My younger brother is head over heels in love with this girl.
Next thing I know, I'm busy searching anything IU to give him.
Haha... Well...
Solace
Have you watched the MV? Yes, I'm talking about the very MV of "Ice Cream" in which Leeteuk oppa act all lovey-dovey with Joo.
I go /(>.<)\ watching the MV. You know Leeteuk has always been my top bias.
Don't get me wrong. I don't hate Joo. She seems like a sweet girl. And the MV is just innocently cute. But that's exactly what makes me jealous. I adore innocently cute couple (remember YongSeo?). So it's hard to see my favorite oppa being one with another woman.
To bounce back from this broken heart, I wander around to find new love.
And ta da...! I've found a "Boyfriend".
Java & Korea part 2
Hi. It's been a while.
I'm here to deliver the long-awaited (?) post about the other similarities between Java & Korea.
3. Mas-Mbak & Hyung/Oppa-Noona/Unnie
I always find it adorable how Koreans address older people by such "titles". You know how cute they can be when they abuse those titles (with all that hyung/unnie-whoring keke).
Here in Java, we do that too (without the whoring part, sadly). Even when there's only 1-year gap (in my case, it's 5-minute gap), we still call older men "Mas" and older women "Mbak". Unlike in Korea, the speaker doesn't make any difference. So, basically, "Mas" equals "Hyung" and "Oppa", while "Mbak" equals "Noona" and "Unnie".
For some, "Mas" is almost as special as "Oppa" (heard that Korean men love being called "Oppa"). My mom calls my dad "Mas". Some of my friends, too, call their boyfriends "Mas". However, some people, especially in big cities, try to 'degrade' the term. They say, "Mas" is only for tukang bakso. Nooo!! Give me back the word "Mas". I'll cherish it the same way I do to "Oppa".
Java & Korea part 1
Javanese are an ethnic group native to the Indonesian island of Java. And I happen to be one of them.
As you must've known by now, I'm also into K-thing.
So I'm a bit surprised. The more I watch Korean shows, I find that I (as a Javanese) can relate to them quite well.
Java and Korea have lots of things in common.
1. Bow
Korean people bow a lot, don't they? Well, Javanese do that too. I never noticed it before -- maybe because it's already a habit. But one day, after swarming myself with Korean shows, I went to celebrate Xmas in my neighborhood. There, I saw people doing exactly the same as what I watched on screen earlier. My mom said hi to someone, and they bowed to each other.
Days later, I caught myself bowing to an elder at a bakery shop. She just greeted my mom, but I don't know her. I thought to myself, "Oh, I do that too." And then, here's the shocking part.. she bowed back at me. Wow! I didn't expect that.
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As you must've known by now, I'm also into K-thing.
So I'm a bit surprised. The more I watch Korean shows, I find that I (as a Javanese) can relate to them quite well.
Java and Korea have lots of things in common.
1. Bow
Korean people bow a lot, don't they? Well, Javanese do that too. I never noticed it before -- maybe because it's already a habit. But one day, after swarming myself with Korean shows, I went to celebrate Xmas in my neighborhood. There, I saw people doing exactly the same as what I watched on screen earlier. My mom said hi to someone, and they bowed to each other.
Days later, I caught myself bowing to an elder at a bakery shop. She just greeted my mom, but I don't know her. I thought to myself, "Oh, I do that too." And then, here's the shocking part.. she bowed back at me. Wow! I didn't expect that.
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