RANDOM UPDATE

I finally finished my third term of college so I'm halfway through my year as a sophomore!

I passed this term with three 'A's and two 'B's, which was fantastic because I swore I was going to fail economics.

Anyways, I got home from college last Friday and am now leaving for NY this Friday to spend Christmas for the first time in years with my father. 

I'll be posting pictures of my trip later when I get back <3

(Also, I put up the tree with my mom and sister)

Last night I was thinking, and I decided to make a list of kpop songs that I never get bored of listening to. These are songs that I can listen to everyday and sometimes on repeat, that never get old, and that I still love. I decided to share this list with you, because why the hell not? lol

(Also, most of these are from my top 10 groups)

Here we go:

• NU'EST
• Face
• Sleep Talking
• BTS
• We Are Bulletproof Pt.1 (and Pt.2)
• Just One Day
• VIXX
• Error
• Only U
• Eternity
• BLOCK B
• Her
• Be the Light
• GOT7
• Girls Girls Girls
• I Like You
• Just Tonight
• Forever Young (took me a long time to like though)
• Stop It
• EXO
• Thunder
• Black Pearl
• Miracles in December
• JJCC
• One Way (Bing Bing Bing)
• SHINee
• Replay
• Sherlock
• Symptoms 
• Super Junior
• Sorry Sorry
• Bonamona
• TOPP DOGG
• Amadeus
• Arario
• Top Dog
• Annie
• BtoB
• You're So Fly
• WINNER
• Empty
• I'm Him
• 2PM
• Go Crazy
• ADTOY
• B1A4
• Tried to Walk
• You Make Me a Fool
• Beautiful Target
• Glass of Water
• This Time is Over
• Solo Day
• Big Bang
• Fantastic Baby
• Bad Boy
• MBLAQ
• Be A Man
• FT Island
• Love Love Love
• GD x Taeyang
• Good Boy
• C-Clown
• Far Away
• In the Car
• Let's Love
• Boyfriend
• Obsession
• Witch
• Girl's Day
• Something
• Expectation
• HyunA
• Red

And that's about it. That's the list of songs I could listen to all day for the rest of my life lol Also, don't be afraid to go and check any of these songs out! I promise that you'll like at least one of them :D

Chicago- B1A4

~This is  gonna be one hella long post~

So this past weekend (10/3-10/6) I went to Chicago with one of my best friends and her boyfriend to go see B1A4 (which is her favorite kpop group of all time). It ended up being a 19+ hour drive to get there, so we ended up arriving around 8 in the morning on Saturday. We then proceeded to sleep until 7 at night before getting up to go wander around the city. We were going to go up in the Willis tower, but it closed an hour earlier than it said it closed online ;-; though I did take a picture of the building because it was super tall lol Also, it was like 40-60 degrees the whole time, and while I complained a lot at first, I really miss it now that I'm back in Florida...

It also ended up being the same night at the Chicago Fire Festival! So we got to experience that while we were searching for the Bean (I don't know if that's its real name or not) to take pictures with. We also got stuck on a bridge because there were so many people trying to see the parts of the festival in the river, so we ended up climbing over the guard rail and jumping into the streets to get over the bridge (we got yelled at by firemen)

We eventually found the bean after wandering the city for god knows how long. We even ended up going underground for a bit to get back across the city because there were too many people on the bridges. Guppy (my friend) complained the whole time we were underground because she said it smelled and there were homeless people sleeping everywhere, but she was okay with it once we passed a realllly attractive man.

That morning when we woke up, we had been planning to go back into the city, but we woke up too late. We found out later that half the places we walked around that night, B1A4 had gone to in the morning, which made Guppy really sad. Though I did have deep dish pizza for the first time ever and it was so freaking amazing! So that day, we ended up just driving around and exploring the area our hotel was in and going to an outlet mall, before finally arriving at the venue to go see B1A4.

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~The Concert~

This was probably the best concert I have ever been to because of a number of reasons:

1. They are one of my top ten favorite bands
2. It was very well organized (unlike the Block B concert)
3. Everyone was super nice
4. We were the luckiest people on the face of the planet (I'll explain later)
5. The concert lasted a really long time

So we get in the door and we show the people out tickets (we had bought balcony because it was too expensive to buy anything else). When the lady checked our tickets she told us to go see another lady to get out new tickets and we started to get really confused. The other lady then hands us two new tickets and congratulates us because we were now going to sit on floor level. I was super shocked and really excited, but Guppy was really upset because she's short and was afraid that she wasn't going to be able to see them now. We then wait in line to get into the concert area and we are directed right down in front; like five rows away from the pit/stage. Both of us start freaking out because we are so close, and we didn't even pay for it...but the story gets even better~

(our view from the new seats)

A couple of minutes before the concert, a lady comes around asking if we had the tickets for hi-touch (getting to high five all the members) and we told her we didn't know, since we had just bee moved there, so she checks our tickets and sadly tells us that we don't have the right ones. We told her it was okay and that we were just happy enough to be where we were. So the concert starts and both of us are dancing and singing along when I feel a tug at my shirt. The lady is back and she is smiling with around ten wrist bands left in her hand. She tells  us that they ended up having extra and that since we were so kind she was going to let us have them. No lie, the both of us started squealing and jumping for joy. Not only did we get front seats, but we also now got to do the hi-touch event...our luck that night was so amazing.

One of the cutest moments during the concert was when Jinyoung wen to play his guitar so that they could all sing us knocking on heaven's door. Well, his guitar wasn't connecting and he was trying to play it, but we couldn't hear the sound and he played it off really well, but the other members were a little shocked. Baro and CNU ended up getting the crowd to yell and see which side was louder. They also talked to us and ended up just singing random songs to pass the time until the sound was fixed. But that whole time was just super precious.

We weren't allowed to take pictures at the hi-touch, but I remember it all so well (except for my hi-touch with Gongchan. I sadly don't remember that too well). Guppy was in front of me and they were lined up from Baro, then Sanduel, then Gongchan, then Jinyoung, and finally CNU. As they said thank you to me, I told them thank you back and they genuinely smiled back at me (it was pure heaven lol). So Guppy get's to Sandeul and she had planned out what she was going to tell him, but she blanked when she got to him because, in her own words, "he was so beautiful." Guppy ended up just saying what she was thinking and actually told him to his face that he was beautiful and his reaction was the most adorable thing ever! His face lit up and he looked so freaking cute as he thanked her again. Now for my own personal story, the two I remember the most were Jinyoung and CNU. I remember Jinyoung's hi-touch because he is soooo good looking in person and I ended up looking at his arms the whole time. Now CNU I remember because when I said thank you, I also intertwined our fingers together ( I wasn't going to miss the chance).

After the concert I had a personal talk with Guppy and we decided on our favorite things from each member during the night and she got mad when I joked that my favorite thing about Gongchan had been his pants (becuase they were zebra pants and I really want some for myself now). For the other members we decided that it was Sandeul's power vocals, Jinyoung's high notes, Baro's rapping and 4Dness, and CNU's godly hip movements.

As we were about to leave back to our hotel, we found where their van was waiting for them, so we decided to join the group of girls who were already waiting around it. We met some really nice people in that group and we all kept each other warm as we waited for them to come out. 

All in all, it was one of the best nights/trips in my life so far.

Photos from the concert (sorry for the quality of some, but the lights and fog made it hard to see their faces sometimes)

Now for some videos (It would only let me upload these two because of the file sizes, but I will be posting them n my tumblr, so you can see them there)

Anyways, this was seriously one of the best weekends of my life and in other news: I can't wait to go see VIXX next month in NY!!! :D

Random Update!

I will be going to Chicago this weekend to go and see.... *drum rolls* B1A4!!!!

I will post pictures here after the concert and describe whatever I remember from the concert here when it's over (like I did for the Block B concert I attended this past summer).

I'm leaving this Friday and will be back on Monday...It's a 16-17 hour drive and I can't wait for it! Most of my friends keep saying sorry to me for having to drive that far, but I have really like road trips ever since I was young. Plus it will be my first time in Chicago, which is really cool because I've traveled like 1/4 of the US already through car trips.

Anyways, this brief update is now over~

Dorm Room~ (for the time being)

So I moved into my dorm a week ago and things have finally started settling down. Though I wont be staying here for long. One of the girls who is living in the same 'appartment' as me is a girl that I had serious problems last year. Like, I am someone who just doesn't hate people; I will strongly dislike, but I dont hate people. Well, I hate this girl.

Anyways, I got to have my actual room with one of my REALLY good friends from last term and I wanted to share how awesome our room looks! It has a really chill vibe to it with some kpop added in. The girl I'm rooming with now (Cat) is the girl who is also going with me to South Korea next year!

So, the title says for the time being because I was offered a place at a good friend's apartment off campus and I would wayyy rather live there than here with the girl I hate, so I'm trying to get a car at the moment. If I can get a car, then I'll definitely move out...If not, then I have no idea what I'm going to do.

Well, here is the dorm~

Annnnd, here is a panoramic of the room XD

It really is a great room, plus we have our own bathroom, but it is way too stressful for me to continue living in the same apartment as the girl I hate. I don't need any stress at the moment, so I would rather just move out~

Also, of course I couldn't forget all my cute little stuffed animals at home <3

Current Fanfiction Feels

So I wouldn't usually write about fanfictions, but a friend of mine recently started sending me links to read stories for kaisoo (EXO). While that is pretty common, since I read fanfictions a lot and we usually send stories back and forth, this one she sent REALLY got to me.

At first when she told me that she had a kaisoo story she wanted me to read, I thought "sure, I've read some of the one's she sent me before and I have nothing else to do, so why not". I was horribly mistaken. This piece of work is one of the BEST things I have ever read in my entire life. Even better written then the whole of some books I've read before. I was laughing (not very often) and crying (A LOT) through the entire thing.

It is a three part story that will take a person half an hour to an hour to read if you read slow to take things in, like I do. Even if you don't like EXO or even know who they are, it is still an amazing story that I think is worth reading. Though major warning...It is horribly tragic and angsty at times. I described the story to my friend, after reading it, as The Notebook (the movie/book), but with an even sadder ending.

I would seriously recommend this to anyone to read becuase even if it's horribly sad, it is written so well that I can't explain it. Writing that can make a reader feel the emotions of the situation and pull a reading into the story should be put out there in the world for everyone to read. I'm really passionate about reading and this piece of work here is just too amazing to look over and not write about.

The title of the piece is Anterograde Tomorrow 
Summery:  "Kyungsoo is stuck in the hours while Jongin begs the seconds, because time stops for someone who can't remember and runs from someone who can't miss the last train home."

READ IT HERE -> KAISOO

P.S.
- Cat, thank you for showing me this fanfic even though I spent a half an hour crying over it in my house by myself. My cat thought I went crazy and was rubbing all over my face because I was 'crying for no reason'.

Bonus pic of the actual people:

Metrocon 2014

So I ended up going to Metrocon with my some of  my best friends, Charlee and Brianne, this past Saturday.
For the first time in years (since we have been cosplaying and going to conventions with each other for almost 8-9 years) we did a group cosplay for a gender bent Kuroko's Basketball!

Charlee went as Kuroko, I went as Murasakibara, and Brianne went as Aomine

Sadly...we didn't know that there was a Kuroko meetup on Sunday for pictures and whatnot, and we only went on Saturday, so we missed it ;-;

We were stopped every other minute for pictures, and it was really fun, since we never really got that much attention before! lol Plus our heights were perfect because I'm seriously waaay taller than Charlee, so having me next to her for pictures was great~

I only ended up taking two pictures this time of other cosplayers because for the most part I was busy running around with my group looking in the dealer room or going to panels.

There were a ton of amazing Free! cosplays walking around and this Brock was just to awesome to not take a picture of :3

I ended up buying myself only one kpop album this time, but my friend bought me one for a late birthday present so I left the convention with two anyways (since I always have to buy them at conventions when I see them). Then Charlee bought me a Moomin, that I have exactly one year to pay her back for, and I named him Renaldo (don't ask why...I just name things with the first name that pops in my head).

We ended up going to the Team Rocket/Hunger games Running Man panel which was a whole ton of fun! Our team ended up winning in the end and we got chocolate for it. Oh, I also helped my team out with one random question that we had to answer, which was what are the colors and corresponding names of all the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (since that show was my childhood, I knew all four right off the top of my head).

~Bonus pictures from me being bored~

P.S.

My wig was a total pain in the butt because it was actually too small for my head so it was hardcore clipped down to my wig cap and hair so it wouldn't fall off all day. That and we didn't jell my bangs down so I had to keep rearranging them all day. Besides that, nothing else was really wrong and it was the most comfortable cosplay I have ever done. <3

Block B Concert in Miami~

So from 6/26-6/29 I was in Miami for the Block B concert that was being held on the 27th at the Jackie Gleason Theater. I traveled with three other friends who also love Block B and we met up with even more people once we got into Miami; it was about a five hour trip, but sooooo worth it. Anyways, this is going to be a recap of the event, a talk about the fans, and the experience of getting a high-tough (high five) with all the members.

Before the concert we all spent an hour getting our makeup and hair done because we knew there was a chance that we were going to meet our biases. I didn't do much with my clothes though; just a pink tank top and some jean shorts.

Anyways~ onto the actual story! lol

We arrived to the theater the second the doors opened, but there was a line basically around the building

that we had to get in first before entering. Which ended up being fine since we made friends with a bunch of girls in line with us.
Personally I only bought two items that totaled 60 dollars; which, let me tell you, is a total rip off, but I really wanted them. The hat was $45 and the pins were $15. There were also light sticks, but they were the plain clear ones and were about as much as the real ones that you can buy off of ebay (the black and yellow ones), so I didn't buy one.

The venue itself was HORRIBLY organized. Basically only ONE staff member out of all of the staff knew where the seats were, so we were thrown in every direction possible before someone finally pointed out correctly where our seats were. We made it to our seats just in time to get settled and look at our surroundings (ten minutes or so) before the curtains opened to Block B's Very Good.

We weren't allowed to take videos or pictures during the concert, which wouldn't have stopped me, except that one of the Korean staff members was sitting behind me the entire time *sigh*
There were four breaks taken during the concert for the members to ask questions and to participate. The first break was a Q&A with the host of the show, who could not host shit if her life depended on it (the translator ended up hosting the whole thing, basically, after the first break because the host had no idea what she was doing). The second break involved the members picking seat numbers out of a box to have them sit on stage while Block B sung to them and gave them roses. The third break involved the members picking new seat numbers for those attendees to come up on stage and play a game with them. They ended up playing a type of charades with Taeil, Jaehyo, and Bbomb on one team and Ukwon, Kyung, and P.O on the other team (Zico was the judge). Both teams came up with ridiculous names, Jaehyo's team was 'oh boy' and Ukwon's team was 'turned up'. The fourth break involved the members asking each other questions about random things to make the fans happy.

An example that really happened (words may be a little off):
P.O: Zico, why are your lips so sexy?
Zico: To kiss my future girl with
another one was:
Zico: Would you date an American girl?
Kyung: HELL YEAH HELL YEAH HELL YEAH

At the end of the concert they came back out a number of times to do extras. They sung two/three more songs, came out to take a picture with all the fans in the background, and then Jaehyo had to do his punishment from 5MBC that he got from getting last place in the episode before leaving South Korea.

The only disappointing thing for me the whole time was where we were sitting. I personally liked where I was at first because we were the first row on the second floor/balcony thing, so no one was in front of us and we could stand or sit the whole time and still see them (I stood the whole time). But, the only two members that actually looked up and acknowledged the top floor were Kyung and Bbomb. I'm not complaining about those two, but it would have been cool if the other members could have acknowledged us as well.

At the end of the concert everyone rushed down to the lobby to get in line to high five the boys (who were personally high-fiving everyone who went that night if they wanted to get in line and wait that long. I personally don't really remember Jaehyo's and P.O's high five, but I remember the others. The most memorable thing happened to me durring that time as well. I had wanted to say Saranghae (I love you) to Jaehyo since he is my bias, but I got too scared to and opted out as I high fived him (let me tell you...He is SO handsome in person..his eyes and face are just...perfect). There was a male fan in front of me so the boys sadly payed more attention to him until the last two in line (Kyung and Taeil). Kyung actually grabbed my hand in leaned in while smiling at me which threw me off by a lot because I was so shocked. Also, I don't care what anyone else says, Kyung is reallly good looking in person; I don't understand why people say he is ugly!? Then Taeil was up and he almost didn't high five me because he was talking to the man in front of me, but then he turned around real fast and leaned back to high five me because I was already almost passed him. Then he kind of kept his hand on mine and let it slide off as I walked instead of pulling away for the next person which set me on edge again because I wasn't expecting it.

Here's a very bad picture where you can make out Zico (blonde hair and white shirt behind the bald guy) in the background as the start of the high fives:

The only thing I missed the whole night was that after the whole line of fans had gone through, all the members of Block B left the building through he crowd to get onto their bus. That would have DEFINITELY been a great experience but I'm not too sad that I missed it since I got to high five them and all. ALSO, their hands are all SUPER soft, except for Ukwon's lol. His hands were still soft, but rougher than the other members. I have to say all of them had softer hands than a lot of girl friends I have...which is impressive. 

The boys were all super sincere and happy the whole night. You could tell that they were hot and tired from dancing and singing all night but they never let their smiles falter as the lines of fans went through. 

The fans were also surprisingly all really nice for the most part. since it was organized to so bad at the beginning, more fans were helping each other find the right seats than the staff was, and no one was rude when you asked them for help. Everyone I talked to was happy to talk back about Block B and other kpop groups. The BBC's are seriously one of the best fan-bases that I had read about online, but in person it is really true.

OVERALL this was one of THE best concerts I have ever been to in my life. It would have been nice to have been longer (it was about an hour and a half long), but still super awesome! I will definitely be going to their next concert in America whenever it happens and wherever it is!

Extra video footage a friend of mine took while going through the High Touch with Block B. She put another friend's phone in her pants and recorded her going through, which is why the quality isn't that good, but it was the best she could do at the time:

The line went: Zico, Bbomb, P.O, Ukwon, Jaehyo, Kyung, Taeil~

EXO K & M Album Review~

So I recently bought both versions of Overdose from kpoptown.com
Both albums shipped on May 22, and I received them on June 9th which is a little over two weeks (18 days). I was really excited by that because on past album purchases it has taken up to a whole month to get to my house. The boxes were in mint condition and weren't missing any items inside either.
Also, both album can be bought here: Exo-M and Exo-K Overdose

EXO-M is the one on the bottom and EXO-K is the album on top.

I had to open M's first  because my bias is Tao and I wanted to see if i got his card (I did not):

I was super pleased with the card I got though, since I didn't previously own any exo albums and I really wanted a Kris card. The super funny thing about both albums though, is that I got both leaders:

Now, on to the music review:

The Track List for both boxes:

1. Overdose

2. Moonlight

3. Thunder

4. Run

5. Love, Love, Love

6. Overdose (EXO ver.)

Though I have never owned an album from EXO, I have personally listened to all of their songs and I gotta say that this album is personally my favorite. In simple words, it is a love song/break up album.

-Overdose, just like the title, is a song that I could literally listen to on repeat ten or more times before I have to change the song. It is super catchy and the dance is crazy awesome. Between the two sub-groups I like Overdose in Korean better.
-Moonlight is basically a duet between Baekhyun and D.O in EXO-K and bewteen Luhan and Chen in EXO-M. It is a slow song, but with a lot of power in it, which is to be expected with the main vocalists singing it. Just for the fact of D.O's vocals, I listen to the Korean version of the song more than I do the Chinese version.
-Thunder is the song that I love the lyrics of the most. It is a very upbeat sounding song for what they are actually singing about. Their harmonizing in Thunder is pretty intense and I like how they switch up pretty evenly in this song with who is singing. I actually listen to Thunder more in Chinese because it sounds slightly different in the music than the Korean part at times and I like it better that way.
-Run is personally my favorite song on the track and I listen to it usually only in Chinese. The cute little chanting, if that's what you'd call it, in the begging is super cute. It's a song that makes you want to just get up, and well, run. The lyrics are adorably cute and I always find myself rocking out to it.
-Love, Love, Love is the song that really stands out in the track. While the others are either calm or energetic, they all still fall in the same basket for me. Love, Love, Love is more...hip hop? There is more rapping in it and it has that old Asian instrument flare to it. Kind of biased on my part, I listen to this song more in Chinese because Tao has more parts in it, but besides that I would listen to it in Korean just as much.

Seriously, if you have the chance I would listen to the whole album if you haven't already because I personally think it's that good. I have all the songs on my phone and listen to them pretty much all the time.
I would give this album a 8.5-10 for my tastes! SUPER GOOD! <3

First Post

Hi! This is just a basic post to start this off and say a quick thought or two on what this blog is going to be about.

I will be posting about music I like (new or  old), books I have read or are going to read, places I travel, and new things I eat. I will be posting anything from reviews to personal adventures that I go on. 

The tab for Tumblr is my own personal account and the photo tab leads to a Tumblr that I will be posting pictures on for this blog; pictures, that in a year, will be about my trip to South Korea.

Basically this blog is just a diary on the things that happen in and around my life. I want to be able to write it all down and share it with people who like the same things...so here I am.

Welcome to my blog and I hope you enjoy~ <3