FFFRRRRIIIIIDDDDDDAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!
:D

So...once, there was this bear in the woods... :P

And the end of a very productive Friday at that! Bring on the weekend!

Greatly enjoying Assorted Gems. Took awhile to get into it but now at episode 10 I'm definitely committed. Thanks for the recommendation, Thundie!

Happy Friday!

At work early again today... but then again it's cuz i get to leave early for MAMMOTH!! woop! more time in the snow! not like i didn't get enough of that when i was in seoul....

Busy day today....

@ hjkomo

Glad to see you're starting OT off on a good note ;)

HAH! tweeting BBisBACK is tiring! But why not, i love the MEN!

Yipeeee - TGIF - I really need this weekend to rest. After last week of raining everyday, it was great to see the sun this week (live in southern california). Enjoy the time with your family and thank you samsooki for your great review of City Hall.

Off to beach and watch the waves coming in..

yehey it's the weekend! and WISC concluded.

@ 4 vine789

trying to TT BBisBACK? oooh.. i'm so in on that one!!

yay!!! friday! but, but, but... i have to work this weekend. hate. hate! HATE! month end.

it's 7 below today.. wind chill is 30 below zero. umm.. it's a lilo cold today. it's as if hell really is freezing over.

Happy OT Friday y'all!

It's raining buckets here; my ever-decreasing level of productivity may come to a complete standstill shortly if I figure out a way to use my laptop from bed. Wireless internet would be so nice to have right about now.

I went out to eat last night, had a huge meal, came home stuffed, and woke up starving. How is that even possible? But it happens all the time. Big evening meal, wake up hungry; small evening meal, don't wake up hungry. Bizarre.

The sun is shining in London but the wind chill makes it feel like its -5C outside (or less!). I wanna go home and sleep! I've been sleep deprived for over 2 weeks now.

I've been out of kdrama land for over 2 weeks and I'm feeling the withdrawal. Stupid work. Hmph! But I managed to read JB's WISFC finale recap and I'm still undecided as to whether or not I like the ending.

Has anybody here seen the movie Take Off with Ha Jeong Woo? Was that really him speaking in english with an American accent?

Happy Friday!

I must be the bear in the woods that is *suicidal* and dancing "na nana na" in front of the hunter, because I've just posted on the WiSC thread that the ending was TOO happy! Go Soo lovers are now rummaging for their pitch-forks, but I'm skipping off-line before anyone can lynch me, la la.

Finally watched first two episodes of Chuno. Yes, it's all rather self-conscious. And, heck, yes, I'll keep watching avidly. It's gorgeous!

Off to check out iPhones tomorrow! Was holding out because everyone and his dog has one, it's boring. But have finally succumbed, sigh. I guess there's a *reason* why everyone and his dog has one. What tipped me over was realizing that it would easy to convert my drama files so I could watch off it. That, and being able to play Tetris and Sudoku on planes...

@ vine789 and lb_tmi
BBisBack so excited. i want fancams of T.O.P's solo pronto

On another note, started CHUNO...now addicted!
I am going to savor each episode instead of just trying to get through it.

@ 12 serendipity

Not me! I don't have one. :-(

Someone told me yesterday I should get an iTouch because it does everything an iPhone does, just without the phone. If that's true then I might do that.

@ langdon813

You need some tech upgrades. Even I held out as long as I could...but I LURVE my iPhone! :D

I really hate working.... i can't wait until the weekend. i think i'm goign to quit.

The iPAD looks GORGEOUS. >.<

@ langdon813 and serendipity

i also don't have an iphone or crackberry... but i've been contemplating upgrading my cell phone to the LG Chocolate Touch. only for the mp3 feature tho... i love any opportunity to play my kpop playlist :)

@ twin

leaving warmth for snow? umm.. no thanks! if i'm going anywhere, it's gonna be sunny and warm. actually, i'd rather have snow instead of these frostbite temps.

btw.. has anyone seen mishane and andromytta?? they've been missing for a while.

i love my itouch...

I love my iPhone, if only the other half would stop trying to upgrade it all the time and make it more whizz-bang than it already is. That's the problem with living with a tech geek. But on the other hand, he did convert all my dramas so that I could watch it on the tube. <3 They (men) are sometimes useful. :D

@langdon813,
re: overeating and waking up starved: YEAH! i have often wondered about that. maybe we have some nutrition/metabolic type experts in OT who can explain it. I'm convinced that within DBland we have the sum of all knowledge. ^^

Seattle DBers,
If anyone is out there whom I haven't talked to: we're meeting Thurs Feb 4 at 6:30pm at Myeongdong Soondubu aka Korean Tofu House in the U-District. Please join us! I'll be the one holding the sign "Card Carrying Member, ICOMYM" :) :)

http://www.yelp.com/biz/korean-tofu-house-seattle

@ hjkomo

Like I said, I'm too cheap! If I didn't have those two mooching children (one of whom has an iPhone, come to think of it) I'd be more inclined to spend the money.

Also, the IT guy from my company who made the decision not to let us have iPhones? Yeah. He's got one. Ass. :-(

@ langdon813

Then, get a blackberry (on the company, of course) and an iTouch. Problem solved! :D

Oh, and a wireless modem!!!

And cut the apron strings! ;)

I don't know where else to put this because I don't visit Soompi or comment on K-pop gossip blogs. I only read dramabeans for my K-fix and thankfully she doesn't post about teenybopper, idol groups unless it pertains to acting.

Anyways, I just caught a glimpse of SonyeoShidae's music video and gross! I can't believe what they're doing to these girls. They're turning them into horny ajushis' fantasy sex-bots. Excuse my crass, but that's what it is!! I thought their Genie song was disgusting. "Tell me your wish. What's your fantasy girl? I'm your genie. Your dream." Gross!!! This new song has them dress up in skimpy cheerleading outfits and professing to being pretty so oppa please love me. Please, where's the eyerolling emoticon when you need it?

Every concept is a ridiculous male fantasy. They're about one music video away from portraying plastic, blown up sex dolls.

Where is the dignity of these girls?? I know, I know, they probably have to follow orders, but they all seem pretty enthusiastic playing it up for the cameras. As annoying as Taylor Swift may be, I can at least give her respect for not playing the sexy-girl-I'll-fulfill-your-fantasies act.

@ samsooki

"If you use your phone to make phone calls and to text / email / IM better than any other communication device on the planet, then get a blackberry.

For mp3 and video play, get an iPod classic. 120GB…. that’s a ton of videos and songs.

I could not agree with you more. I am addicted to my Crackberry, am wholly against iPhones (even if i did grow up 5 minutes from apple headquarters... but i abhor touch screen), and i cannot be without my 80GB iPod classic. I have entire dramas and my entire itunes library stored in there with tons of room to spare.

Thank goodness it's Friday.

I'm so bummed out that I don't even have the energy to be enthusiastic about it being Friday, because right now all I have on my mind is, "Damn! My application for the stupid D. E. Shaw internship is due tomorrow!!" My school's career site is totally misleading - I seriously thought the dates they listed were the deadline dates, but turn out they're only the interview dates. Which means that the applications are all dew several days beforehand... so there goes my entire weekend! And I only found out last night!! Total FML moment right there.

On the other hand, I got myself hooked on Wish Upon A Star. Oh the hilarity, LOL. And the kids are so cute, maybe not all in terms of looks, but DEFINITELY in terms of the way they act. They're amazing. I want siblings like that, haha. I can't believe WISFC has already finished - I still need to catch up on that.

Anybody else following the Jdramas this turn? There are quite a few I'm following - Perfect Girl Evolution (cute), Bloody Monday 2 (intense, like 24, which I'm ALSO watching, the new season so far is pretty good), and Naka nai to Kimeta Hi (this is so... scary and creepy...).

Naka nai to Kimeta Hi has Kaname Jun and Fujiki Naohito (GREAT reasons for me to watch this drama, especially Kaname Jun, ahahahaha)... but the entire premise/storyline has got me really creeped out. It's about a career girl who is constantly bullied in the workplace. And the thing is, it's not like straight-out schoolyard big bully stealing my lunch money bullying, it's the super scary passive aggressive-ness that is prevalent in the entire workplace, where every single worker in her division hates her. Like, straight out, hates her. The environment is just, so scary... Is anyone else watching this / has comments?

One last thing. Can someone please explain to me why the popularity of SNSD? I seriously SERIOUSLY do not understand it. Okay, maybe I can understand it in guys, but in girls? I don't understand. Please, someone explain it to me. Doesn't make sense to me.

for each video playing up to men's fantasies, i'd like one for the women.

taylor swift is the IT girl lately.

Happy Friday everyone! New semester just started yesterday but my gratuitously self indulgent web serfing over the break landed me with tendonitis. God it's painful! But still here I am typing away with my left hand because apparenly nothing can keep me away from dramabean land! Enjoy your weekend everyone :)

@ 23 samsookie

wow!! 120GB? that's a lot of music and vids. i have an 8gb mp3 and i'm pretty satisfied w/ that already. i just need a phone upgrade, but don't want to spend the big bucks to get an iphone or crackberry.. plus, i won't have any of the cool "web" access either.. i'd accomplish absolutely NOTHING if i had access at my fingertips! :D

oh, any tech savvy ppl got recommendations for specs/brands for a laptop? i'll be needing one in the next 3-4 months in preparation for going back to school. my desktop at home is pretty decent considering it's 4 yrs old, but looking to go wireless anyway.. thanks, in advance.

(i 2nd paula253's notion that DBland is comprised of a sum of all knowledge)

@ madame president

i have a question. what is park kyu's place in ICOMYM?? it seems that he should hold some title as well. YUM!

@ hjkomo

Oh, I've got a Crackberry...complete with Epik High ringtones. :-D

@ 29 A.

Completely agree about Wish Upon A Star. Mondays are now vastly improved with that to look forward to. So cute! Even the bad hair is growing on me. But Shin Dong-wook is WAY too thin. And that's saying something, because I've always been partial to skinny guys.

@ 29 A. :

I tried Perfect Girl Evolution. Didn't like it. I'm a fan of the manga and to tell you the truth : the drama disappointed me. Really.They got wrong every single thing I liked in the manga and I was hoping to see in the drama.
Bloody Monday 2 is good, so far. If I'm not mistaken only ep.1 is out and I liked it. Good restart of the story. I just hope they don't rush it again towards the end like they did with S1. I hate sloppy storytelling.
I haven't seen Naka nai to Kimeta Hi but your description seems interesting. I really liked LIFE so I'll check this one too. Have you seen LIFE?

@ samsooki

I can understand guys liking this concept... but I don't understand girls who are, well, completely obsessed with SNSD. As a girl myself, I don't see the appeal of them. They overplay the "cutesy" concept wayy too much. I'm a girl - nobody overdoses the "cutesy" concept more than the attention-grabbers, who are trying to get guys' attention. And usually those are the girls that personally, I wouldn't want to be friends with. For SNSD (and I understand it's a company promoting them with that image), it seems like they're exploiting that entire cute concept. From a feminist point of view, they're undermining their supposed image of being "girl power."

@nell123

I couldn't stick through LIFE - got too scary for me. But maybe I'll revisit it some day. Bloody Monday, yeah, only the first episode is out, and things are heating up. The end of season 1 of Bloody Monday was... very random. I felt like they realized only last minute that they still needed to talk about K and then sloppily slipped that in... eek. It made the last part about K seem disjointed compared to the rest of season 1. About Perfect Girl Evolution... LOL, I can understand where you're coming from, but, haha, I am watching that as a "crack drama" in which I check my brain at the door and watch for pure entertainment. LOL.

Definitely check out Naka nai to Kimeta Hi, though. It's like LIFE, except in the workplace.

@ lb_tmi

Park Kyu is so special he has his own Team! Bidam is so special he has his own Army!

Both fully supported and subsidized by the ICOMYM Club, of course, but exempt from private claims.

@SNSD: As they say, let the haters hate. And hate I will because that song (Oh!) has no substance just like HyunAs Change. Lets say the same words! Marketing knows what they're doing with them, but are these artists really proud of the music that they're putting out? Curious.

@A. I'll have to check out Naka Nai to Kimeta Hi.. I was sleeping through watching Kanno Mihos show and I watched an episode of Angels Bank. I like Kanno Miho, but I don't know about her new show. It's a mix of Hataraki Man! and Kiina and I've watched those shows so..... For some reason every episode uses a song from Michael Jacksons catalog which must be expensive as hell and is slowly murdering my ears because it really has no reason to be playing at all. Passive aggressive Japanese shows (which are usually school board/mothers who are crazy based) kind of make me want to slap someone, but I'll give it a try.

Happy OT!

@22 crzycpl
"They (men) are sometimes useful."

Yes, gotta love them! Hubby found out my Youre Beautiful addiction at Episode 11. He saw me watching it from youtube (in parts)... that weekend morning, I opened my laptop and there it is in my desktop wall... YB folder with episodes 1-8 in HD!... It made me so happy, I cooked breakfast!

@ langdon813

I keep thinking about how badly styled the guys' hairs are. The like, slicked back hair... oh, I haven't seen that in AGES!!! I can understand it watching one of those old school Kdrama, because, heck, that was "in" then or whatnot. Every time I see it, something inside me dies, but clearly it's not bothering me enough to stop watching the show, ahahaha. I love Wish Upon A Star - how unexpected, it never really made it onto any list of "wanted" list of dramas to watch for...

@ Janna

Yeah, I feel like there are a lot of shows about that subject, and they just keep chunking out new dramas with similar storylines/premises except with new names and everything. It's fascinating... but I am getting a bit tired of them.

Do try out Naka nai to Kimeta Hi. Fascinating stuff, although I do feel uncomfortable watching it, it's still fascinating. And Kaname Jun!!! And Fujiki Naohito (had a crush on him ever since I watched Hotaru no Hikari).

(Also, I am SO a SNSD hater too... I will hate on them forever. I got into a fight with my guy friend about this too, but we have gone into truce mode to never mention SNSD in a conversation. LOL.)

@37 A.

i totally agree with everything about SNSD. the cutesy look is overplayed.. but cutesy and slutty just should not go hand in hand. I'm not a hater.. i'm pretty neutral on SNSD.. i actually like the girls, just not their selling image/concept.

IMO, KARA is full of cute girls (i think Park Gyuri is absolutely BEAUTIFUL!) but they also aren't slutty either..

to me, 2NE1 embodies "girl power".. they're fun, dorks, yet strong.

but Brown Eyed Girls are classic sexy.. they are extremely attractive, have sex appeal, yet are so classy.. maybe cuz they're more mature? i love them!

@ madame president

as long as ICOMYM is sponsoring the TEAM! and ARMY! it's all good. :D

@ twin

and this is why we're twins.

I have the strangest mail phenomenon occurring at my house. I only subscribe to two magazines at the moment, Southern Living and Delta Magazine (subscriptions that I've actually paid for). But I get tons of magazines delivered to me every month. Magazines that I did not subscribe to and have never paid a dime for. But they keep coming! Here's what I get, every single month, for free:

Oprah
Martha Stewart Living
Country Living
Travel & Leisure
Cosmopolitan
Ladies Home Journal
Entertainment Weekly
Bazaar
Elle
Elle Decor
Glamour
Food & Wine
Garden & Gun (I swear I'm not making this up, it's a real magazine)

And, to the delight of my husband and grown sons, I'm also now receiving Maxim as of December 2009/January 2010.

WTH???

At the end of every month I just load up the car and take them to the ICU waiting room (except the Maxims, hehe), because I remember all too well how boring a place THAT is. This has been happening for at least 6 months, maybe longer.

Who says you can't get something for nothing?? ;-)

@ langdon813

your mailbox must be exploding...

Just wanted to tell JB or whoever in charge with the current dramas airing recaps. I'm passionately waiting for CHUNO! That show rocks! Jang hyuk is the best *go on flaunt your abs Hyukie!* LOL
And I hope you can continue recapping for God Of Study though, I like that show actually. Even though, I have to admit that Dragon Zakura was better than GOS. But, well, I'm sad b/c you don't like it, it becomes much more entertaining lately though, with new problems and love triangle involves. Yoo Seung Ho is officially becoming my new crush. but he's still underage, isn't it? omo? ottoke?
And thank you for finishing WISFC recaps. I'm lovin it. Dunno I should be happy about the ending or not, it's still....ugh.. dunno. hahah.... ah well, I'm sad b/c I can't see Go Soo again on screen T_T
have a nice weekend guys!

I want to announce I have not seen a single kdrama since YB ended since I have a massive project that will probably come to an end in mid-Feb and I have no bandwidth for anything except visiting JB and OT. I'm glad I got that off my chest, I feel like I'm in AA. I do mean to watch Chuno once its near completion so I can marathon through it.

@langdon813
"I went out to eat last night, had a huge meal, came home stuffed, and woke up starving. How is that even possible? But it happens all the time. Big evening meal, wake up hungry; small evening meal, don’t wake up hungry. Bizarre."

You know what I find stranger? You eat 2 pounds of food and wait a few hours but don't pee or poop and your not 2 pounds heavier. Doesn't that defy physical science?

@ A/lb_tmi
Love Brown Eyed girls. They might be the only girl group I can stomach and yes they are sexy in a non-cloying annoying way and I have to rant that I can't stand the cute girly act by most girl groups especially when they open their eyes real wide and blow up their cheeks for the selca picts.That is my equivalent of the nail on chalkboard. It must be the feminist tomboy in me but I get seriously annoyed with helpless cutesy damsels in distress. BTW why can't they come out with the girl version of FT island. I think that is sexy to see a girl on drums.