- I received my YUI albums in the mail! God I love her music. Oh no, I feel tempted to start a whole YUI collection now.
- My credit card arrived in the mail too. Honestly though, having your name engraved on plastic doesn’t feel as exhilarating as I imagined.
- He’s (finally) crawled out of his hole & resumed normal programming. Which includes asking me questions I don’t know how to answer. Sigh.
- I found the book I’ve been looking for (The Buzan Study Skills Handbook by Tony Buzan) here at a local bookstore.
- Went to Zingdo with Mama yesterday and finally got a taste of 떡 (ddeok), a glutinous Korean rice cake that tastes rather spongy & squishy, like nothing I’ve tasted before. Next time I’m there, I’m going to try the stir-fried ddeok.
- This weekend will be my first free weekend in months. No school, no deadlines!
Ah, I love this song. I hardly ever listen to English songs, but this one is on the (absolutely fantastic) soundtrack of a K-drama I watched recently. I don’t even know who Winterplay is, or where they’re from!
Who Are You – Winterplay
(Click on the ‘Play’ button to hear the song.)
Here’s the lyrics:
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I’ve been playing a memory game I learnt from 스펀지 (Sponge, a Korean variety TV show) with these cards. I love Korean infotainment shows! They’re so funny (even funnier if you catch the verbal puns that aren’t translated into subtitles), and every episode gives me plenty of new vocabulary to pick up.
Exam results were finally out yesterday. I hit all my targets almost exactly, so I’m happy. 
No, I’m more than happy. I’m ecstatic! ^_^ Oh, how I slogged for those grades.
All those nights after work when I had to force myself to switch to student mode & start on more “work”. All those bus journeys, MRT rides, lunch hours spent reading. Those evenings when I got urgent calls from my boss during class; when I was fixing bugs in my software 10 minutes before class to get it to my colleagues on time; when dinner was a carton of milk I managed to grab before class. All of that wasn’t in vain, after all. And truthfully, the thought of having more to come in the next few years is scaring me right now. Haha.
But to have survived all that & come out with good grades, a merit salary raise and the Hong Kong project at work completed… I never expected that much. I suppose living zealously does get you somewhere. Now that I know how strong I can be & how much I can do, I wonder what I was doing with my life before. I definitely wasn’t functioning at 100% capacity.
I’m starting to worry about next semester. I need to bring up my GPA, plan my work schedule around school, take a few more thousand dollars of the study loan, adjust my monthly repayments… There’s still more than a month to go, but I have to start planning!
I have to admit, I do feel a little bored & idle now that school’s out & the OUUK course is over. My brain will need more “extra-curricular activities” (haha) in the next few weeks, so I plan to study as much Korean as I can.
I’ll end with a quote from one of my favourite Korean dramas of 2007, Dalja’s Spring:
Since the Supermen started hanging up their capes, there are starting to be more and more Superwomen. In the form of a superior in the workplace, a wife, a woman, a mother. And they have their own superpowers, so they can keep their small part of the world happy.
I’m just keeping my tiny part of the world happy.
It’s the time of the year when Jannah gets utterly sick of nasi briyani.
I must’ve ate a year’s worth of briyani during last year’s maulid season. I haven’t even recovered from that, but hey! Suddenly maulid is here again.
I didn’t feel like bringing briyani rice for lunch today. But who am I to complain, right? I should just shut up, or learn to cook.
Started reading Ha Jin’s War Trash on the way to work today, and I wished my workplace was more than two MRT stops away. I have a feeling this book will turn out to be a good read. <3
I love war stories, for some reason. Maybe that explains why I like watching Sageuk (Korean historical dramas) so much. You should see me when I’m watching 대조영 (Dae Jo Young) on weekend nights. I get so passionate about what’s happening, I even throw pillows at the TV! Hahaha.
Speaking of Sageuk, those scriptwriters are getting quite daring nowadays, aren’t they? There was actually a kissing scene in Dae Jo Young! Sorry if I’m a little outdated, but since when did historical dramas show skinship?? 
Wait, there weren’t any such scenes in 해신 (Emperor of the Sea), were there? Or is my memory failing me again?
I’m having 달자의 봄 (Dalja’s Spring) mania & I don’t know how to snap out of it. This is the first time in ages that I’m so addicted to a drama. Every time I sit down to watch something, all I can think of is this drama. I can’t bring myself to watch anything else. I’m following the series even though it’s still airing in Korea. I devour the latest episodes as they come out, even without subtitles. I may be a K-drama addict, but I’m usually the type who waits for a series to end its run & for subtitles to be out before I even start watching. And look what’s happening now. I even giggle or smile to myself whenever I recall a scene from the drama. Whether it’s at work or on the train or in the toilet or wherever.
Yes, Jannah is absolutely loony over Dalja’s Spring. I’m even blogging about it! Somebody. Help. Me.
I read in the news that Singapore bought the rights to air 주몽 (Jumong)! The Sageuk fanatic in me is BEYOND excited over this piece of news! (Sageuk = what Koreans call their historical dramas.) I hope the TV station would at least start airing it this year. Or we’ll lag behind other countries as always.
The moment I laid my eyes on 동감 (Sympathy) Volume 4 I knew I wouldn’t be able to resist buying it. And true enough. How could I resist when there’s the likes of Vibe, SG Wannabe, Lee Seung Cheol, Shinhwa & Lee Soo Young on the tracklist AND So Ji Seob on the cover? It’s perfect for my collection! *sighs happily*
Speaking of Ji Seob, I plan to send him a small birthday gift (& maybe a card) together with the other JSA Club members. This is the first time I’m even considering sending something to somebody famous. He’s the only celebrity whose birthday I remember. Goes to show how much I like & respect him as an actor & as a person.
Only thing is, I have absolutely NO idea what I should make or buy for him. All I know is, it has to be small so that all our gifts can fit into one big box. It doesn’t have to be super duper special, just something he’ll take a minute to admire & maybe use or wear afterwards.
I need to brainstorm!