From my end

Park Shin-hye has not done any acting since her last series Sisyphus the Myth (I’ve written this prior to her wedding and pregnancy announcement) wrapped up production in early December 2020.  With Squid Game lighting up Netflix in the US, the UK and the world and so many dramas being shown, made and announced, her absence from any K-production is heartbreaking to her fans. I don’t watch Kdramas anymore. Even before I’ve heard of the racist incident involving the only Filipino actor in Squid Game but I reckon it was my rewatch of that episode in Hello Counselor  where Jung Yong-hwa was a guest and one of the stories was a guy who was being treated so lowly by his fellow Koreans for looking like a Filipino. Anyway, I only watch Korean shows these days if Park Shin-hye is a cast member.  I don’t follow Kpop but I enjoy dancing to the tunes. 

Korean works such as #Alive and Space Sweepers made it to the Top Ten in the UK but none made it to number one on the streaming service like Squid Game.  My husband likes watching it again and again.  I’m not really fond of this type of genre.  Its very essence doesn’t strike a chord with my free time.  But that is me.  All others enjoy this kind of pursuit.  Sometimes I wonder if it is popular amongst my husband’s friends because they like watching East Asians engaged in this killing competition?  Are they like those men in suits in the series looking through the games via a monitor ?  Or was it through a window?  I couldn’t really decipher, I just passed by during the penultimate episode. 

The series catapulted its stars to the sky, the female lead is now the hype of social media, amassing followers to rival Ariana Grande.  Let’s see her next pursuits, would she continue to be hot for the years to come? 

Hiatus

It has been almost a year since I have been writing that I have forgotten how it feels to write in a blog. Well, the scourge of the Pandemic is an ever -pressing concern in our lives. As an introvert, I like the staying home bit but as a front liner, I was never given a chance to stay home. I’m right in the middle of “saving lives, trying to stay alive” crew. There was and there is no reprieve, you try to be sick for feeling symptoms of the virus and you get derision and a lengthy interrogation process by the powers that be in my work universe.  

I don’t think I will ever get away with taking time off for Stress. Or working from home when there are call bells to answer at the actual site. Despite the vaccines, there are variants out there lurking and ready to claim thousands of human lives. People should be wary of huge gatherings. 

Lockdown gives space. There is far less traffic in the busiest roads and it saves me from confrontation with highly-paid class acts in the Tube on day shifts. Sir, whatever you say, it’s still not prudent to take that seat beside me. I’ve wrapped up dead bodies in full PPE due to Covid.  

Should we still social distance? It’s such a double standard since people love gatherings. There is no social distance in parties. December was lockdown month, yet people were dressed to the nines for parties.  Cases ballooned in January, cold weather and viruses, eh?  It’s summer now, but there it seems the most dreadful of times. 

Pandemic or no pandemic, we are still busy at work, just made more complicated by the ever threat of this health emergency.  At least there was a vaccine to at least minimise symptoms or prevent us from succumbing to the virus’ worst effects.  For now, let’s pray there are no more waves and there is a cure for the deadliest of variants.