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that's a smile. im giving it to you. smiles shouldnt be fake, else it's not a smile at all.. it's called 'lip stretching'. :[
i dont know why i typed that.
anyway, i bought a new bag from american boulevard. i love bags, really. i dont care so much about clothes, except when they're cargo pants or punk-looking shirts. im not really girly. i dont think about clothes too much. i like blending in with the crowd. as long as my bag rocks, im dont need clothes. just kidding.
PART 1: THE LION!
we watched The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. that guy up in that picture named Ben Barnes, the one who played prince caspian, is such a handsome young man! :] i was like 'whoa' everytime he appears in a scene. hehehe.. i loved watching that movie. it's a Christian movie, remember? Aslan the lion is actually Jesus Christ. dont tell anybody, i cried in the middle of the movie. because there was this one scene on the film, and their conversation went on like this:
Lucy: i knew it was you the whole time. i knew it, but the others would not believe me.
Aslan: And why would that stop you from coming to me?
it's true, right? i think that we're all like Lucy sometimes. i experience it sometimes. we know it's Jesus talking to us, calling us...but the others say it's crazy. some people just dont believe in Jesus. sometimes these people appear in our lives, and we become friends with them. then they try to influence us when they say that believing in God and everything is crazy talk. sometimes they say it is wrong. soemtimes they even say we don't need Him. though there many of these people who say these things, we shouldnt believe them. we know it's true. we have our God right here. let's follow Him. we dont belong in this world! :]
whew. hehe.. i like the movie so much. i also like the part where this short Narnian guy called Trumpkin said he didnt believe in Aslan, but in the end Aslan appeared and looked for him. trumpkin bowed down to Aslan, and then Aslan gave him a loud, loud ROAR! :] that was a pretty handsome roar. :] trumpkin was so ashamed of himself. this is just like the times when people say they dont believe in Jesus, but then Jesus shows them His power, and works on them, they all feel ashamed of themsleves. oh, why do i keep saying "they" all the time. it happened to me!
well..thats all. hehe...
PART TWO: THE WITCH (not really!)
oo nga pala, im gonna teach you some korean expressions. im freakin bored. hehe.. here you go:
안녕 하세요! annyeong haseyo - hello/good am/pm/nn
고마워요 gomawoyo (read: komawoyo)- thank you. --in informal conversation you can just say "komawo".
생일 축하 해요. saeng il chuk ha haeyo (read: seng il chuka heyo). - happy birthday.
미안 해 mian hae (read: bian e)- sorry.
나 아라? na ara? - do you know me?
남자 잔구 없어. namja chingu opso. - i dont have a boyfriend.
가 자! ga ja! (read: ka ja!) - let's go!
언니 onni - older sister. in tagalog, ATE.
여보 yeobo - honey. lovers call each other yeobo. hehe.
일루와 ilruwa (read: iruwa) - come here
hope it helps!
PART THREE: THE WARDROBE
by the way, im so excited/nervous to go to college. i dunno, theyre mixed emotions. oh gosh..i cant believe im entering college. im packing all of my stuff because tomorrow im headed for Laguna. im putting all of my stuff at my dorm tomorrow. hayy..what shall i do? paano pag naubusan ako ng damit?. then the next week im gonna wear the same shirts all over again? i told you, im not really into clothes. i dont have a lot of them. and i hate too much repetition of clothes. *sigh*. oh btw, im bringing along wawut with me. wawut is my stuffed dog which i had when i was still a very young. well..im still very young right?:]
thats all for now. ill bloghop tomorrow!
Labels: christian, college, korean lessons
this is my favorite guy from PATD: RYAN ROSS. i love his make-up. hehe..tell me if he's cute. :]
see? hehehehe..cuuuuuute!
okay heres the hangul lesson. i thought about teaching you the korean language, but i cant do that because:
a.) i cant talk to you personally. it's better when you hear it. i thought about embedding a video from YouTube. i thought of putting a video of the show "Let's Speak Korean", aka LSK, here on this post. they discuss the pronunciation and how to use it in daily conversations. that would be good, but the problem with the show is that it's hard to learn it if you dont know how to read hangul. you can try viewing it by typing 'let's speak korean' on YouTube.
b.) i havent mastered the language yet. i cant teach what i dont know, right?:]
so because of this, ive decided to teach you hangul first.:] wouldnt it be nice to read korean characters from stationeries, even if you dont know what they mean?:] hehe.. i taught my friend how to read and write hangul, and now we can read the korean characters we can see whenever we travel together. yay! <3 size="5">아 에 이 오 우 으 어 애 : a, e, i, o, u, eu, eo, ae
these are the vowels, and special vowels, of hangul. the 'ㅇ' is a silent character. so that's
ㅏ ㅔ ㅣ ㅗ ㅜ ㅡ ㅓ ㅐ: a, e, i, o, u, eu, ae
we use the ones with the circles (ㅇ) because these characters ㅏㅔㅣㅗㅜㅡㅓㅐ cannot stand alone. they should always be together with the "circles". for example:
아마 - ama
see that? ㅁis the hangul for 'M' . it sticked with the character ㅏ. but notice that the first syllable of the word "ama" starts with "a". there is a "circle" attached to ㅏ, because ㅏcant stand alone. :] we dont write ㅏ마. that's wrong.
do you get it? i hope you do. here are the hangul consonants.
we have new consonants here! :] the K' there in the picture is actually the "K" in our alphabet. the K in the picture is actually our beloved letter G. the T is our letter D and the T' is out letter T. the P' there is our letter P, and the P there is our letter B. letter R and letter L are both ㄹ. and the dont worry about tt, jj, ss, pp, kk. theyre just doubles. they differ in pronunciation in some way, but let's just learn the basics first. :] they our very own "circle" that im was talking about earlier, can be used as "NG", but you cant use it as the first korean character of a syllable. there cant be "Nga, Nge, Ngi, Ngo, Ngu, Ngeu, Ngae" on korean words. by the way, "EU" is a silent vowel.
now in writing we have the first simple formula (i made it. hehe.):
circle + korean vowel
i mentioned this earlier. ㅇ(circle) + ㅏ(a) = 아 (a)
another example: ㅇ(circle) + ㅜ(u) = 우 (u)
pretty easy, right? i forgot to mention ya, ye, there's no YI, yo, yu, there's no yeu, and yae. you just double the "lines". see this:
ㅑ ㅖ ㅛ ㅠ ㅒ (ya, ye, yo, yu, yae)
you just double the lines from 아(a) and you get 야. same goes to the others. :] and of course they cant stand alone, too. there should be a "circle" before them.
the next formula would be:
korean consonant + korean vowel
for example: ㅂ(b) + ㅣ(i) = 비 (bi. in english: rain).
now you can write a korean actor's name! Bi! Rain is called Bi in korea. bi means rain. :] you just put them together. if 이 is "i", just replace the circle and put in the consonant ㅂ. it's really easy. just think of the "circle" as a seat where the korean consonants can sit on. just add some imagination so you can learn better. :]
another formula here:
korean consonant/circle + korean vowel / another korean vowel(s)
this is pretty confusing, because as i said on my last post, korean words have spellings, too. theyre not really spellings, but "arrangements". youll get me when you begin to understand korean writing. look at this example:
ㅂ(b) + ㅣ(i) / ㄴ(n) = 빈 (bin)
you put them all together on one syllable, but that's not always the case. you have to be familiar with korean words. try it with tagalog words like this:
마(ma) +간(gan)+ 다(da)= 마간다 (maganda)
just keep on reviewing the first rule, then the second rule, then finally the third rule. sometimes there are two consonants under, but dont confuse yourself. take it easy. :] if you keep on practicing, youll learn writing in less than a week. i learned in one week!:]
you'll get easily familiarized with writing and reading when you have korean dvds (with korean subtitles). if you're interested to learn, youll learn.
so God bless! enjoy it, it'll be easy. :] if you want to try watching LSK then here you go:
for more lessons try this. if you have questions, comment on this post. :]
Labels: bands, korean lessons
and guys,YES. i can read and write korean. im NOT korean. i dont look like im korean. :) i had friends from highschool who were korean. one was 밯
버람 (Bang Boram), and the other was my sister's batchmate. Her name is 박 아름 (Bak Ahreum or Ahreum Park). im closer to Ahreum than i was with Boram. Ahreum taught me a lot of korean words and expressions. we had 2 notebooks: one was our diary and the other was my korean notebook where she put all of my 'lessons'. i learned a lot, but we didnt have a lot time so i only learned the expressions that are often used. they are these expressions like thank you, im sorry, happy birthday, enjoy your meal, and a lot more.
i love learning new languages, especially korean because i always watch korean shows. i always tune in to KBS world and Arirang. they have many tv dramas that are really interesting. i watch 'mom's dead upset', a Korean drama (that is also quite funny sometimes). i also watch a show called Happy Together. They are inside a sauna (i think) and they talk about random stuff. the show doesnt censor their conversations, so the show is really funny! haha.. :) BUUUUT..you wont get it unless you watch a lot of korean tv shows.
because im really addicted to learning the language, i always try to understand korean shows without subtitles. sometimes i understand them, sometimes i dont. i definitely need more practice.
i can share with you all my knowledge about the korean language and writing. im sharing them to katie, and it's so nice because she knows how to read korean now!:) she knows some korean expressions, too. she learned that within 4 months (or less?), i think.. but it didnt take her a year! yay!
i haven't mastered writing in korean because some korean words have weird spellings. yes, they have have spellings, too!:) you shouldnt base your spelling by the pronunciation, or else you'd be dead. kidding.
and because a lot of my friends are learning korean, this one GUY (who isnt really studying korean)learned something from us, too. HIS FRIENDSTER SHOUTOUT GOES:
YEOBOYA YEOBOYA KAJIMA POPOAE SH***!-korean style
hmm..it means "honey honey, don't. *bbobbo hae (let's kiss) F***!-korean style". dont try saying this. this is extremely bad. haha.. CARLO HA! BAD DOGGY. :]
eto si CARLO. sometimes people call him METZ, because his surname is METILA. parusa yan for using bad words. hehe! :] 메-렁! (me-rong! *belat)
ayan...hehe..so if you're interested to learn korean (and if you need my help), you can tell me. tag me. or whatever. it'll be my pleasure! (but my knowledge is limited hihihi). okay 'til here. God bless!
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