Okay.
I am bored. Not to tears, but very close to.
I am not sure what's causing this lack of motivation:
- I won't be here much longer cos I'm moving away
- I won't be here much longer cos I'm dispensible
- PMS
Scratch the last one. When I get PMS, I eat. I get unexplainable mood swings. I don't stop working.
Anyways, since I've been back from Seoul, I find that my motivation level here has reached an all-time low.
I don't really want to go to work anymore. Now, more than ever, do I not want to be here anymore.
I guess poeple would call this post-travel depression. But I think my lack of motivation can be more closely attributed to what I discovered last week.
Well, it isn't really a discovery per se. I saw it coming.
But anyways...
One more hour before I get outta here.
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Okay, so that was yesterday. I didn't have the motivation to complete the post.
Today, time is still dragging, but nothing like SuJu to pick me up from the doldrums!
It's still a long way to go till February, but we're so excited already!
Super Show 4 Singapore!!
Haha, it's gonna be a par-taaaay!
But first, SS4 Japan this weekend and SS4 Taiwan first.
One thing I'm not so excited about - they're probably gonna perform their new Japanese single, Snow White at SS4 Japan! No first dibs for me!
Here's the audio anyway:
It's nothing fantastic - no production breakthrough, no special effects, just a really pretty melody.
It's one of those songs that set girls' hearts a-flutter. Which is all well and good, since that's what nine good-looking boys are meant to do. Haha.
I need to get those Japanese lyrics translated! Grr.
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In other news, I got a teeny bit of bad news this morning. It is not devastating, and it doesn't change anything, but I guess whenever you're told you didn't succeed in something, a tiny bit of you is bound to feel sad.
Oh wells, no matter!
Like I said, it's not a loss, and nothing has or will change because of it!
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And then, in the late afternoon of the day, my eye zooms on this anti-kpop article published in The Straits Times.
The writer is trending on Twitter (Singapore) as I am typing this.
I think it is a well-written piece, and her vocabulary is wide, but a tad presumptuous.
She got her facts right too - the slave contracts and the crazy fans. FYI, I refuse to fanchant and I don't keep beat to a song with a lightstick. I sing along, dance, sway, just like I would at any other concert. I am willing to spoil a fan project - and I've done it before.
Sidetrack: A fan project is a, well, project, that has been planned by the fans merticulously so that at a certain point in time in a song, everyone in the audience seated in a certain area does something to exhibit something to the performers. For example, the fan project I spoilt - those seated in my area at SS3 SG were asked to hold up a sign that read, "Happy birthday, Kyuhyun!" when he was singing his solo. The effect would be to move him to tears. I refused, so guess there was a hole in the formation.
Back to the meat: But I think the writer needs to look deeper into her subject matter - there is a lot more that we can learn from the Korean music industry than pure fabrication. Marketing strategies, training methods, artiste management, production techniques, etc. And might I add, that fabrication alone, would save the music markets of the rest of the world.
See what Lee Soo Man would say about fabrication, excuse me, I mean, Culture Technology
But even more important than me ranting about this article is the thought, "Straits Times got nothing else to print is it?!"
It is a good opinion piece, but it belongs in a blog. Unless ST wants to turn itself from news source into blog, I say that the editors at ST are seriously lacking editorial foresight. Take a cue (clue?) from NYT, please.
Anyways, that's enough rant for the day. I've still got dinner to go to later. Need to save my energy.
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