Korean Age/ True Maknae of U-KISS

So I remembered that Korean age is very specific. So much so that 2 minutes between twins is enough to rank one child higher in status than the other.

 Korean age is also a very big deal to any Korean/ in Korean society. If you're older, you are the one that's talked to, and you're also the one that usually makes all the decisions. Ajumas and ajyoshis (grandmas and grandpas) are in very high status in Korea. They can talk on the top of their voice in a train but everyone else will get sushed. They are kind of like the people that no  rules apply to an it's because they're older than everybody else.

If you're younger than someone, in Korean society, you have to call them by an honorific. It differs depending on male, female, their relation to you, and your gender. For instance, the maknae is the youngest person in a group. Hyung is an younger male to an older male. Sonbae-nim is from a younger guy to an older guy in a school/ education situation. Oppa is from a girl to an older guy. They older people also have honorifics for younger people.

The older people set the standard of familiarity in a conversation. For instance, when you first meet and older person, you have to greet them with "annyongnaseo" which is the full version of "hello" in Korean, and demonstrates the full amount of respect. However, an older person you just greeted with "annyongnaseo" could return with an "annyong" which is the shortened version of "hello" and often translated to "hi" or "hey." Only in very friendly situations with these people will a younger person be able to say annyong to older people and it usually doesn't even happen in marriages, or in family situations, kind of like dropping the honorifics in Japanese.

This makes dating very difficult in Korea because when you meet a girl, and you greet her with "nuuna" (what a younger male calls an older woman, also translated as "older sister") you run the risk of calling her old looking and offend her. However, if you don't use the right honorific and refer to her as being younger than you, it also might be interpreted as that you think she is inferior.

It's very difficult to get the honorific right when you first meet someone and a lot of Koreans will greet you by blatantly asking what your birth date is, before they even say hello to you.

So a while back I posted a post about the new maknae of U-KISS, now that Dongho was gone, all to find out that, except for Soo Hyun who's 2 years older than everyone else, they're all 22 and that there really wasn't any maknae. Well, there is because they weren't all born on the same day, at the same minute, in the same second, which is how far Korean age specificity goes. So, I went and looked at all of their birth dates and here's what I found: (from oldest to youngest, not counting Soo Hyun)

Kiseop: Jan 17, 1991

AJ: June 4, 1991

Eli: March 13, 1991

 Hoon: August 16, 1991

Kevin: November25, 1991

I always thought Hoon was the second oldest but he's the second youngest XD Woah I really didn't know Kevin was the youngest!!!

BEHOLD YOUR NEW MAKNAE, KEVIN WOO!!!!!!!!

not me...
~R

Sushi Making pt.2

Here are some pics of the sushi we made. We made mainly California rolls because that's really all we had and we all love California rolls. we figured "eh. why not?"

trying to get a shot w/ our first sushi roll

first one made by me

 this was the only piece of sushi from the first roll that was saved from the carnage since we ate them as we made them; I decorated the plate w/ Sriracha, cucumber, krab, and spicy mayonnaise

these were saved from the second roll, rolled by my sister

sis rolling sushi

after we roll; it's so pretty :D

I also made some bacon sushi. I'm going to try and find the pic of it. I don't know if I got one, but it was delicious. Who knew bacon was good in sushi? IDK, but it really is. I'll have to make sushi for my buddies when I get home. :) It's difficult to get the right amount of ingredients needed. You can't fill it up with too much rice; you have to make it as thin as possible, but you can't make it too thin because then you have left over seaweed and it doesn't stick very well but then you can't overload it with stuff because it won't roll. You want to get the minimum of rice and the maximum of fillings. And you have to leave some seaweed free at the top so that you can wrap it. I think where we really failed was making the rice. You wouldn't think it would be hard, but it was. It took the longest, it was painstaking and tedious and we burned them hell out of it. Seasoning seemed to go fairly well but we screwed up on the cooking part so then we did the steps wrong the rest of the time It was just a bit of a mess. Still, it was really fun.
~R

She's Mine- U-KISS

So I feel the need to share this not just because they're U-KISS and extremely amazing, but also that this is something that is new to them, not commonly seen anywhere, a style that I particularly hate, and they did it SO AMAZINGLY!!! Honestly, I fell in love with it immediately. I usually only like videos like these when they're old, the style of that era, and they were some breakthrough artist that I respect. Kind of like my love for the Bee Gees. But this is so amazing, it worked so well for them, and I don't doubt that it was probably one of the more fun videos to shoot, like when an actor gets a chance to do a ridiculous drunk/ high scene where they get to overact and do all of these fun things that you don't see anywhere else in acting. I think AJ had the most fun. XD I wish I had a car so I could go to their concert and see them do it live. D:< This is my fav song of last year.
~R

New Sherlock Season

So the new Sherlock season is here... and I realize I haven't been building up my emotional resistance whatsoever... so I have to start doing that now. I have until it comes out on Netflix or until it shows on PBS so I'm all good.

How is it that Sherlock is supposed to be the one devoid of emotion but most of the emotion gifs are of him?
~R