Odds and Ends: New year’s resolutions
by javabeans
javabeans: Happy New Year! Everybody keep your eyes real open this year, otherwise you might blink and miss it. That must be what happened to 2014.
girlfriday: In all fairness, it might not be 2014’s fault. It might just be that age thing.
javabeans: Do you have any New Year’s Resolutions? I generally don’t make any because I don’t like to set myself up for failure.
girlfriday: Yes it’s rare that I keep any resolutions, but I suppose it’s nice to have goals. Or so I hear. Oh, I have a resolution: Watch fewer dramas!
javabeans: Wait, not watch more?
girlfriday: Yes, fewer. Because I got to my year-end review and that list of dramas was soooooo long that I had to cut shows just to write the darn thing.
javabeans: Oh, me too. I was all set to write about every show I’d watched, but when you’re bleary-eyed and out of words, you make the strategic decision where it’s better to write some things than to get stuck because you tried to write all things. And who wants to read a year-end review in May?
girlfriday: Okay, if I were still writing that thing in May, you’d have to take me out back and shoot me. It would be the kind thing to do.
javabeans: Well then, my resolution is to be more strategic about continuing shows that don’t make me happy. I mean, I don’t want to make losing optimism a goal, necessarily, but also, sometimes you gotta know when to let go man.
girlfriday: I think it’s also a volume thing. Because if I only watched a handful of shows, I’d still have that completist thing driving me to finish. But in our case, there’s actually a point at which you count the hours and it’s not productive.
javabeans: I can see how this creates a bit of a pickle where if I don’t see something through the bitter end, I don’t feel like I’m able to judge adequately. I can tell you my impression but it wouldn’t be a fully informed one, and so I tend to refrain, but then that means I only review things I like, and that’s skews things in a way.
girlfriday: Yeah sometimes I watch one or two things outside my wheelhouse just to mix it up. Who knows, what if my tastes have changed? Usually, they haven’t.
javabeans: I try, and then those shows make me angry, and then that makes me angry that I’m forcing myself to watch things that make me angry, and then I give up and just rewatch Healer.
girlfriday: Healer-ya!
javabeans: Speaking of whom, my resolution is to learn how to leap tall buildings in a single bound, so I can be as awesome as Healer.
girlfriday: Or your resolution could be to be Ji Chang-wook, and a stunt crew would do all that for you.
javabeans: NO, because I don’t want to be Ji Chang-wook acting like the Healer through movie magic, I want to be the Healer, who does all that on his own through no power but his own awesomeness.
girlfriday: But it’s physically impossible, unless you’re secretly Spiderman and I don’t know about it.
javabeans: I don’t care about physics, just find me a radioactive spider and I’m all set.
girlfriday: Okay, while you’re dying of radiation poisoning, I’ll resolve to pick up a new SAFE hobby this year. Um… how does one pick a new hobby? Were there any good ones in dramas last year?
javabeans: Pick up a new musical instrument and join an orchestra?
girlfriday: If Joo-won isn’t going to teach me, I don’t wanna.
javabeans: Fair enough. What about gardening, a la Modern Farmer?
girlfriday: I kill every plant I try to grow.
javabeans: That’s about it, as far as dramas go. Unless you want to pick up lying, fist-fighting, warmongering, adultering, malpracticing, or selling your soul for the corporate Man.
girlfriday: These are the options? Maybe I don’t need a new hobby.
javabeans: My resolution is to eat more non-ramyun foods before watching dramas, because they inevitably make me want to eat ramyun. Won’t somebody save the ramyun trees?
girlfriday: I actually think it’s a huge relief that I can’t have jajangmyun on speed dial. Because I would call them every time a drama was on.
javabeans: Omg jajangmyun. Once when I was a kid, my grandma was taking us to jajangmyun and my brother literally ran into traffic to get across the street to the restaurant. It was like in a drama, except in the drama he would have died.
girlfriday: Sending you on a path of revenge, where you would invariably fall in love with the son of the person who was behind the wheel. And then your parents would be like, “How could you disrespect oppa’s memory like that?” And then you’d be a noble idiot and break up, only to realize you couldn’t live without each other. But then one of you dies of cancer.
javabeans: The power of jajangmyun, man.
girlfriday: Evil but delicious.
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1 myshoe
January 3, 2015 at 8:14 PM
OMG that ending picture is perfect.
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Adal
January 3, 2015 at 8:27 PM
+1 :-)
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Chandler
January 3, 2015 at 10:15 PM
Right?!! I love it.
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fab
January 4, 2015 at 7:34 AM
Punch lovers!
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Chandler
January 4, 2015 at 9:03 AM
+1
I need to catch up on Punch! (Healer-ya! Give me back to Kim Rae-won!)
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fab
January 4, 2015 at 11:07 AM
Well you and me! Thank God there's only one episode this week.
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mary
January 4, 2015 at 10:54 PM
LOL :DDDD
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Kehinde
January 4, 2015 at 10:09 AM
+1
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So3
January 4, 2015 at 7:49 AM
+1 ;)
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Kehinde
January 4, 2015 at 10:08 AM
I love that show!!
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August
January 4, 2015 at 1:40 PM
+1
Punch - caught up & enjoying it like Empire of Gold. :)
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2 cate
January 3, 2015 at 8:23 PM
You guys crack my up every single time. Thank you.
:)
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3 twreckx
January 3, 2015 at 8:26 PM
I hope for a stronger year in dramas for 2015. I started watching quite a few dramas that I dropped by episode 8/9 because the story-telling fell apart.
As an aside, I've been reading this blog for over seven years and its been great watching it grow and still maintain its core essence. Here's to a great 2015 for the Dramabeans team!
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Sour Grapes
January 4, 2015 at 7:39 AM
Preach! I almost lost hope to see a decent drama in 2014, but then Misaeng happened.
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4 Ann
January 3, 2015 at 8:32 PM
I want to be as badass as the gangster grandpa in Yoona's Street. And then have an affair with the Healer.
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James94131
January 4, 2015 at 8:47 AM
Seriously, I don't think I will ever forget Axe Grandpa and his scissors!
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dfwkimchi
January 4, 2015 at 9:39 AM
Yes - that Granda-pa Ax was awesome! To have his strategy imitatefd by Yoona n her accomplice revenging on her unnie's douche bag bar host boyfriend was quite priceless too!
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5 bbstl
January 3, 2015 at 8:33 PM
Haha seeing the first two photos, I realize that it's been 7 years since I've had jajangmyun. Those two shows really ruined it for me! Now even seeing people eat it on dramas is more than I can handle. Crazy.
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6 safa
January 3, 2015 at 8:38 PM
Hear an idea for hobby make some drama script that will be Wow.:D
and offer that to your favorite actor. :D
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yuggy
January 4, 2015 at 8:51 AM
May the drama gods be in your favor. It's about time girlfriday and javabeans write their own drama and have TVn produce it.
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Lizzy4e
January 5, 2015 at 6:37 AM
This.
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7 Mandy
January 3, 2015 at 8:38 PM
LMFAO, the last bit had me rolling. I've never tried jajangmyun before but now I think I'm seriously missing out. Happy New Year again everyone. Hope you all have a safe and adventure-filled year ahead!
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8 harmonyfb
January 3, 2015 at 8:39 PM
The power of jajangmyun, man
Dammit. Now I want jajangmyun. ::thinks:: Do I have some black bean paste? I might. Hmm.
My New Year's Resolution is to finish watching all the dramas I stopped watching for reasons other than "this sucks". That includes the ones where the writers took the laziest, er, easiest path, but not necessarily the ones where I wound up hating the characters (and by the way, y'all, thanks so much for the recaps which allow me to have plot closure on those without having to endure the characters I'd like to push into the mud.)
I further resolve to listen to my inner voice when it tells me I'll hate a show, because - by and large - it's right, and I needlessly inflict aggravation on myself.
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9 danna
January 3, 2015 at 8:50 PM
Watching fewer dramas might be a good goal as I'm learning myself.. I can't help it because my schedule doesn't allow it anymore but I also find myself wanting to watch other things unless a show has my full attention because it is good and not because I feel an obligation to watch it
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10 Sarah
January 3, 2015 at 9:00 PM
What about doing a mid-year review to alleviate the year end review? Haha, might be easier to write about things that happened the past 6 months than all 12 months. Just a thought. :p
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dfwkimchi
January 4, 2015 at 9:40 AM
Had the same thought!
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August
January 4, 2015 at 1:41 PM
+1
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11 kanz
January 3, 2015 at 9:11 PM
Happy New Year Dramabeans and Beanie community!!
My resolution is to watch more dramas, simply because I missed or skipped so many good dramas in 2014.
Healer-ya!! Last year is the breakout year for Ji Chang Wook and I'm so happy that he finally gets recognition he deserves. Even Javabeans and Girlfriday praise him. My goal regarding him is simple, when he goes to army I'll go somewhere, maybe to continue my study, so I don't have to remember and count each day without him on my screen. Or I could just rewatch his dramas, starting from Smile Donghae, BVS, EK, Healer, etc.
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kdramas
January 3, 2015 at 11:47 PM
"My goal regarding him is simple, when he goes to army I’ll go somewhere, maybe to continue my study, so I don’t have to remember and count each day without him on my screen."
Hahahaaaaa - that's a doable goal!! It's a win-win situation no matter how you look at it.
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12 Aigoooo
January 3, 2015 at 9:15 PM
Nice pic of Go Eun Chan! lol She was the first K-drama heroine I fell in love with. hehe
I already broke my resolution for this year. I was not gonna start up any new dramas for a while but I ended up marathoning "Healer" today so there goes that. lol
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fab
January 4, 2015 at 3:20 AM
If you don't want to start on new dramas, it's kind of pointless to come to dramabeans... :
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2015
January 4, 2015 at 9:30 AM
I come to dramabeans even when I'm having my drama break. Just because I like reading the posts here and everyone's comments.
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fab
January 4, 2015 at 11:04 AM
Then you're stronger than me!
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13 tiadebella
January 3, 2015 at 9:26 PM
Whew, I'm not the only one who's spent the entirety of 2015 (to date) obsessing on jjajangmyeon!!! But laying hands on it in Portland is a major chore, darnit.
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14 divyrus
January 3, 2015 at 9:43 PM
Happy new year girls !!!!!!
It just feels like yesterday when you announced you gonna start odds and ends posts :-O And you were talking about behind the scenes of dramabeans and all meet ups and extra podcasts. That was last new year post right??????
Where did the TIME go????
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15 Chandler
January 3, 2015 at 10:21 PM
PFFFFT. "Evil but delicious." and then that screencap? Priceless.
Healer-ya!
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16 dramapenchant
January 3, 2015 at 10:25 PM
Healer-ya!!!
I have been re-watching the 8 aired episodes of Healer over and over again for the past week!
Ji Chang Wook is soooooo awesome as Healer/Bong Soo/Jung Hoo! <3 <3 <3
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spazmo
January 3, 2015 at 10:27 PM
ditto!! <3 ji chang wook!
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17 Omomo
January 3, 2015 at 10:30 PM
Who is this Healer guy and why is everyone so all over him?!
Nah, I'm just kidding. I love you Healer-ya~ If only I could be as awesome as you. Therefore, my new's year resolution is to work out once in a while, so I may be able to at least run or jump a fraction of the distance that he can.
That bit about the jajangmyun killed me. Oh, you guys. Happy New Year, y'all! :D
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dfwkimchi
January 4, 2015 at 9:44 AM
Found a new way to work out recently - Do 20 mins of hand weights exercises while watching Healer episodes so that i can leap buildings n roofs in a single bound!
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AJK
January 4, 2015 at 1:28 PM
Healer has rescued my elliptical time -- suffering from a series of dramas that kind of lagged and made my workouts seem long and drawn out (yes, looking at you Birth of Beauty and Pride and Prejudice). Healer is well-written, the lead is quirky and cute, the hacker is a hoot, and I'm finding the girl, whose name escapes me at the moment, charming as well -- she has a very likable quality. And the story is moving right along.
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dfwkimchi
January 4, 2015 at 6:48 PM
I totally agree with u AJK!
First time watching Ji Chang Wook - he is all get out hot and charming at the same time.
Second time seeing the female lead - Park Min Young. Did n't like her character in New Leaf - think it was not fleshed out very well. In healer she is just cute, naive, vulnerable and resilient all rolled into one.
Hacker Ajuhhma is a hoot and Kim moon Ho is a very interesting character and the actor playing him is a good to watch.
Hope this series stays action-packed until I can get my abs back!
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18 growingbeautifully
January 3, 2015 at 10:39 PM
Oh gals, gals, you totally crack me up!!! Can't stop laughing. Thanks for this.
Pity is I don't get jajangmyun easily around here. I think I have to go to a Korean noodle place and ask for it. I just had awesome Taenjang Jiggae yesterday though, but it was at a restaurant in town. :)
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19 t13ndoank
January 3, 2015 at 10:53 PM
I actually have been watching fewer dramas than last year (or last last year??) .. I figured that out after witnessing my friend at the office downloading every single drama available and wasting the tera-byte hard-disk. Like really.. you name it, she has it.. she kept complaining for not having enough space to keep her files.. but it doesn't seem like she will stop anytime soon.
That also made realized just how many dramas are produced every year in Korea.
I have also been employing the skipping method when I watch a drama (not watching while skipping surely). Watch the parts I like, skip the unnecessary parts, repeat the great ones. I figured out the rest of the story from reading recaps. That way, I think I have been living a healthier way, hhahah...
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mae
January 4, 2015 at 5:29 AM
OMG...me too...i have so much collection in external hard disc but not much time for watch it ,.
Thanks for recapers for saving my life
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drama4mama
January 4, 2015 at 6:13 AM
I use the skipping method too.
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nomad
January 4, 2015 at 9:15 AM
ditto! Also, thank you for the laughs JB and GF!
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fab
January 4, 2015 at 7:36 AM
I can't skip scenes...too weak!
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20 ahsaem
January 3, 2015 at 11:41 PM
Haha, just the other day I told my friend that when ever I try to watch some thing that's not Healer, my mind compares it to healer. It happened while I was watching pinnochio. Just loooooooove the secret identity stuff and can't wait to see what they show us now.
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ahsaem
January 3, 2015 at 11:50 PM
I have watched all the episodes thrice and all I feel like doing now is watching scenes I love over and over again <3 I love every thing about the plot.
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21 redfox
January 4, 2015 at 12:25 AM
well, you two can list your names behind my question in open thread, let´s see how long the "I am a religious person and Healer is my God" list gets. It is pretty damn long already...
I do not have resolutions, I always make wishes. They can come true, or not.
I wish I had time to eat SOMETHING and not work all the time.
I wish I could go to Morocco!!! I am saving up .... I love Moroccan crafts, tapestries, architecture, everything!
I wish I would greatly enjoy Tim Burton´s new film Big Eyes (but I am bracing myself against the urge to throw something at the screen and yell "You evil bastard! How can you do this to your talented wife???" cause I am a female artist and if anyone stole my credits like that I dunno what I would do. probably murder him.) Well maybe my new years resolution is not to murder anybody, again.
Isn´t that a lovely thought to leave you with...
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redfox
January 4, 2015 at 12:26 AM
seriously, I shouldn´t have asked who people have a crush on, I should have asked to raise your hands if you have a crush on Healer. Cause it is easier to count.
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redfox
January 4, 2015 at 12:49 AM
oh ogd reading all your post. the lust. THAT. LUST. get your act together, gosh! you can´t all go after the same guy! he´ll get scared!
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Chandler
January 4, 2015 at 12:51 AM
LOLOLOL. This comment is priceless...and so true.
*raises both hands*
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spazmo
January 4, 2015 at 1:28 AM
both hands up!
; )
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redfox
January 4, 2015 at 1:30 AM
that´s still confusing. raise ONE hand. ONE!
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Lixie
January 4, 2015 at 5:47 AM
I blame it on his mouth redfox. I have never seen anyone spend that much time with his mouth hanging open and still look good. It is mesmerizing. :)
Chandler
January 4, 2015 at 8:59 AM
Lixie nailed it.
fab
January 4, 2015 at 3:51 AM
Let's go together to Moroccoooo!
An yeah LOL@ Healer being everyone's crush by now...
I developed another crush this past week. I took the many recommendations of In Time With You to heart. And I am just so in love Li Da Ren- the male lead! I like the female lead too though.
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redfox
January 4, 2015 at 4:40 AM
but why won´t the Viki videos work for that drama? I also was desperately trying to watch. I´ll find another source, then. though Viki has better quality.
and I have one NY resolution. to visit my besties more. all of them live so far, and I have nobody to chat with. I too need to spill my heart to somebody, but I can´t. I really miss my friends. and the fantastic Kdrama besties make me miss them even more. but some live in Finland, some on islands and some in Denmark. dammit. calls are nearly more expensive than a plane ticket, but...can´t afford any of that. I guess I need to starve for a week and give up coffee to go.
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fab
January 4, 2015 at 6:18 AM
I am watching it on drama.net. It's from Viki...
I know what you mean. So I am using this MobileVoip app where I call my relatives and friends abroad for very cheap. Check it out.
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redfox
January 4, 2015 at 6:19 AM
I have no smartphone. I have a y 2003 Nokia
growingbeautifully
January 4, 2015 at 8:03 AM
@ redfox
If you and your friends have Skype, you can skype each other for free.
fab
January 4, 2015 at 10:55 AM
Redfox...how...can...you...not...own...a...smartphone! Do you...even...live...on this planet.
LOL just kidding, I am actually envious of you, old Nokia rocks.
There are a lot of ways to call/text for free on the internet. There's Voipbuster that you can download on your computer, it's cheap and occasionally free to call anywhere.
And I am backing Growingbeautifully's suggestion, Skype is the best known service.
redfox
January 4, 2015 at 12:28 PM
when I make tours in the museum and a couple of people dont pay attention, cause they are totally engaged with their phones, even when others are laughing and having a good time, or when a school group comes and SOMEONE MISSES THE BUS cause he is looking at his phone, or when part-timer in a shop takes forever to serve you because they can´t find a certain app, I just want to raise my hands and cry for help. those goddamn phones have ruined peoples brains. it would be better if we had a zombie apocalypse, but I think it is already happening.
um I have Skype, but my comp is old and slow and it usually cuts my call. I am on it though, gonna fix it as soon as I am done with the tapestry.
see new year resolutions would be dangerous to me, cause I have already 1000 things going on. doing MORE is just physically impossible
22 branwen
January 4, 2015 at 12:48 AM
Oh my gosh, I love you guys to the point where I missed hearing your voices! Where are those podcasts??
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23 niKai
January 4, 2015 at 12:48 AM
hahaha. this banter just hilarious with perfect pictures. made my day.
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24 talkovercoffee
January 4, 2015 at 12:54 AM
I have new year resolution, which is getting scholarship for post graduate study abroad, maybe in South Korea? That would be best ;)
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25 darcyM
January 4, 2015 at 1:37 AM
Uhh... so I guess I should start watching Healer, then?
My New Year's Resolution: be better at everything. Sadly it is the same as last year because last year was a fail. Oh well. Have an awesome 2015 everyone.
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RockPaperScissors
January 4, 2015 at 6:25 AM
I think watching Healer is now a Dramabeans requirement, just as you better have watched The King of Dramas. Anthony or Healer, love them both...
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Chandler
January 4, 2015 at 8:53 AM
Pffffffffft. Sorry, for some reason, your New Year's Resolution made me laugh....probably because it felt like I could have wrote it hahaha.
And, yes, watch Healer!
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growingbeautifully
January 4, 2015 at 2:48 PM
@ darcyM
LOL! You've chosen one of those resolutions... you know, the ones that practically guarantee you won't be able to keep them. ... Or, ok keep that as a resolution, then how about defining what you mean by everything and keep that list short and the 'things', manageable!!!
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26 CaroleMcDonnell
January 4, 2015 at 2:07 AM
You guys crack me up.
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27 Kavitha Ravi
January 4, 2015 at 2:19 AM
Happy new year girls!! May the new year bring with bowls and bowls of delicious jajangmyung!!!
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28 limechilli
January 4, 2015 at 3:20 AM
I am wishing for a 2015 with less amnesia. I work in medicine and I swear there's a crazy disproportionate number of Koreans who get amnesia as compared to the rest of the world :) Happy New year!
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fab
January 4, 2015 at 3:54 AM
I just watched The Vow the other day, and I am a little sad that sometimes amnesia is permanent, they never show it that way in dramas!
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limechilli
January 6, 2015 at 3:03 AM
I think The Vow was based on a true story. Unfortunately Reality amnesia seems to be very different from Kdrama amnesia!
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29 fab
January 4, 2015 at 4:19 AM
My dramas related resolution for this year is Time Management. I really should plan drama watching time precisely so I don't feel like there are not enough hours in a day and days in a week...
New years resolutions don't work out well for me...I tell myself every year to pick up a new hobby, but nothing ever changes just because a new year comes along, and I just get older. :/
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30 Lu
January 4, 2015 at 4:24 AM
Happy New year to you all !
Thanks JB and GF for all the work you do. I've actually been reading your blog for several years now (I stumbled upon it when I stopped watching To The Beautiful You : it was horrible, but I still wanted to know how far they would destroy the original story, and then I found your recaps. And stayed).
My resolution for this year ? I don't take any : I keep them 1 week (maybe 2) and then forget I ever took them. The only one I can keep : continue to watch each episode of Healer at least twice when the subs are out. Then read your recaps, and watch it again. Just for the pretty <3
I'v actually never tasted/seen jajangmyun before : what is it like ? And, by the way, if someone knows a good Korean restaurant in Paris... :)
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jomo143
January 4, 2015 at 12:28 PM
My son's favorite food is jjm. We have no restaurants that serve it, but you can get it premade at your favorite Korean grocery store.
It tastes like noodles and brown gravy - gravy on the sweet side. It gives the carb, fat, salt craving EVERYTHING it wants from the world, but somehow you can never get enough.
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Lu
January 6, 2015 at 4:49 PM
Seeing how much you and your son seem to like it, i'll definitely give it a try !!! ;-)
Thx for the tip !
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31 Quiet Thought
January 4, 2015 at 5:09 AM
Korea may be the only country where eating noodles is taught in acting class. There are so many actresses so good at stuffing their faces!
That's a complement, by the way.
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32 koreandramalover/kay
January 4, 2015 at 5:28 AM
HAHAHAHA!!! ;)
THANK YOU SO MUCH, JB and GF!!! ;)
I was laughing my head off pretty much
the entire time spent reading
your brilliantly-wacky-and-hilariously-entertaining conversation!! ;)
Have a blessed and joyous 2015, JB and GF!! ;)
You both know how much we, your fans,
appreciate and love you both for all that you have done
in the name of your undying love for Korean dramas, right?
As a consequence, you have transformed my life
to such an extent that I cannot imagine
not coming here every single day (when I can find the time)
to fangirl and swoon
with the both of you gals and the rest of your fans,
over super-hot Korean actors,
or super-cute actresses,
or have a blast deconstructing (your word)
dramas to death
(or in other words, to our hearts' content),
but most of all having the time of our lives savouring
(and at times face-palming ourselves to death)
all that the Korean drama industry has to offer us, drama-viewers. Hehehe... ;)
May God continue to bless you both and your loved ones
with all that is good and wonderful! ;)
Thank you from the bottom of my heart!! ;)
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growingbeautifully
January 4, 2015 at 7:58 AM
Well said koreandramalover/kay and my sentiments exactly!!! :)
Thank you DB and GF, you are truly appreciated for everything you do for us, for working until even your health was affected, for sharing your talent and wicked wit and making our drama watching experience that much more daebak.
God bless and keep you both and your families too!
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koreandramalover/kay
January 4, 2015 at 9:32 PM
@Growingbeautifully
I went back to the Pinocchio episode 15 thread and saw your response to my message! ;)
THANK YOU so much for YOUR kind words and warm wishes, too!! ;)
I look forward to reading your detailed, witty and entertaining comments in future recaps! ;)
THANK YOU also for your response to my message here!! ;)
I totally agree that we are so grateful to Javabeans and Girlfriday for providing us with so much joy through their incomparable sharing of their love for Korean dramas, even at the expense of their health.
We certainly wish and pray for their health and happiness always! ;)
And I also wish and pray for your and your loved ones' health and happiness always! :)
Till we meet here again, take care and God Bless you!! ;)
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growingbeautifully
January 5, 2015 at 6:58 AM
@ nomad and koreandramalover/kay
Warmest thanks back to you and I wish you the same. :)
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nomad
January 4, 2015 at 9:22 AM
+1111111
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koreandramalover/kay
January 5, 2015 at 3:37 AM
@nomad
Thank you!! You are so sweet!! ;)
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33 Wag_a_Muffin
January 4, 2015 at 6:30 AM
For 2015 I want on of those 2 week make-over surgeries like "Birth of a Beauty' where the doctor slices off years and pounds and I'm instantly a looker. Except I don't want to have an ex husband who killed me, please.
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34 PL
January 4, 2015 at 9:18 AM
My takeaway from this post is....Oppabeans EXISTS!
What's his occupation?
Where does he live?
Is he attached?
Lolololololololololololololo
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Brasslefrat
January 4, 2015 at 1:18 PM
Hahahaha +1
Oppabeans, hilarious!
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growingbeautifully
January 4, 2015 at 2:52 PM
What are you eyeing DB's brother now? LOLOL!
It's actually a very natural series of questions when we know our girlfriends have male siblings.
So.... how old is he? ;)
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fab
January 5, 2015 at 4:22 AM
You're good!
I totally read passed that, and all I could think of is that I have to get my hands on some meat-free jajangmyung at least a dozen times this year...
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35 Elle
January 4, 2015 at 9:35 AM
That was the best Odds and Ends post ever!
"Sending you on a path of revenge, where you would invariably fall in love with the son of the person who was behind the wheel. And then your parents would be like, “How could you disrespect oppa’s memory like that?” And then you’d be a noble idiot and break up, only to realize you couldn’t live without each other. But then one of you dies of cancer."
^^Totally slayed me.
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dfwkimchi
January 4, 2015 at 9:57 AM
Good thing my house is well insulated so that my neighbors cannot hear my ROARING LAUGHTER after reading that ending!
The Hong sisters can Definitely pound out the script for a dram with that plot-line!
My Korean friend brought me to eat jajangmyun shortly after we met about 5 years ago after she heard about my curiosity about it. It was ok. Actually i have been eating - more than i should really - spicy korean ramen in 2014. So 2015 resolution is to reduce ramun intake.
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oftheshore
January 4, 2015 at 11:41 AM
If this plot were to be handled by the Hong sisters, noble idiocy would still be there, but no one would die. Instead, there would be a somewhat anticlimactic somewhat happy ending. The person who got cancer would miraculously recover off screen!:)
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dfwkimchi
January 4, 2015 at 6:54 PM
Then i wished the Hong Sisters would have scripted My Spring Days as i am still in denial with the ending!!!
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36 izocha
January 4, 2015 at 11:46 AM
I learned to cook jjangjungmyun. Now I keep a supply of pork loin [I'm single - shoulder would be excessive] to allow me to have a sort of instant gratification whenever a craving hits. I plan on learning to make the noodles too. The plan is making more steps so I reconsider the noodle consumption each time.
If I had my own place, I have a feeling it would be covered in fermentation crocks too.
This year I hope to determine what I stand for, what I want, and how much square footage that may actually require. . .
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37 Brasslefrat
January 4, 2015 at 1:16 PM
Based on the pictures I would have guessed you gals' new years resolutions would be eat more jajangmyun only :D.
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38 namedx
January 4, 2015 at 2:26 PM
I <3 dramabeans!
Thank you ladies for providing reams of drama related wit! Pure entertainment. Been reading you all for over six years now, and I can honestly say, it's been a real pleasure. Here's hoping for a fabulous 2015- though with Healer currently on the radar, it seems things are already shaping up to be pretty fab.
x
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39 sunandhearts
January 4, 2015 at 7:51 PM
Now I'm craving for some jajangmyun!!!
Btw, can you pleaseeeeee do another variety roulette?? WGM with the LTE couple - Kim So Eun and Song Jae Rim??? These two are adorbs together! ^^ They made my SoEulmate heart waver! Or I might have already jumped ship!?
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40 coby
January 4, 2015 at 9:04 PM
hahahaha! Happy New Year!
I'm so having jajangmyun tonight!
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41 Mel
January 4, 2015 at 11:09 PM
That was HILARIOUS! Made me laugh out loud. Frightened the servants.
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42 Marina
January 4, 2015 at 11:14 PM
To whomever wrote on this thread that she plans on having an affair with Healer in 2015: Pass him over to me when you are done having an affair, please. Pretty please?! :D
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43 Mirainthejib
January 5, 2015 at 7:01 AM
Hahahahah! I love the ending to this post!!
And this,
" I generally don’t make any because I don’t like to set myself up for failure."
My life in general.
Happy New Year! Thanks for the great reviews! Hopefully 2015 will be filled with more light and fluffy romcoms!
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44 nightskye
January 6, 2015 at 8:50 AM
You two are hilarious! Everything I read from you guys makes me choke with laughter, so thank you for making my day. I hope you guys have an awesome 2015 and I'll be right over here at the Beanut Gallery waiting for more epic-ness from y'all! :)
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45 bd5
January 9, 2015 at 12:24 PM
Can't stand jajangmyun.
Never understood its appeal - bland tasting brown sauce.
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