Why I love Korean Dramas a.k.a. Doramas

It’s been almost a year since I start watching Korean Dramas, best knowing as “Doramas”. For those who don’t know what is a Dorama and you may think that is like a soap opera in another language, let me tell you that it’s quite different.  A k-drama –for short– is a televised drama in a miniseries format, produced in –obviously– South Korea, but you can also call Dorama any other Asian production, whether it’s from Japan, China, or even Thailand and Philippines.

The first k-drama I ever watched was Boys over Flowers and yes, I have to admit that I started watch it because our local channel Mega was showing it and accidentally the first chapter I watch was the last one! And I have no idea but that time, I figurate out when the words “The End” came, well, at the end of the chapter. But even when I knew how the k-drama was going to end I absolutely fell in love with the story anyway: love, high school, rich boy who loves a poor girl meanwhile the best friend gets in the middle, an evil mothers who is against the lovely couple, etc. PERFECT!

I have so many favorite Doramas, all of them from Korea (South), but if you want to start watching some of them let me recommend you ones of my favorites like: Love Rain, The Good Guy and Gu Family Book. 

How green am I?

I really try to be a green person, but the truth is that I don’t really think I’m one. I can’ say that I learn about taking care of the environment in the school or in high school, of course that I did all that stuff you do in the Technology class, like make a gift for the mother’s day with empty plastic bottles and all that, but nobody told me that when I eat meet or use my deodorant I was hurting the planet.

I think nowadays people learn about environmentally friendly practices from the Internet. The mass media have contributing a lot, now you can’t say that you don’t have the information necessary to be more green, the people isn't more green today cause is too expensive or just because they don’t have the time.

In family ­–for example– we don’t have a car, but we use the public transportation or we just walk when we can. I don’t even have a bike.  The only things we recycle in my house are the garbage bags, we never buy garbage bags. We use the bags we get when we go to the supermarket.

The thing I actually do and I’m very proud of –even when I keep it to myself– is that I love to use Natura products, I love that them are eco-friendly and you can eve use their shampoo in a river and you won’t be contaminating! And also I like the fact that they products are not tested in animals. I’m not a vegetarian, but when you can chose what kind of make up you can buy I think this thins matters.

I follow some eco-organizations in Facebook and Twitter, but I don’t really have ever joined or supported them really. Why? Well, I don’t know, time? Maybe money… Anything. But I think, more, I hope that someday I will do it.

Why young women are going off the pill and on to contraception voodoo

This article from The Guardian write by Hadley Freeman explains the fact that many young woman are choosing not to use birth control options. As the author says many women are choosing to use new “formulas” for contraception as the combination of relying on various smartphones apps or even the historic method of the pull-out.

According to some studies –detail in the text– over the past few years this is carrying not unintended pregnancies, but also the irresponsible use of emergency contraception and highest rates of sexually transmitted infections (STI). Some young women resent having to shoulder the responsibility for contraception, because historically young men today have been spoiled in this regard. But an accidental pregnancy almost certainly requires the involvement of more than one person who is flying contraception-free. It’s feels a little easy and predictable to blame the woman for getting pregnant unintentionally.

This illustrate that some young women today disagree and see having the control as a burdensome, irritatingly one-side responsibility. As the article claims, one aspect that has played a considerable part in this shift is that many women have experienced negative side-effects from the pill, from making them feel “crazy” to loss of libido to a fear of blood clotting.

As the article insists: “What young people still need, it seems, is uncompromising education telling them that just because they’re never been pregnant before doesn’t mean they can’t get pregnant”. And also doesn’t mean they can’t get an STI. 

If you wan't to now more you can read the real articule of The Guardian HERE.

A present I received as a child: Barbie Picnic Van/Minivan

If I have to think about the most memorable present I received as a child, I have to say that it was the beautiful Barbie Picnic Van.

I remember I got it in 1997, when I was 6 years old and I was so happy and exciting ‘cause it was so big, pink and with so many little accessories. I absolutely loved it.

Who gave it to me? Well, I can swear it was Santa ‘cause I found it under the Christmas tree and at that age I still believed in Santa Claus. In fact that was the last Christmas I spent thinking that Santa Claus was real and he have magic so even when he was really big he could enter to my apartment by the window. Well, I was I child so by that time everything was possible, right?

It’s obvious that my parents gave it to me and now that I think about it they should really make an effort buying it. I came from a low to mid socio-economic background and I know now that it was probably a very expensive toy by the time. And even considering that for that Christmas my little brother, Luis, was 9 months old. Now I realized that they probably gave it to me so I didn’t feel left out by the new baby.

The sad thing is that when my little brother was like 3. He thought he could get into my gorgeous minivan and drive it, so he put his foot on it and ended up breaking it into pieces. It was really sad, I remember I cried a lot and that was the end for my loved Barbie Picnic Van.