Hi my lovely friends,

It was a roller coaster week for me. I got my job contract renewed, finished one important project at work with appreciation, started study for a professional certification exam, then got a health scare about my sister who had a fever and ended the week with a six days off time. All in a week's time! Phew!

I hope all of you and yours are safe, happy and healthy!

Little Boy - 1015k 1st week October. let's see

1075k 19 OCTOBER - Momentum is still strong.

I am competing when i already said that i won't participate in this stupidity. Just had food after 65 Hours. heh. And a few have the delusions of me being superior. I have already openly talked about stupid antics and acts i indulged in and this specific one is going on for months. Seems like I'm also in for November and December. ohh.

Still i'm being happy Alive. ohh. This time around lower temperature but high humidity actually helped me get through these 65 Hours. Night temperature falls pretty fast. But that can be a cons too as body burns more energy to produce heat. Still better whether around and I;m highly enjoying the rough political whether all across the world. Real life is always far far more fun compared to fictional world and plastic faces.

Stock Market going good too. Gold Silver has now calmed down a bit.
Presidential elections gonna increase market volatility quite a lot in all these 4 weeks. be attentive and fight to earn as well as secure your profit. Last week i talked about Children living with parents because of economy's effects and this week - I consider 500k+ a rich household and everything in distance is upper-middle-household and middle-income-household.
I want to be rich for this to be right.

It is a well known fact that Korean celebrities can make more from endorsements and promotional events than singing or acting projects. Part of it is based on the Korean agency model which charges back all expenses to the artist (especially heavy debt loads for younger talent). Top stars have been reported to earn around one billion won (~$836,270.00) a year from such endorsements.

There is nothing wrong with cashing in on one’s popularity. CLOY was a huge hit in Japan. This week, Son Ye Jin held a virtual Japanese fan meeting. In the past, an audience of 1,000 would sit in a theater to interact with a star. Viewers were charged $16 to see the two hour event where SYJ sat in a small studio answering (prescreened) questions with a moderator and translator. Reports have it that 50,000 to 80,000 people attended this virtual meeting for a gross between $800,000 to $1.28 million.

Last year, The Korea Herald reported that BTS raked in 93.6 billion won ($77.2 million) from ticket sales for their Love Yourself: Speak Yourself world tour in May and June 2019. The group also live-streamed their Wembley concert on June 1 via VLIVE, which charged $28 per viewing. A reported 756,600 checked out that concert.

BTS charged $35 to catch the show, or $26 for members of BTS’s Army fan club, which means the band drew in between $19 million and $26 million in ticket sales. Rolling Stone magazine remarked that in perspective, Ed Sheeran’s Divide tour — which Pollstar ranks as the highest grossing concert tour of all time — grossed $775.6 million over 2.5 years and 255 dates, or about $3 million per show. BTS’s virtual show would reach that same gross in under 40 dates. And with considerably fewer expenses than what comes with a traditional, multi-date tour across the world, BTS can likely keep much more of that cash.

The revenue generating power of a simple fan meeting live stream is staggering. Fans are willing to pay to watch their favorites on a screen instead of in person. And apparently, it is going to be the future of entertainment distribution (fueled in part due to the pandemic).

I've started watching The World of the Married and just saw the scene above! :P Oooh this drama is addicting! I'm sure I'll be up all night. Happy weekend to everyone! :D

Someone wants to run away to Mars together? Thanks to beanies, dramas and azzo's wedding posts, I still know the world isn't that bad and there are good people around. But sometimes I need a reassurance of that because we are time and again reassured that it is bad.
I was watching this clip of Dive studios, where PH-1 (current oppa lol) discusses how he is hesitant about the idea of having kids. If you would've asked me this a few years ago, I wouldn't have sided with him but now this world looks so messy and dangerous for kids and humans in general that even I question why should one bring another life in this hell of a world. Need some assurance that good people exist and they are aplenty hah but that's why I'm here even if I've never met any of you I know you all are great!

Silly me. I've lived most of my life in Southern California and grew up with jokes about how we were all going to fall into the ocean when the big earthquake came.
I just didn't realize the whole state was going to burn down to the waterline first.

happy friday beanies ! :-)

i actually did manage to watch some episodes over this week— i got up to episode 10 of fight for my way. i felt a bit of a lull there (nothing wrong with the drama, i just got used to watching multiple shows in quarantine), so i actually started because this is my first life and have finished episode 4 so far. already am in love with lee min ki and jung somin, and it’s kinda funny that this is the 5th drama i’ve seen kim sun young in (7th if i include cameos!) i haven’t seen @juniebug in a while on the OT, but if you’re out there, i just wanted to thank you for recommending these dramas to me, and i hope everything is well with you :-)

i may drop flower of evil— i only got up to ep 7 and saw that many people were displeased with the writing— thoughts?

i have a very strong urge to watch my ahjussi— clips keep coming up on my explore page and iu’s performance seems so good already, but i don’t know if i want to start it because i’ve heard the beginning is dark, and i don’t know if i can handle a dark show right now…

my act is next week and i do not know if it will happen for sure, but stay tuned to find out! school is just really stressful, everyone says the first half of senior year would be hard and i understood that, but i think experiencing it is a whole other story. i already have as much work as i did as last year, so i’m kinda worried. i guess the one thing that i’m happy about is there’s no fomo— it really hurt last year to see all my friends being invited to parties and i just never got invited places. i know that it’s kinda twisted to say i’m happy that the pandemic has stopped people from having parties, i’m sorry, but there’s a longer story behind that that i just do not want to get into. 

i’m sorry, i feel like i complain a lot each week. i do have a good life and good friends and family, it’s just that when i am tired, the bad things seem to eclipse the good-- but i will try to keep my head up :-)

besides homework, i have just been doing applications every moment of free time. i think the lack of seeing my friends and not being able to watch dramas is getting to me, but i know that by the end of the month i will be less busy because my key essays will be ready by then— i don’t know if i want november to come slower so that i don’t have to work on these essays, or if i want it to come faster so i’ll be done then!

wishing everyone a happy weekend! <3

love and hwaiting,
shachi <3

Happy Friday, beanies!!
I'm specially happy today, because I start 10 days of holidays!! Yes!!
It's been a very stressful month and a half because of work, I've suffered from migraines, headaches and anxiety almost everyday and, but now I'm having 10 days to rest and disconnect from everything.
And it will literally be disconnected as I'm going to my dad house where I will be wifi-less: no pc, no cell phone, no calls from work, just walks in the countryside and lots of reading.
I will miss beanies and dramas, but I'm dreaming about all the sleep and rest I will take!!!!

Hi beanies. I'm just very tired with all that is happening around me and upset. So we got a new cpu cause our old one was getting repaired and my brother ruined that also. We were yet to get an antivirus but he still went ahead and tried to download movies from uTorrent despite me REPEATEDLY warning him not to. Now my computer is infected. There is no sound and Google chrome is the only app that works. Absolutely nothing else works. I am unable to even open the system settings. I tried looking online for help but nothing is working. It's so sad because I really loved working on my pc. Also we've forgotten our wifi password so we have limited data on our phones. We can't tell dad about this cause he will not get it repaired since we just ruined a previous system. I am really angry at my brother. People should really learn how to listen to others.
The good thing is that I have 18 Again to help me cope with this situation. It's a wonderful show and I relate to it a lot as an Asian kid. I love how it shows various aspects of parental love. It makes me appreciate my dad a little more. I'm getting anxiety about college since it hasn't started and covid cases in my country seem to be hitting milestones. It's an awful time to be a student for sure. Every day feels the same and I am unable to even focus on reading but I'm trying my best to work on it. Our nation is currently rocked by the rape of a lower caste woman. It happened in my state it's hard not to be affected by all of this. Here's to gathering strength to move forward beanies.

Happy weekend Beanies and keep Beaning On!

To live up to the Monday reputation, one employer did not wait until October as agreed to deliver the bad news. The feedback report discussed all the required competences for the job and my scores for each of them. To score well you have to explain for each competence in thorough detail an example of a situation in your past work experiences where you used that competence accordingly. You can use other fields like studies, hobbies,…if you cannot rely on your work experiences, but you must prepare an example and present it (This is the STAR method, for those who are familiar with it).

So I also used other fields, because I only scored temp jobs up until now, and temps do not get authority to attend meetings or speak up, or are allowed to do much at my previous work places. Or there was authority, but limited knowledge about the matter, so speaking up would actually cause harm. Of course, despite explaining all this to the exam jury, my report card says that I am not capable or willing to take any initiative, speak up, and my absolute favorite: I hide behind my colleagues as soon as it gets tough…🤦‍♀️😤 I actually thought their interview was the most successful one. I cannot wait for the results of the other 3 now.🙄

This feedback report ended up giving me a small career crisis, and I even considered changing majors again from administration to…and that is where my mind drew a blank.🤔 My lack of tempo (hence my username) does not make for a good match, and rushing me is like demanding a blind person to see well. This decision seemed so urgent and made me feel so lost for most of the week. Fortunately the problem is not that I picked the wrong major, but that I keep picking employers I do not match with.😌 I may be smart enough to be a civil servant, judging from my master’s degree and my job exam results, but I doubt whether a turtle like me would survive in a jungle workplace like that where only the hares who are always multiple steps ahead of everyone else, survive.

Officially, there is no need to despair until I am rejected by the other remaining employers as well, but why wait for that when there are many other potential job applications and job hunt strategies to consider?🤔 I am glad that I have some semblance of job hunt motivation left after September, because K-drama binging without a care does not solve my unemployment. However, some clarity would help to have the best of both worlds, there are too many interesting K-dramas airing to be responsible all the time you know!😆

Hello! Happy Friday! I’m new here (and to the k-drama world). I’d love to hear what everyone is watching these days.

Hello and happy Friday to all you beanies around the world. I don't write much but always come and read the wall.
Lately I haven't been on much as I've been watching the Chinese drama called "With You" on the WeTV channel. It's about how life was changed in Wuhan China during December 2019. They are telling real life stories with famous actors and actresses. At the end of each 2-episode story they show pictures of the real people being honored.

I tell you, it's very moving and reminds me of how so many people around the world have suffered from the virus. Not only China but Italy and New York City among other places who went through weeks of so many cases and daily deaths. I watched it on the news but couldn't really feel it.

Yes this is a drama and so isn't telling how China hid the news for a whole month - watch CoronaNation for that - but it tells how scary it was.

The past 6 months of unemployment during a pandemic, wild fires in the valley around me, watching a government who doesn't seem to care for its electorate has been hard. But still I'm healthy and have enough.

So I watch these shows to remind myself and let my heart hurt for those who have and still are suffering so much.

Sorry if this is kind of somber writing.... but it's how I feel right now.
maybe the only good news is now that tRump has supposedly tested positive for COVID, we won't be subjected to any more of his incoherent-unhinged-outofcontrol debate performances.
See I try to find something positive every day!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Subway, which was a PPL staple in k-dramas, was this week in the news.
In a sales tax case, the Irish Supreme Court ruled Subway bread is not "bread" because it contains up to 10% sugar ratio. To be a non-taxable "staple" bread, it must be under 2%.

Hi all, happy Friday. One day blends into the next and it’s October! Watching DYLB?, More Than Friends (which I like, there’s been comments about the male lead- but I like the way Ong Seinfeld Wu plays our emotionally damaged and walled up Lee Soo), Record of Youth my #1. I’ve gotta pick up Lies of Lies again. My Dear Youth Coffee Prince is a fun look back by the cast members 13 years later. Now I just hope Viki picks up. Offer Prince for a grand rewatch of a kdrama classic! Stay stress-free dear beanies! ❤️owl

Hello all:
Hoping all is well with you all. The woodchucks, squirrels, chipmunks, and all manner of rodentia are making one side of my garden look like a storm hit it. They're so cute though. Hard to hate their shenanigans when they're so darn huggable.

Dramas:
Stranger 2 is my only watch right now. I can't praise it enough. I've watched every episode holding my breath. Who knew we all loved Prosecutor Seo so much? Heck, who knew Prosecutor Shi-mok loved Prosecutor Seo so much? I hope by the end both guys realize how much of a friendship they have together. Am wondering what mental or physical issue our kidnap victim will have when he recovers. He better not be totally sound and perfect when all this is over. It doesn't ring true. Am so happy that his wife is shown as loving him and that we are shown that for all his whiny sleazy desperation he was a great prosecutor.

I didn't see the end of Flower of Evil. I kinda lost interest when it disposed of an interesting storyline.

Was watching Alice but i kept fearing they were dropping hints of making the erstwhile mother/son into fated lovers from another timeline. I know they wouldn't do that but it all made me very uncomfortable so i dropped it last week.

Gotta catch up on Missing: the other side. I guess it's good but i kinda lost interest.

Haven't watched Zombie Detective. I started the first episode and got overwhelmed by the whole death thing. Yeah, i know..maybe the effect of too many dead bodies and rotting corpses in true crime dramas. Maybe all the covidity around. So i stopped watching.

Saw Matchless Mulan on youtube, which is a Chinese-made Mulan adaptation. Very good.

Not into any cdramas right now but i might be watching The longest night on iqiyi.

Happy weekend all, and keep safe and healthy.

Happy friday, beanies! My phone broke down slightly the other day after have fallen down on the floor one too many times, the touch sensor works sometimes and sometimes refuses every command I make or make up it's own command. I am obviously unnerved by this as my morning alarm and current favorite novel resides in my phone, but I'm secretly enjoying the un-ability to answer texts. Multiple texts are my nemesis.

I picked some rose-hip last weekend and made both marmelade and soup on this. As my hands have healed during the week (and the pain of the alcoholic gel at work stung less than anticipated), I'll try to pick some more this weekend and dry to use over the winter for more soup (which my children won't touch anyway).

And since the reply function of the peanut butter discussion is no longer viable, I just have to say I picked up the best recipe for peanut butter cookies. I can't stand the dryness of peanut butter, but in cookies and frostings it's awesome. To go with some coffee, aww heaven...

Happy Friday (well Saturday here), all!

I’m grumpy because the neighbours were having a party till 3am last night (possibly longer but that’s when I fell asleep- I’m very tempted to go and start mowing the lawn now it’s morning and they’re all quiet 😈 )

It’s been a nice week though. We visited my parents farm, the weather was hugely stormy for the first bit then beautiful. The kids had a ball. (Also, I have to say thank you to whoever posted the dance practice clip of Criminal on the fan wall - my 6yo loves it and keeps trying to do the choreography, which is hilarious).

I know it’s only October, but there seem to be lots of creative types here so thought I’d ask - anyone here going to do NaNoWriMo? I haven’t done it for years but I’m thinking about doing it this year.