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Well, I have just finished watching a Korean drama – Boys Over Flowers, which have kept me from updating my blog after my mid year exam. I have really wanted to watch this drama so much before the exam, but study just make this desire bearable.

For those who hasn’t watch this drama yet, just take a look at this:

Boys Before Flowers aka Boys Over Flowers (꽃보다 남자) is a Korean drama adaptation of the Japanese manga Hana Yori Dango. This is the 3rd television drama adaptation of the popular Japanese manga Hana Yoru Dango after the success of Taiwanese version – Meteor Garden and Japanese version – Hana Yori Dango.

Format: Drama / Romantic Comedy created by Kamio Yoko

Starring :

Koo Hye Sun

Lee Min Ho

Kim Hyun Jun
Kim Bum

Kim Joon

Han Chae-young

Kim Hyun Joo

Kim So Eun

Opening theme: "Paradise" by T-Max

Ending theme

Season 1:"Because I'm Stupid" by SS501
Season 2: "Making a Lover" by SS501

Country of origin : South Korea

No. of episodes: 25 (this has take me 3 days to finish it)

**Starring**

Goo Jun Pyo (Lee Min Ho) is the hot-headed leader of F4. Exasperated by Jan Di's act of defiance, he makes her a target of bullying. But as time passes, he begins to admire Jan di's determination and will and falls in love with her. He is the heir of Shinhwa Group, and after his father 'supposedly' passes away, he inherits and begins to run the Shinhwa Group along with his mother.

Geum Jan Di (Koo Hye Sun) is from a poor family with a fierce and weed-like determination. She first liked Ji Hoo, who was the only one who showed any compassion while she was bullied. Eventually Jun Pyo begins to fall in love with her, and as he expresses his feelings towards her, she gradually begins to reciprocate those feelings. Jan Di later is determined to pursue the medical industry after realizing she can't swim because of her shoulder.

Yoon Ji Hoo (Kim Hyun Joong) is a calm and soft-spoken boy who likes to play the violin, piano and guitar and conduct an orchestra. He is a grandson of Korea's former president. Seo Hyeon was Ji Hoo's first love, after she helped him overcome trauma after the death of his parents when he was little. He attempts to fight for Seo Hyeon's love by following her to France. When he comes back, he has already realized that he had fallen for Jan Di. However, Jun Pyo has already announced his love of Jan Di. Ji Hoo decides not to betray his friend by trying to fight for Jan Di.

So Yi Jung (Kim Bum) is F4's perennial playboy. Handsome and gifted with a brilliant smile.Yi Jung also has a knack of sweets words that could make every girl fall for him. Even Geum Jan Di's friend, Chu Ga Eul could not escape his charming ways.He is from a family of well-known artists, and is a reputed potter himself. His family owns an art gallery that exhibits national treasures.

Song Woo Bin ( Kim Joon), from their origin in the underground, his family now runs a prominent construction business. The family owns real estate throughout the country.

Chu Ga Eul ( Kim so Eun) is Jan Di's best friend. She falls in love with Yi Jung

Goo Jun Hee (Kim Hyun Joon), Jun Pyo's sister.

Ha Jae Kyeong (Lee Min Jeong), Jun Pyo's fiancee.



Boys Over Flowers_Correlation Chart

Happy Holiday!!!

"Anneung" !- 88

Driving Test

6th May,

How embarrassed I was today!

I was having my driving test today, the very first one in my life. Well, everything had been worked out nicely excepttttttt for the parking test. ;( I just dunno why I was so stupid for hitting the pole that was right in front of me. Actually, I was trying to adjust the car to the span between the 3rd and 4th poles after making a turn to right and I shouldn't press the accelerator instead of releasing the clutch slowly. While the car was about to hit the pole, it's too late to brake to make it stop immediately due to large momentum. I was sort of dunno-what-to-do. This is part of me, the clumsy one. I' m supposed to be retested on 20th May but I'll be having my mid year standardize test on that day so next month will be my next chance, I swear I'm not going to fail it again.

7th May,

The next second I walked into the class in this morning, smirking faces, sarcastic looks were everywhere to be seen. I didn't mean to let everybody know I was taking the driving test except some of my friends but news was spreading like fire since... well, I'm not sure about that. It seemed like the whole form 5 and the teachers as well knew I had 'failed' my driving test and my classmates started laughing and teasing me around. " Excuse me, I didn't actually fail my driving test, I passed my road test, okay." This was what I said to cover my actual stupidity. Should I THANK to those who were 'promoting' the news for giving chances for me to explain it??? ;( I don't blame them, anyway.
Keeping my fingers cross for the next test.

Time to say Goodbye

1st of May, a saddening news struck my family and me far too painfully. Heart sank. Gonggong'd gone, it meant for ever this time, he would never come back to us again. Yet I hope it is only a convincing dream that all of us confused with the reality. Was it because gonggong was a kind person that the Lord wanted to take him Home???

It was only two weeks ago I went back to Kota Bharu where my's mommy hometown is, to visit gonggong with my family. He had been admitted into the hospital since March, he was diagnosed for having a severe COPD. We knew well his condition wasn't good because he went to hospital for this few years on and off but I didn't expect it as a last visit, I could hardly to imagine the next time we go back without seeing gonggong sitting at the living room waiting for our arrival.

Due to the far distance we parted, we're managed to meet him only in the long holiday in Dec if he didn't come to our place. When I was small, I was always waiting in anticipation to go back to KB not because of I can get a flight over there of course, if we went there by car, I was still willing to follow although the journey took 8-9 hours long.

He was indeed a kindhearted and hardworking person. He always thought of others first before himself. He had a hard life, with the little money he could spare, he lent to his friends or anyone he knew who were in need without expect anything back. At the age of sixties, he's still working, as long as he was able to work, he didn't want to do nothing at home.

That time, I mean while he was still healthy, he would walk us to the nearest grocery shop every evening to buy me and my sister some 'san cha'- a type of candy and ice-cream. He would bought himself some cigars which was placed behind the counter. A day before the coming of Festival of 'Tung Zhi', together we made the 'Tang Yuan', after that we would pray to the idol of god and to the sky for he was a Buddhist. He would hold our hands with his big and warm hands and prayed for us. Every year I would get new colour pencils from him which was really pleased me for the whole holiday and I would keep them very carefully in my bag until the kindergarten reopened. For some of the holiday, he came to visit us at my house with grandma, he would sit silently beside my piano and listened while I was practicing the songs that made my fingers jerked sometimes, I knew it wasn't nice but he never complained it, he would just remained silent there, at the seat...

Remorse, I had never celebrate birthday for gonggong. Just a few days ago when popo showed me his I/C and realized that his birthday was actually on 8th Nov.

I really miss gonggong...... he told me not to cry during the last visit but I couldn't help myself, if I knew that was the last time, I would hold his hand even longer. To fulfil what I've promised to him, that's the only I could do for him.

It's time to say goodbye to our beloved granddad,
Go in Peace......

We love you......

Good Friday

We had a service yesterday due to the Good Friday and when I was walking into the church, surprisingly, everyone was sitting in a circle. Well, I knew it, it would be different service then. After Pastor Tan read a passage which written in the bible, she made us choose a companion and...ahem... we would have to wash our legs for each other and say "I love u" and i was slightly shaken up. Well the first thing I did was asking somebody to change the water when it's our turn, reluctantly, I did what had to be done. Some of them were very funny, they even massaged their companion' s legs, what a good service huh.

True or False, which one are we holding on to?

One of my guru bahasa said this to me before, ‘Emerlyn, apa yang kamu belajar di sekolah berbeza dengan apa yang berlaku di luar pagar sekolah.’ These words came upon me and it is just as clear as I have been told on yesterday. We have been taught to keep our virtue, to be mean, just, honest, so on and so forth. But there is no so-called virtuousness outside there, the world isn’t that beautiful as what we have been learnt in our text book, we are actually living in a fallen, broken world, in many ways getting worse, it’s no wonder that sometimes we feel the world overwhelmed by the powers of evilness. We can reveal this by looking around what is going on recently in our country or in other continents as well.

BUT, there is but, this was what I found in Daily Bread: In life’s battles, let’s hold on to the fact that good will triumph over evil in the end… ( Title: What are we holding on to? Date: Mar. 3) Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life. ( 1 Timothy 6:11-16)

Today, as I was walking on my way with my friends from English tutorial class to my Acc. teacher’s house, I saw my friend’s car rear-ended a motorbike in a T junction. Fortunately, the two guys on motorbike were not injured. Frankly, I didn’t witness how was the accident happened, I just saw one of the guy negotiated with my friend and asked for RM400 for compensation.

My friend told me it wasn’t their fault, her mom gave signal to slow down and was ready to turn left, all of sudden, they experienced a clash from behind. My friend and her mom reckoned the guy brought the motorbike very fast. On the other hand, the guy accused my friend’s mom stopped at the junction suddenly. God damn him! Didn’t he see the signal? And, why he wants RM400 just to repair a small damage in front of his motorbike? I say, he is brainless, he thought he can cheat a woman and a teenage girl? The guy finally compromised when they said they wanted to report this case to the police.

I got a bolt from the blue when I saw my friend negotiated with the guy so bravely, she's cool, man.Pity her mom, she got a bit shock. Hope she’s fine now. I’m not sure whether I have the courage to do that or not. One thing I want to say to my friend, ‘ I salute you.’

Datuk Lee Chong Wei BOLEH!

Lee Chong Wei is awesome! He has beaten Lin Dan in the Swiss Open in Basel on Sunday. Actually, I didn't watch the tournament. Did Lin Dan throw his racquet??? This an article by K.M. Boopathy which I adopt from New Strait Times online news reading.

WORLD No 1 Lee Chong Wei produced a breathtaking show to neutralise Olympic champion Lin Dan's power play while men's doubles Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong put up a top class performance to clinch the Swiss Open in Basel yesterday.

Chong Wei, after going down to the World No 2 from China in the All England final, was hardly given any chance of turning the tables but the Malaysian had his own script and ended a three-match losing streak by registering a 21-16, 21-16 win in 52 minutes and in grand style.

The victory will act as a confidence booster for Chong Wei as this is the first time since the 2007 Japan Open that he has beaten Lin Dan to capture a title.

Kien Keat-Boon Heong avenged their defeat to Mathias Boe-Carsten Mogensen in the quarter-finals of the All England as they registered a brilliant 21-14, 21-18 win over the Danes in 39 minutes.

The Malaysians have gone without winning a Super Series title since the Denmark Open triumph in 2007 and the victory could become a turning point in their roller-coaster career.
National singles chief coach Rashid Sidek, in a telephone interview from Basel, said Chong Wei has found the right strategy to counter Lin Dan.

"Chong Wei's defence was very good and he was sending every return deep to the baseline while Lin Dan wasn't that sharp today (yesterday)," Rashid Sidek said.

"There was no pressure today and he played freely. Lin Dan was making unforced errors and eventually gave up after failing to penetrate Chong Wei's defence."

Chong Wei, in a telephone interview from Basel, said remaining calm during the final was the key to his win.

"I had a discussion with my coach (Misbun Sidek) after the All England and he advised me to stay patient while playing Lin Dan. That's what actually helped me today (yesterday)," said Chong Wei.

"In the All England, I was trying to attack too much and I couldn't sustain that. That's why I decided to be patient and I managed to rattle Lin Dan."

Lin Dan's start was, as usual, ferocious and his attacking play took him to a 7-2 lead and then stretched it to 13-9 to stay in control.

However, the tide changed at that juncture when Chong Wei took five points on the trot with his stout defending to lead 14-13.

Chong Wei's patient rallies made the difference as Lin Dan became edgy and started making uncharacteristic errors.

The Malaysian pulled ahead to 20-15 and there was only one winner at that stage.

The second game was virtually a repeat with Lin Dan setting the early pace but once Chong Wei got his nose in front, he smelt victory and there was no denying the Malaysian his night of glory.

Chong Wei had finally found a way to outplay Lin Dan as it has been long time since the Olympic champion was forced into submission by a strong display of defence.

Sport Camp

Just a drop by. After coming back from sport camp, I feel a bit tired now.

Thank God our CF first BIG activity so far has been running very smoothly and I feel it is worth for we has been working hard for it. Luckily we were having a lovely morning in this raining season.

I have no photo to upload because I don't bring my camera purposely, dunno why, maybe I'm too lazy.

I would like to express my gratitude here though they might not see this... I'm so blissful for having you all here

Thanksss to
our CF teachers, Pn Lau N Pn Anna

Dominic, my assistant :)

Egbert, our camp director cum Tchoukball couch

Michael ( ah di) N Jet

Elaine, Ka Man N Manhowe

n last but not least
Tharma, n friends from TARC floorball team. I know I owe you so much, ahem, maybe not that much, hehe...

Loi, what a pity you couldn't turn up today, we were having great time in the camp. Blekkkkk

I have just finished my standardized test in this week, from now on, I gotta work hard for the last theory exam which I will have on this coming Monday. I'm not sure whether I can do well or not, hopefully yes.

***HAPPY HOLIDAY ***