Filed under: KPop | Tags: DBSK, Jaejoong, Jong Hyun, Jonghyun, Key, Kibum, Kim Kibum, Minho, Monologues, Onew, SHINee, Taemin, YouTube
I feel like this is some weird AA meeting, where I am coming out of the SHINee closet for the first time.
Hi, my name is Cheryl, and I love SHINee. I guess I should mention now that I am 21. Does that make this a crime?
A few weeks ago, I came across Shinee’s TV show clips on YouTube. Honest to gosh, I tried to watch it, but it was so boring. Joanna recently suggested that one of the reasons for DBSK’s rise to fame, aside from their undeniable talent, was the fact that each member has an interesting personality. I totally agree – with superstar characters like Hero and Junsu, you just can’t go wrong. Everytime someone posts a new subbed variety show starring DBSK on Youtube, I am ALL OVER THAT SHIT. Okay yeah, I’m a fangirl, but DBSK is a group of genuinely funny guys. They always make me laugh when they do a show. I know for a fact that the SHINee boys are total DBSK fangirlsboys. I love SHINee and I believe in their talent, but I think that they lack a bit of “charisma” (I am under the impression that Koreans freaking love this word).. I’m not really sure as to why, though. For example, when DBSK was on Come to Play, Jaejoong mentioned that SM gave each group member a “persona” to portay when the group first debuted. Jaejoong was told only to sing and to remain silent otherwise – I’m glad that they gave up on that, because he is effing hilarious. It’s a bit weird how SM pretty much controlled every aspect of their lives, including how they were allowed to act O_______o I hope that maybe with some more time, the SHINee boys can begin to act more like themselves if they aren’t doing so already.
ANYWAY, since I gave up on SHINee’s show, I decided to watch their monologues instead. They are a bit old, but I thought that they gave me some helpful insight (which I have summarized below). I am going to say this straight up, I think the only interesting one is Key’s – and it is only a BIT INTERESTING. He is a cutie though, so go watch that one!
Key is wearing pantaloons = BROWNIE POINTS!
Left to right:
For my comments etc., Joanna I think you need to read some of this…
Filed under: Daily | Tags: beef, biscotti, bread, chicken, Cupcake Shoppe, cupcakes, dessert, dinner, duck, Eating out, fine dining, friends, linguine, Sassafraz, tataki, Toronto
I first began to realize that I was totally out of my league when a nice looking waitress approached me shortly after we sat down. This was starkly different from Chinese restaurants, where there is a lot of barking and flailing involved to get even the smallest ounce of attention from the sour-faced I-hate-my-life staff.
Waitress: “Would you like some bread?” *SMILE*
Me: “Yes.” - easy enough
Waitress: “What kind?”
Me: *perplexed by the different types of bread splayed out on the silver platter* arrrrgh.
I was all alone since Joanna abandoned me for the bathroom and Krishna had not yet arrived. The waitress just stood there the whole time, smiling at me -_________-; Anyway, having finally done the eeny-miney, I settled on some sunflower seed bread and decided on the whole wheat for Joanna. It actually wasn’t even called whole wheat, the waitress spewed out some long name and then added “basically, it’s whole wheat” – GOOD enough for me. I fumbled around with the butter knife trying to figure it out, it had all these weird crevices and I wasn’t sure which side to use. I suddenly understood why Leo looked so distraught in Titanic..
I later realized that the “waitress” was actually the “bread girl”, because that was her only job the whole night – to walk around with a silver platter of bread and tongs O____o
By the time that Krishna showed up and we got settled, other tables were filling up as well. The atmosphere was pretty intimate. In fact, I distinctly remember a certain conversation that we had. While Joanna was bitching about how she had to buy a new computer because her brother had fucked up the old one, my dearest Krishna (who is deaf in one ear) remarked: ” OH YEAH, it was the PORN” There was a cute little family sitting diagonal to us, and some of them gave us an inquisitive glance, lol.
After munching on the bread, we began to look through the menu. Secretly, Joanna and I had checked it out online before hand. I had been practicing the word “gnocchi” for quite some time. I did not want to sound like a total scrub in a fancy shmancy restaurant. What I really liked about the menu was the fact that the name for every dish was one no-nonsense word that described exactly what it was. For example: “beef”, “oyster”, “chicken”, “soup” – none of this cooking method + name of a Country/city + random foreign word business. Never quite nailed “gnocchi”, so I resorted to my failsafe and ordered the “linguine”. Joanna got “chicken”, while Krishna decided on the “duck”. It was right around this time that Krishna began to open his gifts. I think it was mostly Joanna and Nelson that had come up with the idea to give him this Wolverine zen painting by Andy Lee.
Sorry guys, I don’t know why it’s sideways. I think it’s pretty obvious that I am unintentionally talking to myself for most of this video ^_________^; Now that I’ve seen the video, I didn’t know that I laughed like a meanie! Sorry Krishna!
Filed under: Daily | Tags: dining, dinner, Eating out, fine dining, friends, Restaurant, Sassafraz, Toronto, TTC, Yorkville
.. and more importantly, my date with Joanna and Krishna 
Warning: if you leave a meal choice up to Joanna, she will pick the most expensive rip-a-hole-in-your-asswallet restaurant in town – THIS IS GUARANTEED. This time around, Joanna decided that we should dine at Sassafraz, a restaurant frequented by celebs – umm, upon learning this knowledge, the frugal Asian in me was already screaming “RUN”! I think that Krishna and I are both bad at making decisions.. or maybe I am just speaking for myself.. anyway, we were both joking around about how we wouldn’t mind just having a fine meal at McDonald’s. I thought that the restaurant would be in TOTAL chaos last night seeing as how it was just a few nights before the new year. It was surprisingly quiet. In fact, Joanna and I were the first to arrive in the dining room (which worked to my advantage.. I didn’t want to take a billion pictures with people watching).
http://www.sassafraz.com
P.S. Joanna and I got totally pwned on our way to the restaurant. We were waiting for this one bus for quite some time in the bitter cold. There were some strange men staring at us from inside their shops. Finally, I looked up and noticed some words underneath the bus sign. Here is the sequence of events that followed our discovery:
C: “What does that sign say?”
C&J: *LAUGHING OUR FROZEN ASSES OFF*
J: “I think we just got pwned.”
*long silence*
C: Let’s get the fuck out of here.
J: Yeah..
