Assalamualaikum!
I mentioned in my previous post that I am currently watching a kdrama entitled When the Weather is Fine. I just finished it, literally just finished it and honestly I'm still overwhelmed. First, I can't believe I actually finished it. Second, I can't believe it's really over 😭 I posted a story on Instagram after watching the first two episodes. I mentioned there that they were soooo slow. Like, painfully slow. But here I am, writing a review about the drama after finishing 16 episodes of it, with the reason why I keep watching.

Before I start, I have two main reasons why I watched this drama. First, I like the title. The direct translation from the Korean title is "I'll Go to You When the Weather is Fine". I think from the title itself is already so beautiful, so I gave it a try. Secondly is because of the cast. I like Seo Kangjoon and Lee Jaewook especially, and watched a lot of Park Minyoung's drama too before this so these 3 names are not a stranger for me. But Lee Jaewook is what attracts me the most as I watched him in Extraordinary You and thought he's really a good actor, he played a cold character in EY but in this drama his character seems to be more similar to his real personality, so it's interesting.

This drama is an adaptation from a Korean novel, with the same title but as far as I know, there's no english version of the novel. Would love to read if there's one though! So basically, the story is about Haewon (Park Minyoung) who lost her job in Seoul so she came back to her hometown, in a countryside. And there she meets Eunseop (Seo Kangjoon) who actually have a crush on her for since their high school days. The thing is, Eunseop remembers everything about Haewon, but Haewon barely knows anything about Eunseop. In the small neighbourhood, Haewon is known as the daughter of a murderer, while Eunseop is known as the son of the man in the mountain. Both have rough time in their life, and they meet each other in the cold winter.

Sounds like a typical romance kdrama right? But no. Haewon and Eunseop are the main characters, but not because the whole drama is about them. It's because from them, we can see the story about other people around them. Besides Haewon and Eunseop's own love story, this drama is mainly about Haewon-how her trust is broken by her own best friend, Haewon's mother- how the village's most popular girl end up spending 7 years in jail, Haewon's aunt- how a best-seller novel author end up living her life alone in a countryside, Eunseop's history that is a lot colder than what people saw. But, this drama is lightened also with side story of Jangwoo (Lee Jaewook) and his long-time crush, Hwi (Eunseop's sister) and her crush for her senior at school. Basically, it's a drama full of little stories of different people and the different lessons we can get from it.

Like I mentioned earlier, the first two episodes are soooo slow. I can barely know what the drama is about after watching the first episode. Usually we kind of get the idea about the drama after first two episodes but it was still blurry for me, but one thing I know is I am so in love the setting of this drama. It was filmed in winter at a countryside. It was snowy, and they mostly wear thick coats or sweater and drank coffee to make themselves warm. And one of the most important key point in the drama is the monthly meeting (or is it weekly... sorry i have bad memory) at Eunseop's bookstore. It's a meeting which the bookstore club members gathered to share what they read, and here they shared poem, quotes from book, and all of them are seriously beautiful. Sometimes related to life, sometimes related to love. Just, for some reason, I can feel the warmth in this drama. The vibe overall is so cozy. So I just keep watching. The painfully slow pace gets better in the third and fourth episodes, but still very little thing is explained. Also like I said, this drama has a lot of story, so naturally while watching you'll have a lot of questions. But the answer seems to be so far that I get frustrated.

And then I realized. This drama is about life. This is the message of this drama. This is exactly what the drama wants to portray.

That, in life, you don't always get immediate answer. You don't always get to move with your pace. Some things come slow. Also when it comes to others, whatever story you know about them, it might just be the surface of it. But no one knows the deep truth unless they themselves tell it to you.

So I realized that the producer and writer of this drama are genius. And that, is the reason why I continue to watch the drama until the very end.

Also, honourable mention to Seo Kangjoon! He really, really plays as Eunseop so well. His eyes, especially. It was both warm, and cold at the same time. And that's about Eunseop. He gives warmth to others, despite keeping a cold secret to himself. I couldn't ask for a better Eunseop, seriously. And one last thing I love about this drama, the setting from episode 1-15 are in winter, while the last episode, it's in spring. The cold, hard time in life will pass and a warm, happy time is waiting for you.

However, I won't recommend the drama to just anyone. I'll recommend it if I know they love books, or they've watched a similar slow-paced drama because it is, indeed slow-paced until the very end. I myself, even though I LOVE the drama, I can never watch 2 episodes back to back. I can only watch 1 episode at one time because 1 episode feels like 2 hours. I watched the drama and left twitter for 1 hour, but once the episode ends I feel like "finally it's been soooo long". But it's really worth it, I'm glad I decide to watch this drama. The last episode is not even sad, but I cried as soon as it ends because it was so beautiful. The drama overall, it's really a beautiful and warm drama.

Sorry if my review is bad, not really my thing but I just want to let out all these feelings about this drama because no one else close to me is watching 😭 I feel like this drama will always have the special spot in my heart.

Thats all from me! Stay safe guys! And happy fasting!! May we all have a fruitful Ramadhan this year although it's not gonna be the same like our previous, normal Ramadhan 😔
Till the next time, Assalamualaikum and Goodnight 🌜

You'll know why I said Goodnight if you watch the drama 🤪

Assalamualaikum guys!
You guys can probably guess why I'm here. Dah bosan sangat habis segala social media scroll, barulah nak teringat diri sendiri ada blog hahaha. How are you guys doing during this RMO period?

        It amuses me. 3 months ago we couldn't even imagine we would be stuck at home due to a pandemic. Bosan, yes, sometimes memang mati akal tak tahu dah nak buat apa. But to be bored right now is a privilege. Setiap kali nak mengeluh, "bosannyaaaaaaaa", teringat frontliners semua, they probably would PAY to be as bored as us. I myself ada kakak doctor, walaupun baru houseman, but she works in an environment yang lebih terdedah dengan risiko virus ni even though dia tak involved directly. She underwent screening for Covid-19 because one of her colleagues is infected, as I'm typing this, she's still in quarantine. Hopefully the result of the test would be negative. So guys, hargailah kebosanan ini ☝🏻

         Life update, my laptop broke down just a few days after RMO officially starts. So right now I'm updating with my phone. Sekarang baru nak hargai laptop. Dulu ada laptop malas update. Haaa taip la kau guna phone 😂 If I have my laptop maybe I'll have more choice of activities to do, like designing, self-learn new Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator skill... Acah je tu, I'll probably end up just watching k-drama on a bigger screen compared to my phone. Tapi, itulah, ada hikmahnya jugak sebab sekarang tengah cuti so I don't need to use the laptop for urgent matters such as study or online class. My current semester is put on halt until June. Cuma, nak repair laptop pun tak boleh jugak sebab tak ada orang nak repair. So terbiar sepi laptop tu buat sementara waktu. Tapi I lagi kesian dekat adik I sebenarnya, dia maybe happy dapat cuti lama, kalau laptop I okay mesti sakan dia main game hahaha.

         So what I've been doing this few weeks... Tak ada apa yang productive sangat pun. Just tengok kdrama, on-going kdramas I'm watching right now are When the Weather is Fine and Welcome. Besides kdrama, I'm getting to know new Kpop group yang dah lama usha tapi tak sempat kenal-kenal nama. Kpop kan ramai, muka sama kan 🙄 If you guys bosan sangat bolehlah berjinak-jinak dengan dunia pengkpopan. Banyak content nak catch up, mesti tak bosan hahaha. Oh, I dah berjinak main UNO, I mean main online, dekat apps. Almost everyday main. Pengajaran main UNO is jangan tamak and sekarang dah tahu kenapa berjudi tu haram 😂 It's addicting when you bet and get back more than the amount that you bet. Other than UNO, I just go back and forth between my 162552 accounts on twitter. Yep, on twitter je. Apps lain I malas bukak. Probably bukak instagram 3 kali sekali, unless I nak update story lebih sikit so lebihlah bukak ig tu. Whatsapp pun I mostly respond to my friend's groupchat je. Yang lain I baca through notification je or reply guna nawaitu. Betul-betul social distancing ni.

        Dah taip-taip baru sedar betapa worthless dan tak ada isinya post ni hahaha. Untuk ada sedikit pengajaran, I nak selitkan, if you guys ada rezeki lebih, bolehlah cari any NGO or trusted organization yang open donation for those in needsㅡ orang yang betul-betul susah. I mean, of course tak ada masalah nak donate untuk zoo, untuk KKM, untuk other frontliners, but if ada rezeki lebih, if you guys nak tolong, please look for donation untuk fellow saudara kita yang kesusahan. Or maybe pekerja asing, some of them on normal days pun kena tindas majikan, apatahlagi time pandemic yang ekonomi syarikat majikan diorang sedikit sebanyak terjejas ni.

Okay tu je hehe bye guys stay safe, duduk rumah diam-diam, nak bising boleh kalau tak ada jiran.
Assalamualaikum 😊

Universiti Malaysia Pahang | 24 November 2019

Rasa macam dewasa lah post macam ni

Mayang Sari Express, Melaka-KL | 5 Aug 2019

Did I mention I stanned 2-3 new Kpop groups during this break? ha ha

Kompleks Sukan, UTeM, Melaka | 27 April 2018

Assalamualaikum!
Is it too late to wish Happy Fasting to everyone? Hehehe selamat berpuasa semua!! May our Ramadhan this year is filled with barakah and may we all get to use this chance to strengthen our iman and stay istiqamah to do the ibadah. Amiin!!

       I've been wanting to write on this topic for quite a few times, but my laziness got in between so,,,, yeah hahaha. What makes me want to write on this topic again is because recently UPU result for SPM leavers came out, and I've been seeing tweets regarding the results they get- which, reminds me of this repetitive story on how I ended up taking Diploma in ICT in UTeM.

       I told this story to basically everyone close to me. This course is my 11th choice out of 12 given. Itu pun, aku actually letak ICT ni sebab ni macam course yang aku boleh bawak kot compared to science-related course like engineering, etc although I was a science stream student. My original ambition was to be an English teacher as I love the subject and my sister is an English teacher too so watching her kinda inspire me. But then last minute suddenly I nak jadi cikgu tadika. I pun tak tahu kenapa 😂 So basically, I was contemplating between those two lah. So my UPU application focused on those two, and selebihnya yang nak isi ruang-ruang kosong tu, I filled in with ICT-related course. Oh, ada jugak selit course masscomm for fun, went to the interview but I didn't do well so I didn't put my hope high. Although I am very interested to pursue in masscomm just because the campus is in Melaka.

       Even with no high hope, I did think of the possibility of me passing that interview kan so I sukalah kalau dapat belajar dekat Melaka sebab I lived in Johor, born there, grow up there, until I was 14 before I moved to Kuantan. My point is, while I'm in Johor, my family always go to Melaka so I thought that it would be nostalgic to go back to Melaka to study. Long story short, when the UPU result came out, I was so confused because I don't even remember applying for Diploma in ICT?!?!?! And then it hits me, "Oh, ni course aku letak nak isi tempat kosong tu,". But I think I am not as disappointed considering the fact that being a teacher is the only profession I ever dreamed of when I was 15-17 years old. I'm more 'okay' than I thought with what I get. Turns out there's a lot of my classmate who didn't even get any offer for UPU so I'm even more thankful to get one. Although I have no idea where this course will take me in the future, I'm happy with the fact that it's in Melaka!

       3 years of diploma, it wasn't my best performance I would say. I think I can do better if I try harder, but, it was bearable and survivable, thanks to my family and friends. And along the way of learning a course I truly had no pure intention of getting accepted, along the way of learning the "fill-in-the-UPU-blank" course, I found what I truly want to do for life.

       I've always known this- I am a bad teacher. I can't express what I understand in a way that can help others to understand. Even in high school, I'm not the kind of student that you can refer to or ask questions because I honestly, don't know. I think I understand, but I'm always not sure enough to teach others. But by studying before exam, I ended up scoring my exam fairly well. I am aware at the fact that I can't teach for anyone's sake, but I was in denial. Because at that time I only see 'teacher' as my ambition. My world at that time was so so small, so I was stuck there. And somehow, I also realize that I'm bad with kids. I, honestly, only like kind kids hahaha. I don't like the annoying ones. I'm quite hot-tempered too. So, along the 3 years of learning this leftover course, along the 3 years of finding what I think I have passion in, I realize that I am truly not made for my previous ambitions.

        Now, here is where the dependence part comes on. That was a looong intro, right? Hahahaha. So as I've mention a looot of time in my previous post, I decided to take a break after diploma and apply for UPU instead for degree. It's a lie if I say I don't feel anything seeing my friends and batchmates pursuing for their degree already. Okay, a little promo for my boys, there's 2 songs that give me a lot of strength- My Pace and Grow Up by Stray Kids. Do check them out on Youtube hehehehe. Check the lyrics, it fits well with my concern so I really relate a lot to it. Moving on, I filled in the UPU application with what I want to pursue, all of them are ICT-related. 18 years-old me would be shook if she know this hahahaha. I do stress and think a lot in choosing the option but this time I'm more concerned on the location instead. Either close to home or close to my other friends 😂 I prioritize home though because I only have one option for that. Anyways, after sending the application, I feel at ease. I don't have an exact wish on my UPU result, I just hope I get one, anywhere, I don't feel like it matters anymore.

Because I've seen it- I've seen how God gives me the 11th choice out of 12 that I had, and that choice ended up making me discover myself. Makes me realizes that what you want doesn't necessarily be the best for you, and what you don't want doesn't necessarily mean it's bad for you. I've seen how God gives me what the best for me, so this time, too, I'll depend on Him. I know, He knows the best.

       The dependence leads to the sense of security. Even if didn't get my first choice or any choice at all, I know, I'm sure, I believe, I will find the hikmah sooner or later. Cliche, but there's always a reason behind why something happen. I'm not saying I'm always happy during my 3 years of diploma. I had my fair share of breakdowns too, especially the last two semesters. So what I mean by the best is not the-always-sunshine-and-rainbow kind of best, it's the I-went-through-a-lot-and-from-it-I-also-learnt-a-lot kind of best. So, whatever you're going through in life, believe me, you will be thankful of it, sooner or later.

So that's all I guess. Assalamualaikum 😊

“Boleh jadi kamu membenci sesuatu, padahal ia amat baik bagimu, dan boleh jadi (pula) kamu menyukai sesuatu, padahal ia amat buruk bagimu; Allah mengetahui, sedang kamu tidak mengetahui.” (QS. Al Baqarah: 216)