Post-Movie "The Happy Life"

Guess what Rae found while lurking around at YouTube?

It's Active Volcano from the movie The Happy Life, performing at Yoon Doh Hyun's Love Letter. Have fun enjoying it^^

video credit to hayunlee

English translation:

My flaming heart will explode someday

My flaming heart can't be hidden any longer

My blazing youth will explode someday

Don't need luck, don't need fate

Your smile is always sweet as sugar

Nothing in this world can stop me

chorus:

Explode! I said

I am going to explode (3x)

I'm going to confess that I love you, I love you

Like that active volcano

My flaming heart will explode someday

My flaming heart can't be hidden any longer

My blazing youth will explode someday

Every night when you go home

I wanna take you there

But my heart feels like exploding

When I see you saying goodbye

(repeat chorus)

My flaming heart towards you will explode someday

My flaming heart will explode someday

The Happy Life (2007)

Will one's bad relationship with their dad works otherwise with their dad's friend(s)? This is what Happy Life about. Well, not entirely but yeah.

I had a happy feeling after watching this. NOPE, it's not just because of Geun Suk although he was the main reason why I watched it *tehee~~*. The rest "uncles" were also good and entertaining enough. You might find that this movie did not really overloaded with Geun Suk face, which later I found out to be the exact intention of the director just so the female viewer would not just focus on him. Despite that, this movie is worth to watch just because it's indeed a good movie itself. I tried not to make comparison of JGS's work but I must say that this is way better than the Geun Suk latest Itaewon Murder. It's fun as well to watch Jeong Jin Yeong (as the lead guitarist, Gi Yeong) other side than his public prosecutor role in Itaewon Murder (and he sang in this too).

synopsis with potential spoiler:-

The story roles in with the death of SangWo and his college's friends came to give him respect. They met with Sang Wo's son, Hyun Joon (by Jang Geun Suk) -this will be the only scene with Geun Suk on screen until much...much ... later :( . Call it mid-life crisis or not, the rest of the gang later decided to release their stresses on work and life by re-forming their band (named Active Volcano) and even dream about going on stage, only to learn that they get rejected for their lousy audition (the late Sang Woo was their vocalist after all). That's where Hyun Joon came to the rescue by joining and helping the band to get on a bigger stage. They even get young girl-fans who think they rock just like Mike Jagger and such, and even helped them later on. One fan girl said that she wished her father was as cool as these uncles by being in a band (note to fangirl, you'll have different view if he was your dad unless he was a band-member long before you were born. Yup, I have a dad who once mentioned of trying to imitate Santana). But life issues for the band members gets critical when one was getting a divorce by his wife who currently staying oversea (Canada) and another was having a hard time with his wife leaving home. GiYeong however will have green eye response from men viewers for having such an understanding wife and supportive daughter despite him being laid off from work and had debts around his waist (literally speaking ^^). After difficulties and struggling, they finally made it and had a club of their own.

Active Volcano on stage (between the lines... Geun Suk on stage ^^)

Loving note for Geun Suk's fan:

Not much of cute smile(s) available (which I like) BUT I can assure you that you will be totally swooned over by Jang Geun Suk total coolness and awesome voice in this movie. Geun Suk acted as a "glue", making sure all those cool scenes stick together nicely and remind us that everyone should enjoyed the youthful feeling despite what age you're in. And owh... hanging around with a group of middle aged men can be totally awesome *giggle*. I really am glad I watched this after I watched You're Beautiful. Remind me off my "first love"... *wink*.

What to expect:

• During their earlier debut on performing, when the band "stop" and Hyun Joon said (with his deep husky voice), "Hey, the flames are dancing" *melting......*
• While Active Volcano performing the Happy Life song (Hyun Joon's dad last piece before he died), the "uncles' singing were superb. It gave me the kind of feeling just like when I listened to oldies... timeless (^^!)

You can watch THE HAPPY LIFE streaming online [here]. Credit to shy2x17

p/s: You think Rae might be JGS deprived? She probably is ^^

side note: Now I'm concern to what hubby's mid life crisis will be. Will he get back on the hot wheels like he used to? Or would he be diving craze just like the old time? Que sera sera ...

Hwang Jin Yi will be BACK on KBS World

Can you understand my excitement? It's Hwang Jin Yi (2006). This is one of my all time favourite sageuk drama that pulled me into this k-drama world of excitement^^.

It's about a Joseon era dancer, musician and poet, called Hwang Jin Yi (by Ha Ji Won) on the story of her life. For detailed synopsis aka spoilers, [read here]. For those worries, this is not a mere girly type of story since my husband loves this too. Years back, we would run back home to watch this on television ^^.

This is also where I "met and fell in love" with Jang Geun Suk who was Hwang Jin Yi's first love, Kim Eun Ho *wink* ( I sounded like I am trying looking for excuses to talk about Geun Suk ^^). I remember thinking, such a beautiful manly voice from such a young face. ^^

Do watch this for its exquisite work of art, beautiful scenery, stories and beautiful roles. This drama will be re-aired on KBS World starting 23rd December 2009.

You're Beautiful @ episode 16 (FIN)

loving note from Mrs. TK Rae:

dear friends, this version of review is totally Hwang Tae Kyung's segment! Rae needed this with hope that she will have this scene in her dream tonight. Rae is grinning alone after her series of flailing, squealing and even fell from the chair tragedy. She's totally over reacted with the finale. Yet now, she even wishes that she'll be the next Go MiNyeo.... *pause*

behind the scene: [after slapping Rae's cheek for a while to wake her up from straying to lala land]

ehem.... Yup, it's officially ended. And this time, the uploader (wlqgoddbdP) at YouTube was VERY QUICK too. In record time, I had done watching at 2.30 am. I know some had wished that this drama extended to a few more episodes, but I'm glad the Hong sisters stick to 16 episodes. It can be quite draggy if the same issue arose again and again. I'm glad the singer lady/HwaRan akan TK's mom came to her sense after "scolded" by TK and had a meeting with MiNyeo. At that age, it's wise to have her not to be such a stone-headed person.

As we're talking about the end... I felt that the almost ending scene had the same route as JGS' previous DoReMiFaSoLaTiDo. But they used TK's night-blindness nicely... :)

TK's searching for his "moon". Can you see how kakkoi GeunSuk as TaeKyung?? *melting*

Rae :---*flail.. SQUEALLL... and glee*

Yea.. must gave credit to ShinWoo here for asking the stage manager (???) to turn on the light for TK...

and that's when TK found his moon

Rae :---*flail.. SQUEALLL... and glee*

urgghhh... the stare can stroke Rae to freeze forever *faint*

TK to MiNyeo: ... I love you [yes.. not a merely "I like you" anymore]

Fans: squealllllll......

Rae :---*flail.. SQUEALLL... and glee* .. fell from the chair (^^!)

behind the scene: [getting back on the chair to continue what ever Rae's been doing]

Do guys know why the ladies fell for quirky men?

Check out what TaeKyung did... he need a reason for everything....

From giving MiNyeo the start necklace....

Rae :---*flail.. SQUEALLL... and glee*

to just hugging her....

Rae :---*flail.. SQUEALLL... glee and said.... awwww*

I am so loving the ending. I do not need another kiss since TaeKyung's gestures and series of reasoning to have MiNyeo's attention set my heart fully content. How sweet... ^^

Side notes numbered ^^:

1. TaeKyung is quirky, loveable, annoying, SUPEERRR.... (he's just like my Chiaki sempai. hehehe)
2. Rae doesn't mind TaeKyung's hairdo back to that sleek emo kinda look. He still look HOWT!!!
3. MiNyeo's fashion sense seemed to be going on TK's track of fashion taste
4. Park Shin Hye ROCK!!!
5. Lee HongKi is a DARLING and look so "beautiful" even when the drama's stylish tried to "hide and kill" his look by giving him that dorky hairdo....!!! He cracked me everytime and even managed to make me cry. He deserved a nomination or even an award!
6. UEE who played HeYi had become one of my favourite villain. The way when even her gave TK a hard time at the almost end was nice.
7. Manager's Ma, the stylish eonni & Jeremy's wild imaginations are still the best
8. ShinWoo is officially Rae's current favourite Second Male Lead
9. ShinWoo is HOT... ShinWoo is SWEET... ShinWoo's sensitivity is SUPER... Yong Hwa as ShinWoo can ACT...
10. Will be missing President An who loves wearing scarf (pink scarf).. lol~~
11. How come Sayuri and the rest of the fan club was not around during the final concert??

Of course there still flaws and should need extra cautions by the YB's production team but let end it here today with happy feeling ok Beautiful People... ^^

As a closing... 장근석 , 난 널 사랑해

Rae's madness...

As we are at the edge of You're Beautiful's finale, Rae's proudly presenting you with...

the faces of Hwang Tae Kyung ^^

This is the work of pure faNoona-ing

squealing and flailing are expected and allowed

By the way, you can expect more montages from Rae untill her fever on YB is officially decreased *wink*

Itaewon Murder

Horror or violence genre was never my favourite. However, I will watch it if it involved brilliant investigation lines such as CSI:Crime Scene Investigation and Criminal Minds though I'll skip and close my eyes for scenes that show too much of blood (yup, I'm a little bit of Haemophobia). Sometime, I pass and endure it IF there are things that I like about the story or movie or drama. In this particular movie.. it's all about Jang Geun Suk *faNoona-ing*.

Anticipated watching GeunSuk as a murderer suspect? Nope, more like excited to watch him speaks his English lines^^. The verdict--> not bad!

Again, I watched this almost RAW (the full sub still not up but luckily there's lines in english). It's hard to enjoy it to the fullest when most of the scenes were either in the court or in the investigation room. Therefore, they spoke more un-familiar words to Rae's vocabulary. Despite that, Rae had a nice eye-feast on her favourite candy boy! lol~~~

In that case it wouldn't be fair to rate this movie since I wouldn't have known if the investigator/ police/ prosecutor/ lawyer did a brilliant job. Having seen this... I can understand why Jang Geun Suk did not awarded with the Best Supporting Actor. Sadly, his roles were not strong enough portrayed as a psychopathic. It's almost there, but still quite not there yet. JGS' smirk and chilly smiles however did give me a creepy feeling. The scenes were convincing but lack the thrilling which made it almost dull. This movie more likely showing the flaw in the whole investigation system. The finale was suddenly filled with anti-climax which of course strengthen the idea of weak investigation.

Watch ONLY if you're JGS's hardcore fan or you really REALLY love investigation type with less action and filled with heavy lines. Other wise, ABORT! Seriously! Now, don't say I didn;t warned you ^^.

A trial to find the real murderer between two friend;

Pearson (by Jang Geun Suk- above) and Alex (by Sin Seung Hwan- below)

and I thought the "Lie detection" machine can solve the case.

The below reading was belong to Alex.

You're beautiful (possible spoiler)

The post's title mentioned it all. Abort this page while you still can.

I did said I am committed to STEER AWAY from ALL POSSIBLE SPOILER! and guess what link lead me to... I really don't know if I should stop or not. Luckily, this is just a minor thing. I could have been clicking to the revealing of the news, but I managed to control my self by NOT READING THE ENTIRE TEXT (do you even know how hard that could be?). Rae is totally in Hwang TaekYung's madness!!!

owh... the HOTTINESS in the COOLINEST! One can't just describe.

If you don't mind possible spoilers, [read here]


and more TaeKyungs.... *HEART*

You're beautiful @ episode 14

I'm speechless. There's time when everything was so wonderful that turned you speechless. This episode was the moment. From making me squealing and smiling with happiness *still in cloud 9*, drove me to cry a river with Jeremy, the awkwardness moment between ShinWoo and MiNyeo, the almost-revealing of the real GO MI NAM and MiNyeo's mix emotions towards Mo HwaRan.... everything, just everything sum up to one simple line for the day... I AM SPEECHLESS ^^.

WARNING!
Contained lots of flailing and squealing! Strictly not for anti!
^^

*flail & squeal*

TaeKyun, semi-whispering... "I like you"

The simple blue sky then filled with roses... pink roses.

now Redge, this reminded me of Kuroki (the oboe-ist) and Kiyora (the violinist) in Nodame Cantabile. The part when the grey Mozart's turned to pink rose because of Megumi and Mine^^. I'm so helpless... *teheee~~*

Tae Kyung did his cute teasing part well done when he kept repeating the "like" word which drove MiNyeo to endless hiccuping every time the word "like" is mentioned.

TaeKyung: .... like ....
MiNyeo: (hiccups)
Me: *squeal*

What made me love Hwang Tae Kyung even more is he confessed his feeling to the appropriate people.. read MiNam's manager. Yes, manager... the person that MiNyeo likes is TaeKyung-ssi, not ShinWoo.

*flail & squeal*

More... *flail and squeal*

ahhh... TaeKyung-ssi, you're "assaulting" a naive almost-nun-in-the-making ^^

At episode 14-th... the viewer says.. "finally, a real one ^^"

I've mentioned my worries on Jeremy's growing feeling. Of course he did not take the news (of MiNyeo like TaeKyung) in a good way. Off he went to cure his broken heart with his "magic bus".

I wonder, how can he looked so "beautiful" with all those tears and all that angst feeling inside him? Lee HongKi dragged me along .. dwelling with tears... *sob-sob sob*. He portrayed his innocence and direct feeling very well that I just can NOT stop my tears...Sobbing along with Jeremy...

The clossing for ep 14 brought us finally into the conflict of MiNyeo's late father and TaeKyung's mom. I am so tensed I am speechless.... let's call it a day here.

By the way, I know the real MiNam is the same Park Shin Hye but I can stop grinning widely when I saw a little glimpse of him (ermm... her? what ever)

On the side note, I want this...and this...

\(^o^)/