Happy Friday, Beanies!

I managed to watch the finale of The Good Place earlier today and I honestly don't know what to feel right now. I kept convincing myself that the show wouldn't end if I won't watch the last episode but I couldn't resist the play button. It was a good ending to a good and consistent show and I am pretty satisfied, especially with Tahani and Michael's conclusions. And that gift from Chidi to Eleanor? *chef's kiss*

Everything was fine, at least for this lovely show. I hope the weekend of the Beanies will be fine too!

Hello Beanies, Haven’t been here in a while. Hope everyone has been well. 😊

It’s been an unusually quiet week in hospital with the Wuhan Virus outbreak unfolding. Elective surgeries are being cancelled, patients are not turning up for their clinic appointments. We are bracing ourselves for things to get worse but hopefully not. Fingers and toes crossed.

Watched RDTK Epi 1-3 and managed to squeeze out the Medicaps for 1-2! I must say Eun Jae is Really Annoying Me- episode 3 made me want to smack some sense into her. She was seemingly more obsessed with her dirty face (which was her own fault anyway!) than going to check on the sick patients. Urgh. Plus I fail to see why she wants to go back to Seoul when her drug taking behavior was totally irresponsible and irrational and downright sanctionable. Hopefully Epi 4 is better and she gets less annoying to me.

Otherwise i love Woo Jin and I’m having total mommy-like feelings towards him where I want to hug him and tell him he is doing a good job.

And of course Nurse Oh is oh so damn fabulous and I Love Her and Teacher Kim so so much.

CLOY is also finally continuing its episodes again this week, finally!!! Can’t wait to see the Ducklings and Papa Duck like fish out of water in Seoul and OMO I’m looking forward to the makeover Seri does!!! Woo hoo!!!

Stay healthy and safe everyone! And Happy Lunar New Year!

Happy weekend and a happy February Beanies!

February is here, but it feels like 2020 is starting only now for me. My presence and morale on drama beans took a short dip these past two months, and as everything is getting settled I find myself wondering what to do in February.

My father has been suffering from a lower back hernia since the beginning of December, but there was not any improvement until mid-January. The pain made him a bit distant, so he was not able to share his usual calm and humorous demeanor when mother and I needed it most, nor his physical strength or craftiness to get stuff done around the house. In the last 3 weeks he underwent an MRI scan, got finally diagnosed and referred to a physiotherapist who prescribed cortisone infiltration.

Last week my baby godson was diagnosed with the early stages of pneumonia and as a result my parents and I had to take care of him for 8 days because sick babies are not allowed in a day care. My goddaughter had some school day offs and fell ill over the weekend, so 4 out of the 8 days we had to take care of her as well. Monday afternoon especially was supposed to be doomsday for me, as I would be alone with the two ill god siblings while my parents consulted with the physiotherapist. In the end my parents left home at the last minute and my sister got off work early, so I only had to entertain my goddaughter for a bit while her little brother napped. Both were back to normal by Thursday, and while we were relieved that the children did not have to be hospitalized, we are even more relieved now to be without them for a few days. 😆

But real life has mercy sometimes. My father’s eye doctor confirmed that the cortisone would not influence his glaucoma and that he was allowed to have this treatment. Conveniently, a patient cancelled an infiltration appointment this Thursday, so my father was able to go and receive part of his infiltration treatment yesterday already! There was also a construction worker who had been delayed by uncontrollable circumstances several times, who unexpectedly showed up this week to finish his job around the house once and for all. Despite the busy caregiving days, I had equally productive evenings finishing my to do in January list. The pre-emptions last weekend also helped a lot, since it enabled me to watch all No Second Chances episodes that aired already.

Now I am facing a slump of sorts. February would have been perfectly short to commit to a daily challenge, in my case a movie challenge to deal with the K-drama slump and to decrease the amount of unwatched movies on my to watch list. Except that I did not have the time to ponder a theme or the details yet, and already got a quarter of the month booked with social gatherings that I had forgotten about. Woops. I guess I should be happy with Extraordinary You Nanowrimo November 2019 and go on a challenge hiatus for now... Please look forward to my next Open Thread, in which I will tell you all about...

Hi beanie how's everyone? Been a while and it feels so good to be here
So these past few weeks I've been busy with a few of Cdramas and by accident found EVER NIGHT 2, right there staring at me. Just that so many characters (Actors) changed and i feels a little weird, but on bright side, the new King is so fun and I like him.

Happy OT everyone

Hallo everyone, i love the weekend because all the dramas I follow get updated. I have been under the weather and sick so it’s nice that the weekend is here!

Crash landing - it’s been a loong 2 weeks! I’m looking forward to all the sheeningans fish out of the water South Korea scenes.

I’m watching this Cdrama called - under the power (or under his power) whatever the English name it - Gosh the male lead is seriously swoon-some. He looks really good in period costume and the OTP is cute! The story is ok, I fast forward a lot of the secondary characters scenes but it’s an easy nice watch. I’m into easy breezy eye candy watches at this time of the year. It’s winter and we need to feel warm Ha!

Someday one day (Tw drama) / this is really good. Besides the male lead who is all kinds of cute, the story is intriguing, well acted and well directed. I’m waiting to see how they end this

Romantic Dr Kim - I get why they get good ratings, each episode passes by and it’s a nice watch. But i often get the déjà vu feeling while watching , like wait - didn’t the same thing happen in season 1. The stories seems almost the same but Dr Kim is enigmatic and draws you in. I don’t know I may lose interest at some point.

I am going to talk the taec drama next, it’s a mystery why he continue to get roles. Lucky guy. I think the reason could be you want to not like him (because seriously you can pick randomly and find a better actor) but somehow you watch the drama and find he’s serviceable and quite ok. And he’s trying, and trying. One day you will reach there taec! lol

And I’m gonna try out forest because the synopsis made me laugh so bad. Like cohabitation in the woods! Ok, you got me.

TGIF! I cannot wait to watch more episodes of Crash Landing On You this weekend! Very exited to keep feeding my kdrama addiction. I'm also slowly watching While You Were Sleeping to fill in the gaps of waiting.

I felt like January was so long, months in a single month. Happy that February is coming and hope spring comes even faster. I'm halfway through a 5k training program (that's 8 weeks long). My goal is by the spring/warm weather arrives, I'll be able to run a 5k without huffing and puffing.

I'm also taking a computer science class in Data Structures while working full time, so that is going to cause some extra stress in my life. Also, I just pre-ordered the Nintendo Switch (Animal Crossing New Horizons edition) so I'm excited to get that as well in March when it's released officially.

Overall, I'm content and hope I don't catch a cold. Although lying in bed gives me an excuse to watch hours of kdramas. Hope you all have a good weekend!

Hi Beanies,

Just a reminder that Love, February starts tomorrow, and I want to encourage everyone, regardless of if you participate or not, to take time to be aware and considerate of your feelings and those of the people around, both online and in real life.

Especially if those feelings involve uri beautiful oppas. *cough cough*

So I had a mostly good week. I ended up doing a lot of things. But now my wifi has stopped working yet again, sigh.

We made it to the end of January fellow beanies!

Been watching Running Man - started last year after the deafening cries of how good this show is couldn't be ignored any longer. It is simply fantastic (so far) I am now at episode 200 where (now retired) footballer Park Ji Sung guests for the third time.

Whilst watching RM It is so weird seeing a lot of recently deceased K Pop stars appearing as fresh faced new comers. Any time I have seen Sulli appear on RM so far it has quite sad and she seemed so cool and full of vigor. Seeing the Burning Sun scandal perpetrators appear sporadically is quite something too. If we only knew then what we know know right?

Finished Chocolate (I was looking forward to not crying this week but though the recent passing of Kobe Bryant put that idea to bed) It was a great show and I have to say, I really enjoyed it. Ending could have been a bit tighter but all in all - not bad.

Spent the week catching up on the Grammys as my pop culture podcast (and K drama podcast) resumes this weekend. Anybody have any fav performances or winners? Lil' Was X performance was gold and I enjoyed Lizzo too.

Still watching Black Dog and Diary of a Persecutor - really glad I stuck with it. Age of Youth PD and writer hasn't let me down yet.

Today is my (very kind) boss' birthday and the 5 of us had cake for breakfast !
Neither of us (boss included) really feels like being in the office today, and we're all looking forward to lunch time already. He plans on leaving early this afternoon and we, the happy minions, plan to follow riiiiight along !
ha ha ha ha

TGIF !

So. Many. Dramas.

Joy of Life Loved loved this drama. So well written, acted, directed and I loved pretty much every character. Especially the sweet Uncle Wu who needs to be protected for all time. I'm sad this was only the first season and really hope the next 2 seasons will have the same cast. I cannot imagine the drama with someone else was Fan Xian.

Love Storm (Love of Sandstorm) I watched this for Grego and his gregliner. He didn't disappoint. Him and the sisters romance was the best part of this drama. I also liked the little brothers and Mom's stories. Despised the Dad's and didn't care for older brother and his crazy girlfriend. It was entertaining but episode 6 and half of episode 7 were the worst part of the drama (as it focused more on Dad and older Bro). Just do what my mom did and only watch the Grego parts 🤣

Prince of Tennis I really liked this one. It definitely had an anime feel to it which makes sense as it's based off one. But overall it was fun and would like to see a 2nd season with the boys going to nationals. The ML was so adorably short compared to the others. The FL was annoying and pointless.

A Little Thing Called First Love I ended up hate watching this drama. By the end I hated almost every character in it. I think the leads were an actual couple for maybe 5 episodes of the 36. This drama should have been about 10-15 episodes shorter than it was. The ML was hateful at the end. I absolutely despise noble idiots. It's my most hated trope. And the ML actor was garbage. I hate the SFL. She was a stalker who was obsessed over the SML and forced herself at him.

Because of Meeting You Started watching this. Because Deng Lun.

Is it still January?!? Okay, one more day, good riddance gloomy month. So, for those beanies who are low tech like me, I wasn’t getting any new episodes on Viki. At first I figured it was the Lunar New Year break, but still no episodes. Went to my account and everything looked ok. Went to Viki troubleshoot and there were no issues reported. Finally, I unplugged my TV and cable, waited a few minutes, plugged everything back in, and voila ~ the new episodes appeared and now I’m binging like crazy to catch up with everything. I’m a duh!

And I started Forest and How Are You Bread? Is there a new weekend drama that you really like? I haven’t watched one since Father is Strange and I’m kinda up for one. It’s a Fleetwood Mac Bare Trees kind of day, I’ll post the picture on my wall. ❤️

Hope everyone is staying safe from the Wuhan corona virus. News seems depressing/scary. Some of what I think is the most depressing in the reply.

What a wide array of dramas I've watched this week. Finished, "Life," and the second season of, "The 100." Started, "Beethoven Virus." I think I'll watch, "Forgotten," to fill in until CLOY is ready for me to view. This has been one of the rainiest month of January in years.
Looking forward to some sunshine about the middle of February. Wishing good weather and good times ahead for you all.

I have apocalypse fatigue. I'm sitting here in 35 degree heat at 8 in the morning with a huge mega fire less than 50 kilometres away and my city in a state of emergency and I'm like, "meh, what drama should I watch today?".
I hope I don't lose power. It's too hot.

Does anyone have any recommendations for dramas for the apocalypse?

I started Someday or One Day based off of other Beanies' recommendations and I'm loving it. I'm on episode 8 now and I want to say a big thank you to all those who posted about it. Thank you! 😍

Slowly watching cdramas Ever Night 2 and Forward Forever. Both are not bad.

Ever Night 2: Didn't get far with either s1 or the novel. Fairly comfortable watching s2. At 43 eps, still draggy here and there. Stupidity, incompetence and bad at problem-solving create drama. Technical issue - Either the dialogues changed a lot after filming or some of the cast flubbed their lines often. Dubbing makes some scenes kind of awkward.

Forward Forever: This is an overt historical fiction drama. (Based on a BL manhua?) I wondered how it got past the censors until I noticed that ending credits thanking a few Chinese state-run media. I am not too familiar with historical end of Qing Dynasty court intrigues. One male lead is an flamboyant prince with a couple work identities loyal to the powerless emperor. He is not blind to the empire's many faults. The other is a commoner from the boondocks seeking revenge. (It was strongly hinted from the started that his mother was nobility.) Looks like these young people will join the revolution to overthrow Qing. Its "cultural clash" is kind of funny. Prince prefers Japanese and European (aristocrat) fashion and lifestyle. Other character styles are traditional Qing, Han, or East-meets-West. Action scenes are good. Less draggy than Ever Night 2, so far. Getting 50 eps of densely packed plot out of a manhua seems to be a tall order.

Itaewon Class on netflix...

Hello Beanies,

I just watched an episode of Knowing brothers with IU and Lee Joon-gi (ep. 150) on Youtube, and I'm still not over Scarlet Heart. The trauma!

Itaewon’s first ep aired today and it is oh so good. I was really looking forward to this for first quarter 2020, but it blew my expectations out of the water. Fingers crossed that it doesn’t go downhill and doesn’t disappoint because this has so much potential and so far the entire cast is great! PSJ’s acting as usual getting better day by day. The father and son dynamics ughhhhhh so many feels. The female leads so far and not at all typical which is cause for excitement in itself. Unique story, great background scores, and great acting so far. Just the first episode and it’s been a rollercoaster of emotions.

Maybe it's because the week ended in a bad note, with stress and worries IRL, and I get oversensitive.
DB is my safe place. It's the playground I come to to relax, and laugh and squee with like-minded Beanies. I feel like we support each other and I'm defensive about this place although I'm a newbie.
This week, trolls showed up at a news' article comment thread. Some other comments on the same thread, though not comparable, were simply malicious about the actors involved. Then someone goes and steals a Beanie's posts and puts them up somewhere else, violating her privacy, authorship and trust.
What's happening here, Beanies? We are the ones who make this place fun and safe and gentle.
The world is a harsh place these days, Beanies, keep safe and keep on spreading the love!

In recent BTS of CLOY, you can immediately tell how tired the cast and crew has been during their January live shoots. It appears they had no time to memorize their lines prior to filming scenes. That would add extra stress and mental fatigue on the actors. They appear to be filming late in the evenings, as SYJ's salon crew celebrated her birthday in the back of their transport van. The exhaustion episode indicated that the filming has moved to Paju, which foretells the story moving back to North Korea.

Tell Me What You Saw looks interesting. First episode out today on Viki (I think).
Will start Forest today if the subs are done - have to see what that cohabit thing is...
Towards Zero is picking up, one of the better shows airing I think.
The Money Game - heavy on the financial stuff, not for everyone, but I am liking it.
How Are You Bread - watched first episodes, seems to be something that I have seen before about 9x with rival chefs at war. Will try a couple more episodes I guess.
Crash Landing - finally back, but I still don't see a happy ending for this couple unless the writer does something really unexpected.
Black Dog - have not watched any, the description seems pretty bleh/meh - any opinions?