Korean Drama: Personal Taste

I realized that I blogged nothing much about myself but more on entertainment nowadays. Last night I finally done watching 16 epis of the Korean drama 'Personal Taste' online. This week I made myself crazy of not having enough sleep because of this. But it's worth watching - its a romantic comedy drama with lots of humor, some intimate kissing moments and a few sad scenes towards the last 3 epis, and at least this time the ending is better. It was also a pretty inspiring story about the value of true friendship, trust and love. And again, love the ballads in the OST. Check out Kim Tae Woo with 'Dropping Rain'. And thumbs up to both main actor & actress - excellent acting!

The drama behind the scenes:


Synopsis: Kae In lives with Jin Ho whom she thinks is gay. Jin Ho is straight but pretending to be gay. Jin Ho falls in love with Kae In. Kae In is confused. This, in a nutshell, is the plot of Personal Taste, a thoroughly endearing comedy starring two of Korea's brightest stars. Lee Min Ho, superstar for his breakout role in 2009's smash hit Boys Over Flowers, finally returns to dramas in the illustrious company of film and drama staple Son Ye Jin (A Moment to Remember, Summer Scent) in this quirkily-themed drama. Park Kae In (played by Son Ye Jin), a furniture designer and the daughter of a famous architect, is kind, impulsive, and a complete slob in her personal habits. Naive and trusting, she's stayed with the same man, Chang-ryul, for years, ignoring all the poor treatment she's received at his hands. When he dumps her in the worst possible circumstances, she's heartbroken, and determined to never take a chance on a man again. Enter Jeon Jin Ho (Lee Min Ho), straightlaced (and straight) architect who needs to scout out her house for his latest business deal. After Kae In takes him as gay during an early encounter, Jin Ho sees his opportunity and decides to pretend to be gay in order to move in with her. Once there, he gradually embarks on a mission to make over the inveterate tomboy/slob, but in all the mayhem of the makeover and hiding his true orientation, the unexpected happens and the perfectionist architect begins to fall for her. What will happen when the man who's pretending to be gay and the woman who thinks he's gay develop feelings for each other?


The sweet neck kiss


I love 'Park Kae In' hairstyle and dress here - she look so sweet!



I love how the used colours and creative props on the set

Copied these subtitled wordings at the ending part of the drama which I find sweet and meaningful:

'Park Kae In' words: "It won't be a life where everyday is clear & mild. But even if a pitch black darkness passes, where nothing can be seen. If this man and I are together, I feel like can muster up the courage and continue walking."

'Jeon Jin Ho' words: "I raced ahead up to now without rest. But I was always that child that circled around the same spot. But after meeting this woman, I learned that occasionally stopping to reflect would allow me to go further."

To watch 'Personal Taste' drama - click here. Enjoy watching Lee Min Ho's charming smile:)

A must-see movie: SALT

Angelina Jolie at the recent movie premier of SALT in the US - just LOVED her black dress!

If you like a woman power-action movie or Angelina Jolie for that matter, you'll like this movie. I was boss-less today and I thought I could catch a movie and it's my chance to go watch 'Salt' - again to the cinema alone. I totally heart Angelina and all her type of action movies like these (e.g. Wanted, Lara Croft The Tomb Raider, etc). Never doubt she's a great & versatile actress! And a cool mom too - my inspiration!

Read that this movie was originally written for a male protagonist and that character was offered to Tom Cruise to cast as Edward Salt but he turned it down and they remake the part for Angelina as the woman spy 'Evelyn Salt'. And for that - thanks to Tom Cruise. The movie is a big hit with remarkable storyline & had large impact on me. Will go buy the DVD later for my 'Angie Movies' collection.

Synopsis: As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt (Jolie) swore an oath to duty, honor and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. Salt goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture. Salt's efforts to prove her innocence only serve to cast doubt on her motives, as the hunt to uncover the truth behind her identity continues and the question remains: "Who Is Salt?"

The Notebook Collector

Yes...I collect notebooks and I go nuts about them! So if you thought of giving me a gift, token or something, just get me a pretty notebook ya haha:) I've uploaded some photos of my collection on FB today for fun. It's one of my biggest addiction...can't stop buying them when I sees some cute/pretty notebooks...small or big and mostly cheap (or affordable)...but if it's a bit costly...I dare sacrifice my $...ya serious...my fetish for notebooks is that bad. I used some of them to write down my plans for the day and a few turned into scrapbooks.

Well...here are some of my collections:






I even bought some mini notebooks on Disney's princesses and 'buku 555' (buku hutang)...who knows I can't find those anymore next time.



Here's my favourite ones:







One of my scrapbook:




Carmen's scrapbook...I kept her baby hair here:


And not forgetting my most precious...my very 1st moleskine notebook (don't laugh..I never can afford one before). A friend was so kind and generous enough to buy me this pretty costly legendary notebook for my birthday last X'mas eve. (Picasso and I think Van Gogh too, Ernest Hemingway & other great personalities uses them). If you like to know more about Moleskine notebooks - read here.




Just sharing with you people out there what I love...inspired?

Weekend's errands & stuffs

Weekend is here again...(TGIF!)and I know for sure I'll be or try to be busy...doing some stuffs like - being invited to sing (2 solos and a duet) for a friend's wedding this Sunday (urgh..I haven't had enough practise yet!), to finish up my company's Committee Meeting Minutes (priority!), if I have time I want to create/design my own MJ's mini white glove key ring (I've bought the embelishments so I've got to do it),

...and then design some greeting cards, watch some movies - The Ugly Truth, My Sister's Keeper, etc, arrange all my books, mags, articles printouts, etc and set up a temporary library corner and activities with Carmen (a must)...I hope!

And as I promise myself I'll put up a picture of my now two weeks old nephew, Arwen. He's adorable and looked so much like his daddy (sorry Chrissie). By the way, his middle name is spelled 'Edel' actually, Chrissie changed her mind. My older bro's nickname is 'DEL', short for Disney Edward Lai.


Well, happy weekend...enjoy yours as I will enjoy mine! Mama Rock love ya people - PEACE!

Lifting up my spirit!

Honestly, I'm not a frequent church goer but deep inside me I still worship the Lord (usually in silence). Pretty sad to hear huh? / what a shame (I know). So I need lots of 'lifting up my spirit' moment...I do that by listening or I normally sings to my favourite contemporary gospel songs. Here's one of my ultimate fav - I've sung this song a few times in church.

From my fav black American contemporary gospel singers (black singers are my huge influences/inspirations in music), here's Cece Winans with Alabaster Box - just love her voice and performance here, enjoy:



The room grew still as she made her way to Jesus
She stumbles through the tears that made her blind
She felt such pain, some spoke in anger
Heard folks whisper, there's no place here for her kind.
Still on she came, through the shame that flushed her face
Until at last she knelt before His feet. And though she spoke no words
Everything she said was heard, As she poured her love for the Master
>From her box of Alabaster.

CHORUS
And I've come to pour my praise on Him like oil from Mary's Alabaster Box
Don't be angry if I wash His feet with my tears and I dry them with my hair.
You weren't there the night He found me.
You did not feel what I felt when He wrapped His love all around me.
And you don't know the cost of the oil in my Alabaster Box.

VERSE 2
I can't forget the way life used to be. I was a prisoner to the sin that had me bound
I spent my days pouring my life without measure.
Into a little treasure box I thought I found. Until the day when Jesus came to me
And healed my soul with the wonder of His touch.
So now I'm giving back to Him all the praise He's worthy of .
I've been forgiven and that's why I love Him so much.

CHORUS
And I've come to pour my praise on Him like oil from Mary's Alabaster Box
Don't be angry if I wash His feet with my tears
And I dry them with my hair, my hair.
You weren't there the night Jesus found me. You did not feel what I felt
When He wrapped His love all around me. And you don't know the cost of the oil
Oh, you don't know the cost of my praise. You don't know the cost of the oil
In my Alabaster Box.

Inspiring vocal - now my spirit is moved and lifted up!

Quickie Wednesday

Here's whats and hows my day today in random order....

1) Just came back from attending the Organizing Committee Meeting for the International Education Conference (IEC) at the Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) this afternoon. The IEC is proposed to be held in November this year...there's too much things to be done and to be finalize with too little time and just hope they will not postpone it again;

2) My daddy came home for just 1 week vacation and he'll be leaving for Penang early morning tomorrow...so we're gonna spend some time with him tonight. Will be missing him again! And oh ya he's finally on Facebook (ha!);

3) So inspired with Sugared Songbird's creativity...I so want to do and create stuffs like these!;



4) Looking forward to watch "Tranformers: Revenge of the Fallen" but firstly I've got to watch Part 1 (pity that...I've watched the cartoon but not the movie and I know who's Optimus Prime (ha! again)


5) Met up with some sweet and lovely people/friends today.

Pretty good Wednesday today!

Sarang Heyo

Besides being obsessed with Tagalog movies/dramas (preferably romantic ones), I also have that 'minat giler' thing with romantic Korean Dramas which had me sleepless for a few nights (I know this sounds stupidity). Anyways, I finally finished watching 15 Episodes of another Korean Drama Hit "Say You Love Me" which again starred Kim Rae Won. Although I have lots of emotional moments during the middle part of the stories but I thought the story was just okay for me...the ending is too simple (I tried to recreate in my mind the conclusion bit to be that Cho Ina lets go of Byung Soo but only to find out that Young Chae has flies off to a foreign country and only comes back to Korea after 5 years leaving Byung Soo feeling guilty & regrets but somehow patiently waits for her...well something like that (duh?) but eventually it didn't end that way-ha!) and lots of 'bikin meradang' part e.g. Rae Won's character there is a lil bit bleak....but thumbs up to all the actors acting skills especially the crying part.




Synopsis:
“I can’t fly without Young-Chae…because it’s impossible to fly with only one wing.” “Byung-Soo is mine. He has always been mine ever since we were born.” “There are neither victims nor assaulters when it comes to love.”
“If I knock that little girl down as you wish…then would you come to me?”
There’s Byung-Soo and Young-Chae who have grown up together ever since they were little. They seem to share everything, not to mention their dream so in order to together make their dream come true, they enter the same film company. And there’s Ina who is the successful owner and the president of the film production company. She also has Hee-Soo beside her but they are not desperately in love with each other and lead their own private lives. They just occasionally go out and sleep together. But all of a sudden there comes this young and lovable couple and somehow she’s not that pleased to see them. Why? This young couple seems to be such full of life and they’re in love! She has missed all that just in order to come up where she’s now. She is totally feeling at loss now and she just can’t stand this feeling. She asks Hee-Soo, “Take Young-Chae away from Byung-Soo.”(Source: mbcpro.co.kr)

Cast:
Kim Rae Won as Kim Byung-Soo
Yeom Jung-Ah as Cho Ina
Yoon So Yi as Suh Young-Chae
Kim Sung Soo as Park Hee-Soo

Blings

I recently purchase these bling-blings from Winnie, friend/colleague from SIE. I know having or buying this stuffs are not really that necessary right now (maklum lah kegawatan ekonomi) cos I want/need to do lots of $$ saving for myself (e.g. go travelling, do business etc) and for my family....but I just can't resist how lovely there are (that's a confession of a shopaholic). It's more for collection actually but I'm already wearing the bracelet to glitter up at work (ha!). I love the fact that Winnie also has a blog "The Baby Jewels" (wow..my Carmen's 2nd name) selling range of jewelleries & accessories to choose and buy...so I'm promoting her now....go BUY cos it's affordable and will make you pretty!

Necklace @ RM12 (on my babygirl's photo), Bracelet @ RM9 (on my dry hand cos forgot to pakai lotion..muahaha) and Ballerina Necklace @ RM26:





Blings makes mama rock happy!

Art Project #3 & some inspiration

I've motivated my mood to be inspired and to work on some creative art projects these past two weeks such as these simple junkies. This is my real passion - I LOVE DOING THIS! Although I did this for fun and it feels great seeing & knowing what you have done after that - either its pretty or ugly...the most important is just being plain creative. Everyone can be creative!

No. 1 project: Handmade Notebooks

The 1st notebook I did is a "Love Urself Mini Book" (haha) (see pics: front, inside and back cover)...a little bit cincai because I memang cincai while doing it (ha)...so i guess it didn't turn out good....but good enough for scribbling and as 'buku rojak' lah.



Later...I did another two notebooks that looks better. I used recycled and leftover blank coloured papers from the office...instead of throwing, recycling is even better.



No. 2 Project: Mini art boxes / candy boxes (made out of matchbox/kotak macis)



I also love this so called tiny 'mint tin' which is very useful to keep little stuffs like paper clips, paper tacks and even staples. What a cutie!




I also adores this colourful paper tacks. I've got to buy more of this and they have few other cool designs. Got them from Mini Toons shop at 1Borneo Hypermall.



For my daily INSPIRATION, I got it from two of my fav creative blogs - decor8 & Creative Comfort. They just lashed out the creativity in me.