Since holidays are coming to an end, actually it already ended but whatever, I'm going to do a count of the dramas I watched this holiday. The number here may not be accurate because the days are quite long and I actually watched a lot, so I'm only writing what I remember.

Ready? Get set, let's start! Please note that the numbers given below are not how good the drama is objectively, it just tells you how much I enjoyed it. So take it with tons of salt, coz I'm a biased person and my numbers tend to shoot all the way up when I see hot male leads. Can't help it.

1) IRIS (7/10)

I like this drama, because this is the first action-packed Korean drama I came across and it felt fresh and interesting. I'm a sucker for action-romance genre! The pretty cast is a plus point, and I totally fell in love with Lee Byung Hun over here. The plot is actually quite serious, so if you are only into rom-com, do not touch this. You will cry seeing all the bloodshed and betrayal.

I started this without any expectations, I didn't even know Jang Guen Suk is inside. It's good that the cast came from various bands in K-pop world, so this drama actually managed to fish out some great and catchy soundtracks to compliment the plot, bringing the enjoyment to a new dimension. This drama is actually a product from the Hong Sisters, the branded scriptwriters in K dramaland if you have totally no idea. I'm actually a big fan of their rom-com scripts, because they always add raw humor in the episodes and I really like how they poke fun at those over-used storylines. There was so much cute in this drama I almost died laughing, all the once overused plots sprung to life with the Hong Sisters creativity. Jang Guen Suk performance is excellent, very good characterization and I will never forget his mouth (the lip curl) and his eyeliner which I used to think was the most disgusting makeup ever. LOL.Confession: I actually watched this thrice and I still have it's OST in my MP3 player, which I listen religiously everyday. So now you get how much I love this drama. But the angst created in the last few episodes isn't convincing enough for me to cry over, so I'm gonna give this a 9.

Another product by the Hong Sisters, with a lot of cute and angst that made me cry buckets. The angst was built up so well I cried the hell out of me in the last episode. I don't dare to watch this again, there's too much heartache and stress I nearly died watching it the first round. But that doesn't mean it isn't good, it's because it's too good for me to bear. Good story development and pretty cast. A must-watch if you're searching for touching plots.I'm gonna give this a 10 because even if it's a fan-rom-com, it is a lot of logic and I can understand things within a split second, unlike, ahem, Secret Garden, which totally fried my brain AND after that I still can't connect the dots together, soo sad.

I don't remember much about this, but this is another Hong sisters product. I don't think I like this as much as their other scripts, probably because the cast didn't look pretty enough for me to love. When I can't love the characters, I can't love the drama, sorry. This drama is from 2005, so basically I can't find any HD versions. Of course, no HD means the resolution sucks and every episode was pure torture to my eyes. Alright I sound so shallow judging the drama with these factors, so I'm going to give some praises to the script. The plot is about a rich woman who acts like a big bully, finding faults in everything and demanding all to be perfect. Then she loses her memory in an accident, and was brought home by the male lead to do housework in his house. So after that she regains her memory and finally understand how difficult housework is (YES DAMN HARD). We see very meaningful development in the storyline. Good-paced, funny and with heart. Worth a watch, ONLY if there is HD version.

I have to admit that I only watched this because of Choi Si won, my secret Super Junior love, though not that secret anymore. We see the old lame storyline over here. Superstar suddenly lands himself into the father category, and a 30 year old ahjumma moves in to his house to take care of this child. But again, it's all about execution, lame stories can be fun and interesting with creativity and flawless directing. The story between the Father and Daughter was really touching, we can totally see changes in this man-from a loser to a responsible father willing to do everything for the benefit of his daughter. However, I find that there should be more development between this Daddy and that Ahjumma. Chemistry was lacking between them, probably because she looked more like a maid than someone who will have a relationship with her employer. I'm pissed that they suddenly wrapped up the story with them liking each other and being together, when we totally cannot see the in-love process between them,making the wrap up super unconvincing. It's so sad that I have to agree with other reviews that we should change the title to "Oh my Daddy!", coz everything else is meaningless other than Siwon's character development.

A taiwan drama that caused much buzz over there in it's peak, I'm sure many watched it because I saw it being broadcasted in Channel U. Frankly, I don't get the buzz over this drama. Don't misunderstand, it's good, but not that good. Vaness's body was something for me to swoon over, but plot-wise, it didn't touch me that much. The story was actually quite expected and common, and no suspense was actually created. I can pretty much guess what is going to happen next, and predict the I'm-going-to-sacrifice-for-you-because-I-love-you too-much plot. But Vaness was just so cute over here, I just need to watch it. Although I have to agree that his face does looks a little distorted.

Ha. Haha. Hahaha.I'm really pissed when I talk about this. Everything was cute with Jang Guen Suk (JGS) getting jealous in the first few episodes, until the scriptwriter got slamdunk-ed by lightning and started writing retarded and crazy plots. I mean seriously, WTF is the kidnap scene doing over here? Do you seriously think kidnapping him will bring him out of her life? Too bad the writer squeezed ear plugs into her dirty ears and ignored how the viewers responded and continued with plots that shine with more idiocy. Look, this is what happens when you give us shit. -.- A drama that makes ZERO sense and can't get any stupider from ep13.What a waste of JGS.

I'm just not a fan of this type of dramas, with old woman whining about yet again troubles of not getting married blah blah blah. I'm a teenager and I need pretty people, not old noisy ahjummas. I can't talk much about this drama because I watched forwarding every 5 seconds and only stopping to watch when Kim Bum got on screen. At some point I hoped there's something else in this drama, something that can stop me from clicking either FF>> or FF>>> and finally press PLAY.But no, almost all the scenes featured 3 woman talking around a table, and when I saw that same old scene in the same old place again, I didn't even bother to find out if their conversations were insightful or stupid, because it just looked unappetizing by itself. If they change it to 3 cute dudes with great bodies I may give some second thoughts. In EP 9 Kim Bum dyed his hair grey, and I immediately jumped off the ship coz I rather die than see him in that hair. Yes, very shallow, because he did that to be compatible to his old girlfriend. But, romantic or not, grey hair was still too much for me to stomach.

Good drama to watch with super cute children that always makes my day. Plus the leads are pretty together, especially the male lead. They are really evil, they make him run 20 kilometers and soak him in sweat, then put him in the shower half-naked to make me go GAGA and forget my name. Plot wise, this drama is intelligent in a way, very realistic and touching when we see a sister slog her life away for her siblings. Too bad they added the stupid storyline about birth secrets, which is damn lame. Very weak and retarded second leads too, plain irritating, sometimes I just wanna kill them because they are just too extra.Especially the second male lead, I can't find any character consistency in him and I never manage to fathom most of his actions. His appearance made me scratch my head so many times, my hair fall got serious. Last episode left the deepest impression on me, I can NEVER forget how it successfully dashed my hopes with that stupid kidnap scene that lasted not more than 5 mins. That kidnap scene has NO meaning,NO heart,NO Nothing- only managed to make me raise my eyebrows and give that WTF look.Still, worth a watch for the children and Mr Hot Body, because things only begin to suck in the last episode. If you watched this drama, do you feel that it is ridiculous for a man to stand up and do power kicks after he got run over by a car immediately?Don't even need hospitalization or any treatment, whereas most other dramas feature internal bleeding/coma/nose break/death/memory loss. Maybe it's the brand of the car, if you want to kill someone, buy F1 or Lamborghini, it's foolproof. Sarcasm aside, watch this drama for the character development of the leads. From useless to useful, playgirl to mother,loser to winner, the female lead is someone I've grown to care and admire. For the male lead, watch him turn from an iceberg to a hotpan that makes beef sizzle. Can he just cook them with his choco-abs?Sorry, I'm just a little hungry.

10) Secret Garden (9/10)

Talking about this drama makes me a little embarrassed. Because of SG, I threw away this life motto-NO SPOILERS-without even looking back and camped at SG Soompi forum everyday. This was the only way to survive when they just air 2 episodes a week. I JUST LOVE HYUN BIN IN THIS ONE. His performance was so good that I'm still in SG FEVER one month after the broadcast ended. Although I really hate the plot for ending things this way, I am willing to forgive it for the sake of Hyun Bin. But I have to say it to be objective, I'm disappointed that this drama cheated my feelings by emphasizing how important the soul-switch factor is with all the marketing, then in the end dismiss it as something not as essential. You may be defensive and say things like, oh, it made them realize how much they love each other/understand each other's difficulties, but that isn't convincing because they didn't exactly show those to us in the episodes.Looking at how they resolve things after creating all the angst made me barf. There are also a lot of scenes in the drama I don't understand, maybe because I'm too dense, but I find myself reading bulletfast soompi forums to try to understand things better. That's the effect of SG Fever, I even started subbing dramas because I want people to watch Secret Garden and laugh at its quirky dialogues. However, I prefer dramas that don't kill my braincells, especially when I have so little of them left. There are some parts I still don't understand even after I read how fans explained the matters. BUT BUT BUT, YOU still HAVE TO WATCH SECRET GARDEN. The chemistry is sizzling between the lead actors and watching them together makes my heart go Thump thump, thump thump!!!Confusion aside, this is an eye-candy, and I'm not just talking about the actors.The scenery, the OST and the directing is COOL. I was diagnosed with Se-Ga Fever, and was charmed by it's charm. Oh wait, on second thoughts, I am still in SG fever.

This is a thumbs-up if I watch it in 2005, but not now. It's a pity that some dramas I watched recently copied some of DGCH's good plotlines, which I have to side DGCH and say that it's not their fault that someone else copied them. But again, I didn't fall in love with the leads, and second leads are again over clingy and too irritating. You can be clingy for 5 episodes but if you're still doing that at the 16th episode, you should just get a life. The plot was overall fast paced, but it did drag from ep 7-9, which bore me to dead. Advice to male lead-Taper your pants, they look like long boxers with holes.

Goong left a good impression on me, so I decided to give Goong S a go. It was the most regretful decision in my life, because se7en is mad fugly with his pathetic swollen mouth and ALL the actors can't act. It got worse when the plot proceeds so slowly for 10 eps straight, I nearly fell asleep. I gave up at ep 11. Now I'm demanding my hours back.

There was a lot of buzz when this drama was broadcasted in korea, the attention it got was frightening. I gave up at ep 11, because saguek just isn't my thing and those costumes are really.. ugly.A plus point, there are touching developments between the boys in this drama, and the friendship created between them is what made me continue to ep11. It's sad that I have so little tolerance for saguek talks, big hair, and fish-net hats. But since so many people love it, you may want to give it a try if you have nothing against sagueks.

Again, I started this with a lot of expectations, because some of my friends were so head over heels over this drama I became curious about it's charm. And boy, it did have charm. It has all the things I love and hate: Beautiful production,Modern Cinderella story, immature third-generation chaebol turning into someone with both heart and soul, and, stinky old storyline revolving stepmothers. When I first saw the bad hair on this woman's head, I just knew it, she's going to make Cinderella work her butt off and torture her again. What made me carry on was this Cinderella's emotional strength, her will to live on despite pain is amazing, I look up to her like God. She was my role model for goodness sake. However, this drama drags all the way to 28 episodes, which I find a little too... naggy. This drama would be better of if it's more fast-paced and cute. There's really too little fun moments in here, which made it a tad too dull and serious for me to enjoy, because when I watch romance, I prefer it to come with a lot of cute and comedy.

The plot over here progress too slowly, but there is so much cute in this drama I just need to continue. Not to say that the two leads are overly pretty together and I really like Park Hae Young. Gosh his eyelashes really electrify me. Sometimes I pause to stare at his eyes a few more seconds, like a pervert. Did I talk about Hae Young's eyelashes? I did right? Sorry I got crazy all over again I just forgot.

The first few episodes are rather slow and boring, with just enough cute to keep me going. But slowly it gained momentum, and I actually find myself looking forward to this drama every week.

Another drama produced like IRIS. Huge budget to fly over numerous countries to film, pretty cast, and of course, a lot of action. If you are watching Athena right now, then you may need to thank me, because I am subbing this drama as a translator. If I'm not there, then you may be staring at these good-looking people and wondering if they're from Planet Athena speaking Athena language. And yes, to me, they really are Athenians-a totally different species. So don't ask questions like," Why can't they act like civilised people and talk it out instead of fighting and shooting all the time?" or "Why are all the people so pretty when there are clearly ugly people in the world?" because they just make your brain hurts. Just shut up, accept that they are different from us, and enjoy. To be continued. I need to watch the lastest 2 episodes first before I can write something more accurate. I hope it won't make me regret calling people to ignore the loopholes and flaws.