@248 langdon813 @250 cingdoc

Awww! Sounds like a great plan :D If I'm around can I come?

I should just give up on working and go to bed and start early!? tomorrow...

@ celestialorigin

But of course, please do come!! This will be such a cool trip for me! :-D

Inappropriate Crush On Much Younger Men? Ahh, that sounds much more on target than what I had. Is it so sad that is so right on? Oh, whatever, I don't care anymore. I'll be a proud member of the ICOMYM!

@249 celestialorigin
I am planning to watch Code Blue 2. Saw Code Blue 1 and as medical drama goes I didn't like it as much as I liked Iryu Team Medical Dragon. Still, I am curious enough and being a member of ICOMYM I will watch it.

@242 ockoala
Not sure if anyone else would agree with me on this, but if you want to see where the Yamapi attraction is I would start with Kurosagi I don't think my ICOMYM started with Yamapi until Kurosagi.

Welcome back to kdramaland, cingdoc! And it's great that your mom is doing fine and well.

I go back to HKG several times a year for work (as well as China and Taiwan). There's this part of me who yearns for perhaps living in HK a bit but I think I just love more the clean air, green and spacious suburbia where I'm. Over these years of business travel, surprisingly, I fall in love with Taiwan. Going there for a full island travel is on my agenda.

Unwittingly, I'm now splitting myself between four dramas: Pasta, WUAS, Assorted Gems and Dear Heaven. More than a full week commitment especially when DH has 85 episodes!!

welcome back, cingdoc!!!

man.. i so wish i was still on track to do the LA thing.. i'd have LOVED to meet the socal sisters. :( thoroughly depressed now. well, at least once i go back to school and finish, i'll have more money to be able to travel... i'll just keep telling myself that.. :D

idk if anyone saw my earlier post.. so i'm just gonna repost and ask, cuz i really really value all of your opinions... so here goes:

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 should add that i'm leaning towards spending the extra money on a macbook, but know NOTHING about macs, but open to almost anything!)

Welcome back cingdoc!! Glad to hear your Cathay Pacific flight was a better one! being a stranger's headrest is never fun!

In other happy news - i got my tv yesterday and got it all set up and connected to all the right gadgets. ok really, the only gadget i have is my region free dvd player [for now]. my brother is buying me the WD HD Media converter for my birthday, so i'll be in kdrama heaven in no time! First thing i popped into my wonderful region free player was the Big Bang Big Show 2009 dvd [region 3] that i specifically bought in korea anticipating that i would buy a tv and dvd player to go along with that ha! I almost passed out when I watched MY TABI do his solo performance in HD. i now firmly believe that he should only be seen either in HD or in person. nothing else does him justice. all i need in my room now is a mini fridge and a hot plate and the transformation from room to hermit cave will be complete. :P

@ twin..

i need your brother. mine only asks me for money :( and he's 8 yrs older than me. :(

oh! and when you have your hot plate, you can cook ramen and eat off the lid.. your hermit cave will be a mini kdrama home.. maybe you should get rid of the bed and just sleep on a rollout mat that you can fold up and hide in the closet. :D

@ momosan

i tried the bestbuy thing.. but because i live in the middle of NOWHERE! our best buy doesn't carry macs.. they told me i'd have to order it online if i wanted to buy one from them. so nothing to try out.. :( tho i did look at the other laptops that were there, by looks and feel alone, i liked the sony vaio more than the others..

i'll call the school back to see if there are any programs that i may need.. and if they have any deals w/ any particular brand/store to optimize my discounts. i know my 4 yr college did.. so maybe this one will too. thanks!

@lb_tmi

My vote is for a mac if you have the money. Ease of use, wireless connection is a snap and UI is great plus the intangible coolness factor.

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My head is spinning from all the twins.How many do we have on this board? Who is whose twin again?

@nycgrl

what is UI? you are speaking to a very technology challenged person.. i can log on and find some kdramas to watch, and that's about it. well, i have learned a few other things too.. like posting on db, ripping MVs w/ ICOMYM targets.. you know, the important stuff.

oh! another ? what's the difference between a macbook and a macbook pro?

lovenyc52 is my twin. ockoala and mookie are twins too.. see? DB, land of finding your long lost twin and other family members!

Sorry UI is user interface.

Macbook pro is more expensive, tend to have a larger screen size and geared towards professionals who do a lot of graphic work. I have the pro though I don't do graphic work.

If your a student and not going to be doing lots of graphic work, I'd go with macbook since its cheaper and supposedly have a longer battery life.

BTW I just saw some clips of the SMA (seoul music awards). Can someone explain what the purpose of these awards are suppose to be since it seems everyone from SM won and there was no YG participation or presence? Also noticed the reverse at the MMA (no SM presence). Is this like the SBS, MBC and KBS award show and SM actually owns the SMA show? The whole "award" part as being any true representation of being the best seems quite suspect if you ask me.

even though I must be one of thge most aged ICOMYM members, I just had to say I love the song of the day for this open thread. I can't even get past it to see what else this group does.

@momosan and nycgrl

why would having a firewire port be needed? i guess the real question is, what is a firewire port?

and i'm thinking that i'd go w/ the Pro because i don't wanna be carrying around plastic.. i'd prefer the aluminum... even if it's heavier.. more sturdy sounding to me. and prolly do the 15".. the 13" just seems like it'd be too small of a screen.

on browsing the apple store online, the battery seems to be the same for both models.. at up to 7 hrs. where as the best i found at bestbuy was up to 4 hrs. seeing as i'd prolly be at school all day, i'd need a longer battery life.

ok, i'm gonna be more annoying... if i get a macbook pro, will i be able to hook it up to my 52" HD TV and stream videos on my tv? this is for when i'm NOT at school. heehee..

i really appreciate the info.. you gals are awesome!! thanks so much!

Firewire is like a USB connector used for lots of datatransfer between other devices (another computer, camcorder etc). I think I only used it once transferring data from old computer to another but Momosan might have more examples of it's practical use.

Believe me its not going to be 7 hours unless you have the screen on dim and have it opened and not doing anything. I'm not sure how they calculate battery life since its not what they advertise. My macbook pro which I bought in april/june gets about 2.5 hours while I'm actively using it.

"ok, i’m gonna be more annoying… if i get a macbook pro, will i be able to hook it up to my 52″ HD TV and stream videos on my tv? this is for when i’m NOT at school. heehee.."

This is for a bigger mac sage than myself to answer but my understanding is yes given the right TV and adpaters but having never done it myself I can't tell you how easy it is or what the video quality is like. I myself am considering buying an Apple TV to do just that.

@lb_tmi

Well, I just bought Mac less than a week ago. And I should be saying I like it so far or something and I'm sure I will soon. Since I',m a bit tech challenged myself and short of time right now, I haven't been able to invest proper amount of time discovering what it can do. All I know is I can use Skype and surf internet so far. Finally all the files are transferred. Mobile me activated. Had 3 one on one sessions so far, but first two were spent on making sure right files be transferred so the last session was really the first one, and I finally discovered what you can do with 4 fingers! Now, I can't remember what can be done with 3 fingers. I should really go and watch the tutorial videos on line except I'm so pressed for time since I've spent just about 4 hours on WUAS and went to sleep way too early yesterday. Darn... I told myself not to visit DB till most of my preps are done, but here I am... It's an addiction. There's so much I'd love to learn about Mac. If you are here momosan, Can you quickly tell me what can 3 fingers do? Still, it seems like Mac is promising.

wow. i'm learning so much about computers. if my toshiba starts to die on me again, i may have to get either a new pc or macbook. i reaaaalllly don't wanna go the macbook route just cuz im such a pc gal... but hearing such awesome things about the macbook is making me tilt a lil to the dark side lol.

@ twin

no. you don't want my brother either. i bought my own christmas present this year and told him what it was and made him wrap it. i actually had to specifically tell him he could not wrap it in a target bag, tape it, and write my name in permanent ink on said target bag. and i looked around my room last night thinking what i could move around in order to fit a fridge. i had to stop myself before i took the idea too seriously.

soooo.. if i wanna plug my external HDD to a macbook, i'll need an adapter that will fit into the firewire inserty-thing? (see, that's how hi-tech i am!)

do macbooks have USB plugs along w/ the firewire? i don't think i have many electronics that have a firewire.. most came w/ USB 2.0 cords.

but i think i got the pluggy stuff all figured out.. semi figured out??

@ samsookie..

you know what? i actually got what you were talking about re: hooking laptop to TV.. for some reason, all those plugs mean something to me.. and i know what they look like, and i know what they do. so yes, i will be able to hook up either a mac or a laptop, or even my desktop to my HDTV.. cuz i have HDMI ports on my desktop and TV.. and VGA PC in on my TV (and will be getting the adapter for it on the mac/laptop). it all makes sense. go figure.

@ momosan...

you really do make it sound easy.. and it's completely understandable to me.. so i get it!!! i'm 95% sure i'm getting a mac..

1) limited viruses= less fix
2) can hook up to my TV
3) runs windows if i want it to.

yep. almost hooked!

@ momosan

have i told you i really really like geeks? i mean REALLY REALLY LIKE geeks.
thanks so much!!!

samsookie and nycgrl too!

i knew i was asking the right ppl. DB is filled w/ awesome ppl comprised w/ all sorts of knowledge about all sorts of different things. i LOVE it here. i'm definitely moving in to stay!!!

I personally want to shove Bidam in a donkey cart these days and watch him fall off a cliff.

No more Poor Bidam! by proxy, no siree. See, I'm surrounded by two harpies that call me or text me or post on FB about how much they are sad for Poor Bidam! and how much they love KNG, and then my B and BIL are all like, what's wrong with you women? And then I'm all like, you go Poor Bidam! somewhere else not in my ears and all over my FB page, and they are like, Wahhh, we have the hots for KNG, and I'm like, please shoot these women and put them out of their misery.

@ momosan

I'm going to steal your setup and I was going to buy an ipad anyway but I also happen to have a spare mac book pro for guests which I can also use as a proxy.

@ samsooki

I Poor Bidam! on behalf of the Army of Bidam for while (I'm sure I have OT comments to back up this claim, but am too lazy to go dig it up). However, after 3 weeks of non-stop Poor Bidam!ing anytime I talk to the two crazy harpies I am related to, I'm officially ready to stick yet another sword stab into Poor Bidam! myself (dood took a LONG time to die, might I add).

@ ockoala,

lol... lets go MO w/o the B and go BIDAM MUST DIE!!! (I know I'm going to go poor bidam later when I get there)

I'm not at that part of QSD, still stuck at 40sth ep. Hubby agreed yes QSD is draggy, yes it's not that well acted, yes the set is too universally bright and boring...but he still wanna know what will happen to everybody... imagine me almost taping my mouth shut not to blurp it all out.

and I'm finally getting who u r referring to with the frankenCJW in WUAS (I ff'd too much earlier on)... HAHAHA gosh what do u call that part of ur face btn the nose and your lips?!?! that part of her face is like some growing monster... it seems larger and more scary whenever she's talking.

My turn: @ momosan - hehe, good luck tonight with your mom.

My crazies have *finished* watching QSD, lucky me. :-( Thankfully, they are not on twitter. Again, lucky me. :-)

@ twin

Totally missed your post, on auto-posting mode today, did too much this morning and pretty burnt out now.

Anyways, we can't, we can't, I may want to shove Bidam in a bidet but I've not gone so far as to assert that BIDAM MUST DIE! That would drive our belleza insane and render Team MOB asunder and allow the silly SAVE BORA and PATZZI foolish ones to win by default. No, no, no KNG is hot as hell, I don't want Bidam to die. I just want the crazies to stop talking to me about it as if I understand what they are talking about, since I DID NOT watch QSD. Team MOB FTW!

Kekeke, now you know what I'm a-talking about, doesn't her face just freak you out. It looks like that thing formerly known as Heidi Montag's face these days. Seriously, I need to tape her face to my vanity mirror, and if I ever, ever, ever, one day consider Botox, lip injections, face lifts, or whatever the hell Franken-CJW did to her face, I will look at that face and love my wrinkles. The part btw her nose and her lips is what happens when you surgically insert a sausage in your upper lip. And my KH sure showed that beyotch what he thinks when she mashes that sausage to his lips and assaults him (that look was priceless!).

Stars - sigh, blissfully happy with that drama. I was in the toilet the other day (assisting the baby, duh!) and just thought that Stars is really the type of k-drama that k-dramas are known for doing better than anyone else. A delightful blend of family, individual maturation, blossoming love connection, and hateful witchy villianesses.

@ momosan,

my hubby is already obsessing over Bidam now, beyond excited with that birth secret twist (he honestly didnt entertain the connection of MiShil and BiDam EVER....) he's not exactly helping when he's asking me if BiDam will die... THEN retract the q immediately.
I can only imagine how cRAZY he'll be later on... argh..

@twin,

MOB still holds KNG as major hot. but his BIDAM dies all hot and gloriously and sensually long... and last we'll get accused of is not sticking to our guns. lolz

o gosh I'm at ep 7 of WUAS....how super cute and reducing me to a pool of awww this little drama is!

Rain asks via twitter whether his fans prefer him with long or short hair. I'm so tempted to respond: "honey, we all prefer you without your shirt on, we don't really care about the hair." That's less than 140 characters, right?

@ twin

When your hubby melts down, you can "comfort" him and assure him that Bidam is at a much happier place, i.e. anywhere else but in the living hell that appears to be Shilla court politics.

"BIDAM dies all hot and gloriously and sensually long" - well, okay, since you put it this way, Die Bidam! :-P

Oh, you're only on ep. 7 of WUAS? Yippee, you'll be caught up with me in no time and we can mock, poke with a sharp stick and generally malign Franken-CJW together. Oh, and bring TK home and pet him and cook him a nice meal and make him our play thing, he's so adorable!

o I think all 3 of those guys r pulling my heartstrings in their own way!!!

o gosh the TK... at first glance I was going... this dude is about same age as our handsomes and he's their nephew?! but he's soooo endearing! this is how I want YKS' character to be like in Triple. He's all staking his claim on PG, not too pushy, not backing off at the impossible, w/o an ounce of annoyance, he's still his silly flimsy self, but he tried his best without trying TOO hard to help out PG out of pure good heart. awwwwwwwwwwwww

seriously frankenCJW, I bet the talentless actress is younger than CJW by a generation, but she looks older, she looks her evil mom's age!!! I'm fine though since she's reduced to a lump of walking silicon with so much more going on with WUAS than the typical love rectangle couple eps in. IF JH still harbors feelings for her, I'll be pissy, but hehe he has fine taste!

I'm usu not the guy2 girl, I'm all for choice per girl1, if she likes that cranky basterd guy1 more (doesnt hurt they r usu freaking hot) I'm all for support for our girl, plus they r all too good to be true pushovers for my taste. but here JH has some feisty in him and he's not love at first sight smitten by our cinderella!! and when he goes about with the 'morning exercise' with the kids what ar we girls supposed to do but drool and reside in our little corner to draw hearts?!

in WHIB, we dont really care for the girl2 either, but at least she's given SOME bite in some of her lines. For our lump of silicon, her lines r forgettable and monotonous, she's no facial muscle to move except her mouth and that growth btn her nose and lips AND the worst offense of all she's not even having cute outfits for us to steal!

40+ posts since I was on OT last...and the only thing my fried brain pings on is the eternal "Rain, long hair or short hair?" question. And the answer (for me) is LONG LONG LONG LONG.

I'm tired. :-(

@ockoala
hahahaha you crack me up....I guess langdon813 don't think same way. I'm with you!

@ 298 cms lurver

LOL! When you get to know me better you'll realize that isn't quite the case.

I just assumed the shirtless part was a given. ;-)