Hello Beanies! Only four Fridays left before it's 2018!

Early this year I had several dramas on my to-watch list, like Misaeng, SUFBB, and Chicago Typewriter. Fast forward to now and they're STILL on my watch list! I'm terrible at this.

Hi Beanies! Happy Friday!

Dropping in to say hi and yes I’m still alive 😂 I’m in a total drama slump right now. A deep long one. And it’s probably also because I’m in a bit of a slump in my real life as well. Thanks to some less than stellar news about the Boy.

But what has helped and what I want to share about this OT is this amazing life changing revelatory book that I’ve come across.

The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen Year Old Boy with Autism is a book written by this then 13 year old non verbal Autistic boy called Naoki Higashida, and translated into English by David Mitchell (author of Cloud Atlas) and his Japanese wife.

That’s right. He is non verbal. His mother and therapists managed to find a way for him to communicate using a Japanese keyboard. It’s mind blowing that a previously barely vocal boy was able to write a whole book!

It provides amazing insight into the mind of an autistic child and essentially answers questions that people have, and debunks all the myths of autistic children and shows that their minds are just as curious, emotional and complex as you or I.

I can’t say enough good things about this book. Except to recommend it to everyone to read.

To quote Naoki: “You can’t a person by their looks. But once you know the person’s inner self, both of you can be that much closer. From your point of view, the world of autism must look like a deeply mysterious place. So please, spare a little time to listen to what I have to say. And have a nice trip through our world.”

All my thoughts (because there are too many) and some of my favourite pages are in my blog. Even if you don’t have time to check out the book, I hope you will at least pop by and have a quick read.

Have a great Friday everyone 😊

https://mydramalesslife.wordpress.com/2017/12/01/if-you-could-only-read-one-book-this-december-holidays-the-reason-i-jump/

Watching Untouchable. Hard to believe Kim Sung-Kyun is the same goofy dad from Reply 1988.

Watching C drama Let’s Shake It. Thank you to the folks at A Virtual Voyage for subbing this and making it available.

Also watching Tribes and Empires. Like it so far. The visuals on this show are stunning.

Hello beanies.
I posted this on my wall but as I'm very curious I'm posting it here too.

I Bing-watched Go Back Couple this week. I LOVED it but I won’t go into much details because I have read the comments and know that I’m in the minority in WHY I loved the show😁

Anyway, I have a question about the last episode:

At the end of the last episode we see dr Hyun-suk in a restaurant cheating on his wife again. Then he sees Ye-rim.

Now here is my interpretation of that scene. He looked so absolutely dumb-founded and kept staring at her in such a confused way that I thought he somehow kinda remembered the alternate timeline where she was his wife. He was definitely much more surprised than having only met his ex after nearly 20 years.

And Ye-rim too, looked much too smug for someone who has only made a brief eye-contact with his boyfriend of two decades ago.

I LOVED that last slap of karma for the doc soooo much 😁. But then I read the recap and comments and it looks like nobody had that impression except me? Anyone?

I unfollowed an EXO fan account on Twitter just because he/she is butthurt over Wanna One's winning Best Male Group. That was the only fan account I followed on my social media. Just another reminder why I am really not into Kpop and the fandom life nowadays. :(

Hello Beanies,
The only thing that I am currently watching is Untouchable.....I am so sold on the complicated God father dynamic we have here at play. This year has hit me with drama slump really bad. So, I am glad to have found the show. Kyung Soo Jin, I knew she was good but man, this drama, she is really owning her character here. Jin Goo and Kim Sung Kyung are such a delight to watch on screen playing with darker character yet they have layers and shades. Although I have been whining about good rom-com, turns out thrillers are attracting me more this year. Anyway, hopefully the show will be recapped here. Still waiting on Wise Prison Playbook and have decided maybe I should binge watch later instead of waiting every week.
Also, yay for Crystal Liu for getting cast as Mulan, I really like her and I think she'll do the role full justice.

와...안녕하세요 여러분.

In truth I'm adding this as an afterthought after writing my OT post but I wanted to put it in here:

If possible could you take 5 minutes out of your time to sign and share this petition? I dont know how many of you have heard about the current situation in Libya, But this is sad and inhumane and it has to stop. People are literally being sold for around 400 dollars. I cannot even. This petition is to help raise awareness and urge higher authorities to do something about the situation.

Here's the link down here:

https://www.change.org/p/stop-migrants-becoming-slaves-in-libya-close-the-slave-markets?recruiter=838368097&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=share_facebook_responsive&utm_medium=whatsapp

Thank you for your time.

How was your week? 
-Did you eat yummy food?
-Did you write any tests?
-What about exams?
-Did you finally stand up to that person who was pissing you off?
-Were you able to get that important issue off your mind by adressing your roomate about it? (this is me right here hahaha. I was able to!!!)

My week was pretty uneventful. I didn't go to classes for 2 days - my teacher told us not to come. And I missed a lecture because I actually FORGOT about it (I'm amazing aren't I? Sigh...)
Anyway, I've been gaining a lot of weight these days which I don't like so I decided to start cutting the excesses out of my diet. Starting with drinks. Nothing but water - I decided to start a 30-day water challenge on Wednesday.

However, guess what I did yesterday beanies?
I totally forgot and drank coffee.
Sigh...

I had already poured the coffee powder in the cup and everything (it was sachet coffee - just needed to add hot water). I took it because i didn't want to waste it. However, I have continued on this journey. No liquids but water for the next 30 days! Fighting!

What did you guys think of BTIMFL ending?

Ah, on "Are You Human Too?". I was in shock at the production costs! That's a looot of money! Just wow, how is this drama gonna be?
Gong Seung-Yeon though...**cough** I like that girl.

Moving on - so in December: shows being anticipated by me :
- I'm not a robot.
- Just Between Lovers
- Bad Guys

Yup - those so far...Though I don't know which will  hold my attention. Of the recent slew of dramas the only one that held me was BTLIMF. Which is funny because I wasn't even gonna check it out. I was angling more toward Temperature of Love, Witch's Court and Mad Dog...but it was the drama which I just happened to read the recap of that had me hooked so idk.

Ah! If we move over to Japan though -
Has anyone watched the movie "Himizu"?
What did you think?
It was a movie I had to watch in 2 sittings (And in honesty that's me with most movies these days - Idk why I just cant sit to watch them at once and get it over with). And when I finally did...Oh my I shed a few tears at some points. The children's situations were so sad...But the...

Hi Everyone!

I hope you are all doing well today.

This week:

Temperature of Love - Ok, so I'm at the part where Hyun-soo meets with Jung-sun's mom, even after he asked her not to. I know many of the viewers went after Hyun-soo for that, citing how it was a betrayal on her part. While I can't argue with that fact, what also came to mind was the societal and family hierarchy, and the rules that go with them, which are the parameters Hyun-soo has to navigate in. It doesn't matter whether Jung-sun's mother is narcissistic and emotionally manipulative or not (which she is), Hyun-soo will always be on the losing end of any interaction with his mother that includes any disregard for respect or required attention as defined by the culture. ..... Jung-sun has more flexibility, being his mother's child, to actually establish a distance between him and his mother but even he runs into problems because his personal needs as an emotionally wounded person clash with filial expectations. If he runs into trouble in the attempt to avoid his mother how is Hyun-soo expected to be successful? ..... Could Hyun-soo be more crafty in dealing with his mother? She could try, but she doesn't have that in her. One look at her upbringing, her parents and her dynamic with her family are indication enough. We (along with Jung-sun) all know what we want Hyun-soo to do and what she should do because his mother and people like her are psychologically toxic, but Hyun-soo, as well as Jung-sun are kind of between a rock and a hard place.

Witch's Court - Well, at least we didn't get some last minute reveal that Ma Yi-deum is Jo Gap-soo's daughter!

Mad Dog - I still haven't watched the last two episodes. I'm just hoping nothing fatal happens to our Mad Dog Team!

While You Were Sleeping - Ok, so, I suddenly have questions regarding the dreams .... courtesy of junior cop in the future. By the way, good twist in the story with only 3 episodes left for me to watch!

That's all for now. ...... Take care everyone and have a great Friday!

I finished watching Delightful Girl Chun-hyang two weeks ago. It was my first time watching the drama, a drama from 2005 that I watched in the late 2017. I can't really explain what's so special about DGCH that now, two weeks after I watched the last episodes, I still can't get it out of my mind. I'm still daydreaming about Mong ryong and Chun-hyang and writing their fan fiction. Latest dramas are better in many ways but many of them didnt left much impression like DGCH. Once again I tell you, I first-watched it in 2017. I expected I wouldn't enjoy it much, but here I am.
PS: I dropped BTIMFL few weeks ago and still haven't picked it up. I'm not sure I can enjoy it after watching the balad of chun-hyang and mong-ryong

OT week 43! It’s officially the holiday season here and it’s a gorgeous, sun-shiney, blue-sky day today in my neck of the woods (literally) and I’m in the best mood! (Can you tell?) I hope to rub some of it off here on dramabeans today.

Every year, my husband and I write Christmas letters to our friends and family. It started before the kids were born, and it was the only time of the year I indulged in writing. My husband didn’t really like what I wrote that first year, so wrote his own letter and we’ve been sending both ever since. Mine is factual, didactic, as he would say, while his is humorous and entertaining. I’ve been telling you all that I’m really the serious one, and not very funny, and this annual Christmas letter proves it. Well, this year, he wrote a kdrama summary based on our lives this past year. It’s. HILARIOUS. Unfortunately, only a handful of people will understand it, and I’ll probably put it on an open thread with parts redacted as to be more anonymous as we get closer to Christmas.

Along with the Christmas letter, we take our annual Christmas card picture. And this year it was on the beach in Florida. I know, stereotypical. But there I was, the last day we were there, making everyone wear white shirts and blue pants, meeting on the beach at sunrise for the right lighting, freezing our feet off because sand is freaking cold at 6 am, snapping photos. And they are so pretty, I must say. I need to live on a coast at some point of my life, I’ve decided.

Otherwise, this week was about BTLIOF, and the finale. I really loved this show, almost everything about it. It probably is second to Goblin in my very small list of favorite dramas. I even liked the last two episodes. Ji-Ho reacted very similarly to how I reacted in a previous relationship. Except, unlike the kdrama, my guy didn’t pine for me when I left, at least I don’t think he did, because we never spoke again. I’m not even sure where he is now. For those of us who have been in love or even liked a person that they thought cared for them immensely, maybe more than once, the vulnerability that that causes is inexplicable to those who have not. You have one heart and getting it broken sucks, really sucks. And you’re selfish with that heart and you don’t want it broken, so you leave before you get in too deep sometimes, especially when you are not sure about if the other person is as in love as you are. Sometimes shows will show us more than what the other protagonist knows, and it’s confusing to see why they would act that way, but that’s reality. This show was organic, too realistic at times, and so thought-provoking, but everyone gets their “happy ending.”

Short convo with the hubby while watching Ep 15:

Me: OMG, OMG, OMG, his hand is on the handle. Why doesn’t he *($&# go in???

Hubby: Because he’s scared.

Me: Of what?

Hubby: Of all of it. Letting her in, loving her, having her love him, hurting her, being...

Am I the only one who feels that year end is a stressful period? It's the time of the year I go for a longer holiday and all the planning, arrangements, preparation, packing tire me out before the holiday even starts. Work acts up too and throws up stuff that needs to be dealt with before you go away. Then there's Christmas gatherings, food, gifts etc etc.

It's an oxymoron - I have no time but all the more I need a drama! But I am in a drama slump. Not watching anything now that Go Back Spouses, Revenge Club and BTLIOF ended. I've just tried half of the 1st ep of Wise Prison Life and may continue.

Hi all. Happy Friday! I haven't started watching Go Back Couple yet (it's on my ever expanding list!), but I'm so happy Son Ho Jun is doing well. I loved him even more after Youth Over Flowers and am happy every time he pops up. He's part of the reason I'm bingeing Three Meals a Day. Yay!

Good morning! Hope this has been a lovely week for everyone. Not much on my plate thankfully. I'm excited for the weekend.

While You Were Sleeping Finished this over the Thanksgiving weekend. It was cute and I actually liked Suzy in this (first drama I could stand her in). But there was something missing from the drama. I'm not even sure what it was. I almost wish the drama spent more time on dreams and the 3 dreaming musketeers trying to stop the events from happening. I loved this writers other works (I Can Hear Your Voice is one of my favorite dramas) but this one was sadly kinda forgettable.

Because This Life Is Our First Finally started this now that the drama has ended and it's sooo cute so far. I'm only 2 episodes in but I am loving these weird and quirky characters and excited to see where they go together. The contract marriage happened very quickly and almost gave me whiplash! I have nothing planned this weekend so I will spend it watching this.

Ho-Gu's Love I have very mixed feeling about this drama. It had cute moments but also some very distressing moments. It distressed me how people reacted to a single mother. Is it a crime in Korea to be a single mother? And horrible how she is considered undateable because she has a child. I also found Ho-Gu's weird stalker tendencies to be creepy when I know they were supposed to come off as cute. Instead of asking Do-Hee for answers he would follow her secretly instead. I was also very unhappy how there was no resolution to the rape and it was barely touched upon and almost turned into a comedic situation at the end. It was however sadly very realistic I just wish the drama gave a good and satisfying resolution. Do-Hee and Ho-Gu were cute with each other though and despite his creepy stalker tendencies, Ho-Gu was a wonderful man for Do-Hee, both loving and supportive. I did watch this whole drama and I'm not exactly sure, because there were a lot of things in the drama that really bothered me. I also don't like babies so the drama focusing so heavily on a baby wasn't that entertaining to me. I think I stuck around because the drama wasn't bad and had some cute moments and the acting was good so it would be a drama people would like.

Heeh. I'm avoiding Kdrama finales (Temperature of Love, Because This Is Our First Life and Witch's Court)

... and binge-watching Cdramas instead. I just finished LOVE O2O and have become truly, madly, crazy, deeply in love with Yang Yang. This man is just too beautiful *A* . How can one look so pretty and manly at the same time? He makes me feel things... beautiful things. I find myself daydreaming about him at work XD LOL I can't seem to skip this phase whenever I find an attractive actor in dramas.

I'm also watching A LOVE SO BEAUTIFUL, which reminds me of IT STARTED WITH A KISS but with a tamer, less jerk of a male lead. Totally hooked in the light high school drama going on. Sigh, I found the reason why I'm skipping Kdrama finales, I'm not in the mood for angst, drama... I am in desperate need for light, cheesy, totally cliché moments now.

That's all for me. Have an awesome weekend, everyone!

Wishing every beanie a happy December! Today I have finished all 10 of my applications for music conservatories! (No more essays and transcripts and video recordings woo!) I’m a violist going on in musical performance. After a crazy November, I’m ready to embrace December and indulge in Christmas season fun.

Liu Yifei has been cast to play [b]Mulan[/b] in the upcoming live action Disney remake!
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-42177082

Now if only Mark Chao could be cast as Li Shang! 🌟

So I'm watching Because This Is Our First Life and I'm very confused about Marriage with a big M. I thought I had watched enough k-drama to get that marriages are a big thing in Korea but it seem I still don't get it.

In particular with Ho Rang and Won Seok. They already live together. I understand that having a wedding is a huge expense, but it doesn't seam to be their problem. He says that marriage means having kids but why, you can get married without having kids straight away. Is it that he doesn't want to have kids at all and that getting married and not having kids is not something you can do in Korea? Maybe I'm too used to having the parents meddle in everything that now that we don't see any of their parents, I don't understand the problem? I'm so puzzled, I'm trying really hand to understand the character's struggles but I come up with nothing.

@javabeans I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post this but I couldn't find any other place for it. I'm wondering if you would still like to have feedback for our new(ish) website. One thing I've noticed is that if I haven't logged in and want to reply to a comment , clicking on the login page will take me to a new page and I then need to go back and look for the specific comment. Could we have a pop-up/floating login window that disappears after we log in so we don't lose track of what we were reading? Or could the site be smart enough to take us back to that specific comment? This is obviously not super important so please feel free to ignore it if you don't have time and/or it's hard to implement. I'm posting this in case you have some sort of periodic IT maintenance/update schedule and something like this can be incorporated easily. Thank you for all your hard work!!

I'm finally done watching BTIMFL. I love it! Such a great and insightful drama. I love all the monologues. I always make sure I watched those scenes carefully and later be awed at how apt and true the words are.
Been watching Law Of The Jungle old episodes non stop nowadays. Haha. I initially watched the Fiji episodes for Roy Kim but later I was so invested in the series and I searched for all of the other seasons. Sigh. So many episodes to catch up. Maybe I'll just watch those seasons with the cast that I like. I don't even know why but watching celebrities surviving in a jungle was kinda fun. Waiting for Chief Byung Man's triumphant return!

Shocking and late-breaking news, everyone. I've achieved Rooftop Room Dweller status.

Might I avail myself of Hyun-jae's former abode in THE BEST HIT? That ladder to the rooftop in BECAUSE THIS LIFE IS OUR FIRST gives me vertigo just looking at it. ;-)

Hi everyone,

I am late to this thread but lately I have been following K-pop a lot and I love what they bring to my life. A k-pop song that will make me want to dance will make my day, but I am concerned.

This young idols, work so hard and yet people demand so much form them. All that pressure, can they handle it well?? With more and more news of idols with mental issues and a lot of survival programs, you realize how brutal the k-pop industry is. I want to see these kids do great things for a long long time.

I just wanted to put it out there, I don't have anyone to talk about these stuff near me, so hope you understand.

Thank you

Well my dear Beanies,

I'll be around tonight but that'll be it for awhile, I think. You're all welcome to laugh at me if I'm wrong. :)
In the morning I am moving from Colorado to Ohio! I'm a bit nervous as my car isn't in the best of condition and I don't know exactly where I'm going once I get to Colorado. But, as y'all may remember I was offered a job. My official start date is in January but I was told I could start early if I want--and I'm eager to get started. But, its over a 20 hour drive to get to where I'm going. The final destination is uncertain, and even then it'll take awhile to get settled in the new place and the new job. Hopefully I'm just being super dramatic and I'll be haunting the boards just as much as I always do. But just in case I don't...I'll miss y'all! Gross mushy!
Unlike when I moved in August--this is a great time for me to move-drama wise. In August when I moved it was straight in the middle of School 2017. I had to watch Tae Swoon get the girl from my phone! Thats why as much as I want to start Jo Jung Seuk's new drama I have resisted and have instead kept on watching this horrible When I See You Again. Honestly. I should be rewarded for my restraint. I plan on downloading Oh Hae Young, Chicago Typewriter and Jealousy Incarnate and Healer to rewatch during my time away from the internet (and dramabeans, sad!). I'm thinking I should download some dramas I've never seen before as well. Maybe I'll finally get around to City Hunter!
Any other recommends, guys? Since I'm moving to a new place for a new job and a fresh start I wouldn't mind something that goes along those lines (with a heavy dose of romance, OF COURSE--an isa can dream)