Posted Sunday, 29 April 2012 // by Virenne
It's been more than a month since I last posted anything on this blog! My bad, I've been bombarded with assignments and truth be told, I should be working on one at the moment. Hey, it's a Sunday, who would want to work on their assignment on this day? Anyways, thanks to my long absence from this blog, I have lots of things to say. And I mean, LOTS of things from different extremes. I'll start from my usual heavy metal, rocker stuff.As you guys probably know, I went to (FINALLY) see Evanescence live in concert last 26th March at the Brisbane Convention Centre. One of the best nights in my life. I couldn't even believe it until now. I could probably stare at my ticket and still wondering if it really happened.
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| Okay I'm just too lazy to rotate this photo. Whatever, lol. |
Anyways, I'm probably biased because I was there, but I think that was Evanescence's best live performance, ever. Even way better than the one in Paris (Anywhere but Home DVD). Not one missing or false notes. It was insane. My all-time hero, Amy-Lee, singing there live just 5 steps away from me (yeah, I stood pretty close to the stage). I sang along with her pretty much the whole time, I know every single damn Evanescence's songs by heart, lol. Anyways, I didn't really want to waste my time to take pictures since I'm short and you know Australians and how tall they are compared to me. I just enjoyed the whole show and remember it in my heart. :)
Now I'm pretty sure how all of you are aware how much I've always loved heavy metal and all that (Soundwave and Evanescence concerts in just two months lol), but I once mentioned in this blog as well how I got hooked to SNSD a.k.a Girls' Generation and how I once sort of "promised" Inez (who might as well be a Korean rather than an Indonesian, in a good way!) that SNSD would be the only K-pop idol I would be obsessed with.
I was wrong.
Referring back to the title of this post, yes, I do feel that this is my year of karma. In just the first 4 months, I felt that life had shoved me all the karma I deserved. This karma, however, isn't as epic as how I got hooked to SNSD, because, well I hated SNSD with a passion. And I just love them now. Just after I started to get over my SNSD obsession...Super Junior (Suju) came along.
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| A parade of fine looking lads. Me like. |
I basically got hooked up to Suju in the same way like I got hooked up to SNSD - by watching their variety shows. I just found out that Suju was waaaaaaay better in variety shows - and they're GUYS, which, in my opinion, makes it even better. For people who just started to know me after high school, they are SHOCKED as in, really SHOCKED. Not many people are aware of this, but I was always a fangirl (as a side job) since I was still in middle school. Go ask my middle school friends, they wouldn't be as surprised. I used to fangirl towards Japanese stuff though, so I never thought I could get hooked into Korean pop culture as well. Now...I've had posters of Suju in my room (next to Carol's Sooyoung posters lmao), their CDs, and I actually bought the ticket to SuperShow 4 in Sydney with Inez...which sadly, got cancelled due to stupid issue. No, I'm not going to talk about it because I'll just be furious all over again.
On a lighter note, I just want to share my biases in Suju. At first, I love Leeteuk since he was the first one I could recognise, and then I moved on to Siwon - duh, who wouldn't love him? - because I thought he's a prince charming. Then...I discovered Sungmin. Yes, the full-of-aegyo, pink-lover Sungmin. Who the hell would've thought that I would love him the most?
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| Yes, I really fell in love with this guy. He's perfection to me. |
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| UNLEASH THE BEAST, SUNGMIN!!!! |
Being pretty active and up-to-date with SM entertainment at the moment, their new, freshly debuted band called EXO K and EXO M also caught my heart. They were the first K-pop band that caught my heart from their song and not from their personalities. Their title song, "MAMA", was a huge surprise. I'd never thought a K-pop song would include a Gregorian-choir-stuff as a part of their song. I got hooked immediately on the first time I listened to that song. Anyways, this post is pretty damn long enough, I'll post about EXO K and EXO M next time ;) See you, guys!
Labels: concert, evanescence, EXO, K-pop, karma, Suju, Super Junior
Posted Tuesday, 6 March 2012 // by Virenne
Well well well, it's me again, in the middle of the night, suddenly had this urge to post something. I had a couple of things I want to talk about at the moment, the thing is that they're all unrelated to each other. Nonetheless, I still just want to spit it out (insert Slipknot reference here!). First of all I just want to share my dreams last night, which wasn't that epic or absurd. It was rather depressing, actually. The only things I could remember was that I wasn't in Brisbane anymore, it seemed like I was in Melbourne (not that I can remember how Melbourne was anyway) with Carol and tried to meet up with my high school friends. When I met them, of course I would scream in happiness and jumped to them all. They all just said "Hi" awkwardly and smiled even more awkwardly. This still breaks my heart when I remember it now. Thanks to that awkwardness, I didn't even bother talking and just left like that. All of a sudden, I met Marcel (who happens to be my tango instructor at UQ, and he's totally hot) who saw my depression and asked me to dance with him. When I woke up, I realised that maybe I should join tango again this semester. I was thinking about quitting because I joined the belly dancing class as well. We'll see.
On the other note, another random fact about me (yay for random facts!): I love gore and thriller movies, but I can't stand horror movies. I used to like them, but as I'm getting older I get more scared. Lame, I know. However, there's an exception to these very specific types of horror movies: exorcism movies. I have no idea why I love exorcism movies, it probably started when I watched The Exorcism of Emily Rose, which I think is still the best exorcism movie ever. So yesterday, I went to see The Devil Inside with Carol, Louie, and Inez. What I didn't know was that this movie was made to be like a documentary, which would only mean one thing: NAUSEA. Yes, Inez and I almost threw up in the middle of the movie because of the shakiness and the blurriness of the shots. God, it was awful, we both hate those kinds of movie. We LIKE stable cameras with proper settings. Anyways, besides the awful shots, the story was pretty good. Until the last scene. Then I realised I just spent $5.80 for nothing.
Moving on from the movie (I told you this post will be about 3 or 4 unrelated things), Louie and I were just starting to be crazy about SNSD / Girl's Generation. Yes, I love gothic rock, symphonic metal, heavy metal, but I just like these girls. I know, all those heavy metal people would be embarrassed. Even I was too embarrassed to admit it, but now I don't really give a crap anyway. Anyways, Inez has always been a Korean lover (she even speaks Korean...), but Carol is pretty new to this. So the history of how I got into SNSD was because karma hit me right in the face. Around 2 years ago, back in Jakarta, when Carol and I met each other on campus, she showed me one SNSD song. I've heard of them, I LOATHED THEM. The first song I heard from them was "Gee" and being a heavy metal like I were, I just shouted "WTF?!" and stopped the song halfway through. I kept thinking "no way I'll listen to this sh*t" and so when Carol showed me their song that she liked (titled "Genie"), I just ran away and told her to go away because I would never like them.
Guess the song that suddenly drove me crazy.
GENIE.
(Karma b*tch-slap level OVER 9K!!!!)
I spent my summer watching their talk shows and videos on YouTube, I was turning mad. I even learned their dance routines - and I'm actually really good at it now it became my daily exercise routine - which I will record soon and upload it to YouTube if I'm not too embarrassed. To make it worse, I even memorised their names and faces in less than 3 days, which I still think, was amazing. So my absolute favourite one is Choi Sooyoung.
She's the tallest in the group and she's also the funniest (to me) in talk shows, which is why I love her. One day, just a few weeks before Carol came back from Jakarta, I had a video chat with her and I made this confession about my new craze about SNSD and she laughed her ass off. When I asked her which one was her favourite of all of them - it was SOOYOUNG. (ANOTHER karma b*tch-slap level OVER 9K)
Then I figured, if karma slapped me that hard, I should fight it back. Which is why I bombarded Carol with SNSD talk shows and everything else since she got back here. Almost everyday I would show her various videos on YouTube and we would watch together and laugh together. Karma hits her back because now she could almost differentiate all the members' names and faces (except Seohyun, because she said her name was hard to pronounce).
So, mission success!!! We're now officially SONEs (SNSD's fan group), and even though Carol's a bit embarrassed to admit it (like I used to), I have to admit I'm a part of SONE now. Oh well. The moral of the story: do not laugh when you see a friend of yours is in love with SNSD. Karma is no joke and I'm a living proof of it. Heck, it took me around 3 years to actually like them. You might not like them now...we shall see in a few years and hundreds of replays.
Anyways, I should go off now, I have to watch this one episode of SNSD and then I'll be off to sleep! Ciao!
Labels: brisbane, dance, dream, friendship, girl's generation, hyoyeon, jessica, karma, korea, korean, music, seohyun, SNSD, sooyoung, sunny, taeyeon, tango, tiffany, yoona, yuri