Oh My Janey

Happy Two Years, YongSeo

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In my 8 years of fangirling, I have never shipped anyone this hard. I wasn’t even a fan of the groups they’re in (SNSD and CNBLUE) before I watched the show! But two months later, I’m a die-hard Goguma who is too obsessed with the couple for her own good. I’m trying to tone it down a bit but it’s difficult when I feel like wailing whenever I see a YongSeo photo. Whenever I’m getting bored at work, I look at YongSeo pics. So yeah, I am often tempted to just write about YongSeo for my write ups. Heh.

I know that two months is still too short compared to the two years other Gogumas have devoted in supporting the couple. But I hope it doesn’t make me less of a fan. I promise I love them with all my heart, too. (Ha! I’m also not sure why I’m defending myself here.) So far, I’ve only watched two WGM pairings and I am positive that I won’t like any other pairing more. YongSeo couple it is for me. I kind of hate myself for not gaining interest in the show two years ago. I bet it was awesome to be there from the start.

You see, I didn’t even like Yong Choding before I watched WGM. He’s just Jung YongHwa who played ShinWoo, the stoic OG in You’re Beautiful. He’s just LeeShin in Heartstrings, the actor who didn’t know how to act. (Please shoot me now!) But after watching WGM, he’s now THE Jung YongHwa who composes beautiful songs, who sings with that amazing voice. He’s Yong Seobang, SeoHyun’s husband who cares so much for her, and would go to great length to make things a lot better for her. He’s Yong Choding, the childlike leader of CNBLUE and one of the few people who can bring out Hyun’s true personality.

Before watching WGM, I didn’t even know SeoHyun’s name! Heck, the only one I knew from SNDS was Yoona and SeoHyun was just a familiar face. But I now know that she’s the girl who loves sweet potatoes so much that someone would even give her a sweet potato land for her birthday. She’s Hyun who has a lot of dreams in life and looks up to someone like Ban KiMoon. She’s someone who simply doesn’t believe in luck and instead, strives hard for the things she wants. She believes in hard work and perseverance. Her smile is precious because you can only see it when she’s with the people she’s close to. [Read more…]

Thank You, Internet

Whoever said that technology is evil probably doesn’t have family thousands of miles away.

I happen to have tons of loved ones living in another country, and technology is oftentimes the only thing that connects me to them. My father worked in Italy for almost a decade and he lived with my mother’s siblings. My father decided last year to stay in the Philippines for good but more of my relatives are moving to Italy. My grandparents went to Italy last week. Though they’re coming back in March, some of my cousins who will go there in the next few months are staying there for good.

I sometimes think that only my sister and I will be the ones left in the Philippines. We both want to stay here, and when people asked us before why we didn’t move to Italy with our father, we just shrugged our shoulder. I just really don’t see any point in going there right now. Maybe for vacation, but not to stay there. I do not have the heart to leave the country, not yet, anyway. But I really think it’ll be nice to visit my cousins!

I digress. I digress, too much.

Anyway, Facebook, for a couple of months now, has the video call function and my cousins are using it all the time. It was only this weekend that I tried it by myself, though! I just used to go to my lola’s house whenever a video call is going on. It’s always such a riot! When we do videocalls, we don’t just talk to one person. Sometimes we end up talking to all the family members over there! Like this last sunday, my tita’s house was full of people. Oldies (heh) and youngsters alike hogged a little screentime. [Read more…]

KPOPCON 3

What’s a better way to end the year but by celebrating being a fangirl?

Every KPOPCON, I plan on attending but there’s always something stopping me. It’s usually just because I didn’t feel like a big enough fan to join the festivities. But for the last KPOPCON, I decided that I wanted to buy some merchandise so there was nothing stopping me. (I actually wanted to buy a lot of things but it didn’t occur me that I would need TONS of money to buy everything. Yeah. </3)

I’m so glad I went! I was supposed to go back to Laguna that day and I didn’t really have anyone to go with. Alie wasn’t sure if she could make it, but I told myself that instances like this rarely happens. Besides, I was high on fangirl spirit at that time because of We Got Married. Heh.

Going to Ortigas was quite an adventure since I hadn’t been there by myself. It was quite scary but the KPOPCON FB page provided directions so I followed my heart (and my friends’ instructions) and prayed that I wouldn’t get lost. When I arrived at Megamall, I asked the guards for directions on how to reach Megatent. Apparently, I looked like a fangirl that other fangirls approached me! I guess I gave off a vibe or something. Hee. I made two friends that day, Jen and Louise! They were the ones who approached me in megamall. We went to Megatent together because they also didn’t know the way. Heh.

Do fangirls have this certain aura? Even the FX drivers know at first sight that we were on our way to KPOPCON. When we entered the FX, it was already filled with other fans. I am easily amused by things like this.

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The Year I Won’t Stop Trying

I’ve been a quitter for too long. It’s about time I stop.

Let’s just say that 2012 will be the year that I will live to the fullest and hope I won’t die from doing too much. I’ve always been so nonchalant towards everything. But this year, I promise to care and to interact more. To live more.

If the world will truly end on Dec. 21 of this year (I doubt it, though!), then I promise to stop spending too much time indoors. I just promise to stop holding back and to start giving more. More everything. Heh. I’ve been living far too long within my comfort zone. I’ve already mentioned here how even palm reading got a tad too boring for me. Apparently, even my palm agrees that my life is too smooth-smailing. I blame it on the fact that I rarely encounter anything challenging or unusual, though.

If life wouldn’t give me an adventure, then I will chase after it. I will go far and wide just to have a taste of a life on edge. Come on, I want to feel infinite, too!

I don’t even know what to call these things I plan on doing. Goals, maybe? I don’t know. All I know is that these are the things I really, really want to do this year. I realized that posting my plans online makes me commit to it more. [Read more…]

11 Obsessions of 2011

Back in college, I lied low from fangirl-ing to focus more on school (oh really) and my social life. But once I got out of school, I went back to the one thing I’m good at: obsessing! I’m a certified fangirl and I think everyone knows that already. I think 2011 was the year that I learned how to obsess over other things besides Korean boybands.

It had been such a good year for my obsessions that it would be a pity to not write about the things I obsessed over. I know I have a bunch of other things to write but this cannot wait. While my emotions are still running high, I present to you the things I went gaga for last year. I’ll start from the bottom to build up some suspense. Heh. [Read more…]

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