Scrapbook, '14 edition

[yukino23]

I liked the idea of making my own scrapbook with all the books, movies, TV series and so on that were part of my life last year, so I'll be doing the same this new year. My goal is to increase the numbers, specially when it comes to books and non-subbed things. As always, you can find the Asian films/doramas in MyDramaList.

I'm still deciding whether to add the fics I read or I wrote... I will probably add only the latter, but I'm not sure with the former. Also, this year's scrapbook includes some quotes I liked or were somehow poignant.

(in brackets, last year stats; something followed by a ♥ means that I specially enjoyed and/or I would recommend it, while ♡ means I enjoyed it but not as much - but good nonetheless! "(R)" is something I had already watched/read/etc. before, strikenthrough text is for TV series I'm currently watching)

• Books [7]

1. Attachments (2011), Rainbow Rowell - English. January ♡
2. Chéri, tu m'écoutes ? ... alors, répète ce que je viens de dire (1998), Nicole de Buron - Français. January (for school)
3. Ha vuelto (Er ist wieder da, 2012), Timur Vermes - Spanish. January ♥
4. Fangirl (2013), Rainbow Rowell - English. January ♥
5. Code Name Verity (2012), Elizabeth Wein - English. January ♥
6. Lord of the Flies (1954), William Golding - English. January-February (for school)
7. Rose Under Fire (2013), Elizabeth Wein - English. February ♡
8. Jane Eyre (1847), Charlotte Brontë - English. April (for school)
9. Fire in the Hole (2001), Elmore Leonard - English. April-May (for school)
10. Fangirl (2013), Rainbow Rowell - English. May (R) ♥
11. Wuthering Heights (1847), Emily Brontë - English. June - September
12. Landline (2014), Rainbow Rowel - English. September
13. Gone Girl (2012), Gillian Flynn - English. October
14. Diari d'un boig i altres contes (A Madman's Diary aka 狂人日記 was published in 1918, the other stories date circa that year), Lu Xun - Catalan. October (for University)
15. El precepto roto (The Broken Commandment aka 破戒, published in 1906), Shimazaki Tôson - Spanish. November (for University)
16. Querido hijo: estamos en huelga (2012), Jordi Sierra i Fabra - Spanish. December

• Movies [18]

1. Un cuento de navidad (2013), Sílvia Quer - Spanish (TV). 4th January
2. ¡Olvídate de mí! (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2004), Michel Gondry - Spanish (TV). 25th January (R) ♥
3. My Sassy Girl (엽기적인 그녀, 2001), Kwak Jae-yong - Korean, subbed in English. 27th January
4. La ladrona de libros (The Book Thief, 2013), Brian Percival - Spanish (cinema). 29th January
5. Y entonces llegó ella (Along Came Polly, 2004), John Hamburg - Spanish (TV). 1st February (R)
6. Windstruck (내 여자친구를 소개합니다, 2004), Kwak Jae-yong - Korean, subbed in English. 7th February
7. Lord of the Flies (1963), Peter Brook - English, subbed in English. 13th February
8. Midnight in Paris (2011), Woody Allen - Catalan (TV). 14th February (R) ♥
9. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Wes Anderson - English (cinema). 2nd April ♡
10. Dime con cuántos (What's Your Number?, 2011), Mark Mylod - Spanish (TV). 10th May
11. ¿Qué fue de los Morgan? (Did You Hear About the Morgans?, 2009), Marc Lawrence - Spanish (TV). 29th June
12. Hot-Blooded Youth (피끓는 청춘, 2014), Lee Yeon-woo - Korean, subbed in English. 13&14th July
13. Miss Granny (aka Suspicious Girl, 수상한 그녀, 2014), Hwang Dong-hyuk - Korean, subbed in English. 4th August ♥
14. El club de los poetas muertos (Dead Poets Society, 1989), Peter Weir - Spanish (TV). 12th August (R) ♥
15. Harry Potter y el cáliz de fuego (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2005), Mike Newell - Spanish (TV). 12th August (R) ♡
16. 20.000 leguas de viaje submarino (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 1997), Rod Hardy - Spanish (TV). 16th August
17. Nunca me han besado (Never Been Kissed, 1999), Raja Gosnell - Spanish (TV). 27th September (half of the movie)
18. The Face Reader (관상, 2013), Han Jae-rim - Korean, subbed in English and Spanish (cinema). 15th October
19. Magic in the Moonlight (2014), Woody Allen - English, subbed in Spanish (cinema). 5th December ♡
20. Las dos caras de la verdad (Primal Fear, 1996), Gregory Hoblit - Spanish (TV). 15th December

• TV series [12]

1. My Dad is a Nude Model (아빠는 변태중, 2013 @ KBS) - Korean, subbed in English. Drama special (1 episode). 10th January
2. The Twelve Kingdoms (十二国記, 2002) - Japanese, subbed in English. Anime (45 episodes). January-February (R) ♥
3. Prime Minister and I (총리와 나, 2013-14 @ KBS) - Korean, subbed in English. Drama (17 episodes). January-February
4. You Who Came from the Stars (별에서 온 그대, 2013-14 @ SBS) - Korean, subbed in English. Drama (21 episodes). December-February ♥
5. Waiting for Love (연애를 기대해, 2013 @ KBS) - Korean, subbed in English. Drama special (2 episodes). 2nd & 4th March
6. God's Gift - 14 Days (신의 선물 - 14일, 2014 @ SBS) - Korean, subbed in English. Drama (20 episodes). March-April ♥
7. You Are Surronded (aka You Are All Surrounded / 너희들은 포위됐다, 2014 @ SBS) - Korean, subbed in English. Drama (20 episodes). May-July
8. Surpluss Princess (aka The Mermaid /잉여공주, 2014 @ tvN) - Korean, subbed in English. Drama (10 episodes). September-October ♡
9. The Three Musketeers (삼총사, 2014 @ tvN) - Korean, subbed in English. Drama (12 episodes). August-November ♥
10. Mimi (미미, 2014 @ Mnet) - Korean, subbed in English. Drama special (4 episodes). March, November-December
11. Misaeng (aka Incomplete Life / 미생, 2014 @ tvN) - Korean, subbed in English. Drama (20 episodes). October-December ♥
12. Late Blooming Sunflower: My Life, Renewal (aka Osozaki no Himawari ~Boku no Jinsei, Rinyuuaru~ / 遅咲きのヒマワリ ～ボクの人生、リニューアル～, 2012 @ Fuji TV) - Japanese, subbed in English. Drama (10 episodes). December ♥
13. High School: Love On (하이스쿨 - 러브온, 2014 @ KBS). Korean, subbed in English. Drama (20 episodes). July - (?)
14. Tomorrow Cantabile (내일도 칸타빌레, 2014 @ KBS). Korean, subbed in English. Drama (16 episodes). November - (?)

• Concerts [4]

1. Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, Emmanuel Krivine (conductor), Robert Levin (piano): The OBC and Berlioz's Fantastique - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 25 (W.A. Mozart), Symphonie Fantastique (H. Berlioz) - L'Auditori @ Barcelona, 8th March
2. B.A.P: B.A.P LIVE ON EARTH 2014  - Le Zénith @ Paris, 30th April
3. 4minute: FAN BASH IN BARCELONA - Razzmatazz 2 @ Barcelona, 23rd May

• Others (theatre/musicals, Internet shows, etc.) [3 musicals, 1 internet show]

1. Love Poten (Remember me, Princess / Love For Ten: Generation Of Youth / 러브포텐 - 순정의 시대, Daum TV, 2013). Web series, 12 episodes. December 2013 - January 2014
2. Magical History Tour - Comedy. Catalan/Spanish, Coliseum @ Barcelona, 9th March

• Quotes

[January]

1. “Life isn’t a ladder, Lincoln. It’s a jungle. It’s adventure and exploration. Don’t climb, live!” - Rainbow Rowell (x) (3rd January)
2. Beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth - Regina Spektor @ Samson (5th January)
3. If you just sit around doing nothing, your life will never turn around - My Dad is a Nude Model (10th January).
4. The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life - Jessica Hische (17th January)
5. The most common way people give up their powers is by thinking they don't have any - Alice Walker (19th January)
6. "I wonder...," she said, "if there was such a thing as time machines, would anyone ever use them to go to the future?" - Rainbow Rowell @ Fangirl (22nd January)
7. 
   How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
   The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
   Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
   Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d. - Alexander Pope, quoted in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (25th January)
8. Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do. - Elizabeth Wein @ Code Name Verity (28th January)
9. Si tus ojos pudieran hablar, ¿qué dirían? - La ladrona de libros (29th January)

[February]

1. {spoiler}
   If you have nothing to hide, there
   shouldn't be any reason for you to worry.
   Everyone, stand up. (...)
   I do not like to be worshipped, and
   I don't like ranks dividing people.
   I don't like it when I cannot see people's faces, either.
   It bothers me to see people prostrate themselves before me
   and to watch people do so to others. (...)
   From today forth, I shall repeal the custom of prostration
   with the exceptions of official ceremonies and diplomatic affairs.
   People are only to bow from kneeling and standing positions. (...)
   I cannot care less for those
   who have to reinforce their status by making others bow down. (...)
   When people show gratitude or respect, they can bow naturally.
   It is only natural for one to treat someone with respect.
   And whether one does that or not is
   up to one's moral character, and nothing more. (...)
   I want each citizen of Kei to become their own ruler. (...)
   And I know how those who are looked down upon feel.
   People aren't born to be slaves.
   The strong mind that withstands insult and disaster
   and is not afraid to correct wrongs will not subject itself to corruption.
   I want the people of Kei to have such freedom.
   I want each of them to become masters of themselves.
   We must start by holding our heads high.
   You asked me what I was doing to the kingdom...
   And I hope this answers your question.
   To demonstrate my intention, I hereby repeal the practice of prostration.
   Let this declaration be my first ordinance!- The Twelve Kingdoms, ep. 39 (5th February)
2. Victory isn't what's most important in a battle. Rather it's to defend yourself even if you lose. - The Prime Minister and I, ep. 6 (9th February)
3. 
   Fight with realistic
   hope, not to destroy
   all the world's wrong,
   but to renew its good. - Elizabeth Wein @ Rose Under Fire (13th February)
4. Being afraid doesn’t become a reason that you can use to run away. - The Prime Minister and I, ep. 13 (16th February)

[March-October]

1. The best gift you could give to yourself is perspective and the ability to enjoy today without worrying about tomorrow. Take your anxieties on bit by bit, thus making everything more manageable, and realize that your future is not out to murder you. (...) Besides, the only way you can ensure having a good future is by living a good present. - Ryan O'Connell (7th March)
2. A flower always has to go through an important period of growth under the dark soil before it emerges into an amazing beautiful creation. (x)
(?)

3. Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion. - Simon Sinek (27th June)
4. How to Write Good - Unknown Author (added 3rd August, but probably from March or April)
5. 
   For several years, I had been bored. Not a whining, restless child's boredom (although I was not above that) but a dense, blanketing malaise. It seemed to me that there was nothing new to be discovered ever again. Our society was utterly, ruinously derivative (although the word derivative as a criticism is itself derivative). We were the first human beings who would never see anything for the first time. We stare at the wonders of the world, dull-eyed, underwhelmed. Mona Lisa, the Pyramids, the Empire State Building. Jungle animals on attack, ancient icebergs collapsing, volcanoes erupting. I can't recall a single amazing thing I have seen firsthand that I didn't immediately reference to a movie or TV show. A fucking commercial. You know the awful singsong of the blasé: Seeeen it. I've literally seen it all, and the worst thing, the thing that makes me want to blow my brains out, is: The secondhand experience is always better. The image is crisper, the view is keener, the camera angle and the soundtrack manipulate my emotions in a way reality can't anymore. I don't know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say. If we want to play the stud or the smart-ass or the fool, we know the words to say. We are all working from the same dog-eared script.
   It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.
   And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.
   It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I'm not a real person and neither is anyone else.
   I would have done anything to feel real again. - Gillian Flynn @ Gone Girl (8th October)
6. It was not because of my lack of skill or bad luck. It was not because I was working alongside practicing. It was not because I came from a poor family. It was not because my father passed away. That would be too painful to accept. That’s why it had to be because I didn’t work hard enough. Even though I did work hard, I’m just going to believe that I didn’t. - Misaeng, ep. 1 (19th October)
7. [Question, read by Mithra] Can you give us, who're having hard times in our lives, some advice?
   [Tukutz] People who's going through hard times should overcome it by themselves. Advice can be helpful in some way but it cannot directly influence you overcome it so you should become more strong and fight to endure it.
   [Tablo] The things and people who make you suffer, they will always be there to distress you. As they do, the wisest revenge is to be happy. Just know that. - Epik High (6th November)
8. 
   Il faut être toujours ivre. Tout est là: c'est l'unique question. Pour ne pas sentir l'horrible fardeau du Temps qui brise vos épaules et vous penche vers la terre, il faut vous enivrer sans trêve.
   Mais de quoi?
   De vin, de poésie, ou de vertu, à votre guise.
   Mais enivrez-vous.
   Et si quelquefois, sur les marches d'un palais,
   sur l'herbe verte d'un fossé,
   dans la solitude morne de votre chambre,
   vous vous réveillez, l'ivresse déjà diminuée ou disparue,
   demandez au vent,
   à la vague,
   à l'étoile,
   à l'oiseau,
   à l'horloge,
   à tout ce qui fuit,
   à tout ce qui gémit,
   à tout ce qui roule,
   à tout ce qui chante,
   à tout ce qui parle,
   demandez quelle heure il est;
   et le vent,
   la vague,
   l'étoile,
   l'oiseau,
   l'horloge,
   vous répondront: "Il est l'heure de s'enivrer!
   Pour n'être pas les esclaves martyrisés du Temps, enivrez-vous; enivrez-vous sans cesse!
   De vin, de poésie ou de vertu, à votre guise." - Enivrez-vous, Charles Baudelaire (x, x) @ Misaeng ep. 13 (30th November)
9. 我恋は千尋の海の捨小舟 ("Waga koi wa chihiro no umi no suteobune" aka "My love is like a small boat adrift on a thousand fathoms of ocean, beset by waves on every side.") - Manazuru, Naoya Shiga translated by Stephen W. Kohl (3rd December)
10. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
    And sorry I could not travel both
    And be one traveler, long I stood
    And looked down one as far as I could
    To where it bent in the undergrowth;
    Then took the other, as just as fair
    And having perhaps the better claim,
    Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
    Though as for that the passing there
    Had worn them really about the same,
    And both that morning equally lay
    In leaves no step had trodden black.
    Oh, I kept the first for another day!
    Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
    I doubted if I should ever come back.
    I shall be telling this with a sigh
    Somewhere ages and ages hence:
    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference. - The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost @ Misaeng ep. 20 (21st December)
11. Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made. - Lu Xun @ Misaeng ep. 20 (21st December)