Let's Talk: EXO M / K

This was supposed to be a second post but I'm too excited!


WHAT IS LOVE - Korean Ver.


WHAT IS LOVE - Chinese Ver.

So let's get the lowdown on who is EXO.
Technically EXO (K/M) is one the latest boyband to hit our Kpop markets.
Apparently SM Entertainment decided to do something different and debut 2 groups on the same day with nearly identical names.
Confusing?
Well there's more to come.

EXO-K (Korean) EXO-M (Mandarin) technically do not have the most imaginative names around, however it does stir up alot of interest from all general k-pop fans around.
For one, SME decided to cause some buzz by releasing a string of teasers (12 to be precise) which seemed to have featured various snippets of songs that the group will release in the future.
With it they also included several members in every teaser with Kai being the main attraction. No surprises who is the golden boy this time around huh?
The first teaser was released on the 21st of December 2011; Kai was the first to "debut" and garnered alot of attention for his hard to ignore resemblance with SHINee's maknae TaeMin.
He showcased some slick dance moves with a whole lot of mystery infused to the entire 1:49.

The second teaser was released 5 days later on the 26th that gave people more to look at.
Kai is showcased along with another member LuHan, they wear flashy clothes, dance around in some circular stage and there's shiny stuff to look at.
It was good when it was still fresh.

The third teaser will always be my favourite simply because it's a solo cut of another EXO member named Tao.
He does some kungfu with a tad bit of dance moves here and there but nontheless it's alittle more intense than the first two teasers.
Tao by first impression looks alot like Kangta / Zhoumi, which of course earns an instant seal of approval from me.

Teaser four and five is kinda like a rip off to me because one of it is just a one take of the orignal first teaser while the fifth is....surprise, surprise. ANOTHER KAI TEASER. Yes at this point I'm starting to believe EXO K is actually K(ai).
THEN SME decides to be EVEN MORE generous with releasing teaser six which has MORE KAI. Look SME we get that you feel the fans are smitten with him but you do know that too much of the same thing starts getting old right?

After some complaints here and there SME finally gets it right with teaser seven That has Kai (once again) with yet to be seen member SeHun. Finally we are making some progress. To start off by first impression I think SeHun is pretty good looking and the main thing I noticed about all the boys in EXO is the face their faces are so tiny. It's scary to even think how a human face can be that small but SME defies all logic with their trainee selection.

Teaser eight is a solo cut of SeHun, which allows you to have a good look of his face. Though somewhere in the mix there's a glimpse of all the 12 members who will be debuting. At this point fans start getting all restless once again. And people start to speculate who really are the members in EXO.

KAY more long winded crap ensues while later that year Kai, LuHan, SeHun and Chen perform at 2011 SBS Gayo Daejun and was seen once again in a photo shoot with "W Live" minus Chen.

Somewhere along the line SME released teaser nine that has SeHun and Luhan. I was happy because these two has somehow ended up being my temp biases but then again we're back to square one in terms of development progress.. Hmm.
Then came teaser ten SME thorws out another new member, this time it's Lay. Well technically nobody ever talks about him after the teasers were released and it does feel sad that Kai, Luhan and Sehun are the only people that seem to be shown generously on their facebook page.
I was actually looking forward to more Tao or Chen OR Lay if we're lucky cos apparently I can't even get a good look at his face.

Right after that we have a string of W Live Fashionistas photo shoot clips that has Kai, LuHan, SeHun with members Yoona and SeoHyun of Girl's Generation and TaeMin of SHINee.
This is also known as a useless distraction because clearly SME is trying to test my patience. maigod.

Later they release teaser eleven that has...KAI. AGAIN. SME WAE but at least they dumped in a new member XiuMin. Who by first impression looks like SudaMasa with his current shaved head look. Yep.
I'm just not sure what kind of image he's supposed to have cos it's decieving. He has a baby face, but he has this whole badboy hair going on. YES CONFUSING EVEN AFTER ELEVEN TEASERSSS.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST. WE HAVE TEASER TWELVE! Aights we've finally reached a point where we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. After so long! We get to see Lay once again! We are then given a feast of crotch grabbing goodness with. MORE KAI. YAY. Not sure why there's some sort of sexual tension going through this one, at least SME did something right.

So after all the paragraphs I wrote up there. Let's sum up all the information I have.

Announced members for Exo-K:
- Kim Joon Myun
- Baek Hyun
- Park Chan Yeol
- D.O. (Do Kyung Soo)
- Kai
- Se Hun

Announced members for Exo-M:
- Xiu Min
- Lu Han
- Lay
- Chen
- Tao

More information can be found at EXO's Wikipedia page :D

OKAY GUISE. Let's end this entire post with an honorary very ghei picta of my biases.

New lenses and some sad news.

CNY is coming and I decided to take the time to finally order the lenses that I've been wanting to buy but never did oTL
Crappy photos to go around because I was too lazy to whip out the big boy.
So um taken with phone camera!
To your left is a pair of Ace Black 14.5mm and on the right is a pair of Blythe eye 14.5mm in Blue.


Ace Black is well what the name states. It's ultra BLACK lenses which are sorta meant to look more natural in terms of enlarging your eyes but I think after awhile it starts making you look kinda souless e_e
I bought this one cos I needed more natural looking lenses for Mafuyu/Shoutaro/Philip and uh any non kira kira cos plans I have :)


How it looks like worn.
Let my soul-less eyes bore holes into your head :D Aight jokes aside, I really like these lens! They are comfortable and seem to be slightly thicker than the several pairs I have owned ^^
And because it's really black, it literally makes your eyes look extremely big. like BIG. BIG.


Blytheye Blue, it's quite bright under the light.


How it looks like being worn yay for wonky eyes!
I'm actually using these lense for an upcoming cosplan which I don't think I have revealed...hohoho but sooner or later it will appear ^o^

Hope these pics help out anybody who is looking for references of these particular brand / color ^^


Building up a Camera obscura.
Would be cool if it was actually useable T^T The main frame of the thing has been painfully cut out (for those who don't know i can't cut / draw a straight line even with a ruler...;;) and there's alot of senget sides sticking out wuahaha~
I hope later in the detailing stage it won't haunt me too bad!


Andd....tadah. Only color correction was done to this picture which means I will never look good in photos :D!
NEED TO FIX FRINGE. OMG I can't stand it. I feel like permanently gluing it to my head if I could but I can't. The flippage of the fringe is so annoying gahh.
Okay rant over.

Can't wait to cos Shoutaro with aibou /o/ So excited and menjakunated and clearly I've recycled this wig enough times to put it to shame..meep.
Will try to ask Supplier #2 if it is possible to pinjam his double driver and stuff ><


As for the sad news...well Junsu's dad passed away today.
If you wish you can read the article here
I think it's a really sad day for all Hottest over the world.
Losing someone in your family is a painful experience which you will eventually get over but never forget. My deepest condolences go out to him and his family.
I don't know what more can I say, I felt sad the entire day as well, call me childish but could you even imagine what you will feel if anything happened to your parents?
I mean I'm not jinxing you or anything but just take awhile and think it down.
I've ran such scenarios in my head many times and I don't think I'll be able to live in down. It's so scary.
Stay strong Junsu, stay strong.

Jinchan ships JinChan?

Yep. I ship them hard.

Bored bored.

*sigh* There's actually so many things that I should be doing but I feel so unmotivated and lazy. The only productive thing I did today was actually get off my lazy butt to go exercise :(
I havent been drawing anything cos I don't feel inspired AT ALL and that's a really big problem =_=

Blablabla aside let's recap what I did today...


I decided to finally charge camera battery and did a quick photoshoot with Verte.
I picked up his laptop during the last dollmeet (which the photos I did not upload D:) and of course I picked up Noir as well.
Verte's birthday is coming up soon (11th January) I'm taking his head arrival date as his birthday cos well I just feel more attached that way than when his body arrived :X
So...did I get him a present? Well technically I didn't. AGAIN.
None of the presents I get seem to arrive on time =/ I feel like a bad doll mummy ;A;
I did order him a shirt and jeans but it is said that it might take up to 2 months for it to arrive /argh...
Oh well, better late than never?

I'm also supposed to cut down the plans I have for cosplay this year. But I'm so tangan gatal I can't stop T_T I'm promising myself to only work it out for CF but then again I can't seem to tahan also. Arghh now I'm all e__e...
I'm still planning to debut Mama cos I've already been working on it but I need to fix the apron string thingy (ideks what you call it) cos it's supposed to be yellow~
Hopefully I can run to Daiso and find some yellow shoelaces or tote bag handles.. o_o;
Or just dye them yellow if I'm that epic oTL

Okay, I think that's all for today! Noir's wig has also been shipped out (lolyes I got him a wig that quick oTL) from Thereif on DoA. Will post pics when it arrives!

Them big balls.

Been trying to finish up my book haul over at BBW.
Currently reading Thriller 2, a compilation of various thriller based stories from various authors.
Since I'm not much of a hardcore reader I don't seem to recognize any of the names other than R.L Stine;; how embarassing.
I'm about to reach the halfway point of this book and there has been some interesting ones I've read, I would write a quick review after I'm done with it :)


Yesterday I went out with them hengdais for a movie session.
Watched The Darkest Hour; in short I would say it's pretty alright for a quick alien movie. It's not cheesy, it has some pretty cool effects but the downside would be the predictable characters. Those you've probably seen in many movies that you can easily predict who would be butchered off first.
In terms for shock factor, it's near minimal; there were many times were I was expecting something to pop out and make my heart stop but it didn't.
What made this movie different from most western ones?
The hero and heroine actually didn't kiss. Now that's a feat for you.


Right after that we went on for a bowling session. I only played in the 3rd round just to join in for fun :D


Other than that I've been wanting to finish these pages. Good lord they are taking forever oTL
My goal is to actually finish it up before my work starts. The title is still in planning (cos I'm really bad at naming things hurr.) though the story has already been planned and mapped out. This entire manga is actually based on Rouge's backstory :)
So I hope this'll be interesting enough up for read and uhh let's hope I don't abandon this halfway aight? T_T

How embarassing!

I think I've seriously hit one of the lowest number of posts on a personal level!
2011 blogging has been a fail despite so many things that has happened.
I'm hoping to start afresh in 2012 with heysayyah, so for now let's work on a resolution list shall we?

BJD Plans
1) Proper faceup for Noir + all of his trimmings
2) Some funds saved up for Noir's body (tentatively SD10)
3) Proper clothes for Verte and Rouge.

Cosplay Plans
1) Own ONE tailor made costume.
2) Improve on makeup skills
3) Build proper props that don't look so sad D':

General Plans
1) Improve drawing skills *as I set every year*
2) Improve Digital painting skills. *Slow snail pace coloring = PHAIL*
3) Increase the amount of color pencil pieces.
4) Improve Doll Photography *nods nods*
5) Get fit and exercise regularly!
6) HURRR DRIVE A DAMN CAR.
7) Complete 2 short mangas accompanied by proper research and character development.
8) Complete chaptered fanfictions for any fandom (currrent WIP; B1A4/ CNDeul)
9) Do good in my job!

Le fin. Should be good enough to keep me occupied for the rest of the year!

Now onward to rants!
So I failed to keep my "on hiatus" status in the doll hobby, pretty much the same as to how i always fail at keeping money in my pocket ._.
I recently welcomed a new member into my quartet family.
Please meet Noir du Fleur (Noir), whose currently in an early stage of WIP~


If you're staring at him and laughing, I really don't blame you because his faceup is literally the pits xD;;
I got overly excited and couldn't help but want to put a face onto this kid, however as you can see it's not that great since I'm kinda scarce on faceup materials (AKA the holy can of MSC).
I'm hoping to get him a wig at least so that it can keep his head warm cos Verte can't share it with him :X
I would also like to start working on his piercings and stuff; gotta try looking for things that can pass as a lip ring!

In other news, my current KPop obsession is rookie boyband B1A4!
Don't judge me on this though, I didn't get into them just because of MoA if that's what some people are thinking :S
B1A4 by far have really appealed to me as entertainers; they have a balanced character chart, a pretty strong vocal establishment and also moves like Jagger (that is if they have heard of him...)


Let's get it on with some brief introductions aight?

From L-R in clockwise direction
* CNU, your megane bishie with all the serious trimmings. He's introverted; hardly says 2 sentences worth in every interview, despite being the oldest he's not the leader (surprise, surprise). He handles rapping and is a sub vocalist.

* Jinyoung, the pretty boy that melts your heart everytime he opens his mouth (cos sparkly teeth are deadly) His special ability is retaining a poker face in every situation if not, it will be a huge sweet smile.
He's the group leader and is second line as age wise.

* Baro, your badboy stereotype. He's quirky and just plain hyper. Out of all of them I believe he does have the highest number of fans but who could blame them; he just has the puppy dog charm that is so lovable! He's the main rapper of the group.

* Sandeul, the cheeky country kid. He's cute, wacky, loud and comical. He talks. ALOT. and doesn't stop, unless someone talks more than he does. His face might look cuddly but he has a voice powerful enough to shake canyons! Without much guessing he is of course the main vocalist of the group.

* Gongchan, your sweet little brother who is actually sweet for once. He's the youngest and a very shy boy at that. His specialty is aegyo (Making cute expressions) and keeping his hyungs happy (or at least Jinyoung). Gongchan covers as a Supporting vocalist despite forever being introduced as just the "maknae" (youngest).


As for everything else, please proceed to B1A4's wiki page :D
Since I'm so worked up by this boys I've decided to dedicate some time into working on my writing skills by using fanfiction as a medium!

PS, if anyone wonders why B1A4 is named as much...it's because 4 of them has blood type A and only one has blood type B.
It's so creative it's nearly unbelievable.

So I shall bid everyone a goodby for now, as I am actually dying for some sleep.
Will post more soon huhubhu -w-

Oh you know, the usual once in a blue moon sap.

I think it's been a whirlwind year, good times and the bad.
No matter how, when or what it is, I am thankful for everything.
Ganba until the end of the year and up til the next! /o/