Remember is such a good drama!! really enjoying the father son relationship hehe and just catching up on the village i love the writing and the acting hahaha shin eun kyung is da bomb !! sad that it's abit underrated but i get that it probably isnt for everybody. bubblegum is another gem that im enjoying now haha at least it's an avenue for my emotions like it's the only show that makes me cry! too many dramas to watch these days though and school is starting rly soon D: Christmas is coming though yay!

Look what I found.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWxhjv1mnSY

Hope 51k got some money out of this.

Six Flying Dragons continues to be awesome. Also enjoying Nirvana in Fire, so thanks to everyone who recommended it. Obviously I want to spend the holidays with win-at-all-costs strategists plotting regime change and kick ass warriors.

We’re baking in the 40 degree summer heatwave here, a big contrast to the winter wonderland most of you in the northern hemisphere are experiencing right now. Christmas does not associate with snow, mittens, ear muffs, cozy fireplaces, but thongs, tank tops, beach picnics and ‘barbie’. I’m still a bit hangover from drinking two cold beers and a big glass of shiraz this afternoon at the office Christmas party, everyone is in a happy festive mood already. Not sure if there will be OT next Fri, so I’m wishing all beanies here in OT a very Merry Christmas in advance! (*^_^*)

I absolutely enjoy watching ep 11 & 12 of Reply 1988 this week, my only complaint of R88 being the bowl haircut of the boys which look like mushroom caps. Though there was a resurgence of the Beatles mop top hairstyle in the late 80s, it was a bit excessive in R88 in that all the boys look kind of nerdy. If you can’t resist the charm radiated by a bespectacled nerdy Taek sitting in deep concentration in-front of the Baduk board, you will reel with dizziness when you see Yoon-hoo(PBG) in a suave side-part haircut playing the cello. Probably because I just watched Cantabile Tomorrow recently, I couldn’t help but compare the hairstyles of Park Bo-gum and Go Kyung-pyo in these two dramas. Particularly, due to GKP’s thick hair and the pin straight bowl cut, Sun Woo looks a bit dense, though he is supposed to be the smartest kid in the gang. Talking about bowl cut, Kim Soo-Hyun immediately comes to mind. The more stylist variation of bowl cut seems to be his signature hairstyle in dramas. I think it suits him, though he did look a bit nerdy too in The Producers, but I am not sure if that was due to his great acting skills or his looks.

Btw, does anyone know if English translation for lyrics of R88 OST Hyehwa-Dong exists on the internet? I first came across this melodious song sung by Sung Si-kyung a few years ago not knowing the title. I thought he is the original singer and it is a romantic love song. So I was quite surprised to hear it in R88 and to learn that it was originally sung by Zoo, and from the title, it seems to be a song about the Hyehwa or Ssangmun suburb or town or whatever they mean by ‘dong’ in Korean.

Happy Friday! Hope everybody is enjoying all the Christmas and Year-end occasions. My team had dirty Santa (gift snatching game), and most common gifts revealed were flashlights. How exciting. Sigh.

Year-end reviews- keep coming please. Looking at the E news, Last year was year of Kim Soo-hyun. This year is year of Yoo Ah-in. Yoo Ah-in is everywhere. Who do you hope hits DaeBak next year?
me? Byun Yo-han! Byun Yo-han! Byun yo-han! How about you?

Gallup Korea did the survey (1700 people during 10/29 to 11/21).
Best actor/actress in drama:
1. Hwang Jung-eum
2. Kim Su-hyun, Jun Ji-hyun
4. Yoo Ah-in
5. Park Su-joon
6. Jun In-hwa
7. Go doo-sim, Kim Tae-hee
9. Joo won
10. Ji Sung, Kim Hee-ah

Best in Movie:
1. Yoo Ah-in, 2. Song Kwang-ho, 3. Hwang Jung-min

Do you watch TVN's LIST 2015? They have some interesting categories.
Top actors in his 20s with bright future:
1. Yoo Ah-in
2. Kim Su-hyun
3. Joo Won
4. Park Su-joon
5. Lee Jong-suk
6. Song Joong-gi
7. Lee Hyun-woo
8. Yoo Yeon-suk
9. Su Gang-joon

Entertainers who had Daebak this year(money and popularity- wise):
1. Yoo Ah-in
2. Hwang Jung-min
3. Big Bang (boy group)
4. Beak Jong-won (cook)
5. Hwang Jung-eum
6. Yoo Hae-jin (Three meals a day)
7. Park Su-joon
8. Park Bo-young

--It seems Yoo Ah-in wasn't noticeable until later this year. It was all Kim Soo-hyun.
Top entertainer voted by 5000 Koreans:
1. Yoo Jae-suk (MC)
2. Jun Ji-hyun
3. Kim Su-hyun
4. Song Hae-gyo
5. Jang Dong-gun
6. Lee Young-ae
7. G-dragon (Big Bang)
8. Kim Tae-hee
9. Ha Jung-woo
10. Choi Ji-woo

Top bromance couple (Not just in shows):
1. Song Il-kuk's triplets
2. Kim Rae-won and Lee Min-ho
3. Lee Jong-suk and Kim Woo-bin
4. Cha Seong-won and Yoo Hae-jin
5. Sin Dong-yeup and Sung Si-kyung
6. Jo In-sung and Lee Kwang-su
7. Im Soo-han and Byun Yo-han

Hello beanies.. ;-)

-SPLISH SPLASH LOVE: It's totally different from what I've expected. It's a cute show but it's the kind of drama that doesn't take itself too seriously. I'm pretty sure none of Joseon king behaved like that. I didn't watch many sageuk so I wasn't really sure, but sometimes the speech sounds too modern in my ear.

-REMEMBER: Now that Jinwoo and Dongho decided to work together, I'm beyond excited. Love the way they use Jinwoo's super memory to pursue a new lead. And heol~ turns out, our law student Yeokyung is Gyungman's sister?! And how unsettling it is to see Gyungman totally being under his father's thumb?

-IMAGINARY CAT: A cute fat fluffy cat, Yoo Seungho, and adorable love story. What more do you need?

Hello beanies, it is Friday again! I hope all of you will have a happy weekend. We are going to end 2015 very soon. Plan for 2016? Lol I'm gonna bring along again plans for 2015 and past years that were yet to be unfulfilled. He he ?

Anyway, anyone watched Splash Splash Love? I swear Kim Seul GI is tooooooo cuteeee! Her chemistry with Do join are so great despite of their gap in height ha ha. ? I laughing so hard at the scene when Do Join thought the kimbap was a... Bomb and thought that it gonna explode. Lol I'm dying? can't wait for epi 2, KSG looks pretty in hanbok ? auw everything is cute in this drama. I pray on 2016, besides Kim So Eun get a lead role, Kim Seul GI will get a lead role too. This girl is too good to be wasted!

On the other note, on Love Me If You Dare, I was almost have no complaint until recently i found it it is so disturbing in the scene when Bo Jin Yan speaks with Susan. It looks weird when BJY speaks in Chinese but Susan speaks in English. It is a major turn off for me.?? hmm

I Have A Lover is getting better n better. The best scene on last episode was when HaeKang the Dragon ate Kang Seol Ri with her strong and sharp words and KSR can't even reply her with anything, and burst into tears. ??? you go Queen! ?

Hey drama lovers I know I should mostly talk about dramas but please listen to my whining and bear with it because no one in my family understands my sadness right now... only you guys can
Today my laptop crash down and my hard disk is in flames so I lost 47 completed & ongoing dramas I also lost many of work ...related to college too ..since I have those backed up in mails and hard copy ..so my family is rubbing of like so what you lost some dramas.. I'm soooooo sad *tears rolling*....... I can't rewatch any of them ... I lost my treasure....

Rainy day today, but the forecast for Christmas Eve is the mid 70's.

Lost a furry friend this week. Our cat Peachfuzz passed away at the ripe age of 16+ years.

Splish Splash Love: Kim Seul-Gi :)

Behind on the both sageuks 6FD & Merchant

Glamorous Temptation: Guilty pleasure watching this.

Watching Nirvana In Fire. The wife marathoned it weeks ago, passing me, so now I've resumed watching it , about 1/2 way through.

The wife, on her own on voyage to Hu Ge Land, watched Chinese Paladin. Liu Yi Fei is gorgeous.

Watching Love Me If You Dare. Saw some photo shoots of Sandra Ma sporting shorter hair, so cute, looks good on her.

Also watching A Dream of Red Mansions , enjoying it. Sometimes the music is inappropriate, like WTH was that ?

Last but not least , Answer Me 1988. Squee. Don't care who turns out to be the husband, enjoy the overall story. Kudos to the writers.

Hi Everyone!

Making a quick stop in the OT, as I have to go in a bit. ..... I hope you are all doing well and enjoying the holiday season.

Watched this week:

Six Flying Dragons - Wow. Can this get any better? ..... Of course it can.

She Was Pretty - Finished this last night. Liked it. ...... This may be a little nutty, but I think Choi Siwon's second lead character is right up there with that second-lead-favorite of mine, Pil-joo from the drama Best Love.

Oh My Venus - So I watched another 2 eps. So that makes 4 watched. ..... So far, things are moving along nicely. ...... How cool would it be to have a personal trainer with "So Ji-sub-like" attributes? *giggling*

That's about it for now. ...... Everyone take care and have a great Friday!

Hello everyone!
I've finished watching my first j-drama Date, and I loved every bit of it! Does anyone have any suggestions for similar j-dramas?
Also I was wondering where I could find Joseon X-Files with English subs. I've been searching for quite some time but couldn't find it. Do I have to search for it under a different name or something?
Thanks in advance beanies!?

I have a confession to make.

I created a character based on Healer in a game I play. I'm planning on marathoning that series over the holidays like an addict planning to go off the wagon.

I love Splash Splash Love so much! Not a standard sageuk, but I don't really mind. I wasn't expecting one to begin with (no point, when you have only two episodes). I was so into this, it's been a while since I was so immersed in a drama. It hit all my sweet spots with its good story, funny situations, pretty visuals and great, great leads. I mean seriously, how amazing Kim Seul Gi and Yoon Doo Joon are together? Chemistry is off charts and their bickering is the most adorable thing in the world. I want more! Let those guys do a full length drama, dammit!

It's finally getting chilly enough here to feel like Christmas is on its way. It's been a bit mad - though nice. Everyone feels the need to meet up before Christmas, which is really nice, as the year has gone so quickly so it's an opportunity to catch up with folks. But it's also the time when reports, applications and taxes need to be done! So I'm trying to stay sane with a steady run of drama watching while I'm doing the more mindless stuff.

BUBBLEGUM
I saw it to its end. There were some really nice characters in this show, and the leads were very charming. But it was unfortunate, like chewing gum, it started with strong flavours and then after a while, I couldn't decide if I wanted to keep chewing or just chuck it out. I don't think the writing was strong enough to take us through the angst and bring us back in an interesting, meaningful way. Noble Idiocy prescribed as a cure? Never said any doctor.

REPLY 1988
I'm still wowed by the writing in this drama. All the characters are lovely, and the story lines of friendship, community, family, growing up have just continued to impress week after week.

SIX FLYING DRAGONS
I'm really enjoying this. It's a bit convoluted as there are so many characters (so many Bangs!) and historical references, but there's nice pace in each episode and the director's pretty good at setting up towards a reveal or turning point.

IMAGINARY CAT
The story is somewhat simplistic, so I have to admit, I only half listen to it. I just stare at the screen when the cat comes on.

OH MY VENUS
A bit like Imaginary Cat - I just look up when the two leads or the gym bunny-boys are on screen.

SPLISH SPLASH
I don't normally watch mini series like this but I'm a big fan of Kim Seul Gi's since Flower Boys Next Door. She's adorable, and the fantastical set up is fun. It was pretty funny the king's horror when she wolfed down a clementine, because yanno, they're meant to be precious!

HEALER
But all these year end polls and reviews had another unexpected effect - I ended up re-watching Healer. I watched the show belatedly (so wasn't part of the Dramabeans frenzy) and did love it. I think someone wrote recently about how, Healer had a lot of similar tropes to other dramas, so it was curious why it all came together so well. So I went back to re-watch it to see if I'd like it just as much. And I do!

I think I love it because it brings together a combination of elements that I really like:

- the narrative structure of 5 old friends who seemed to really like each other, in the height of their youth and full of life and potential, then something goes wrong terribly, and the mystery of what happened is intriguing, plays on nostalgia and loss, and also how sometimes by not speaking about pain and the tragic past, wrongs are left hidden.

- the narrative device that the wrongs done in the past, led to great suffering by the younger generation who then gets it together to "put things...

Anyone who hasn't yet watched Splash Splash Love, needs to do it RIGHT NOW.

Yoon Doo-joon and Kim Seul-gi have this incredible and electrifying chemistry, and they're both killing it in their roles. And the drama knows when it's got a good thing going, because they do not skimp on the skinship. And it's hilarious but also incredibly sweet and touching - if this had come out two weeks ago, this couple should have made it into the end-of-year polls.

I'm down to watching the raw web drama version on Naver because I just can't get enough of it (why is it only 2 hours long, WHYYYYY. But on the flip side, it means we don't spend too much time on useless side plots and get only the good stuff i.e. OTP!