20 Korean idols who love fashionable chokers

I absolutely love NowKpop. They write about Korean idols and K-Pop articles so check this one out!

http://www.nowkpop.com/2015/10/30/20-korean-idol-who-love-fashionable-chokers/

Underrated K-Pop Singers #1 : Shannon Williams 샤 넌

From now on, I will be writing a post about underrated Korean singers! Keep an eye out for each issue!

Shannon Arrums Williams (Korean name: 샤넌 아름 윌리엄스), best known as simply 'Shannon', is a British-Korean idol singer born on May 26, 1998. She is currently active in South Korea under the talent company DAP Sound (division of MBK Entertainment). 

Since the age of 7, Shannon has been participating in musicals while attending Sylvia Young Theatre School in the UK. She was once given the role of Cosette in the famous musical 'Les Miserables', and continued to take on this role until she was considered too 'old' to be suitable for acting for this character. 

She later appeared on SBS's Star King in South Korea in 2010. On the show, everyone's jaws hung from their mouths in awe at her amazing singing and opera skills. She appeared again in 2011 with a duet with Brad Little, the male opera singer who won the Barrymore Philly Award. She later signed an exclusive contract with Core Contents Media. (The video is down below)

In 2012, she released the single album 'Day and Night' with T-ARA's Areum (ex-member) and Gun-ji from Navy NJ. In 2013, she was recruited as a new member of the Korean girl group F-ve Dolls but quickly withdrew because she wanted to be like her role idols BoA and IU and debut as a solo artist.

Debut with 'Daybreak Rain'

On December 1, 2014, she released her debut single, 'Daybreak Rain 새벽비' and even had a collaboration single with Vasco and Giriboy ('Breath 숨').

Her next single 'Why Why 왜요 왜요' was released on March 15, 2015, and following, the release of the entire album 'Eighteen'. 

The album consisted of 7 tracks:

1. Why Why 

Shannon shows a very cute side of her in 'Why Why', expressing love and total admiration for a man which she falls in love with. While staring at her phone all day and thinking about him at night before bed, she asks why the man is always smiling at her :)

2. I Know

3. Gossip Girl

4. 20inch

5. Hate you

6. Breath (Shannon, Vasco, Giriboy)

With Vasco and Giriboy accompanying her in this song, it talks about a man so important to a girl that it is similar to having air to breath and without him, there is no breath left in her (and she dies). A man's love is so important to a girl that is like her breath. 

7. Daybreak Rain 

This song talks about a woman trying to get over a man after a rough breakup and not thinking about the things that he has done so that it would not hurt her anymore. A very mature and strong side of Shannon was shown through 'Daybreak Rain'.

While Shannon shows us a very musically talented part of her on stage, she is has such a nice personality and is so cute off-stage (well, technically she was also cute when she was promoting for 'Why Why' because that was the concept)! 

 

My Favorite Song 

 Daybreak Rain

The song is included in the music bar list! Check it out!

How To Save Energy

Hope you like it :) I used the website called Canva to create this poster! Just realized how much I love it! 

Music....Start!

As you might have noticed, a new function has been added to our blog for a change! The music bar! This is located at the top of the page and the triangular symbol is equivalent to the play and pause button. If you want to view the entire playlist, just click the icon on the right with a few lines (the playlist is on shuffle).

Most of the songs that I added are Korean songs, but I'll try to add a wider variety of languages of songs to suite viewers from different parts of the world!

Comment if you want to share with me any of your favorite songs! I might be able to put them into our playlist :)

Big Bang: Bang Bang Bang! 뱅뱅뱅!

As I've mentioned before, Big Bang will release a new song on the first of every month from May until August, where they would showcase their entire 'MADE' album to their fans. Well, they released their two new songs just 2 days ago with the title of 'BANG BANG BANG' and 'We Like 2 Party'! Yes!!!

They uploaded their 'BANG BANG BANG' music video at 12:00 am (KST). I really like this song!!! (Did you know they described this song as being similar to their song 'Fantastic Baby'? The first two songs 'Bae Bae' and 'Loser' were only a 'side-dish' where as 'BANG BANG BANG' is considered to be the 'main-dish' of their full album... Interesting....)

'We Like 2 Party' did not have a music video of its own, but the audio is here! I expected it be a quick-tempo-ed song... 

I didn't really get the idea of this part... WHY IS THE GIRL ON A DOG LEASH PULLED BY G-DRAGON?!

So... Taeyang is STILL shirtless, as always, with some other guys who are shirtless AS WELL...

For some reason, Seungri has become my bias (along with T.O.P.) HE LOOKS SO MASCULINE HERE and he looks SO much better with blonde hair. Good job, Seungri!!! :)

Big Bang MADE Concert HK

The kings are back! Big Bang is having their MADE concert in Hong Kong in the Asiaworld Expo on 12-14 June (Friday-Sunday) after 3 years!!! The excitement is real!

Unfortunately, (here comes the bad news; brace yourselves) I could not get the tickets :( No! Such a disappointment. The cheaper tickets (i.e. $488,$788) had all been grabbed by other people within a few hours. *Cries and hides in a corner*

'I didn't get Big Bang tickets...'

Ticket Prices

The prices for the tickets range from $488, $788, $988, $1,888, $1,388, to $1,888 as the most expensive. 

Seating Plan

Big Bang's New Comeback

The reason for their having world tour in Hong Kong this time is to promote their new comeback for 'Loser' and 'Bae Bae'. They have already held a world tour in Seoul as their first stop, as well as Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai, Dalian, and Wuhan. They will, later on, travel to Bangkok, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Jakarta, Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, Nagoya, and Osaka once again to bring the world tour to an end. 

Their new song 'Loser' won many awards in a matter of a few weeks and has topped the charts within days of their release.

'Bae Bae' was also released on the same day as 'Loser' and adds a fun yet sexual twist to their style. 

The idol group will release more songs on the first date of every month and releasing their full 'Made' album in September. The next song is to be released on 1 June. 

I AM SO EXCITED FOR THEIR NEW SONG I THINK I WILL CRY NOW!!!Alright excuse my craziness but they are my baes and they all look pretty even if they're dressed up as girls. (Here you go) Bingu T.O.P is back with his very own bingu-ness showing fully on stage, Seungri looks a very hot anime character with his gold hair, GD looks like a gangster with suspenders, Taeyang looks pretty much the same except for a cool split in his eyebrows, and I don't think Daesung can't really see with his hair covering his 'already-very-small' eyes (I'm sorry, Daesung.) 

Daesung looks so cute here :)

And here's our ever changing T,O.P; from being hot and mature,

...to cute,

...and now totally crazy with his 'crown-hair'. 

How I Study for Exams/Tests

Some people find the idea of studying for tests or exams very burdening and frustrated with the fact that flipping through pages and pages of a text book takes a lot of time. Me too, that's why I invented my very own personalized way of revising!

This method works for most subjects. I always did this for math and I'm currently doing this for science as well (I'm really bad at science).

So basically I go back to the syllabus which is being tested and then I create a 'revision sheet'. I would put sub-headings and notes for that (maybe some pictures as well).

I soon realized that I am also, in a way, revising while I making this revision sheet and when I'm flipping through it. Double revision! :) :)

Here are some examples:

What method do you use to study? :)