1,2,3.

i don't see the harm, so are you game?
1,2,3, not only you and me.
everybody loves...

that's the song i'm listening to right now. guess.
so buzzed for the hold it against me music video to come out.
britneyfan4lyfe.

just caught the latest episode of glee, i finally remembered why i love glee.
the mash up was epic, as y'all probably would have heard by now.
i never used to care much for the yeah yeah yeahs. they were like the arcade fire. so forever "next big thing" and famous but still indie-cool, but i refused to listen to them, cause...i don't know. lazy? so many bands, so little time.

my bad for not giving them a chance. they're both good. there's this song i heard in some random store near grand central earlier today, and it was so good, and i was all "i gotta remember the lyrics so i can google it when i get back to the hotel". but then i got back, immediately started watching SECRET GARDEN (i'm freaking addicted to it!!!! i'm so sad it's over) and forgot all about the song. now it's gone. sigh.

i thought i'd be shopping loads in new york, but idk, nothing seems to really appeal to me? been vintage shopping but everything is so BIG. all the skinny hipster boys took the small sizes i think! jkjk. Every time i walk into UO/HM/ZARA, i'm just all like sianzxz. UO not worth the price AT ALL, and singapore has (or is gonna have) zara/hm, so why come all the way to NY to buy those things right? so i've been visiting thrift/vintage stores and eating pizza every day. i'm not kidding. EVERY. DAY.

new york has awesome pizza.

damn fat naoz but whatever.

ok let me just blog about secret garden cause i seriously need to talk about it, yes i'm like some no-life auntie who watches korean dramas all day whatever it's DAMN GOOD.

korean dramas are usually SUPER sama-sama (same-same), but this wasn't. it was still A BIT sama-sama, but not so bad. there was still the usual guy-forcing-a-kiss-onto-the-girl-and-she-ends-up-loving-it, which i hate cause it makes guys think that when we say NO, we mean yes. which is crap. we mean NO, you jerks. and there was also the usual prolonged-staring with sad music added to the background (lazy to hyphenate, soz), which i seriously think must be damn awkward for the actors. like can you imagine just STARING at each other for 5 minutes in total silence? lolz.

but that being said,

it's damn. bloody. good.

it was semi-realistic. which is ironic cause the plot is ridiculous. they switch souls when it rains lol wth? but then it's realistic cause it's not like he's some romantic hero? he does have trouble giving up his wealth and whatnot to be with her, he does face some dilemmas about like, whether she's worth all the trouble. he's frank about his initial reticence.

but i LOVE LOVE LOVE the ending. it's honest. it's not some fairy tale. in the end, he does have to give up most of his material possessions, and he's not completely happy, he does have regrets, but the girl helps him get through it, day by day.  it's not some crappy montage with them laughing and playing with their children and the guy narrating "i gave up all that but it's ok i'm happy now cause i have love" (i'm looking at you, love and other drugs). and it ended with like a flashback. so we're left going, "ohhhh, so this is how deep their love is".

and i don't know, hyun bin is a damn good actor!!! i don't find him SUPER SUPER handsome, but he was endearing la.

then like, the body-switching rain thing was just epic. he drove into the rain to switch bodies with the comatose girl so that he'd become the brain-dead one, and she'd be able to live. it's like, somehow believable? no, not the plot. we all know the plot is....it's never gonna happen. it's believable that he'd do that for her i mean. usually i'm like "omg wtf so cliche i buay tahan", but this time i was crying like madddddd. cause the script had already subtly but effectively driven home the point that he loved her THAT much, so the audience could believe that he'd die for her yknw? and also hyun bin is a very good actor lol.

and it's so funny. it's like coffee prince, cause we can laugh one minute and cry the next. the script just had so much verve. it was so tight and....idk. the script was just good la.

plus the adorable tracksuits! i want one toooo!!!

and wahhhhhhhh i watched that body-switching episode SO MANY TIMES. AND CRIED. AND CRIED. AND CRIED SOME MORE.

it's just a super awesome show la everyone should watch it. like seriously, the best korean drama i have, EVER, watched.

i know it's super naive of me, but i wanna meet someone i love that deeply someday. sometimes i think about who i'd die for, and there's only one person. well, my dad of course. i know it's too much to ask, to have a korean drama love affair kinda thing going on, and my hair would probably "turn gold with grief" if that kind of heart-wrenching love ever happened to me (guess the book the above quote is from. it's awesome. hint: there's a character with my name in it). but idk. if you're not willing to die for someone, how are you gonna be able to live with him for 50 years?

passion fades, yknow?
that's just the way it always is.