Hey everyone! Have a great weekend!! Currently watching I Am Legend and I'm about to go into the 2nd episode. i LOVE it so far!

Happy Friday!!! this week has gone by so fast, i've not had much time to think or do anything.. or i've forgotten to do it. idk.

so i'm looking for a little help.. any suggestions for baby names for a boy that start w/ "E" and girl names that start w/ "J" i thought about "javabeans" but idt the hubs will approve that one. lol.

so far i have:

Elijah Jewelayna
Edison

The kids actually like Jaxon for a boy and Elayna for a girl.
any suggestions??

My friend djes asked me to jump ahead so here I am. She was getting sick and on wits ends getting constant comments from me about Yang Kang. I mean Yuen Hong. I mean Yang Kang. Anyway, so she asked me to get lost and put my comments here instead. What can I say, she doesn't share the same passion as me. She prefers her boys youngER with six abs.

I started watching LOCH simply because I love this series (story line) more than any other wuxia stories. This is my favourite and I've watched all the series ever made and read the novel (translation - cos I suck at Chinese). I'm a couple of years late but I only managed to get my hands on them now. With djes' help, I must add.

Coming on to the series, I knew I was going to worship Hu Ge. I still do that, but since the first pedicure incident, I started to put my foot on Yang Kang's ship. Now I'm on episode 18 and I don't look back. Both feet are firmly planted on Yang Kang's ship. I still love the chemistry between Huang Rong and Guo Jing, but Yang Kang rocks my socks.

Yuan Hong managed to portray a brooding, intense, charming, playful (doesn't that remind me of Edward Cullen, my other obsession!), and of course utterly handsome Yang Kang. Did I mention intense? And charming? Ohhh.. I never liked Mu Nianci's character before this, because I thought her character is very weak. Had she been strong like Huang Rong, she could make Yang Kang (who's really just a good, loyal kid) stay in the good path. However, while watching this current series, I can't help but feeling jealous of her. With that Yang Kang, I will call myself Mu Nianci anyday.

Yuan Hong is the best Yang Kang! This series strays away from the novel in so many details, but instead of feeling annoyed, I found myself enjoying the new details.

Anyone else has watched the series? Or is watching it right now? Or sharing my shameless obsession with this new Yang Kang?

what's with the twin post of bad guy episode 15?
im confused o.O oh well going to read both now~

Happy ot!

@2: how about Ethan and Jocelyn? Do you give birth to a twin? Congratulation!
Actually I think Javabeans sounds good.

lol okay that was a fast recap from @santa claus hope you find a gd lawyer
now off to read dramabeans's briliant recap
Thank you as always

@ yen_nguyen

thanks! I have an Ethan already.. and my friend's daughter is named Jocelyn. not twins, that i know of. i don't think that i wanna know beforehand the sex of the baby, so i want to have both a girl and boy's name picked out. i wanna be prepared, yet surprised.

@ kappaieru

santa claus was visiting in august, that's all. lol.

Happy Friday!!!!

@ twin
hehe now the WORLD knows. well, the DB/OT world, the only one that matters? I actually like Jaxon and Elayna. So you're gonna switch it up this time huh? OMG please have twins and it'll be like SURPRISE!!! Hope you're feeling better these days... If not, just check shizz's site and it's sure to bring a smile to your face :D

Totally excited about MGiaG - the posters look super duper fun.

Totally dying cuz I'm all caught up on HnH2 and all I want is to watch more. Ahomiya and Buchou are too freakin adorable together... and yet I'm having 2nd male lead syndrome.... but can you blame me? Mukai is just so delish. He's very "Sho" in this... with slightly better clothing hehe. I actually went back to the HYD Movie cuz I read that Buchou was in it... I remember watching the movie the first time and thinking the guy was really hot but had no idea who he was... and now I know... and now I lust. <3

Hi y'all!

I so love Friday nights...

Just started reading recaps of IAL (I am Legend), and I found it quite upbeat, even tho I pity Seol-hee for her lifetime (or will it be?) predicament of a bitchy mother-in-law, a no-good husband whose qualities of cheating, coldness, & inability to even show a little intimacy with his wife can drive even the most cruelest persons to laugh and boast a little of himself...

Just waiting for GG (Gumiho Girlfriend), SS (Seonggyungwan Scandal), & (a little of) PK (Playful Kiss) to even start and get rolling...

I'm content...

And...

OMG!!! "YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL" IS FINALLY GONNA BE SHOWN IN THE PHILIPPINES!!! YESSSSSSSS!!!!!

A.N.JELL PHILIPPINES, LET'S UNITE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am so unhappy with Bad Guy's ending last night, I feel the need to curse at the writer. Few days ago I posted a wild prediction of what I think will happen in soompi, never thought my wild guess was EXACTLY what the bad writer had in mind. it has been a day now and I am still really mad.

Gosh, I love this song. Is it by the same 'Stars' who sang Calendar Girl?

@2 lb_tmi

Depends on what you want , something that's romantic or something that fits the times? Also, a lot of names have religious connotations whether it's Celtic or Christian or Jewish or something else.

Before Twilight, I actually really liked the name Edward. After Twilight became popular, everyone was rushing to name their kids Edward or Eddie or Ed-something. Too common now.

Used to think up dream names for kids and then worry about the nicknames they'll get and then I'd choose the one that seemed safest. Or you could come up with a name yourself. Everyone's giving their kids unconventional names nowadays.

I like Elijah or Eli too.

Names that start with E.

Eamon
Emerson.
Evan
Ethan
Edmund (protector)
Edwin
Edvard/Edward
Edrian

Or if you change your mind and use E for the girl.

Eden
Emmeline.
Emma
Esther
Estelle
Eleanore (so romantic)
Elizabeth

Names starting with J

Boys

James
Jason (really common)
Jeremy (also really common, I know about 10 Jeremy's, but it's up to you, really)
Joseph
Joel
Jayme
Japheth
Jacques
Jamie
Johanan
Johannes
Jorge
Jose

Girls

January
Jenna
Jace
Janie
Joelle
Jacqueline
Janelle
Jocie
Jamie
Jacinda
Jupiter
Jonquille (it's a flower)
Jasmine
Jennifer
Jael
Joy
Josephine
Jessamyn

There you go. I'm pretty sure there are a million choices out there.

oh, and some adds...

from Wiki, I read that Jay Park would gonna be visit in the Philippines around September.
Omo omo omo omo omo omo!!! I hope I'm not too busy then!!! I wanna be part of the Jaywalkers...ehekhekhekhekhek... :b <- (just as how Nichkhun makes his emoticonnies in his Tweets...)
...oh, and I hope his role in "Secret Garden" pushes thru...Jay's in a good year this year (redundant, ryt?)...

at above statement in bold, I just saw the (teeny-weeny) teaser trailer, and it's renamed "He's Beautiful"...cutie title...FTI (esp. Lee Hong-ki)'s efforts didn't go in vain... :D

@lb_tmi
Congratulations! Another pregger blogger again (just like samsooki before)!!!

@12
Oh, so you predicted EXACTLY how it was gonna end? Good for you. Why would the ending piss you off so badly though? I, for one, actually found it...appropriate to say the least. At least he had found peace! And the truth and the real truth for once.

juz bear me for ranting here....hehehe.... :P

okayy, basically blood pressure is rising high now....my stupid broadband goes detected and undetected..... urghhh!!! damn bb!!!

*now dat i dy cool down*

i'm so cannot wait to watch I'm A Legend, Playfull Kiss and My GF is A Gumiho...those are on my list once i go back home (of coz after its premieres on tv not now) hehehe... ;)

i can't stand Bad Guy anymore....pray dat ep 17 comes fast....reading the recaps make me less suffer wif the weird storyline...hahaha....

although Kim Hyun Joong is not so established actor but i'm anticipating PK because of JUNG SO MIN....i think she's going to shot stardom from this drama...take example BOF.... ;)

let's pray PK is not a failure.... Ariel Lin did a good job potraying Ziang Qin's annoying, stubborness, bla...bla...bla... character dat JSM needs to work hard a bit...ganbatte JSM!! hehehe... :)
(btw, i watched the taiwanese version not the original japanese version)

@2 congrats! Janine,Janice,Jemma, Janet, Joan,Jacsine

I'm going for my first Korean BBQ next week in Bournemouth :))))))))))) Can you tell a Brit from Blighty what would be the best thing to try? I'm taking my two daughters aged 16 and 13 and we're not used to food being over spicy. We're very excited (well, alright, I'M excited. My girls are used to my Korean obsession now and they're indulging me).

Watching I Am Leg end. Good so far :)

@ 2 lb_tmi

Yay for expecting. Congrats!

@ 13 therainhouse

Tell me about it. I really loved the names Isabel and Alice. . . .but now not so much.

Anyways! I used my Turbo Jam this week and sweated up a storm. So excited and found out who my roommate is today. Haven't found her on facebook though so I'll have to wait before creeping on her profile. =P

I Am Legend had a good start. And I cannot wait for My Girlfriend is a Gumiho!

BTW. Is anyone going to watch Step Up 3D? I'm just kind of turned off that the movie tickets are going to double because of the stupid "3D effect."

Have a great August weekend! <3

For all the 2pm/ Cinderella's Sister fans out there, have you seen the parody 2pm did at their concert? It's not subbed yet, but I think people who watched the show will get the gist, lol. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfWPorsBuMU&feature=player_embedded

@ 2 lb_tmi

Congratulations, my dear! I'm assuming that it's you expecting and not some random person we don't know. :-)

@ 20 ladymai

I saw that parody yesterday for the first time and laughed quite a bit. I won't go so far as to say it was better than the actual drama, but it was certainly funnier. I much preferred Chansung's Ki-hoon. But Wooyoung-Hyosun was absolutely the best! :D

@ Girlfriday, wherever thou art

You're recapping Playful Kiss, right? I was wondering if Santa could do a recaplet of each episode of Playful Kiss before the full recap is released, like with what happened for Bad Guy episode 15. Television Without Pity also does this and it has always cracked me up. Maybe not every episode. It could be a surprise every now and then. See, I have a feeling that the combination of Santa's distilled recapping style and mangas and Kim Hyun Joong would be epic, and distilling it to ten lines would be epicker.

There's a first-born in it for you, along with those grapes and the ambrosia.

I don't know why I used "distilled" twice. One would think I'd just learned that word. Anyway, Happy Friday, everyone!

@lb_tim

Congrats!

Some suggestions for names:
Boys- Eric, Elliot, Edison, Emmet, Eren, Jason, Jacob, Jerome
Girls- Eireen, Ella, Elaine, Ellie, Janet, Jean, Jonie, Joanna/e, Joelle, Joy

I need to find a new hobby(baking/cooking is really starting to tire me)...and start writing more prose...and stop thinking and obsessing about what will happen in the future, because we only get to live in NOW.

happy friday everyone!

i had this crazy thursday night because i brought home 4 new korean drama dvds, three of which i have seen already, and three of those with kim rae won in it :) lol

i don't know how can i actually squeeze that in my so-busy schedule, but then again i need those to be happy too.. :D

@rovi: you're so lucky you're in the philippines, i want to watch YB in tagalog. although i know someone's going to upload videos, but watching it at home with everyone talking about the drama is something i have been missing in ages.. :) i love korean dramas and love it more when it is in our language ha ha ha..

anyhow, happy OTH everyone.. i'll finish work first :)

@ lb_tmi

Congrats!!!

@ Monica

Yuan Hong? You mean mookie and my loverboy. :-D Seriously, he's our loverboy. I cannot talk about him without collectively throwing OT into another C-drama wuxia binge, so I shall say that we've fangirled him for 2 months straight back in Jan 2010. Check out this OT, start with comment 48 on page 3, and then read on for the next 4-5 OTs.

http://www.dramabeans.com/2010/01/open-thread-116/

Mookie and I were discussing LoCH2008 and even Yuan Hong in Young Yang's Clan. Suffice to say, now we are counting down for Clothing the World to premiere in a few months, where he plays a Song General and his Mu Nianci Ms Liu Shishi plays his OTP a Song Princess. I think that about sums it up how much we love him. And you can stop bugging djes about every little thing he does, because we totally get why he's stolen your heart.

@lb_tmi - congrats!!!! Another baby OT on the way....we're starting our own 2nd generation -lol-

@lovenyc52 - hey, i think it was you that I ranted about WongFu to. Sssooo - guess what? I finally get to see the boys live!! *squee* I'm dragging my friend to their ISA concert in NY at the end of this month (compared to the KMF tickets - these were cheap!). The lineup is pretty sweet - kevjumba&ryan n. as mcs, quest dance crew, david choi, jenni cheung& some others. The west coasters get to see jay park (yes, *that* jay park). Tickets are still on sale if you're interested *winkwink*

Hi javabeans and girlfriday...
Now that coffee house is over, please include your final ratings for the show in "My Drama Ratings" section.....
All the debates surrounding the show when it was on have piqued my interest but i have patiently avoided reading your recaps or watching it online because i religiously follow your numeral scores
I know its too simple minded of me.......but it has always worked for me :)

@ 20 ladymai

omg THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU... this was so full of lols, i don't even know...

@ twin

did you watch the parody?!?! why are the OTPs all mixed up?!?! hehe. and OMG at the mighty junK as the little brother. junbros, WAYLT!??! ang ang as hyosun is so spot-on... his angangness has never been more angang lols. JYP as daesung?!!? i'm sorry, i can't get over the mighty junK and then taec running with khunnie. 2PM WAYLT?!?!?!? give me more. i want.

hey guys
friday
all gone
sat
sleep in

anyway watched bad guy ep 17
and was the worst finale ever
i mean choppy editing, same kdrama twist plot and the ending was wtf
i was trying to think what it was trying to symbolise
cant even sleep becos of it
stupid stupid writer
and in the end the hong tae sung, not gun wook, his personality changed from sad, to good to angry to relief all in the matter of mins
you know what im talking about
great eps up to 16 but 17 was crap

this is coming from a guy who has watched 4-8 diff kdrama a year since 2000

@ twin

feeling a lilo better nowadays. keeping food down alot better than before, which is a good thing for now! tho i did lose 5 lbs last 2 weeks. and i did go to shizz's site. if i weren't already preggos, i swear i woulda bust an ovary! ha!! as i was telling djes, i think i conceived on June 8. had to be. i'm gonna have me another big-eared, full of teeth baby, just like his greasy daddy. i don't think the hubs is gonna appreciate that baby looks more like daddy than hubs. LOL.

i still have to find more time to finish Nodame. then should i move on to HnH and skip the other jodoramas?

LSG looks so cute in those posters of MGiaG. i'm excited for that drama too!! and the fangirl and lover of ISWAK has me curious about PK.

@ therainhouse

i do like most of those names... Elijah is still the top of my list for boys. I like Edward (for Edward Scissorhands!) but don't like Eddie.. both cons for Edward and Edison--which the daughter points out she doesn't like because of her name association to Edison Chen. i like unique and old world names. i also like asian-y names.

@ djes, therainhouse, pat, Rovi, eunha, and Lahlita

thanks! it's been a while, so every experience feels completely new to me again. I really like Jemma too! i'm gonna bring the list to my kids and let them pick out a couple more that they like too!

@Bad Guy Ending,

I actually thought the ending was strong. True to noir (usually noir ends something like this), melodrama, and the core question -- can you ever really come back home again?

I also liked how the romance wasn't really the central force of the show. Like MiSa, it was the humanizing element of the story but not the focal point.

Happy Friday!

@ 20 ladymai

LOL thanks for sharing tht really was HILARIOUS! ohhh i miss Cinderella's Sister. yes even with all the frustrating angst and silent death stares!

I'm down to my last 5 episodes of Brilliant Legacy but I can't bring myself to watch them just yet because i'm still nursing my Bae Soo-bin-related wounds. Sigh, how can someone that perfect NOT get the girl?? SIGH. Will probably resume watching soon tho - it's a great show!
Any Baker King, Kim Tak-gu followers here? I'm semi-following it on KBS World (so I'm pretty far behind) but so far it's pretty intriguing. Only thing that's turning me off is the length of the show. Somehow I'm always afraid of draggy middle parts when the show is more than 16 eps long (read: CInderella's Sister).

Have a great weekend OT-ers!

@ 28 yenchan

the ISA lineup sounds fantastic!! kevjumba has been doin a whole series with WongFu this past summer. and NigaHiga is hilarious :) I love Quest Crew - the guys are hella down (I went to college with a few of them). and to top it off, Jay at the LA show?!?! Ooo, NY gets Quest and LA gets Poreotics... all good, as long as I gots Jay, I'm good to go :)

I HATE BAD GUY!!!!!

Seriously - HGI just totally ruins it for me! I gave up after the first episode, but then because the recaps were great!!! and the stills so pretty, I got suckered into trying another episode(the one with the bromance) and it still sucked!!!!

I'll stick with the recaps and pretty stills - the eye candy can be savored!!!

@ yenchan

just bought 2 tix to the LA show... don't even know who I'm gonna be able to drag with me there... but I am not missing out on WongFu and Jay/AOM together.

@ twin

oh im glad you're feeling better!! haha when i first got the taec banner all i could think was OMG HIS EARS lols. and why are all his pics super teethy. he has like twice as many as the normal human being.

yes, after nodame, go onto HnH. You can DL it subbed on d-addicts. People are still seeding (yay!) and HnH2 is subbed on viikii (which is now miraculously working on my mac w/o the plug-in!) It's such a freakin fun show - won't disappoint :)

@ 42 djes

seriously, thanks for sharing shizz's site. i go on there EVERYDAY cuz she's just too damn hilarious/dirty/ridiculous/dirty/creative/dirty/ingenious//dirty.... i haven't gotten a tumblr account just yet to stalk tho... and it's perfect for me since i totally stan chanslut... i stan the mighty junK too.... too bad she respects him too much LOLs!!!!

@ twin

i only saw parts of the parody.. and i LOVED it!! i will definitely have to check ladymai's link when i get home (leaving in 45 mins :) ) for the full clip. how sad is it that i couldn't tell the difference between Khun and MGY? ha! and i love how Taec still gets to portray toothy Jungwoo. junK is baby bro Junsu.. SO EPIC!! but wtf w/ JYP as Daesung? ha! can't wait to see that part.. oh angang.. how angang!!! 2pm parodies are so full of FAIL that they are EPIC WIN!!!

i'll fly out and go w/ you!!!

@ everyone else

thanks.. you all are the bestest. i love sharing happy news with my DB/OT family. :)

@honest_will,

"anyway watched bad guy ep 17
and was the worst finale ever
i mean choppy editing, same kdrama twist plot and the ending was wtf"

I thought the ending was great, and the plot twist worked (the story had been setting that up all show, including SGW's flashbacks to mom choking him.) In fact, the story essentially ended at the same place it began. Next to the ocean, starting out in the daytime, and ending in the evening.

i'm watching the parody...it's hilarious!!! hahahaha....
totally make my day....:)
totally opposite of the angsty CS....
I LOVE IT!!!! ;)

@ djes and twin

i wish shizz would just lower her respect for junK and just get all slutty w/ him as she does w/ all the others. he deserves it just as much as the others!! ha!!

btw.. the taec banner is so creepily gorgeous. ahh.. my baby daddy is such a dork!!!