Deliberating on my distractions…(part 1)

I’d like to divide my distractions as such:

DELIBERATE…

INSPIRED…

Starting off with my deliberate distractions…

DELIBERATE–

1 : characterized by or resulting from careful and thorough consideration <a deliberate decision> 2 : characterized by awareness of the consequences <deliberate falsehood> 3 : slow, unhurried, and steady as though allowing time for decision on each individual action involved <a deliberate pace>…      Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary says.

Come to think of it, can a distraction ever be deliberate? If so, might it not better to call it a hobby or an interest at the most? ( I digress and argue with myself…)

Well, it might have started as an interest or a hobby, and then transformed itself into a full blown distraction.

1. It was YI SAN, all 75 episodes of it as featured in this site.

(…and still going…)

What made me so distracted with it, that I decided day by day, deliberately, to wait oh- so patiently for the videos to load so that I can follow the drama?  Was it the costumes? Was it the cute boy who played Yi San? Was it the fat Dae Su, who tried ever so hard never to become an eunuch by protecting his um from being… you know.  Or was it the little girl who played Song Yeon with that sweet smile and crazily white teeth?

I don’t know what it was, but it caught me.  It wasn’t like the Coffee Prince mania- which by the way is going to be one year old this July 2008- that kept me awake in the wee hours of the morning till daybreak so I can watch it at Veoh.  It was more like a gentle charm that made me stay and wait for those buffering videos some more.

My back ache though, and the effect of those 75 episodes ( 1 hour each!) to my abdomen is something I do not want to DELIBERATE about, excuse me.  I lost a lot of hours, which I should have spent hip hop abs-ing myself into oblivion, so my boyfriend can say… wow… those abs!  But well… to each his own…

Friendship. Loyalty. Love. Betrayal. Hatred. TREASON…

Everything was there.  Love for a king is not a reality in my world.  I don’t know anything about it. I saw through Yi San though, how a subject can love his sovereign. It was DEVOTION that I saw.  It really made an impression on me.

I’m also touched by the delicateness of the love of the women in this drama.  Or their treachery…

I’ll return to this images— they’re worth distracting myself again– this time through remembrances…

How time flies…

I remember a conversation from a long long time ago..

It went like this…

Friend: “I’m supposed to be working on a script, but I haven’t done anything yet… arrgghhh..How about you? Working on anything new?”

Me: “Well, I kind of finished the work I was supposed to do, so…”

Friend: “Good for you…”

Me: : “How come you haven’t done yours yet?”

Friend: (sheepishly arrogant)  ” I was busy living… ya’know… “

Me: Oh, ok…alright.. whatever…

I bring this up to contend an issue.

Dare I give this as an excuse and prologue to what I write today?

Dare I say that I was busy living and therefore had no time–whatsoever– to open my WordPress blog up to the point that I kind of logged in the wrong User ID twice?

Dare I excuse my crime by pleading the worst kind of excuse…

“I was busy living”?!!!

Shall I dig my own grave then, by doing so?

I used to ask myself, “What my friend, does it mean to live to the fullest?” I had some very popular notions and I was reckless in proclaiming them when I was at a younger age.  I was a little like, St. Francis of Assisi, for those coming from the fervently Catholic denominations but  for those whose taste run more along the,… well, gutter, I guess, I was also like Britney Spears who reflect the essence of the word “radically challenged” which is really just a politically correct way of saying foolish.  I have been known  to also make a lot of rash or radical decisions before.

So my excuse won’t be that I was busy living.  I guess, I was just distracted. It’s good to be distracted at times right?   It brings things into focus after some time has passed.

And so here I am again, in front of my writing tablet.

I’ll let you in on my distractions by and by…

It is going to be summer soon enough…

I dunno if the weather is turning senile on me but has anyone noticed that it’s March and it’s still a little December-y or January-like chilly in the early mornings and unnecessarily warm in the afternoons? Aaaargh!  Many people (myself included) has caught the cold just  because of this forgetfulness on the part of Mr. Weather or should I say Ms. Weather?  She seems more a woman to me right now.  Ahem.

OK.  I don’t know what’s happening to Gong Yoo right now.  I would have wanted to go to Korea though and maybe sneak a visit to the military camp where he is, but that seems a little far fetched.  Coffee Prince was recently concluded at GMA last Friday.   I’m happy that CP was shown here in the Philippines but I do hope that everyone who got hooked on the series will not stop at the dubbed telecasts— please, I beg you– watch the series in the Korean ( with English subtitles-hahaha)  the voice of Gong Yoo is to die for — and the music of CP is totally something that you should not miss.  Anyways, I found the GMA version a little too short for comfort, so I guess they did a lot of editing.  There is so much much more that you GY fans in the Philippines will miss if you don’t watch the Korean version.  CP built its reputation not only through is stars but the WHOLE production as well– it’s a benchmark in modern Korean dramas, I guess…

Going back to the weather— as dramas move on and pass like seasons also do– I guess you all need to find dramas to tide you over, until GY comes back— We still face many months– so, stock up on Gong Yoo and watch his other dramas– Hello, my Teacher and One Fine Day is also good and you can trace GY’s great acting prowessessss — (Catch these in Aznv)

If you want a break a though, or a fresh shower or rain, try  Hong Gil Dong, it’s totally refreshing…