Oh 신동!

Oh Shindong, you just broke my heart and probably your thousands of fangirls as well (or at least, the ELFs).

Well, I’m not specifically a Shindong fan but still, this broke my heart 😦

Popular boy band Super Junior can’t seem to avoid controversies and scandals as one of their members, Shindong, has been under criticism and rebuke for a comment he made during the broadcasting of MBC radio station Shim Shim Tapa.

On the 29th, a female listener revealed to the radio station that she recently fought with her boyfriend because of her decision to go on a diet. When she shared with him her diet plans for the new year, he told her, “Don’t start if you’re only going to quit after a few days. Your body isn’t the type to change with a diet.”

Kim Shin Young, who co-hosts the radio station, stated, “To a girl, a negative comment about her weight is equivalent to asking for a punch.”

The Super Junior chubster then commented, “If someone had to lose weight, I would tell that person to lose weight. Lose some weight, why can’t you take care of yourself. When I say this, the person might think, ‘Look who’s talking,’ but I would reply, ‘I’m a boy and you’re a girl.‘”

 To this, both Kim Shin Young and announcer Gu Eun Young retorted, “Why does gender matter in this situation? So girls have to be skinny and boys can be…” Taken aback by their remarks, Shindong quickly explained, “I’m just saying. Honestly, I would want the person that I love to be more pretty or more handsome.”

Most girls are already self-concious, and to hear that even overweight men do not see larger girls as being normal or an ideal type just  hurts.

Shindong makes it sound like it’s so easy for females to be so thin and slim. Sorry Shindong, we don’t have an off-and-on switch that magically makes us thin or fat.

Korea’s definition of ‘skinny’ is pratically being underweight, so for those girls who have some meat on their bones and are perfectly healthy, it seems you’re too fat for Shindong. If you starve yourself and throw up after every meal, then maybe you’ll be considered worthy enough for Shindong. It seems he prefers the cadaverous skin-and-bones kind of girl.

If the percentage of anorexic or bulimic females increases in Korea, we know who to blame.

소녀시대’s Oh!

When I first heard the song, I totally fell in love with it!

It’s cute, quirky, and just so catchy.

I love the outfits too, though Tiffany and some other member’s 70s-themed styles I didn’t really like.

Oh well, everything else makes up for that ^^

It’s too bad my mommy doesn’t like the song. I was humming it and my mom got interested in knowing about the song, but then she and my brother were like, “The song sucks.”

But I don’t care because I love the song and that’s all that matters to me. I’ll be awaiting for their comeback stage tonight ~ !!!!

Tears…

Everytime I read about this, I can’t stop the tears from falling down.

http://www.allkpop.com/2009/11/lee_kwang_kis_son_passes_away

It’s heart-wrenching, I can’t imagine having to bury my own child.

This probably especially affects me since I have a seven year old brother, so somehow I can relate. If something ever happened to him…I’d probably want to die.

If I feel this much pain as a sister, I can’t imagine the pain of a parent…

I’m tearing up again.

HyunA

Hyuna, you are my role model.

While I was overweight, I saw you performing and thought, “DAMN, I want a body like hers!” and was able to lose weight overtime through dieting, excercise, etc.

I always thought her body was naturally thin, like every other Korean out there, but to know she’s a normal human being and was able to change so significantly gives me hope.

Hyuna, you are my role model.

Hot Blooded Woman Review

Yesterday, I finished reading a manhwa (Korean comic/manga) called “Hot Blooded Woman”.

It’s about a girl named Haji who was bullied by her brothers when she was younger and grew up to be a tough gangster girl herself. She gets into an accident where her soul transfered into the body of a girl (Aram) her age who is completely opposite of her; Aram is beautiful, rich, but with a frail body. Eventually, Haji finds her soulmate through Aram’s body, blah blah blah (I’m too impatient to write out the whole summary, so if you really want to know the rest just google it).

I usually don’t like reading manhwas like this, but for some reason it caught my attention and left me hooked enough to read through 24 volumes.

What I find odd though, was that at the end the story took a dramatic twist from Haji being a dumb, naive tough girl to actually being a wicked, cruel person who hides behind a mask. But the story naturally ends with her still acting dumb and naive, being the ‘good’ character in the story.

I didn’t really enjoy this story, but you know how a storyline might suck but keep you wondering what happens next despite how much you don’t really like the story? Well, that’s how I felt.

The characters were too predictable and nothing special. I didn’t enjoy the dramatic character changes that didn’t quite make sense. Plus, the story introduced some characters/elements too late into the story where they were rushed/barely shown for it to end completely (such as when Aram finds her soulmate).

Guess this wasn’t much of a review, eh? But I felt I had to talk about this manhwa since it’s Korean and I actually read the whole series. I’m honestly not too into the manhwa drawing style, to me, the styles used in manga are much more fluid and pretty to the eyes compared to the styles in manhwa.

Peace.