LOLmg...this thread is still going 2 1/2 yrs later and it all started because I was watching legally blond one night and felt compelled to confess it
LOLmg...this thread is still going 2 1/2 yrs later and it all started because I was watching legally blond one night and felt compelled to confess it
LOLmg...this thread is still going 2 1/2 yrs later and it all started because I was watching legally blond one night and felt compelled to confess it
. It is also interesting to get to know ppl more based on these 'random confessions' 
.. But tbh it feels good to come back after work, sit with glue, scissors, all kinds of card paper, origami paper, crepe paper and create something. It really takes my mind off frustrating things. 
Well, I started reading the full script of Much Ado About Nothing. Damn Shakespeare could write rom-coms. But the thing is, I had already started on The Woman in White. And after hearing that maman and her friends are going to a duo-drama (I don't know the exact terminology for it, it's a play done by two actors only, both portraying multiple characters) production of Pride and Prejudice I nabbed it from the bookshelf for a re-read. I should totally finish one work first, what is wrong with me
On an unrelated note, last-last Saturday (i.e. September 7th) my tutor student (who I mostly tutor English, but for exams I help out with other subjects too) said he needed help preparing for his Korean exam. But of course he had forgotten to bring his textbook from school. So we did English instead for that session, and since there was like 5 minutes left over I asked whether the test included poems (as a Korean lit major who understands how a mind of a math-y person works, simple summaries of poems could be done within that time). He said there was one, but he couldn't remember what poem it was. I pestered him a bit, and he said "It was written in the Colonial Period, but it's not about independence. It's a love poem." Well, that was unexpected, but I racked my brains and named a few examples of poetry that are famous enough to be in a 9th-grade textbook and met the criteria. He just shook his head and said he'll bring his textbook next week. And so I went home, the only thought in my head being 'What in the world can that poem be?'
Well, yesterday I went to his place for the promised session, and as I waited for him to come home (he had forgotten he wasn't free that evening and had went out) I spotted his Korean textbook. I thumbed through it to find out the mystery poem, and soon I burst out laughing. (I'm giggling again as I type.) See, the poem was, like, one of the most famous, if not the most famous Korean poem. And while it was written in the Colonial Period and about love, not independence, literally nobody describes it like that. To compare it to figure skating, he had described the Queen as "a single lady who competed in the 2010 Olympics, and she was from a country not known for figure skating." I mean, technically it's true, but
I tried not to giggle as I told him (when he did come) that I was not expecting to see the poem virtually every Korean, even the ones who aren't interested in literature, knows, and he scratched his head and said it did seem familiar when he first saw it. Man he's a piece of work
) as Don John delivering his lines during back-massages
Well, I started reading the full script of Much Ado About Nothing. Damn Shakespeare could write rom-coms. But the thing is, I had already started on The Woman in White. And after hearing that maman and her friends are going to a duo-drama (I don't know the exact terminology for it, it's a play done by two actors only, both portraying multiple characters) production of Pride and Prejudice I nabbed it from the bookshelf for a re-read. I should totally finish one work first, what is wrong with me
On an unrelated note, last-last Saturday (i.e. September 7th) my tutor student (who I mostly tutor English, but for exams I help out with other subjects too) said he needed help preparing for his Korean exam. But of course he had forgotten to bring his textbook from school. So we did English instead for that session, and since there was like 5 minutes left over I asked whether the test included poems (as a Korean lit major who understands how a mind of a math-y person works, simple summaries of poems could be done within that time). He said there was one, but he couldn't remember what poem it was. I pestered him a bit, and he said "It was written in the Colonial Period, but it's not about independence. It's a love poem." Well, that was unexpected, but I racked my brains and named a few examples of poetry that are famous enough to be in a 9th-grade textbook and met the criteria. He just shook his head and said he'll bring his textbook next week. And so I went home, the only thought in my head being 'What in the world can that poem be?'
Well, yesterday I went to his place for the promised session, and as I waited for him to come home (he had forgotten he wasn't free that evening and had went out) I spotted his Korean textbook. I thumbed through it to find out the mystery poem, and soon I burst out laughing. (I'm giggling again as I type.) See, the poem was, like, one of the most famous, if not the most famous Korean poem. And while it was written in the Colonial Period and about love, not independence, literally nobody describes it like that. To compare it to figure skating, he had described the Queen as "a single lady who competed in the 2010 Olympics, and she was from a country not known for figure skating." I mean, technically it's true, but
I tried not to giggle as I told him (when he did come) that I was not expecting to see the poem virtually every Korean, even the ones who aren't interested in literature, knows, and he scratched his head and said it did seem familiar when he first saw it. Man he's a piece of work
No, it wasn't Arirang, and Arirang has always been a song. The word 'Arirang' itself actually refers to a type of folk song, therere are other Arirangs like Jeongsun Arirang or Milyang Arirang. But the most famous - and therefore often synonymous with just 'Arirang' - one is Gyeonggi Arirang, the Arirang that was sung by the people who lived close to Seoul. That's the one with a million versions (including the one used at the Olympics). There are a couple of verses, but the first verse goes: the poem in question was 진달래꽃 (Azaleas) by Kim Sowol.
Well here's a Korean lit major happy to answer that
아리랑 아리랑 아라리요 (no real meaning here, to transliterate it's 'arirang arirang arariyo')
아리랑 고개로 넘어간다 (Going over Arirang hill)
나를 버리고 가시는 님은 (the wording is so that it can be interpreted in two ways: 'my beloved one, who has abandoned me' or 'if my beloved one abandons me')
십리도 못 가서 발병난다 (again, it's either 'is struck will, not going even 10 leagues' or 'will be struck ill before going more than 10 leagues')
And just in case
So I got a kitty that was living on the parking lot, and I named him Axel.
So I got a kitty that was living on the parking lot, and I named him Axel.
So I got a kitty that was living on the parking lot, and I named him Axel.
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