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Mongie & Dongwan, two of my greatest inspirations (': I wish the B.O.B trio could still make songs together today.. ;___;

[061124] MC Mong’s Cyworld entry “Kim Dongwan! The letter I’m writing to you”

One of the very people who made me live as MC Mong The rascal who took me to a nightclub in high school Dongwannie, who I honestly saw more than my mother’s face in high school Dongwan-ah, you probably don’t know how one word from you was a source of strength and precious to someone who was as timid and unskilled in speaking as me.. As I auditioned because of Inchangie and got to know you

We promoted as one team for a year When that team broke up, you probably know how sad and hard it was When the song we recorded was included in your Shinhwa’s first album I was really proud of you While we drank beer in front of your house, you were the only one who comforted and complimented me Dongwan-ah, I really miss those days I miss your Nike t-shirt that I wanted I miss the days when we rode your scooter from Yeouido to Dogok-dong Since high school, the image of you writing and composing songs with such passion And seeing the unchanging image of you now, I also take on the challenge again Dongwan, who works while taking responsibility for everything alone The two of us ultimately ended up having the same job ^^ Be strong, Dongwan-ah Credit: Kim Dongwan Tumblr (Eng Trans)

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"Life is full of beauty. Notice it."

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I hate change.. but sometimes it's for the best. Things can't always stay the same.

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Please show some love and support to Danny by joining this simple but sweet and necessary project ! ♥

This is it! #STILL BY UR SIDE DANIEL# Support Messages All DALMATES are encourage to join! International and Korean Dalmates. C’mon! I will be compiling a support video for Daniel regarding the issue he is facing. /you know/

OPTION 1: VIDEO MESSAGE Your support video must not exceed to...

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13.02.01 - MC Mong's twitter bio: "안전지대" (= Safety Zone)

Mongie showing some support to his kids again (': ♥

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N-Train sing Chris Brown's "With You" & R.Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly" a capella ♪

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MYK - Picasso (feat. Manifest)

Produced by Shirosky

From MYK & Shirosky's new EP "Adaptation"

I've been (im)patiently waiting for MYK & Shirosky to collab together again, and it finally happened ! Gonna be playing this album on repeat for days, or even months, just like I did when their 1st respective EPs were released two years ago (':

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Top comment under Sunggyu's "Another Me" teaser (piano ver.) lol

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A little post about what I saw on twitter.

Yes, apparently B2M is being a b*tch right now, just like pretty much all other music agencies in the world. But Jinnie's not gonna die y'all. B2M seems to have taken advantage of someone and too bad it happened to be Jinnie.. but it's not like he was gonna lose fans or anything because of that matter, so stop worrying too much.

If celebrities feel forced to either hide or justify themselves and make official statements about their relationships, it's only and precisely because of fans who make a big fuss out of nothing. & this is exactly what y'all are doing right now. So if your favourite idol is dating someone, fine, just let them be. If you don't know whether it's true or just a marketing strategy, well, getting mad and making accusations won't change anything. & knowing the truth won't change your life either..

In any case, this is show business guys, and we know how show business works. It has always been this way. Y'all complain about the fact that music agencies use relationships to promote their artists, but why do you think they keep doing this ? It's just because this strategy ALWAYS works. It always works because y'all absolutely want to know EVERYTHING about your fave idols' private lives so as soon as the dating news come out you look up the girlfriend/boyfriend's name on the internet and try to get all infos about them. So, yes, the strategy works because of obsessed fans like you.

& then, you still get mad at the press for invading celebrites' lives ? But, seriously, what do you think fans are doing ? If you really did care about protecting their private lives, you wouldn't talk for hours about dating rumors nor search all over the internet articles about who is dating your oppa, and you wouldn't cry at night because he got a new girlfriend. So just let the celebrities deal with their own lives, stop hating on people, stop acting like it was the end of the world and, above all, just stop being the ones who force them to release official statements about their private relationships. Thank you.

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12.11.10 - Yoon Kyesang's One Table Ep.11 with his G.O.D brothers.

G.O.D's first TV reunion in 8 years (with ALL of the members) ;__; ♥

If someone subs this, I'll be forever thankful (':

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From 소리헤다2 Produced by 소리헤다 Lyrics by Marina Zettl & Thomas Mauerhofer, Paloalto Composed & Arranged by 소리헤다 Recorded by Thomas Mauerhofer @ HeadRoom, Vienna 211 @ Hi-Lite Studio, Seoul Mix & Mastered by 소리헤다

Dying to hear the full album ! According to Soriheda, the tracklist will be revealed tomorrow (well, today in South Korea).

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[CAFE POST] 121105 - Simon: "Dalmate~^^" (Rough Trans.)

What’s up Dalmates~! Were you worried ?

According to articles, Dalmatian has moved to a new company building~

We said goodbye to each other in the right spirit. (T/N: Simon is talking about IS Enter Media’s staff members)

I’m mentally prepared to make a fresh start in the new company ^^

We’re all doing very well.

But during the transfer process to the new company, a notice has also been posted to let you all know about the last Inkigayo stage.

Of course, being the first to inform all of you Dalmates in advance is my duty.

There is no schedule update so it’s not hard to guess that you all have been very surprised..

Once again, this incident makes me feel the importance of our Dalmates. I really missed you so bad.

I'd like to ask you to keep supporting and rooting for us warmly in the future.

I think you should anticipate a lot ^^

Even though I'm writing in the cafe after a long time, it's short.  I'm sorry~

I’ll see you very soon~! ♡

Trans: ganji-paradise (xGreenLight @iDalmatianFR) ; Source: Dalmatian's fancafe

I'm not fluent in Korean so there might be some translation mistakes.

Please take out with full credits.

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"If the drama reaches 40 percent, I will pick one viewer and prepare his or her breakfast, lunch, and dinner, like housekeeper Kim Tae Pyung-style!" - Kim Dongwan

Now let's all watch Cheer Up Mr. Kim when it airs and hope the drama gets high ratings so that our appayam can keep his promise ! /evil laugh/

Full article here: http://enewsworld.mnet.com/enews/contents.asp?idx=19625

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I get your point and I agree with you for the most part. (: There's still something I disagree with though... Indeed, no one can truly determine whether something can be called "love" or not. But what we can do however is define what kind of love it is. And, as  fans, we ARE being sort of vain for loving our idols. Because you mentioned it yourself: "we are pretty much segregated to the one view of that man or woman and that is the one they put on for show." We love a manufactured character. And it doesn't matter whether this character is their true selves or not, because we will never have the answer. We just don’t know our idols. And this is precisely what makes this love shallow.

I am not blaming anyone for that since I am fangirling over my personal favorites & often expressing my feelings towards them too, and my goal is in no way to make you change your mind because I do agree with your general vision of things, but the shallowness of our love for those artists is a fact that just can't be denied. And once you accept that fact, you won't feel the need to ever justify again whenever someone tells you the same thing. Because hearing a truth you're already aware of won't hurt you. We can find tons of reasons to explain why we love our idols, but it doesn't make it any less shallow. I just wanted to emphasize this.

ANYWAY. As long as we realize that there is a deeper and greater kind of love waiting for us outside, I guess it’s all good. So let’s keep loving and supporting our respective fave artists without worrying about what people may think of us fans anymore ! (:

It is absolutely flawless and everything is perfection but I want to chat about the “Thanks To” section, specifically, Daniel’s.

Now I am going to preface this opinion with the fact that as a fan, I am entitled to my daily delusions and that I no doubt, function around the subatomic fraction of a chance that I will get to meet and the steal the heart of my bias. In a parallel universe, I’m sure I already have but anyway, what I want to talk about, is the ever-present gap in knowledge and familiarity that we have about the ones we “idolize”. As a fan, we are pretty much segregated to the one view of that man or woman and that is the one they put on for show. Their “fame”. Some fans will concede that they appreciate their bias for their “their character” or “their personality” but unless that fan has actually met them in a private setting, I would say that their claim is at least, to some degree, fabricated.

Now I’m not saying that we don’t ever see “the real side” of our biases. I mean, what is real anyway? Is it what we believe to be real or what is dictated to us? If my bias decided to come out and reveal his true colors, who’s to say that I would take that as “the truth”. Who’s to say I would immediately agree that he or she is “this kind of person”?

I’m going off tangent here…

Back to what I was saying; we don’t have a definitive file on the people we gush and cry and swoon over. We know nothing about their personal lives or their private pasts aside from what they decide to share and even then, it is strictly on the record most of the time. And I was already aware of this fact but what I want to bring to light is how crazy that is. How ludicrous it is to care so much about someone you don’t know.

As I read Daniel’s dedications, I realised two things:

1.) Daniel has a shit ton of friends.

2.) I don’t know any of them.

Isn’t that nuts? I just couldn’t help but feel the brunt of that observation—I know nothing about his life before debut. I know nothing of his parents or his hobbies. I know nothing about what schools he went to and what teachers were his favorite and which ones he wanted to get fired. I know nothing about his relationships with women or men and whether they still affect him to this day.

I. Know. Nothing.

And what’s truly crazy is that this tends to be the reality for every relationship in life. Not everyone grew up with their crush. Not everyone knows what kind of friends they kept or how they liked their eggs but somehow they find each other and make use of that ignorance to fill conversation and learn about each other slowly and incompletely.

And here I am thinking about how impossible love is and how trying to define it is so completely redundant because love has as many colors as an oil painting and all of them are real. Love cannot be limited to just what is “true”. Love cannot be defined by whether or not we stay with that person the rest of our lives. As fans, we scorn ourselves for feeling things and for obsessing over someone who is out of our reach but the fact the matter is—everyone is out of our reach. We are all strangers until we walk up and introduce ourselves. We are all separated by something, whether it be oceans or just past events.

I’m just in awe right now because despite all the jokes and all the venom, I know that my feelings for my bias are justified. They may not be healthy or realistic or even “true” but they exist and whether or not they reap the fruit of a relationship is irrelevant to me right now. I will like who I like and damned be the person who tells me that I’m being shallow for liking a person I don’t really know.

Damned be the person who tells me I can’t love someone because of this obstacle.

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121013 Dalmatian - The Man Opposed @ Lotte World

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fyeah-egobomb:

Hello Bomb fam ^^

Unfortunately, i’m going to deliver bad news.

Many of you have been waiting for EgoBomb’s debut but it has been postponed to January 3rd, 2013.

The reason behind it is that Egobomb received a love call from a major Japanese agency that wants to work with them ! ^^

Although the release date for their debut album is delayed, this is also a great and rare opportunity for Egobomb since they are just rookies.

We’ll be happily waiting a bit longer together ! ^ㅠ^

(translation: valisoa@fyeah-egobomb ; pic: Chas’ blog ; source: 다닝@fancafe)

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We already knew that but, now it's official. Louie is crazy.