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Confession of a TripleS

2014-09-04T17:30:00.002+08:00

(Penned this couple of days back. Decided not to share because it was ridiculously stupid since the person I’m addressing to, will never get to read this.. but still, IT TOOK ME EFFORT TO TYPE ALL THESE SO I DON’T CARE WTFLOL)

Dear Leader,

Thank you for your honesty and admitting things you have indeed done, although it is not something to be proud of. At least you do not attempt to hide the truth.

Thank you for proving that we were right – in trusting you are someone with guts and backbone.

But like I said, supporting you doesn’t mean we (or rather, I) have condone your wrongdoings. That explains my confession.

Maybe you were really driven to the wall by her. Maybe she attacked you too much it was a self defense mechanism. It is sadly, a social stigma that a man shouldn’t lay his hands on a woman.

In my utmost honest opinion – this is true. And false.

First of all, allow me to share something private – I was once a victim of an abusive boyfriend. He was 1.8m and very built. (Not that I drove him crazy in any way he has to abuse me wtflol). I’m a 1.6m and very.. erm, fat?

What I’m trying to say is that there is no way my strength is greater than his. Lol. Anyway, he was really psychotically possessive and too much a liar I had to leave him. And for that reason, he abused me. He tried to break my wrist. Ok period. Enough of my history.

So I thanked the law for protecting women. That law helped me to fend him off for good.

Now, pls be patient and allow me to tell you a story. I chanced upon this video clip. It was a hidden camera. In the footage, there was a fake couple pretending to have a heated quarrel. The man started to getting physical and pushed the woman. Once. Twice. And the surrounding people almost immediately, stepped up and stopped the man. The crowd was protecting the woman.

The 2^nd half of the footage showed that same. Heated quarrel. This time round, the woman begin to hit the man. Again and again and again. What did the crowd do?

They stood aside to watch. And they chuckled. All of them.

None of them stood up for the man. The woman continued to abuse the man.

You see, social stigma protects women. Which is really not wrong. But hey, thinking deeper, some men are going through the same thing. But yet no one is there to protect them.

No one but themselves.

However, if a man were to retaliate (all human does) and the receiving party is a woman – the man naturally gets it, in this modern society. This is done so because many men abused woman for the wrong-est reasons. As a woman, I agree to this law. Some man are just plain crazy.

So are some woman.

As one who practices being objective, I can’t help but to see both side of stories and at time, voice out for the man.

I feel (really just my own sentiments) you ought to walk away. It is the best a man could do. Walk away, have a booze. Even if you are mad, venting your anger on a woman is socially wrong even if your aren’t.

Dear Leader, my boy - I hope this has taught you a good lesson. A valuable one. In relationship, in life, in your career. EQ is very important. You are 28 (international age system) - not young, but not old either. I hope you will change to be someone better, strong and wiser. For your junior, your friends, and your fans will take you as a role model. It is unfair, but you have soared high to be a hallyu star – hence the responsibilities. We are all role models somehow, somewhere. Bear that in mind. Engrave it to your heart.

Translate negative into positive – I always try to do that. I hope you will, too.

I believe this has affected your career somehow. But over here, we are all rooting for you. Because..

1) We still yet know the entire story,

2) You have instilled an impression to fans that you are never someone abusive,

3) We knew you have done many kind deeds,

4) You have your friends that are telling us NOT to trust what we are reading.

Because…

A voice is telling us to hang on. Something is not right. Wait for the truth to be unveiled.

This whole saga has once again proven our unity as your fans. Well of course, this saga also helped “spring clean” a little, ridding off the fans that probably are over your looks and perhaps, just over your popularity, I don’t know.

Meanwhile, I wait for more truth to be told by you.

Yours sincerely,

Of JNation Entertainment

2013-09-27T22:17:00.000+08:00

Hi all, this is a spin off from my previous post "SS501 Park Jung Min Singapore Fansign - cancelled. And predicted."

http://vanity-heals.blogspot.sg/2013/08/ss501-park-jung-min-simgapore-fansign.html

Updates will be added on top as it goes.

As this entry might possibly be read by other fandoms e.g. DALMATE(s) aka fans of Dalmatian, LOVE BEAT(s) aka fans of LC9, I've decided to keep it separate from the entry mentioned above, in case it confuses others.

Allow me to introduce myself, in case some of you are not aware who I am. I nick @violettacal in twitter, I am a fan of SS501, equal victim whom experienced JNation Entertainment (named JN henceforth) and its cancellation of (many) events.

I work closely with local fanbase, TripleS Singapore (named SGTS henceforth), nick @SGTripleS in twitter for this entire saga. And I thank them (alongside with many TripleS + anonymous), sincerely, for this is really too much to be handled singlehandedly.

Disclaimer: I do not belong to the fanclub. I am a standalone fan, whom (sorta) initiated JN's exploitatory behavior and it grew to the stage it is, today. Having said, please note that should anyone be unhappy (was there?) with my statement or actions, please point it to me. I take full accountability. SGTS shall not be responsible for my acts. :) (FYI, they never complain, my initiative to state this just in case)

SGTS and myself, we discuss on most of the plans before we execute them. We also challenge ourselves on what could be done and what are the backup plans.

I mostly try to collate the (super duper many) evidences, screenshots, filter them - and disseminate the information to whom-it-may-be-concerned. I also try to find out more information from players from the industry, with that, I touch base with SGTS (actually, Jennis lah. Lol) and we see if we can nail down any evidences.

SGTS will help to gather (super duper many ) information and compile it so I can go through and sieve out what are good, what are worthy to be shared to the public.

SGTS also help to physically go down to divisions (of which you may be aware, are small claims and police). Poor thing lah they, have to brace the sun and rain and storm and tsunami so please thank them whenever you can. And if it's convenient, please give me a pat on my shoulder. It helps me to brace through the 4 to 5 hours worth of investigation too. Haha.

So, I seek your kindest co-operation, I do tweet directly to individuals or other major accounts because sometimes, timing is very critical for me. If I were to get SGTS (whom are also equally busy with their day jobs) to ask a particular individual and wait for them to revert, the information might just be, expired?

Ok I guess the introduction is enough. I'm also very long-winded.

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Ok, so who is JN? He basically is a "one man show" whom in short:

1) Organizes KPOP events.

2) Cancels KPOP events when tickets sales are not good. (Quote: DMTN, Lunafly (Edited to add: not cancelled, but fans did not get their meet & greet. Where got like that one?), Nu'est, yes, Park Jung Min and many more)

3) Forced to cancel KPOP event because of alleged irresponsible attitude which pissed the KPOP artist's agency off (Quote: Park Jung Min)

3) Cancels KPOP event because the communication was not done properly with the artist's agency and went ahead to organize anyway, and then later the artist's agency had to issue an official statement that the event was NOT a confirmed one. I.e. Illegal. (Quote: Kim Soo Hyun)

4) Is HIGHLY SUSPECTED to be East Entertainment. (yes baby, we finally had the evidence omg)

5) JN has reportedly deleted its facebook. Screenshot below was a cached, on 26 Sep. Tried searching it today (27 Sep, 9pm) but to no avail.

6) JN was claimed to NOT PAY THEIR PART TIMERS AND HELPERS. (A LOT of evidences)

7) JN is NOT ACRA registered, thus, not a registered company. At such, monetary transaction is an offence, accordingly to the regulations of ACRA.

8) May I add, whatever applies to JN, might HIGHLY BE APPLICABLE to East Entertainment.

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Things we have done so far:

1) Small claims - Claimed JN is not a registered company thus unable to advise.

2) Police - whom ordered JN to pay up by Friday. JN has not adhered to their order. Less than 10 received their refunds. Remaining 50 over not refunded. It was suspected Joseph left town (got evidence too), presumably to avoid calls? Or get money? I don't know. My own thoughts only.

3) Managed to push through a 2nd article for the PJM fanmeet refund. Featured in digital and hard copy of wanbao.

PJM ticket reund 2nd article on wanbao

4) Officially gotten DALMATES to work with us. Their refund amount is madass huge I tell you.

5) Planning on wave 3. Which is SUPER AWESOMELY UNIMAGINABLY tedious. We are talking about the higher authorities than the ones we have tried.

As you can see, we are already trying our best to pursue the refund. And we have banged a lot of walls and met a lot of obstacles.

For those whom asked SGTS and myself "what happens after Friday (which is today, 27 Sep) if we don't get our refund?" - we feel very sad, because the response we have gotten from the police was...

"we are unable to do any investigation."

So much for the country's protector. This is obviously a fraud and non could help victims like us.

My answer for you is, helpless as we are, WE ARE WORKING VERY VERY HARD TO PUSH THIS FURTHER.

And by means of very very hard, i mean VERY. Both Jennis and I are often zombified. On weekends where I don't work, we sometimes discussed till 1am to 2am, of which I will try to document down our pointers for future good use.

On weekdays, I can see Jennis sleep very late too, working on this.

We sometimes get breathless doing all these because we too hold a day job. :( At such, we may get a bit cranky, but forgive us.

6) Security (Bodyguard) company contacted SGTS (again, actually it's Jennis lah) and told her about his share of story and he is equally victimised by JN. Another piece of shocking infomation was shared by him, about Nu'est's event. Not disclosing to public yet.

Ok bye. Update as and when I got news. Meanwhile, TripleS, DALMATES - stay strong!

(Updated 18 Sep) SS501 Park Jung Min Singapore Fansign - cancelled. And predicted.

2013-09-17T21:00:00.000+08:00

(Updated 18 Sep)

*IMPORTANT NOTICE*

Lovelies, we are compiling the information of fans whom has yet received their refunds from JNation Entertainment in hope to seek legal advice. We are in the midst of our plans so please be patient. I will be providing updates when the date nears.

Please provide full information in the below format and send to sgtripleS@gmail.com. Pls state email subject as [PJM fan meet fans info]

The provided information will allow us to verify your identity and contact you if necessary.

Particulars provided will not be divulged so worry not! However, it might be shared to the relevant party should we decide to take yet one step up.

Name:

Contact no.:

Email:

Local or Overseas fan:

NRIC/Fin/Passport no.:

Amount owed by JNation (please include $3 service charge):

Receipt / Order confirmation no.:

Send it to sgtripleS@gmail.com, subject header remember to put it as [PJM fan meet fans info] else they might missed out your email.

Note:

• Only fans with full particulars will be included in the data compilation.
• Overseas fans who bought their tickets thru SGTS, you do not need to send in your details. SGTS will send you an email personally as most of your details are already given to them. They will send you an email to only to request your passport number.

Any queries you may tweet or email me at @violettacal / violettacal501@gmail.com

- One more. The tweep whom received the mailer from EventBrite that claimed her refund was in process, she filed a dispute to paypal. Paypal has revert to rule in her favour.

At least a piece of good news.

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(Updated 17 Sep)

Latest updates in summary:

Disclaimer: My apologies for not seeking credit. There's just too many and challenging for me to get individual permission. If you are the owner of the below comments and would like to be excluded from my evidential post, please inform me, will remove upon request.

- 6 days to refund. No news yet. I believe we are getting more and more upset as each day passes, as if we are waiting for.. nothingness.

For me, I wait for the worse to come. Which is why I'm (and many others who are helping in this) cracking my brain daily to see what else we can do to resolve this. (People whom had been equally involved into resolving this matter and particularly helping me out, I genuinely thank you.)

- A fellow tweep said this (not quoting her word for word lah, but the meaning is about the same):

According to the stipulated deadline i.e. 23 Sep, if JN adheres to it, we should be:

(1) receiving emails to advise us on our refunds tomorrow (18 Sep), considering the bank needs 4 working days to process the payment.

(2) With that, if you count 4 business days (Wed 18th, Thur 19th, Fri 20th, Mon 23rd) we should SEE OUR MONEY IN OUR BANK ACCOUNT ON 23rd SEP, MONDAY.

That is IF they even follow the timeline. So in a nutshell, if no news tomorrow, I'll proceed to the next step. (Will update again what is the next step. I should be working with SgTripleS I suppose. But it seems like I'd need to do a lot a lot a lot of fact check even before I proceed so... *sigh* anyway, I'll keep all of you updated. Meanwhile, pls be very vigilant and do continue pressing JN for an answer, tqvm)

- Spoken to MD of a particular magazine publisher. This person immediately gave a cold laugh when I mentioned the company. This person also shared that JN is well known for the things we had been witnessing - Avoiding emails, phonecalls, debts from creditors, giving all sorts of excuses etc.

- Spoken to another media, likely to help should refund fails.

- A tweep shared that she received an email from EventBrite on the refund, on 30 Aug. Here's how it goes:

(a) She purchased the tickets on 15 July. Received confirmation email to say that payment has been made to Joseph's paypal account.

(b) 30 Aug, 12am she received an email indicating refund had been processed. This tweep later checked with JN's admin and was advised the payment had been deducted from his paypal account.

(c) Eventbrite indicated it takes 4 business for the refund to be completed. This tweep has yet received any payment till date. That's many, many business days.

(d) This tweep seems to be the only person whom received the refund mailer from EventBrite. Or is there anyone else experiencing the same thing?

- Tweep whom mentioned @EastSingapore, @KPOPFiesta and JN are all affiliated, further shared her details. No concrete proofs to penalise the said parties, but I leave you all, my intelligent lovelies, at your own discretion to decide whom to trust and whom not to.

I am here to share, not to spread malicious attacks. And I share because I see a need to.

- See underline in red. "If they don't have it (refund updates), who has?"

WELL SAID.

What do you mean by no updates? Shouldn't it be processed or in the midst of processing or something? I mean, SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE AFTER 23 AUGUST AKA END OF REFUND (FORM) SUBMISSION RIGHT?

No. JN chose to inform people and further worry them by saying they have got no updates.

- This one to show A-Jax fans had their refund owed for 3 long month. Aka 90 days. Not 9, not 30, not 60. But 90 days.

- A few more things to check and verify before I can even share. Let's hope for a better tomorrow.

Fighting.

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(Updated 14 Sep)

Latest updates in summary:

- Left 9 days to 23 Sep, 2359 hour.

- @JNationEnt had changed their ID to @JNationEnter, everyone please take note.

From my understanding, this action would means JN would not see the below @mentions I've screenshot for example.

Disclaimer: My apologies for not seeking credit. There's just too many and challenging for me to get individual permission. If you are the owner of the below comments and would like to be excluded from my evidential post, please inform me, will remove upon request.

Why the sudden change of ID I wonder? Perhaps some fengshui master advised them to do so?

Or perhaps this could allow the account user to not see any bullshit @mentions or chaser tweets or maybe, just maybe, reminding the account user to refund them their hard-earned money?

- Above screenshot, we could clearly see that DMTN refund had not been completed. How long has it been? Since July?

- Also, if you refer to the above screenshot, someone jokingly mentioned if @JNationEnt (now, @JNationEnter), @EastSingapore and @KPOPFiesta are all affiliated?

Again, I wonder why she tweeted that.

Will any kind soul be able to investigate? Infomation should be shared and keep others vigilant I feel. So people, the usual - should you find any information that could lead to what user xxxxxxxis had commented, email me at violettacal501@gmail.com

(Shoutout to twitter user id xxxxxxxxis: should you feel uncomfortable of me quoting you and would like to be removed from this summary, please let me know, I'll remove this. I'm being very evdential and detailed especially when I'm taking extra note so that JN don't delay the PJM fanmeet refund.)

- Met some familiar faces yesterday and it seemed like none of us or people around us had gotten any refund for the said subject yet.

Can't help but to think - is JN going to accumulate the entire pool of money and only refund ON 23 Sep one shot? Do people do it this way? Pardon my ignorance.

I'd thought (or rather, many of us would have thought) the refund could have been done on staggered and thus, at least some fans would have received their refunds already.

But no? It seems like none is receiving any?

- Pending for a fan to share more information on what might be a possible fraudulent claim from JN on refunding her money. I'm only reading bits and pieces of her story so this pointer as of now is inevitably, inaccurate. For my own reference only.

Ok update again. I reckon should have new information over the weekend.

3am now. Nights lovelies.

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(Updated 19 Aug)

Latest updates in summary:

- More information regarding JNation Entertainment was shared. Shall not publicise here as yet.

- EventBrite http://pjm-es2.eventbrite.sg/?rank=1 is still selling the FM tickets as of today at 7:25pm. Tweeted twice but to no avail. Anyway, fans please take note. I'm pretty sure most TripleS are aware of this entire cancellation hoo-hah already.

- JNation Entertainment replied today morning. It occurs to me the following stated is not very convincing?

"We apologies for this incident and we have no rights to further explain on the situation"

Why not? If you are have your difficulties or that the Korea side had done something that made you feel unjust, why not?

Unless the statement ParkJungMin Official said, was true.

Unless you cannot explain yourself.

Silence is not necessary golden.

Anyway, me being me - very kiasu, had requested them to reply upon receipt of my email and form. Occupational hazard, you call that. CC'd a friend too. In case they claim they never receive my email. Which is likely to happen if people are deliberately trying hard to avoid the issue, my personal sentiment though.

- Refund form of mine looks like this.

- VERY IMPORTANT: They have indicated the refund payment will only be made after the end of the refund submission (23 Aug 2013). I read it as:

"If you do not send in your form by 23 Aug 2013, e.g. if you send in on 28 Aug, you could potentially expect your refund to be completed latest by 28 SEP, which is also, a month from your submission date."

If you submit late and they refund late, they are not wrong, ok? Take note.

So lovelies, make sure you do so early. Do not allow them to have a reason to delay your refund. If you ask me, I suggest you to do it no later than Thursday evening. Even earlier for the overseas fans, if you ask me.

- Then again, I wonder how are they going to refund overseas fans.

- I also wonder why are several digital media still helping JN promote their events. Sincerely hope their next event will proceed smoothly.

- Planned to call the media today but I totally forgotten.

Ok bye..

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(Updated 18 Aug)

Latest updates in summary:

- Sources had touch based with me between 4 - 5pm, to claim my allegations for kourier.co untrue. Stories from their end was shared.

In a nutshell, it appears they are equally victimised as we are. However, I, as a fan, may not see the difficulties they are facing thus no concrete proofs to say who is right and who is wrong?

To the founder and its team: if this is true, mark my words - I will do my best to help you guys. I am not afraid to apologise and share with the community (and if media entertains me, media too) if I wronged anyone.

Facts will be facts. If anyone does come across anything to back kourier.co and MyKPlayground - do share. We can be very transparent should we be not guilty of any wrongdoings.

- To reiterate, I did not point my fingers at the "friends" helping JNation Entertainment - I was voicing out that people helping JNation Entertainment could just be his friends and thus, should not be involved in these entire ordeal. My bad for not making this clear enough.

- JNation Entertainment, should you be reading this, please pay whomever you should. Fans and people whom have helped you and deserved their paycheques. Should you not be able to do it (which is not acceptable, actually) - please at least give an official statement. I am in no position to teach anyone how to work, but at least honesty is the best policy.

- omy.sg, Xinmin and Lianhe Wanbao - have all covered this article, with Park Jung Min's event as the header. I shall not share here.

- JNation Entertainment sent all fans an sms around 7:30pm to advise refund details. Contents as follow:

"Greetings from Jnation. As park jung min party being cancelled. Refund will be made. Kindly drop jnation an email to request for the form. Email to (address) we apologies for all the inconvenience caused. Thanks."

My reply at such, around 11:30pm:

Hi there,

Thank you for you keeping your promise to advise the refund details. If you have been keeping a close monitor of TripleS community, you'd have been aware that I was the one whom gathered information and yes, placed pressure on your end.

Please send me the form. If possible, I intend to have the form uploaded into public portal where all tripleS can download. That way, it eases your end to send each and every individual of us the form. Speed up the refund process too. Please let me know if that is possible. And please help us to help you too.

I bet you have enough to handle at your side already.

Do note that we are ready to co-operate with JNation Entertainment, as long as JNation Entertainment is ready to come clean, TripleS are a bunch of understanding people, as far as I'm concerned.

Regards,

violettacal

I intend to give them some grace period to reply. Since my reply was rather late. I suppose they will be diligently replying all our emails the next 1-2 days. Especially since this matter have blown up. Thus, I have yet seen how the form looks like.

Do note that I am offering JNation Entertainment a helping hand, which is to upload the form in a public cloud so all involved individuals can download themselves. Having said that, JNation Entertainment has the option to decline. No right or wrong.

To be fair, I would at least give JNation Entertainment some credits for keeping their promise. I'm merely stating facts.

I hope this encourages JNation Entertainment to really look into TripleS' matter and resolve it ASAP.

- Fans whom have replied JNation Entertainment, has apparently received response from the former rather promptly. Thank you, JNation Entertainment.

- Fans who have received JNation Entertainment's reply basically shared a screen shot of their email:

As you can see, the time where the above was shared, was approximately 20 - 30 minutes after their sms. Which is actually, quite prompt.

- Due to the community's bad experience, I do not intend to let my guards down on the 1 month. At such, I sincerely hope JNation Entertainment would give us some form of updates. Not sure what can they do though, but yes, an update would at least ease the community.

I feel this could give victimised fans (from other fandoms) some hope too. Afterall, especially since they now know that, as consumers, we ARE able to do something. I speak for my own fandom - TripleS only. My apologies for other fandoms again, but at least you know that TripleS have set a precedent for such incidents.

Ok that's all for today. Shall monitor closely and hopefully, close our case on 23 SEPTEMBER, which is 1 month from the date of refund application.

Thanks lovelies.

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(Updated 17 Aug)

Latest updates in summary:

- JN has not refunded LUNAFLY's fanmeet, too - just how many events have they screwed? Someone please tell me the final count?

- Founder of JN is a very young chap - explains his lack of financial capabilities and social responsibilities.

- kourier.co is JN's affiliated website - people, please take note in future

Disclaimer: My apologies for not seeking credit. There's just too many and challenging for me to get individual permission. If you are the owner of the below comments and would like to be excluded from my evidential post, please inform me, will remove upon request.

Senders of the below information will not be shared or disclosed to protect their identity. Thanks.

Date: 17 Aug
Source: email

Date: 17 Aug
Source: email, facebook

P.S. Thanks for sharing the info with just an overnight notice. I'm deeply touched by the efforts of all of you. While I have a handful of screenshots, I did not choose to share everything here because some are repeated, and some are not concrete enough.

Nevertheless it is still very helpful to me. :) Keep it coming. If you could reach out to the victimised fandom and get them to send in info, please, do so.

[Important] While I tweeted to JN that "this week denotes Aug 18 2359", it occurs to me late last night that JN could potentially do these to buy themselves time, so I urge all fans to take note. Here are some of the things I suspect they could do:

- ignore my tweet and delay;

- reply within my given timeline and say things like "hi, we are doing up the forms, pls be patient and forms will be share next week";

- please email us your details and we will get back to you;

So on.

My take is:
1) do not cut them any slacks, pls continue to pressure them over the weekends,

2) details, details, and more details. Press them to be AS SPECIFIC AS POSSIBLE. If JN were to get us to email our info to them, press them for things like "then what are you going to do? When are you going to get back to us?" Force them for a timeline.

3) In arguments like this, details, date and time plays a very important part - if we decide to bring it to public's awareness. It can help determine how long JN has taken to do the next step and for people to assess if they are truly apologetic or deliberately fooling and delaying us.

Ok apologies for the long-windedness. I feel like some legal advisor now. K bye lovelies.

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(Posted 16 Aug)

Hi guys, it's been the longest while since I pen down anything in this forsaken blog of mine. Didn't expect I'm posting for this very reason:

The cancellation of Park Jung Min Singapore fanmeet.

Well we all know, the statement was released by ParkJungMinOfficial facebook earlier on 16 Aug. Around noon time.

Pls see all the facts that I've consolidated in chronological order.

Date: 6 Aug
Source: Twitter
Status: No reply

Date: 10 Aug

Source: Twitter

Status: No reply

Note: Jungmin's tweet for Singapore fanmeet, at this point of time, was removed. Not sure when exactly he removed.

Date: 15 Aug

Source: Twitter

Status: Read on

Then, never before so promptly, JNation Entertainment replied. May I reiterate, this was after my many tweets that very much addressed my frustration.

No reply after this. Note that they technically, owe me an answer still.

Date: 16 Aug

Source: Twitter

Status: No reply

Note: Told me the day before that event is still on and I can collect tickets. Lo and behold, statement from ParkJungMinOfficial came in the noon. Which was why I tweeted JNation Entertainment again:

Still no reply. Saw tweets from them that they will provide refund details on 18 August. Which I then tweeted this very stern message to them:

@JnationEnt This week denotes 18 Aug 2359. I await your timely advise. Pls be professional enough to address all areas. Alot of TripleS are professional working adults so I truly hope your esteemed team will settle this carefully. As we had been receiving many hearsays of the unprofessionalism on your kind end, we will not hesitate to take legal actions for the community should this not be settled in a hollistic manner.

Truly,
Me

And why did I do that? Why did I send JNation such a message?

See below screenshots that various TripleS had shared. Sorry if you are the original owner of these and wish to be removed from my evidential post. I can take down upon request.

Self explanatory. I bet there are more to come. Will add on top as and when I receive any new ones.

To add, here was the conclusion I tweeted:

So, here's my conclusion. JM and Jnation had decided to call off the event weeks back. Explained why JM deleted his Sg fanmeet tweets n info from Facebook. I speculated Jnation kept it from the public until the very last minute, so they can encourage more tix purchase. At such, they are able to use money pooled from TripleS' end, and refund the previous fans which experienced the same issue. Now, they are gg to use the money they get from any upcoming events, to refund us. My 2-cents worth. So, bottom line is, don't support Jnation amymore.

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TripleS whom paid for the tickets, we may or may not get our due compensation. Or, it might be delayed for god knows when. Other fandoms are experiencing it, as you can see from the above screenshots. We might be next. Please be mentally prepared.

I also heard that many of them are too young and helpless to take any action. They have my utmost empathy but sadly, it really is beyond my meager strength to take this so far.

But for our own fandom, I'm prepared to take our own case further. Media have been alarmed, One contacted me. And should we be yet the next victim of JNation, I have plans in mind. Not sure if it will even work but I'm not going to give up without trying.

Meanwhile, I need your help. Really. I'm tired from all these but I'm still gonna put a fight. Let's all unify and pull this through together.

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So how to help?

Be my investigator, please. Help me gather as many evidences (like the above screen shots) as possible. I need to compile them together and you know, do my homework. Email me all the screenshots. I'd prefer email.

You may wish to email me at violettacal501@gmail.com

Tweets might get overwritten and as a result, I might missed yours. So no no to tweeting me the screenshots. :)

Thanks.

Kimg Hyun Joong Fanmeet Sg

2012-05-05T00:43:00.000+08:00

The house lights were absolutely friendly so I managed to capture some clear ones. As some may be aware, I'm down with fever and flu while watching this so I myself am surprised I'm so diligent to upload these almost immediately..

Or perhaps I'll have to do it now so I can recuperate during the weekends.

A quick summary - the FM was a blast. Aside from seeing HJL semi naked *covers eyes and peep*, stunning choreography, there was a dash of humour in the clip he prepared for us. To add, a new song was sang by him, titled "Smile". (?) Said to be first released in SG.

Now that's something.

Ok enjoy the very minimal but clear enough pics I took while thinking of my fellow TS friends whom were unable to join us in this short yet spectacular event. Cheerios.

My personal favourite. Albeit with the double chin. :p

Preview of Kim Hyun Joong for ‘The Wedding Scheme’ OST

2012-03-27T14:08:00.001+08:00

Credit: CJENMDRAMA@YT

Heard this? Now THIS is what I meant by singing with sincerity. A song that touched people's heart. Apparently everyone was shocked with this seemingly new voice of his. New vocal teacher by Mr Bae, perhaps? L was saying the teacher it could be Young Saeng, our lead vocalist with anglic voice.

To spice things up, Hyung Jun tweeted earlier. Young Saeng and Kyu replied. Not a big deal I know, but it was a precious moment for us, the peas, since it had been quite some time since they interacted with each other. Sub-group love ftw!

P.S. Jungmin, that horrid kid. Abandoned his twitter again. Pfffft.

twirls hair

2012-03-26T17:41:00.002+08:00

Le bored.

Le sigh.

Yet watched Fondant Garden I'm so nailed. You know, I have this thing against cheap drama. Unfortunately, Fondant Garden happens to be one imho. (No news or whatsoever, just that I feel it's a cheap drama) And that, is exactly the reason why I had no enthusiasm to watch after the first. Nevertheless, I will! Just, dunno when. Lol.

End of Monday. 3 more days to bade this place...

4th post of the day!

2012-03-22T16:06:00.006+08:00

Lol I'm spamming my blog. Too free! Anyways, here are some mundanities of everyday life:

"Pooch why you SOOOOO cute!"

Pup was licking my finger as if it was a popsicle. I'd fear my finger bitten off if this was not a pup we are talking about.

"Done with emcee-ing at Meanie's big day!"

Annnnd, it clashed with the bloody IT Show. Again. I went back to work after her wedding lunch. See? No fun, no glam.

"Where got people's
shutter door so cute one!!!"

Agree?

"Finally, the hot pink I've wanted.
Colour not true to real one."

$6 bucks, was all I spent.

Manicurist asked if I was a student when I asked for the price! *glees* (Diligence of applying skincare product every morning and night showed results!) Should have told her yes I am a student and get some discounts. Shall do that in future.

Fondant Garden 2, 3, 4 and 5

2012-03-22T11:13:00.002+08:00

Ok I'm a failed fan. Merely watch the premier of Fondant Garden, promised with my version of screencaps and now, still nothing. Episode 5 is airing this Friday and I'm yet again, gonna missed it. Omg I ought to go commit suicide already. Told myself every weekend that I will catch up with the episodes but Running Man and SNSD's Dangerous Boys keeps getting in the way. Lol.

This week. This week must give PJM my moral support. *Fingers crossed*

Fondant Garden Premier [翻糖花园 - 首播] ep 1 SPOILER ALERT

2012-02-25T00:35:00.001+08:00

**SPOILER ALERT**

Live broadcast - 24th Feb 2012

Gyyyyaaa! Have you watched have you watched have you have you have YOUUUUU?

I'm still feeling the hype after watching it. Been waiting for so long for this drama to air afterall. Didn't intend to do an entry for this but HE IS MY BIAS. Period.

So. Right. I nearly missed this episode because the links I found were ALL not working egmbr24fdkjm881!$4ihh#he2773wyfdhhfhe!!#X$$%.

9:20pm - Started searching for the links

9:42pm - Panicked because most of the links weren't working

9:50pm - Whining to L and J and them, frantically helping to solve my problem

10pm - Can't work, can't load, can't think

10:11pm - "Nooooooooooooo~"

10:15pm - "Ok. Not fated. Forget it.. :(" (Was about to go watch Running Man instead..)

10:20pm - J found a working link! WAH YOU IS MY SAVIOUR.

10:24pm - KNN my Adobe not working. Gotta install the latest version (whhhhy did this always happen to me whyyyyy?)

10:32pm -YES. GOT IT!!!! TADAH!!! *throws confetti and blows trumpet*

Anyway I missed the 1st 30 mins of the drama lah. Kinda sad. And pardon me, I didn't bother to do any screencaps because it was airing live. You know? Live. Cannot go backwards nor repeat. Reckon I'll do so when the other major drama sites start broadcasting Fondant Garden.

The scenes were evenly distributed amongst the 3 main actors namely Kingone, Jian Man Shu (简嫚书) and our very own Sexy Charisma Park Jung Min.

Not too much vivd scenes of JM in this episode. Maybe the part he went matchmaking with this fa.. chubby girl and he tried to sabotage his brother by introducing her to him.

Rather, the NGs (they call it "Fondant's secret Garden") aired last was more interesting than the episode itself.

In the NGs, you get to see JM...

- forgetting his lines i.e. kept quiet when it was his turn to speak

- getting slapped by a tie (and he spoke Taiwanese dialect after getting hit! Cute or what?)

- mumbling

- saying absurd sentences like.. "She is my boyfriend... I am the girl, she is the guy.. I have round tummy because I pressed my boobs down, she's got boobs because she pushed her round tummy up."

Seriously JM, WTF? LOLOLOL.

Also, you get to see him making funny faces too. Here's one I managed to screencap, just for you. ^^

一秒變單眼皮!
(Translation: Single eye lid in just 1 second!)

바보.

ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

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(Highlights of the episode will be shown here. So watch this space)

Age - from Surplus to Deficit!

2012-01-09T17:15:00.000+08:00

Just in case you are confuse or unaware what surplus and deficit means (it's accounting terms *pushes thick framed glasses like a boring accountant*), scroll all the way down.

In short, surplus is when there is extra. Deficit, on the other hand, means shortage. Not good in the eye of the finance people, but good in the eye of vanity-heals's blogger!

Yes that's me.

I remembered how I always look 2 years (otherwise, more) older than my usual age. I get into clubs when I was 14 (legally, 16), get into adult clubs when and watched rated R movies when I was 18 (legally, 21). I hardly get my IC checked when I buy alcohol or ciggies.

Or perhaps I was so calm it didn't disclose the fact I was a juvenile.

***Not a good example I've led. Minors should not attempt the above things I've done. Not fun anyway.***

Point is, I used to look much older till I was about.. 23? That was when I start getting age deficit, so to say, people are starting to claim I look younger. First they correctly guessed my age. But as I grow older, they start to get it wrong. Averagely, I get compliments that I look at least 2 years younger.

The importance of skincare - I cannot stress enough how important is that.

Well I guess there are a few things that could make you look youthful:

1) Skincare, skincare, skincare!!!

2) Your behaviour. Maintain a light heart and a jovial personality. Smile even when you don't feel like it, for it takes more muscle to frown. And worse, it leaves you wrinkle!

3) Dressing. Need I elaborate more? You dress old, you look old lah!

4) Makeup. The heavier is your makeup, the older you'll look.

5) Weight. This one damn sad. But yes, having excessive weight makes one look old. Of course, being severely underweight to the extend that makes one look like a dried prune - is even worse.

What I'm saying is, always find out your BMI and try to have your weight scaled towards the lighter side. (Gentle reminder, pls lose weight healthily ok!)

For me, I'm on the heavier side for sure. In fact I'm close to overweight already. So I'm trying to shed some pounds (FOREVER). Good enough, I've lost close to 4kgs since my new job.

People had been telling me I'm complacent because I'm still young. I beg to differ. It's exactly because I keep reminding myself that I'm not young, that pushes me to work towards status quo. The amount of time spent on taking care of my skin is twice as long as I take my bath. Everyday. Insane.

I'm 28 this year. 29 in the Chinese calculation and no, I'm not young. I'm not afraid of saying it. In fact, I'm proud to disclose my age because I'm aging gracefully.

Accept the fact. Face yourself. Aging can be a beautiful thing if it grows with your soul.

xoxo!

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Surplus [sur-pluhs, -pluhs] noun, adjective, verb, -plussed or -plused, -plus·sing or -plus·ing. noun

1. something that remains above what is used or needed.

2. an amount, quantity, etc., greater than needed.

3. agricultural produce or a quantity of food grown by a nation or area in excess of its needs, especially such a quantity of food purchased and stored by a governmental program of guaranteeing farmers a specific price for certain crops.

4.Accounting .

a.the excess of assets over liabilities accumulated throughout the existence of a business, excepting assets against which stock certificates have been issued; excess of net worth over capital-stock value. b. an amount of assets in excess of what is requisite to meet liabilities.

Deficit [def-uh-sit; Brit. also dih-fis-it] noun

1. the amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required amount.

2. the amount by which expenditures or liabilities exceed income or assets.

3. a lack or shortage; deficiency.

4. a disadvantage, impairment, or handicap: The team's major deficit is its poor pitching.

5. a loss, as in the operation of a business.

Cr: dictionary.com

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Jungmin will have a voiceover in upcoming drama "Fondant Garden"

2012-01-08T03:09:00.000+08:00

Not officially announced, but yes, like rest of the taiwan dramas where korean actor / actress is present, our Jungmin too, will not be spared from a voice dub.

Jungmin's character in Fondant Garden, as what we already knew, would be someone from korea and has a rich family background. Additional information I just found out was that Jungmin would be a Korean Chinese, not pure Korean. Which was probably why they eventually decided to dub Jungmin's voice I guess. Despite the poor boy put in lotsa effort into his chinese learning and we all agreed, it was considered spectacularly good for a korean whom studied the language for such short period, it however, did not seemed good enough to pass off as a Korean Chinese. Thus the decision.

Sad. I had a glimpse of the current aired "Skip Beat" played by Super Junior's Siwon and Donghae, heard their "new voices", and I couldn't bear another second. It just sounded so uncannily weird. I bet same goes to Jungmin. Still, I believe the decision was for the better.

And I'm praying very very hard the drama turns out well.

Nights all! (Geez, it's past 3am already. I don't feel sleepy. But well....)

Go orangey in 2012

2012-01-03T15:44:00.000+08:00

So I read on the papers, trend color for 2012 is gonna be Orange. Tangerine. Orange.

Then, the mum casually remarked Orange, Yellow and Beige - are gonna be the lucky colors.

Beige? Fine. Yellow? Not so much of my color but I own a yellow tank top and I lurve the contrast on me.

But Orange??!??!

Omgfmlp.

Not that I'm superstitious to stick with the so-called "lucky colors of the year", it's the trend I'm worried about. AND, not because of the trend that I'm gonna follow, I'm worried because...

EVERYMUTHAFU*KG piece of apparel with absolutely stunning design that caught my eye, would come in none other but orange color.

Life in 2012's gonna suck much.

Ok that's abit exaggerated. I kinda felt better knowing that the said color come in this tone:

Chanced upon this while shopping
for my new year clothes.

Very much like red, yet not entirely. Thought of grabbing some CNY clothes and eyed this. Occurs to me that the color's called "Burnt orange". (And it's on its way to my home!)

Digress: wtf why Beatrice Tan so chio ah?!?! Zellousssssss only.

Nice. Not forgetting peach is also in the orange color family. ^______________^

Concidentally, I changed my bedsheet over the w'kends and found out much later that, "hey, my bedsheet's orange.. -_-"

Nail color in.. nude red?

Perhaps some pictures on the makeup for above dress sometime later? Contemplating if I should do it in earth or nude tones. We'll see.

Abrupt end.

HAPPY 2012 PEEPS!

2012-01-01T12:09:00.001+08:00

I forgot to blog my last post for 2011. :(

So here's one on the 1st day of 2012. May all be well and blessed with abundant joys.

Love ya!

*off to springcleaning*

Sent from Samsung Mobile

kimhyungjun.net 's hard work further recognised

2011-12-21T16:46:00.000+08:00

If you ask me, I'd say kimhyungjun.net is, perhaps, much better than other so-called official fan site(s)?

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As if we don't know that Jjun is aware of both Pretty Boy (from Korea) and our very own local Only Jun, he further showered the site his attention by attaching the self done diagram by crazynoona and tweeting it.

Sweet boy he is. And I hope he continues to remember the ones whom had been behind him all this while. Whether or not they are his fans.

Happy for her! ^o^

SS501 Kim Hyung Jun - Glowing She

2011-12-20T16:40:00.004+08:00

So that's the name of his new drama. Freaking google translated 자체발광 to "Her self-luminous" oh fml please.

Much as I wish to copy the entire damn thing from OnlyJun, it's more blogthical (blog + ethical) to not just copy word for word. So I'm writing abit of nonsense here. Heh.

Despite knowing the site owner and nice as she is, I probably won't be spared from her tongue lashing either if she knows I were to simply ctrl+c, ctrl+v her (or any other blogger's) work. xDDD

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Please repost with full credit.
Diagram editing NOT allow.

Credits: Only Jun

Information taken from KBS website, translation and diagram done by Only Jun (kimhyungjun.net).

P.S. (why am I so fond of P.S.-ing these days?) See if Wen post anything on PJM's event in Japan later. Will update this space if there are substantial updates from her side. Which I hope there aren't. Cuz the more she updates, less she focus on Jungmin. Let's all not be selfish. ^^v

Bye everybody bye~~~!

떡볶이 Ddeokbokki

2011-12-20T15:31:00.004+08:00

Ok NOW then I realised my spelling for ddeokbokki was, always wrong. xD Why make a food's name so complex!! So many "d" and "k".

Googled the ingredients and steps to make a decent one. Seems pretty easy. But I never quite like following cookbook so I hope it turns out well this Saturday.

Mad delicious looking ddeokbokki to DIE for.

That said, here are the ingredients I'm gonna prepare (or at least imagined myself throwing in):

- Rice cake (that's ddeokbukki itself, if you don't what it is, dimwit)

- Hot chilli paste (can be suicidal hot, I read. So this one must be careful)

- Carrots slices

- Cabbage (optional)

- Red chili

- Pork slices (optional)

- Chicken stock / Dried anchovies stock (depending on availability)

- Garlic (would love to throw a few cloves inside, but knowing it's not acceptable by majority mankind, I've gonna give this a miss)

Pretty hassel free huh? Not too sure if I'll get the taste correct or not. Update with pictures soon I hope!

P.S. Though I could escape from xmas gift exchange tradition but it seems like it's unavoidable. ROARS!! Hates gifts shopping. Hmpf. So little time!

P.P.S. Ku De Ta pics up soon! I hope (again). :p My time is not within my control these days.

Signing off!

[MV] Kim Hyun Joong - Marry You

2011-12-15T11:38:00.002+08:00

Seen this already? :)

Cool sand art huh? If you ask me, I find something's lacking here. A little bit of sincerity maybe? Not that he's not sincere, but perhaps this song was done in a haste (my speculation lah), so much so KHJ didn't had much time to address it. On the other hand, "Gomapta" was done beautifully. You know, one that can touch the hearts of many even thou KHJ's don't quite *cough cough* sing well. LOL. Still, "Gomapta" made fans understand his sincerity. But.. "Marry You"?

Ok fine fine, he's not sincerely out to marry us thus perhaps fans can't feel it. (You delusional crack. Stop lying to yourself!) But what I'm saying is, the message didn't go through. Or at least the song didn't reach me. I hope they could produce better songs that could accentuate Hyun Joong. Not just any other song released for the sake of releasing..

Afterall, SS501 is very well know for them being sincere, so much so I magnify their every action, hoping to sense sincerity in everything they do. And I refuse to let my standard drop. (Should it even drop in the first place?)

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Digress. KDT called to confirm my reservations. (1st time people go fine dining so let me rant about it k?) Cas was saying they will need a minimum spending of $100 PER pax to dine in the restaurant. I nearly died. Read on.

Not quite because of the money. Frankly, I usually set aside $100 odd budget for my gf's birthday so it's fine. But looking at the menu, each dish cost average of $25. Meaning to say, we have to clear 4 dish per person??!!??

Right. Maybe 3 dish + 1 drink. Still, it's too much for a girl, no? Especially when we are both 1) on diet and 2) realised we no longer eat as much as we were younger. (which was why we decided to not go for hotel buffet anymore and opt for the more.. dainty cuisines) Or, we have to order something higher priced which may not be what we feel like eating? Damn sian lor like that.

Well thankfully, the minimum spending wasn't true. Heh.

Here's a pic I googled, superb scenery.

At the same time, I read even more feedback on their exorbitant pricing, so-so cuisine, mostly 1 star out of 5. Sian. -_-" Don't care lah, I already ask that girl not to pin too much hope on the food, pay attention on the atas environment.

You know what's her reply?

"It's the company that is important!!"

Dawwwwwwh~

너모 피곤해!!

2011-12-14T11:08:00.008+08:00

Haven't been sleeping well lately, thus the shoutout. Was having moodswing yesterday. No, not the monthly-affair-moodswing. It's just-moodswing-moodswing, you roger? Mine usually last for half a day, yesterday's one lasted for some good 24 hours. Bah. Chi and Von suggested chocolate which unfortunately, I don't have any in office. Nearest store that sells tidbits? Too far.

아주 피곤해.
너모 피곤해!!

Thought the moodswing will cease today. Fine. Somehow, it did. But the weariness came. So much so I couldn't even bring myself to "wear" the mask I usually wore to smile at people. The face was as shitty than shit itself, if you saw me walking along the streets of Orchard 9:30 in the morning.

On a side note, I've cut my hair! If you've followed my blog for long enough, you'd have knew that I'm always a long hair. (Still is)

It became my goal to have my hair lengthed 100cm before I chop it off. Or, not any time earlier than Meanie's big day. That's like, March next year. But it's no surprise, I've been ranting about cutting my hair short (shorter?) since early this year. The last time I measured how long was my hair, was 3 months back? Tape showed +/- 70cm..

That length was like, easily around my hip.<

And I cut it till....

This short? It's sitting somewhere slightly below the shoulder now. Much as I would LURRRVE to chop it way shorter, I heard devils (or angels?) telling me "Don't! Don't do it!! Short hair doesn't suits you!!"

Damn you.

Ok I confess, those damn devils are the honest feedbacks I got from friends. And I jolly well know my effing round face doesn't compliment short hair. Or the other way round. Whatever.

1 year of ranting to cut my hair short, it didn't work. Instead, it took me no longer than 30 seconds to tell my stylist, "Ok, let's do it."

Me: Feel like cutting my hair. Should I?

Stylist: CUT IT!!!
Me: Don't say cut just because you stylist have the fetish for cutting long hair short! (They do!)
Stylist: No. I mean it.
Me: How short do you think I should go?
Stylist: This short *gestures* Then the bottom part you can *gesture* curve in.
Me: *smiles* That's exactly what I'm thinking. Ok let's do it."

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Theme fuschia x'mas makeup I tried the other day. Pity non of my cameras could do justice to the colour. Maybe it's just my skills. :(

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Gonna head to Ku De Ta at Marina Bay Sands coming Friday. I'm praying I get to get some nice shots on the beautiful scenary that Ku De Ta promises. Thou I'm mentally prepared the food there ain't gonna be fabulicious based on the feedback of food critics. Orignally wanted 1-Altitude but, sigh, fully booked. Tsk.

B's doing potluck for her x'mas partayyyy~! Oh gawd I hate potlucks. How how how?

I keep having the thought "What if everyone does Pizza or KFC?!!"

Lol.

P.S. Can't wait for Jungmin's calendar to arrive! Kekekeke. Kudos to Shewen. Lalalala~ (haven't find a time to pay Chi... :p)

P.P.S. I feel old with short hair actually. What say you guys?

Test test!

2011-12-05T16:24:00.001+08:00

Two thousand and one things to do I finally resort to mobile blogging!

So I can still update this space when I'm on-the-go. ^^

I hope everyone is well! Kinda happy lately because.. well.. there's news on JM. And pretty flooded with awsssssome pics. Kkkkkk.

Sent from Samsung Mobile

11.11.11

2011-11-11T13:18:00.002+08:00

Happy 11.11.11 lovelies!

This day happens once every 100 years, so aren't you glad you lived to witness it? I am!

Not only that, it's Pepero day too. ♡◕‿◕♡ A day where you have the reason to confess your love to someone or even better, get confessed at! Plus, it's a Friday (on my side), good day to go dating, catch some late movies and get some love blossoming eh? *winks*

Updates

2011-10-24T11:11:00.005+08:00

Good Monday morning y'all! So many things going on, pretty out of thoughts. Work had been hectic, as usual. Rough Monday morning I had. Or rather, rough Sun night I had thanks to work, so it kinda dragged to this morning.

Changed my phone to Samsung Galaxy S2! So far so good. No complaints aside the battery, which drains rather fast, imo. Had to charge every day. I later found out from tweeps that it's normal.

Yeah, touch screen. Graphic intensive. What am I expecting for, right? Lol. That's because I can charge my BB every 1 1/2 day. Sometimes, even charging it after 2 days. Which is very powerful compared to this one I'm holding onto now.

Adjusting to touch screen (I had a bad experience with HTC Touch back then so I swore not to use it until.. read on) phone because I've been using Blackberry. Good ol' Blackberry hasn't failed me (that much) but the fact that its lack of applications (which is quite a deal these days, else you get outdated) really got me worried so I had to source for something else. Considering I'm in the IT industry, it daunts me how far I've lacked behind in terms of technology. Everyone knows Technology advances F1 fast.

Still heart my blackberry.

Anyway anyway, I'm jetting off in, less than 20 hours' time. Going on hollies!

And where will I be?

No. Not Korea. Yet. Unfortunately. :( But soon. Soon. Sooooon.

And meanwhile,

I'll be taking a quite break here. ^^

Updates when I'm back, lovelies!

*P.S. Haven't pack my luggage!

Will the Yesterday be here today?

2011-10-04T17:19:00.003+08:00

These babies should be on their way here already. Is yours inside? ^^ It'll probably be if you placed your orders via Quainte!

Many thanks to Wen for helping us lug all the 75 copies of CDs + posters. Can't wait, can you? ^^

Learn to appreciate, even in the reel world

2011-09-22T12:26:00.006+08:00

Today's blog is gonna be a lengthy one.

Moral of today's entry: Learn to appreciate things in life.

Logical right? No. Not to some people apparently. Imma telling why.

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Rainy day today. I'm feeling sluggish because of the headache. And thanks to buddy's iPen plus Mac's piping hot coffee, I'm feeling cloud nine again. Yes I'm skiving, while waiting for some things to happen in office. Pending stuffs that's never gonna move if I were to procrastinate. But I'm too lazy to follow up so, yeah.

Anyway, today's topic is about people not being appreciative. Mostly the juveniles, if you ask me.

Now if you've read my blog long enough, you'd know by now, that fangirling constitutes to a substantial portion of my life. Yes, it all started with handsome looking boys, but at times, it's the company that moves you on.

Imagine, if you were to join an ECA you heart so much. So, so much. But the fellow mates sucks? On the contrary, you work for a company that is just so-so, but the colleagues are simply anglic, you feel like glueing yourself to the company and never leave? Yeah, that's what I mean.

What inspired me to blog today, was because someone snapped at me in YT yesterday. (Petty much huh? Lol) Frankly, it didn't matter lah. I couldn't be bothered, but it somehow struck me to use this as a splinter to start the topic, which I wanted to pen about but couldn't find enough contents that frustrates me. So now I finally have.

I'm not taking this whole fandom thingy seriously, trust me. But it occurs to me, if this is the way people are behaving, then there's no hope for mankind.

"Learning to appreciate things in life." Every one knows that. So, why aren't some people appreciating the efforts of others - in fandom?

Scenario 1) Bloggers

I salute fandom bloggers I tell you. It never fails to amaze me how can they do their entries so timely. And not only that, bloggers are also feeding information via their twitter these days so, more responsibilities.

So this is the equation:

Blogger wakes up in the morning, goes to school/work,

+ She tries to stay updated with the information with her smartphone,

+ She continues to focus in her lesson/work,

+ She makes mistakes in lessons/work, like anyone,

+ She tries to be accurate and timely in providing the latest news and information,

+ Blogger gets busy, she gets desperate and perhaps she ask someone to update her blog for her,

+ Blogger finish school/work, she rushes back home to continue updating the news.

People ranting at her not being timely.

People expect her to be all mighty and perfect in blogger's entries. Cannot make mistake.

People gets angry when the blogger herself moderate her blog to keep peace.

People threaten. (LMAO)

People cannot take it when blogger gets frustrated and rant abit in twitter.

People start anti the blogger for the above reasons.

Make sense or not? You tell me.

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Senario 2) Subbers

Wah this one also daebak. I knew subbing was no easy feat. But not until I tried it myself. I actually signed up with some subber group to do Chinese - English subbing. They gave me 2 clips (clips, not even 1 episode) to try subbing. That's like about 10minutes per clip. So a total of 20 minutes of contents to sub - I gave up. Insane. It took me close to an hour odd to sub a 15 minutes clip.. Then again, maybe it's my incompetence.

Again, equation:

Subber wakes up in the morning, goes to school/work,
+ She makes mistakes in lessons/work, like anyone,

+ She tries to be accurate and timely in her subbing,

+ Subber finish school/work, she rushes back home to continue subbing the video,

+ Subber finally finished 1 episode and faster faster upload.

People ranting at her not being timely.

People expect her to be all mighty and perfect in her video. Cannot make mistake.

People write private mails to subber and complain subber is very slow, why can't she be faster?

People cannot take it when subber gets frustrated.

People start anti the subber for the above reasons.

Fair or not? You tell me.

So, you telling me - today you feel like doing charity. You charitably give someone $5. The receiver slap you and say "Look, if you wanna give, give $1,000. Don't give $5. You might as well go and die if you wanna give me $5."

No that this is happening, but people are doing something similar to make the those that put in effort - feel this way.

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Senario 3) Complaints

Everyone can complain. If those on the receiving end can complain, then why can't those that are giving, complain?? It just doesn't make sense.

Very classic examples I'm gonna use here. Say, someone says the person you admire is UGLY, or FAT and actually tweets to his account. Well, he probably won't see it. Or he might. I really don't know. But my question is, if you are a so-called fan, would you tell your idol upfront that he is ugly or fat? And your sentence have no signs indicating you are joking?

On the contrary, this particular person, who had been putting in lotsa effort in supporting that same person, got vocal and stood up for her idol that had been criticise by a fellow fan.

Wrong meh? You tell me.

However, what I saw was people's rebuttal. Claiming the fan (who was apparently voicing out the criticism from others to her idol) insane, mad, crazy etc.

I know, everyone has the freedom of speech. No one is to pin point anyone for any remarks on any person.

But thing is, Fan A took action because Fan B is directly telling their idol "Hey, you look ugly."

Taking action under such circumstances wrong meh? You tell me.

Since when was standing up for the ones you like or admire, something wrong?

Since when did anyone owe you a blog update or nice pictures?

Since when did anyone owe you a translation from Korean to English video clip?

I don't know.

Perhaps that's the reason why more and more major account are going MIA. Because the (unecessary) response is just undeserving at times.

So my dear girls, think. As you grow, learning to appreciate is a great deal. You'd like people to appreciate you too. Learn to construct your thoughts before you voice something negative out. If you can't, then don't. Don't say anything at all.

If you wish to tell you friend that his or her new haircut doesn't suits her, you don't go "Hey, you look so ugly in your new style." - you do it subtly or you don't do it at all, no?

P.S. I'm not saying these because those people I've mentioned, are my friends. I reason out. I analyse. Sure, they might be nasty when they tell fans off. But I'm telling you, they are nastier in real. Fans are generally kinder towards their fellow fans, because they are in the same circle. It's normal for people to recipocrate, when you are nice to someone, he or she returns. Same applies when you are nasty to someone.

Xoxo!

Jungmin's screwed style

2011-09-08T10:16:00.002+08:00

I know this boy is adventurous when it comes to trying out new styles. Other than the bowl cut hair back in Korea, he was almost perfect in choosing his styles and fashions.

Not until recently, when he was in Taiwan. Everything seemed.. so wrong. I've haven't seen anything decent in his fashion sense except the one he took during the filming. Thank gawd that looked least shocking. Nothing remarkable, but at least not shocking.

Image credits: Liezle's blog

Just check these out la, I think Taiwan's screwing his styles and I''m guessing he can't comment much since he's almost foreign to that country's entertainment industry.

Hair is fine......

... but not the outfit.

This is ok but again, not entrancing. My boy so handsome yet all you all can do is to either uglify him or make him plain like Jane.

And this, I feel should be printed on magazines back in the 1990s.

发型师，造型师，这小孩那里得罪你们啦？干嘛这样对他？？！！

依靠。依赖

2011-09-01T02:56:00.000+08:00

有时候，依赖一下身边的好友其实很不错。

平时的我不常和姐妹们诉说自己的不愉快或秀出软弱的一面。我是坚强的，不需要别人的肯定 - 我一定不属于弱者。

但好姐妹们都知道，我不是铁金刚。会哭，会忧郁，会害怕。

“不帮你是正常的。帮你是bonus”，我常常这样说。那也是我人生的原则之一。所以，也常常会把“他可能帮不到你”，为前提。不是因为不相信他们，而是知道他们也忙，也很累。于是，就塑造了自己相当独立不爱求助的一面。就算要求助，也没办法倘然的开口。

B说“独立是好，过于独立那就不好了。”

*不以为然* 那时之前。此时的我学会了要对朋友有信心 - 相信他们不会对自己一时的依赖而感到反感愤怒。相信适时的依靠，而不是过于的依赖 - 是ok的。。

姐妹们都知道我近期忙得焦头烂耳，快疯了。好久没让自己忙成睡觉都没时间，大家都很不习惯。我就更别说了。

也因为忙，变得没办法做很多事。真的走投无路。我说真的。

非得开口求助了。

但，我不得不说 - 默契很重要。身边的朋友都变得非常体恤我。仿佛在对我说“没关系，我在，你可以靠我。” 感动到~~~~流目屎。

K说“知道你忙，所以我会去调查，你过目就好。”

内疚死了。这明明是我自己volunteer的项目。但却变得他得全权负责。

嗨。。。

我：J，可不可以帮我transfer钱给某某某？我忙死了。。

J：Ok，等一下我就帮你transfer。

这几天，真的让我领悟到“琳吖，靠一下你的朋友吧。不要怕他们拒绝你，生气你。对你的死党们要有信心，相信他们了解你的处境。”

你瞧瞧，要我依靠一个人就是那么难。非得想到头破才肯去喊救命。

要说的是，我累。我怕累。但姐妹们总是可以间接的推我一把。是我的推动力，让我再累都熬得过。我行。

如果可以的话，我还是不想成为一个麻烦精去烦人家。可是，偶尔对朋友嗲一下，靠一下，开开玩笑的命令他们要来陪我，也挺舒服的！嘻嘻嘻。

快3点了。4小时后要起床。又是漫长的一天！

告诉自己“不怕不怕！”

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*twirls hair*

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依靠。依赖

twirls hair

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