Here’s another one about the lovely ending! It’s a the printed version of the Goodbye, Hello. This is the very first time I take part in any giveaway and I am so expecting I will be one of the luckiest 25 people who receive the hard copy. I want this badly.
If there’s any of you interested in taking part, go submit your comment. Good luck!
Bon courage pour moi!
Feel free to share this to any Jung Hwan and Deok Sun Shippers you know.
SURPRISE!!!
So, after part three, she wrote an epilogue which makes the ending even more perfect.
It feels good knowing their togetherness in the story. I love how Jung Hwan was being described. In love with Dok Soen and still keeping his old soft-harsh version. The way he said “ugly” to Dok Soen, I really can imagine him saying so.
It’s been almost two weeks after it ended, and I still keep replaying the stories inside my head. Memorizing the scenes then reading these four parts as the ending.
It’s really true that a good story will always live in our heart forever.
This one is truly one of them.
NOTE: It took a few days but here it is… the conclusion to “Goodbye, Hello.” I hope you love this story as much as I do!
OST PART IV: ONE REPUBLIC “All This Time”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIY_2t0ZKPU
I stood by the arrival gate, shifting my weight from foot to foot. I craned my head over the crowd and checked my watch impatiently.
She’d said they were landing on time. Maybe I should move to the front of the queue.
I weaved my way through the other people and looked around. I noted, with some apprehension that some of the people waiting had placards and others had flowers. Suddenly wondering if I should have prepared more, I tightened my hold on the bag I carried, flushing.
It’s been almost a month since Deok Sun and I became a couple. We had not seen each other since that idyllic…
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I was having breakfast this morning and suddenly laughed at myself. Laughing at the state I had my breakfast in the last one year compared to the old days. Then, felt like writing about some changes I have experienced before and after motherhood. A huffpost parent-ish one. (You wish).
Before motherhood, breakfast done peacefully. Sitting on the chair, sipping the hot tea slowly, enjoying every bite of my chocolate sprinkles bread. The tea must be hot. Hot as boiled. Not warm. I remade it if it was no longer boiled.
After motherhood, well, breakfast almost always done in rush . Standing while doing other chores. Sipping my almost cold tea (my standard of cold is like warm for others) and biting the chocolate sprinkles bread, all done while going back and forth preparing other’s breakfast.
Before motherhood, eating good food was all about myself. While after that, whenever I taste something good, the first thing came into my mind was the thought of my baby would like this one. Then if possible, I would cut the best part for her to eat later.
Before motherhood, after working shopping was done at least twice a month. Buying this and that for myself. Enjoying no matter how long it took then went home without any worries as if someone waited at home. I just simply told my mum that I went shopping first before went home.
After motherhood, alas, the last thirty minutes of working spent by looking non-stop at the watch. Couldn’t wait a minute longer and ran home in an instant. Felt like few seconds late would make so much differences. Sounds so exaggerate, but that was me during the first months of my motherhood.
On the shopping part, buying something for the baby now is giving much more happiness than buying for myself. Trying new pair jeans and suddenly staring at cute little shoes, then in the end, put back the jeans and went to the cashier with a pair of new baby shoes and some toys. Just like that. Surprisingly, felt no less happier.
Before motherhood, a small cute sling back was enough for me whenever I went out. A wallet, mobile phone, and praying dress were all I brought everywhere. No more no less.
After motherhood, having those three left at home won’t cause any panic attack more than leaving changing diapers and clothes, snacks, the meal, even a blender and the chair some days back then.
Before motherhood, the first thing to do once I arrived at home after work was resting and lazing around. Doing this and that slowly, or I just went sleep straightly.
Now? Put down the bag somewhere and transforming into the rabbit energizer battery. Preparing here and there, taking care this and that, changing clothes then proceed to the next tasks. Resting must wait. Unless you want to rest first and be even more tired later.
Before motherhood, I was a full time night sleeper. 9 pm – 4 am. Now, I am doing part time. Having night shift of breastfeeding is unavoidable. Adding more sleep hours? Possible, IF, there were at least one staying helper in this house. Were.
Do those above sound explaining how unpleasant motherhood is?
I don’t mean to. It just points out the truth behind motherhood. It’s not a mere role. It’s a battle that some women willingly choose to fight.
The occasional stress, fatigue, bad days, and any other similar things are surely undeniable. But, it also comes with the happy feeling being with the baby, being present every her waking time, witnessing how fast she grows, and witnessing your self-transformation.
It’s the change I’ve never thought I would become few years ago. The strength I didn’t knew exist inside of me. The limit I’ve never expected to endure until the worst condition came and I safely passed it. Sometimes, with flying colors.
When someone ask me whether I would like to go back to my carefree days, my answer will be very clear. No matter how good the past was, the present and future always seem a better deal for me.
Beside, trading Langit presence with those old good days? Are you kidding me? Hell, NO.
Well, that’s it for now.
Bonne journée, peuple!
So, here it is. An ending that I ( and almost everyone ) long for. Now I can sleep well knowing they’re together for good thanks to this beautiful ending she wrote.
I think I can rewatch from the first episode until the eighteenth then having these stories as my two last episodes.
Well, this is the end I guess.
Jung Hwan aahh, chukkaeee!
OST PART II: JOHN LUNDVIK “When We Were Young”
“Any plans tonight?” Ji Hye, a flight attendant I frequently flew with, asked as we were walking out of customs into the arrival gate.
I loosened the bow around my neck and secured my hold on my luggage. After just finishing a non stop flight from London to Seoul just a day after flying to London (for the same amount of hours,) I was dead on my feet. Even now I shifted my toes in my heels, eager to take my stockings off and get into my pajamas. Before 4 p.m.
I realized that Ji Hye was still waiting for an answer and I shook my head. “No… I finally have a day off tomorrow so I am going to rest.”
“On White Day?”
Was it already White Day? I tried…
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Let’s have a break for a while from the heart-breaking ending.
So, Langit will be fourteen months in few days. As I stated in the previous post, It has been amazing watching how different a month can bring.
She now surely walk fast and almost steadily. Way too fast till I have to raise my voice too loud sometimes because of fear that she might stumble down and hit something. I don’t expect she will master walking this soon. She had been practising almost by herself. She has been walking all around the house along this time. Of course with falling here and there, but it’s nothing serious alhamdulillah. I don’t use any learn-to-walk tools. She just use all things available here.
Speaking is another thing. She has some new babbling from last month, but still it’s not as advance as walking. She understands some new instructions but still can’t be able to say what she wants.
She has been an individual baby from the starts. She enjoys her own self well whenever I put her on the play yard. I can leave her alone to have shower or prepare the meal without being disturbed. Even when I feel too tired to watch her, I just slept on the couch while she played by herself. Again, for me, having this play yard is such a big advantage.
Toilet training is still going and it has been much easier since the first time we started. I hope this will end not later than the eighteenth month insya Allah. I’d like to proceed with the next training. It’s lucky that she has been sleeping on her own crib in her own room from the very beginning. So, it reduces the to do lists for me. Fiuh. Oh, one thing she seems to understand pretty well, crying and tears are not working on me. With others maybe it does, with me, it doesn’t work at all.
Feeding is going on well. Yah, well can be described as bearable enough at the point I don’t give up at all. I have been angry several times, yes, it is unavoidable, sorry not sorry, but one thing for sure, giving it up is not be seen in my dictionary. No matter how hard, I will still face it three times a day plus plus plus. Why plus plus plus? Please don’t forget the snacks such as UHT milk time, banana,avocado, biscuits and others. I can compromise sleeping time, but eating, sorry, no.
Her weight was doing okay from the last visit, alhamdulillah. Hope it will continue doing well. Amin.
That’s all for this month I think.
This is the part two from the previous post. She writes so well and I can’t help crying reading this in some parts. It consoles me in some ways thinking that this could be the real ending. The ending for those who roots for Jung Hwan.
I don’t know that I can be this attached to a drama. But, Reply 1988 is not a mere usual drama. Despite the ending that hurt me a lot, I love all about this drama. Will reblog all part here once it will be uploaded.
It has been five days and I still can’t get over this.
NOTE: Due to work constraints and for fear of a super long Part 2, I decided to add a Part 3 before the Epilogue. Part 3 should be out in a couple of days at the latest, and the Epilogue not long after that.
I sat at a table in the pojamangcha near our parents’ house, waiting for my sister. I wondered almost as soon as she had called me asking to meet up for a drink as soon as I landed back in Seoul what the reason was. And why here.
She could have asked to meet me anywhere, so why did it have to be the place I had tried to avoid for the last couple of months?
I rubbed my hands together as the ahjumma dropped off a bottle of soju and a small dish of dried fish and some peppers…
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I found this writing and this is a very good one. Can’t help crying while reading this. I couldn’t agree more with the note. It really should have been Jung Hwan. Only Jung Hwan.
Never knew before that I would be this attached to a drama. It has been three days and I haven’t moved anywhere.
This kind of ending is really messing with my heart.
NOTE: With the ending of Reply 1988 came another heartbreak. Another ship I supported, one that I believed without a shadow of a doubt would be canon, sank again. Those who know me are aware tha it takes quite a bit of strong emotion for me to write any kind of fanfic. I thought Reply 88 needed an alternate ending, one that would have fit better into the narrative they sold us.
This is for my fellow Jung Hwan lovers. In the end it could have been him. And you know what? It SHOULD have been him. He deserved that and so did Deok Sun.
This is the first of a two point five part story about our OTP. I hope you like it.
OST PART 1: YOON HYUN SANG AND IU “When Would It Be”
“I like you.” My eyes traveled over…
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Today is probably become an international heartbroken day for all korean drama viewers who happened to follow Reply 1988. The final answer about Duksun husband happened to be Taek. Not Jung Hwan. I am one of those who felt so sad about this. After all those heartrob scenes between Duksun and Jung Hwan, it felt too hurt knowing he wasn’t the one.
But then, it made me reflect back about the real life situation. It’s true that Jung Hwan loved Duksun a lot, but, did he ever say it directly once? Nope. Duksun could only guessing without any certainty while Taek, he made real moves. At least, he admitted it to the gank he liked Duksun. Then, he did some real things too. More real than what Jung Hwan did.
This whole the end made me smiled back thinking about my own ending. I had been once in pretty similar situation few years back. Had been friends with the A guy and the B guy for ten years when I finally chose one of them.
The A guy and I had a long stories with too much drama. We’d been experiencing almost every kind of drama that a relationship could have. Even until the very last days before the wedding day. While with this B one, everything seemed so smooth, calm, and promising. Although we had been friends since high school, in fact, we went to the same high school (the A guy was in different school), he had just really ‘come’ few years later after A.
The situation was really similar with those Reply 1988 scenes which showed Jung Hwan was the first one to be known being in love with Duksun first, until Taek declared that he did too. Guess here we could assume that A was Jung Hwan while B was Taek. Haha!
Long story short, they finally really came at the same time in one year which happened to be the most anxious years in my twenties. I really knew where my heart wanted to go. But, for me, marriage is a whole different level. It’s not only about being with the one you love. It goes very far beyond that. I wanted to make a rational decision about spending the rest of my life with someone.
I had been trying to find answers from any possible ways. Through my endless prays, discussions, readinga, literally from everywhere. Until I stopped searching and decided to wait. For what?
For the one who made the real and concrete moves first. As I always believe to never change my first answer in any tests, thus, I applied that thing for this one.
I was glad I had my pray answered sooner than later. It wasn’t comfortable at all being torn with two sides while you were not really sure which way to go. Once my pray answered, I took some time to cut off the other one.
In my shallow opinion, Duksun probably liked Jung Hwan much more than she did to Taek. It wasn’t a mere opinion actually. We could refer to all those scene such as the blind date asking, the early morning bus she catched, the concert dating she asked him to go, the pink shirt and there were a lot more to show she really liked Jung Hwan. Only she didn’t really sure whether Jung Hwan felt the same way. She couldn’t take those silent moves from Jung Hwan into consideration. It was all too grey.
In the end, she was finally be with Taek for one simple reason. Taek made his real moves faster and better than Jung Hwan. Taek offered what Jung Hwan didn’t. Certainty.
I came to this point of view and suddenly my heart felt a bit lighter. After all, Duksun was just doing what most women would do. She was being realistic. It was better going with the certain one than the uncertain one. Even, Jung Hwan also admitted that Taek deserved Duksun better when he realized his many hesitations. So, Taek, it is.
In spite of the lost, I really loved everything about this drama. It gave me such an enjoyable ride up to its 18 episodes. So grateful having all those characters with me for the past three months. It is surely by far the greatest drama I have ever watched. I am gonna miss it a lot.
So, I am saying my final goodbye through this post.
For all those #teamjunghwan out there, let’s cry a bit tonight and move on, shall we?;)
(Wait! then what about your own ending?)
Well, guess I am a bit luckier than Duksun..
I was given Jung Hwan who acted like Taek:)
Dear Langit,
If one day the time comes to you to choose a life-partner, would you take this one most important note from me very seriously about what kind to choose?
” Moslem and practising shalat are absolutely non-negotiable”.
You start your screening from these things. The rests, you can argue with me, insya Allah. Prepare yourself well since arguing with me will be never easy. Ask your dad.
I know you’re just one. But, better early than late. I am writing this out of the blue thinking about you because I still can’t sleep because of husband’s battle in Reply 1988.
That’s all for tonight. I love you.
I like watching korean drama. Since many years ago. My first drama was Winter Sonata. Thus, I have been always Choi Ji Woo fans. But, I never ever once write about any dramas either in my daily journal or in this blog despite how good a drama is. But, yeah, never say never. I will break the record now. For the first time after fourteen years watching korean drama, I really want to write about this one.
Reply 1988 is one of the greatest drama I have ever seen. It’s very special in so many ways. The heart-warming story, the strong chemistry, the funny jokes, the enviable friendship, the warm families, and of course the adorable love triangle.
It is even more special because it has longer duration than any usual dramas. Every episode is aired for one and half hours. It’s quite long for two days drama a week, but even with such duration, I still can’t get enough of it every week.
It tells story about five families in Ssangmung dong, Seoul with the setting of the year 1988. From five families, the children also make friends and these four boys and a girl had been very close since they were little. Duk Seon, Jung Hwan, Sun Woo, Dong Ryong, and Taek were almost always together. The year of 1988 was when they were in second year of high school.
Actually, before the 1988, there were the preceeding reply series, 1997 and 1994. The three has similar big picture which is about guessing who will the husband of the female lead. Bien sur, le husband is one of the boy from the gank. I watched 1997 and 1994 roughly, and I didn’t find those two were extra ordinary. Good yes, but not that great. Thus, I had a very low expectation watching 1988 at the beginning. More, none of the leads were those I have ever heard of. So, the chance it would be good were quite small. I thought at first.
But, up to its 18 episodes, I was totally totally wrong. From the very first until the latest, there haven’t been any single lame episodes. It has been so amazing how the writer, director, and the team can make such consistently great drama. You can’t help smiling, crying, laughing, and for me non-stop tweeting everytime I watch it.
I am obviously Jung Hwan supporter to be with Duk Seon. Fyi, you don’t expect a beauty female and male lead like any other good usual drama. Jung Hwan might be not what you call good looking, but, I can guarantee you will totally fall for his charm, his deep thought for Duk Seon, his small funny gestures, although his face was showing no emotions. Me love Jung Hwan very much.
Apart from the love story, it tells us a lot about family, parenting, and life lessons. It has a lot of quotable lines thus I can’t resist tweeting those good lines. Every characters have their own chance to tell you stories and lessons from each of them point of view. You can’t help loving all the characters in this drama. Really.
This week will be the very last week of its broadcast. And I feel so sad about that. So not ready to part with all of them. It’s been very enjoyable watching them for almost three months. Even for someone who don’t watch korean drama, I will surely tell them to watch this. It absolutely worths your precious time.
Langit should really watch this one too someday. More, I hope she will meet such great people and make friends with them like Duk Seon did. For great friends are one of the best present life can give to you.
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