first of all. wishing ev-body an early CHINESE NEW YEAR~~ cos i wont be bloggin till i get back from cny celebration. & plus i'm slowwww with all the work, and getting my pictures up. so ya~
anywayz. YAY! i changed my skin. its a lil` troublesome i know. but because it loads better this way? so sry for any inconvenience cause. i did the skin in less than 4 hours!!! but i was struggling with the codes. my html is getting rusty. this skin is made this way, one of the most impt reasons is because, I CAN CHANGE MY HEADER ANYTIME! muahhhahahaha~~ but after changing, i'm missing my typography skin. & this skin isnt thatttttt COMPLICATED as i want it to be. &that is y its v3.5 and not 4~~ saddening! but whatever! I'M STILL LOVIN` IT! the fonts, the pictures whoohoooo~ how about you?
once again C&C is most welcomed!
大年初一 which is 26Jan2009. IS ALSO JAEJOONG'S B`DAY! happy birthdayyyyy. DONG BANG SHIN KI, kimjaejoong~~
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someone gets older~20090123
although i really really REALLY think this would spoil my blog. {HAHA!} but aiya~ today i just want to photoshop something! & i cant find what to blog so ya~ but its gonna be over sooon. anywayz BEST WISHES!
da bigggggg JOKER turns 20? hu cares abt the age anywayz~ u know i think its kinda unnecessary watermarking the picha, who will steal it?! HAHA I M SO EVIL!
it would be a lil` boring without some crap talking right? FANDOM TIMEEEE! haha. information retrieved from popseoul/seoulbeats/allkpop.
#1. nobody aint just nobody.
K.will, one of the ballad singers of Seoul, often said to be looking like Daesung of Big Bang. but definitely sings WAAYYYYY better than Big Bang all-combined [except for the rapping part~]. many have heard a thousand playbacks of "Nobody" by Wonder Girls. but the remixes whatever, THEY JUST SOUND ALL DA SAME! well this isnt. K.will, with his vocal talents, made da song seems like it didnt belong to wonder girls. but seriously, he sing it way better with the techniques and all, better live, o u bet! although its not as addictive BUT IT IS DEFINITELY QUALITY STUFF! take a listen~
but i seriously m sick of this song already. its been played tooooooo many times.
#2. Queen is back in business
Hyori has returned after much deserved rest. she should have more actually, those eye bags. mygoodness! ok so shes is back. Got into a photoshoot on Jan 21st with GGPX Top Girl looking gorgeous as always. An interview followed by, when Hyori stated "she felt so bad for Rain / Bi." As supposedly, they were suppose to perform tgt at SBS Gayo Daejeon, but due to her sickness so "she watched his performance from her hospital bed and felt even more sorry for him when the Rain drops were falling on him because he looked cold and lonely." [Saddening eh?~ Rain looks lonely] ok focus focus. yeh~ beautiful&caring. wad a combination!
#3. TVXQ! topping the charts. [not surprised~]
but of course i am damn friggin happy! haha~ everyday wishing for 21st jan to come. ha! released of BOLERO! damn I LOVE THIS SONG! so 轰动 can?~ CAN! having the sales of over 60,000 on the first day of release, Bolero achieved the first place slot on the Oricon Daily Charts. 6th time that TVXQ reached first on the Oricon Daily Charts. This also makes them the first foreign artist in Japan to have 6 first Oricon Daily singles. WHOOHOO~ CONGRATZZZ! check out the mv:
#4 Rain's Love Story goes all out for 50 MIN!
n its a mv? “Love Story” MV starring “Hwang Jin Yi” actress Ha Ji Won is finally going to have a proper ending. what a correct wrong timing! when like its have been ages already, ppl most probably forgotten how the story goes. altho i wont~ because RAIN'S getting beat up! haha. SO J. Tune Entertainment is releasing another repackaged album of “Rainism”, and in it will contain the full 50 minute “Love Story” MV. and and and "Rain is also planning to milk his epic music melodrama for all its worth into a theatrical play." hmm he loves to get beat up. NOW LIVE! but the story is so predictable, not much surprises anymore eh~ but whatever, the company wants money~ in case u hv forgotten how it goess, SEARCH ON YOUTUBE LA!
#5 English Lit major - TABLO!
Epik High's frontman/supreme t~ is releasing the original, english version of his storybook. Yes the original IS IN ENGLISH! the translated, Korean version delivered good results, being the Korean bestseller list and clocking sales of up to 70,000 copies from a November release of "당신의 조각들 (Pieces of You)". Ten short stories are being compiled tgt. It depicts his time spent in the US (1998-2001) and wraps up the Standford graduate’s life thus far and explore adolescent-vulnerability, as was his situation from his late teens to early twenties. i'm sooooo GETTING THIS, i hope~~~ damn i respect him, his brain, his music, his passion. OMG!
-thinking of buying online, should i? p.s IF U C THIS ANYWHERE? TELL ME TELL ME T-T-T-TTELL ME! tq! & i think i should go to bed. haha! gooooodnite ppl!
11:51:00 AM
painful sacrifice.20090110
look@this DORK! mygoodness.
today is FLY TO THE SKY'S BRIAN JOO'S BIRTHDAY! its going to be over in like 10 min! haha. anywayz. fly to the sky, is a Korean R&B Duo. love their voices! dont think alot of people know about this duo, but YOU SHOULD!
today i read the news of their coming-back. ITS LIKE FINALLY! the korean scene right now seriously need talents like these 2. they are the ones who quitted SM entertainment and signed on with PFull Entertainment. The duo stated that they wanted a smaller label that was willing to promote them as musicians and focus less on commercial success. SEE! now there are too many pretty faces, with serious lack of training, sucks at singing poppin here & there. COME BACK & SAVE KPOP! seriously i dont care if they cant stand a chance against Big Bang, SNSD, or even TVXQ! with their comeback this year. they are real musicians. RESPECT THAT!
now lets back into this post's title : painful sacrifice. i saw today's news about Singapore's first tattoo show. { you can read about it here & here } it struck me. i hv read abt yakuza moon previously. the first book which i have read in less than a week {yes, dun laugh! i m a vvvvv slow reader. & its hardly tt i read} & after i read the book, i begin to see many tattooed ppl walking in the streets. not those usual small piece of art. THEY ARE HUGE! & multi-colored. u know i begin to think many just tattoo for the fun of it. its painful, but its for showing off or scare off ppl. to me tattoo is a piece of fine art, something that is meaningful, something that potrays emotion/character/personality/an element, something that captures your eye and not discrimination. something that i wouldnt want to have when i just hate it the next minute. tattooes stay with u FOR LIFE. it cuts you deeply. make it tt every tattoo carries a meaning, a turning point or maybe a lesson.
{ shes the author of the book }
the following pictures are mostly taken from asianart.org { the Asian Art Museum's monthly Matcha event } tgt with flickr & deviantart & yahoo images. heres a paragraph about tattooes & traditional art:
Tattoos have actually long been a part of Asian culture stretching back thousands of years in China, Japan and Southeast Asia. For a large part of last century though, a tattoo was seen as a counter cultural mark in many Asian cities. Conventional tattoos are done using machines but traditional tattoos from places like Thailand and Borneo are done using rods and nails which some say can be a lot more painful. A Borneo tattoo is done manually. The ink is hammered into your skin, leaving a design which gets darker over time, unlike conventional tattoos where the colour fades over time. There’s also a long history associated with some of these designs,wrist tattoos were believed to stop the soul from escaping the body while dot tattoos between the thumb and index finger used to indicate that one was a headhunter. A more mystical tattoo experience is the Thai Sak Yant performed by a monk.It is the Thai interpretation of the Buddhist and Hindu scripture and serious practitioners see it not only as body art, but also as a spiritual commitment.
// Asian Art Museum's monthly Matcha event
// misc tattoo art
// Thai Sak Yant
{ see her farmiliar? yes, she has one too }
now end of sacrifices. i have got some food spams to share! dinnerat manhattan fish market, strawberries, pineapple tarts, cameras & many many more.
//thats where it is~
// a big map.
//the menu
// o the red red LOBSTER~
// get it ON FIRE!
// seafood platter for 2
// the prawns lying on the "sea bed"
// the sauses
// getting full~
//yay! i'm satisfied! yum yum. { but i think fish&co is nicer~ }
//strawberries. PRODUCT OF KOREAAA!
// if u hv been reading my blog, I LOVE THESE!
//grandma's secret recipe pineapple tarts. { aft u hv ate these, u'll know those sell in sg, are CHEATING UR MONEY! }
//food arent the only thing mum brot back fr indo { GIVEN FROM MY UNCLE! }