CN Blue and Glay in my eyes

Is CNBlue a prodigy?

Honestly, I don't even know how to handle any musical instrument but like everyone I love listening to music and great songs. Most of the time, without any doubt, I would always choose talent over look. I am attracted to it when I see one with talent. Talent is synonym to pheromone for me. CNBlue gives out that exact good vibes to me when listening to them.

I have been listening to Glay since I'm 17 so when CNBlue came into picture, they made me want to hear Glay again. Out of nowhere. The similarity between CNBlue and Glay is that they gave strong live magnetic performance on stage (like every single time) and I prefer both of their live performance than the studio recorded version.

CNBlue is a fresh from the oven Kpop band in Korea and just debuted on 14th January but had their earlier indie stint in Japan around June 2009. I can't help but to compare CNBlue with my all time favourite JRock band Glay (undeniably genius), in talent but not fashion wise. This blog is everything about Korean but I had to include Glay at least in this post.

In my humble opinion,
Teru  = Yong Hwa (both of them are good singer and gives strong pull to the fan and crowd when they speak)

Hisashi (minus the voice) = Jong Hyun (has the look, but Hisashi blows me away when he plucks his guitar)

Jiro = Jung Shin (I hope Jung Shin will be as good as Jiro, cause Jiro could sing Shutter Speed and rocks with his bass guitar effortlessly)

I can't put Min Hyuk here because Glay only have guest drummers.No one in CNBlue that I could compare with Takuro. Takuro is such a genius in composing great songs.

Glay from left - Jiro, Takuro, Teru and Hisashi

CNBlue from left - Jung Shin, Jong Hyun, Yong Hwa, Min Hyuk

My all time favourite Glay song: - Summerdays (although I have so many favourites, but had to choose one)
Summerdays feels like summer everytime I listen to it.




My favourite CNBlue's song - Now or Never



My wish is for CNBlue to be a legend just like Glay. CNBlue, hwaiting!!

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Hotels in Indore : Make a Choice from an Ample Range

Positioned on the edge of river Saraswati, Indore is placed in Madhya Pradesh. Designed and constructed by Rani Ahilyabai Holker, Indore is sanctified with the gorgeous environs and continental weather. Here people can visit destinations like Lal Baag Palace, Kanch Mandir, Rajwada, Chhattri Bagh, Geeta Bhavan, Nehru Park and Mahatma Gandhi Hall, all of them having historical significance.

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Naver Game

Have you ever tried using Naver, the most popular search engine in Korea?

Naver (Hangul: 네이버) is by far the most popular search portal in South Korea, with a market share of over 70%, compared to 2% of Google.Naver was launched in June 1999 by ex-Samsung employees, the first portal in Korea that used its own proprietary search engine. (Info by Wikipedia)

Naver is like what Google is to us and like what Baidu is to Chinese. Korean prefer Naver than Google. Since I am still crawling to read Hangul hence 'Naver is never' my favourite search engine..hehehe. My host's children use Naver to play games or read manhwa (manga in korean) everytime after school.

At one time, I was looking behind Haein's shoulder to check at a game she was playing in junior Naver. Yes...there is a junior Naver. ^^ With Haein and Hojin's help, I found a few games which could help me learn Korean better. The games are primarily for Korean children to brush up their English but I think it works for me too and I hope it will help others learning Korean as well.

Here's how:

1. Go to Naver website - http://www.naver.com/

2. Click at junior naver -

and you will be directed to the website : http://jr.naver.com/index.html

3. Click at AB영어스쿨 and you will be directed to http://study.jr.naver.com/english/

4. Click at the picture above 영어게임 and you will be directed to http://jr.naver.com/english/list.nhn?id=game&cid1=1

5. I will normally play these two games to improve my vocabulary

There are other games of course but there are too many for me to try. You could hunt them yourself ok?

PS. You may need Flash installed in your PC to play the games.

Tell me if it is fun and helpful ok?

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Gmarket - Online Shopping

Ever heard of Ebay.com? Gmarket is his twin but lives in Korea..hehe. When I was in Malaysia, I did check out this portal and bought a hoodie and another shirt. The parcel + delivery costed roughly MYR140. What a let down, both ordered quality were sucks..seriously. I bet I'd rather buy it from a bundle shop at Uptown Danau Kota.

However, my love affair with Gmarket didn't stop at that point. I ordered a winter jacket which was only 15,900 won and sent to Jinbu address(where I stay now). Unfortunately this time, I forgot to check its shoulder size properly and fall prey to my own wrongdoing. The jacket's was 37cm while my shoulder slants towards the giant shrek size - 42cm..hehe. Yeah, I'm a big bone giant! ^^ So, I gave it to Haein. This is totally my own fault. No question asked. But........ the color of the jacket was not near to similar color at all. I ordered dark brown but I received lighter brown..sheeshh. That's why I have told myself before never to buy things online! Why Zarina..why didn't you listen to yourself??!!

The point is..online shopping could be cheap but still...don't follow my path. Buy clothes IF AND ONLY IF you could see the color, feel the material, try it on and like an 'ahjumma' ask for discount..hehe.

Never the least, if you want to have a taste how Gmarket is, head over to its English site and if you are articulate in Korean, click on here.

Gmarket strong points:

• you can order kpop items and korean quirky fashion items - they are so pretty!
• delivery is fast - domestic one or two days, international - around 1 week
• you could pay via PAYPAL/credit card
• my advice - only buy the NOW hot item for better deal
• quality of the material is good but all depends to the seller
• gmarket has hugeeeeeeeeeeee stock - ranging from clothes to makeup to food lalalala..you name it

WARNING No 1: The site is heavy on flash, you may need higher RAM PC and for me it's best to view with Internet Explorer.

WARNING No 2: The price could be very cheap and you will be tempted. Don't tell me I didn't warn you on this! ^_^

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