I will make this quick, I just want to let out some words and thoughts about the final formation of Produce 101 boygroup, Wanna One. If you don't know what is that, kindly read my previous blog post; Produce 101 Snatches My Wig and Now I'm Bald. #ShamelessAdvertisement
Wanna One final formation: Kang Daniel, Park Jihoon, Lee Daehwi, Kim Jaehwan, Ong Seongwoo, Park Woojin, Lai Guanlin, Kim Jisung, Hwang Minhyun, and Ha Sungwoon.
Not to be overly dramatic, I don't really like the formation of Wanna One. I was dreaded to know that Jonghyun is not even getting into the formation. He got the #1 rank for many times and it's honestly saddening to see him ending up in #14 rank at Final episode. Everyone was like, uh ok don't worry about Jonghyun he will make it to the Final. I was so sad to see him smiling while staring at the other 11 trainees who made it into Wanna One. But what can I do? I was disappointed and decided to stay away from P101 for awhile to calm myself. Because I am angry, there are two trainees I don't wamt to see in Wanna One.
It's funny at how Mnet showed us the temporary ranking from 11-14 only. I saw some articles on Twitter that IF Mnet didn't do that, Jonghyun and Dongho are safe within the chart. I always think that Mnet is already choosing which trainees they want to see in Wanna One. It's like, okay I will let yall vote for your faves BUT I will direct you to the formation I want! P101 Season 1 let International fans to participate in voting for the Final formation, but now they deleted that rule. What in tarnation...
I always think Mnet doesn't want to see Nu'est members dominating the Final formation. Minhyun, Jonghyun, and Dongho are all included in Top 11, but they gotta show us the temporary ranking from 11-14 to boost the vote. Daehwi was #11, and after Mnet showed the temporary rankings, Daehwi ended up being #3. Not that I'm complaining, because I like Daehwi. But it made Jonghyun and Dongho getting out off Top 11. Real talk, I don't like these two persons in Wanna One, these two seats could have saved someone else's careers but they gotta vote for the pretty ones!
Improvement is important, but talent is crucial. Pretty face is just a bonus, not the 1st indicator a trainee must have to be able to debut.
Whatever. I won't expose those two persons. I am tired and I'm not satisfied.
Until now, I'm still bitter about it. I can't say I'm a Wanna One stan, I'm literally P101 trainees stan. If you follow me on my P101 Twitter account, you probably know who those persons are because I never Retweet their related tweets. I sound so childish, if I think about it. But you can't tell me to love or to stan this trainee and that trainee, it's all about preference. I will always love Ong Minhyun Jaehwan Woojin Yongguk Donghan Euiwoong Donghyun and other trainees who couldn't make it to Top 11. It's okay, they will be successful and I hope they stay healthy and happy.
They will debut with their own groups or maybe go solo, whatever it is, I wish all the best for them. I believe Jonghyun will be successful in Nu'est, and Samuel, and Youngmin Donghyun. Being eliminated doesn't mean you can't reach your dreams. I hope they all do well with their own activities.
Friendly reminder that Wanna One will disband on December 2018. I will support them until then. I wish there will be Wanna One concert in my country! And I really want to see JBJ (Donghan, Yongguk, Kenta, Taehyun, Sanggyun, Hyunbin, and Taedong) debuts! I'm so pumped and hyped for JBJ, you don't have idea.
Anyway, please appreciate Hwang Minhyun. Support him in Wanna One. He will not be participating in any of Nu'est comeback until December 2018. I hope he can do well in Wanna One, and stay happy.
Produce 101 Season 2 is a 2017 reality boyband survival show on Mnet. It is a large-scale project in which the public (also called 'national producers') "produces" a boyband by choosing eleven members among the 101 trainees from 54 entertainment companies. The public also chooses the group's concept, debut song, and group name.
Well, people, I quoted that from Wikipedia, gee thanks!
In conclusion, this survival program snatches my wig and I'm so so so addicted to them like for real. I've been following the program since Season 1 (the girl version) and I love I.O.I so much I love Chungha and Sujeong!
I can probably say that this time is different, I'm so hyped right now, the Season 2 is so much more interesting to watch because, ehem, you know, girls like me love to see those kids on TV. It's first aired on Korean TV around early April and I don't really follow that because I'm the type of person who doesn't like to find and download the eng-subbed videos on internet. I will watch a Korean variety show if it's being aired on my TV.
AND YES TVN AIRS PRODUCE 101 SEASON 2 EVERY TUESDAY!
So yeah I watched the 1st episode on early May and I got shookt???? Because it's so interesting and I started to watch their national anthem song, Pick Me, on Youtube and I got shookt (again) after I witnessed Park Jihoon deadass winked at me beautifully at minute 05:04! Remember, 05:04!!!!!
I can conclude that Jihoon is the person that dragged me into this Produce 101 Season 2 thingy, and I appreciate him so much. I am so hooked and I started to watch P101 fancams and videos on Youtube.
I love to watch survival program like this because it's full of drama and I'm so in love, that's why I also love Show Me The Money. What I hate about survival program like this, is, of course, because I will be attached to all of the 101 trainees (the kids who join the program) and I have to bear with my faves being eliminated.
So sad.
Move on. Okay I will introduce you my fave trainees on P101. Some of them are already eliminated (it's final episode tomorrow) but it's okay I'm rooting for the rest. Here we go!
Out of all 101 trainees from different companies, I have many favourite trainees. They are all so gorgeous and talented, I love stanning Koreans hA! Kang Daniel
This one is my fave fave fave! Why? Because he is so talented and gorgeous and has broad shoulders and has cute eyes and cute smile wow stop me. I got my eyes on him since 1st episode because his hair was pink and it was so apparent and so stand out amongst all of the other trainees! When he smiles, his eyes are gone, and he has such cute bunny teeth! He has sexy and hoarse voice and he is good at b-boying, you know, the free-style dancing. He is basically a rapper but he never got the rapper position throughout all of the entire episode so far. He is always be vocalist and his voice is good! I love his satoori, the Busan dialect because he is from Busan! I love how he is not being too ambitious and not greedy, not selfish, and I love how he seems to be having fun and enjoying the show. I love this kind of mindset, you know? When you are on a survival show but you keep being calm and just enjoy the show? Yeah, I like Kang Daniel. I hope he gets to debut with P101. Don't forget to watch his self-introduction video below! He talks with British accent I hate him.
Ong Seongwoo
Okay, next one is Seongwoo! He is also my fave??? Because I love funny people and he is so funny and playful! He is so so so gorgeous, yes because he comes from an agency who is popular with their handsome actors and actresses. He is so gorgeous, I told you. He has a really distinctive facial features. Same with Daniel, he is not problematic and always seems to be having fun and enjoying the show. He is good at popping dance and man he is talented. His dance moves are so sharp and he is so energetic at dancing! At first, I'm a little bit disappointed by his unstable voice during audition, but I realized maybe because he was tired at that day. At 2nd episode, he sings to Pick Me song beautifully, he can hit the high note perfectly? He is so funny I swear.....and I love him for that. He can entertain people around him and can be everyone's moodbooster. He is popular with his jjeongmal, jjinja, real, daebak, heol, wanjeon sentence and I find it so funny! Everyone please love Ong Seongwoo, he deserves to debut with P101.
Kim Jaehwan
This time, it's Kim Jaehwan who joins this program without any agency. He is an individual trainee, no company at all. He is from Superstar K2, a popular Korean singing competition! You know right I really love funny people and I love vocalists! At first, I don't really focus on him, and I just recognized him after he sings Downpour. And then I backtracked all of Jaehwan's old videos and I got shookt! His voice when singing Sorry Sorry is so so so amazing and his voice in Downpour is also amazing and breathtaking. He sang Adele's Skyfall at audition and everyone was jawdropping. I love vocalists so much. His voice sounds a little hoarse like EXO's Baekhyun, and I guess he knows his singing and talking voice sounds similar to Baekhyun that's why he took Baekhyun's singing part when he performed EXO-CBX's Hey Mama at the audition for P101, and he also sang to Baekhyun's Dream for his self-introduction video. He is so funny I swear, his laughing voice is making me smile, like everytime he is laughing, I will be laughing my ass off, too????? That's weird, I'm weird. His 9 octaves laugh is very contagious. He is also not being problematic and making fuss throughout the show, so I approve. I really hope he can debut with P101 because P101 will need a strong main vocal and Jaehwan provides that. He will not disappoint.
Park Woojin
My one and only Park! There are two Woojin(s) in the show but I'm rooting for Park Woojin. He is so so so cute and pure and innocent and always looking so lost. But when he is on stage, MAN YOU WILL SQUEAL. His facial expression on stage is beyond good and I'm so proud because in my opinion, idols must have that ability to change their facial expression like that! I love him since the 2nd episode. He looks so nervous offstage but then he showed us his super good dancing skill on stage and his dance moves are so sharp and energetic and I really love dancers like him. He is also a rapper, and his voice fits the rapper position so much I love him even more! He is coming from Busan and he uses satoori like Daniel when talking and he sounds so cute. It sounds like he is whining everytime he uses satoori. His talking voice is so cute. I also love his cute snaggletooth and it keeps showing whenever he smiles or laughs. I'm so sad because he got shingles the last two weeks, and had to be hospitalized. He seems so uncomfortable at some fancams because the shingles really hurts, and there are red rashes on his left eye so he had to wear one-eye mask. Now he is recovering and I can see the blisters on his left eye, I'm so sad I hope he is okay. Woojin is not problematic and he is so talented! I hope he can debut too and be the main rapper or main dancer, anything is fine. (a/n: he had such a dark past, literally, he was so embarrassing when he was a kid. There are so many predebut pictures of him doing awkward and super weird poses and I just want to just to knock some sense into him.)
Kim Yongguk
AAAAAAAAH MY YONGGUK!!! I love him so much?????? Like, so much????? He is Chinese and his real name is Jin Longguo. At first I really don't know him until I saw him singing If It Was You and he is so so so standing out! Everyone is also surprised that Yongguk can actually sing and he is good at that! He seems like a calm and quite person and he is so cool like that. He is becoming the center for Open Up stage at 9th episode and he is so amazing! He is really quite, and not talkative on the show, which is making me loving him more. He is just standing there doing nothing but my heart skips 99 km/s. BUT I AM SUPER SAD BECAUSE HE IS ALREADY ELIMINATED AT 3RD EVALUATION and he almost made it to Top 20! He is number #21 and he is eliminated. I hate Mnet. They are supposed to make it as Top 22, but they decided to cut it down to 20. I don't know what plot they're aiming but it's not fair for Yongguk. I am so sad because he was crying in the end of the episode. Like dude???? You are #21 and they only accept 20 trainees, like, what the hell? It's so unfair I can't accept it up until now. I hope he stays happy and healthy and I hope he can debut too with his own team from his agency. Amen. See you on stage, Yongguk!
Hwang Minhyun
He is the only Hwang that matters the most. He is coming from Pledis Entertainment, an agency where Seventeen comes from, and he is originally one of Nu'est members. I'm so sad to know the fact that Pledis sends 4 members of Nu'est to join P101. I've been stanning them since 2012, I really remember it clearly they were debuting in the same year like EXO, but Nu'est is in the verge of breaking down, they're probably going to disband if they are not succeed in P101. I'm super sad, really. They are all talented humans, and Pledis can be mean sometimes. Throughout all of the episodes, Minhyun can slay the stage well, because, once again, I love vocalists, and Minhyun is a great vocalist. His singing voice is so soft, and so calming. He is also not problematic, and not too ambitious (even when he's ambitious, he doesn't really show it). He is not there for drama, and he is such a calm guy. His laugh is so calming, and his cat eyes are so endearing. Wow, I love Minhyun so much. He is such a beautiful human being, I have to thank his parents for this. I hope to see him on Top 11. Amen.
Kim Jonghyun
Jonghyun is also one of Nu'est members and he is literally the kindest human on earth! I was so sad to see him crying in the early episode because he is the leader of Nu'est and he is sad to know that Nu'est is almost disbanding if they couldn't make it on P101. He is P101's national leader, I told you. He has every leader traits on him, and all trainees always point him to be the leader in every evaluation's group he is in. He is so kind, and so so so so down-to-earth. A good rapper, and good at dancing. I love how he always puts others before himself, and always asks, "Who wants to be the center?" instead of telling us he wants to be the center. Once again, he always puts others before himself. He is alaways giving such a nice comment, and encouragements to other trainees. He is always trying to boost the energy of other trainees, and trying to teach them the dance move everytime they are having a hard time memorizing it. He is not arrogant and super cute, not problematic, and so gorgeous. I'm glad that he is number #1 in ranking (in some of the episodes) and I hope he can debut with P101 and be their leader.
Ahn Hyeongseop
Until now, I don't know how to write his name in latin, whether it's Hyeongseop or Hyungseob, it's making me dizzy. All in all, he is one of cute trainees from Yuehua Entertainment, who catches my eyes since he was performing Get Ugly. He is such a beautiful human, and so so so talkative at that. He is super bright and cheerful. All trainees from Yuehua are all so gorgeous, and they are so energetic in the first episode. He was always on Top 10, and I am sad that he had to climb down the chart after he did a mistake by saying, "Ah, I think I'm gonna climb down," and K-fans saw it as an arrogant act because he just climbed down from #5 to #6 and they thought he's being careless because there are so many trainees that got eliminated and he seemed to complain about his still-high rank. In my opinion, IT AIN'T THAT DEEP, but yeah what do you guys expect from K-fans, they always bring up one small mistake and blow it out of proportion. I seriously think Hyeongseop doesn't deserve all the hates, because he already apologized. After that, he seemed so sad, and he is not talkative anymore, like, he is so afraid to speak? Because he doesn't want to make mistake again? I want him to be happy and be talkative again. He seems to hide himself in the back, and be extra careful now when speaking to the point he doesn't even talk at all. Just stand in the back and stare at the other trainees. He has nice visual and him being in Top 11? WHY NOT. I approve him, I hope he can make it.
Lee Euiwoong
I LOVE EUIWOONG SO MUCH YOU DON'T HAVE ANY IDEA????????? He smiles so bright, and I really love his mouth shape, it makes him more beautiful when smiling??? He is from Hanlin Art School together with the other P101 trainee, Haknyeon. Euiwoong is such a bright little thing, and his smile......I can't stop talking about his smile :-( He was born in 2001 if I'm not mistaken and that makes me an old lady, he is so young I can't believe this. He is literal sunshine! He is good at rapping and I love his rap parts at 2nd evaluation concept stage.......oh wait I love all of the songs he had the rapping part in. His rapping voice sounds so heavy and eargasm. He is a talented kid, I hope people can recognize his talent and his whole being.
Ha Sungwoon
He is such a strong vocalist along with Jaehwan. At first I don't know that he is from Hotshot?????? I got my eyes on him since Downpour performance at 2nd evaluation concept stage, he wore pink sweater and he showed us a really good singing skill by harmonizing with the other 4 members. His voice is different with Jaehwan but still perfect nevertheless. I find him the cutest when he wears round glasses. He used to have 50:50 comma hair and yikes I don't like it. I like it better when it has no style and is just messy. It makes him look way cuter and fluffier. I can't believe he was born in 1994, because he is so fluffy! I hope he makes it to Top 11.
Produce 101 will come to an end tomorrow, Friday, June 16th 2017. I don't want this show to end but I also want this show to end??? Do you get me??? I can't wait to see the line up for P101 next boygroup and I really hope my faves all made it. Okay see you when I see you. I will update you tomorrow or days later about the final line-up for P101 boygroup. Just see whether I approve it or deny it. We'll see.
I'm honestly so happy right now because my EXO lightstick ver 2 just arrived yesterday and I can't be anymore happy knowing that my long awaiting 3 months are worth it. To be really honest, I'm a little bit sad right now because of some things, but my lightstick is really making me happy. It looks so beautiful and so classy.
Okay first of all, there must be people who don't know what a lightstick is and what the function is. My friend even thought it's a flashlight, well, that's partly true, but like, it's more than that!
I love Kpop (I've been bragging and highlighting this so many times already), and I love EXO (well it's not a secret), and every fandom or every fans of every Kpop group has their own lightstick. EXO has their own fandom lightstick, and so do other Kpop groups. Each lightstick varies from one to another, and it's like, their identity? Like you can differentiate each fan looking from their lightstick. We use the lightstick to support EXO, and to show them that we come to the event they are in, and we are part of the fandom.
I've been bragging about whether I should buy EXO lightstick or EXO'rDIUM concert ticket in this post last February. Well, I made a decision by buying the lightstick because it's out of stock and it probably needs a decade to wait for it to be available again. The stock is so limited so I had to buy it fast, and that's exactly what I did. I ordered it on February, and SMent was producing it on April. And it arrived on late May. Well, 3 months of waiting.
AND YOU KNOW WHAT, there is no EXO'rDIUM concert in my country and I definitely don't know what to feel. I've been saving my money for this and then they decided to not holding a concert here. But it's okay, at least I get my lightstick! Fair enough.
The box of the lightstick is so neat and so classy if I may say. I didn't have the heart to open it and had the urge to just hug it forever. The box size is around 15 cm x 30 cm and there is an EXO logo on top of the box, and there's "EXO, Official Lightstick" written on one of the sides.
Call me stupid or anything, at first I didn't know how to open the box! I thought that I have to push on one side and then it will come out, but actually, I just have to open it like the way I open a pencil case. Well, at least I once had a pencil case looking like that. There is a hologram logo on the back of the lid of the box.
For your information, there are also fake lightstick on the market so people are scared to buy lightstick like this. I personally think this is a big matter, because I remember I had watched a video on Youtube last year about how to differentiate which one is the real EXO lightstick and which one is the fake one. It's being said that the fake one will have no EXO hologram logo on the back of the lid.
I feel relieved!
It's a good package deal.
Consists of the lightstick itself, a white lightstick strap, the spare silver battery lid, and an envelope consists of a warranty card, instruction paper, lightstick stickers, and a photocard.
I almost squealed at how handsome all the members are on the photocard.
Friendly reminder that the real lightstick must have a warranty card and a SMent hologram on it. Please remember this in case you decided to buy it.
Oh! Once again, the lightstick is so huge and so heavy and I was like whoa hold on mate what the hell is this I'm holding right now but it absolutely looks gorgeous.
Oh, I forget to tell you about how I hate the part when I had to put the batteries inside the lightstick. I had to buy 3 batteries first at the supermarket because batteries are not available and not included. I was dreaded to put the batteries on, I had to watch some beginner for EXO-Ls videos on Youtube to master this battery department.
It's also difficult to put the battery slot inside the tube! I was struggling, and scared, truly scared, because it looks so fragile.
The most awaiting moment is here.
There is an EXO button on the lightstick and it will shine so bright once you push the button. When I say it's so bright, believe me, it's bloody hell too bright. You can push the button once to turn it on, and you can push the button again to make it blink every 1 second, and you can push the button once more to make it blink so fast your eyes start to water.
You can connect the lightstick using bluetooth to this application called Wyth, to make it change colours. So amazing.
It looks so gorgeous, I wanna cry...
I made a video of me turning it on in the dark so you can see it better. Sorry for some cursing I've done here in the video, well I'm human and human does say oh shit maaaan sometimes. Or it is just me.
