[ music: 휘성(Wheesung)'s cover of 'So Hot' & 'LaCHaTA' ]

Working on changing the layout, but I will talk about that more later when I edit this after I finish working on it.
But anyways, as the title says – time flies, and quite fast at that.
I can’t believe the last time I updated was so long ago! .___.
미안합니다… I have seriously got to try to update more regularly.

Life here in the Republic of Korea is pretty good. We have problems, yes, but it’s due only to certain peoples and shouldn’t effect my love for this country. Besides I’d be crazy to assume life would be easy here and we’d have no problems. Although I wish I could be more sure about how things will be in the future, …we all feel that way sometimes, right? Well anyhow just as Yoochun오빠 often says and writes, we just need to ‘always keep the faith’ and pray~! ^^

Patty-unnie~ <3 {http://piratexbelle.saranghaengbok.com} Apologies for my lack of contact with you.. -__-; I promise I will send you something for Christmas, even if it most likely will be late, okay? I need to figure out how to use the Korean post office (we’ve just been using the post office at the US base, but retired military and their family can’t really send much more than letters; idk why, ’cause that’s just rude). Anyways though I will try to at least be more active on Twitter, and try and get MSN Live Messenger to work so we can chat.~

Will write more later, going to work on the new layout now.

[edit@11:56PM]
Yay, done with the layout~! ^^ Would have been sooner, but had to stop and eat dinner.
Now currently watching the Korean drama ‘Green Rose’ with my parents and brother.

Some information about the new layout:
Made using GIMP; Fonts are Angelic War and [ank]*, and brushes used are from Ego-Box.com (to be specific it’s the ‘backdrops’ brush set).
The text ‘always pray, baby, keep the faith eternally’ is partly from the lyrics to Tohoshinki (TVXQ)’s upcoming Japanese single ‘Break Out!’.

…And now I have to end this because, my family want’s me to pay more attention to the drama. Bye~

+An early MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone!!

[edit#2@5:46PM-onDec21-] 29 new-ish SHINee icons!!

Now all on the new SHINee icons page. New-ish because I made them back when ‘Ring Ding Dong’ first came out and 3 are old ones from back during the ‘Replay’ days.~

[Quote from my DA:] “샤이니 컴백 화이팅!! ^^ (SHINee Comeback Fighting!)

Been awhile since my last big icon batch.. But I’m back with a bang (or maybe with a ‘ring ding dong’ actually XD). Here’s 26 100×100 icons of the SHINee boys.~

Was looking around last week for stuff about SHINee’s comeback and found a bunch of nice pictures of them at SM_SHINee@LJ [link] and I was inspired to make some icons.”

All icons were made using GIMP, and resources used are all listed at the credits page. Enjoy!~ Just remember to credit me for them if you use any. ^^

Oh and if you’d like to download a .zip of the 26 icons (doesn’t have the 3 old icons) just visit my DeviantArt.

I’m to lazy to come up with the title… so I just used the title of the song I’m currently listening to. ^^ ‘너라고 (It’s You)’ by 슈퍼주니어 (Super Junior)<3

I will get a new long-ish blog post up sometime before the end of the week or sometime next week about my trip to Everland last friday, complete with plenty of pictures! For now though I just want to make sure the world knows I’m still alive. XD

My laptop is still being a bothersome idiot, it got fixed then died again in less than 3 days… ㅠ_ㅠ I think maybe installing Microsoft Office might have done it, ’cause it only died the first time soon after I installed it.. but why in the world would that cause it to just die on me, I’ve no idea.. Bringing it to the base again tomorrow. My dad tried to get it there last Saturday, but the computer repair shop was closed because of 추석 (Chuseok, ’tis a big Korean holiday). I’ll see if they can at least get my files and stuff copied.. though I really would like my laptop to be revived again since I quite like the whole touchscreen tablet-ness of it, I’ll just have to pray about that..

Life is… okay, though issues with church are getting to be a bit… irksome. If anyone at church really does have a problem with my dad or any of my family then they’d better say it to our faces and stop having others do the talking for them. It’s really rude, hurtful, and childish. We’ve been nothing, but nice to all of them, yet it seems some people aren’t happy with somethings.. supposedly someone (or some people) think my dad lacks credential for being a pastor, and they think the way he preaches is too harsh some times. What do they want, just a nice feel good message and nothing about what we as CHRISTians should do and how we should act? Maybe I’m just too critical, but if someone thinks I’m doing something wrong, or they have a suggestion, I’d rather they tell me. Rather than they tell other people and I just find out from somebody else about their complaints!

I really do love it here in Korea though, and I want to stay here awhile, but how can we if so many problems keep popping up? Although maybe God is just letting us go through these trials to help us become stronger.. I can’t remember the exact verse, but the one that goes ‘all things come together for good for those who trust the LORD’, and also this one ‘I can do all things through CHRIST who strengthens me’ (I think one of these two are in Philippians somewhere) those are always a great encouragement. Especially when things don’t seem that good at the moment.

Although not everything is totally depressing in my life, Shannon언니, Andrea언니, and all the others at the young adults bible study at church are really all so nice. They always make sure to include my brother and I when they go out to eat after the bible study, and like this past Friday for the trip to Everland they really wanted us to go with them and we had a wonderful time. More about that later though~ ^__^

Anyhow, this is getting long-ish… and it’s quite late again, almost 3AM.. (I’m too much of a night owl.. sleeping so late all the time cannot possibly be good for me.. o_o) Sooo I’ll end this now I guess..

Good night (or morning / afternoon) everybody!~ God bless, and please don’t forget to keep all the people in the Philippines in your prayers! There are so many bad storms there lately.. I really hope all my relatives there will stay safe.

Remember ALWAYS KEEP THE FAITH~!!

I’ll leave you with a song, ‘노을..바라보다’ (Afterglow / Picture of You) by 동방신기 (TVXQ). Hwaiting!! ^^

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