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неделя, 2 октомври 2016 г.

Neverending Sunday - 2 October

My dear O.,

It’s Sunday again and hello, October! After last week’s long 4-day break I feel that this weekend is way too short for me.

Anyway, let’s see what we have for today. My choice of topics today include some of the things from the past several weeks that had impressed me in some way and I want to share them with you.

Recipe
       
       In July I decided to try a new kind of dish. It isn’t something original, but it was new to our home menu, so that made it an exciting dish to try. The basic ingredients include chicken meat, onion, carrots and a huge amount of green peppers. All of the veggies have to be sliced into thin pieces and everything is fried in a wok, with some soya sauce and 1-2 cloves of garlic. Simple and delicious! We call it “Granny’s Chinese meal” because of the use of soya sauce, but it is not so appropriate. You can add some zucchini, or as in our case when we got together at your place for a home-cooked meal – some Chinese mushrooms (I found their name - Cloud ear fungus). The crunchiness of all the vegetables must be preserved and that makes it very delicious, in my opinion.


Drama

Apart from our Descendants of the Sun marathon at the beginning of September, we managed to watch two more dramas, one of which I am going to review in brief.

Photo source: dramafever.com
Playful Kiss is a based on the popular Japanese manga Itazura na Kiss. I remember watching the anime series more than three years ago. It is not the typical anime that you can usually watch, for me it was more like family-oriented story, I guess. Or at least that was the feeling I had after watching it.
It wasn’t the same with the drama. Korean dramas can vary from other dramas or even animated versions of the same story.  We watched it last week during the four-day holidays and as our plans to go on separate trips during those precious and last resting days for this year failed. So granny and I decided to use the time to do the chores during these days and the evenings were spent watching this drama. The series aired in 2010 so that makes it an old drama and it surely looked like that. The story follows the hardships of a not so smart girl who is in love with a bored genius boy. Dear, if you don’t watch it, you won’t lose. It surely is sweet, but just for wasting your time, although there are some funny moments that stay in your mind even after you have finished it. The leading actor, who I know is also a singer, looks like a wood in a bad mood, decorated with beautiful, but always irritated face. The main actress is sweet and may poses some kind of talent for more deeper roles, but I think that this character particularly puts her in a frame that cannot be escaped. The stereotype of the caring, yet dumb woman and the look-at-me-I-am-an-awesome-man type is very common in some Asian dramas and stories. They just don’t want independent girls sometimes and that’s it (Although there are some examples and strong female characters are on the rise nowadays).  I mostly liked the second male lead, who turns out to be a delinquent-looking person with a very good heart (and he speaks in dialect very well). The relationship between the younger brother and the mother is very entertaining as it was in the anime as I remember. Good drama, but you can easily skip watching it.
I guess, I am not good in expressing myself in brief - look how many words I have written about a drama I do not recommend you to watch! I wanted to write about another more exciting drama, but I will leave it for next week. ;)

Hit the Stage (Or hit me in the heart with those awesome dances!)

            My dear, I happened to watch videos on YouTube of a show that ended last week. It’s called Hit the Stage, it is Korean and has mega-awesome dance performances!
At first my interest was generated by Taemin’s appearance in the teaser advertising this show. But after watching some performances as it started, I began liking it even more. What can I say, I enjoyed everything I saw! I am going to put here some of the dances I liked the most. Of course, the others were awesome too, but I keep repeating these, because they became my favorite! (And I must confess, I am biased – I like watching the males dancing more than the females, blame me! Such energy and strength! And also – J-Black and Pinky Cheeks, Yugyeom, U-Kwon, I want you to dance on my wedding day, no joke! You were awesome!!!Haha!...Well, if I ever get to marry someone… Anyway, just think about the joke here. ;) )







Destination for Motivation

You told me you really wanted to go to Italy (Milan and Turin), but recently the tickets got more expensive. Don’t be sad, you will go someday, maybe even soon. And I wish you to be in the best company and to have the best time there. Even if you feel alone now that you are living in a different city, trying to fit in and studying hard, don’t get sad, because bright days are coming and there are a lot of people that think about you. You are loved, my dear. And someday you will travel this beautiful world and you will feel complete. And, if I get the chance to share even one of these moments while you are at the top of the world, filled with excitement, then, my dear, then I will be even more proud.  

Milan
Milan
Photos taken from Tumblr: Freddie Ardley Photography
Hugs,
R.


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