@ ockoala
"Just curious whether this topical-ADD will last until Friday?"

As a wise sage once said "it's already been broughten"

OT Meat Market, .99 cents JGS wardrobes, prized husbands, Hippie Dolphins, ICOMYM Mascots, Cakebread white wine supremacy, cheap JIS fist-in-mouth acting potshots, Private school costs, Ireland/Scotland--same language, same country, clan loyalty, clan warfare, clan betrayals, Love story, korean melos, Weaksauce, special sauce, slave hunters, bounty hunters, Boba fetts, one Won Bin, Obi One Kanobi, My Lovely Patzzi who will be My Lovely Bones as declared by the TEAM MOB tribunal.

Looks like the inmates are out in full force in the OT Asylum

BTW how do you guys know the word Guido? None of my west coast friends know what that means and in one day I hear it twice from Ockoala and Belleza.

Trivia
What do you call a girl Guido?
ANSWER: Guidette

@ Samsooki
"We take our lumps, we learn and grow, and we move on!"

Can we have that written in blood, please? Preferably yours. :P

"Guido" reminded me of something. My youngest son (age 23) has the most dry sense of humor. He doesn't say a lot, but when he does, it's usually so funny you'll fall off your chair. Anyway, his friends started calling him "The Situation" right after Jersey Shores came out and it's so hysterical to me. His Facebook status only says "_________ ________ situation" based on whatever activity he might be engaged in at the time.

His status right now is "beer bowling situation". Yesterday's status was "bocce tournament situation".

:-D

@451 nycgrl

OT Meat Market, .99 cents JGS wardrobes, prized husbands, Hippie Dolphins, ICOMYM Mascots, Cakebread white wine supremacy, cheap JIS fist-in-mouth acting potshots, Private school costs, Ireland/Scotland–same language, same country, clan loyalty, clan warfare, clan betrayals, Love story, korean melos, Weaksauce, special sauce, slave hunters, bounty hunters, Boba fetts, one Won Bin, Obi One Kanobi, My Lovely Patzzi who will be My Lovely Bones as declared by the TEAM MOB tribunal.

Looks like the inmates are out in full force in the OT Asylum

LMAO! So many hillarious moments on this week's OT!

It's not full moon, is it?

Anyway, from work, using company's computer.

Just wanted to mention that I finally started on Chuno. Whoa! The abs. I finally and fully understood the meaning of chocholate abs(was this the name?). LOL!

samsooki 453

what? the battle is already over?

just read your thread on 'patzzi.' i respect jb and all, but you know you don't have to say much to get me to support anything involving jang nara...haha.

Oooh, "Jo In Sung’s anti-Guido fist pump in mouth of sorrow) named Mookie, Ockoala and Belleza (TEAM MOB RECONIZE FOO’!!!) " - I've been selected to join the elite MOB. *claps hands in glee* I'm pretty bloodthirsty right now for the scent of bad acting. It doesn't even have to be Peter Ho-level epically bad acting. Just your run of the mill Barbie Hsu/Huang Xiao-ming/Jang Nara level bad acting is enough to quench my blood lust.

In one week, to have two pretty spectacular scenes in two dramas *nearly* derailed by the inability to emote from one key participant whilst the other is emoting his heart out, again, turns this koala into Amazing Hulk Smash.

So I'll take it out on Jang Nara - PATZZI MUST DIE!

@ nycgrl

I know many many words in my vocabulary, most of which I have no need to know (i.e Guido) but do simply because I've lived in the East Coast for a few years, in Europe and Asia for a few years, and generally procure most of my news from perezhilton.com - and if there is a new MTV trashy show, PZ will remind me of it.

Btw, bravura summary of every OT topic of import, and a belated congrats for sneaking in a mention that samsooki takes the short bus (to work).

@ langdon-unni

LOVE the homage to The Situation, your boy sounds like a stoically amazing catch, is he the one you are planning to bethroth to Ariel?

I may have to say, this OT was not 600 post-busting in size, but it nearly killed my entire day at work (its hard to focus on that agreement when I'm LMHO every few minutes), and provided so much humor I will be chuckling about it for week(s) at least.

@ pabo ceo reom

Nope, I don't have too much time on my hands. I do, however, spend it judiciously with friends I derive much pleasure and knowledge from.

@ ockoala

Alas, Ariel's mother would have a stroke and die or go into a 3-humidifier coma at the thought of her hardworking daughter wanting to marry my youngest son, whose goal in life is to stay in school and mooch off mom and dad as long as humanly possible. He's changed his major twice which means he still has two years to go, and he works for a landscaper (which means he doesn't work at all in the winter). If my husband and I ever divorce it will be over this boy, because I'm ready to cut him off but his dad will let this go on until he's 35. I love him to death, he has so many good qualities...ambition just isn't one of them.

No, I want Ariel for my oldest (age 25). This one left university one class shy of his degree because the company he worked for since he was in high school made him an offer he couldn't refuse. They put him in their management program and he now has better benefits than my husband and I do, plus he already makes about three times what he would be making if he'd stayed in his chosen field (teaching). His only vice is that he'd rather spend his money on video games and such rather than, say, furniture. His apartment looks like he just moved in a week ago and he's been there a year.

And that's the story of the langdon babies. :-D

ahhh so much fun today!!@%%!%$! and I'm so freaking late.. but yeah MOB FTW!!! (can WonBin be in the same outift/makeup as OJH when we EVENTUALLY find him?! and hopefully he'll need a JH shower?!)

AnitaMui's wardrobe = Madonna's spiky bras = 80s guidette = I honestly have one collecting dust in my wardrobe for a halloween.

I went to say hi to those handful of sea lions back at Pier 39 today. they have the docks all by themselves to stretch out now...but somehow they don't seem as happy as when they have to play sardines and fight for their little piece of damp plank... I didnt see any hippie dolphins though (but then I have to admit the first time I saw dolphins off the coast of THE Pacific Ocean at Pacifica... I thought they were sharks... *hide*)

and gosh I just watched Hurt Locker. No offense Avatar lovers (I still havent seen the movie so I should shush...but) Hurt Locker = best movie

@ockoala: on our loverboy Yuan Hong and tweeting (OMGOMGOMGOMG!! *fanself*)
ok... I have to stop following his tweets, but he made one like this:
看着老马丁站在领奖台上，让人感慨。一个为电影奉献了一辈子的老人，比阿凡达更值得赢得大家的掌声。
刚看完《入殓师》(Okuribito)和《拆弹部队》(Hurt Locker)。孔子说未知生焉知死，入殓师说未知死焉知生，这次我又放弃了孔子。《拆弹部队》一上来的那句字幕不可错过，从某种角度来说，我们这个职业和他们有相似处：像毒品，使人上瘾，强烈且致命。我不知该悲伤还是该庆幸，为自己的最后一件玩具。
I don't really get everything he's saying... but the fact that he mentioned after the Globes he's more respect for Martin Scorcese... an old man who's given his whole life to movies than Avatar....and he can watch Okuribito + Hurt Locker in one go and quote Confucius. *SQUEEEE*

@ mookie

Oh, the sea lions are back?! You went...today??? during the thunderstorm? o_O

@ langdon:
o don't be too worried with your youngest, true story:

my cousin fr hubby side is still in college and he's my age. Aunt and Uncle is going thro the exact same thing you and your hubby's going thro, but I have a not too appropriate big crush on him.

This cousin of mine, he took a year off and spent it building houses for Katrina victims, then he went to Sichuan to help built Project Hope schools http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/poverty/95783.htm after I've taken him to visit one in GuiZhou (China's poorest provence), now he's off to Haiti under World Vision.

He spent all his spare time as park rangers all over the country since high school. and whenever he's back home he'll bring back inner city kids and cook them dinner all the time.

And to me, he's a young hero I'll always look up to in my own family. :)

@ hjkomo,
o yes I did, my highsch gf's visiting... and we were having dinner at Gary Danko, and she's begging (and she just got a very nice pair of rainboots... girlsgirlsgirls) There's just like 20 of them max.. :(

@ Samsooki -
"Hey, I might have lost, but we all had fun right? Hehe, my wife is like, “WHY do you do things like this?” LOL."

I hope this doesn't deter you from instigating the next clan fight. Please don't change your stripes and your eh unique taste. And thank you Mrs Samsookie for letting him "do things like this". Laughter is the best gift and the hardest thing to come by in a stress filled adult life. He has simultaneously reduced our stress level and then raised it back up for all the worker bees who are now freaking out with deadlines to meet (yours truly).

I think he has single handedly reduced the gross international productivity by .03% by instigating the Jang Nara posts or henceforth known as the My Lovely Patzzi Incident. Who can brag of that kind of power? Tiger Woods? Scott Brown? James Cameron? Nope its Samsookie the public defender of cute singer turned non-actors, thats who.

@Ockoala

"I know many many words in my vocabulary, most of which I have no need to know (i.e Guido)"

Do you know what a ginny-tee is then--a pejorative if ever there is one. In case you can't tell I've grown up with a lot of italians. Marone.

@ mookie-twin

Where have you been?!? Oh yeah, playing around the the fat lazy sea lions on Pier 39, instead of here engaging in the battle of the millenium, with a side of hippie dolphins.

Happy to be hunting PATZZI with you though. Avatar = dumbest movie I've seen all year, and yeah, the year is early and all, but I will go out on a limb here and say I'll still feel the same way on 12-31-2010. I should have seen it in 3-D, so at least I can tune out the bordering-on-parody Heart of Darkness lite story with some dazzling visual effect. Alas, I merely wanted to head-armrest myself *druing* the entire movie! And that's after I consumed an entire bottle of Malbec with my BBF right before the movie! As for the Hurt Locker, can't wait to catch it on DVD, I'm all out of my quota for movie nights.

Our loverboy - is cyberstalking against the law in China? If not, then I'm about to become his #2 cyberstalker (after you, m'lady). His tweets are funny, thoughtful, cute, and more often than not, quite cool.

So, the line from Confucious he quoted was thus: If you don't know life (living), you won't ever understand death. Okuritbito says: if you don't know death, you won't understand living, and this time I have given up on Confucious.

The rest of the tweet: the first caption in the Hurt Locker is not to be missed. In some respects, this profession (of mine) is like a drug, one taste and you are addicted. Powerful yet debilitating. I don't know whether I should be sad or celebratory, I suppose this is the last toy I'll ever have.

I FF through A Prince's Education (side note, aside from the masterpiece that is Duke and the Caldroun, and the drama version that starred Andy and Tony loving and hating each other - I actively avoid Qing Dynasty dramas - I dislike the period customes, I abhor 50 episodes of pure courtly intrigue and machinations, and for the most part, the epic lives of Emperors Kang-xi and Qiang-long I know well enough to heart), anyways, it's not my fave, I think Yuan Hong was a tad too restrained as Si-A-ge (the Fourth Prince, the future Emperor Qiang-long), and I didn't like his leading lady, and just wanted him to make out with Yang Mi for like all 50 episodes instead of the mudslinging those princes were engaging in.

Anyways, I've been seeing more blurps about Clothing World, and I am just dying here. Not remotely interested in Janine or the lifestory of this master weaver lady, just gimme more Tale of the Warrior General and the Princess who loves him! Apparently, Liu Shi-shi really does take revenge for loverboy kissing the bejesus out of her in LoCH, she's apparently going to *seduce him", wonder what that means. Anyways, until this comes out, I'm just going to watch patiently and keep cyberstalking him. Fun pastime, you know?

As for HXM - it sucks he's just coasting, I may find his acting mockworthy and even cringeworthy at times, he does have the screen presence, and with the right roles, he can really be nice to watch.

You ate at Gary Danko during the storm! My fave SF restaurant, they gave me a back pillow when I was 9 months pregnant and about to pop out my son and wanted to eat there and hubby indulged me. I'll always remember that nice service.

^the O of MOB:
O gosh I heard of flashfloods and water at level of car windows in OC... tc

I'm busying myself just thinking of what we should outfit Belleza in... afterall she can TOTALLY take on Barbie and pwn all those TW starlets even though she's not fr the right hood. lets start with stealing that annoying green ribbon thing (that'll take care of one eyesore) in that Summer Desire's trailer.. and making it into some cool PATZZI whip torture thing.

and haha the JB whipping boy is defending THE ENDING?! LOLZZZ I'll go read first

I'm safe, house still standing, not sure about the rest of the week with the rains, though. mookie, hjkomo, you alright up there?

As for the pooper in the woods, I think it's his final salvo. If he can't win with this final hurrah, he'll probably fold his tent, slink away, and hopefully have gained some wisdom from this battle.

Night peeps! (yeah, I hope my langdon-unni and hjkomo are *finally* asleep and will lay off nightime coffee drinking in the future - what? didn't think I was cyberstalking your twos tweets, now did you?).

Watching episode 6 of Jejoongwon . . .

Madly in love with Jejoongwon. Honestly, I think I've done more actual sobbing through this show than anything I've seen in years. This is the most elegantly crafted show I've seen in a long, long time. The intimate, uncomplicated chemistry between everybody. The elegant, understated way in which emotionally difficult situations are allow to evolve and bubble to the surface. The beautiful, invisible camera work (the camera work here is genuinely masterful, full of people move in space and the winter air and the dry branches and the juxtaposition of muddy slaves and silk-wearing middle class) Also, somewhat like White Tower, there's marvelous tension in the medical scenes as well as the fighting scenes. Nothing is done for effect; rather, everything is invested in characterization.

@My Lovely Patzzi,

Honestly, I actually did like this show. There's just enough plot to do 10-12 episodes without filler and I was thankful they went that route.

In terms of Patzzi, it's a nice tweak in the fable and rom-com. Instead of getting a likeable female heroine (or a "realistic" ajumma), you get a psuedo female villain. Imagine doing a rom-com around YAB's UEE character and that's kinda what they went for here. Long live Alpha Bitches!!

As for Jang Nara, like I said before, we are claiming her as our own now. ;) But before that . . .

PATZZI MUST DIE!!!

@ockoala,

I'm intrigued with Qing dramas though... part is I'm not that into reading scholarly history growing up so my knowledge was random bits rooted fr all the dramas and stray novels spun half truths... my very first LC novel was The Book and the Sword and that *winkwink* on Emperor QianLong not being Manchurian but Han... and the Red Flower Clan = future HK mafias fascinated my 12 yo head. I'm not in the mood of A Prince’s Education yet... but I do wholeheartedly agree half shaved head +waist long braid makes d'PAMA sososo easy on the eyes..
haha and on more random Yuan Hong fangirling:
both him and LiuShiShi tweeted at the same time, talking about THE same thing a naughty damsel in distress scene fr Clothes where the patzzi princess set her own room on fire and our swoonworthy general was there to rescue. Shishi tweeted with her own pic in some messy junkfood filled room (NOT hers) that she's almost ready for the late filming... and over loverboy tweeted 'looking at that princess in front of her apple (her Mac), and me soon to make an entrance as a mighty firefighter, cant help to think if it'll be strategically better to just kill off the princess and call it a day!

lol so he's OUR boy, all into patzzi princess killing!

I may have lobotomized that period...but with all the Patzzi talk, I can't get my ewww off those hairs by the KXWs, really WAS it in vogue back then, or like ever?! I vaguely rem the whole asian blondie craze in the late 90s...

@Stephen Chow's brand of comedy ie 'Mo Lei Tau': first thing comes to mind is Seinfeld/ Arrested Development/ Curb your enthusiasm humor actually.

it can be interpreted as 'nonsense' or 'silly banter' and SC himself is happy to be taken on face value...in a way, he loves to hide behind the harmless silliness, since he wont be taken seriously ever anyways, he can really do WHATEVER and get away with it (he did a WHOLE movie with lines spiced in st cantonese vulgar: his Flirting Scholar 唐伯虎點秋香 required a HK boys' school education to interpret) all the highbrows won't get any of the puns anyways...and his humor r much more satirical and wry if we care to delve more, it always plays and works on multiple levels, but the essence of the 'mo lei tau' humor has to lie in the random, the unexpected. there's always a witty play on the HK cantonese/engrish language that can be put into context of a much grander scale than the scene or the movie itself if you choose to, but it's still some mindless fun if u decide to not think too much into it. For example, you really have to know your WKW by memory to enjoy fully a 90s SC. That scene in Kung Fu Soccer where the Shaolin Monks were performing... of coz not shaolin kung fu (at first) but singing their version of California Dreaming is a play on ChungKing express, teasing its random pretentious WKWness and a reoccuring awesomesauce pun SC cant live without.

say this is one of my fav scene in SC's From Beijing With Love/ 國產凌凌漆)
@ 3:21 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OBLcoEpAKM
SC's '007' is at some fancy dimsum place, he is eating a sweet tofu desert, enjoying a carefree banter with the waiter:

007: Waiter, isnt this sweet tofu your renowned dish?
waiter: yes, of coz
007: but it's stinky
waiter: yes, we're renowned for its stinkiness
007: can u bring us sth u r famous for and delish?
waiter: it'll be the same sweet tofu-fa
007: really?
waiter: if you change your stance, and treat it as eating stinky tofu, your experience will be vastly better. (all serious and nice and Taoist's wu wei)
[both shared a hearty lol]
007: give me a deep fried order then. (lol: sweet tofu cant be deep fried; stinking sweet tofu is soo not stinky tofu)

That line of 'if you change your stance, your experience will be vastly different' is quite philosophical, a jab at all the SC-antis, and a quip on PRC (the whole reoccuring theme of the movie) all in one funny bundle hiding behind the random silliness.

and OT 118 is dripping with 'Mo Lei Tau'ness that SC would wanna KILL PATTZI for:

if we lol'd at nycgrl's bravo blurb of OT 118, we GOT 'mo lei tau'

OT Meat Market, .99 cents JGS wardrobes, prized husbands, Hippie Dolphins, ICOMYM Mascots, Cakebread white wine supremacy, cheap JIS fist-in-mouth acting potshots, Private school costs, Ireland/Scotland–same language, same country, clan loyalty, clan warfare, clan betrayals, Love story, korean melos, Weaksauce, special sauce, slave hunters, bounty hunters, Boba fetts, one Won Bin, Obi One Kanobi, My Lovely Patzzi who will be My Lovely Bones as declared by the TEAM MOB tribunal.
(L!O!L!)

and to put it in visuals:
since I mentioned WKW, we can do by association a utube clip of Kimura and Andy Lau ON 2046, WKW, Tony Leung....:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3YKhWSdQ3Q
THEN we can enjoy a Kimura Gatsby CM montage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApznPkhWatI
followed by a satire by a super famous HK comedian on Kimura's Gatsby (or GEI-SHI-BEE) (the vid is a pseudo public ad on a 'say no to cigarette' ie 'gai-shik-yin' spray
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFGqAKa0Mng&feature=related

any one of those vids is cute and/or hilarious, brung tog = mo-lei-tau

*sigh* Belleza, don't lure me into more jejoongwon.... it's so not fair throwing in White Tower now.... I can only do either Chuno OR JeJoongWon... *sigh*

Joking aside, it breaks my heart to see Jang Nara's relationship with Chinese netizens so strained over a comedy show. Maybe Peter Ho can protect her??? Here's Peter the Ho and Jang Nara's duet together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXCAqDdjBGI

Here's Jang Hyuk at his 2008 Tokyo fanmeeting, tap dancing and kinda doing a hula dance. Besides Windstruck, his flick with Lee Na Young "Please Teach Me English" was popular in Japan. Elvis is majorly featured in PTME. And so . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwcHKKRMgCM

And here's Jang Hyuk + Jeon Ji Hyun (honestly, I DO see Jang Hyuk as the male Jeon Ji Hyun -- both aren't actors so much as rock stars who cry a little) in Hey Girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lR4ZrCov8U

Yup, that's him rapping. He originally wanted to be a pop star.

keeping it real:

be safe everyone in SoCal!!! hopefully no flash floods, tornadoes or anything there.

i'm off to the dentist... i've finally been using my waterpik, so *hopefully* my gap from my wisdom tooth extraction FOUR years ago is finally under control. i'm so lame.

my daughter's sick... she's staying home from school. my son's going to school all mopey cuz he wants to be sick. and hubby and i both have migraines. it's gonna be a great day. *note sarcasm*

oh, and i enjoyed MLP, but the ending was ambiguous. Samsookie, i had your back until then.. i kinda really did.

How I love you all! From meat mart to slave hunt, and this war - in just 24 hours!! Goodness gracious....

Samsooki, I'll need to re-watch MLP but my memory tells me KRW got the girl. And I like Jang Nara in MLP (but not in the Success of the Bright Girl).

Why I caught up the latest OT only now because I indulged myself last and tonight in Ep 5 and 6 of both Wishing Upon A star and Pasta. Love both dearly. WUAS is like eating a warm bowl of wholesome ramen , whereas Pasta is like .... having a delightful long lunch with breezy jazz in the air. Ep 6 of Pasta is absolutely adorable and charming. Love, love Gong Hyo Jin.

Argh! So much OT to catch up with! I actually had to give full attention to work today, rats. And really need to go back to preparing for tomorrow right after I post this.

@ ockoala

Love Story - read the book, watched the film, couldn't stand both, but can't quite remember why, but I wasn't the target demographic so maybe that's why. Oh, wait a minute, it's coming back to me slowly... Sappy ear-worm of a song? Girl dying beautifully and sappily of incurable disease? Weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth? Oh, wait a minute, this seems awfully familiar. I don't remember any humidifiers, though...

@ langdon813

Ice Castles! Oooo! Now, there's a sappy love theme song I dig! (or, possibly, dug. Some passions of youth just should not be revisited.)

@ nycgrl

Not American, never heard of those terms (Guido etc.). You are really making me work the Urban Dictionary. Love it!

@ Samsooki

Gosh, some peeps are taking the MLP debate so seriously! All those earnest posts! You are a bad boy, a very bad boy. ;-) Thanks for the laugh!

@ momosan

Glad I'm not the only one having strange emotional highs and lows - for me, the cause for alternating between blissful happiness (Chuno, more abs; WUAS, more heart) and an uncontrollable rage to throw my fist through my computer screen (sucktastic acting by a lead actor which thereby lowers awesome heart-to-heart scene down from 10++++ to merely an 8, blergh). I was feeling all bi-polar there for awhile. Drama-watching can induce that apparently. I'm so glad I really checked out of watching WISFC - the plot of that drama is enough to make me feel high-low over 50 times in one episode, too much for me to take.

Oh and I finally finished my j-drama of the moment - Otomen - all that goodwill this drama built up was *almost* derailed by the a terrible 2-part ending. 10 episodes of awesome, 2 episodes of suck! Oh well, still, it introduced me to Masaki Okada (cute! total Johnny's boy if I ever saw one), and made me guffaw a heck of a lot, which is good for blowing off steam. I should watch Nobuta wa Produce next, but I think I like Hotaru no Hikari the most of all the recent j-dramas I've seen.

@ samsooki

Hmmm, too early to tell - but we can't all have win-win-wins all the time, right. 2009 to be was a great year overall, hopefully 2010 will be *just* as good and I'll be happy. ;-) Btw, nice, you use a Chinese-English dictionary, I'm impressed.

Nice! I'm so glad there are organized, efficient people in my life, not being especially so myself. Thanks samsooki! However...

On behalf of TEAM PARK KYU, I'd say What's Up has to be added to the must-see list.

On behalf of the ICOMYM Club, I'd say The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry has to be added to the must-see list.

On behalf of the ARMY OF BIDAM LOVERS, I'd say that Bad Guy has to be added to the must-see list (I don't know who Bidam is really, but I know that I must shout POOR BIDAM! whenever I see the name Kim Nam-gil).

For all of us lovers/youths of and during one of the golden-ages of HK cinema in the 1990s, this might just be the *one* movie we've been waiting for in the last tens years when nothing coming out of HK has interested me.

It's like a cross between Once Upon a Time in China with Iron Monkey, and some political intrigue of Lust/Caution without all the unnecessary sexing.

Trailer and background for Bodyguards and Assasins 十月围城 (featuring an all-star cast of Donnie Yen, Big Tony, Leon, Nicky, Simon, Eric and pretty much a wide-swath of who's who character actors in HK cinema) - story is about the attempted assasination of the Father of Modern China Sun Yat-sen at the dusk of the Qing Dynasty. Biggest movie in HK in 2009.

Official Trailer 1 - all action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vAq9h29dr0&NR=1
Official trailer 2 - some talking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf1l4KapO6I&feature=related

Trailer with setup and filming BTS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4LoghcTMXU&feature=related

Blurb: "5 hours, 13 blocks. To save a nation's future, they must protect one man from its past." 1905, City of Victoria (British Colony of Hong Kong) In the distance of thirteen blocks, the one man who holds a nations fate must survive relentless attempts on his life with only eight bodyguards to protect him"

@ samsooki

YOU GO BOY!

:-D

@ Samsooki

You could always do what every Korean parent does - put your hopes and dreams of everything you failed to accomplish in your own life into little Ji Hoonie's. J/K! :P
Don't you dare! Else, all his OT-aunties will come after you with torches, pitchforks, sabres, and muskets. ;)

@ momosan

I was enjoying ILPK, too...I just haven't had the chance to finish it. :(

Aigoo...running on empty...definitely need more than an hour and a half of sleep. :(

I love Nam Sang-mi, with each new drama of hers I see, I love her just a teensy-weensy bit more. @ momosan - I, too find Lee Pyung-kyang a fun, sweet, breezy drama, like you said, what MFL only wished it could have been. Problem is, its a tad too breezy, I don't feel much tension or danger, so it's just like a tad light. Again, that's what its suppose to be, but in the offerings available right now, I can't find time to fit it in. I've seen a few eps now that its on TV at night Mon-Tues in LA. What's-his-name playing Edward Schwartz, it's his best performance I've seen since his cringeworthy woodeness alongside Han Hyo-joo in Spring Waltz, where Daniel Henney was NOT the worst actor in the lot.

@ samsooki

I would be willing to give you the Hippie Dolphin Production Company name and logo free and clear, in exchange for a guarantee that you will hire Lee Min-ki for a ridiculously huge amount of money and a lifetime contract (with the understanding that I'm part of the package). :-D

Deal??

@ samsooki

i am willing you to win the powerball lottery. i want to see your drama. please proceed.

also, now i apparently need to pick up a bunch of upcoming dramas as well...

I hope Kim Bum has better luck in The Woman Who Still Wants To Marry than he did with Dream. He's too adorable to waste.

What's Up has both Team PK and Daesung? I am SO on board.

Besides 2 awesome ladies, Cinderella's Sister also has Chun Jung Myung - again, on board.

and lastly... Personal Taste as Lee Min Ho's follow-up to the crazy BOF? Excited to see what he has to offer :)

If I could feel shame, I would be mortified right now. It sucks when your real life family and/or friends know your onscreen username at DB, and then proceed to read what you wrote and let you know you are micheoseo.

Thank god the biggest meanie around thinks somehow I'm Kgrl (sorry Kgrl, don't want to disabuse him of that notion).

Thanks for the cover, momosan. I shall surely use you, except my Japanese nickname is ajin-chan, and if I were to pick a Japanese nickname, they'd know it was a ruse. Did I mention half my relatives on my mom's side are Japanese, yup, four years of college Japanese later, I wish I used it more often because its almost all gone now, until i watch a j-drama and understand more than I realize.

So yeah, not ashamed - and yo, sister, you better delurk soon to join the Army of Bidam lovers! But then again, I got my sister to want to check out LoCH 2008, so it was all worth it. ;-)

@ samsooki

Word. My sister thinks that I personally know most of you in real life, and that we've been friends for *a long* time, she actually asked me that, and I was like "what'cha talking about, woman!" I guess the banter does feel like we've been at it for generations.

@ 453 Samsooki -

"Hey, I might have lost, but we all had fun right? Hehe, my wife is like, “WHY do you do things like this?” LOL."

Ha! I don't know you and I don't know Mrs Samsooki, but boy, can I ever hear this conversation loud and clear!

I'm glad you did do things that though... totally spiced up an otherwise rather dispiriting week!

This baby's going to crack 500, isn't it? Has an OT hit 500 before?

I'm completely behind on things--due to life and other pesky deadlines--but I want to say : please hire me at Hippie Dolphin Productions, can Robby Benson be in the Sci-Fi Space Revenge Epic?, and could I also have a patented Kim! Rae! Won! hug? (diff thread, but I'm getting confused here).

And also I just want to throw in that this week I've watched As Tears Go By (almost didn't recognize Andy L with his sweet chubby baby face) and Chungking Express this week (with my Takeshi Kaneshiro, who is MINE, see above), and Rouge (the immortally lovely Leslie Cheung). Intense but wow.

WOW!!! almost 500 already....
for ICOMYM members, here's your mascot
http://sookyeong.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/c-n-blue-for-elle-girl-photoshoot/

@Invincible Lee Pyung Gang,
i also find LPG cute, as light as it may be...
and what i like most about the drama is both of the men surrounding NSM are TALL!! (i like tall men :P), JHW is 185 cm tall, while SD 187 cm...
and i'm glad SDY had a short hair, his long hair from Spring Waltz is aweful, LOL

Oh, aren't our mascots pretty in pink? And yellow...and baby blue...and ruffles!

Hey, they pull it off quite nicely I think! Thanks bbm!

300 out of those 627 posts came from belleza singularly attempting to call play-by-plays of all the end of the year station drama awards and the music awards. It was like she was at the Super Bowl of k-dramas! She should have charged for commercial breaks.

I doubt we'll have see those numbers again until the last week of December 2010.

re: Chuno - just one minor but starting to bug me element - I don't care how pretty and clean LDH looked when she started running, but by now, she's been dragged through mountains, streams, and even under a freaking hut/house. And she's still lily white! C'mon PD, you dressed the Ab-warriors in tatters and smeared shoe polish all over them, and they usually ride on horses! LDH and OJH has been running on foot, and one looks progressively more tired and raggedy (but still hot), and the other looks like she got her outfit pressed that morning.

Minor quibble - still love the pace and the chase, can't wait for the big three-way tomorrow (battle, that is).