The Problematic of the Unproblematic

Anne: Hello Drama Lovers! It is another week, and school has started again! Unfortunately, the little nine year old did not have the best first day at school. There were a bunch of miscommunication and the school sort of "lost" the little person for about 40 minutes. Basically, everything that could fail, did. There are several option for release of the students, and apparently, someone forgot to look at the electronic permission form I submitted in it's entirety, and made an assumption that wasn't true. A little fright, but at least everyone is safe and sound at the end. (The second day went much better.) Now...while I am far from the type of person to believe in anything supernature or otherworldly (I mean I expect when I die that I would just disappear), I do tend to correlate a lot of events with karma. During the meet the teacher event on the Friday before, a little girl, who couldn't have been more than 3 or 4, stopped right in front of me as we walked out t...

Anne: Hello Drama Lovers! It's been over TWO months since I last posted. Now...what have I been up to since then. In the early part of July, I went to Netherlands for a work trip. I swear...I don't know what weird cloud of luck that surrounded that trip...but it was a trip full of all sorts of "kinks". First, when I was booking the flight, I thought I got a great deal: business class for under $3000, round trip. Well...it has been a while since I traveled for business...I didn't realize that I landed in Reagan and had to take off from Dulles. Situation 1 : Yep, I didn't realize that I had a connection that was in two different airports. (And I live in HOUSTON, where I've advised OTHER people to watch out for the exact same thing.) And how I found OUT, was after I wondered around for 45 minutes in Reagan trying to find a gate that didn't exist. Yes, you've read that right, it took me FORTY-FIVE minutes! Now, the good thing was I have a thing about a...

Anne: OMG it's been over a month since I last posted?! Where did all the time go?  It's a stupid question...because I KNOW exactly what has been sucking up the minutes and seconds of my day.  WORK. Nothing but WORK. Well... and also the depression after I saw the ending of The Demon Hunter's Romance ...seriously, was that ending really necessary? The stupid obligations to your clan type of thing... This was the same crappy thing that ended The Rise of Phoenixes . At least I knew the latter had a different ending in the book. However, I am too lazy, and BUSY right now, to even track the down the actual ending of the former. I have enough stress in my life with MY obligations, I don't want to spend time watching a show that keeps reinforcing that concept. I don't want my entertainment to mimic my life, I want to escape from it! 😈 And this is partly why I've been so drawn into the short dramas on YouTube (and I see a LOT more skin on those then the traditional one...

Anne: Hello Drama Lovers, it has been quite a few weeks since I've written. And it is all due to work and the craziness that is surrounding my life. Have anyone ever been in a competition with your co-workers at work for a position? It wouldn't be so bad if one of the competitors is someone whom I cannot stand. I'm making contingency plans while also figuring out how to make my application and myself stand out among the others. Sigh... I really am not looking forward to this process when it starts.  Now, enough of my problems. In the middle of the whirlwind that is my life, I did manage to catch a new drama that I was actually waiting for since last year, when I saw it was "upcoming" in the list. The Demon Hunter's Romance   So... we all know why I clicked on this show... the ML is played by Allen Ren! It has all the elements of my genre. Fantasy with crime solving.  The story centers around Ban Xia, the daughter of a fairly wealthy family that was "sent ...

Anne: Hello Drama Lovers! How did all these weeks go by so quickly?! After dealing with a lice infestation and a bad case of the flu. And all the other crazy things at work ... I am tired. Yes, you read that correctly... Lice! Now, I was always under the impression that the school nurse checked these things. It was this way when I was in elementary. I guess a few things changed in the last 30 years because I never saw any notice. And here's how I found lice in my son's hair. About 4 months ago , my son asked me what lice was. Told him that there were many different types , and the ones that little kids usually get live on their hair. Now, I still have no idea why his teacher brought up the topic. I certainly didn't get any notice or note from the school. So, this talk about lice made the boy thinks that he has them. To be fair, I did look at his hair. But because I thought the school would send me a note, I didn't look that closely. So, a few months go by, and in late J...

Anne: Tuesday morning and this is what I woke up to in South Texas... And yes, the entire city pretty much decided to close because we can't handle this weather. Remember the whole electric grid failure in 2021? Good thing this won't last more than like 2 days. Any longer and we would be in trouble again. But it was very cool to see my son with a look of astonishment and excitement when he saw snow outside his bedroom window. And in completely inappropriate clothing...(I mean who here would have any appropriate clothes unless skiing was a sport for the family...and no, don't get me started on on why I tried skiing once and hasn't tried it again)...he made a snow angel. He quickly changed all this clothes after this activity. This will be a quick post as I only watched one show this entire time. Under the Moonlight This was a surprise for me. I stumbled on this not through any of the apps. The reason that I started was simply because it is a period detective story with a...

Anne: Hope everyone spent a great new year's! I, on the other hand, had a great new year's eve.. And ended up sick for the next two days. I still can't tell if I caught something or it's my usual sinus infection due to bad drainage and being allergic to my general environment. At least everything is back to normal...to a point.  Is it my imagination or did the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025 just dumped a bunch of new dramas all at the same time? Blossom How great was the ending? It was one of the most complete ending of a drama in recent years. And how glad am I that our silly Ji Yong turned out to be a good guy after all. A real A-hole for all the scheming that he did, but I guess, it goes right with his character build up. He ended up still going into the monastery. While I feel a little sad that not everyone made it to the end, the characters did follow their paths based on their character setup. While it is also sad that some of these people, who could have c...

Anne: Happy Tuesday everyone! Well...my week went by in flurry of work and craziness that will probably continue until next year. It really was never a good idea to have a client meeting as one of the first thing Monday morning. After the meeting this week, where we didn't even finish discussing the agenda, I needed a drink. I had to schedule another hour for later this week with the hope that we can finish. Sigh... at least the end of the year is coming, and despite all the stuff that I still need to do...such as complete my written feedback for my team, the forced holidays will at least slow some stuff down. Isn't this a bit sad? I really need a cure for my work-a-holic sickness. Anyway... remember last week when I went through some of my favorite dramas of the year, and I said that if nothing unusual happens, then this year ended with a short list of dramas that caught my attention. Well...let's talk about my current obsession... Blossom This was certainly a surprise at ...

Anne: Hope everyone in the US had a good Thanksgiving break! Goodness... where did all the time go? At least on my end, it all ended up in my work. And...my little hobby of building these miniature "houses". Here's my latest large project. I actually completed another one that I didn't take a picture yet. This latter one is a bday/Christmas present for my mother-in-law. So...yes, I've been spending a lot of time at work and on this silly and sometimes very frustrating hobby of mine.  Between the last time I posted and now, a ton of stuff came out. Seems like everyone is trying to get to air before the end of the year. The problem is there hasn't been another show that has caught my interest... so...while I've been building my little miniature fantasy empire, the thing running in the background are the YouTube short dramas.  Let run through some of the shows that aired... and my first impression of them. The Land of Warriors Of all the season 2 that I was a...

SHUK: This episode was a rollercoaster of emotions, including both squee and disgust. Still, we soldier on to our (hopefully) happy ending. Trotwood: I'm not going to lie, I'm not sure that I would have continued with this show until all the epsiodes were out if I hadn't already read the webcomic and hoped for a good resolution. I kept saying to myself over and over "they can't change the ending, right?" EPISODE 12 We begin this episode with a Ji-won flashback, where she always, even as a kid, worried about her father and the hard work he would do just to keep the two of them with a roof over her head. Yet despite this, Ji-won was still subject to village gossip about her mother. One day after school, she followed him, only to find him following his wife as she cavorted with another man. Poor Ji-won! Poor dad, too. He seems like such a kind man. I'm not saying that the mom should have stayed married to him just because he was kind, but it seems like she di...