Beanie level: Errand boy

I love the things kids say –
“I don’t really like this meal but still thank you for making it mum because otherwise I’d starve to death”

😂😂 you’re welcome, son.

Love, February

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I love walking in the early morning when the sun is just coming up and everything’s slowly getting lighter and you have the world pretty much to yourself.

Love, February

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It is actually Feb 2 here, and this is a creature I love – even if she is lying on the instructions I need.

Love, February
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My sister just gave me my Christmas present – she knows me well 😂😂😂
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    How considerate and loving she is! 🥰 I’m sure you’ll use this mug so often!

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      She’s the best 🥰 she gave a different but similar one the year before which has been used so much the picture is coming off 😂

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Thought I’d try to finish off Police University but couldn’t remember where I was up to – just watched ep12 and didn’t realise until the last 10 minutes I had actually seen it already 😂 been a while

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Day 2 – ML I’ll never forget

I’m going to give this to Jung Ba-Reum from Mouse. He was both scary and heartbreaking, and Lee Seung Gi did an awesome job at making a character that could have gone really ridiculous seem very real.

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    So much so that I’ll never look at Lee Seung gi in the same way again. Same with Lee Dong-wook, after Hell is Other People.

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Day 1 – FL I’ll never forget

Honestly, no one left a lasting impact on me this year – but I’ll go with Ji-ah from SYHH, because she was so cool – even if I didn’t finish the drama.

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Seeing other peoples lists for the year has suddenly reminded me how many dramas I have abandoned at the 12/13/14th episode this year – maybe I should go finish some up 😅

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    Sell Your Haunted House, Doom, Police University, Hometown Cha, Monthly Magazine Home, Scripting Your Destiny, Racket Boys, and Antifan are all languishing with only a couple of episodes left. (Some of them will be staying that way, Monthly Magazine Home for one).

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@isthatacorner thanks for posting about Incurable Case of Love – it made me watch it , I’ve just finished it and I loved it very much ♥️

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I wasn’t going to start Dali and Gamjatang because I really don’t need ANOTHER drama on the go but now I think I’m in love.

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    I think I might have to start it too.

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      Do it! It’s very cute and funny so far.

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      Definitely come aboard. KMJ in D&G is anti-BRAHMS. Forget the wrapped uptight guy. His Moo-hak
      is loud but lovable.
      (This is the rare drama where the next day I laugh to myself recalling some of the stuff Moo-hak did or said. KMJ is great with Park Gyu-young and I think there may be some bromance develop between Moo-tak and Won-tak (Hwang Hee). Those guys have already had a couple funny/slapstick scenes together.

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        Moo Hak is so loud but so lovable. He seems like the kind of guy who would be the loyal friend who would do anything for you but call you out on your bs too

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    I started it only because of Kim Min Jae but I was surprised at how good it was.

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    I’m also in ♥️ with the show and my perfect FL.

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    It’s simply charming and delightful, period!

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Honestly, this FL – when people have a job that requires them to be on call, sometimes they have to leave abruptly, it’s life. Surely an emergency doctor should be familiar with this concept?! #DotS

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    I know! I am driving an unfamiliar car on an unfamiliar cliff side winding road. I will look at my phone while driving because that is safe behaviour and will definitely not result in an accident.

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    I was going to criticise her for wearing high heels but I see it was so she could bang off the heels in heroic fashion at the quake zone. Seriously I think you had time to change your shoes.

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      Ah I see, it was also so this poor injured man who will also need to walk out of this disaster zone could symbolically give you his shoes.

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So after much suggesting by Netflix I’ve started watching Descendants of the Sun and My god please tell me the female lead grows a brain at some point

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    I know! I am in a remote area at an army base, this seems like a good time go for a walk by myself and jump over this security fence!

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    I have repeatedly been told my career is not progressing due to lack of connections, so the chairman must be asking me to dinner not propositioning me

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    Honestly, I binged and I can barely remember anything about the drama. I mean, it’s as easily watching as forgetting what it is about.

    And I don’t think she gets any smarter.

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      Oh, I only remember the bare-chested soldiers during their morning run.

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    Not really 😂 but the 2nd leads were interesting and it was kinda fun if you don’t take the show seriously. Cos the whole war zone conflict plot was not good.

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    Pretty sure there is zero character growth for anyone in that drama. It’s basically just a series of pretty and amusing vignettes with the barest idea of a plot holding it together. I think my brain purged most of the drama after each episode. It’s fun, but nothing actually happens. I’m still baffled as to how it was so popular.

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    Just about 3months ago or so i also watch DoTS, thanks to vincenzo withdrawal syndrome. Theres no any kind of growing or development happened in the entire show.
    SPOILER
    Do they engaged or in the more serious stage in relationship? No.
    Work promotion? No.
    Uruk become significantly better? No. Nothing. Theyre just wooing each other and nothing else.

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      @nilsche: Also what kind of an idiot names the country “uruk” when there is so much tragic real baggage associated with Iraq, a real country? It showed gross indifference, ignorance and execrable artistic judgment. The bad juju probably followed the main leads leading to their divorce 2 years later.

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    @beffels: This is a very late answer to your Qn but nope- The entire series has many absurdities. A war torn country that looks like Greece and is called ‘uruk’ (that is offensive in itself), ‘refugees’ which look like someone has hired them from a terrible casting agency, a hospital staff that can just get up and leave for a ‘mission’, and an ‘elite SAS team’ that are babysitters for the hospital staff as opposed to doing ops, and the cherry in top, chopper picking up Song Jungki twice on his dates to take him to secret missions. That last one was so ridiculous it just cracked me up.
    For me the best parts were the camaraderie between the Song Jungki and the actor that played the sargeant, and the latter’s relationship with his superior in rank girlfriend. I

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      I haven’t been able to finish watching it – I got about halfway through but I couldn’t take it anymore 😂

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        @beffels: Please don’t. I hate watched it. In retrospect, should have used those hours much more wisely. And, may I mention one more absurdity? Wearing shorts to a ‘war torn’ country!! Just beyond ridiculous. Covering one’s hair but wearing shorts. Aigoo.

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Police University –
Nice dad is so nice that I feel super worried for his safety. It never pays to be a nice Kdrama parent.

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    Thank you! I thought something would happen to him in the first few episodes. Now I hope that he disappears and is only mentioned by other characters. That way we know he’s safe lol

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Oh dear, back to lockdown for us! Now I just need to find a good drama to distract me…

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    Three day or a week? I guess you’ve seen Into the Ring?

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      Three days (for now, at least). I’ve only seen half of Into the Ring because I got distracted, so that’s not a bad idea – it’s a bit easier to watch for me now it’s on Netflix.

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        I hope the lock down finishes quickly for you. Enjoy when you get the chance. So far, it’s a laugh.

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          Thanks! Lockdown coinciding with the worst weather we’ve had ages so it’s going to be super fun inside with three kids 😅 I’m going to need something to make me laugh.

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    I hope the lockdown thing is gonna end soon for you. About the kids, are they very young? What about cooking something together? I don’t know if that would make things worse for you (than leaving them play on their own and you on your own) are it’s gonna be a fun time together.

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      When they announced the lockdown there was one case in the community and now there are five – so I think it’s highly likely to be more than three days. The kids are 7, 4 and just turned 2 so cooking is a little bit chaotic 😂 but it something we enjoy so it’s a good idea!

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    @beffels I hope that it doesn’t last long.

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    Hoping things go smoothly during your lockdown!

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Couldn’t hold out on Viki when I knew there were more episodes – watching Monthly Magazine Home on iqiyi and it is SO CUTE 🥰

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    Which probably means things are about to go horribly wrong but I will enjoy this while it lasts

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      Lord, I hope not. But, sigh.

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      Yes! I want them to go horribly wrong and let the sweet supportive convenience store partner be the end game!!! The writer changed course during APAD so I’m here to lobby for the same treatment this time. 😆 Let the nice guy win again!

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        How can you say that?! 😱😂 I actually find convenience store friend overly naive and his pretending to be poor at the start really grated (but I will accept it was good intentioned) so I would be sadly disappointed if that happened.

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        “Let the nice guy win again”
        I take it you are accepting that Ye Liner was the better ship?

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And this is one of the best songs I got to know through Begin Again

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For the beach party, this is old now (they are CHILDREN) but such an earworm –

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I have finally, FINALLY finished Warm and Cozy. It was fine and all, but also not worth the effort.

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    Haven’t you read what @javabeans said about this? Made her dislike YYS, if that was possible. 😂

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      😂 I like him but for some reason I actually have a terrible track record for completing YYS’s dramas – even Gu Family Book took a couple of attempts despite my LSG devotion….but this has to be the one I’ve left hanging for the longest. I can’t even remember when I started it the first time but it was well before covid.

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2021 Midyear Drama Challenge
Best drama of 2021 (so far)
I recognise that there may be a HINT of bias here, but I’m going to go with Mouse. It is not often I make it to the end of a 20 episode drama (Even with LSG – Hwayugi took me three attempts), but Mouse had me hooked right to the end. It was not without its problems but what drama is?

Best Scene from Favourite Drama
Mouse did a lot of good end-of-episode scenes, but one I really liked was when Bong Yi was checking Ba Reum’s arm for the telltale scar and he woke up 😱 I never thought Lee Seung gi could look so scary.

Favourite OTP
Seon-gyeom and Mi-Joo from Run On. I nearly put this as the best drama but in the end it was less memorable for me.

Favourite OST
I tend to only notice and remember an OST if it is obnoxious – nothing standing out for me so far.

Drama You Dropped
So many! Sisyphus is the first that leaps to mind but it was definitely not alone.

Drama you hate watched (and finished)
If I had finished it yet I would say Warm and Cosy but my god that show is endless. So, Lovestruck in the City it is! I didn’t exactly hate watch it, but I think only the shortness of the episodes saved it from being dropped.

Drama many loved but you didn’t
Vincenzo. It’s fine? I’m stalled at episode eight-ish.

Drama you loved but many didn’t
Mouse

Drama you’ve rewatched this year
Last weekend my sister and I watched all of My Girlfriend Is A Gumiho in under two days and I regret nothing.

Last Drama You Finished
Not a 2021 drama, but it was I Remember You. I started this because I wanted something SIG that wasn’t Doom, and it turned out to be really good. I finished it really fast because I am terrible at pacing myself. It gets better as it goes along, which is contrary to my usual kdrama experience, and has my new favourite supporting character in Sunbae Son. Two thumbs up 👍 👍

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    I Remember You is really good. I really like that drama too.

    I forgot to add Sisyphus in my dropped list. But I barely got past episode 1 so maybe that is why I forgot about it

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      I’m glad I went with that instead of Shopaholic Louis, I’m trying that now and it’s really not doing it for me.

      Haha I’d wiped Sisyphus from my memory too until I saw it on other people’s dropped lists.

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    I really enjoyed I Remember You, and watched it for the first time this year as well! SIG, Jang Na Ra, Choi Won Young and Park Bo Gum formed such a stellar constellation of actors.

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    I REMEMBER YOU (2015) was one of my early kdrama favorites. It was my first SIG drama which I immediately followed up with his SQUAD 38 (2016) (also highly recommended). IRY was also my first PBG drama but for some reason I did not see him again until his cameo in ITAEWON CLASS. However, from IRY, PBG is in my all-time favorite cast party pic which I just posted on my fan wall.

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Argh when you’ve got one and a half episodes left and you’re really hooked but it’s already 11pm and you have to get up at 6 the next day…must. resist.

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