Male lead galore?

I’ve been watching My Lovely Liar. The synopsis tells of a murder suspect that no one believes, except for a girl who has an ability to detect when people are lying.

In a way, I guess I was “tricked” into watching this drama, because the murder case takes a serious back seat. But I’m not complaining, because the show is a comedy, and the varied cast of characters make it rather fun. (some parts were slow though, due to plain silly comedy)

Another reason I’m not complaining is that there are many handsome guys in this drama. And there are three that I like better than the male lead!

First place goes to the ex-boyfriend (haih…I would go back to him rather than this male lead :P And not just looks-wise…the character in the drama is better too)

Second place goes to the driver and bodyguard-wannabe. Very cute smile :D

Third place: Part-timer and composer-to-be. His role is pretty small…I thought he would have a bigger role than that, but they basically kept him on the sidelines.

There’s another one…the J Entertainment CEO. Though I am not sure whether he beats the male lead, because he was a little too well coiffed throughout the drama :P But he has very striking looks. He appeared early in the drama, so I noticed him early, but he eventually got overshadowed by the others. :P

Overall, the drama is so-so, probably because the murder case was only a small part of it.

June's scores

Now that I have stopped Photo Fridays, I guess that one way to keep my blog alive is to post the activity that I did not stop: monthly Minesweeper.

I admit that the pic is a lot less impressive though...unless I want to post screenshots of my best completed boards...but that would be a little too troublesome.

So for now, I will make do with this.

Tales from Korea

You might have noticed that I have stopped posting Photo Fridays. I decided to stop because I found that looking for photos to match the themes was starting to feel more and more like a chore, rather than an interesting activity.

I guess I’ll have to find some other way to keep my blog alive.

In the meantime, I have yet to post about my trip to South Korea last month… I don’t feel like rushing it, so let’s start slow with some anecdotes.

On my very first day there, I heard announcements mentioning “police” and “culprit” while taking the Busan metro. (Being a huge fan of Korean crime dramas, these two words are very familiar to me :P ) Initially I thought that it was the news, and that they were announcing that the police had caught a culprit for a certain case.

But later when strolling (I say strolling, but it was probably more like trudging, since I was extremely tired by then after a long journey, and it was too early to check in to my hotel :P ) along the streets of Busan, I received an alert message on my phone.

You can see from the background of the message that my camera was on, and that is a street in Busan!

I translated it with Google Lens, and found out that the police were looking for someone! This should be the same as the announcement I heard in the metro earlier.
(“alerte d’urgence” means “emergency alert/announcement”)

The next day I received another alert, this time on my lock screen.

Isn't Pikachu cute? :P

The translation:

Wild boar alert!

I didn’t even know where that location was, but since it didn’t sound like anywhere nearby, I guess I was safe. :P

After that I did not receive any more alerts…so I don’t know what happened to the wild boar :P

(Anecdote in anecdote: Here we manage to see real-life use cases of iSDS, a feature on the Tetra radios I work on. The “i” there stands for “instant”, with SDS being the equivalent of SMS on our phones. Its purpose is to show a pop-up on the screen, that the user needs to acknowledge before the message is cleared away.)

Also, I saw sooo many Pokemon in Korea. I totally didn't expect that there would be such a lot of Pokemon merchandise there. The first day, I kept snapping photos of every Pokemon item I saw. After that I stopped...there were too many! Here’s a collage of the Pokemon photos that I snapped, since I’m not going to post each of them individually.

It was just as well that I didn't purchase any carry-on luggage on my budget flights...so it was not hard to decide NOT to buy any of them back. They were expensive too...the ones on the bottom-right cost 15k won each, which is around RM52. It was sad leaving some of those lovely toys behind though... :'(