What's that fantasy? This:
Yes. I absolutely want to be overpowered by a dude in a tacky tracksuit with blue sequins that looks like it was stolen from the National Day Parade performers wardrobe.
But wait. Not just any dude. The dude has to be Hyun Bin, the only man whom I imagine can carry off the god-awful attire with such finesse.
Fans of Korean drama will probably find the image familiar. It is taken from the SBS drama, Secret Garden, which was aired in South Korea in late last year.
So why am I only talking about Secret Garden, or rather, Hyun Bin's character in the drama now, a year later? Because remember what Hyun Bin did to me after I watched My Name Is Kim Sam Soon some years back? I became a star-struck teenager all over again, madly in love with his face and character for several months and watching the drama from start to end twice.
Okay. I lied. I watched it more than twice. And I watched countless times that particular episode in which the characters of Hyun Bin and Kim Sun-ah got drunk while playing on the piano and later pulled each other into a long kiss.
I'm no drama mama (usually) and did not want to lose my marbles like that again.
But when I was in Jeju, my tour guide could not stop waxing lyrical about Secret Garden and insisted that I must must must watch it and fall insanely in love with Hyun Bin again.
So that was what I did. I went out and bought the series and watched a couple of episodes every goddamn night. Even the husband is hooked on it now.
I won't detail the 20-episode plot here because my post will then go on and on forever. I will, however, say that the plot is quite squirm-worthy at times, and very familiar too, as the rich-boy-courts-common-girl-against-the-wishes-of-his-venomous-mother-who-makes-life-difficult-for-the-girl-to-break-them-up storyline has been done to death in My Name Is Kim Sam Soon, Boys Over Flowers and others that I don't know about.
Still, it managed to warm my heart, make me laugh out loud and smack the husband's thigh while I do that, and reduce me to a weeping fool.
It gets 9 out of 10 from me only because it cast Hyun Bin in a character he plays best - a suave owner of a reputable company who is absolutely full of himself, but is willing to give up his pride and wealth for a common girl-next-door. And it was a Hyun Bin parade, full of close-up shots of him with his signature smirk and smile, meant to drive his fans into orgasm.
God help me.
And in this show, he gets to change his wardrobe so often, it was like a fashion show. I'm now itching to buy a complete winter wardrobe for the husband.
Hyun Bin's character was impossibly tender in the last few episodes, crying most stylishly (yes, he demonstrated that it was possible to cry beautifully and still look real) over his beloved. He moved me to tears and I want to pull his character out of the telly and tell him to love me instead, cos I would never make him so sad.
See, I told you - God help me.
Seriously, it has to be a sin for a man to look so beautiful.
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