The Amazing Yeoja

If you hear the term 'amazing yeoja', it refers to Ha Ji Won. It came from her popular drama, Secret Garden. Kim Joo Won (Hyun Bin), who's crazy about Gil Ra Im (Ha Ji Won), brought her flowers and said, "How did you get me to bring flowers? You amazing woman (이 아~메이징한 여자야)." Again, he called her 'amazing woman' when he proposed to her.
In an interview with Star Today, Ha Ji Won confessed that she loves that nickname -- a name she often hears lately from her Japanese fans. So yeah, her fans worldwide start calling her the same.

In my opinion, Ha Ji Won deserves that nickname. Why?

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Dongdaemun Bracelet

We all know, Yonghwa loves gogumas (as in YongSeo shippers). Oh, you don't know that? You haven't seen him lately? He keeps showing off gogumas' gifts! Well, to mention SOME of them:

Bracelets from Taiwanese gogumas

(The Bottega Veneta bracelet is worth $860? Rich gogumas are rich.)

 

Guitar strap

Towel from Taiwanese goguma

And... My favorite...

The t-shirt, the guitar strap, and the bracelet that Yonghwa used in "Still in Love" MV.

They're all from gogumas! Seriously Yong, did you have to wear all those things? I mean, Jonghyun didn't even wear guitar strap. Maybe because, you know, you guys were sitting the whole time. Not that I'm complaining. Kekeke..

Everyone is spazzing over goguma gifts that Yonghwa wears. But actually, there is one more thing even more spazz-worthy. That is the Dongdaemun bracelet.

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Eye Smile Couple

Look at those eye smiles! So similar!

People might have expected me to write about this couple. I've spazzed a lot on Twitter, but I decided to wait until the last episode before posting it on the blog.

Yes, folks. Pairing is my weakness. I ship couples easily. Uhm, well, not really. There are more couples I'm indifferent to than the ones I love. What I mean is, I enjoy shipping couple. I get attached to couple fandoms more than any other fandoms. Of course, the ultimate OTP is YongSeo, but some other pairings manage to hold a special place in my heart.

Lately, I'm head over heels about eye-smile couple: 2PM's Junho & Kim So Eun. Ah, they remind me a lot of YongSeo (with less awkwardness, that is). How they're fated to meet each other, how they create a song together, and some other things they do.

Junho & So Eun are the 2nd couple on Korean show "Music & Lyrics". The show assigned a musician & an actress to write a song together. The musician as the composer, and the actress as the lyricist. They only have 30 days to finish the song. The first couple on the show is Yoon Gun and Park Shin Hye. I only watched their first episode. Then, a fellow goguma recommended the first episode of eye-smile couple. So I watched it. At first, I didn't expect much, because honestly, I wasn't a fan of both 2PM and Kim So Eun. But dang! I giggle like crazy since the moment they met.

So Eun is the type of girl that girls like. And I think she's really easy to talk to. She is lovable! And Junho... Oh maaan, he's a true gentleman! He's cool too. He seems like he knows how to control his emotion, unlike Mr. Obvious Yonghwa keke..

I think I'll post some of my favorite scenes and comment on it.

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Haunted

Hari ini di gereja...
Romo: "Para ketua lingkungan harap segera mengumpulkan data sensus karena akan diserahkan pada keuskupan, kemudian dikirimkan ke tahta suci. Data ini akan digunakan Vatikan untuk mengeluarkan statistik umat Katolik sedunia."

Hal pertama yang terlintas di kepala saya: "Wah, pasti ngolahnya pake SPSS."

OMG, I've been haunted by statistics... >w<
I've never been so interested in numbers. Well, I AM STIILL NOT.
Tapi salah satu syarat kelulusan di kampus telah menjerumuskan saya ke lembah statistika.

So, there I was, looking for a nice way to study statistics
and I found this alluring books...

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Mirip = Jodoh?

It is a common belief that a couple who look alike are soulmates. But, wait a sec, I found a different explanation about this in Aronson's book.

You see, people tend to like someone who has something in common with themselves. That's why primordialism, racism, and any form of in-group favoritism are still relevant topics even until now. Apparently, when it comes to physical appeareance, this favoritism is also likely to happen.

You ask what's the evidence?
A study had been conducted in order to check this phenomenon. A group of people were asked to choose pictures in which there were faces of persons from the opposite sex. They were told to pick out the faces they liked the best (and maybe would like to go on a date with). Actually, one of the pictures was a modification of their own faces, how it might look in different sex. Yeah, the result shows that people are highly interested in their own picture.

*oh, narcissism...

So, if you meet people who said you look like your romantic partner, don't rush into conclusion that you guys are match made in heaven. Look-alike may not because you are soulmates, try the other way around... maybe you choose him/her to be your soulmate because you both look alike.

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