props to my homie john low who received a scholarship to go home into the sea with other creatures like him.
hes gonna travel around on a boat for a week or so, so i should have photoshopped him onto a boat but no doubt he is also a gay fish.
so i went completely 미쳤어 looking at photos of snsd from before they were famous/got record deals and in some cases plastic surgery... stay tuned for next post...
exactly one month from now i will be in the city of shanghai doing my internship with sagatem advertising.
i personally can not wait for it, i really wonder what kind of people i'm going to meet, what kind of things i'll get up to at work and outside of work.
at the moment still looking for a suitable apartment, apparently its still too early to settle on.
not sure what im looking for really, i'll be happy with any clean place near work with good water pressure in the shower. i would prefer 2 bedrooms but 1 is ok too if the place is nice.
i'm gonna start some work at roy morgan again for some extra cash to spend.
the topic for today was asian music in comparison with the music from the anglo-sphere.
before i start, don't get me wrong im not some little tb asian music fanboy, (i maybe turning into one though haha), but i was a long term hater of asian music thinking it was plastic and had no real talent and that the people in the western community generally had better music taste
but i've come to discover thats not really the case, please read on:
i randomly picked some artists in my impression that have received a alot of radio play / club play within the last few months/years.
souljaboy flo rida kanye lady gaga p!nk britney spears
i think out of all those, i only approve of kanye west. the general quality of the music is pretty poor to me. souljaboy has 0 talent. flo rida has minimal talent (though low was quite catchy).
britney spears in her prime didnt really write her songs, nor does she write her songs now, p!nk i think writes her own songs but meh...
lady gaga is quite unique of a character, im not too fond of her music but at least i can see why people like her.
special mention to kevin rudolf featuring lil wayne...let it rock = worst song out. did people actually like that song? or was it just big coz of lil wayne (whom i think is overrated as an mc)
general perception for me and probably alot of other people was/is that asian music is generally alot more gimmicky and poorer in quality musically.
now if you havent noticed by now, my blog has had a sudden influx of girls' generation who i guess is quite gimmicky but i really rather listen to them than flo rida or kevin rudolf.
so by now i think its pretty clear that bad music is just bad music, and bad music in the western world is just as bad as music from anywhere else. unless you think the stuff i listed is actually good then in that case you have no reason to hate asian music and think its tb, coz this shit is just as bad really.
i downloaded girls' generation's mini album, i enjoyed 2/5 songs, the other 3 might grow on me, one is a soft piano song called dear mom, and the other two is i guess exactly what you would expect asian pop to be like, but then replace them with an english speaking person and it could just sound like any of your american songs these days.
so through my exploration in asian music today, i realised that jay chou is actually a really talented dude and when i heard alex (stolen script) by ghost face i realised i heard something familar, ghost sampled henry mancini - the theif who came to dinner:
skip to 0:21 to hear the part sampled, now listen to this jay chou song (which i think is pretty damn good)
intro is abit long, but skip to 1:20 if you cbf listening to the whole song, familiar? hrmm
ive been very bored, i should be doing homework and what not but ive decided to make a new banner. enjoy (i think its missing something, open to suggestions...REAL suggestions)
i've done some research into post grad options overseas, i can do an international studies post grad in Seoul National University OR i can do a MBA at Beijing University with one year in beijing and one year in seoul national uni, atm the second option sounds extremely good, i will apply next year.
oh and another long term goal, meet and pursue a romantic relationship with 김태연
fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight, never running from a real fight, she is the one named 김태연 from 소녀시대
소녀시대 is the only thing that is keeping me alive right now, shit cures cancer if you have not experienced the healing capacity of this girl group then you have not experienced life itself, here are some gifts:
you can watch that in HD
thats just an interview, watch from 0:20 seconds and when you get bored of the first girl skip to 1:28, that wink killed me and revived me 100 times in one go
is the proud owner of a platinum visa card. even though i'll never use it (its too powerful), coz i got another card that i use, but it still feels good lol. apparently i have my own concierge
park bu yoen sent me some photos today that i uploaded to facebook.
her and her brother, whom is very depressed because he has to go to the army for 2 years lol.
connex sucks balls, i dont understand how a city with only 4? million population cant have their trains run on time when shanghai, seoul and hongkong are all doing it greatly with alot more complex lines and alot more people.
1 billion dollars on this new nonaexistant ticketing system? i can't comprehend how a new ticketing system can cost 1 billion dollars when it hasnt even been implemented yet.
what kind of shit is this country on? is this what it means to be a developed country? everything just runs inefficiently? its like when you get dudes who work hard all their lives and get rich just to have a lazy spoilt kid who does shit all and watch tv all day inheriting their money.
on my mission to get my masterball back and use it. so far only got 2 pokeballs, and the pokemon is leveling up as we speak. not looking good.
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
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.
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
going to seoul this friday and coming back on sunday, shold be very exciting! keep y'all updated off what i get up to.
ive finally downloaded continuum in its entirety, very good album. gravity is working against me.
i failed miserably at the automatic baseball machines where they throw balls at you and you try to hit them, but i redeemed myself by playing the "kick the ball as hard as you can" game by breaking the machine with my awesome kick. go me.
i will apply for travel grant for second semester which shall add another 1k to my netsaver!
my whole body is sore and ive got bruises on my knee and wrist cause ive found a place to train finally.
im starting to hate the ppl in my dorm, someone keeps opening the staircase door which keeps being banged by the wind at night, i closed it twice last night but someone kept opening it. :@
its raining outside, i don't like the rain.
im settling in, adding people to friends list (in real life, not facebook).
need to go seoul, daejeon is pretty boring. i also want to go drinking and go karaoke.
i would have killed to be in somewhere like rye for this week, im sick of winter. i need sun, i need sand and i need to sit somewhere and do nothing but stare at some water for a week.
ok, got korean class in 2 hours, enough rambling. bye now
