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So 3 other of my girlfriends, a DBSK fanboy and I have been working on MIROTIC's choreography! We're done with the formation and all, we're actually very briefly done with the dance, what's left is refining the moves and all, and we have an audition to represent Korea in this school event called Cultural Evening this thursday! Since the real thing's pretty much a month away from now, we're planning to dance to MIROTIC's acoustic version instead, you know, add some climax and all : )

Currently learning SHINee's Replay choreography. Pretty funn, loving it!

Just when I am in the mood to post a compilation of my favourite fashion & lifestyle web list, my charger unfortunately I left it at my friend's apartment, and my macbook went out of battery long ago. So instead, I'll use my sister's laptop for now. Always nice to have a sister around haha. She's leaving to Thailand tomorrow for a week, leaving me alone with the [Rec] zombies to be quarantined in the bedroom... If you haven't noticed I watched the spanish horror film [Rec] not long ago and the zombies keep haunting me! Especially the little zombie girl! The spanish movie I think posses quite some outstanding qualities like the script and the actors' performances. Cinematography I think could've been better. I get ticked off everytime they give an intentional slow out-of-focus effect, I want to see what's going on! But then, if they did show it I'd be shit scared.

Just a mention, Quarantine, the Hollywood remake of [Rec] starring Jennifer Carpenter (White Chicks, Dexter), is coming out October this year. Shit, should I watch it? It's hard not to be curious after watching the original film. But I'd be scared. Lol.

Dugironkigow [Du·gi·ron·ki·gow]
   -noun

1. The new era of mutant ninjas.
2. A multi-hybrid animals consisting of a duck, giraffe, donkey, pig and a cow.
3. To call someone a crazy little retard.

Dugironkigowing
   -verb (used with a person)

3. To go hopping around aimlessly.

On an extremely boring day, I found yet another Japanese drama by random that attracts me, finally. Titled 蛍の光 (Hotaru no Hikari), it talks about a 干物女 (can't exactly translate to English... basically girls who enjoy staying at home reading manga, drinking beer to kill time, with minimal care for their appearance, hygiene. Their homes are usually messy, stinky, dirty. Life without love) She fell in love with her collegue, and the power of love changed her. But in the end she fell in love with her room mate, who happens to be her boss. I think the story plot, again, is very typical Japanese love story, but it's fun to watch because the girl is hella funny! This is exactly what I'm looking for, after giving up with the dragged story line of Goong S. 

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Continuing with my discovery list, here's a small list of some slick Web 2.0 I discovered! 

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2. Weebly

I've never seen an online web builder as easy and powerful as Weebly! It really is WYSIWYG. What you see is what you get. You can choose to get the website hosted on Weebly, link it to your own domain, or save the generated codes. The provided templates are already my eye candy : p

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3. MOSH by Nokia (beta)

I'm not sure this is exactly useful for me, but a discovery is a discovery. I didn't know Nokia encourages 3rd party applications and miscellaneous things for their mobiles. But the website, compared to their current one, is quite refreshing. Though for me, I don't exactly find their user-generated contents very handy. 

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4. The Filter (private beta)

The Filter used to be a downloadable application for mac and Windows users to generate music playlists based on your music library's songs' bpm. Somehow when I decided to go back and reinstall it to my new mac, boom. They changed everything. The playlist generator no longer exist. Rather, as a private beta tester, they changed it to an online media recommendation web. Not only on music but movies as well. Up until now I'm still not getting the hang of it, how the recommendation works and all, but it's only in it's private beta mode. So improvements should be seen in the near future : )

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5. finetune

Now that's what I call a Pandora alternative! To those who cannot access Pandora due to copyright infringements (and of course, to those who do not edit their proxies), finetune is a really neat alternative! After experiencing with really ineffective recommendation services, I think finetune provides a really comprehensive and relative music recommendations. I don't exactly know how the recommendation works, but I know one thing for sure that it doesn't only recommend songs that matches the bpm, or artists that used to be in that band but went solo, but songs that has the ambient you're looking for. The good thing, it never lags my browser. 

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6. AccuRadio

Not exactly a new discovery, but I think AccuRadio's worth on my small list. It has the most comprehensive music radio directory, covering massive genres, and moods that you'll probably be interested in. The decent web design gives you a sense of organization back in the days you know? Rather than thinking of a song that is the type of music you want to listen to, AccuRadio is the choice to just let the music flow, all you need to do is click on a channel. tatan!

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6. SideReel (beta)

Enough with the music recommendation, here comes the visual part. SideReel does not violet copyright infringements, they just gather a collective amount of links to uploaded TV episodes, movies and anime. Think of it as a TV/ Movie/ Anime directory with links to the actually video! For drama episodes, they even list the episodes out in order and in seasons, how civilized! Again, neat website. 

More about lifestyles to come on my next discovery list!

Can't believe what my momma got me tonight, A MIGHTY MIGHTY MOUSE!

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I have decided to take a break from squeezing my dry brain for literature juice and compile a little list of my recent website and mac apps discoveries, right here, on VOX!

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1. msnbc.Com

I never realize they have such neat web interface until last night! Very clean and effective web design, I love it! It became my homepage the moment my eyes meet their web. The homepage has a little dose of everything from an eye-catching breaking news marque to world news to your local news to entertainment to health to obscure incidents. Weather, horoscopes, and local news all customizable. Love! There's a video section called the Today Show, which I have taken it as my daily morning news channel, without having the need to get off my bed every morning!

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2. JustJared.Com

Daily dose of hollywood gossips. The news you see on your entertainment newspaper are usually posted on JustJared the day before. Unbelievably immediate news delivery! And not to mention way more neutral than the PerezHilton.Com, gosh whatever happened to that poor thing that is filled with nothing but hatred? 

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3. NotCot.Com

A really extensive blog about everything design and creative. From fashion to geeky gadgets to food and drinks to travelling to furniture. WOW factor everyday!

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4. ComputerArts.Co.Uk

This web contains everything you need to know about digital arts and other rad design tips. Visually mind-blowing, with a comprehensive amount of quality tutorials downloadable in PDF formats. Jeesh everything on this web is just amazing!

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5. COLOURlovers.Com

Colour plays a very important role in arts, and this blog, it covers a lot of things you need to know about it. It has a huge amount of both official and user-submitted colour palettes for whatever use they are for you. 

.... hmm a lot more to come. My break is done and I have to continue with my literature essay. 

Photos to be added soon. Right now I'm in my Chinese lesson, computer laboratory no duh, being injected with Big Bang-ness from Leanne. I just want to jot down some notes here regarding our explosion of ideas about a domain just now.

domain: themashedpotato.com

sub-domains: /leah, /stefonia, /shazza

sub-sites: big bang fansite, leah's official site (with exclusive illustrations for VIP members!)

On to the shopping list.

Photos to be added soon. Right now I'm in my Chinese lesson, computer laboratory no duh, being injected with Big Bang-ness from Leanne. I just want to jot down some notes here regarding our explosion of ideas about a domain just now.

domain: themashedpotato.com

sub-domains: /leah, /stefonia, /shazza

sub-sites: big bang fansite, leah's official site (with exclusive illustrations for VIP members!)

BIG BANG's photoshoot for their EP For The World is sexy. T.O.P. and G-Dragon are especially photogenic I see! I love their use of colours and the lighting that actually gives a little techno feel that actually matches their EP.

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Especially T.O.P., photogenic-ness

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