Saturday, September 09, 2006
Princess Hours (Goong)

Just finished watching Princess Hours (Goong)!! I was so addicted that I took a day's leave just to watch the entire series!!! It was disk after disk the entire day......Made Hele watch with me too (god....I am a terrible mother!) but she got bored after a while and crawled away....talk about not being ready to be a Korean buff Obasan....#$%@!!!

But yes, Goong is definitely worth watching. I thought FullHouse was a fluke (one of Korean's better makes ...of course having Rain & Song Hui Jiao helped a great deal) but after Goong, I finally understand why so many 'aunties'/obasan are so addicted to korean dramas... The men are simply so romantic....*sigh*...They say things like "I miss you...even when I'm looking at you, I am still missing you...." or "Thoughts of you run in my head and everywhere around you, I think of you so much that I cannot breath" or "I will wait for you even if it takes 2500 years...." or "My goal is life is small, so as long I can make you smile..." errmm...You get the drift... If Singaporean men can bare their soul or say such things....


Goong is a love story surrounding four 19 year-old students, 2 of whom are princes. The heroine is the absolutely cute and 'un-princess like' Shen Cai Jin who was betrothed to the crown prince. The crown prince had a former love who kept bugging him. To make matters more complicated, the ex-crown prince (cousin of crown prince) came back to Korea after 14 years overseas and fell in love with Cai Jin. The story encompasses ambition, palace tradition, rules & regulations, friendship, revenge and love which makes this story even more interesting. The heroes of the story? Xin Jun (crown prince) & Lu Jun (ex-crown prince) and their moving lines made me cry buckets of tears. I am especially moved by Lu Jun who had such unconditional love for Cai Jin. His concern, gentleness & thoughtfulness touched me so much that I used up 1 entire packet of tissue paper. Xin Jun is charismatic and tough 'man' character can make any women swoon...*sigh*...Watch it and you'll know what I mean....


On top of that, the songs are really good too. Click on this link to hear the theme song!:

mms://aod.mylisten.com/aod/0/20/071020_0920179.wma