[LOTTE DUTY FREE] You're so Beautiful ver.2_ENG

An old one but so many of my favorites all in one!

Prayer of the children

Another Surgery!

It is almost becoming routine. The testing, the consultation with my doctor, the recommendation of a new means to contain those demon cells.This time the team is going to make another attempt to tackle the pesky tumor that sits at the base of the skull.Radiation and chemo, both, contained it but it still present a problem because of the location.

I no longer cry as I have found, that for me, tears serve no purpose. However, there is stress made known by the spike in the BP and there are bouts of depression. I continue to wonder if I am being punished for some past life experience as I have racked my brain and in this life, while I have made mistakes, I don't think I deserve a lingering punishment such as this has been. If it is a test, then surely I have passed the test by now.

With A Little Help From Friends

"Romance Is a Supplement"

Dan Yi was a successful copywriter and left to become full time wife and now suddenly finds herself  divorced,unemployed and overqualified for every job she applies to. In desperation, she hides her educational background, pretending to be a high-school dropout and finds a job in a publishing company where her childhood friend works. Romance Is a Supplement is highly anticipated for its stars: Lee Jong Suk's last project before his mandatory military enlistment, as well as Lee Na Young's first drama after nine years.  Lee Na Young has been on a lengthy hiatus since her marriage to actor Won Bin in 2015, as well as giving birth to her first son in 2017.

Korean writer, directors, and actors all know how to do the Romcom quite well. And this one does not disappoint.  Some teary moments when you want to shake a character but also a lot of humor and a bit of subtle romance and interesting side characters as well. This one gets an 8/10 from me.

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'Memories Of The Alhambra'

NetFlix jumped onto the KDrama wagon with adding a variety of Asian dramas to their listing (they would do well to add many more, in fact an entire Asian film division would be great) and also doing some originals as well. The first that I watched was Memories of Alhambra with my bias Hyun Bin and with Park Shin Hye and ChanYeol of Exo.

I thoroughly enjoyed this as it blended my love of the KDrama with my love of SCi Fi and the results were a program that kept me entertained. Without doing any spoiler I would say that it deserves a season two!

Synopsis:

The CEO of an investment company (Hyun Bin) puts his money on an AR game that's so revolutionary it will change the gaming world. However there is a bug in the system that leads to the CEO trying to solve the problem by becoming a player in the game. Added is the mystery behind the missing young developer, ChanYeaol who was to meet him at the Alhambra hostel which is owned by his family and run by his sister, Park Shin Hye.

For the script, NetFlix got Song Jae Jung, the writer for Nine, starring Lee Jin Wook and Jo Soon Hee, and W, starring Lee Jong Sook and Han Hyo Joo—two sci-fi thrillers that will also mess with your mind.

The plot hooked me right away and kept me invested in the program. The special affect are outstanding as well. I would give it a 9/10 rating and that is only because the attempt at adding a romance to the story was a bit weak.

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EXO 엑소 "Love Shot" MV

Adam Rippon skates to Lady Gaga's “Shallow” in Santa Monica (4K)

With A Little Help From Friends I am Winning The Battle with cancer

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Broken & Beautiful

I never held my hand out and asked for something free

I got pride I could roll out for miles in front of me

I don't need your help, and I don't need sympathy

I don't need you to lower the bar for me



I know I'm Superwoman, I know I'm strong

I know I've got this 'cause I've had it all along

I'm phenomenal and I'm enough

I don't need you to tell me who to be



Can someone just hold me?

Don't fix me, don't try to change a thing

Can someone just know me?

'Cause underneath, I'm broken and it's beautiful



I'm broken and it's beautiful

I'm broken and it's beautiful

I'm broken and it's beautiful

I'm broken and it's beautiful



We're walking on the ocean, turning water into wine

We bury our emotion and pretend that we're just fine

The only way to live now is to know you're gonna fly

Don't listen to the lying liars and their lies



I know I'm Superwoman, I know I'm strong

I know I've got this 'cause I've had it all along

I'm phenomenal, I'm enough

I don't need you to tell me who to be



Can someone just hold me?

Don't fix me, don't try to change a thing

Can someone just know me?

'Cause underneath, I'm broken and it's beautiful



Hey, I'm broken and it's beautiful

I'm broken and it's beautiful

Hey, I'm broken and it's beautiful

I'm broken and it's beautiful (oh)



I'm tired (oh)

Can I just be tired? (just be tired)

Without piling on all sad and scared and out of time (oh)

I'm wild (wild)

Can I just be wild? (just be wild)

Without feeling like I'm failing and I'm losing my mind



Can someone just hold me?

Don't fix me, don't try to change a thing

Oh, someone just know me

'Cause underneath, I'm broken and it's beautiful



I'm broken and it's beautiful

I'm broken and it's beautiful

I'm

I'm broken and it's beautiful

It's beautiful, it's beautiful (it's beautiful)

It's beautiful, yeah, I'm broken and it's beautiful

It's beautiful, yeah, it's beautiful (it's beautiful)

It's beautiful, yeah, I'm broken and it's beautiful

Happy Easter

Royal Choral Society: 'Hallelujah Chorus' from Handel's Messiah

'This Is Me' (The Greatest Showman) - Cover

Lee Jang Woo - Words I Couldn't Bear to Say [Hangul+Romanization+Eng]

Another favorite actor and soon to be in a new drama!

Sukiyaki Kyu Sakamoto FULL SONG ReEdit STEREO ReMix HiQ Hybrid JARichard...

On August 12, 1985, Sakamoto was aboard Japan Airlines Flight 123, on which he was heading to Osaka for an event. The plane crashed into two ridges of Mount Takamagahara in Ueno, Gunma which became the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history. A total of 520 people were killed in the crash, including Sakamoto.His body is interred at Chōkoku-ji Temple in Minato, Tokyo

ジェジュン (JAEJOONG 김재중) 「IMPOSSIBLE」(short ver.)

"ARE THERE NOT STILL FIREFLIES" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Are there not still fireflies
Are there not still four-leaf clovers
Is not our land still beautiful
Our fields not full of armed enemies
Our cities never bombed to oblivion
Never occupied by iron armies
speaking iron tongues
Are not our warriors still valiant
ready to defend us
Are not our senators still wearing fine togas
Are we not still a great people
Is this not still a free country
Are not our fields still ours
our gardens still full of flowers
our ships with full cargoes

Why then do some still fear
the barbarians are coming
coming coming
in their huddled masses
(What is that sound that fills the ear
drumming drumming?)

Is not Rome still Rome
Is not Los Angeles still Los Angeles
Are these really the last days of the Roman Empire

Is not beauty still beauty
And truth still truth
Are there not still poets
Are there not still lovers
Are there not still mothers
sisters and brothers
Is there not still a full moon
once a month

Are there not still fireflies
Are there not still stars at night
Can we not still see them
in bowl of night
signalling to us
our so-called manifest destinies?

"PITY THE NATION" (After Khalil Gibran) by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Pity the nation whose people are sheep
   And whose shepherds mislead them
 Pity the nation whose leaders are liars
            Whose sages are silenced
  And whose bigots haunt the airwaves
 Pity the nation that raises not its voice
          Except  to praise conquerors
       And acclaim the bully as hero
          And aims to rule the world
              By force and by torture
          Pity the nation that knows
        No other language but its own
      And no other culture but its own
 Pity the nation whose breath is money
 And sleeps the sleep of the too well fed
      Pity the nation oh pity the people
        who allow their rights to  erode
   and their freedoms to be washed away
               My country, tears of thee
                   Sweet land of liberty!

Sandeul and Hongki

입맞춤 kiss - 가창력 大폭발!!! 홍기x산들 - 흰수염고래♬.20190319

A LIttle Help From My Friends

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Goodbye My Princess

I recently began watching a Chinese drama called Goodbye My Princess (Chinese: 东宫; pinyin: Dōng Gōng). It is based on the novel Eastern Palace by Fei Wo Si Cun; starring Chen Xingxu, Peng Xiaoran and Shawn Wei. It aired starting February 14, 2019 and ran until March 25,2019. It tells a story of a princess from a foreign land who has to marry the crown prince for political reasons.Peng Xiaoran plays Xiaofeng, the beloved ninth princess of Western Liang, who enters into a political marriage with Li Chengyin, the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, played by Chen Xingxu. The latter has his own favourite concubine, and only agreed to this loveless marriage to secure his position as heir to the throne.It is later revealed that Xiaofeng had met Li Chengyin under the alias of Gu Xiaowu three years ago. He was on a secretive mission to conquer the western kingdoms, and used Xiaofeng to accomplish his goal. After finding out the truth, Xiaofeng jumped into the River of Forgetfulness, and Gu Xiaowu / Li Chengyin followed suit out of guilt, and perhaps also love. In the present-time, only Xiaofeng has regained her memories, and their heart-wrenching romance begins all over again. My dilemma now is that a friend who watched this in real time posted comments about the finale without warnings of "spoiler" and I now know the ending of the drama. In the past I have watched movies based on real life and ones based on books that I have read and watched knowing the ending but wanting to still see how the depiction of the story would unfold and do judge how well it matched with my ideas of the story. In this case I have not read the book and have been forming my opinions right along with the episodes as they aired for me. I am only at 15 of 52 and had to pause now to digest the information as to the ending and decide to I want to continue watching to that conclusion.