6 Years with SHINee

Six years is quite a long time to be in a fandom, right? Although, technically, I didn't become a full-fledged Shawol until Hello Baby but I was already a casual fan right after they debuted. Last night, I watched almost 1GB worth of fancams from the Lost Planet in Seoul and after that, I had a sick feeling somewhere in the pit of my stomach for having remembered that it was SHINee's anniversary and I didn't even have anything planned for them. Usually, I post something really cheesy or I prepare weeks for it (like last year when I uploaded and shared their entire discography) but right now, what do I have? None. Unless you count this post that's a day late, which I don't.

140424 - Fans chase Taemin and Kai

So I don't know if you guys have seen this video clip already but I still wanted to share it nonetheless. Apparently, some fans chased them around 3 a.m. last mornight and scared the living daylights out of them. Let me tell you, waking up to a video of my biases running for their lives was not pleasant at all, especially when I only had about 4 hours of troubled sleep. I don't know if it's true that Taemin cried after the incident but I'm fucking sure he was traumatized.

Clearly, when someone's running away from you as if their lives depended on it while you're chasing them, I think it's an obvious sign that I don't know ... THAT MAYBE YOU SHOULD STOP??? I cannot speak for what the fans felt when they saw them although I'm pretty sure they were extremely excited and overwhelmed but I don't think scaring your oppas is the best approach, especially if you want to leave a good impression. Seeing our biases in the flesh can leave anyone (including me) a bit crazed, but it's still common etiquette to give them some space, especially when they're probably tired from their activities and hectic schedules because at the end of the day, even when they're flashing bright smiles to the cameras, they are still human beings like the rest of us and they are what we all are - tired and vulnerable. 

Honestly, I can't even take the "fans" in the video seriously because this is sasaeng activity at work and it's just really fucking sad because it just makes the boys even more afraid of the people who supposedly love and support them. I don't even know half of the horrible things they've experienced (and continue experiencing) from sasaengs but seeing this video clip just made my heart hurt.

I rest my case. I just hope Taemin and Jongin are all right and that this kind of thing won't happen again (even though the chances of it not happening again are about as negative as my outlook on life at the moment). Also, I think reading this would be helpful to everyone.

Holy smokes! Taemin smokes?! 2.0 because he actually does

Fair warning: This post went from being okay to being all over the place.

 

I've been having my suspicions for a long time now because let's be real, even the most seemingly-innocent idols are anything but the spruced-up, clean-cut images that entertainment companies throw their way in order to appease fans and let them think that their oppas are perfect creatures sent on Earth to become ideal human beings who only do good things. So of course, when something like this surfaces on social networking sites, mayhem is bound to happen and personal opinions are being flung from one corner of the world to another as fans start laying down their thoughts on the matter at hand. And where do I stand? I'm in between accepting and being mildly disappointed.

I still stand by what I said last year (see post here) and now that we have actual legitimate proof (to all the fans saying it's just a lollipop, I am laughing obnoxiously at you), I would be lying if I said I wasn't sad about this because I am sad. I AM SO SAD. I am so sad because I thought he had it better in him, I am so sad because wow he really is all grown up now you da man Taeman, I am so sad because I am worried for the sake of his lungs and his voice and his career and his life in general. Korean Shawols want out goddamnit!!! And I wouldn't be so affected by this if SHINee didn't need them for album sales and winnings on music shows. Honestly, I could care less about fans wanting to leave the fandom because heck those are their own personal choices but I know that SHINee's going to be sad about this and that's what makes me sad. SAD SHINee EQUALS A SAD CHRYSS.

This is me with fandom: literally

So basically, this is a post about me and a lot of feelings. This is for my own amusement actually. I think it might be a bad idea to proceed under the cut but read at your own risk.

And at the end of the day, I still go back to SHINee. At the end of the day, they're the ones who truly feel like home. It doesn't even matter that I'm not as updated with them as I used to be. I can't pinpoint exact scenes from this music video but that time when they just talked to their fans and sat beside them like good ol' buddies catching up broke my heart in all the right ways. This year sped by like a bullet train and I didn't know all the stops to get to them and stay but whatever my destination is, it will always be the one with SHINee in it. These five boys never fail to make me happy. They're the splashes of color. They're the bright morning rays. They're the happy pills. They're the ones I choose to stay with.

These are just a bunch of random snapshots with no definite dates. The past few weeks, my files have been all over the place due to schoolwork and my mind going haywire. 

 I finally got the Sparkling issue with SHINee and EXO on the front and back covers! For free!!! (thank you, I don't know your name but bless your kind, considerate heart). Unfortunately, I still think Sparkling is incompetent (Sehun's not the tallest member, okay? u___u). Makes me want to work for them when I grow up and straighten some things out (((I kid))). Oh, and Happy Birthday to Frog Prince Minho!!! YOU WERE ONLY SIXTEEN WHEN I FIRST LAID EYES ON YOU HOW ARE ALREADY 23???

Baby oranges!!!!!!! (I know they're not actually called baby oranges but it's just fun to call them little babies OwO)

a few things:

• Cards Out was last Monday and I almost got down on my knees when I saw the H2 mark on my card. I wasn't even hoping on getting an H3 but an H2??? When it was a really shitty quarter for me????? When I was on the brink of failing my Math exam?????
• The world works in strange ways but thank you, Lord, that I managed to maintain my honor streak. My grades decreased by an awful lot but I am still so relieved. Just so fucking relieved.
• "JAN, I STILL HAVE AN HONOR!!!" "Gaga, of course! What did you expect?" Glad to know Janina believes in me even though I don't believe in myself. ahuhu lub you
• I'm starting to talk about college with my friends again and it's making me all riled up and frustrated and nervous and excited and just generally overwhelmed. My mother really wants me to take up Law after Creative Writing, which isn't a bad compensation for letting me take up the course that I really want, but I don't know if I'm cut out for it. Being a lawyer has never been in my plans and it's quite interesting but I'm scared. It seems like a really competitive, cutthroat world.
  

Album Review #4: SHINee's Everybody

After the success following the promotions of Misconceptions of Me, Misconceptions of You, and Boys Meet U, SHINee wakes everybody up with their new mini-album entitled "Everybody". Two albums, a Japanese single, and now another mini-album plus the countless variety show appearances and concerts along with other projects, I think it's fitting to say that 2013 has been a really good year for these five shining boys. Forget about 2009, 2013 is SHINee's "Year of Us."

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't hoping for a full-on RnB mini ala rookie days but this group has constantly been innovating itself musically over the years and is known for experimenting with their sounds and exploring different genres. Even if I ended up with false hope, my expectations for this album were pleasantly met and that's why I decided to do a track-by-track album review. If you want to know my personal thoughts, they're under the breakthrough!

This is important.

"The amount that SHINee has gotten better at singing and dancing from Replay to Everybody is literally astounding. I remember when Onew and Jonghyun had 80% of the singing lines and Taemin was in the center of almost every important choreography. Looking at Everybody now, the dancing is almost uniform in quality (of course Taemin is still the best) and the role “main vocalist” is barely even relevant. I don’t know any other modern Kpop group that has so effectively grown beyond their individual strengths. It speaks volumes both that they could lose their main vocalist for half a comeback, and make up the lines with two members whose original role wasn’t even singing (Key and Taemin), and that by the end of Everybody, every member sans the rapper managed to sing the same high note, each with the same amount of power. SHINee’s doing something amazing in Kpop, and they’re going to become a new standard for other groups to strive for."

©

I spent last Friday night watching all of their music videos from Replay to Everybody (including their Japanese mvs) and comparing performances and I think I left a piece of my heart somewhere along the way.

This is me with fandom: Give it up for SHINee

 

This is just going to be one giant ball of mushy feelings because I dearly miss SHINee. The past few months I've been all over EXO that I seriously don't know what's going on with my favorite shining idiots anymore. I look at photos of them on my dashboard and I instantly feel sad. Sometimes, I even get hit by a wave of guilt. I think the main reason why I can't start with my K Rep fanaccount about them is that I don't know where to start. When I finally saw them in the flesh, it's like all the years I've spent devoting my spare time to them flashed before my eyes in a series of happy memories and smiling faces. SHINee has done so much for me, you know? They've saved me countless of times and I don't think I can ever thank them enough. It's just sad when I finally realize that things aren't the same anymore; that even though they're still my favorite group, I'm not as excited as I used to be for their comeback and I can't even bring myself to be stoked for their new album. I'm expecting great things, yeah, but that's all there is in me: great expectations. No bubbling excitement, no smiling like an idiot during random times when I think that in a day's time, I'll be listening to their voices singing new songs, no giddy feelings in my system whatsoever.

I miss SHINee but most of all, I miss Chryss the Shawol.

September 2013 in Photos

I hereby officially crown September 2013 as the best month I've ever had in my life and I'll let these photos speak for me. So many blessings, so many wishes come true, so many reasons to be thankful. I'm extremely sad to bid it farewell but here's to hoping for better months to come!

the clouds during my plane ride to Manila. they took my breath away, i just had to take a photo

outside Araneta with my sister

fandom ocean! ♥

I was at the very back of the Green Gate patrons line. lmao

{more photos under the breakthrough}

vlog #4: my best friend has betrayed me for sehun

• We are officially throwing our dignity out of the window. Goodbye.
• I seriously didn't want to post this but I promised huhuhuhuhuhu
• This is longer and more stupid than our previous one. Prepare yourself for battle.
• If anybody can count the amount of times Sehun's name was said in this video, consider it a talent of yours.
• WHAT'S UP WITH SOME OF YOUR QUESTIONS I MEAN SERIOUSLY GUYS
• Might delete this in a week, who knows?
• I apologize in advance for all the ugly sobbing noises and shameless screaming that you'll hear from my fancam. I wish I lowered down the volume when Joy was watching it. REGRETS (nasa huli ang pagsisisi)
• I uploaded this the first time around for five hours and then Youtube fucked up on me and I had to upload it again, thus the reason why I'm posting it close to 12 midnight. 
• I have a writing workshop to attend at 7 am tomorrow morning. I love my life choices.
• I'm really sorry, strange things happen to my best friend during the night. She turns crazed.
• I'm sorry too.
• Click play and waste 40 minutes of your life watching us make complete fools of ourselves. I wish I could say "Enjoy" but seriously... ;__________________________;
• /flees~

Kpop Republic: Part Uno

So I finally started typing my fan account on MS Word and I'm not even halfway done with it yet but it's already nearing 2k words so I decided to split it into two parts! I don't know when I'll be able to post Part Dos because I have a lot of deadlines and long tests this week but I'm pretty sure I'll be done with it by Saturday. To compensate, I'll link you guys to the fancams that I've managed to upload today. I'm still not sure if I'll upload my other fancams because as I said before, I sound crazed. 

Anyway, Kpop Republic: Part Uno under the jump break! (And links to the fancams at the end of this post. Fair warning: this is 1,885 words in MS Word. I apologize in advance but if you make it all the way to the end, I salute you)

[crossposted from Tumblr because I am tired :c]

Hello, I just got home from the most amazing weekend ever and I’m tired as hell but I’ve still got a little bit of post-concert adrenaline in my veins. Let me share with you this photo of me with the snapback that Sehun placed on Kai’s head during the XOXO performance last night. Kai wore it for awhile before throwing it to the audience and because of a really powerful stroke of luck, I managed to get it.

I still don’t know what to feel because I managed to see EXO-K and SHINee in person and I was mere meters away from all of them and at one point, I screamed, “Marry me, Lee Jinki!!!” and my throat is sore and I can’t think properly but fancams will be uploaded as soon as possible and there’s a fanaccount coming along the way. I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Bless~

Chryss Segovia's Concert Survival Kit (lol):

1. Concert ticket
2. Wallet (includes band-aid and medicine for acid attacks)
3. Cellular phone
4. Sony Walkman (for audio recording purposes)
5. The Kyungsoo bookmark I made for Jodie
6. Tissues (because I feel like I'll be crying...a lot)
7. Notebook and pen (they give me a false sense of security)
8. I.D
9. Glasses (for HD vision!!!)
10. A pack of Skittles (originally planned on buying Tic Tac but the supermarket was out of stock booooo; this is so that I won't faint)

See you at the concert tonight!!!!!!!!

(pls talk to me i promise i'm nice)

This is me with fandom: Let's Talk About Lee Taemin

Let's talk about the boy whom I planted sunflowers for in my mother's garden. Let's talk about the boy whose name I've written and rewritten on the frayed pages of my notes. Let's talk about the boy who I've watched grow from a cute little boy into an amazingly handsome young man. Let's talk about the boy who (after 3 years) still holds the throne to my heart's kingdom. Let's talk about Lee Taemin.

This is me with fandom: CONCERT ALERT

Warning: Incoherent post.

EXO IS GOING TO HAVE A CONCERT IN MY COUNTRY AND THE VENUE IS MILES AWAY FROM HOME LIKE THERE ARE VAST BODIES OF WATER SEPARATING ME FROM MANILA BUT MOM ALREADY SAID YES AND I WILL DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO ENSURE THAT SHE'S NOT GOING TO CHANGE HER MIND BECAUSE HOLY SHITBALLS I MIGHT GET TO SEE EXO IN THE FLESH AND HEAR THEM PERFORM LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CUE IN NIAGARA FALLS OF TEARS

5HINeeversary: SHINee's complete discography

Hello! To celebrate SHINee's 5th anniversary, I have compiled all of their songs from their albums, mini-albums, and singles into one mega-post. I know there are certain laws against downloading music so please download at your own risk. If you encounter any problems or if you have any violent reactions, feel free to comment below. Seeing as this took me a really long time to compile and upload, comments are dearly appreciated and a simple "thank you" would make me cry tears of blood for all the hard work I put into this. The albums with their corresponding download links are under the read more. Enjoy~

look!!! I made a thing!!!!!!

Five years. Oh my god. Five years ago, I was eleven and singing "Noona Neomo Yeppeo~~~ Replay, Replay, Replay" because those were the only lyrics I could sing and fast-forward five years later and that song is still the one dearest to my heart. I don't know how five undeniably talented boys wriggled their way into my life but they managed to do it and I am still here, chanting, "We are going~ Ultra SHINee Transformation!" and I feel like crying because it's been five years and time flies by so fast and I can't believe how much they've grown and changed and just transformed from pretty little boys into devastatingly gorgeous young men who never fail to perform the best lives with the most awesome choreography and still manage to make everything look effortless.

Sketches.

Just 1/3 of the little things I hide in my sketch book. This is actually my first time to show them to anyone.

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