Boys Before Flowers

I'm so tired.  I feel like I want to be creative and chop it up with you about how fantastically awesome my day was but it was honestly pretty average.  I feel exhausted.  I went to the gym, ate three meals, watch drama all day then went on an adventure to my storage unit with my friend Rachelle.  The adventure came about because I mentioned a book I'd been reading in our chit chat and she relayed to me how she needed a new library card and wanted a new book to read.  Well. I have quite a few stray books just chilling hanging out and stuff in my storage unit from my old apartment so I offered to give her some.  It felt good to catch up with old friends maybe not so good about gossiping about people.. we weren't talking too badly of people just having some concern for friends who haven't found a better lifestyle yet.  I found our adventure a perfect opportunity to get rid of this girls jacket I had in my car for so long.  Having no idea who's it was, whatever.  In return, the giving of said jacket reminded her that she had one of my favorite hoodie's that I totally forgot about. 

                                                                                           My pokemon hoodie!!

totally cute, right?  I'm excited to get it back! 

My second K-drama recommendation is the ever popular Boys Before Flowers based on the Japanese anime manga, Hana Yori Dango (which I have yet to read/watch but definitely planning on it oo yeah!)

I found a lot of good images today to show! I love show and tell!

watch Boys Before Flowers here free streaming episodes

The story is about Geum Jan Di who is an average girl.  Her father owns a dry cleaners and her mother runs a public bath.  One day she is dropping off clothes at Shinhwa High, a private school for the top 1% richest kids in S. Korea.  The founder of the school's grandson has three best friends who are also the three richest sons in S. Korea and together they call themselves F4.  Gu Jun Pyo, Shinhwa Corporation's heir, amuses himself by singling out students and getting all the other students to gang up on them using a special notice card with a skull and crossbones on it.  It's a little unrealistic of course because it's a fiction based on a fiction anime.  Geum Jan Di is the only person who sees how messed up this is and stands up against Gu Jun Pyo.  Gu Jun Pyo's friends like this in her and befriend her immediately.  They stand up for her as the student body gets hardcore jealous.  This is a horrible synopsis, I'd just recommend you check it out for yourself.  Cute guys, cute girls, good music, funny.  What else do you need? It's a romantic comedy classic love triangle. 

The show stars Goo Hye Sun as Geum Jan Di (literally translates to golden grass..I think!)

Lee Min Ho as Gu Joon Pyo

How stylish!

He plays a very snot nosed, snobbish, spoiled brat.  Some of the stunts his character pulls are unbelievable!  He is, however, the equivalent to say Paris Hilton, in the show.  HE DO WHAT HE WANT! He's kind of a dunce and a sissy but he grows on you.  He is determined to ingratiate himself to Geum Jan Di but there's just so much money can get you, he's a slow learner!

Kim Bum as So Yi Jung

Stiff competition on style here.

Mr. cool, eh?

Digging the hat!

Yi Song's story is that he is a master ceramist who's grandfather owns the largest major museum in Seoul.  Think Smithsonian.  Anyways, he has a way with words and the ladies, he becomes interested in Geum Jan Di's bestfriend played by 

Kim So Eun (SO CUTE! like obsessed)

Kim Hyun Joong  as Yoon Ji Hoo

Dolce & Golbanaaa

In the show, Ji Hoo is the last president of S.Korea's grandson who's parents died in a horrible car crash that he feels was his fault hence he is incredibly rich but doesn't flaunt it.  Love this character, so smooth and admirable.  I strive to be like this guy. Too bad he is mostly plastic (in real life).  However, plastic surgery is very common among Korean singers and actors, almost commonplace.  The double eye lid surgery is often given as a birthday present (coming of age type deal) even for non-celebrities.  It is interesting that in Korea which has some of the top plastic surgeons in the world, young people statistically get it done more than older people which is the opposite for the United States.  Here people do it to stay looking younger, there they do it to look more Western.  I find this cultural difference fascinating.  Last year I took a class called Introduction to Korean Pop Culture where we learned such tidbits.

and finally last but not least!

Kim Joon as Song Woo Bin 

He's the heir to the Korean mafia and he can fight like a badass! Watch out for this guy!  In my opinion his character is a little under developed.

Here are some additional images I found this morning as well as some awesome fan art courtesy of Mary-Dreams <-- I give my sources credit but to tell on myself some of these images were just found through google image search and I didn't play close attention who I found it from.

And that is all I've got for you tonight!  I hope you enjoyed.  I am a here for you!  and me of course but I wouldn't do this if it weren't for you and me wanting to share what I'm passionate about.  I'm lagging on working steps and I haven't gone to enough meetings.  I need to get out more.  Signing off.