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SONG OF THE DAY

The Arcade Fire – “The Suburbs.” [ Download ]

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Yes this will be my first time in an open thread

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Welcome to the wide wild world of OT!

Enjoy! :D

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Welcome aboard! We are so glad to have you!

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and you're even the first here!

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Awesome song of the day, I'm just getting into Arcade Fire after accidentally leaving my tv on PBS, and watching a live preformance from Austin City Limits.

On to dramas, I won't lie, my hope built a little bit for Playful Kiss after seeing that extended trailer. I like that the main girl is strong and has some feistiness to her. That was probably the biggest issue I had with the Taiwanese drama, if she had been feisty and ready to defend herself, the being a jerk would have been more tolerable. In terms of the lead boy not being able to act, eh. I mean, unless they are just really bad, it's not a big deal for me. I guess especially for a story like this one, which I don't think is this really new or epic drama.

But I'm going back and forth with Woman Who Still Wants to Marry and My Girlfriend is a Gumiho. The first is really wonderful, Kim Bum! The second is amazing, I've only seen the first episode but your recaps are awesome!

Okay done ^_^

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loving every minute of my girlfriend is a gumiho.

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me too. haven't been so addicted to a drama for a long time now!

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My first time too! I usually catch it when it's not Friday XD How's everyone doing?

My Friday wasn't much. Watching MGIAG made it a lot brighter! Seriously this drama is twisting my idea of cuteness! Because of MGIAG, I'm even finding an oversized chicken leg doll alsdskfd cute! Even cuter than PigRabbit haha.

Hong Sisters are indeed brilliant!

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I leave my lovely florida tomorrow morning for ohio since i'm going to university there. I'm going to miss it here. But MGIAG made my day better too.

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You live in the FL too?
At least u are leaving for a more exciting state!
Adventure =]
GL!

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Was in FL too, love it!

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this is my first time in an open thread too....

hmmm....what do i say?

playful kiss will start airing next week....i'm getting so very excited...

are you girls recapping this drama? hope you do. i want to see playful kiss thumbnail on the in progress blank slot....PLEASE!

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yey! finally in...

is mi-ho in my girlfriend is a gumiho the same actress in naked kitchen???? didnt like her in the movie but she is so adorable in the series with lee sung ki. hooray to the hong sisters for another winner!

any news about jang geuk seuk's kimmi wa petto? i wonder who will be the actress to play sumire chan???

i miss kim nam gil so much.

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Yes that's her. Did you not like her acting or her character?

From what we know via this blog, Han Ye Seul was being tossed around to play her character and the project as a whole is having some difficulties. I think that its mostly financial, so getting it off the ground has been near impossible. However, I'm hopeful that before he finishes his upcoming drama, we'll hear some good news in that arena.
I was really forward to that movie, over this role that he's slated for at the moment, so I pray it works out.

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i miss kim nam gil oppa too :(

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I would like to point out that this is Mi Ho, also.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI1ARmqrQK0

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JB...i want my daily dose of PK :(
Anythng...even one pic or 2-3 lines ll do :( :( :(

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Did you see the pictures of the 1000+kgs of rice donated for the less priviledged.They were from fans from 11 countries.I was blown away.I thought it was totall awesome.Sacks and sacks of rice underneath a flower stand and the country's flags.

The rows of goodie bags were a long long line.Who got those at the press conference?There were not enough cast members there.It was close to a hundred packs or was it more?

And MBC released the photos.KHJ is so much cuter and hot 2 years later.He is HOT :-)

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Happy OT everyone! I am having fits of exultant laughter right now! I got one of my friends hooked on K drama! We both "work" in the computer lab at our school, and every time she would come in to relieve me, she would kind of roll her eyes at whatever drama I was watching.

But oh how the mighty has fallen. A week or so ago she was channel surfing, and came upon MBC showing a drama. She was riveted, it was soooo funny and look at all the hijinks. She was hooked, but she didn't catch the shows name. She tried to find it to no avail, and suffered all the agony of withdrawl - especially intense because well she was just at the stage of wonder and discovery.

I ran into her yesterday, and the following conversation issued.

friend:" I like Korean dramas right now. But I can't find it anywhere I don't know the name..."

me: "just tell me what it"s about."

friend: ' I can't really explain it, the guy is an architect but not really.."

Me: "I don't need to know anymore. I know what it is."

So I hied her off to dramafever, pulled up Personal Taste and gave her the password for my premium account. We were just friends before, but now I have the feeling that we are going to be soulmates. 'Cause the bonds of K drama addictions are unbreakable! :)

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"We were just friends before, but now I have the feeling that we are going to be soulmates. ‘Cause the bonds of K drama addictions are unbreakable!"

Truer words were never spoken. :-)

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I may have just shed a tear...

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LOL, Thanks :) It feels so nice to see someone else discover the awesomeness that are K dramas. She hasn't seen anything yet, and there are so many possibilities. I was thinking of rewatching MNIKSS with her. Do you have any other suggestions?

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if she likes MNIKSS when she sees that with you, she'll probably dig city hall. i'm proud of you for spreading the love. lol.

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viola, i'm happy that you found someone to share watching kdrama with! i'm so envious! wish i have someone to do that with.

but i'm glad to have found dramabeans though. it means i have all you folks :)

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Ain't that the truth.....

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Hear hear! You guys totally make my day everyday!

@Kaitlyn
Kaitlyn dear, if you ever want to talk about dramas just write a comment @viola! And if you ever want to watch a drama together, let me know. We can be online drama buddies :)

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Do you have ESP :-)
I wouldn't have gotten the connection!

I don't feel so silly now being addicted.I am on days off today and called my cousin who lives like 3000+km away and her husband was suffering from KD withdrawels.We can't get good legal subbed copies of KD drama...sigh.

Anyway I agreed to download all 20 ep of City Hall (fansubbed) and she gets it off my Mediafire files.I feel as if I am such a geek.However I only became like this post KD addiction.

I keep telling other people who buy DVD sets that the subs sucked that it's better when you actually get an accurate translation.KBS at the moment produces the worst subs EVER!! The person(s) translating needs to be sacked.

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I wish! My brilliant flashes of intuition and information synthesis happens only when K dramas are concerned. I kinda feel guilty about getting her hooked though. She is studying for the mcats and she still needs to take physics and orgo II this year...........a very very bad time to discover K drama. Lucky for me, I discovered Hana Yori Dango during summer...... ah my first drama, so many nostalgic memories! :)

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About the lousy translation for DVDs set: absolutely agree!
How could they sell something with bad translation?!
Since the problem continues I decide to do something about it : learning the languages myself....

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"friend: ‘ I can’t really explain it, the guy is an architect but not really..”

well it happened to me 2 days ago...but I knew that it was "the man who can't get married"
( the main male character is an architect too )

just saying, because with that little information, it could be another drama, no? :D

yes, Kdramas make you find more friends!

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Well lucky for me that it was Personal Taste, now she has all sorts of respect for my drama skills. She thinks of me as this amazing drama guru. *chortles* Wait till I introduce her to dramabeans!

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Reminds me of the last time I called home. I think 70% of the conversation (with more than one person!) was about Kdrama :D Hey, at least it gives me, my mother, my sister and my grandmother something in common!

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Oh I know the feeling. I've recently gotten my sister hooked (finally) on kdramas and she has started to branch off and find her own favourites.

I feel like a sensei!!

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ok, this is just too cute i cant help but to post it here.

to MGIG fans!

remember the song Dae Woong sang when he was drunk in Ep5?

a longer version of it:

http://tryp96.tumblr.com/post/1019369583/omg-this-is-the-cutest-song-ever-credit

too cute for words!
i wonder if DW will sing this to MH later. i hope so!
god, this couple & this drama is just tooo cute its killing me! :D cant wait for next week!

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That was really the cutest version ever!

Thanks for sharing.

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Wow, if I can stop laughing long enough I will memorize it and giggle with devilish delight at chanting "Hoi Hoi" while at work.

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omg! I don't understand all the words but I am giggling at the ones that were subbed. Dear god those hoi hois are killing me!
I declare, pending Javabeans approval off course, that the hoi hoi to be the official secret handshake of the denizens of Dramabeans-land. That is how we shall recognize each other, kindred spirits, in the gray, Kdrama bereft land that others term "real life." :)

Hoi!Hoi!

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"Hoi, Hoi"!!!

that's a cute way to greet DB & MGiG regulars!!!

Love it!!!

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original version of daewoong's song, very cute too!!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E640-Pn3iE&feature=related

there's 2 brief rounds of "hoi hoi"s if you listen from 2:22 onwards.

i dunno if this was mentioned before, but the whole "hoi hoi" thing and the song are from an animation series from the 80s, about a baby dinosaur named "dooly".
i used to watch it when i was a wee little one, and have vague but very fond memories of it... :) i really wanna rewatch the series!!

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Great song for today! Loving Arcade Fire's new album. TGIF my friends...

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anyone else thinks "bad guy" is actually a "bad drama"?i sure do

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It was overhyped because of KNG. It should be named Bad Ladies-both of them got away with murders!

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lol. bad ladies. i love kim jae wook. alot.

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kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... i cant wait for the next episode of MGIAG... i'd like to give you guys a big hug for making my day!! love reading your recaps before going on to watch the episodes. mi ho and daewoong make me swoon... *sigh.. cant wait for the next eps!!!

also cant wait for playfull kiss.. =) lead girl looks spunky and i like it!

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Great song of the day. Their new album is mindbogglingly good, and dare I say it, the best North American record in the last 10 years. I would rabble on about Arcade Fire, but I shall control myself. Looking forward to Playful Kiss, but I have been disenchanted as of late with the K-drama scene. Lately I've revisiting the good days of Coffee Prince and Kim Sam-Soon. The recaps of My Girlfriend is a Gumiho are enticing, but I'm waiting until it ends, so I can have myself sleepless weekend.

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I need to have my confession today. Well, I'm a teacher, and 2 days ago, I almost tempted to confess my kdrama addiction in a class full of students. A subject of favourite tv shows came up in the class discussion and a few of the 18-year-old students started to mention kdramas and gave synopsis of few of them..

..and I found myself getting really excited, and started to correct them on the drama plots, the actors name and such. At one time, I was so close to brief them the differences between historical sageuk and fusion sageuk, but stopped myself before things got any weirder. *sigh* I seriously need to practice self-control.

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^^
I even talked about dramas in an interview.
That's why we're called "addicted"

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Really, how was it received? Last semester, I had this really cool, tight knit workshop class, so I felt comfortable talking to them about my Kdrama obsession. I wrote an entire short story based on that one scene from Cinderella's sister; when the guy tries to grab Moon, but missed and tookcout her hair pin and all her hair came tumbling down. That was so eerily beautiful.

And whenever I got carried away, I would appeal to the lone Korean girl who was also in the class. She would just look at me in bewilderment, and say "Viola I don't watch dramas!" The teacher referred to me for the rest of the semester as the Kdrama girl. ;) It really is an addiction.

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wait your weren't my teacher were you?! ;)
I am in college by the way.

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well.. I am teaching in a college... LOL!

okay. now I'm having the fear of being found out by a student. :D

p/s Don't tell the other teachers that I only pretended to do online research. It's so hard to suppress giggles watching MGIAG & reading the recaps while pretending to have a serious online discussion with a fake supervisor.. ;p

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Your secret is safe with me. Just don't mention how hard I "work" at the computer lab.
I seriously want to know if you are one of my professors! Are you teaching in NYC? I hope I am not being too intrusive. :)

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So you're the one who changed all the desktop b/ground with Lee Min Ho piccas?!

LOL! Just kidding. Don't worry about it. I'm teaching in Malaysia, and I'm not even a professor. Haha.

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Happy Fridayyyyyyyy!!! It has been a long couple of weeks. I think I missed OT last week too. Just too much work to do. But, omo omo omo, MGiaG has been making the weeks bearable. I'm not even minding the weeklong wait between eppies cuz I just do rewatches of the old ones. SMA is beyond amazing. I can't even describe what a complete joy it is to watch her as MiHo. She has such range of emotion and facial expressions ... it's just fantastic :)

The Hye-In noona on the other hand.... I didn't like her in the bits of BOF i saw her in (where she wasn't an evil villian), and i don't like her now. Something about her just irritates me to no end. Maybe cuz she is just so princessy and entitled. Ugh. can't stand that.

And Gumiho Hunter - umm... anybody else think he is WAY too pretty? I mean, he is kind of otherworldly pretty. Throw a wig on him and he's prettier than most girls I know. Hell, shave his head and he's probably prettier than most girls still! Sigh, I'm just jealous of his utterly flawless skin. What I'd do for poreless skin, you don't even know lols.

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well, then you have to see him shirtless! :P
he looks more manly now compared with his TRAX's days..

http://yfrog.com/myfba972ece8b6f8f00761745j
he lives up his stage name ,"Rose" -- too pretty.
he looks like an anime character, doesn't he?

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his stage name is Rose?! yes, very appropriate. SO PRETTY. seriously. i couldn't stop staring at him throughout the first ep cuz his face was so flawless. and totally like anime. I know people say dbsk's jaejoong is the anime prince, but um, have they seen gumiho hunter guy?! haha. sorry, i can't get over it :P

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Indeed he does!!!

He's so pretty.

BTW, I was expecting a topless picture,lol.

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There's a video of him playing drums to the song Heartbeat by 2PM, he was shirtless in that vid XD @o@

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJNU1omNUdQ

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oh. hello there. extra points for drumming to 2PM :D

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Aww! I THANK YOU! I've been running errands and just got back. I'll watch it after cleaning ladies are gone(tiny house with loud vac cleaner going right now) :)

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Thanks for the link :)
From that I saw his previous group The TRAX. Awesome! The kind of rock songs i like. Pity NMW's no longer in that group. Not only pretty to look at but really talented as well. Some people has it all...

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never seen anyone playing the drums...as sexy as Min Woo!!!

awesome talented young man...& smexy, to boot!!!

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that is just not right....someone is not supposed to be that hot. It is a defying logic moment for me to see anyone play drums like that.

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He really looks like a manga character :) really cute... and yeahh I was expecting a shirtless pic.. jajajaja.
Ahh... thanks for the song it is nice... I was singing it all morning...

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Hunter is exactly like a Japanese anime character. I was wondering if his style was a deliberate spoof from the Hong Sisters.

After all, they've spoofed everything else ... "Gone With The Wind", Chow Yun-Fate in "The Killers", Bruce Lee, "Kill Bill", "Once Upon A Time in China", etc.

MGIAG is an absolutely delightful drama.

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because of this thread with that topless photo I got a bit excited. It isn't done, but ooo when it is I shall be happy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht_CWFablok

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Last Friday I went to an interview.
On this Tuesday I got the job.
These are the most beautiful days of the year (it would have been perfect if it stopped raining) ^^.
Today I watch recent episodes of Gloria and I am Legend. I like both but the OST of IAL is really impressive and it makes Gloria sounds silly.
woa, I'm enjoying my last unemployment days and so excited about Sept 1st, the day I sign the working contract.

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Lucky you. I'm still job-hunting and it is not going well - the market in the US is not being good to me :(

Anyway, I'm glad you got the job and are enjoying I Am Legend! I'm following that one, too!

Happy weekend to all of us!

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congrats on getting the job!! Now you can save up, pay off loans, get life insurance, and start your retirement fund! I can't wait till the day I am employed as a full-time, permanent worker so I can move on with growing up.

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is it the same interview that you talked about kdrama? :D

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No, it isn't. It's the interview for a volunteer position (which is much more less formal than a bank job one), anyway, I passed. Maybe thanks to Kdrama. Love it!

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Hi! Happy OT day again!!!

This week (actually 4 1/2 days) had been an exhausting one...XP

last Friday:
-didn't get to participate in OT149
-my Nokia 6600 broke down after my 1 yr++ usage (it just went off like that, and when I try opening it, it acts weirdly: on & off & on & off until it offs itself...
-voiced to my mothr that I may need a new cellphone...maybe a Samsung Corby??? (yes, I'm still on YAB HEAVEN!! WAHAHAHA!!!)

Sunday: not-so-good feeling: sore throat which progressed to a progressive body weakness

in-between: fever while on an aircon...I know it's stupid, but some stupid neighbors were up all night on their effing rented videoke machine on the fXXing street!!!

Monday:
-38.3 Celsius FEVER!!! As a result, whole day bed rest in exchange of a one day absent. DX
-(then there's just this one eensy weensy incident involving a bus on a wide grandstand, STUPID POLICEMEN, and widespread panic & pandemonium...nothing too great, really, when you've got a country against you, NO~)

Tuesday: besides stressful activities when I got back from my absence, I made my own sim card rejected!!! GRR!!!
(the prepaid load got wasted!!!)

Still loving:
-YAB - yes, I find it hard to let go of things you really love...
-G(umiho) G(irlfriend) (recaps) - I lurve that UEE (not as a national fairy bitch, but as a scared student freaking out due to her hamburger missing its patty) & Park Shin-hye (strangely as Go Mi-nyeo (or was it Min-yeo????) who looked like she never stepped on a convent, became an A.N.JELL, or ever metHyung-niiiim)
-First Wives' Club - yes, I heart this drama. My fave moment: episode 63, when Han Won-soo was violently knocking on Na Hwa-shin (with the adorably cute Goo Se-joo)'s rooftop flat, due to the lights going out (suspiciously?), and Won-soo's jealousy (if you could call it...meh :P) kicking in, and Se-joo (not Mishil, XD) coming out dressed (or rather, making it look like) in only his untucked & unbuttoned dress shirt for all the world (and the neighbors & fangirls O_O) to see. I laugh like crazy... XD

Anticipating (like I've been mentioning for over nearly 5 OT's already):
-S(eonggyungwan)S(candal) - let's get ready for the loving!!! WEEE!!!
-P(layful)K(iss) - yes; 2 of my mates are already hooked in, with one of them acting nealry crazy once hearing of any news...

Enjoy OT-ing y'all!

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Yeah I felt like Park Shi Hye's cameo was slightly out of character or has Mi Nyeo changed? She seemed different especially the part when she turned away from the hoi couple to get off the bus; she looked pissed (?). Yeah didn't expect that from Mi Nyeo...
Anyway...
Happy weekend eveyone!!
Next week will be pretty busy for me but everything would've been finished by wednesday so...MGIG and Playful Kiss here I come!!!!

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Hi
Either:
*Hong jamae-nim forgot Mi-nyeo (read: education, boyfriend status, A.N.JELL)
*Mi-nyeo just went lolls (read: few screws loose)
*Maybe something happened with Hwang Tae-gyeong...

(oh, did anybody check for a star necklace around her neck???)

yes, PK, here we come!

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I’m confused, Jae Hee’s wiki profile lists Tekken 2010 under movies he’s in …. but I’ve not read a whisper of this?? JB, GF, anyone?

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all i can say is i can't wait for next epis of my darling Kim ji hoon's sci fie Secret Inv. Report....he's my one & only no. 1 K actor...i have a long list of them but he's my no. 1! he's an eye candy, aside fr being so gorgeous, he's a grt actor! need i say more!
thnx JB for your OT....and also recapping SIR!! you rock! hv a great w/end!

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I watched the 1st episode of Secret Investigation & re-read DB's recaps....interesting storyline...loved the setting...& most importantly...fell in LOVE all over again with Kim Ji Hoon!!!
Hope they continue subbing the rest of the series!!! love it!!

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Happy OT Friday y'all!

Going back to college on Sunday (tears)...I shall mourn the demise of my slothful existence of summer.

So last week I bonded with my little brother over Avatar: The Last Airbender after noticing in past OT's that some of you great people are fans and hearing complaints of the general crappiness of the movie through friends. And I have to say, I LOVED it save for the disjointed feel of s3. And I'm totally disappointed that Zutara didn't end up together. Was I a blind viewer or did I sense some SERIOUS chemistry in practically every scene they were in together?? I feel like I've been watching a kdrama that screwed up the OTP and left a huge, messy goo of WTFery behind...

And now, wonderful OTers and lovers of A:tLA, I ask you to guide me in the only way of healing my defeated expectations: what Zutara fanfics do you recommend? :)

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I've always wanted Zuko & Ty Lee to end up together! It's like in Kdramas where the old male lead changes after falling in love with the energetic and loveably female lead. The writers have obviously never seen any kdramas -sigh-

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Er I meant COLD not old...

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Avatar!!! I was always a Zuko/Toph fan, tbh. Man, that would have been an awesome pairing... "I want to go with Zuko! Everyone else has had a life-changing field trip with Zuko, its MY turn!"

heh, she had some great lines.

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Here is a whole site full of fanfics with lots about them.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4022934/1/Zutara_Dreams

But honestly most fantasy couplings I find are better on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7acwf79HJG0

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I'll be in college next week! So excited.

I really like My Girlfriend is a Gumiho but I'm actually anticipating watching Playful Kiss as well. I really hope school is going to be better this year!

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hoi hoi everybody!

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hoi hoi to you too!!! :D

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hoi hoi all around! (i'm making the hand motions as well)

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Happy weekend everyone...Almost midnight here

This maybe my last weekend in town, must be going to some remote place that I can not imagine how the place will be like.There's possibility I won't be able to get internet access and up dating kdrama for 1 year. Ahh I will get my kdrama withdrawal syndrome soon. Hiks.

I plan to buy kdrama dvds as much as I can (with big hope there will be electricity in my new place). So I'm open for any suggestion now.

And anyway to JB:
I don't pick what drama to watch base on its rating (whether it comes from JB/GF or other rating source), although it is one of the consideration. I usually choose after I read the recap, if it is good, and suit my personal taste, I really considerate to watch it. So I'm wondering the reason behind you,JB pick one drama to recap among other or invite someone to recap one drama than you do it yourself?

I rely on your recap glossary right now (write them down and go searching for them)

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Hi everyone,

I've come to the place where I can't watch without subs... I was watching 'cliff hanger- next episodes' Raw, and then watching with subs when they came out. BUT - what is happening is .... on some level I am understanding more than I thought. When I watch the subs it it feels like I've watched with subs already. Is really really exciting and scary at the same time.

This is truly k-drama addiction :) I can live with it.

Have a great semester all you that are going back to school.

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Omo! you too?! It really is an exiting, to watch a scene or hear a line of dialogue and have that omg moment when you actually understand! :)

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Is it just me or does BoA & Park Shin-hye look alike? I've thought about this Wednesday & have been dying to post it on the Open Thread, hehe.

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Yikes! Another week passed by. I seem to mark time now by OT on Friday. My son's cats have come to stay until Labor Day, so they have taken over my "drama den" leaving the computers, TV, DVD, WDTVLive & me all huddled into my "office" which gets pretty warm. For the first time ever, I am watching dramas that are still airing & don't have all their subtitles done, so no marathoning. So far enjoying MGiaG and really liking IAL. Filling in the free time with Jdramas - Jikou Keisatsu 2, which I find absolutely hilarious but my husband can hardly be forced to watch even when I beg, and Samurai High School, which is silly but cute & I wouldn't ask anyone to watch.

Happy new year to everyone going back to school -- so glad it isn't me!

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Thank you javabeans and girlfriday for the recaps!!

In less than a week, I'll be in class doing my 2nd and final year of grad school. I've signed up for some interesting classes this semester, but they are also the classes that require the most work- so I'm both looking forward and NOT looking forward to it.

After spending a good chunk of the last two months stressing over a project a work, recently airing dramas like My Girlfriend is a Gumiho, Zhong Wu Yen (I can't stop drooling over Chris Wu), and Hotaru no Hikari season 2 are a good way to end the summer and to transition me to a new school year. I think I'm more productive when I have something to look forward to each week. MGIAG is for the midweek and ZWY and HnH2 for the weekend!

I can't wait for Playful Kiss and Sungkyungwan )Scandal- though I think I may have to draw the line at watching too many things at once. As much as I am looking forward to Playful Kiss and as much as I know that ratings don't define a drama's success or enjoyment, I'm hoping PK ratings don't cut into the MGIAG ratings. I really want MGIAG to sort of 'win' because it's an original story. I was just thinking about how all movies now are based on comic books, novels, and previously films (like sequels to/remakes of previous films) and how awesome Inception is for being a successful original movie this summer. Someone took the time to create a new world that we've never seen before.

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Good luck with your grad school! I finished mine last year, and recently went back into the working world. I got seriously addicted to kdrama when I was in grad school and they helped me a lot in dealing with stress and classes. (I even thank them in my thesis LOL). Nowadays its mostly work, so I usually had my kdrama doses during weekends.

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Next week I'll have my first korean lesson whixh is making me giddy and I've also decided on trying to pass the JLPT so I need to seriously start cramming some kanji into my brain!

My school starts on monday which is depressing back to class and to teachers who have several favorites in class which sucks to the rest of us.
I thought that at uni level there wouldn't be any teachers pets but I was wrong.

But on another positive note I have 1,5 years left and then I can try getting work in Japan or Korea.

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Happy OT Friday everyone!
Welcome ALL newcomers! Its always great to see that someone else is joining the team, addicting someone new or such blame sharing the news :)

I'm actually taking a GIANT break and giving my drama buddy a few days to catch up. We are meeting up for a wedding next weekend so my hopes are we'll be able to watch some eps together. But time is limited. I'm allotting 4 days to get through 23 eps. I think I'm being rather lenient too. We'll see how it pans out.
Other than that I'm a faithful GG recap reader, while I'm trying to finish Tamra without stabbing William in the face, pick Jejoongwon back up(now that it should be added to DF), finish Code Blue 2 & both seasons of Blood Monday, then revisit some dramas I've loved like Biscuit Teacher and CHANGE. It sounds busy but it really isn't, I'll be GIANT withdrawing by Mon ;)

Have a great weekend guys!

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i haven't come into an OT in ages--mostly because its a time suck. (sorry) but i'm home with a sick kid so . . .

i'm skipping MGIAG for now so i can build up epis. keeping up with IAL tho and i'm absolutely addicted to queen seon duk. BIDAM! MISHIL! YUSHIN! this is my first historical drama (after HONG GIL DONG--fusion history) and i'm totally hooked!

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QSD was my introduction to kdramas. Just discovered it this past summer and loved it so much I'm re-watching it. Although the later episodes ~ 52 on ~ are kind of boring. I just skip on to the last ep and mourn over what happens.

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POOR SHIM GEUN WOOK!!!

Oh wait . . .

POOR HON TAE SUNG!!!

Damnit what was it again . . .

POOR BIDAM!!! :( :( :(

Oh how I loved QSD. Funnest sageuk since Jumong: Chuck Norris of Korea.

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lol. bad guy sucked but bidam, i mean kim nam gil was mesmerizing. which is why i started QSD even though he didn't show up until ep 21.

at least the chuck norris of korea is better looking than, you know, chuck norris. gasp. is that possible?

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Omo! Me too! Once I found out that Kim Nam Gil was playing Bidam, I had to start it... F those 21+ hrs it took to see him! And it was worth it :)

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i'm on ep 42 and i just wanna slap that lord chunchu. why doesn't someone just slap him? the only one who does is bidam. BIDAM!

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Happ.y Friday everyone!!...college reopens for me nxt week too...and im not looking forward to itm..for one this is the year i need to make some serious decisions bt im not reasy secondly the workload will be heavy and that means havig to cutdown on drama watching...anyways im loving MGIAG and i dont know whether or not to be excited fr PK cus the dramas i ws most excited fr this yr didnt turn out so gr8

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just got off work and am watching ep19 of 그대, 웃어요 to destress

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THANK GOODNESS it's FRIDAAAYY!!!!! oh joy I really need this weekend. Time to catch up on recaps!!!

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Tried watching an old kdrama - Goodbye Solo. It took only ten minutes for me to hate everyone. That's a new record for me. How did this thing even get on the air?

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Its pretty good drama. If its not your thing obviously its not going to be love but the writing, 80-90% of the acting, the directing is fantastic and there are many people on this board who are thankful it got aired.

On the other hand there are a handful of dramas this year that I would have loved not to have watched or taken air time (or my time).

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4 days to go for PK...yay! :D

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What is PK?

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My Bad I thought its "MIschevious Kiss"

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Spreading the No Min Woo love :D I've been his fan for a while now and I'm kinda glad he's getting some recognition from Gumiho GF.

This is a video that includes his audition for SM. I think he was a teenager then, and he looked so cute too. You guys should check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMx_DAgkrkI

he is the third one in the clip to show his talent, wearing a beanie.

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Gee thank.I will bring it across to viikii.There are some rabid fans there :-)

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hi,

i tried watching baker king through many recommendation here, but i dont know.. i stopped at eps 2 or 3 and couldnt force myself anymore.

how did u guys watched that drama? dont u just HAAAAATTTEEE that grandma and president? they're totally evil and bias! but how can the drama makes them like they're not at fault at all. no wonder the the wife are turning evil. and look how bias they treat the grandson... i mean, i can understand why the boy turnout to be a bad man later.

i wish i never watched the 1st couples of episodes and just jumped to later episodes so i didnt know the base of the story which is completely unjust. only that way i could enjoy this drama.

maybe after some weeks when i forgot about this, i'll try to watch it again but skipped several first episodes.. :-/

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@124y: count me in the Baker King hate club. There're so many wtf moments in ep. 1 that my hatred for that drama is unadulterated.

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yeah, ok. i'll join the club. haha :D

yeah, i HAATTE that damn grandma and president. how can they treat the wife like rubbish or baby maschine? anyne will turn evil when treated like that. and at first i was okay with tak gu's mom, but then i didnt agree with her.. gah, i hate them.

too bad for Baker King, Kim Tak Goo, the story should be very good. just a big mistake to the 1st couple of episodes that turned me off.

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Hi my name is Retta, I'm a K drama addict. I will refuse all recovery methods.

Having said that, My granddaughter watched Boys before flowers....then Hana Yori Dango, while she likes both, she leans to the Japanese version...she is mega crushing on Matsumoto Jun...she is 9 yrs old....*smile* Her first drama was My name is Sam Soon.
I am watching I Am Legend...yay..and just finished The Dandelion Family...good drama a little long but enjoyed it.

Happy Week end....

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I super mega crushed on MatsuJun too! That was when I was around 13 XD

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Joseon X-Files ep.2 - and the awesomesauce keeps on coming.
Kim Gab Soo is Badass with a capital B (no surprise there).

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can this day go by any slower???

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LOVE arcade fire's new album!!!

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Took the day off work to run a bajillion errands involving the kids back to school needs (who knew Kindergarteners and Pre-Ks have crap I need to buy?).

Wonderful day, made even more excellent by the first article I read when I flipped open the paper:

J-rumor of the day: Keiko has been caught cheating on YamaPi (ooops, since they never confessed to be dating, not sure if Pi has any leg to stand on here), with none other than hottie of the summer.....Mukai Osamu (none other than everyone's fave second male lead Seno-kun).

I LOL'd, because other than Jin getting kicked out of (ooops, I mean voluntarily leaving) KAT-TUN, there has been no scandals of late. I think it's a crock of baloney, of course, since Keiko and Mukai are making a new movie together, hence the dinner at a beer hall and close-encounters of the cute kind. ;-)

I am definitely looking forward to that movie!

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Both of them were in BUZZER BEAT, right? Are they really going out?

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ockoala sama

Wait! Wait! Where can I read that article,Pleeeease! I have to read it!

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"Took the day off work to run a bajillion errands involving the kids back to school needs (who knew Kindergarteners and Pre-Ks have crap I need to buy?)."....hehe....wait til elementary/high school where they need stuff that WAS on sale the previous weeks,but the teacher forgot to give the 'Needed supplies" lists to the poor parents til Back to School Night (1 wk after school has already begun) ><
ottoke...but just buy the darn Calculator for $200 :'(

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Oh, that whatever the name is calculator... I had to buy one for my son when he was in high school. Even back then, it was about $180.00-$200.00 somewhere around that.

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*sigh8 probably the same one...Texas Instrument TI84...on sale $129...regular price $209 ><
ottoke...K needed for AP Calculus

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Lol. It sure does sound familiar...

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^ and here I'm ogling at this pic, twinnie!

http://a.imageshack.us/img269/1291/629cefefg8ecbc01e433069.jpg

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MatsuJun is a member of Arashi?!? Holy shiz I need to brush up on my J-pop.

And Jin is already gone. *Sobs* And why is Pi always wearing pink? And where is MY SMAP!!! I want MY daily KimuTaku fix now. Rawr.

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Okay, back up back up, why is Kame not in that picture? (I see the JinJin of course). And why does NEWS always give me the vibe that they are KAT-TUN's sad dorky cousins (and yes, Pi is definitely dorky, my me loves that dorkus)? And man, those Tokio oji-sans look older than the SMAP centurions.

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SMAP forever! They with be the first 75 year old idol group. Mark my words.

http://yonasu.com/softbank-ad-in-shibuya/

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DITTO! And K-san will still be hot! Also if they continue to release albums like this last they will always be idols in my book.

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babe, Kame is the yellow K_T-TUN, no?

I think I'm most traumatized by Tsuyoshi Domoto....
agree on the oji-sanness of the Tokio 'boys'

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Nooo, that is not Kame. Which of the other faceless ones (I only recognize Koki, Tatsuya, Jin and Kame off the bat) I'm not sure.

But this is the best part, wikipedia got updated so that it says KAT-TUN stands for KAme, then the other four guys.

Meaning that not only has Jin been thoroughly erased, the origin of their group name has been rewritten. Oh Johnny, you are such an evil orc gnome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAT-TUN

Anyways, I love old school J-pop boybands. EG just posted on SMAP's newest album which dropped and I've been humming along to SMAP for the last few days.

That, and rewatching IAL and sniffling about my OTP being so uncanon I might as well declare myself cruel and unusual in my drama enjoyment these days.

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get out of here, we're at that wiki page at the same time! I just saw that KAme thingy too!

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http://jodyn.livejournal.com/

REALLY? yellow KAT-TUN is NOT KAme?! O_0
http://jodyn.livejournal.com/

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Anyone up for a wiki edit war? I haven't been in one for about 2 years, but they are fun stuff at times.

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Finally got what you guys are talking about. All I had to do is coming back up 1 page,lol.

Anyhow, if you click 日本語 on the left side menu bar on above English page, you'll see 赤西仁's name is still there and in Member section, there's even this explanation:# A 赤西仁(あかにし じん、1984年7月4日 - O型 )イメージカラーは赤。(現段階で「脱退の方針」であり、正式に脱退したわけではない。). saying he hasn't left the group officially even though that's what he's intending to do so at this point or something like that.

Gosh, I don't know what I'm doing at 1am... Better go to bed soon

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I like LOOOOONG dramas so I am watching Dong YI
and Life is Beautiful which is awesome because of the
writer, hardly a wrong note in the whole series, given the problem of a gay subject in primetime. I have so often been dissapointed by the lazy/rushed scripts (ie BAD GUY) that I want to praise the woman who is a well known veteran for a fantastic show so far about all the characters. It is a good family story.

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This is totally random but has anyone ever seen this?? Who would've thought!? LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAUdsKAkeK0

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LOL that was amazing. I don't know whether to laugh or cry at the dance moves. I wonder if it's on purpose...

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what the frell? i thot BeoJin/SW has a legit career

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And see kids, this is why drugs are bad for you...

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I am honestly baffled. Did they actually air that on tv? Too too surreal.

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I had to reply on this one.....The dance moves are too funny....Did this actually air??? It didn't right? It could not have.....:)

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Cinderella?! xD (Seo wu(?) from Cinderella's sister)

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@ celestialorigin

Here's the article in Japanese:

http://entameblog.seesaa.net/article/160510044.html

I read it in the Chinese newspapers. Enjoy! The movie they are making is Paradise Kiss.

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Thank you! Well, the girl is really pretty. Was she the not-so-nice one or the angelic one in BB?

Of course, nothing was mentioned in his blog, lol.

Anyhow, I wonder what the movie is all about? It's been a busy day again. Incorporating all Kdrama watching in my daily life is highly demanding. Finally, I've all caught up with IAL & MGiG. No more marathon, thank God.

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@ twinnie

I need more glasses then. Cuz the dude in yellow does not look like Kame, but if Kame put on 30 lbs maybe. Okay, concede that *may* be the bony one himself, just really doesn't look like him for some reason.

Hahaha, twin power activate!

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Hi..currently watching Gloria..like it so far...anyone else watching it?

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I can never get to OT at a good time because in my neck of the woods it is sleeping time when it is posted!

But I decided to comment today anyway. First time (I think...)!

Exhausting week, so many drama rehearsals (physical theatre rehearsals no less- to me the term physical theatre is now synonomous with pain...) but we have finally finished the show, only a few more weeks of rehearsing and we will present it!
Been working on it essentially since May so it is quite a long time coming.

And another exhausting week on the horizon, QCS (AHHHHHHH!!!!!) then exam block, as well as lots of babysitting and more rehearsals- why does my out of school life always get busy exam block time?

Oh well, I have kdramas to cheer me up!
I am absolutely in love with My Girlfriend is a Gumiho and so excited about Playful Kiss and Sungkyunkwan Scandal!
Please be good, shows. I am such a sucker for school dramas.

Happy OT Friday (or Saturday)!

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