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well not much to say, i came back from seoul and it was a complete failure. kthanx

its not me, it's your intimacy

so its exam week next week here at KAIST, which means classes have temporarily finished. i've finished my homework for the time being which means i have some spare time laid upon me.

in that spare time, i've attempted to join some co-curricular activities such as taking up chinese classes and also i'm helping a korean guy learn english.

but even with that, i've still a handful of time so i've decided to take the time to listen to some albums i've wanted to listen to for a while in their entirety, (not an album review, just what i my impressions)

intimacy - bloc party
and
it's not me, its you - lily allen


intimacy -

i can't say im too much of a indie guy. but i relatively enjoyed this album. i dont enjoy the current trend of this rock electronica dance blend so thus i didnt really enjoy listening to the songs on this album with that element. my favourite two songs from the album is prob: ares and halo. when it comes to rock i enjoy the heavy hitting and fast paced drums that was present in both those songs and a hard and heavy riff which was more existant in halo. i'm still getting used to kele's voice on a song like ares, just feels it would be better if there was an angry white guy screaming on it (corey taylor or chester bennington or someone) so give me some time. but those two songs were enough to suggest i should check out their other stuff.

it's not me, it's you -

i quite enjoyed her first album, theres something about her bitchy attitutude that makes her songs that good. even though i enjoyed the "bitchy" songs on her first album i also enjoyed her reflective songs and emo songs. i don't think this album is better than her debut, but i think given time it will grow on me like the first album did. favourite songs on this album are: the fear and who'd have known. Even though i think katy perry is hotter, lily allen definitley has more attitude and that extra bitchiness that delivers her songs with perfection. so when shes singing emo songs its like: nawwww she has feelings too haha. now im just rambling.



another album that recently downloaded in it's entirety is...

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde


i've heard lots of songs from this album prior to downloading this album, but i really enjoyed this whole album. it was such a shame that i couldn't see them live when they came down for good vibes. this for me is really what light hearted golden age hiphop is, its just so energetic and so chilled at the same time. can't really pick two songs i like the most, but if i had to it would be between a couple of songs haha: Otha Fish, Officer, Return of the B-boy and Oh Shit.
Return of the bboy really made me feel like it was 87 or someshit, or better yet, 2009 and hip-hop was back from the dead. they just dont make songs like these anymore.


thanks for reading, heres a present:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7tEtWUfUkY

gyeongju

so the ISO organised a trip for all the exchange students to gyeong ju on saturday, and we spent the night there.

i think the trip would have been alot better if we just skipped the temples and had a whole day of rest before the binge drinking at night.

i simply cant binge drink if i get no sleep the night before due to inconsiderate people talking extremely loudly in the corridoors of the dorm 3 in the morning, i was just about to go kick all their asses when the janitor kicked them all out, thank you.

must have sucked to visit gyeong ju if you were a japanese, in which there were a few i heard.

every relic you visit, is either incomplete due to japanese stealing apart of it, or it was restored or completely rebuilt because the japanese burnt the whole thing down.

damn japanese

oh fitzwilliams

fitzwilliam says:

*haha

*i've had to pee for like an hour

*just so you know

*lol

back from seoul city

so we went on club night which is the last friday of every month to a district named hongdei, basically you pay for one club and that gets you entry into about 5 or 6 different clubs.

it was a good night haha.


at the club, they played linkin park, i was extremely happy. i realised that the ppl in the electronic clubs are generally alittle bit more ugly than the ppl in the hiphop clubs. there are LOTS of american black guys everywhere that night, some with their trashy americankorean girlfriends.

i spent 20 bucks at kfc, seemed like a good idea at the time.



going back next month...this time without spending 200 bucks...


funny story:
a frenchman named yan, he had sooooooo much to drink apparently he caught a taxi from seoul to daejeon (where our uni is about 2 hours away), so thats like someone from bendigo coming to melbourne getting drunk and accidentally catching a cab back to bendigo. so basically when he got to daejeon, he realised he didnt have his wallet or any form of ID, so he sat in a police station for 1 hour before they contacted our uni. he then took the same cab back to where we all were in seoul just as we were waking up, so it was like nothing happened. i thought he was joking when he told me he went to daejeon, but yes, surprisingly the whole trip only costed him 40,000 won which is only about 45 bucks.

his wallet is still in seoul because he put it in a locker and he lost the key...gg