Okay, so I graduated (junior college so not a huge deal) May 4th.  I haven’t had much internet access since!  I ended up going to my dad’s house that is 17 hours away right after graduation.  I have no idea what’s “cool” in Kpop right now so here’s what I’ve listened to today when I finally managed to steal a computer:

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우리 처음 만난 날

우리 - we

처음 - first

만난 - met

날 - day

This song is very mellow, and I didn’t even notice when it ended.  It’s a very peaceful love song.

Now you can say you got pepero.  :)  Happy pepero day~ 

How did we go from this amazing teaser (of “Me, In”):

To this so-so teaser that terrified me that the song wouldn’t be cool:

To this:

“This” being a sloppy mess, and a Mariah Carey “All I Want for Christmas” melody rip-off.  (Or something, it just sounds way too familiar.)  

The outfits aren’t in the least bit flattering and the dance moves are sloppy looking.  I’m am very disappointed.  

Is this how JYP got people to pre-order?  Tempt them with a song that sounds like it’s amazing and then give them this….mess as a title track?  

I am aware that my words are harsh so let me say this…I do not blame the girls.  I believe they worked really hard and put all the effort they could muster up into this song.  ”Me, In” is as good at the teaser hinted it was, and to be honest from the songs I’ve listened to, it’s probably not a bad album.  ”G.N.O” and “Me, In” are good but the whole “Be My Baby” mess really ruins my personal satisfaction with the album.  There are a couple tracks I think would do outstanding in the American market assuming JYP wises up in title-track choice.

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For people that may visit my site every other day or so you may have noticed I’ve played around with a lot of different layouts.  Finally, we have one I am happy with! 

Expect more postage within sometime soon.  :)  Right now, however, I need to finish yet another essay.  You guys know anything about John Winthrop and his “Reasons to be Considered for Justifying the Undertakers of the Intended Plantation in New England?”

It’s official! Sunday, October 2nd, in Japan T-ara has surpassed SNSD’s Genie in terms of first week sales.  Genie was SNSD’s debut single and it debuted with 44,907 copies 

T-ara stands at 47,864 with Bo Peep Bo Peep.  

T-ara’s daily sales numbers are as follows:

• 20,068 
• 9,840
• 4,379
• 3,926
• 6,125
• 3,526

I believe T-ara is about to make history by having their Japanese debut single land at number one on the weekly Oricon charts.  How unfortunate isn’t not a better song.  

Why do I believe they’ll be number one?  As it stands (current as of September 30th) T-ara has sold 38,213 copies and their closest competitor has sold 34,645.  SID is a group I can see over-taking T-ara but I do not see them doing it this week.   Out of four days they have been number one for two of them and in a close second on the other two.  First day sales are also going to help these girls keep their lead, unless, something really drastic happens.

“Don’t lose your temper so quickly~”

Within the last two weeks I’ve had rough drafts and papers due.  I have two more full fledged papers due next week on top of whatever else homework that has been assigned.  Things, this year, started off with a bang needless to say.  I haven’t forgotten; I’ve just been busy.  

Taken from allkpop:

“When asked how they could just tell like that, they explained that you needed to keep an eye on groups that promote in the same cycle.  Idol groups have schedules from morning till night so there isn’t any other time they can meet people other than the faces they see in waiting rooms backstage of variety or music shows.  Naturally, idols become closer, especially since their lifestyle patterns are the same.”  

I am so painfully amused at this.  It makes me want to watch all the idol groups and see if I can spot anything.  I mean there is that Kyuhyun and Seungyeon rumor going around….

Let me know if you spot any possible couples!  This can be a game~

PS.  Twitter…I has one.

As the title says this is a Temporary Theme until I find and/or make one more suitable for the site.  The load time for the last theme was simply unacceptable.  

This post mostly helps if you want to study in North America…and by that I mean the USA and Canada.  Since I am American this isn’t an issue for me, however, most of my readers are not in North America.  There are other places like Europe and Australia but this post does the most help if you’re looking at North American schools.

Since I’m wrapping up the “looking around” part of transferring I found a website that may prove immensely helpful to prospective Asian studies students so that you don’t have to go through the same mess I did. The same mess I’m still working out.  

First I would like to give you this link:  http://www.asian-studies.org/ 

This link is the website for people who have degrees or are pursuing degrees in Asian Studies.  On this site you can find lists of colleges (universities) that offer various Asian studies degrees based on the country you click that you want to study.

Second Link:  http://www.asian-studies.org/programs/main.htm

This is the link that you can use to find those programs.  I clicked Korea and found a whole bunch of schools I didn’t know about that offer Korean and various Asian studies related majors in general!  

While I am very certain about where I would like to transfer to already, I thought this site was a gift that needed to be shared with all who may be having difficulty.  Korean is not a commonly taught language here State-side and I thought I was doomed to try and transfer into an Ivy.  I didn’t want to try to transfer to an Ivy; they’re horribly expensive schools in expensive towns.  

I hope this helps out you future Asian studies students!  Don’t get the same headache I did.  While I identify as a history student, I refused to go to a school where I couldn’t pick up the Asian history classes and the Korean language.  It was a mess, and I wish I had found this site sooner!  

I’ve recently gotten a lot of traffic from ELF trying to join SJ’s fan cafe to support the boy’s new album, and with this, I’m getting more comments and questions that I’m trying to answer.  

Some of you are still having trouble joining their fan cafe even after I made a post on how to join their cafe specifically, so I would like to know if would a video tutorial help you out?  What specific problems are you having that I haven’t addressed?  Can you give me a screen shot?  I know there was a mix up on the check box that I corrected this morning but I got another comment saying there is still problems in joining.  I’m not sure what’s going wrong since I re-joined, following the tutorial, to see if I had a slip up in the tutorial somewhere and had no problems doing so.

Please leave comments or tweet me or Tumblr ask me or just anyway to get a hold of me you can find and let me know.    

So, since I’m on the Kara topic.  Who’s your favorite member?  Mine’s Seungyeon!  My favorite song from Kara is Secret World from their first album.  I predict that this song will be a moderate hit winning a couple of awards before they head off to Japan.  :)  I’m excited!  I have Kara and April Kiss to look forward to!  

Speaking of April Kiss is their name Aprilkiss or April Kiss?  I’m not sure!  I see it written differently everywhere!  I hope April Kiss does not get killed off by 2PM fan girls who think no one can compare to their oppas.  I would be devastated.  

I will be tracking Kara’s Korean comeback after Chuseok!  I’m very excited because there’s always low expectations for these girls and they always prove that they are better than that.  I hope they get more international fan love soon!