Miss Rose

             This post is going to be about the Taiwanese drama Miss Rose. I really liked this drama. The main leads did a great job also. The first few episodes were interesting and it went straight to the point by the first episode. Our main character just keeps bumping into our male lead and in all situations, their meetings were not very pleasant. The first time, the main lead Luo Si Yi's heel broke and she got cake all over the male lead Gao Cheng Kuan's clothes. Then they met again after realizing they took each other's phones by accident (and it wasn't good as it cost the guy to lose a lot of money). Then they met again when he took over her company and she was in his office changing clothes since no one was there. They had a pretty bad moment there and she was all like, "STALKER! GET OUT!" It truly was pretty humorous. Another bad moment they had together was when they met at a bar, she was eating a cherry from her drink when he bumped into her and she ended up choking on the cherry. There were plenty of humorous parts. Now as for the synopsis...

                                                          

Synopsis:

          The main character Luo Si Yi was dumped in her last relationship and from then on she didn't go for any other relationships. She is now 31 and still hasn't gotten too far in her love life. For a while, she keeps bumping into Gao Cheng Kuan and she labelled him as a pervert and stalker because they kept seeing each other and he once walked into a room that she was changing in without knowing she was there. Her friend takes her to a local fortune teller to figure out her love life. In anger, she made a bet with the fortune teller and said that if she does not get married in one year, she'll give the fortune teller 1 million dollars. If she gets married within one year, the fortune teller said she'll pole dance at Si Yi's wedding. Having to accomplish this to not have to pay 1 million or be cursed for life, Si Yi sets out to forget the past and find love.

           To make things worse, she finds out that Gao Cheng Kuan is her boss. He is known to be very arrogant and is known to treat his employees like screws that need to be tightened or thrown away if rusted.  With all this pressure on, it seems almost impossible to deal with love and work. She works as a secretary and helps him with a lot of things after he decided that she was responsible and helpful. Having to deal with Vivian, Gao Cheng Kuan's rude and arrogant fiance (which is kind of like a forced marriage since both Vivian and Gao Cheng Kuan have no feelings for each other), Luo Si Yi deals with love and work. Gao Cheng Kuan and Luo Si Yi slowly start falling for each other without knowing. In this romantic comedy, you'll be sure to enjoy it. Most of the characters like Si Yi's friend and family were extremely encouraging and kept pushing her to go on dates with Gao Cheng Kuan even when they were not in a relationship. I'm sure you will enjoy this romantic and comedic drama. I also totally rooted for Gao Cheng Kuan's assistant and Si Yi's friend on being a couple also.

Operation Proposal

         This was actually a really interesting drama and I really liked Yoo Seung Ho in it because he did a great job in acting. This has a very interesting concept that has to do with being sent back to your past to change your mistakes and so forth. However, even though I enjoyed this drama, this was slightly repetitive of the guy going back to his past and changing his mistakes to win his first love. This drama was extremely cute and those friendship turns to love thing, makes me kind of jealous because I thought those friendships are really cute (for example, in Reply 1997).

         If you could go back in time to relive the past, what would you do differently? That's the question that you constantly think about when watching this drama.

 Synopsis: 

       The beginning of this episode was actually really sweet. Yoo Seungho wakes up tiredly and hitting his alarm clock. Then he is fully awake when he remembers today was his best friend's wedding day. She happened to be his first love too and he wanted to confess to her but never found the right time. He had been friends with her since elementary school and liked her for a whole 20 years but never found the right time to confess. Now it was too late since Yi Seul, his friend, was getting married to another man. So much for finding the "perfect time." He is the man in honor and is full of regret as he watches Yi Seul marry Kwon Jin Won. It was extremely touching when he was giving his congratulations and he talked of their memories. 

       He reads a letter that was never given to him that was written by Yi Seul as they were graduating middle school. She writes that he was a special person to her and that she liked him. As he was feeling regret for not ever confessing or doing other things differently, he meets a man who is known as a Conductor. He is able to control time. As the Conductor tried to persuade him to time travelling back, Baek Ho decided to take some time to think about it. The conductor gives him a little vial.

       Baek Ho thinks about this and he looks through the pictures he took with Yi Seul in high school, he realized that in most of the pictures, Yi Seul didn't look too happy because he was always the one making her sad, upset, and so forth. He wondered what would've been different if he had confessed his feelings to her. Wanting to change that, he decides that he wanted to go back in time. He downs whatever is in the vial and says, "Renovatio, Renovatio" and Baek Ho gets sent back to high school for a another chance at taking control of his won destiny and to make things right again. Let's see if he'll be able to get the happy ending he wants.

          

          Though this drama was interesting and I enjoyed it.Throughout the entire drama, he basically just tried to fix every mistake and change it so that he can win the girl in the end. And it always seemed to have this effect on the future after he makes a change in his past and throughout most of the drama it has the Renovatio thing going on. However, I still enjoyed watching it.  So I would recommend you guys to watch it if you want, it actually is kind of cool. Truly a pretty amazing drama. Though it was frustrating at some parts, I loved it nonetheless. 

Smiling Pasta

A lot of people liked this drama. So I figured that I would give it a watch. It's a Taiwanese drama and it was actually really interesting and it was a good drama. It kind of reminded me of the Korean drama Full  House. I'm a little busy today so I'll write a short one :)


Synopsis: 
              The main character is a girl named Xiao Shi. She had went through 17 short relationships that never lasted more than 3 months. She was believed to have a "three-month curse" and her family knows about it too. After being dumped by her last boyfriend, she bumps into a famous idol named He Qun. They end up kissing on the street by accident and paparazzi who were chasing He Qun took a lot of pictures. To avoid having a bad reputation, they declared that Xiao Shi was He Qun's girlfriend of one year and that they were engaged. This sounds kind of similar to Full House doesn't it? Anyways, they made a love contract as it was hard to just end the relationship making it look fake. The couple begins to like each other even though they constantly argued in the beginning. They also go through many obstacles caused by people and the media. It also shows you if Xiao Shi will be able to break her 3 month curse.

School 2013

         Today, we're going to be talking about School 2013 (which is also known as  School 5 as it is an update to "School Series" which aired from 1999 to 2002. This drama was pretty interesting as it showed what the life of students were like. People said that this was very similar to what actually happened in schools in Korea and of course, there are other schools that can relate to this drama also. People have had different opinions on this drama. Some people liked it and recommended it to me and others said that they didn't like it. So I figured that I should check it out and decide for myself (and it is what I suggest for the other dramas because just because someone else doesn't like it doesn't mean you won't). When I watched the first few episodes, I was shocked by how bad some of the kids were in terms of bullying students and the teacher. Anyways, here is a synopsis and if it interests you, you can take a look at it.

Synopsis:

       This drama portrays realistic issues, struggles, and dilemmas of the young people today in school. It takes place at Seungri High School. It is mainly about the teenagers and the struggles they have to deal with in and out of class. I actually really liked the different characters of the students because it showed the diversity of the class and how they are all different. It also showed how difficult some students were. The actors and actresses did a great job.

         Seungri High School ranks as one of the worst of 178 high schools in Seoul based on academic scores. Jung In Jae (Jang Nara) begins her career as a teacher here. Se Chan (Daniel Choi) also starts to work at this high school and as the top Korean language teacher at a famous institute in Gangnam. Class 2 is at the bottom of the grade (2) at Seungri High and that was the reason why they hired Se Chan, in hopes of improving the scores of the students. Jung In Jae was supposed to leave and Se Chan becomes the homeroom teacher of the class, however, unable to leave her students and thinking she should still stay with them and help them go through their teenage years, she stays. In Jae and Se Chan begin working together as homeroom teachers as they try to bring the scores up as well as help the students. 

         The teenager that we mainly follow is Nam Soo. Nam Soo ends up being the class president of grade 2. He had problems with Jung Ho who is a gang member and yet Jung Ho was the one who made Nam Soo the class president. However, becoming class president still brings on problems as Jung Ho continues to bother Nam Soo. Nam  Soo also does whatever is possible to keep Jung Ho from bothering Jung In Jae, the teacher, as most teachers abandoned this class as they found it difficult. 

        Not only does this drama revolve around the lives and the struggles the adults have to go through in helping these kids but also the lives of the students. The students also have a lot going on in their lives and the different friends they make and so forth. School 2013 show how teachers and students grow up and mature through the conflicts and compromises that occur in their lives. 

Love Contract

This drama was acted by Ariel Lin and Mike He. I actually liked this drama because it worked even though I thought it wouldn't work well in this drama. Ariel Lin and Mike He did a great job acting in this drama. I'll get straight to the point for this drama and start on the synopsis.
Synopsis:
         Ariel Lin plays the role of Xiao Feng who is a stubborn tomboy and the captain of the Kendo Club at her college. She is very leader like as she is very demanding and she is also very tough. However, despite her tough image, Xiao Feng actually just wants to search for love and come out of her scarred past. Her friends don't know anything about Xiao Feng's past or that the main thing she wanted was love, but are always loyal to Xiao Feng. However, one day her friends, Xiao Bai and Ah  Kai leave the Kendo Club to be a part of the Swim Team because Xiao Feng was pretty tough on them.
          To their disappointment, they found out that the captain of the Swim  Team, Ah  Ken, was just as strict as Xiao Feng and made them do a lot of work. It was pretty hilarious as you watched them do grueling exercises while complaining. When Xiao Feng told her friends that she wanted to fall in love the most of all, Xiao Bai and Ah Ken devised a prank known as the "love contract." Ah Ken must date Xiao Feng and they will find members to recruit for the swim team.
           At first, when Ah Ken tried to date her, Xiao Feng would play tricks. However, none of them expected that they would actually start falling for each other. As they become more intimate due to troubles at home, their friends have problems that might threaten them to break apart. For example, a guy named Mu Tou who has liked Xiao  Feng for a long time was jealous of their relationship. He tries to break them up. Ah Kai, a childhood friend of Xiao Feng, also has a crush on her but he is dating Xin Lei. Now here is where the huge love triangle...parallelogram.....starts. Ah Kai likes Xiao Feng but is dating Xin Lei, but Xiao Bai likes Xin Lei and Xiao Xiao likes Xiao Bai. So things start getting confusing with all these love connections. And problems also start occurring as Xiao Feng's past is revealed and also when she finds out that Ah Ken only dated her for the love contract.

Gumiho: Tale of the Fox Child

         This drama was a fast watch and pretty intense and interesting. And I really liked the child actress, Kim Yoo Jung, and the actress who played the gumiho did an amazing job also. It has 16 episodes. This drama was actually very interesting and I liked it but its kind of underrated as not a lot of people have watched it. So if you guys have a chance, you should take a look at it. It's a pretty good drama. Even though it had some creepy scenes that you might find scary, I thought it was actually fine and it was interesting to see change between the role of the mother to a gumiho seeking revenge for her daughter.  

Just a note to those who don't know what a gumiho is (I didn't know till I watched My GF is a Gumiho), a gumiho is a legendary nine-tailed fox. When they are in human form, they are stunning woman and legend has it the gumiho takes the liver of men and eats it. In this drama, the woman had no means of killing people but just wanted to keep herself hidden from humans and try to live as a human and try to protect her daughter from harm. 

Synopsis:      

           The gumiho, a stunning woman, is telling her daughter, Yeon Yi, of the love story of the gumiho. No one knows that this woman is a gumiho. The love story started out with her husband encountering the gumiho in "monster" form. The gumiho said that she will spare the man's life but he has to promise to not ever mention the gumiho again. He promised, doing whatever he could to spare his life. Then as he left the forest, he encounters a beautiful woman (the gumiho in her human form) and they get married. Apparently, if the gumiho gets married for ten years with a mortal, she can become human. However, the day before 10 years was up, the man mentioned the gumiho and the gumiho lost her chance of becoming a human.

            She said, "If you had waited one more day, ten years would've been up." She also said that not only is she not getting her chance of becoming human but also their daughter Yeon Yi. She spares the man his life and still loves her daughter dearly. However, she knows, in 3 months when her daughter turns 10, her daughter will also turn into a fox. Her husband later commits suicide by himself with his wife and daughter gone (the girl ran after her mother).  The two began to live together and they end up becoming servants at a house because at that house, their daughter was sick with a rare disease and could not open her eyes.

          However, if there is a girl who is born on the same month, day, year, and time as the sick girl, Cho Ok, the sick girl would get better. When Yeon Yi and her mother appeared, Cho Ok got better. In order for the girl to be better forever, it meant that Yeon Yi had to be sacrificed and Cho Ok will have to eat Yeon Yi's liver. However, in the time being, they lived there. A young master and  Yeon Yi start forming a love relation and the mother also had a kind man liking her and the master of the house also started liking the gumiho too.

          The mother and daughter suffered quite a lot in this household. Cho Ok constantly bothered Yeon Yi, even making the servants throw Yeon  Yi into a well. The mother of the household also bothered Yeon Yi's mother. Thankfully, a servant who also liked the gumiho and didn't care if she was a beast or not or the fact that her child was also a beast, always helped the mother and daughter as best as he could. Cho Ok was also extremely bratty. Throughout the time, Yeon Yi began to notice changes  as she sometimes would transfer into a fox figure. The master of the household, the father of Cho Ok, did not want to kill Yeon Yi as he started feeling something for the mom. However, for the sake of his own daughter, the master killed Yeon Yi and gave Yeon Yi's liver to his daughter. 

         Finding that her daughter was killed for the sake of Cho Ok's life, the gumiho begins to pretend like she has lost her memory and continues working at the place. She wants to get revenge for Yeon Yi and she even gets to talk to Yeon Yi's ghost a few times when it possesses Cho Ok's body. In this brilliant drama, you can see the sense of love and protection this mother has over her child as she tries to save her over and over again and then try to get revenge. In this drama, you begin questioning who is truly the beast and who is the human.

        I liked the ending because it was sweet, but I felt really bad for the two guys that liked the mother-daughter pair. Anyways, enjoy this drama! You truly should watch it! It's a fast watch and you get hooked on this pretty fast too.

Love Or Bread

I watched It Started With a Kiss and  They Kiss Again which starred Ariel Lin and Joe Cheng. I loved them both dearly since their chemistry was great and their friendship was so strong. When I heard that they had another drama together, I happily watched it. It was the most awkward drama for me because the characters  of these roles are completely flipped around. I watched this drama with a Jiang Zhi Shu in my mind (Joe Cheng's character in It Started With a Kiss who is a genius and extremely cold) and a Xiang Qin (Ariel Lin's role which is a sweet girl but not very smart). It turned out in this drama, Joe Cheng was acting out the really childish one while Ariel Lin was acting the more mature one. So totally not used to this image, I actually even thought of giving up on watching this. But I continued on.

Synopsis:
        Joe Cheng plays the role of Frank who wears designer labels and acts cool. However, he is actually buried in debt and chased after by loan sharks. He had a tragic past where both his parents died and he doesn't know how to spend his money since the loan sharks are always coming after him. He had considered pawning his mother's wedding ring, but couldn't do it because it was all that was left from her.
        Ariel Lin plays the role of Zhen Shan Mei who plays a poor but hardworking girl. She has a boyfriend, but he moved to mainland China for university. He had promised that they will get married after he graduates so she decides to go to China so that they can get married. Her family are against her decision of marrying the guy because they need her to support them with money. The only person that supported her was her father who told her to go. That was how she met Frank for the first time. She meets him as he is running from gangsters and ends up in the ladies room. She thought he was a pervert and even reported him to the police. The ring fell out of Frank's pocket in the girl's bathroom and the policeman, thinking it was  Shan Mei's, put it in her bag. The two meet again later and he tries to get his ring back. He doesn't get the ring and ends up sending Shan Mei to the airport. However, she found out that her boyfriend had another girl and had betrayed her. Shan Mei goes back to Taiwan, hurt. She doesn't know where to go as she knows her mother will only nag about it and do the  "I told you so." She couldn't go to her best friend as her friend would also do the "I told you so." So in the end, she rents a place using Frank's ring and the neighboring tenant just happened to be Frank.
            Both are complete opposites yet both are in need of money. They live together and go through problems together. Shan Mei starts to come out after her boyfriend's betrayal. Though opposites, the two fell in love in this humorous love story.

In all honesty, I was not used to this drama. Especially watching them act in It Started With A Kiss and They Kiss Again. It felt like their roles reversed in this drama and I was not used to it.