That 100% makes sense. I have a deep love-hate relationship with this show. I waited for subs each week like a madwoman, even though I knew each week I’d disappointed and tear my hair out and be mad at the show. Then I’d go rewatch parts and get mad all over again until the next new episodes.
AH! I wasn’t that crazy about it! And I had Moonlight to always fall back on and trust that it will be good! But there was this sort of masochistic fascination with watching Moonlovers. I knew it was a gone case but I couldn’t help watching- and then somewhere in the middle the show gave us hope with 1 or 2 amazing episodes just to cut us deep later with a nose-dive into senselessness.
Ahhhh, episode 11. The episode that showed us what could’ve been. It was a good, nay, a near perfect hour of drama. And then it just went back to the usual insanity.
I didn’t watch Moonlight since that kind of youth-romance sageuk isn’t really my jam. Though, to be fair, over dramatic melo sageuk also isn’t my thing. I was going though a lot of stressful personal shit at the time and I’m pretty sure this show was what kept me from completely losing it, if only because it allowed me to obsess over something other than the stuff in my life.
So basically my love-hate relationship to this terrible show is attached to a lot of weird personal emotions. The same goes for my attachment to She Was Pretty. I’m gonna be a hoot for a therapist to unpack one day.
It’s interesting how we can mentally depend on some shows! Mind/ body really works in mysterious ways and has an amazing sense of defense mechanism.. Hope you are over the bad times now 🙂
But yeah, I definitely have certain shows and more than that a lot of music that are attached to certain times/feelings from my life. I can’t listen to my summer 2009 playlist (which is so all over the place – everything from Bollywood to Snoop Dogg) without being transported back to my summer abroad and then the music festival at home I attended with my besties from uni. Or the playlist from the summer after I graduated HS and drove around the city all summer with my friends just soaking life in one last time before a new adventure. Dramas came into my life late, but I guess they’re sinking into my psyche more than I want to admit…
Ah yes! I have that with some songs- they transport me back to where/ what I was when I used to listen to them! Then there are certain smells which evoke memories…
Also, Bollywood? Anything in particular? or just in general? I get excited when I see Bollywood mentioned on DB! 😛
I believe that was the summer I was obsessed with Jab We Met, so that whole OST? Still kinda love it. That was definitely my comfort movie in my last year of uni. We consumed a LOT of random Bollywood that year.
OH, “Papu Can’t Dance” is on there too, and translating those lyrics for my friends was funny. That song is hilarious. My then 3 y/o niece was obsessed with it so it was always stuck in my head. I used to stay with my family on the weekends, she knew all the words to all the Bollywood songs and movies. Also, weirdly they only had a Hindi dubbed Thomas the Tank engine saved to watch. It was really weird.
I actually ended up making a Bollywood mix which I wrote papers to in my last year of uni as well, though it hasn’t been updated in years. But I still bust it out for an impromptu dance party every now and then.
Jab We Met is a personal favourite, so were the songs.
Lol “Papu Can’t Dance” was so much fun! But why Hindi? Do you have Indian family members or neighbours? Must have started somewhere!
I haven’t been listening to many Hindi songs since I found kpop but they are still my go to when I need to calm down.. Plus doesn’t require much work cuz I understand what they are saying and thus it can just play in the background. With kpop I have to keep reading the lyrics and/or look at all the cute 😀
My family is Indian though I rarely visit since most of our family on both sides has spread out over the globe. My mom goes back a fair amount though, and there’s a chance I might get convinced to go at the end of the year. (I think it’s been fifteen years since I last visited? Granted, I’ve only been four times.)
I understand the language enough to watch movies without subs, but can’t really speak it well though I get by when I need to. But the Hindi was because my family that I was visiting lives in the UK with a much larger south asian population, so that may be why there was random Hindi programming on their TV.
That’s also why Bollywood was so comforting for me in my last year of uni since it was a little like being home, though my parents are more classic Hollywood movie types than Bollywood. But hearing a familiar language was comforting. Plus it was an excuse to cook Indian food and have a movie night with my friends.
I’m totally a music junkie (my music collection is insane — I think there’s some french rap in there?) but kpop/krock/kindie has been my jam for the last few years despite growing up on a steady diet of classic rock and American pop, rock and hip-hop from the 80s/90s/00s. My mother still doesn’t get the kpop thing, though she’s decided to accept it’s no longer “just a phase.”
Have we talked about India before? I have this vague memory of talking a bit about something Indian but not sure.. Where in India are your parents from?
Ah yes. We talked about Bollywood! About how you watched a lot of Bollywood when in Uni! And cooking Indian food! Sorry, I forgot! But I don’t think I got the sense that you were of Indian descent. Just that you were into Indian stuff! (I don’t know how many times I used the word ‘Indian’ in this comment!)
I am not much into music. I used to be someone who could never be without music and then just had a long phase where music irritated me. Now I am slowly getting back to it through kpop 🙂
It’s totally possible I mentioned it here before. My cousin got married earlier in the summer and I was most definitely bitching about the valima being on sunday night when I had work early monday morning. Three parties in three days is too much! I’m getting too old for this. At least the food was good?
My parents are from a small city in Bihar, not too far from Delhi. It’s a city, but I just met some of my mom’s childhood friends and it really was an everyone knew everyone kinda town. Weirdly, one of my besties is the daughter of someone she grew up with, and who is one of her good friends now. I probably don’t give off an Indian vibe, online or IRL — people often think I’m hispanic when they meet me? I think it’s the hair — dyed red and cut short, so it confuses them. My name being Arabic, and one that has similar counterparts in Hebrew and Spanish doesn’t help the confusion.
But I partake in Indian the culture when I can — Eid is coming up, so obvs I’ll be wearing Indian clothes. Weddings, though exhausting, are fun and a million years long. (I had never actually been to a non-Indian wedding before this year.) I cook Indian food pretty regularly, since it’s the best. But it’s definitely a weird balance.
I have a special fondness for Bihar because my first love was from Patna. First loves do that to you. You love the deo they used, the car they loved, the city where they were from even if you have never been there and so on! 😀
Ooh the special food on Eid is delicious! I sometimes miss one of my school friends who used to bring me yummy sevaii and biryani! <3
Indian weddings- I have only been to the Hindu ones- are too long and exhausting but yes, fun nevertheless! And yup Indian food is the best- nothing beats "ghar ka khana" 😀
Hahaha, so, my parents are from Patna! It’s weird how many people I know are randomly connected. I guess it does have a large population, but it’s still strange.
It’s funny you mention sevaii — my mom just bought all the ingredients to make it after reminiscing with a friend over my nannies sevaii which was apparently legendary. My mom hasn’t made it in years, but I’m super excited for it. So goooood.
SnarkyJellyfish
August 30, 2017 at 12:17 PM
I blame 95% of my love for this stupid show on this man.
(The other 5% is Kang Ha Neul’s fault.)
mel
August 30, 2017 at 12:33 PM
I was there, LOL!
wakimary
August 30, 2017 at 2:25 PM
ah the shows I’ve watched for LJG oppa
SnarkyJellyfish
August 30, 2017 at 2:39 PM
Seriously. His beauty is mesmerizing.
ObsessedMuch
August 30, 2017 at 10:17 PM
Ah for me it is 50% Kang Ha Neul and 50% nothing at all! Cuz even my love for this show includes 50% hate!
ObsessedMuch
August 30, 2017 at 10:17 PM
That didn’t make much sense. But neither did the show! 😉
SnarkyJellyfish
August 30, 2017 at 10:28 PM
That 100% makes sense. I have a deep love-hate relationship with this show. I waited for subs each week like a madwoman, even though I knew each week I’d disappointed and tear my hair out and be mad at the show. Then I’d go rewatch parts and get mad all over again until the next new episodes.
ObsessedMuch
August 30, 2017 at 10:44 PM
AH! I wasn’t that crazy about it! And I had Moonlight to always fall back on and trust that it will be good! But there was this sort of masochistic fascination with watching Moonlovers. I knew it was a gone case but I couldn’t help watching- and then somewhere in the middle the show gave us hope with 1 or 2 amazing episodes just to cut us deep later with a nose-dive into senselessness.
SnarkyJellyfish
August 30, 2017 at 10:57 PM
Ahhhh, episode 11. The episode that showed us what could’ve been. It was a good, nay, a near perfect hour of drama. And then it just went back to the usual insanity.
I didn’t watch Moonlight since that kind of youth-romance sageuk isn’t really my jam. Though, to be fair, over dramatic melo sageuk also isn’t my thing. I was going though a lot of stressful personal shit at the time and I’m pretty sure this show was what kept me from completely losing it, if only because it allowed me to obsess over something other than the stuff in my life.
So basically my love-hate relationship to this terrible show is attached to a lot of weird personal emotions. The same goes for my attachment to She Was Pretty. I’m gonna be a hoot for a therapist to unpack one day.
ObsessedMuch
August 30, 2017 at 11:14 PM
Oh yes! Ep 11!
It’s interesting how we can mentally depend on some shows! Mind/ body really works in mysterious ways and has an amazing sense of defense mechanism.. Hope you are over the bad times now 🙂
SnarkyJellyfish
August 30, 2017 at 11:33 PM
I’m definitely a lot better now. 🙂
But yeah, I definitely have certain shows and more than that a lot of music that are attached to certain times/feelings from my life. I can’t listen to my summer 2009 playlist (which is so all over the place – everything from Bollywood to Snoop Dogg) without being transported back to my summer abroad and then the music festival at home I attended with my besties from uni. Or the playlist from the summer after I graduated HS and drove around the city all summer with my friends just soaking life in one last time before a new adventure. Dramas came into my life late, but I guess they’re sinking into my psyche more than I want to admit…
ObsessedMuch
August 31, 2017 at 12:34 AM
That’s good to know! <3
Ah yes! I have that with some songs- they transport me back to where/ what I was when I used to listen to them! Then there are certain smells which evoke memories…
Also, Bollywood? Anything in particular? or just in general? I get excited when I see Bollywood mentioned on DB! 😛
SnarkyJellyfish
August 31, 2017 at 12:53 AM
I believe that was the summer I was obsessed with Jab We Met, so that whole OST? Still kinda love it. That was definitely my comfort movie in my last year of uni. We consumed a LOT of random Bollywood that year.
OH, “Papu Can’t Dance” is on there too, and translating those lyrics for my friends was funny. That song is hilarious. My then 3 y/o niece was obsessed with it so it was always stuck in my head. I used to stay with my family on the weekends, she knew all the words to all the Bollywood songs and movies. Also, weirdly they only had a Hindi dubbed Thomas the Tank engine saved to watch. It was really weird.
I actually ended up making a Bollywood mix which I wrote papers to in my last year of uni as well, though it hasn’t been updated in years. But I still bust it out for an impromptu dance party every now and then.
ObsessedMuch
August 31, 2017 at 1:01 AM
Jab We Met is a personal favourite, so were the songs.
Lol “Papu Can’t Dance” was so much fun! But why Hindi? Do you have Indian family members or neighbours? Must have started somewhere!
I haven’t been listening to many Hindi songs since I found kpop but they are still my go to when I need to calm down.. Plus doesn’t require much work cuz I understand what they are saying and thus it can just play in the background. With kpop I have to keep reading the lyrics and/or look at all the cute 😀
SnarkyJellyfish
August 31, 2017 at 1:25 AM
My family is Indian though I rarely visit since most of our family on both sides has spread out over the globe. My mom goes back a fair amount though, and there’s a chance I might get convinced to go at the end of the year. (I think it’s been fifteen years since I last visited? Granted, I’ve only been four times.)
I understand the language enough to watch movies without subs, but can’t really speak it well though I get by when I need to. But the Hindi was because my family that I was visiting lives in the UK with a much larger south asian population, so that may be why there was random Hindi programming on their TV.
That’s also why Bollywood was so comforting for me in my last year of uni since it was a little like being home, though my parents are more classic Hollywood movie types than Bollywood. But hearing a familiar language was comforting. Plus it was an excuse to cook Indian food and have a movie night with my friends.
I’m totally a music junkie (my music collection is insane — I think there’s some french rap in there?) but kpop/krock/kindie has been my jam for the last few years despite growing up on a steady diet of classic rock and American pop, rock and hip-hop from the 80s/90s/00s. My mother still doesn’t get the kpop thing, though she’s decided to accept it’s no longer “just a phase.”
ObsessedMuch
August 31, 2017 at 3:31 AM
Have we talked about India before? I have this vague memory of talking a bit about something Indian but not sure.. Where in India are your parents from?
Ah yes. We talked about Bollywood! About how you watched a lot of Bollywood when in Uni! And cooking Indian food! Sorry, I forgot! But I don’t think I got the sense that you were of Indian descent. Just that you were into Indian stuff! (I don’t know how many times I used the word ‘Indian’ in this comment!)
I am not much into music. I used to be someone who could never be without music and then just had a long phase where music irritated me. Now I am slowly getting back to it through kpop 🙂
SnarkyJellyfish
August 31, 2017 at 1:00 PM
It’s totally possible I mentioned it here before. My cousin got married earlier in the summer and I was most definitely bitching about the valima being on sunday night when I had work early monday morning. Three parties in three days is too much! I’m getting too old for this. At least the food was good?
My parents are from a small city in Bihar, not too far from Delhi. It’s a city, but I just met some of my mom’s childhood friends and it really was an everyone knew everyone kinda town. Weirdly, one of my besties is the daughter of someone she grew up with, and who is one of her good friends now. I probably don’t give off an Indian vibe, online or IRL — people often think I’m hispanic when they meet me? I think it’s the hair — dyed red and cut short, so it confuses them. My name being Arabic, and one that has similar counterparts in Hebrew and Spanish doesn’t help the confusion.
But I partake in Indian the culture when I can — Eid is coming up, so obvs I’ll be wearing Indian clothes. Weddings, though exhausting, are fun and a million years long. (I had never actually been to a non-Indian wedding before this year.) I cook Indian food pretty regularly, since it’s the best. But it’s definitely a weird balance.
ObsessedMuch
August 31, 2017 at 9:27 PM
I have a special fondness for Bihar because my first love was from Patna. First loves do that to you. You love the deo they used, the car they loved, the city where they were from even if you have never been there and so on! 😀
Ooh the special food on Eid is delicious! I sometimes miss one of my school friends who used to bring me yummy sevaii and biryani! <3
Indian weddings- I have only been to the Hindu ones- are too long and exhausting but yes, fun nevertheless! And yup Indian food is the best- nothing beats "ghar ka khana" 😀
SnarkyJellyfish
August 31, 2017 at 9:35 PM
Hahaha, so, my parents are from Patna! It’s weird how many people I know are randomly connected. I guess it does have a large population, but it’s still strange.
It’s funny you mention sevaii — my mom just bought all the ingredients to make it after reminiscing with a friend over my nannies sevaii which was apparently legendary. My mom hasn’t made it in years, but I’m super excited for it. So goooood.
ObsessedMuch
August 31, 2017 at 10:08 PM
Ha! That is indeed a coincidence! Patna is quite a big city but seems like a very ‘everybody-knows-someone-you-know’ kinda place! 😛
I love sevaii! And now I want some but too lazy to make any 😉 Hope your mum makes them as legendary as your nannies 😀