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This is my personal blog, “Another Asian Life”. I try and write reviews over television shows that I have watched. If I am not writing reviews than I am like making an out of the blue blog post about something such as my life. You can ignore the diary entries but I hope my reviews are helpful. I have basic fluency in Vietnamese and Mandarin while intermediate with French and Cantonese and of course I excel in English. Anyway, feel free to read through my posts and give feedback. However, beware of spoilers on my reviews.

A Couple Words for a Rough Week

I’m struggling to find the right words. I’ve hurt you, yet you’ve chosen to stay with me. But I fear that in the end, you’ll wonder why you invested so much time in me. I don’t want our memories together to be overshadowed by regrets. The truth is, I don’t deserve your love. I’m a mess, plain and simple. Deep down, I hold onto the hope that you’ll come back to me, but I know it might not be realistic. Your ultimatum has set a deadline for November, making it a do-or-die situation. It’s a tough realization that love might not be enough. Lately, I’ve been consumed by thoughts of when you’ll realize I’m not the one for you. I think you’re starting to see it too. Although I enjoy our time together on voice and video calls. I’ve ignored our future for too long, and now there might not be one. If I’m completely honest, I’m not sure how much more of this I can take. Some days, I just want to admit that I’m not good enough and hope I’ve made you genuinely happy. If we keep on like this, you are going to resent me.

Post-Valentine Thoughts

Relationships are tough. A long distance one is even harder on the soul. Would I have made the same decisions to try and be with you? Yeah, I would. Something I’ve tried to be better with is stop regretting. Obviously this sucks, and maybe to an extent it’s all my fault. Walking into this relationship blindly when there were variables that I never considered. Now one of those x and o’s, closing the distance, is coming back to bite us. Unless a miracle happens, I honestly don’t think I’ll be able to get a job in Canada (as an American). Even though I’m in a good field (tech), I’m just not talented as those Silicon Valley Engineers. Even when I’m doing interview prep, it’s just crazy how I can never come to these solutions alone. Yet, why am I not studying harder? What’s the alternative? Moving to the border, but then we’ll still be long distance. In terms of financially, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to move closer to you but still be long distance. Yet, I wonder when we are left with no options left, if you’ll let that one slide.

Maybe, I’m just being selfish. I’m holding onto something that isn’t mine anymore. We may love each other so much, but our foundation is built on a house of cards. This is one of those persistent thoughts in the back of my head. That no matter how much I may love you, I cannot give you what you need. I’m still growing and learning as an adult, and I can’t ask you to gamble on me. There are days where I tell myself that yeah, I see myself as being fully independent and being able to live happily with you in a couple years. Then there are other days where I look at myself and say who am I kidding, I’m a lonely new grad living at home with his parents. Why would you wanna date a loser like me? Even I wouldn’t date a loser like myself. There are days I see you walking down the aisle, but I’m just a spectator. Maybe this is how I am coping with everything. By telling myself that even if I truly make her happy, I’m sure there’s someone else out there that can do 1000 times better than me.

We’re not over, not yet at least, and never I hope, but there are days where I wonder if I’m just dragging you along. If that turns out to be the case, I’m sorry.

Someday or One Day/想見你 Review

To start off, this is one of the best dramas I’ve ever seen. The time travel plot reminded me of the anime movie, Your Name. The plot had a lot of life lessons like love and friendship. Even if you don’t enjoy the plot, the OST was a banger. Not only are the opening and ending songs good, but the music that is played throughout always also seems to match the moment. Wu Bai’s last dance was also a very good choice to be used. The plots really confusing so I think you’ll have to give it a try if you want to understand it 🙂

Rating: 10/10 

 

Compilation Review of My Recent Drama

Hey there! It’s been a while but it seems that people still visit my site. I feel like a lot of you guys probably stumble upon this site because of TVB Dramas. However, I haven’t really found a good TVB show in quite a while (sorry!). I tried to watch Exorcist Meter, and it’s probably one of the better TVB dramas that have recently been released but I never finished it. However, I would still recommend it simply because it seems to be one that has a universal appeal (it even got a second season!). I also tried to watch Rosy Business and The Defected about one-two years ago, but I wasn’t able to stay hooked on those. The more recent ones I tried were Big White Duel and Wonder Women. In both cases, I was only able to watch a few episodes and then gave up. Anyway, I’ve watched a few dramas since my last review in October of 2019, I’ll give a short run-down of all of them below.

Spoilers Below: 

Hotel del Luna Review

I started this drama a week before university started. I only watched a few episodes and then kind of gave up on the drama. However, a month into uni, I had nothing to do. I had finished all my HW in a timely manner and thus decided to pick up my drama habit (instead video games). Luckily, the ratings had steadily rose since I dropped the show, meaning that the latter episodes were likely getting better and better. I was not disappointed and I loved it throughout. The chemistry between IU and Yeo Jin-goo was really good. However, the plot at time was a bit hectic and crazy. I typically don’t rewatch dramas and I don’t believe this show has any rewatch value. It has all the excitement and drama but just doesn’t have that rewatch vibe. Maybe because the show was supernatural and thus harder to relate to? Regardless, there just weren’t any “feel good” moments in my opinion. Like, no clips from the show would truly make me crave rewatching this.

8/10

Review of ’18 Summer Shows I’ve Watched

Well rock bottom does really suck sometimes. School has been quite hard as the IB is really hard. I have not been able to write reviews recently but my binging addiction is nonetheless still present. Alright I’ll try to summarize every drama I’ve watched in the past few months although no one is ever going to read it but me.

Healer and K2 Review

Well I just noticed that my past few reviews have all been pages instead of blog posts, silly me. Anywho, I was going to watch Signal but it just has that “old” vibe that I made me think of watching it in the future. I didn’t understand why Ji Chang-wook was considered an international star as stated by the Wikipedia page but now I can understand. Both Healer and K2 are hero like shows. It’s also pretty good that he can perform all his stunts without a body double as it makes it look all the more real. If I were to choose one to watch again, I would honestly pick Healer over K2.

Compilation of my drama binging.

Yes, I’ve gotten realllllllly lazy about making a a blog posts each time I finish a drama. (I blame you International Baccalaureate!). It’s also very time consuming for me to write long reviews that no one will ever come across. Although thank you to those who have stumbled upon my blog and read one or two articles (a comment or critique would be welcomed!).

The Heirs Review

What a drama this was. People say Heirs is just your typical rich guy falling in love with a someone who is ‘poor’. However although this “rich guy falls for poor girl” (Secret Garden + Boss and Me follow this “plot”) is probably repetitive throughout the drama world, each director makes it unique. In a way it’s kind of like how many of us take the same careers in our lives but in the end, we shape it ourselves.