SHINee.

SHINee is a Korean band of k-pop, dance and R&B who is composed by five members: the leader Onew, the principal voice Jonghyung, Key, the rapper Minho, and the principal dancer Taemin.

They have several albums: The 1st Mini Album-Replay, The SHINee World - The First Album, A.Mi.Go - 1st Repackage Album, Romeo - The 2nd Mini Album, 2009 Year Of Us - The 3rd Mini Album, Lucifer - The Second Album and the last one Hello - 2nd Repackage Album.

And they have broadcast the music videos of some of their principal exits: Replay, A.Mi.Go, Love like oxygen, Juliette, Lucifer, Ring Ding Dong and Hello.

  

I really like them. I know about them because one of my friends showed me one of their music videos, to be more specific, the MV of Lucifer, and I started to like their music, their songs are really beautiful and are full of meaning, and overcoat I love two of their members: Taemin and Minho. They are so, so lovely and…hot. >.<

I would be really happy if they come to Spain to give a concert and I can meet them in person. But for the moment, I think it’s a little bit difficult because Korean music is not well-known here so they don’t organized concerts, and that’s really frustrating. But I they don’t come to Spain, I will go to Korea to meet them. Yes I know that it’s a silly dream, but in several years, when I would have my own salary and if I remember who they are I will go to Korea to make them a visit. ^^

South Korea reality shows.

Since I started to introduce me in the Korean world, I discovered two interesting reality shows: Hello Baby and We got married.

The first one is about idols that have to raise a young child (who obviously is not their child). They have to spent about 3 or 4 months taking care of that little boy or girl, without leaving her duties as idols. Normally, they live all together in a house and do some kind of task related to the child like going to get his hair cut, going shopping with him, going to get him a vaccine, going on a little vacation with him or just making good memories with him. The funniest thing is that you can see facets of a famous music band that you ever have seen and seeing how they try their best to get the attention of a kid is something incredible. For the moment, there had been only two promotions: the first one for the idol group of girls called “Girls Generation” who had to take care of a 1 or 2 year baby called Cho Kyungsan and the promotion of the idol group of boys called “SHINee” who had to look after a 3 or 4 year old boy called Jun Yoogeun.

The second reality show I want to explain is “We got married”. It is about some Korean celebrities who are paired to show how it would be if they were married. Each week, some missions are assigned to the couples like: making exercise with your partner, making lunch boxes or simply making their husband/wife meals, buying gifts to your parent’s partner, among others. But the “worst thing” is that each couple is given a concept to portray, I mean, they have to play a specific role, for example: one of them have to be “a college couple living with a limited income”. Meanwhile they have personal interviews where each component of each couple to express their thought and feelings. The interesting thing of this show, also as in Hello Baby, is to see how those idols pass throw “matrimonial difficulties” and what they do to make their marriage beat the other couples.

 


                                                                           
I recommend them to you because they are really, really funny and you can see the true personality of the idols and their reaction in front of some situation. Moreover, they are not subtitling to Spanish so you have to see them with English subtitles.

The music influence on people.

Like all of we know, music is an art that has always been in our lives, since the chants to the gods to the actual commercial music. The fact that we always had it around us, leads us to realize of how much the music influences on people, whether in the state of our mind, in our personality, in our intellectual faculties, etc.

Formerly, philosophers used the harmony of the sounds to influence in the behavior and the character of their listeners or students. It also was considered a useful tool to develop the character and education of children and it’s very common the use of music, especially classic music, as a way to increase our attention span when studying.  

In the field of medicine also had his increase in medical treatments, especially in psychiatric hospitals, such as healing from depression. It is also very frequent to find psychologists who treat aggressiveness, stress or nerve problems with music.

Moreover of having his effects on medicine and education, where we notice his greater influence is in our state of mind or moods. Who hadn’t listened a song which had made him feel lively, had made him feel able to do anything or the opposite, had made him feel sad and full of negative feelings. All of we have had one of these moments in which, for just a second, the music had evaded us of reality, had made us feel differently to how we feel normally. Although we have to say too that all depends in the kind of music and in the time in which it is listened.   

To sum up, music is something that must surprise us. We think that it’s just a simple gather of sound with lyrics and rhythm that makes them look good, but we don’t see that it’s a big way to change, improve or solve most of the things that happen around us or in ourselves. Moreover, who don’t have a better day when he wakes up listening a song which sends us positivity and good feelings? 

Me and my lovely bento

I’m so happy today. Maybe you are wondering why. Well, the last weekend Liza went to “Salon del manga” which was being celebrated in Barcelona. I also wanted to go, but I’m saving some money to go in a little vacation with my friends, so in order to no spend money I stayed at home (It was such a big disappointment). Few days before, Liza and I were speaking of bentos, these are lunch boxes that use the Asiatic people, like the Koreans and the Japaneses. Then she said me that, one of her friends, maybe could have some of these bentos and I said to her that also wanted one. In my way to Castellon on the bus the last Sunday (the day that Liza was in the “Salon del manga”, I decided to call her because I was bored.  When I called her, she said me that she has just bought a bento only for 10 Euros, and I said to her: Liza please, buy me one too! And she did it. Today she has given me my precious bento, which is blue with two little bears in her tape and it came with his little chopsticks. It’s so cute. >.< And I’m the most happy person in the world! The next I have to stay at the university for lunch, I’ll tell my mother to put the lunch in the bento. ^ ^