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Einhoven, July 2024

Lâu lắm rồi mới vào lại Tumblr thì nhận được thông báo là blog này đã được 7 tuổi rồi :) Lục lại những post cũ mà thấy hoài niệm quá. Từ những post về ngày đầu ở HL cho đến nay cũng được gần 6 năm rồi. time flies.... One thing stays the same after so many years is that I'm still broke hahhaha and single lol. There is going to be a major change in my life in the next 6 months so I'm thinking of picking up the blog again...for documentation

babaroqa

"you don't even like opera"

"george, are you telling me that after years of being married to a social climber you still don't understand that it's not about the opera, it's about the fact that some people think they are exclusive and i want to be exclusive and right now that little box is my archnemesis. i will sit there and listen to women screaming for hours and bear it all for the sake of cool women seeing me there in my beautiful dress and watching me with envy because they will know. they will know that all their good pedigree means nothing when in the end it's all about the money, george, and money is something that i've got. loads of money. so much fucking money that i can own two giant houses that will one day, not that long in the future, be used as a public space probably."

shirtlessjohnnysidols

Kimura Takuya

FRaU 1995.11

itagakimizuki

— "Making my way home, passing by the cherry tree, salting fish to grill." Will you marry me? WATASHITACHI WA DOUKA SHITEIRU (2020)

tomorrowsdrama

I randomly decided to start watching Jin after I was listening to the OST while doing work and this drama is so good. By the way, if you like sweeping instrumental music or just instrumental OSTs in general, Jin’s OST is one of my favorites. Anyway, I never finished the drama when it first aired in 2009 since subs were a bit slower back then so it’s kind of like rediscovering the drama all over again.

Jin is one of the rare period jdramas that is not a strict taiga drama and surprisingly does not look that dated even though it came out in 2009. Maybe being set in the Edo period helps with that, but you can also tell that a lot of money and effort was put into the production of this drama.

What I love about this drama is that it’s not a straight medical drama, even though the core of the story is Jin, a surgeon from the future, trying to save those around him in the Edo period. There’s something so moving about watching Dr. Jin try so hard to treat his patients even while knowing his means of treatment are limited by the time period and that it’s likely a losing battle. That’s another thing I like about this drama. Dr. Jin isn’t some miracle doctor. Well, in a way he is to the people from the Edo period because he seems to know about things beyond their wildest imagination/the latest medical information of that time. But even though he’s a skilled surgeon, he’s not some genius/magical doctor who can cure anyone and anything. Even though he may know how to treat a certain disease, there’s only so much he can do with the tools and medicine available to him. Yeah he did create penicillin a few hundred years ahead of its time in one episode but still, the drama makes a point to show that not everyone will be saved just because Dr. Jin is there.

Oh, Sakamoto Ryoma is one of the characters and Dr. Jin is caught in a dilemma of, does he tell him about his fate and possibly change history or does he let history take its course and allow a friend to die?

And this is one of my favorite scenes so far where Dr. Jin questions whether what he’s doing is even making a difference because a woman he previously saved from a hematoma in the head is subsequently killed by a random samurai. In some ways, this drama is a tale of small, regular people trying to beat fate. Osawa Takao is seriously so good in this! The Korean remake sadly did not re-capture what made the jdrama so good.