Mpop Lay’s full Album LIT

          In a previous post, I talked a little about Lay’s album LIT, but that was only about the first part of the album. Well now the full album has been released and if the first part was “lit” this second part is fire!

LIT:

Part One:

1. Lit

2. Jade

3. Eagle

4. H2O

5. Fly

6. Soul

*see my previous post above

Part Two:

7. Changsha

8. Mama

9. Boom

10. Call My Name

11. Late Night

12. Wish

This part is more western than the first part and is a whole mood. You can really hear just how beautiful Lay’s voice is and how pure. I honestly can’t tell you which of these songs is my favorite because each one has its own mood and sound and each is unique. I love the way he mixes English lyrics with Chinese lyrics in this part. 

It seems like the first part of the album was about mixing Chinese music with western music with mostly Chinese music but in this part, it is western sounds with English and Chinese lyrics and it works so well. How can I explain it....you just have to go take a listen to the creative musical genius that our healing unicorn has turned out to be!

Before I go let me leave you with this song from Part Two:

BOOM

WISH

CALL MY NAME

Honestly, I could probably put the whole album here but please go take a listen to his beautiful voice and judge for yourself. 

Chinese Language Study

          So I wanted to update you on my Chinese language studies. After careful consideration, I have decided to also get a Chinese teacher alongside my Udemy classes, if you don’t know what I am talking about please check my previous post about My Language Study Plans, and so far I have taken 3 classes with the teacher. 

          Each of these classes included a pinyin portion and then a dialogue portion. In case you don’t know what pinyin is it is the system used to teach you how to speak the characters in Chinese. Each syllable is made up of an initial (a consonant) and a final (vowels) and a tone. Tones, if read wrong can turn a harmless word into a curse 😬. So a Chinese pinyin syllable would look like this mā while its character would look like this 妈 in simplified Chinese.

  Where the dialogue portion is concerned, so far I can greet you, tell you my name, where I am from, what my occupation is, what my hobby is and what my dream is and why. 

     I’ve also started learning to write some Chinese characters too. 

 Not exactly pretty but definitely a challenge I loved doing. 

         So far I’m enjoying my classes with my teacher and he works well with me. I found him on Preply.com which is also where I found my Korean teacher. I was lucky with both.   

  

Kpop Comeback EXO-SC

          I have to admit, even though I have Baekhyun’s albums I’ve been waiting on unboxing them until I have the full set but I couldn’t wait to talk about EXO-SC’s full album comeback. There are three different versions of the album and I got them all but of course, they have not arrived yet. So I’m going to talk about the MVs and the digital version which I do have.

          The album has 8 songs, 4 of them feature different artists alongside Chanyeol and Sehun. The songs are as follows:

1. 1 Billion Views (featuring MOON) 

2. Say it (featuring PENOMECO) 

3. Rodeo Station

4. Telephone (featuring 10cm)

5. Jet Lag

6. Fly Away (featuring Gaeko)

7. Nothin’

8. On Me

The digital album also has an instrumental version of 1 Billion Views and a Digital Booklet. 

         Of these eight songs, Nothin’ is a Chanyeol Solo and On Me is a Sehun Solo. We have MVs for 1 Billion Views, Telephone, Nothin’, and On Me. 

          What I love most about this album is that When it comes to lyrics Sehun and Chanyeol are credited on every song, except on Chanyeol’s solo where Sehun was not. Music-wise Studio 519 (Chanyeol’s studio) is credited on 3 songs: Telephone, Fly Away, and Sehun’s solo On Me. The whole album’s length is around 31 minutes. 

          Most of the songs are hip hop, trap hip hop, R&B hip hop, and R&B. The whole album Is no skip. Every song has an amazing beat and the lyrics are just...I have no words. I always knew that Chanyeol is a multitalented king but the surprise in this album is Sehun. Their debut album already showed just how much talent Sehun has vocal wise but this album REALLY showcased it so well. Our baby is all grown up y’all!!! His vocals are on point! Plus from the interviews, we know that both of them had put their foot down when SM tried to mess with their choices for the album. So our boys also flexed some muscles to give us this masterpiece. Now let me end this with the MVs. Watch these beauties and STREAM STREAM STREAM people!!!!

Telephone

On Me (Sehun Solo)

Nothin’ (Chanyeol Solo)

1 Billion Views (Title Songs)

Monthly Journal Update

          It is a new month and so a journal update is in order. Last month was an abject failure in journalling but a sort of success when it comes to figuring out a bit more about myself and power sheets. I learned after adding some smaller goals to my power sheets that I needed more concrete bite-sized goals that go towards the big goal and luckily this month is when the power sheets give you the chance to look over your old goals and revamp them. So today I’m going to start with that. 

I didn’t actually take pictures of everything I did but I used to have more goes than this. I’ve streamlined a few and added more chunks to some. I have targets now, mini-steps that I take for the bigger picture. 

I filled out the other pages too which helped me mentally. 

So let me show you last month’s tending sheet. 

As you can see lots of days where things went to the dogs when it came to my language studies and I also felt like my tasks were not specific enough. 

Here is this month’s tending sheet.

Not many tasks but specific enough to let me have a more detailed approach. 

Now the power sheets calendar is where I keep track of my bills and when they need to be paid when to take my Humeira medication when to post my blogs and I record when I finished a set goal. So I did not want to clutter it with anything more and I hated that sheet they have at the back of the calendar to list mini-goals so what I did was add separate calendars for three different things I wanted to keep track of my Islamic studies, my Korean studies, and my Mandarin studies. 

As you can see...clutter! But organized clutter.

I'm also using Google Calendar to organize my lecture times as just writing them in my journal is not enough of a reminder. I have it set up to remind me of the classes 15 minutes before the lessons.

Now to my journal. The only thing I kept up with there is my tracker page, my idea blog page and my books read...even there weren’t many books read 😂

Here Are the opening pages for this month in my journal.

Now I vowed to myself that I was going to journal more this month because last month was a total failure in that regard and so far I have kept my word to myself.....but the month is only at its beginning...so we’ll see.

I did subscribe to a new stationery box from Japan so you might be seeing reviews of that every month! 

That is it for now!