The Mystery Books That Shaped My Life: From Enid Blyton to Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie
A personal journey through classic detectives, Japanese thrillers, and Richard Osman’s modern whodunnits
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Two New Netflix Series absolute Must-Watch!
Netflix continues to deliver fantastic series, and these two are absolute gems. They will entertain you and help you unwind from work or home stress. Zero Day The lead of Zero Day is none other than Robert De Niro, who also serves as its executive producer. Given De Niro’s incredibly long and award-winning career—two Academy Awards, two Golden…
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Year End Holiday Watch for Chinese Drama Fans
I must admit that there are many reasons I love Chinese Drama particularly wuxia and xanxia. First, it helps me learn and sustain my Mandarin. Secondly, wuxia and xanxia chockful of old-school values such as loyalty and honorable conduct, mastery and excellence to one craft and being respectful to others. In the world that is…
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Holiday Watch for K-Drama Fans
Year end holiday is right around the corner for many of you. I am here to remind you not to forget to download enough to watch during the flight, especially long flights. These days OTT platforms have far more superior choices) and during the holiday (believe me, there will be times you hope you have…
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Interesting Netflix Documentaries to Watch
While I continue to savor multitude of lovely K-drama (a new review is coming!) and branching out (or back) to broad diverse of series, lately I have felt a crave of intellectual nourishment and as am not yet a converted podcast listener (perhaps it’s an age thing), I found I am fed this hunger with Netflix documentaries. I will share some of what…
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Series to Watch for 50 years and Older (and still appeal the younger ones !)
As I reached 50 years, I feel like less and less series truly relate to me. Yes I still enjoy Lovely Runner or Emily in Paris, but it just doesn’t feel relatable with my life now and I hate it that sometime watching these young series inevitably make me reminisce my younger self and I am still young ! So I yearned to…
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About That Famous Lovely Runner Series…
As I wrote this article, the Byo Woo Seok fever is still going on and reaching a new height, so much so that his agency wrote a stern warning against stalking this rising star. As a rule, I am not into highly popular kdrama and especially not where time travel theme is involved. I am not a believer of time…
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What to Watch after Queen of Tears
If you just came out of Queen of Tears a favorite makjang (emotional complicated melodrama K-drama genre) that (nearly) beaten the World of Married in rating, you probably wonder what to watch next. Everything can be pale in comparison. This was what I felt after finishing Mr Queen to me, but after that there are other like Dr Cha, The Attorney Woo, and…
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KDramas I have watched (and loved) in Q1 2024
It has been awhile since I wrote review and I am pleased that now I have a bit of time to share what I am watching (or have watched). Some I am still watching (but the series already ended) or already completed. I hope you have fun with Kdrama as much as I do !…
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Dr Cheon and the Lost Talisman Review
I was in one of the week where there is not much I want to watch and the title sound intriguing enough. The fact there is Jisoo in the movie even just a brief cameo that cause much of noise is indeed interesting. I have never watched any of the Gang Dong-Won movies and this…
