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My Own Place and 김건모 and SG워너비
05/27/07
09:39:49 pm, by admin 
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Categories: ...and Takes On, Family, Korea, Culture, Pop, Feats and Defeats (Language), Books and Music and Movies
My Own Place and 김건모 and SG워너비
Ahhh, today was very busy. I saw my parents off (sigh...) then went down to my new city to get the key to my apartment. I then went back to where my friends have been keeping my stuff (a two hour subway ride, and I forgot my iPod, so I couldn't even do my Korean homework) and packed up and moved.
My apartment is a mess and I'm pretty sure I'm going to move the couch into the living room and the bed into the bedroom, even though it will make the bedroom feel very, very small. Why? Because then I'll have room to practice my forms. Besides, I have a bedroom for the first time in ten months and want to feel like it. Since the TV and computer don't really fit well where the couch is, I'll never use that room if I don't move the bed in there.
The last several days with my parents were very busy—fun but busy. I am working on a large photo album and multiple posts, but right now I can't get my own laptop onto the internet, so it'll have to wait a while.
The long and short of the trip is that it was great to see Mom and George, my confidence in my Korean has improved, we were all movie stars, some Korean college students saved our butts on our tea tour, and George got approached by an...interesting woman at Yongsan station.
In other news, I am getting really into Korean ballads—in other words, exceedingly dramatic music where I only mostly understand things like "I love you, I love you, please stay...like this...come back."
This is one of the most famous singers in Korea, 김건모 (Kim Gun-mo) with his song "Scarecrow." My version of the song ends around 4:55. Master gave me a copy of this song. It's also his handphone ring tone.
This one is by SG워너비 (SGWannabe) and is called 내 사람 (My Partner for Life). I can't recall when it became popular, but it is.
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I went up to Monterey this weekend to visit AF Guy, who is learning Chinese at the DLI. We were in the hotel elevator with some chatty Asian women, and AF Guy thought he'd show off a little. He was listening for something in their conversation he could comment on, until he heard a Korean verb ending and realized they were speaking Korean rather than Chinese! He was a little embarrassed (he would have been more so if he had actually said anything) but confessed afterward that he was relieved - he's almost done with his Chinese studies and was shocked that he'd had SUCH a hard time understanding the women! Ha! =)
The first video is so weird for the song. The chorus of the song is something very loosely like, "I love you, I love you, I want to call [yell] but my voice gets stuck in my throat. Come back, come back like that, I want to gaze at you [maybe 'gaze at me,' not sure yet]. I used to be in you [your heart], but now I'm not. I loved you too much."
The second video, no idea what the lyrics are.
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