amrita828

I think you've been too harsh on yourself. I believe I am guilty of almost all the "faults" I wrote of, except perhaps the Rosetta Stone one, which doesn't mean my writing is any clearer, LOL!

Indeed... LOL
:D;)

Isn't it?
Writers really think they can write whatever they want these days... ;)
LOL

Ops, my bad.
Will I be sent behind the blackboard with the idiot cap on?
;);)

Hey, your stole my line!!!!!
;);):D

Don't worry, you're not alone.
I suppose as long as we don't write them in Old English, everything's fine. ;);)

Hello my dearest!!!
I will properly apologize for my absence at the café, here suffice to know that I have missed you too and I'll do my best to be forgiven.
Meanwhile, I send you a huge hug, one full of warmth, love and sweetness.
Kisses!

Violet my dearest!!!
Forgive this busy ahjumma who can't find a reasonable middle way between 8 hours on the net and none at all.
My connection seems all right now, but I have left it be on purpose longer than it should, because I needed to concentrate on my job, and knowing myself I feared the slightest distraction would have broken the very unusual working hype. :P
However, I'm fine and reasonably fit, lol.
How about you? Watching something good?
I'm so behind with the drama watching I'd need a sabbatical year or two to get back on track. I'll ask the muse (Dramiope) to give me some hours more each day... ;)

Ah, Twinnie, this connection is driving me crazy! My pc clearly needs a cleaning, because I can't stay tuned on this page for more than a few minutes with it. Now I'm using a netbook and I hate it, the keyboard is small and confusing, I'm not used to it and I'm writing at the speed of a drunken sloth. So please forgive my hiccupping replies, I hope to solve the problem before the end of the world in december, lol.
September is going to be very hectic workwise, which means I am not watching any drama. And you know, when you stay away from dramaland for too long, it's going to be hard to get into it when I finally have the time. I've found out anti-addictions are worse than addictions... :P
How about you? Immersed in your readings and writings? I send you a big enouraging hug, hoping you'll love Calvino as much as I do. :D
Ja ne||| kisses

My dearest,
here I am again apologizing to you. Alas! My access to MDL is worsening, if possible- Now I am using my husband netbook - which I frankly hate (not the husband, the netbook, lol). I will have to take my pc to a technician and have it "cleaned" a little, because the problem is not in the connection.
I've read your review of what's up? and as usual you made me eager to watch it. Unfortunately, I'm not watching anything at all right now. September is going to be a hell of a month, workwise, and I barely know how to make all my deadlines and tutoring duties fit together.
I'm getting so behind with my drama watching I'm almost afraid I'll never caught up again. I hope October will bring a little "normality"...
I wish you a wonderful evening and please overlook the typos... this keyboard is driving me crazy, lol.
Kisses!

My dearest,
here I am again apologizing to you. Alas! My access to MDL is worsening, if possible- Now I am using my husband netbook - which I frankly hate (not the husband, the netbook, lol). I will have to take my pc to a technician and have it "cleaned" a little, because the problem is not in the connection.
I've read your review of what's up? and as usual you made me eager to watch it. Unfortunately, I'm not watching anything at all right now. September is going to be a hell of a month, workwise, and I barely know how to make all my deadlines and tutoring duties fit together.
I'm getting so behind with my drama watching I'm almost afraid I'll never caught up again. I hope October will bring a little "normality"...
I wish you a wonderful evening and please overlook the typos... this keyboard is driving me crazy, lol.
Kisses!

First of all, please forgive me for replying so late. Instead of getting better, my connection is worsening and I'm not writing with a small netbook I'm unfamiliar with, but see no other solution...
Thank you for commenting on the article (I'm a little embarrassed at calling it that, it's more of a collection of random thoughts, lol). What you say about our quest for novelty is very true. I'm not even sure what the addiction - or the passion - is truly due to: if the exoticism of it all, the stories which often have the flavour of past novels, the cultural differences or the similarities- Sure is that if, for a while, I get out of the addiction tunnel, it's very hard to go back to it, as hard as it seemed to come out of it... possibly, this is material for another article, what do you think? ;)

That's because you don't have a fringe... perhaps? ;);)

LOL, that's true. :D
And like in real life the first thing we notice about people is their look, the first thing we notice here is their favourite dramas.
If this weren't just a funny portrait, we could read something deeper in it. ;)

Definitely. Granted, it's a little old. And I suspect it's male too. I'll try with a pic of Bette Davis... :P

Thank you again, everyone. I wish I could reply to each one of you, but my pc is rising against me and I can't stay tuned on MDL for more than a few minutes at a time.
The reason must be one of the following:
1.my pc does not speak Japanese, Korean or Mandarin
2.it does not approve of my having Binnie & Co. on the screen saver (a pc with a terrible taste)
3.I have never bowed to my pc (I should try)
4.my husband is sabotaging my connection for the same above mentioned reasons.

Tasukete kudasai!! :P

She refused to feed you? LOL ;)

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTT???? You ungentlemanlike fellow! How do you know I'm not a petite beauty, as light as a feather?
...
...
Too late. You've lost your chance, and the pleasure to piggyback-ride me. I'll have to content myself with asking Binnie. Tzk. ;):D

Of course I was. :D:D

By the by, it is a prejudice often found in real life too, where people like Zuckerberg are considered geniuses, while, say, a historian is a nobody because he's not quoted on the stock exchange.
3. Related to 2. there is the aspect "viewers expectations". Since the other girl - the chef - did a pass on him, hell broke loose. I've read people giving her all kind of names because she kissed Hyuga. As if she had NO RIGHT to have a crush on him because the viewers want the "great" man to end up with Makoto. In my mind, she has all the right to try, it's not as if she stole him from another woman. And even if she had, she's a nice girl, she's smart, knows what she wants professionally as well as in her love life. I like her, and this constant bashing of her simply because she's the second female is annoying and, frankly, a little worrisome too. It mirrors a "moral" trend I don't like at all.