So, today I finished another Drama I've been watching for about four months now, namely Chuno. It's a historical Drama about slave hunters in the 15th century in Korea. The Drama combines a few different storylines which all lead together in the end. One of them is about Lee Dae Gil and his companions, "General" Choi and Lee Wang Son. The three of them are slave hunters, who catch run-away slaves for the nobles and get paid very well for their work. Seemingly, they would do anything for money, but with Dae Gil having his own history as a noble who once was in love with a slave, things are much more complicated than that. Dae Gil is, after eight years of separation, still searching for the slave he once was in love with, Kim Hye Won, though in the beginning it's hard to tell whether he is seeking her out of revenge, because her brother is responsible for his whole family perishing in a fire, or because he is still in love with her. Later on they take the young Seol Hwa into their group, who was part of a dancing troupe and forced to sell her body starting from a young age. She eventually falls in love with Dae Gil.
The three slave hunters take on the job to hunt down the run-away slave Song Tae Ha, a former general who is trying to save the youngest crown prince and who longs to change the world for the better. What the slave hunters don't know is that with taking on the job of hunting Song Tae Ha, they meddle with state issues they shouldn't get involved in.
Eventually even Kim Hye Won, whose brother bought them out of slavery, appears and ends up fleeing together with Song Tae Ha.
In addition to the story of the slave hunters and the state affairs, the life of the slaves themselves and them dealing with their destiny is told. Here, the story of Eop Bok and Cho Bok is told. They are both slaves who tried to run away and were caught, so they are now marked as slaves with a tattoo on their faces.
So, all in all, a story of romance, revenge, state affairs, history, revolution and tons of drama is told - sounds good, doesn't it?
And of course, it is. But with a whole of 24 episodes á one hour each the drama is too long, and after a good and interesting start it gets boring and repetitive for quite a few episodes. In the end, it gets really exciting again, but that still doesn't make up for the boring and frustrating episodes in the middle. If you want to give this Drama a try, don't hesitate to skip a few scenes in the middle, you won't miss out on that much.
My other critique is that the characters of Song Tae Ha and especially Kim Hye Won are kind of weak. The acting is awesome, but the characters aren't strong. Song Tae Ha is so naive it's unrealistic at times and Kim Hye Won's character is simply paradox and not very authentic, which disappointed me a lot because I mainly watched the Drama because of Lee Da Hae, who is playing Kim Hye Won.
But still, this Drama being a high budget production with amazing actors, an overall amazing story and overall amazing characters, it's definitely worth watching. Plus even if you're not that interested in history, you'll definitely learn something about the 15th century Korea and slavery at that time. And the fighting scenes are just divine. If you're not afraid of the many episodes, please do give this Drama a try! But be warned, I shed at least a million tears, especially in the latter half. On mydramalist.info I rated it with 4/5 stars.
So, from Dramas back to real life. Recently I've lost about 4kg (making 8kg I lost since January), so I'm trying hard to keep on the good track. Today, I ate this lovely salad (from Rewe, haha) and lovingly added the chicken (from Aldi, haha). Still, it was very delicious and healthy~ But later this evening I ended up eating a bar of chocolate, so yeah whatever. Anyway, since my father is a passionate jogger he provided me with jogging shoes, a jogging jacket and jogging shorts from Aldi. The shoes I already inaugurated (they made me jog twenty minutes withoung pausing in between!), but I still need to wear my cool shorts and my stylish jacket. I plan on persuading my sister to go jogging with me tomorrow. If she doesn't... well I'll just go alone then, because I definitely need to make up for the chocolate I ate today.
On another note, university is finally going to start on Monday. This week was the introduction week, so I went to the introduction events of the subjects I'm going to study (I plan to major in communication studies and minor in cultural anthropology, though I'm not too sure about my minor yet). There were also some events for the freshmen. I went to a pub crawl on Wednesday, which was very nice and funny besides the fact that I was really, really drunk from a little wine and sparkling wine. But I got to know my fellow students much better and got lots of information from our seniors. I'm really excited for university life to start, though I'm also anxious... but that's only normal, I guess? At the moment I'm just telling myself that I like... shouldn't try "too hard", and just take it as it comes. Because I have the feeling if I try too hard to make new friends, too hard to finally get a boyfriend, too hard to be the best at studying, I'll just fail at everything. Of course I'm still planning to give it my best, but I need to relax more.
So... I still didn't get the adapter for my camera, so the picture of the salad was taken with my iPhone, but for now the quality is good enough, what do you think?
I'm planning to take lots more pictures of my life from now on and put them into this blog, because I think it looks nice and looking at the pictures while writing always inspirates me <3
Last but not least I just got the happy news from Eli that my ex-boyfriend
(who I happen to be still in love with) finally broke up with his girlfriend. I knew biding my time and waiting for them to break up was good, now I only need to get him back. Anyway, with this evil mastermind plan in mind I'll go to sleep and have lots of happy dreams. Good night everyone <3
So, out of an acute lack of clothes for the current warm weather period I spontaneously decided to pay a visit to H&M and Zara today. On the left you can see what I got at H&M. It's a long beige cardigan from the "Conscious Collection", which means it'sp arty made of organic cotton. The white clouse is from that collection as well. The black thing you can see is a simple black cotton leggings... I already owned some, but after detecting three holes I had to throw them away. At Zara I bought another cardigan in a darker shade of beige and some of these trousers that are wide in the crotch and tight around the ankles. They are really comfortable to wear, so I bought a pair. But, being stupid as I am, I tried on two different sizes, 38 and 36. Since I already lost quite a lot of weight and Zara trousers tend to be a little bit bigger than labeled the ones in 36 fit perfectly.
