Showing posts with label UKiss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UKiss. Show all posts

Monday, June 3, 2013

JYJ, AJ Birthdays and More! {Monday Morning Therapy with Dongsaeng}

Yes, you read that right.  It is Monday morning and I am back to say hi and greet you all!  If you missed me the past few weeks, then my apologies.  I missed you too and am excited to be back.

There's so much rolling around in my head right now that I want to talk about, but I'm aiming to still keep this short as whatever part of my body that is malfunctioning is not very travel-friendly and is protesting what I did to it this weekend.  Oh yes, that's right.  Did I mention that I spent the past couple of days in my own personal Mecca, aka California?  Specifically KOREATOWN LA????  More on that in a sec.

First and foremost, today is June 4th in Korea and I wanted to take a moment and wish two special guys a very happy birthday.


Park Yoochun of JYJ

and

AJ (Jaeseop Kim) of UKISS.
AJ is one of my two UKiss biases.  I just think he is the beesknees.  And super, uber cute.



JYJ was going to be my theme of today even before I knew it was Micky's birthday.  How's that for timing?  Why was it going to be my theme of today?  A couple of reasons actually.  One, I was in KTown this weekend and while there I managed to snag some much sought-after JYJ socks and other paraphernalia.  Score!  I now can wear my boys on my feet and take them with me wherever I go.  They spent all day with me yesterday in the car on the way home.  We very much enjoyed our time together.  The other reason was that upon waking this morning, all of my online social media was seemingly flooded with JYJ.  Jaejoong tweets (did you see the two of him in bed?  I had a lovely fangirl moment when I realized that my pillows were the same color as his.  Not that I then fantasized that it was MY bed he was in or anything like that.  Sheesh guys, who do you think I am??), new-to-me videos that YouTube was recommending for me, JYJ LINE updates, and the like.  It was a JYJ invasion.  An invasion of awesome.  So I wanted to share of bit of it with you.  Then I found it was Yoochun's birthday and it just fit in perfectly.  Great timing.  It's kismet.  Beautiful, beautiful kismet.


But before I jump into the JYJ stuff, I'll start with AJ's birthday shout out.

Kim Jaeseop, aka AJ 
of UKISS and now sub-group uBEAT (along with my other UKISS bias Eli)
June 4th, 1991 (22)
Lead rapper, sub-vocalist
Blood type A (woohoo!)
Three things I personally like and admire about him:  he doesn't like doing aegyo, he plays the piano, he speaks English and sounds sooo adorable when he does <3

And now for Park Yoochun.

Park Yoochun, aka Micky, of JYJ
June 4th, 1986 (27)
Singer, rapper, composer, songwriter, model and actor
Three things I like/admire/find interesting about him are: he plays piano and guitar, he once lived in the US attending middle school and high school there until moving back to South Korea in order to pursue a career in music, he has a bracelet given to him by his younger brother that apparently he wears all the time (he'll tape it up out of the way if it doesn't match the concept of what he's wearing for work)


Happy birthday AJ and Yoochun!  We at The Crazy Ahjummas appreciate your talent and hard work and look forward to enjoying what comes next from both of you!


Now that we wished our two special guys a happy birthday, I will close out with a couple of videos that I had been planning on sharing.  These were new-to-me videos, cover songs done by JYJ and its members.  The first you may recognize as it is an English song.  Frankly, it was one I wasn't too excited to hear covered because I'm just not all that crazy about it in the first place, but I'm glad I watched because I now have found a brand new appreciation for it.  Turns out that watching my ultimate bias perform it was all that was missing from the equation ;)  The second is a song I didn't know before but enjoyed watching and listening to Jaejoong perform it.  His voice is just so amazing and powerful and I love it and him ever so much!  Let's jump start this new week and new month with a little JYJ fun, shall we???




May you enjoy the rest of your Monday and have a wonderful week!





P.S.  Here are the Jaejoong tweets I mentioned above in case you missed them...



P.P.S.  I didn't want to bog down this post with my personal travel stories and detract from the real focus of today.  I will go ahead and post a few pictures on my Shannen Dongsaeng FB page though for anyone interested in seeing a bit of what I did in KTown LA and stuff.
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Monday, June 11, 2012

Monday Morning Therapy with Dongsaeng: Kissmes Unite!

Last week I went on and on and on in a philosophical defense of my addiKtion.  Don't worry, none of that this week.  {Phew!  Go ahead, take a collective fresh breath in relief - I know I am.  Sheesh, I really do tend to blah blah blah all the blah blah time about blah blah blah and blah. Blah blah. It's not like this is the Bob Loblaw Law Blog (Point time!  10 points to anyone who can name that reference!), I should really watch all the blahing}  No, this week is all about the ear and eye candy.  The ear and eye candy that is U-Kiss.

Alright, alright, so I'm not technically a Kissme (UKiss's official fan group), but I do really enjoy their music.  While I may not be a super fan (I can't even name them all - yet - I'll get there - probably - I do have a lot of groups to get to know better - seeing as how the KPop side of my obsession has had considerably less time to percolate), I always make sure to check out their new stuff.

Which is why they are getting a mention today on MMTwD.  This week they released a new song and music video for their Kissme fans - Believe.  I really enjoyed this song.  It's upbeat, peppy, bright and fun.  It's also pretty catchy and sticks in my head well - always a good sign of a good song, right?  The video itself is pretty standard, nothing that makes it stand out from the pack either for better or worse.  I did enjoy the dancing, however, and thought that they all did a great job in their performance.  If you haven't seen it yet, check out U-Kiss's new song, Believe, and judge for yourself.


If you prefer live performances, here's their comeback stage on M! Countdown. There's also a Music Bank performance, but the sound quality wasn't quite as good.  You can always YouTube that one later if you just haven't had enough.  

And, because I know she really likes it, a version with English subs and Romanization for Unnie so that she (and you) can better sing along.  Go ahead... "I do believe you, you, you.  I do believe you, you, you.  I do believe you, you, you..."

And just to add to all the UKiss fun for the day, here are a couple of screenshots I took of their video, Forbidden Love.  What caught my attention here?  Check out the sign on the wall.  See it?  It is a highway sign for Arizona Route 51.  Rt 51, otherwise known as Squaw Peak or Piestewa Freeway, runs right through my greater metropolitan area.  In fact, back when I first moved here eons ago, it was the freeway I drove everyday to work.  Later on and until just recently, it was the freeway that my parents lived off of.  Oh yes, Route 51 and I go wayyy back.  It was cool to see it represented here by U-Kiss.  Thanks guys!  It was fun to see a little slice of my world on your wall.



Can't get enough U-Kiss?  Here's a sampling of other videos you can check out...



The video for this song is actually the Japanese version of the song. I actually prefer the Korean version, so I'm posting it instead of the actual official video. If you want to hear and see the Japanese version (Tick Tack), it's pretty easy to find.
 
Oh fine, I'll save you the trouble, here's the M/V for Tick Tack ;)  It just didn't feel right to not include it.  I heart this video.


My first introduction to U-Kiss was actually when Simon and Martina over at Eat Your Kimchi interviewed them behind stage at Inkigayo, so I'll include that as well.  I was impressed by how kind, gracious, and funny these guys were.  It's what drew me to them and led me to their music in the first place.  If you haven't seen it yet, check it out!



Okay, there you go.  A great starting off point if you want to explore the world of U-Kiss.  Any die-hard Kissmes out there?  Who's your favorite U-Kiss guy?  What's your favorite U-Kiss song?  Also, one last ponderable for the day...

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