It's my birth month, yay! ♥ In fact, it is only two days a day away. I'm excited but at the same time, also frustrated. Everyone is frustrated naman, I think. And I have not been productive AT ALL. When this lockdown started, I've been meaning to make another loaf of cold-processed soap but five months after and I haven't done it yet. I already broke the hand mixer I bought solely for this purpose, so yeah good luck na lang if I'll ever get to make that batch of soap.
Anywaaaay... this post is about two K-dramas I recently finished watching- Hotel del Luna and Was It Love?
Hotel de Luna
I didn't watch this drama at first because it has ghosts in it. I stopped watching horror movies when my horror/supernatural-movie/documentary-partner got married and moved out. Plus, I do think it is true that you attract these energies the more you think talk about them or watch those kinds of shows. At bilang I sleep alone in the room I share with my sister most of the time (she stays in an apartment near her workplace on weekends), ayoko nang takutin ang sarili ko. However, since she's home during this five-month-long lockdown, I finally mustered the courage to watch Hotel del Luna. Maganda daw eh.
And, boy, I'm glad I did because I LOVED IT. It's a beautiful drama. Such a beautiful story. Consciously, I choose to watch feel-good romcoms because this world is so effed up and full of drama as it is, why would I want to watch about other people's misery? Well, Hotel del Luna is not straight-up drama, may bits and pieces of comedy and action.
Ang galing how they were able to build up the main story (the present) and how, little by little, they're also giving us the back story (the past). I'm more of a Man Wol + Chung Myung 'shipper, y'know the age-old tale of star-crossed lovers. That scene when Chung Myung and Man Wol were sitting together in front of the lake, right before things went haywire...
Ang sakit sa heart, besh. As in, I felt that. At face value, it may look like Chung Myung betrayed Man Wol or that he pretended to have fallen in love with Man Wol or that he befriended the band of rebels so he could have access to them and eventually be able to arrest them or suppress their plans. But I KNOW there's much more to what happened, I KNOW Chung Myung didn't befriend them just to betray them. I can see it in his eyes... (talaga lang, ha!) And that, my friends, is what made me press Next Episode...
I thought Chan Seong was Chun Myung's reincarnation. He's not and towards the end, I found what his role was in Man Wol's past life. Besh, eto yung perfect embodiment ng linyang pinagtagpo pero 'di tinadhana (they crossed paths but were never meant to be together). And that open-ended ending... just my cup of tea.
So this drama made me think if we do really die or we just get transformed into other life beings (bilang tayo ay energy and energy cannot be created nor destroyed, it can only be converted into another form). Seryoso.
Basta, this drama definitely makes it into my list of favorite dramas. I really should give all dramas equal chances cos just like this one, it might surprise & delight me.
Was It Love?
I waited until the drama ended before I watched episodes 15 and 16 para isang go na lang.
The ending was okay. After watching the last two episodes, I was slightly disappointed that Dae Oh chose to leave Ae Jong and Hanee. Maybe he was being selfless when he put Ae Jong and Hanee's welfare first before his happiness. I just don't get it why they chose not to keep in touch in those two years. Sabi nga ni Nadine, c'mon guys it's 2018 2020 na pala! Anon'ng ginagawa ng Facebook, Viber, Messenger, Line at Kakao? Maybe to give them both time to focus on their careers... ano ba ang two years? Kung si Man-wol at Chan-seong nga isang lifetime (rough estimate, LOL) ang hihintayin, ano ba naman ang dalawang taon? So yeah, maybe time and space are needed so they can work things out.
However, I just don't get it why they say that it was Dae Oh who abandoned Ae jong. I mean, it was Ae jong who left. Baka meron akong na-miss na detail. I believe Dae Oh didn't even know he fathered a child, so why is he being painted as the bad guy? Di ko naman gets yung mga tao, why would they be angry with an author whose novel was supposedly based on his life- sabi nga ni Kim Taehyung tawag jan ay artistic license.
What I learned about watching Kdramas is that the Kdrama world is like a box of chocolated, you never know what you're going to get.
