I'm so happy they sang this song. They did an amazing job and they incorporated it into the show perfectly. This week's episode was wonderful and this part almost made me tear up.

THEONETHING

I just finished studying some Politics, yay!

Please be nice, all. ^__^

LOL, I think LeetSpeak is super funny on macros, although a bit head-ache inducing if you read too many at once, but it really sounds idiotic outside of that.

Anyway, I'm posting to say I got stamped over at suju_rating y'all! Voila!





Oh, what do you guys think? Ha, I don't think I'm like Donghae, tbh, but I guess my app made me sound that way? Anyway, I'm very happy with this rating so I'm not complaining. V^__^V

Maki

Congratulations, SHINee! Haha, the RDD performance was good - Teuk did a good job and he sounded better than I expected, I must say.


OMG, this made my day - so cute! There's lots of cute SMtown interactions, especially between Teuk and the boys. Leader-ssi is really loved by his dongsaengs, you can tell and he seemed really proud of them too. Like Yesung, he tried sneaking off but every time he did, they called him back and brought him to the forefront. :D If you watch it, keep watch ing to the end, okay? They do a cute little "We are SMtown" thing and it's super-adorable. Also I'M SO HAPPY JONG'S BACK, YAY! But also missing leader Dubu.

Maki

I really love this song. I posted it on my Tumblr before but I figured I'd post it here for the benefit of my non-Twitter/Tumblr-using friends and those who have yet to hear it. I think it's incredibly inspirational and that Mariah sounds wonderful here and it helped me a lot when I was going through some rough times a few years back. So here you go - Through The Rain by Mariah Carey. Enjoy~


Maki

Regardless of the latest developments, I'm sticking to what I said at the beginning of the DBSK controversy:

At the end of the day, they'll be okay because they are SURBIBERS!


Hope til the end, you guys. A bond like theirs can't be broken this easily. I sincerely believe that. ♥

Stay strong. Don't give up and try not to get discouraged, all. You have to believe in them too.

Okay, so I wanted to update and I just watched livvyxo 's vlog and it made me want to do something similar so I decided to do a voice post.

I mumble a lot and I tend to leave my sentences hanging so I'm sorry about that and it might be kind of hard to understand so I apologize in advance. That being said, please don't like me less because you think I sound like an airhead or something! I know I sound like a total idiot when I talk - I'm sorry, I'm trying to change that, I don't talk that much so maybe that's why. Anyway, I'll just leave it here and you can listen or not listen and if you think my accent's strong, then tell me because I always wonder about that and you'll aren't from here (as far as I know) so it'll be interesting to hear what you have to say. Sorry about the mumbling again! Next time I'll try to talk louder or something.



Maki

LJ friends, again, you have proved to me that you are all beyond awesome. Thank you for being so nice and not razing me to the ground like I totally deserved in my last post. Love you guys~

Now that said, I'm working on a picture post with some random facts thrown in to help you all get to know me a little better - and this is for my older LJ friends as well as my new ones - but you know how much LJ loves it when I try to cut picture posts so I won't be posting it until I get the cut just right if that ever happens. Also I have to go try to read some Econ so that I don't sit there looking like this -----> O.o in my Economics lecture tomorrow, God willing.

In the mean time, I'll leave you all with a meme.

YOU KNOW YOU'RE yumi_maki WHEN...

Remember - be nice! Hasta luego, amigos! Have a good Friday!

Maki

Hi f-list. first off, let me say that I'm sorry for monopolizing your F-pages with this post.

Okay, so I just found out that one of my LJ friends cut me who knows how long ago and I didn't even realize until today and it made me realize that I am just a sucky, sucky, horrible LJ friend and I always say that I'll be more active and I'll be a better one but then I don't. So I'm hear to say:

I AM VERY SORRY

I recognize that I fail at LJ and I fail at friendship and I suck and I don't know why you guys keep putting up with me (I also wonder about this with my RL friends) but thank you all the same for not cutting me and not giving up on me and not just telling me to GO like I totally deserve. Fortunately, last night I decided that I was going to try harder to stop failing at life in general and actually be a good person every once in awhile and so being a better LJ friend would go along those lines. I should probably explain though that part of the reason why I don't comment on your entries regularly is because I don't read my F-page - it's a looooooong story - but I'm going to rearrange it so that only my friends' - YOU GUYS! - entries show up on it from now on so I'll have no excuse, okay? Okay. So again




Maki

So last night I had a K-pop dream. I've had a few before but this was definitely the best, the most fun by far.

So apparently I was at a concert with some friends and Suju were supposed to be performing there and my friends went off to do something and I tried to follow them but when I walked down the stairs they used, there were a whole bunch of people dancing and in the midst of them, who did I see but Siwon? So I froze at the foot of the staircase staring at him in amazement (because what in the world was he doing out there instead of back-stage?) when he suddenly walks over to me, grabs my hand and pulls me into the crowd - and we end up dancing (like ballroom dancing though in case you were wondering). I'm just like O.o the whole time because I don't know how he even noticed me, let alone decided to dance with me. But this is the magic of dreams, right?

So we danced for awhile and then when the song finished, he pulled me over to the side of the passage way we were in (which was suddenly empty) and he pulled out a Polaroid-like picture of himself and a pen and proceeded to sign it for me. (I thought he was being rather considerate) LOL, I'm almost embarrassed to say that I was all googly-eyed at that point because I was just amazed at how good-looking he was IRL and I actually said something like "Omona, you're so handsome, wow" - he didn't really take me on - so then I realized he was going to leave and I hadn't gotten a chance to say anything to him so I told him to wait and he paused in his signing to ask if I didn't want an autograph (I'm not really sure what language he was speaking but we could understand each other and that's what matters) so I replied "Of course" and then he finished signing it, handed me the picture and moved to leave.

Oh, it was his birthday that day! I just remembered. I think I told him happy birthday at some point in there. And then I was determined to tell him what I wanted to say so I ran over to him and grabbed his shoulder to stop him (which would probably be impossible IRL considering the height difference but whatever) and looking startled, he said "What? I really have to go." So I said "I know, I know - just do me a favour and tell Donghae and Kyuhyun and Hangeng and Ryeowook and Henry and Zhou Mi congratulations and good luck with the second album, okay?" And he kind of laughed and said okay and left. When he left, I just stood there for a few minutes wondering if I'd just imagined the whole thing (which of course I did, lol) but then I looked down and saw the autographed picture and started squealing like an idiot because I realized it 'really' happened. lol, it was a funny dream. From it, I guess I learned that Siwon is nice, a good dancer, super handsome, signs things really quickly and walks around with pictures of himself to sign for lucky fans. And that I really like SJ-M a whole lot considering I totally thought of them insted of the regular group while delivering the message. lol, I'm just weird like that. Anyway, I just wanted to share my fun k-pop dream with you all after my dreary last entry. :D

Have a good week, all!

Maki

So ever since this DBSK drama broke, I've been pondering something - now you guys know (I think) that my main fandoms/my favourite groups are generally all from SM, right? - Just in case my header didn't tip you off, I'm a pretty big fan of SHINee, Soshi, Suju and DBSK respectively (well, kind of a casual DBSK fan but whatever) and I've been wondering - since we now know that SM treats their artists like crap unfairly and gives them pennies compared to how much they actually earn for the company (and I'll admit that I'd always suspected as much and heard likewise but it's one thing to think something and another entirely to have it confirmed), what does that mean for me as a fan?

Should I keep buying cds in an effort to support the artists that I like or should I boycot the company that's treating them unfairly in an effort to help them by pushing the company to treat them more fairly? I usually scoff when I hear about fans doing things like this but maybe if a lot of people did it, it would work. I don't know what the right thing to do is in this situation and I just want to get some feedback on it. Any takers? Mind you, I'm not trying to start any movements myself - I'm just trying to figure things out, that's all.

Maki

So since I'm killing time while acquiring some Frank Sinatra albums, I decided to troll through an anon meme and look for people I know and I just thought in case there was something you all wanted to say to me, you could do it here. Jajan! Please be nice, guys~

ANON MEME

Maki

Oh, and I really like Lachata now that I've heard the whole thing. I didn't like the teaser, tbqh.

I found out that SJ-M are making their comeback on the 10th of September so I AM VERY EXCITED RIGHT NOW!!! YEAH! It's like 7 in the morning, by the way - I stayed up all night again but I slept all day yesterday so it's okay. Gonna try to clean my room and do some college preparation right now. So have a good day/night all.

Bye~

Maki

Hey. Did I tell you that while I was away I got a necklace with a lock and key design? Yeah, there were tons of things with lock and key designs - both necklaces and earrings - but none like the ones that they've got at Yesasia which I am still planning to get - but I really like the one I bought. Look, I took a picture of it!

What do you think? I think the key's design is very pretty.

Actually lots of K-pop related things happened while I was on my trip - like I saw sunglasses like the ones that GD wears at the beginning of the Number 1 video - the ones with the lines across them - in a store and I saw a guy wearing those black star earrings like the ones that Bling has - the ones that they've got under Micky style over at Yesasia - and I also bought a really cool black hoodie with coloured paint splotches that looks like Big Bang's custom-made concert hoodies. I didn't take a picture of that though. And the in style right now is super colourful clothes so I saw those everywhere I went and of course, they reminded me of SHINee as well. I didn't buy any though - I don't much like bright clothing.

By the way, just to be safe, I'll be deleting my original fiction from here and probably f-locking the fanfiction as well. Just until this LJ virus thing is sorted out. But to the people who commented on my original stuff, I'm saving the comments and thanks again.

Maki

This performance made me cry.

And then this one blew me away.

*sigh* It's strange but I find myself listening to a lot more ballads these days. My taste in music is changing, I realize - slowly but surely. Hmm, maybe I'm just getting old...

Anyway, for those who are interested, it's been confirmed that Super Junior's third album will drop on March 12th. Less than two weeks from now. Ooh, anticipation~

I changed my header, by the way. Messed it up a little but it's still cute, right? If you can tell me how to fix it, feel free.

Maki

Hola tout le monde. So I gacked this meme from candychu . It was actually pretty fun - I'd def. recommend it. Now prepare to suspend your reality~

Who would you want as your….

 

( Answers under the cut! )

OMG! I was just browsing the comments on fandom_secrets  (evil place - I should never have gone there) and I just found out that
( Naruto Spoiler )

And about the Gee competition, I ended up not entering because I only just got my digi-cam up and running and I realized that I only have 30 seconds of recording time which wouldn't have even covered the intro. And I had this awesome idea to do a parody of the Gee music video using teddy bears for Soh Nyuh Shi Dae with me singing in the background but alas, I cannot now...oh well, maybe when I get a memory card, I'll do it just for kicks, eh?

Laters...

So I'm thinking about taking part in this - doing the dance though because goodness knows I can't sing.

Honestly I wouldn't mind taping myself and sending it in but WHY do I have to put it on YOUTUBE first? So I can embarrass myself internationally? It's the one thing I'm not cool with. What do you guys think?

I'm trying to be positive anyway - I mean, I already know parts of the dance and it'll be something fun even if I don't win. But I really want to win.

On a side note, I really want to see this movie. (video credit: FocusFeatures)


It looks like Tim Burton's usual creepy coolness~

Maki

Starting the year off right - with a meme, of course! Here goes nothing.