I didn’t even post ONCE during an open thread!

How could I let this happen?

(umm, lessee… major recapping project, BON translating CH lyrics/Ep17/Ep19, trying to finish CM/GJGJ/NH, work, sleep, eating)

Still, no excuse!

I spoke today with the good folks over at YA Entertainment. They can’t say anything yet with respect to City Hall and the rumor that they are obtaining the rights to US distribution of the official DVD set (nor whether it would be a Director’s Cut or a normal version). But, in efforts to mollify me, they did say that they will be releasing the official Boys Over Flowers, the DVD set, in two volumes, in Nov / Dec of 2009, ready for the Holidays. If I were more into BOF (which we’ve not seen), then I might have been mollified. But I’m not, so I am not.

If no US distributor (YA Entertainment or similar company) will pick up City Hall, then I’m a little fearful that City Hall will become like Hong Gil Dong – where in Korea they produced a normal and a collector’s edition version of the official DVD set, but didn’t produce anything for the US, leaving the US market completely screwed.

This opened up the market to bootleg distributors of HGD, who produced Region 0 DVD sets, and sell them on eBay and places like that.

And small world, guess whose main and spot translations (made through WITHS2) we were shocked to see come up on a particular bootleg HGD episode that we watched? When we saw that, we tossed the DVDs and watched the rest online. And we won’t ever buy bootlegs again, after we saw that people were making money off of JB’s and other people’s work product.

The price to pay is that if City Hall and other really good dramas like HGD don’t make it to the US, then the only way to get the real DVD sets is to get a region-free or a multi-region DVD player.

On the brighter side, my boyfriend said I might get to see him this weekend! Hopefully he won’t disappoint lol.

Having closure is important but sometimes we all don’t have it either. My first love did the same and I never did get closure either. It hurts but I admire you have someone now great in your life. Hopefully you can put that “thread” that binds you and put it in a box and throw away the key. Good luck and thanks for sharing.

@mishane
Aw the question on where are you from? I used to be back and forth about why cannot that person ask my ethnicity? Now that I am older I could care less. (I am Chinese American.) I agree with others I sometimes ask to get it out of the way too. But I ask “what is your ethnicity?” instead of where are you from though based on a person’s accent I do ask “where are you from?” first.

As for Korean phrases, I picked up alot watching dramas too. Now I have taken some basic classes in Korean and know a bit more. But my listening is thousands of times better than my ability to speak Korean.

@mazipakipot
the taiwanese dramas are more popular internationally. the chinese dramas sometimes have better acting and less cheezy or tacky since they are not geared towards popularizing the pop idols like the taiwanese dramas. the martial arts ones you saw were probably from hong kong, who has long been well-known for dramas – i grew up watching them.

Dramabeans: I have been following your twitter, you seem to eat a lot of junk food. Do you weight more than 200 pounds? ^___________^

Chinese HYD? hmmm…not sure if i wanna watch it.

2 and a half years later, I’m at a prestigious college with the most amazing boyfriend a girl can ask for. I love him so so much…and because of my mistakes, I’ve seen how fragile his heart is. He did not like it when I still contacted my ex on a friends basis, and it even hurt his feelings so…for his happiness I’ve cut off contacts with my ex.

But you know..I never got my closure. I never had an outburst, a release. I never told the guy how hurt I was and how much I wanted to ask him ‘what right do you have to step on my feelings, give yours away so easily, and then just to have them trampled on? What Right Do You Have!?’ The girl broke up with him, and he had both mental and physical depression because of it. I’m not the weak girl I used to be. I am stronger than him, for I moved on and forgave and accepted. But…no matter how much new love has nourished one’s heart, scars cannot be undone. I want so much to have that closure. To officially tell him that I’m over him and tell him of the scars he left on my heart. The innocent first love that he has shattered. But…can I..? Not when the heart of my most precious love might tremble with hurt at knowing a single thread still connects that person and me. The single thread of our past…

But love, you are my present and my future. I want to hold your hand at graduation, brace the hardships of life together the way we went in. I want to be your wife, bear your children, grow old with you. I want to never make you hurt.

I love him so much…I wish he’d understand and watch over me as I close off that stained page of my past and lift this weight off my shoulders. Sorry for the long rant…I doubt anyone would read this since we are going into Sunday. But I had to put these thoughts somewhere and Javabeans’ safe haven is where I put my trust. Thanks for this wonderful Open Thread series, Sarah (as I’ve heard others call you). I’m a quiet yet loyal reader here, and through your words you have earned my utmost respect and affection. Never let the passion stop flowing!