Now I give you The 5th and Final Clue.
This one is big.
Friday, March 2, 2012
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Fourth Clue
Here is the fourth, and hopefully second to last (if all goes as planned) clue to the first half of the surprise (the less cool half).
Great, right?
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Lady NOTga.
In other news, "everyone" had a problem with us dancing to Lady Gaga (by every I mean a few of the students who dropped the class because of it) so she changed the song (Skrillex is still included), and shes bummed about it, and so am I. We aren't going to design our costumes, which suuuucks, I was so stoked about that.
Anyway. Happy Curiousness.
-Michelle
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
One Day I Got Bored...
....and now I have plans to captivate the world and you, Amy, by way of BEING AWESOME.
Ok, so here's the deal. One day I was listening to K-pop and working, and then I was like, "I have the best idea ever."
And so, Amy, I'm going to make something for you that will be finished within the next two weeks (depending on the weather) and will be totally awesome. Until then I will be releasing little teasers/clues, ( the first of which is below)
Well, here's the second teaser/clue (below) You better be psyched about this totally random out of the blue awesome thing that I'm doing for YOU to tell you how cool YOU are.
The only other information that I'm going to let slip about this shindig is that: it will be in two parts. The rest will become clear in due time.
-Michelle
Ok, so here's the deal. One day I was listening to K-pop and working, and then I was like, "I have the best idea ever."
And so, Amy, I'm going to make something for you that will be finished within the next two weeks (depending on the weather) and will be totally awesome. Until then I will be releasing little teasers/clues, ( the first of which is below)
Well, here's the second teaser/clue (below) You better be psyched about this totally random out of the blue awesome thing that I'm doing for YOU to tell you how cool YOU are.
The only other information that I'm going to let slip about this shindig is that: it will be in two parts. The rest will become clear in due time.
-Michelle
Monday, February 27, 2012
Dear Michelle (wherein I write a post that for once is shorter than yours)
I wrote that title to keep myself in check, because I am fully capable of writing a post that is long enough to also wipe something up, like my sweat after I go to the gym this afternoon (can you believe it?)
I get that school is just one of those things. I go through cycles of thinking that school is the easiest thing ever and I hardly even have to try to breeze through it with all As to feeling like I'm being swept mercilessly against the cold forbidding rocks of academia by tidal waves of dead-eyed cynicism. That analogy kind of got away from me. Without school, however, I will become a pretty useless excuse for a person. Well, with school it's entirely possible that I will still be useless, but my chances at succeeding in life are at least a little bit better.
I really like dancing but the truth is that I have little coordination, so sometimes I look at a dance and I'm like, I can do that, and then when I actually try it it turns out I can't even move my hands at the same time as my feet. It's pretty humbling. But I can accept that dance isn't something I have natural talent at. But the way you were describing dance and what it means to you reminded me of how I feel about language, sort of in a lot of ways. I mean, I'm really linguistically oriented, and anything that relates to linguistics really fascinates me. And the thing is, I have an alright aptitude for things like that. Like, I can actually have a completely autonomous desire to learn things about language and linguistics. I don't think I've ever had that kind of motivation with anything else. Like with writing, I did all the research and work and exercises and the worldbuilding without anyone else telling me what to do or how to do it, and it was actually fun. The same goes with Korean. I frigging love deciding to undertake something on my own and then it turning out that I'm perfectly capable of doing it well. Which reminds me that my next question for the Korean girl in my choir is what the difference is between 이용하다, 활용하다, and 사용하다, because everywhere I look, they all mean "to use". I need to know this because that's a really important verb and I don't want to say the wrong one at the wrong time. I'm so paranoid about that kind of thing. It pretty much goes without saying that I'm going to end up offending a lot of people when I speak to them in Korean just because I've never had to think this much about customs and propriety before.
It's pretty awesome that you got that part in Beauty and the Beast. Initially I wrote that as "Beasty and the Beast", and I'm suddenly realizing that that could be a pretty good story. Anyway, I know what you mean about feeling like being put into mezzo soprano is somehow an insult to your singing skills. I feel like I could be a pretty awesome alto, but I, too, am a mezzo soprano and we seem to get overlooked a lot. It's okay though, because if there's one thing I'm good at it's staying in the background. And that's important in a choir. Anyway, about sounding operatic, a lot of it comes down to really good breath control, which is something I've never been good at but I'm sure with practice you can totally kill it. Plus you were always better at swimming so your breath control is probably better than mine to begin with.
I could be your piano teacher. I don't know how good of a teacher I'd be, but we seem to see piano playing in sort of the same way (play what you want, when you want), so I guess that could be pretty good. But I'd have to turn into a bit of a slave driver because, not to be mean or anything, your musical motivation is usually at a pretty low ebb.
I should like go do school or something. I just had to pause this whole post-writing thing for a little while because I was listening to "Breath" by Beast and basically every time I listen to that song I have to stop everything and wait for the moment when YoSeob does this incredibly strong sustained note that has exactly the perfect amount of vibrato at the end of it and I think it brings a tear of admiration to my eye every time I hear it.
Anyway that's my story. I really failed at the whole writing a short post thing, didn't I?
-Amy
I get that school is just one of those things. I go through cycles of thinking that school is the easiest thing ever and I hardly even have to try to breeze through it with all As to feeling like I'm being swept mercilessly against the cold forbidding rocks of academia by tidal waves of dead-eyed cynicism. That analogy kind of got away from me. Without school, however, I will become a pretty useless excuse for a person. Well, with school it's entirely possible that I will still be useless, but my chances at succeeding in life are at least a little bit better.
I really like dancing but the truth is that I have little coordination, so sometimes I look at a dance and I'm like, I can do that, and then when I actually try it it turns out I can't even move my hands at the same time as my feet. It's pretty humbling. But I can accept that dance isn't something I have natural talent at. But the way you were describing dance and what it means to you reminded me of how I feel about language, sort of in a lot of ways. I mean, I'm really linguistically oriented, and anything that relates to linguistics really fascinates me. And the thing is, I have an alright aptitude for things like that. Like, I can actually have a completely autonomous desire to learn things about language and linguistics. I don't think I've ever had that kind of motivation with anything else. Like with writing, I did all the research and work and exercises and the worldbuilding without anyone else telling me what to do or how to do it, and it was actually fun. The same goes with Korean. I frigging love deciding to undertake something on my own and then it turning out that I'm perfectly capable of doing it well. Which reminds me that my next question for the Korean girl in my choir is what the difference is between 이용하다, 활용하다, and 사용하다, because everywhere I look, they all mean "to use". I need to know this because that's a really important verb and I don't want to say the wrong one at the wrong time. I'm so paranoid about that kind of thing. It pretty much goes without saying that I'm going to end up offending a lot of people when I speak to them in Korean just because I've never had to think this much about customs and propriety before.
It's pretty awesome that you got that part in Beauty and the Beast. Initially I wrote that as "Beasty and the Beast", and I'm suddenly realizing that that could be a pretty good story. Anyway, I know what you mean about feeling like being put into mezzo soprano is somehow an insult to your singing skills. I feel like I could be a pretty awesome alto, but I, too, am a mezzo soprano and we seem to get overlooked a lot. It's okay though, because if there's one thing I'm good at it's staying in the background. And that's important in a choir. Anyway, about sounding operatic, a lot of it comes down to really good breath control, which is something I've never been good at but I'm sure with practice you can totally kill it. Plus you were always better at swimming so your breath control is probably better than mine to begin with.
I could be your piano teacher. I don't know how good of a teacher I'd be, but we seem to see piano playing in sort of the same way (play what you want, when you want), so I guess that could be pretty good. But I'd have to turn into a bit of a slave driver because, not to be mean or anything, your musical motivation is usually at a pretty low ebb.
I should like go do school or something. I just had to pause this whole post-writing thing for a little while because I was listening to "Breath" by Beast and basically every time I listen to that song I have to stop everything and wait for the moment when YoSeob does this incredibly strong sustained note that has exactly the perfect amount of vibrato at the end of it and I think it brings a tear of admiration to my eye every time I hear it.
Anyway that's my story. I really failed at the whole writing a short post thing, didn't I?
-Amy
Dear Amy
Where Everything Is That I'm Doing Right Now (and then a cry for help)
I thought you would like an update, especially since you pretty much already know everything about me *smiley face*
SCHOOL: Well, you know, school is just one of those things, kind of like cleaning the dog or your room. You don't want to do it at all, and there is nothing enjoyable about doing it, but its the result that you want/need, and so that's why you just have to grit your teeth and do it. The only problem is, cleaning your room and cleaning the dog are things that take four hours, tops, and school takes....well. like twelve years. But I'm doing Algebra 2, and the farther I get the more I find myself thinking, "Every American is smart enough to do this?", lets just say, I've gained a lot of respect for our country.
DANCE: dancing is kind of like sleeping, or eating. Its not just that you want to sleep, you also want the result, which is, not being tired. Its not just that you want to eat, because eating is great, you want to be satisfied, because being satisfied, is also great. I think about dancing a lot, and I dance a lot, but what I do even more than dancing, is think about how depressed I am about how I'm not a very good dancer. It happens so much and its such a roller coaster between depression and victory, that I've decided that its just one of those things that you have to ignore and wait for it to pass. And what do I do while I'm waiting? Dance. Because the more I dance, the bigger the chance of me getting past being depressed about it, and the bigger the chance of me winning.
I realized that when I watch someone really talented dancing, I don't usually thing, "wow they're really talented I could never do that" (which is what I should probably be thinking), instead I think either, "they must have practiced that forever," or "I could do that." not in like a "pfft, I'm so talented I can do anything," way, but in a "If I try hard enough and spend enough time on it, I can figure it out." So its like I'm realizing that I think that its not all talent that makes someone a great dancer, but time and practice. And dance is one of the first things that I've ever wanted to spend time and practice on to get better at.
KOREAN: I don't know that many words, but I just learned 1-10, and by doing so I learned 1-100. So that's cool. The little square of Korean on my wall is now dedicated not just the alphabet but also,
- body parts (the only of which I know by heart are, eyes, shoulder, hand, fingers, lips, and arms)
- numbers (eel, ee, sam, sa, oh, yuk, chil, pal, goo, ship YEAYUH. One day to learn those. Imma winner. The way I managed that was I cut out little pictures of k-pop bands and I put their number over how many were in the band, so 1- jeremy, 2 - TVXQ, 3 - JYJ, 4 - 2NE1, 5 - Shinee, 6 - 2PM, 7 - Block B, 8 - Super Junior, 9 - Girls Generation, 10 - Super Junior. Everything is easier to learn when you get to stare at beautiful people.)
- clothing, ( I just put this up and the only one I know by heart is jacket. Which, in Korean, is jacket.)
- colors (A couple are pretty much the same, pink (ping-ku) white, (hu-white-uh), and orange (or-ang-ee)
- and simple words like hello, thank you, mother, father, sister, brother, excuse me, and such.
I will, soon, put up days of the week and emotions. Probably nouns, at some point, too.
In other news, I got the part as the Wardrobe in the play. The awesomeness/overwhelmingness of it hasn't hit me yet. I mean, I'm practically one of the main characters. I'm like in the top-ten biggest characters (not literally though. I'm the second literal biggest character, next to the beast, eh hehehe). Though, I must say, this is quite a great undertaking, I'm a mezzo soprano (second soprano) which is the nice way of saying, "you can't really sing the alto part or the soprano part." Just kidding...kind of. But anyway, shes an opera singer, so I really gotta work on the vocals and such. Also the lines, gotta work on those too.
And, like I said at the beginning of this post, I said something about a cry for help, and what I meant by that was,
You are an incredible pianist, and you, and you alone have the power to break my chains of enslavement, and set me freeee!
What I'm saying, all metaphors aside, is, mom said that if you teach me piano when you come home, I don't have to continue taking lessons from Mrs. Stern.
Now, I don't know if you realize what an opportunity this is (with my playing-by-ear skills and your play-by-the-music-like-a-BOSS skills combined, we can change the world!). I mean I don't think you know what its like taking lessons from Mrs. Stern.
I will share with you some golden quotes to enlighten you a little.
"Its not so much about having perfect notes..its about having perfect notes and rhythm, every time."
"You can play the Entertainer at the recital!" - her
"Oh, so I can play songs that I've learned before this year?" - me, thinking I could play my Beatles songs too. (keep in mind, I learned the Entertainer like three years ago)
"No." - her.
"*contradiction of some kind that I can't remember*" - her
"*asks what she means, since she contradicted herself*" - me
"*asks what I mean.*" - her
"*I explain the contradiction that she has just told me.*" - me.
"Ok....I've given you too much information." - her.
Just think, with out powers combined, we can learn both Wedding Dress AND Very Good Words! (already pretty much figured VGW out. I'll sing it to you with real tears next time I see you.)
Anyway. Think about it. Think, think about it.
-Michelle
I thought you would like an update, especially since you pretty much already know everything about me *smiley face*
SCHOOL: Well, you know, school is just one of those things, kind of like cleaning the dog or your room. You don't want to do it at all, and there is nothing enjoyable about doing it, but its the result that you want/need, and so that's why you just have to grit your teeth and do it. The only problem is, cleaning your room and cleaning the dog are things that take four hours, tops, and school takes....well. like twelve years. But I'm doing Algebra 2, and the farther I get the more I find myself thinking, "Every American is smart enough to do this?", lets just say, I've gained a lot of respect for our country.
DANCE: dancing is kind of like sleeping, or eating. Its not just that you want to sleep, you also want the result, which is, not being tired. Its not just that you want to eat, because eating is great, you want to be satisfied, because being satisfied, is also great. I think about dancing a lot, and I dance a lot, but what I do even more than dancing, is think about how depressed I am about how I'm not a very good dancer. It happens so much and its such a roller coaster between depression and victory, that I've decided that its just one of those things that you have to ignore and wait for it to pass. And what do I do while I'm waiting? Dance. Because the more I dance, the bigger the chance of me getting past being depressed about it, and the bigger the chance of me winning.
I realized that when I watch someone really talented dancing, I don't usually thing, "wow they're really talented I could never do that" (which is what I should probably be thinking), instead I think either, "they must have practiced that forever," or "I could do that." not in like a "pfft, I'm so talented I can do anything," way, but in a "If I try hard enough and spend enough time on it, I can figure it out." So its like I'm realizing that I think that its not all talent that makes someone a great dancer, but time and practice. And dance is one of the first things that I've ever wanted to spend time and practice on to get better at.
KOREAN: I don't know that many words, but I just learned 1-10, and by doing so I learned 1-100. So that's cool. The little square of Korean on my wall is now dedicated not just the alphabet but also,
- body parts (the only of which I know by heart are, eyes, shoulder, hand, fingers, lips, and arms)
- numbers (eel, ee, sam, sa, oh, yuk, chil, pal, goo, ship YEAYUH. One day to learn those. Imma winner. The way I managed that was I cut out little pictures of k-pop bands and I put their number over how many were in the band, so 1- jeremy, 2 - TVXQ, 3 - JYJ, 4 - 2NE1, 5 - Shinee, 6 - 2PM, 7 - Block B, 8 - Super Junior, 9 - Girls Generation, 10 - Super Junior. Everything is easier to learn when you get to stare at beautiful people.)
- clothing, ( I just put this up and the only one I know by heart is jacket. Which, in Korean, is jacket.)
- colors (A couple are pretty much the same, pink (ping-ku) white, (hu-white-uh), and orange (or-ang-ee)
- and simple words like hello, thank you, mother, father, sister, brother, excuse me, and such.
I will, soon, put up days of the week and emotions. Probably nouns, at some point, too.
In other news, I got the part as the Wardrobe in the play. The awesomeness/overwhelmingness of it hasn't hit me yet. I mean, I'm practically one of the main characters. I'm like in the top-ten biggest characters (not literally though. I'm the second literal biggest character, next to the beast, eh hehehe). Though, I must say, this is quite a great undertaking, I'm a mezzo soprano (second soprano) which is the nice way of saying, "you can't really sing the alto part or the soprano part." Just kidding...kind of. But anyway, shes an opera singer, so I really gotta work on the vocals and such. Also the lines, gotta work on those too.
And, like I said at the beginning of this post, I said something about a cry for help, and what I meant by that was,
You are an incredible pianist, and you, and you alone have the power to break my chains of enslavement, and set me freeee!
What I'm saying, all metaphors aside, is, mom said that if you teach me piano when you come home, I don't have to continue taking lessons from Mrs. Stern.
Now, I don't know if you realize what an opportunity this is (with my playing-by-ear skills and your play-by-the-music-like-a-BOSS skills combined, we can change the world!). I mean I don't think you know what its like taking lessons from Mrs. Stern.
I will share with you some golden quotes to enlighten you a little.
"Its not so much about having perfect notes..its about having perfect notes and rhythm, every time."
"You can play the Entertainer at the recital!" - her
"Oh, so I can play songs that I've learned before this year?" - me, thinking I could play my Beatles songs too. (keep in mind, I learned the Entertainer like three years ago)
"No." - her.
"*contradiction of some kind that I can't remember*" - her
"*asks what she means, since she contradicted herself*" - me
"*asks what I mean.*" - her
"*I explain the contradiction that she has just told me.*" - me.
"Ok....I've given you too much information." - her.
Just think, with out powers combined, we can learn both Wedding Dress AND Very Good Words! (already pretty much figured VGW out. I'll sing it to you with real tears next time I see you.)
Anyway. Think about it. Think, think about it.
-Michelle
Monday, February 20, 2012
I have much more important things to be doing this afternoon. And yet I still blog.
What's up, homeslice.
Today while I was furiously trying to ignore what has quickly become the class which I detest with a most direly smoldering, restless fire (Geology), I started a list of super important words that I want to learn in Korean as soon as possible. The trick is covering the bases of extremely basic conversations you might have to have on a daily basis while still keeping the list of words managably short (for now). The reason I'm doing this is that a lot of the time my study of Korean is done on a whim-by-whim basis, and I would probably be much better served if I have a wider goal in mind. Here is what I have so far, grouped loosely by situation. I already know a lot of these and you probably do too but I figured why not list them anyway? They're important.
Nouns/adjectives:
I am at the library. I was going to use my superior (read: rudimentary) knowledge of the Dewey Decimal System to find this book for Adolescent Lit. on my own, but it has proven to be very difficult. I may have to give up and ask for help.
Later - turns out the book isn't actually here, so all my searching was in vain. Will I have to go buy it at the bookstore? I hate it when that happens. I can't even count the books I have had to buy this semester. Three literature classes in one term wasn't the best idea I've ever had.
-Amy
Today while I was furiously trying to ignore what has quickly become the class which I detest with a most direly smoldering, restless fire (Geology), I started a list of super important words that I want to learn in Korean as soon as possible. The trick is covering the bases of extremely basic conversations you might have to have on a daily basis while still keeping the list of words managably short (for now). The reason I'm doing this is that a lot of the time my study of Korean is done on a whim-by-whim basis, and I would probably be much better served if I have a wider goal in mind. Here is what I have so far, grouped loosely by situation. I already know a lot of these and you probably do too but I figured why not list them anyway? They're important.
Nouns/adjectives:
- hair, face, hands, eyes, clothing items, laundry
- house, apartment, building, market, room names
- school, test, class, college, verb, noun, adjective, book, subject names
- chair, couch, table, bed, blanket, pillow
- time, hour, minute, months, weeks, days
- car, bus, subway, map, city, countryside, directions, near/far, fast/slow
- weather, colors, seasons, hot/cold, some food items
- run, walk, stand, bow, play, work
- eat, drink, sleep, see, say, hear, feel, breathe, listen, wake (up)
- wash/clean, dress/wear, buy, sell, rent, make/create, send, plan, study, build
- read, write, dance, sing, rap, date,
- want, grow, need, live/die, come, dislike, think (about), know
I am at the library. I was going to use my superior (read: rudimentary) knowledge of the Dewey Decimal System to find this book for Adolescent Lit. on my own, but it has proven to be very difficult. I may have to give up and ask for help.
Later - turns out the book isn't actually here, so all my searching was in vain. Will I have to go buy it at the bookstore? I hate it when that happens. I can't even count the books I have had to buy this semester. Three literature classes in one term wasn't the best idea I've ever had.
-Amy
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