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My new cat Maeby! Too bad she didn’t come with a sister I could name Surely. Her new favorite game is Catch the Red Laser Dot. My new favorite game is Direct the Laser Dot Back and Forth on the Hardwood Floors so the Cat Slides All Over it Like a Feather Duster on Speed.

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My new favorite game is Direct the Laser Dot Back and Forth on the Hardwood Floors so the Cat Slides All Over it Like a Feather Duster on Speed.

LOL

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Maeby! What a cool name.

By the by, would the cat's Korean name be 매비 or 메비? Generally speaking, wouldn't it be the latter, since its a romanization?)

Happy Friday Open Thread JB!

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Maeby is gorgeous! Great name, beautiful cat. She looks a lot like my Oscar!

Happy OT Friday, y'all. Seems like it took forever to get here this week.

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Maeby looks cute!

Just curious, JB are you Korean? ;)

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Haha, an Arrested Development fan.

I loved that show.

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Hi Everyone! Happy Friday :) What a beautiful morning...beautiful enough to inspire me to go for a run...hmm now if only I can find that pair of shoes that been collecting cobweb. This should be interesting!

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P.S. Your cat is just too cute!

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looks like a shy cat! so cute!!

i have 1.5 pages of this paper to still write and bs (cuz i didn't outline it before hand) before i haul myself off to class to hand it in and endure a 3 hour discussion/lecture on a topic that I hate. been a hectic last 2 days and i feel like death warmed over (except i'm sort of freezing in the library...and hungry.)

i can't wait to get out of class, eat lunch/dinner, visit a friend, and then return home to watch episodes 5 and 6 of You're Beautiful!!

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Maeby is absolutely beautiful!

Thank you for recapping "You're Beautiful," it really helps because I can't watch it now because of school -_-;

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I've been watching Loving You 1000 times and, well. Loving it!

I forgot how much I adored when the guy liked the girl first, like in Brilliant Legacy.

Plus the guy who plays Kang Ho is friggin hot. He's got what I like to call an American Football Player's body, or at least the ones you see on the CW. Tall but not skinny. Not too beefy either. Just. Perfect.

And his hair is fun. I like it.

Fine, I like everything. He's just very good looking.

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Yay! Arrested Development!
BEST...SHOW...OF...ALL... TIME!!
I'm naming my next dog George Michael, or motherboy... =)

And Maeby is a cutie!

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I like the name Tobias.

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loving the song as always!!
e=mc^2. word, yo.
... too much physics... XD

maeby is so cute!! white paws are way too cute. :)

cannot wait for next week's you're beautiful!!! this show is beyond crack - i don't even know what it is anymore. it's just AWESOME >< and javabeans is AWESOME for doing the recaps, and super-fast too~ 감사합니다~!

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She's adorable!

My new favorite game is Direct the Laser Dot Back and Forth on the Hardwood Floors so the Cat Slides All Over it Like a Feather Duster on Speed.

Well, if it saves you time on cleaning... :P

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eagerly waiting for the next wednesday, means, another eps of you're beautiful!
i'm glad that you seemed to like this series too, javabeans. that means, you'll keep updating about this drama's status. hehe. watching the series just incomplete without reading your recaps and comments about it.
thanks for all your hardwork, keep up your awesome writing styles!

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Spamming you with quotes:

Tobias: Michael, you are not quite the ladies man I had pictured. Hopefully, we will remedy that when we are in the spa spreading body chocolate on each other.

Tobias: Okay, Lindsay, are you forgetting that I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world's first analrapist.

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Awww, cute. But the description of your game with Maeby is putting a psychosomatic tickle in my throat--I'm wildly allergic! Ah-choo!

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You're Beautiful is The Crack, but IRIS is The Awesome. I am officially in love with Jung Joon-ho. And he's the right age! Can I officially claim him as MINE?

I'm gonna need a bigger house for all these men.

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Oh JB. You've won my heart forever with your cat name.

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I am in love with "You're Beautiful"!!! I really hope it isn't emotionally exhausting(although it is starting at ep6) as City Hall/Hana Yori Dango/My Girl. My heart is as painful as MN's at TK kissing at He-Yi(not to mention so passionately) I should drink more water as well :x

Anyway, I really want to thank you for your recaps! It really save lots of time for me when I'm too busy to watch a drama and I'll just read your recaps with your songs attached at every post :D

Nice name for a cat! My mother doesn't allow our family to have a pet hehe. I want to have a pet dog though...and I want to name it Jeremy if it's a male and Jolie if it's a female*hint hint*

After my national exams I am going to learn Hangul!!! I think that sometimes English can't really express those strong feelings in some dramas which is being spoken in another language(E.g. Japanese, Korean and Chinese-although I understand Chinese) BUT your recaps are still wonderful!!!
By learning Hangul, maybe I will not have such a hard time understanding what they are saying and do not have to rely on subs like now >.<

I hardly comment(I'm always a silent reader hehe), so sorry!!! Have a good weekend!!! Can't wait for next Wednesday where there will be a SNSD parody in You're beautiful!! :D:D:D:D:D
*doki doki*

and again, have a great weekend!!! For me I must study~ =.=

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Javabeans! Your cat is soooo adorable! 'Grats on your new favorite game ;)

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JB, what a beautiful cat! And I don't say that just because I am somewhat partial to cats (and by "somewhat partial to" I mean adore and obsesses over). What a cute name, and maybe at some point you can add a Surely or a Possibly or a Sure Why Not to the family. I hope that she is a cuddler! There is nothing like hand-raised cats who are cuddle-fiends. It's like your arms and lap are perpetually reserved.

Enjoy your new baby - - they grow up so fast, and then they don't call or write....

I love the first photo -- that's how I am every week/word day morning, hoping that if I bury my head into a pillow long enough, I won't have to deal.

Which reminds me: back to the grind...

Thanks for a great blog, and happy Friday.

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I Iove IRIS the most.. Lee Byun Heun is a hotteeee!!!!!!!! JB, i hope you'll continue with the recaps. can't wait to read your opinion. BTW, i.m also watching you're beautiful. can't believe we can watch 2 great drama at the same time...

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@18 langdon813 - Oct 23, 2009

You’re Beautiful is The Crack, but IRIS is The Awesome. I am officially in love with Jung Joon-ho. And he’s the right age! Can I officially claim him as MINE?

I know! In total agreement with you! Wed-Thursday have turned into something else for me... All I do all day long on those days is to check if subs(those quick collaborated effort by Viikii people, because of that, I've already been recruited and signed onto another Jdrama project, which wasn't my intention... But, hey, I really do appreciate the fact we can watch them within 24hours after they are aired).

And now, I have to go to work without finishing Iris Episode. 4! I'll be thinking of it in London for next 3 days... Yikes...

By the way. Jdrama, Tokyo dogs is really good: corny, tacky and hysterical, with Mizushima Hiro and Oguri Shun. It's sort of J version of Black and White(I LOVED the drama soooooooo much thanks to ockoara and others recommending/raving about it on this site).

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Congratulations on the new cat!!! Maeby - welcome to kdramaland!!!

I'm going out on a limb since I don't recall anyone who has, but I totally and completely claim TOP!!!! MINE!!!!

Drooling at work is so frowned upon, but I couldn't help it! Watched the promo clip with his scenes and he is smokin!

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how heavy is your cat? your cat from where?

is cat’s Korean name 매비?

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as interior designer, my first comment in my head when i saw your pictures : "Wow, Javabeans seems have a nice home." I like the windows, and your sofa looks comfy. :P

Maeby is really creative name! Congratulations for having a new pet!! Me myself, don't like the idea of having a pet of any kind.

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@23 Thank you so much on the news about Oguri Shun - can't wait to his new drama!

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Aww! I love cats! I have 1 black cat, I'd want to adopt more but our building management only allows 1 cat per unit. :(

I call mine Ambien, because he always makes me fall asleep after a session of cuddling and snuggling. Not good when you're super late for work.

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Happy Friday party people! Awesome kdramas right now mean life is GOOD. Dithering over whether to watch 5+6 of YAB subless - thing is, I can watch it once with subs and THEN watch without, but doing it the other way around and missing things they say hurts my anal heart. Also, do I want to start IRIS (is capitalisation required?), can I stand to wait for a suspense drama? Although, *cough*, have already watched ep2's kiss scene multiple times. I like how on the kiss vid on YT, a korean I presume lady commented on how Kim Tae Hee has lost her youth and good skin but at least her acting has gotten a bit better. Nice.

Also, as ever, the worries about killing download limits and having to pay extra to the evil that is TalkTalk. Thing is, I honestly wouldn't mind except that a)that would be encouraging TalkTalk's mission to rule the world and b)I have student loan to spare, indeed, but I could do it a lot easier if I had a job. Which I would get if a)anyone on this planet thought me a worthy employee for anything and b)my law textbooks loosened their grip on my leash.

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Awww, she is SO CUTE! My favourite game has always been Trap the Cat in the Fitted Sheets While Changing the Bed Linens. My cat's has always been Lay On the Keyboard and Prevent Productivity. I love my baby. :D

I've been having boy troubles this past week, and it's all my own fault. ANGST. How do you (nicely) reject a (very very sweet) guy who once (casually) dated your ex-roommate (with whom you're still close) and with whom you had one (very fun) date with but for whom you have no feelings for (and haven't even thought about since said date) and who is insisting on cooking you dinner tonight? Seriously, he seems to really like me, and I'm feeling incredibly guilty for having unintentionally led him on.

I suck at this dating game. Kill me now!

In other news, my mother read a novel last week by a Korean-American author about the Japanese occupation in Korea, and she's finally managed to pick up some Korean words. XD She still claims she'll never be able to learn Korean, but that's okay; I find it amusing (and sweet) that she's developing an interest for my sake.

Off to class! :D Where I get to learn more about the Chinese Revolution with a (very white) professor who may or may not be a Mao fanboy. Hrm.

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@ b020,

lovenyc52 might not accept your claim on TOP as she has already done so in previous OT. just thought you'd like a heads up on the fight ahead. heehee..

i watched part of ep 1 of IRIS this AM and i'm totally loving LBH even more.. he has the most brightening smile and his gaze.. so captivating.. it's as if he's looking only at me when the camera closes up on his beautiful face. and the shirtless scenes are just icing. i typically don't like icing on cake, but lemme lick all the icing on this one. YUMMY!!!

as much as i LOVE LBH's eyes, i can NOT stand KTH's. whatever emotion she is trying to portray just always looks evil and scary. she'd make a really scary ghost w/ those eyes. i would actually prefer if she did not emote anything. just stood there and looked pretty. she does that well.. but don't use your eyes. they still scare me.

and i'm so proud of myself. i remembered OT today. YAY!

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My wife absolutely hated cats until Oliver came into our life. He was thrown out of a house down the street because he couldn't get along with their new dog, and we saw him looking in our doorwall one bitterly cold day. I got her to agree to letting him stay in the garage,and slowly,he edged his way into the house,and into both our hearts. Now she calls him her 'baby'.

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*tickles Maeby*..what a cutie!
i have a couple of kitties too..their favourites games are Play-Dead and they sleep the whole day..

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What an adorable cat! And I'm glad it's Friday...just got of a 2 hr Physical Chem exam. This means, I can finally re-watch You're beautiful in one go, instead of in middle of study breaks.

You're Beautiful is definitely addictive and I think I'm in love w/ JGS again (I actually liked him a lot in the first half of HGD, especially his scenes w/KJH). And I know people complain about the eyeliner---but it's kind of grown on me. ::sigh:: The smile he gave Mi-nyeo in Episode 5 was so so cute! It'll be interesting to see what happens in the next episode and I really wonder if the reporter is going to stop looking for the "mystery" girl.

What am I going to do until next week? Start Iris? hmm, not a bad idea and they have Soul up on dramafever and I've been meaning to watch it...and the timing is kind of perfect since Halloween is next weekend.

@celestialorigin
I saw that the ratings for the first episode were pretty high and I'm super psyched to see Oguri Shun in this drama (though I think it's kind of interesting that ever since HanaDan, he's been a bit typecast as the introverted, quiet, etc person in everything afterwards---though I haven't seen Binbo Danshi yet)

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@34 Taohua

I really liked Soul, I was thinking of watching it again myself. It is creeeeepy!

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lol my cat's new game is throw the hair band under the stove or fridge and watch my parents or I getting it from under there using various long objects, and then after a minute putting it right back inside and repeating the process all over again.

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Happy Friday!! Spent last night watching YB and omg...totally cracktastic and i love it..cannot wait for the next one!!! Tried to start Iris ep 3 but was too tired to concentrate and LBH and TOP deserves all my attention.

@b020 - wait wait wait!!!!!!! i love TOP too.... :( can we share? prettttttty please????? i have to admit. i was too tired to watch IRIS last night cuz i spent a good 2 hours watching Big Bang videos, rewatching the Haru Haru MV 89 times and then i went and watched just the TOP clip of this week's ep. the kid is so bad boy and delish and rocks the manliner like no other.

@celestialorigin - my friend is currently studying in tokyo and says there are giant posters of Tokyo Dogs up everywhere and has been sending me cellphone pics of them haha. i love me some oguri and mizushima!! got too many dramas on my plate right now so this one is on the backburner, but definately gonna watch it!!

@JB - maeybe is too cute!! glad you're having fun with her hehe.

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JB - love your new cat, love the cat's name (please start posting additions to icanhazcheezburger lolcats), love your favorite cat's game (ooooh, I'm rhyming by accident), love your apt view with the requisite dissiduous tree outside to mark the changing of the seasons, oh whatever - I think I love you. I hereby proclaim JB my inappopriate girl-crush.

Now that I've gotten *that* out of my way - I also think I love You're Beautiful with the fervor of a thousand hot suns. But I'm kinda too scared to really comment on JB's recaps, because the comment thread is suddenly crawling with a bazillion folks, and I'm all, woah, and they're all, squee, and I'm like, I think I'm too old to be fangirly YB with this crowd, but they're like "poor Shin-woo" "no! Tae-kyung", and I realize that I'm happily just along for the ride. Was it this crazy during the Boys Before Flowers recap days, folks? I don't know, I read the recaps then went to bed, never once read a comment.

BTB Samsooki - I am eagerly awaiting the birth of baby Rain AND the return of CH recaps, both, and not one more than the other. I do miss the CH contingent - and I know quite a few stayed around in OT, but it was a fun comment forum after each recap, wasn't it?

I'm still not on the IRIS watch yet - I'm actually going to pick up the Tamra box set this weekend because I made a long overdue promise to the Islanders that I'd get on the darn ship. And I shall. I really am feeling the cute, sweet, romance drama these days - done intelligently of course.

And lastly, I may be the only dog person here (I have nothing against cats, really), but I haz myself a little shih-tzu named Maru that waves hello to Maeby. He loves cats, cuz he doesn't realize he's a canine. He was afraid of the mouse in the house we had one horrible day - poor silly thing.

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@lb_tmi - haha!!! i like how we both posted about my love for TOP at the same time... totally didn't see ur post till after mine was done. and isn't IRIS great? LBH's eyes really are totally mesmerizing... watch YB... really. it's so good. and JGS is kinda really hot. glad you got my back about TOP though.. the fight begins! LOL!!!

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Does anyone know when Kim Rae Won, Kim Jae Won and Gong Yoo will return from army duty?

I'd like to see them in a single drama together.....

Gamble of His Life

Gong Yoo plays a compulsive gambler / alcoholic who purposely dumps the love of his life, Go Hyun-Jung, a bookstore assistant manager, to prevent her from witnessing his downward spiral.

Kim Jae Won is Gong Yoo's younger brother, a medical doctor, who is patient and devoted to Gong Yoo even in the midst of hard times, not the least because all throughout their childhood, Gong Yoo protected his younger brother from abuse from their late, abusive father.

...and rounding out the cast of male leads is the enigmatic and rakishly handsome and possibly evil Kim Rae Won, a bus driver who drives the regular route that has stops at the hospital and at the rehab center that Gong Yoo regularly finds himself checking back in.

And wouldn't you know it, but Kim Jae Won and Kim Rae Won both fall for Go Hyun Jung.... shades of My Love Patzzi? Perhaps, but a grittier, more edgy version. Completing the cast is the epitome of dangerous hotness, Ha Ji Won, who plays Go Hyun Jung's younger, richer, hotter and jealous cousin.

hehe.

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hi fellow OT-ers,
im watching black and white right now and am completely hooked. but i really am not the type to watch mystery/thriller because i get so anxious to find out who's on who's side/who kills who that i will go online and search for spoilers. which obviously, ends up ruining the whole experience. alas, black and white has so many mysteries flying around and i am really confuzzled.
so i wanna ask fellow awesome OT-ers who have watched b&w before, (SPOILERS AHEAD) so san lian hui was the mysterious informant who faxed all those things to pi zi? b/c i thought i heard da yan (san lian hui's big boss's right hand man) say that it was ah de (the undercover cop) who had access to the bar and gave info to pi zi, and that he will try to find out who it is in san lian hui that was giving tips to ah de to give to pi zi. so now im confused cause i thought the fax number came from da yan's office, and that san lian hui gave the tips to pi zi so he could succeed in his cop career (since pi zi is the big boss's son and all)? so is it ah de or san lian hui that gave pi zi all those tips? (END SPOILERS)
i have so many other questions but i think i'll wait and watch the rest of the drama first and hopefully the questions will be answered.

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@38 ockoala

I am eagerly awaiting the birth of baby Rain AND the return of CH recaps, both, and not one more than the other. I do miss the CH contingent – and I know quite a few stayed around in OT, but it was a fun comment forum after each recap, wasn’t it?

Definitely!

The process of drafting, editing and posting has been re-booted, and the process will not stop until finished!

As for baby Rain, more information will come in the days to follow, I'm sure...

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@ 41 annieee

It's Da-yan who always passed tips to Pi-zi under the authorization of the Chairman. The other discussion is a McGuffin - a misdirection. Just like half the information you are told in B&W.

Enjoy the ride. Just know that you are staring at a current reiging Golden Bell Drama King.

@ belleza (from our back-forth in the last OT)

Thanks for entertaining my musings about the casting of YB in 2004. I love 2009 YB, 2009 JGS as TK, and 2009 PSH as MN, and I'm just savoring the drama as it unfurls.

I also would have paid a pretty penny for HJM to stay on as adult SHG in All In, but then my Byung-hun oppa would have been flayed alive even more after canoodling with a teenage HJM. So, it all worked out in the end.

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@ 39 lovenyc52

hey sista from another mista.. i gotta keep you happy if i'm gonna keep me happy. it's cuz we're twins and i feel your pain if you're hurt.. heehee..

i totally need some crack.. i keep saying i'm gonna get me some crack, yet.. i still haven't started YB. i really want to.. and i already LOVE LOVE LOVE the OST.. i just am not good at shuffling multiple dramas at one time..

PLUS! i'm still preparing for my trip. LESS THAN FOUR WEEKS!!! and i'm off to Thailand. i've already started a list of cds and dvds that i NEED to buy when i'm there.

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I don't have time to read the thread at present (as I am late for work, as usual), but...

@ Samsooki (with a capital S)
No one was expecting that ending of HGD.
책임?!
꿈깨라....or else, I'll get JB to sick Maeby on you....hehe ;)
Remember, the Feds are still after you...and as soon as you apply for Ji Hoon's social security number, they'll be crashing down your front door with a SWAT team. :P

@ Sarah
She's adorable. :D

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@ 41 annieee

B&W was such a rollarcoaster ride.. i LOVED it and got all dizzy all at the same time. the twists and turns are all over the place...

hope you enjoy it as much as i did.. YAY! to Marc and Vic, the directors, producers, and the whole cast of the drama.

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@ Samsooki

I think the Kim Wons won't be back for at least another year - duty still beckons. But Gong Yoo is getting discharged in like 2 months! My sister-in-law is a freakishly devout Gong Yoo fan (I trip over his videos, picture books, everytime I'm visiting her), and if I don't stop her, she'll plan a trip to Korea to welcome him back from the Army.

Do you want me to have her shove your screenplay in his hands when she accosts him? He might be intrigued.....and you may have just found your true calling.

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Ooh, Black and White talk. I'm giving myself a week or so to rest up after MNIKSS+ watch and rewatch and rewatch YAB+ catch up on kpop stuff+ wonder yet again whether I should watch s3 of Veronica Mars when it's proclaimed by so many to be suckish... and then B&W is next on my to-watch list. Oh ZaiZai, you beautiful, beauuuutiful thing. *drool* Also I still find it hard to make myself stop thinking him and Barb won't get married someday. Speaking of Barb, last time I saw her was with Show Luo interviewing Kim Sun Ah on MNIKSS - talk about an unexpected fandom collision! Show was quiet though, sorta rocking next to Barb with this 'should I say something now?' look on his face. I hope SO MUCH Shanghai Sweethearts is good, I think Rainie's osm and I LOVE Show, he can do no wrong in my eyes.

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@hjkomo

1. It's a capital S because I'm logged into wordpress and unfortuantely, I cannot change the wordpress login from uppercase to lowercase. I would have to log out of wordpress and then make sure my handle is lowercase, etc.

2. It looks like you aren't going to take chae-gim (책임) for not warning me about Ep 24 of HGD. Therefore, I will bring it back up for next week's open thread. LOL!

Here's what happened:

me: "oh wow, HGD is sooooo awesome. I hope that everybody lives happily ever after!"

hjkomo: "oh yeah, you have totally nothing to worry about, it's a beautiful ending."

(then, with that promise in hand, we watch HGD's ep 24)

me: "wow, that TOTALLY was unexpected."

hjkomo: "I'm not taking responsibility! lalalalalala!"

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