OT #1:
I cannot wait for this k-drama PPL:
http://www.engadget.com/dyson-zone-noise-canceling-headphones-pricing-availability-announced-000119196.html

OT #2:
The previews of ALCHEMY OF SOULS 2 have lowered my expectations. It seems that the direction is softening Go Yoon-jung to the point of making her look more like Jung So-min’s Mudeok than episode 1 Naksu. The three year-time skip is even more problematic since season 1 ended in chaos needing immediate action and answers. My early concern that this fantasy world would turn into a franchise factory churning out sequels or spin-offs like Potter or Star Wars is still not lost on me since ten episodes may be able to finish Uk’s story but not very many other characters.

Time to run windows 11 - could have done so way earlier with those 2 new laptops - but yeah with not much to do ahead can be pretty easy to deal with all things left to pursue - magazines to dramas to movies to documentaries to lot more stuff - too little time.

Fantastic 2022 overall -

health - about ok - +ve
finances - big red - -ve - no need to cry - just enjoy it with a smile

Saw tv this week and - Serendipity - i not rewatch things but serdenpity is that one movie that i've watched over 2 dozen times and things is always watched it from mid or last 15 minutes.

Yeah a foolish feel good romantic comedy but john cusack is here so everything is fine.
I can see this movie anywhere but then what's the fun in it
i can check schedule of broadcasters and watch it right at time but what's the fun in it - If this story depends so much on destiny then let it be destiny that i watch it from the 1st scene itself on tv.

I'm kinda digging how Jtbc releases Reborn rich 3 eps per week. This pattern is way better than some station that thinking to release 1 ep per week is good idea. I guess it is like starting a business without learning the market 😄. Or starting thing for pure business without a heart to begin with. LOL
Reborn Rich feels like the legendary Giant with its 50 somethings episodes.

I have appreciated being a part of a discussion group led by @reply1988 But I have to admit, it’s a little intimidating because everyone else in it is so smart and cosmopolitan, and I’m a very provincial Californian. So I’ve had to try to dumb down the conversation to my level a bit, which I did successfully last week by taking a very principled, and I thought well-reasoned stance on the importance of a passionate kiss as the culmination of a kdrama romance. But that led me to think about what to call such a kiss. I looked up to see if Korean had such a word, and I couldn’t find it. And English slang is fine with non-passionate kisses, but totally fails when it comes to the kiss that combines the intensity of new love and (perhaps more than a smidgeon) of physical desire.

The “peck” is clear, for morning greetings, thank yous, hellos. The “smooch” is a bit more, for I missed you, its good to have you in the house, I appreciate you. But looking up “what is a passionate kiss called” brings this Wikipedia entry: “a French kiss, also known as cataglottism…may be a mode for disease transmission, particularly if there are open wounds in the mouth.” But you won’t find me saying “Why didn’t the two leads engage in consensual, contagious, cataglottism.” It will put my comment over the Drama Beans word limit!

I know the (generally female) fan terms describing kisses as “swoon-worthy," and “squee-worthy” The problem I is that I don’t think I’ve ever swooned in my life. Well, maybe if Kim Hee-Seon suddenly appeared at my door, I’d hit the floor unconscious. But I think I’d probably just panic and start saying the only Korean word I know, gamsahabnida repeatedly while she addressed me in perfect English. As far as “squee” I love that onomatopoeic word, that if said by an enthusiastic young woman makes everyone immediately understand the nature of the kiss. If I say “squee” though, it sounds like a piglet crying for its sow--not exactly the image I want for a deeply romantic moment.

Does any one know of a word in any language, for a passionate kiss, that I could use for kdrama purposes? In the U.S. we are taught in elementary school that the Inuit of Alaska have 50 words for snow, which I think is probably a myth. But isn’t there some very romantic culture that has 50 words for kisses?

Koreans to become a year younger as traditional age system is scrapped.

Korea will adopt international age standards and do away with multiple systems of calculating age, including babies being one year old at birth and everyone being considered one year older on January 1, as well as the separate calculation for military service age and legal drinking/smoking.

Jeong Da-eun, a 29-year-old office worker, said she welcomed the change, since she always had to think twice when asked her age when overseas. “I remember foreigners looking at me with puzzlement because it took me so long to come back with an answer,” she said.

My birthday is December 27 and I’ve always found it weird that I’d have turned two years old … 5 days after I was born. Of course I’ve now reached an age where I sometimes struggle to remember how many birthdays I’ve had because there have been so damned many that it’s all a blur.

So a few years ago and for reasons that are lost to the mists of time, a group of us decided to run our own end of year poll. It became somewhat of a tradition and so it continues to this day.

In 2019, Sky Castle got voted best drama
https://invisibledragon.home.blog/2019/12/28/2019-in-kdrama-the-poll-results/

In 2020, it was Hospital Playlist
https://invisibledragon.home.blog/2020/12/15/2020-in-kdrama-the-poll-results/

And last year of course it was Move to Heaven
https://invisibledragon.home.blog/2021/12/11/2021-in-kdrama-the-poll-results/

Now the time has come for 2022. As it is shaping up to be one of the more polarising drama years, I'm quite fascinated as to how the end of year voting is shaping up and what the results will be. Early voting has already shown some surprising and interesting trends.

So if you have a minute and want to cast your vote for the best, worst, funniest, saddest, most romantic drama this year then drop on by.

Vote here: https://forms.gle/fmv6TbZjuaw73VrM9

Results will be out by the end of the year

Happy weekend Beanies and keep Beaning On!

Whenever I am busy, the plot bunnies attack. As soon as I have time for them, they escape again. In case you were wondering how the end of the year review and the roundup 2022 are going.😅 I wished for more sleep and better health for this week, but I did ruin the former by ignoring curfew in order to write my posts. Not my fault my creativity awakens then! Besides, the days were busy enough without writing time.😁

I did organize a small write-in with my friend one evening that went quite well. We both wrote about an hour and watched an episode together afterwards as a reward. Hopefully we can plan another one next week. First, we are going for lunch and shopping in the city tomorrow. May the hours spent away from our writing replenish our creative juices!💪🏻

i finished watching 1899 on netflix. super strange, super good. the best part was watching "the making of..." - but NO PEEK! don't watch "the making of" until after you watch the short series.

don't watched the DUBBED version! it's international - several different languages spoken all at once! at times, i had to select the english CC also, because the lead actress sometimes spoke so softly i couldn't understand what she was saying...

I woke up this morning and realized I had just been dreaming-dreaming-dreaming a K-drama! I was a chaebol heir CEO in a workplace comedy and getting up to all sorts of comic hijinks. What little I recall of it, it was quite the fun dream.

Has anyone watched Lookism, the Korean anime version now on Netflix? Is it worth watching? The handful of reviews I've skimmed are mixed - as in, some loved all of it and some thought it was all pretty bad, rather than that it had a mix of good and bad points.