Parchayee: Hum TV drama

The one with the huge bill for literally nothing at the Grotto Cafe

As you near the end of the four years of your undergrad life and go all the way to faraway places where you friend's interview is scheduled and you are just accompanying them you realise how desperate your situation has become and that you really are clueless about your future.

So here we are, getting together at IBA, calling an UBER only to get stuck in a strike where people are burning tires and closing roads because your driver took a wrong turn (because apparently, he was out of the country for two years). But can we just all take a moment and think about how responsible Pakistani people are that the same people burning tires and closing off roads started managing the traffic when an ambulance got stuck in the traffic jam.

KPOP IN KARACHI

ITS HAPPENING GUYS

They: You are crazy.
          What you want will never happen.
          We have never seen anyone else in this fandom.
          You are alone.
          There isn't another person in our social circle that crazy.

On your face.
If there weren't anybody, this would have never happened. I get it that Pakistan still needs to organize this fandom in great detail. I get it that India has a much larger Korean fandom with the active Korean cultural centre, but man this step is way too apt in the right direction.

Doctor Stranger because heart tells you all!

There is no way in hell that you have been a part of Kdrama fandom and you have not thought about how cliched and how similar all the stories are in Korean dramas. Guy hates girl. Girl likes somebody else. Guy like girl. Guy gets jealous. Guy and girl realize their love. Guy's mother opposes the relationship. Guy gets girl.

Amidst all that, enter 'Doctor Stranger'.
The male protagonist = Lee Jong Suk <3

The female protagonist = Kang So Ra

Zard Zamano ka Sawera aka misogyny

Disclaimer: This post is close to my heart but not about Korean dramas. Thank you.

I watched 'Zard Zamano ka Sawera'. The beginning was so wonderful, so fresh. The girl (Rubab) is rebellious, full of life, happy-go-lucky kind. The guy (Mir) falls for the girl the first time he sees her. Unfortunately, he is a police officer and so the next time he sees her is in the police station accused of a crime (which she did not commit).

Circumstances unfold in such a way that the two get married without knowing they are getting married to each (everyday life in Pakistan). Mir realises this after getting married and decides to use this as an opportunity to torture her all he wants (the girl loses all her rebelliousness) and make her reveal the name of the gang leader involved in the crime she ended up at the police station for (WHICH SHE CANT TELL HIM BECAUSE SHE FRIGGIN DOESNT KNOW!).

'BOYS OVER FLOWERS' COZ LEE MIN HO

Today, I am going to tell you a story about myself.

I had newly entered the Korean drama fandom. The second drama I watched was BOYS OVER FLOWERS.

Hwayugi replica, not designer replica

Da wassoyo

with another blog!

And this one is about

*drumroll*

Hwayugi.

Again.

Very anti-climactic, I know. Though not as anti-climactic as the Pakistani dramas.

OK YES THIS BLOG IS NOT ENTIRELY ABOUT HWAYUGI

More like a comparison where I will prove:

HWAYUGI ≩ DIL NAWAZ

Geumganggo, the real hero

I am not having withdrawal symptoms for the first time! I have had them for Boy over Flowers, Doctor Stranger (Only he was a very lovely stranger), Healer, K2, I remember you. Well, basically, for all the Korean dramas I watch. I am just too invested in them. But this is the first time that these heightened withdrawal symptoms are coupled with trauma. Too Much Trauma. The last episode of A Korean Odyssey aired and I was traumatized for life.

Not My 'Happy Ending Once Again'

Even Elder Soo Bo Ri said this too. Jang Na Ra has got to be something supernatural. No way is somebody who looks like this THIRTY-SEVEN years old! She can’t possibly be human! Girl ain’t getting old, man!

Where were we? Ah Yes. As is my practice of falling in love with the story, the chemistry, the characters, the actors, I go on to do a full background search of those actors. So I did one on Jang Na Ra. And I landed on *drumroll*

'Coffee Prince' is a Girl

Spoiler Alert: Coffee Prince is a Girl. Ok No I am just kidding. Nothing like that.

Anyway.

Only South Koreans can make tons of dramas where the girl is mistook for a guy by literally everybody just because she doesn’t have the 36’ 24’ 34’ figure. And the dimensions too were decided upon by a male world. But No, here we are not going to discuss that because here we are only going to praise these sweet miracles produced by the South Korean drama industry.

Stealing hearts by a 'Playful Kiss'

Ok, So I'll tell you straight on. This drama is the lamest and the stupidest drama ever, and I have watched it SIXTY SIX times (not kidding).

The drama is about a girl Oh Ha Ni who has fallen madly, deeply, completely, in love with the most intelligent person in her high school, Baek Seung Jo. Baek Seung Jo who can’t care less about stupid people and Ha Ni is the worst academically. Talk about fate!

Talk of fate might be more accurate when I tell you that the girl’s house is destroyed because of poor construction in an earthquake and she has to live in the father’s friend’s house which turns out to be Baek Seung Jo’s house from the second episode.

A Korean Odyssey / Hwayugi

A little kid is bullied openly and yet keeps a straight face as the teacher enters and asks all the students to get up and greet her. She stands up alone while the others call out on her. (Here, I was like ‘ok fine, those kids are just pointing out the fact that the kid, Jin Seon Mi, is just a teacher’s pet.’) But then the teacher......

(Did I mention I was watching it at 3 am?)