tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84587341039398663922011-10-12T17:53:46.416+09:00you strike the match, why not be utterly changed to fire?mah_ran_duhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743459480593560002noreply@blogger.comBlogger1571100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458734103939866392.post-39798494792773024652011-07-08T14:51:00.002+09:002011-07-08T15:21:08.263+09:00

those of you who know me already know how terrible i am at saying goodbye. i loathe the concept so much that i usually just avoid the entire process. saying goodbye just seems so...final. especially when it's the kind of goodbye where you know that you'll never see the other person again. in my mind...i feel like if i never actually utter the word "goodbye" that there's still a chance that i'll

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from an activity in today's grade 5 class:the president of korea is: ___kimchi_______umm, what??

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so i'm trying to avoid posting thousands of pictures of bigbang, like i used to.but this...this...ASJFKLADKLADFKLAFKL.yes. that is all.please enjoy this delicious piece of eye candy. [but not too much, because i already called dibs.]above: all of the reasons why i love korea.

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last week, i was playing a random trivia quiz game with my 6th grade students. my coteacher just wanted me to plan 40 minutes worth of games, not based on what they had been learning from the text book.the object of the game was simple: i had about 100 cards with random things, food, people, and places written on them. i would pull a card of of a box, and describe it through words and/or actions

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this week in fourth grade, we were learning about "she/he is a _[job]___."today, we played a hidden picture game, where i showed the kids a picture of various jobs, covered with squares so they couldn't see what it was. i removed one square at a time, revealing a part of the picture, and as soon as they knew the answer, they could make a guess.they were only supposed to say the key sentence as

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i realized that my posts have become few and far between. and that i haven't really said anything in any of them.진짜 미안해요!!i've been super busy lately, at school...and after school. i teach a bunch of extra classes now--advanced english. which means that i'm grading essays. and trying to make sense of essays. and i'm disappointed with my korean skill. so i've been studying super hardcore. and now

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i've been trying to post a lot less about kpop and focus more on things that i actually do in korea.but, i reallyreallyreally love this song.

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this week, i had monday and tuesday off of work, due to buddha's birthday being on tuesday. even though korea is traditionally buddhist, it seems like a lot of people these days are either christian or not religiously affiliated. since i am not buddhist, and i don't know anyone who is [well, i don't know anyone who is a practicing buddhist], i'm not sure what people traditionally do on this

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yesterday was children's day, which is apparently a pretty big holiday in korea. i think that children are supposed to get presents and/or money on this day. since i am [shockingly] neither korean nor a child, i received nothing. other than a day off of work, which is a pretty great present.to celebrate, my friend reallywally and i went to the hello kitty cafe at 대학로 [daehakno]. there are several

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a few weeks ago, i went to the YG building in 합정 [hapjeong--an area of seoul located a covnenient 30 minutes from my apartment]. YG is the record label that produces BIGBANG, 2NE1, SE7EN, Psy, and Gummy. [but most importantly bigbangㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]anyways, i was totally not creeping because bigbang wasn't even there at the time. and i knew that they weren't gonna be there. [they had another concert at

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so, lately i've been trying to avoid posting bigbang fangirlishness, and instead post about the other [less interesting things] that i do, which for some reason most people find more interesting to read.but i reallyreallyreally like this. a lot.a couple of weeks ago, bigbang released a special edition of their newest mini-album, with love song as one of the title songs. and yesterday they

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spring is finally here!! after weeks of bleak coldness, the sun has come out at last~~the air feels warm, and beautiful flowers are blooming everywhere. to celebrate spring, i went to the cherry blossom festival at 여의도공원 [yeouido park] in seoul this past weekend. from there, my friend and i walked to 여의나루공원 [yeouinaru park] to relax by the 한강 [han river]. the weather was perfect, and i took

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april 14 is black day in korea…it’s supposed to be a depressing singles’ holiday, following valentine’s day on feb 14 [the boy’s holiday] and white day on march 14 [the girl’s holiday]. so i guess it’s only fair that they should have a holiday for the remaining 5% of the population that is not currently in a relationship. [seriously…i’m pretty sure that everyone in this country is in a

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it rained today. i'm told that it was radioactive, and that it's bad if it touches you. this morning, i was more concerned with putting in my headphones than putting up my umbrella. so i got rained on. just a little bit. i hope that i wake up with cool superpowers.

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as you may [or may not] know, i've had a cat since october. [her name is 채린-->chae lin.] she's super cute, occasionally sweet, and she loves watching TV.she also hates bigbang. which is rather unfortunate because i love them so much. she especially hates T.O.P~~which is also quite unfortunate. and very disappointing. one day, i came home from school only to discover that she had not only [somehow

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yesterday, while i was sleeping in the office, the 6th grade head teacher came in, asked why i looked like i was dying, and then told me to go home early. [this was at 4:15.] so i got to leave a whole twenty minutes early--yay??i decided to go to the doctor near my school. [the reason i had been wanting to leave school early to go there is because this particular clinic closes around 5-ish. i

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this week i've been really sick, and with each passing day i've gotten progressively worse. according to webmd, i've been stricken with either: a.) certain death, or b.) the flu.i feel [and look] like i've been run over by a bus, dragged for a couple of miles by the aforementioned bus, and then hit by several very large trucks. my entire body aches [especially my head], i have chills, a fever,

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today is white day in korea. which is [yet another] lovey-dovey blahhhh holiday. it's so nice being a single girl and living in a country that's obsessed with coupley-mushy-disgustingly-romantical things.and i don't even care that this post is going to reek of cynicism. meh. basically, white day is the opposite of valentine's day, which in korea, is when the girl should give candy//flowers//

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since last week was the 1st week of the new school year, i had monday and tuesday off. then, i had to spend the rest of the week...desk-warming.desk-warming is the horrible phenomenon that occurs when foreign english teachers in korea [like myself] find themselves with no classes to teach, due to a variety of outside circumstances [usually tests or school trips]. despite having no classes to

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the good news for you, dear readers, is that this post has absolutely nothing to do with bigbang^^the good news for me is that i don't have to teach with yzma-englishee-no. this morning, as soon as i arrived at school, this amazing news was delivered to me.the woman is afraid of me...that's what she told me coteacher. sooo, apparently i'm truly terrifying. [it's gotta be because my eyes are

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V.I.Ps, and kpop fans alike, rejoiced when it was revealed that BigBang would return once again to the korean music scene. aside from solo projects and numerous cellphone ads, the 5-member group had virtually disappeared from korea for a long 2 years and 3 months. instead, they turned their attentions to an overseas market, releasing several jpop mini albums. because of this long absence, fans [

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yesterday, i had the privilege of seeing the 1st of the 3 Big Show concerts. [the other two are today and tomorrow.] due to luck and my sheer amazingness at acquiring excellent concert tickets, i was able to secure standing spots on the first floor, by the side stage. unfortunately, i was unable to take any illegal creeper pictures//fancams due to the fact that i was unable to move my arms during

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8 hours and counting until the bigbang concert!!i can't freaking wait^_______^their new cd is banging, and if the concert is anything like last year's big show, then it's for sure going to be the greatest concert of my life~~EEKKKKK!!!!!!!!!

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[most definitely incredible. hey, move.]b to the i to the g [bang bang] today, after having made V.I.Ps wait for 2 years and 3 months, BIGBANG has finally made their korean comeback *^_____________^*i'm listening to their new mini-album now, while making my sign for tomorrow's concert [to be unveiled to the public later]. best day ever. well, until tomorrow...because i get to see my boys up close

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bigbang's comeback...it's almost hereeeeeee^_____________^also, on friday, i'm going to the bigbang big show 2011~~and i can't freaking wait!!i'm gonna be among the first to hear NEW bigbang liveeeeee~~excitement!!*^^*

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since the new school year officially begins next wednesday [2 march], all of the new [and old]teachers are at school today, moving into and out of classrooms, redecorating, etc etc etc.also, today i met my new coteacher.my first impression of her was: "holy crap, she strongly resembles yzma from the emperor's new groove". however, i was unwilling to let my initial prejudice against the woman

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YG has been teasing V.I.Ps for months regarding BIGBANG's comeback album [as a group, they've been missing from the korean music scene for about 2 years...although they have released quite a few japanese singles, plus g-dragon, taeyang, gdtop, and seung-ri have released successful albums/mini-albums during bigbang's korean hiatus].after pushing back the official release date just enough times to

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today, my precious little 6th graders graduate and move on to middle schoolㅠㅠit just hit me today that this is actually happening, and--not surprisingly--i'm really sad about it...these students have been my favorites ever since i first started teaching at buwon--back when they were in fifth grade. i mean, they were just really, really good students. they were fun, smart, and they always tried

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i totally forgot that yesterday was valentine's day, lovely readers.oops.since i live in korea, and koreans are obsessed with stupid lovey-dovey holidays, they celebrate it much differently people do back home in america.in korea on valentine's day, the girl should buy candy or chocolates to confess her love to her husband//boyfriend//crush//whatever. blahhhh. [yes, i'm bitter...]in case you're

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jen and me...soooo ready for vacation!![and yes, we are wearing sunglasses...in an airport...]intramuros [manila]dancing on the wall at intramuros[because i'm just that awesome.]manila [as seen from intramuros]the old spanish prison [manila]cebu citybluewater beach [mactan island]we're on a boat![island hopping adventure^^]the absolutely gorgeous beach at costabella[mactan island]the resort we

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today, i managed to acquire first floor standing tickets to a sold out big bang concert [big show 2011]. yeahhhh. i'm that good. so, imma be real close to the stage. which means imma be real close to this hottness: and also this:aw snap.

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even though school is technically out for winter vacation, i only get 9 days off [sadness]. this year, i decided to go to the philippines with my friend jen, basically because it's warm and i'd never been there before. in hindsight, our vacation should have been more heavily researched [meaning: researched] prior to leaving korea. oops.manila:our vacation got off to an amazingly wonderful start.

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beloved readers,after spending the past 2 weeks on vacation in the philippines [with limited//no internet], i have finally arrived back in korea^__^i got back home around midnight last night, and i had to work today [i'm home now]. so i'm super tired. [i'm falling asleep at my computer as i type this...]but you can look forward to my vacay highlights//pictures coming SOON!!~m~

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so the past few weeks have been kinda crazy/boring.despite the fact that the last day of school was on Christmas eve, i've still had to come to work everyday. [ps i'm the only person at school. except for the office people. who occasionally come to check on me to make sure i don't escape.]anyways, my first day of camp i walked in to school SUPER unprepared, because my coteacher refused to ever

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i often knockout.also:I.LOVE.THIS.MUSICVIDEO.

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after eagerly waiting for what seemed like an eternity, GDTOP's album was finally dropped on christmas eve [as a special music treat for V.I.Ps//music lovers//people with ears//women everywhere]. i snatched it up the second that i found it, put it on my iPod approximately 5 minutes later, and haven't stopped listening to it ever since. [seriously, this album is the perfect soundtrack for: walking

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christmas eve was the tsocial party, which i had eagerly been anticipating all week. the dress code was blingbling [excitement!! because my whole life is blingbling], so i bought a fabulous strapless red dress, with bling-tastic accessories, black glitterly heels, and i wore silver-sparkly eye makeup.for some reason, i had expected the party to be a lot more like the party from GDTOP's "high high

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so i'm pretty sure that i'm the happiest person on the planet right now and that today is the greatest day of my life ever.well, until today is one-upped by friday.which is going to be FIRE.except that they just now posted the dress code [we had to vote last week: red vs. bling bling vs. white and silver]. bling bling won. but my dress is red.oh well. looks like i'm getting new shoes ^______^

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i'm literally dying here. my thoughts are completely incoherent, and i'm shaking...with EXCITEMENT!!all last week, there was this contest that i competed in like a crazy psycho maniac. it was on facebook, and basically you had to follow the fan page of the sponsoring korean cell phone company, like all of their posts during the week, and comment on them.of course, i'm all about trying to be

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today was my last day teaching my 6th graders, which is legitimately sad.the korean school calendar is set up much differently than that in the united states. the school year begins in march, has a 5 week summer vacation from july-august, and then a long winter break beginning after christmas and lasting until february. the students then return for a week and a half of school before going on a 2

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...i discovered that a sewage treatment plan is located directly behind my school. [you can see part of it on the lawn outside the lunch room window.]so yeah.that explains a lot.

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yesterday was the official world premiere press conference for GDTOP [the name for the collab unit of BIGBANG'S G-Dragon and T.O.P]. they gave a sneak peak of their album which is pretty much going to be the greatest thing ever in the history of things.today, the duo released their first digital single, which includes two songs off of their yet-to-be-released cd. additionally, they have released

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for those of you who care/are interested, i've finally gotten around to posting some of my pictures from the YG Family Concert [most are from day 1].with coleen~~my "official" concert buddy^^annddd, this is probably the closest i'll ever get to taking a picture "with" BIGBANG.ahh~~check out T.O.P's hair~!YG Family~!day 2: with my "world famous" signT.O.P! i can be your english teacher!ps~ at 5pm,

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here are some fancams my friend reallywally [thnx^^] took from the Sunday night YG Family Concert [the only one i didn't go to...] i didn't take any videos, but i did take some illegal creeper pictures [cameras technically weren't allowed], but i may or may not ever get around to posting my pics on here seeing as how i haven't even had time to put them on my computer yet ㅠㅠㅠㅠthe first video is

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i will readily admit that i'm kind of like a crazy person--or maybe i should say passionate. i'm passionate about kpop. and, of course, bigbang.since i'm so passionate about kpop and such, i went to two of the three performances for the 2010 YG Family Concert at olympic park stadium in seoul. for those of you who aren't familiar with YG family, it's a korean record label [officially called

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this december is definitely going to be the greatest month of my life so far. probably.here's all the super exciting stuff that i have to look forward to:saturday, 4 december: YG family concert. my tickets are for the floor section, stage right, in the front. i'm making a sign for T.O.P, and he will see it. ummheckyess.sunday, 5 december: YG family concert. i'm going twice because i'm twice as

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this morning, at precisely 12AM--the exact moment that YG's countdown clock read 000:00:00:00, YG Entertainment released what were probably the four greatest announcements in the history of announcements.when i saw the screen, i couldn't believe my eyes. a fit of mild crazy-fangirlishness, accompanied by screaming, clapping, and a happy dance ensued.announcement #1: G-Dragon and T.O.P will be

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the MAMAs are over. 2PM won a crapload of awards. and taeyang, T.O.P, and g-dragon gave hands down the hottest performance everrrr.OH.MY.GOSHHHHHHHHH.*dies*also, last week i discovered the tragical news that my beloved T.O.P had destroyed his beautifully perfect hair by dying it. BLONDE. i was disgusted, heartbroken, and enraged. i desperately wanted to find the person who had done this horrible

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i spent my afternoon eating ramen and watching bigbang concert dvds, because apparently i am a fifteen-year-old korean girl.i'm currently watching the 2010 Mnet Asian Music Awards [MAMAs]. 2PM just won an award for their dance in their video "I'll Be Back", which is completely ridiculous because it's essentially them doing the running man for three and a half minutes. clearly the judges are on

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i really love korean variety television shows. [i usually watch them at night when i'm trying to fall asleep...] now that i'm learning korean, i can usually understand [or figure out] most of what's going on. and it's usually reallyreally funny. a lot of programs parody popular songs, music videos, singers, tv shows, etc. hilarioussomething unique about korean variety/reality programs is that

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this picture is so freaking cute:T.O.P~~i love him.[yeahhh~~i had some free time after i finished my korean homework...]

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two weeks ago, i got a baby kitty^^actually, my neighbor [a foreign english teacher like myself] found her when two college-age girls were trying to give her away at a nearby convenience store. technically, my neighbor and i are sharing the cat, but i still consider her to be mine ㅋㅋi thought long and hard about a good name for her. i really wanted to name her after T.O.P or bigbang, but since

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매일 저는 한국말 공부 열심히하고 연습하는 것을 좋아해요.[i study korean very hard every day, and i like to practice it.]this past week, i had a pretty important test with my korean tutor. part1: interview. part2: write a story. luckily, i passed! and she told me that i had "levelled up", which makes me feel like i'm part of a video game or somethingㅋㅋanyways, the story writing was pretty difficult. my assignment was to

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for those of you who care [and for those of you who don't but are reading this anyways], today is T.O.P's birthday [aka 최승현 aka my future husband].by western age, this means that he is now 23 [yeah, i'm older than him...by like four months. whatevs]. since korean's calculate age differently, he's 24 [still--they don't count age by birthdays, but by the new year. soo, he's been 24 all year, even

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i'm pretty certain that i'm the busiest person on the planet right now. [i'm writing this during the 6 free minutes that i have planned out for today...]here's a small glimpse into my weekly schedule:monday/wednesday:7am--wake up8:30am--arrive at school9-12:30pm--teach classes12:30-1pm--lunch time1-4:40pm--varies [teach afternoon classes, plan lessons, study korean]5-6:30pm--work out at the gym6:

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yesterday was probably one of the greatest days ever. i met a S.M.O.G. *swoons*[S.M.O.G.=Sexy Man Of God...according to me and my college friends haha^^]i met my friend jen, and went to church as per usual on sunday afternoons. this past weekend, there was some kind of festival going on at the korean part of my church, but we didn't really know what it was all about. there were posters up, but

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this is my 100th post~~hooray!! the theme for this week was "operation: ticket acquisition".on tuesday, tickets for C.N.Blue's concert on december 18th went on sale. col and i decided that we needed to go since we love them. [and they need to know that.] tickets were wicked expensive [99,000KRW for 1st floor, 77,000KRW for 2nd, and 55,000 for 3rd~~yikes] the concert is at the same venue as

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this past sunday, i had the chance to go to seoulland, because my neighbor [a high school english teacher] got free tickets when his school took a trip there a few weeks ago.seoulland is an amusement park, but personally, i found it to be much less exciting than the other parks i've visited in korea: lotteworld and everland.i went with my neighbor [jayme] and three of our korean friends. jayme

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last wednesday [20 october] was the bukbu english festival, and my school was invited to participate. it involves the local elementary schools, and each school's english club is expected to give a performance entirely in english, as well as prepare a poster to display in the lobby of the event hall.i have 4 coteachers. the one who is in charge of my school's english program did not want our

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dear lovely readers: i sincerely apologize for having temporarily disappeared from the internet for the past week and a half. life has been [and still is] crazy busy. 아이고~~ wednesday, 13 october: "do you want to hear the fish death sound?"almost two weeks ago, i had the chance to accompany the 6th grade on a three-day trip. since the 6th graders are my favorite students, i jumped at the

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this past weekend was the seoul soul festival, which was held at the korean war memorial in yongsan.since the tickets were really expensive [88,000 KRW], i could only afford to see the show on saturday. totally ok, because that was the only day that SE7EN and 태양 [taeyang] were performing anyways. i think i have officialy reached crazy fangirl status, because even though it was only my second time

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today is my last day of desk warming. for a while at least. hallelujah!!i just made an [important??] discovery. U-KISS released their newest music video for the song 시끄러 [shut up]. the song is pretty good [i usually like the stuff they put out...it's really dance-y].also...the movie stars a white girl, a "trend" i've been noticing lately. bigbang's latest music video [for "beautiful hangover"]

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is it sad that finding this was the highlight of my day??

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FRUSTRATION!!this pretty much sums up how i feel right now: AKLJFSDFAKLJWEIOUAFKLNSDF8903KLJSDFAKLNXVUASFJLKLAJKLNVKNAKLDSJF2908AJFLKVNgrr.internet shopping.on an unrelated, happy note:i am completely obsessed with the korean shopping site, g-market. it's pretty similar to amazon.com, and it's the greatest thing ever.today, i purchased a piano on g-market. it's small but may or may not fit in my

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games.it takes me twenty minutes to walk to work. usually, the walk is quite dull, and even though i listen to music i often get bored. sometimes, to keep myself aware of my surroundings, i play games.my favorite is a guessing game that i like to call "guy or girl?" sometimes, especially from a distance, people can appear to be androgynous. i attribute that to the fact that many of the styles

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apparently, there's a new student at my school, and people were making a really big deal about it this morning.this is because the new student is......A CHILD STAR.apparently, she's a relatively famous child actress in korea. her most recent film was 그랑프리 [grand prix], a movie about horse racing that was released over the chuseok holiday. in this movie, she starred alongside actress 김태희 [kim tae

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this week, i will be playing the role of "desk warmer", due to the fact that i have no classes [at all] because of midterms.ordinarily, it is nice to have the break. and i can usually stand one day of it, two at the maximum. but five?!?!?!?!? i will more than likely end up losing my mind.since i have no real work to do, and i have ample time to search the internet...you can expect more posts like

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a few weeks ago, one of my sixth grade students gave me pictures that she had drawn of me that week while i taught her class.for the record, my skirt was NOT that short...

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today was picture day at my school, which i found out this morning at approximately 7:30. shockingly, this is more advanced notice than i normally get for any school event that involves me in any way.i thought it was just going to be the standard teacher group shot. that's the only yearbook picture i was in last year. in the previous yearbook, for my single shot they used the picture from my arc

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it is a well-established fact that i am a crazy person, somewhat fangirlish, and kinda obsessed with bigbang. therefore, i fully support the solo efforts of each of the five members of bigbang. so when it was announced that taeyang would be giving TWO performances of his first full-length solo concert [he had a mini solo concert maybe 2-ish years ago when his mini-album, HOT, was released], i

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태양 [taeyang]: famous for randomly ripping off his shirt and having perfect abs. oh, and also for being a super talented dancer, singer, and pianist. [or something like that, his abs are kind of distracting.]so last night, i went with coleen and allison to taeyang's first solo concert: solar. AHH-MAY-ZING [does not even begin to describe it].coleen and i sat on the left side of the auditorium [the

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since i had an entire week of NO SCHOOL [yayy!!] i went to busan with my friend, coleen. it was a really...interesting...trip ㅋㅋㅋtuesday, 21 september [mythical pizza hut]so the bus ride to busan took seven hours. for real. it was horrible.by the time we arrived, we were tired and half starved. we checked into our hostel [indy house] and headed out to find something for dinner. we saw a sign for

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maybe~this week may very well be the best week. ever.1.) NO SCHOOL THIS WEEK [yayy~!!]2.) tomorrow i'm going to busan with coleen. for four days ^__^3.) 추석 [chuseok--korean thanksgiving] is on wednesday. [i mean, i'm not korean so i don't really celebrate this...but whatever. holidays are cool.]4.) TAEYANG concert on saturday. i'll be only FOURTEEN rows from taeyang. and hopefully T.O.P [sigh.]5.

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this week, i met with my korean tutor, just like i do every week.but this week, she taught me something that i think will be particularly useful. and also awesome.감시 하지마세요. [gamshee hajimaseyo.]: Please stop watching me. [formal]감시 하지마. [gamshee hajima.]: Stop watching me. [informal]in other words, "stop being a creeper!" i plan on saying this as often as possible.

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i saw this sign while i was at everland.i think it's supposed to mean: "don't go on this ride if you have a heart condition or back problems".but what it looks like is: "don't go on this ride if you are a terrible dancer or have bad gas". just say no.

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last sunday, stephen, coleen, and i went to everland for the day to celebrate stephen's last weekend in korea.everland is a resort/amusement park/zoo/waterpark just outside of seoul. it's also quite awesome.since it had poured alllll week and the sky looked threatening, the park was not crowded at all. the longest we ever had to wait in line was 3o minutes. also, it really turned out to be a

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포화 속으로 [71: Into the Fire].this is a really excellent movie. and i'm not saying that just because T.O.P is in it. [although he certainly made it better ㅋㅋ].i watched the movie when it was released in korea this past june.and now, an english subbed version is available online for your viewing pleasure!!

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last saturday, coleen and i--on a whim--decided to go to hongdae for coffee. since coleen had never been to the hello kitty cafe, our original intention was to go there. but, we made an exciting, albeit accidental, discovery: coffee prince was just around the corner!for those of you who don't know, coffee prince was the set of a really famous [and super good--it's one of my favorites] k-drama of

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my after school mission was highly successful. i managed to acquire 2NE1's first full-length album, To Anyone which was released today. i then promptly uploaded it to my iPod and raced off to the gym to give it a listen while running.to be honest, i was impressed before i even listened to the music. the album art, in my opinion, is brilliant. each of the members shows a different look, and

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this video is tight. omygosh. i freaking love 2NE1.their new look is sooo cool. and C.L. is awesome.i literally cannot wait to listen to their entire new album, which i will [hopefully] be able to hunt down later today.

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this song isn't particularly new, but i have been listening to it on repeat since i saw SE7EN at the incheon hallyu music wave concert.omygosh. lovveee. SE7EN annddd T.O.P~~of course it's amazing. [the best part is at 2:27 when my boy hits the stage *^^*]also, yesterday i somehow managed to score 14th row tickets to taeyang's solo concert on september 25. [jumps around ecstatically]when tickets

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apparently, there is a typhoon. i'm not exactly sure what this means, but i'm just going to go ahead and assume that it's something like a hurricane.i'm not too concerned, but people here seem to be really worried.ehh, whatever~today my school had a two-hour delay. but after i got here, i found out that all classes have been cancelled for the day.ordinarily, this would be great. except that now i

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last night, coleen and i went to the incheon hallyu music wave concert. despite the fact that it had been storming alllll day, we both decided that we still wanted to go even though the concert would be held outside.our craziness was rewarded with cool, dry weather. awesome.i made signs to confess my undying love for SE7EN and taeyang. and i screamed like a middle school girl. OMYGOSH they were

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so it's raining and i'm getting ready to go to a concert......which is outside, but i'm going anyways because i am a crazy person.[and also because i love SE7EN, taeyang, and C.N.Blue.]sadly, bigbang will not be performing today, but i'm hoping that T.O.P will make a special guest appearance if SE7EN sings the song they collaborated on.in other news, i bought taeyang's international album

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today is my first full day back in korea and i'm so tired i feel like i might die. or fall asleep.i'm at school right now because i had to work today because i didn't plan out my vacation time very well.bigbang released a brand-new music video today. so i'm just going to go ahead and assume that it is my "welcome back to korea" present from bigbang/T.O.P.as a bonus surprise, taeyang also

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last night, i went to a panthers preseason game with my dad [since it was the only game i'd be home for because of vacation]. carolina panthers vs. new york jets [yuck.] we pretty much had the most awesome seats ever. 2o yard line. 3rd row. panthers side. ummheckyess.the seats were so great that it's really a shame that the panthers forgot how to play football. with the way they've played so far

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it's a chocolate chip tart with chocolate fudge filling and homemade whipped topping.and it was delicious.

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오늘은 빅뱅의 4번째 생일 했어요~~와우~!권지용 동영배 최승현 강대성 이승현 V.I.P. 우린 빅뱅~~빅뱅 화이팅!저는 '하루하루' 노래가 제일 좋아해요.*^___________________^*

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i just got back from the beach, and all i have to show for it is a million new freckles. awesome.i went with my brother--we rented a condo on oak island, which is where my family normally goes to the beach for vacation. it was really relaxing. we spent a lot of time chilling on the beach, walking along the ocean, and swimming at the pool. i even got in the ocean one day [a feat for me], but then

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last saturday, the family and i went on a white water rafting adventure on the nantahala in the great smoky mountains.because 10 of us went, we couldn't all ride in the same boat. instead, we took 4 small boats. i rode with my brother [zack] and my cousin [kristin]. none of us had any rafting experience except for kristin, who had been rafting there once in 2003. [so, basically, we had absolutely

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when i arrived in clt, i was [probably] slightly deranged from running off of pure caffeine. [who knew that starbucks can give you extra coffee in your coffee??] also, i realized that i had been awake for an amazing 51 hours. holy crap. 18 hours later, i woke up. [yeah, that's right...i slept for 18 freaking amazing hours.] the whole fam came over to the house to celebrate mine and my brother's

mah_ran_duhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743459480593560002noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458734103939866392.post-43731853560685184992010-08-05T23:43:00.002+09:002010-08-06T00:34:42.358+09:00

a few simple rules govern my life:1.) germs are everywhere.2.) don't touch me.*3.) gingivitis can kill you. probably.4.) don't talk to strangers on planes.*exception: if i haven't seen you in a really long time. like a year. or longer.i observe the last rule only to avoid the inevitable awkward situation that arises when either they offend you, you offend them, or you arrive at the mutual [or

mah_ran_duhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743459480593560002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458734103939866392.post-8101434586157257382010-07-29T12:26:00.004+09:002010-07-29T13:17:51.351+09:00

i'm sitting in my apartment at my computer, listening to kpop, watching the minutes slowly tick by on the clock next to me...waiting. waiting. waiting for 4:30 to finally roll around so i can leave for the airport to catch my flight at 8. ahh, 8pm feels like it's an eternity away.it hardly feels like it's been a year since i stepped out of the plane and onto korean soil for the first time. i felt

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today was my last day of summer english camp[!!]technically, it's summer "vacation". there are no students. no teachers. just me. and the few students who signed up for 7 days of [SUPERFUN] english camp. awesome.basically, i've been teaching two summer camps every morning for four hours. [2 hours of 5th grade, and 2 hours of 6th grade.]don't get me wrong, i absolutely love my students; they're

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this morning, i was walking to school, minding my own business. just like i do every morning. i was just walking along the sidewalk, rocking out to some bigbang on my iPod.the sidewalk is lined with stores, and i noticed a man coming out of one of the stores ahead of me. he had a bucket in his hand.a bucket full of water.for some reason, people clean random parts of the sidewalk near my

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a new gym opened up across the street from my apartment. i mostly joined because they were having a special. and also because they had good advertising [read: attractive kboys handing out flyers].normally, the gym costs about 1,200,000 won per year to join. [about $987] but i only paid 350,000 won for a year. [approx. $287] interestingly enough, i have a korean friend who wanted to join when they

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today is my last day of school. [like, real school...i have summer english camp beginning next week.]i would be sad, except that i officially signed my new contract yesterday...so i'll be back for year 2 when school starts back august 25!! but i guess i'll miss these kids for the next 5 weeks~~this is to celebrate summer [almost] vacation:the following video gets the coveted

mah_ran_duhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743459480593560002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458734103939866392.post-79988495902308767622010-07-14T11:41:00.003+09:002010-07-14T12:00:00.746+09:00

eye candy. because today is my birthday. and i can.so lately, i've really been loving super junior, and this is their newest music video. i kinda sorta really have a crush on siwon [the one tying the girl's shoe] and heechul [the guy writing the note in the library].also, i think that the following video pretty much sums up why i am completely/totally/madly in love with T.O.P. mmhmm.너무 멋있어요~~

mah_ran_duhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743459480593560002noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458734103939866392.post-53734597379109231082010-07-08T15:30:00.002+09:002010-07-08T15:49:15.159+09:00

i have four coteachers, total [one for each grade that i teach]. two of them say the most random things imaginable to me. on an almost daily basis. it's not that their english is bad. on the contrary, both of them speak nearly impeccable english [at least grammatically]. so what they say to me, while being grammatically ok, is probably not something you should ever verbalize.the following were

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