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Pasta watchers who can't get pass ep 6 - I get my Pasta softsubs @ soompi. They have up until ep 10, but I'm still at ep 8 though. I tried so hard not to read any of the spoilers there before watching ep 9 & 10 haha, but somehow accidentally read that those are great eps. so can't wait to watch them.

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Anyone know more details about idol/stars managers? I was watching my 2nd favorite variety show 1N2D and they often mention Hanseouk(sp?), MC Mong's manager and I love him! But I've often wondered, how do they become managers?

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City Hall

Heh, it's been awhile since I stared an OT post with that shout-out. And I think it's supremely apt, since City Hall Director's Cut DVD's got shipped last week and soompiers are overloading the thread with pictures of a gigantic box of goodness. I can't even begin to describe how much awesome is in one box (where's mine?).

But I have to share this with everyone - as I am waiting for Tamra Director's Cut to restore all the lost scenes - never would I have though CH could give us more goodies, but oh they sure did.

Episode 15: after MR-JG get back together, the hateful candles are still around, but then time pretty much all the BTS making out they filmed is left in! i.e. there more kissing after the camera pans away from the second candle. Jeez, I'm heating up thinking that we're going to get the full bed scene, *fans myself now*.

Never expected that, really, totally caught Hallers off guard, I believe. Oh and this added bit is way adorable, after MR sneaks out, JG is seen laughing, pumping his fist, generally hopping around the bed until he falls off the bed! Mwahahahahahaha.

Sigh, I miss CH! I wonder if the ending montage is even beefier as well?

@ samsooki, I don't think that kissing YT video was indicative of best kisses in k-drama regardless of what the video maker may think (hence, no CH). Our Bora really can't kiss worth a crap, and HCY should be banned from ever making a kissing scene. But I posted it for the KJH and SJS goodness, and because it was late, I was pooped, and I liked the Heaven song in that video.

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Heheh, thanks guys for the tip. Wish Upon A Star it is! I agree that it's super funny, and I'm pretty sure she'll get a kick out of Kang Ha. Rather than hating him for his coldness, he's so amusing!

@Langdon: Oooh, Las Vegas? Hope you had fun :D

@su-pah: Yeah, Viikii is great in giving fast subs (although I hope they aren't going to charge for their service later). I've been staying far away from videos of medical procedures after I watched a video of why blood is unnecessary for medical procedures, why it is more harmful, and how donated blood doesn't really help. Had to watch it, but it was pretty graphic. *shivers*.

I actually do like medical dramas, so I'll probably watch it over the weekend. I'll get back on Friday to see how I thought of it :D

@mud: For me... I hated Jo Gook. He has charisma, but his personality sucks. IMO, that is.

@lb_tmi: I usually go to Viikii... but something is going on. I think you have to be in the same region as the subbers? IDK, but Viikii is having major reconstruction. For now, you can try Dramacrazy.net
http://www.dramacrazy.net/korean-drama/pasta/

@Samsooki: Wear a disguise. No one will recognize you, and than you won't look like an "idiot" 8)

Maybe an Al Capone disguise...? You'll look cool~

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@27 Samsooki, you are a new parent. You have a temporary free pass on idiocy. Just start talking to the parking guy about your less-than-year-old baby and if he is a parent, or knows one or two, all will be forgiven.

@43 mud, the fiance issue for JG in City Hall was always a big deal. I don't think Samsooki really forgave him until the final episode, LOL. JG is more of an anti-hero than a hero, he has several distinct faults, and most people would say that Mi Rae was far too good for him - yet we all ended up rooting for them and forgiving him. The general consensus, I think, is that he redeems himself as well as possible in the end - and that getting there is a fascinating process!

Happy Friday, everyone!

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i was on a Hong Sisters drama marathon over the holidays, started around christmas and just finished it recently with HONG GIL DONG, which was an absolute joy to watch by the way, yes even with the unexpected crushing ending.

i started out thinking it'd be a fun light-hearted rom-com, so i totally didn't prepare for truck-load amount of angst they chucked at me. i can't remember how many times i cried when seeing gildong and yinok together. the ending, oh the ending, i admit, was beautifully done, but it wasn't how i wanted it to end!!! why??!!! i feel so robbed!!!

but hey, i did thoroughly enjoy the drama. the story, the characters and the chemistry btw sung yuri and kang ji hwan were excellent. the humour however wasn't as witty and lol-tastic as i thought it'd be, and it kinda fizzled out towards the end. i suppose they can't really fit anymore in considering the direction the plot was heading.

i love JGS in YAB, but i can't help but feel that he was maybe miscasted in HGD, it's prob coz i can't get over the age-difference btw him and the rest of the cast. SYR was a pleasant surprise, i was impressed by her range of expressions. KJH, omg, was absolutely fantastic! i completely fell for his charms. can't believe he's blacklisted now. i am seriously crushed, why did this happen after i watch HGD? why did this even happen at all??!! i guess i just have to check out his prev dramas for now. hope everything settles well in the future for KJH.

waiting to watch tamra the island now, but all the links in mysoju are brokenT_T does anyone know where else i can get eng sub videos of tamra?

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@Samsooki
I have to agree with @50 xiahkixiri Spend that money in more fruitful ways ^^

@53 ockoala
OMG is it THAT good? Are the subs good? Do tell, do tell. Look, I'm thiiiiiiiiiiiiiis close to buy it, ok? I just need that little push...

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Guys, last year I watched the Painter of the wind, which I loved soooo much. Actually, I had sworn sageuks off before it, but I liked the premise of PotW so I gave it a try and it pretty much “cured” me of my aversion for sageuks (yay!). Anyhow, a few days ago, I watched 미인도 Portray of a beauty and I was wondering if any of you watched both versions and if so, which one you liked best and why? Provided that a 2+ hours movie vs a 20 hours drama cannot be fully compared as far as richness of details/character development/complexity of the plot go, that is.

Me? after much pondering, I have to go with Painter of the wind and that has nothing to do with the fact that a)I sort of knew what the movie was about and b)the characters I rooted for in the drama were different from the ones I liked and/or knew in the movie. About a), I watched the movie with an open mind and having no expectations for it; in fact I waited so long to watch it in order to not compare it to PotW while I was watching it, which I managed to do (go me!). As for b) I really, really liked the main pairing Yoon-bok/Kang-moo and I was rooting for them like whoa.

So why, despite all that, I like PotW better? Took me a while to figure it out, but it's actually quite a simple reason: the movie left me cold. I liked the characters I was supposed to like and I disliked the characters I was supposed to dislike and awwed in all the right places, but, for some reason, that still wasn't enough to move me. It was as if the whole thing was -I don't know how to explain this well- faded? Like I was watching an extremely good picture with vibrant colors, but there was a veil over it so I didn't get to fully enjoy it, like I could sense it was great, but I couldn't actually see how awesome it truly was. If that makes sense? Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's a bad movie (it has some great cinematography, nice directing/writing/editing and good-to-great acting), but it failed me to impress me. Usually, this kind of movie (tragic love doomed from the very start) leaves me in tears, a complete emotional wreck, but 미인도 didn't and I was surprised. I felt bad for the characters, but that's it, I didn't even shed a single tear. 0_o

In hindsight, I would have appreciated to see more of Yoon-bok's inner struggle and gender issues and fewer gratuitous sex scenes. BTW, I liked Yoon-bok/Kang-moo scenes (my favorite? The mirror-making “mud” scene. Aww, so sweet and sensual), but there were like 5 full minutes filmed at the gisaeng house I could have done without: I get it, it was to show how “corrupted” and dissolute societies can be and to show Yoon-bok's sexual awakening, but yeah, the latter didn't get through to me. Again, I could see she was curious, but it wasn't the earth-shattering, completely confusing (gender-wise, identity-wise), mind-blowing experience I was expecting to see from someone who had been forced to live like a man all her life and suddenly sees sex and sex between women, at that. It felt like the PD was indulging into his voyeuristic sexual fantasies rather than him trying to evoke some kind of soul-searching/soul-defining experience for Yoon-bok (I can't decide if this is a writing, directing or acting problem. I'll blame it mostly on the PD though) which I would have been all for. The way I see it, when Kang-moo was looking into her eyes and accidentally kissed her hand after he saved her was a lot more meaningful than the whole sequence at the gisaeng house.

BTW, Kim Nam-gil? OMO! *__* I've seen quite a few of his past projects, but I think it's time I start Queen Seon Duk? ^^''

oh does anyone know if the novel Painter of the wind by Lee Jeong-myeong has been translated? I can only find the book in hangeul, which is faaaaaaaaaaar too advanced for newbie me. WOE!

Side, if slightly unrelated, note: sometimes, when I watch k-movies whose content is labeled as mature and explicit, I forget just how explicit they can be. It's always such a shock! Does it happen only to me? BTW, I'm not complaining, but it seems to me like k-movies rated like that are more explicit than non-k-movies rated the same way. Am I hallucinating?

Guys, sorry, this is loooong. I'll be back in a couple of hours. ttyl

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Hi Everyone, Happy Friday! I've been a devoted-completely addicted silent reader of this blog for a while now and am trying to participate more in the communities that I'd like to be part of. So a BIG "HELLO" to everyone (waving like a mad person). Thanks JB for having this insanely awesome blog and for everyone else who makes this blog such a pleasure.

Hope to worm my way into the JB-blog world successfully. =D

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@54 Biscuit

thanks! i've never been to dramacrazy before.. i'll give it a try..

@ samsookie

why don't you spend the money on a plane ticket for me so i can come out there and go to buy your replacement parking pass. no one will need to know you've lost yours twice then! :D

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@13 celestialorigin
Yep, it gets spun (eventually) into yarn, and then dyed, and then knit into various things. Handy making you think you are actually DOING something while watching k-dramas.

@28 linz

Well, theory #1 - learn the following phrase....No Thank You! Second, nurse your drink. No shots. No chugging. Third, ask the bartender for water drinks - I'm a fan of perrier and various juices because it LOOKS like a drink, but it's water.

@30 Nonbirira

iSubtitle works well. I use Submerge on my Mac - same company, slightly different software. Very handy. 8-)

@39 lb_tmi

Hmm, streaming Pasta? Well, as loathe as I am to recommend anyone who ganks WITHS2's subs, AZNV has up to ep 6 streaming.

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@ twin

twin telepathy twice today already. wtf. it's gearing up to be an interesting friday.

@ ockoala

you must be ECSTATIC that CH came up on OT today :) your description of the director's cut DVD for CH is making me want to buy it too.... and though i want the Tamra Director's cut as well... last time i checked it was over $100... there's no way i can spend that much on a dvd set. :(

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Hi Sere

Go to dvdasian.com and search for City Hall.

You can see all the goodies in that giant box - and I don't know why there is a picture of KJH in there, unless the fight for KJH has expanded to even where sellers of DVDs have to proclaim KJH is theirs.

I'm hesitant to buy it b/c of the same question you posted - what is the English sub quality? Is it the dramafever quality, which means I run away screaming, it's pretty bad. Or is it the quality when City Hall aired on LA18 a few months back, which was really lovely, which then I will buy.

Decisions decisions, will plop by soompi to hear what Alodia and the rest have to say about it, they're probably still watching Episode 15 over and over and over again. Hhmm, I wonder if we get even more kissage in "THE KISS" to end all k-drama kisses. I do know that we get a completely different view of the kiss on the stairs in Episode 20, which is like the camera is behind MR's head and captures JG dipping in for a kiss. Just swoonworthy all around.

@ mud

I had no problems with JG's character, he's way more developed, even if its shades of black and grey, than most k-drama leads, and I loved his assholery bc so much of it is tied to who MR becomes bc she meets him. And many times, the shitty behavior of the lead is usually chalked to to a crappy childhood, and many times it feels forced and cliched, but here, it really had a much much more palatable understanding since JG's father is Darth Vadar himself: BB.

@ lovenyc52

They are both over 100 bucks each, actually close to 200 bucks each for the Tamra and CH director's cut. Don't worry, I will DEFINITELY buy Tamra, and most likely end up buying CH in the long run, since you're so close, I'll be happy to lend it to you anytime. :-) You can just buy me a sea salt coffee and a milk bun from 85c, and watch my babies for a few hours so I can have a date with my hubby.

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@linz

JUST PASS OUT. Hahaha! but here in my country, the legal drinking age is at 18 and with the lack of enforcement, everyone starts drinking at the age of 14 SO HAVE FUN!! But really, if you don't want to pass out just don't drink too much. But if you are going to drink (DUH) don't mix anything with your drinks like Vs or any medications. So that means get your own drinks and don't accept drinks from strangers.

But to prevent from getting a hangover which is the next best thing to passing out, drink lots of water while drinking because hangovers are really just the result of dehydration.

But really you'll be passing out so much more times in your life this really could just be a rite of passage for you. So in the words of LMFAO, "SHOTS, SHOTS, SHOTS, SHOTS, SHOTS, SHOTS!!!" Happy Birthday to you! :) May you have lots of passing out moments in your life and not just on your 21st.

Wow i really have a lot to say when it comes to drinking. :D

@ockoala
Oh my i need that fist pumping scene in my life! It's going to be Jersey Shore but Korean version! haha

@xiahkixiri
I'm currently super obsessed with WUAS! This is actually the first time I'm watching a Kdrama that is currently showing and waiting for each episode week by week (And then i have to wait for it to get subbed.) I even enjoy watching the other plotlines i.e. the grandfather and his family drama. It's not a really such a heavy drama (which i absolutely adore about it), but the kids' participation being absolutely adorable and enchanting with the anticipation for the love story to develop, i have a feeling this will be one of my favorite dramas.

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@ 57 Sere: I think most people who watched both prefer the drama. I've seen a lot of people finding the you-know-what scenes in the movie unnecessary to the plot. I haven't watched the movie but I liked the drama so much I don't think I'll like the movie as much as the drama.

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@mud,

I totally agree with skelly's thoughts about what I was thinking! hehe!

I didn't like Jo Gook unti like.... oh.... 20 minutes left to go in the drama, but in the end, I had no choice, the awesomeness of Jo Gook was fully revealed.

Basically, the character of Go Hae was a complex one. She didn't mind that much that Jo Gook was having an affair, so long as it was quiet (so it wouldn't embarrass her) and so long that it was temporary (so that it wouldn't interfere with her plans).

Go Hae's life has never been about love, but about security, business, money, and power. For the moment, let's not judge that kind of an existence, let's just accept that that is her life. Now, from that perspective, I think that Go Hae's actions were pretty much on the money and reasonable.

@50 xiahkixiri -

re: following Chuno with and without subs.

I watch all my dramas raw first, and then as subs become available, I watch again with subs. Many times, the subs help my understanding. So I am thankful that there are subs. And even if the subs don't add to my understanding, I still appreciate the subs very much.

Like hjkomo, I watch Chuno when it first comes out without subs, and I take notes and watch mostly as a recapper, although recently, my first looks at Chuno raws has made me into a fan first, recapper second.

Generally, the process for me is that the first watch of an episode, I watch alone because without subs, I watch Chuno with dictionaries in my lap and my mouse on the pause button. Then, second time around, I watch with my wife, and her Korean is better than mine anyway. And then the third time and beyond, I watch again by myself so that I can replay scenes and write down dialogue or scenes I want to include.

Then, when subs come out, I watch with subs and sometimes, my notes change or my translated dialogue changes. Infrequently, my translation doesn't change even if the subs are different.

Then hjkomo and I will watch an episode again separately but generally at the same time, and we will talk about dialogue and talk about translations and how I translated something versus how hjkomo translated something. Sometimes, the subs, my translation and hjkomo's translation are ALL different, and nobody will be happy. hehe! (hey! sageuks are hard to translate sometimes!)

Finally, when I draft the recap, I'll remove the subs and watch again in the raw - having subs can be distracting and by this time, having watched the episode end to end probably a minimum of 5 times, I need to hear the Korean dialogue without any English bias that can creep into my thinking if I see subs.

In order to understand each and every word, subs aren't necessarily the way to do it. Even really good subs are an English summarization of Korean, and it is extremely difficult to get Korean flavor out of English subs.

Btw, if you ever watch a k-drama on MBC America, you might notice that the English subs are decent in translating overall meaning, but do an EXTREMELY shitty job in translating what was said. I detest this kind of translation, because it 100% filters out the beauty and the nuances of the Korean language, and watching MBC America version of k-dramas is almost like watching a different drama than if you watch it without subs. And to me, this is really negligent of MBC, because they are paying money to professional translators who are doing a shiity job of translating, and rather, they are just summarizing dialogue which washes away all of the Korean-ness of what is being said.

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Oohh, our OT baby @ gotaexamlater is back!

Best wishes on getting your own fist-pumping moment. :-P And welcome to WoWL (World of WUAS Lovers).

Oh yeah, can't forget a shout out to Team Park Kyu! And are the Chunojammas still alive today after Episode 10 (OMG, Jang Hyuk, you own that drama, you own it and everyone is merely along for the ride, even as much as I love OJH's TH).

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WOA!
(wait, before i overreact, what timezone do you follow? it's currently saturday,1am here in the philippines)..
i was about to write TGIF, until i realize, YESTERDAY WAS FRIDAY, it's already saturday..ROFL!!!

anyways, i need help guys, please..
torrent for episode 5 and 6 of PASTA are acting up, like i kept my utorrent open for the past week for the episodes to finish, usually an episode would finish in 5-6 hours, but for episodes 5 and 6, it stays at 0%!!!!

@54 biscuit:
i tried dramacrazy and epdrama, but it get stuck on the second part (i think broken vid is the proper name here)..do you know anywhere else where i could download or watch it online?

thank you in advance =D

@lb_tmi/estel:
(thanks to samsooki who enlightened me with the viikii issue of using other subbers' sub) i usually dl pasta through torrent from d-addicts, the mu is too complicated for me with all those split thingy going on, and i use with s2 subs..check with s2 subs first because they use different video versions per episode..and it pays off watching it continuously, in hq too..lol..

for all the pasta followers, woa!!! i envy you guys, i'm still looking around for ep 5 and 6..i can't wait for ep 10!!!
i just have a question though, when will chef stop screaming? my ear hurts already!!

@linz:
it's fun!!! your friends won't kill you..lol..

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@50 xiahkixiri -

MBC America translations are sometimes like the same kind of ones that my parents used to do for me when I was little.

[some scene between chae-bol children with looooooong dialogue]

I would say, "mom, what did that woman say?"

my mom: "oh, she just said that the stock options will be sold."

me: ".... but why?"

my mom: "shhhh!"

hehe.... now, i might only have been in elementary school at the time, but I KNEW that there was more said than that.

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@ 27 samsooki :

HA!!! I'm thinking of also charging you any medical fees arising from reading your parking pass disaster while eating seaweed rice crackers and subsequently getting some up my nose (laughter-precipitated). I'm trying to figure out how your parking pass got over to the side window. But maybe it's better not to dwell on it.

I thought I had trained myself not to eat while reading OT. But I guess I forgot.

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@ samsooki: are the multiple watches only if you're recapping a drama or otherwise, too? Moley that's a lot of watching, I barely have time to watch things the first time. I'm not in America, so I don't get MBC America subs; I think I'd be grateful for those because I could listen to the Korean and also know what was being said when I couldn't catch the words or had no idea what they meant. It's a habit to pause and look words up but Korean spelling really works the grey matter. :( I could have kissed Tae Kyung for an additional reason, he enunciated so brilliantly, I've never found looking words up easier! ^^ You're right about distractions though, sometimes I'm so busy trying to understand and thinking about words and pronunciation I'll realise I had no idea what was going on or just blanked out on what the words actually mean, what they were actually saying. Sometimes I'll be skimming JB's recaps and realise I completely missed something!

Also, LOLOLOL, poor elementary school!samsooki. :p

@ gotaexamlater: I have a lot less time for dramas now so I watch much more now as they're airing. It's so painful, and yet you want to save time and then you stop kidding yourself and admit that you just can't stand the waiting. The trick is not to start at all, but everyone gives in eventually. ^^ Grandpa's plotline isn't great to me, Jaeyoung is awful and her mother creeps me out. I could have felt sorry for her dad but then he was skeezy and is really weak and shoves his pangs of guilt away far too easily. I wouldn't mind that whole family falling off the nearest cliff. I just really hope that when the stuff with pal gang being related crops up (her and jae young are cousins! EEP!) it doesn't become predictable and melodramatic. Please for a killer ending! Drama endings are dodgy things, can't take your eyes off 'em, not for a second.

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@70 xiahkixiri -

Well, first, when i watch alone, i don't just watch. I fast forward, I go backwards, I skip around (a LOT). I do this with all of the dramas that I watch. I don't watch linearly except when my wife and I are watching together because she bops me on the head if I touch the remote or the mouse.

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@ 69 was me, reluctantbutaddicted. Not sure how 'reluctantlyaddicted' showed up on my work desktop (where I almost never have a spare moment for any kind of personal stuff and so I could have sworn I'd never posted from here... but I usually work at home on Fridays, although today I have a meeting and had to come in so I'm here but I'm pissed off... hence the 15 mins spent on OT while eating lunch at my desk).

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@Samsooki: Oh! My mom did that too. Except sometimes she would forget my existence. She would exclaim, "Oh, this part is boring." and click the fast-forward button on the remote control.

I didn't say anything, but it got on my nerves sometimes. But now I do that too... whenever there's something that bores me, I FF it (while still trying to catch every subbed sentence).

Of-course, that was before I learned about internet and watching dramas with subs. Before we'd have to go to the Korean market, and they'd have a "secret room" full of shelves of Korean tapes. We'd have to wait one week to get the new videos, but it was well worth it. They went to LA Korean Galleria to pick up their stuff, and they'd bring back some Korean pastries and boxes of neoguri Ramen. Best stuff to have when watching dramas :D

@moimoiness: Sorry, I actually don't keep up with Pasta as much nor do I go to many places. When you went to Dramacrazy, have you tried the other mirrors? Like if you click on an episode, below the screen there's the different "parts" (usually divided into 4 parts), and there's another mirror to watch it. Like if the Wat vidoes don't work, you can click on the other "Fast mirror" to watch it.

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@ samsooki: Omo, why would you do that??! How do you have any idea what's going on if you're watching things backwards?! mrs samsooki has the right idea. *edges behind mrs samsooki*

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@mookie

We can go sightseeing and shopping before and after the big day. We just really want to revel with the crowd and bring in the NY in HK...hehe. Then relax at our hotel the next day, or walk around the neighborhood...whatever.

@mud

I'll steer away from the roasted chestnuts. :)

Thanks, guys. Looks like it's CNY for us then.

And and, may I add... I love love Wish Upon A Star, the only reason I look forward to Mondays. :)

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Weeee... I'm watching OB/GYN doctors. I was surprised that the drama is actually pretty good for the start. It's my first attempt watching medical K drama and I'm enjoying it a lot. I really like the plot pace, and the storyline seems really well written. I like all the elements involves in this drama, it's more like a human drama which I really fond of. and I'm currently still watching the first episode, I heard that a lot of people/viewers were crying after watching episode 2. So that's the reason why I tried watching this.
I'm hoping that someone here would like to recap this drama. Although it's still a start but I'm already liking it, and I have a good feeling for OB/GYN Doctors!
have a nice weekend guys!

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HERE IS AN EXCERPT OF THE CHUNO DRAMA - THE 1ST FIGHT. and what your mobile phone can do assist you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2J4QMmWM1c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QjIVefb4n4

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@67 moimoiness
If you go to soompi's pasta forum, you should find links to various versions of Pasta. Some of those are am-addiction links, and they have various versions as well, but those are mostly on MU. Can you use MegaUpload? If all else fails, I can put the episodes there for you and then yank them down after you have them. If THAT doesn't work, I can temporarily stash them someplace else for you to pull down.

BTW, everyone else - the same is true for CitC. I don't know if the torrent version is the DC. If not, I'll see what I can do for those who have not experienced the awesomeness yet and don't want to use AZNV......

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only asking for streaming subs to get a feel if this is a drama i wanna be dl-ing cuz i'm outta HDD space.. and for some reason, my external HDD is giving me some problems.. so i haven't been able to save on it.. but that's another issue for another day.. if i like the drama, i'd prefer to just dl it from WITHs2 because they are awesome!! but i gotta try it out a lilo first.

@ twin

this telepathy thing is really really strong today.. it must be the vibes i'm sending you.. re: vid we've been discussing..

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@64 nabi

I see. I figured that much. Thing is, the characters and the pairings are different so while the main topic (yoon-bok is forced to disguise herself as a guy to paint) is the same, the storyline is completely different. I think one could enjoy both, but I can see where you're coming from. Heh, I still like the drama better ^^

@62 ockoala
I know! I saw the picture the other day. Huuuuuuge package is huge. I want it, but I'm concerned about the subs just like you. Then again, do we really care? ^^

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we're getting 20-30 inches of snow here. CRAZY. grocery stores are jam packed and I am still at work. hmmm.

i hope for a 3 day weekend. mondays is a good kdrama day.

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just waiting for the 18 inches of snow, I needed a good excuse to finally watch IRIS but I'll probably opt for Wish Upon a Star instead

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@65 samsooki
For a while there we were watching Maigret on France 24 every week. The translations are often amusing, but there was one episode where Maigret was interviewing a guy who was replying in English. Which then had both a French and English subtitle. It was like the telephone game - the French subtitle usually got the gist of the thing, and English subtitle had some connection to what was being said, but a lot of the time it was only in the same neighborhood as the original.

The classic of course is when a character is yapping away....and the subtitle comes up and reads "no."

@81 Venice - the snow is already falling here. People were already panicking last night. Dooods, it's snow. Snow happens.

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Happy Friday everyone!!!

I just finished watching WISFC this week surprisingly i wasn't as emotionally invested in it as i thought i would be. i only shed a tear when Ji Wan went home to her parents.

I really enjoyed the first 10 episodes though.

Any of you familiar with HK tv actors? I find some of the main characters in WISFC have a resemblance to some of them.

Go Soo- reminds me of a younger version of Jackie Lui
Song Jong Ho - reminds me of a younger version of Patrick Tam
Jo Min Soo - reminds me of Deanie Yip

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aaah so many things to day!! thanks to javabeans' recaps, i really want to watch WUAS and, by extension, Love Marriage but I have no time T_T and I ALWAYS end up wasting more time waiting for streaming videos to load (i never manage to do anything productive in between) and because of the loading time i can't bear to fast forward - so tell me, OTers, where can i download them quietly in the background, with no distractions? pleeaze ^^

@linz - happy 21st!!! i just turned 21 too hehe, and there is no better excuse not to get drunk really. but if you must... bread, water, and don't mix =p and no sweet drinks but i think that's just me

@samsooki - lol personally i'm quite impressed at how your car ate your pass. won't the guy you pay $110 to think you're an idiot anyway though? lol. i'd leave it there unless its continued presence there will harm the car in the long run.. i mean, with that money you could get more CH BTS!! haha. ok i might have to reassess my priorities here

Re CH director's cut: WOW i would so love to see the ep 15 extras! incredible; and there i was thinking youtube had already given us all we'd want. too bad i'm a poor student and over 100 dollars is basically more money than i'd spend on any one thing. except a computer. or rent. =( one day when my ship comes in....

oh oh oh yay for the power of hallyu and YB! for a friend of my friend, it was coffee prince that inspired her, within the course of a few months, to start learning korean herself, to get her school to work out an exchange agreement with a korean university so she could go there on exchange next year, to learn a big bang song/rap and perform -- i think she has to post it on youtube and get a certain number of hits, and if this happens and i post it here won't everyone support her? =D

it's gonna be a loong working night and i slept at nearly 8 this morning! see you after a nap; i can't even tell if i'm following any rational timezone in this world anymore

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Anyone else live in or near Portland? PIFF starts next week and they are showing three Korean films: The Good, The Bad, The Weird; Like You Know It All; Mother. I'd like to try to see at least one, maybe two if I'm lucky. Website: http://festivals.nwfilm.org/piff33/

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where are you ppl that you're getting 18-20 inches of snow???

we're getting like umm... 2? ugh. i hate winter. why do i live here? i wanna go back to Thailand.

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@85 aceyyy -

It was a really tough call. But in the end, I had to do what I had to do.

1. The car service place is not my regular car service place, and so it's okay if he thinks I am an idiot. The guy says that he gets that kind of thing all the time. Even with people putting $100 bills in their window and then losing that in the door too, or with credit cards and driver's licenses... all sorts of things get dropped into the door panel. So, I have good company.

2. The bigger issue is that i lost my parking pass before, and it was mentioned that people sometimes "lose" their parking passes to get duplicate passes for $15 and then they give their original "lost" passes to their friends. I told them the first time that I'm not like that.

But if I go back the next month, and say, "yeah, I'm stupid but I lost my pass again..." then they will think that either I am REALLY STUPID or really a thief.

And since this is my regular parking garage for work, I don't want them to think that I am a thief or really really stupid.

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@momosan:
is the megaupload that needs the splitter thingy? i don't know how to use the splitter or what not..T.T sorry...
i tried soompi, i follow the thread in case i can't find some torrents..but ep.5 and 6 are my only troubles..i tried the mirror that biscuit suggested but i doesn't have alternative ones..

@biscuit:
thanks for the suggestion, but still doesn't work :'(

@lb_tmi:
yea, i agree, withs2 are awesome..=D

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Anybody see the move Rabbit & Lizard? Can you give me a review?

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@90 b020
I haven't watched it yet, but I know I'm gonna cry. I just know it.

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@momosan:
i found one at megaupload, i'll give it a try...thank you so much for your help =D

wahh!!!
it's 330am and i have class at 730!!! huhuhu!!!

good night all, see you again next week! =D

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i'm kinda depressed right now...tomorrow is some kind of carnival party and i picked a costume...wasn't that brilliant and you can't really see what im portraying but i thought it was quite nice...and then i showed my brother and asked for his opinion....he just replies that it sucks T_T
brothers are meanies...couldnt he just say it was nice?

ANYWAYS
watched ep 9 & 10 of WUAS and omg I ADORE it :)
Kang Ha wohooooo!!!
smile you bored me so i watched WUAS after reading JB's recaps AND
thank you sooo much JB for recapping! I love your recaps

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@samsooki

i see your point now. tough luck! i guess the garage could've just upped the penalties for lost passes... still, i think you're making a better call than the guy who's coughing up $110 bucks to fish out his hundred dollar bill =D

in an ideal world, i'd have a really fast internet connection and a multiple-terabyte harddrive - then i wouldn't have to keep deleting old series to make way for new ones (sob!) cos streaming really gets in the way of pausing and skipping (it feels like a double waste of the loading effort) and worst of all - the going back whenever i HAVE to know when a referenced scene happens, so that i can compare them - this happened a lot a lot in City Hall, and some of my favourite interactions between JG and MR are when they throw each other's words back at each other - which means that at the end of the 3rd or soth viewing of dramas i enjoyed, i end up being able to click pretty quickly to scenes i like! -twisted sense of accomplishment-

i wish i had more time this semester to have a life! boo T_T giving up on nap now

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I dies, the crazy harpies have upped the ante. Sister in law put up a picture of Bidam as her profile pic on FB. She clearly has taken Poor Bidam! to a whole nother level and she didn't understand the instructions for lookalikes this week.

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@ 74 xiahkixiri - Feb 5, 2010 at 10:33 am

"@ samsooki: Omo, why would you do that??! How do you have any idea what’s going on if you’re watching things backwards?! mrs samsooki has the right idea. *edges behind mrs samsooki*"

Sometimes I skim manga backwards. I know they go the other way, but I'm too impatient to find out what happens at the conclusion of the volume... usually b/c I NEED TO KNOW if things are going to get worked out... and if I'm okay with that, then I read from the beginning.

I've done that with dramas, too... not in terms of individual episodes, but I'll get to about episode 8 and get really anxious about whether the leads really really will end up together and be happy, so I skip to the second to last episode, skip around in the episode (just to catch 'telling glimpses' of the action) and reassure myself that it seems to be coming together okay (sometimes I still have to go the final ep and skip around there for a couple of minutes to be really sure)... and then I go back and watch straight through.

But since I started watching more in 'real time'... there can't be any 'cheating' and it is more fun (I agree, I know), but the agony is more drawn out.

sigh.

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@95 ockoala

re: facebook avatar: i didn't put a pic of my look-a-like, just someone i thought was beautiful and would LOVE to look like.. i don't follow directions very well either :(

@94 aceyyy

i second the whole ideal world thing.. that's my problem too.. i wish i had more hdd to dl EVERY SINGLE drama.. and watch them at my whim.

@ moimoiness

the HJ splitter thing isn't hard to figure out. i only say this because i was able to figure it out and i'm really really technologically downloading challenged. all you have to do is dl the HJ split program, download all the parts and make sure they are all named the same file name and with different sequential extension (.001, .002, .003) . hit "join" and pull in the file w/ the .001 extension and VOILA! the program does all the work.

idk how much this will make sense at 3:30am to you, but i hope it helps!!

@ 86 saramohan

you're so lucky!!!! i wish i could watch kmovies on the big screen :(

@ reluctantbutaddicted

at least your name came up as reluctantlyaddicted instead of what i tend to read your name as.. if you recall, it's reluctantbutthead. :D

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@86 saramohan

Ohhohoh! Go see The Good The Bad The Weird!!!
Not on your coast, but hoping that the local festival plays that this year.

ETA: Just looked and the list for that isn't up yet, but the DC Independent Film Festival has the world premiere of ..

Ajumma! Are You Krazy??? directed by Brent Anbe (U S A/Korea, Short, 26 mins, World Premiere, 2009) AJUMMA! Are You Krazy? is a zany comedy that follows the misadventures of three Korean drama fanatics, Judy (Thea Matsuda), Susan (Tessie Magaoay), and Amy (Cari Mizumoto) as they try to meet their favorite Korean super star, Michael Park (Michael Hsia) as he visits Hawaii to shoot his music video. Hawaii's First Kim Chee Comedy!

BWHAHAHAH!

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@ 97 lb_tmi

"at least your name came up as reluctantlyaddicted instead of what i tend to read your name as.. if you recall, it’s reluctantbutthead. "

Ouch! I'd forgotten that... purposely, I think.

I guess that's instant karmic punishment for wasting time while in the office.

@ discussion of MU and splitters ... so far I haven't come across anything that needed splitting/splitter programme, but maybe that's for bigger files? I've found MU really straightforward.

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@momosan

Yey! Now my PC and Mac can files ! Sad thing is that I don't even know how I got here, somehow, magically!? I can move files between them! And OMG! this time machine thingy! It's backing up my hard drive ever so slowly. I feel like now I'm in business. I've re- named some video files for my classes and I know where they are.And if I have some time I can even edit them to be shorter on, is it imovie? Wow! I'm getting there! Skype is working fine for my sessions!!! I'm feeling pretty fabulous! And I thank you for your generous contributions for my progress!

WUAS followers.

I'm with you guys. I love this drama. Love the kids, love watching Kang-ha's transformation, slowly opening his heart up and letting them into his life. And I'm even watching them backward and it still works like magic.

Watched Perfect girl revolution ep4 this morning. Wow. It's so far out. For this, my brain really really had to be turned off, like I'm in alternate universe and then! Did I laugh so hard!

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