Drama, Concert, School

Alright! Just watched the final episode of Playful Kiss. Happy to report that this is one drama that I'm not really depressed saying goodbye to. Yes, it ended well. Yes, the final episode had its moments. No, I will not be buying this show.


Spoiler Alert!

I personally did not like the main male character. He was very cold. I mean, a cold male character can be very attractive and several shows have started with a distant and haughty male lead that has captured my heart and I'm rooting for the couple to get together the whole time (See You're Beautiful and Boys Over Flowers). But in this show, the main male is TOO cold. He's mean. Really mean. And there weren't enough places in the show that gave me hope. I hated that I kept going back to watch more through most of the series. If I'd had anything better to watch, I would have. As is, I'm now glad I made it to the end, I just wish the journey to get there hadn't been so painful. I've never rooted so hard for the main girl to get with a supporting character!

Even up to the very last episode the guy was mean. He went through a wedding ceremony with the main girl and had their honeymoon and all that, and then proudly declared that he would not apply for the marriage certificate or declare their marriage to the government until his 'wife' had passed a test to become a nurse. Turns out he did it for her own good, allegedly, but that's not funny! How can you hold something like that over some one's head??

Anyway, there was no crying and I really don't think there's going to be any sadness at all at this departure. All I can really say for this drama is that it was a good place holder for the drama I really wanted to see and only has two episodes come out a week.

JYJ Concert!

I read on JYJ's official site that tickets will be available starting early this coming week.


While I am very excited and have anticipated this for a very long time (in Amber time it was months, in normal time, a week or two?) I'm no longer dead sure that I'm going to go. I was so excited when they were originally supposed to play in San Francisco. It's only a couple hours from me and I wasn't going to have to rent a hotel or anything like that. I was just going to show up, watch the concert, and then go home. Yay!

But then the venues changed and now the only places that JYJ is playing is Hawaii, Las Vegas, and L.A. None of those places are exactly, "no problem, I'll just drive home after the concert" places. Now I have to look at whether I want to fly or drive. What hotel I can stay in that's fairly close, how much the ticket is going to be, food, gas, all of that! I'm so bummed. I really want to go because they look like they throw one heck of a concert and I really want to be there to support them in their first American tour (especially because I'd like it to happen again and that means they have to know it will be worth their while). It's so hard to make this decision!!

I think the deciding factor will probably be the price of the tickets. If its a couple hundred bucks, well then, I'll just buy their CD. If it's under a hundred and I'm somewhere not in the nose bleed section, I'm going even if I have to sleep in a tent by the theater. Those are my current thoughts on the matter.

I've also been looking into massage therapy schools again. I found a great accredited school offering a really amazing course...of course, the school is in Oakland and the tuition is about $1300 and that's before books and stuff. I was like, 'Woah!' And then that's only the Swedish massage training where I'll get the basics of anatomy, physiology and kinesiology...or something like that, and then about ninety hours of hands on training. If I want to get into the sports and therapeutic massage, where the big bucks are, its another 150 hours of classes that goes more in depth about muscles, nerves, joints and so on, with a lot more hands on hours, and that class is a little over $2000.

Honestly the location is more a deterrent than the price. There's no way I could commute to Oakland, and there is equally no way that I could afford to live in Oakland on unemployment or any other job I'm qualified for at the moment. But I'm still mulling it over. There were some not-quite-as-attractive schools in Sacramento claiming to be able to get you ready for the licensing test for being a masseuse. We'll see.

Lee Jun Ki Pictures

I really don't have anything to say but I saw these pictures on facebook and wow! I really like them. It makes me sad all over again that Lee is in the military. Gosh darn it. But anyway, here is the picture that grabbed my attention.


As you can see, it has a "Halloween" kind of feel, and that is my favorite holiday of the year...well, right after my birthday. Yah, he's so pretty. I'm not usually a fan of the dramatic make up, but I don't think I've seen anything yet that he hasn't pulled of with style!

Ok, ok, here's the next photo that caught my interest when I went to investigate the album the first picture came from.


Again with the feathers and the sexiness. More jewelery this time, or at least more prevalant. He wears them well, but I'm just not a fan of too many rings. But yikes, I want to go to the halloween party he's attending!

And so with a lustful sigh I sign off. ~looks dreamily at pictures one more time. Face transforms from dreamy to irritated. Kicks stupid korean rule that makes it mandatory for all korean males to join~ Take that!

Writing Exorcise

A recurring dream of my four main characters:

Ari-Abi (Female angel)- The cool air whispered over Ari's cheeks as she flew low over one of earth's oceans. It had been sunny, she remembered but dark clouds now hid the sky and turned the sapphire blue waters to choppy slate gray waves. She wasn't worried though. Storms couldn't hurt her. A darker shape in the water lay under the water's surface ahead of her as she meandered. A whale perhaps?

She drew closer to the hulking dark form, hoping to be able to watch the whale surface and blow a spout of water into the air. But the dark place in the water seemed to be growing in size and blackness. She hovered over it, beginning to feel uneasy. Her hand went instinctively to her sword only to realize that she'd lost it somewhere. Had it fallen into the ocean? How was she going to find it? The shape beneath her had transformed into a whirlpool and it was sucking at her robes.

A rock had settled itself in Ari's chest, making it hard to breath and harder to stay in the air. She was sinking! The yawning maw of the whirlpool had teeth and desired a meal. Ari's wings pumped furiously but her chest didn't want to suck in any air and no sound escaped from her mouth when she tried to call out for help. Her feet kicked the empty air, her arms stretched and grasped for anything even though she knew it was hopeless. Hungry water lapped at her toes, turning them to icy dead weights that quickened her descent.

Ari-Abi, pinangel, woke up, gasping for breath and flailing about in her sheets. It was the same dream again!

Rotciv (Incubus)- Rotciv's little hut of a dwelling was gone and in its place stood a mansion. It was big enough to have many, many rooms, hundreds maybe. But there didn't seem to be any order to them. The mansion was cobbled together like a beggar's jacket. One part seemed to be made pieces of armor; armor he recognized as his own cast offs that had been up-graded through the decades. Another part looked to have been carved from the planet itself, as if a cave had risen from the surface just to help house him. Precious metals such as rinshate and gold comprised other parts while burlap cloth and even feathered wings peeked out at him. There wasn't a right angle anywhere and the top of the house ranged randomly from only a few feet from the ground to many stories high.

His home had been his security, his peace of mind and now it was in so many disjointed parts and pieces that he was afraid it might collapse in on itself at any moment. How had it come to this?

Kashik (Incubus)- Feathers. White feathers. They drifted down around Kashik as he hovered motionless among the stars. There shouldn't have been gravity, some recessed part of his mind noted, but it didn't distract him from the triumph, the sheer sense of victory that washed through him. The angels, those disgusting servants of greater beings, were all gone now. The white feathers around him were splashed liberally with gold, the color of the fluids that filled angelic bodies. There were feathers from every angel that had existed only a few...what, days? Hours? Minutes? Ago. He'd won. They were all gone. There was nothing to stand between him and the universe now. It was all his.

Niroc (succubus)- Niroc's brother, Rotciv, walked by her side through a long grey brick tunnel, carrying his sword. Demons filled the tunnel, all walking to and fro on their way to their destinations. Why she was in a tunnel, she didn't know or really care. She was there with her big brother who had taken care of her her whole life. Suddenly the ground started shaking. No one screamed but demons started running. She and Rotciv did the same. Soon the ground was shaking so violently that it seemed to roll like waves in an ocean and pieces of the tunnel began collapsing into the mass of pedestrians. Niroc ran as fast as she could but Rotciv had always been faster and soon he was pulling ahead of her. She called out to him to wait, to slow down, to help her, all in one wordless shout. But he hadn't heard her and before she could cry out again he was several yards in front of her and opening. She lost sight of him in the crowd once or twice and every time she found him again, he was even further ahead of her. "Wait! Kashik!" she cried. But he didn't stop.

Archery Day #2

A couple things happened today. First, instead of hitting the box 5 times out of a hundred, I hit it half the time! I was so happy. It's so much harder to hit the thing than I thought it would be. But yay! I'm improving. I think I should be able to hit the box about 60% of the time tomorrow. And then I'll work on hitting only the middle of box.

Second, the little kid that came yesterday came again today. He kept throwing the arrows after he went and got them. I asked him repeatedly not to do it yesterday. Today was shaping up the same way. I didn't want him throwing them because it would be my luck that the arrow would end up in some one's eye and I'd be in big trouble. So finally, I told him that he wouldn't be able to play anymore if he did it again. And twenty minutes later, of course, he throws it again. So I told him he couldn't shoot anymore. He got all mad at me. He went off and pouted and came back to ask if he could play again, and I told him no, because then he wouldn't learn anything. And then he started yelling at me to miss every time it was my turn. I didn't care of course and I actually laughed when he threatened that he wouldn't be there tomorrow and he hoped I liked shooting alone. More shooting time for me! ~Sighs~ He's probably going to come back tomorrow anyway.

I've decided not to ever read this posting since I wrote it while watching tv. And I think that it hasn't been the most intelligent thing I've ever written.

Bow And Arrows

I've recently finished the episodes in Sungkyunkwan Scandal with the Dea Sa Rea (Archery contest) and thought, 'ooh, that looks like fun!' So I, being me, ran out and bought a bow and arrow set from Big 5. The bow is little, but I didn't want a cross bow or one of those bows that have the pulley systems, or anything like that so I got the best they had even though it is for children.

The set come with 2 arrows and I think I'm going to have to go get more because it's frustrating to have to go chase the arrows down after only two shots. And chasing them down takes extra time because I almost never hit the target. So my next acquisition will have to be more arrows.

So, yes, I went out and shot today. I actually found an abandoned park near my house when I went walking in the rain and it made a perfect place to do things like archery that take a lot of room without innocent bystanders hanging around in inconvenient 'kill' zones (which was pretty much everywhere in front of me...except the target).

It wasn't long before a little kid rode his scooter up to investigate. "Hey," I call out. "You want to try?"

~Sighs~ Me and my big mouth. Of course he accepts and the nine year old wanted to show off and claim my attention and do all the things little kids do. And I didn't want to be rude and tell him to scram. A friend of his was flagged down as he rode his bike down the street and then I had two little buggers to share with. At least this one was fourteen and not so irritating. He was actually kinda fun to play with.

So even though I was there for over an hour I can't say I improved at all, and I blame not being able to shoot much. Most of my time was spent watching them shoot and trying to make sure that the little one didn't even play like he was going to shoot in any one's direction.

My attention has not lapsed yet so we'll see how good I get before I get bored. I think it will be a lot easier when I get more arrows!

P.S. I'm listening to JYJ's new english album, The Beginning, still waiting for concert tickets to go on sale. Hoping that it's not all a hoax. That would be sad.

Up-Dated Korean Songs I Love List DBSK, SHINee, G Dragon

Ok, yes, I just posted a blog 20 minutes ago and I'm back posting another one, but I am not obsessed I'm just bored. Plus, I wanted to share the songs that I perhaps did not love right away but have come to really enjoy.

Let's start with DBSK! Yay! Alright! Oh, sorry. Anyway, this song is called Survivor and I've come to really like it. The first time I watched it all I could think was, 'Wow, they're trying really hard to look all, 'street' and 'tough' which is hilarious because they're too pretty to be hard and the song is too happy sounding to match their images. So I moved on after I was done watching it and didn't give it a second thought. I searched for it after I watched an interview they did where DBSK talked about Survivor and gave the song a second chance. Lo and behold, I loved it. Admittedly, I couldn't listen to it and watch the video at the same time because I just couldn't take it seriously, but I got over that pretty quick and now it's one of my favorites. Here it is: Survivor.


Isn't Max just too cute in this one?? I also like that there's so much english in it. I think it will make memorizing the song easier when I get around to it. This is another one of their Japanese songs.

There was also a SHINee song that I initially passed over but have since come to realize is actually really catchy. It's called Lucifer. The name was off-putting to me and they were also wearing a little too much makeup for my taste but once I got over it, the song had me humming for at least an hour.


It's got the randomness I've come to enjoy from them, the whole 'love-atronic' 'love-aholic' things and one of my fav moves they do is right in the beginning 23 seconds in, the really short thing where they have one arm straight in front of them and the other is patting the air to beat. Don't know why. Just like it. And the song is called Lucifer because they're saying that their girlfriend has a very beautiful sweet side like and angel and also a really mean, difficult side like a demon. And Lucifer was the most famous angel that can display both those things too.

Even though I'm not going to link any of their songs, I want to mention here that Super Junior has continued to hold my interest and I've begun to really like their music. They have an energetic quality that I really like and they have more good songs than just the ones that I have on my Super Junior post.

And now, a new artist that I haven't mentioned before. G-Dragon. He's solo, which is not my norm but he has a song that I really like called Heartbreaker. I actually only watched the video because at first glance he looks like Jeremy from You're Beautiful. I knew Jeremy had his own band so I had been kinda keeping an eye out for him just in case he showed up in one of my random searches of youtube. Well, turned out it wasn't him, but I like the song and the video entertained me. He's got this funny little version of the running man that cracks me up. But don't let me talk you out of watching it. Here we are: Heartbreaker.


I find his fashion sense entertaining. His sun glasses and face paint, and the mirror jacket... I don't know what to think of them except, hm, that's.... interesting. ~laughs~
If anyone is wondering about all the apples, the Korean word for apple is the same word for apology so it's a pun they use a lot.

I've got one last song that I'm adding more as a post script than anything else. I'm not particularly fond of the song itself since it's mostly rap and I don't have any appreciation for that form of 'song' but I do like the chorus and the video is semi entertaining as well. This group is called 2pm and the song is Heart Beat.


As another Post Script, I'd like to add that to my everlasting sorrow, I don't find their dancing quite as funny as I did in the beginning because I've become used to it. I watch them doing their steps now and I find myself thinking, that looks like fun, instead of 'that looks hilarious!' It's a little sad since I really liked laughing at them. But I guess respect is better in the long run and I've begun developing that for these Korean boy groups. ~Sigh~

JYJ Concert?

I was surfing the net, like I do most nights since I didn't have anything more fun to do, and ran across this site that said that JYJ is doing a world tour to promote their new cd.

For those of you who don't know who JYJ is, first, shame on you; second, JYJ is Hero Jaejoong, Micky Yoochun, and Xiah Junsu now that they've split from their DBSK management company.

They just put out an english cd, The Beginning that has guests Kenye West and some one else called, um, Darkchild, I think? Anyway, a whole bunch of web sites confirm this and most of them show that JYJ is going to be performing in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Las Vegas. It's really confusing with all the contradictory information out there. Well, I got all excited because I'm close enough to San Fran to make it out there no problem. It would take much more to make it to Vegas or LA, but I'd be there in a heart beat if I got tickets. And there-in lies the problem.

I hopped onto ticketmaster, stubhub, and any other ticket place on the net that I could find, and none of them had any search results for JYJ, Jaejoong Yoochun Junsu or any other combination of their names that I typed in. It's really frustrating!! I want to see them in concert if they're here! I'll keep looking, but gosh darn it! If they're coming to the US in November, shouldn't their tickets be on sale, or sold out, or something? Why are they hiding from me?!?