K-Mondays: Bom & Hi's All I Want For Christmas Is You.

Last December 12, 2013, YG Entertainment released a teaser video (embedded above) on Youtube for a new unit created within YG family. The logo showed the letters B and H, which probably is the initials of the members of the new unit. In the video, we also saw two girls creepily walking and holding hands. Of course, as many have suspected, the two girls are indeed Park Bom and Lee Hi. 

After the first teaser, 2 more videos were released, which showed Bom and Hi. This December 17, 2013, there will be a pre-release of their single, "All I Want For Christmas Is You," which is a version of Mariah Carey's song of the same title. I think the song will be available on that day on this website, since it was linked in the YG-Family page on Facebook. 

Taken from YG-Family page on Facebook.

I was so excited for this new unit of YGE, since these two have really powerful and lovely vocals. I really adore Lee Hi and I have been waiting for her to be back, promoting again and this is such a good time, because it's the most wonderful time of the year and their singing this wonderful song! Did I just fangirl? Well yeah, that's the purpose of my blog. On the other hand, Bom joining Hi is such a dream come true since both ladies have the most beautiful voices in YGE.

Definitely look forward to these two collaborating this Christmas!

K-Mondays: My Vote for Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) 2013.

Poster taken from here.

The Mnet Asian Music Awards will be held this November 22, 2013, again in Hong Kong! Last October 24, the voting on the MAMA website started for many different awards. I have my own picks on each categories and I would like to share them in this post. As I'm making this post, I am voting in the website, so why don't you join me in picking the most awesome among all the K-pop celebrities?

Again, these are my choices, and I'm just sharing them with you all. This post will be text-heavy as I'm writing this after a really long and tiring trip.

Best New Male Artist

My pick: Roy Kim

BTS

Bumkey

Yoo Seung Woo 

Jung Joon Young

*I only know Roy Kim among them so I chose him*

Best New Female Artist

My pick: Lee Hi

Kim Ye Lim

Ladies' Code

Yoo Seung Eun

Crayon Pop

*I'm a Lee Hi fan!*

Best Male Artist

My pick: G-Dragon

Psy

Lee Seung Gi

Lee Seung Cheul

Cho Yong Pil

*Obviously, I <3 G-Dragon*

Best Female Artist

My pick: Lee Hyo Ri

Baek Ji Young

Sun Mi

IU

Ailee

*I'd choose between IU and Ailee because I love them both, but Lee Hyo Ri deserves this one with her fierce comeback*

Best Male Group

My pick: Shinhwa

EXO

SHINee

Infinite

Teen Top

*I'd choose Bigbang over all of these groups, but seeing as Shinhwa is the really old sunbae among them, I chose them! (and they were really fun in Running Man)*

Best Female Group

My pick: 2NE1

Girls' Generation

SISTAR

f(x)

4minute

*I'm a YG stan, and I love 2NE1. Nolza baby!*

Best Dance Performance - Male Solo

My pick: G-Dragon

Jay Park

Seung Ri

Psy

Yang Yo Seob

*Yes, I'm blindly voting for GD, but you tell me if he's not good enough to win this category.*

Best Dance Performance - Female Solo

My pick: CL

G.NA

Seo In Young

Sun Mi

Lee Hyo Ri

*All of these girls are really fierce and awesome, but I had to choose the baddest female for this one.*

Best Dance Performance - Male Group

My pick: EXO

B1A4

Beast

SHINee

Infinite

*I don't really know these songs by these male groups, but I'm familiar with EXO's Growl and I even watched the MV I think. So yeah, based on familiarity.*

Best Dance Performance - Female Group

My pick: Crayon Pop

Girl's Day

Girls' Generation

SISTAR

4minute

*Bar bar bar is awesome, no matter what they say about it. Haha! It's just a fresh concept among the sexy concepts of female groups, especially in 2013*

Best Vocal Performance - Male

My pick: Lee Seung Gi

2AM

Lee Seung Chul

Cho Yong Pil

K.will

*I'm probably just biased in voting for this one.*

Best Vocal Performance - Female

My pick: Lee Hi

Davichi

Lyn

IU

Ailee

*Yep, I'm still going with Lee Hi. Their voices are all amazing but Lee Hi has this x-factor that I can't explain.*

Best Band Performance

My pick: CNBLUE

Nell

Dick Punks

Busker Busker

Jaurim

*I only know CNBLUE among them*

Best Rap Performance

My pick: Dynamic Duo

MFBTY

Geeks

BaeChiGi

Verbal Jint

*I have this special liking for Gaeko ever since I saw him on Running Man*

Nissan Juke Best Music Video

My pick: G-Dragon

Busker Busker

Psy

Lee Seung Chul

Cho Yong Pil

*Again, I'm rooting for GD all the way!*

Best Original Soundtrack

My pick: Gu Family Book OST - Suzy

IRIS 2 OST - Davichi

That Winter, The Wind Blows OST - The One

Master's Sun OST - Yoon Mi Rae

I Hear Your Voice OST - Jung Yup

*I didn't choose Suzy just because she's Suzy, but because first, I love Gu Family Book, and second, the song's really great and it fits the show perfectly.*

Artist of the Year

My pick: G-Dragon

*I choose him probably because I want him to win any of the awards that he's nominated in. However, I believe that there are some artists that would be favored a lot other than GD*

BC - Union Pay Song of the Year

My pick: G-Dragon (Crooked)

*Crooked is a really good song and it's probably my most favorite among the songs in his new album. That's why I think GD's Crooked deserves this award*

That concludes the list of my picks for this year's MAMA. I hope I will be able to watch MAMA 2013 live on small screen or on the live stream on their website. I wish everyone luck, and I'm definitely looking forward to their performances!

Tuesday Running Man: Episode 156, Attack of 2NE1!

Finally, 2NE1 comes to promote in a variety show, and in my favorite one! This is such a shock for all of us Blackjacks and yet we're also extremely happy about it, getting to see the girls run around and have fun. The episode is undoubtedly fun-filled, as expected of Running Man. It was a really creative episode, with all the unique missions that were just introduced. Also, not only did 2NE1 shine in this episode but our Running Man members as well. I find this episode particularly unusual, maybe because of the alien theme that they created to accommodate the out-of-this-world style of 2NE1. Having said that, I believe that I will talk about this episode in a different kind of way. I admit that it was hard for me picking particular scenes to include in this post because there were just too many scenes that are worthy to talk about and the missions are also abundant. So, in this post I shall talk about the Running Man members' and 2NE1's best moments in episode 156. I suggest that you watch the episode first in order to be able to relate with this post.

Ji Suk Jin's best moments

Ji Suk Jin attempts to intimidate Minzy during their one on one by "dancing." You see, he threw out his team mates just to be the main character. Oh hilarious wanko hyung.

Everyone trying to get Ji Suk Jin out because of his unruly behavior.

He's trying to collect water residue from everywhere on the table. Desperately.

And here he is, squeezing every drop of water he can to make his team win. Even though they didn't win, I still loved Suk Jin in this episode!

Lee Kwang Soo's best moments

It was quite hard to get a screen cap of Kwang Soo dancing his heart out because of his excessive moves. It was funny though how he looked so pabo while dancing "like a pro."

Haha's best moments

During the first game, he hid inside his Iron Man tent while getting some grandma and her grandchild to sit in front of the tent. I think it was a brilliant idea, and it definitely led his team to victory.

Haha was the first to find the UFO (their car), and so their team won.

Kim Jong Kook's best moment

Of course, Jong Kook showcases his Yang Hyun Suk dance once again. In YGE building, and in front of his artists! So freaking hilarious.

Yoo Jae Suk's best moments

Yoo Hyuk, as we Running Man fans know, is a great dancer and is the most popular kid in the block. Yoo Jae Suk has gone to Yoo Hyuk mode again when their mission is to dance! The funniest part was when he imitated Tae Yang's moves (hilariously).

Song Ji Hyo's best moments

I swear, like in episode 154 wherein Ji Hyo was madly nervous about her team members entering the football field, in this episode again, she was totally me. She just completely fangirl'd when she saw Tae Yang's "swag" moves.

Since the mission is about dancing, Ji Hyo's signature "Hot Issue" dance was present.

Sadly, Gary has no best moments (for me) in this episode. Don't get me wrong, Gary is my favorite Running Man member but in this episode, the other members had their own shining moments except for Gary. I'll look forward though to the next episode for me to see him all active and funny and weird again.

Now to 2NE1!

Best Dara moments

The signature Sandara Park hairstyle, made use of as a WiFi during the games. Haha

It's just so fun seeing Dara drive those two middle-aged guys at the back.

She was the one who came up with the idea of squeezing their shirts for residual water because the water that they found was spilled on the way to their container.

Best CL moments

There were many mind boggling missions in this episode. CL showed her intellectual prowess, which was amazing, btw. She figured out two of the missions given to them.

Best Minzy moments

The Minzy vs Wanko hyung battle in which Minzy won!

Wanko hyung lost terribly to a girl with a parent who's the same age as him.

Strong girl Minzy not only uses her strength, but strategizes as well. It's so funny that they compared her to Yoon Eun Hye, because during the X-Man days, Eun Hye was basically Minzy because she'd always won during the games.

Best Bom moment

This was when Bom told Kwang Soo off for "hitting on" Minzy, by saying that she (Minzy) has nice eyes.

As Bom is the "noona" for Kwang Soo (Bom is older than Kwang Soo by a year), it was so funny that he got told off for apparently flirting with a much younger junior. Bom is such a protective unni (in a funny way).

I have shared my best moments in this episode by members. Do you have any more funny/awesome moments in this episode that you want to share? Just comment and we'll talk about it. Heeheee. One last thing though, this episode also features Akdong Musician and Lee Hi, who were contestants from K-pop Star (SBS) and now are signed with YG Entertainment. Tae Yang also provided his working knowledge of the YGE headquarters to the green team members (Kim Jong Kook, Song Ji Hyo, and Ji Suk Jin) which was one of the locations in this episode. Seeing Tae Yang appear in Running Man again makes me miss Bigbang more! I need a comeback people! Yang-sajangnim!!