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Community projects invited to apply for council funding
PUBLISHED: 09:00 27 January 2018
Applications for the TAP fund are being accepted until February 28.
North Devon Council (NDC) is inviting organisations to apply for funding through its Town and Parish (TAP) Fund.
The council is accepting applications for the fund until February 28, with rewards served on a first-come, first served basis.
Funding can be accepted for projects that will benefit residents in at least two parishes and meet some identified needs of the community.
NDC's executive member responsible for leisure and culture, Councillor Dick Jones, said: "It's great that through schemes such as the TAP fund we can support local projects and groups across the district to help them in the valuable work that they do for our communities.
"If you have a charity that you think might benefit from TAP funding, information about the fund and other grants that are available, is on our website."
North Devon Council works with Devon County Council to allocate money from the TAP fund. The councils make available £1.10p per electorate, of which £1 is given by Devon County Council and 10p from North Devon Council.
Earlier this month, North Devon Council considered applications for the 'strategic' TAP fund, created from the underspend of the fund from the previous financial year.
Over and Above's North Devon Cancer and Wellbeing Centre, Headway North Devon and Vista Wellbeing CIC all received cash boosts from the fund.
Over and Above received £2,155 towards counselling couches, Headway received £1,160, and Vista Wellbeing received £4392 towards start-up costs.


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BBB: Black Bean Burgers
A couple of years ago I got a subscription to Cook's Illustrated, a fabulous food magazine. It has a few distinctive features:
- no ads! this hugely increases my happiness in reading the magazine cover-to-cover
- the recipes are written like science experiments
- the interiors are all black-and-white, with some photos replaced by schematics or pencil-sketch-style drawings (see right)
I've added quite a few delicious items from the magazine to my regular rotation of dishes, including carne deshebrada and wheat berry pancakes. This month's issue had something entirely new for me.
The recipe is for a vegetarian burger. I've had veggie burgers before, but they always had the look, taste and texture of hockey pucks. To the contrary, these ones are pretty satisfying on all counts. Especially if you like your burger loaded with fixin's, you can barely notice the difference in switching from beef burgers to these beany bad boys.
Here's the outline of the recipe. I imagine you can use whatever herbs and spices are your favourite and it will turn out great no matter what.
- Drain two 15-ounce cans of black beans. Let sit on paper towels to dry thoroughly.
- Weigh one ounce of tortilla chips by into a food processor. Pulverize.
- Add the beans to the food processor and process until they have the texture of ground beef (approx 5 pulses).
- Beat two eggs. Incorporate 2 tbsp flour; this will be the glue to keep the burgers together. Add herbs (4 green onions and a half-bunch of chopped cilantro leaves) and spices (1 tsp cumin, 1/2 tsp coriander, 1/4 tsp each salt and pepper, 1 tsp sriracha, 2 minced garlic cloves). Stir.
- Combine "glue" with bean-chips mixture and stir with a spoon until uniform.
- Important! Let the mixture rest, covered, in the fridge. Rest for at least 1 hour and at most 1 day.
- Form about 8 patties (or 12 to 16 sliders). Fry in a generous amount of vegetable oil at medium-high heat for 5 minutes per side.
We still have a couple left (pictured above). Just to make sure I don't forget how to be a carnivore, I'll be eating one topped with bacon slices for dinner.
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Better late than never, I wanted to post some memories from the trip we took to Mexico this summer for my brother's wedding. Disclaimer: due to time zone changes, cerveza, or other factors, my memories of which thing happened on each day may have shifted.
Day 0: We got rebooked and had a slight delay but arrived in the afternoon to meet my family at the resort. It was a beautiful place. I played gigantic human-sized chess with my sister, who whomped me. At least there were free drinks to drown my sorrows. We went to the French restaurant on-site and had a delicious 3-course dinner.
Day 1: Had a great night's sleep (no dream of being attacked by giant knights and bishops). We rendezvoused with siblings, siblings-in-law, and brother's other friends at the various beaches and bars. We took taxis to Playa Del Carmen for a special dinner arranged by the newlyweds-to-be. Before returning home we checked out what I presume is one of the world's largest souvenir stores, but managed to escape without purchasing anything.
Day 2: Ate a delicious breakfast (as usual); there were omelette stations and bottomless mimosas but I think on this day I composed some huevos rancheros. We started checking out the attractions off-site. Sara and I went to a particularly cool cenote named Río Secreto… it reminded me of past spelunking adventures but was much more chilled out. We skipped paying $100+ for the entire set of pictures but snapped a blurry bootleg of one image. We went to Cancún city afterwards; we got a little lost but then discovered some random outdoor concert/festival with lots of locals. It was a great adventure together, all in all. I tried out the churros. Verdict: they were delicious!
Day 3: My brother Brad's wedding. Got my fancy clothes on with him and then we headed out to the bar for his last pretzel as a free man. The other groomsman Isaac was there to party in fine style (pictured: the fanciest bathroom I've ever been in). The wedding was on a beautiful beach, with beautiful people, and beautiful food. Brad and Claudia gave very heartfelt speeches and it was my honour to spend that day celebrating with them. There was an extremely delicious cocktail made with special Pisco (a national beverage for the bride). Then as it got dark we saw just how good the resort was at wedding planning 🙂 From what I recall we danced with pool noodles, glowing glasses, balloons, noise makers, and managed to stay until the closing of not one but two bars on the resort.
Day 4: Recovery. We played a lot of volleyball in the pool. Delicious mexican restaurant on the resort for dinner!
Day 5: Adventure. We rented two cars and drove out to Chichén Itzá. It was a very hot day but we had a good tour guide to keep us motivated. The driving was extremely peaceful as the highways were pretty empty. We learned that there were special acoustic effects built into the pyramids' architecture, and that a lot of people "lost their heads" over competitive sports back in Aztec days. After escaping to some frosty beverages, we headed to Cenote Ik Kil; this cenote was a swimming hole set about 20 metres underground, with some fish patrolling the waters underneath us, and huge diving platforms overhead. Finally we headed to a delicious dinner of local Yucatan cuisine at Las Campanas, checking out Valladolid's picturesque church before returning home.
Day 6: I went on a whale-shark expedition with my cousins' significant others, Matt and Taka. (Sara has a fear of neckless animals so she decided to pass.) I managed to put on my contacts while on deck a boat speeding across the open ocean, which was exhilarating. We chased those whale-sharks (they are vegetarian sharks the size of whales) for a good couple of hours, stopping 4 or 5 times to get in the water with them. Each time we dived in we were disoriented, not just from being besnorkeled and finned, but also from the sheer scale of the creatures. They normally carried in tow an entourage of feeder fish to their sides, above and below. They were as large as a bus and moved just as fast but it looked effortless and so it was a strange feeling trying to chase them while swimming. It was an unforgettable experience! They served some ceviche with hot habanero peppers on-board, afterwards, and we did some more low-key snorkeling near a beautiful reef. We had one more dinner back on the resort and my family kindly endulged us to show them pictures of our trip to Iran, for which we repaid them in Persian sweets.
It was an amazing trip, both relaxing and full of unique celebrations. Congratulations again, Brad and Claudia! And thanks for bringing us all together on that awesome trip.
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Next week I am headed to the ITiCSE conference (Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education), in Vilnius, Lithuania, to present Websheets, an exercise system for programming problems in C++ and Java.
Websheets combines a couple of ideas.
- It is an online system where students get immediate feedback on their programming solutions. This has become very common in recent years, though not many support C++, and not many are open-source (the biggest exception being the awesome CloudCoder system).
- An exercise isn't just a big blank page, rather it's a template with specific gaps to be filled in. The motivation for this is a system of hard-copy handouts used at Princeton… the idea being that, if you are just teaching one topic that day, and you have limited class time, it would be better to give the boilerplate and off-topic bits of the program to the students ready-made, so they can make better use of their limited in-class time.
Try it out! Go here and read all about it:
If you create any cool exercises to share, or find ways to break it horribly, I'd love to know.
In the last couple of weeks I've done a few fun things to it:
- I combined the Java version from Princeton and the C++ version from USC.
- Taking inspiration from CloudCoder, you can now create and edit exercises online.
- Teachers can now keep track of their students, like we did last term at USC. (We hosted some very low-value homeworks on the system; basic stuff to complement the readings and help students stay focused.)
Moving past the technological part, I'd like to eventually do a study to measure the effects of different types of scaffolded exercises in the classroom. Is it better to provide more scaffolding or less? Though one may be faster, do you learn more from doing more work? Or is the code reading of the scaffolding itself an important skill?
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Visiting Iran
I had an amazing vacation this year! For 3 weeks I travelled to Iran where I got to visit several historic cities, meet my wife's extended family, and participate in my sister-in-law's amazing wedding. This was followed by one more fantastic week in Mexico for my brother's destination wedding, which deserves its own post later.
One thing several friends have asked is: how difficult is to get to Iran in the first place? The answer for us was, pretty easy, it was just a lot of paperwork. (Caveat: this is only our answer from the perspective of a non-Iranian married to an Iranian, not just a visiting friend.) Here's what it was like for us:
- We registered our marriage with a "daftar" in Toronto, which took about an hour during the week we got married last summer.
- We registered our marriage with Iran's offices in Washington, DC. This is a long form that requires copies of everything from step 1, our Canadian marriage documents, as well as a police record check, passport copies, signatures from her dad, passport photos… and I sent a blood test for AIDS and drugs too though I no longer see that requirement listed.
- Sara's parents sent a visa invitation letter to Tehran.
- Once that was approved, I got a visa application number and sent in my visa application paperwork to Washington along with my passport. I got the passport back in a few days.
We booked our flight somewhere in the middle of the process since there was a good sale, but luckily all of the steps went without a problem. We sent in the Step 2 documents in February and Sara's parents did Step 3 in March (be careful that the government stops everything for 2 weeks in late March for the Persian new year).
Our trip actually started by visiting Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, just for the sake of seeing something new. There, we made a Canadian pilgrimage to several Tim Hortons locations. They had freshly squeezed orange juice, faux bacon breakfast sandwiches, and delicious hot brown water, needless to say. We also went in the UAE coast of the Persian Gulf, had a nice IHOP breakfast opposite the world's tallest building, visited the spice/gold bazaars, did some shopping at the gigantic Dubai Mall, and went on a short boat tour. We walked a LOT which was pretty challenging because it was super hot and humid.
After that short visit we took our next flight, bringing us to Tehran. It is the capital city of Iran, where Sara grew up. Tehran is only about 250 years old (pretty young by Persian standards) and it is a massive city. Its population is over 8 million, approximately equal to New York City, and it also has about the same size. The first couple of days there were spent exploring her neighborhood and seeing some of her family. Her dad offered to buy me some ice cream from the nearby Bastani Madar, so I took him up on his offer and got bastani ob havich, which is a scoop of vanilla ice cream floating in a cold glass of carrot juice. Sounds weird, I know, but anyone who's had it can attest to its deliciousness. We managed to check out some sights at Jamshidiyeh Park and Niyavaran Palace before moving on to our next stop.
We took an overnight train with Sara's mom to Isfahan. This city, a former capital of Persia, is known for its art and its architecture — even the train station had lovely arches rising up to the ceiling. On the right you can see a picture of the big "bazaar bozorg" with several notable features. First, more beautiful ceilings with geometric cutouts leaving lighted spots on the floor. Second, a car headed in my direction, which was typical traffic, pretty amazing given how narrow and twisted the pathways were.
Esfahan had a lot of different sights to see. There is a huge rectangular public square called naqsh-e-jahan; at its center are gardens and pools, around the sides are vendors (part of the bazaar), and it is flanked by 4 main features, one on each side: a big mosque, another even bigger mosque, a palace, and the bazaar's main entrance. The city's wide boulevards bring you from this area through several parks, palaces, and si-o-se pol, a beautiful old bridge. Out of town, we visited an ancient zoroastrian fire temple (ateshkadeh).
One of the most memorable parts of our visit to Esfahan is actually the hotel we stayed at, Hotel Abbasi, which had not only a kickin' breakfast buffet, but also a central tea garden where we refreshed ourselves in the evenings with tea, sweets, soup (ash-e-reshteh) and ice cream.
Our next destination was Shiraz, yet another former capital city. We started with one of Iran's most famous historical sites, Persepolis, located an hour's drive outside of the city. This is where the Persian empire was centered during the Achaemenid days of Cyrus the Great, Darius, and Xerxes. It was burnt down by the army of Alexander the Great in 330 BC — reputedly in revenge for Xerxes' burning of the Acropolis in Athens 150 years earlier.
Persepolis was a large series of palaces, the size of a village, with foundations and pillars made out of stone. From a historical perspective it is pretty amazing that it's survived 2500 years because that period includes several conquests of Persia by caliphates and mongols that tended to destroy all cultural artifacts they could get their hands on. The reason that it survived is that it was buried by dirt and sand not long after it was burned to the ground, and only in the mid-1800s did archaeologists re-discover and start to excavate the site.
Visiting Persepolis brought me face to face with a lot of ancient Persian history: the cuneiform script in which Old Persian was written, Zoroastrian history, and the Farvahar symbol. But a lot of the most interesting parts of the story are still visible. On the Apadana Staircase you can see an inscription showing the annual tribute festival where distinctive people and gifts are depicted from each of Persia's 28 provinces at the time (spanning the globe from India to Ethiopia). This was definitely an important place to hire a guide since he was able to explain this history, make us aware of the symbolism, and bring life to the ancient ruins.
Here are a couple more cultural highlights from Persepolis thanks to our guide:
The main entry stairs to Persepolis were constructed with an especially short height because it was important that world leaders, walking up these stairs together in their flowing robes, could talk without fear of tripping.
- The logo of Iran Air is based on the two-headed cat statues of Persepolis (see right).
- Those cats had interchangeable ears depending on the occasion (like Mr. Potato Head).
- If a Persian grabs you by two fingers, they are just bringing you to a party: every delegation pictured on the Apadana staircase was led by a Persian guide doing this. Make sure to bring presents.
- Unlike the great pyramids, Persepolis was not built by slavery. Archaeologists have found records of payments to builders, and health insurance.
Shiraz is also home to relatively newer attractions. We went to an amazing kebab place that evening and had salad shirazi (diced salad of tomatoes, cucumber, onion and lime juice). A surprising source of culinary inspiration was the tomb of Hafez, the most famous Persian poet. It was one of several places that we had faloodeh, the famous rosewater sorbet with vermicelli noodles served with lime juice.
The teahouse also had masghati, a.k.a Turkish delight. I remember eating this once in Turkey but it was just kind of weird. The one at Hafeziye was pliable, fragrant, and delicious! In explaining it later to my friends I have described it a big spherical gummy bear with nuts inside of it, and this seemed to help more people try it 🙂
We visited a few other things in Shiraz including a lively public park (a nice break from the tourist attractions), an old citadel, a beautiful palace called Naranjestan (literally, land of the oranges) and the Nasir al-Molk mosque due to its famous stained glass windows.
Just as we were leaving Shiraz, some random people on the street offered us some free beverages. The cab driver explained that this is common on holidays so we grabbed a few and it turned out to be an extremely delicious lime cordial, simply made from water, sugar, and juice from local shirazi limes. Merci, Shiraz!
Once back in Tehran, several members of Sara's family had dinner gatherings which were awesome. Her aunts and cousins were great to meet and hang out with, and extremely gracious in letting me practice my Farsi. They cooked so much food for us! I may have arrived in Iran with a little bit of a Persian tongue, but I left with a fully Persian belly.
A few days later, Vida and Navid's wedding took place in the outskirts of Tehran. It was completely awesome. Sara and I commissioned a sofreyeh aghd for our own Persian-Canadian wedding last year, so I had some general idea of what to expect. But, the location of their wedding was not only beautiful and elegant, but huge! It was an outdoors setting with gardens, streams, ponds, musicians, tea, but more importantly, a ton of food and lots of dancing. The area with traditional instruments included a daf (like a large tambourine) and tombak (another drum) where, as I hope the wedding footage will attest, we got some of Navid and Vida's aunts and uncles on the dance floor. I want to thank both of them heartily for including us in their wedding party on their special day.
We had one night in Tehran to relax by ourselves. Thanks to the suggestion of Sara's cousin Azita, we went to visit Darband, and it made for one of the best nights in the whole trip. Darband is a path up in the mountains to the north of Tehran, nestled in a long crevasse populated by kebab stands, dried fruit merchants and cafes. The path continues up to hiking though we didn't make it that far, getting distracted by kebab barg and shishlik for dinner, followed by shisha, tea and Persian dates on a traditional platform (takht). The next time I come back, it will definitely be an area ripe for further investigations.
Following this, we made the trip up to Mazandaran province where Sara's parents are originally from, partied with even more of her family, and got to put our toes in the Caspian Sea thanks to her niece Negar.
If you are planning to visit Iran, two other practical things are useful.
- A practical thing that I strongly recommend is getting a data SIM card for your phone. We got one in an Isfahani mall; it was very cheap though it required some paperwork that Sara's mom filled out. We went with Irancell (MTN), which seemed like the most popular national carrier, and bought a data plan for it later on (we bought prepay-refills from corner stores and then bought "plans" using text messages).
- I brought a Lonely Planet travel guide and it was invaluable, especially because we were visiting so many cities (and because several of those visits were before I had the data SIM). Though not all of the recommendations were totally accurate (the Shahrazade restaurant in Isfahan was pretty mediocre) I have to say that there was a ton of great food (Shater Abbas in Shiraz!) and zero food poisoning, plus we wouldn't have known about most of the tourist sites otherwise. If you want to borrow it let me know!
- There's a surprisingly large number of tourists in Shiraz and Isfahan; most of the ones we saw were from France, Germany, and northern Europe. Everything was safe and the locals everywhere were friendly, though you will of course be able to navigate things more easily if you travel with someone who is fluent in Persian.
If you do go, safar khoob daashte boshi — have a good trip!
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The "C++ Visualizer"
Today I pushed some code that I used last semester for C++ visualization to github. The bad news is that it's smoke and mirrors, but the good news is that it did the trick: it helped to convey important ideas about flow control and programming semantics to my students.
This is based off of the Python visualizer at http://pythontutor.com by Philip Guo. His visualizer takes an arbitrary Python program as input, and then creates an animated HTML illustration showing which lines of code are executed in what order, and also showing the values of the variables as they change. Eric Grimson had an antique visualizer running at MIT when I was a TA for their course 6.001, but the great and novel aspects of Philip's one are that it was freely available online, could be embedded in other web pages, had a much nicer interface and output, and used a language that has fewer scary parentheses (and is for this reason more widely taught).
A couple of years ago, I scavenged the frontend of that visualizer and wrote a Java backend for it, creating the Java visualizer. This was very helpful during my stint at Princeton, where the introductory programming course I taught used Java.
Flash-forward to the most recent academic year, teaching C++ at the University of Southern California. I was very used to having a visualizer to show new concepts like for loops, function calls, object-oriented programming and recursion… I'd used it both in Python for CS Circles and for the Java course. The bad news is that the implementations in Python and Java are heavily dependent on modern features, such as a debugging API and reflection, which C++ doesn't readily offer.
So here's the "good enough" solution: write programs that are actually Java, but 'skinned' to look like C++.
Click on this link to see an example.
The actual code being run by the visualizer is the following:
public class C { public static void main(String[] args) { //><int main() { int x = 2; int y = 2; System.out.println(x+y);//>< cout << x+y << endl; }} //><}
So it's Java code, but the parts before //>< are being selectively hidden, so it looks like C++. More examples are available in the course notes.
The biggest disadvantage of this approach is that students can't enter their own C++ code for visualization, which is a huge tool for learning (and debugging!) when available. But, it's definitely better than nothing, and it saved me dozens of hours compared to creating PowerPoint animations for every single new control flow topic.
There is some hope that a real C++ visualizer could come about. At least two people have told me they have students working on it, both using text piping to GDB as a means to accomplish it. I think there's some hope that LLDB's debugging API could be used; or alternatively by using the same technology as valgrind. Until then, you can read about the fake C++ visualizer in all its glory here.
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Happy Nooroz!
For the first time since living in the US, we put together a haft seen ( هفت سین : seven S's) table! It has:
- center: garlic (sir / سیر)
- left: lentil sprouts (sabzeh / سبزه)
- counterclockwise: apple (sib / سیب),
- wild olive / oleaster (senjed / سنجد),
- vinegar (serkeh / سرکه),
- wheat germ pudding (samanoo / سمنو),
- and sumac (سماق)
There are some bonus items too:
- coins / sekkeh / سکه
- wild rue incense / esfand / اسفند
- a book by Hafez / حافظ
- noon nohodchi (from Toronto; thanks Navid and Vida!) / نون نخودچی
- on sofreh termeh fabric / سفره ترمه
And not pictured, the board scraper that I used to recover the samanoo when it exploded in its bag on the bike ride home.
I hope you have a prosperous new year!
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What I Ate at SIGCSE
About 2 weeks ago, I went to SIGCSE, which is the major computer science education conference. I talked about Computer Science Circles, its translations to other languages and translations of Python error messages to English; see the poster here. Like my last trip to SIGCSE, it was pretty great. I got to re-encounter previous colleagues, meet new ones, commiserate about C++, look at cool tools, learn more about pair programming, and I got to attend the famous "Nifty Assignments" session.
The food scene was also a good surprise! The event was held in Kansas City, Missouri. It turns out that not only is there a really great cafe ("The Filling Station") tucked inside of an old gas station:
But there was also an amazing BBQ joint inside of another gas station (this one in Kansas City, Kansas):
Just to round things out and prove that there is food outside of gas stations, here are some shots from the farmer's market in the River Market district:
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It's here😊
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and the scream continues lol!!!! i love this episode so much love going on both Jung Hae Ra and Moon Soo Hoo are sweet in their own little ways.Sharon make another move to hurt HaeRa tho HaeRa provoke her in way by saying when she get married she want Sharon to make her wedding dress but she doesnt know the past. It was scary when Sharon wield the scissor towards HaeRa. And now SooHo wearing the apparel of Sharons made the sweet couple will be in trouble. their lovey dovey will be in jeopardy.Black Knight fighting!
sharon was way out of line but hae ra should've given her a day to cool off after the pic incident…..that catfight though was awkward as f*** hihihihihihih but different
When I saw Hae Ra returning to Sharon after the fight and yet apologizing, I was: come on now, next scene please.
i know ryt and the project ended up being a bust too
I was taken aback by him giving Hae Ra advices, which weren't helpful and right in that situation and with that business project, so he is partly responsible she went to Sharon, insisted again & again and almost did not get cut with scissors. We know it would come eventually to this moment, but when she walked away from there, it was his words about not giving up that made her turn back, buy some food and even apologize to that crazy witch and for what, for that one trying to cut her face and being rude to her? Nonsense and ridiculous.
As well Soo Ho's advice about her boss, that she has to be patient and try again, I don't find it wise neither. Her whole team at the travel agency should quit working for that idiot long time ago.
well in some aspects i agree yes giving advice to her was good but he wasn't specific enough to make it that helpful they just sounded like those annoying motivational quotes people send on Facebook or whatsapp but hie was in the right place coz she kept insisting she wanted to make it on her own and unfortunately for her that means going back to apologize to someone like Sharon coz you neither have the money or connections to find someone else all you can do is "beg" in the sense of compromising yourself and your dignity to get what you want, there's nothing wrong with it many of us make a living by kissing asses of unlikable people but if it produces results you can be satisfied with then good but it's not for everyone. soo ho was trying to encourage her from his experience not every first attempt at greatness is a success, he just wasn't direct about how the world works which is what he should do with her in future endeavors.
I felt that too, sounded like some motivational quotes but nothing really specific.
Well now I think Hae Ra's life is so much better like before. So I'm sure she doesn't have to go to the extremes by humiliating herself, begging for clothes, business deals and kiss ass as you wrote. We know Soo Ho will give Hae Ra a helping hand with her work and will put her boss on his place.
Looking forward to see her becoming more confident in herself, which means no more assertiveness and humiliation.
true but the experience will make her value her success even more but really i just wanna see more kiss scenes hihihihihihih
I don't think the clothes are going to work on Soo Ho. If it didn't work on Hae Ra, it won't work on Sooho
i hope so cuz i know he has a shield i think the last time didnt work because she took necktie and wore it like same pattern what she did to HaeRa but this time she made it specifically for him even at firts shes trying to give him a shirt before but SooHo refused .this time SooHo wore the apparel she even tried it on i hope im wrong.
I think the shield is going to protect him. Some one who cares for him deeply will always protect him it could be either Hae ra or Baek he.
Let's see what happens in nxt episode.
I think so too. The writers did these tricks before. We know he received that ring and the ring might still be with him.
When I heard her wish to be living under the same roof with him, I thought: careful what you wish for, Sharon. Her wish will maybe come true but not the way she wants. Like she will transform into a clothing or antique he will keep at his house and that would be a good lesson for her.
true good punishment for her.
Wah your quirky imagination 😆
Sharon as an object…that would be interesting
I think that ring might actually protect him as you say…Let's wait and watch.
I was looking forward to watch his sexy bare back but dissapointment fell upon me like hell😆.
I am one hungry lady…lolzz
Yep lol, wondering what the writers & producers are cooking for us and what will happen to the both witches in the end?
In this case you can rewatch his shower scene, he was sweetly shy and she was funny screaming while running away. 🙂 lol
This episode is beautiful in many ways. There are some sweet romantic scenes between the leads, some revelations and some dissapointments.
The kiss is just the right blend of passion fruit and sweet nector squeezed together into a fine wine ( idk what I am writing 🙆).
Just ignore, if you don't get what I am trying to say 😂
I mean it was raunchy but sweet at the same time.
I really loved the way he was embracing her after and that little squeeze he did to her palm. Him saying "i am happy"was just adorable. The hug was pretty warming, I could feel it like seriously. Whoa that man is something. I wish that were me in hae ra's place. I can see genuine love in KRW's eyes as if he isn't play acting. His gaze have two qualities firstly it is filled with love and kindness. Secondly of course the passion and the lust.
All the scenes between Soo ho and Hae ra seem real and sincere. I guess KRW really has oppa love for Shin se kyung that's why all the scenes comes out really well.
I am looking at the show from a different perspective here so don't think I am siding with Sharon. It is just my concern for her as a fellow inhabitant. After all she is my sunbaenim that to by 220 years.
Look at the big picture, everybody committed a sin
Baek he exchanged the babies
Sharon killed soo ho and boon yi
Boon yi wore someone else's wedding dress
Soo ho loved another woman, though unknowingly of the fact that she isn't the betrothed one.
So why only Sharon is suffering for 250 years because boon yi cursed her. Put yourself in sharon's shoes guys and now tell how would you feel if someone wear your wedding dress even before you get to wear it.
hahahahahahahaha love your "novel" not comment i get what you said about Sharon and it is kinda true it was joseon and that's how servants were treated unfortunately and it was humiliating for her to lose her hubby to a servant and at the same time i think the punishment doesn't fit the crime, i mean so many people were killing for more sinister reasons than love but they aren't cursed and technically soo ho killed himself he walked back into that building himself so…………pl
I thought so too…I couldn't stop myself from writing all that.
Actually I wanted to write some more but some how managed not to.
Thanks, you took out time to read all that nonsensical scribbling of mine's.
to be honest i skipped a few parts at first but when you explained about sharon i went back and read it all kkkkkkkkk and i totally get the feeling of writing long comments i hold myself back everyday too
My fave episode this week is 9. 10 was so-so.
Oh wow, the way you describe that kiss, you shall become a writer and write romantic stories!! lol lol
The spoon, the couple style, the sweet spoonie. 🙂
I still think he loves her more, so much more.
Agree, their lovely chemistry means, the leads are certainly liking each other and this is why their kisses don't seem forced like in some dramas. He's a bit of a giant and too strong for her, while she looks so fragile next to him. When he's passionate, he knows how to control himself and be gentle with her.
Check a new link from IG on my profile here. Jesus, it took me 20 minutes till I found the Black Knight's cast video, did not give up though. 🙂
To be continued…
I liked 10th episode more may be because Hae ra has started opening a bit more with him. And there were more sweet romantic moments between them.
I am watching this show mostly for romance and KRW.
Story is all together a secondary matter for me. I wrote a big comment on story today as every body else was discussing so I thought why not 😆😂.
My keypad was asking me to use it😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Well TBH I want to write but I guess I don't have the will or strength or may be I am lacking confidence to write.
God knows when I will.
Yaa he loves her more but I believe Hae ra is just scared to love him.
She is doing a lot of thinking. As she said to her aunt that if she gets married to Soo ho before that she wants to achieve something in life. So I guess her prime focus is her career and if that's the case then it will always look like Soo ho loves her more. Because she doesn't want to depend on him, she wants a beautiful life on her own.
Shin se kyung is very petite and fragile so most of the actors paired with her come across as huge and big. That's why she looks like a damsel in distress.
Nam joo hyuk mostly looked uncomfortable with her. But KRW and her chemistry is coming out so well. This can be clearly judged by their steamy kisses. KRW definitely cares for Shin se kyung.
I will check out the link you have recommended.
In the ep. 10, that scissors scene, fake fight and Hae Ra's humiliation scene took me off and my attention was gone.
I hope you'll become more confident to write your book storyies! 🙂
It seems to me Hae Ra knows what power her charms have on Soo Ho and I wouldn't say she is scared of him, the way she pushed him away before and the way she talked to him when she got angry.
She anyways depends on him, because she lives in his house and enjoys his presents. As about career, not with such loser boss she works for. We will need a drama *magic* or The Black Knight's intervention to make it work for her at that travel agency.
Oh I wish she would be more independent, like for example from Sharon's clothes and stop going there everyday, seriously… what's wrong with her??
I was myself thinking of bringing up this topic. This thing with Hae ra and clothes. In her past life also she took and wore some one else's clothes without that person's knowledge and in present life also she taking clothes from Sharon.
She is kind of a hoarder.
IDK why she is doing this…may be she loves clothes too much.
But this is a new concept in the show and I am liking it. May be because I love clothes too.
Hae ra isn't scared of him, she is scared to love. She is not confident bcoz her life is not in best conditions right now. Before committing herself to love she wants to be successful. May be she isn't now but she's trying hard. Nothing in life is easy and to achieve something sometimes we have to move mountains even at the cost of getting hurt. So in my opinion Hae ra is doing it right.
Self made people are the best examples of life in general.
Thanks for your wishes dear, I really hope to write a book soon.😘💖
The writers have to find a reason why Hae Ra must go to the witch place but lately they were overdoing.
Oh, Hae Ra loves clothes more than anything or anyone lol such a funny mouse she is. Has no problems to wear them for free, I mean like, so unreal. Let us say she was bewitched by Sharon and this is why she cant help but coming back for more clothing.
Self-made people, what an ideal world would it be. In this story her character tried hard long enough and she really had no luck. Black Knight is changing that and in her situation, to achieve something and become successful, she will need him, her lucky charm, that's how this story goes.
From the last episode we found out that she is thinking to marry him, so I believe she's not afraid to love anymore and is learning to trust him.
As well in my opinion, Hae Ra shouldn't hide that the trainer is her ex. The truth will always come out in the end.
See I told everyone before that I am here only for KRW oppa and romance. Now you have stuck me in your web of words.
Now I don't know what to write…so I am going by your word dear.
Once I clear my thoughts, I will post my reply on the above matter.
Btw the link you posted in your profile, I have seen it.
But I couldn't get what they were talking about.
So if you know then please elaborate.
Take your time lol I know commenting about each episode of every ongoing kdrama we watch can be exhausting. Not to mention I keep reading what the other viewers are writing, so it's time consuming.
Well I don't speak Korean, but the lead actress was trying to do a live chat or to take a live video. It was nice to see how comfortable and friendly they are with each other.
As about Sharon, me and her are totally opposite. I would never worship a man or make him the greatest weakness of my life, not to mention to waste my time on somebody who loves another woman.
Which means we shall respect when people love each other, not interfere and most important, not do to others what you would not want them to do to you. I don't like players.
Well nobody's perfect in this world but that does not excuse her action. I think if you are sane, you wouldn't jump to burn somebody's face just because she tried on your wedding dress. That's middle age her behavior and that attack with scissors means she did not change much after 250 years.
She should go to a psychiatric clinic or receive some therapy, she had plenty of time to get over herself and become better person like the old witch.
Sharon is suffering 250 years because she wants to, it was her choice, to live a happy life or keep being miserable.
What happened in the past life, it happened long time ago. And a lesson should be learned. What the present life and another generation has to do with Sharon's frustrations and obsessions?
Many are learning their lessons during one lifetime. Sharon was not able to learn her lesson in… 250 years – 3 lives??
And you know how it will end the story of this drama, those who love each other will be together. As about Sharon, she'll be punished if only the writers won't pity her character and give her some happiness at the end.
Oh wow
I never looked at the story from this perspective.
What you said is right too but here I am not siding with Sharon. It is just I am feeling pitty for her sorry state.
You know like some people just have sheer bad luck. Of course she herself choose the path she is treading on and suffering while walking, trembling and falling and again moving.
This woman is definitely made of something else other wise by now I mean after 250 years she could have changed.
I hope for a happy end for everyone…as I can think only positive for everyone.
what a smile………………what a man!!!!!those eyes melt my soul……………..
All for you, his giving his best for his dear supporters & admirers! 🙂
and we love him for that i think i'm gonna find some of his old dramas the only one i watched was doctors and he didn't quite captivate me as much as he did here….in fact i thought he laughed way too much even in serious conversations, it made him seem passive like he didn't care what the other person was saying…………goes to show how careful you have to be when picking a role not everyone will like how you portray a certain character
I'll be waiting for the new dramas with him. Let's hope he'll keep impressing us with his great acting and performance! 🙂
i think BaekHe who protect him actually she did both.but Sharon always get her way.
Like the terra traveller said now that he has the ring of luck with him, nothing can go wrong or so I wish.
Baek He did wrong in history but now she is a completely changed person. I am really liking her motherly character.
i agree I like Baek he transformation a maternal character.luckily Baekhe gave the ring to MSH before it happens. Boonyi made her wishes on that ring before the tragedy so i hope really works.Sharon forgot BoonYi who curse her lol she should stay away from JungHaeRa.
hope so, we wouldn't be facing this risk if it weren't for the clumsy worker who does a complete 360 turn with coffee without looking in a busy office were everyone was clearly running around!!
it was working with HaeRa but it didnt last long because of Baekhe she called SooHo to wake her up and brought home.and also the thing is every time she does something to HaeRa the letters resurface on their body parts including BaekHe.i really hope it wont work.
Soooooo, some guy decides not to business with him, his son gets in an accident and is in a coma, she gets stabbed in the face with scissors, beat up, boss leaks her idea, and steals her new idea, and she gets jokes and a hug???????? They do know this is all because of what happened to her right? He just got caught up in it right?????
sexism…….the pride and joy of the 21st century, i mean why is it they have the same "orphan" circumstances as children but somehow only the guy orphans ever seem to make it in fact hae ra is the most successful orphan lead I've ever seen in dramas which is really depressing but nooooo soo ho(love you but…girl power moment) went to med school and did cashmere businesses urgh like wtf????
thank you for the sub!
Not the damn shirt. Anything but the damn coffee stained shirt.
guess luck hit the snooze button
And then she just had to walk in when this shirt nonsense started. I swear if this voodoo of hers works we riot to Seoul and demand a rewrite
agreed in fact why sharon hasn't gotten into a car accident and coma baffles me…..seriously, taking hae ra away from soo ho will hurt him and what happens to fools who hurt soo ho…………..b*****s get stitches!!
I didn't finish the episode. I just saw her shoes as she walked into shot and closed my browser
hahahahahahahaha well that speaks volumes of your frustration
That moment when your life freezes for a week because of a damn shirt stain cliffhanger. Curse you 작가님.
i know and right now i really hate that office worker so bad for putting us through this……..somebody has to take the blame for this
good romance as usual. somebody help me i really wanna tie Sharon and that sleazy director together and put them on a boat to a deserted island, they can spend their days there for all i care.
im in lol
we'll make him immortal too muhahahahahahahaha
5:04 im loving this trio lol
Me too…it is like 3 flying Dragons
Idk why but the trio seem fitting together.
how smart is she do she think what ever spell she has on that shirt will work i mean he has to take it off some time whether its a forget the love of my live or what it will ware off then she will have those beautiful tattoo as her dancer boy stated
The beginning of this episode was sweet. Loved the ost around 07:00, (any help with name/artist would be appreciated), but from there is seemed to just get more aggravating. From Sharon's damn persistence to the Aunt who really isn't and Aunt and then to find out that even a second tattoo didn't phase the eveil Sharon…and now he's wearing her "heat" shirt and they will be negotiating together. JEEEZZZ! I think I would have felt better being left on a cliff. 🙁
OST Part 4, Paul Kim, Goodbye Kiss. 🙂
Very cool, thanks for the fast response!!
Just downloaded it thanks again. 😀
I'm still enjoying the song a lot! You're welcome! 🙂
My last 5 downloads Paul Kim, Goodbye Kiss, Ra.D (Just between Lovers ost part 3), Soul Dive (Oh, the mysterious part 2, I think), Saltnpaper (You make me), and my fave lately, Yeontae – IN2IT (My Way). Will be checking out your latest recommendation thanks. Please keep me up to date ANY time! 😉
There's a new OST for "A Korean Odyssey" KDrama that I am enjoying now: Bumkey, "When I Saw You". If you are enjoying the soundtracks and OST from different KDramas, I may recommend you some more good ones. 🙂
Watching that one too. Already got that one downloaded, but gotta wait for the others to be uploaded. :/ I'll be waiting for more info from ya and also for more to be uploaded… 😉
Perfect! Hope you're watching as well Just Between Lovers and Jugglers! Both ongoing Kdramas have very nice soundtracks.
Of course! One of the last 5 songs I mentioned earlier was from "Just between lovers". Had it on repeat this morning while working. One of my faves currently. 😀
doing what on a cliffside exactly…………..hanging? xD
i just watch for the romance between them sharon is just blowing hot air
Good for you, besides the romance, I'm living vicariously thru Sharon and Hae Ra 😀
their relationship is just weird esp after that catfight
It is, but my living vicariously thru them was with the handsome rich guy that I will never find in this lifetime. lol Maybe my next life…just gotta save a country first. 😉
and be born korean too that's a must kkkkk
i like im not a robot more than this drama. idk why im not a robot is not well received in korea
i love im not a robot
i'm sharon line. she is much batter than Hae Ra
why is sharoon still using those old sewing machines its 2018 she should have new ones
p.s I have the same scissor 😂😂😂😂
hello guys!! how is this series going??? I actually got fed up with it few eps before and left watching it.. it was going too slow and obvious. anyways are eps good?????? Interesting..??