My Job

May ask me to write something non-kpop related. It's hard because everything I do now is k-pop related so it's hard to find something to write. Therefore I am going to write about my job.

Last month, I have been successfully transferred to be a perm staff! Isn't this great news?? Previously I was a contract staff because my company doesn't really know if my position is required. So they tested water. Apparently, my department is very busy and getting busier so I have been 'upgraded'.

I am of course happy and my family is happy too. My father said,"Ho seh liao lor!! You can confirm everyday eat lunch at home from now and save transport money. You must be very happy!"

Yah of course I am happy to save money la. Money very important.

Another reason why I am so happy is because being a contract staff, I only get 12 days leave. Now I have 20 days leave! Yippee!!! More leave = more holidays.

Though this is not a highly paid job, I like it here. Firstly because I have great colleagues in this SG office, they really help out each other and not bitch each other. Secondly because my jobscope is quite interesting. It's better than some other office jobs I have done before. I can keep myself up to date with the latest music and movies. This is the best thing I guess!

SMTOWN JKT

Last Friday, I was reading my kpop news as usual and saw that SMTown World Tour is going to Indonesia! They have confirmed to go Jakarta for the concert in September. I don't understand why it is announced so late! shouldn't things like this be confirmed like months ago? Just like Shinee World concert in Dec was confirmed in July.

Because of the last minute confirmation of SMtown concert, I was in a fluster. The date is so near. I really want to see this even though it's not Suju's solo concert. Other artistes will be performing like f(x), SNSD etc. Girls group which I don't like to watch will be performing too. But I still want to see it because SMtown is the only concert where Shinee and Suju will perform together. So I can get to see them both at the same time. LOL.. And TVXQ too. Though I dunno TVXQ well, I think they have very good stage performances too.

After knowing about the concert last Fri, I started frantically searching for more details  about it. I found out that ticket sales only start on 9 Aug. I was thinking that I will have a slim chance to get the tickets because imagine SNSD, Shinee, TVXQ etc.. their fans will also crash into the ticket system once sale starts.

Moreover, I am supposed to perform on Sept 22 with Susan. So I asked Susan if she can get replacement. She said she is not sure. So I think I must at least find someone to replace me before I can put my mind of finding ticket. Thank god, May teng and Miss Tan has agreed to act in my place! Yay!!!

Saturday, I saw in a forum for SJ international fans that they are pre-ordering tickets for overseas fans. I was super excited and contacted them. I have to send money to them then they will get the ticket for me. I was abit worried because I don't know these people and what if I sent the money but I don't get the ticket?

But in the end, I threw all precautions and sent them $200 through Paypal for my standing ticket. Yes, standing.

I told my mum about my plans and she is quite sad that I am not performing just because I want to see a concert. She said that since I agreed with Susan to act, I should act. Yes, I agree that I should if I already agreed but I have already found my replacement so what's the issue???? I think she just want me to act with her lah....

If that's the case then I am not going to accept anymore performances that give me long notices. I only perform for shows that give me at most 2 weeks notice. I told Susan for future gzx shows, please reject. Cuz gzx is very hard to find replacement. I am like the only hua dan around. I am sick of this. Why should I sell my life to opera.

So conclusion and resolution is, please don't ask me to perform with long notices. At most 2 weeks. So I won't have to be in a such a difficult situation anymore. And I don't need to go bother May to help me act. I know she hates it too. Haiz. I dunno, gzx actresses hate to act. It's weird.

And so my mum yday suddenly asked me," Can you not go Jakarta?"

I told her I already bought the ticket and it's $200.

She was like :(

I have already performed many times with her and I have done so many GZX shows, isn't it enough? It's high time that I do some other things.

May Teng asked why I am still going Jakarta to watch concert when I told her I am broke.

Well, at first I wanted to buy 2 costumes with May which total to about $700+. Instead of buying 2 costumes, I am using that to watch concert. :) And I always say that I am broke because I want to save money and why I want to save so much money? Because I want to use the money for cases like this. And now the situation has arrived, I should use my savings for it.

And why is it that I MUST MUST MUST watch this concert? Cuz this is most probably the last concert of Teukie before he enlist in NS. He is enlisting at the end of the year and there is still no news of whether SMtown will come to Singapore. I like Teukie so I hope to see him in concert befor he disappears for 2 years.

Anywa I already wired $200 over and my mum asked me why the hell I am paying $200 to STAND in a concert. Yah, standing ticket is more expensive than the sitting tickets cuz standing tickets are closer to the stage. Then she asked, why the standing tickets are in front? Like that those sitting cannot see...

Haiz, it's very complicated, I dunno how to explain! Anyway the stage is very different from GCB so you cannot imagine the place to be like GCB where ppl standing in front will be hit by a slipper from an obasan behind you.

Let me show you guys my Super Cute Junior whom just performed SMTOWN in Japan last week. The stage will be like this and you can see the people in front are standing. Oh and please note that blue is the fanclub colour for SJ so you can imagine how many fans SJ have. Please watch this video!!

So now, I am waiting to confirm with Indonesia side that they manage to get my ticket before I book air tickets and hotel. In Japan last week, more than 600k people tried to buy tickets but only got 100k tickets to be sold .Very competitive!!!

SUPER JUNIOR! THE LAST MAN STANDING!
Please pray for me that I will get my ticket. _/\_

Tonight's Class

Tonight is my first Korean class, I am so excited! At the same time I am also very worried. I am worried that I might not learn this language as well as I want to. I am also afraid that it will be a very difficult language.

French is really a crazy language. It's like way more difficult than English. The grammar can drive you nuts. It's very confusing when I was in intermediate level. Haiz, on the other hand I also didn't have the high level of determination because it got too expensive for me to learn.

I hope that Korean is not a crazy language like French, which for your info has got 14 tenses.

Let me quote an example for French.

In English:

I write
You write
She writes
He writes
We write
They write
It writes

Basically there are like only 2 versions, write and writes, for present tense.

In French:

J'écris

Tu écris
Il écrit
Nous écrivons
Vous écrivez
Ils écrivent  

This is present tense. So I have to like memorize how the root word, which is écrire, will be spelt.  

Then to make things more complicated, we have future tense.

In English:  
I will write
You will write
He will write
We will write...  

As you can see, only one version, write. In French, I am sorry but it will be:

J'écrirai
Tu écriras
Il écrira
Nous écrirons
Vous écrirez
Ils écriront

All different!!! So again I have to memorize all the 6 different conjugations for future tense. And don't forget we have 14 tenses in French. And don't forget there are gender differences which will make a difference in French verbs.

So I really put in a lot of effort at that time to learn French, I learnt all the conjugations for I think 6 tenses. After that I go crazy. I started to get confuse when to use which tense.

I hope Korean is not a crazy language cuz I really want to learn it well.

Ryeowook

May commented that Govin's eyeliner isn't really obvious. Actually we didn't want to make it too exaggerating. Just wanted to create more depth and sharpness to his eyes that's all. If we draw too much, I think Govin will think we purposely do it to make him ugly on stage..

My cousin told me a couple of weeks ago: 能够跟自己的偶像活在同一个时代，欣赏到他们的表演是我前世修来的福。如果我是活在我妈的年代，我就没有那么幸福可以欣赏到了。

I agreed with her: 我可以先欣赏郑伊健又欣赏到SJ，也是我前世修来得福。

Cousin: 你小时候还喜欢草蜢咧，你每十年都有个新的偶像真是幸福惨了！是修了几世的福啊！

We had this conversation in FB. I think those people who saw our convo will think we are mad lor!!!

But think about it, if you are not in this era, you will not be able to appreciate your favourite actress like for May Teng's case it's GCM.

Enough of my nonsense, today I want to blog about Maknae Ryeowook. Maknae (korean) means the youngest in a group of people. Like Yuxian is the maknae in my family.

Though Ryeowook is the maknae in SJ, he is also motherly figure in SJ and like Eunhyuk, he is always ranking at the bottom in terms of looks. He also always fight with Eunhyuk over who is the ugliest in in SJ.

~ A segment in SH~

When asked to choose a specific member that they thought was unattractive, Kyuhyun and Ryeowook chose Eunhyuk. They reasoned, “Just looking at it 100% from a looks-based point of view, Eunhyuk comes last”, and “I’m jealous of everything about Eunhyuk… except his looks.”


Eunhyuk retorted, “I’m not saying I’m handsome or anything, but I don’t think Ryeowook is a position to be saying things like that.” Hilariously, he then chose Ryeowook as the least attractive member.

Ryeowook responded, “Eunhyuk’s face was covered for our recent concept. I think our company knows that Eunhyuk is lacking in the looks department.”

~ Another segment from Beatles Code 2~

When the MCs talked about the rankings among members, Ryeowook commented "Eunhyuk and I are in the bottom," making Eunhyuk panic.

To Ryeowook's comment, Eunhyuk replied "I know I'm not honestly the best looking person but I'm not in the bottom. Only Ryeowook is in the bottom," making everyone laugh.

Ryeowook also reponded "I am still surprised time to time when I see Eunhyuk with no makeup," to which Eunhyuk argued "You'd be surprised if you saw Ryeowook's before debut photos."

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Not so long ago, there was a program, Immortal Song 2, which had the audience voted between Eunhyuk and Ryeowook who is the uglier one. I think it's very cruel leh. I cannot imagine being in such a voting situation. Ryeowook and Eunhyuk were both so stressed out and I can see that Ryeowook was very sad when Eunhyuk was voted to be more handsome. He said that if he is voted the uglier one then he will forget everything and just concentrate on singing. (Ryeowook is one of the best singers in SJ)

Actually I didn't find him to be ugly. My first impression of him was cute. So I really have no idea why and am really surprised that Ryeowook is at the bottom. I thought that Shindong will be at the bottom.

Take a look at Ryeowookie..

He is not ugly right? I hope people will stop saying that he is ugly because even if he doesn't show it on TV, I am sure he felt sad..

Just now I mentioned that Ryeowook is the motherly figure in SJ. That is because he is always taking care of his hyungs (elder brothers).

Ryeowook had said once that he’ll always cook for his hyungs anytime. Thus, Donghae came back at midnight after his SM training, and he woke up the sleeping Ryeowook and said “Wake up and cook for me.”

Ryeowook got upset and said “Hyung, why are you like that? I’m already sleeping, I’m not cooking.”

Donghae with innocent expression, “Why not? You said you’ll cook anytime, so I woke you up, didn’t you say that before? Well then, I won’t wake you up anymore in the future.”

Ryeowook then said, “Alright, I’ll cook for Hyung.”

In an interview Ryeowook said "I am in charge of cooking within the group, simply because I am the youngest. There are some picky members, especially Leeteuk. I got better in cooking fulfilling the requests of 13 members.”

He will cook when he gets angry,but get sad when the members doesnt eat his food. Then when he is sad he cooks more. LOL...

Please see this video below:

One thing I like about them is they are very casual on TV programs. I wouldn't say that they didn't put up a front to look good. It's just that they are not the very prim and proper kind that most artistes normally try to be. Some of them talk non-stop and sometimes accidentally spilling out secrets.

He is the most petite on in SJ I think. I was really surprised to know that he was once overweight.

Such a huge difference right??? His father used to scold him for being too fat. And then when he lost so much weight and became so skinny, his parents cried while watching his first performance.

Ryeowookie is a very talented singer and he majored in classical music. Please listen to wookie singing chinese song. :P

 

Wookie is also a very sensitive person. Seems like Super Junior is very important to him and he really hates to see the members quarreling. There was once a program with a hidden camera. The members of SJ try to make Eunhyuk and wookie cry. Eunhyuk also love the members very much and treasure their friendship. So in the show Shindong pretended to want to leave the group to go solo. Then Super Junior will be disbanded. Eunhyukie was the first to cry followed by Ryeowook when their persuasion was not successful.

Video of the prank, poor eunhyuk cried so hard! And apparently he has been pranked many times and the brothers made him cry a few times already:

So please support wookie~ :)

Father's Opinion

Last Saturday I was watching SJ's MV in my room when my mother came in and asked me to have lunch. So I asked her if I can have lunch in my room because I am in the midst of watching the MV with a very high mood.

Apparently, she said no.

My parents are always very bothered by me eating my room. They said that the food will leave a smell in my room. But I am not having food with a strong smell like durian or what. It's just normal fried bee hoon. Moreoever my room's windows are always opened and I don't use the air-con so the smell don't really stay. All these reasons are not valid in their point of view. I have to get out and eat in the living room. Then isn't it going to smell in the living room too??

Anyway I told my mum if that's the case then I am bringing the MV out to the living to continue watching while eating. She had no choice, I just plugged my USB into the TV and continued watching in the living room while eating bee hoon.

My father was there too and he also watched the MV because well.. he didn't have a choice. There is only 1 TV.

I told him that this is the major Kpop group right now and they are like right at the top. LOL, except maybe TVXQ who has the biggest fan club in Korea, having like more than 100k fans registering their fanclub in 2 days.

Anyways...  I was watching TV and my father suddenly said,"I can't tell if they are guys or girls. Boy group or girl group?."

I was like... -_-" Duh!!!

Got so exaggerating mah????

He said that except for Kyuhyun and Siwon, the rest all looks like girls.

Kyuhyun:

Siwon:

Then my mum also joined in the fun. She commented,"Aiyo, why the skin so fair? If they dress up as girls sure very pretty one!"

The MV I was watching didn't have Heechul in it. I think she will completely believe that Heechul is a girl.

Recently I read somewhere that Leeteuk trained to gain more muscles so as to get rid of his wimpy image. And the video of the recent M Countdown revealed the results of his training:

He is really sexy, free and single now wiht this fabulous abs!!

Eunhyuk also previously showed off his buffed up body but I think he gave about during the 5th album and became the same old Eunhyuk again.

But I think he gave up so he is now the same old salted fish again....  LOL... I don't have proof for this though, I guess it. Because previously when he had these muscles he kept showing them during performances but the recent performances are conservative. He didn't reveal anything. Hee hee...

Anyway my point is they are not as girly and wimpy as my father thinks!!

Guyliner

When I do my make up for Chinese Opera, eyeliner is a must. No eyeliner = fail make up. Eyeliner is very important to me.

So is for the Korean male stars too!!

They call it the guyliner. It's so smoking hot and sexy! LOL...

I am so sorry for being so unconventional or as my friends like to put it, weird. I know that my friends who always come here loyally to read my rants are very traditional. They like traditional things and things that are within the rules and norm. So I am very sorry to be always writing weird stuff like this and make you all turn off. LOL....

But I really like guyliner. So I have to blog it. No choice. I even made Govin put guyliner on himself during performance 2 days ago. hee hee.. I will post his pics below too.

Yay!!! Let's look at Suju's guyliner first ok ok??

Firstly, it's Eunhyuk.

Eunhyuk doesn't have the prettiest eyes in suju but still.. he looks pretty cool here!! :)

Next up Leeteuk

Admit it! Leeteuk's so cute with the guyliner!! Just nice, not too much, enough to be seen!

I think Leeteuk looks very nice with guyliner especially in the gif above which I find very irritating, I would rather have a picture than a gif but I can't find a picture.

Next, Donghae

Cute or not? The guyliner and that little smirk... heh...

Then we have Cinderella.

 Cinderella has got such beautiful eyes which I am so jealous of!! 

Heechul's eyes are already very big...... with the guyliner, becomes bigger.

I want Kim Heechul's eyes!! Tao yan...

Ok... Sungmin...

Sungmin's guyliner sometimes looks very nice, like above. Very sexy. But sometimes not so nice. Maybe the make-up artiste cannot make it. LOL...

Sungmin's eyeliner and notice the captions in the gif above says 'sexy sexy sexy'.. hahaha...

Yesung is the one that wears guyliners most often. I think everytime he appear on screen he will use guyliner.

Cuz maybe he got smaller eyes like me, thats why need eyeliner!

Kyuhyun:

Kyuhyun like seldom use guyliner..

Siwon, the most handsome man in Suju. He looks so good with a little guyliner too. Then again he looks good in almost anything!

Next up are all the non-suju korean stars which I found online while looking for suju's photos. So I saved them to show their guyliners.

Ok, so you get the picture, guyliner = the must have nowadays for Kpop male stars. But not anyone can pull off the guyliner. Some just look very weird. Maybe the shape of the eyes got something to with it. I only post those that looks good in it here.

I know I know, you are going to say Miko is so weird, she likes men with eyeliners and men who dress like gay. Actually I am not that weird la. If you google hot guyliner, you will find many girls who like guyliners. I mean if you go on stage for performance, isn't it better to have the eyeliner so your eyes look brighter and sharper?

That is what I told Govin. I keep harping that Korean stars are doing it and they look so cool on stage. So I said he should do it too. Since he also look like Korean, he can pull off the eyeliner well. I told him he will look very good la.

LOL.. in the end Govin said, "ok ok anything for the stage."

When he said ok, I suddenly don't know how cuz I dunno how to draw guyliner. So I got Teacher Ruwang to do it for him. She was agreeable that the guys should use eyeliners too! Wow. Ruwang is also very qian wei sia. hahahaha

 Govin in the process of transforming into kpop star. LOL..

Done! I took this photo while he is still waiting for the eyeliner to dry. I didn't take any pictures after he opened his eyes. I think he will humtum me. LOL. But I think he took quite a lot of pics. If he post on FB I will post here la.. lol...

So do you like eyeliners on guys??

Shinee VS Suju

The first song I heard from Korean pop was Sorry Sorry. The second one was Ring Ding Dong. LOL... The words are really weird like 'ring ding dong, ring ding dong, ring ding a ding ding ding'. Very weird lyrics.

Sorry Sorry was sung by Suju, Ring Ding Dong was sung by Shinee.

At first I like Shinee's songs more. My playlist was dominated by Shinee's songs.

I love both Suju and Shinee...

Ok I admit I love Suju more now. :P Now my playlist is dominated by Suju.

Shinee released a new song, Sherlock, in March. Suju released Sexy Free Single this month, like 2 weeks ago.

Shinee's hairstyle and costumes in Sherlock left me speechless. It is really not that nice. (I don't want to use the word 'fail' because I will get bashed by fans)

I mean seriously what was the designer thinking giving Key that bermuda with stars?? STARS?

And what's wrong with Taemin's hair, he looks like a girl. There is something wrong with his clothes too.

The dance and choreography wasn't so bad. I like the beginning part but i don't really like the chorus dance. I prefer their Replay dance and looks. They should seriously fire whoever styled their looks here.

Please watch VCR:

The song of the month for July is Suju's Sexy Free Single.

Compared with Shinee's Sherlock, at least their styles are really cool in the MV. Though there are some weird warrior style getups, most of the other styles are really nice. I like Sungmin's blond hair!

The song itself is very addictive. It just kept looping in my head after I first heard it even though I still can't understand Korean. I only heard Sexy Free and Single I'm ready too bingo.

The dance this time is also very catchy. It will stick in your head with their 招牌动作 aka their signature moves in the dance. If you realise, there are always signature moves in most of their MVs. Like in Sorry Sorry, there is the palm rubbing move. In Mr Simple, there is the hand cramp flicking (according to my bro).

In this MV, my bro said their signature move is the vegetable chopping part.

I am sorry but Suju's Sexy Free Single has won over Shinee's Sherlock! :P

Sexy Free and Single I'm ready too bingo!

Learn Korean

Yay~~ I have registered for Korean classes starting from 2 Aug. So happy and excited!! I am so looking forward to learn the language. I think I will be able to learn Korean better than French. First of all, I will get more chances to hear korean with all the videos on internet.

In fact, I have picked up some korean words already from watching so many interviews and variety shows. Like 'What?!', 'Really?', 'Thank you', 'Fool', 'brother' etc...

I won't get lots of chances to speak though. I only have a cousin learning it already and a friend staying in Seoul. Previously, I spoke alot of French with my ex so my french speaking was not too bad in the past. Now very rusty. lol.

I am also starting my dance class on 4 Aug. It's the first time I am learning how to dance. I hope I am not those kind that can never learn dancing. I think I am not ba, since my hand-leg coordination is not too bad. Heh.. So looking forward. I haven't register for it. Must find a time next week to go to the dance school.

Anyone want to join me?

Penang Trip

Lots of things happened in Penang, some are not so suitable to be blogged but others are fine. LOL...

Although it was a short 3-day trip, it was very happening. Lots of things can happen in 3 days and make the trip seems like forever.

This time, I shared room with May. Usually I share room with my mum if my mum goes but I think this is the first time that I am sharing room with May. That is a good thing too because May brought her iPad.

So every night I will tell May to lend me her iPad cuz I wanna read news. So she lent me. And I happily read my news.

Xin En popped over and saw me reading news and that my news are not really NEWS. I told her I am very busy because I subscribed to Suju's newsletter and because they got 13 members, I have got tons of email alerts in my mailbox everyday. Therefore I have to read the news everyday to clear my mailbox.

May said that she thought I was so concerned with world affairs that I have to read news everday.

Well, this is also considered world affairs. Hahahaha.. There are lots of news about super junior's preformances in the world.

So it's also worldwide news. And it is my 精神粮食 in this arduous trip.

May Teng's iPad became my ipad I think. Cuz I used it the most in Penang. LOL... Pardon me... I am a very busy person.

死 May

Yesterday 死May wrote to me, "I don't see anything great about Super Junior."

She is looking for trouble with me.

She didn't know how to write the word 死.

Then she continued,"You are weird... They are too pretty face..."

And now she got a problem with pretty faces.

What's so weird with loving Kpop and a group with pretty faces??? IMO, I think it's very blessed to be borned with pretty faces like the Super Junior's members. :P

Come on la.... She likes xiao shengs who have masculine faces, aka females with masculine faces.

So what's the issue with men with feminine faces? Isn't it the same? Females with masculine faces are the same as males with pretty faces.

Period.

Too bad for her, she is missing out a whole lot of awesome-ness!!! :D

PRETTY face Donghae!

Hahahaaaa.....

M2M song again Oh my pretty pretty boy I love you~~~~

I am now busy ripping videos, MV, of Suju and Shinee so that I can watch them when I go to Penang. :)

Please don't say I am weird and crazy cuz I am not!!!

With so much pressure I am handling now, it's good that there is something I can rely on to make my day a good one. It's better than May Teng whose idol, Ah Cheng, has nothing to entertain her at all!!! Oops, sorry, I mean Ah Cheng don't have new things to entertain her. She can only listen to old songs or watch the dramas.

There is nothing great about Suju??

Everything about Suju is great.

I am going to pick up Korean in August.

May then wrote to me again, "Are you crazy? Are you trying to be multi-lingual? You already learnt French."

I want to know what Super Junior are talking about in their interviews!!! :( :( :(

She is now waiting for my kpop craze to be over so I can concentrate on my opera again.

Oh, and my mum after watching 'MR Simple' MV so many times (Because I put it on loop on my TV though I am not watching it), she can now do the chorus dance part!! Though she didn't do it very well, she caught the essence of the dance, the hand shaking part.

My brother say... Super Junior hand cramp ah....

-_-"

Please play above video, this is the Mr Simple chorus part which my mum always try to dance when I put this song on loop... I should video my mum and post it here.. She will be very pissed!!!!!

Hee hee....