f(x) newest female k-pop group

November 19, 2009

Well, I’m not being a traitor here. I just want to acknnowledge the newest k-pop group that I never thought can be a major competitor against 4minutes. f(x) pronounce as “effects” but at first I thought it was read as “function” like in trigonometry, with their debut single “LA Cha ta” With members supplied by wikipedia.com as follows.

Victoria [great dancer!!!]

• Birth name: Song Qian
• Date of birth: February 2, 1987 (age 22)(1987-02-02)
• Position: Leader, Vocalist, Lead Dancer
  • born in Qingdao, Shandong, China
  • Female lead in Kangta’s “Eternity” music video
  • Female lead in SHINee’s “Replay” music video
  • Female lead in Super Junior-M’s “U” music video

Amber [She projects well for a 17]

• Birth name: Amber Liu
• Date of birth: September 18, 1992 (age 17)(1992-09-18)
• Position: Rapper, Sub-Vocalist
  • born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, California to Chinese immigrants

Luna

• Birth name: Park Sun-young
• Date of birth: August 12, 1993 (age 16)(1993-08-12)
• Position: Lead Vocalist
  • Featured vocalist in a song entitled “Get Down” with SHINee members Minho and Key for their mini-album Year of Us.

Sulli [Cute….]

• Birth name: Choi Jin-ri
• Date of birth: March 29, 1994 (age 15)(1994-03-29)
• Position: Vocalist
  • debuted as a child actress in the 2005 Korean television drama The Ballad of Seo-dong
  • featured in TVXQ’s Vacation, playing Micky’s childhood love interest

Krystal [OMG she’s just 14!!!]

• Birth name: Krystal Jung, Jung Soo-jung
• Date of birth: October 24, 1994 (age 15)(1994-10-24)
• Position: Vocalist
  • born and raised in San Francisco, California
  • younger sister of Girls’ Generation member Jessica
  • Female lead in SHINee’s “Juliette” music video

 I think this group differ from others because of their unique combination of members from different cultures that may effect their set of fans and thus they may make music that will keep these fans continuously be interested. But, I can’t really predict what will happen to the other groups. Will this new group stand long?

 these are sites you may use to know more about f(x)

 http://koreaprecious.blogspot.com/2009/08/fx-korean-group-memberpictures.html

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%28x%29_%28band%29

pictures are supplied by:

 http://www.crunchyroll.com/group/f%28x%29_korean_girl_group

"What a Girl Wants" by 4MINUTE

November 9, 2009

 

The war of Kpop girl bands is still on and getting edgier and heavier. Groups who was almost considered the weakest link months ago is now being praise for their glorifying make-over and improvement. After several controversies, banned songs, fans’ torts and harsh head-to-head comparison, it is true that 4MINUTE, 5-member girl band (Jihyun, Hyun-ah, Jiyoon, Gayoon and Sohyun) has improved! After For Muzik and Hot Issue, which both received harsh criticisms, their newest MV “What a Girl Wants” has imminently captured viewers in youtube. It still involve shoe-throwing stunts, strange clothes and dance steps, and of course the talk-about topic regarding Cool J’s (Jiyoon) undiminishable sunglasses into a sleek nerdy looking eyeglasses!!! Also, vocals improved and Jihyun’s starting to show a little presence and not just a simple back-up. 

Here are the pictures I’ve edited and captured from the previous MV’s For Muzik, Hot Issue and now What a Girl Wants. I also included pictures of members of 2NE1 and what could be the similarities of the members.

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CHECK OUT THESE LITTLE SIMILARITIES

 

I’m dying

November 7, 2009

   I was sitting on a mattress along the hallway of the semi-restricted area of the Operating room, when I felt my phone vibrated. I picked it up and a female voice, the first time I heard it felt as if I’m inside a closed room, says, “Go out. There, he is waiting for you.”

 

“Cai,” I guessed who the speaker was, even though I’ve never heard her. I just felt like it was her. Her voice sounds like I’m hearing her in a quiet room. It was clear and virulent and full of conviction, it was something that clings to your ear like the scars of infection. “Who is waiting?” I asked her and she replies with the same tone of voice, “Him!”

…

Impossible, but I never really saw him, whoever we were both thinking of. As if the call was itself an illusion. I ran out the Operating room, leaving my classmates, leaving the staff, leaving the scent of true cleanliness. My instructor cried at my back, but I pretended not to hear him. I ran out. I sprinted down the stairs to the first floor, passing the nurse with a chart, the doctor with her pockets on her side, the construction worker cementing the edge of the stairs, the cat running away from the awkward helper. I’m just passing them by.

Until I reached the emergency room, I saw people of different cases. I’m wearing my scrub suit, my sterile dress in the middle of impurity and a pit of diseases. I lowered my mask down to smell the scent of blood, I removed my cap and hold it down. I saw him, not him whom I thought has risen from the death, but someone, a younger man, a staff maybe, a young intern, or maybe a visitor, he was trying to revive a dead woman. I can say she’s dead because I can already see the face of my dead friend, the same marks of distress.

And I was just there standing watching him, struggle for someone else’s life, someone whom he must have not known or should ever care of. He was trying to revive her, but his effort was useless to her deteriorating body.

And I was there. I was there watching. I was there thinking nothing. I was just there.

 

He picked up the stetoscope lying on the desk beside the bed of the patient. He checked the pulse, silently trying to count, but he couldn’t even start it. He looked at me. His face, pale. His eyes, tired. His temples touched with fervently sliding drops of sweat. He removed the stetoscope, still looking at me, he sighed, a thunder ampliphize to my ear, then he shook his head. I saw him. I was there. I was just there, can’t do anything, can’t help, can’t even move or think. I was totally helpless, I was worse than the dying. I’m worse than the dead. He walked towards me and then passing across me. I followed him. He’s gone. I’m in an empty room.

Then, I told my self, I’m going to be like him…

Why Dara left the Philipppines?

October 17, 2009

  

Now I understand why Dara or Sandara Parks in real life (3rd person from the right) left the Philippines. At first I thought it was because just like any other successful OFW around the world who, after all the success and the money they gained, would tend to go back and retire in their homeland. A lot of her Filipino fans and supporters never were not really shocked (let us admit that Dara was on one point in the Philippine showbiz industry was very famous, it was the time when Chinovelas and Koreanovelas dubbed with Filipino started to top the ratings), and then other talents came out like Kim Chiu (after Pinoy Big Brother), who were mostly compt ared to Dara and her roles are limited to Korean, it was then became reasonable for her to showcase her talent to a bigger industry, which will not limit her roles as an actress.

Shockingly, she didn’t debut as an actress, but a singer, which then would be topics of arguments, whether is this the best way to start a carreer in a new industry. Dara’s singing carreer in the Philippines wasn’t as excellent as those of other Diva’s and in fact Pop is not a very suitable genre of music for the Filipino language.

I remember when I was in highschool, I used her In and Out song as a ringtone. Now, Fire has been the top song in the myx hit chart.

  

A lot of people were amazed at Dara’s not-giving-up attitude and I can honestly say that dara should be a role-model for young artist out there and I’m so proud of her.

However…challenges for new artists such as these girls never became less difficult.

Nakasabay ko si Mat Evans sa Jeep

August 14, 2009

Hindi ko alam kung tama yung spelling ng name niya, pero linagay ko yung title para rin sa parehong dahilan tulad ng mga iba kong post. PS. Ang cute pala niya…kaya lang parang siya ang pinaka-malungkot na tao sa buong mundo: nakabagsak ang dating slighlty-Afro na buhok, may lasong brown na naka-ribbon sa kanyang kaliwang braso, hawak ang cellphone sa parehong braso (indication na left-handed pala siya, Baka meant to be an artist talaga), may ID lace siya ng UP Diliman, at may suot na makapal na eye glasses.

Nagulat si Maria nang makita niya ang mga pangalang Narciso, Delilah at Aphrodite sa listahan ng ‘PINAKA-MALULUNGKOT NA TAO SA BUONG MUNDO’.

Kahapon ay umatend ako ng conference ni Chingbee Cruz sa Rizal Hall, UP Diliman tungkol sa Konseptong Genre Blending. Ilan sa mga Reactors ay sina Vlad Gonzales at Rolando Tolentino at siyempre si Jose Dalisay (Mga pangalang noo’y nakikita ko lamang sa mga libro at hindi kailan mang inisip na matatawan sa tunay buhay). Medyo ibang Chingbee ang nakita namin kaysa ang taong nag-lecture about sa Prose poetry sa LIRA. Ang ilang nabanggit niya sa conference ay nabanggit niya rin noon. Naka-ilang lagok din siya ng mineral water nang magsalita ang mga reactors lalo na si Rolando Tolentino.

Minsan na ring nasabi ni Chingbee Cruz noon na tanggap na niyang walang kita sa pagtula, “Why don’t you do something that we’re not paid for.” Gustung-gusto ko siyang tanungin kung pa’no niyang nagawang iwan ang medical profession, na isang bagay na natatakot akong pasukin at eventually iwan.

Hindi ko rin maintindihan… Ano ba  ang nagtritrigger nitong kagustuhang magsulat (marahil tulad kong simula bata’y na supress nang magsasalita, kung saan lahat ng gusto mong sabihin ay mailalabas mo lang kapag nagpa-assignment ang teacher na gumawa ng conclusion o hypothesis sa science take-home experiment.

let’s go back sa conference…

Hindi pa ‘ko nagkaroon ng experience na minsang gumawa ako ng piyesa i.e. ay isang prosang exerpt sa isang dulang isinulat ko noon, at nang ipabasa ko sa iba ay iba ang tingin nila rito ay hindi ang genre na layunin kong ipakita, kung saan ito’y iklinase bilang creative non-fiction at para sa iba ito’y isang prose poetry. Dahil kapag nangyari sa’kin ito’y dinidiscard ko agad ang piyesa. Ayokong mamatay na may iniiwang problema sa mga babasa ng mga likha ko (Hahaha*)

Ngunit tulad ng mga nabanggit ng mga reactors, hindi ka naman uupo sa study table na may layuning magsulat ng piyesang maaaring ituring na kasama sa ibang genre. Halimbawa’y gagawa ako ng isang sanaysay na parang non-fiction at puno ng mga phrases at fragments, na pwede ring tawaging prose poetry. Ang layuning tulad nito sa pagsusulat ay maaring academic lamang (tila sa ganitong paraan na laman nabubuhay ang malikhaing pagsulat).

Ang pag-open sa isang bagong konseptong ito ay parang (ayon sa ilan) salungat sa mga rules na itinakda ng mga sinaunang manunulat. Kung saan ang attitude na ito ng mga modernong batang manunulat ay pinupuna ng mga matatanda at well-established na na mga writers tulad na lang ni Jose Dalisay na may nabanggit ukol sa edad, bilang isang batayan kung kailan ka dapat sumalungat sa mga rules o gumawa ng bago mong genre.

Sa psychology, ang scenario ito ay parang tagisan ng anak sa magulang at magulang sa anak kung saan ang anak ay nagiging rebelious dahil ang gusto niyang gawin ay hindi angkop sa batas (na sinet ng kanyang mga magulang), in result na mag-set siya ng mga bagong batas angkop sa kanyang gusto gawin o [maaring] kaya niya lang gawin.

Ang mga batang writer ay masyadong na-expose sa mga matataas na achievement ng mga early writers kaya ang naset sa isip nila ay gumawa rin ng isang bagay na hindi pa nagagawa ng iba, kung saan matatawag silang ‘kauna-unahang’. Masyadong nagiging obsess ang mga kabataan ngayon sa hanap ng makabagong paraan (na siyang kultura ng agham at teknolohiya, isang bagay na nilaanan ng boundary pag pinag-usapan na ang sining).

Hindi ko rin alam kung natatakot ang mga matatandang writers na hindi sila sinusunod at ang ideyang ito ay obviously isang masakit na bagay para sa isang magulang. Natatakot din marahil sila na ang likha nila’y hindi na rin maintindahan ngayon.

Nakakatawa…maganda nga itong pag-isipan…manonood din ako sa isang tabi at kasamang mag-iisip.