What the Author has been Up To: The Inside Scope

I must say from my deepest regrets that I have not been able to spend any time on my blog for the last two months. I come to check up on it from time to time and always see the numbers steadily climbing. It makes me happy to see that it still has it's potentials. Now that the school year is coming to it's close, there is a lot that I plan to do with this site. I wanted to revamp my blog to make it look cleaner and function better. However, because I'm not a web designer wiz this might be a far fetched idea for a girl who is also really busy with preparing her plans to go to Korea!

The Studies

It's been nearly a year now since I first began studying Korean as a language. First independently then moving on to a classroom setting. I have to admit that it was a big commitment on my part. I was doing well in studying Spanish, hardly did I ever study or care about the upcoming exams. But when I switched my academic language to Korean it all changed for me. I am consistently pushed to my limits to curb my learning, replace English words such as "Library" with "도서관" and phrases such as "where are you going" with "어디 가 세요?"  Dedicating about at six hours to studying or practicing.  This incredibly different language is incredibly difficult.  Spanish was easy and I would of became an awesome fluent speaker in Spanish  if I would have kept with it, but It wasn't rewarding to me and I actually grew a bitter hatred for it. So I dropped it.

Parody God

So as you know I am Gangnam Style crazy and love this video and song so much. I mean I have the song as my current ring tone! OPPA GANGNAM STLYE!!!! <(^0^<)

And what I thought was more hilarious than the epic itself was the following videos that spun off from it's amazing originality. Tons of video uploads featured on Youtube that tried to poke more fun at the song. Problem though... How do you make fun of a song or video that is already poking fun at itself? (As also said by Simon & Martina @ Eatyourkimchi.com) Not to knock the makers of these videos but when in comparison, PSY is the master at his own creation. No one else has been able to match up.

Except one man.

David So.

Skull & HaHa New Release

Today Ha Ha, or Ha Dong Hoon from Running Man, released a new song with Korean reggae artist Skull. The new single named "Busan Vacance" features Ha Ha with dreads singing a tune that has a Caribbean feel to it. I took to liking this song within seconds after viewing it for the first time. It's playful, bouncy, and visually fun as the screen is painted with scribbles of words and pictures. Did I mention that it also features my other favorite Running Man member? Lee Kwang Soo!

Running Man for now Stops Running

Well It's only been day one since one of my favorite shows, "Running Man" has been postponed due to the Olympics. For those who are unfamiliar with the show, It's one of Korea's popular variety shows, In which a main cast have to complete challenges, play games, and complete certain tasks or missions. Usually in running man the missions are done in a "every man for himself" with a new guest(s) each week. Guests range from old time actors to contemporary artists such as Big Bang.