Thursday, March 31, 2011

the way to mix oil and water together!

The fact that men and women are different can’t be more sucked. A lot of people say that half of the world is men. And it’s true! But do you know what it could mean by that? That means we have to struggle with half of the people in the world! We are living in the world that we can’t obviously avoid each other and can’t help facing each other. The figure that we keep going wrong is just so much annoying as trying to mix up water and oil in a pot.
If you look up the book ‘Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus’, you could see how they are different. Just like what the title says, what this book is keeping saying is the importance of admitting the difference between each other.
Women and men are different like people from different other country. People from different country have different thought, different idea and different language. So if we want to communicate with the people from other county, we have to study their culture and language. It’s pretty interesting idea to think about that woman and men are using their own language.
Men say directly what they want to say and usually that means nothing more than that. However, Women are used to putting more implications on what they are saying. And to figure out what that mysterious meaning is, is what men are supposed to do. If a guy says he is okay, that really means he is okay with it. But when a girl says she is okay, sometimes that doesn’t mean she is okay. So this fact makes woman start to bugging man to know what’s going on to him, even though he is alright. Or sometimes woman are frustrated by man for not bugging herself. Then, she thinks he doesn’t care about me enough while he thinks she is alright.
What’s interesting is that woman’s implications do something more than we could probably imagine sometimes. I find the book ‘He is just not that into you’ pretty interesting as a reader but annoying as a women. The writer says that women think there is something more in what men said, just like women themselves. Therefore women start to interpret what they said which actually means nothing more than literally it is.
It seems like women’s language do some kind of role like ‘self-defense mechanism’. For not being hurt by a guy, women interpret man’s action in the way she wants to understand, so that she can be alright with that situation. So she thinks it was not an “actual” no which was a real no. It’s amazing to see how genius women are to make excuses for not being bumped. Again, as a woman I hate this book! I really hate the fact that the author is a guy. I felt like being naked or something during reading. Got so annoyed by that!! Ahhhh!!
So what I wanted to say is that since women and men are different like oil and water, it’s really important to admit the fact that they can’t be mixed! You can’t just keep stirring oil and water until they get mixed. Because they won’t be! It’ water and oil. Just admit it! Do you know what makes oil and water mixed? Yolk! A yolk of egg will do :) when you just regard them different you might get some sense to put yolk in that pot. If we can’t stop facing each other as women and man, why don’t we try ‘the yolk of understanding’? Let’s study each other and learn each other’s language! Let’s just give it a try :]

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Let them SING!!

The television show ‘I’m a Singer’ became a hot potato lately in Korea. The ‘I’m a Singer’ is a new TV show which is broadcast by MBC. It’s basically a survival format show. 7 singers can have their own stage and will sing a song then the audience will vote. The one who get less will be eliminated.
 It might look like just a normal competition TV show. But the reason why people are so crazy about this show is “The 7 singers”. The 7 singer are the most famous singers in Korea who are not well known as good dancer or good performer but literally as good singer. Even I haven’t seen them all together in one stage. Of course their stages were great and people got excited about the next episode.
The thing happened last Sunday. It came out the one who got the least votes was Mr. Kim who is the oldest, the most professional singer in Korea and have his 20th anniversary this year for his career as singer. The rest of 6 singers got panic themselves and they figured that maybe Mr. Kim hilarious performance didn’t work well for the audience so there must be some kind of misunderstanding. People didn’t estimate him not only by his song but with his performance. Anyhow they decided to give another chance. And that brought a huge problem!
The viewer stated to say that it’s breaking the rule. Somehow everything went crazy and the director of that show announced his resign yesterday and today Mr. Kim announced his resign of the show.
I don’t know what people are arguing with, I don’t know why they are arguing with this and I don’t know what they want by doing this. Everything is going crazy! I know giving him another chance is breaking rules, but as the director already said before the purpose of this program is not to eliminate someone but to deliver some chances to the viewer that they can listen good music by spooking singers.
Sometimes I think people got just really used to the whole competitive world out there. We all are trying so hard in our own life and think the world is going wilder and wilder and say “I hate this world! The winner takes it all!” And then, we turn our TV on to avoid our situation and to make ourselves laugh. However only what we can find is yelling at someone in TV to get out!
All the circumstance that we are around with drives us competitive and makes us like a fighter. Life is not a survival TV show! Don’t push someone to resign! You don’t have to step someone over and make him crash out. Just enjoy what you are doing in your life! Let the singers enjoy their stage!!!

Friday, March 18, 2011

Seized my day!!

 The 14th of March was my birthday. Since in Korea it is "White Day" which is kind of stupid day to celebrate, people seemed that they were enjoying that day more than i was. To be honest I'm not that really birthday type of girl. For me, birthday means nothing more than getting one year older. But i guess it went different this year.
 I went to Coffee Bean that morning and ordered my favorite coffee which is ice vanilla latte. And then I listened my favorite song of my favorite band all day long. I do love Keane! My favorite of them is 'Somewhere only we know'. Listening Keane all day long made my day more delightful!!
 After school I met my friends to have dinner together. We gathered in Seohyun station and went to our favorite Vietnamese restaurant. I don't know but for some reason i love Vietnamese dish so much. I should move to Vietnam. hahaha!!
 The best thing on that day happened after we went to coffee shop to grap some coffee. We got coffee, frozen yogurt ice cream which is my favorite as well and cheese cake for celebrating my birthday. I had really great time with my best friends and just realized how grateful I can be only with some small ordinary things. coffee, songs, food, friends and ice cream.
 I shared my cake with my friends and for bringing the rest home I ask one of the staffs to pack it up. that took so long! just right before our complaining, one staff brought us a box of cheese cake and said "sorry for being late. One of our staff tipped the cake over during packing so I got a whole new cheese cake for you. I hope your understanding." Actually I got really excited by that. A whole new cheese cake??!! What a chance!! So I brought a new tasting good cheese cake home and shared with my family.
What a great way to call it a day :)