Saturday, March 5, 2016 "The Voices."

Saturday, March 5, 2016
Week: 29
Songs to Remember: Tell Me (What is love) - Yoo Young Jin (유영진) × D.O. (디오 EXO)

        As you might know, it's the weekend, and with weekends, there's usually nothing to really talk about except for when there's practices or performances or whatever rare event that happens. So, might as well just talk a bit more about my current self, as well as whatever else I wanna talk about,

        I've been meaning to talk about my interaction levels for a while now. I'm not sure how to really describe "interaction levels," it's like uhhh, the way I act around people, what I'm really like. And the truth is, I'm not sure what I "really" sound like. I think even for these posts, I talk in a personal manner. You could see that because I don't really insert a lot of memes, whereas with my buddies, I do that a lot, heh.

        So one of the "voices" I use is when I'm talking to my buddies either in person (rarely though, since they go to different schools. You know them, it's Ec, Mc, etc) or in the Discord group chat, or Discord calls. We use a lot of slang that we've been accustomed to and understand, I actually use the racial African American slur, that we all know which one that is, frequently with my buddies, sad as it may sound, heh. For us all, we know that we're joking and it ain't ever really serious. I first started using it as a form of satire, to make fun of people who use that word and aren't African American. Soon enough, it became incorporated into my vocabulary and uh, the rest is history. I only use it with my close close buddies though.

        Next is the voice I use is when I'm with the cast, and as the cast have said, I use a lot of sarcasm. That's, that's basically it really. I mean, I tease Ag and Ek with it, that's about it, heh. Also DrewN counts as one of my buddies so, I talk to him as I would my online buddies. Also, just noticed, guess I talk to people differently based on closeness, and, sense of humor. My buddies and I find a lot of dark humor funny, so, there's that. Others, I'm either not sure if they do, or, if they don't find it funny at all.

        The next voice is with my cousin, whom I make a lot of video references with, we sorta developed a way of speaking to each other where we both could understand each other's slang. It consists a lot of "Ay boy" and uh, yeah, heh.

        And finally, the voice I use in pretty much all my classes or people I'm not THAT close with. I try not to be too enthusiastic on things, I see what they like and try to roll with it. It's 'cause I'm not sure what things they're comfortable with so, don't know the ballpark on the extremity for how I can act.

        And of course there are other voices I use such as when I talk to my parents, adults, teachers, etc. Now after looking over all of this, apparently I change the way the I act to like, conform to others, which is a pretty bad thing to be honest. In some situations, yeah, you gotta be respectful and professional, but most of the time, you just do you. So, there's that.

        Alright, enough talk about voices, there's been some drama with the VSA cabinet and KDT and this one other group, which I've mentioned before, "BEAT!." Apparently the color-guard performance group, BEAT!, is only in the day show performance for the upcoming VSA show and not in the night show performance. Oh and by the way, KDT did get in the VSA show, thank goodness, heh. Anyways, this caused a lot of controversy (especially within the KDT group chat) because another group, this band, auditioned late and still got into the show.

        The VSA cabinet said that they couldn't put BEAT! in due to how tight the schedule is for the show, that there'd be too many acts. Counter arguments for this is that last year, there were around 18 acts for the VSA show, also, the band that got in is only going to sing English songs and that isn't exactly "traditional" as how the VSA cabinet wants the show to be.

        The VSA cabinet further contradicted themselves when an act which consisted of these 2 girls singing Vietnamese songs didn't get in, due to the reason from VSA that they were "too traditional" and that it wasn't modern enough. So, with all that, BEAT! has dropped out of the list of acts for the VSA show. KDT is thinking of dropping out as well, due to the fact that with all this, we had to choreograph and do Vietnamese songs instead of K-Pop songs in order to be more "traditional."

        We're also planning to drop out and boycott the VSA show because apparently all performers have to sell a certain number of tickets. Like, required to. Still not sure if we're gonna drop out, still waiting for the drama to completely draw out, I think there's been a total of about 400+ messages today in the group chat just from these issues.

        In all honesty, I think it's due to poor work ethics and favoritism within the VSA cabinet. They said they were gonna post the VSA act admission results Friday, then it got moved to Friday night, and only today did they post it. I heard that some of the members were going all out Friday night instead of planning out and informing VSA performers the situation and shit. Also, bias. The band is a boy band, their music is okay in my opinion, and uh, ya know, compared to general Viet songs and their songs (which are of course in English), people at our school would most likely want to listen to stuff they'd understand.

        Compared to BEAT's act, which consists of visually appealing and artful (if that's even a word) flag manipulations, to the VSA cabinet, the band would be more appealing, apparently. So, the VSA cabinet's picking a modern act over a traditional act (which is what they initially wanted for the VSA show to be) just because they liked them more. Also, 4 fucking hat dances, heh. There's 4 hat dance performances in the show, like, damn.

        One thing that funny to me in all of this was that the KDT president was thinking of dropping the SUBOI dance because we'll get made fun of if do perform with that song. I laughed 'cause I was like "Damn, the only dance that I got recognition for, my bread and butter, and they're deciding to remove it completely, heh." They didn't though, or, at least not yet. The issue's still going on, all this drama, and sure it'll blow away once everything settles, it'll be a story to tell for sure next year when we're preparing for the VSA show, but uh, its nice to record all this 'cause what if future wonders "Hey, was there any group chat drama?" Well future, there you have it, heh.

        This actually brings me back to the series So Don't Be on With Her, where I talked about stuff I found online. Good times, good times. Well, not exactly good, but, exciting during it's era, just 'cause it was new. Now, it doesn't compare to the specials and events that are premiering now, heh.

        Anyways, gonna try to finish most work from other classes besides English 'cause that essay that's due tomorrow will require my full concentration, heh. I'ma give myself a full on 2 hours straight. 'Course, easier said than done. Also the drama hasn't stopped, there's messages upon messages that when I try to read and catch up, the chat automatically scrolls down to the bottom, Fucking Facebook man, heh. Alright, see ya.