Leaving for Duke again in two days~
So I thought I'd make a big graphics dump/post before going, otherwise these will never get posted... Unfortunately, I am very rusty with icons...so lots of failz. =[ (Btw, also strangely Yoochun biased...)

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Ahhh... It's been an incredibly long while. I'm not even going to try to sum up everything that has happened since the last time I updated this thing... Waaay too much to even try to touch upon. But all in all, I've finished my first year of college and am looking forward to starting my sophomore year in a few weeks time.

The only reason I'm posting today is... well, to fangirl, sort of. I didn't really have any intention to post anything, but catching up on DBSK today has made me really nostalgic >.<
It's crazy; I have not kept up with DBSK for most of the past year because of school and whatnot... I guess it's a natural part of growing up, in a way. But after randomly deciding to check up on the latest DB-going ons today... I felt like on the one hand, I was happy that I'd moved away from being obsessive fangirl since I have so many more important things to be focusing on... but on the other hand, I weirdly missed that carefree, mindless fangirling over pretty boys I'd never meet. (They're easier to deal with than real boy-drama, for one. Not to mention a heck of a lot prettier to look at...). But anyway, the recent lawsuit issue of course came as a shock. But I was also happy to see the Boys finally fighting for their own rights. It's sick how overworked they are and how poorly SM treats them. It saddens me a lot, because I used to admire SM so much for putting out such a bunch of great artists... but it's just disgusting how they treat them. So I wish Jaejoong, Junsu, and Yoochun the best... because this isn't just for them; it's for all the other artists under SM's dominion too.
The entire breakup threat/rumor mill is sort of ... @_@. I mean, I've been a fan long enough (almost 4 years, I can't believe it...) to have heard plenty of breakup rumors go around. But it's never been this real. Yet I've also never heard the Boys step out and insist so publicly that they will stay together before this either. And when they are that insistent, it does reassure me. And their courage, their dedication to each other and to the fans, and the fan outpouring of love and support, it all makes me proud to be a DBSK fan.

I can't believe it's been four years since the first time I ever heard of Dong Bang Shin Ki... On the one hand, it's hard to believe it's been such a long time, yet on the other, it feels like I've been following them for much longer.
Of course I still remember the first time I saw them: I was in China at the time, browsing through Channel V because I was bored. This music video came on, and the pretty song instantly caught my attention... such a sweet melody... And it was a pretty video too; a bright video set in a spacious white house and 5 singers. I couldn't, for the life of me, figure out if the one in the middle with the long hair was male or female though, LOL. Anyway, I remember copying down the Chinese translated title of the song and the artist and later coming back home and finding that song. But for some reason, I couldn't find out anymore about the group itself... Fast forward a couple months and I'm browsing an F4 forum/fansite when I stumble across this thread for "Korean sensation TVXQ"... As soon as I opened that link, I instantly recognized that beautiful (androgynous) face.... And I guess the rest is basically history.

Anyway... that's enough nostalgic fangirly-ness for one night... Back to work!

TVXQ fighting~
Always keep the faith.

<3

Happy Thanksgiving! ♥

Damn, it's been a while... My poor neglected LJ finally has a new layout =) A really simple one, but a new one nonetheless =) Yaay for smexy Dong Bang xD

So, what's new... Well, I'm currently back at home for Thanksgiving break =) And I have two weeks of the semester left once I go back @_@ I can't believe my first semester of college is almost over! I feel so...underachieved =( It's been a blast, but I wish I had gotten more done... So next semester will be super-productive, I swear!

I feel too lazy to update on all the happenings in the past month right now >.< Honestly, I should probably be sleeping.... but my sleep schedule has gotten so messed up; 2:30 am is still early xD But lots to do (i.e. cook and eat) tomorrow... and I just love being able to sleep in my own bed xD

Happy Turkey Day, all =)

I'm home! And it's cold D=
But it's so nice to be back and see my family... and eat real food! xD
I also got a haircut.... and it's once again too short D= I'm beginning to suspect that I will never have hair longer than shoulder-length. *sigh* oh well.

Anyways, something I got off of yrpreciousheart:

The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read/read part of but never finished.
3) Underline the books you LOVE or pretty much enjoyed.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.

001 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
002 The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
003 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
004 Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling
005 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
006 The Bible Excerpts
007 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
008 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
009 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
010 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
011 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
012 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
013 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
014 Complete Works of Shakespeare
015 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
016 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
017 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
018 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
019 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
020 Middlemarch - George Eliot
021 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
022 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
023 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
024 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
025 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
026 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
027 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
028 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
029 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
030 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
031 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
032 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
033 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
034 Emma - Jane Austen
035 Persuasion - Jane Austen
036 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis - is this not part of The Chronicles of Narnia?
037 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
038 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
039 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
040 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
041 Animal Farm - George Orwell
042 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
043 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
044 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
045 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
046 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
047 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
048 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
049 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
050 Atonement - Ian McEwan
051 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
052 Dune - Frank Herbert
053 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
054 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
055 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
056 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
057 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
058 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
059 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
060 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
061 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
062 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
063 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
064 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
065 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
066 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
067 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
068 Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
069 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
070 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
071 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
072 Dracula - Bram Stoker
073 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
074 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
075 Ulysses - James Joyce
076 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
077 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
078 Germinal - Emile Zola
079 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
080 Possession - AS Byatt
081 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
082 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
083 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
084 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
085 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
086 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
087 Charlotte's Web - EB White
088 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
089 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
090 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
091 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
092 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
093 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
094 Watership Down - Richard Adams
095 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
096 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
097 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
098 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
099 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

They're so effing back.
*fangirl spazz*

I (finally) just watched DBSK's comeback, and homg... x___x
The Love in the Ice perf literally made me almost cry; I don't even know why. It's such a beautiful song, and they did such an awesome job performing it... asdjlakjflkwjer
And I can't wait to see more Hey! perfs. White tank tops? Yes,plz xD
And Mirotic was just... <3.

I love the fact that their 4th album comeback falls around the same time Rising Sun did... what an awesome way to celebrate 3 years of fandom xD