System Corrupt.

I want to post more things here since I've wrote a LOT. However, sadly, the computer that I usually used had corrupt. Awwww, how sad is that? LOL.
And of course I have a copy of some of the essays in my thumb drive. But, sadly, yes, this time it's very sad, the file that I saved isn't compatible to open in any other Microsoft Words except the 2007 version. And I'm extremely upset. Aren't you?
Okay, done.

The Pink Bunny

The Pink Bunny

            She stared at the stuffed animal with her eyes widened. It’s a bunny. But it’s in pink. MinMin is a girl but pink is the only colour that she hates. It’s like she got some kind of allergy to that colour. There isn’t any of her clothes in the wardrobe that is pink.

            She focuses her gaze on that plushie that she could bore two holes on it with her eyes. The bunny is a present gave to her from her uncle. She got it that evening. It is almost as big as she is and it is cute. She doesn’t like the bunny but it’s not that she hates it. Even if she hates it, she can’t do anything because the pink stuffed toy is now in her room, on her bed. She let out a sigh.

            It has been half an hour since she started staring at the bunny. If only the bunny can talk, it would have scolded her for staring to it like that. She examined it like what a mother-in-law would do to her future-daughter-in-law.

            She touched the ears. Well, there are two of them, pink in colour, but the inner ear is in white and they’re also long. The ears are soft and the fur is silky. She likes the feeling of touching it.

            MinMin then sets her fox-like eyes on the bunny’s face. It is also in pink. The bunny got a pair of shining brown orbs. A small black nose is perfectly placed in between its eyes and mouth. The mouth is smiling to MinMin. Unconsciously, the corner s of her heart-shaped lips rises. The touched those chubby squooshy looking cheeks of the bunny and she liked it.

            The bunny got a white pink section on its belly. It’s soft and puffy. She held the bunny’s hands. They are fleecy and flocculent. She then moved to its feet. Although they’re in pink, they’re fury and fluffy. She suddenly feels like hugging it.

            She takes the plush toy and hugs it. She likes it. MinMin then cuddles, snuggles, and nestle the pink toy that she doesn’t like an hour ago.

            MinMin likes the stuffed toy now. No, actually, she loves it now and she’s very thankful to her uncle for giving her that plushie. She actually thinks that pink isn’t as bad as she thought. That night, MinMin gets a new friend and also a new favorite colour.

t/n : this was written in 2010.

The Curse of 13

The Curse of 13

            Thirteen is the natural number after number 12 and it comes before 14. Friday the 13^th is considered as an unlucky day. The Friday 13^th superstition started in the 19^th century. Since then, the fear on number 13 started.

            Number 13 was then considered as a very unlucky number, which is the number of bad luck. I personally don’t think that way as I am a Muslim. There’s no such thing in our religion.

            In 2005, an entertainment company was brave enough to break the curse and make a group called Super Junior made their debut with 13 members, the number that people want to avoid the most.

            Opposite from the said-so curse, Super Junior is a triumphant group. The 13 multi-talented boys are able to expand their career all over Asia and even recognized worldwide.

            However, by releasing the 13-memberred group, the company was skating on thin ice. Things don’t always go exactly like we want. Despite their success, the group had encountered numerous difficulties and restrictions. Some of the members were involved in two accidents after their debut. In one of the accidents, the thirteenth member, who’s also the youngest in the group, faced a situation between life and death in 2007.

            The boy, Cho Kyuhyun who had just finished his high school as one of the best students in his school at that time could not even breathe with his own lungs. To stay alive, he must undergo the tracheal operation to take out the broken ribs that pierced his lungs. To everyone surprise, his father, the one that never agrees on him becoming a singer was against the operation. He knew that his son’s dream is to sing and if his one and only ability to fulfill his dream is gone, he had better been dead than living a meaningless life. The doctors figured out another way to save him while anti fans wanted him to be dead. With 80% of risks to be dead, Kyuhyun managed to break the curse of 13. The thirteenth member survived.

            The curse of 13 continued to hunt them when a problem occurs. One of the dancing machines in the group, Han Geng, the Chinese member of Super Junior, made a decision to back off from the group and go solo. The Chinese man was once facing a hard time because of performance restriction, as in Korea, only the nation’s citizen was allowed to perform on stage at that time. Not wanting to damage the group’s image, he decided to suffer and went on stage wearing a mask. The restriction was then lifted in 2008.

            Han Geng filed a lawsuit towards the company, SM Entertainment in 2009. It was said that SMe violated the human rights, not only to him but also the rest of the artists that worked under the company. The result is not yet revealed to the public. Although Han Geng had released a solo album, ‘Geng Xin’ without signing a contract with any other companies, he is still considered as a member of Super Junior but in an inactive member status.

            Although the storm was away, the day is still raining. Hoping that the rainbow will come out, the members and the fans were disappointed with the fact that another storm hit them again. Kangin was immersed in his anger and created a controversial situation. He was banned to go on stage for a year and cannot continue his activity as a Super Junior member and an entertainer. Just like that, another ‘inactive member’ status was turned on. It seems like the curse of 13 really do exist.

            The 13 boys also encountered an ample amount of challenges and all sorts of difficulties along their journey. Anti fans continued to bring them down. The curse of 13 maybe does really exist. However, they managed to face the curse with their strong brotherly bond.

            I have no any intentions to believe that 13 is an unlucky, cursed number nor trying to make you believe that. Super Junior’s accomplishment makes me think that they were all wrong and maybe 13 is not an unlucky number at all.

t/n : this was written in 2010.
p/s : Hangeng has won the lawsuit against SM which also means that the 'Super Junior member' status isn't his anymore and he is now an entertainer in China. He sings and also acts.Kangin is now in the army, trying to fix himself to be a better person.He will return in 2012. Some other Super Junior members are planning to enlist in the army to fulfil their duties towards the country. I wish the best for all of them.

The boy Named Ji Hoon

The boy Named Ji Hoon.

            A teenage boy, Ji Hoon used to question himself, why is he facing the kind of situation where his family had to starve, why is everything hard for him, why did the world turned its back to him. Numerous numbers of questions popped out on his head every day.

            His mom was sick, his father was facing bankruptcy, and all that he could do is just watching. As a teenage boy who can do nothing, he was determined to change the fate of his family; he wanted to help his parents and protect his little sister. Situation got worse and the helpless young boy tried everything he could do to help his family and to save his dying mother. He even worked at the construction site at such a young age. As a high schooler, he was not able to focus on his study.

            A ray of light seemed to lighten his way on 1998 when he was accepted as a member of a 6-membered boy band named FanClub. The light gets dimmer as the group didn’t get much response from the netizens as well as the people of South Korea. At that time, Koreans weren’t quite ready to accept the image of young cute teenagers singing and dancing on stage. The ray of light was completely vanished in the thin air when the group was then disbanded after releasing 2 full albums.

            However, young Ji Hoon still believed that his future is there. He continued working hard and set his goal to be a successful solo artist. He failed an ample amount of auditions before he finally met Jin Young Park, a triumphant singer, producer as well as the founder of JYPe Company. Ji Hoon knew that this would be a colossal turning point of his life. He was persistent to give all he can. Park turned the music on and asked him to dance. Ji Hoon danced his heart off until the music stopped and that was about four hours non-stop. After the tiring dance, they asked him to go home. He thought that he wouldn’t make it just like the other auditions. They always told him that he’s good but he didn’t pass all of the auditions due to his mono-eyelids and his typical-Asian-Korean look.

            A month passed without any news from JYPe. With his mother’s condition getting worse every day, Ji Hoon thought of giving up. Without proper medication, his mother lost the battle with her severe diabetes. At that time, he just gave up and decided to be a useless person. He was totally losing hope. He turned the house upside down with no one that could stop him. Not even his sister and his father. In his rampage, to his surprise, he found an account book along with a short hand-written note from his late mother under the bed. The quite amount of money is the money that his mother saved for him and his little sister for their future. She could just use the money to buy medicine for herself. Instead, she saved the money for her children. He will never ever forget his mother’s will for him to take care of his little sister. He promised to himself to change their lives and be someone that his mother will be proud of.

            In the same year, he was recruited as a trainee of JYPe Company. During his early trainee days, he was a backup dancer of other JYPe artists.  He was then trained separately from other trainees. After 2 years of suffering, facing some random challenges from Park Jin Young as well as his other seniors, not to mention, a quite amount of resistance, Jung Ji Hoon, finally was standing on his own feet on his very first solo stage with the title track of his first album, Bad Guy. He was there as Rain. A question was asked to JYP, ‘Why Rain?’, and he simply answered, ‘His small melancholic eyes shaped like rain drops and from now on, every time it is raining, people will remember him’.

            To his disappointment, 2002 was not a good year for a new artist to make a debut. Instead of focusing on new faces in the K-pop industry, people were more interested in the Football World Cup game. Early that year, they chose to cheer the football stars name rather than cheering on the new singers. The senior singers once again tried to bring his hopes down by telling him to forget his dream.

            Not wanting to give up, Ji Hoon once again went up the stage to promote his follow up track from the same album after the football fever is gone. Throwing aside the ‘Bad Guy’ image, he came with a fresh cute boy-ish image for ‘Instead of saying goodbye’, performing on stage with the big boxing gloves. Despite the weird concept of the song; sad lyrics with cheerful beat, he totally stole the heart of Koreans. He managed to prove it by being able to top the K-Chart within 2 weeks of promotion. By the end of the year, he swept all the newcomer awards from music programs in all TV stations in South Korea. His popularity raised up after a 20 seconds appearance with a weird but cool dance on a variety show called ‘Love Letter’.

            Due to the quite late success, he then released a second album entitled ‘How to avoid the Sun’ and started to promote the title track, ‘Ways to avoid the Sun’ in 2003. He came with a new suave image with his unique sunglasses dance. Before the album, he made his debut as an actor in a drama, ‘SangDoo, let’s go to school’ as a leading role. The drama rating was quite good.

            Ji Hoon continued his acting career in 2004. He starred in a popular drama called ‘Full House’. The drama was a big success that its copyright was sold to various countries including Malaysia. His performance in the drama won him The Best Actor Award in 2004. Just like the role he played in the drama, which is Lee Young-Jae, a big Asian star, his worldwide popularity kept rising. As his growing numbers of fans didn’t get enough of him in the drama, the release of his third album in 2004 was sold over a million copies in Asia. ‘It’s Raining’, the third album topped the chart in Japan, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia and of course his own country. The once helpless young boy had now taken all over the Asia.

            Seeing the king size response from the fans, the company decided to launch this boy’s first ever world tour in 2005. The ‘Rainy Day 2005 Global Tour’ was a major success as a record of 150,000 seats sold in 8 cities and the ‘sold-out’ sign was out after only 30 seconds going on sale.

            Rain’s ‘Clouds’ keep growing as he released his fourth album, ‘Rain’s World’ in 2006. In the same year, he acted in his first film, ‘I’m a Cyborg, but that’s okay’, a cute comedic film. The film was awarded the Alfred Bauer Award at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival.

            Another tour was launched in December 2006. The ‘Rain’s Coming’ global tour, as expected was also a big hit. The K-pop wave, to be exact, the ‘Rain’ wave had totally invaded the whole Asia. The tickets sales were expected to be over US$100 million. He made his debut in Japan in the same year, releasing another album, ‘Eternal Rain’. He was the first Korean ever to perform at the Tokyo Dome, the largest auditorium in Japan.

            2006 was indeed a lucky year for Jung Ji Hoon when he was mentioned in the Time Magazine in an article that named ‘100 Most Influential People Who Shape Our World’.

            The next year, he made it into ‘People's’ 2007 list of the "Most Beautiful People in the world”. Rain also topped the Time Magazine’s online poll by earning almost half a million votes from people all over the world and sent Stephen Colbert to the second place on the list.

            After earning so much honor and success, Ji Hoon made a decision to leave his ‘nest’, the JYPe. He flew away, found himself a comfortable place, and built a new ‘nest’ on his own. Park Jin Young, the man who raised his hands and bring Ji Hoon up, reluctantly accepted this situation and responded by saying, “..Instead of considering him as my younger brother, now I can only see him as another singer..”

            In his own company, JTune Entertainment, he managed to stand on his own and released his fifth Korean album entitled ‘Rainism’ other than releasing a new boy band named MblaQ. The ballad title track of his album, ‘Love Story’ was loved by his fans and even more loved is the single that he released right after that, ‘Rainism’. In Rainism, he was back to the ‘bad boy’ image but with a softer heart inside. In 2008, he also acted in his first Hollywood film, the Wachowski Brothers-directed, Speed Racer. With his not-so-good English, he can only smile and said “I’m so excited” every time the reporters asked how he feel.

            He got the leading role in his second Hollywood film, Ninja Assassin. Although the film was released in 2009, it took them almost a year to complete the preparation for the film. Rain undergo a hard hell-like training every day for 8 months only to get him the perfect body shape for portraying a real ninja. All his hard work was paid off when he the Biggest Badass Award at the 2010 MTV Movie Awards.

            In December 2009, he launched the first JTune Entertainment tour, ‘Legend of Rainism’ in Las Vegas, Nevada. The tour continued to several cities worldwide.

            Earlier this year, Rain released a special mini-album with the title, ‘Back to The Basic’. One of the tracks in the album, ‘Hip Song’ was listed in the Original Sound Track of the latest Jackie Chan’s movie, Karate Kid.

            From his debut in 2002 until now, Rain had starred in numerous numbers of Commercial Film. He also did the Pepsi Commercial along with Cristina Aguilera that is usually starred by only top stars such as Super Junior and 2AM.

            Jung Ji Hoon worked so hard to achieve what he get right now. He sticks to his motto, “Endless modest, endless endurance, endless effort”. When he’s asked why did he worked so hard, that he’s still in his twenties, he said that a person must do the best that he can in his live.

            The once helpless boy named Ji Hoon who hated how the world turned its back to him, is now Rain, the person that got the whole world under his spreaded wings.

            Rain Bi inspired me a lot. I wish if only I could get a little drop of his endurance, effort and spirit. Even with all the achievements, Rain is the Jung Ji Hoon that still unafraid to cry in front of the cameras, keep making silly jokes, brag at the right place and be humble where he should and most importantly, he still keeps his promise to his mother.

t/n : this was written in 2010.
p/s : Rain has now came back to his 'father'. the JYPe and his company, JTune Entertainment is now emerged with JYPe and JYP himself was elected as the CEO. Rain was not allowed to be involved in MblaQ's activities or promotions and planning anymore. Poor Rain. xD

p/p/s : btw, just wanna show that this baby boy never changed his face. xD

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Full House

Full House

Full House is a drama produced in 2004. A quite old drama but it never gets old for me. This graphic-novel adapted drama is one of my first Korean dramas. The main reason I watched this is of course the main actor, Rain.

Han Ji-Eun is a naive writer who got swindled by her childhood friends. Her one and only wealth, the Full House was sold by her friends to an actor named Lee Young-Jae who is somehow got a problem related to her in some circumstance. To get her house back, she finds herself tied in a contract marriage with Lee Young-Jae, the current owner of Full House.

Lee Young-Jae, a famous Asian star is someone who never thinks before doing something and always ends up regretting his decisions. He’s a childish and selfish young man. However, he’s a person who I think have some kind of bipolar disorder since he always portrays a good husband image despite his character’s personality and the contract marriage. This young man is actually in love with his friend from his childhood days but could never get a hold of her since her heart is for someone else.

As Ji-Eun and Young-Jae live together, they begin to develop feelings for each other and started to rely on each of them. He loves to tease her and call her names. Sometimes it’s rude but most of the time I think it’s cute especially when he calls her ‘kko kko’. However, that girl named Kang Hye-Won who initially doesn’t accept Young-Jae’s heart, changed her mind after seeing Young-Jae’s marriage. Seriously, how can a person be very low-minded and cruel? The childish Young-Jae’s heart then starts to waver and soon starting to abandon his so-called wife. Everytime he’s trying to make Ji-Eun happy, Hye-Won is always there to ruin the mood. After his whole mood has become down, he’ll go home and that adorable Ji-Eun will cheer him up again. And believe me, it happens again and again. And yet he’s still blinded by his ‘first love’. Pft! First love, my foot!

Ji-Eun and Young-Jae’s married life is one of the most adorable things I’ve seen. They’ll have fun together then they’ll fight. After that she’ll go to her friend’s house. Then, somehow there’ll be something that’ll bring them back together and Young-Jae will end up picking her from somewhere with his sports car and take her home to Full House. It’s like some kind of cycle all along the drama. 

Toward the end, the drama gets very dramatic, some kind of love-war between the characters starts to become intense, and it’s no fun at all. Usually I’ll skip that part. And yes, I said ‘usually’ because I’ve seen this drama for like hundreds of time that I even know what dialogue will come out next but I never gets tired of it. Cool huh?

However, the drama quickly recovers when the very end episodes are all very sweet, cutesy, adorable, and marshmallow-like story. Young-Jae begins to realise that the person he actually loves is Han Ji-Eun but too bad for him; Ji-Eun already sets her eyes on another guy. Well, a real man got to fight until the end right? He makes plans to get Ji-Eun back. And seeing that selfish man trying so hard really makes me giggle and sometimes sends butterflies in my tummy. Young-Jae owns almost everything in his life. He can do 99% things by himself and that 1% can only be completed by Ji-Eun. At last, of course the hero will win right? Young-Jae finally got his Ji-Eun back and they lived happily ever after. Well, maybe not but let’s just pretend that they do. 

The scene that I love the most is the day after he confessed his true feeling towards his wife. He was okay along the night but the next day, he becomes very shy and embarrassed. The part where he covered his face with a blanket and smiled adorably really made me screamed my lungs out. Why? Like duh! A person with that kind of body build, that kind of charismatic personality and a little bit of princely disease acting all cute like that, he could even kill all the fan-girls all over the world with that kind of smile.

Full House is listed as the must-see drama and I agree 100% with that. This romantic comedy drama has give a lot of laughter to my life and it also tops my most favourite drama list.