english name: james (제임스)
K-Pop meets western pop! + Studio Ghibli shopping!
BREAKING NEWS! I've managed to get my hands on a pair of tickets to see Lady Gaga in Seoul! Ahhhhh! :D Merv told me literally the day that he got here that she was meant to 
be playing over here some time this summer, so, obviously excited, I did my research, but found loads of sites saying that she'd already been to Seoul in June, so reluctantly I gave up. Buuuuut now it turns out that Mervyn was right - BECAUSE SHE'S RETURNING! And we're lucky enough to have got tickets to see her! (Admittedly all thanks to Hye Jung, who was able to decipher the solely Korean ticket website for me!) Aaaaaah - so excited! :D Let me just put the importance of this in context: I effing LOVE LADY GAGA. The Fame is literally my most listened to album on iTunes! Olympic Park, Sunday 8th of August - it's going to be epic!
But that's not the only bit of gig-related news! Remember I said about the SM Town Concert? Well the big day for that is tomorrow
, when the tickets go up on G Market. Unlike Lady Gaga though, these aren't going to be so easy to get. Lady Gaga's nowhere near as big in Korea as SM Town, for obvious reasons, but Hye Jung and Jeong Mi have given me step-by-step instructions on how to operate the (once again) solely Korean ticket website. From 8pm, when the tickets go on sale, all three of us are going to be glued to our laptops, frantically trying to get tickets, and in the rare event that we get an excess number, Jeong Mi has assured me that they'll be easy to sell on! I've already been practising my way around the website in preparation - hahaha, so sad. But it will totally be worth it if we manage to get them! Jeong Mi's not hopeful, though - apparently she's tried for the past few years and NEVER been successful! But I'm confident we can soon change that! So fingers crossed that we may have two big gigs lined up for August! Sweeeeeeet!
In other news, I took a trip to COEX Mall in Samseong today...
...and stumbled upon the most amazing Studio Ghibli shop! It's called ANI LAND and it was actually awesome! ...like South Korea's answer to the Disney Store (only a million times better!) It was packed with Studio Ghibli plushies, figurines, puzzles, playing cards, phone charms... basically all the innate novelty stuff which I'm a ridiculously overaged sucker for! XD (Except, strangely enough, the DVDs...! Slight oversight, no?) I couldn't help but get excited looking at it all - I can't help it, it keeps the child inside me alive! XD ...and the store music which was playing was all from the films too! (Joe Hisaishi is a GOD... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5tTiYT1cgU *is now obsessively listening to all of his pieces on YouTube again*).Ahhhh, I'm such a geek! :D ...it would literally be impossible for me to pick a favourite Studio Ghibli film! Though, out of all of them, I do think that The Cat Returns is definitely the most underrated! Anyway...
be playing over here some time this summer, so, obviously excited, I did my research, but found loads of sites saying that she'd already been to Seoul in June, so reluctantly I gave up. Buuuuut now it turns out that Mervyn was right - BECAUSE SHE'S RETURNING! And we're lucky enough to have got tickets to see her! (Admittedly all thanks to Hye Jung, who was able to decipher the solely Korean ticket website for me!) Aaaaaah - so excited! :D Let me just put the importance of this in context: I effing LOVE LADY GAGA. The Fame is literally my most listened to album on iTunes! Olympic Park, Sunday 8th of August - it's going to be epic!But that's not the only bit of gig-related news! Remember I said about the SM Town Concert? Well the big day for that is tomorrow
, when the tickets go up on G Market. Unlike Lady Gaga though, these aren't going to be so easy to get. Lady Gaga's nowhere near as big in Korea as SM Town, for obvious reasons, but Hye Jung and Jeong Mi have given me step-by-step instructions on how to operate the (once again) solely Korean ticket website. From 8pm, when the tickets go on sale, all three of us are going to be glued to our laptops, frantically trying to get tickets, and in the rare event that we get an excess number, Jeong Mi has assured me that they'll be easy to sell on! I've already been practising my way around the website in preparation - hahaha, so sad. But it will totally be worth it if we manage to get them! Jeong Mi's not hopeful, though - apparently she's tried for the past few years and NEVER been successful! But I'm confident we can soon change that! So fingers crossed that we may have two big gigs lined up for August! Sweeeeeeet!In other news, I took a trip to COEX Mall in Samseong today...
...and stumbled upon the most amazing Studio Ghibli shop! It's called ANI LAND and it was actually awesome! ...like South Korea's answer to the Disney Store (only a million times better!) It was packed with Studio Ghibli plushies, figurines, puzzles, playing cards, phone charms... basically all the innate novelty stuff which I'm a ridiculously overaged sucker for! XD (Except, strangely enough, the DVDs...! Slight oversight, no?) I couldn't help but get excited looking at it all - I can't help it, it keeps the child inside me alive! XD ...and the store music which was playing was all from the films too! (Joe Hisaishi is a GOD... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5tTiYT1cgU *is now obsessively listening to all of his pieces on YouTube again*).
...and they did these funky ornamental calendar things -I'm tempted to go back and get one for my desk at uni, just because they're so cooooooooool! And not bad at W39,000!
...even the carrier bags were Studio Ghibli themed! What more could you want? (And no, the answer isn't a life - I have one of those... occasionally). Talking Studio Ghibli, I really want to visit the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo at some point! ...plans for next summer, perhaps? :D
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