happy friday ! and happy weekends to everyone!

just finish to watched fashion 70's,such a lovely and sad story.one of the
best k-dorama i've ever watched.

Happy Valentines Day!!!

I am in Nepal for a vacation and Korean wave has hit pretty hard over here. Right from Korean movies to food, to Hairstyle to fashio. It is pretty big over here. Dramafever doesnt work over here so a little dissapointed but Korean DVDs are pretty abundant and cheap over here..

I had to share the best news of my LIFE....

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA IS SPEAKING AT MY COMMENCEMENT! BEST GRADUATION SPEAKER EVER! i mean how do you top Obama?

In other news, currently addicted to Pasta and I LOVE ALEX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am cursed with second lead syndrome. His longing glances are breaking my heart everytime. Can he please just get the girl?

hello everyone! this is the first time i'm posting in an open thread, though i've been a follower of this website since the Boys Before Flowers craze!

i've i just finished reading dramabeans' recaps of Mixed Up Investigative Agency and i LOVED it. i'm off to go watch it now! :) have a good friday everyone!

btw, does anyone have a link to eng-subbed episodes of Assorted Gems? i'm stuck on Episode 31, because viikii keeps postponing the licensing agreement (i think?) and i can't get access to the episode!

TGIF!!! and advance Happy VAlentines to everyone. Hope you all have a wonderful time....

I just want to share that I am sooooooo crazy with Chuno...esp Oh Ji Ho...argggh...that guy is just fantastic. I will do a marathon on his Fantasy couple this weekend. Never saw any of his film or drama before but he is just so awesome...:) Oh JI HO and Go Soo forever...lol

I am here to wish everyone a HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR!

May health and beauty be with each of you for the year of the tiger and especially to Javabeans.

@4 missbee

If you need to watch streaming and you're in the US or Canada, Dramafever just loaded Eps 1-26 of Assorted Gems and should be adding additional episodes soon:

http://www.dramafever.com/drama/125/

If you download, our wonderful adorable Thundie has graciously provided everything you could possibly need at her site:

http://thundie.wordpress.com/2010/01/17/assorted-gems-download-links/

Good luck!!

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Happy OT Friday, y'all! We've got snow in MS today! :-D

@missbee-check it out:-)
http://thundie.wordpress.com/2010/01/17/assorted-gems-download-links/

edit-I see langdon813 has beat me to it hehe:-)

Fridayyyyyyy~ Which means my friend will be coming over to make Korean food with me tonight. She spent last semester in Korea, and I want to learn how to cook more Korean meals, so we've decided that every Friday is Korean food night. I'm excited! :D

So, random:

The other day I was on OMNTD on LJ, and through a random comment I discovered the awesomeness that is Boyish Project. Some girl (?) takes all sorts of female Kpop artists and lowers the pitch of their voices so that they sound like guys. It's kind of awesome, and I've been listening to some of them nonstop.

http://www.youtube.com/user/otokee

After School and BoA make especially great men, although my favourite boy-ified song is probably SNSD's "Oh!" for obvious reasons. XD

Happy Friday Everyone!!!

Happy Valentines Day!!!

Happy Chinese New Year!!!

@missbee Assorted Gems at dramafever but you need to wait and watch it slowly cuz they release it in batch. But worth the wait for the HD quality.

Holy cow, is it open thread time again? Yikes.

@hpn88 -- I know, I love Alex, too! At first I wasn't really that into his character, but he's grown on me. Now, even though I'm totally shipping Chef/Yoo-kyung, I can't help but hope they get to at least kiss once...gah. Why can't she just have both???? But hey, I'll take the other if she can't have both. ;)

@Kender-That sounds like fun.Wonder what your first K-food experiment is gonna be.:-)One thing I really liked about K-dramas the first time I saw them was that they actually showed girls enjoy eating and not being nitpicky about food.

@12 Ana

Haha, the first food experiment was kimchi jjigae a couple of weeks ago. It was all kinds of amazing, and my friend said it tasted exactly like the kind she'd eaten over there. :3

Happy Friday Everyone!

Just had the best week of my life dramathoning my life away at my parents bach this past week... anywho had the beach in my backyard and it was pure heaven watching my dramas and watching the sunrise at the same time..lol then watching the sunset while watching my dramas only to sleep after i watch the sunrise yet again...gah good times, beats taking a good half hour praticing 'Sun Smartness' p.s. I hate sunscreen on my skin its so thick and oily hence my sunburn remedy - Stay Indoors! Hope everyone has a great weekend! I'm swimming with dolphins today woo!

I recently dled all 3 seasons of "Avatar: The Last Airbender" just to see what the hype is about and why people are boycotting the upcoming movie. Some guy even claimed that this is the best cartoon ever (yeah, he's an adult), which includes beating out X-Men and the Batman series from my childhood (did I just date myself?). I think I'll spend this Valentine's weekend watching all 3 seasons. ^^

@hpn88 - which school are you graduating from? that is so exciting about obama!!

@ #15 "p.s. I hate sunscreen on my skin its so thick and oily hence my sunburn remedy – Stay Indoors!" - LOL. best advise of the day! although if you do decide to go out in the sun, you can always try spray on sunscreen.

happy friday! happy lunar new year! happy heart's day! happy family day (canadians)!

Hi! happy friday , and also Happy Chinese New Year to those who celebrate Tiger Year ?.
Had watched the two episodes - Dandelion Family quite interesting but not sure if it is going to be a hit like Assorted Gems. Here is something for fans of CHUNO :-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmCkXv9L58M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHFnmv7cJiw

@!6: AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER IS THE SHIT! At first I thought it was a lame show but it's deeper than I've expected. And the characters are so loveable and funny!

Currently watching Sailor Moon with my sister :) Brings back so many memories. I don't recall this show being so entertaining & funny

Its the start of half term holiday here in Britain so i was wondering what the other brits on dramabeans are up to...

for me im planning to catch on my list of kdramas starting with the Woman who still wants to marry Lol. i really didnt expect about that rich man in ep.2 "Ga Ggoong" xD

Happy OT!!

@16 mie
It is one of the best cartoons EVER! I have to agree with your friend. Its smart, funny, and season 3 is filled with gut-wrenching goodness. It has everything you could want and more - romance, mystery, action, bromance.
It is totally the perfect date for Valentine's Day...no lies.

the main controversy is that 3 of the 5 main characters are clearly drawn as if they were of Asian decent. The other 2 are from a tribe of people supposedly based off Inuit culture. However, the cast now feature 3 Caucasian actors playing the main character (Ang) and the 2 "Inuit Characters". and an Indian (the guy that played Jamal in Slumdog) playing a character that was Asian and who is also the evil guy trying to kill the main characters. So now people are angry about why the casting is so different from how the creators originally had it! And why the only minority in the cast is playing the evil guy?
And I agree. Why? its not as if they could get Asian child actors - if they ever watched a single kdrama featuring child actors (Pick the star cough cough), they would have all the talent they need.
That being said, I am actually excited they cast Dev Patel as Prince Zuko. He is such a conflicted and awesome character that I am glad an emerging talent that I am keeping my eyes on got the chance to play him. And also i think originally one of the Jonas bros or someone was supposed to play him! Thank god they avoided that major fail

@18 unhappy
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor! GO BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!

God of Study~~~~

Looks like I might have to wait for the DVD, havent been able to watch anything since episode 5 *sigh*

yay happy friday, happy weekend, happy valentine's day, happy chinese/korean/lunar new year!!! =D going to paris this weekend so won't be participating in OT, but can i share a video with you?

it's a bunch of my icelandic friend's friends, running around paris filming themselves singing Big Bang's Hallelujah - they need your hits/views! =D i'm totally behind this because within a few months she has become a total convert to hallyu =p

here's the video, as she said, 재밌게 봐 주세용~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQfMT4oWAFg

@ 16 mie

I adore Avatar: The Last Air Bender. I wouldn't say that it was better than Batman: The Animated Series, but it's still excellent. (There. I'm dating myself AND outing myself as a total geek! :-P) It has its flaws, but there is far more to love. It is beautiful to look at and it deals with far more mature themes than you'll see in a cartoon primarily aimed at children. There's some wonderful use of foreshadowing and symbolism. And it's laugh out loud funny too. I hope you enjoy it!

And, yes, I'm dreading the live-action movie.

Well I was wrong about the 18 inches of snow last week, since then we got 44 inches. At least school was closed. Lots of spicy chicken and soju.

Obama? Hampton or Michigan? We had Eric Schmidt last year no word on this year yet.

saehae bok manhi badeuseyo

Happy upcoming holidays, dramabeaners (dramabeanies? can we get some of those patented or something?). o/ A week of rest. Well, a week of assignments but at least I can stay indoors! It's COLD.

Dramaland~ mindbogglingly obsessed with Pick The Stars. Am upto ep10 w/ WITHS2's subs and am wondering whether to head over to Viikii for the next 2. The quality's actually pretty good, but watching a great drama in great quality has its own appeal. Ah, well. I doubt I can control myself. May I say Junha is realllllllllly pissing me off. Goojaab drama, making me hate Dong Wook sshi. +.+" Just wtf mate, you'd think he'd be happy that his brother, who's lived about as warmly as a piece of paper, is thawing out and getting attracted to someone, doing something as normal as bickering and not freaking out over stains. What the hell is with the dark looks and manipulation? Also been a while since I hated an Other Girl so much, to the point where the sneer doesn't leave my face until she's left the screen. Also, PA RANG + KANG HA. WIBBLEPLZ. Those reading javabeans' recaps, when they read the comment about how Pa Rang is probably the only person who's ever loved him unconditionally and for himself, is there a single person on this site who didn't awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww for about 5 pages of text?

Finally, anyone watching jerry/ella's down with love?

@ 23 hpn88

"I am actually excited they cast Dev Patel as Prince Zuko. He is such a conflicted and awesome character that I am glad an emerging talent that I am keeping my eyes on got the chance to play him."

Yes, Zuko was definitely the most interesting character in entire series. I'm glad they found someone with true range to play him. In fact, Dev Patel might be the only reason to see this movie. Well, that and it looks like it really will be visually stunning. From all the still I've seen, it takes all the creative designs from the cartoon and ramps them up a notch.

And I believe they had originally cast Jessie McCartney (no idea if I spelled that right and don't care enough to check) which would have been all levels of wrong. But it shows what where their brains were when they cast this originally.

Happy Friday everyone!

And Happy Long Weekend :)

And of course, Happy Chinese New Year!! My mom asked if i was coming home for CNY dinner this weekend, but as I'm 400 miles away, i said no. She even offered to pay for my plane ticket! Felt super bad, but if I'm going home twice in the next month, that makes up for it right?! I'm just gonna tell myself yes, it does. Sigh.

I finally restarted IRIS last night.... and MAN i forgot how fun that show was. I could do without the repeated flashback montages of LBH/KTH's 3 day-relationship, but i'm totally sucked back in. This is it guys! This is what's gonna get me back into drama-watching mode! I also started to DL SOAM. It'll probably take a few days, but by then I'll have finished IRIS and will be ready for another intense roller-coaster ride :P

Avatar: The Last Airbender (mild spoilers below).

My fave animated series since Robotech. Completely different genres, but equally gripping stuff. I have all 3 seasons on DVD, I've watched Seasons 1-2 multiple times, but I CANNOT bring myself to watch Season 3, because I hate the ending. I hate it with a vengeance reserved for delusional cows like JY on WUAS.

I spent weeks venting to my husband (we both love Avatar) about how jacked the ending was, and he eventually hid the DVDs so I can't destroy it. My boy loves Avatar, too, he could care less about the story, he loves Aang and Momo and Katara.

Why do I hate the ending? First off, it felt rushed. Secondly, and this is a dealbreaker for a melo-fiend like myself, the series f*cked up the OTP (pardon my french, still pissed a year later, as you can see). For 2 seasons, it was clear and so rife with tension and expectation that the OTP was going to be Zutara. Until the writers completed did a mind meld in season 3 (prolly realized that oops, this is a show on Nick and kids watch, and Zutara would probably melt the screen and be more suitable on SciFi) and forced them apart and ended with a complete WTF that was KatAang. Ummmm, hells to the no! I ended up reading fanfiction and pretend the ending was not what it was.

See how a kid's TV show can screw with me emotionally, I now avoid cartoons. But seasons 1 (water) and 2 (earth) are epic in Avatar, and season 3 (fire) had some great individual episodes, but as a season (putting aside my OTP-issues) as a whole was rather disjointed and ended quickly, which always made me wonder what happened behind the scenes.

I personally am watching The Last Airbender movie for Uncle Iroh and Zuko. And thanks to stupidly showing my son the extended trailer on YT, I've now watched the trailer over 100 times (ahhh! N. Night, I have reservations.....) and my son is really confused "who made Aang normal, you know, like us" (as opposed to a cartoon). I don't know how to explain live-action adapation of a cartoon to a 4 year old.

@28 xiahkixiri

I'm watching Down With Love! It's quite cute, although the dubbing of the actress playing Hui Fan is driving me nuts. I'm vehemently anti-dub, though, so maybe it doesn't bother anyone else..

I hate the kids though, haha. The whole orphaned child who hates their nanny is a wayyyy abused plot device.. The little girl is a brat and should be punished. The End.

I do love Ella's sister, though. She's so adorable.

@32 ockoala

For 2 seasons, it was clear and so rife with tension and expectation that the OTP was going to be Zutara. Until the writers completed did a mind meld in season 3 (prolly realized that oops, this is a show on Nick and kids watch, and Zutara would probably melt the screen and be more suitable on SciFi) and forced them apart and ended with a complete WTF that was KatAang. Ummmm, hells to the no! I ended up reading fanfiction and pretend the ending was not what it was.

Mte, hun. Seasons 1 and 2 were freaking kick-ass, and then I watched the first couple of episodes of season 3 and couldn't take it anymore. Zuko with Mai?! Katara and Aang?! I..what??? I still can't bring myself to watch the rest of the season, because I know it'll be a disappointment. :(

Happy Friday all!!! I hope everyone has a great Valentine's Day (if you celebrate or care of it) and a wonderful Lunar New Year.

My family is in the midst of a huge conflict right now and it seems that most people have claimed a side. This New Years is missing a family member whom we don't know how many more we'll see that person for. I'm just hoping that the family will realize that they are being absolutely insane. When we're supposed to be banning together, they are riping each other apart. Terrible...Hope all your families and this Dramabeans family offers enough support when you all need it!

@13 Kender -Thats great.:-)Success at first attempt.:-D My cooking skills are at basic survival level.Haven't mastered the 'art' of cooking anything yet hehe:-)

hey all! this is my first time on this open thread... =P

anyways - just wondering, is there anyone here still watching god of study? i'm finishing up on IRIS and curious about starting it. (and stars falling from the sky is still ongoing!)

@34 - i also heard down with love is good! i'm very iffy about ella though - saw one episode of hana kimi with her in it and i just didn't like her acting...

and last but not least: HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!!!!!

it's called LUNAR NEW YEAR, not CHINESE NEW YEAR. Sorry I'm not Chinese.

Dramas these days are so boring, I don't watch any of them and just lurk here to see the recaps.

Happy Friday!!!
Happy Valentines Day!!!
Happy Lunar New Year!!!

just wanna spazz about how much i LOOOOOOVE Jonghyun of SHINEE!!! auditory orgasms!!!

@38 kaedejun

I'm watching it, but KBS is pending the show over at viikii, ( if you need to watch it in subs ) which really sucks.
Haru2subs uploaded until episode 7.^^

I just want to say...
I love SHINee. (:
Don't you guys love them too? :D

^wow at the comment above me!
LOL i guess we're both shinee fans.

@38 kaedejun-Hey there.:-)I bet action dramas must be much harder to recap than trendy dramas.Must be so difficult to capture the excitement and action in them but you're doing such a good job of doing exactly that with the Iris recaps.:-)

@ hpn88: wow I envy you. I bet you'll never forget that graduation.
And about Alex. Can't they give him some more scenes with YK pretty please? I want to see more scenes like the San-YK scene in Ep 9. Come on San, be more aggressive! (but don't be like Hyun-tae in Triple)

@38 kaedejun

So glad you're posting on OT! We have a lot of fun here, anything goes conversation-wise. Really enjoyed your last IRIS recap, btw!

I'm considering Down With Love but I haven't started it yet. I think I'm in the minority but I really like Jerry Yan. And I've only ever seen Ella in The Rose, and I didn't hate her in that (just who she ended up with). ;-)

I never started God of Study; I figure I'll catch it one of these days after it's complete.

Happy Chinese New Year to you too!

Happy Friday everyone!

Just want to say that the Winter Olympics opens tonight here in Vancouver, Canada. Whole city is buzzing, quite exciting with torch relays still going on.

For those who celebrate, happy Lunar New Year!

Happy Friday to all of U :)

I m currently hooked to "Wishing upon a star"..I too want to overcome my shortcomings by trying hard and be as human as I can...

So my housemates and I appear to be having a cold war.. One of them packed up the rice cooker and got very snippy when I asked her about it, so it looks like I'm not eating rice for awhile.. :P

And then neither of them thanked me for remembering to take out the garbage when they BOTH forgot, or for doing their dishes, or for cleaning up the mess in the bathroom created by them..

3 more months and I'm out of here. I'm counting down the days already, I swear. x.x

@38 kaedejun

See, I think everything in Twdramas is ridiculous already, so I can forgive a little overacting. Because she's not bad per se, just..over-the-top. Which I guess could bother people, but she doesn't do it to the point that I hate her or anything.

@44 langdon813

I don't really know anything about Jerry Yan, but I like him in Down With Love. His character isn't as "cold" as I think he's supposed to be (much too likable haha), but I think he's doing a fine job as the straight man to Ella's ridiculousness.

@ lih

i do enjoy the boys of SHINEE.. they are very talented for their young years. and i'm currently completely in LOVE w/ Jonghyun!!! his voice is just.. MAGICAL~

puma noona on the PROWL! rawr!!

@ asianromance (and Kender and spglt001)

"Aang’s at a disadvantage for being so young and short. Maybe he’ll grow up to be taller."

Mwahahahaha, that was too cute! Oh, yeah, Aang being a foot shorter than Katara did make the *kiss* scene at the end of Season 3 so cringe-inducing it was akin to the JY forced kiss on KH (sorry for the repeated WUAS references).

I don't hate on Aang, but he belonged with Toph, end of story. Katara and Zuko were practically spitting fire and water on each other from the first encounter (he takes her necklace, hello people, classic hate to love move), and every meeting just brough the butterflies and mad mad emotional tension each time. Like you all said, we'd be a dope to think otherwise, and it make total sense for Aang to get over his puppydog crush on Katara and them realizing they were the best of friends. And then Season 3 happened, and I headdesked myself into oblivion. I have not been able to re-watch a single episode of Avatar since then, sigh, but by June, I think I'll be able to go in and check it out.

I pray, pray so hard, that if Avatar becomes a sequel, M. Night will screw with canon and make Zutara happen. If that happens, I will rewatch The Village and proclaim it the best movie ever made!

Btw, the fanfic legions of Avatar fans are split, like 99.9% of the stories are all Zutara, *giggles*, it made me feel better that I was not the only one who was massively PO'd at the ending.

@ mookie-twin (from last OT)

Thanks for checking in from HK, have a fun and food-filled trip! Give us the latest scoop when you get back.

Thanks for the rankings of Duke, I figured the ZJZ version would be the typical gorgeous to behold but rather empty inside. I'm still mighty tempted to watch, like I said, I shallow, if someone actually made a version where all 7 wives are pretty, that would alleviate a major beef I have with the Tony/Andy version (where other than Carina Lau, none of the other 6 girls were pretty at all!).

And, ahem, The Bed Scene, I've heard talk that its, ahem, completely shocking that ZJZ would allow this to be portrayed as raunchy as in the novel (or that it made it pass the Chinese TV censors). Unlike Tony's version, where the morning after, everyone was still all dressed! (made me very very confused, and I was a kid, and didn't know why a bunch of people sleeping fully clothed in the same bed would make the 7 ladies get into a total bitch fight the next morning, or why they all suddenly had to marry him afterwards, again, I didn't see the light until many years later). Seriously though, one of the funniest scenes I've ever read in any novel. And the thought of that gorgeous hunk of man HXM doing that scene with 7 lovely co-stars makes me totally all fluttery, he's really so handsome, too bad he possesses only 3 expressions in his acting repertoire - eyebrow arch, pinchy crying, and stoic determination.

@ 30 momosan

Yay, brennesnute! I can't eat it, but my family loves it. I think we're going to make rømmegrøt for dinner/dessert tonight :) I'm looking forward to Norway kicking America's butt in the next two weeks.

(although I'm VERY upset that NBC isn't letting West Coasters watch the opening ceremony live tonight)