I kept my promise! One artist update for today. I'm not sure how long I can keep this up for, since today was the weekend, I had time, but once work starts... ack! >.< My goal is... for the next week? I'll make a small update every night, and upload it maybe every other night? We'll see!
I had actually considered opening some kind of Park Hyoshin fansite myself before, but with the already little time I have for Aheeyah, I thought I'd be overdoing it a bit. I'm really glad that an English forum has finally been opened for Park HyoShin, because he really deserves lots of love from foreign fans as well.
I've already registered to the forums, and made a few posts. I hope everyone from Aheeyah can support Park HyoShin as well, and show their forum lots of love -- introduce yourselves, post a few pictures, or make some comments/replies!
I'm so sorry I've been MIA lately! I just moved to Korea, working as an English Instructor in a university. I arrived Feb 19, around a week before my official start date, and in that week, I had to slave away cleaning and buying stuff for my apartment T_T
From March 2nd, I had my first week of school. The students are like ANGELS compared to the kids and teenagers I had to teach in academy and high school! There is near zero discipline involved in my job, whereas before, ALL I did was discipline. I have not had to shout the words 'SIT DOWN!', 'BE QUIET!', 'LISTEN!', 'DON'T!', or 'STOP IT!' even once after teaching a whole week of classes. To me, that is simply heaven.
I just heard a while ago from my supervisors that I was hired after 2 screening processes and 60+ final applicants, and i'm feeling so proud of myself because I originally thought I got hired because no one applied to the job XD (cuz the job application process involved a lot more work than other positions). I also had no idea until the start of the webcam interviewed that I'd be interviewed by a panel of 5 people (1 assistant director and 4 supervisors!), so it was a bit startling, but I'm really glad I made it here, especially after going through the first week of classes, because I was just getting so sick of being a clown/entertainer/baby-sitter. All my classes are official credit English courses -- I set course grading criterias, make and give midterms, assignments, and final exams, and assign final grades to all my uni students. This means no more of the come-to-English-class-and-do-jack-nothing-but-fool-around-and-watch-my-teacher-try-to-entertain-me-cuz-it-don't-mean-nothing rubbish.
I am SO glad.
Since I'm still new to the school, there is still a lot of prep work to do for classes though >.< Last weekend, and this weekend as well, I'll have to spend at least an entire day prepping material for my upcoming classes this week. I'll have to go into work on one of my day offs too! But I know it's how it works when you go into a new job, so I don't really mind.
On top of all of this, I AM still trying to update Aheeyah. I'm sorry to all my lyrics staff who have been working on a BUNCH of lyrics, and they are all pending for me to update because I haven't been able to get around to them all. I'll try to make it a ritual to update at least an artist or two every night, instead of trying to do massive updates in one shot.
I've actually always wanted to blog on Aheeyah every time I update,
and share a bit about my current kpop interests, but after spending
hours on the update, I'm usually too tired.
So today, I wrote up this blog before I updated any lyrics (and
partially because I have to wait forever for my old laptop to stop
lagging after I turn it on). Although there's a bunch of lyrics
pending to be updated, I also decided I'll just update 2AM's lyrics,
cuz I'm too tired to do more T_T
I'm so proud of myself for translating the whole 2AM
album today -- in a SINGLE day! I'm usually really lazy and
can only translate like 2 songs a day. Thank you Michelle
for suggesting we do this album and romanizing it for us
^^
I know it's a bit late, and there are like a bajillion different
translated versions out there, but I really wanted to do it for
some reason. I didn't want to hear or watch their comeback until
I got
my hands on their album (a principle of mine -__-), but I really
had to hear it if I planned to translate it. Anyways, I loved it.
Their comeback
performance was so beautiful.
And I'm so in love with the JoKwon
+ GaIn couple lately. I've always struggled to find someone
to call my 'ideal boyfriend type', but now I've found Kwon (plus
names with just two characters are so HOT!!)! He's just so
much fun!! I also coincidently totally became a fan of GaIn.
She looks so hot in Abracadabra
plus I love her hair and outfit <3
It's so funny cuz my mom's favourite kpop band is 2AM. I was updating
the songs on her mp3 player, and she keeps telling me "Don't
take out the songs of those 5 boys! Their songs are good!"
(she keeps mixing them up with SS501 for 5 members, and she can
NEVER remember band names -_- loll). 2AM's songs are the only ones
she'll keep listening to over and over. Then today I played their
newest song "Can't
let you go even if I die" and JiHoon sang literally one
word and before she's like "I LIKE IT!! WOAH IT'S SO GOOD!"
XDDD
I also started loving G.O.D all over again. I never realized the
lyrics to
'Gil'
(4th album) was so simple but beautiful. It also expresses a knot
that's always in my heart -- and in most young people's hearts --
is the path we're taking the right one? What is waiting for us at
the end? Will it be what we truly want? What IS it that we truly
want?
I also started watching every single one of their Baby
Diaries episodes! XD I swear, Hoyoung would make the most perfect
husband EVER!! I love men who can take care of babies, cook, and
clean the house (basically do my 'job'??). But really, he's such
a cutie and has a heart of gold <333
A warm welcome to Aheeyah's 4 new romanizers: Velexa,
pekkles, Michelle, and Laura!
I'm very excited to be working with a full lyrics team again. You
can view their profiles by going
backstage. I hope we'll be working together for a long time
to come ^.^
I thank you all those who applied, but since positions are limited,
I can only hire so many. I hope those who I could not hire this
time around will understand my hiring decisions are based on many
different things, and none of them are personal! No hard feelings
kk~ ^.~
I have closed hiring for romanizers, but translators are still
welcome to apply!
<3
jANUARY
4, "10
Happy New Years everyone!!
I felt I should write a quick note as to why I haven't been updating
for a while, because I felt so bad for making everyone wait!
I bought a new Macbook (laptop) recently, and am still getting used
to it. My old Toshiba laptop, while I love, has a lot of problems
I don't know how to fix, so it's gotta be replaced T_T It took me
FOREVER to figure out how to get Dreamweaver and Photoshop on my
Mac, and I still haven't transfered any of my Aheeyah files (or
ANY of my old files, for that matter) to it, AND I still have to
play around with the new Dreamwaver CS4. I had intended to make
my next update on my Macbook, but I think I'll have to do it on
my old laptop cuz it's taking forever for me to set stuff up on
it. Miahn!
Also, lately I've been caught up watching Mnet
Scandal (also good
download source; password is on that site; search youtube for
english subbed videos)! I know it's old, and I stopped watching
it myself after the first few episodes with 2pm members, but I just
started watching the next few episodes, and got hooked again!
I'm also translating Brian's 'Manifold' album, so I kinda wanna
update when that's all finished, but we'll see how it goes!
Thank you to all our romanizer and translator applicants who have
been submitting all these and previous lyrics! ^^ I hope many of
you will make it through the probation period and be able to join
our team soon! ~
Christmas is coming up and... I wonder what everyone's Christmas
plan is?
I'm having shoulder problems lately : / and my left arm feels this
kind of ache whenever I'm at the computer. I think I'm either on
the comp too much or my position is not proper. I don't know what
to do T_T Every time I'm on the computer for even just 2 hours my
back aches like crazy and I feel like I've been here on the comp
for 8 hours or something. I would so pay for a massage if it wasn't
so freakin expensive : / I think I'm just getting old.... >.<
Any advice?? T_T
Can you tell I'm trying to complete the Park Hyo Shin section with
every update? XD It would be strange to feature him on our layout
but to be missing so many of his lyrics neh~
Thank you to Yeeun2grace
and BK
for allowing me to use their Shinee (coming up) and Epik High lyrics,
and crazykyootie@soompi;;rachLx3 for allowing others
to use her Boys Over Flowers roms and trans ^^
Also buncha thanks and flowers and hearts to Sabby
for being crazy enough to romanize all those Epik High songs and
all the other songs you romanized and lyrics formatted~! I dunno
how long this update would've took if I had to do it all myself!
T_T
nOVEMBER
6, "09
20 hours / two and a half days later... Holy cow
dungs! A NEW LAYOUT!
Seriously, there is a good reason why I took two years (I could
not believe how long it's been until I checked the dates) to make
a new layout. While I enjoyed making the graphics, each one took
around 1-2 hours because I'm so freakin picky. And in the end, I'm
only border-line satisfied with this layout : /
So it went something like this:
PREPARATIONS: find pictures, and brushes, find inspiration, plan
and imagine graphics and layout in my mind
DAY 1: make graphics
DAY 2: finish up grahpics, start website layout
DAY 3: finish applying layout to whole site, tweak and perfect everything,
remove old and write new contents, upload
So around 3 entire days. I literally sat in front of the computer
the whole day today from 10:30am until 12 midnight, besides meals
and bathroom time. I haven't even showered yet! EW! nasty.
Let's Exchange Links, pweeese?
I haven't had emails asking me to exchange
links in YEARS! I think it's because most of my links are broken.
I've taken out all the broken links and would really like to fill
up my links section with some link exchanges, so please do contact
me!
Hiring New Staff
It's been 2 years since I opened Lyrics
Romanizer positions for hire, because most of the time, the
applicants we get are often are not good enough at romanizing. So
even if I go through 30 applicants, it is often the case that I
cannot hire any of them to romanize. Now, I've added a second duty
for Lyric Romanizers, hoping to be able to train them as they work.
And as always, I always need as many translators
as possible.
Google Ads
I've always created, updated, and ran Aheeyah for free. That's why
when I was a student, I had to close down and ask for donations,
because I could not pay for hosting and domain costs. I am always
extremely thankful to the people who did donate, and I was able
to pay for Aheeyah, run contests, and send thank-you gifts to my
staff every now and then. Now that I work, along with donations,
I can also pay for the costs of Aheeyah. Although I really don't
mind paying out of my own pocket for the site, I would also like
if Aheeyah could generate it's own revenue. That is why I've added
Google ads to the site, where revenue is generated by visitor ad
clicks. What's going to change? What to expect?
* Korean Lessons
* Giveaways and Contests
Learn Korean!
In Dec/Jan, I am going to fill up the Learn
Korean section with many more heaping piles of lessons. I say
Dec/Jan because I have a lot of materials to prepare before I can
release anything. My goal is over the course of a year, I will have
enough lessons to teach a total beginner enough Korean to roughly
translate Korean songs. I think everyone will be pleasantly surprised
^.~ so watch out for it!!
Free Korean CDs!
I'm hoping to do some contests once
I get the Korean lessons running ^^
The Korean lessons are a very big plan, but I hope that with this
new layout and regular updates until then, that you can see Aheeyah
is fully back up and running, and that I'm willing to throw myself
into this site again.
I really want to thank those visitors who have still been coming
back to the site even after almost 2 years of inactivity. Most importantly,
I want to thank Sabby and Claire
for still being around to help me with lyrics, and Daniel
for sticking with the forums all that time I was away. My staff
is always one of the reasons that keeps me coming back, whether
it's the effort and time you have put in that makes me feel like
a donkey's rear end for giving up the site, or your hard words kicking
me in the butt to get back to Aheeyah, I thank you for having been
there and still being here for me.
