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I KNOW BUT SHES DOING IT DURING THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS AND I WORK RETAIL SO I CANT GOOOOOOOOO
I am going to see The Rose today and I just saw Blackpink so it's not as bad but still

How you been doing anyway

Been a zombie for 2 yrs, briefly alive for a few mths. Actually im ok. Hope ur well, too. Did u watch all of Sisters who make waves?(i still hvnt watched the last 2/3 episodes because i stalled out on too many unrecognised chinese celebs, those hk/taiwan 90s/00s were ok but too many i dint know!! Then the last few eps i watched the clips n got spoiled so lost any impetus to watch the full ep, followed along cici wang x sica on twt for awhile tho.

Edit glad u got to see the Qose n BP. BP only coming to S.E.A in 2023 after last time in 2019 before i stan em.

Feeling the zombie over here too. I'd probably still have been like that even if there wasnt a pandemic tho

I haven't watched much of it outside of of Jess's performances
I need to watch that, Songs Like Summer Flowers and the cafe show at some point lmao.
All these years complaining about Jessica not moving and then I completely ignore it

Yeah famine then feast is a ironic tragedy/miraculous resurrection. She doesnt rlly need us tho, she has 1 billion potential new supporters LOL

I watched full eps of almost 1 to 8/9 or tried to, its only obvious jess overwhelms others due to her 7 yr training, experience, natural/SM trained charisma n her personal qualities, n she's a natural leader/coach/motivator etcetera at least as edited on the show.

I still dont know how much of Jess (n krys) is fake it till u make it? But she develops relationship with whomever she teams up with(or so it seems as edited) n they all seem to care for/be protective/help her mandarin wise(its unclear to me <thinking critically as i write this> how much artifice as in did she hv mandarin language tutors outside the show beforehand or otherwise but i dont care, she just makes it seem so natural i believe in her fumbling/awkward attempts as if it were real(which it might be, american reality tv notwithstanding).

I cant read the description on china hunan tv or mango tv youtube clips but some of the compressed/highlight(?) Clips are shorter n more accessible. But upload dates are very iffy tho unless u watched it in real(the clips, not the full eps). Tho if ur not interested in the chinese celebs featured it was a slog for me.

The only fake one on her team ending up being Kelly imo. She gets along with the others really well
Basically married Cici

It was a really great and uplifting team, the jiejies and the producers all loved Jessica so much, can't wait for the new show

I thought the seaside band show n the variety show started already, at least i saw clips/excerpts earlier/read it was starting/started already. Not sure the name if the show where sica is a kinda talk show host/MC/special coach(?) but i rmbr she talked about haters to the contestants/participants.

Its tough for me not being able to read mandarin despite it being my mother tongue(sorta) my dialect is kinda niche tho. Regrets on not trying when i was in school tho teachers only taught kinda lackadaisically(in retrospect they tried), it was a national language school, not english mainly. At least i understood most of wat was said on sisters who make waves(sometimes needed the subtitles badly) tho the china mainland slang was tough on non-mainlanders/people who dont live/speak tat slang/particular lingo(i think).

Agree tat it was heartwarming how much sica was embraced by most(all?) The participants who interacted with her. I think they recognised her different status as a world(trained by SM)/kpop idol even tho out of snsd n treated her as such. She outsang/outperformed/outdance/out did everything compared to cyndi wang, their level is so far apart, n i rmbr cyndi n the other 90s/00s hk/taiwan idols from those days, they were huge in S.E.A/east asia especially hk/taiwan.

This is too long already. End(for now). Ps wish mysteric were around, she might give her perspective if she watched/read about this stuff.

Basically married Cici

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I nvr heard of cici before, or any of the other china celebs(apart from hk/taiwan idols). I love how cici n others basically adopted sica. N cici is apparently a huge deal in china(n rich too, i think)

The one about the haters is Songs Like Summer Flowers. That's the show Jessica is a judge on and btw she just did a Chinese rendition of Uhm Junghwas DISCO


The seaside band is a Sisters Who Make Waves spin off and it's gonna have Jessica's AOTU team (plus some others) running a cafe with absolutely no money, cooking all the food and doing performances every night. I didn't watch sisters but I'll definitely watch that because it's a much smaller cast plus food and acoustic music
They wrapped up filming at the beginning of October (Jessica won't be in the last episode) but we have no idea when it's gonna air the Sisters cast babied her pretty well, probably because she was the most experienced performer, and also the youngest. Watching it, I couldn't help but wonder how different things would have been if she'd debuted as the maknae instead of the oldest in SNSD...

You're from Singapore right? I can't imagine how much rougher it would be for you to understand vs me who happily has zero knowledge of Chinese Sounds jarring and low-key disorienting

Not singapore but adjacent, i grew up in a city/town where my dad commuted by car to work everyday for almost 20 yrs or so to singapore, starting from when i was a kid. Its kinda like people who live outside new york n commute to work every weekday, but in a different country. It was quicker going in the beginning but the commute time lengthened as the yrs passed. Nit as bad as just before the end times tho.

I worked there for ard 17 yrs myself but i stayed there after a few mths/half a yr or so because it took 1 hour plus or more to get to work, sometimes 2 hrs n it was brutal going thru customs. Theres a few others from singapore tho, if u dint already know.mostly inactive now. Dint u go to hk previously?(from ur photos i think u posted tat i saw when/after i first joined KS?)

N i think i know the city u live in too, or surroundings tho its much bigger than singapore by magnitudes.

Its ok cause when i was a kid we sometimes watched singapore tv-free access thru airwaves, n its a mix of english n singapore mandarin shows(with eng subtitles)- so im used to it all my life. Local tv had cantonese hk shows but national language subtitles, so i was listening to cantonese, reading the subtitles which language i learned in school n can read(i dint study mandarin lessons) it was a national school, n translating to english in my mind-not very enjoyable so i dint wstch much canto hk shows as a kid. I got better in my mid teens, id say n now can understand much more, since i do speak sometimes. But slowly mostly.

Seaside band sounds like the korean show which had Rosé on it. If seaside band has subtitles n is interesting/engages my attention ill watch it for sica n AOTU band causeci really liked kelly, n i think kelsey another musician-also liu lian but idk if they're in the cast too. The musicians mighta been on sitar team, not AOTU. Ill wait for info/watch n gauge my investment into it.

PS i might edit the personal stuff after u read it, golden_wishes.