Was looking for this one. One of the best quotes of the episodes
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Best character in Thor.
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Wish I could be that artistic.
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The best and BAMF cast. Enough said. (Although, we’re missing Garcia)
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Now I am interested… Chris Hemsworth + Charlize Theron looking super fashionable
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Every semester, I have to write an “article” in chinese using the grammar and words we’ve learned. Most of the lesson this time turned around family’s daily problems, like work and relationship. Both my teachers seemed to be more found of the relationship part, especially the 小三( the third one in the couple), so I went with the flow.
在廣場裡一定很嘈雜，我卻都不聽。我是杵在那裡，嘀咕著「目前在夢裡， 那麼恐怖的姓況不會實在發現」。
莫看。
我得扶一棵樹，要不然會倒。他告訴我的話，都是 一派胡言？
「小跑，你怎麼了， 上氣不接下氣？」
我略顯靦腆，他影印室裡看見我蹲著下，想要喘氣。尤其他，咱們公司最堂堂的副理員。
「我整天跑去跑來，跑腿，我淨想休息一下。」
大不了他跟我的福利通報，我賦閒了。反正我非常不喜歡我從事，我整天極力得做事，不過我覺得每天繞，大材小用。 搞不好我存心要一個人抓我。但我會想待遇， 起碼,它不錯。
「 我也注意你很忙，要不要我協助一下？」
他剛剛說的句子是一個原因我還沒辭呈。公司上上下下都喜歡他清爽的態度，他怎麼一視同仁，不管誰來跟他探聽。其實他總是播控解釋，再找到一句話贊許另外人. 他才很勝任愉快， 真是我的偶像。
「一言為定」
我們半天一邊做事，一邊聊天。他以後跟我逗得很，有的時候開玩笑，叫我是他的老伴。他的態度有一點曖昧，可是也看起來原裝，我合不攏嘴地相信他。
有一天，他外公司跟我相處，給我打電話，問我要不要見面再兜風。這一天我們親親。
我如願以償,收到保佑,得頭獎！但公司裡，他撇清我們只是好朋友，沒有關係。他跟我說，免得大家誤會，最好是我們把我們的關係秘密。
原來如此。
他抬頭，看見我。不過文書處理的小美，抱著他，肯定沒看到我。我要睜隻眼閉隻眼，不可能。他說一句以前，我 揚長而去.
一分鐘以後，他給我打電話，我接了明示地宣佈這個號碼是空號，在挂。
Do you think you’ll see my story in a future drama?
- Rihanna debuting a new haircut at the Battleship’s Tokyo premiere.
- The Avengers came out this week, and people are already raving about it. I will probably go see it, but not for those reasons.
- Premier tour des élections présidentielles en France et surprise?! Ou non?
- The 2012 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner took place this week-end and I only enjoyed Dakota Fanning’s dress. Out of the multiple collections of Fall 2012, what would you have chosen?
- How SM managed to hype and overhype Exo Planet, and did it succeed?
- Nikita finally reviewing a movie after months of absence. A comedy about slavery. Is it a subject worth making fun of? You decide.
Je suis dégoutée.
Les résultats sont tombés et les chiffres pèsent lourd. A sa première candidature, Marine Le Pen a réussi à faire mieux que son père a fait en 30 ans de carrière. Moi qui espérait la voire faire débandade et rêvait d’une dissolution du Front National, j’avoue que le choc est dur. D’après les derniers chiffres, près de 80% de la population est allée votée.
Les résultats sont tombés et les chiffres pèsent lourd.
Je ne doute point qu’elle a su jouer de la tragédie de Toulouse en sa faveur pour lui donner un dernier petit boost, il n’empêche que le mal être français est là. Cela m’attriste de savoir que si j ‘assiste à une fête ou un dîner quelconque, sur 10 personnes présentes, 2 souhaiteraient intérieurement que je retourne dans mon pays, qui n’est nul autre que la France d’ailleurs.
J’ai posté dernièrement un petit freestyle de rappeurs français, qui invitaient la population à garder la tête froide et rester objective dans une campagne extrêmement médiatisée. Je n’ai personnellement pas suivi cette campagne, mais j’ai quand même vu quelques bouts sur Internet. Marine Le Pen apparait certes comme une personne avenante avec un joli sourire , mais derrière cette image se cache une personne fausse et vide, que ses talents oratoires parviennent à peine à dissimuler.
Combien de fois je l’ai vu chercher ses mots après qu’on lui ait posé une question valable mais à laquelle elle ne s’attendait point.
Combien de fois je l’ai vue bafouiller après avoir été mise au pied du mur par un contre argument choc.
Combien de fois je l’ai perçue mal à l’aise en discourant sur des points dont elle n’a même pas l’air convaincue personnellement. En faisant campagne contre la viande hallal ou les soi-disant islamistes grouillants sur notre territoire, je crois qu’elle s’est rendue compte qu’elle faisait beaucoup de bruit pour rien.
Mais les français ont tout gobés. D’après les sondages, Marine Le Pen est même celle qui plait le plus aux jeunes (18-24 ans). Raymond Aubrac, grande figure de la Resistance française dernièrement décédé, disait qu’il avait l’impression que les jeunes d’aujourd’hui avaient baissé les bras et qu’il nous fallait reprendre le futur entre nos mains. Si c’est pour aller voter Le Pen, je crois qu’il vaut mieux qu’ils restent dans cet état apathique.
Depuis 2010, je faisais partie d’un évènement sur Facebook qui s’appelait « Nicolas ! Dehors » et qui allait se tenir en mai 2012. On approche de la date fatidique et je me demande si l’évènement aura toujours lieu. Devant une gauche éternellement divisée – je suis toujours étonnée de voir autant de partis de gauche être représentés aux élections présidentielles, Nicolas va sortir son joker appelé le Pen et bêtement rallier les partisans d’extrême droite à sa cause. Tout va déprendre de comment les deux principaux candidats sauront jouer de la carte Bayrou. Puis je encore garder espoir ?
Before going in the heart of the matter, ie. the release of Exo-K/M title track MAMA, I think it’s best I do a quick introduction of the guys. Exo is the new band fresh from SM Entertainment, probably the biggest record label in Korea and home of DBSK, Super-Junior and SNSD. Now the concept with Exo is that half the band - so 6 members, Exo-K, will debut in Korea while Exo-M will be marketed for a chinese audience. Well at least that’s what I understood from reading here and there.
I didn’t really care for Exo at the beginning. Most of the kpop debuts lately have been; for a lack of a better word, mediocre. Paired with the fact that most of the bands don’t reach the 2 years limit, I usually wait until a band mature before starting to listen/stan them.
However with the unending string of teasers and the hype it was creating around them, I just couldn’t avoid the Exo trend. And then they released their “prologue”: What is love, a r&b ballad. I fell in love with this song and even commented on one of my previous post, that if they could match up the quality and range of the vocals live, they could count me as one of their debut fan.
After What is Love came History. I didn’t really like History, in fact, I was really disappointed. After the r&b influenced What is Love, I had actually hoped that they would release something in the same range. But instead, I got a very basic/generic k-pop song with a video featuring the “dance-in-a-box” trademark that SM is infamously renowned for. In my eyes Exo image went from hot and exciting to common in only one release. Too bad for a boy band that might not even debut in 2012 due to its debut date being pushed further and further.
In spite of, or maybe due to this fact, the hype was just getting bigger and bigger. “When will Exo finally debut ?”, were complaining the fans. ” After all those teasers, they should have already debuted”, were even saying the haters. Finally we got a date as well as a debut showcase. I caught some glimpses of it, especially to listen to What is Love live, as it seems they wouldn’t be promoting it. I was blown away at that time ( seeing that now that I pay attention, it looks like they’re lip-syncing very badly or the audio is out of sync) . I even learned the names of those two singers because they’re the ones I wanted to pay attention to.
And now today, I can talk about MAMA. Released two days ago, with two versions as usual (korean and chinese), MAMA starts with a ridiculously long narrative introduction that is borderline flirting with occultism. After 1mn40s of this rambling we get into a song that many already before me compared to something DBSK would have released circa 2008. The song itself is nothing special, but whether you like it or not, after 3 videos released both in chinese and korean with the only variation being the actors taking part in it, plus the fact that in this video they get pitched one against another, the comparison and competition is born to happen.
I cannot really compare their vocals ability, as it seems both teams are on par with each other. However something that is very easy for me to pick up is the dancing skills level and the synchronicity of the choreography’s rendition. As k-pop rely heavily on visuals, I feel that for me, it is something that can make or break a band. After watching both videos once, I felt like Exo-M was better synchronized, with a more natural and fluid style; and gave a stronger image as a band. Maybe it’s due to Tao’s presence? I know Exo-K has Kai, and it seems that SM is relying on him to act as the visual member - based on the amount of teasers he had, but you just cannot ignore the mysterious Tao. Besides, how cool are those moves he’s executing in the video below?
This paired with Chen’s vocals during their debut showcase, made me swing in favor of Exo-M, even if I don’t really like chinese music. Yes, I wrote “swing in favor” and not ” definitely root for “, because until a few hours ago, I assumed that both versions of What is Love featured the same singers. In the other videos, I could see the difference, but here, even after finding out that the singers on the korean version are named D.O. and Baekhyun, I still had to compare both videos 5 times before realizing my mistake.
As a new fan, I’m off to a good start, don’t you think?
I immensely prefer the korean version of What is Love to the chinese’s one, first because I really love korean paired with ballads and urban melodies and second, because I don’t really dig chinese music in general. So now I am back to square one on my decision. Maybe, at the end, I should just simply root for both bands.
Should I be worried for today’s youth? This is the kind of music my elementary school students love to listen to. They sometimes even break into the dance. The worst student even know the lyrics by heart . If only he studied english as diligently.
While I was watching Nicolas Hulot babbling on Le Zapping about the crisis everyone is forgetting about, i.e. the ecological crisis, I remembered about this set of creative ads I stumbled upon a little while ago. I have to say that I am in awe and that the message is strong and effective, but I also have to admit that on a day-to-day basis, I am not doing much for the environment. I can even be blamed of lazy recycling and excessive resource wasting. I almost drink one bottle of tea per day and because buying food outside is so cheap, I have switched to not cooking at all and buy 95% of the food I eat outside. Paired with my roommates, whose eating outside habits I was quick to adopt, the trash is quickly filled with lunch boxes, tea bottles and packs. I had first started to recycle the local way, separating the lunch boxes from the plastic bottles and even the organic food, but when you do it yourself, it quickly loses its meaning. However, it’s by starting slow and alone and bringing other people to your cause that we can all win. Instead, we just wait and sit on a time bomb.
Tic.
Tac.
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