Good Morning London!

I know I haven't been that active during this month, but I've been busy preparing for my trip to London and I'm so excited! Can't wait to visit all the historic sites and eat fish n' chips ;)

Rhapsody of Meeting

Who are you that I
like this
quite confidently
speak my name
with you
put my housekey
in your hands
share the loaf of my happiness
with you
sit next to you
and in your lap
like this
tranquil
fall asleep?
Who are you that I
like this wholeheartedly
in the countries of my dreams
linger with you?


~Ahmad Shamlu

Korean Drama: Goong

This korean drama was what got me hooked on all things korean to be begin with, the story was so adorable and the cast were perfect for each and every one of their roles. It was orginally a manga book, but later got adapted into a tv series.

Goong is a story about young love in face of tradition, politics, and intrigue. In the imaginary world, modern-day Korea is a constitutional monarchy and the Royal Family lives in a grand Palace, the Goong. The story opens with the sudden death of the reigning the King. Faced with the decreasing popularity among the public for the royalty, a grand wedding for the Crown Prince, Lee Shin, is decided to be the best publicity move to improve the image of the royalty and at the same time prepare Shin for immediate succession. The intended bride? The headstrong, awkward, and sweet spirited Shin Chae Kyung that just happens to go to the same exclusive art school. Chae Kyung was betrothed to become the next Crown Princess by her grandfather and Shin's grandfather.

After 14 years of living in England with his mom, Lee Yul appears all of a sudden. He is Shin's cousin as well as the former Crown Prince. Everything seemed to be going normally until Chae Kyung's optimistic spirit wins the heart of internally lonely, Yul. As the Crown Prince Shin and simple-minded Chae Kyung's relationship appear to developing deeper feelings, a series of scandals are exposed to the public right after the pair were officially announced married. Will love prevail all in a world of political pressures and martial hardships? Or will being in the spotlight of the public be too much for the young newlyweds to endure?

You can watch it at Mysoju.com

I Like It When You Are Quiet

I like it when you’re quiet, It’s as is you weren’t here now,

and you heard me froma distance, and my voice couldn’t reach you.
It’s as if your eyes had flown away from you, and as if
your mouth were closed because I leaned to kiss you.

Just as all living things are filled with my soul,
you emerge from all living things filled with the soul of me.
It’s as if, a butterfly in dreams, you were my soul,
and as if you were the soul’s word, melancholy.

I like it when you are quiet. It’s as if you’d gone away now.
And you’d become the keening, the butterfly’s insistence.
And you heard me from a distance and my voice didn’t reach you:
it’s then that what I want is to be quiet with your silence.

It’s then that what I want is to speak to your silence
in a speech as clear as lamplight, as plain as a gold ring.
You are quiet like the night, and like the night you’re star-lit.
Your silences are star-like, they’re a distant and a simple thing.

I like it when you’re quiet. It’s as if you weren’t here now.
As if you were dead now, and sorrowful, and distant.
A word then is sufficient, or a smile, to make me happy,
Happy that it seems so certain that you’re present.

~Pablo Neruda

Pass The Remote

This fall's tv season is about to start and I'm looking forward to so many shows, Grey's Anatomy, House, Smallville, Bones, Two & Half Men, How I Met Your Mother and Supernatural. The question is, how will I find the time to watch them? I have to set my priorities right, because my focus has to be on college and not fiction. FOCUS!

My Austen Obsession!

I adore Jane Austen novels. I'm such a romantic and no matter how many times I've read her books I always end up discovering something new about them. There's never a dull moment and you can't bare to put down the novel before you read that last sentence which brings the whole story together.

If I have to rank her novels in a certain order then it would be the following:

1. Persuasion (favorite character Captain Wentworth)
2. Pride and Prejudice ( Mr Darcy)
3. Sense and Sensibility ( Elinor)
4. Mansfield Park ( Fanny Price)
5. Emma (Mr Knightley)
6. Northanger Abbey (Henry Tilney)

I'm also addicted to the movie and tv adaptaions of her novels, doesn't matter what language they're in just as long as they don't ruin the original story, becuase then it's no longer an adaptation but merely an audacity...

Love and Other Drugs

This doesn't look like an ordinary romantic comedy and I pray to the movie gods that it really won't be a typical Hollywood story. So pleeeease movie gods don't disappoint me!

The Invisible Person

Life kept rolling her over like a piece of driftwood in the surf of an angry sea

she was intelligent and beautiful and well-off 

she made friends easily 

yet she wasn’t able to put the pieces together into any recognizable shape  

she wasn’t sure who she wanted to be 

so she ended up being no one in particular   

she made herself almost invisible   

she was the person you loved so much 

who really wasn’t there at all.
~James Laughlin

Black Bird

I've loved manga books ever since I saw Sailor Moon and feel in love with the Tuxedo Mask. I've collected a couple of series such as Ranma ½, Kare Kano, Emma, Absolute Boyfriend and Hana Kimi, now it's time for me to start on a new series, Black Bird. Can't wait until I have my hands on the first book in the series!

Black Bird is about Misao who sees things that other people don't. Normally, the annoying monsters would do harmless things. But on her sixteenth birthday, these creatures she sees take it up farther, trying to kill her. They would be the only bother, until demons have gone serious into killing her or taking her for his own. She's saved by a childhood friend from her past, Kyo Usui, who just so happens to be a demon as well. Avoiding moments of death with Kyo protecting her, her own future turns out that she is the rare, "Immortal Fruit." The demons are set onto her, and it just happens, that Kyo wants Misao as well.

Hello

I've had similiar blogs before but after a while I've lost interest in them. But this time around I'm hoping that my interest won't fade since I won't be writing exclusively about novels, but also about manga, anime, movies and other things that are related to the litterary world. Looking forward to keeping this blog alive ;)