Dear Mandy,
Merry Christmas!!
I find it quite warm and snuggly inside always during this season... So much so that as I listen to Christmas songs, and the rain falls outside? I start to imagine that they're snowflakes instead. And that kind of makes all the difference. =)
Isn't it amazing how in the coldest time of the year, Jesus was born? Almost as if it's a symbolic thing, that He would come in the coldest, darkest time, to give us hope and guide our path.
Love, actually, is what Christmas is all about. =)
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Dear Mandy,
And so I finished watching Personal Taste... a total of 16 episodes, and I have to admit, this Korean drama really was more engaging to me than "Only You". Certain episodes of "Only You" I fast forwarded cause it was really boring, but for Personal Taste, I watched it till the end, cringing whenever In Hee or Chang Ryul tried to break up Kae In and Jin Ho... ahha.. will explain about the actors in a bit.
Well, the synopsis goes like this: Jin Ho is an architect, whose family went broke because of Chang Ryul's father, and so they have been at loggerheads ever since. In Hee and Kae In are roomies in the really wonderful house that Kae In's father build: Samgojang. The show starts with Kae In, a carpentress, dating Chang Ryul, only for him to break up with her, because he had been double timing Kae In with In Hee. They are about to get married when a bewildered and shocked Kae In unwittingly steps in and breaks up the wedding. Jin Ho, on the other hand, finds out that Samgojang is the basis on which this huge project for an art museum is banking on. And so, through a series of misfit events, he moves into Samgojang and starts an unlikely friendship with Kae In, who thinks that he is gay.
Well, one thing leads to another, and Jin Ho and Kae In find themselves falling in love with each other. What complicates matters is that In Hee falls for Jin Ho, and Chang Ryul falls for Kae In again, and so, it becomes a very complicated story that involves Jin Ho's mother, Chang Ryul's father, the director of the art museum project and this woman obsessed with being Jin Ho's wife. There're also a pair of blundering friends known as Yong Soon and "hyung" to all. Haha.. can't remember his name. So it's a series of sweet moments, but sad moments too. I like the ending though. =)
Throughout the show, Kae In would randomly give weather updates, predicting how her mood would be and how tomorrow would be. I especially love the ending quotes:
Kae-in: “It’s not always going to be a life of clear skies. But even if I encounter darkness, if I go with this man I can muster the courage to walk through.”
Jin-ho: “I ran without stopping, but I was always a child running in circles. But I met this woman, and learned that stopping to breathe…could take me farther than I ever knew.”
I think that it's very true. =)
In all situations, I have God to see me through the darkness. And when my rest is in God, I can run farther than ever before.
Perhaps this movie does let me realise that it is possible to have a simple relationship after all. There's no need to complicate things, but as Mother Theresa encourages to "live simply so that others may simply live", perhaps in a relationship, it would also be possible to have it simple too. Though some may say that Korean dramas tend to exaggerate things? But I think that underneath it all, it highlights something. If in a relationship, the couple were honest and trusting, then it would last, wouldn't it? Kae In exemplified this the most. No matter what the circumstance, in the end, she still puts her trust and faith in human relations, and that every human has a soul. Isn't that similar to the unconditional love that God has in us?
A simple show, but one where I learnt a lot. I'd really recommend watching this. =)
And so I finished watching Personal Taste... a total of 16 episodes, and I have to admit, this Korean drama really was more engaging to me than "Only You". Certain episodes of "Only You" I fast forwarded cause it was really boring, but for Personal Taste, I watched it till the end, cringing whenever In Hee or Chang Ryul tried to break up Kae In and Jin Ho... ahha.. will explain about the actors in a bit.
Well, the synopsis goes like this: Jin Ho is an architect, whose family went broke because of Chang Ryul's father, and so they have been at loggerheads ever since. In Hee and Kae In are roomies in the really wonderful house that Kae In's father build: Samgojang. The show starts with Kae In, a carpentress, dating Chang Ryul, only for him to break up with her, because he had been double timing Kae In with In Hee. They are about to get married when a bewildered and shocked Kae In unwittingly steps in and breaks up the wedding. Jin Ho, on the other hand, finds out that Samgojang is the basis on which this huge project for an art museum is banking on. And so, through a series of misfit events, he moves into Samgojang and starts an unlikely friendship with Kae In, who thinks that he is gay.
Well, one thing leads to another, and Jin Ho and Kae In find themselves falling in love with each other. What complicates matters is that In Hee falls for Jin Ho, and Chang Ryul falls for Kae In again, and so, it becomes a very complicated story that involves Jin Ho's mother, Chang Ryul's father, the director of the art museum project and this woman obsessed with being Jin Ho's wife. There're also a pair of blundering friends known as Yong Soon and "hyung" to all. Haha.. can't remember his name. So it's a series of sweet moments, but sad moments too. I like the ending though. =)
Throughout the show, Kae In would randomly give weather updates, predicting how her mood would be and how tomorrow would be. I especially love the ending quotes:
Kae-in: “It’s not always going to be a life of clear skies. But even if I encounter darkness, if I go with this man I can muster the courage to walk through.”
Jin-ho: “I ran without stopping, but I was always a child running in circles. But I met this woman, and learned that stopping to breathe…could take me farther than I ever knew.”
I think that it's very true. =)
In all situations, I have God to see me through the darkness. And when my rest is in God, I can run farther than ever before.
Perhaps this movie does let me realise that it is possible to have a simple relationship after all. There's no need to complicate things, but as Mother Theresa encourages to "live simply so that others may simply live", perhaps in a relationship, it would also be possible to have it simple too. Though some may say that Korean dramas tend to exaggerate things? But I think that underneath it all, it highlights something. If in a relationship, the couple were honest and trusting, then it would last, wouldn't it? Kae In exemplified this the most. No matter what the circumstance, in the end, she still puts her trust and faith in human relations, and that every human has a soul. Isn't that similar to the unconditional love that God has in us?
A simple show, but one where I learnt a lot. I'd really recommend watching this. =)
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