contributed by Star Sapphire (email: sapphire0706@hotmail.com)

Here I am, sitting behind my PC reading Hotelier fans' contributions from all over the world. Suddenly, a weird sense of pride swells up in me! Isn't it amazing what a drama and the Internet did to us? Somehow, we are all connected by a simple notion - a blind, silly, yet innocent passion for Hotelier/BYJ/K-dramas. Ever wondered what life will be without Hotelier? Well, for one, the Earth will still rotate, we will go on with our daily lives but gosh, what precious things we would have missed out! And I wouldn't be sitting here writing my thoughts too... : )

Part A: What would all of you say are the top gains of your encounter with Hotelier and other K-dramas?
1. Ching gus (Friends!)
Yes, a good drama like Hotelier will stay in our hearts for a long time to come... and to me, more tangibly, is that we've knew so many good friends from the Net via Hotelier/K-dramas! Who says danger lurks in the cyberspace? Great friendship is in abundance too! Having ching gus who share the same interest is a precious gain for me! I recalled the fun times when my friend and I went up to KL to look for "Frank Shin" and our other onnis! What fun we had drinking our martinis and re-enacting the scene of Junsang holding Eu Jin's hand on the fallen treelog (Well, we acted by the road kerb! Haa~~)! Frank Shin was definitely with us that night, a toast to Frank!

2. PC Idiot to IT Expert (almost...)
Somehow, in order to catch a few more glimpses of BYJ/Frank Shin, we finally overcome our techno-phobia! Since my "fatal" encounter with Hotelier in Oct 2001, I've learnt so much about downloading and burning stuff, finally chucking my old PC for a Pentium 4. See, where else on earth would our motivation come from?! Also heard that my friend's mother actually called her during office hours asking my friend to teach her how to operate the VCD player over the phone because she wanted to watch Frank Shin again! Haaa, BYJ had claimed yet another victim!

3. Linguistic expert!
Being a typical Singaporean, I am "paiseh" (meaning embarrassed) to admit that I speak better Singlish (refers to the local blend of English, i.e. English mixed with Chinese and local dialects) than proper English and Chinese. Imagine that we are now also interested to learn yet another new language - Korean! Somehow, all of a sudden, we are quick to pick up phrases from the dramas, from oppa, onni, dong saeng to kamsahamnida, sarang he yo and ki da ril ke yo! Btw, my friend just called me mad when I answered her call with "yobo seyo"! She thought I had gone mad! But hey, we are just putting to practice what we have learnt, right! And of a sudden, our CD racks are full with Korean dramas' OSTs, MVs, NG scenes, burned compilations...

Part B: What's your favourite Hotelier scene?
At this present moment, the image that came to my mind was of Frank meeting his father at Dong-Hai. Of all the relationships in the world, kinship is what I myself consider as one of the most important. I recalled seeing Frank, not as a grown-up man, but as a little boy, his face wearing a mask, yet his heart full of confusion, hurt, hope and excitement.... in the hope of seeing his father again. This really striked me hard.... No matter how successful you are in life, you only want to be your parents' child... Or no matter how bad you become, you will always be your parents' little boy/girl... My heart twisted at seeing Frank's tears... a hunter's tears... I recalled in the Chinese novel of Hotelier pg. 7, there is a line which I personally like very much, "We can disregard the wound, but it does not mean the wound does not exists..."

Yes, we can't let go of Hotelier now.... we have come too far!