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Lumi, please forgive me, I have to hurriedly switch off my pc as a violent storm is approaching and I've had very bad experiences with them.

Read you soon, I hope! Have a great... night, I think it is. :D

Please forgive me my friend, I have to hurriedly switch off my pc as a violent storm is approaching and I've had very bad experiences with them and my electric system.

Hope to read you again soon! Meanwhile, hugs!! :D

Thank you for your fast reply, it's great to read you too! :D
Die Welle is a great movie! Amazingly acted and thought-provoking. Quite disquieting too. My husband and I watched it last year and loved it - if one can love movies of this kind.

Tonbi will be put on my ptw list too. :D
I too am happy to be back to my addiction, although I must say it's an all japanese addiction. I've decided to stay away from k-drama for a while because the last things I've watched from that country got on my nerves royally. LOL

I don't really have a watching plan: more of a day to day pick based on my mood. The weather has been so horrid and depressing here I'm in dire need of laughter, so I have a preferencial eye for comedy.

My dear friend, you've changed your nick!
But I've recognized you anyway.;)
How have you been? :D

Hahahahaha, oh my. I know I shouldn't laugh, they are actually quite scary!
But I confess I am secretly (well, not so much anymore) diverted by going against the general popularity of a drama or an actor. Not that I truly hate something on purpose, but let's say the constant praise dons not help the cause in my mind, and so I don't mind sneaking into the lions den and say my piece. LOL

I adore tabbouleh, although I can't guarantee I use the exact lebanese recipe, and I think knowing Gibran is a must for everyone having approached literature at least once. :D

What are you studying, if I may ask?

P.S. I live in a tiny village too, just as unknown as yours, I guess. I don't mind, by the way. At heart, I'm a country girl. ;)

You have no idea how many private messages I got regarding my review of IM. Most were friendly enough in expressing their disagreement, but others were truly pissed, as if they had written the screenplay or were Jo In Sung's girlfriends - but if so, they should be satisfied women with no need to bash a lonely reviewer expressing her dissent. LOL

Why should every girl need a man with money? Aren't we perfectly capable of procuring ourselves the means to live well?
Please don't be offended, but it's due to this same concept repeated for centuries that women are viewed as superficial and opportunists.
Personally, I want to be even with my man, wealth included.

p.s. should you ever need a pasta recipe, feel free to knock on my wall! ;)

Have you ever been to Italy? :)
I have never visited your part of the world and while I know of many who went to Jordan or Israel on a holiday, I must confess at not knowing much of Lebanon - with the exception of cedar trees, yummy tabbouleh and of course Khalil Gibran. :)
Do you live in the capital?

And Lumi it will be, then! :D
I love your nick, by the way, it makes me think of Paris and Toulouse Lautrec. However, it is a very Italian habit to shorten names and add the suffix in "i".
My name's Rita, but friends call me Rirri, or Riti for the same reason. :D
So have patience with me, please. ;)

Say, Evony, have we per chance been separated at birth? LOL I have been nodding my head through every word in your comment. I am not a fan of marble lee min ho myself, and the excessive fangirlism following his every sneeze makes me want to shout my dislike from some rooftop. And the YaB bunch: insufferable. The acting was atrocious, the characters quite irritating and their sense of fashion so over the top it made me cringe. LOL
But something similar happened with the lastest melodramas we mentioned before. What makes The Innocent Man or That Winter any different from every makjang out there, if not the hotness of the main guy?
I repeat, I'm not immune to goodlooking guys myself, but come on! I have come to a point where even His Hotness in person becomes ugly in my eyes, if all he does is brooding and acting cool. :P

Agreed. While I am ready to now and then immerse in a fantasy fairy tale and enjoy it, I wish they would depict more relatable people and everyday situations. Like Japanese do in their dramas.
You forgot the new trend, Lumi (allow me to call you that ;)): the bitchy rich woman.
Be it a male or a female, very rich people are always described as outer bastards with a heart of gold... when found. :P

Hahahahaha, great article, hilarious and to the point. :D
I'd just add how Koreans seem to be obsesses with money in general, not only when romance's in the picture. There's no drama without some corporate business involved and one has to give it for granted that all the heirs to these huge fortunes are looking for a modest girl.
You know the adagio: "it's a truth universally aknowledged, that a single Korean CEO in possession of a large fortune, must be in want of a poorer wife, possibly orphan."
Austin docet.
;)

If anyone know where to view this movie, please let me know!
Thanks. :)

Another aspect which is slowly getting a on my nerves is the excessive popularity of everything Korean even when the quality is scarce. Relying a lot on their handsome actors, they snatch up their consensus among fangirls and the deed is done. Nobody cares for a little consistency in the plot, characterization or logic, as long as the nth hot hunk is on screen. And given how much surgery they do, they are slowly starting to look all the same.

Not that I don't like handsome men, mind you. As you very rightly say, we all have our guilty pleasures.
However, I'm in a full Japanese mode right now and I think I'll stay there for quite some time. :)

Hahahaha, your k-melodrama outline is perfect! Indeed, they all seem to follow a pattern, start beautiful and then simply rely on the fact that once one starts, one wants to know how it is going to end. Honestly, I'd rather watch a tragic story that makes sense, instead of a depressing one all along with a sudden happy ending that makes no sense nor gives me any joy. Innocent Man and That Winter both fall under the same cathegory, to the point if I don't concentrate I may mix up the two.

P.S. In the Chinese movie "Turn Left, Turn Right" with Takeshi Kaneshiro, the female lead is a translator and a fan of Szymborska. When the two characters first meet in a park, she's translating one of her poems. I'm not sure anymore, since I saw the movie about 5 years ago, but I think it was the one about encounters. I think the title is "love at first sight".

On a side note, it's is indeed true that not many know her, but I can say she's quite popular in Italy among lovers of poetry. :D

Thank you for welcoming me back and for calling me the voice of reason. I fear you have just wasted a sweet compliment on someone like me who just marathoned through "Switch Girl 1&2". LOL

So now we have established that I have great taste in poetry but a very inconsistent one in dramas. Hahaha. I too have just come out of a long and quite serious drama slump. This winter I tried to watch some Korean things, but I chose all melos which made me fall deeper and deeper in my dislike. Therefore, now I'm staying solidly on Japanese ground. Japanese dramas have this ability to raise my spirit. Perhaps because they are shorter, or because they usually don't take themselves so seriously as their Korean counterparts. Whatever the reason, I'm back to a kind of pleasant addiction.
I hope you can do the same - coming out of the slump, I mean. It's not pleasant, is it?

First of all, it's great to read you, Evony! :D
I've been away for some time, and it's so sweet to be back and get friends' messages. :)
This said, yes, I do know Szymborska and love her with a passion, She is - well, was, but her poetry is immortal - my favourite poet, along with Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, Neruda and Yeats. She also had one of those faces which inspired me: a beautiful, intelligent face on which I've always thought I could read her love for live and words. My only regret is not being able to read her in her mother language. :)

How have you been? :D