Korean drama review: The princess' man

Opps......did I promised to update my blog on chinese new year events?(Seems like it's a decade ago)
Well, lets just forget about it since it's almost the end of February already and I've totally forgotten what I wanted to blog about at the first place. LOL!

So please, just forgive me. Kekeke~
(I wonder anyone actually looked forward to my new post?)

Finally, exams are over and semester 2 has come to an end. Time to enjoy my 3 weeks of holidays!
Woohoo~~

So how did I spend my 1st week?

The answer is no other than watching drama. Muahahaha!!!

Korean historical drama 'The Princess' Man'.

I didn't know about the existence of this drama until I watched KBS Drama Awards and I was like "Wow! It won so much awards? How come I never heard of it before?"

So out of curiosity, I started watching it and I'm glad I did.

Synopsis:

A tragic love story between the daughter of Prince Suyang and grandson of Kim Jong Seo. The son of Kim Jongseo, Seungyoo, is a handsome and wise man who carries a noble quality. Princess Seryeong, a daughter of King Sejo, aka prince Sooyang, is a cheerful, lively lady with a strong curiosity and bold personality. They fall in love instantly but later they find out that their parents are sworn enemies. It's a Chosun dynasty version of “Romeo and Juliet”.

As a tearjerker drama lover, how can I not fall in love with this heartbreaking drama?

It has interesting characters, good plot, a fusion of fact and fiction, beautiful cinematography and great actors and actresses especially Park Shi Hoo and Moon Chae Won.

This is Moon Chae Won as Se Ryeong and Park Shi Hoo as Seung Yoo.

Don't they look good together?

Trust me, both of them have great chemistry that will make you fall in love with them and the drama as well.

Park Shi Hoo

I didn't find him attractive at first as I've never like any guys with squinty eyes but as the drama intensifies, I find myself gradually falling for him. He has his own unique charms.

Well, he got to be the best looking ninja assassin of the year. 

*sigh*

He got longer and silkier hair than I do.

Looking good in long hair, dude!

Moon Chae Won

Not really beautiful but pretty, especially in hanbok costume. I guess that is what makes her and Park Shi Hoo a great couple in the drama.

I got to say that all the hanbok costumes worn by them in the drama are so pretty that it make me wanna try on them too.

Review:

Warning: This is not a comedy romance type of drama so make sure to equip yourself with (lots of) tissues.

Out of all characters, my favourite would Se Ryeong. She is exactly my type of heroine. Bold, firm, kind and smart. What I admire most is her bravery. She is brave enough to oppose her father, the evil and ruthless king, for all his evil deeds. I guess she loves her father too, no matter how evil he is, by trying to stop him from being more evil(but eventually she fails). She is smart too, to be constantly using her title as 'the eldest daughter of SuYang' because she knows she is the apple of her father's eyes. No one dares to oppose her because opposing her means opposing her father.

The most memorable and heartbreaking death scene would be Jong's. Jong and princess Gyeong Hye both wed after an unexpected twist of fate but as time passes, the love and trust between them begin to grow little by little, stronger and stronger.

I really love the acting of both main actor and actress. Chae Won was literally seen crying in almost all episodes(except the first few, of course) and I wonder how she did it. Poor girl....her eyes must have been swollen. As for Shi Hoo, I'm in awe at how his small eyes could deliver various expressions of anger, love, hate and revenge, all at the same time. All I can say is both of them are awesome!

It's rare to have two favourite couples in a drama. Usually, we would focus more on the main couple and make them our bias. However, while watching 'The Princess Man', I couldn't help but to fall in love with both SeungYoo-SeRyeong couple and Jong-GyeongHye couple.

Oh, did I mention this drama is packed with actions too? I love the fighting scenes, especially the ones with Shi Hoo in it. I just love his ninja assassin role.

Did anyone not cried at the 'happy' ending?
Actually, I was a little sad that Seung Yoo turned blind. *WHY!!!* But I guess it's for the best. If he hadn't turn blind, he wouldn't have stopped his revenge. But both of them still get to be together, don't they? So I guess it's a happy ending.

This is one of those drama that got me engaged from the beginning till the end although there was once where I questioned myself if I should continue watching because the drama was getting too depressed but I continued watching anyway because I was on the 19th episode already and I was dying to know the ending. LOL!

Oh emm......what drama should I watch next?

Prosecutor Princess? But I can't seems to find any episodes of it uploaded on Youtube. *sigh*
I'm lucky that I still get to watch all the episodes of The Princess' Man on Youtube before it gets blocked or deleted.

LOL! I'm a Park Shi Hoo fan now.

He is currently my top favourite korean actor besides the good looking Lee Min Hoo.
XD

kpop newcomer, Ailee

Hi guys, I'm so excited to share with you guys my new found gem.

She is Leon Entertainment's newly debuted solo singer, Ailee. An America-born-korean(I guess so since she looks like a korean) from New Jersey, America, she was discovered through Youtube and later debuted in Korea.


Ailee is the hottest newcomer of kpop entertainment in 2012 that everyone is looking forward to. She is starred in the famous KBS drama series "Dream High 2" even before her official debut.

Here's a music video of her debut song.

Teaser?

I was immediately stunned by her awesomely powerful vocals the moment I listened to it and fell in love with it.


Actually, she looks like Luna from f(x), voice sounds a little like her too.... and have a strong vocal that is almost on a par with Charice. Well, almost. Ok......maybe not. On par with Davichi maybe?

*If you don't remember who is Charice, she is the girl who sing that popular song - "Pyramid".


Have you watch Ailee's mv? Do you notice something? That guy in long straight hair......does he reminds you of......

Jesus?

*cough* I don't mean to be rude but......errr.........he really does. The only difference is his straight hair. XD

Oh, Jesus!

Live performance?

One word. Awesome.

I hope she can continue to produce some good songs like this one.

A change of blog domain

Hey guys, this is just a short post to inform that I've changed my blogspot domain name from

icyvirgo.blogspot.com

to

icyvirgorox.blogspot.com


I was thinking of changing my blog template as well. Hmm.....should I?

More updates coming soon in my next post(after I finished my final exams).

Bye~!!!

Perry or Perri?

,On my way back home, my sister switched on the car radio and there came Katy Perry's song, "The One That Got Away". It was the first time I listened to that song although my sister told me it was released quite some time ago. (There's no radio in my hostel so........I'm rather outdated.)

Anyway, I got hooked to it right away and was curious about the mv. Apparently, I didn't listened to the lyrics and judging from the upbeat tune, I thought the mv would be something like "Fireworks" but I was wrong.

The mv turns out to be....... rather sad.

I watched the mv of "A Thousand Years" by Christina Perri as well but I prefer Katy Perry's "The One That Got Away"(probably because I wasn't a fan of Twilight). It's not just the mv but the song as well. Way to go Katy Perry!

It seems like I'm neglecting my blog lately because I don't know what to post. I'm getting lazier day by day. LOL! I'll probably update you guys with some chinese new year events I had last week in my next post so don't forget to check out my blog every now and then!

My favourite ost of the week

I've been quite busy for the past weeks and haven't really had the time to keep up with the forever updating k-pop news. Once in a while, I'll update myself through allkpop just to know what's going on with the korean music industry.

Here's an ost of 'Take care of us, Captain'. (new drama I guess?)

It's sung by Song Ji Eun.

It's so soothing and that's why I'm sharing it here. *wink*

Hope you'll love it like I do.

Meet my doppelganger

Know what is a doppelganger? 

According to Wikipedia the free encyclopedia,

 A doppelganger is someone that looks exactly like another person — most commonly an "evil twin." In some folklore, a doppelganger that is seen by a person's friends or family means the person will have illness or is in danger, while seeing your own doppelgänger means you will likely die. Some mythology offer more magic explanations, where the doppelganger is created by some kind of curse or through magic. These doppelgängers are usually, but not always, bad in some way.

I remembered watching music bank with my family months ago and when I saw this guy, I was like "Oh my gosh, he looks like a girl."

Sister: "Yeah.......looks like you."

What?!

*looks at mum and dad*

Mum & dad: *nods*

Uh.......okay.....................

So who is that guy? Let's meet my doppelganger. (the male version of me.....LOL!)

A guy or a girl?

It's C.N.Blue's Lee Jung Shin.

Let's look at a picture of myself.

Let's compare.

Saw the similarity? Do we look alike?

Well, I don't think so but that's just my opinion.

I asked 5 people and all of them nod their heads in agreement.

HOW CAN??!!!

I don't want to look like a guy! Duh.....

I want to look like her....

Or someone better.

Thank god my hair is now longer and with bangs.

I guess i don't look like him anymore. Do I?

Taeyeon - Devil's cry

I was kinda buried by piles and mountains of assignments for the past few weeks but it's all just my own fault. Last minute work again. *sigh*

Chinese New Year is around the corner. Say "WooHoo?"
I'll shout a big "NO!" this time.

Why?

Final exam starts the week after Chinese New Year. That means CNY week = study week. Like WTH?! I haven't even started anything yet. *sigh* This year's CNY is gonna be a torturous week I guess and did I mentioned? MUET is around the corner as well. OMG! C'mon! I need a break!

Well, whatever it is, I'm still gonna enjoy my new year. It's the time to rock and roll! I don't care! Woohoo~~~

Exams, step aside. I bet I can somehow conquer you with my special last minute ability.(wth am I talking about?)

MUET, you step aside too. I don't know why I'm afraid of you(probably because of lack of practice...) but I'm pretty confident that I can get at least band 3. Yeah......I'll bang my head on the wall if I don't. Well, how worse can I get if I managed to grab an A1 in 1119? *bragging.....XD*
Actually I didn't expect to get an A1 as I had chosen a pretty boring topic "Your favourite day of the week" and wrote pretty plainly. LOL! Don't ask me what I wrote. It was too boring to remember.

If I were given the same essay topic again, I would choose Friday, a day to chill, relax, do nothing, throw my books all over my room and shout "I DON'T CARE!!!!"

Nah......who am I joking?

Actually the main purpose of this post is to share a video of my favourite SNSD member, Taeyeon singing Run Devil Run's intro.

She totally rocked it!!



Today is gonna be the last day of me dealing with assignments and I'm gonna rock Celcius ktv with this song. LOL! No chance. That karaoke doesn't have any Taeyeon songs. *sobs*

If there is, I would sing all of Taeyeon's OST songs. What a big fan I am of her.

The 2012 new year celebration

This picture was posted on Facebook on the New Year Eve, the day I received my new phone. =D

It was also my first ever mobile uploaded picture.(nothing else to brag about. LOL!)

My new phone is awesome!

My sister commented: "Why is there so many likes for this picture. I don't see anything special about it."

True. Nothing special. I don't even know why myself.

Within hours, this picture had garnered more than 10 likes.

Maybe everyone was too hyped for the new year celebration.

LOL!

This year, instead of joining the crowd, we decided to celebrate new year at home playing asshole Big 2 or what we call asshole 'cho dai di'. We played it like how Big 2 is played except that new rules are added. The two losers will be called asshole and vice asshole and they're required to hand out their two best cards to the two winners and receive two lousy cards from them as well. So basically, if you become an asshole in the first round of the game, the probability of being an asshole for the rest of the round will be higher.

I was the asshole and look! What lousy cards I got.......but I won the game and became the winner. Woohoo~~~

Oh ya.......another new rule. The asshole is required to gulp down a glass of wine.

Awesome!!! =D

A rocking teaser from Wonder Girls

They definitely pull off the fierce, sexy and rock image well.

They are the Wonder Girls.

My favourite quotes

Out of the 12 awesome quotes in the picture above, I have my favourite 3. They're:

1. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
2. Happiness depends upon ourselves.
3. Love yourself.