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, by Amni :3

Kdramas of 2017 (and My Top Three)

*In Michael Buble's voice*

It's the most wonderful time of the year....

FOR MY KOREAN DRAMAS OF 2017! (and my top three)

Not gonna lie though, I didn't watch that much dramas this year.

I was so overly criticized dramas this year that if I didn't enjoy the first three episode:
I just stopped watching it.

You know the term 'book hangover' where you can't read any book because you finished a really good and cannot move on?

Apparently, there's this thing called 'drama hangover'.
Where you can't enjoy any drama after that ONE drama you loved and will die for it.

Which was a drama that obviously made in the list;

1. Goblin.

It's technically a 2016/2017 drama so I'll put it here.

I love goblin, so much.

Too much that I keep being so critical about other dramas, its actually not healthy.

2. The Liar and His Lover

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A love story between a genius music composer Kang Han-Gyul for the Crude Play, who writes hit songs after going through many breakups and a high school student, Yoon So-Rim.

So-Rim has fallen in love with Han-Gyul at first sight and has made up her mind to find him and confess to him. Through many encounters, Han-Gyul at first rejects So-Rim due to her age, and the fact that they both don't know each other.

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I watched the Japanese movie first out of boredom so I can say this;
The Korean drama version is less angsty.

And I need more ANGST!

I found the show (both the Japanese and the Korean) uncomfortable because of the age gap (I know its legal in these countries but it was still...weird to watch it, especially the Japanese one. I can tolerate the Korean version a little bit).

Still a good show though, extra points if you love music and musical. So, the deep meanings will come into your soul.

3. Strong Woman Do Bong Soo

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This show is lowkey overrated the more I realized it, but it such a good drama to rewatch, so that's a point.

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Do Bong-soon was born with superhuman strength. Her strength is hereditary and passed along only to the women in her family. Her dream is to create a video game with herself as the main character. She desperately wants to become a willowy and elegant woman, which is the ideal type of her crush, In Gukdoo, a police officer.

Thanks to her strength, she gets the job of a bodyguard, to a rich heir Ahn Min-hyuk, the CEO of a gaming company, Ainsoft. Contrary to Guk-doo, Min-hyuk is an odd man who is playful, a little spoiled, has no regard for rules, and dislikes policemen. He has recently received anonymous threats, blackmails, and has even been stalked at an occasion.

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Kinda watched this out of curiosity despite my lack of interest on the plot.

Because the plot is ridiculous and like the rich guy thing is sooooooooooo overplayed.

I watch this show religiously because of the crime in it which was showed since episode one okay, episode ONE!!!

Despite all the cutesy and very adorable characters,

I was left disappointed about the criminology behind the antagonist of this show.

Anyways, it's still a great drama to watch with your friends :D
And thanks to this drama, I actually had a lot a fun watching with friends.

4. School 2017

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Ra Eun-ho, a cheerful and kind-hearted 18-year-old who dreams of being a webtoon artist but is caught up in the search for a mysterious troublemaker in the school, known as 'Student X'. When she is accused of being Student X, her dream of going to university to study art is put at risk as she faces expulsion.
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Is it me or there were a lot of crime related dramas this year?

I do enjoy it but I don't know, it a pretty okay school drama. I personally still love the 2013's one and I feel none of the new School series will beat the 2013's one.

5. Twentieth Century Boy and Girl

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I watched this out of boredom okay, and it was pretty exciting.
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Depicts the love and friendship of three 35-year-old single women.
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I love dramas about friendship and even better when they all grow up and still friends. It warms my cold, cold heart.

I APPRECIATE a male lead who is soft and not arrogant. Which was surprisingly made me enjoyed Twentieth Century more. And their conversations are straight up funny.

6. Voice.

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Moo Jin-hyuk is a "mad dog" detective who becomes guilt-ridden after his wife was murdered while he was at work. Kang Kwon-joo is a tough policewoman who is gifted with perfect psycho-acoustics skills. And went for voice profiling. She was working at the call center when a brutal murder case took place and in the process of investigating her father was killed. Three years later, Jin-hyuk and Kwon-joo team up as the "Golden Time team" and solve cases together, chasing after the serial killer who took their loved ones.

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Maybe I watched a better performance from Jang Hyuk and maybe I watched Marry Me Mary and I KNEW who owned the smile that they showed in the first episode already so I was basically spoiled myself because I already knew the villain of the show.

So, Voice did threw me off a bit hahahahahYAAKUBENGAPhahahahahahaha

Also the thing in which the every episode ends with a cliff hanger....you can wrap it up in one episode..... I don't understand...

Still, if you're a newbie in kdrama, Voice is a good one to start.

7. Fight for my Way

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Funny. Sad af too. Realistic and Relatable.
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In their school days, Ko Dong-Man took part in taekwondo. Now, he makes a living by working as a contract employee and also goes after the UFC title.

Choi Ae-Ra hoped to become an announcer, but she gave up her dream. Now, she works at the information desk of a department store.

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I don't know what's up with me being so soft watching kdramas about struggling youth, I feel it in such a personal level it's weird. I know this show is funny, but prepare tissues.

Tissues. A lot of them.

8. Man to Man

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I can't believe I waited for this show since it was announced on October of 2016.
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A longtime celebrity Yeo Woon-gwang suddenly has a need for a bodyguard and hires Kim Seol-woo , a man trained in special investigations and a mysterious man of many talents. In reality, Seol-woo is a NIS black cops agent who has his own agenda and the role of bodyguard is only a cover to achieve his goals.

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Not gonna say I'm happy with it. They promised us BROMANCE but what we got in return?!
The main girl threw me off a bit (I want to like her but I can't like her? She's kinda annoying?) yet the male leads though.
THE MALE LEADS THOUGH.

Funny. OST GEMPAK.

9. Prison Playbook

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I WATCHED THIS RECENTLY AND IT SO GOOOOOOOD

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About people in prison walls
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Literally every episode plays like a Korean Movie (if you watch crime related Kmovies, you know what I'm talking about).

Kodus for the main character for being witty and smart. I deserved smart main leads after torturing myself with God's lucky idiots.

This is still ongoing and its basically one of the highest rated kdrama out there right now.

GO WATCH IT!!!!

12. Go Back Couple

Kdramas and their time travel theme.

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Choi Ban-Do and Ma Jin-Joo are both 38-years-old and a married couple. Choi Ban-Do has been burdened with being the breadwinner and Ma Jin-Joo is a housewife with low self-esteem. Even though they loved each other when they married, they now hate each other. They both regret marrying at such a young age. The couple travel through time and find themselves as 20-year-old university students, when they met for the first time.

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I love Jang Nara and the main guy also, I truly ship them eventhough a lot of people like the second lead. AND THIS DRAMA ONLY HAS 12 EPISODES?!

I AM MAD.
I found out when I was in episode 11 :)))))

I started crying 20 minutes into episode one, so PREPARE TISSUES!!

13. Witch's Court

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CRIME DRAMA IS LOVE.
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A materialistic female prosecutor, who does not hesitate to use personal attacks, fabricate evidence, and incite perjury in order to win her case, is assigned to lead the special task force for sexual assault crimes.

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Trigger Warning.

Really good show and also one of a few dramas that talks about rape case on men. Excellent writing. The main girl will put you off for the first half of the first episode but seriously, continue watch it. She is the literal version of 'Ride or Die'.

It is really worth it.

OKAY,
MY
TOP
THREE
KDRAMAS OF 2017!!!

3...2....1

3. Tunnel

You think that I will get tired of time travel drama? You're wrong!!!
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In 1986, Detective Park Gwang-Ho desperately tries to catch a serial killer. He chases after the serial killer and goes through a tunnel. On the other side of the tunnel, Detective Park Gwang-Ho finds himself in the year 2017. The serial killer has resumed the killings that began 30 years ago. Detective Park Gwang-Ho works with Detective Kim Sun-Jae and Professor of Criminal Psychology Shin Jae-Yi to catch the killer.

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I noticed that S.Korea loves to do a time travel theme drama....and not most of them are great?

Like they made this time travel thing as a hUGE thing and when the plot moves, the theme suddenly vanished (eg. Marry Me if You Dare. Goooooosh so MANY potential)

Yet, Tunnel used the time travel theme so simply and somehow very effectively.
It made you second guess things, like who's the villain?? what?? hIM? HER? HAH?

Also, the case is loosely base from one of the well-known South Korea's cold cases.

C R I M I N O L O G Y.
I would like to thank GOD.

(My nerdass knew the villian in episode 6 cause I am a paranoid motherfucker)

2. Secret Forest

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Reason why I watched this:
BAE DONNA!!!
(Cloud Atlas might be a shit movie, she was still amazing in it!!!)

Reason why I watch it until the end despite I personally dislike a show that focuses around one case:
Shi-Mok and Yeo Jin crime fighting partnership.

THIS. IS. GOOD.
Every single episode ends with a twist until you can't trust anyone anymore.

The bad guys become the nice guys, the nice guys become the bad guys. The circle continues that you can only trust Shi-Mok.

I finally can say that I truly enjoyed a law drama :D

And Seo Dong Jae....tHAT BITCH!!!!

And finally,

I think everyone knows my favourtite kdrama of 2017 is;

BECAUSE THIS IS MY FIRST LIFE

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When this show was announced, I was so stoke.
Because I have waited for Lee Minki to come back to dramaland for so long.

It is the drama that basically talks about youth and our thinking on marriages, the economy, our jobs and buying a house.

I was like: "SIGN ME UP!"

And I watched it, and it became my favourite drama of 2017, and will be put in my list of my favourite drama of all times.

There no drama, in my life of watching too much dramas, made me think twice about life, relationships, and dreams other than this drama.

I'm so happy that the male lead (Nam See Hee) is not a rich or arrogant man, he just a simple, kind, introverted man who have loans to pay.
(It's 2017, finally a male lead who is not a cheabol or rich or have a big house and actually have loans to pay, wooooow!!!)

And Jiho, who is not your typical girl lead, which are usually extroverted and would beat the male lead. Jiho is an introverted writer and also a very strong character by her own right. She ain't weak that's for sure.

To the writer of this drama:
*claps hand to you QUEEN*

Every episode are quotable and every point this show made would be a great debating session. It is truly a great drama, all actors are great, and the OST (no 4 and 8) liSTEN!!!

I think that's all.

I'm honestly really tired and lacked of sleep.

-Adios and watch them!!!

- Amni

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, by Amni :3

my life~

Not So Lost In Paradise.

I've been in a hiatus for a quite...quite...quite... a long time.

Not gonna lie.

So, you might be asking, 'What this lady person even do to be not blogging?'

The answer is simple; I went outside.

I literally went outside, socializing, catching up with my friends, getting busy.
(Lmao I'm EXAGGERATING)

I didn't read (Okay I read some), I barely draw, I barely write.
Even when I'm 'prospering', socializing a lot... I kinda feel empty inside.

It scared me because it was to the point that I didn't know what to do when I was alone.

To be really honest, I'm lost.

People did say, when you reach the age of nineteen and going twenty, you have this tendency to get lost, or easily get lost in your mind.

Just let's look what I did and happened to me for the passed 9 months or so;

1. I got a job

Which was nice since I did want to held a job before I reach 20.

The thing was: I had 2 months break and I didn't want to just stay at home, watching tv, sleep, you know; the usual stuff.
For the past semesters, my university was notorious for not giving any student a proper sem break so I'd been hustling for ages and taking full 2 months break sounded weird to me.

So I was thinking;
"Why not I try to find my first job?"

Which was *drum roll* in retails.
In a bookstore.

Amni? Worked in a bookstore? Irony and unsurprising right?

Also the fact that the bookstore was so near to my house and it was in a mall, with a cinema. Of course my geek ass would work there.

Working in retails thought me so much. You meet a lot of people with different backgrounds and goals and the stories on how they ended up working in the same place with you.

The only part I hate working in retails was the time and effort you gave doesn't reflect on your cheque. Also the constant family "We were in the mall just passing by the store so we decided to see you while you're working." visits.

2. My grades is getting better.

Okay this is a LIE. I hated my second sem.
Yet, I did better yet not in the better that I wanted it.

Y'all don't get how much stress I received on my first four months of 2017.
It was hell.

I was temperamental. Most of the things didn't go on the way I wanted. My grades suckkkssss (for that one particular subject), my assignment grades suckkkkkks, I started to lowkey hate French (because of that one particular subject), a lot of late calls on assignments, events we needed to do (and the fact we didn't have any experience of doing) shitty lecturer (that one particular subject, I see you).

But, it did get better, I'm striving this semester to fix my grades.

3. I joined club(s) at my uni.

It's kinda a big achievement to me cause I did have a big anxiety on me but it turned out okay? Which is somehow weird but okay?

I cannot meet new people. It still scares the living shit outta me.
But I felt a little bit safe because I had friends joining too.

4. I consciously, unconsciously put myself out there?

I joined events, I became facilitators on two the major events in uni, I met a lot of new people, I worked with a lot of new people.

5. My creativity gets recognition.

(Appreciate Thandruil okayy. My mans is art himself)

I don't know what I did, but Thank God I did it.
It feels nice to get your art, the things you've worked out of passion to be recognized.

So, I worked on a lot of non-profitable works.

And I have billion pictures of people in it and banner(s) at the back, it somehow looks like I'm sociable hahahahahaaohmyhahahaha