good at her job and more importantly she likes her job. Theirs is a terrific first meeting and he keeps trying to help her out but not really knowing how and she keeps misunderstanding him. Oh but there is UST and such an intense one. Side characters are Oska who is an aging Hallyu star, capricious and spoiled but carries a torch for his first love who is Seul now after Joo Won to get married to him but I think she still has feelings for Oska. She is after a good marriage though and the more Joo Won refuses him the more determined she becomes. And there is also the stunt manager guy who is a kind of oppa for Ra Im, obviously in love with her but treats her as an employee/sister and protects her from a far with no intention of revealing his feelings. Yes, we have two secondary men for the price of one.

I can't wait for the evening to come and watch more. Loving, simply loving this.

Chandni, My Name is Kim Sam Soon

Last night I have finished Chandni which I sort of enjoyed but not enough to watch it in one go (I have started last night and fell asleep at some point about 3/4 of it) Anyway I do love Rishi and Sridevi.

I also started re watching MNIKSS since I'm learning Korean and I thought it would be nice to keep hearing the language. Except I don't understand anything yet and would be lost without subtitles. However I'm enjoying this even more than I did the first time I watched it. Kim Soon Ah is adorable and so funny, Hyun Bin is not on top of his game - he is not a comedy actor really - but he looks good enough and this is Kim Soon Ah's show anyway. I laughed out more than once.

The Three Musketeers is proving to be very very good entertainment. I do like the English translation and enjoying the novel.

The Social Network, Çınar Ağacı

The Social Network I liked it very much since it showed how a good direction can switch things around when everything else is nothing special. The story is very interesting.

Çınar Ağacı (literal translation: Plane Tree) This one was a weepy (about an old lady who is put to an old people's home by her four children, and her adorable grandson) and I wept.

God It has been ages!

The end of Ramadan holidays etc. and I stop posting (really how lazy one can be?) but of course I have not stopped watching and reading thank God.

Baker King Kim Tak Gu has ended with a bang and caused me to suffer from serious withdrawal symptoms, thank God for

What Happened in Bali which is the show with the most messed up characters ever. I know a lot of people love this one and I agree with them. I ended up marathoning the last 7 episodes. Seriously this show is not that good if you look at it objectively since everyone in it (including the side characters) are miserable, cunning and dishonest. Nothing good ever happens but

* Perfect casting - Ha Ji Won is that girl who is not liked by Moms - regardless of their social, economical status - that girl has the snake eyes and I seriously like her alot. The side characters, the secondary girl, moms & dads, best friends etc. were all fit to their roles.

* Eye candy for women and gays. And I'm talking serious eye candy here. On one corner we have So Ji Sub, not really known for his acting talents (but the guy angsts well, I'll give him that) but he is oh so pretty to look at. And he is the one who got all the shower of angst scenes. On the other corner we have Jo In Sung. Great looking man who can also act and wisely chose to ham it up for Bali. He is so adorable and I love that he has his own teeth (not capped like the rest of the cast)

* The hillarious fashion and style (seriously the haircuts of the two male leads are enough entertainment on their own but poor Jo In Sung's outfits were also hillarious)

* Neverending WTFs and continuity mistakes - not that they marr the show mind you since this is not one where you'll care for either character, they are hillariously entertaining.

All in all I recommend this show. As I said nothing happy every happens in it and all the characters are miserable but so much pretty and decent writing have their pull.

Currently watching Byakuyakou which is probably a very good book but these series are not making me happy. It is too weird a subject and there are some terrible things done by the two main leads but the show opted telling them instead of showing them (or it maybe the Malaysian copy I own, I don't know) and this affected the impact in my opinion.


I have finished Rottweiler by Ruth Rendell which was very good and started The Three Musketeers - I have read it ages ago in Turkish. Now I'm reading the English translation and easily caught up with the very entertaining prose of Mr.Dumas.