Honestly, I can’t think of a better Taiwanese drama for the second-half of last year to the first-half of this year. Perhaps Victim’s Game might be a strong contender!
Maybe if there’s nothing better and if fans kick up enough of a fuss, but I don’t see that happening because they’re not as intense (i.e. internet savvy & nor scary) as fans (but really fans, more like sasaengs) in S.Korea who have a lot of influence over things….. There’s usually a group of people who serve on a panel as judges of these sorts of awards shows, regardless of the country—even Hollywood runs on this sort of system for their award shows— but really, a panel for award shows is pretty useless in S.Korea
Yup. Ive been following the Golden Bell for quite a while. Their panel of judges are of a certain standard, they judge quality > popularity unlike the SK counterparts. Hence I mentioned that Victim’s Game will be a strong contender due to its quality. There were a couple of other shows that Taiwanese netizens pointed out, but I really hope SOOD can win. It’s quality it’s there, and also produced by the same team who did for Marry Me or Not (which Alice won an award for that year too)
Oh god… I just finished a kmovie, Another Way, and I literally held my breathe for the last 20 mins! Any other beanies watched it? It was released in 2017
So beanies, I’ve been hooked onto this Taiwanese variety show since June, they play a game similar to The Mafia Game. Wanted to share a video that I absolutely loved! So a little back context, some of the frequent guests ended up forming a temporary group (they are Singers from different agencies and some of you may know 09 who sings Someday Or One Day’s OST) for fun. It first started as multiple duos, then four and now five. The individual members are holding concerts one after another these days, and today’s the “leader’s”. Totally loved how they enjoyed the stage in this video! Especially when they started their dance, albeit not in sync, at around the 4:55 mark! Saw how most audiences are holding their devices to record and it totally did not sit well with me. But that is another story to tell ☺️
Welcome! Do you need anything! Non-native fruits, materials, etc? I have some extras! I’m trying to breed the blue roses myself from scratch too! Not easy! 😅
Dang! My island flowers are the Cosmos. Have you upgraded and obtained Nook’s Cranny yet? They do sell seeds on a rotating basis. Alternatively, Leif should be visiting once every 2 weeks.
I don’t mind adding you as friends! We can play together and exchange stuffs. But how should we do it? I reckon we would need to have some form of communication between us so that we know what’s going on our islands (e.g. shooting stars, Celeste, villagers crafting DIYs, etc)
That would be awesome thank you! Are you on the beanie discord channel? Should we create one for ACNH in case any other beanies are interested as well?
I’m not on the discord, but let me know the link? I have an account with discord and can join. I think there are other beanies who play ACNH! We can definitely create a community
Ahh! I should make a little blueming area too! I hope you don’t mind if I steal this idea~
I’m jelly of the blue roses, I’ve been trying to breed them for months, but no success so far 🙁 I should probably double down on my efforts, now I have inspiration to use them 🙂
I initially placed my blue roses somewhere else, relocated them specially just for this! I want to create an area for It’s Okay To Not Be Okay actually, but I don’t know where I should do it, kinda lack the space for a proper kdrama theme, unless I throw all my currently useless flowers away.
Trust me, I’m breeding them myself too! I wanna try it myself since the blue roses in the picture was a gift from a friend! Currently trying the 4-step method, no good news yet unfortunately!
As much as I love SYJ now, I’m starting to doubt the authenticity of this Instagram account. No doubt it says “official” but the bio sounded sketchy. Not to mention the English captions! Or am I thinking too much?!
Yeah I read that somewhere too. Think I also read that she recently reactivated her account after the filming, and thought this might be it. But after following a few days, the photos that was published, captions and bio made me think otherwise that it’s a fanacc
Sometimes, fan page can also mean a page created by her agency. I caught that too and hence this is also what I meant by the bio being sketchy as they did not link back to her agency’s website if her agency is the one who manages the account. Any idea what is her agency’s account?
Omg so I managed to pull through Moorim School in the end. While I’ve been complaining how difficult is it to finish every episode, I did! The plot is okay actually, the flaw came from the execution. Cringey lines, I felt the feud between the two male leads immature, largely on Chi Ang’s part. But I would also like to take a moment to appreciate Lee Hyun Woo. Never watched much of his works except the two IU’s music video he is in, he makes me swoon when he smiles! Also I can’t pick out my favourite scene in the drama, none of them stands out, maybe the ending how they tied the loose ends nicely and we got some sweet scenes of Soon Duk and Shi Woo.
Yeah I saw the news after I completed it. Thing is, even if they didn’t cut it short, I would have felt the same way as Chi Ang. Couldn’t tell it was cut short though, on hindsight, they probably rushed for the revelation between the siblings and their dad, we didn’t see them catching up for the time lost or any interactions, except for the one with Sun Ah at the end
I already planned with my sister that I will rewatch it with her. She didn’t watch it. And I’m on a KSH binge right now so gotta pick up dream high from ep3 (dropped it in 2014), only if the academic pressure let’s me.
I’m at Moorim School, I dropped this while it was still airing, but still a pain to watch this. Paused halfway and went to watch Quantum Physics, her 2019 movie instead.
Would really do a rewatch with my mum, she’s like your sis, haven’t started. But she usually watched it on her personal device :/
Moorim school was *smh* I watched it for Lee Hyun Woo and actually held out because ‘it was so bad it was good’.
Can’t wait to finish my assignments and start the rewatch party. My sister will cry buckets (I’m not a crier) and hen I’ll get to tease her.
@playstore I usually watch drama in whole on my first watch. But Moorim School… the drags and FF became my favourite button. It was a cringefest… the acting, the writing, the camerawork….
Okay i just finished the episode, I don’t think Do Hyun Soo killed the person who tipped to the reporter. Felt like the killer is the real copycat killer, who probably knew the social worker too. Hee Sung probably fed his wife the sleeping pills so that he could pay attention to the reporter. OR he didn’t feed sleeping pills to his wife at all! He got those pills to use it on the reporter.
Trying to track a comment I made about Moorim School (2016), but found my first post in 2017 instead, on BTIOFL… where I became really active on the fan wall. Ah fun times with Se Hee and Ji Ho 😭😭
While waiting for a new ep of IOTNBO and LJK’s new drama, I’m rewatching Lawless Lawyer. Ep 6 still remains as my favourite ep. That awkward scene the night after the kiss tops it all.
I remember I caught up on this show the moment I saw a kiss and bed scene at ep 6 – faster than a normal kdrama tempo. These two are like my sweet getaway from the torture and melo Scarlet Heart brought me to. Love the scenes where they portrayed their affection!
Every time I’m back at DB meant I’ve a new show I crave for. Just started IOTNBO (not sure the correct acronym) this week, just finished ep 6, and I’m deep deep down the hole!
The feels when Moon Young looked at Gang Tae when he served breakfast. It felt like when the two were together, they were kids again – Moon Young going through her childhood nightmare/trauma and Gang Tae being utterly exposed by MY as a child who grew up too quickly to care for his older brother in the absence of their mother.
I’ve loved Seo Ye Ji in Lawless Lawyer, and even more so in IOTNBO. Couldn’t think of the perfect person to carry MY’s vibe, paired with her unique voice.
Next, I too believed Juri’s character was really flat – a combination of bad writing and lack of acting experience. One who worked in a psychiatric hospital for so long would have known that even the most normal person would definitely faced some kind of psychiatric issues (I would say it’s really common even more people amongst us), and she knew MY when they were kids. I’m pretty sure she would know that she lost her mother and had weird behaviours since young. One would think that with her experience as a nurse, she would have more empathy towards others. But looking at how she thinks of MY, that is definitely not the case.
I love everything about this show, the two leads, the dark fairy tales that conveyed something on a deeper level, the friendship between GT and Jae Su, the back stories for our leads, just not Juri’s arc. She’s utterly childish right from the start and it annoys me.
That being said, I’m still hooked nonetheless. MY is totally raw in front of GT. The emotions towards the end of ep 6 when she had her nightmare and grabbed GT was so intense. How GT got her message to not leave. Ugh. I can’t wait for the next weekend!
melovestage
August 23, 2020 at 9:28 AM
Announcement of the nominees for the upcoming Golden Bell awards is next week! Hopefully Someday or One Day will be nominated in maaaaany awards!
melovestage
August 23, 2020 at 9:29 AM
Honestly, I can’t think of a better Taiwanese drama for the second-half of last year to the first-half of this year. Perhaps Victim’s Game might be a strong contender!
Bebe | Nessa❣️
August 23, 2020 at 12:53 PM
Maybe if there’s nothing better and if fans kick up enough of a fuss, but I don’t see that happening because they’re not as intense (i.e. internet savvy & nor scary) as fans (but really fans, more like sasaengs) in S.Korea who have a lot of influence over things….. There’s usually a group of people who serve on a panel as judges of these sorts of awards shows, regardless of the country—even Hollywood runs on this sort of system for their award shows— but really, a panel for award shows is pretty useless in S.Korea
melovestage
August 23, 2020 at 10:32 PM
Yup. Ive been following the Golden Bell for quite a while. Their panel of judges are of a certain standard, they judge quality > popularity unlike the SK counterparts. Hence I mentioned that Victim’s Game will be a strong contender due to its quality. There were a couple of other shows that Taiwanese netizens pointed out, but I really hope SOOD can win. It’s quality it’s there, and also produced by the same team who did for Marry Me or Not (which Alice won an award for that year too)
melovestage
August 22, 2020 at 10:52 AM
Nope I’m still not over yet!
melovestage
August 15, 2020 at 2:25 PM
Oh god… I just finished a kmovie, Another Way, and I literally held my breathe for the last 20 mins! Any other beanies watched it? It was released in 2017
Yuyuu, The Drama Queen
August 15, 2020 at 4:42 PM
Is it the one with Kim Jae-wook and Seo Yeji?
I’ve been meaning to watch that since it came out 😅
melovestage
August 15, 2020 at 8:12 PM
Yup!! I watched it with Chinese subs tho, couldn’t find the English one
korfan
August 16, 2020 at 8:29 AM
Is it good?
melovestage
August 16, 2020 at 11:24 AM
My personal opinion? Yes! I saw a couple of reviews saying how KJW shouldn’t have taken this up, but i beg to differ. The movie was beautifully shot!
melovestage
August 14, 2020 at 11:19 AM
So beanies, I’ve been hooked onto this Taiwanese variety show since June, they play a game similar to The Mafia Game. Wanted to share a video that I absolutely loved! So a little back context, some of the frequent guests ended up forming a temporary group (they are Singers from different agencies and some of you may know 09 who sings Someday Or One Day’s OST) for fun. It first started as multiple duos, then four and now five. The individual members are holding concerts one after another these days, and today’s the “leader’s”. Totally loved how they enjoyed the stage in this video! Especially when they started their dance, albeit not in sync, at around the 4:55 mark! Saw how most audiences are holding their devices to record and it totally did not sit well with me. But that is another story to tell ☺️
melovestage
August 14, 2020 at 5:06 AM
I got bored, and since I had the custom design and blue roses (got them from a friend), why not? Introducing, effortless Blueming!
Sa
August 14, 2020 at 5:20 AM
ahh I’ve just started playing AC! the blue roses are so pretty!!
melovestage
August 14, 2020 at 6:31 AM
Welcome! Do you need anything! Non-native fruits, materials, etc? I have some extras! I’m trying to breed the blue roses myself from scratch too! Not easy! 😅
Sa
August 15, 2020 at 5:06 PM
I’m looking for hyacinths! And also someone to visit occasionally 😀 I’ve got the online subscription but don’t really know anyone who also plays AC 🙁
melovestage
August 19, 2020 at 2:04 AM
Dang! My island flowers are the Cosmos. Have you upgraded and obtained Nook’s Cranny yet? They do sell seeds on a rotating basis. Alternatively, Leif should be visiting once every 2 weeks.
I don’t mind adding you as friends! We can play together and exchange stuffs. But how should we do it? I reckon we would need to have some form of communication between us so that we know what’s going on our islands (e.g. shooting stars, Celeste, villagers crafting DIYs, etc)
Sa
August 20, 2020 at 11:02 PM
That would be awesome thank you! Are you on the beanie discord channel? Should we create one for ACNH in case any other beanies are interested as well?
melovestage
August 21, 2020 at 7:22 AM
I’m not on the discord, but let me know the link? I have an account with discord and can join. I think there are other beanies who play ACNH! We can definitely create a community
Sa
August 21, 2020 at 9:14 PM
Here you go 🙂 https://discord.gg/hBmq8x
melovestage
August 22, 2020 at 6:34 AM
Thank you! I’m in now!^^
saturtledaisy
August 14, 2020 at 10:07 AM
Ahh! I should make a little blueming area too! I hope you don’t mind if I steal this idea~
I’m jelly of the blue roses, I’ve been trying to breed them for months, but no success so far 🙁 I should probably double down on my efforts, now I have inspiration to use them 🙂
melovestage
August 14, 2020 at 10:11 AM
I initially placed my blue roses somewhere else, relocated them specially just for this! I want to create an area for It’s Okay To Not Be Okay actually, but I don’t know where I should do it, kinda lack the space for a proper kdrama theme, unless I throw all my currently useless flowers away.
Trust me, I’m breeding them myself too! I wanna try it myself since the blue roses in the picture was a gift from a friend! Currently trying the 4-step method, no good news yet unfortunately!
melovestage
August 14, 2020 at 10:11 AM
Also, lmk if you need the code for the tee! Happy to send it over your way!
melovestage
August 13, 2020 at 11:28 PM
That was a witty caption!
Junie Bug
August 13, 2020 at 11:43 PM
LJG is adorable in his behind the scenes omg I love this entire photo/video collection
melovestage
August 14, 2020 at 12:06 AM
Same here! He honestly posts with his fans in mind, and we can see them from his captions and the photos he posted!
melovestage
August 13, 2020 at 11:10 PM
As much as I love SYJ now, I’m starting to doubt the authenticity of this Instagram account. No doubt it says “official” but the bio sounded sketchy. Not to mention the English captions! Or am I thinking too much?!
Junie Bug
August 13, 2020 at 11:41 PM
The bio says it’s a SYJ fan page and I don’t think she has her own personal instagram. She gets posted a lot under her label’s account though.
💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜
August 13, 2020 at 11:42 PM
She used to have her own insta but she deactivated it at the start of the year.
Any page saying it’s her isn’t her.
melovestage
August 14, 2020 at 12:10 AM
Yeah I read that somewhere too. Think I also read that she recently reactivated her account after the filming, and thought this might be it. But after following a few days, the photos that was published, captions and bio made me think otherwise that it’s a fanacc
melovestage
August 14, 2020 at 12:08 AM
Sometimes, fan page can also mean a page created by her agency. I caught that too and hence this is also what I meant by the bio being sketchy as they did not link back to her agency’s website if her agency is the one who manages the account. Any idea what is her agency’s account?
Karmen ~ 🍜🏢🎭 ~ 📚☔🦋 ~ 🪂🌱💘 ~ ✨🍊💫 ~
August 14, 2020 at 5:23 AM
It should be this:
https://instagram.com/goldmedalist_official?igshid=1fvjl98nlx58z
melovestage
August 14, 2020 at 6:32 AM
Thank you! Looks like the fanacc who posted the photos deleted that post tho 😮
Karmen ~ 🍜🏢🎭 ~ 📚☔🦋 ~ 🪂🌱💘 ~ ✨🍊💫 ~
August 14, 2020 at 8:06 AM
🙂
callie
August 15, 2020 at 2:08 PM
I know which account you’re talking about. It’s a fan-run account.
melovestage
August 13, 2020 at 10:46 PM
Omg so I managed to pull through Moorim School in the end. While I’ve been complaining how difficult is it to finish every episode, I did! The plot is okay actually, the flaw came from the execution. Cringey lines, I felt the feud between the two male leads immature, largely on Chi Ang’s part. But I would also like to take a moment to appreciate Lee Hyun Woo. Never watched much of his works except the two IU’s music video he is in, he makes me swoon when he smiles! Also I can’t pick out my favourite scene in the drama, none of them stands out, maybe the ending how they tied the loose ends nicely and we got some sweet scenes of Soon Duk and Shi Woo.
alasecond
August 13, 2020 at 10:51 PM
The drama was cut short..
given an episode or 2’s notice since trps were just too too bad
melovestage
August 13, 2020 at 11:06 PM
Yeah I saw the news after I completed it. Thing is, even if they didn’t cut it short, I would have felt the same way as Chi Ang. Couldn’t tell it was cut short though, on hindsight, they probably rushed for the revelation between the siblings and their dad, we didn’t see them catching up for the time lost or any interactions, except for the one with Sun Ah at the end
melovestage
August 9, 2020 at 9:54 AM
LMAO “I give up subbing this” hahahhaa
melovestage
August 9, 2020 at 8:56 AM
Beanies, I’m an empty can now 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 my weekly doses of humour 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Playstore, Okay Or Not Okay
August 9, 2020 at 9:03 AM
I will become the box ahjussi and wear a box to hide my despair. The weekends won’t be the same for some time.
melovestage
August 9, 2020 at 9:11 AM
Sobbles. I’m thinking of rewatching this already! I’m free for a week…….. I’m on a SYJ binge now….
Playstore, Okay Or Not Okay
August 9, 2020 at 9:22 AM
I already planned with my sister that I will rewatch it with her. She didn’t watch it. And I’m on a KSH binge right now so gotta pick up dream high from ep3 (dropped it in 2014), only if the academic pressure let’s me.
Which SYJ drama are you binging now?
melovestage
August 9, 2020 at 9:56 AM
I’m at Moorim School, I dropped this while it was still airing, but still a pain to watch this. Paused halfway and went to watch Quantum Physics, her 2019 movie instead.
Would really do a rewatch with my mum, she’s like your sis, haven’t started. But she usually watched it on her personal device :/
Playstore, Okay Or Not Okay
August 9, 2020 at 10:42 AM
Moorim school was *smh* I watched it for Lee Hyun Woo and actually held out because ‘it was so bad it was good’.
Can’t wait to finish my assignments and start the rewatch party. My sister will cry buckets (I’m not a crier) and hen I’ll get to tease her.
melovestage
August 9, 2020 at 10:58 AM
@playstore I usually watch drama in whole on my first watch. But Moorim School… the drags and FF became my favourite button. It was a cringefest… the acting, the writing, the camerawork….
melovestage
August 9, 2020 at 7:26 AM
Ep 16, here I come~
melovestage
August 8, 2020 at 9:38 AM
To me, when the ending song appeared at THAT moment is like the deer appearing in the earlier eps. Rawr!
Playstore, Okay Or Not Okay
August 8, 2020 at 10:17 AM
RAWR RAWR!
melovestage
August 6, 2020 at 8:11 AM
I’m only on ep 2 of #FlowerofEvil and 10 mins in, I got creeped out by LJK’s scene in the toilet
melovestage
August 6, 2020 at 9:22 AM
Okay i just finished the episode, I don’t think Do Hyun Soo killed the person who tipped to the reporter. Felt like the killer is the real copycat killer, who probably knew the social worker too. Hee Sung probably fed his wife the sleeping pills so that he could pay attention to the reporter. OR he didn’t feed sleeping pills to his wife at all! He got those pills to use it on the reporter.
melovestage
August 4, 2020 at 11:18 AM
Reading what I wrote brought back memories and flashbacks too
purplesheesh
August 4, 2020 at 3:59 PM
Where’s the continuation??? 😍😍😍
melovestage
August 4, 2020 at 8:56 PM
Haha would love to write something, but not sure if I have the time, might need a rewatch too!
melovestage
August 4, 2020 at 11:17 AM
Trying to track a comment I made about Moorim School (2016), but found my first post in 2017 instead, on BTIOFL… where I became really active on the fan wall. Ah fun times with Se Hee and Ji Ho 😭😭
mindy
August 4, 2020 at 1:22 PM
The best times 😭💖
melovestage
August 4, 2020 at 8:58 PM
Yes! That was when i came out of being a lurker! A definitive moment!
melovestage
August 2, 2020 at 1:25 AM
Side note: I’m officially Goblin Underpants!
korfan
August 2, 2020 at 3:14 AM
Congrats!
Playstore, Okay Or Not Okay
August 2, 2020 at 4:03 AM
Congrats. Hope you don’t get sick from the smell 😉
melovestage
August 2, 2020 at 5:34 AM
It’s a fresh clean pair, I don’t think so!
Junie Bug
August 2, 2020 at 5:45 AM
Congrats!!
bbstl 🧹
August 2, 2020 at 7:48 AM
Congratulations! Keep clean and not smelly😁
Eazal
August 2, 2020 at 2:24 PM
Congrats!
mugyuljoie is preciousss
August 2, 2020 at 2:44 PM
Yay!!! 🎉🎉🎉
transient
August 2, 2020 at 11:14 PM
Keep up being strong and stretcy
melovestage
August 2, 2020 at 1:20 AM
Any beanies on Animal Crossing? I just had an idea of creating an area for IOTNBO since it’s ending next week 😭 but I need some inspiration and ideas
Karmen ~ 🍜🏢🎭 ~ 📚☔🦋 ~ 🪂🌱💘 ~ ✨🍊💫 ~
August 2, 2020 at 4:57 AM
Oh, if you’ll make something, please, share with us!
melovestage
August 2, 2020 at 5:22 AM
I want to but I’m not sure how to get started 😭
melovestage
August 1, 2020 at 8:49 AM
Oh wow… I just had goosebumps! #IOTNBO
melovestage
August 1, 2020 at 3:25 AM
While waiting for a new ep of IOTNBO and LJK’s new drama, I’m rewatching Lawless Lawyer. Ep 6 still remains as my favourite ep. That awkward scene the night after the kiss tops it all.
mugyuljoie is preciousss
August 1, 2020 at 10:10 AM
They were one of my all time favorite couples.
melovestage
August 1, 2020 at 12:11 PM
I remember I caught up on this show the moment I saw a kiss and bed scene at ep 6 – faster than a normal kdrama tempo. These two are like my sweet getaway from the torture and melo Scarlet Heart brought me to. Love the scenes where they portrayed their affection!
melovestage
July 5, 2020 at 9:53 AM
Every time I’m back at DB meant I’ve a new show I crave for. Just started IOTNBO (not sure the correct acronym) this week, just finished ep 6, and I’m deep deep down the hole!
melovestage
July 5, 2020 at 10:05 AM
The feels when Moon Young looked at Gang Tae when he served breakfast. It felt like when the two were together, they were kids again – Moon Young going through her childhood nightmare/trauma and Gang Tae being utterly exposed by MY as a child who grew up too quickly to care for his older brother in the absence of their mother.
I’ve loved Seo Ye Ji in Lawless Lawyer, and even more so in IOTNBO. Couldn’t think of the perfect person to carry MY’s vibe, paired with her unique voice.
Next, I too believed Juri’s character was really flat – a combination of bad writing and lack of acting experience. One who worked in a psychiatric hospital for so long would have known that even the most normal person would definitely faced some kind of psychiatric issues (I would say it’s really common even more people amongst us), and she knew MY when they were kids. I’m pretty sure she would know that she lost her mother and had weird behaviours since young. One would think that with her experience as a nurse, she would have more empathy towards others. But looking at how she thinks of MY, that is definitely not the case.
I love everything about this show, the two leads, the dark fairy tales that conveyed something on a deeper level, the friendship between GT and Jae Su, the back stories for our leads, just not Juri’s arc. She’s utterly childish right from the start and it annoys me.
That being said, I’m still hooked nonetheless. MY is totally raw in front of GT. The emotions towards the end of ep 6 when she had her nightmare and grabbed GT was so intense. How GT got her message to not leave. Ugh. I can’t wait for the next weekend!
mindy
July 5, 2020 at 11:29 AM
We miss you!!!
melovestage
July 6, 2020 at 9:42 AM
Awwww omg really?! I didn’t think my (in)frequent posts would make such an impact!