Coffee House :)

This is what I've been watching: Coffee House.

I adore this drama.

You take one crazy writer + one silly secretary who makes the worst coffee in the world + one sexy/successful but lunatic publisher + lots of weird hilarious antics and you will have the basic ingredients for Coffee House. Even the main descriptions said that this drama is about a love triangle, so at the core, this is a true romance, but with a lot more comedy than the average Kdrama. Plus, the sexy/established lead this time isn't a devil girl out to ruin the angelic girl and the main guy's relationship, nope, sorry. She's strong, successful, driven and witty!!! This time around, we have a modern girl who knows what she wants and goes after that, who doesn't sit around weeps pitifully for her poor life and waits for the rescue from a rich powerful man. Everybody is likable in this drama. And am I glad to find that the main lead is not another clueless/poor but kind-hearted heroine who captures the heart of a rich man based on her hard work and heart of gold. This time around, the story explores a different kind of relationship, one that has established long before the drama takes place, and goes deeper to unravel all the secrets the relationship holds that prevent the two main leads from accepting one another. It's so refreshing to be able to watch a Kdrama (beside Alone in Love which is still my absolute favorite) that portrays human's emotions realistically. I'm already at the 10th episode mark and still loving every minute of it :). For now, please enjoy this little MV that has some tidbits from the first 8 episodes:

Cổng Mặt Trời's (Sun's Gate) first impressions

Cổng Mặt Trời (Sun's Gate) is one of the better Vietnamese dramas I have seen in a long time. I wouldn't go so far as to call it the best, because the scripts aren't quite as strong as I'd have like it to be. However, despite its length of 67 episodes, the drama went by quickly, and that was a good sign, proving how addicting this drama was. Sun's Gate drew a wave of young Vietnamese audience back to the TV screen, away from their usual routine of watching Korean/Chinese dramas. The story is simple, it's about a group of 12 young adults in their early twenties going out into the world, with their struggles, tribulations, failures and successes. Yes, there were 12 main actors for this drama, and most of them got equal screen time. The success of Sun's Gate goes back to the story, it's very Vietnamese. The dialogues, the interactions, thoughts, everything was purely Vietnamese. This drama didn't try to imitate the trendy dramas from Korea or HongKong or anywhere else in the world. It was funny, heartfelt, genuine and authentic. With its sincerity in depicting lives of these Vietnamese students from a purely Vietnamese view, no attempt to imitate or use cheap trendy gimmicky situations to draw the audience in, it actually succeeded. The beginning was so hilarious it left me in stitches from laughing so hard, and every time I remember about the drama, I couldn't help but smile. A good Vdrama worthy of recommendation!

So precious...

Today has been a precious day. It rained a good deal this morning, and snowed a good deal as well from afternoon until now, the weather very well puts me under a melacholic mood. Just yesterday and several days before, depressive bout of thoughts didn't leave me even for a second... I cried myself to sleep, to awake this morning feeling light and refreshed... as if a heavy cloak of dark clouds had finally lifted. Everything appears precious to me, even the little act of driving in the rain, to catching glimpses of snow falling outside of the windows as I sat working on my assignment, to seeing my parents back from work, to cooking spontaneously a fried rice dish... Then I know... I had been too hard on myself. If only I had looked a little bit closer to what really matters. I couldn't see it then, and suddenly, a revelation came, not from careful analysis of self-introspection like I always do, but from simply allow myself to live, to breathe in the moments, to experience everything as it is and as it comes. We humans are strange, and much stronger than one is able to give credits to. Perhaps, this feeling of tranquil happiness is just that, a fleeting moment of revelation, and the next day, stress and unhappiness will again take me captive... even so, I am happy just as I am now. Isn't that life? We struggle just for that brief moment of happiness? Let me be selfish for a little bit then... because yes, I am selfish, it has always been my weakness. But I'll keep trying to conquer it... because there will always be another better tomorrow.