When the Camellia Blooms

Hai. Been a year, and I'm not proud for this achievement. Over a year since my last post, it absolutely proved laziness and how bad I am in procrastination.

In 2019 there's only a few serial TV I watched and named two of it, are last season of Game of Thrones and When the Camellia Blooms (this is K-drama). The reason why I looked forward for this K-drama and I even beyond excited for it is because the lead actress was Gong Hyo Jin. I'm so proud watched it till the end, and without any skip on any episode. Why so? Because, should I stated again, there was Gong Hyo Jin! She's my favorite K-actress. For you who with me through this blog maybe already know that I like her much, very much, almost like an obsession. That's why I suggest you to watch the drama too. Not only because there's her, but also because of the good story inside.

Here's some information that maybe you'll need before you watch it to make you more sure that you won't regret. I take it from my-own standard-verified-source, AsianWiki

Title : When the Camellia Blooms [Dongbaekkkot Pil Mooryeob / 동백꽃 필 무렵]

Director : Cha Young-Hoon, Kang Min-Kyung

Writer : Im Sang-Choon (known for wrote Fight for My Way too)

Network : KBS2 (and Netflix)

Episodes : 40

Release Date: September 18 - November 21, 2019

  

 

credit pictures: instagram; pinterest

It tells about a single mother Dongbaek (Gong Hyo Jin) who runs a bar-restaurant (it named Camellia) in small village, Ongsan. There she deals with gossip, romance, jealousy, neighborhood, family matter, and even a serial murder case that happened to be related to her. The genre is like a compilation, so personally I think you’ll enjoy it with the romance, comedy, mystery, family issue, friendship, and self-improvement message they served. You’ll get a combo by watch it.

On episode 37-38 there’s a conversation between Dongbaek and Mrs. No that hit me up. I write it in Bahasa cause I used Bahasa as subtitle.

Mrs.Nooo: Aku hanya memesan baby tumis.
Dongbaek: Semua berpikir pelanggan adalah raja, tapi sebenarnya ini kerajaanku. Aku hidangkan yang kumau.

Mrs.Nooo: Kenapa kau tertawa seperti itu? Senyummu ...., agak mengintimidasi.

Dongbaek: Apa aku mengintimidasimu?

Mrs.Nooo: Sebagian orang mengira kau takkan bisa bahagia. Mereka mendapat kenyamanan dengan mengatakan mereka iba kepadamu. Tapi kau cukup pandai tersenyum. Senyummu juga manis. Tidak heran ini menyebalkan, tentu aku terintimidasi.... Ngomong-ngomong kau harus terus tersenyum. Tunjukkan pada semua orang seberapa besar kebahagianmu.

Dongbaek: Begini, aku menyerah bahagia terang-terangan sejak dulu.

Mrs.Nooo: Kenapa begitu?

Dongbaek: Anggapan orang tentangku adalah urusan mereka. Dahulu, aku merasa kebahagiaan seperti nilai ujian. Aku biasa melihat nilai orang lain di papan dan memikirkan posisiku. Tapi, tak peduli betapa keras aku mencari, aku tak menemukan jawaban. Jadi, kenapa aku harus tetap mencarinya? Aku menganggap papan nilainya permainan mereka dan menilai hidupku sendiri berdasarkan standarku. Hanya bahagia dengan standarku sendiri yang kubutuhkan dalam hidup, 'kan?

Mrs.Nooo: Tampaknya hatimu memiliki kebun bunga sendiri. Sementara nilai ujianku bagus, masuk sekolah hukum ternama ..., tapi tak ada bunga mekar di diriku.

I'm awaken by that conversation, our life and the way we live is on our hand. The thing that should we hold is religion and moral values we had. I believe both of it teaches us about being good person. Happiness comes from ourself and isn't defined by others. Are we going to be happy when we take the way they took? Is there any guarantee? 

This is why I'm happy and more happier with this drama. Because I can see her effortless style (I don't know whether she worked with her previous stylist or what) and she wore some crocheted-things! Yes, CROCHET! There's bag and hat she wore. I feel so proud cause I do crochet, and the person I like wore it. Okay, I'm little bit too much talking about her wore crocheted-things.

 

credit photos: august_frvn, pinterest


FYI, When the Camellia Blooms lead her got Daesang (Grand Prize) in 2019 KBS Drama Awards. I'm so happy for her achievement! Congratulation our Kongvely!
Can't wait too see her next projects :) 

jumpsuit

Since my mom doing garment business, sometimes i take clothes from her store. The business she's doing isn't a big one, but it goes well (alhamdulillah). And somehow, for the sake of ethics and healthiness, everyone should wear clothes, right? That's why fashion industry improved alot (well, it makes me want to write something about this industry).  This batik jumpsuit is her friend's item that my mom help her to sell it. But it's too cute and when i tried it out, just feel it should be mine. So i asked my mom to buy it for me (there's time when i have to pay things i took). After a long, long negotiation she gave up and told me to just take it (maybe she didn't want to hear me whinned anymore). O-YEAH!

The Producers, Weather Forecaster, or News Anchor?

I know that I'm kinda very outdated.. But, here I don't review about the story. I'd love to show you Gong Hyo Jin as Tak Ye Jin in The Producer and as Pyo Na Ri in Jealousy Incarnate style. As you might know, I like her fashion taste, simply chic..

as Music Show PD

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Hardly got her outfit pictures on The Producers series. I don't know why, most of the them didn't show her head-to-toe so you might just watch the series to know. For you who asked why don't me took a screen capture, I'm not so hi-tech person and I don't know how, and I just have medium quality video. Please, take my excuses.. 

as Pyo Na Ri at the press conference Jealousy Incarnate

I looooooooooooooooooove her shoes here... It's Gucci. I don't particularly like Gucci, but for the violet (or whatever, I may half color-blind) shoes in her feet, major love! She paired it with black shocks, match perfectly.

as News Anchor and Weather Forecaster

(source: tumblr)

(source: pinterest)

I like this black mini dress.. Personally, I imagine to pair it up with jeans. I think every women should have at least one black dress in her closet.

And there's so many more style you may copy cause she's a way too cool when we talk about her outfit in and out of the characters she played.