Procrastination post.

Ummm. Procrastinating the doing of artsy things by posting about artsy things. 8D

• I am definitely liking the wheel. Of course I only say this after I've finally gotten the hang of it, but yeah. Lots of fun once you generally know what you're doing. Though my mother is now demanding that I make her a porcelain bowl. And she wants it to be cereal bowl-sized. LOL WHO IS SHE KIDDING.
• Just want to share a scenic picture I took while wandering around downtown last summer:

  

  I wanted to make a contrast between the standard "urban" image and those fantastical gardens they have sprouting out from the sidewalks of Michigan Ave, though I think the effect was mostly lost since the backdrop didn't look "city" enough in that moment. Still like the pic though.

• Ummm apparently I am not artsy enough to make a whole post about art, so I'm switching to ACen now. I only just registered last week. 8D;;

  And while looking at the website today, I realized that the Hollywood Bowl concert falls on the Saturday of the con. So I guess in some ways, it's a good thing that I'm not planning on seeing my boys. :3

• HEY, DO YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE I JUST REALIZED? :DDD

  Laur is a Changmin fan.
  Kimmeh is a Junsu fan.
  CD & tsubusa are Yunho fans.
  I'm a Jaejoong fan.

  ALL WE NEED IS A YOOCHUN FAN. And then we'll be, like, a complete set of groupies. :O!!!

• CRAZY yunjaeJAEJOONG ATTACK!!!

  *runs away like Jae*

DBSK IS COMING TO AMERICA.

THEY'RE PERFORMING AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL!!!

.......AND I TOTALLY WON'T BE ABLE TO GO. Because there's no way my parents will pay for the trip when they're already shelling out tons of money for college stuff and other important things & I won't be out of school by the time the concert happens (May 17th) & I really don't want to have to stay with my cousins in LA if I do happen to go.

But I am not rolling around in agony over this news for various mysterious reasons that I am choosing not to reveal at this moment. 8D

So... who's planning on going? :D

And if anyone does manage to attend: rampage the stage, tackle Jaejoong, and declare your undying love to him for me plz.

EDIT: Oh, and I remember a fan once said that if DBSK were ever to attend the Hollywood Bowl, then fangirls would "slit throats to get tickets." Which I honestly don't doubt, so umm... buy your tickets fast. o_o;;

EDIT #2: If anyone can't access the messageboard I linked to, here's the official message from The Korea Times (who hosts HB):

Dear friends,

Best,
C.S. Hah
Director, Special Events
The Korea Times U.S.A.

I FINALLY GOT MY CD!!

NO THANKS TO USPS. What ended up happening was, a whole bunch of friends of mine went to Japan over spring break and my closest friend AJ was kind enough to re-buy the CD for me at a bookstore she frequented while there. ALL FIFTY DOLLARS OF IT! (And it's straight from Japan! omg MINTY FRESH JAPAN-NESS. *fondles CD more*) And she also bought a DBSK postcard for me too. And I don't think she even bought a CD for herself, even though she likes DBSK too. ;_____;

It honestly didn't even occur to me that I might get something from the trip, so it was just a huge shock. I was flailing and OMGing right in the middle of Japanese class. And then I was carrying it around with me during my next couple classes and going, "LOOK AT WHAT MY FRIEND GOT ME FROM JAPAN!!!!" to random ass people who have no idea who the boys are. Including this one Vietnamese guy in my InfoTech class who knows about Gackt, interestingly enough. xD

And in another small stroke of good fortune, the girl who sold me the DBSK bags from Thailand re-sent them for no fee. So I guess I'll just have to pray that they, you know, actually arrive this time around. And I'll give one to AJ--even though it in no way makes up for the CD, but at least it's a step in the right direction. :D?

OTHER ASIAN-Y THINGS OF INTEREST:

• A short clip of my guyfriends' embarassing karaoke experience in Japan was uploaded on Youtube, and I feel the need to spread it all over the internet. :3
• There was a recent Asian Awareness event at Kenyon, and Avril (WHO, BY THE WAY, IS A DEAR AND RANDOMLY RECCS MY FICS TO PEOPLE ♥♥) had DBSK music playing on the loudspeakers during part of it. I look forward to this. ;D
• And, ummm, speaking of fic? I should be done with the one-shot some time tomorrow. It would be downright shameful if I'm not. And once that's over with, I am temporarily swearing off serious writing. (Except maybe poetry?) Fuck this shit; the lulz are more fun to write anyway. :(

Family.

My mother told me stories from her childhood today. About growing up in an impoverished Asian island country in the middle of a civil war, about relatives who were held as political prisoners, about almost being captured herself (thoughts of being taken and simply disappearing, something that she laughs off so easily now), about my grandmother. It's so strange, seeing my family in their youth, not much older than me and yet so much braver.

I wonder why I'm still my grandmother's favorite. My grandmother as a young woman was a natural, flawless socialite, a person who could befriend anyone and everyone, glowing with beauty, strong and admirably courageous--and I'm just not like her, in every way possible. I'm overly cautious; I'm not gorgeous; it's difficult being close to me at all (as much as I loathe to admit it, although I like to think that I'm getting better); I'm not very shy, but I don't talk much anyway. Why does she still favor me when I'm so different? When I'm so not amazing in the many ways that she was?

I don't know. I wish I were... more social, at least; I feel like I stick out from my family like a cucumber in a pile of apples. No one in my overly-large pool of relatives even writes; my parents and siblings are science-inclined, for godsakes, and I know that I'm odd enough already without that lack of a connecting thread between me and everyone else.

I don't know. I thought I had fully gotten over that "I hate being the weird one" thing, but I guess not.

Japanese fangirls are ♥.

omg you guys. This made me SO INCREDIBLY HAPPY! in a way that only fandom stuff can. ♥

So Amy made a post on her LJ regarding the Japanese DBSK fandom and how amazingly similar they are to overseas fandom. They even insert random Korean into their text! (JUST LIKE US. JAEJOONGIE-OPPA, SARANGHAEYO! )

And by far the best thing of all: they're just as flaily and rabid over YunJae as we are! They do the whole Jaewifey/Yunhubbie thing JUST LIKE US, and they say that the Paris trip was a YunJae honeymoon in disguise JUST LIKE US. And Amy also said this:

As far as I know, Yunjae is the ONLY real couple they see in Japan. I mean... hm like they only seem to promote Yunjae anyway

.........ohmygod. *wibbles*

SEE THAT, EVERYONE. LOVE FOR MY OTP SPANS CONTINENTS. I bet YunJae is popular in Thailand too omg. Even though I don't think slashy stuff is even popular there, but the AWESOME MIGHT of the YunJae lures them in. I LOVE YOU, ASIA!!!

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Wow, that was an incredibly embarrassing post. Ah well, 'tis my life. ;D

EDIT: YUNJAE IS POPULAR IN CHINA TOO LOL.