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the awkward moment #4

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when real unexpected things happen during your research - and you're just left mouth-opened for the whole 3 minute, straight for this, let me just hear these two beautiful songs; performed by Park Hyo Shin to recover myself ( Bogoshipda -  not his song, but the other guy's song, the other guy is Kim Bum Soo and his own song:  Things I cannot do for you )

people in London and their cell phone

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ah, i just realized. been here for a while, but i hardly wrote about my impression of london. it's summer already. weather is nice, though sometimes it's terribly hot in my attic room.  about a month ago, I eventually made up my mind to reorganize my room. as a result, now my study desk faces the window directly to allow sunlight; hence hopefully prevent me from laziness view from my window, yeah it's a sunny day when I first wrote this draft, that was my first impression on London's summer. but I must take it back as summer days are often not so different than any other days in London, be it winter, spring or fall. like today, it's now 13 degree Celsius - and don't ask me about rain or wind coz it happens almost every day. I just went back from uni.   one day, I came back from school and got on a bus. I sat with an African lady who talked on the phone since I got on, up until she got off - which took about 40 minute. but that's not an un

the time

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when girl meets boy, and nothing happens for every good (and bad) reason *sigh* and for that, I just want to sing this : Park Hyo Shin (again!) duet with Lyn,  singing a song that gets covered A LOT by Korean singers: Falling Slowly

confession of a (not-so) aca-fan #1

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okay, before I get to write my full detailed plan of my dissertation, I feel a huge urge to write a confession here. I think, now I become a full fledge Korean pop culture fan. So, this post will be the first of a series of confession of a (not-so) aca-fan  which will be updated (hopefully) regularly.  Full House Well, my first encounter with South Korean (hereafter Korean) pop culture was perhaps watching episodes of Full House  on one of Indonesian television broadcast station - if I remember correctly. I wasn't a fan of the actors and actresses at the first time I watched it, but later was drawn to watch more of Song Hye Gyo's work . What drew me first to Full House  was a desire to watch a fresh romantic comedy which saved me from boring Indonesian soap opera with many eyes-widening-kind-of-acting. Though its storyline was probably not the best when I come to think about it later (for instance: I cannot accept the fact that a best friend sold her friend's hous