Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Sharing the Love


 
There are times in your life when you just can’t express the happiness you feel, the contentment of life overall.  Days you thought would never exist, moments you never even dreamed of.  Today I was part of something special – While sitting in my kitchen, pondering the boring layout of electronics, kitchen devices and Tupperware for our upcoming Thanksgiving cooking space, from down the hall stalks my brother-in-law (only recently a holiday guest) with his iPhone singing softly to himself:  “Hellooo…. Hellooo…. Yes, sir, I’m one of a kind… *mumble*…. Hello, hello….” 

*Rosie dies a supremely happy person*


Rewind a few hours.  Really this is all because my husband’s plan to garner sympathy from his brother backfired almost completely.  We are a strange family.  For one thing, I spend almost every hour of free time in front of a computer watching Korean or Japanese dramas, and when I’m not sitting here at my desk being ‘productive’ (aka writing about these things) I’m listening to Kpop on my iPod, iPad or Pandora radio station.  I also have this crazy urge to share my love with any and every poor soul that crosses the threshold of my home.  Even if I know they will probably hate it.  Why hide who I am? I like watching and listening to Korean people to the exclusion of almost every other form of entertainment.  My long-suffering husband has been making painstaking efforts to meet me halfway.  We now share a common fascination with everything Block B.  I still love BIGBANG.  He listens to Girls Generation…  
"Here, listen to this. It's awesome, I promise!"
But when his brother showed up, I think he genuinely hoped to find someone else to laugh with him over G-Dragon’s crazy music videos, and to ultimately sympathize with an illness called “My wife is in love with a Korean rapper.”  Symptoms include eye-rolling, heavy sighs, and a hesitant aptitude for picking out Engrish-sounding words amidst a sea of Korean lyrics. 


It occurs to me that I’m actually a very lucky person.  My sister is just as K-Pop obsessed.  Both she and my husband watch K-Dramas.  My brother-in-law finished watching City Hunter all by himself, and last time my mother visited she requested a second mixed CD featuring her favorite BIGBANG songs.  Last night, we all started watching IRIS.  It’s absolutely killing me that I’m the only one with enough time on my hands to marathon the drama. Having to wait around everyone else’s schedules just to watch one more episode is agonizing!  (It’s even worse than waiting for subs, because they’re already there! You just need to sit down so I can hit PLAY!”)
Now if only for Christmas I could appease all of my friends with a mixed CD, I’d be one happy person.  How about a coupon for 5-10 hours of my time to sit down and watch some fabulous drama?  (Really, doesn’t that sound like a great present?)
"Seriously, if you don't watch this drama with me,
prepare to be mauled by my bear-ears beanie!"


7 comments:

  1. Fantastic job, this made my day! There is such a happy feeling of accomplishment when one ensnares another person to join them in their KPop/KDrama obssession for life Muwahahaha! :D

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  2. Strange how a random Asian country can be such a life-eating hobby. I wish I had as much luck as you do getting people interested in it...whenever I try, it's all eye rolls ;)

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    1. I still get my share of eye-rolls. I also find I have a harder time relating to the people who give me only eye-rolls. Like I almost don't want to bother if they won't give me the time of day. It's not like I ask eeevery person to sit down and watch dramas.. Just hear me out, and let me casually fangirl for a moment.. That's all I ask :)

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  3. I have one friend who will watch them but she is always insanely busy and then my husband will occasionally become interested in one that I am watching, but that's about it. We are actually watching The Walking Dead Together right now so I have been neglecting my kdrama watching a little because I am actually really into it.

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    1. I keep eye-balling some of the American TV shows I've left languishing on my Netflix queue. I tried Supernatural last week, because I've always heard great things about it. Sadly.. after 45 minutes, and 2 minutes of ep 2 I had to put it away. Whatever awesome storyline or other goodiness it might hold (in cast, or whatnot), I just can't handle the horror genre.. I was watching with my iPad turned at almost a 80 degree angle from my face, so I figured it just wasn't worth it anymore. :(

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  4. Here, you deserve a cookie for getting people to join the dark side. We know that Asia-addiction can be a vicious thing, but it has its perks (sleepless nights and abandoned homework aside). Such as getting to ogle over pretty people all day and to spice up your vocabulary with expressions like "Wow, fantastic baby" and "Sexy free and single, I'm ready to bingo".

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    1. Yay, I get a cookie! XD
      You know, I wasn't overly fond of Fantastic Baby for a looong time (embarrassed now >_< ) But somewhere along the way of generally trying to avoid it.. something happened and now I can't here "Wow" or the live version "Saay whaat?" Fantastic baby... Dance! (accompanied with actual dance moves). I also automatically dance to Sorry, Sorry though I don't like the song at all, haha!

      Block B provides the rest of my dialogue, and half the communication between me and my husband. - What time is it? - It's Block B time!

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