Fly High Like The Birds, FT Island.

I could not believe that I will skip class because of FT Island—the consequence of staying up pretty damn late to watch the new music video and listen to all the songs in the new remake album from FT Island make me wake up damn late to attend the morning class in college this morning. The class starts at nine and I find my self waking up at eleven. Yeah, this is like so fucking well to my upcoming grade.



Anyway, back to the original reason for this post—FT Island finally releases the music video for 새들처럼 (Like The Birds) as the title song for the remake album MEMORY IN FT ISLAND they simultaneously release on midnight of October 10.

Oh my God, what in the world is this perfection. It is not a lie that the five boys of FT Island are all pretty much perfect in their own personal way but for the sake of my fucking life—how could they become this amazingly perfect in such a short period of time. The image for the music video is so beautiful, I shed tears of happiness over this piece of perfection in three minutes and thirty seconds.

The original song is quite lovely by its own but the remake from FT Island makes the song a million times more wonderful. FT Island does all the justice in the world for this song—to be able to make an even lovelier song from a song that comes out before any of the members are actually born. This is the kind of song that sticks to your mind after just three to four times. It is smooth and upbeat, mostly a fun song to smile and dance along in whatever situation.

Have I actually mentioned how lovely Hongki sings and how it wonderfully blends in with the harmonizing raps from Seunghyun and Jaejin. I have no doubt that the three creates such a beautiful collaboration and a harmony that not all groups in this growing Korean Pop world would manage to create but this song proves that these three boys are perfect in terms of vocal.

I love how Seunghyun sounds stronger and more powerful in his rap nowadays. He sheds the image of a new member pretty well and he blends in with the flow of the music just perfectly. He raps smoothly in this song and makes a nice collaboration with Jaejin. Jaejin—he has such wonderful voice that it makes me want to cry every time he manages to have parts in songs to sing. He is good in the terms of vocal but his rap talent is incredibly good. As for Hongki—come on, do I really have to say anything about this powerful vocalist with his incredible vocal. His voice is distinctive and very powerful, he makes this song wonderful.

FT Island does justice for all the songs they remake, unlike some.

The music video, again—it is beautiful in terms of the cinematography and the colors and the overall video. It does not have an obvious storyline—or maybe not obvious enough for me except that five boys having a ride on a Jeep which a drummer kid drives while dancing randomly before they begin to run wildly across this empty desert and ends up with their instruments and mysterious sets of spotlights that appear out of nowhere. I am not the Director but I like this concept because it gives a free spirit sense to whoever watches it. Putting aside the usual heavily dramatic and emotional music video from FT Island—lets count the time we cry at the music videos of Until You Return or maybe Heaven and even the oblivious storyline of Hello Hello—this actually gives the boys of FT Island a bright and light environment, probably similar to how they are in the music video of I Hope but minus the romantic time travelling storyline. It is fun and light and makes whoever watches it want to join in the fun. Well, I know I want to be a part of that fun music video.

I do not give a damn about the controversial Jeep or anything. I only pay attention to the great music video and the song itself. As for the boys of FT Island—well, they are like the cherries on top of my favorite sundae. They give perfection and satisfaction, all in the same time—to my ears and my eyes.

What makes this music video fun is the fair share of camera time on each member—this time we could not see too much Hongki like how it is in the music video of Love Love Love or too little time of guitarist Jonghoon like in Hello Hello. We have ample close-ups shots for each member—with an exception of Hongki who of course snags most but who is going to complain anyway—and we have the opportunity to enjoy a solo guitar riff from leader guitarist. All fan-girls will not be able to complain anything now.

We have many eye candy moments to share around.

Most fan-girls and that includes me, probably miss the time when FT Island comes out with heavy dramatic and emotional music videos that make us cry and want to kill someone or just simply cut our wrist in exasperation—watching the boys severely beaten or just simply killed off by some villain we still have vengeance on—but to have a space to breath and just have fun in music videos are actually quite fun. The only time we manage to see them brightly smile or jumping around like the kids they will always be are probably in their Japanese music videos—the overdose of jump scenes in Let It Go and the swag moments in Flower Rock, who could forget. I give out my compliment to the director for this chance for the members to just let go and be free to have fun in this music video.

Yes, I have listen to all five songs in the remake album and yes, I have already point out my favorites. I do not know if I will have the time to write a review on each song but I guess it will probably happen within this week. I am not quite sure about the first comeback performance from FT Island—whether they will appear on MNET M!Countdown or not but I certainly know that they will perform on SBS Inkigayo on Sunday.

With the upcoming comeback from the girl group I still refuse to write in my blog because on certain reasons that piss me off big time and Secret—my new favorite girl group—I surely do hope that FT Island will eventually win something on music show charts. I miss the time when they have the chance to say out their acknowledgement upon a victory. Korean music world needs something that branches out from their usual Korean Pop bubblegum pop songs with dance moves that has somehow bore me—like the music from a band like FT Island. FT Island deserves to win. They deserve to win more than anyone else and I am sorry to say this to fans of other groups but they really need to win. FT Island needs to win.

Anyway, I need to perform my prayer right now. I will get back into considering the review on MEMORY IN FTISLAND soon. In the mean time, let us all pray that FT Island will have a huge success with this remake album. FT Island, all the best.

FT Island Says, "Like The Birds".

Oh shit, thank you FNC Music for actually giving me a reason to update my dying blog. And yes, thank you the five boys of FT Island for making me want to write about your perfection again. Yes everyone, it is finally the time of the year—the time when I died, and came back to live, died again and still, return into the world of the living for the greatness of FT Island has shown.



FT Island is set to make a comeback after months of hiatus since their last release of mini-album Return, on October 10th. The band of five gorgeous members will release a remake album—Memory In FT Island—on October 10th and the teaser for the title song, 새들처럼—translated as Like The Birds—has been released on October 7th.

And yes, allow me to shine some light upon this perfect fifty-three seconds teaser. Dear every other entertainment companies out there—yes, I am talking to each and every one of you—please take example of how amazing FNC Music does with the teaser for their artists. They do not put in something that will ridiculously disappear in the main music video, some random music bits that does not even have anything to do with the original song. Learn how to tease properly like FNC Music does.

Good job, FNC Music. That was one hell of a perfect teaser that literally tease.

Next, let us talk about how gorgeous the boys look in the teaser. Song Seunghyun my dear, I know I practically want to kill someone when I saw your current hairstyle previously but now that I managed to accept with an open heart, I think it suits you perfectly. This goes to all of the members—Hongki, your curly hairstyle receives two thumbs up from me, don’t worry. As for Jaejin, I am so freaking thankful you cut it shorter. Even if it is still blonde, I like it. Leader Jonghoon, why do you always look ridiculously perfect? Please don’t ruin my bias list. And hey youngest Minhwan, God you look awesome.

Anyone wants to join in the troll session as I can’t get over Minhwan driving the jeep?

The song is a remake of a 1988 song by Byun Jisup. Yes, I have heard the original song and yes, it was amazing. But it was in a slower tone. FT Island just made it into a song worth the head-bang and the dorky dance. Yes, it worth destroying that controversial jeep. I don’t see the harm in it. Mr. Jeep Owner, you are a big time troll.

I still could not figure out a storyline, basically just a music video about a group of five boys cynically vandalize a jeep in the middle of the dessert while throwing random music notes and dance around like monkeys before they find their place with the spotlights and instruments to rock their heart out. Okay there dear Mr. Director, I see what you have there.

Now I demand the full music video to be released now.

How am I supposed to go through until October 10th without constantly raping the replay button on YouTube? I don’t feel like doing anything else and thank God it is already Friday here in Malaysia and the weekend is coming. I am going to continuously die with this teaser.

And hey, if there are news about how other artists are avoiding making comebacks in the same month as the girl group I refuse to mention in my blog because on some particular reasons is also making the so-called epic comeback this month, I can see that FNC Music does not fear this. FT Island is still going to release their album, may come whatever in their way.

It is not about the winnings on weekly music shows or the CD sales that matter, it is the gift they want to give to their fans and the music they want to do. I don’t give a fuck if they do not win anything. All I ever care is that FT Island is making a comeback. My whole family will have the weekly dose of FT Island on television with this comeback. Wait until I tell my mother, she will completely freak out.

The full music video is set to release on October 10th, along with the remake album.

Now, it is time to beg my mother to lend me some money to get this into my collection.

Final Examination Took This Weekend Away.

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I am sorry for the lack of updates recently. I know I will usually insert some lame excuses here—come to blame my internet connection or probably some lousy assignments that take up half of my time every day or maybe something else that will always bothers me, all the time—but I am going to skip that part and jump straight into the conclusion where I will usually state, this is when I need to announce my disappearance.

For this, I gladly blame the final examination which starts unfortunately, today. Out of all the days through the week, I have to force my self to drag my lazy ass to college and sit for my first final examination question paper on a freaking Sunday. Oh well, there goes my lovely weekend.

I am going to sit for my Feature Writing at one this afternoon so please, if you are reading this—of which I horribly think not—please send me all the good luck wishes that I need to at least do well on this paper. I need lots of luck and perhaps bits of fairy dust. I need magic.

The other two final examination papers—which are for Academic Reading and Writing and Critical and Creative Thinking will be on Tuesday and Thursday respectively before I amazingly begin my awesome semester break that will last until September 11. I fucking love my love; this is with an obvious sarcastic tone.

Anyway, since today is the birthday of my husband no, scratch that—since today is the birthday of the 16-dimensional face behind the amazing Good Morning Bob series, Song Seunghyun of FT Island—I am here to humbly wish this one hell of a perfection, Happy Birthday. Oh God, only God knows how much love I have for this amazing guitarist. Anyway Seunghyun, have fun on your birthday as Hongki already mentioned that your birthday cake will be on the stage during your concert today. I will definitely find my way to meet you one day, so prepare yourself for this crazy fan of yours. Happy birthday again, Seunghyun—and oh, do not forget to eat a lot and put some weight into your thin figure.

Okay, I am done with this nonsense. I am off to take a bath and pretend to memorize my notes. I still hope I could do well—if not well, at least able to answer all question before I could storm out from the examination room. Dear God, help me out. Dear people of Blogger world who I never know but yet still care to mention here, wish me luck.

Comeback Performance One, Flawless.

I HAVE NO WORDS TO SAY EXCEPT TO TYPE IT ALL OUT IN CAPS LOCK TO EXPRESS MY EXCITEMENT OVER THE COMEBACK PERFORMANCE OF THE FLAWLESS FIVE TREASURE ISLAND. I DO NOT CARE IF YOUR BIAS IS BETTER THAN MINE, I DARE TO SAY MY BIAS IS HUNDRED TIMES BETTER THAN YOURS. ALL FIVE MEMBERS SANG, MY LIFE IS PERFECT, GOD. FT ISLAND, THANK YOU FOR MAKING THE WORLD SUCH A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE FOR ME. THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME A REASON TO LISTEN TO YOUR WONDERFUL MUSIC, THANK YOU.

Choi Jonghoon, Lee Hongki, Lee Jaejin, Song Seunghyun and Choi Minhwan; thank you for being such perfections. I do not care if I have to wave my pentastick sadly at home and watch the comeback performances one hour late, or I have to spend three days away from the Internet and miss three of your upcoming comeback performance, I just want to thank you for this wonderful experience you are giving me as a fan.

Hello Hello is such a flawless performance, I could not even find a word to describe it. FNC Music, thank you for making the boys of FT Island perfect. God, thank you for creating such perfect five human beings in this world. FT Island, thank you for the good music and the fan service. I will go and have my vacation in bliss right now.



I AM STILL GOING TO USE CAPS LOCK TO EXPRESS MY EXCITEMENT OVER THIS AMAZING PERFORMANCE. I STILL DO NOT CARE IF ANYONE ELSE IS BASHING OR HATING THEM, FIVE TREASURE ISLAND IS THE BEST. GO TO HELL, HATERS. THEY ARE AMAZING AND US PRIMADONNAS KNOW THAT THEY WILL BE AMAZING FOREVER. YOU GUYS A PERFECT, PERIOD. ENOUGH CAPS LOCK, THANK YOU FOR THE PERFECTION. MY LIFE IS COMPLETE, GOD BLESS MY SOUL.

I am off to my vacation in bliss and calm right now.

Everybody Say Hello, Hello, Hello.

BREATHING AND BEING ALIVE ARE IRRELEVANT, THE AWESOME BOYS OF FT ISLAND ARE BACK WITH HELLO HELLO.

I have died, got back to life, died again and was revived just in time to make this update. My favorite boy band has finally returned with such an amazing comeback song, Hello Hello.

FNC Music, although I am expecting the amazing guitar riffs in this song and music video, I am completely grateful that for once, you managed to give an amazing song to the most amazing boy band I ever encounter in my life. I mean, I love this song to bits. The lyrics and the rhythm—they are no longer just another boy band with mellow ballads. They start to sound darker and more into the rock genre, finally.

Although, I do not mind if they take out the bridge part, the one that goes everybody say because it sounds so much like their junior counterpart. I mean, the whole sound is totally different from their junior counterpart but that particular bridge makes them similar. I love FT Island sound, it is more define and sounds rock better than the junior counterpart but the bridge makes it all similar. The bridge however, could act as a fan service—imagine how the fan chant will be—it will be awesome. The verses are amazing—remind me more of My Chemical Romance, but slightly lighter. The chorus is well made; it got stuck easily and easy to remember.

The music video however, I am still in the process of interpreting it into my own understanding. You are allowed to share your opinions about it though. I am guessing that Hongki died, trying to save the rest of the band. But I am not sure, it sort of feels like a déjà vu or an imagination. Or is it the other way around, the four of FT Island died and the vocalist is outside, watching.

But oh my God, no one has ever look as sexy as Seunghyun in a tight red pants. And there is a goat on the fire truck, Jaejin—who sits there amidst of a fire like a boss. There needs to be more Jonghoon and Minhwan though, I mean—look at Jonghoon’s guns. Since when does he have such great guns, I am drooling over it. I dare to say this Hello Hello era is the best era for the five boys of FT Island. No disastrous hair and even the blonde ones look good. I love the styles they are putting on, a bit more stylish that before. They should keep this look for a very long time, I approve.

I love the cinematography of the music video and the creativity too, congratulation Mr. Director. I love the appearance of all ethnicity in this music video too—I mean, I see Caucasians, Asians, et cetera. If you wondering where they are filming the music video—and if you answer New York, you are wrong—they did it all in South Korea itself. I saw a picture of the filming site on DCGallery. They manage to fool you with the New York Fire Department, Flaxton Street.

I am willing to break my piggy bank to buy RETURN mini-album because the songs are amazing, all of it. There are no mellow ballads, just upbeat, rock songs with a sweet sound tune among the five songs. I am going to break my head to get my hands on the mini-album.

The Return of The Five Treasure Island, Almost.

And you are expecting me to actually study diligently for my final examinations—well, I am proud to say that you are all just absolutely wrong. How am I supposed to focus on my studies when I have difficulties in breathing upon what happens to be the most hyperventilating forty-six seconds in my life, seriously.

Congratulations FNC Music, you have successfully teased all fan girls of FT Island around the world, you probably has no idea that some of us just have our brains exploded due to the excitement.

I approve this instrumental teaser and I double approve the hotness that goes along with it—I mean, what will be better than the boys of FT Island to be good boys turn bad boys. Honestly, who does not need a dose of those delicious music and overly dramatic music videos nowadays. I need those and much more, like freaking right now.

All hail the comeback of the black nail polish.

Dear Song Seunghyun, I do approve you and your red pants. Yes, you have heard me right; I approve you in this music video. All I need now is the full music video, because I am already hyperventilating over the reality that this music video might just have dramatic storyline—and yes, I need that instantly. I am anticipating a rap to be inserted somewhere along the song, yes please.

This is an eye rape—if that is even a word—and the song will soon be an ear rape.

Right now, I could not think straight. FT Island boys made me says the weirdest things—they bring out the eccentric vocabularies I own.

Okay, I need to get back to study—although it is three in the morning here in my place. I could not concentrate, because all I could think about is how long will it takes to be on the May 24. FT Island, I need you right now.

I am already molesting the refresh and replay button, to think about the full music video to release on May 24—I might just rape my own computer that day.

Five Treasure Island And Its Satisfaction.

This is actually a surprise—FT Island has releases the music video for their latest Japanese single, Satisfaction on April 5. I remembered that the teaser was released just a little less than a week ago. Anyway, I am not going to complain about it because I like my satisfaction to be sent in early too.




The slow-motions scenes in the music video of Satisfaction must have been the slowest yet the best slow-motions scenes I have even encounter in my life. These slow-motions scenes give a fan girl the perfect moments to stare at the perfections of these five gorgeous boys. Although I have to unwillingly agree that the music video is a bit dull and slightly too simple, but—God saves me—the boys have never look as awesome as they are in any other music video but this one.

Satisfaction—the song is a better improvement than their last Japanese single, So Today—which has to be my least favorite Japanese single from them since their major debut in 2010. I am sorry but I don’t really have So Today as my daily dose of FT Island. I would skip that song most of the time, sorry. But this has a nice anime feeling to it and considering that it is an ending theme for an anime currently, who would argue about that. I love the amazing beat and the flow of the song from its beginning to its end. One thing I particularly like about Satisfaction that it has fair flow of the voices from amazing vocalist Hongki, Jaejin and my absolute bias Seunghyun. I like his rap parts; it adds some edge and funkiness to this song. It gives somewhat an energetic feel to it.

I do not do Japanese translation because I have ditch my Japanese lesson years ago so I will not complain much about the lyrics. Based on observation though, I hear not much of English words but the word Satisfaction in the rap part. I like that it does not have some random English lyrics here and there (in reference of Flower Rock and my favorite Brand New Days).

As for the appearance and the eye candies of the music video, I would have to say that this has to be the most normal yet absolutely amazing appearances of the boys of FT Island that I have ever see. I like this, simple yet it brings out the awesomeness of each member. Although I am missing the blonde on Seunghyun lately, I could not agree more than his current black makes him looks younger by five years. I love his blue jacket, someone please buy one for me. I also like what leader Jonghoon is wearing, it brings out the leader charisma—of which I do not know why I feel it that way. I approve Hongki and his hair, with no extra rant attach.

Jaejin makes putting on a jacket looks so amazingly sexy in the slow-motion scene. It is not easy to make something easy looks sexy but Jaejin pulls it off. I was staring at the screen of my laptop like crazy over the slow-motion scenes. I already expect Seunghyun to do something no one else will—jumping. But hey, he must be the coolest person to jump and looks good simultaneously in a slow-motion shot. Good job, my favorite guitarist. One thing to rant though is the lack of drummer Minhwan and Jonghoon in this amazing music video. Come on, directors tend to have this flaw from one music video to another. Why can’t you satisfy all us fan girls?

Now that I am complete head over heels for this song, I am considering the option of buying the single. Although with the news that FT Island is going to release a Japanese full album—with their previous hits and new song s include in May—I am also thinking about just buying the full album instead. But if I could stare at the perfect album cover of Satisfaction all day long like an insane fan, why would I take the time to wait anyway? I believe FT Island will have it big with Satisfaction, now that it reflects their awesomeness plus it is featured as the ending theme for anime Toriko. Good publicity never hurts, and they are awesome in their own ways anyway.

How a Resurrection Really Feels.

Practically, it seems like I am slowly losing my designing skills. With the assignments that are continuously making me wish that I have more than just twenty-four hours in one day—it is actually quite impossible for me to keep on designing, to improve my lack of grandeur in my poor designing skills. I have not use Adobe Photoshop for such a long time. I try to become good friends with GIMP and PhotoScape but either work well with me.

However, I assumed that I still have a little of those skills. I successfully designed a soda can with my own brand as the first assignment for Principle of Advertising class. I did not think that I have done a magnificent job but at least I still have a little longing towards my forgotten desire of becoming a graphic designer in an advertising agency. I can still do this—although not as good as my graphic design's friends—but at least it was presentable.


Who would have thought that having a plentiful collection of FT Island's pictures would aid me through the process of designing the soda can for my assignment. It was actually an idea proposed by my mom after she watched me designing the soda can in my room. Truthfully, I would love to have a soda brand by the name of FT-Fresh and have the whole FT Island—not just Hongki as presented on the soda can—to endorse my soda. Although his appearance on the soda can did raise several question among the classmate who did not know who he is.

I have started to draw and illustrate again lately. I am spending a little more time to become good friend with my dearest sketch book—who now loyally occupies my bag that I bring to college everyday. I am drawing discreetly in the library, like a geek. I like this though. I like it a lot.

Life From This Point On.

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Yes—I do realize that there has been a lack of movements around this boring blog for the past ten days. This actually happen to the fact that I am depending on the free wireless connection I am currently using which sometimes disappears from the view, thus I could not connect to the internet. I have also been terribly busy with college—now that assignments are stacking up high like a mountain literally and schedules are driving me crazing. I am also pretending to be busy with my life by doing this and that, including spending one whole sleepless day due to finish my assignments that should be submitted to take off the NC status off my result. Fortunately, I have successfully sent that freaking assignment this morning so, end of story. By the upcoming Friday, I will be facing my biggest fear of the year—sitting for my driving test to get my self a driving license. I feel like a freaking retarded for still not be able to drive well when everyone else seems to have been enjoying the life as a driver. God blesses my life.

I am also amazingly down with cold right now so I am silently cursing the fact that I can't breath properly. I followed my mom and dad to the market this morning and ended up with a cut on my finger which hurt like hell sometimes. Right now, I have two wounded fingers, thus I am typing in such an awkward condition. I am working hard to publish my fan fiction again in either two main fan fiction websites despite my hectic routines too. I am getting close to a friend of whom share the same passion as mine and I like this friendship we have. Keep this going on, and I will improve my current social life. I am almost broke thus I have to starve almost every day but I am looking at this as a chance to go on a diet—an unhealthy one of course.

In less than a week without wireless connection, I found out that FT Island has tons of news about them in the internet. Hongki to appear as the male lead in a Japanese drama—which actually makes me giggled like a crazy fan girl at college upon knowing this through the Twitter application on my mobile phone. Even more, FT Island will perform the theme song of the drama so cheer for new songs. More surprisingly, cheesy leader Jonghoon is also set to make his acting debut in a movie based on a Japanese manga—staring next to only the two of my favorite actor and actress of all time, Jang Geunseok and Kim Haneul. I am still a freaking happy fan girl. My bias, Seunghyun and Minhwan graduated from high school—looking all mighty handsome and made me wondered why on earth did I not attend the same high school as them although that is rather impossible. Congratulation. Jaejin—well, all I know his picture of him sleeping with a guitar did make it to the news so, well done I think. Nice to see nice updates, will be waiting for their future releases.

In the end, as a conclusion—my life has not yet been wonderful but it still quite stressful. I am going to have lesser updates, now that the wireless connection is obviously only available on weekends. I will post useful posts again, please don't curse me. I am innocent, or so I believe I am. God blesses this poor miserable soul.

Good Morning, Gorgeous.

This must have been one of the best first day of January ever in my life. Picture this in your wild imagination—breaking into FT Island's house to find Hongki sleeping without his pants, and shirtless Minhwan sleeping on the same bed with Seunghyun who is also not wearing any pants. Okay, enough with the imagination.

I must be one of the happiest fan girl right now. I am so freaking thankful of the PD of KBS2 TV School Variety, 100 Points Out of 100 Points for doing this to satisfy the curiosity of all fan girls all around the world. Half the casts of the variety show broke into FT Island's house to wake Hongki up for their Membership Training trip. Oh, I am so thankful Seunghyun and Minhwan are still asleep too.

No, there are no chance of seeing leader and bassist together though. They are no where to be found. They must have been somewhere else, or just still sleeping soundly in the comfort of their own locked room of which either Super Junior's Eunhyuk or SHINee's Minho could break in. The cutest part when Seunghyun hid in embarrassment when the three girls greeted him when he was on bed. Seunghyun, you never fail to make me smile all day long.

Seunghyun sleeps without his pants on, the same goes to Hongki. Minhwan on the other hand sleeps without his shirt on, which I find very cute indeed. God, I will do anything to break into FT Island's house right now. To have the members sleeping half naked—oh God, save me from my wild imagination.

The Eyeliner, The Mistake, And The Awesomeness.

Hands down for the best year-end festivals of 2010. This is what I call a song festival. The greatness that flows and the energy that comes along with it. I am not disappointed, thank you very much. The expectation I have upon the revelation of the Band Battle and Combined Stage of two great idol bands, FT Island and CN Blue is just too freaking awesome to be described in words.

I found no words to describe the performance, accept for the fact that the dearest vocalist of FT Island, Lee Hongki has failed magnificently when I think he kind of forget the fact that cute rapper, Song Seunghyun did have a line in the performance. I don't think that was intentional though. Or was it? Oh well, even when that mistake happened, I am just too fascinated by the performance itself to notice (although afterward I laughed my head off at how Hongki sang as if nothing really happened until he stopped and Seunghyun just started rapping as if it was amusing to do so).

And along came Onew from SHINee, Junsu from 2PM, Luna from F(x) and IU. And there came the most awesome performance of the song festival. The great and amazing performance of the night and I would rather miss a New Year celebration to watch over and over again.

Okay, I am just completely biased but hands down for the best band of the night, FT Island. I am not sure about the Blue and White Team because I am just too confused to care for but I am rooting for whatever team FT Island is in.

Don't blame me, dear. Blame this bias towards the five freaking gorgeous boys in white tonight.

The Vocalist And His Eyeliner.

My mom and my sisters watched this performance through the television on KBS World channel with me tonight and believe me, the four of us squealed like a bunch of happy girl campers throughout the performance. I can't never get my mom to squeal over any other Korean artists accept for FT Island. The performance tonight is just too amazing for words. Oh, and one more thing; Lee Hongki, my mom told you to ditch the eyeliner anytime soon. She said you look too girly, although I kind of like it. And tonight, I get my mom to appreciate the cuteness of Song Seunghyun for three amazing minutes.

Dear Leader, I officially envied the relationship between you and your Gibson girlfriend.

Dye My Hair Red.

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Something is not right with my current state of mind—because unbelievably, I suddenly want to dye my hair bright red—okay well, scratch that bright red and make it just red instead. I mean seriously, I have been thinking about dying my hair red since last month. I almost bought a box of hair dye from the nearest pharmacy, as I intended to dye my hair into the color of red inside the bathroom of my house.

This could have been something to do with my obsession with My Chemical Romance (refer to my new media player) lately. I mean, Gerard Way looks totally awesome with his new bright red hair. Okay, it could have been an influence from Lee Hongki—who practically starts the red hair trend in South Korea this year (like he started off the orange and blonde hair last year as well). But, I really want to dye my hair red right now.

My parents will surely freak out if they realize their third daughter want to dye her hair red—completely red. Maybe my dad will yell at me, or my mom will chop my hair off. Should I do it by myself or should I do it at the hairdresser I usually visit to cut my hair? What shade of red would really look well with my dark complexion anyway?

Dear Boys.

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Let me get this straight—a minority of boys in my college (and I am not afraid to reveal the name here, but due to privacy matter and to avoid some misunderstanding although I never care, I will not reveal any names…at least, not yet) annoyed the hell out of me. Surely boys—as a girl, I will not deny that I am attracted to almost every cute boys I ever met—but do some of those boys really have to be oh-so-lousy, they make me wish they were never born. Forgive me, but this is so true.

Do boys always have to use the F word in all words? Okay, I admit I use the F words all the time but at least I know what it means and where to actually insert it in my sentences. But the boys in my Basic English class don’t even know what the F word mean and used it against our lecturer. What the hell is going on with boys nowadays? Don’t use the F word if you don’t get the meaning well, morons. It gets all freakingly annoying by the time I leave the class on every Monday. So stop, you are making me hate everyone who uses the F word. And fantastic, even Hongki knows how to use that word now. Who is his English teacher?

I know I could get on your nerves sometimes dear boys, but do you really have to hit me as if I am your punching bag? What kind of boys hit girls so often, I feel like punching him right in his face so that he could understand how freaking mad I am at him. In each conversation, your hand will hit me right on my shoulder. Do you know how freaking painful is was to be hit by boys? Do you? How do you feel if I slap you? Don’t touch me as you like. I hate boys who hit and touch me as if I am something everyone could get their hands on. Excuse me; I am not that kind of girl. Try to hit me one more time, and I’ll make sure you will never even dare to look at me again after this. I mean it. I could sue you if I really want to (I guess).

Where have all the polite boys gone to? Where are all the Jonghoon-like boys who would pull out a chair for a girl to sit or who would do something that makes a girl feel appreciated, at least? Oh come on, don’t tell me boys like this don’t exist anymore. If it is true, go and teach yourself some manners dear boys. I like boys, I freaking hate boys who have no manners and treat girls like rubbish. Get your act straight first, dear boys.

In the end, this ended up becoming a rant post for all the boys who I’ve met in my life—and you, who hit me for more than two times today in Basic English class, who is a year younger than me but never treat me politely as he should, make sure you never lay your hands on me ever again or you will regret it forever. I mean it. I am mean, and I am not afraid to use violence against you.

FT Island And Their Poker Face(s).

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You know what would never fail to amuse me other than the bright blue sky on one fine day—probably it has something to do with the fact that FT Island has once again amuses me with their LOL-worthy English. But hey, this is a LOL-improvement I am talking about. And by any chance, this LOL-improvement or whatsoever I am talking about involves FT Island, as they perform they rock version of Poker Face.

Oh, seriously—Poker Face from Lady Gaga?

Damn it, I’ll take that back. FT Island rocks this rock version of Lady Gaga, it forced me to love Poker Face once again. I know I have to compliment FT Island for their amazing live performance of 사랑사랑사랑 (Love, Love, Love) on Kim Jungeun’s Chocolate—and honestly, music shows killed the greatness of this song by not letting them performed it live big time—but I guess I’ve said this over and over again. They are great. But for Poker Face, I am impressed.

LOL-worthy English, yes, but come on. This is like a major improvement from their previous Song 2 performance in so many levels. Although I am a bit disturbed by the usage of he and him instead of changing it to she and her to fit the male singer, Hongki, because it kept giving me this weird gay feeling but overall, FT Island did an awesome rock cover. But honestly, Jonghoon just made the performance from great to the best. His guitar solo—oh my God, it was incredibly breathtaking. I mean, for someone as handsome and young and further more, absolutely talented in guitar and piano as him, I would die for him. The music arrangement was great and Jaejin did a great job as a backup vocal, plus Jonghoon and Seunghyun. Anyway, give me more Minhwan! It feels good to watch a rock band (of which I am still contemplating to call them a rock band) performed a pop song with a touch of rock. I don’t care about bashers and haters. I love this and I love FT Island.

On the other note, seriously Seunghyun—when the other members are showcasing their real ability to play their instruments live on stage, you choose to do an imitation of the incoming train with your electric guitar? This noona is slightly disappointed but still, she is smiling all night to see your cuteness. I guess I have let my biasness carried me away again tonight.

The Boy Who Can't Dance

There is a perfect reason why Lee Hongki was scouted by FNC Music to be a member of a music band instead of a member of a regular boy group—he literally can’t dance. By any mean, in whatever angle or perspective you want to say or see, he just can’t dance. So please broadcasting channels, do not invite Hongki or any other four members of FT Island who can’t dance (well, I am excluding Minhwan out because have you seen his Rainism’s performance? He can dance fortunately) into any of dance shows. Please, for the sake of FT Island’s image. I am so going to imagine Hongki doing his stiffed dance movement with Secret for a long, long time. FT Island is a band, forever a band. They can’t dance no matter how handsome and talented they are. 71 marks to 93 marks—that’s an understatement, he can’t dance! Poor Secret, at least we all have a good laugh. On the other note, isn’t it lovely to see Secret and Hongki all friendly? I guess I have a new OTP coming soon.

Oh, Sweet Mutizen.

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I am thankful that today has been one great day in my life. I can’t recall any other day that I have been this happy—I was literally shaking in happiness for about two hours straight. I can’t even believe that I almost cry the tears of happiness. My secret life (well, since I have been writing blog, it doesn’t really seems to be a secret) as a loyal fan (okay, I admit this is not a secret because I usually spam my followers’ timeline with my obsessions) of FT Island—the day have finally come.

FT Island won today’s SBS Inkigayo’s Mutizen Award! Oh my God, these five freaking amazing and gorgeous boys of FT Island finally won their first Mutizen Award since 2007 (their last win on Mutizen Award was during 2007 너울때까지 (Until You Come Back) and their previous works that released after that has never won a Mutizen Award). I am so happy for the boys for their first win for 사랑사랑사랑 (Love, Love, Love). If I am not wrong, this will also mark the first win for FT Island with member Song Seunghyun. Oh God, thank you for giving our beloved treasure the chance to take home the Mutizen trophy.

Don’t you adore their clueless expressions when they walked to the front of the stage when their name was announced as the winners? They didn’t expect to win at all. I read the Tweet by our beloved cheesy leader, Jonghoon—as he said that they didn’t expect to win because they have always stand at the back of the stage during the final scene—and it completely broke my heart. Three years have them been standing at the back when everyone else won and now, it is time for them to shine brightly. Jonghoon was at lost of words while Seunghyun kept asking whether they really won or not. Hongki on the other hand, came out scratching his head while Jaejin did some dorky dance as Minhwan tried to stay calm. They came out last from back stage with their close friends, Supernova, and were at shock to know that they won this week Mutizen Award. I am so happy for these five talented boys; I am trying to pretend as if I didn’t read the harsh comment posted by a brainless fool on the ALLKPOP article.

As a Primadonna who has been loyal to them since the beginning, I am so happy for FT Island. Their hard work has finally paid off. They didn’t ask much—they are so humble about it, they didn’t expect to win and always stood at the spot where they always were with their fellow close friends. Congratulation again for the first win, FT Island. I’ll be praying hard for even more wins in the future.

And as a bonus, here's the Copyright Song recorded by FT Island and filmed in Lotte World earlier in August. You gotta miss the dorky and playful FT Island members after their usual awesome performance of 사랑사랑사랑 (Love, Love, Love). Where else could you see Hongki and Seunghyun cleaning Minhwan's drum set and a wave by Jaejin which ended up receiving a butt-kick from Hongki?


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One Beautiful Journey.

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I promised my dearest friend that I would post my personal opinions on the mini-album Beautiful Journey that was released on August 26 but I haven’t found the right time to sit down and listen to all songs carefully (although I found the time to sit down and right a proper rant about my life lately). It will be better if I less spam and continue with the reviews. However, this might haven been done with bias so please don’t bash me.

사랑사랑사랑 (Love, Love, Love)
The title track of the mini-album, the all-kill song that each member of FT Island wishes for and finally come true. This song brings back the rock ballad music from FT Island that we all loved and missed and this surely is the trademark of FT Island. It has an awesome rhythm and amazingly good lyrics about a leaving love. But this is very different from their past rock ballads. This is more powerful, and this is more addictive with the same melancholic feeling. The repetitive parts won’t bore you, and the rap parts making it even better. Hongki and Seunghyun show their chemistry in voices through this song better than any songs they performed before. Seunghyun proves that he has dramatically improves in rapping and he sounds even better than before. My rating, five stars out of five stars.

굳은살이 박혀버려 (Like My Hardened Skin)
There is no proper English translation for this song because the title is supposedly a Korean idiom or something but this is a good ballad. It starts off slow and mellow but it grows to be a powerful ballad (of which I won’t categorize as a rock ballad yet). The chorus is amazing and what is more amazing about this song is Hongki’s voice as usual. You can feel the pain and the emotion through the song it self without knowing the definition of the song. My rating, four stars out of five stars.

Baby Love
It is not that I don’t like this song—I love it—but this kind of song from FT Island has always been something I don’t listen much amidst of their rock ballads. I love the melody so much because I think it is very sweet. The piano composition makes this song as sweet as the beautiful summer day. The chorus on the other hand, makes one wants to smile all day and this is the perfect gateway from the rock ballads present earlier in the mini-album. The guitar riff part is the best for sure. Love the transition of the vocal from something heavy to something lighter and bubblier like this song. My rating, four stars out of five stars.

미친듯이 너 하나만 (Madly, Only You)
This is my favorite rock ballad from FT Island because I love the beginning and I love the whole song with all my heart. The chorus is just so good in terms of music and vocal and gets stuck easily by only one listen. The emotion flows in this song smoothly and the bridge part is just mesmerizing because one could feel the emotions send by the great vocal. This ballad is in simpler term, flawless. I love the ad-lib by Jaejin during the end chorus—it feels like a fresh breath amidst of the heavy emotion flows. My rating, five stars out of five stars.

돈키호테의 노래 (Song of Don Quixote)
This marks the first anticipation in composing the Korean song by the leader, Jonghoon. And to make it obvious, it is a great job. The song is the pop upbeat rock song that instead of making you smile and remember your first love, makes you want to jump and dance along with its upbeat rhythm. Hongki never fails with his vocal even with this upbeat song and his vocal gets along with Jaejin ad-lib and Seunghyun fast and fun rap very well. This is the best song they could perform to end the beautiful journey throughout the five tracks of this mini-album. The best part would be during the end chorus, because the drum beat rocks and a good job done by Minhwan with its drumming. My rating, five stars out of five stars.

Overall opinion, I think this is the best mini-album out of the two mini-albums FT Island has released. The songs will never bore you and you will never feel like you want to skip a song. The only thing is that Jaejin and Seunghyun should have more vocal parts, instead of just Hongki, despite his variety of emotions in each song. Jonghoon and Minhwan should shine like their previous albums too. But, the whole mini-album was just too perfect and well produced. Listening to this mini-album does feel like a great and beautiful journey through the music transitions that FT Island wishes to show. This would be one of the recommended mini-albums for 2010. The music, the vocal, the composition and the arrangement—everything is just great.

Love Love Love.

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I promise I will be back to spam about the level of awesomeness of this beyond imagination music video during my break time. I will be back with my personal spams for sure.

I am terribly sorry about this late spam post—I was at work and well, although my work doesn’t worth a brag, I am still trying to take it seriously because it increases the amount of allowances per month that I have, and in this case, increases the chance for me to buy the DVD and CD that I have listed in my wish list earlier this month. Okay, enough about my ridiculous wish list; it is now time to spam as much I could about our beloved Five Treasure Island and their new music video for their official Korean comeback, 사랑사랑사랑 (Love, Love, Love).

Let me be honest—I have waited this since 08:58 a.m. since there are some news that the full music video will be out at 10:00 a.m. in South Korea time (Malaysia is GMT+8 and South Korea is GMT+9, so in South Korea it is one hour faster) but it doesn’t come out until 09:20 a.m. And good gracious, the music video and the song it self are worth the wait and the anticipation.

Okay, now let us all talk about the music video first. God knows how I love the teaser it self and now that FNC Music gives us the four minutes of pure perfection—what more can I say? I freaking love the concept and I freaking love the whole music video, and this is true because throughout the whole music video, I can’t find anything that makes me want to yell or scream in hate. Despite my longing for the overly dramatic music video (that includes someone beaten up, someone died, etc.), I found my self totally immersed in this music video. Frankly, I could say that I love this ten thousand times better than their previous works—바래 (I Hope) MV, Flower Rock MV, Love Letter MV (although this should have been an exception because it consists of FT Triple), etc.

The dark and gloomy atmosphere of the music video, plus the amazing coloring and filtering and the heart-wrenching storyline beats out any music video that shows nothing but boys dancing around like monkeys and riding luxurious cars or swinging their asses like crazy. This complex and dark simplicity totally brings out the emo FT Island we all know and miss. I have been highlighting about the angst that I hope to see in this music video and well, let’s just say that I am freaking satisfied—although no one dies or hurt, but the storyline of the two puppets broke my heart. Ah, even puppets want to be in love.

Oh god, the song. I am glad that it isn’t some cheerful pop and I am even happier that FT Island goes back to their prime days of performing emotional angst rock-ballad (although I can’t categorize this song in either rock-ballad or just rock). I love the rhythm and it is hell addictive. You could sing along after just one listen—like I am right now. Hongki’s vocal sounds incredibly good and surely, it emphasizes his huskiness. The rap—oh god, I was surprised when Seunghyun starts to rap. The rap parts usually gets annoying but not in this song. It fits so well, it adds the angst and harshness to this melodramatic song. I love it, and I am off to search for the translation.

I think that I am getting used of Hongki’s hairstyle—despite my hesitation about it, I guess I have learn to like it. One thing that really bothers me from this music video is the lack of Jonghoon, Jaejin and Minhwan. There are just too much exposure of Hongki and the puppets plus, a tiny bit of Seunghyun—just because he does the rap parts. Okay, I need to emphasize this; FT Island has five members, so please equally show each and every one of them in the music video. FT Island isn’t just about Hongki. Though, I love the concepts that the boys opt—nice and simple boys in neat suits don’t hurt at all. Thumbs up for the style but still, hands down for the hairstyles. I guess Jaejin and Jonghoon rock their hairstyle but not Hongki and perhaps, get rid of that wavy off Seunghyun. I love it better if he has his Missing You days’ hairstyle—the dark shade and messy—rather than darker shade and wavy. But still, they are five freaking gorgeous boys in no matter what hairstyles they have.

This is random. Someone just points out to me that the flashing walls—the awesome flashing walls that I hope I could have in my bedroom—features this artwork called ‘The Temptation of St. Bernard’ by Dali and you could point it out too if you focus at the flashing walls and found an animation of something with sort of long pair of legs. Even the male puppet seems to resemble Dali in a way or two. Yeah, that is what I am talking about. Well, I could have said the director of this music video is pretty creative but I still want the flashing walls—I want the flash on my walls to change every second.

And no, you will not find FT Island as puppets in this music video. They don’t even wear the same clothes as in the teaser so don’t look for FT Island puppets. They are alive and gorgeous—totally not five freaking gorgeous puppets as we have fall in love with in the teaser.

Come to think about, would it be necessary for me to make a different post regarding the songs from the mini-album Beautiful Journey? Or should I just keep my opinions to my self because no one freaking care to know?

On the other hand, I guess Hongki and Jaejin now both have Twitter, as Jonghoon followed them—so that kinds of verify that both accounts are genuine. Go ahead and follow them. Both have quite interesting usernames.

The Hair Stories.

Let me know if I am not the only one who almost suffered a serious cardiac arrest lately. I mean like, seriously. What the hell is wrong with the stylists working for FT Island? Don’t get me wrong but, I think those people hate FT Island.

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Okay, let me be honest. Yes, I love the reddish shade on Hongki because obviously this boy could carry any shade and still look like…well, amazingly flawless. But come on, the hairstyle. It is f-cking ridiculous. No boys should be seen with such curls. Hongki, as much as I love you, I have to say that your hairstyle is a tragedy. It is an epic fail. It’s a big NO-NO. Right now, I am missing the blonde action of Hongki. Even the blonde curls looked better than this.


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Oh God, I also think that the stylist got a bit overboard with the scissors on both magnaes Seunghyun and Minhwan. I did complaint about how I hate it when they have f-cking long hairs during Flower Rock or Brand New Days but I don’t mean that the stylist could like chop almost all of their hairs. Okay, well…I do have to say that Seunghyun looks like he got five years younger suddenly but the short hairstyle matured our beloved drummer, Minhwan by several years. I don’t like flower boys to grow up too fast. Bring me back the cute and lovable Minhwan full with aegyos back from the Love Sick times. Oh damn it, Seunghyun. You always know how to make this noona crazy. Your hair - your amazing sexy hair is gone - but you presented to me this hair…oh my God. You look good even when it is too short for words. This is somehow unrelated to the post itself but...Seunghyun, oh God...your arm...those visible veins on your hands when you strum your guitar. Oh my God, save me.

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For the first time in my life, I am not going to talk about Jaejin’s hair. I mean, look at him! He got rid of The Beatles’ look and thank God he comes back with this freaking simple but amazing hairstyle that somehow brings back the love I once have for him. Jaejin, keep that hair until FT Island’s comeback.

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Oh, our cheesy Orianthi-lover leader, Choi Jonghoon. I could go on and on about how amazing you are with your cheesiness and your skills in both guitar and piano but come on, how can you not do anything with your awesome hair? I don’t see many changes there, Mr. Leader. I have been anticipating your hairstyle the most because you twitted on how it felt awkward to be in the hairdresser but this…it’s just disappointed to know you didn’t change anything. Okay, even if you did change something, what was it? Maybe an inch shorter than the usual? Not even a shade. Come on, Choi Leader. Even Seunghyun got a darker shade and Hongki got a over-the-top red shade but what about you?

Okay, new hairstyles mean that comeback preparation is on the way. I am guessing somewhere in late-August or early-September, maybe? This anticipation could kill me but what would kill me even faster is to know THESE are the hairstyles for their comeback. Oh damn it, hair stylists. Do I need to kill you every year?