SHINee's Taemin

Okay. I'm currently in a trance. Lee Taemin of SHINee is just so.. I don't know.

First, I'm not really a SHINee fan, but while I was at the Korean Cultural Center, they have this big LCD screen on the wall with SHINee's Lucifer Music Video playing. I was like, "WHO IS THIS HOT GUY WITH LONG BLOND HAIR?" He dances really oh-my-gosh-ish and his voice is like DOPE!! I hate to say this but I think I'm fan girl-ing over him. And he is like what- 18? HOORAY. Finally, someone awesome near my age. *Insert hysterical laugh here*

Second, he looks like Kamiki Ryunosuke, except that I think he is taller than Kamiki, and MORE TALENTED. <3

So, I guess I'm gonna have to say good bye for now to Devon Bostick, until the Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3 comes out. Lee Taemin, you are love. 사랑해대민!

Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder

A lot of you may have heard of this disorder, and there is also a possibility that you haven't. The name of the disorder is pretty much self-explanatory: people who have this disorder is hyperactive and impulsive, and most of the time, smart. It takes a lot of effort to deal with people with ADHD, because they are unique and special. I was going to say weird, but no, I realized they are not weird. They are not abnormal. They are what I call people with ADHD. It's just another classification of human beings for me. And having no ADHD doesn't mean you are normal. It's that you are a few percent more stupid than people who have them.

I have a 9-year-old cousin who has this disorder, and his tantrums on a daily basis is getting on my nerves once in a while. But I realized I should know better. I came up with the idea of dancing silly in front of him, which actually works. It immediately changes his mood from whining to laughing hysterically. Sometimes, it fails, since he would realize that he looked stupid by laughing while tearing up, and he would shout at me saying, "I HATE YOU! What if someone else sees me laughing while crying?! They'll think I'm crazy!" I love the fact that he cares about what people would think. On the contrary, he shouldn't be shouting that loud if he really did. But most of the time, my plan pulls off.

Yesterday, my aunt, the mother of my cousin who has ADHD, got home from work and told us about what happened to her in the Jeepney on her way home. She said she was almost victimized by the las-las gang. Las-las gang is basically a group of thieves who have the same lame and stupid strategy of stealing your things. They would sit beside you in the jeep, and start slashing on the hems of your bag that will let them able to get your things. My aunt was nearly victimized, thanks to the passengers of the jeep who were mostly men. They were aware of the blade that the culprit held.

So there, that was my aunt's story yesterday. The good thing was that her things weren't stolen, and the downside was that we shouldn't have told it to my cousin. It got on his nerves, he raged, shouted, whined, screamed, went upstairs, shouted some more, went back downstairs, shouted some more, and went back upstairs, and shouted some more. I was going crazy. Even if I was in the bathroom taking a shower, I could hear him curse those frustrated thieves. I was thinking he freaked out like that because it's either he didn't want anyone touching his mother, or he hate criminals. Perhaps both.

When I was done taking a shower, I wasn't surprised at all. My cousin was all calmed down, and there he was, watching Kung Fu Panda and inviting me to watch it with him. That was one of the good things about people with ADHD. They immediately forget they were in a bad mood.

I was wondering if I also have ADHD, or I am just a crazy freak trying to look like I have it because of Percy Jackson. I assume I don't have it. Because if I did, I would have shouted at my cousin when he shouted at me in the first place.

First Lady of the Republic of Korea Kim Yoon-ok Meet and Greet

So I met with the South Korean First Lady the other day and I was so spazzed! It was such an honor to perform for the first lady and I'm really glad she liked my performance.

"The girl who sang a while ago has a very soft and beautiful voice. I hope to see her perform again when I come back here in the Philippines."

That's what the translator said.

There was a meet and greet at the first part of event, where we were able to ask the first lady a few questions we had in mind. (I asked her if she knew any Filipino words, and she said she wasn't prepared. Haha.) Well, all of the other people who were invited in the event could definitely speak in Korean. I was a little bit out of place when they started talking to the First Lady in Korean, so I just laughed and clapped. Talk about awkwardness.

The second part of the event was the mini concert, where I performed first, and I was followed by the Off Crew Limits from Bulacan. Those guys were so dope.

Then, to end the event, we had a picture taking, one formal and one candid. The First Lady was so cool that she did a candid pose! Plus, she said she wanted us to be comfortable around her. She clearly didn't want awkwardness hanging around.

The odd part of the event was we weren't allowed to take pictures with her using our own cameras. So I haven't had any. But, fortunately, someone was able to take a photo when the performers, basically me and the Off Limits Crew, were asked to take a picture with the first lady. How lucky are we?

So there. That day was really spazzing, seriously.

KPOP World Festival 2011 @ Korea.net

The website is officially up!

You can view the website here: KPOP World Festival 2011

As you click the link above, it will direct you to a website, and make sure you check out the Cheer Messages page by clicking on the second option on the home page of the website!

This is the Cheer Messages page where you can cheer for you favorite Team!

And CHECK. THIS. OUT.

PHILIPPINES IS LEADING! FTW!

Here are all the teams from all countries by the way.

And this one is my profile. You can view this on the website by clicking on the thumbnail below the "Philippines."

Alright. Notice my age just beside my name? It says I'm 18. Great. I'm an official adult in South Korea! And oh, my name is not Yumi. I remember that one of the commentators missed my name and thought my name's Yumi. Yumi is the singer of the song I sang, by the way. But oh, never mind.

I would like to thank all the people who left a cheer message for Team Philippines. Thank you so much guys. The online voting starts on November 21 and please, for goodness' sakes, please participate and vote for team Philippines! By voting, you'll get a chance to win amazing prizes!

That is all, folks. Much love from me. <3

Hex RPG: An Interactive Harry Potter RPG

I've been a member on this site for a couple of days now, but I just started to stroll around the website today. I was sorted into Ravenclaw. Their process of sorting a student to their houses is not like any other Sorting Hat Quiz or whatever. You get to ACTUALLY TYPE IN your profile, or bio, or anything you'd like to say about you (or your character in mind). I sent them Kylee Reyes's (my camp half-blood Athena character) whose personality is almost the same as mine. I get lazy to even write my own personality stuff sometimes.

Anyway, here's a screen shot of the site if you are too lazy to even check the actual website.

Notice how dark the site is? This is the home page by the way.

The downside of the website is it's too dark, it hurts my eyes. Unlike the camp half-blood RPG, where the theme is GREEN, which is very friendly to the eyes.

Here is my Profile. I was classified as a muggle born. I don't even know why.

Another thing I like about this website is, among all other Harry Potter RPG I've been to, this has a classroom where you get to register to up 13 classes. But before you can start the lesson, you have to buy the listed requirements for each specific subjects first. It was fun, because you have to look for them in the Diagon Alley like an ordinary wizard does.

I have completed all of my home works and a few of them were already graded by my lovely professors. Check it out.

It's like an actual Hogwarts, except that it's online. eHogwarts, perharps?

If you're interested in the website, just go to http://www.hexrpg.com.

Logan Lerman and Alexandra Daddario

Last night, I had one of the most awesome dreams in my entire life.

I was in some airport (it was an airport I've never been into before, but it's somewhat similar to Frankfurt Airport), and I was traveling alone and I was carrying a blue luggage with me. I can't remember every detail of it, but all I can recall is I'm a bit lost, and I happen to bump into Logan Lerman and Alexandra Daddario. Logan was awesome, and Alexandra was so pretty. It felt so REAL, but I thought, no, it's so GOOD to be REAL. I mean, you can't just bump into two of your favorite actors at once. So there, I bumped into them and we, like, talked for a while, chatted and stuff. At first, in my dream, I didn't recognize them in the first few minutes of chatting. But then I realized, this guy looks like Percy Jackson, and this girl looks like Annabeth Chase. Wait a minute.. WHAT?

For a minute, I was lost again. I lost track of Logan and Alexandra too, and I regretted that I didn't take a picture with them. REGRETS. I was almost waking up, but someone poked me from the back. I looked. It was LOGAN! SERIOUSLY. By that time, I was already aware that I'm dreaming. But I hoped that if we took a photo in the dream, maybe if I woke up, the hard copy will be under my pillow. It was a crazy idea, but I really hoped.

When I woke up, I literally checked if the photo was under my pillow. It broke my heart when it wasn't. Like really, I was already planning to upload it on Facebook or something. I mean, we took a bunch of photos, most of them were candid. It was, indeed, one of the craziest and awesomest dreams I had in my life.

I got accepted in the Athena Cabin!

YAY FOR ME!

It's been, what, two days since I applied for a character for the Athena cabin. And now, I can proudly say that I got in at last! I feel so lucky, since they won't be accepting any applications when the Athena cabin reaches 8 campers. I'm the 8th camper! How cool is that. The admin just accepted my app today (or last night while I was sleeping) and I made my very own signature already. I have every right to make one, since I'm already claimed. HOORAY.

So as you can see, Kylee Reyes, my character, is played by Maple Batalia. Ever since I first watched the Diary of a Wimpy Kid, this girl caught my attention. She's a pretty, petite girl and a good actress too. But it's a sad thought that she already passed away, shot by a jealous ex-boyfriend in the parking lot of her University. So in her memory, I'm using her as the role player in the Camp-Half Blood RPG and she totally fits for a daughter of Athena! She didn't inherit Athena's blue eyes, though.

Plus, today, I posted my very first thread and I'm looking forward to a very hardcore RPing for the next few weeks!

Athena: The Goddess of Wisdom

This morning, I've been lurking around the Camp Half-Blood RPG on ProBoards and I wondered, Which of the Olympians is my parent? So I took a whole lot of Quizzes online to see if I was a daughter of which Olympian. The result? Athena.

I took like more than 20 quizzes and I guess I got Athena for at least 18 times. The other two were Hephaestus and Apollo. But the rest, I got Athena. I answered the questions HONESTLY, and I guess I am really a daughter of Athena, or should I say, my mother in Saudi Arabia is pretending to be a mortal. She's Athena. Haha. No wonder she's good at strategies and always gives me good advices. ;)

So yea, if you ever wonder who Athena is, keep on reading.

I was researching about Athena and her birth story and I found this on Palothea.com.

"Athena was the daughter of Zeus and Metis. But there was a problem, Zeus checked up on Metis and found out that if he had a son by her this son would be mightier than him (you know, the same way he was greater than his daddy and his daddy was greater than his grandpa). So he tricked Metis and ended up swallowing her when she turned into a fly and figured she was no longer a threat. However, Metis was pregnant with Athena and when Athena was born, this turned into quite a problem. Soon Zeus was plagued with killer headaches and he ran to Hephaestus (Smith God) and begged him to open his head. Hephaestus did as he was told, and out popped Athena, full grown and ready for battle!"

I find the story really interesting. Athena was born from Zeus head! Awesome. Zeus is my grandfather, which is my lolo either the one in heaven, or the one here with me. They are both my Zeus.

Camp Half-Blood RPG

I was looking for an RPG of Camp Half-Blood, since I want my mother, Athena, to claim me already. Haha.

So I found this website, or forum site, that is accepting applications for Demigods, like me. Here's the awesome website:

http://www.demigodrp.proboards.com

I've been in a lot of RPG, but nothing like this. I know I'll do a good job since it includes writing. And writing is practicing. It's a good practice for me. And check out my application here. It's interesting since we had to make our OWN story about our character. It's awesome because it's demigod stuffs, and writing. Did I mention I love writing?

I can't wait to get claimed, Gods. And be sure to check the RPG out! Or I'll send you to Tartarus.

My newest blog!

So I made I new blog here on Blogspot! It's a Tagalog blog that will be containing a lot of rants and complains by yours truly. I thought I could make one since I like to keep this blog light and happy without anything negative. That other blog will be full of negative things I have in mind that I'd like to share with you. It's not so harsh, but it will talk about a lot of things I hate. It's not a hate blog though. Well, basically it is. A hate blog for THINGS, not certain people. :)

Check it out here!

I called it, Problemadong Tunay, which is like, "real full of problems" in English, sort of.

PLUS, I edited this blog! YAY. Finally, a new template after a long time.

Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Last Olympian

This is my own copy of The Last Olympian. My mother bought it from Jarir Bookstore. It's a hard bound copy and the first page of it is somewhat like a symbol of Olympus. It's awesome.

Yesterday, I locked myself in my room all day and did nothing but read The Last Olympian. Now, I can say that this final book of the series is the most intense and most thrilling of all. I don't remember a chapter where there's no battle happening. Maybe the first few chapters are a bit peaceful, but it always ended up with a conflict and I guess that's what made the story so awesome.

The romantic parts of the story are also a bonus. As I was reading halfway through the book, I was wondering whether Percy will end up with Rachel Dare or Annabeth Chase. I tried to look at the series in general, and I ended up thinking he'd date Annabeth in the end. But there was also something with Rachel Dare that made me think she and Percy would end up together.

These are my copies of the Percy Jackson books. If you're wondering why I don't have the 2nd installment, I left it in Jeddah. But no worries, I'll get it back in a month.

Percy Jackson is also a sarcastic hero. When he gets in trouble, it makes his day great. He's also more like Greg Heffley from the Diary of a Wimpy Kid. When a hero in a prophecy dies, he always thinks that HE is the one mentioned. I don't know exactly what is wrong with him but I think he likes the thought of dying heroic. On the other hand, he's a smart hero. He always has a plan and strategy in hand and it works, of course, with the help of his friends Grover, Annabeth and his brother, Tyson. Plus, he's also one powerful half-blood and I'm not surprised, he's the son of Poseidon, one of the Big Three.

Overall, I love the series! If you love Harry Potter, you'll love Percy Jackson as much. I recommend this series to everyone who knows how to read. So go to your nearest book store and grab your copy now, if you haven't. A salute to Rick Riordan, author of the series. If J.K. Rowling is the Queen, then you are my King.