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Mr Gwon Recommends #2

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Today Mr Gwon recommends G.O.D ‘To My Mother’.

He says:

Beginning of song the lyric is a bit funny because eating Jajangmyeon (black noodle) but it’s actually a really sad story. Lots of people had similar problem in the school because they were poor. It happens a lot, we have meal together in the school, many times lots of students just have kimchi, and some vegetables but when someone has meat type of thing for their lunch box they bully the other students, “Oh why you only have kimchi!”

One time my mother cooked for us and there was no meat on the table so I complained to mum “What should I eat? There is nothing I can eat!” and now I realise I was a rude and stupid kid.

Lots of people, they cried when they listen to the end of this song because the guy didn’t say ‘I love you’ to his mother but she died. It’s really hard to say ‘I love you’, I don’t know about these days, but when I was growing up, it was really hard to say I love you to your parents. I didn’t say ‘I love you’ to my parents for 25 years and when I was in Australia I called my mother and I said ‘I love you’ on Korean Parents Day and they cried. And now we say ‘I love you’ to each other very often.

Every time people listen to this song it reminds us how important our mother is. I’m pretty sure there are many families that… their mother died and they never said I love you to their mother. It’s really sad.

So everyone should call their mother and say ‘I love you’, and thank you. I’m going to call my mother now…

 

 

(On a lighter note, what is different about the picture this week?)

 

Mr Gwon Recommends #1

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This is a new section where once a week my husband (Mr Gwon) will recommend a Korean music video, usually an older one.

This week he recommends Jo Sung Mo “To Heaven”.

He says:

 I think it was when I was… middle school student. There are many other music videos but this music video was different from other music videos. This music video has story, it’s really cool. We copy the music video and when the killer tried to hide from police and kiss to woman we do it in the school – to other guys – not girls, it was funny, because it was so cool. Every time we went to karaoke everyone wanted to sing that song. The guy is sad that he lost his girl but he is going to see the lady in the heaven so it’s quite sad but one day they will be together. After this song people use the name for PC Bang, karaoke and hotel- “To Heaven” or “투헤븐”. This song make people cry to remember ex girlfriend or boyfriend.

Instead of getting him to write something out I just type exactly what he says about it.

Also, you can probably see that I drew a certain meme in the picture too. Every week there will be something new in the picture.

 

Skinny Love

‘Sticky Love’ sure changes the meaning! One of his favourite songs at the moment in Birdy’s version of Skinny Love. He accidentally calls it that ‘Sticky Love’ all the time.

Uncool

It was this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSXx7-EceBA

No surprise that it was a Eurovision winning song.

One of the many things that made me fall in love with my husband was his completely unpretentious taste in music. Perhaps it was something I was more conscious of because I have dated guys who were very critical of anyone who liked music they thought wasn’t cool enough and honestly that just becomes a bit depressing. My husband has a very broad and unashamed taste in music but what excites him the most seems to be 1980’s power ballads. His body starts twitching because he wants to “groove” to the music and then pretty soon he is singing along dramatically. It makes me smile because you can’t help but enjoy it too. He will listen to, and like, music that may be deemed a bit cooler but the next song on his playlist may be something like One Direction, and he doesn’t care.

There are times when I have had to say, “Oh geez, not this song.” But for all the times I’m annoyed there are more times where I’m thankful of how nonjudgmental he is and how he can take pleasure in the cheesy things in life.

For example, right now as I’m writing this post he has his earphones in and is singing to himself, “Last Christmas I gave you my heart…”

Vote For Me Please

Hey guys I’ve entered the Big Bang Design Contest. I’d really really love it if you could vote for my design here: https://apps.facebook.com/bigbangdesigncontest/?idx=4169

I drew my design from scratch and went for an old school game vibe.

Here is my design:

Actually I’d really like to win the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 for my husband. Of course winning tickets to a Big Bang concert would be awesome, but I have seen them in a mini concert in Korea before, so it would be cool if a fan who had never seen them won that. So please please vote for my design so I can try and get third place haha. I realise the designs that were entered earlier have already got so many votes, I should have entered earlier but I was drawing by hand so it just took so long and been so busy…

Thanks everyone!

Questions and Epik High

No comic today because it’s Sunday! It is the time to suggest post subjects or ask questions though!

Also instead of reading a comic today why don’t you watch Epik High instead? I love love love their new music video.

This video has even more meaning if you know what happened to Tablo, but if not, it’s still awesome, so enjoy!

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