Hope is a Dream that Never Sleeps
Someday our voices calling out will become a great song.
Even if you forget everything else about me, there are two things you should remember: I love Super Junior more than anything else in the world, and I love Doctor Who almostas much (Super Junior wins by a hair because it has a Kyuhyun Cho).
Although I’m Indian by blood and American by citizenship, my heart belongs to South Korea. I’m so lucky to have found a home in Storm Fuㅅ1 with my adopted unnie, the amazing Haneul. She claims we’re co-captains, but everyone knows I’m the TOP to her G-Dragon (unfortunately, no, that doesn’t mean I’m a sexy male rapper with a sexy, deep voice, but she is most definitely a kick-ass and crazy cool leader).
Today I received an email that I sent myself on December 10, 2011. I love doing this FutureMe.org email thing because it’s such a pleasant surprise to get the email and to think, “Righttttt, I vaguely remember sending this, but did I really send it a year ago??”
A lot of the content of this letter is personal (just between me and myself!) but there are a few things I want to address:
I just finished watching episode 9 of Flower Boy Ramyun Shop while (sort of) working on Chapter Thirty-Four of “Sunflower”…Now I’m watching episode 10 and trying to finish this chapter so I can finish the first draft of this novel finally.
I love how there’s no mention of how much I absolutely hated Flower Boy Ramyun Shop…although maybe at that time I didn’t hate it yet haha.
Also, I finished the first draft. Now I’m nearly finished with the second draft as well, and I’m workshopping it in my writing group.
“Right now the song “Love is You” from the Prosecutor Princess OST started playing. This song always gives me a deep ache in my heart.”
Some things don’t change.
“Have you seen Super Junior yet?”
And that would be a resounding YES!!!!! Woohoo!!
“A lot can happen in year.”
Yep. Things changed in ways I couldn’t have imagined. 2012 was one of the best years of my life.
I think it was a great idea to send it to myself in December (although I know I didn’t decide on December for any particular reason) because it gives me the chance to reflect on the past year - something I’ve always loved to do. It’s wonderful to see what has changed and what hasn’t, and how grateful I am for everything that’s happened.
In fact, I love it so much that I’ll go ahead and send another email to my future self right now and promptly forget about it!
Dear Michan,
I think the absolute best thing about joining Tumblr is that I was able to meet you! You’re one of my closest friends - one of the few people who I talk to every single day without fail - and we’ve only met once. (How is that possible? That doesn’t seem possible).
Today I came home to this lovely package waiting for me…and I honestly don’t know what to say. Thank you doesn’t seem like enough, so I’ll say it in three languages: Thank you, arigatou, komawo ♥♥♥
I’m going to address all of the presents:
- The letters: SO SWEET!! :3 I would put them up, but I want to keep them to myself. Also, I adore the way you addressed me in the belated birthday letter :D
- Erasers: SO CUTE!!! I’m always tempted to buy erasers when I go to Kinokuniya. I’ll never use these, but I’m thinking I’m going to keep it on my desk at work.
- Instax Frame: OMG!! I was thinking just today that I need to figure out how to put all my Instax pictures. I have that wall hanging plastic thing, but it only fits 10 or so. And this frame is so incredibly cute! This is definitely going on my desk at work too.
- Duffy: AHHH!!! Ever since you told me about Duffy, I was thinking that I wanted one, but I don’t go to Disneyland very often. This is perfect! And the shirt?? LOVE.
- Kyuhyun painting: HOLY. SHIT. This is amazing. I just want to stare at it. That one is definitely going up in my cubicle at work as well.
(Now that I think about it, half my cubicle decorations seem to be from you!)
Seriously, I have no words. If I knew what to say, this would be a much more elegant and eloquent letter hahaha. I’m so grateful and fortunate to have you in my life!
Love,
Teji
P.S. Please ignore the horrible pictures and hasty editing job - Yvie kept trying to photo-bomb :P
I ordered this from my other url (everlastingsong) but I wanted to post the images here. Yay! I finally got my Super Junior dangling dust cap a few days ago. :3
This is, I believe, my third time ordering from Roseane. She always takes care of orders promptly (provided the payment is made on time), and it doesn’t take too long for the orders to arrive either!
This is half of my order, so I’ll take another picture and post it once I get my (special limited edition!!!) copy of Boys in City 4. :)
Thanks, Roseane!
Leeteuk’s Letter to Park Jungsoo
Leeteuk’s written letter to Me
In this big world we are sitting on, let’s take care of our heart!
To Park Jungsoo,
“During your training period for 5 years, you said you want to do activities for 7 years and then go to the army. It all happened like you said so, it’s really amazing.
>More than anyone else, the one whom I want to reaceive acknowledgement of (my) success is YOU. To be honest, right now, I still can’t believe all the love I have received is scarily overflowing that leaving it empty for a while makes me worried. Even so, receiving a lot of interest and enlisting like this is good, right?
Using being busy as an excuse, to the ‘you’ whom I’ve forgotten and kept in one corner of my mind I am writing this. I think going for military service isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
People don’t know it well but the introverted and timid you had to be shameless sometimes and be patient. You have put up with it until now. I’m proud of how you came to be.
I have a lot on my mind but this time, for a while, I want to put everything down. As a leader I have always taken care of everything around me, now the time for me to take care of only you has come. When I look at the mirror, when I see you, the part of you that was unknown had been found and was nurtured.
It’s hard and lonely but when this time passes, you will be sitting on this big world with a deep heart. After 21 months, I will meet up with a more awesome and upgraded ‘you’ carefully looking forward. I love you. Take care in the army.”
From: Leeteuk
Source: Naver
Translation by: @BaechuTeuk
“Two years may seem like a long time but it is the blink of an eye.” -The Titan’s Curse, Rick Riordan
(via fuckyeahsuperjunior)
Holy shit.
Rule of Modeling #1
This made me laugh…but they look too happy! I’d be scared out of my mind.
But, hey, any attempt to bridge my two favorite fandoms is cool with me. :)
@GaemGyu An important note to all the precious overseas fans who are currently visiting Korea! Be aware that a powerful typhoon called “BOLAVEN” will
@GaemGyu strike Korea beginning today, August 27th until August 30th, so please do not go outside, avoid any undergrounds and stay in a safe place.
Source: @GaemGyu
Shared at sujukingdom.tumblr.com by Soo Ri
omg kyu did you write that yourself? :3
I also want to add Ming and Kangin’s tweets to this because it just shows how caring these guys are:
@imSMl: Please do not come to today’s Sukira open studio~ Because the typhoon is coming it’s dangerous~!! Please do not come~ Because I am really worried.. Especially the overseas fans who came to Korea they might not know how dangerous the situation is, our Korean fans please take care of them
Source: @imSMl
Translated by: @SJia13Shared at sujukingdom.tumblr.com by Soo Ri
@Himsenkangin: you have to prepare earlier so udon’t get affected by the typhoon, okay?
Source: @Himsenkangin
Translation by: @NKSubs
A couple of weeks ago, I finally started waking up at 6 am to write (yay!!). What finally got me up was the realization that Super Junior’s Kiss the Radio airs from 6 am to 8 am PDT. Getting the chance to listen to (and sometimes) see DJ WookMin made waking up that early worth it. And it worked. The fact that I used SuKiRa to wake up doesn’t take away from my happiness that I could do it or that I consider it a success.
However, I ran into a problem this week. DJ WookMin are not on SuKiRa. Because of other Super Junior schedules, there are guest DJs for the whole week…and I don’t particularly care about any of them except 2PM’s Junsu (along with 2PM’s Junho) on Friday.
So what do I have to motivate me to get up at 6 am?
Hopefully, my writing. I’m asking myself how much my writing matters to me - if it’s enough to get me up in the morning.
If it isn’t, I honestly don’t know what I’m doing with my life.
I’ve been trying to wake up at 6 am to write for quite awhile, but it always ends up looking something like this: wake up at 6 am on Monday…then sleep in until 7:30 for the rest of the week (yes, I count waking up at 7:30 as “sleeping in” on days that I have work).
I decided to try something different this week. On Saturday, I decided that I would get up at 6 am for the next 7 days. Today’s Friday. From Sunday until today, I woke up at 6 am everyday except one. Not a perfect record, but much better than what I was managing before.
The day that I didn’t wake up at 6, I decided it was important for my mind and body to sleep in a bit and get some rest. That’s okay too. I go on a case-by-case basis, deciding what’s best for me that particular day. What I didn’t do was sleep in because I just didn’t feel like getting up. That’s probably my biggest success.
I realized something amazing today. I’m the type of person that has trouble functioning without 8 hours of sleep (I swear I was never like that before), but I slept at 12 last night and still had no trouble waking up at 6 this morning. It felt incredible.
Of course, it helps that SuKiRa is on at 6 am and I have DJ WookMin to help motivate me to get up ;)
