베토벤 바이러스 Beethoven Virus

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베토벤 바이러스 (Beethoven Virus) is a Korean drama by 이재규 (Lee Jae Kyu) (2008) in 18 episodes.

Du Ru Mi a young violinist working for the Governor need to organize a concert for the creation of an orchestra. Unfortunately, all the founding get stolen and the professional musicians refuse to play for free.
She then decide to make a casting to get unprofessional musician to form the orchestra. She hire her landlady to be the cello player, a retired Oboe player from the Seoul orchestra, a trumpet player from a cabaret and a young cops named Kang Gun Woo, a music genius. They practice waiting for the conductor to arrive. But he is Kang Gun Woo Maestro, the orchestra killer, he never stay in an orchestra for more than 6 months and is well know to interrupt concerts if he estimate that the players are not good enough.

That drama is so funny and so exciting, I couldn't stop watching it and was watching several episodes in a row.
I really wish there was more of it. And of course, as it's all about music, the music is excellent.

Casting :

김명민 (Kim Myung Min) as Kang Gun Woo/Kang Mae
이지아 (Lee Ji Ah) as Du Ru Mi (태왕사신기 The Story of the First King's Four Gods)
장근석 (Jang Geun Seok) as Kang Gun Woo (One miss call final, 프라하의 연인, 쾌도 홍길동, 도 레 미 파 소 라 시 도)
이순재 (Lee Soon Jae) as Kim Gab Yong (이 죽일놈의 사랑)
현쥬니 (Hyun Jyu Ni) as Ha Yi Deun
송옥숙 (Song Ok Sook) as Jung Hee Yun (겨울연가, 전설의고향)
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가을동화 Autumn tales

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가을동화 is a Korean drama (2000) and first part of the KBS TV drama series Endless Love in 16 episodes. I already wrote a post on the second part 겨울연가.

When she is about 13 years old, Yoon Eun-suh has a road accident. At that moment her family realized that her blood group is different from her parents and that she has been exchanged at birth with Choi Shin Ae.
She is living in a rich family and his very close to her brother Yoon Joon-suh. Choi Shin Ae is at the contraly living with her mum and brother in a poor restaurant. When she realized that her real family is rich, she decide to go live with them but there is no more place for Eun-suh. The family leave for the US leaving her behind.
When he comes back about 10 years latter, Yoon Joon-suh meet Eun-suh again and fall in love with her.

This is a very sad story from the beginning until the end. Despite the nice casting, 송승헌 (He was cool), 송혜교 (풀하우스), I prefered 겨울연가 by far. I think the two main character were a bit called and I find it difficult to believe that the father thought abandonning the daughter he raised for 13 years to take the one that share his blood was the good decision to make.
But I really liked the beginning of the story and the music. Also, 원빈 was brilliant.
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吸血姫 美夕 Vampire Princess Miyu

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Vampire Princess Miyu is a Japanese horror manga series and anime by 垣野内 成美 (Narumi Kakinouchi) and 平野 俊貴 Toshiki Hirano. 垣野内 成美 is known for her anime work on for example Dr Slump, きまぐれオレンジ☆ロード (Kimagure orange road) or 魔法のスターマジカルエミ (Magical Emi, the Magic Star), 平野 俊貴 directed the well known エンジェル・ハート (Angel Heart)

In 1988 was released a serie of 4 OVA and in 1997 an other serie of 26 episodes.
They tell the story of a vampire girl, Miyu, looking to be about 15 years old but who is obviously much older.
She is also called the Guardian, her role is to protect the human being by sending the demon Shinma back to darkness. To help her she has obviously her surnatural powers, she can teleport and controle fire as well as a Eastern Shinma she befriend called ラヴァ (Larva) and a bunny shinma called 死無 (shiima) which mean undead and can see were a shinma attack will be hold.

The title is interesting because in Japanese, vampire is written like that 吸血鬼, here however the character 鬼
meaning demon is replaced by the character 姫 meaning princess.
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NaNoWriMo challenge : day 20

This is the last part of the novel for the moment. The reason is that I'm going to Peru tomorrow so I won't be able to post anymore of the story for some times but don't worry it will continue as soon as i get back.
I'm planing to write a lot during my stay in South America so be prepare to have a lot to read.


Stats of the day 2552 words written adding up to 58320 words in total.
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NaNoWriMo challenge : day 19

I kind of have a basic routine of writing now. Every night, when I got to bed, I start to think about my story before sleeping and then the next day, I just have to find the correct words and write in down. Last night was very creative in my mind and this part bring lots of new thing to the story. I hope you will like reading it as much as I liked writing it.

Stats of the day 2610 words written adding up to 55768 words in total.
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NaNoWriMo challenge : day 18

This is the first part with a word count above the 50000 words limit.
I didn't make it less at all. I want to keep going for ever until the story in finished.
I really like this part because it involves my vampires a bit more. I find them really cool. I knew Viorel was cool but I didn't know how cool Dylan and Daciana were.
I'm glad I wrote this part of the story with them.
Sahel is also getting so big, he is not a baby anymore, I hope he will continue to evolve in a good way despite nasty things around him, such as the dark shadow.
I'm also wondering if he will be strong even to get his last power.
We will see in the near future I hope.

Stats of the day 2748 words written which add up to 53158 words in total.
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NaNoWriMo challenge : day 17

When I started to think about NaNoWriMo two months and a half ago, I was really excited about finding a story to write and to keep writing until I got the 50000 words.
I find what I think is a good story and started to draw part of it the restrain myself from started to write in as I really wanted to do the NaNoWriMo challenge correctly.
I starting to practice my word count on an other story that I'm planing to finish after this one and saw that writing 2500 words a day was pretty difficult.
I also knew that it was the challenge I would have to face because I would have to stop writing on the 20th of November.
I really didn't expect to write so much so fast, I didn't expect to finish my 50000 today, but that's a nice birthday gift.
I think I really get into the idea of being a writer during the time of the challenge and the fact that I made it my principal activity and the principal center of my thoughts probably helped a lot.

So here we go, the stats of the day 2803 words written today 50410 words.
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