Sunny days

Wow, it´s half may and almost the end of the school year. The exams are almost here and soon all the students will just enter the panic mode. It´ll be hard days and nights before every exam as you study and study and it just doesn´t seem to be enought. You start reading all the books and the notes again, start trying to remamber explanations made months ago that you forgot and that now seem so important that you don´t understand things without them. It´s time to phone friends and pass hours speaking on phone, explaing things...

You go to sleep as late as possible as you have to study just a little bit more amd you wake up as soon as possible, and you start studying half sleeping.You take breaks just to go at bathroom, you eat while reading your notes, underlining thing and memorising.

You never leave your room, start looking more and more as a vampire. You stopped hearing your mother calling you to eat and she stopped doing it, now she just brings you food and leaves it on  the table next to the stack of books and notes that you still didn´t reach and you have to start reading . You go to sleep thinking about all the thing you still have to learn, about the little time left untill the exams; you dream about studying, about the exams about the future and you wake up still thinking about studying, with one day less left untill the exams.

It seems to you that you aren´t going nowhere, that even you study and study  you just can´t finish it. There´s always so much studying to do. You try to concentrate but it´s so hard and you´re so tired thet you just can´t do it anymore. You take a break, but you can stop thinking about studying so you get back to it.You see people outside, enjoying the beautiful days and start hating them for being able to do it while you have to sit there studying. You wish that instead of the sun it would rain. You think that that it would really help you. Maybe it would.

Second Date

And Sm Entertainment strikes Europe again. After so meny manifestation made by fans all over Europe they reached a conclusion.
 

The fans got what they wanted: a second SM Town Live Tour in Paris . The record label looked at the schedules of their group and finally decided: SNSD ( Girls´ Generation), TVXQ (or HoMin al now there´s only two members left from the original group), F(x) [rumours are that without Amber ] , Suju (Super Junior) and SHINee will persorm a second concert on june 11th, the day after their first concert. The madness over concert tickets has started again. The soundcheck and goodies packages have already been sold, ordinary tickets will be sold like last time, on www.fnactickets.com and livenation.fr on may 16th at 10am. I don´t know why but seems like the abril 26th sale will repeat itself. At 10am the sales will open, at 10:01 the web pages will colapse an at 10:15 there will be no ticket left. Maybe even sooner as many fans lost the opportunity for an entrance the first time so they will do anything to buy one this time.

I don´t even want to imagine the 16th for the fans. It´ll sure be a day they won´t forget for the rest of their lives. I sure know how it will end . With extreme happiness as the best day of their lives if they manage to buy a ticket or with tears and that day being one of the worst days of their lives if they don´t get one.

If you get one then the madness just starts. Now you have to see where do you got your ticket. Then look for people that got tickets and that live close to you. Or look for people who got tickets to the same area as you managed to get.
 

Then you have to start looking for the airplane ticket. You have to get one that´s cheap but that´s also on some more days so that you have time to visit Paris. You also have to see if you can find someone that goes with the same flight as you do.
 

After you got the plane ticket you have to look for an hostel. You have to fine one between the hundreds of hostals existing in Paris that has to be cheap, closer to Le Zenith (where the concert is so that you don´t have to spend more money on transportation), that has to have a good review, clean, in a good district (as for example some hostels are very cheap but in a bad district where there are many robberies), that has no curfew, if possible free breakfast etc..

Trust me it´s not easy to find a good one. And normally you also have to find someones to go with you as in some hostels is better to reserve a room for two persons than just for one.

After you got the hostel you have to look for transportation from the airport to your hostal as almost all the low cost companies go to Les Beauvais airport which is at about an hour from Paris. From there you have to get a bus, taxi or train. Then you have to look at the subway network to see which subway you can catch to get as closer as possible to your hostel.

Then you have to look to see where you can find the cheapest places to eat near your hostel, and to make a plan of the places where you have to visit. If you have a ticket for the pit you have to go straight to queue to get a good place.

You have to see what are you going to get with you as the hand luggage only permites taking 10 kilos (a luggage normally costs 40 euros so it´ll be a hand luggage for everyone). You also have to see what you do before the flight as you usually have to be there 2 hours before and if you have a flight at 9am at an airport that´s at 1 hour distance from paris and you have to get a bus that takes almost an hour an a half to  get there you have a really long and hard night before you.

It won´t be an easy task , but if you want to do something you just have to try and to work hard to achieve your dreams.

BB Creams

BB creams, also known as Blemish Balm, Blemish Base or Beblesh Balm, is like the Holy Grail when talking about make up. For a short history lesson, it´s said that BB creams were invented in Germany and that they were initially used by dermatologists to help laser surgery patients protect, soothe and refine highly sensitive skin while providing light coverage for post-laser scars, acne and other blemishes.

Even through it´s mainly sold mainly in East and Southeast Asia this cosmetic item is growing more and more famous all over the world. Why wouldn´t? After all now BB creams nowadays can   have skin whitening or brightening properties, others are anti-acne, some are anti-wrinkle, some are intended to even out skin tone, and others to lighten blemish scars. Even you can find BB creams with no color most of them are tinted and have have functions of primer, foundation, moisturizer, sun block, pore minimization and skin refining together, which saves a lot of money and also a lot of time when putting on make up. You can get BB creams with light,medium or heavy coverage depending of what you like. You can find them for any type of skin. Also most BB creams have sun protection so you don´t need to apply any sun block.

The only bad thing about BB creams is that normally you can find them in only one or two tones, usually bright beige (#21) or natural beige (#23) even thought some brands have darker or lighter tones depending of the BB cream.

 But the BB creams have many good things: they are perfect for any kind of skin, they improve your skin instead of worsening it as almost all the makeup products do and they are also very cheap. Of course you can also find more expensive ones like everything.

The BB creams in South Korea are so popular that you can find A LOT of brands so you can have plenty of options while buying BB creams.
Brands on the market today include Dr. Jart, Lioele, Skin Food, The Face Shop, Missha, SKIN79, Etude House,Holika Holika, Hanskin, Baviphat, Mamonde etc..

Depending on size and brand you can find BB creams with prices from 7 to 26 euros aproximatively, which when you think aboutit it´s very cheap comparing with European prices. 

The problem comes when you want to buy a BB cream is that many of the brands don´t sell them on their websites internationally so you normally you have to buy them on ebay. Caution is needed when buying on ebay as many sellers sell fake products so it´s recommended that you buy BB creams just from South Korean sellers and even then it´s better to read the reviews on the seller to be sure.

I highly recommend the seller BELLO-GIRL if you want to but asian cosmetic products on ebay. She sells only original products, has great prices, the sipping is free and the shipping time is very short. I bought some products from her and my parcel got to Spain in 10 days. She also sends you a hand written thank you note and some samples. You can also find her on facebook at www.facebook.com/bellogirl . She answers any question you can have and also recommends things if needed. Also, if you order on facebook she gives you a 5% discount. 

Other site where you can buy is www.yesstyle.com. 

I would recommend BB creams to anyone. I´m actually using Missha Perfect Cover BB cream which has a great coverage, a SPF 42 PA+++ ( PA is used to measure the protection factor of UVA rays,there are 3 degrees of PA which are PA+, PA++, and PA+++, from less to more protection.), effective whitening (which doesn´t mean that it whitens your face just that it evens your skin tone) and anti-wrinkle properties.
I read many reviews before buying and this one is one of the best BB creams when talking to coverage (medium-high) an it also has a very good price 12.50 euros for the 50ml size from Bellogirl. I also have the 20ml size and I´ve been using it for the last month almost daily and I still have some in the tube as you need very little.

This is the amount needed for medium coverage for the whole face. For large periods of time outside (like staying in the sun all day) it´s recommended putting it 3 times.

MADNESS OVER CONCERT TICKETS

Just one announcement was needed to bring madness in many countries in Europe. SM Town Live Tour on june 9th in Le Zenith, Paris. 6000 tickets for the first and concert SM Entertaintment would do in Europe. Taking in account it´s the first time a south korean record label was going to do a concert in Europe fans all over the world went crazy with happiness. SM Entertainment, one of the most influencial recold label currently existing only fueled the desires of the fans for tickets by announcing that five of their actuals ten groups would be performing: SHINee, Super Junior, DBSK, Girls´ Generation and F(x).

 

4 different types of tickets available depending on the zone: Prestige - sitting/numbered 111.50€, VIP - sitting/numbered 89.50€, Cat 1 - sitting/numbered 67.50€ and Pit - standing/not numbered 51€ . 3ooo tickets would be sold on internet on fnac.com, livenation.fr and ticketnet.fr, while the rest in shops. Starting at 10 am on abril 26th.

 

That day fans all over the Europe woke up early, turned on their computers and waited for the clock to strike 10 am. One minute after 10 am officially started the madness. Pages collapsed, after just one minute  notices appeared: The tickets for this event are temporarly unavailable or The ticket you selected is unavailable. The web pages went crazy. One one try you could find 2 or 3 types of tickets available, but when you selected any kind of ticket you got one of the 2 answers: Ticket unavailable or Due to  traffic you need to wait 2 minutes and then we´ll redirect you which meant that you were back on the home page with no entrance. 

Days later Super Junior page announced that they were amazed with the sales, Prestige and V.I.P. tickets sold in 4 minutes and the rest in the next 10 minutes. Which means good for them and bad for the enormous number of fans that couldn´t get a ticket after hours of trying, crying and prayings. There were some very lucky fans who managed to get a single ticket after trying without stoping for hours. 

Dissapointment could be found all over Europe. Fans decided to meet and to  manifestation about this situation. They asked for a second date. 

Kpop at First View

Annyeong!!! 

I´m kinda sick now so my brain it´s not working very well, so I´ll write a short entry as in this moment I think my head it´s going to explode  T.T  .In this moment I´m sleepy, I´m cold and I can´t stop sneezing, my head hurts,my back hurts and I´m sleepy. I know I said sleepy 2 times but I´m very very sleepy. And I know I´m whining but I´s sick so I´m allowed to whine.

I´m going to start before I fall asleep. This entry is about something I discoverd while watching some of my favorite Super Junior music videos. The FANSERVICE. 

If you look for the word in wikipedia you get this definition : In Japanese manga and anime, Fan service (ファンサービス fan sābisu?), fanservice, or service cut (サービスカット sābisu katto?), is material that is designed to amuse or excite the audience with especially derived content – giving the fans "exactly what they want"– and usually refers to "gratuitous titillation".

But here we´re talking about music, not about manga and anime, and also, even if fanservice existe in the jpop or jrock, here we´re talking about kpop fanservice. And also, even if there´s fanservice from girl groups to males there´s also fanservice from male groups to females.

I´m a girl so of course, I´ll be talking about the boy groups fanservice.^¬^ 

Nowadays there´s less fanservice than before, but hey, at least there is some. Every boy group does fanservice, normally little things like holding hands, hugs,sitting on or lying against another person,Caressing (petting)[ gently stroking body parts or hair with a hand]or giving cheek kisses. And it isnt´t needed more than that. Fans are happy with that. 

It may be looking weird to Europeans or Americans but the physical contact between boys is better viewed in South Korea or Japan than other countries. Actually,it´s promoted. This has actuall has a name. In South Korea it´s called skinship, which is a blend derived from "skin", plus the last syllable of "friendship". 

You can normally see this skinship when watching group members taking care of the youngest member ( magknae in korean). In every group there is always a leader which normally is the oldest or more experienced and the magknae,which like I said before is the youngest. Beside those normally there´s the lead vocal, the rapper (where in some groups there are two), the lead dancer etc..

For example in one of my favourite groups SHINee there´s: Onew (Lee Jinki)- the leader and backing vocalist, Jonghyun (Kim Jonghyun)- main vocal, Key (Kim Kibum)- rapper and backing vocalist, Minho (Choi Minho)- rapper and backing vocalist and Taemin (Lee Taemin)- magknae, main dancer and backing vocalist. 

Of course, in any kpop group all the member sing and dance. It may not seem hard but to become member of a group normally they have to go to casting and win it, being the best of thousands of persons. After that they are trainees for years. And if they get to be in a group they have to word on the choreos, songs, recordings, concerts, besides the drama they normally participate, the variety shows, the record label concerts and tours (for example SM TOWN for SM Entertainment, YG Familie for YG Entertainment etc..). All of those beside normal school classes.
It´s true that normally  they do to music, art or drama in university but you can even find them even in IT carrers.

Truth is that it may seem that they are a bit exploited by their record companies, but they don´t care because they know that without the hard work they wouldn´t have been able to achieve their dreams.

 

Annyeonghaseyo!!!

       Annyeonghaseyo!!!

Finally is time to write something in this blog. As you can see, this blog ´s link is  teardrops-in-the-rain.blogspot.com and the name I chose to it is Obsession. The first one  is because one of my  favorite songs from the korean band CN Blue is  called Teardrops in the rain  and the second as now I´m into my Kpop years so I´s kinda obsessed with the korean music and the korean doramas.

I´ve got lots of favorite groups and bands like SHINee, Super Junior (Super Junior M), Big Bang (G-Dragon), MBLAQ, 2AM, 2PM, SNSD, B.E.G., 2NE1, U-KISS, T-ARA, Miss A, F.T. Island, CN Blue etc..

I know I should have started with presenting myself but hey, there´s no time as now 

My name is Alexandra but my friends call me Alec (I like it much better than Alexandra *too long* ). My birthday is on june 6th so I´m almost 19 years old ^^. I´m for Rumania, but I´ve been living in Benicàssim for almost 6 years.

I´m very very melomaniac so I´m almost all the time listening to music; yep, even when I go to sleep. I sleep so well with music (a tip, if you can´t sleep put on Debussy´s Claire de Lune and you´re out in a minute^^). I´m also pretty obsessed with make up, so I´m IN LOVE with asian cosmetic but that´s for other post ^^

I like to dance, to read (any kind of books but lately I´m into fanfictions), I like to watch movies, and sleeping. I LOVE sleeping, for now my record is 15 hours ^^. I hate sports,(watching or doing)  and I´m very good at doing nothing.

I can get distracted easily but I´m quick to understand things. I´m a very weird kind of person as many times my personality 180 spin so I can go from being a quiet and introvertive to very extrovertive. And no, I don´t have a bipolar disorder. I know what I want and I´m pretty realistic and also I´m always very optimistic. I´m also a little tiny bit manipulative (I know it´s a bad thing but I had to have something bad no?). I also have a pretty high self esteem. 

So, that´s all for now ^^ See you soon