Then we don't have any more warlord story? He never regains power. He just thinks the Boy ran off while the Girl died... does he think Boy killed Girl?

So we are back to the question of... what is the overall objective here... for Boy to regain memories? For Boy to find another reincarnation of Girl? For Boy to become mortal and die and find happiness in the hereinafter without tramping on the earth? Is the romance the objective or someone's plans getting fried or fulfilled?

Boy's work with the young fox jing helped Warlord gain employment with a major warlord. Warlord threw a lavish Western-style wedding for Boy and Girl- the most expensive of everything, including the flower boy and girl. I was like: Flower boys and girls are for hire?

Later Warlord was given the necessary resources to take back his "county." Boy and Girl moved back home. Warlord kept finding excuses to try to stay with them.

Witch and the man who overthrew Warlord killed Girl. Warlord took good care of Boy. When Boy left, Warlord figured that using the law could cast the widest possible net.

I'm not sure there is an objective to the story. One outcome is Warlord's "better" nature was resurrected by his experience with Boy and Girl.

I guess the moral of the story is that there is never enough time for certain things. Meaningful fateful encounters/connections all eventually end. A person won't be the same afterwards.

So the moral of this long show might be that nothing lasts forever, so do your best while you can and instead of clinging on to people or power or something, let go peacefully at the right time. I must look it up... sounds a bit like Buddhism and not having cravings or attachments so as to attain peace and have no more suffering.

Chinese lore is based on elements from Buddhism, Taoism and more ancient stuff.

So, angst-free romance between Boy and Girl is good. Boy meets Girl. Boy likes Girl at first sight. Boy quickly comes to love Girl due to some intangibles. Girl quickly comes to love Boy due to more tangible reasons. Boy is almost always cheerful with Girl. Girl is never angry with Boy for more than a few hours. They were together, and happy, for the most part, for as long as they can. That is, together less than a year.

Kdramas make people play all sorts of games to get together. That can be very irritating to watch.

I was on Yoon Ji Hoo's side from the beginning. Make-up/hair/camera about 13 episodes to figure out how to make KHJ look really pretty😜

Whatever Gu Jun Pyo looked like didn't concern me. It did make me think that LMH had plastic surgery after BOF.

Didn't really care for the romances either. However and whomever ended up together was fine by me.

I just checked that we've exceeded King 2 Hearts (2,364 comments)!!! I was not aware of this. Are there any other recaps with a higher number of comments between King 2 Hearts and Healer?

Don't know. But the count here is higher than majority of Healer recap.

Sponsorship tie-in. Like giving hope to those fans who can't afford the fan-meeting but much more for making some money for these fans.

I guess it's a good marketing strategy since they have to pay quite a bit to bring in JCW and for the venue and everything. Come to think of it, I'm not sure where it's going to be even. Traffic may be heavy around there at the appointed time, maybe?

Did I tell you about the time a bird flew into my glass pane (un-openable pane)? It probably reflected the outdoors ... poor thing just banged into it and disappeared before I could react. I thought something else had made the thud sound!

Jerry Seinfeld joked about birds flying into windows because they think their reflections are other birds. "Wouldn't he at least avoid hitting the other bird?"

Maybe there's something to be said about being bird-brained? :D

Come to think of it. Birds, I assume especially male birds, do intentionally fly into each other.

This week or last week. I heard squawkings from high up in the sky. A couple crows were chasing a hawk. I've seen such behavior before. This time, the crows more or less rammed the hawk. Aerial contact. Then another crow joined in. 3 to 1. The hawk must not want to give up whatever it had its eyes on because it took a while for the hawk to vacate the area.

I've also seen 2 sparrows flying fighting. They both landed on the road. One pinned the other to the pavement. A lady driver saw them and stopped blocking traffic. So I walked in front of the birds. They noticed me and flew off.

So it's not that hard to organize a "Healer Beanies with time, money and passport" get-together?

Not if the organiser is very on the ball and has the time. No one I know fits the bill at the moment. The start date of Healer was 8 December 2014 ... 2.5 weeks away?

The Healer Lovers group is pretty quiet. They are chatting about a Filipino show now! LOL!

Doesn't have to be right on Dec. 8. Around that time, before school begins again.

If I were familiar with the region, organizing shouldn't be too difficult.

@Snickers?
I'd think the lack of participation will be an issue because people may say they would like to celebrate... but they have not seriously set aside days off and money to travel and for accommodation. If the group were all easy to contact at a moment's notice and responsive, it would also be easier. I find that is not the case now.

In theory it's possible. Pretty daunting in practice.

First thing is to find out if there are enough people willing to do something bigger than just wishing to celebrate.

The only thing I can think of that might work is a situation similar to what we have with @Divyrus. Because she planned to come out to a place that already had people in contact with her and each other, it was easier to at least get the people who were on the spot to come together.

When we are considering that there are folks in Vietnam, Hong Kong, maybe Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Singapore... there must be a mutual agreement on meeting place and date at least and plans to do something.

@GB

The real problem, like you say, is whether people are truly serious and committed. I'm not sensing anything more than wishful thinking.

The logistics is the interesting part.

I feel that if the celebration is something like what we did before... just something online without having to really meet up, it would garner more support. At least it will be do-able in a short time.

So far, only Nhi mentioned meeting up, I think?

And I have the general impression, although it was mentioned in the international DB thread, that what it might have meant was for just the local people who are Healer fans to meet.

I mentioned before. @Wifey did put out feelers about going to SK with a few Beanies on some kind of Healer locations tour. Back then, the responses were pretty much all "I wish."

@GB

A thought just came to me. Perhaps you could be the "seed" of Healer Beanie get-togethers in ASEAN and Australia.

@ OMG It's Healer and quirkstine are Aussies. It's very likely that @bongsooki is too. I'm fully aware Australia is a large country. Still, if you have a break in your Perth tourist schedule...

That would only be possible if:

1) I was doing a self-drive holiday and had lots of lee-way in terms of time and where I could go.

2) I am without family with me all the way.

3) I had the great inclination to get into all that organisation

What would be needed:

All appropriate beanies giving me their email and contact numbers.
Some contacted beanies responding positively

There was an interested person from that part of the world who never did get around to emailing me since months ago and again when reminded, many weeks ago. I don't think it's going to happen this year! :)

So now you have to worry about slipping on the slush or ice?

That was my experience in that short trip to Japan. The falling snow was great but the aftermath was something to see. I recall not envying the inhabitants. I had a bit of problem not slipping on the way back to the bus.

I was intrigued by a carpark where there was water running out of several holes in the ground. It was to melt away the snow. One of the carpark attendants was shovelling away water and ice.

When it's deep freeze, ice is not too slippery. When it's around freezing, ice is very slippery. You learn how to negotiate icy surfaces. Slush is no match for a good pair of water-proof boots .

There are various types of pavement salt that does fair to good job melting ice. Damaging to pavement and plants though.

I had to salt the sidewalk in front of the house. My neighbor was kind enough to snow-blow the sidewalk. Snow blower does not clear heavy wet snow well. The residue quickly turns to ice. Shoveling usually clears the snow better than snow blower but it takes much longer and lots of energy.

As an owl, and when there is time, I shovel sidewalk in front of my neighbors' houses, and occasionally sections of driveways. It's a major part of my exercise in winter.

An additional way to keep fit in the Winter? Definitely keeps the muscles from atrophying.

You're quite happy where you are though? No intention to live in another climate altogether?

I wouldn't mind moving up to Canada.

I thought Canada would be colder and you'd end up with more snow to shovel.

I prefer cooler temps though.

Also giving the fans what they want?

@ Snickers?
There is that too...

I was thinking that with idols since music and a group is usually involved, having their group sing the love song with the MV and giving exposure to the whole group as opposed to hiring a full crew for weeks to create a web drama might have been more cost effective.... they've done that many times before.... perhaps the popularity of MVs with romance tropes has waned? Perhaps in a 5-minutes long song not that many tropes can be explored?

Or the fans want an extended version of the MV in a web drama? Yeah, that's probably it.

I don't know whether fans daydream or fantasize in dance and music. Too theatrical? Situations like in comic books or young adult novels seem more suitable.

The female lead (Kim Jae Kyung) was adequate but her character was too submissive in spite of her original fighting spirit.

I've come to expect such switcheroo, if that makes sense. It's almost like the lady becomes literal puddle once she falls in love.

I felt that she was too easily browbeaten by the guy even before she puddled... like, why agree to sign such an unfair contract ... ok he probably did threaten her, but still, she did not put up a fight. And don't ask why a guy who threatens is still so attractive that she decided that she liked him - this happened quite suddenly too, so I was mildly surprised.

The fact that they would be running out of time if they kept up the fighting was the thing that kept the surprise mild. A more gradual transition for some of the changes that had to take place would have been better.

I felt that I was supposed to be watching a longer episode but it was strangely edited and left out bits. That's why I was thinking it'd be an appropriate 16 episode series of 45-60 minutes each.

This is the type of kdrama that gets tiresome and annoying. Almost the entire drama is about various manipulations that keep people apart. They finally get together. The End.

I think there is a lot of CGI to work on. Some of Wu Xin teaser CGI are different from the final product.

Don't forget the voice dubbing and accompanying sound effects.

Problem is I'm averse to traveling. Damn nasty motion sickness has worsened since my traveling days. Pretty much stuck in the "New World."

Do you get sick in any vehicle? I am generally OK on the road and air but not too good on catamarans. I'm OK in the normal boat, though. But if I read or look at a small screen, I'll get sick in a car.

Oh and long train rides may or may not affect me too. I remember standing/sitting out one train ride in I think New Zealand... near the bathroom. I was in between carriages and it was uncomfortable.

I'm no good as a passenger in a car/bus for an extended period of time. Unless the road is really rough and the car must move very slowly.

I used to be good with long train rides- my main method of travel in U.S. and Canada. Lately, a 45-min ride to Chicago had been iffy. So I ended up standing the whole trip by the outer door.

Boat ride was always bad. Giant ferry was ok as long as I was out in the open.

Just thinking about airplane smell is nauseating.

Did you try the herbal remedies... ginger and stuff like that?

They may not do away with all the symptoms but may lessen them.

I notice nowadays they have patches to apply behind the ear or something like that.

I've taken dramamine which made me very drowsy. No herbal stuff because my ENT diagnosed me as having inner ear issues.

For a few years it was like random motion sickness when I was not in any type of vehicle. Example: sitting on the couch and suddenly feeling like my body was moving.

And, looking at fully stacked shelves in stores made me dizzy. I've learned to glance and not stare at shelves when I go shopping.

Wow!, you do have it pretty bad. Yes, it's the inner ear thing.

Once I had such a bad bout of stomach flu that the throwing up affected the inner ear and my balance has never been the same. I did not notice motion sickness getting worse, only that I can almost fall down if I get up too quickly.

The next 3 days are the stress-inducers. I'm going to do some training and I've some doubts about how the application will hold up, or if it is too slow or if I remembered to cover enough bases. The people I'm training are also likely to toss out tough questions that I cannot quite anticipate. Quite a lot of things are out of my hands. I had planned it to be a 4-5 day training course but the client asked to scrunch everything into 3 days. I've still got to keep my Mon and Tues freeish in case I've got to go back because we cannot complete enough in 3 days.... then I already off to Perth!!!!

I did start a little packing, and now have to figure if there's some stuff I seriously need to buy. I heard of the flies and sun at this time of the year... so repellent and sunscreen is already packed. Have to standby the emergency supplies for all kinds of minor ailments. I should go get that done now while I remember!!!

The ingredients of an insect repellent may not work on certain species of flies. I know the type we use here containing DEET was totally useless against horse flies.

It may be better to ask Perth locals what repellent works best after you arrive. Or, maybe ask at the next OT.

Good luck with training. Hope your trainees are the clever type who can pick up things quickly and figure things out.

About repellent... my colleague came back from Perth herself, just last week and lent me the repellent that she got from there.

She said the flies are not like the ones we have here, but are big and seem to like people and so are very tiresome. I heard that people wear hats with screens or hats with stuff that flaps about so that when they move or toss their heads, the flies are swatted away!!! LOL! What an experience this is going to be. Super hot and super fly-sie!

You should carry something resembling a horse's tail, or the thing that some Taoist priests carry in historical Chinese dramas :)

I think I'll look funny swatting flies constantly with something that looks like a medieval whip or torture instrument or self-flagellation thingy LOL!

Taoist horsetail whisk, or fly-whisk ? Still being used on flies. Not so unusual after all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly-whisk

There's actually something called a fly whisk?!! I had no clue! LOL!

I don't think the people around me would appreciate my whisking it about and chasing the flies towards them!

@ Snickers?

What do you mean by 'scope creep'? Is that someone who tries to expand the scope of works that has been put down in the contract?

Delivery is usually a matter of time. Ultimately a lot of enhancements can be done and there are new things to deliver, but it may not be at the time the client wants. However if it's not possible to develop something, the client has to be 'forced' to accept it.

This client is particularly difficult in this area. So my colleague and I decided to not 'argue'.

Scope creep (also called requirement creep, function creep and feature creep) in project management refers to uncontrolled changes or continuous growth in a project's scope. This can occur when the scope of a project is not properly defined, documented, or controlled. It is generally considered harmful.

Clients are usually the instigators when they continually request changes/modifications/expansions while try to keep the same deadline and payment terms.

We know we have a difficult customer on our hands, therefore the scope creep is likely but also likely to be tamped down from time to time. It happens a lot ... ie clients do try to ask for more. This time, it's more extreme than in my past experiences.

I just noticed that the 2nd episode of Imaginary Cat 2 is out, but I'm too sleepy to bother about it now. Does get aired on Mondays and Tuesdays? If so then the Monday ep takes 1 day to be subbed and the Tuesday ep takes 5 days.