For some reason, even though it's late and I should be going to sleep, I feel really wired. In an uneasy sort of way. I can't quite explain it, but I just feel on edge. It's strange. It's like I've just drunk a load of full fat coke, or I'm at the front of the queue for a really big roller coaster. Or both together, because you need to throw in the anxiety of throwing up too. I don't know why. I stay away from caffeine, and all I have done is get ready for bed. I should be pretty chilled out and ready to sleep. But no. I could literally run right now.
I would have watched another episode of 'I'm not a Robot' to see if that would calm me down, but I'm caught up and I don't want to pay to get access to episodes earlier, although I'm increasingly tempted. Adverts are annoying, plus some series are only available to premium users, but its money I don't need to spend. Luckily, often dramas air two episodes a week, and I'm not far off the finale. I'll wait to see how long I can hold out.
I was thinking about what my aim for February could be. I'm torn between doing 15 mins of exercise a day, or an hour of language study. Ideally I would like to do both, but I need to be realistic and set achievable goals. Maybe I could do both but on alternate days. I finally moved my book cases down to my dining room yesterday, so as soon as I have tidied up the table, it's all set up as a space for making, planning, learning and finally getting myself on the rowing machine - which may be another reason for paying for premium access on Viki ... can't skip ads when I'm rowing.
Showing posts with label now korean dramas rule my life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label now korean dramas rule my life. Show all posts
Monday, 29 January 2018
Thursday, 11 January 2018
Product Placement
I forgot to post last night. Maybe I'll be able to catch up at some point, but I'm not worrying about it too much. This blog every day for a year thing is supposed to be for fun, not something to stress out about.
Part of me is tempted to bring back drama reviews. For one, it'll give me something to post about on the slow days, but mostly because this is a blog about my life, and dramas are a massive part of what I do in my free time. I don't know, I'll see how I feel when I finish Degree of Love.
Speaking of Degree of Love, something that always amuses me in dramas is the product placement. Sometimes it's fairly subtle, like the characters frequently eating subway or going to certain coffeee shop brands. I mean, that's not subtle at all, but it's not really distracting from the story. The funny ones are the ones that have no place in the story and are practically a sales pitch. Like in the episode I just watched, there was a really random scene in which the main character was hovering with a dyson. Some form of interaction with another character was chucked in, but for the most part, it was just a load of close ups of the vacuum cleaner. Even an extreme close up of her turning it off. They might as well have stuck one of those red star shaped price label and order number on the screen.
The industry is aware of the ridiculousness of it all, and aren't afraid to make fun of themselves for it.
The female lead in Because This Is My First Life starts the series as an assistant writer for a drama series whose whole job is to write in product placement. She has a character going around on a Segway hover board screaming in frustration. It was great.
I also really enjoyed when one drama, and I can't for the life of me remember which one, was sponsored by trip advisor, and they literally had a character book up and then leave a review for somewhere, talking the audience through the whole process. It took like 5 minutes.
Of course, I'm an absolute sucker for advertising. Series sponsored by Papa Johns or subway are a nightmare for me, and one day, I really want to drink this stuff. I don't even know what it is, but everyone drinks it and I want to drink it too.
It's probably just water.
Part of me is tempted to bring back drama reviews. For one, it'll give me something to post about on the slow days, but mostly because this is a blog about my life, and dramas are a massive part of what I do in my free time. I don't know, I'll see how I feel when I finish Degree of Love.
Speaking of Degree of Love, something that always amuses me in dramas is the product placement. Sometimes it's fairly subtle, like the characters frequently eating subway or going to certain coffeee shop brands. I mean, that's not subtle at all, but it's not really distracting from the story. The funny ones are the ones that have no place in the story and are practically a sales pitch. Like in the episode I just watched, there was a really random scene in which the main character was hovering with a dyson. Some form of interaction with another character was chucked in, but for the most part, it was just a load of close ups of the vacuum cleaner. Even an extreme close up of her turning it off. They might as well have stuck one of those red star shaped price label and order number on the screen.
The industry is aware of the ridiculousness of it all, and aren't afraid to make fun of themselves for it.
The female lead in Because This Is My First Life starts the series as an assistant writer for a drama series whose whole job is to write in product placement. She has a character going around on a Segway hover board screaming in frustration. It was great.
I also really enjoyed when one drama, and I can't for the life of me remember which one, was sponsored by trip advisor, and they literally had a character book up and then leave a review for somewhere, talking the audience through the whole process. It took like 5 minutes.
Of course, I'm an absolute sucker for advertising. Series sponsored by Papa Johns or subway are a nightmare for me, and one day, I really want to drink this stuff. I don't even know what it is, but everyone drinks it and I want to drink it too.
It's probably just water.
Monday, 8 January 2018
Odds and sods
There really is nothing like getting into a newly changed bed, wearing fresh pjs, with cleanly shaven legs after a long hot bath. Especially after a sheet mask so your face feels really hydrated too.
It's part of a new bi weekly routine I've decided to adopt as a new year thing. I got the tea tree healing MediHeal sheet masks for Christmas, so decided to do as recommended, and do one twice a week. I am loving them so far, but maybe I'll do a review post when I have reached the end of the 4 week 'treatment' period. I've also been using the Neogen exfoliating pads, which as honestly bloody amazing, so maybe I'll do a post on that too eventually.
Mostly today I've been binge watching Degree of Love. It's so good. I like the main guy. I also like the second main guy. I wish my life was a drama. Oh to have options.
I also came across this YouTube channel, which amuses me greatly.
My arms look awful. My kitten likes to climb up them, attack them and just generally play on them, so they are covered with tiny scratches from her tiny claws. I'd mind more if she wasn't so sweet. The little monster. I'm still not set on a name. She claws the sofa sometimes, she I say 'hey hey' to get her to stop, so I'm a bit worried that she'll think that's her name, or else become like the Moana character.
Back to work tomorrow.
Oh to retire.
It's part of a new bi weekly routine I've decided to adopt as a new year thing. I got the tea tree healing MediHeal sheet masks for Christmas, so decided to do as recommended, and do one twice a week. I am loving them so far, but maybe I'll do a review post when I have reached the end of the 4 week 'treatment' period. I've also been using the Neogen exfoliating pads, which as honestly bloody amazing, so maybe I'll do a post on that too eventually.
Mostly today I've been binge watching Degree of Love. It's so good. I like the main guy. I also like the second main guy. I wish my life was a drama. Oh to have options.
I also came across this YouTube channel, which amuses me greatly.
My arms look awful. My kitten likes to climb up them, attack them and just generally play on them, so they are covered with tiny scratches from her tiny claws. I'd mind more if she wasn't so sweet. The little monster. I'm still not set on a name. She claws the sofa sometimes, she I say 'hey hey' to get her to stop, so I'm a bit worried that she'll think that's her name, or else become like the Moana character.
Back to work tomorrow.
Oh to retire.
Friday, 24 August 2012
Beautiful You
No Devil Beside You tonight. Sadface. It's too late and I have too much to do in the morning.
I have decided I want to be pretty much ready to go by the time I go to sleep tomorrow. All my work finished and all my personal effects for the next 6 weeks packed up. This way, I can spend all of Saturday day time tidying up. I really need to do a proper tidy up and sort out in my room ... and my workroom so I can move it downstairs. I was promised my new workroom for straight after the wedding grumble grumble. Then Sunday I can obsessively check, unpack and repack everything until I have to travel down.
That's all you get today. To make it more worthwhile, here's a picture.
Spot the Girl!
It's from the SM version of Hana Kimi, To the Beautiful You. It's got MinHo from SHINee as Korean Sano, and Sulli from f(x) as Korean Mizuki. I think its just started airing but I'm going to wait until the season's finished
lessthanthree kiss.
I have decided I want to be pretty much ready to go by the time I go to sleep tomorrow. All my work finished and all my personal effects for the next 6 weeks packed up. This way, I can spend all of Saturday day time tidying up. I really need to do a proper tidy up and sort out in my room ... and my workroom so I can move it downstairs. I was promised my new workroom for straight after the wedding grumble grumble. Then Sunday I can obsessively check, unpack and repack everything until I have to travel down.
That's all you get today. To make it more worthwhile, here's a picture.
Spot the Girl!
It's from the SM version of Hana Kimi, To the Beautiful You. It's got MinHo from SHINee as Korean Sano, and Sulli from f(x) as Korean Mizuki. I think its just started airing but I'm going to wait until the season's finished
lessthanthree kiss.
Saturday, 7 January 2012
You're Beautiful
The title of this post makes it sound like this is going to be a really lovely entry, full of positivity and how to feel good bout yourself.
No.
Its about the Korean drama.
Firstly, it was weird watching a drama in another language. It was like I was back at the beginning again, with the only words I could understand being very basic. I'm not saying I became fluent in Japanese through watching dramas, far from it, but I certainly picked up a lot, and I missed the feeling of being able to pick up certain words. There were a lot of -mida's rather than -masu's, and I found I couldn't let my attention wonder without loosing track completely of what was going on. Another difference was the length of the episodes and series. Japanese dramas tend to be about 45 mins long, and with about 11 episodes. You're Beautiful was 70 mins long with 16 episodes. Things that happened in the second episode of Ikemen Desu Ne didn't happen until the 4th episode of You're Beautiful. Not that the series felt like it was dragging, far from it, although I cant say that there was anything more really added for that time.
Obviously, the names were different. Mio became Mi Nam, Ren was Tae Kyung, Shu was Shin Woo, and Yuki became Jeremy. The characters were all very much the same, and I was surprised how similar Ren and Tae Kyung were in literally every aspect. Yes, the Shin Woo predicament still broke my heart and made me soooo angry, as did the general doucheness of Tae Kyung, but it was still really fun and I enjoyed it a lot.
Which do I prefer? Hard to say, but I think I'm going to have to go with Ikemen. I realise this is probably because it was the one I saw first, and due to this, I pretty much knew everything was going to happen, but certain things that didn't make sense in the Korean version were altered for the Japanese. There was more back story of Mio and Mika's childhood, and I was so much more affected by Yuki's love of Mio than Jeremy's of Mi Nam. Basically, it all boils down to the fact that I cried at Ikemen, but not at You're Beautiful. However, the latter did mention Super Junior on more than one occasion, and even did a parody of Sorry Sorry, so they do get bonus points for that.
I cant really do connections, and I'm not sure I want to when the chances of a Gokusen link are so low. But Shin Woo is the leader of CNBlue, and Jeremy is the leader of FT Island, two Kpop bands I am well aware of even though I don't have much experience of them.
Next up is the Korean version of Hana Yori Dango, Boys Before Flowers. You may get a rant post, but otherwise, don't expect to hear from me about this series for a while, as it is like 25 episodes long ...
<3 x
No.
Its about the Korean drama.
Firstly, it was weird watching a drama in another language. It was like I was back at the beginning again, with the only words I could understand being very basic. I'm not saying I became fluent in Japanese through watching dramas, far from it, but I certainly picked up a lot, and I missed the feeling of being able to pick up certain words. There were a lot of -mida's rather than -masu's, and I found I couldn't let my attention wonder without loosing track completely of what was going on. Another difference was the length of the episodes and series. Japanese dramas tend to be about 45 mins long, and with about 11 episodes. You're Beautiful was 70 mins long with 16 episodes. Things that happened in the second episode of Ikemen Desu Ne didn't happen until the 4th episode of You're Beautiful. Not that the series felt like it was dragging, far from it, although I cant say that there was anything more really added for that time.
Obviously, the names were different. Mio became Mi Nam, Ren was Tae Kyung, Shu was Shin Woo, and Yuki became Jeremy. The characters were all very much the same, and I was surprised how similar Ren and Tae Kyung were in literally every aspect. Yes, the Shin Woo predicament still broke my heart and made me soooo angry, as did the general doucheness of Tae Kyung, but it was still really fun and I enjoyed it a lot.
From Google. Shin Woo, Mi Nam, Tae Kyung and Jeremy. They're prettier than their Japanese counterparts.
Which do I prefer? Hard to say, but I think I'm going to have to go with Ikemen. I realise this is probably because it was the one I saw first, and due to this, I pretty much knew everything was going to happen, but certain things that didn't make sense in the Korean version were altered for the Japanese. There was more back story of Mio and Mika's childhood, and I was so much more affected by Yuki's love of Mio than Jeremy's of Mi Nam. Basically, it all boils down to the fact that I cried at Ikemen, but not at You're Beautiful. However, the latter did mention Super Junior on more than one occasion, and even did a parody of Sorry Sorry, so they do get bonus points for that.
I cant really do connections, and I'm not sure I want to when the chances of a Gokusen link are so low. But Shin Woo is the leader of CNBlue, and Jeremy is the leader of FT Island, two Kpop bands I am well aware of even though I don't have much experience of them.
Next up is the Korean version of Hana Yori Dango, Boys Before Flowers. You may get a rant post, but otherwise, don't expect to hear from me about this series for a while, as it is like 25 episodes long ...
<3 x
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