Let’s face it. Many of you come to this blog thinking that it offers an in-depth analysis on kdramas when, in reality, this blog is nothing more than a haven for the eternally romantic – and boy-crazy – fangirls like me. I pretend to be cerebral when deep down inside, I’m just as likely to […]
Love Lasts Forever: Episode 4
A confession a day keeps the doctor away. By now, I’m getting used to Nanase’s love declarations. I actually look forward to the different ways she ekes out a confession at the most improbable and embarrassing situations. It also dawns upon me that the better title for this dorama is “The Incurable Case of Love.” […]
Love Lasts Forever: Episode 3
If Episode 2 was about the rice cooker episode, then this Episode 3 is about “Operation: Cream Puff.” credit: JoyofBaking Let me explain “Operation: Cream Puff” to those who are reading my blog but not watching the dorama. This is Dr. Koichi’s bright idea. Back in Episode 1, he says that he can make Tendo […]
Love Lasts Forever: Episode 2
Small is beautiful. That’s the title of a 1970s book on economics. The author, E F Schumacher, believed that in order to have an ethical and sustainable growth in economics, we must downshift from the global scale and return to the human scale, that is, to focus on human needs and human connections. Schumacher proposed […]
Love Lasts Forever: Episode 1
For starters – I’m not into manga but, to appreciate this Japanese drama (or dorama as they call it), I have to watch with the eyes of a manga aficionado. You see, there are certain conventions that are acceptable in a static frame of Japanese comic book like this appearance: big eyes, no nose, tousled […]