@ gg

Good luck with the LSATs.

"corner bakery, pinkberry and now chilling at the coffee beans "

I know where you are chilling at right now, hahaha. There can't be another shopping center in this world with those three locations all together, or can there? Don't worry, I won't stalk you, stay dry, and get a good night's sleep, wake up as refreshed as possible.

@ 149 sere

Oh, I'm totally with you on Kurosagi, sister. What a waste of the lovely Horikita Maki. I was responding to a comment on the last OT (I know, sloppy and untimely of me) in which someone was recommending Kurosagi as an intro to Yamapi. Hmm.

I might have to disagree with you on Buzzer Beat. It was fun, but surely it was not GOOD! What a going-nowhere plot. Mind you, it has Yamapi execute one of the hottest kisses in J-drama history, so maybe that's worth the price of admission. I thought all Yamapi's co-stars in BB acted circles round him. Yet I couldn't dislike him. Perhaps this is the Mystery of Yamapi; and so perhaps BB is not such a bad introduction to his mystic, after all.

For Samsooki and all germ-o-phobes:

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/9-surprising-germ-havens-520150/

Hubby got pink-eye from a coworker (whose child had it) by using his keyboard.

@ Sere

Good news, my @ simplesim-moni posted a review of the CH subs with the Director's Cut DVD set at soompi.

"The subs are very good and perfect english but can't be compared with BON's excellent subs! The emotions in BON subs are so heart-wrenching eg. the water bottle scene."

Whew, that's a giant relief. I don't need emotional subtitles, KSA and CSW deliver the acting homerun in spades and then a river of emotion comes out of their eyes and I'm just turned into a puddle of adoring drool. *runs off to order my set now*

Hm...where'd my post go? O_O

In case it doesn't appear -

For Samsooki and all germ-o-phobes:

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/9-surprising-germ-havens-520150/

Hubby got pink-eye from a coworker (whose child had it) by using his keyboard.

Yay! Friday is here....got a new bed and a new power cord and its raining!
uh huh uh huh ...lol watching Hercules and Xena, yep those ones....
I am a happy camper....

Hope all is well with you all...so many kdramas to watch and dont know where
to start but start I will!

Stay dry,stay warm and stay happy!

@152 serendipity @150 Taohua

I, too, couldn't pass the Ep. 2 of Kurosagi. Don't remember why I couldn't get in.

Right now, I'm so addicted to Bigbang everything.... Most of their music is just a perfect companion for running to start with... And they are all sooo cute. Especially, recent G dragon. Is he what Metrosexual implies? I never found out the meaning of this word...

@138 samsooki

Whoa, you had it today. gokurousamadesu. Good thing that tomorrow is another day. Trust everything is in perfect order for you.

@147 cingdoc

I'm with you. I'd rather order everything on line and get over with... Only when I know exactly what I want and where to get it, I like to go shopping once in a blue moon.

Anyway, romorrow morning, Bloody Monday Ep3!!! yey. I'll get to see my Yuma kun!

@152 serendipity @150 Taohua

I, too, couldn't pass the Ep. 2 of Kurosagi. Don't remember why I couldn't get in.

Right now, I'm so addicted to Bigbang everything.... Most of their music is just a perfect companion for running to start with... And they are all sooo cute. Especially, recent G dragon. Is he what Metrosexual implies? I never found out the meaning of this word...

@138 samsooki

Whoa, you had it today. Gokurousamadesu. Good thing that tomorrow is another day. Trust everything is in perfect order for you.

@147 cingdoc

I'm with you. I'd rather order everything on line and get over with... Only when I know exactly what I want and where to get it, I like to go shopping once in a blue moon.

Anyway, tomorrow morning, Bloody Monday Ep3!!! yey. I'll get to see my Yuma kun!

@#$%! I didn't mean to post it twice sorry guys

@ 134 missemergency -"I mean, Lee Seon Gyun is a little old for purple pants isn’t he? He looks like he could be hosting a CBC children’s show or preparing to be the next Mr. Dressup. "

Yay! Mr Dressup! I loved Mr Dressup. And Casey and Finnegan. Also loved The Friendly Giant, one of the greatest kids' shows of all time...

@149 Sere -- I really liked Buzzer Beat, too. I liked that it was pretty short (usual length for a J-dorama, I guess, but seemed short compared with K-drama) so it felt the pace was kind of snappy. I didn't get the whole premise for the penultimate parting, but okay. They looked good together. I started Proposal Daisukunen, but haven't been able to get very far with it, stopped at episode 5 and haven't picked it up again. Then I started Stand Up! but somehow never got past first episode. Yet I would still say I really like Yamapi. Charisma over acting, I guess.

@102Langdon -- don't forget the tofu when you get out of that cell

Oh, @102Langdon

Trust your journey home was uneventful.

I know that pain scrolling down on iPhone on OT thread once it's pas 100 posts, it gets to be highly challenging for my fingers.

@162 cingdoc

I know, Malls... Yikes. Too time consuming. I'd rather be up in mountains

@ snikki, u r very welcome... holler any question here! ;)

@ockoala twin,
actually I've booked rooms for my relatives @4 seasons HK and they loved it... u may consider that as an alternative to Mandarin because it's super close to IFC: the place to be for shopping and eating in HK downtown nowadays. (I love Caprice & Lung King Heen @4 season...and IFC has plenty other fine choices I rem) I think Lung is the case where Michelin stars and the local palette r unanimous in WOW! (*sigh* hope it stays that way...)

@ celestialorigin - Feb 5, 2010 at 10:07 pm
"I know that pain scrolling down on iPhone on OT thread once it’s pas 100 posts, it gets to be highly challenging for my fingers"

Yup. First time hubby saw me doing that, he went, "What ARE you doing???" LOL.

So, like I mentioned to hjkomo, had a horrible work week, culminating in my computer monitor catching fire this morning when I turned it on at work, and immediately smoking up my office and had to be replaced temporarily by this lopsided one with a screen color ratio that's all wonk. Anyways, that's the story, hjkomo, hard to tweet it. :-)

@ mookie-twin

OMG, after my rants, I can't believe I am saying this......but I don't need to throw my Fox Volant DVD away! Guess what, I popped in disc 6 to entertain my boy who was demanding "that wuxia movie" (he meant LoCH which my sister has), so I grabbed the next available LC drama adaptation. And lo and behold, to my surprise, I guess I ff-ed too much and didn't realize it, b/c Wong Jing also screwed with the OTP canon and I actually love it.

See, so Ling-su dies so that Zhi-yi can have the final antidote (instead of Hu Fe in the novel), but then Zhi-yi needs another dose in 7 years, so HF trudges up the mountain to train and to plant that seed so the flower can bloom. Don't ask me why those two lovelorn kids don't spend the next 7 yrs together other than basic girl won't spend time with guy cuz another girl sacrificed herself for them to getogether (what'evs).

Anyways, sum it up - I got my pay-off in Fox Volant at last, frippin HF and Zhi-yi get married, and then she promptly dies bc dumb as a brick Ruo-lan destroys the flower antidote by accident. But that's besides the point - I've always felt that LC wimped out in the novel but making Zhi-yi and HF fall in love, but then refusing to allow Zhi-yi to become secular and follow her heart (which based on her personality she should have done, ergo why certain people don't like ZY is actually caused by bad writing from LC, I personally like her, she's a spitfire). Here, WJ simply doesn't make her a nun to start, and then the rest flows quite realistically.

Sigh, I'm happy again - someone screwed with an LC novel in a way I would have tinkered with it and then put in all pwetty for me on screen. Catnip for this koala, me so happy. :-) Too bad Athena and Nie Yuan were, shall we say, not quite up to par for that epic death scene, but still, not bad, kudos for making me teary. Now I get to keep my pretty DVD set so I can rewatch that scene. Worth it!

Oh, and my sister raved about the 4seasons HK during her last stay, I will check it out. I always stay at the 4seasons Palo Alto whenever I'm up in the Bay Area.

@ 163 isabelh

LOL! I had to think about that one for a minute. Hilarious! Yes, I was in trade show prison all week. And did actually have tofu while I was there. I know a lot of people hate on P.F. Changs but I had some dee-licious hot and sour soup there Monday night. :-D

@ 164 celestialorigin, hjkomo

Well, I don't have an iPhone, pffftt.

I just had to hold the stupid button down for what felt like 30 minutes. But the OT is my Friday crack, so I persevere. ;-)

@ mookie

Almost forgot, saw this poster in front of a DVD store this week, almost caused me to have an accident, b/c I thought I saw Ray Lui, and it couldn't be, but I caught the name of the drama, and lo and behold, have you seen this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_Rich_(TV_series)

TVB's 2009 grand tentpole drama of the year, with RAY LUI (he's back! like Michael Mui before him, who's next to return from the yester years - my bets on Kent Tong), Gallen Lo, Anita Yuen (she's back after giving my cutie Chilam a baby boy, awwwww), and Jamie Chik (OMG, now my jaw just hit the floor, MM"s wifey is back after 18 years of being a mommy), and a gajllion new TVB actors I don't know and don't care about. Anyways, RAY LUI - the original Hu Fei, but really, the man who held his own against Chow Yun-fat in The Bund, and stole his girl, hehehe, Ray, you da man! And he doesn't look a day older.

Lemme know if I should break my self-imposed decade long TVB ban and watch this.

@ twin Fox:O M GGG...REALLY?!??!?!?! that's last ep twin?! ok I'll have to watch it now I dont really hate any girl in Fox, but that 7 yr flower thing is really confusing me, I'll have to dig the book out and reread... I live by first impression and I read Fox after I dumped RoCH half way (and u know how miserable I'm still with that XLN and sighsighsigh HR)

haha but see no female will be a nun (or stays one) in a Wong Jing !! lolz

my cousin told me LoCH08 is on 8 Dai (the TW channel) in LA.... I'm not sure if he has some satellite, make ur sis watch it on TV and claim back ur DVD!

o ... on that Rich drama.... um... my mom loves it. I wont recommend it, (it gets tedious FAST) but it's watchable.

@langdon.... actually I may be the only Chinese that like some dishes @ PF Chang *hide* (and I occasionally crave some panda express orange chicken... *hide in a deepr hole*

@ ockoala & mookie

You guys talking about Jin Yong novel-TV-drama-adaptations suddenly made me remember that I haven't really watched wuxia stuff in a while and I really missed a good adaptation of Xiao Ao Jiang Hu (one of my favorite books, behind Tian Long Ba Bu). So then I started rewatching the Xiao Ao Jiang Hu with Lee Yapeng (before he had ruined the Guo Jing character in the Zhang Jizhong adaptation of Legend of Condor Heroes). LOL.

Just thought you'd like to know. LOLOL.

@A. *squeeee* haha there can never be more wuxia love (do try LoCH08!)

that adaptation confused the hell out of me. (I'll reply on ockoala's part... Xiao Ao Jiang Hu is universally THE best wuxia novel on earth. PERIOD!) It's just a 'funny' adaptation, dragging on nonessential parts and the juicy plots were not given enough justice.

but the scenery and the mountains r to DIE for!

City Hallers are crazy about their copy of the Directors cut, plus the goodies included are awesome. Unfortunately, i still don`t have a copy , I have to cancel my first order cause I have to put the money that I save to a more important thing. Now, I`m sad and so envious that I wasn`t able to hold a DVD copy while some City Hallers are enjoying it already.
Welkl, that`s life, I just hope that when I already have the money to buy it, all the goodies that goes with it will be the same.
I love City Hall and it `s so unfair that I can`t have a copy.
Calling the producer, it`s out of stock already, kindly produce more for people like me who wants to buy.

I'm still too excited about episode 10 of Chuno! I've always been on the Chuno wagon, but the first couple of episodes didn't excite or connect emotionally with me outside of few scenes even though the quality was excellent. Maybe because the love triangle and the "conspiracy" really gets off the ground in Episode 9 and 10 and everything came together perfectly. And Jang Hyuk...imo, some of the best acting he's ever done is in Episode 10...awesome, awesome stuff.

And like someone mentioned, there is further character development to Un-nyun, so she is more interesting and likable. I'm wondering if it's b/c the writer wanted to show a greater contrast?

There are two things I really want to comment on, but I don't want to give spoilers either so I'll wait till recaps are up. But it really was a fantastic episode...

On Yampi:
Acting-wise outside of NwP, I haven't been impressed by him. But he does have that presence? charisma? that je ne sais quoi to him. I actually think it's pretty interesting to see him being projected as the next Kimutaku-esque actor by JE. The Arashi boys are way more talented...even Takky or Kame imo, are a better actors. But I find that actresses interact with Yampi much better... or is that because his leading ladies are usually pretty talented and he has good chemistry with them? Not sure...

Question...

I have a friend who asked me today how to say "it depends" in Korean. I totally didn't know a good way to translate that without getting wordy!

Any help folks?

Do you people feel the head spinning when reading OT posts with so many things on the go?

@ 43 mud and City Hall
The fiancee issue is quite a sticking point for many starting CH. It however does not bother me a bit cause I'm more a mature audience (meaning old)!! And the relationship between JG and GH is clearly one not based on the traditional courtship/falling in love "relationship" but rather a business-like "arrangement" to get what each wants. I still haven't got the DVD Director's cut and will have to check my order now.

@ Pasta Watchers
If you can read c-sub, the subbed episodes come out at tudou.com very quickly on the following day. This drama is my biggest guilty pleasure at the moment giving me great giddiness. The flirting between Lee Seon Kyun and Gong Hyo Jin is the yummiest I've seen in a drama. So very sexy! I like how there is not any usual drama angst. The Coffee-Prince-esque atmosphere adds the delightful feel to the viewing experience. It will however be a BIG mistake to extend a drama whose strong point is not the story.

(Just read from Dahee's blog that the prickly customer in the last episode is GHJ's real life boyfriend: Ryu Seung Beom.)

@ Wishing Upon A Star
Who is your favorite sibling? To me, the sleepwalker hands down. I grin everytime when he opens his mouth especially when starting the line 'adjusshi...."

@ Assorted Gems
How sad this will finish in three weeks' time. I now understand why family dramas have to be that long. You do need that longer story and time to build the rapport with the families depicted (and become part of those families). I enjoy Sons of Sol's Pharmacy but sort of stopped at Ep 11 when the X'mas getaway was over. There is no strong urge to go back although I know I will. Watching AG is quite different though. I started a couple of weeks ago. It was like a breeze to marathon 40 episodes. The simmering romance built on partnership and trust between Lee Tae Gon (!) and Go Nau eun is the initial driving force for this marathon. By now, I care pretty much all the characters (including the mamaboy doctor and Kkeut Soon whom I hate at the beginning). The cheating father is even becoming one of my favorite characters!

@ Family Honour and Thundie
Not to give you spoiler, there will be explanation about the age gap between the grandfather and the forever drunk sister (ie Pal Kang's work friend in WUAS). Another great family drama! Kim Young Ok is once again superb here as the loyal housekeeper.

@ mookie and ockoala
Don't you think Kim Nam Gil will make a perfect Linghu Chong in Xiaoao Jianghu (The Smiling Proud Wanderer)? I haven't watched QSD but did see a few clips at YT to see what the fuss about the Bidam movement. I've only seen his bit roles previously in Be Strong Geum Soon and Lovers but his Bidam's performance got both the charm and emotional trauma required of the Linghu Chong's role.

Happy Saturday. I woke up this morning in NYC, looked out the window and said where the heck is all the snow? We have like 1/2 an inch on the ground. Hubby bought a new sled for us to go sledding in but looks like I need to save it for my snowboard trip.

I hate shopping in stores but love shopping online but only when I need something. Bluefly and Zappos are great since they have free return shipping if something doesn't fit.

@missemergency

There was a bunch of OTers who watched this when JB recommended it. I liked it but didn't love it as much as MNIKSS. Loved KHJ's acting and thought CJM was very cute and adorable. What I don't understand is how she can be a virgin at that age. She is attractive, smart, and interesting enough to pique the interests of two men in her 30's but never had a relationship with a guy in her late teens and 20's? Weird.

@ thunderbolt

The age of the various family members had me stumped as well and after spending some time trying to figure it out and totally NOT succeeding, I just accepted it and moved on. The young grandaunt's age is explained in later episode.

My understanding is people got married in their teens in the old days and in yangban class for a arranged marriage you were married really young. My grandma was married off at 16 and her husband was 13yo. She told me she was more like his maid for a few years.

The twin grandson's are in 30's but older than Danah. I think the twins are in their early 30's to mid 30's. One of the twins was married at a young age because he was the oldest son to an older woman from another yangban class and it was an arranged marriage that was unhappy.

Danah has two suitors. The young college kid with the lisp who is probably in early 20's since he mentions going to grad school and Park Shi Hoo who is in his early 30s.

I actually know someone whose mom got pregnant in her 50s so it does happen but they should have made Danah's dad's girlfriend in her mid to late 40's so its more plausible,

175 pabo ceo reom

'it depends' - na rum ee eh yo

sorry i can't spell this out in korean for you.

@ mookie

OKay, *rolls up sleeve* I recollect this was the story of Fox Volant from the novels (the WJ adaptation put Other Tales of Flying Fox and Fox Volant together to make the drama, otherwise not enough material).

Other Tales is young Hu Fei, where he meets Zhi-yi and Ling-su, runs around with Zhi-yi to steal all the sect leader badges in order to go an ruin the upcoming World Leadership Meeting to spite the Qing, and then he meets teenage Ruo-lan and Miao Ren-feng, and MRF loses his eyesight and lalala HF finds Ling-su and she cures him.

From what I remember, Ling-su dies to save HF, and Zhi-yi leaves at the end of Other Tales bc from the very beginning, she was already a nun, she was an orphan, and she came down to find her birth parents, but she had long ago taken after her master and become a nun, so she was *always in disguise* from the first moment HF met her (hence her name, Zhi-yi, purple cloth, was merely a fake name, she never had a real name, she only had the name her master gave her, Yuan Xian).

I remember that pivotal scene when she tells HF that they can't be together (I call BULLSHIT Louis Cha!) because she was a nun, and she takes off her wig, and HF is about wigging out (and I did as well). ARGHHHH, what I way to destroy OTP. Anyways, this makes ZERO sense bc she is the flirtiest nun I've ever seen, AND she gives HF the set of matching butterfly jades as their symbolic token of affection, and no nun would ever do that. Zhi-yi was always a girl in love, and for her not to elect to return to secular life and pick her guy was inconsistent writing on LC.

Anyways, in the drama, the episode where they get married and Zhi-yi dies is I think episode 31. I watched 32 and then ff-ed a bit, and the rest of the drama goes to hell in a handbasket pretty quickly, so I stopped, but am still content that the resolution of a very unsatisfying relationship was given a proper twist here.

And Fox Volant the novel is set 7 years later than Other Tales, and by then Ruo-lan is an young adult (still a brat) and HF has turned all legendary Flying Fox on us and is quite sullen and withdrawn by then. HF in the two novels is drastically different.

And word on no woman remaining a nun in any Wong JIng production! HAHAHA.

@ A.

Yeah, everything mookie said, I agree! Enjoy your rewatch, Lee Yapeng turns me off, but that's just me, I've heard that production was not so bad. Sometimes we're just in a wuxia mood, I totally get it. ;-)

@ epyc

KNG as Linghu Chong! Hhhhmm, I've always thought Jung Woo-sung would be the perfect k-actor to be LHC, but KNG, I have to sit and mull about this. I think he can do it, no problem, but would he be the best choice? LHC has no shades of grey, he's not really a tortured character, he's a very "I don't give a damn" c'est la vie kinda guy. Well, I think KNG was awesome as BIdam, and will watch anything with him in the future!

I personally think KNG would make a PERFECT Yang Xiao in Dragon Sabre, the Bright Left Messenger.

@180 momosan

"I can’t even get out the front door because the snow drifted it in. Am now headed out the back door to get snow shovel and snow blower out of the shed. "

Ohh my eyes are large as saucers. I still get giddy about snow. Are you in the DC area?

Good morning!

It seems like I got up to watch Bloody Monday season2 at 5am!? did it and went back to sleep. LOL.

And now I'm feeling as much as I'm so entranced by my Yuma kun, the drama itself is not flawless at all. I mean so full of flaws that it's almost painful to watch with that painful theme. Really a less developed version of infernal affairs, sort of, without full character developments, Or because it's season 2, we are past that stage? Anyway, it's plot driven without substances. Really, and this episodes, Yuma kun was absent half the time from the screen. Well, it does lightly touch upon some on-going social issues like Ijime(kids being bullied at schools and after school) which can ultimately lead up to revenges, murders and suicides. But the way they deal with them is so superficial that makes you wonder why bother.

Anyway, I'd better pack.
It's been raining every day here in Ventura county. Yikes. I wonder if cold rain is worse than snow?

From the frying pan and into the fire

@ A.

I've just decided to join you! Yup, going to watch ZJZ's first LC adaptation, Smiling Proud Wanderer/Xiao Au Jianghu with Li Ya-peng. It's the only ZJZ adaptation I've not even seen a single episode, but since my twin doesn't OMG-hate it-poke my eyes out, I'm needing MOAR sageuk wuxias and I feel like teh awesome story is what I crave, and this is the awesomest story there ever was written on wuxia paper.

Saw one episode - just one quibble - how come no adaptation starts off the drama where the novel begins? And OMG, how "old" is Qu Yang, jeez, he looks Zhang San-feng old, and I always saw him like 50ies at most. Anyways, Li Ya-peng as Linghu Chong as a peasant in disguise is actually pretty cool, so far so good (and I totally forgot for a second what a total lush he is!, man can drink). And Li Jie, baby you look so young! Hee hee, this might turn out to be something quite enjoyable.

@everyone that responded to my post:

Thanks for the bday wishes/advice! I will try to drink lots of water I guess :) and the person who said not to mix drinks with drugs....i was like ehhhhh okaaay. i would never do that haha. YAY for bein 21 in two days!!!!!!!

Great day today! All caught up with Chuno now, and if it gets any better I may go up in flames. Episode 10 is brilliant. Worth at least two repeated viewings.

I also decided to check out The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry and LORD HAVE MERCY KIM BUM IS HOT IN THIS DRAMA! I mean OVERLY. The storyline could go in the crapper and I'd still watch, just for the thrill he gives my eyes. Thank you God.

That is all...back to the hotness. :-D

@ 135 thunderbolt
Don't give up on Family Honor! I really enjoyed it. Some of the age differences will be explained and well, some you'll just have to leave it as drama-land creative licenses.

I am totally loving Pasta right now. Enjoying the Woman still wants to marry. Also liking Perfect Girl. It did threw me for a bit with the difference between the anime and the live action, but for some reason I actually don't mind the differences. This week I was distracted from my drama watching with reading mangas. It's been YEARS since I read mangas but dang, I still like them a lot. Gosh, that takes me back to my childhood. I feel like I am growing younger in mental age with each year...

Whoops, past midnight already. leaving for Japan tomorrow for 2 1/2 weeks. I'll be watching all the J dramas live! On the on the other hand, WUAS, I'll be glue to my computer screen as soon as subs are available. I'm so addicted to it by now. It's cuddly heart warming sort of fun. And who was it? Ms. Langdon? mentioned Kim Bum's new drama somewhere above... You are totally tempting me... After this trip, I'll be indulging myself with that one. I don't know why, somehow, it sounded so yummy , whatever the way you've described it in just one line...

um...let me see BiDam as Ling Hu Chung... maybe?! I don't really have a specific visual for LHC, just think the actor should not give a damn how he looks... one thing crucial ..need that aura of a freaking cool hermit/ alcoholic... (so yup Richie, u r still out)....if we r going international, my vote is with a younger Johnny Depp! or a no brainer would be Odagiri Joe

O @twin... I'm awfully tempted to really sit down and watch the ZJZ now with u and A. watching... *sigh* but I absolutely have no time. I'm only on ep 5 of Chuno and wanna catch up but so far behind now... I think I'll wait till it's all out and do a marathon.

WUAS is messing with me, I'm so not planning to be so involved with it but now I am!! arghhhhh... ok guy2 is flipping and freaky now, but it's not like we're not given hints fr that clone of frankenface, another ex of his (maybe PD is buddy with that plastic surgeon, can't help but wonder)... saying he can appear to be Mr Nice but a stone cold bastard inside?! I have lots of things I wanna know about these characters.... the whole boy grandchild grandpa is looking for, what happend romance-wise to yummy prick for him to be this sour this long... and that whole bro dynamic is sooo saucy! I know the writer(s) may be going a bit dramatique with pushing guy2 down this path, but they're never chums to start out with, he's never been over the top 'nice' anyways, we just know more now (whether we like it or not). I'm fine with it. Finally, we got a romcom that MAY not drag AT ALL... *crossing fingers touching wood :X*

Yes, it's all cliches, but I still wanna know and see everything unfolds!! I'm really really itching to see yummy prick slaving in mad love for PK once he's connect the dot she's THE special one for him, but she's totally oblivious to him. pleasepleaseplease!

@ twin

I love WUAS. It's owned me now since that episode 4 when PK promises to picks a star for Nami. I'm just watching other stuff to pass the time btw Tues until next Mon.

As for ZJZ's version of Wanderer - it is SOSOSOSOSOSO different from the novel in terms of who does what when and where, but still stays on the basic path of the plot, I don't know what to think? I mean, LHC meets freaking Ren Yingying in episode 2!!! Those two's first meeting should never be tampered with, b/c its totally cute in the novel, when LHC gets all drunk (like the 785th time) and is pining for Yue Ling-shan, and RYY finds him and somehow this drunken guy's devotion to this other girl touches her in a way she's never felt before. Awesome!

Not to say I don't like this version, just that its soooooo different I need to compass my bearings. I'm up to ep 4, and I like it so far, the fight btw LHC and Tain Buo-guan is kick-ass, as usual, hahahhaha "I'm ranked #2 in sit down fighting skills" "Are you alluding that I'm a fly in the outhouse that you poke when you're taking a dump!"

As for Li Ya-peng, he's actually really good, much better than I imagined, not as good looking as I hoped, but has the right flair and attitude (btw, I disagree, LHC *has* to be goodlooking, the book keeps telling us how cute he is, he's not as cute a Yang Guo or Yang Kang, but still one of the best looking LC heros in the canon). But in the end, it's the performance that matters, I agree.

@ 194 momosan

I agree--facilitating that clearly unwelcome proposal on Pal Kang was just mean. I never did 'ship' him, but I'm actively against him now. That whole set up was going to be embarrassing for Pal Kang from the start, and he knew that. I can't decide if he now wants PK to take Tae Kyung b/c he's afraid KH is 'susceptible' to her and still thinks KH should marry whatshername out of pity, or if he wants to push KH to realize that he likes PK and thus 'free up' Frozen Face girl for himself. Either way, it's not coming off as very nice.

was watching superbowl with hubby and just a couple of old college friends... had a really awwwwwww moment when the dudes were moved to teary eyes seeing Brees teared up, holding his baby and cant kiss his little boy enough. That moved me to aww and tears, but seeing the guys teary eyed at a daddy and baby moment..... priceless.

Hi! from Japan. Yamapi is just simply inexplicably beautiful. That's it. Sometimes, he doesn't even look like a human. He looks like a fantasy shoujo manga prince, the one you only see in your dream, except in this case, you can see him on TV 9pm on Monday night. Code Blue. God, I finally realized why HD vision, big screen TVs were invented! to appreciate those beautiful faces, sure beat computers.(don't have TV at home).

In a scene that came straight out of Seinfeld, my cleaning lady who I fired last week for repeated poor performance decided to come in today and pretend she didn't understand that I fired her last week.

On another note the Letterman ad was the funniest of the night. I actually thought they spliced the video somehow so Letterman and Leno appeared to be in the same room.