HAPPY FRIDAY BEANIES ♡ Hope you all have had a good week so far. I’m counting down the days till my Christmas holidays start (18 days to go) so I can finally just relax without having to worry about school.

Have you guys ever had this problem where you have this vision of this EXACT outfit you want to wear, but when you actually look for the pieces to put it together... you can’t find a thing? It’s soooo annoying. I wish I could just magically make perfectly fitted clothes for myself out of thin air.

Happy weekend Beanies! May the great weather be with you, because autumn here entered in dreary phase, it's cold, dark and rainy. I binge-finished "The Longest Day in Chang'an" and it was best Chinese drama I watched so far, I'm off to read whatever I find about Tang Dynasty and Silk Road and I'm fairly impressed with Jackson Yee, he was able to keep up with more experience actors. Now I'm feeling weird not having any drama to obsess over.

Happy Weekend Beanies!

First things first: *puts hands on her hips and uses Eomma tone* @michykdrama get off social media and start reading! :P

Strange job hunt story time: Before I started my previous job, back in February an acquaintance tipped me off about some vacancies in her company and I applied, got interviewed and ghosted. It happens all the time, so I do not think much of the situation (and the company for that particular behavior), moved on and got eventually hired on my previous workplace.

Yesterday this acquaintance contacts me again about the same vacancies and asks my permission to forward my resume to her manager. Five minutes later I get a call from that manager. He is very interested in my profile and still in dire need of extra staff, but by some mystery all applicants keep getting rejected and the company itself also got ghosted about the whole recruitment process. Very strange, considering that the recruiting department used high-tech applications to keep applicants updated and yet waited a very long time to vaguely inform me that I had not been hired back then.

Therefore the manager has decided to take matters into his own hands and has requested transparency about my job interview back then. On top of that he has scheduled another job interview that he himself will conduct with some of my (future?) colleagues, to make sure that I am the right fit for the job. I am of course happy for the second chance, but I also feel bad for the manager and the company. Ghosting applicants is not nice, but it does not cause that much harm. However, ghosting your company and its employees about recruitment processes, accidentally or not, is not done.

It did end my week on an exciting note, since I only had one other interesting job application to busy myself with. The god siblings were also sick and exempted from daycare/kindergarten, so helping my parents with taking care of the poor terrors was the main priority this week.

I did manage to read Pride and Prejudice (10/61 chapters) and write roughly 1700 words for Nanowrimo in between all that. The word target is 3000 for now, but that will increase soon. I wish I could do more at a calmer pace, but I am quite proud of how I am keeping up with both challenges.

I am however juggling 4 K-dramas again, and I do not know whether to be proud or to worry for my sanity. Extraordinary You was almost put on the back burner, but this week’s episodes were too good to postpone. That means that Rookie Historian, Pegasus Market and No Second Chances were put on hold instead. :P

https://www.gzeromedia.com/graphic-truth-world-on-fire-why

could add few more countries there. + climate change protest + minor policy based protests.

w00t to the weekend Beanies!

Don't have too much to share - heading back to my home town for a friend's wedding. We've got our first dusting of snow - which people are freaking out about, yet... it's totally not uncommon. Maybe slightly early, but still in the realm of normal. The slowly declining temperatures outside plus the heat cranked up in my office make it pretty difficult to get dressed in the morning. Ah, such is winter time in eastern Canada!

Hi Everyone! ..... I hope you are all doing well today.

Secret Boutique - Oh wow, episodes 10 & 11! Unexpected revelations!

Melting Me Softly - Using the fast-forward button so much with this drama that I watched two episodes in about half an hour. This might be a new record for me.

Pegasus Market - Halloween episode was a hoot!

Vagabond - Edward Park. Just what is he all about?

My Country - That guard from Ihwaru who sometimes accompanies Hee-jae, has he been instructed to just stand around? Because it seems to be the only thing he does well.

That's all for now. Everyone take care and have a great Friday!

I want to try and learn Korean so that my drama watching becomes easier. But right now I am already learning Spanish as a beginner and am not sure if I should be learning both languages at the same time. I already know three languages. And I have read that Korean is easy to learn and that you can learn Hangul in a few hours. I wonder if Duolingo is a good way to learn Korean. I am thinking maybe I should learn Hangul first and then use Duolingo. I am only looking for a basic understanding as of now.

Me and my sister had a fight today. I wanted to watch kdramas with her but she thinks I can't find time to watch with her and that when she wants to watch with me I am too tired or sleeping.Thing is I am available to watch with her most of the time but she is doing other things or not watching with me whenever she is free, and by the time I get tired she comes to me and gets angry and tells me why did I slept even though its cause I wait for her to have time. But she just doesn't have the same consideration. Or says she will watch alone and sometimes I give in or let her watch alone. And she hates cliffhangers so much that she will watch a lot like crazy and it's hard to keep up with her. She first told me she will watch some other kdrama while I don't get time but now says she can't wait for the next episode so she can't watch something else. She thinks it's better not to watch anything together at all. Sigh, I really like watching with her and it's one of the very few things we do together but I just don't want to fight with her over something like that. So I have decided not to watch with her. There goes the only person I share interest in kdramas with.

Hey there, all:

Am trying to prepare for this winter. I hate winters. With a passion. Once i'm outside the house and walking in the cold, i don't mind it. But it's all that psyching up to go outside.

Tomorrow i'm going to see parasite! So happy.

Dramas:
I've been a wimp about a few dramas that i really liked. I stopped watching Camellias because the stress and murder were too much, stopped watching Catch the ghost the second our sweet cop got that loan, and stopped Nokdu (which i loved) when drama of older son started. I had already stopped watching vagabond and melting because the plots were getting silly. I stopped watching Lies Within because the actress only seems to have been given one emotion to play and i was getting bored with that. Min ki notwithstanding. I should just suck up and watch stuff i like right.

Faves now are:
Extraordinary you -- i thought i indulged in character torture when i write my stories but the writer of the mangas in this drama is either obsessive, struggles with ADD, unable to come up with new characters, or stuck with tropes.

My Country -- This is one drama i never fast-forward. There is never a dull moment. I'm even interested in the scheming. And i love Jang Hyuk. He's so dang likeable. Plus i always liked Bang Won as a historical figure. Blame Six Flying Dragons for that.

Miss Lee: Soo good! I love these working class dramas that totally explain how some economic situation or business works but i also love the characters and the relative absence of tropes. Please, writer-nim, no redemption arc for Ji-Na please!

Pegasus Market: Ohmigosh! I got goose pimples from the korean folklore halloweenand felt so proud of the show for that. And the ramen nostalgia scenes made me laugh out loud. Love this drama.

Jdramas
Junichi -- Love this drama so much. Writer better starts showing some more layers of the story though. There is just so much episodic stuff i can take without having an actual story arc.

Busu... (In love with the ugly girl): Pretty girls are entitled and mean is all i have to say. Mercifully jdramas don't thrown around redemption arcs like kdramas do but they don't throw around happy endings much either. So i'm wary.

Happy weekend, all.

Hi Everyone and Happy OT!
It's 11.30pm and I just stopped work for the day. Eyes are strained 😵 and bleary. 😩 Still I had to drop by (Heh!)

I just got a nice Crispy Choc cake for my 21 year old's birthday. Will eat it tomorrow. Chocolate lovers, don't you just rejoice seeing the toppings of different kinds of chocolate all over a base of... errr chocolate? White and dark choc in rounds and discs and cubes and even in powdered form, sifted over softly. Even the Happy Birthday is on a special choc card. 🎂 Can't wait to eat it! 🎂

As my kids' birthdays are close to mine, I'm making it an excuse that I can get to 'share' this birthday cake with at least one of them. 😉

I'm watching very few shows and sporadically ... one thought that hit me when watching Catch the Ghost - 'Oh no,... are the characters who first appeared to have ability and nice personalities now changing to become irritating, soppy, unable to make the right decisions especially professionally?' Likely due of course to 'lurve' and jealousy. Sigh. I hope I'm wrong but some hints and indications have got me worried.

To all lovers of The Untamed, although I will tag few or none, I may still be adding stuff to my fan wall. Do drop by just in case!! 😉 You can keep tagging me if you like. I'll flit and lurk around your walls ... so busy... sigh 😣 😢 🤪

Hi Beanies🌞

It's my first time in Spain, exactly Girona, Catalunya and we're staying in an amazing house in the old city centre. It's lot of first time for me these days and although I'm a horrible person for producing more CO2 by traveling by car, but it's beautiful.

I ate cuttlefish black rice and it reminded me of the cuttlefish black noodles scene in Scent of a Woman. It was really nice. I got scolded at first that why I didn't take Paella, but I like to try something different. We'll see how it goes but tomorrow morning I would like to go to see the museum of art just next to us.

Happy Friday, everyone! I am waiting and waiting for an appointment, so decided to pop in! I am bumped that we've got no new episodes of Secret Boutique this week. ☹😢 But I am excited about the long vacation I am going to take soon, which reminds me that I really need to finalize the trip and make some arrangements. Sigh. Not my favorite part of vacationing!

So the weekend is here and I have on my plate Pegasus Market, My Country and I am gonna try and get some eps of Buster S2 and Put Your Head on My Shoulder.

Or maybe since the weather is still tolerable I might actually go outside and do something else. I have been talking with some people and I think I might start taking up bird watching.

Anyone have experiente with making kimchi? I'm thinking of trying to make my own kimchi as I've been eating a lot of store bought one lately and I wonder if it would be hard to just make my own. I also miss having some korean bbq, there are lots of korean restaurants in the area where I live but I don't think any of my friends would be up for it and I would feel awkward going on my own. I guess that's the problem from being the only one in my social circle who enjoys kdramas and korean cuisine. Funny thing is one of my ex-housemates is a kpop and kdrama fan, but I only found out after we both moved to different areas. I should maybe make some other friends but it's not that easy.

Happy Friday all my fellow lovely Beanies ❤️ After today I have a 3-day weekend with my Birthday on Monday 😁 I'm going to spend it being utterly lazy by laying in bed reading and watching dramas. It will be glorious.

Extraordinary You Ep. 4 (8) Love love love this one. My favorite out of the ones I'm watching. Love the meta humor and the characters. Can't wait to visit my mom next weekend and continue watching this.

Tale of Nokdu Ep. 3 (6) I am enjoying this but a bit disappointed it is as heavily political as it is. I can tell it will get dramatic and dark later on which dampers my enthusiasm. I was hoping for a light and humorous cross-dressing drama. Both actors are great though and love them.

Graceful Family Ep. 6 Liking it, mostly for how awesome Mo Seok-hee is. But I've started getting frustrated as the baddies keep getting the upper-hand. I hate dramas that have the bad guys winning until the very last episode, with almost no progress by the heroes. Hopefully this drama doesn't go that way.

Vagabond Ep. 6 The action is entertaining but there are so many suspend belief and ridiculous things that it comes off as humorous when it shouldn't. The drama takes itself way too serious which I think is the problem. I also HATE the shaking cam.

Love and Destiny Ep. 1 Only 1 episode so far but I am already interested. I loved 10 Miles of Peach Blossoms (it was my first cdrama and what got me into cdramas) and this definitely has all the hallmarks of that drama (it's done by the same production group after all). Liking the main actress and she fits her role. Not sure on the main actor as I've not seen enough of him yet to really judge. He seems so old though (yes, I'm shallow). But if he's a good actor I don't care about that.

Can we touch on the unprecedented level of badness that is 'Melting Me Softly'? Its so bad (in an un-entertaining way) that it just takes your breath away.
Some good can come from 'Melting', though. It serves to differentiate between genuinely bad dramas and well done drama's you simply didn't like the ending of. Perhaps you didn't like where Misty, Cheese in the Trap or Pretty Noona took the story. But that's a different matter from the gross storytelling incompetence of 'Melting'.

I'm reminded of the last half of the series 'Secret Hotel'. The screenwriter had passed away halfway through production and the remaining story became a garbled mess. That mess still retained some pathos, though. The screenwriter had written a character into the story who was dying of cancer but didn't tell her coworkers about it.