Today was London Film Festival NUMBER 2 VER.~ I saw a Korean film called Night and Day. It was okay. It’s about some man on the run from the Korean police because he smoked some marijuana, so he goes to Paris. I didn’t really like the direction. The camera kept zooming in and out, usually to focus on something that had no relevance to the plot whatsoever. The camera kept panning as well, which was just really disorientating. There were a few scenes that were meant to be his dreams, but you couldn’t tell until it cut back to reality. There was a romance sub-plot to the film which lacked any sort of chemistry.
I want to see another Korean film at the London Korean Film Festival called Milky Way Liberation Front, which is a film about indie filmmaking. It looks really interesting, but I just don’t have the time to see it. D:
Hot dancing~
Currently listening to: 10점 만점에 10점 by 2PM, from the album Hottest Time of the Day.
I’m going to Newquay tomorrow for a weekend tomorrow. I’m not sure what we’ll be doing, but I hope it doesn’t consist of sitting around on a beach all day. If I wanted to do that, I’d have paid £12.50 to go to Brighton for the day instead. I looked at the forecast, and it said that it would rain on Sunday and Monday. I’d like to go to the Eden Project, but it’s fairly far away. I’ll probably walk there from Par station. It’s about an hour from Newquay on the train, and the walk is 3 miles. I’ll have to bring my comfortable shoes.
On Wednesday, I met up with Joe again. Shaun couldn’t come. I also met Joe’s friend Freddy who came from Norway. It was an awesome day. All we really did was walk around, but I showed them a few sights, and we walked most of the South Bank. I took them to Yo! Sushi (the novelty that is conveyer belt sushi). Joe wanted to try it out. Freddy had never tried sushi before, so he wanted to try it as well. He didn’t like it. D: I would have ordered more, but I didn’t really have a lot of money.
The KCC are holding Korean language sessions again, so I’m going to try sign up for them while I’m in Newquay. The whole process confuses me, but wish me luck~~ If I take them, I’ll be doing 4 language courses haha.
Currently listening to: 放開你的心 by 王力宏, from the album 心中的日月.
I attended a Korean language lecture at the Korean Cultural Centre today. It was about Korean honorifics and their usage in Korea. It was really interesting to see how the Korean society structure is so complex, and also how complicated it all is. The lecturer even said many Koreans don’t know how, or get wrong, honorifics which makes me feel a lot better, if and when I learn the language. It’s amusing how Koreans try so hard not to call each other by their names, but will strive to call them using a honorific instead. In English, we only really have one word for “you” which is…”you”. XD We did have both thou and you, thou being used for someone you’re close to, but that has fallen out of context. In Korean, there are many ways on saying “you”, depending on your age, gender or your position in society. Likewise in Vietamese, there are 7 ways to say “you”. In Chinese, we have 2 ways. Well, 3, if you count 爾, which I have never been seen used, apart from in words such as 威爾斯 and 北愛爾蘭, which actually are the names for Wales and Northern Ireland in Chinese. Even then, I don’t really think you can class them as true honorifics.
I started filling in my UCAS application and writing my personal statement. I never knew that it would so hard to write. So many things to consider and add, yet I only have a small space to write. I’m definitely going to put in that I attended the Korean lecture though. I think attending a lecture at 6:30pm on a Tuesday evening is a good way to convey that I really want to study Korean.
Currently listening to: 미워도 사랑하니까 by DAViCHi, from the album Vivid Summer Edition [AMARANTH (Repackage)].
I’ve been reading a lot of books lately. Currently, I’m reading Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey. The book was written after his and his son’s trip to Japan sometime in 2002, I believe. I’m finding it an enjoyable read, but the book is mainly based around manga and anime, which I don’t really have that much of an interest. Still, it’s interesting reading a gaijin (外人) view on Japan. I read another travel book, called Meeting Mr Kim: or How I Went to Korea and Learned To Love Kimchi by Jennifer Barclay. I really enjoyed the book. It’s about a woman who accompanies her boyfriend to Korea for 3 months and travels around Korea in search for the soul of Seoul. Her stories about meeting a wide range of friendly Korean people makes me want to visit. Hopefully I can, if I read Korean Studies at university.
Currently listening to: So Hot by Wonder Girls, from the album So Hot.
On Saturday, I went to the Korean Food Festival in New Malden. It was awesome. We bought so much food that it filled our table; there wasn’t much space on it left. I didn’t even know what half of what we got was, as we just randomly pointed at stuff that we thought looked good. I knew the name stuff that I eat all the time though! Like bulgogi, galbi, mandu and tteokbokki. There was a demonstration of taekwondo, and some little girls dancing to Honey by JYP. Of course, it would have made my day if someone danced to Tell Me by Wonder Girls. The dance to that song is so awesome.
Maybe I should have randomly burst out dancing to it. I’m sure someone would have joined me, as some people in the crowd were dancing to Honey.
Currently listening to: 요리왕 (COOKING? COOKING!) by Super Junior-Happy, from the album Cooking? Cooking!.
