Friday, January 4, 2008

All aboard the fanservice train~
Made a bunch of YunJae gifs (even though I totally should be doing other things) and I'm posting a couple of them here. Because I can, damn it.

omg dorks. <3333




Okay, so I didn't make this but HOMG. I couldn't resist. Jaejoong at his prettiest, I think, and there's something a little tragic about that hug at the end. I think it's Jae's expression, but whatever it is, the scene is... poignant, almost, because of it.




...And it's even cuter in context: Yunho had just thrown a tied soccer game against a group of kids. The host of the show asked Yunho which way he would kick the ball and Yunho responded left. And the goalie kid said that he trusted that Yunho would keep to his word "if he's a nice adult." So of course Yunho ends up kicking to the left, and when the ball is blocked, Jaejoong immediately jumps up, laughing and yelling, "Baka! Baka!" and hugs him from behind.

asadasdssafdffff <3333 They are just so adorable, they make me so incoherent. Honestly, how can anyone blame me for being trapped in the pitfalls of RPS when my OTP is just. That. Cute. As naive as this sounds, I sincerely hope the two of them stay best friends forever and ever and ever. ;____; <33

(This is especially odd for me because I've never been that big a fan of fluffy pairings, but YunJae just. Makes me melt into a happy puddle of goo. When did I become such a softie?)

And for the record, I find it hilarious that the two of them can be so touchy-feely and still legitimately claim to be straight. Ahh, Asian entertainment. <33
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Thursday, January 3, 2008

Everyone, meet my newest guilty pleasure.

This is SNSD. *headdesking*

You see, I was planning to write something deep and profound about writing and how stupid I was for giving up fanfic for two years out of frustration with my prose, but then I thought screw it, I'll post about Korean girls in mini-skirts instead.

Because that is essentially what SNSD is: a group of nine 20 year-old Korean women who dress like they're in middle school. The members are all capable of singing and dancing, but judging by the pure bubblegum pop of their singles and their shamelessly cute (albeit in a loli kind of way) music videos, whatever talent they might possess is clearly not the focus of their appeal. Case in point:


They even have the whole "high kick in front of the camera so that you can see our panties for a millisecond" thing. I mean, come on.

But I like this group, regardless of their skimpy schoolgirl outfits, regardless of their all-catch-and-nothing-else music. (And regardless of the boys openly admitting that they're attracted to these girls, among other things. INTENSE JEALOUSY)

At the very least, I can keep telling myself that this is still better than liking Morning Musume.
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Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Just to throw my own scrap in the pile of sentimental New Years recollections...
Honestly, I'm not the type to take New Years as a holiday all that seriously (sorry, Japan), since I tend to think of my life in terms of phases rather than years. But I figure I can stand being a little less pretentious for a few minutes, and think about what did happen to me in 2007.

I started this year in a rut. I'm not sure if it showed in my posts, but I was very unfulfilled with my life and myself, and it manifested in ways that I can only see now that I'm better. I was an all-in-all unhappy person, but thankfully for me, 2007 wasn't an all-in-all unhappy year.

Since around last summer I've changed in seemingly little ways that made a significant difference in my overall self. I've learned to be a little more open about myself, a little more daring, a little more considerate of others. I've grown more confidence in areas I didn't realize I was lacking in, and I run away a little less when things in my life go wrong or unplanned.

Lord knows I still have my problems, but hopefully I'm getting better at correcting the ones that need to be fixed and accepting the ones that don't.

Although I don't show it often enough, I really am grateful for every kind word that was said to me this past year, both offline and on. I'm grateful for all the people I've met and the people from years past who I've managed to cling onto. And I'm grateful that I found five beautiful souls whose dedication, infectious enthusiasm, and "love life" attitudes served as one of my main inspirations in making all these changes.

Happy New Year, everyone, and make it a good one. :)
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Saturday, December 29, 2007

Shameless fangirling over the other half of my OTP. :P
Because I totally have nothing better to do at the moment. :D!

BUT FIRST, an email I got from my Psych teacher after apologizing for forgetting to sign something on the teacher recc form I gave him:

I'll check...if that's the case then you can sign it when we get back...by the way, you are no trouble at all. I am honored to write such an awesome person a recommendation...I truly enjoyed working with you in our class...have a great break

*MAJOR WIBBLE* I think that just made my whole semester. I am seriously going to miss that man come the start of school.



But anyway. About Yunho. I find it veeeeery interesting that, according to the majority of fan reports, he is apparently way hotter in person than in his photos. And some of these girls admitted that they weren't even all that attracted to Yunho prior to seeing him in the flesh, but were practically drooling all over themselves when they did. I made a comment about this on a recent fan report and got this glorious response from jean_kkp:

i saw him in KL [Kuala Lumpur] and yunho isnt even qualified to be a person. he's Godlike. no blasphemy intended. he just doesnt look human.

he's fucking hot and unreal.

.....Which pretty confirms that, yeah, it's my new mission to ogle this man IRL. How extraordinary must he look to people like me who already think he's drop dead gorgeous from pictures alone? I MEAN, COME ON.

THE MAN IS A WALKING HERBAL ESSENCE COMMERCIAL. If he's supposedly way hotter than he looks on camera, I fear that if I were to see him in person, my eyes might pop from his sheer beauty. Seriously, I am majorly cheating on Joongie at the moment and going through an alarming case of "Yunho is hothothot." *clings to him* *o*~

And because fandom is still wrapped up in the holiday spirit, here's the boys throwing Christmas ornaments at Junsu's ass. :P


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Thursday, December 27, 2007

My post office sucks.
I called my post office earlier today, fed up that they still have not redelivered my DBSK bags after I first requested them to do so over a week ago. They asked me when it was initially delivered, and I said Monday of last week. (Although to be fair, it's possible that they misheard that as last Monday.) And the person over the phone said to come pick it up at the post office because they don't return packages to the sender that quickly.

So I go to the post office and of course the employee who I asked to retrieve my package ends up getting into a ten-minute spat with her manager in front of everyone. Okay, whatever, I'm willing to shrug that off. But then I'm informed that my package is nowhere to be found, and that it is in fact possible that it was returned to the sender.

The employee asked me where my mailing slip was, and I informed her that I had checked the option for redelivery and left it for my mailman to pick up, but it was never redelivered. And that it's been a week since then. She said that she'll ask my mailman if she still has the mailing slip and that she'll check again to see if my package was put on hold somewhere. (And if it was, I still have to idea how they plan to get it to me. Are they finally going to redeliver it or do they expect me to come by the post office again? Ugh.)

And as if I wasn't already annoyed enough with my situation, the woman then proceeds to give me this short, confusing lecture on how I shouldn't leave my mail laying around because it might fall into the wrong hands or I might get a new mailman who wouldn't know what to do with it. Umm, what the fuck? It was a mailing slip that I left on the face of my mailbox for the mailman to find. Where the hell else was I supposed to put it? I even secured the damn thing with mailing tape, which has kept my posters safely stuck on my wall for months now, so the only way it could've gotten "lost" is if my neighbors decide to rip it off for no reason. And the incompetency of their new mailmen is entirely their problem. I just wanted the damn thing redelivered; that should be entirely in their power to do with little trouble.

And of course there's the possibility that the package got shipped back all the way to Thailand without any attempt at redelivery on their part. Just great, especially seeing as how one of the bags was supposed to be an xmas present for a friend. Now it's going to be a super-fucking-late xmas present. The one thing I'm thankful for is that I bought this from a fellow fan, so if it did get returned, asking them to resend the package shouldn't be too hard. (Even though I'll have to pay for shipping again.) And I guess I'll just have to pray that they deliver at a time when my mom is still home. :/

Mind you, this is far from the first time I've had problems with my post office, but this is easily the worst experience I've had. So to reiterate: my post office sucks.

I'll go drown myself in DBSK fanservice now in an attempt to make myself feel better. Or stare at this for an inordinate length of time and think about how it will soon be mineminemine. Well, you know, assuming that my post office doesn't in some way screw me over again.
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Christmas day ended up being much better for me than stupid Christmas Eve, since I spent the day with a much more intimate group of relatives. And when I thought about it, I realized that the cause of all my frustration on Christmas Eve wasn't so much my relatives nor the couple of thoughtless gifts, but rather one person: my brother. I won't go into too much detail here, so I'll just state that I definitely do not miss living with him full time, and I almost cannot wait for winter break to end so that my life can go back to normal. Honestly, if he makes one more stupid, snide remark about Remy or DBSK being gay, I will punch him in the face, no joke.

BUT ANYWAY. Thankfully, not all of my siblings are unbearable; my sister bought me this really nice shoulder bag (that Remy can fit into!) as well as a bag of Japanese candies, packs of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, and a bunch of materials + a very large guidebook for making origami things. And I like that most of the clothes & accessories I received this year are actually stylish now that I've noticeably developed a sense of fashion this past year. xDD

And because nothing I could say would be as entertaining as this, I'll end this post with an excerpt from a recent interview in which Junsu enlightens the public with stories of his prolonged belief in Santa. xD

-- How old were you when you believed in Santa Claus?
Yoochun: Before I went to 2nd grade.
Changmin: I never believed in Santa.
Jaejoong: Changmin doesn't have a childhood.
Changmin: Maybe you're right.
Junsu: I always believed in Santa Claus until I got to the 2nd year of middle school.

-- Wow, that's really different.
Junsu: When I knew Santa Claus didn't exist in reality, I really couldn't believe it. I was so shocked I couldn't eat for a week.

-- No way...
Junsu: Because there isn't a meaning in life anymore. I keep thinking what there was left in this world to live for.
Changmin: So silly *laughs*
Jaejoong: At some stage, it's probably what we call 'innocent'...

-- Then how did you find out Santa wasn't real?
Junsu: Then I was thinking, "Christmas is coming.. I wonder what I will get.." While watching the television, the female MC said, "There aren't any more children who believe in Santa anymore, right?"

-- But there still is one here *laughs*
Junsu: Even so I think she's wrong... I asked my mother, "The girl is lying, right? Santa really does exist, right?" Then she told me honestly Santa didn't exist, and I said, "Ah, no way/really?" But since parents don't look like people who lie, I accepted the facet.... But because I suffered such a shock, I tried my [rice] bowl and ran into my room, crying to sleep.
trans by cynsinnn <33
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Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Just to kill two birds with one stone...

"Marry" Christmas to all & congrats to the boys for their 4th debut anniversary. :3

At 2 AM, I penned this sad little rant that I was planning to post on here about the insincerity of Christmas gift giving and how sick I am of "too massive Christmas parties with too few relatives whom I feel a connection to outside of blood." But I woke up in a considerably better mood this morning, all the while feeling horrible about writing something filled with such contempt for people who essentially have good intentions, and thus decided to spare you all from my shit.

So. Happy holidays, everyone. :P
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Sunday, December 23, 2007

Conversation with my mom.
Me: *skimming through a smut fic because there is NO way I am going to properly read it with my mom sitting on my bed four feet away*
Mom: ...So his name is Hero?
Me: *sputters* Huh? What what what? Huh?
Mom: *points to poster* That guy. His name is Hero?
Me: No. Well, kind of. Not really. That's his nickname. *navigates away from the page because it is just AWKWARD talking to my mom about Joongie while looking at a smut fic involving him at the same time*
Mom: Whatever his name is, he should smile more. He looks depressed.
Me: Oh God, not this again. He's not freaking depressed, he smiles all the freaking time.
Mom: *points to posters* Then how come he isn't smiling in any of those pictures?
Me: Of course he's not smiling in those pictures. He smiles all the time regularly, but never for posters or album covers or anything like that.
Mom: ...Because he's depressed.
Me: He's not freaking depressed! He's one of the happiest people in the whole group!
Mom: It doesn't seem like it. In that poster, he has that whole "what are you looking at, get away from me" expression. He's cute and all, but he would look much more attractive if he smiled more.
Me: ...Okay, I will pretend that you did NOT just say that about a guy who is young enough to be your son. And how many times do I have to say it, he smiles all the time! He probably looks deadpan in pics to make up for all the smiling he usually does!
Mom: *continues to squabble just to annoy me*

ADFSS;S;FSDSFDSDFDSDF*HEADDESK* ARGHHHHHH. We don't have these convos often, but whenever we do, it makes me want to take all my pictures of Joongie and hide them from the world. Or at least just my mother's peering eyes. >____<

LOOK AT THAT HAPPY SMILE. HAHA SUCK IT, MOM.




And this is entirely random, but while looking through my pic collection, I was reminded that Jae is a My Chemical Romance fan (the shirt says it all). Ah Joongie, you enigma you. (Who I maintain is SO not depressed despite listening to MCR and sometimes painting his nails black. Really.)

EDIT: MY MOM PASSED BY WHILE I HAD MY MYO PAGE OPEN, AND SHE SAW THE PICS OF JOONGIE AND SAID, "Oh, I like how he looks there. Almost like a girl." AHAHAHAHAHA OH MY GOD, MY LIFE. <333
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Saturday, December 22, 2007

TO TSUBUSA_NO_NEKO: CLICK FOR YOUR BELATED BIRTHDAY GIFT. <3 The whole thing got pretty stupid and carried away towards the end, but I hope it's at least somewhat entertaining for you and not too crackish. xDD;;

EDIT: Just had to squeeze this in; preview of DBSK's new Japanese single:

Ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod, this isn't normally my sort of thing, but I LOVE this song regardless. I THINK CHANGMIN IS RAPPINGasgl;sfds
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Friday, December 21, 2007

1) Has anyone reading this eaten ootoro sushi before? And if you have, is it normal for it to cost $5 for two pieces or did I get ripped off? o_o

2) The Fedex man rang, and I practically flew out the door, expecting them to have FINALLY redelivered my DBSK bags. But it turned out being a package for my neighbors. DAMN YOU, POSTAL SERVICE, STOP PLAYING GAMES WITH MY MIND.

3) A big congratulations to Koda Kumi for her impressive CD sales figures! I don't really keep up with her, but I'm really, really grateful for all that she's done for the boys over the past few months; it seems like one of the main reasons why LAST ANGEL came to be is because Koda herself was interested in the boys and pushed for it to happen. Thank you for the support, Koda-san. ;_______;

And for the record, I find it extremely unfair that most girls look at her skimpy clothes and dancing in her PVs and automatically assume that she's a whore. Umm hello, her image in music videos =/= real life personality. She seems to be a really sweet girl, and not "threatening" at all. (Unlike 75% of all female Korean celebrities who really DO flaunt themselves at the boys. And even then, it's not any of our damn business.)

BUT RANT ASIDE, I do really like Koda; she's not overly cutesy in her interviews like so many other female Jpoppers tend to be. And she's SUCH a fangirl of Korean guys. Honestly, she's not even subtle about it. xDDD

^The interview that officially made me like Koda Kumi. It's a clip from the best Japanese talk show ever, UTABAN. I used to watch this show back during my hardcore J-Rock days, and I'm glad to see that the hosts are still as crackheaded as ever. <33

POINTS OF INTEREST:
- Changmin's Elvis hair. That is just serious LOL.
- KODA IS A KOREAN GUY FANGIRL.
- Junsu's impressive tongue twister skills. I can barely pull off "nama mugi nama gome nama tamago" at his speed, and that one isn't even that hard. xD
- Jaejoong's tolerance of spicy food. I don't know why this was so surprising to them; I mean, he's Korean! He probably has spices floating around his bloodstream.
- Taka-san not so subtly poking fun at JE and Nakai's infamously bad singing.
- Yunho's :/ face throughout the entire love contest segment. He's such a hopeless romantic. xDDD
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