Sunday, November 27, 2011
A Turkish girl holding a SS501 poster featured in Turkish newspaper
nice! ^_^
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A girl from Turkish is holding SS501 poster featured in Turkish newspaper on koreanturk.com!
CREDIT: http://www.koreanturk.com
A girl from Turkish is holding SS501 poster featured in Turkish newspaper on koreanturk.com!
What We Did For Love…for the love of Hyun Joong
thanks Aprilstarr for sharing good reviews about Hyun-Joong.. i just realized how crazy I am when it comes to oppa! kekeke!!! can' get over with it..,. ^_^
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PHOTO CREDIT: A-hlia
CREDIT: aprilstarr@emprezz.com
PHOTO CREDIT: A-hlia
Let me count the ways. Shall I start with beaten up laptops and broken chargers still smoking from overuse in making fan arts, or writing aricles? Or the eyebags we can no longer hide even with dabs after dabs of concealer creams for staying awake waiting for news or live telecast of South Korean programs? How about the gnashing of the teeth, the migraines that refuses to leave our heads voting on those made difficult online polls,many times surrendering yet returning once again for the nth time? How about seething with anger and indignation when the beloved artist was cheated of a rightful crown? Or felt the sting of unfairness and ready to hoist the red flag of war on this blog overly critical of his acting?
Can they be quantified? Or should we even list them down? One smile, just one smile from Hyun Joong can vanish these concerns and then the sky become oh so blue once again with the white cotton candy-ish clouds, the winds whisper softly, playing gently with the leaves, rustling them once in a while, the flowers still wet with the night's dew its face turned upward meeting and greeting the golden rays of the sun. Ah, the world is still beautiful, really beautiful.
Can we rationalize or justify the love we have for Hyun Joong? Or should we leave it at that - there is no use explaining because such is the nature of true love. We need no reason. Those of you reading this now, feel this in your heart. Hyun Joong may never know our hearts, but our collective prayers and good wishes for his wellbeing transcend the borders and spaces separating all of us. Through Hyun Joong we made friends, (and sometimes enemies) and were inspired and able to do things we have not done before. Is that the power of love or what ?
Who shall we blame for this bottomless love? Should it be the drama Boys Over Flowers and why did Jihoo even appear before thy eyes and the rest is forever love?The TV show We Got Married when he became the boy groom? Were they the many pictures and videos uploaded online when they (the SS501) was just starting and he appeared as the cute, playful imp with those baby fat in the cheeks and longish black hair mane forever sleeping anywhere? There were five of them, but why did your eyes land on him and not on the four others? And why did your eyes since then scan any picture, concert fancam shots , any variety program looking for him?Stayed late or woke up early depending on your time zone watching the unsmiling, cold, genuis Baek Seung Jo in Playful Kiss? Was it the spoiling noona in us, the protective mother or the doting grandmother? Was he not the national even international crush with many his age swooning how hot looking he was and is? It must have been our hearts that choose him.
Yes, that was then and he grew up before our eyes , from a boy he became a man . Our love grew too and followed him everywhere even if it only means quenching our insatiable thirst on anything about him via social media sites and YouTube . Many have seen him in person, perform live and swear he is a different person on stage -he glowed,he sizzled, he mesmerized his audience . He reigned on stage. He had his sad moments,too. And we cried with him. But he picked himself up and decided there are other things to do like helping the less fortunate.
Hyun joong have had his share of scandals and crisis , but he had us. We did not leave his side and continued believing in him right or wrong. For such is our love, nonjudgemental,not fair weathered and certainly not opportunistic. He will still have many uphill battles,but we know he can pull through and make it.
Sometimes others' love for him turned nasty and said hurtful words. Maybe it is not true love after all. Perhaps, it is time to let go, if indeed he is not your cup of tea. But for many of us we will be there till the last curtain falls and the final bow has been said. To love and to grow old with Hyun Joong.
The Making Of A Solo Singer
thanks aprilstarr for sharing exquisite reviews on Hyun Joong... ^_^
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Photo Credit: SPN
CREDIT: aprilstarr@emprezz.com
Photo Credit: SPN
Kim Hyun Joong’s planet of Dance Music of dancing and singing are as inseparable as identical twins. But where to start ? The route towards the solo stage sometimes takes one to be with a group first before striking it on one’s own. That was what Hyun Joong did when performance attracted him more than books for his`future. Being on a stage can be very seductive, soaking in the blinding stage lights and beams, thrilled by the adulation of the audience.It must have been a vastly different universe standing there, immerse in a dimension of temporary existence where worries have been hung somewhere. Performance they say is so liberating and empowering even if it exist so very briefly.We,the audience,the very appreciative audience can only clap our hands in unison, may be let out screams once in awhile, gush over how our artists interpret the songs now no longer just a collection of words but sweet pleas from the heart, or anguish cry of a forlorn lover or just simply melodies made more beautiful because we love the artist.For many of us living beyond the borders of South Korea we did not mind the lyrics being in another language we did not even understand. But we understand when a song have a musical resonance just the same.
But what we don’t know was what went on before Hyun Joong, the much loved artist ascended that stage. It wasn’t as magical as how the stage has turned out to be. The outstanding performance was born out of endless preparations and practices only a true devotee can endure.
There are many voice and performance coaches out there, but they will tell you the same thing, singing takes time, effort, diligence and oh yes, finding your strengths and weaknesses. It also mean failing sometime in the past, but never being afraid of it. For failure is also the twin sister of success. Hyun Joong , who must have been inured to failures as momentary distractions looked at them as challenge and opportunity to do better. But one cannot just go on dreaming and imagining what could have been. Hyun Joong made the strides towards his goals and passion and made them real,the here and now.
He has said it in interviews he trained hard for it referring to his more than five years being in the boy band SS501, collapsed it in a curt description what could mean the many,many hours spent singing his parts of the song, so that it only can be heard flawless. The training did not stop after the group went their separate ways,for Hyun Joong kept in his heart burning the desire to go on on singing and dancing although this time solo. It may have appeared to have been momentarily put aside when Hyun Joong acted as male lead in the kdrama Playful Kiss on its third interpretation. But actually no, his co-stars talked of seeing the fire in his eyes when he talked of his singing and dancing. The truth was,now revealed, he was already conceptualizing everything in his head, and pouring over hundreds of songs determining earnestly what will go into his solo album.
The Breakdown album was his first born, understandably he went through the agonizing birth pains. The birth of that solo album gave him untold stress he wanted to shave his head. Like someone undergoing the ritual in entering a life passage;it was after all a life passage in his musical career.But he was not contented in being a passive participant observer of the process, he was totally absorbed and involved hands on in the production and of course in its performance. The rest is now part of Hyun Joong History, or legend if you will, made and written by him, for him and us. We were the willing witnesses, we were there for him when it all happened. The thing was it can now be said, he was never afraid to be amazing. He knew he was the path blazer. It was only a matter of when.
And so the making of the solo singer was not a fairy tale, I did not hear of a princess kissing our prince breaking that ominous magic spell. Instead, what we have is a man with courage to be what he wants to be, to traverse the road many times taken by others. Yet his road is not without its ravines, wrong and dangerous curves,detours and upside down hanged signs ,but we know his perseverance, patience and talents he cultivated himself steeled him through.
(FANCAMS) "First Japan Tour 2011
Let's vote Hyun Joong in Yahoo Buzz Award.. he's #2 now.. let's do our best co-HENECIANS! FIGHTING!!!
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