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today was quite a day!

first, i spent all morning working on a rough draft of a formal report for my business communication class. it's due tomorrow night at 11:59, so i've been working to finish it since thursday evening. i know i should have started on it way sooner, but i didn't and now i'm suffering the consequences. lesson learned, lol.

next, i took down my hair! i'm getting it straightened on tuesday, and i'm quite excited to have a new hairstyle. i wonder how much it's grown.

also, i finally started coffee prince and eunchan is such a cutieeee ♡ she's so whimsical, fun, reliable, and hardworking. and hangyul is... well, he's quite a character. i like the two of them together tho, what a cool duo. 

i really need hansung and yoojoo to get their situation together too... they looked so cute together in the past and i need more on their story. guys can we reconcile, maybe...?

i folded my laundry while watching the second episode, and when it was over, i was planning to watch the third but i only got two free episodes on kocowa. so unfortunately, i had to fold the rest of my laundry in silence. i think i can watch the rest on amazon prime tho!! i'll see~

before i go, i wanted to let you know that i've made cookies. here's one for you! 🍪

so, how has your weekend been so far? have you done anything interesting?

i think i'll go do some coding now, or maybe go to sleep.. but anyways, i hope to talk with you guys very soon, byebye~!!

- nara ❤︎

outside influence

ughh i can't stand being out in my backyard!!! these carpenter bees are terrifying.

for context, my backyard has a pergola (i had to look it up bc i forgot what they were called) and carpenter bees like to hover around it so they can chew holes in the wood and nest there.

if you have ever seen carpenter bees before, they are huge and noisy. people say they're harmless and just curious creatures, but that NEVER mattered to me. a bee is a bee, so i stay away from them as much as possible, even if it means running around my backyard like a maniac.

today my dad texted and asked me to turn off the hose at a specific time, right? so i set an alarm and went outside at that time, only to be met with not one, but TWO bees. one is near the door, while the other is near the faucet... which is where i need to get to so i can turn off the hose.

lucy and kali came out with me, and at first, i was glad lucy came bc she's the best bee killer i know! i've seen her jump up, grab the bees in her mouth, and then spit them out before. but this time she wasn't doing her job. every time i would run away from the bees, she would jump up and bite ME 😭 like??? i am not playing with you!!!!

in a short time, it became very chaotic out there.

every time the bee near the faucet flew away for a second, i ran up to the faucet to try to screw it off before he came back. at one point, i was over by the faucet and the bee came back and we were staring at each other. i literally pleaded for the bee not to come any closer while i unknowingly turned the handle the WRONG WAY. tbf, you can't really think straight when you're scared...

i sprayed the water towards the bee a few times, and he darted upwards, but he just wouldn't leave. the dogs kept trying to play in the water and drink it, and i was getting so frustrated.

after getting my clothes wet, soaking the pavement, and almost tripping over my dogs as i attempted to escape the bees, i eventually managed to shut off the hose. i wanna say it took me about ten minutes. but i did it!!

so yeah... that was my outside experience today.

on another note, i was looking through my blogs earlier and saw i had more comments than i remembered on my reminisce blog. i opened it and saw i had gotten two comments from some anonymous account.

obviously i have no clue who it is, and i'm very confused. like, what's with all the emojis and hearts? although, it's probably just someone from spacehey who clicked on my blogspot link.

but!!! i also feel like it could be my last partner or one of his friend's messing with me. i know he liked to troll people, especially people he wasn't very fond of. so what if this is all some joke? at the same time tho.. that'd be pretty childish. no one should care that much about me to do that, especially after all these months.

i don't know u guys... kinda concerned rn.

if they respond to me saying who they are, then that would be much appreciated bc this is NOT secret share. tell me who you are.

talk soon my friends, i love you both!!

- nara ❤︎

arirang: my thoughts

so the bts comeback was today! i watched the mv for swim and listened to the entire album. as stated in the title, this post will be my thoughts on everything.

in all honesty, i wasn't a big fan of the album. i didn't feel anything. i've been a fan of bts since late 2018, and i've seen them transition through many different styles over the years. the truth is that bts doesn't have a set genre. they're always trying new things, and arirang is a new sound they are experimenting with.

and yk, maybe i'm just completely blinded by nostalgia, but bts' music has always managed to make me feel something. their songs held meaning, and they were memorable. i could play them over and over and never get tired.

for example, outro: wings is such an energizing song. every time i listen to it, i feel like i'm ascending. and anpanman is so fun!! the instrumental has to be one of my favorites. spring day and butterfly make me so emotional, and they're such beautiful songs.

but with this album... i didn't get any of that. sure, the beat in "body to body" had me moving a little bit, and i liked the arirang part. "merry go round" was pretty good, too. but overall, none of the songs really resonated with me.

the mv for swim was also kinda confusing to me. in the video, there's a girl walking through this museum type building, and she comes across a ship sitting in a glass box. in the next scene, she wakes up and she's with all the members on a ship (like the kind you see in pirate movies). they're dressed up as shipmen and they're following her around. at the end, she steps up on this platform or whatever and ends up back in the building she started in. only this time, she's soaked with water. the credits roll.

also guys, please don't attack me but i just found out who lili reinhart was today. i had no idea who she was when i first watched the mv, and i was in the gc with my sister and cousins like "who is this white lady in the mv.." apparently, lili is supposed to represent army? idk, i feel like they could've had multiple people of different backgrounds, bc army is very diverse.. but i digress.

anyways, there are lots of mixed opinions online. some people absolutely loved the album, others hated it, and some people are just in the middle (like me). i feel like SOME kpop fans are veryyyy protective of their faves, and any criticism about their idols or the music is automatically perceived as hate. some fans act like it's illegal to not like everything an artist puts out. like it's okay guys!! people don't have to like everything!!! it doesn't make them any less of a fan if they don't like it. but what do you guys think?

bts will always be dear to my heart, so i'm willing to give the album a second listen. i think i just need more time to sit with the music. i may come back with a new post about it, so stay tuned~

i hope everyone has an amazing weekend. i wanna wish a happy birthday to koi, and a happy spring break to eugene!!!! i love you guyssss !!!!! (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶)

- nara ❤︎

silliness and discoveries

i didn't have any classes today, so things were pretty relaxed. it was like i got an extra day of spring break, hehe~

i spent my morning doing schoolwork, then i watched youtube for a while. we got a thunderstorm today as well, and i think it rained for around two hours straight. it's supposed to be rainy again tomorrow, but probably not as much as today. i've also got a presentation in my marketing class tomorrow.. >_<

earlier, i got bored and decided to reorganize my pinterest boards a bit. i ended up combining all of my kpop gg boards into one single board bc i feel like my profile is less cluttered that way.

during my reorganization, i heard these loud noises from downstairs. it sounded like stuff was falling. i heard my dad hollering, and my sister laughing. i immediately got up to go see what was going on and i realized that things were pretty out of control. i saw my dad standing in front of the fridge, frantically trying to grab ice cubes as they fell out of the ice machine. idk HOW that happened but once he opened the fridge, it stopped. extremely weird, but funny.

on top of that, i was trying to brush my teeth a while ago and i had just put the toothpaste on my toothbrush. i like to wet my toothbrush again after applying toothpaste, and so i did that and shook the brush, then the entire thing of toothpaste flew right off the brush. like ??? i was so baffled.

so yeah. those are some events that occurred for me today! i'll talk about some discoveries now.

while i was scrolling on pinterest earlier, i came across this pin and saw it's a screenshot from naver blog. i know naver is the top search engine in korea, but i didn't know that there was a blogging site as well. it seems that naver blog allows you to customize your page and connect with others. you can browse through numerous blogs on the main page, so it's kinda like a social media site that revolves around blogging. there isn't a whole lot of privacy like there is on blogger, but i'm curious about it. what do you guys think? have you used the site before?

and lastly... i want an mp3 player. i've been seeing ads for the innioasis y1 on tiktok and it's so cute.. the pink one is finally available on the tiktok shop and they're like $60-$70. i've never owned an mp3 player before, but they've always been so cool to me. maybe i can get one for my birthday. hoping...

well then, would you look at the time? it's already 11pm, so i will wrap it up here. i hope everyone had a good day, and that the week ahead is kind to you. byebyeee~

- nara ❤︎

youth is never coming back

haiiii how are u? :3

i’ve been thinking a lot about my childhood the past few days and i’ve just been remembering how silly my imagination used to be.

like, whenever i would put toothpaste on my toothbrush i would pretend that i was icing a cake. (i still do this ngl..) and whenever i ate broccoli, i imagined i was a giraffe eating leaves off of a tree.

and yk that circular piece on the bottom of flip flops? i used to push it out and hammer it back in with the other flip flop. i was an amazing cobbler.

i also used to “ice skate” by sliding around on the floor tiles in my socks. and speaking of ice, my best friend from elementary school and i used to reenact scenes from frozen at recess. i was always anna bc my friend was blonde so it just made sense for her to be elsa. however, i think i got to be elsa once, and we were acting out the reprise scene and i “froze her heart” and i remember turning around and seeing her on the ground clutching her chest. it was so dramatic and funny.

when my family visited hotels my sister and i just HAD to play office workers. we would pretend to call each other on the phones and write nonsense on those little notepads.

alright.. this one may sound weird but my sister and i used to pretend a witch was cooking us in a soup during bathtime. and we would go around in circles as if she was stirring the pot.

another time, we pretended that we were shipwrecked (we were in an empty bathtub btw) with only popcorn to eat. we made a whole video on my mom’s phone bro. i’m still so embarrassed of that video bc all you hear is CRUNCHING. like what was our issue omg 😭

and yes. i was a kid who used to pretend to drown in the pool to see if anyone would care. so what if i knew how to swim? this is a test and everyone failed.

nowadays, i just pour soda into the lid of the bottle and pretend i’m doing shots. and i hate alcohol! my parents saw me doing it the other day and were very confused. but idc it’s so much fun.

i know i did so many other things as a kid, those are just a few of them! maybe i’ll share more childhood memories in the future, lol.

so, what was your imagination like as a child?

- nara ❤︎