It is the morning after the MKMF 2008, hence the bowl of cereal. After seeing all the posts regarding it on my friends list [there really should be a single community for it all], I thought I should just mention some bits that piqued my interest. First, let’s take a look at the winners of the important bits:

대상
Song - 원더걸스, “Nobody”
Artist - 빅뱅
Album - 동방신기, “Mirotic”

Best Artists
Female - 이효리
Male - 서태지
Girl Group - 원더걸스
Boy Group - 빅뱅
New Female - 다비치
New Male - SHINee

I wasn’t surprised that 원더걸스 won the ‘Best Song‘ because people have been talking about it for ages and it was huge online. I’m also not really surprised that 빅뱅 won the ‘Best Artist‘ because they have been hitting it with their mini albums since MFMF 2007. I do wish people would stop crying over 동방신기 not winning best artist though. I know they have a huge following and I’m definitely one of their fans but they did spend a long time out of the country while 빅뱅 and 원더걸스 were kicking it back here in the homeland. That said, they did win ‘Best Album‘ which was expected as 빅뱅’s came out a bit too late and 원더걸스 are happy to continue promotions for ‘Nobody‘.

I watched some of the performances on the TV over here but I wasn’t really in the mood to sit through it last night, but I did catch them this morning online. 동방신기’s performance of ‘Wrong Number‘ was pretty excellent despite, 1) Micky’s stupid hair colour and 2) Hero’s stupid feather boa. I thought the ‘Scandalous Stage‘ was pretty good but maybe I’d just have preferred a mini concert from 빅뱅 instead great :D I watched it again and I think it deserves far more praise than I gave it. Having said that, it was perfect either. I thought 태양 and G-Dragon’s set was a little boring, but TOP’s was a little better. 승리’s remix was pretty nifty and I thought 대성 was awesome :D

Check Part 01 and 02 on YouTube. I think the whole performance was just marred by sloppy dancing and some less than perfect singing.

I saw these this morning and they made me laugh :D 윤호 is my favourite member of the group by far and I think he’s a really good choice for leader, but even the leader has to have some fun XD

01 This is my favourite part of the MIROTIC performance and he’s looking all serious.
02 BUAHAHAZOMGFTWLOLZCRAZYFACE XD

I listened to ‘Love In The Ice’ for the first time this morning and I can’t believe it took me so long because it’s a beautiful song. I was surprised to see them perform it in their comeback but I’m so glad they did because it was brilliant and each of them sounded great on their own and together. I can only imagine what the fangirls were thinking when they turned and sang to each other.

I have to say that I thought the set felt a bit small in this performance but what a performance it was. I think with a few more performances under their belts, the dancing will be even more in sync and reminiscent of the ‘”O”-정.반.합.’ days. Once again, I thought they sounded good and the whole feel was good. I look forward to more interesting sets and performances in the coming weeks :D

And just to rub it in a little, I watched these on TV earlier this afternoon :D I can do that you know, because I live in Korea XD

I was too tired last night to write this up so I thought I’d bundle yesterday and today together in one big post.

Saturday 27th
Yesterday I travelled to 분당 early to meet 서영 at her school. Once again I was looking right at her but managed to miss her ^^” We haven’t seen each other for about three weeks so it was great to see her again and she was looking really good. We walked on to the bus stop and took it to 교보 Bookstore where we each bought MIROTIC [she gave me her poster, so I have two now :D], some books for her and some cards for one of my students’ birthday.

We were both a little hungry so we went to Minto Cafe and got some lunch. It was nice to spend some time together in a quiet place and just talk about things. In fairness, not a lot of talking happened as we were eating but when we were done, we went to the local Movie Room and ‘relaxed’. We watched two movies and I thought they were both rubbish. I wasn’t really paying attention but I would have preferred some other background noise :P

After two hours + an extra hour, we went to meet 주성, a friend from school and her partner in class. He was tall and friendly and although 서영 was useless at helping along the conversation, we had a good time over dinner. I’m really glad she has some good friends to help her out at school and be there for her when I can’t. It makes me feel a lot better and I hope I communicated that to him.

You’ll notice in the above picture that there have been two new additions to my wall. Obviously, there is the MIROTIC poster from my album purchase but also the 빅뱅 poster that my wonderful girlfriend acquired for me ^^ As I mentioned earlier, I have a second MIROTIC poster but I think it would be greedy to put it up. I’ll give it to one of my students I think.

Sunday 28th
I allowed myself two extra hours of sleep this morning because I was shattered when I came in last night and seeing as I have no plans today I thought it was OK. I had left everything where dropped it when I came in last night so I set about tidying the apartment after my morning Internet round up and went to inspect my leaking boiler. My previous apartment had a dodgy boiler too as I’ve written about before and I love to know what I do to make them break >_< Anyway, I had to move some of the furniture that was here when I moved in away from the boiler because it was getting soaked. My plan to put it on the roof to dry was almost thwarted when I realised how heavy the furniture was but using my immense strength and tactical cunning, I managed to get it up the ladder and onto the roof.