Saturday, November 24, 2007

DBSK in Paris (a.k.a. crazy Korean tourists)

The boys make their own Korean remix of Champs Elysees. Then Junsu and Yoochun squabble over the correct pronunciation of bonjour. Junsu's natural way of saying it is so cute. "Bongji" LOL.


Then Joongie makes it his mission to stand on a bridge and yell bonjuu bonjour at everything that passes him by. He eventually drags Yunho into doing it with him. xD

Man. If only Black Friday sales applied to YesAsia. :(
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Dear Students,
I'd like to inform you that four Hogwarts representatives at Northside College Preparatory High School have graciously agreed to act as House Heads for this spring term. They will be running 2 Colloquia, each entitled "Platform 9 3/4, King's Cross Station". There will be an enrollment for the upper school (Juniors and Seniors) and an enrollment for the lower school (Sophomores and Freshmen). A description of the colloquium follows this message. Because Hogwarts is open only to the Wizarding community, students will be pre-registered for this course. We will only be accepting 15 students from each class. The House Heads ask that if you are interested in this colloquium, you submit (in an interesting fashion) your reasons why you should be considered for admission to Northside Hogwarts. Your submission must be brief and submitted via email to this address from your Northside email account. If you choose to send something written, it must be less than 350 words. If you choose to send something visual or audio, it must be enjoyed in 1.5 minutes. Please email your response by Dec 5th.

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Platform 9 3/4, King's Cross Station
Spring Colloquium Description, 2007

Convinced you�ve seen a house elf? Have you passed the time in class by mentally sorting your teachers and classmates into houses? Are your pets� names Hedwig, Crookshanks, or Scabbers? If so, then this colloquium is for you! This spring, you can join fellow wizards and witches to experience a semester of all things Hogwarts! We�ll apply magical focus to our Muggle Studies by completing scavenger hunts, developing house pride, helping out future wizards and witches, and preparing for house domination in the Tri-Wizard Tournament.

Pre-requisite: Knowledge of the complete series
Hogwarts Graduation Requirement: Harry Potter service learning project

OMG MUST APPLY. I suppose this also means I'll have to read the last two books. Looks like I have something to do during winter break now. D:

So what should I send them? I'm thinking of doing a celebrity endorsement sort of thing, with quotes from various HP charas saying why I should go. Any other ideas? :D
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Saturday, November 17, 2007

Remy v1.5

If I had known that urethane eyes were that luminescent, I would've skipped glass eyes all together. Next up is getting him a faceup that will actually match with the new hair... which I swear will happen before ACen. >_<

Though the new eyes make Rem look kind of bitchy. This might call for a chara change. D:
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Friday, November 16, 2007

My fandom has questionable taste.
DJ: Lately I heard you're into anime.
Yunho: Yes, recently we're into this anime called Bleach.
DJ: Kurosaki Ichigo?
All: AHH!! Wowowow~
Yunho: Oh, you know very well~
DJ: The shinigami one?
Junsu: Bankai!
Yunho: Shikai~
DJ: AHAHAHAH!
Junsu: Reiatsu~
DJ: You find Bleach interesting even though you lived in Korea all this while?
Junsu & Yunho: Very interesting.
DJ: What about Bleach do you find interesting?
Jaejoong: All guys will like it.
Yoochun: It reminds me of Dragon Ball from before.

LOL. I bet they would like Naruto if someone introduced it to them. And Yunho would become a Sasuke fanboy and I would laugh for all eternity.


Also, a note on Claymore: I don't like Clare as much as Teresa. This sometimes makes the episodes more difficult to get through. :(
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

WTF
THE TIMELESS MUSIC VIDEO FEATURING HANKYUNG AND SHIWON OF SUPER JUNIOR IS ON ADAM'S MYO. UNDER THE GUISE OF J-POP MUSIC.

I JUST. WHAT IS.

THIS IS HOW IT ALL STARTS. ONE DAY, WE WILL ALL WAKE UP AND FIND OUT THAT ADAM HAS BECOME A K-POP FANGIRL.

YOU HAVE ALL BEEN WARNED.
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Monday, November 12, 2007

College worries
1) I was at another overnight visit from Thursday night to Saturday for Multicultural weekend. Regarding racial issues, it was surprisingly enlightening in ways I won't care to explain here, although less fun than the Kenyon visit if not just because my host wasn't a fellow fangirl.

Though what made the overall experience far less enjoyable was, throughout almost all of Saturday I was on my college soapbox pointlessly worrying about admissions and spending every available minute weighing schools in my head or wondering if I should really apply to so-and-so school if I don't think I have a good shot of getting in or if I really want to kill myself writing application essays for a million different schools. All of which I realize I've been thinking about far too often in the past week, but the average student of almost all of the colleges I'm applying to seem to be the "I never get anything below a B" types, a category I just don't fit into. But I'm not a flat-out bad student (in my defense, I go to an unusually difficult school) and I seem to fit the profile in virtually every other way, which leaves me in this horrible rut of confusion as to what my chances really are.

After spending a freaking hour Saturday night mulling over everything at the school's library, I finally managed to sort some of this out, and since then have tried to relax a little. Although the obsessive worry is definitely still there. I fucking wish it were April already. :(

2) Nowadays, I often hear my classmates say how they're "so sick of high school" and have been "daydreaming about going to college ever since the school year started." Which makes me think I'm the only person in my whole class who is a little terrified of leaving home and adapting to dorm life and just college in general.

I suppose I'm heavily influenced by all of the college horror stories I've been hearing as of late, particularly from LJ users, about how they're slowly dying under their work load or how they've sometimes studied for a test longer than the hours I sleep in a day or how often they stay up studying until their library's 2 AM closing hour. Not that the prospect of staying up past midnight doing homework is new to me; hell I did it just last night, but being forewarned of such things is STILL SCARY DAMNIT.

That, and I'm scared of not making many friends. Which I know is normal, but the schools I'm more likely to attend are small, and I know what it's like to not have any close friends at a small school. And it's something I don't want to relive.

3) Smaller and more trivial than the previous points, but I like how, according to both the SATs and ACTs, my worst academic area by far is writing. I might not be able to fill up two pages in forty minutes, but that doesn't automatically make me a failure as a writer. Screw you too, standardized testing. :(

Okay, enough of my crap. Thank God for fandom; I think I would explode without something to distract me from all this while at home. This alone made my whole weekend brighter:

When the baby cried, Joongie sung to her. Seriously. This is such a Daddy & Mommy moment that I just. Can barely handle it. (o_o)
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Saturday, November 3, 2007

My sister and I drove up to Ohio on Thursday for my overnight visit at Kenyon. (Some of you might remember the post I made a month back about this.)

Firstly, Emily and her roommate Laura were really nice throughout the visit. There wasn't much to do on campus on Thursday night, so they frantically tried to keep me distracted. (Which was nice, but really, I'm not a difficult person to please. xD) After giving me a tour around the campus, they drove me over to a nearby town to eat at one of their better Chinese restaurants. One of their friends tagged along with us, and I found out that she was a fellow DBSK/SuJu/JE fan from Singapore. (Who friended me on LJ after meeting me, yay!) The four of us talked about NEWS and the AADBSK DVDs over dinner, then went over to the nearest grocery store to take advantage of post-Halloween candy sales, and drove around the downtown area while listening to Super Junior songs. xD

After heading back to our respective dorms, Laura let me watch an Arashi concert on her laptop, during which I started feeling really tired because of the previous night's lack of sleep. (I had to wake up at 4:00 AM to get to Kenyon in the late afternoon.) But the sleepiness was helped a bit when the three of us went over to the campus coffeehouse to buy drinks--I got hot chocolate and felt like such a kid amongst the caffeine-induced masses. Out of morbid curiosity, we watched a Hey! Say! JUMP PV while finishing our drinks back at their dorm, as well as NEWS's performance of weeeek on Utaban. (During which Laura said, "They solved the problem of NEWS's sucky dancing by giving them no choreography!")

And then we played with sparklers outside. xD

And spent the rest of the night making fun of DBSK's Rising Sun concert, during which we established that Yoochun = Barry White and Yunho = Human Gumby

Yesterday was the more academic-oriented day. I ended up waking up at around 9:30 just like a real college student and sitting in on an English class at 10:00. One of the interesting things about Kenyon is that the school is really small--small enough to accommodate about fourteen students per classroom on average. Which might scare some people, but seeing as how I've attended small schools all my life, I suppose I've adjusted to it.

Afterwards I had a formal tour around the campus, mainly through the academic departments, then headed back to the dorm to eat lunch with Laura. I caught her laughing at me when I freaked while putting my used tray on a crowded moving conveyor belt. xD;;

I ROCKED MY INTERVIEW. It was my first one, and I felt really proud over doing so well. Especially since I felt horribly inarticulate throughout my entire time at Kenyon before that point, but thankfully, my brain managed to pull through. It was a more casual interview, but it was filled with all sorts of random curveball questions, such as, "If there were 26-hour days, how would you spend those two extra hours?" And since fandom is present in every aspect of my life, I managed to squeeze in a vague reference to DBSK towards the end and still come out seeming normal. xD

I headed back to the dorm one last time to pick up my stuff. Emily was still at classes, and Laura was rushing out the door by the time I arrived, so I ended up just leaving them a thank you note. ^-^;;

Admittedly, the visit got a little weird at some moments, partly because I think I'm overly conscious of how I can be a little socially awkward at times. But Emily and Laura were very accommodating, the campus was gorgeous and Kenyon seems like a genuinely nice school, so it was an overwhelming positive experience all things considered.

Lastly, I went into scary paparazzi mode and took a bunch of pictures of their dorm. xD

Wall 2 | Wall3 | Corner | Closet Door | Ceiling (yes, on their freaking ceiling) | Front Door
My new goal in life is to amass a collection large enough to decorate my room just like this. Because I now know the best way to be greeted in the morning is the sight of a dozen pictures of pretty Korean boys a foot away from your face.
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Monday, October 29, 2007

What I did during the downtime.
Holy crap, the past few days have been busy. Aside from a short college visit, my little cousin's birthday party, and more homework than usual, I had posters to flatten and hang up, as well as around eleven hours worth of videos to try to cram as much of as I could in three days.

If anyone remembers the set of DBSK DVDs I mentioned my friend was getting a while back, I ended up having to order the DVDs for her, since her parents didn't feel comfortable putting credit card info online. (She paid me back, of course.) Not that I minded this at all, since it meant I got to watch the whole thing first. xDD

If I write about each DVD, I will be here forever, so I'll just talk about my favorite, the Show DVD: Oh my God. It is one of the best things that has ever come out of Korea, period. To whichever genius at SM who thought it would be a good idea to let the boys run their own variety show, I thank you with all my heart. MIN SAYS THAT JUNSU IN A RED HAT LOOKS LIKE SUPER MARIO. MIN OWNS JOONGIE AT CHAM CHAM AND BEATS HIM UP WITH A PLASTIC HAMMER. THE BOYS COMPETE FOR A PS3. JOONGIE CLAIMS THAT YUNHO SOMETIMES TREATS HIM LIKE A GIRL. IT IS AMAZING. Seriously, I would pay to relive that experience. *o*~


My Corner of Joy. Yeah, my friend let me keep the poster that came with the boxset! ^-^

So yeah, fun weekend. A couple other quick points:

- I played the Wii for the first time over the weekend. It was easier to adjust to the Wiimote than I would've expected.

- I really really really like NEWS's newest PV. Yamapi with black hair = <3
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

On Literature students and how they approach reading.
It honestly disappoints me that most students are presumptuous enough to so quickly dismiss respected works of literature, often on the basis that the book was "boring" or "the language was too difficult." I don't think anyone would realistically expect all or even most students to appreciate the works they read for class, no matter how important the book or author they're studying is considered. However, it would be nice if students at least tried to find out why the book or author is held in such high regard rather than dismiss it right off the bat.

Literature (referring specifically to "canonical" works) is not entertainment. Its purpose isn't to pander to the reader's interests. Complaining that Literature class is a waste of time because you don't enjoy the books you're reading is like complaining that Math is a waste of time because you don't enjoy doing logarithms. In Literature classes, there will always be required reading that will bore the hell out of you--but you're missing out on the whole point of Literature as a subject if you automatically judge these works as "pointless" or "not worth spending time on" because they're a struggle to read.





...Okay, there is NO good segue that could transition from that to the video below, so I won't even try. I dug this up while procrastinating doing homework last night:

Junsu is being interviewed on what he thought of their Budokan concert, while the rest of the boys decide to be stupid and imitate Jaws in the background. I love how Junsu's only response to the idiocy going on behind him is, "chotto dekinai desu ne."



roselit@LJ even managed to make an icon out of Yunho's split-second shark face. XDD
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Sunday, October 21, 2007

FANDOM DID NOT FAIL ME.

MF download link: Last Angel PV

Admittedly, the whole video turned out being a little underwhelming in the face of my absurdly high expectations. But I still think it's really damn cool and easily the best music video the boys have made in too long a time.

- Changmin's arms. Seriously. Just. Seriously.

- CHOREOGRAPHY. Specifically, Junsu + choreography. Damn can that boy dance.

- Yunho and Changmin are to die for. And Junsu for the aforementioned reason. Did I mention Min's arms? *o*

- To be fair, Koda Kumi looks quite lovely here too, particularly when dancing with the boys. I love her hair so much. *wibbles*

All in all, <333333333333333. If this doesn't give the boys a significant surge in popularity in Japan, then I DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL.

So yeah, the PV is great and blah blah blah [insert vows of undying love for DBSK here]

EDIT: OH. And to answer your question, tsubasa, yes. That is black polish on Yunho's nails. Joongie has it too, and Yoochun and Junsu have matching silver nail polish. Apparently, Changmin is the only normal one. XD
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