Haha me and my lists!
Go to K-Town (Shin-Okubo)
-buy anything Super Junior that I can find
-get Liz a damn Taeyang pen
-see if they have a poster of Taeyang for Liz
Go to Harajuku
-do puri-kura
-idol shops
-eat a crepe
-eat a kabob
-that accessory shop
Emily wants to go to an onsen.
lol. That is truly horrible, that's all I want to do. Haaa... so far. :P
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Super Junior (and how they're maybe changing the course of my life!)
Um, it's kind of 2:30am right now.
Haha.
Anyways, I wanted to ramble about Super Junior and what has happened to me recently (BECAUSE OF THEM.)
I have been listening to Japanese and Korean music since I was a sophomore in high school. That's been about eight years now, and I have been listening to Super Junior since their beginning really. But my relationship with Korean music is kind of strained, and I go through long spurts refusing to listen to it. Such an instance has been for almost two years. When I first went to Japan, I was listening to a bit of Korean music because one of my good friends in the US was Korean and she made me listen to some music she liked. When I arrived in Japan, I met a lot of people who were really into Korean music because it's good to dance to, or something like that. And me, not wanting to like what everyone else likes, decided that it was time to stop listening to Korean music. I was in JAPAN after all. To learn JAPANESE.
While (most of) my friends were raving about Korean pop bands that they were finding and falling in love with, I staunchly stuck to my love, the Japanese boy band Arashi. I stuck to Arashi like glue (and I still do.) When my friends would send me Korean music to listen to, I would listen to it maybe one time (if that) and then not listen to it again. If I were to listen to Korean bands, I made sure that it was in Japanese, (with the exception of Taeyang's "Wedding Dress" because that song is a miracle worker when it comes to writing last minute papers, and SHINee's "Ring Ding Dong" because that song is freaking catchy.) because a bunch of Korean bands were branching over to Japan (and still are from the looks of things with Super Junior.)
Then I returned home to the US. My best friends here were also obsessing over Korean music. I found this quite annoying and stuck to my "no Korean music!" policy. I would sit with them through a few music videos that I didn't really care that much about and not really pay attention to the song, just watch the dancing. I finally approached graduation from my college, and while attempting to get a position teaching English in Japan, a bunch of people told me that I should also look into teaching English in Korea. (This was a legit suggestion, because the job market in Korea is bigger for English teachers than it is in Japan simply because more people go to Japan. Korea is cheaper than Japan, and the chances of getting a job in a major city are much higher.) This upset me greatly, because the point of teaching English in Japan is to be able to live in JAPAN again, not in Korea. I know that they're close, but the whole point was to go for Japan, for the Japanese language, etc.
Struggling to find a job teaching in Japan, I have considered that maybe it just wasn't meant to be. Being an English teacher, I mean. I'm looking to translation jobs instead, because that's what I really want to do (I think.)
About a month ago, I was watching things on YouTube and I stumbled across SM Entertainment's page. Super Junior belongs to the giant company of SM Entertainment, and I decided to see if the band had put out any new music since I had last listened to them. (Last time I did, they had just released their 3rd album "Sorry Sorry.")
I was shocked to see that they had released a bunch of new songs since I stopped listening to them. I clicked around a bit and I found the cutest video I have ever seen in my life:
I can't even count how many times I have watched this video since I found it. It took me about a week before I was able to recognize all of the guys and figure out who was missing (compared with their previous videos, they're missing three guys in this video. One is gone for good due to a lawsuit, another is in his mandatory military service and another is on a kind of hiatus because of acting.)
From this video, I clicked around and watched their other newer videos. This was fatal. I've become obsessed with them again, perhaps more obsessed than I was in 2006. Before I went to Japan, I had an interest in learning Korean, but I never really did anything about it because I was too busy preparing to go to Japan. Then, I lost that interest. Now, I want to learn Korean just for Super Junior. And only for Super Junior.
I still don't care about Korean music more than I did before, I only care about Super Junior. (And Shinhwa, sometimes Big Bang and a little bit of SHINee. EDIT: AND RAIN, HOW DID I FORGET ABOUT RAIN??? And maybe some of TVXQ. Sometimes.) I'm not interested in other, new bands and I am in no way interested in female artists or bands (I don't even want to get started on why.) And, I don't care what my friends have to say about that. I'm also not interested in Korean dramas, the same friends who were telling me that I should try and get a job in Korea were praising Kdramas and I just don't see the appeal. I might watch some variety shows (but probably only the ones that Super Junior members are in.)
Now to why this band may be changing my life.
Obviously, I don't really know what to do now with my life. I have graduated from my university and have yet to find a job. I'm not ready for graduate school by any means, and I won't be ready for a while I believe. Part of the reason I am not ready for graduate school is because I don't know what I want to go for. I thought maybe I would go for Anthropology (focus in Japan, obviously.) There are no schools in my state that offer this sort of study, however and I was considering going to Japan for this.
Now however, with my somewhat renewed interest in learning Korean, I am considering getting a linguistics degree. A friend told me that as far as she knows, I would need proficiency in two or three languages to get this type of degree, so that is a slight set-back. I also have a desire to learn German, Italian, (re-learn) Spanish and perhaps Gaelic.
But I blame my indecisiveness on Super Junior and their absolutely adorable video here. I had a bit of an idea about what to do and now I am back at square one. It's not fair for me to say that this is all because of Super Junior, because I'm having a bunch of conflicting feelings about many different things right now. I just happened to stumble across their new music at the right time, I suppose.
Now I just need someone to help me learn how to read and write hangul. I'm trying to learn it myself but it's hard for me to teach myself these things.
Haha.
Anyways, I wanted to ramble about Super Junior and what has happened to me recently (BECAUSE OF THEM.)
I have been listening to Japanese and Korean music since I was a sophomore in high school. That's been about eight years now, and I have been listening to Super Junior since their beginning really. But my relationship with Korean music is kind of strained, and I go through long spurts refusing to listen to it. Such an instance has been for almost two years. When I first went to Japan, I was listening to a bit of Korean music because one of my good friends in the US was Korean and she made me listen to some music she liked. When I arrived in Japan, I met a lot of people who were really into Korean music because it's good to dance to, or something like that. And me, not wanting to like what everyone else likes, decided that it was time to stop listening to Korean music. I was in JAPAN after all. To learn JAPANESE.
While (most of) my friends were raving about Korean pop bands that they were finding and falling in love with, I staunchly stuck to my love, the Japanese boy band Arashi. I stuck to Arashi like glue (and I still do.) When my friends would send me Korean music to listen to, I would listen to it maybe one time (if that) and then not listen to it again. If I were to listen to Korean bands, I made sure that it was in Japanese, (with the exception of Taeyang's "Wedding Dress" because that song is a miracle worker when it comes to writing last minute papers, and SHINee's "Ring Ding Dong" because that song is freaking catchy.) because a bunch of Korean bands were branching over to Japan (and still are from the looks of things with Super Junior.)
Then I returned home to the US. My best friends here were also obsessing over Korean music. I found this quite annoying and stuck to my "no Korean music!" policy. I would sit with them through a few music videos that I didn't really care that much about and not really pay attention to the song, just watch the dancing. I finally approached graduation from my college, and while attempting to get a position teaching English in Japan, a bunch of people told me that I should also look into teaching English in Korea. (This was a legit suggestion, because the job market in Korea is bigger for English teachers than it is in Japan simply because more people go to Japan. Korea is cheaper than Japan, and the chances of getting a job in a major city are much higher.) This upset me greatly, because the point of teaching English in Japan is to be able to live in JAPAN again, not in Korea. I know that they're close, but the whole point was to go for Japan, for the Japanese language, etc.
Struggling to find a job teaching in Japan, I have considered that maybe it just wasn't meant to be. Being an English teacher, I mean. I'm looking to translation jobs instead, because that's what I really want to do (I think.)
About a month ago, I was watching things on YouTube and I stumbled across SM Entertainment's page. Super Junior belongs to the giant company of SM Entertainment, and I decided to see if the band had put out any new music since I had last listened to them. (Last time I did, they had just released their 3rd album "Sorry Sorry.")
I was shocked to see that they had released a bunch of new songs since I stopped listening to them. I clicked around a bit and I found the cutest video I have ever seen in my life:
I can't even count how many times I have watched this video since I found it. It took me about a week before I was able to recognize all of the guys and figure out who was missing (compared with their previous videos, they're missing three guys in this video. One is gone for good due to a lawsuit, another is in his mandatory military service and another is on a kind of hiatus because of acting.)
From this video, I clicked around and watched their other newer videos. This was fatal. I've become obsessed with them again, perhaps more obsessed than I was in 2006. Before I went to Japan, I had an interest in learning Korean, but I never really did anything about it because I was too busy preparing to go to Japan. Then, I lost that interest. Now, I want to learn Korean just for Super Junior. And only for Super Junior.
I still don't care about Korean music more than I did before, I only care about Super Junior. (And Shinhwa, sometimes Big Bang and a little bit of SHINee. EDIT: AND RAIN, HOW DID I FORGET ABOUT RAIN??? And maybe some of TVXQ. Sometimes.) I'm not interested in other, new bands and I am in no way interested in female artists or bands (I don't even want to get started on why.) And, I don't care what my friends have to say about that. I'm also not interested in Korean dramas, the same friends who were telling me that I should try and get a job in Korea were praising Kdramas and I just don't see the appeal. I might watch some variety shows (but probably only the ones that Super Junior members are in.)
Now to why this band may be changing my life.
Obviously, I don't really know what to do now with my life. I have graduated from my university and have yet to find a job. I'm not ready for graduate school by any means, and I won't be ready for a while I believe. Part of the reason I am not ready for graduate school is because I don't know what I want to go for. I thought maybe I would go for Anthropology (focus in Japan, obviously.) There are no schools in my state that offer this sort of study, however and I was considering going to Japan for this.
Now however, with my somewhat renewed interest in learning Korean, I am considering getting a linguistics degree. A friend told me that as far as she knows, I would need proficiency in two or three languages to get this type of degree, so that is a slight set-back. I also have a desire to learn German, Italian, (re-learn) Spanish and perhaps Gaelic.
But I blame my indecisiveness on Super Junior and their absolutely adorable video here. I had a bit of an idea about what to do and now I am back at square one. It's not fair for me to say that this is all because of Super Junior, because I'm having a bunch of conflicting feelings about many different things right now. I just happened to stumble across their new music at the right time, I suppose.
Now I just need someone to help me learn how to read and write hangul. I'm trying to learn it myself but it's hard for me to teach myself these things.
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