October/November Kpop Haul 03 ATEEZ

          This was supposed to go up last week but with what has been going on with Chen it took a back seat so without further ado here it is. The last Kpop haul from the October/November series. There will be one more haul but it will be an EXO haul. 

          Treasure EP.Fin: All to Action is the first studio album by South Korean boy band Ateez. It was released through KQ Entertainment on October 6, 2019, alongside the single "Wonderland" and its music video. It also serves as the final part of the Treasure series. The album debuted atop the Gaon Album Chart

          

          As you can see there are two versions to this album. The black cover is the A version and the white cover is the Z version. Each of the albums has 108-page photo booklet, a sticker sheet, a postcard set, two random photo cards, a Treasure card and a Treasure film.   There is also one more version which is their first-anniversary edition but I don't have that one. You can find it here.

This is the Treasure Card

The Red film is the Treasure film card.

Random Pages from the booklet.

Front of the postcards.

The backs of the postcards had the lyrics on them.

The sticker sheet.

Here you can clearly see the Treasure Film card (the red one).

          The booklets have lots of beautiful pictures and the postcards are very well done. I've listened to the whole album many times and I loved all the songs but my favorite has to be Wonderland.

Track List:

1. End of the Beginning
2. Wonderland
3. Dazzling Light
4. Mist (안개)
5. Precious (Overture)
6. Win
7. If Without You
8. Thank U (친구)
9. Sunrise
10. With U
11. Beginning of the End

***There is another album that came after this one for the Japanese market called Treasure EP. Extra: Shift the Map which was released on December 4, 2019. I got this one only in the digital version rather than both a digital album and a physical album.

Track List:

1. Hearts Awakened, Live Alive (Expression Revisited)
2. HALA HALA (Traditional Treatment Mix)
3. Pirate King (Overload Mix)
4. Treasure (Smoothing Harmonies Mix)
5. Utopia (Japanese Version)
6. Say My Name (Flavor of Latin with Juwon Park)
7. Illusion (Chillin' with BUDDY Mix)
8. Wave (Ollounder's Bold Dynamics Mix)
9. Aurora (Japanese Version)
10. Twilight (Classic BUDDY Mix)
11. Promise (Notation from Senor Juwon Park)

No it is not Kim Jongdae’s Fault

This article appeared today.

Koreaboo Article

I can’t believe they are blaming Jongdae for something that was in the works since March of last year.

An Open Letter to Kpop Fans

          I had a whole different post lined up to go out today but after the news that broke out yesterday and everything that happened after it I felt like it was important for my blog today to be something different

          Yesterday Kim Jongdae, Chen from EXO, announced that he had a girlfriend that he loved and wanted to spend the rest of his life with and that she was pregnant. Immediately the reactions started to poor in. EXO-Ls were divided into two categories: those who were surprised and extremely happy for Jongdae and supportive of him and those who were surprised and were angry and wanted him to leave the group. The second group from what I can see, and I could be wrong, is mostly made up of Korean EXO-Ls. 

          Jongdae choose to reveal his relationship through the Fanclub on the Lysn app. He wrote a letter to the fans that shows how mature he is and how scared he is of the hit back he knew was going to happen. After all he has seen it before when Heechul’s relationship was exposed a couple of weeks ago, he saw it when it happened to Kai and when it happened to Baekhyun. He saw what happened to Sungmin from Super Junior when he announced his marriage. Kpop fans especially Korean ones are not kind. 

If you look in the Lysn app you will see that most of the basic members who happen to be international members of the fanclub are shocked but happy for Jongdae while the ACE members, who are for the most part Korean re asking Jongdae to leave EXO.  I want to talk about the ACE membership. For the most part most international members don’t pay for the ACE membership mainly because the benefits that are included in the pain membership favors Korean members more than international fans (concert tickets and what not) but if we are going to discuss how much international fans pay when they order albums and the cost of shipping most international fans pay more than the yearly membership that these ACE members do. Why do I bring this up? Because the ACE members keep telling basic members to shut up since they didn’t pay for the ACE membership. 

I have something to say so listen up ACE members. You bought a membership into the official fan club to get at tickets early, for a chance to get into fan signings and to get a chance at chatting with the members online. YOU DID NOT BUY THE MEMBERS’ PERSONAL LIVES. Their lives are their own. They have the right to love and be loved. They have the right to spend their lives with whomever they want as long as they are both consenting adults. I’m going to say the same to any other Kpop fan who thinks that they own the idol they Stan. No that idol is not going to marry you he dean’s know you exist. No that idol doesn’t have to love the person you ship them with just because you say so. THEY ARE HUMAN NOT PRETTY PIECES OF CARDBOARD THAT YOU DO WITH AS YOU PLEASE. 

Now that I got that off my chest there is one other thing I want all Kpop fans to think about. Why do you think so many idols suffer from depression? Why do you think so many of them think of suicide (like Sungmin did after announcing his marriage)? Why do you think many of them commit suicide (we just lost two idols recently)? Did you ever think it is because their every move is scrutinized? Did you ever think it was because they are so afraid that their personal lives are going to be exposed by the likes of Dispatch and over zealous fans like the ones who mobbed Chanyeol and Sehun in Vietnam and the airport employee who leaked their passport information? 

These are not things that are just there for you to look at because they are so pretty and they sing. They are humans beings with feelings and desires, they love and want to be loved, they get hurt and get scared just like the rest of us and they make mistakes too. It is time to grow up and protect the idols you love not destroy them. 

Journals, Journalling and Bullet Journalling

          I’ve always kept a journal of some sort. I have journals from when I was in elementary, I’m sure you all remember those small diaries with locks and a small key.

       Then I graduated to simple spiral-bound notebooks and then those dates agendas that had one day per page. I kept that up until 2016 when they no longer worked for me and I started looking for alternatives.

          I wanted papers that I could take in and out without damaging them and after looking around I bought discs from Staples Arch system with their punch and inserts and covers from Jane’s Agenda on Amazon. I had a lot of fun putting my journal together and making my own pages for it and what not but after using it for a bit I wanted something smaller so I started making my own smaller A5 sized covers and paper inserts and used those for a long while.

          Sometime at the end of 2016 or the beginning of 2017, I bought a disc bound notebook from William Hannah and used it all through 2017 and 2018.

I found inserts on Etsy for it as well as inserts I got from the original website. I also made my own inserts and bought a huge stamp for the date lol.

          But by the end of 2018 Disc bound notebooks no longer worked for me and in January 2019 I moved into a Leuchtturm1917 dotted journal. I loved it. I had gotten it from one of my subscription boxes and decided to use it. When it finished around July if I am not mistaken I used a repurposed notebook to finish out the year but it didn’t last. At the end of October, I moved into another notebook which I finished out the year in. Here are a few pages from each of the three notebooks.

          I knew that for this year I wanted to use the notebooks that I got from Ferris Wheel. However, I needed to think about what worked for me and what did not work for me in 2019. I knew that a future log was useless. I also knew that I did not want a year at a glance calendar. I also never really look at the index of the Leuchtturm1917 even though until the Leuchtturm1917 finished I used it. I knew I wanted trackers for certain things and I knew that I wanted to put all the explanations at the beginning of the Journal/year and have the rest of the months with just a cover page and the dailies. I also knew that I wanted a different notebook to track things like my budget, exams, and appointments. So I remembered that I had gotten a diary from one of the subscription boxes (Owlcrate if I am not mistaken) that I had not used and I took a look at it. It was perfect with one minor correction.

          The last page was a book review page but I changed it to a monthly goals review page. However, I bought another planner for my goals (I will review it in a different post) so this page morphed into a motivational board for me to look at every time I look at my planner.

          The page that I glued on is from the same company that I bought my goals journal. They have this on their website and you can fill it out and they send you three different sizes. One for printing (pdf) and one for Instagram and one is a square one which you can laminate and put into your goals journal. I’m not sure if I’ll do that yet but we’ll see.

The notebook also has weekly pages which I will use to track my daily tasks.



          So basically, my Ferris Wheel journals will be to write about my day and to scrapbook stuff that I want to remember as well as track my routines and my studies. And my Calendar journal is for scheduling and keeping track of daily tasks.

          Now let me show you what I did with my Ferris Wheel journal. I'm going to start with the supplies I used.

These are just a few of the supplies I used and I got most of them off Amazon.

These are the first pages of my Journal. My word for the year and my collections page index.

These two pages explain the main pages (collections) that will reoccur each month.

          These two pages didn't come out like I expected them too but that is okay. I was not expecting perfection. Sometimes I will like the end result and sometimes I won't. This time though I really hated the pages so I covered them. I found some wrapping tissue and went to town on the pages. They are still not perfect but I like them a little better. 

          On the left is my blog idea board and on the right are all my trackers. I learned a lot while making the trackers and next month I will do better with spacing. Now, all that is left is to fill them out and that I will leave for another post as an update.

I decided to have a motivational board just before my daily pages. So this is what it looks like.

          The quote on the top I got from the internet while searching for my Word of the Year. And the bottom quote is something that I wrote myself. It is a way for me to strengthen myself when I fall behind and decide to give up on things I really want to accomplish. 

           This is the same printable from Cultivate What Matters website. The background I put it all on is from Jim Holtz idea-ology, which I got from Amazon a long time ago and never used. 

          And this is what my daily looks like. Something simple and nondistracting. It doesn’t mean that it won’t get scrapped to heck and back with pictures or whatnot but for now, this is what I’m going with. You’ll notice I covered up the fold of the page. It was distracting me so I covered it up. I’m thinking this is why I hate traveler’s notebooks lol. The spine is in the middle of my field of vision! But I am committed to this notebook now, I’m just not going to get this size again when it is used up.

There is one more notebook (besides my Powersheets planner)  that I want to talk about that I will be referring too throughout the year: my studies plan notebook. This notebook has a plan for my religious studies as well as my Korean studies mapped out (in the case of my religious studies for the next 2 years and in the case of my Korean studies for the next 4 months.) This will be referred to often and tweaked depending on what gets done and when.

          It is a very simple layout with dates and what book I’ll be studying or in the case of Korean what Unit from what book.

          The journals I’m going to be using so far. Once the Powersheets Journal from Cultivate What Matters website comes in it will be added to the pile.