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Just rambling again

I just have to get a few more things about Full House off my chest.

1. Why do Song Hae Gyo and Charming Man, both twentysomethings, need reading glasses?
2. I love the huge fridges found in both Rain/SHG's and Charming Man's houses.
3. What exactly is an Internet novelist? SHG is one at the start of the story. Does one make any money as an Internet novelist? How exactly does it work?
4. Why does Charming Man take her on as a scriptwriter when she is supposedly a third-rate Internet writer? Does anyone know of any lobang of this kind? Please let me know. He doesn't even need to be charming or whatever or in love with me. As long as can make money legally, can already.
5. The two girls have such lovely earrings. SHG also has some rather pretty dresses towards the end of the show, after her hair suddenly straightens.
6. I liked Rain's dad. He is so kind to SHG when he meets her at the wedding, quite unlike some of the dads in other K shows who beat their sons up and send gangsters to threaten their (sons') girlfriends.
7. How did everyone become so friendly and happy at the end of the show? There is so much tension between Rain and Charming Man throughout the show, either over SHG or Pretty Girl, and Pretty Girl is just pouting, manipulating or confused most of the time. Suddenly, they are all so jolly at the end.

I read in yesterday's Life! section about Kim Jeong Hoon, the guy from Goong/Princess Hours. Here's another young man who doesn't sleep. Apparently he sleeps little more than 3 hours a day. Madness. And to think he could have been a dentist with regular sleeping hours. This guy was actually in the dentistry course at the the top uni in Seoul but, obviously, he had a change of heart.

On the topic of earrings, my friend CK and I stepped into tai tai-dom for a bit when we went to the to-be-officially-opened National Museum (I find those random-yet-not-random letters on their website very distracting) to gawk at the Cartier (cool website) pieces. Lovely.

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