#enniethings

[ennieee]

up-to-date bias list

2PM : Junho

BAP : Youngjae / Jongup

BIG BANG : Daesung

BLOCK B : P.O.

BtoB : Changsub

BTS : Suga / Jimin

FT ISLAND : Minhwan

GOT7 : JB

MONSTA X : Jooheon / I.M.

PENTAGON : Hui

SEVENTEEN : Seungkwan / Hoshi

SHINEE : Onew

idk if there's much of a common factor here other than i tend to gravitate to members that are really weird or really chic (or both)

[ennieee]

reading a lot of comments about the recent weekly idol rookie special and just trying to be objective about the whole thing (which is tough cos y'all know how much love i have for pentagon)

the whole episode was super awkward, i felt, mainly cos there was like no interaction at all between the groups, and the whole thing became some kind of silly contest between pentagon and victon... with momoland as the third wheel

i don't know much about victon and momoland so i can't really say much other than i didn't find victon funny (i feel like they came across as too competitive? maybe it's bomi's brainwashing lmao), but momoland seemed pretty cool and had some variety sense lol and i'm sad they didn't get to talk more

as for why pentagon didn't participate more in the cover dance thing, idk, maybe they felt awkward, maybe they were a bit shy about doing it in front of other groups, honestly i would have loved to see shinwon or wooseok do goofy versions of the dances but well...

it might have also been nice if they did it like the past rookie special with mx/sonamoo/n.flying, when they brought the sunbae groups in as well. i think btopink would have made things super hilarious and broke the ice for the hoobaes

anyway regardless of how things turned out, i hope they'll all get their own episodes with weekly idol this year. fighting!

[ennieee]

i'm super happy that lipstick prince eps 1 & 2 highlighted the fact that eunkwang is someone who makes people feel at ease. tbh i would love a friend like eunkwang, i could definitely use more joy and happiness in my life

[ennieee]

[ennieee]

on being multilingual

a lot of people have asked me how i learned so many languages, so i'll just talk about it today:

so where i'm from, as long as you go to public school, everyone learns 2 languages. now a lot of subjects are taught in english, but back in my day, everything was taught in malay – history, science, math, geography, everything! so naturally everyone spoke malay.

english was my first language tho because i'm from an english-speaking family.

and then, if you live in the city, there will probably be a lot of chinese-speaking people, so you pick up a bit of chinese as well. i was always kinda hopeless with chinese (even though i'm chinese omg), so the only canto i know is how to order food and how to tell if someone is swearing at me lol. my family speaks some hokkien at home so my strongest dialect is hokkien, although it's still not very fluent – i definitely wouldn't put it on a resume lol.

then comes japanese, which i initially learned because i was a huge anime fan as a kid. learning japanese from anime/dramas is both helpful and unhelpful – it's good for learning little nuances and expressions that might not have an english equivalent, but conversations are actually quite unrealistic, which i learned when i became an exchange student and tried to apply my anime japanese irl. these days i do work with japanese companies, so i'm fluent enough to converse, but my kanji reading is probably only junior high school level and i definitely can't talk about difficult topics like politics or banking (cos i don't know the terms)

korean is also something i became exposed to fairly early, like back in 2004 when you could watch variety shows on the internet (야심만만 anyone??), and while i didn't really pick up the language then, i did find some expressions creeping into my speech (like i started saying "ya" and "omo" a lot). and because i lived with koreans in my uni freshman year, i picked up more korean, and then hallyu just swept over the whole world and i watched more and more variety shows and picked up more korean. because i already know japanese, some aspects of korean language structure became much easier to figure out. but i find myself mixing up languages from time to time lol...

that's pretty much it actually. other languages that i know a little bit of are french, norsk/svenska, italian – i can't really put sentences together yet but i know enough words to understand some signs and stuff (like in the airport or wherever)

[ennieee]

i don't like identifying myself as army because (1) i'm not an official member, and (2) i don't like being associated with the negative aspects of army

holy crap, like i can't even bear to go into the bangtan v chat because it makes my eyes fall out

i can't bring myself to read the comments on any bangtan article/video

reading comments about how "amazing" bangtan's vocals are makes me feel sad about the state of people's ears, because how crappy do your ears have to be to find their vocal line amazing??? then kelly clarkson must be from another universe???

and then people go, you're not a true fan.

i've followed bangtan for years, watched all their shows and paid attention to the details in their music. i like some things and i dislike other things. i'm a musician, not a crazy fangirl.

someone on akp said something really good on a bangtan article: "voice is subjective, but technique is not." (of course she got pounced on later by crazy fans)

do you need to be a professional chef to know how to cook? NO

do you need to be a professional illustrator to be good at drawing? NO

so why is it that when someone delivers constructive criticism of vocals, people get all furious and are like "YOU'RE NOT EVEN A SINGER WTF DO YOU KNOW"

i mean JUST LISTEN TO YOURSELVES

have you all ever been in relationships before? has your significant other done things that pissed you off before? and did you still love him/her after the fact? if the answer is yes then why is it so hard to believe that people can be fans of an artist without being in love with every single part of them

[ennieee]

am i the only person who doesn't think yura's body is dropdead wow?

tbh i've always kinda preferred hyeri because even though she's also thin she looks more fit, like she actually exercises. yura just looks like someone who was blessed with good measurements and never did a damn thing about it

that's just my personal preference though, i think being tan certainly helps the illusion of being more "fit" (see hyori, hyolyn, pristin nayoung)

but in general i'm a bigger fan of the slightly more bottom heavy body types we're seeing more of these days e.g. hwasa, cheng xiao. it used to be that all idols had stick thin legs but the industry is finally(!!!) opening up to honey thighs

[thesnugbug]

so the first thing i did when i logged – after noticing @deviched's handiwork with the guild ranks – was try to revive my pets but apparently making osa powder became 100x harder and because i'm a dumbo i made my eca run around bonta catching fish (oh the irony) and she gained 2 fisher levels

... i hadn't even intended to play and i leveled a profession just to feed my pets, wtf is wrong with me