Girl's Day Has Arrived!!

  YESSS! Looks like the DAI5Y Gods are looking down on me, for when I came home today after shopping, lo and behold, my very FIRST Girl’s Day Purchase arrived!!!! I'd ordered their latest album DARLING along with their earlier release EXPECTATION- Both Albums are so, so beautiful (Both of them photobooks, Darling a softcover with a transparent slipcover, and the girls’ Expectation a hardcover.

    Since I ordered my Girl’s Day CDs from CD Japan (I know you’re thinking, why order K-POP through a JAPAN site, but I had lots of points saved which I put to good use here!) I wasn’t sure if it was going to come with any goodies since it was an “import”, WOW was I STOKED to see that Darling came with a POSTER!!! So nice, and if that wasn’t enough, the bonus trading card that came with it was none other than…HYERI!!!!!!!! YES! My Girl’s Day BIAS!!!! Every Day IS Girl’s Day!!!!!

 As you may have guessed reading my blog here for the past three weeks or so, I have been REALLY getting into this group! Thanks to the plethora of English subtitled variety shows Girl's Day have been a part of, I'm getting to know these girls better and better....

Their most recent appearance on Weekly Idol (the show that, more than any other, does a great job of introducing you to the members of Idol Groups)from early this year has FINALLY been re-uploaded with English Subtitles (it had been taken down some time before), and I couldn't be loving them more! I had seen the episode before unsubbed, but while I was able to enjoy their epic tug-of-war battle with the two hosts Defconn and Hyungdon, the show is really based on playful insults and witty banter, so having it translated makes ALL the difference!
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The Joy of Eating with Hyeri

 Watching the latest episode of Foodie show King Of Food where Girl's Day cutie Hyeri guested, and I can't stop rewinding and replaying the scene where she's eating the Grilled Butter Abalone… the Girl's Day members are pretty famous for their love of eating, having Hyeri on a gourmet chef show like this is PERFECT, because her desire to partake in the food being served makes the dishes seem even  more fantastic, and her reactions are entertaining beyond belief!

While showing video clips of the live seafood they’re going to be served, Hyeri is already clasping her hands in anticipation of tasting it, and even before the food is cooked, Hyeri is already doing the happy dance, while the other guests are sitting, Hyeri is on her knees hopping about, ready to dig in! LOL

The two teams play games to see who gets to eat the seafood dish,and when the girls win, Hyeri looks like she's just won a million dollars! Watching it being prepared, she is simply beside herself, and once the Grilled Abalone is served up, Hyeri eats with such excitement and happiness, even the other guests praise her, “Hyeri Knows How To Eat… She Enjoys her Food!” LOL, look at that happy face!

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The History Of Girl's Day with "Kira Kira SLIM"

Yura, Jihae, Minah, Sojin and Hyeri

 Having only recently gotten fully into Girl’s Day, it’s been great watching their Japanese(!) reality show “Kira Kira Slim” because it’s really given me a lot of insight into the girls personalities. The show is pretty old (aired around 2010-2011) and they may have changed a bit since then, but it still gave me a new and fuller appreciation for each member. Watching this show I realize how each girl has their own distinct style. 

Girl's Day Leader Sojin

I always knew Sojin was the Leader, but I never knew how authoritative and more mature than the others she was. Seeing her take command hosting their trip to Hongdae, doing all the talking and introducing all the famous eateries on the strip, she was really knowledgeable and you could see the other girls looking up to her.

Yura and Jihae

For the first time I am getting to know Jihae. She officially left the group late 2012, but even before that she hadn’t appeared with them for awhile, so I never got to see her in any of the performances I saw. A very pretty girl, Jihae’s role in the group seemed to be the stylish and girly girl, always with very sexy dresses  and skirts. I still am not real sure about why she left the group, she seemed to fit in well and looks happy here, anyway.

  Now, I think I mentioned before that I originally thought Yura was the maknae, watching these old shows, I think it even MORE, she REALLY is like this adorable and innocent little sister. There was this scene where Jihae was taking Yura with her looking at accessories and it was really cute how they seemed like a big sister and a little sister!

Hilariously Frustrated Hyeri

Like I mentioned before, I really dig how goofy and spastic Hyeri is. I’m so used to seeing her as this very elegant looking model-type, seeing her running around hugging on everyone and tomboyishly laughing her wide-mouthed guffaws, I love how playful she is, I can still see that impish glee in her now.

Yura and Minah

 I was really surprised by how down-to-earth Minah was back when this show was airing. Far from the pretty frontwoman we see nowadays, Back then she seemed like the fun, dorky girl, the one that seemed like she would be you best friend. No makeup and wearing glasses, a girl really cool and comfortable with who she is, someone you’d like to just hang out with!

I’m about halfway through Kira Kira Slim’s 26 Episode run, and with each chapter, I’m getting to know them better and better!! 

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In Lieu of APink News Season Four, There’s “APink Showtime”!

MBC has a running variety show called SHOWTIME featuring a different idol Group as its hosts, Season One had EXO, Season Two had BEAST, and for Season Three, Showtime introduced its very first Female hosts with Apink!

The Girls Ready for Adventure

Apink fans have been clamoring for a fourth Season to their beloved Reality Series APink News, and with Showtime, we get the next best thing, featuring the same kind of fun, interesting and personable stories we’ve come to expect from those zany Apink Ladies!

Panic for some when the Bungee Jump Challenge Comes Up!

Just checked out the first episode and it's already so GOOD! The girls go to a Activity Center where they are asked to show their bravery by BUNGEE JUMPING! Tuff tomboy Eunji couldn't WAIT to try it and once she was harnessed up, she took a HUGE leap into the fray (followed by the always-game and equally aggressive Namjoo), but it’s when Nauen is up for her turn that it gets hilarious, as Naeun is simply PETRIFIED to jump!

Eunji Jumps

 Naeun had done Bungee Jumping before, but it was in tandem with another person, and this time doing it alone, she finds she has no nerve at all! When the Ride Atttendant reaches for her back harness to stabilize her, Naeun flinches away, pleading “Please Don’t Push Me!!”, LOL! 

A Scared Naeun on the platform

The man assures her he has no intention of shoving her off and was only there to hold her in place. Thinking that Naeun is prepared to jump, the man counts her off, “1, 2, 3…Bunjeeeeeeeeeee!”…But instead of jumping, she turns around and says, "Hold on, hold on, not yet" HAHAHA!
   The attendant lets Naeun compose herself and says, “Okay, let’s try it again, 1, 2, 3, Goooooo!”  But once again Naeun can’t bring herself to jump off of the launch platform. She chides herself for being chicken, hitting herself on the head and hopping around in frustration, so freaking CUTE! The girls tell her not to feel pressure even though Eunji and Namjoo jumped, because they are the “Weird kids” with no common sense, LOLOL! But Naeun knows if she doesn’t jump she will regret it.

"Weird Kids" Namjoo and Eunji waiting at the bottom

  They try one more time, “1, 2, 3…Jumpppppp…” where Nauen becomes completely immobile, LOLOL! Bomi: “She’s Frozen.” Chorong: “She turned into a statue”. Bomi: “At least say you’re scared or something” LOL, Poor Naeun! Finally, the man lets Naeun off the hook, telling her to come off the platform!

A Completely Frozen Naeun

  Next up is wide eyed and innocent maknae Hayoung, who readily walks out and without hesitation, does a spectacular jump off!  This girl is really becoming a strong personality in APink with her  “I can do it” attitude, (reminds me so much of Goo Hara in Invincible Youth, where they called her the "Goo-ssian Bolt” because she would always do whatever they asked!) watching her giggling with nerves as she hung off the Bungee Line waiting for the boat to retrieve her, I knew that with this series, her popularity is going to go through the roof!

All Smiles Hayoung ready to Jump

   Next up was Bomi who did a fine (if very tearful) jump, but in the end, Naeun didn’t have to take the elevator ride of shame back down alone, as even Leader Chorong chickened out and couldn’t jump, HAHA! Much, of course, to Naeun’s relief! Eunji had to ease their guilty feelings by saying it was a win always since they at least TRIED to jump.

  The second half of the show had the girls sitting around chatting about various topics the staff brought up, including questions sent in by fellow celebrities.

Apink Roundtable

 One rather fun question was “Who looks best in Red Lipstick?”, one by one each girl applied the risque color to their lips and seductively posed, for my money, Bomi looked good in it, and MY GOD Naeun was SMOULDERING! Eunji chided her for pouting and doing all the trappings of cliché selfie poses, but Naeun couldn’t be stopped! YUMMY!

This is gonna be such a great ride, and I can’t wait for the NEXT episode to be subbed and posted!
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That was Hong Jinyoung

Hong Jin Young

So I was checking out the latest episode of Running Man, and I come across this absolutely gorgeous young girl guest(when I first saw her, I thought she looked a bit like Dal Shabet’s Serri) playfully teasing the cast with her cuteness. 

When Sukjin informed the rest of Running Man that this girl might ACT nice, just wait til you see the REAL girl, she sweetly (and HILARIOUSLY) replied in the most innocent voice, “Who, Me?”, cracking everyone up! Damn, who WAS this girl?

 Her name, it was soon revealed, was a miss Hong Jinyoung, and as soon as I heard it, I knew I’d seen her before. The name was SO familiar, and then all at once I remembered where I’d been first introduced to this beauty: Late last year, when I was at the peak of my APink love, I was religiously watching that Season’s “We Got Married” for Naeun and SHINee’s Taemin. During the middle of this season, beautiful host Lee Jihye (of vocal duo S#arp) announced she was leaving the show. This devastated me because I’d always had a mad-on for her, but was immediately placated when they introduced her replacement- an absolutely STUNNING beauty by the name of, you guessed it, Hong Jin Young!

Though I was to learn that Jinyoung was in fact a well-known trot singer (most famously for her song “Love Battery”), this was the first I’d ever heard of her, but I was SO overwhelmed by her beauty, I took a WHOLE BUNCH of screencaps of her (all of which you see here, LOL), determined to find out more about her!

Well, I never DID explore any more of her, and that’s why I’d forgotten all about her til her appearance on Running Man- and OH BOY was she as SEXY and COY as Sukjin predicted!!! She was so much fun, very playful and super DETERMINED to win the challenges presented to her! 

  This episode was in fact, FULL of pretty and Cool ladies (Fei of MissA, Model Kang Seunghyun and Sassy Baek Jiyoung, but out of all of ‘em, it was Hong Jinyoung that had me smiling throughout! Awww, what a Gal!
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My Girl's Day Love Continues with a Terrific Performance of "Darling"!

  Ever since falling in love with Girls Day’s new single “Darling”, I’ve gotten about six different live performances of the girls performing the song, and I’ve loved every one so far, but WOW, their performance of Darling that the girls did on this past Sunday’s “Inkigayo” has to be the BEST one yet!!!
 For one thing, when the rapper introducing the song, instead of the girls emerging from behind a curtain, the song begins with the girls’ lovely backsides where they’re already on stage and simply turn around as the song gets going! And speaking of turning, another thing that this perf gets right is the camera focusing on all the spins and twirling the girls do during the song…you really get the “light and breezy” feel of the tune!
 The camerawork also gets some really nice captures of the girl’s solo screentime shots, all of them look great, (and might I add how freaking damn GORGEOUS Hyeri is here, ARRRGH!)

...but perhaps MOST important of all, this is the FIRST performance that really focuses on what I consider the “hook” of the performance- that alluring, sexy and CUTE Hip-Shaking Butt-Dance Move during the chorus!!! MAN, to me, THIS is the seller of the song, I can’t believe the other shows only show a few seconds of it, thankfully this show captures it every time, so perfect! 

 Besides all that, they look so HAPPY singing and dancing up there (I love how the performance ends with Minah cutely mugging at the camera before it goes to group shot pose) MAN, does this performance make me smile!!! 
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Babes Make The Dream Team!!

Hyeri, Serri, SeungAh and Dahye

  Just caught the latest episode of Korean sports variety show “Let’s Go Dream Team II” where I was pleasantly surprised to see that there were four pretty idols as guests- Serri from Dal Shabet, SeungAh from Rainbow, and in a lucky bit of timing, my newly discovered Girl’s Day bias Hyeri!!! 

What Luck!!! Three girls from some of my FAVORITE K-pop Idol Groups!!! The fourth girl was Dahye of BESTie whom I actually didn’t know, but I was sure to remember her after this show, because damn was she pretty!

Hyeri of Girl's Day

SeungAh of Rainbow

Serri of Dal Shabet

Dahye of BESTie

  Aww, this was such a fun episode, the girls were really into it, ESPECIALLY Hyeri who was laughing and cheering like she was a regular part of the cast, additionally. that episode’s Water-Park Themed Challenge ensured I’d get to see all four girls in wet t-shirts throughout the entire show...I gotta admit, it was very enticing to see their flower-printed bikinis peeking through the wet shirts like Hyeri's in the screencap below:

It was fun watching the girls in each of the many challenges, but the absolute highlight was when they got to the last segment where teammates had to force opponents off the platforms into the water via foam “battering ram blocks”, and they had all four girls up against each other, Serri and Hyeri on one team, and Seungah and Dahye on the other!

I’d seen Serri kicking butt in several of these Challenge shows before (most recently the mud-wrestling episode), so I knew she had the strength and skills to be a major player, but it was a surprise to see how tuff Dahye was! SeungAh was a spirited great asset to her team, but poor slight Hyeri was hilariously just as much a powderpuff that you’d expect from the diminutive girl, LOL! This was quite a show, and a GREAT experience for a new Hyeri/Girl's Day fan to enjoy!

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