I will not tolerate SNSD bashing.
Watch it.
Watch it.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
What a bloody depressing Sunday. And yeah, it's my fault. Again. So I can't really complain.
If there's one thing I've learnt over the years...it's that people. never. change. period.
No matter how much you want to think or hope that someone will change for you or for some other reason, no matter how much you think something will have such a profound effect as to alter a person's personality; change his habits, his attitude toward things, his perception of things...I'm so very sorry, but you're getting nowhere.
People sometimes say that they've become a changed person; that something so deeply inspiring or frightening has affected them so much so that their entire lives seem to have been broken and then rearranged. I think they're bluffing. LOL, what a blunt way to put it. I think they've just come to so ardently believe that something is so great enough to change them that they do things differently in order to accommodate that belief. Get my drift? They try to do things in a way to show that they've changed; in fact, it happens subconsciously so they think they really have, but deep down inside, what do you have? Same person, same personality.
Someone gets involved in a plane crash. He says he'll never fly again. Do you think he really can't? He's just scared out of his wits at the thought! Of course he can if he wants to! The fact that he can do it means he still thinks the same about flying inside. Think about it this way: if a person had really changed, he would look at something and say "I can't do it." rather than "I won't do it." It's really two very different things, you know what I mean?
"I've changed." puh. People never change.
I need to dance this off tomorrow.
Dance it off.
P.S. I don't know how I am going to survive February because I just spent a little over $200 for my DnD outfit. GOD DAMN IT! Well, at least they're nice clothes.
If there's one thing I've learnt over the years...it's that people. never. change. period.
No matter how much you want to think or hope that someone will change for you or for some other reason, no matter how much you think something will have such a profound effect as to alter a person's personality; change his habits, his attitude toward things, his perception of things...I'm so very sorry, but you're getting nowhere.
People sometimes say that they've become a changed person; that something so deeply inspiring or frightening has affected them so much so that their entire lives seem to have been broken and then rearranged. I think they're bluffing. LOL, what a blunt way to put it. I think they've just come to so ardently believe that something is so great enough to change them that they do things differently in order to accommodate that belief. Get my drift? They try to do things in a way to show that they've changed; in fact, it happens subconsciously so they think they really have, but deep down inside, what do you have? Same person, same personality.
Someone gets involved in a plane crash. He says he'll never fly again. Do you think he really can't? He's just scared out of his wits at the thought! Of course he can if he wants to! The fact that he can do it means he still thinks the same about flying inside. Think about it this way: if a person had really changed, he would look at something and say "I can't do it." rather than "I won't do it." It's really two very different things, you know what I mean?
"I've changed." puh. People never change.
I need to dance this off tomorrow.
Dance it off.
P.S. I don't know how I am going to survive February because I just spent a little over $200 for my DnD outfit. GOD DAMN IT! Well, at least they're nice clothes.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
I hate people who pass judgments on SNSD members when they haven't even taken the time to get to know them.
I have 230GB worth of their videos, so I can confidently say that I've been following two years' worth of their progress closely, and yet there are still things that I don't understand about some of them.
If you guys out there haven't spent this much time trying to get to know these girls, who the hell are you to insult them and pass snide, immature remarks about them?
I say this because I know that I'm not that kind of person. If I don't fully understand someone, then I have absolutely no right to judge him or her. Isn't that the right way to look at people?
We're not looking at apples or pears here, ladies and gentlemen. We're talking about people. Human beings, who are billions if not trillions of times more complex than the average fruit. They're more complex than the unsolved mysteries of all time, and some people just want to blurt worthless nothings about them in a way that makes them out to be someone who has studied those people for all his life.
What gives you the right? The freedom of speech? The power of human judgment? The belief that you're about as witty as the next genius anthropologist?
I'm not being particularly defensive about the girls. It's just that I'm against this entire practice of judging people based on a handful of information that, by itself, means basically nothing.
So if you have a judgment to pass, God damn it, keep it to yourself.
I have 230GB worth of their videos, so I can confidently say that I've been following two years' worth of their progress closely, and yet there are still things that I don't understand about some of them.
If you guys out there haven't spent this much time trying to get to know these girls, who the hell are you to insult them and pass snide, immature remarks about them?
I say this because I know that I'm not that kind of person. If I don't fully understand someone, then I have absolutely no right to judge him or her. Isn't that the right way to look at people?
We're not looking at apples or pears here, ladies and gentlemen. We're talking about people. Human beings, who are billions if not trillions of times more complex than the average fruit. They're more complex than the unsolved mysteries of all time, and some people just want to blurt worthless nothings about them in a way that makes them out to be someone who has studied those people for all his life.
What gives you the right? The freedom of speech? The power of human judgment? The belief that you're about as witty as the next genius anthropologist?
I'm not being particularly defensive about the girls. It's just that I'm against this entire practice of judging people based on a handful of information that, by itself, means basically nothing.
So if you have a judgment to pass, God damn it, keep it to yourself.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Gosh it's Friday! Oh how I've been waiting for this day, especially after yesterday when I started taking Rinafort for my flu. Damn it, I'm still feeling its effects even though the last time I took it was 10pm last night! That's some seriously potent stuff. I'm so gonna wake up past noon tomorrow after taking it once more tonight.
Another reason to be depressed : Andre told me today that he wouldn't mind going with me to Seoul for the concert, but air tickets are just too expensive! *Sigh*, if only I could get tickets for about $700, then we can go. WHYEEEEEEEEEE!! Maybe I should just settle for catching them in Shanghai/Bangkok. Still, I have a feeling that their best performance of all would be, without a doubt, in Seoul. It's home ground, after all.
It's been 4 days since I last gymmed and my chest is still aching halfway to hell. What the heck? This is what happens when you don't gym for a full week and then chiong headfirst into bout after bout of muscle shock. Wait a minute...why isn't 'chiong' underscored in red? =/
I'm running out of stuff to watch! It's amazing even for myself to believe that my SNSD folder is over 230GB and I've watched...all of them. Well not all of them, I think. I might be left with around say...1GB worth of videos? I shouldn't rush the subbers, but I'm really hoping for another release of Invincible Youth and Hello Baby. Much more so for the latter, because the non-Korean inclined are wayyyyy far behind! There are about 20 episodes in total, yet only the first 9 episodes have been subbed so far. And that's not including the X File episodes that came after the series ended.
I think I'm getting back the calves I used to have when I was still running long distances on a regular basis. Damn, I should've picked up dancing a long time ago. We're planning to do a full dress rehearsal next week...Friday at the latest, then I might upload the video onto YouTube, so look forward to it!
Till next time...
Sorry sorry sorry sorry!
Another reason to be depressed : Andre told me today that he wouldn't mind going with me to Seoul for the concert, but air tickets are just too expensive! *Sigh*, if only I could get tickets for about $700, then we can go. WHYEEEEEEEEEE!! Maybe I should just settle for catching them in Shanghai/Bangkok. Still, I have a feeling that their best performance of all would be, without a doubt, in Seoul. It's home ground, after all.
It's been 4 days since I last gymmed and my chest is still aching halfway to hell. What the heck? This is what happens when you don't gym for a full week and then chiong headfirst into bout after bout of muscle shock. Wait a minute...why isn't 'chiong' underscored in red? =/
I'm running out of stuff to watch! It's amazing even for myself to believe that my SNSD folder is over 230GB and I've watched...all of them. Well not all of them, I think. I might be left with around say...1GB worth of videos? I shouldn't rush the subbers, but I'm really hoping for another release of Invincible Youth and Hello Baby. Much more so for the latter, because the non-Korean inclined are wayyyyy far behind! There are about 20 episodes in total, yet only the first 9 episodes have been subbed so far. And that's not including the X File episodes that came after the series ended.
I think I'm getting back the calves I used to have when I was still running long distances on a regular basis. Damn, I should've picked up dancing a long time ago. We're planning to do a full dress rehearsal next week...Friday at the latest, then I might upload the video onto YouTube, so look forward to it!
Till next time...
Sorry sorry sorry sorry!
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
I swear this is like a double slap to the face.
Now SNSD's holding an encore concert at the same place in Seoul on Feb 27/28.
Problem : Cheapest air tickets start at $800+ for return trip.
2nd Problem : No one can go with me.
This. Really. Sucks.
Really.
Now SNSD's holding an encore concert at the same place in Seoul on Feb 27/28.
Problem : Cheapest air tickets start at $800+ for return trip.
2nd Problem : No one can go with me.
This. Really. Sucks.
Really.
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
After yesterday, I have begun to experience but a tiny inkling of what SNSD has been putting up with for the past month or so.
Yesterday, I had dance practice with the guys for a good 2.5 hours, with breaks probably totaling about 15 minutes.
I sweat right through my shirt and it was as damp as a damn washcloth, and I found myself falling comfortably asleep in the bus on the way home, and later on my bed, an hour before my usual bedtime.
Today I went to work with eyes like this : =.=, and that expression never really changed for the rest of the day. Needless to say, I slept easily on the bus again.
I WAS SO TIRED FOR TWO DAYS, BECAUSE OF A 2.5 HOUR DANCE PRACTICE!
God knows, then, how tired the girls are when they've had performance after performance in the later weeks of December. We've got their Solo Concert on the 19th/20th, and, just as famously, the SBS, KBS and MBC Gayo Daejuns on the 29th/30th/31st, all of which lasting late into the night (well past midnight). That's not even counting the time they'd spent in between practicing for these performances as well as other scheduled commitments! What amazes me most of all is the fact that after everything they went through to the end of the year, the performances they presented on SBS, KBS and MBC music festivals were...absolutely phenomenal. Top notch.
What right have I to feel tired, then?
I'm gonna push harder! We're increasing the number of rehearsals...from Mondays to include Wednesdays and Fridays. Hopefully we'll finish Sorry Sorry and take a video by the end of next week so we can start on Gee.
FIGHTING!
Yesterday, I had dance practice with the guys for a good 2.5 hours, with breaks probably totaling about 15 minutes.
I sweat right through my shirt and it was as damp as a damn washcloth, and I found myself falling comfortably asleep in the bus on the way home, and later on my bed, an hour before my usual bedtime.
Today I went to work with eyes like this : =.=, and that expression never really changed for the rest of the day. Needless to say, I slept easily on the bus again.
I WAS SO TIRED FOR TWO DAYS, BECAUSE OF A 2.5 HOUR DANCE PRACTICE!
God knows, then, how tired the girls are when they've had performance after performance in the later weeks of December. We've got their Solo Concert on the 19th/20th, and, just as famously, the SBS, KBS and MBC Gayo Daejuns on the 29th/30th/31st, all of which lasting late into the night (well past midnight). That's not even counting the time they'd spent in between practicing for these performances as well as other scheduled commitments! What amazes me most of all is the fact that after everything they went through to the end of the year, the performances they presented on SBS, KBS and MBC music festivals were...absolutely phenomenal. Top notch.
What right have I to feel tired, then?
I'm gonna push harder! We're increasing the number of rehearsals...from Mondays to include Wednesdays and Fridays. Hopefully we'll finish Sorry Sorry and take a video by the end of next week so we can start on Gee.
FIGHTING!
Friday, January 01, 2010
Holy crap, is it 2010 already?
Don't mind me...it's just that I had an uneventful New Year's Eve. What was I doing at midnight? I was sitting in front of my com, chatting on Soshified's SBox and wishing the GMT+8 sones happy new year. lol. Seriously, I'm pathetic, right?
Ah, whatever. I swear, my nonchalance will one day be my downfall.
When you talk about the New Year, the first thing that comes to my mind is New Year's Resolutions.
So...what exactly do I want to accomplish this year?
I'm going to uni in the latter half of the year, and quite honestly, I'm not looking forward to it. Nor do I have anything to say about it! So I'm going to leave it out ^_^
People who know me would very quickly notice how embarrassingly short-sighted I am (not in the literal sense, though that could apply too), so I'm going to live up to that reputation by coming up with a few rather short-sighted goals.
Disclaimer : I am NOT ashamed to say ANY of this!
1. Spend my first post-ORD paycheck well. I am going to treat my entire family to dinner for the first time in 20 years. What the hell! Took me long enough.
2. Experience an overseas trip with friends (currently planning Japan trip in May, but as with everything else in life, things can go terribly wrong =/)
3. Experience a live SNSD concert FIRST HAND (along with a few other SNSD-related goals)
Let me elaborate a little on the third point. Words cannot describe how torn I was when I kept thinking of the fact that I was in Singapore on the 19th/20th of Dec when SNSD had their FIRST SOLO CONCERT TOUR starting in Seoul. I swear, I will never forgive myself for missing that.
Ever.
And so, I'm just going to have to make it up to myself by catching their second tour this year.
4. Make the best use out of my clothes. I shall not tolerate excess space in my long sleeved shirts any longer. I'm wearing size 'S' for goodness sake! To hell with thinking that this small chest has to do with genes!
5. And probably the best resolution so far : be a better 'bigger brother' for my cousins. I've been far too mean to them over the past years. Maybe I do need anger management classes...
6. It's been too long since I got that Korean language pack with my friend. It's high time I practice myself up to decent fluency. SNSD's obvious influence aside, I've found that it's a beautiful language. Definitely worth learning.
7. Maintain better control over my money. I think the fact that my money supply is unforgivably low is due to this soft heart and the annoying weakness of being easily influenced by the opinions of others. I need to start standing up for myself more.
8. Speaking of control, maintain better control over my emotions. I have embarrassed myself far too many times over the years by letting my emotions get the better of me. An angry man is an irrational man. An angry man is not cool.
Well right now I can't really think of much else...
I am going to be a better person in 2010! It's a promise I must make myself.
Don't mind me...it's just that I had an uneventful New Year's Eve. What was I doing at midnight? I was sitting in front of my com, chatting on Soshified's SBox and wishing the GMT+8 sones happy new year. lol. Seriously, I'm pathetic, right?
Ah, whatever. I swear, my nonchalance will one day be my downfall.
When you talk about the New Year, the first thing that comes to my mind is New Year's Resolutions.
So...what exactly do I want to accomplish this year?
I'm going to uni in the latter half of the year, and quite honestly, I'm not looking forward to it. Nor do I have anything to say about it! So I'm going to leave it out ^_^
People who know me would very quickly notice how embarrassingly short-sighted I am (not in the literal sense, though that could apply too), so I'm going to live up to that reputation by coming up with a few rather short-sighted goals.
Disclaimer : I am NOT ashamed to say ANY of this!
1. Spend my first post-ORD paycheck well. I am going to treat my entire family to dinner for the first time in 20 years. What the hell! Took me long enough.
2. Experience an overseas trip with friends (currently planning Japan trip in May, but as with everything else in life, things can go terribly wrong =/)
3. Experience a live SNSD concert FIRST HAND (along with a few other SNSD-related goals)
Let me elaborate a little on the third point. Words cannot describe how torn I was when I kept thinking of the fact that I was in Singapore on the 19th/20th of Dec when SNSD had their FIRST SOLO CONCERT TOUR starting in Seoul. I swear, I will never forgive myself for missing that.
Ever.
And so, I'm just going to have to make it up to myself by catching their second tour this year.
4. Make the best use out of my clothes. I shall not tolerate excess space in my long sleeved shirts any longer. I'm wearing size 'S' for goodness sake! To hell with thinking that this small chest has to do with genes!
5. And probably the best resolution so far : be a better 'bigger brother' for my cousins. I've been far too mean to them over the past years. Maybe I do need anger management classes...
6. It's been too long since I got that Korean language pack with my friend. It's high time I practice myself up to decent fluency. SNSD's obvious influence aside, I've found that it's a beautiful language. Definitely worth learning.
7. Maintain better control over my money. I think the fact that my money supply is unforgivably low is due to this soft heart and the annoying weakness of being easily influenced by the opinions of others. I need to start standing up for myself more.
8. Speaking of control, maintain better control over my emotions. I have embarrassed myself far too many times over the years by letting my emotions get the better of me. An angry man is an irrational man. An angry man is not cool.
Well right now I can't really think of much else...
I am going to be a better person in 2010! It's a promise I must make myself.
