동해 오빠!! 생일 축하 해요!!

동해오빠!! 생일축하 합니다 🎉!!! 

Happy happy birthday to Donghae oppa!!! 

This year it has been 20 years since Super Junior debuted. You have worked so hard and so diligently at your career!! And this year, you came to Mexico in Monterrey city!! 

I was able to see you!! You flew there from Korea and I flew from the U.S. 

We celebrated your birthday at the concert!! 

Thank you for performing Super Show 10 so earnestly and without any injuries. 

Please eat well, sleep well and live well!! 

We love you 💙💙💙

Happy Birthday Donghae!!

Dear Donghae, 

Happy Birthday!! 생일축하해요!!

Another year has gone by and we are another year older. A lot has happened within the year. 

Thank you for creating so much music and releasing it to the world. Thank you for continously creating and inspiring others with your talent and kindness. 

This year, I was lucky enough to see you in concert in August 2024. I saw you at Super Show Half Time in Taipei. 

One of the greatest moments of this year. I will never forget it. 

Thank you for staying healthy and happy all these years. Every time I see you on that stage feels like a dream. A dream that I don't want to wake up from. Thank you for shinning bright on stage. 

You always give me encouraging and courage to do what I need to do in my life. 

Thank you for choosing this career. 

Thank you for being you. 

May you have the happiest of Birthdays. 

Happy Birthday Lee Donghae!!!

Another year has gone by! And this time we survived through a world Pandemic! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DONGHAE!! I fell in love with your voice in 2009 and have continued to listen to your songs, watch your videos and see your concerts. Thank you for continuing to live your dreams as you have inspired me to live mine. You have given me so much hope, love and inspiration that one human can ever give to another. You do not know I exist but someday I hope to make that come true. I hope you have had a great birthday and hopefully another year will be wonderful for you. Thank you for staying safe and healthy this year. Your music has helped me through the most darkest times of my life and I will be forever grateful for it.

Welcome back Donghae

Welcome back from the military, Donghae!

Happy birthday to YOU!! 

You finally completed your military service and have started your activities for the new comeback. 

I can't believe two years have gone by..it seems like just yesterday that you were heading off for the military service. I also can't believe that I managed to survive without watching you on T.V. for 2 years. 

I can say that these years were not my best ones. I don't even how to explain how I managed to live without you. I realized how important you are to me. I realized you give me more encouragement and inspiration than any other celebrity figure that I have ever discovered. I didn't know how much a person can effect one's life but now I have begun to see it clearer. I missed you. I wished you were able to update and tell us (fans) about your life in the military. I hoped you weren't hurt and that you were living a normal life. But through out the months you let your fans know how you were via other people, so thank you for that. Thank you for staying healthy Thank you for let us see how you were. Thank you for staying alive. Especially thank you for making music. For choosing to be a singer. For doing all the performances during concerts. Thank you for being you, and always you. Thank you for always loving us (fans) just as much as we love you. Thank you for always helping someone in need and not forgetting about the little people. Thank you for your kind and warm heart. Always stay the way you are. Even if 10, 20, 30 years pass by. 

I will love you for as long as I shall breath and longer. You don't know it but you have given me strength in ways that I didn't know it was possible. I hope to meet you someday and have conversations with you. 

From your Ever Lasting Friend. 

Donghae day

Happy birthday Donghae!!! 

Hope you had a wonderful day!! 

I will forever love you. You are the motivation, inspiration and music in my life. I think without you I wouldn't be able to live so well as I do now. You always gave me a helping hand when needed. You are the voice inside my head telling me that it will be okay and that I should keep moving forward. Listening to your music helps ease the pain and worries of this world. I think your voice and your music is what I was looking for all these years. I just didn't think that you would be a big factor in me becoming a better person. I thank you for being alive and choosing to do this career. You have shown great perserverance and diligence that I highly respect. I look up to you and hopefully you remain to have the courage and faith you need to do what you want in life. 

I'm waiting till the day your military service is finished!! ♡♡♡♡♡ 

Forever love, Donghae. 

D-day

It's another year, another birthday, another day older for Donghae.
He is now 30 years old. The time has come for him to enlist in the mandatory military duty. He will be in the army for 2 years. First 4 weeks are training then he gets sent to the police task force. He will be a conscripted police officer. Can you imagine him as someone upholding the law? I think it would be some thing great to see. He is a very righteous man.
I can't believe it's actually happening. It feels like yesterday I was wondering when Donghae would go to the military.  And that was 6 years ago. Time sure flies.
It has been an adventurous ride going from one album to another, to a photo shoot, to a drama, to a film, or to an endorsement. He has been doing a lot. Recently, he has been writing songs and composing for new albums. His Don't wake me up and Growing Pains songs are beautiful. They are filled with so much emotion that you can feel Donghae's heart.

I'm going to miss him so much. He won't be active in his career so there won't be much of him on T.V. or any new songs. So this is going to be one difficult year. I don't know how I am going to endure it. He has become an enormous part of my life, he has given me so much inspiration and hope that I couldn't ever imagine coming from anyone. I hope I can see him in my dreams. He is the only one that is able to make my monsters in the dark go away. 

동해오빠가 내 옆있어 나는 외롭지안했었다.
그래서 동해오빠, 오리 ELF는 있니가 외롭지안할거에요.
많이목어, 건강하고, 잘다녀와세요. 기다리고영원히사랑할거에요.  <3 

Incomplete

I'd try to go on like I never knew you

I'm awake but my world is half asleep...

Today, I revisited the moments of my younger days. I grew up watching various cartoons and action shows. So, naturally, Sailor moon was one of them. I am a big Sailor moon fan...mainly cause I loved watching Tuxedo Mask's scenes. And from that day I knew I had fallen in love with Tuxedo Mask. His name in the English translation version was Darien Shields. I think it was that moment that I started falling in love with people that had their name start with the letter D. I think that is why I am also in love with Donghae. Anyways, while I watched Sailor moon I used to surf on the internet and search for fan-made music videos of the anime. And...I found quite a few. 

I have a huge collection of those music videos. I watch them from time to time but today was a special day. I guess I was feeling really nostalgic, sad, or lonely or a mix of all those emotions. I was listening to Backstreet boys music and I came across the song Incomplete. I hadn't listened to this song in years. Surprisingly, this is the perfect song I needed for my mood. Instantly, it reminded me of a fan-made Sailor Moon music video I used to watch...and so here I am posting about it. 

I honestly thank Dejanatalis (Starlight Palace production) for making the video. I will forever love it! 

As you can hear from the song, this is how I feel these days. This song has a feeling of loneliness and emptiness, all best descriptions of being incomplete. Besides, I needed to hear a very painful song to even try to diminish a small amount of darkness inside me. 

아마 종말의 시작이 때문에니까  내 마음이 정말 아파요.

Credits: All Right Reserved.
Sailor Moon, Dejanatalis, Naoko Takeuchi, Backstreet boys; Incomplete, 

Daydream

Ticket for Super Show 5 at Osaka Kyocera Dome in Osaka, Japan

Kyocera Dome

Today, I was reliving a moment that I experienced exactly a year ago. On November 16, 2013 at Osaka Kyocera Dome, in Osaka, Japan, I attend my first Super Junior concert. It was Super Show 5. I waited for this day to come for 4 years. I didn't expect anything nor did I have any expectation and it was the most liberating experience ever. I would never have imagined to be in one of their concerts, it was too far-fetched of an idea for me, for someone like me. I live in the opposite side of the world and I didn't even know that they would have a concert in Osaka, Japan. I found out exactly 2 weeks before the concert date and right after moments of knowing I began searching for places to buy the tickets from. I had one of my friends help me search for the tickets. She led me to a Chinese website where Japanese fans were selling their tickets and that's where I bought mine. [I can't thank my friend enough for helping!]
From the moment I bought the ticket, to when the ticket came in the mail, to when I was traveling to go to Osaka, to while I was attending the concert and even a week after the concert ended, I felt as if I was daydreaming.
Everything that I had gone through was so surreal. I was overjoyed and grateful. I spent 6 years of my life working hard to earn money and save up just so I can live moments like this. It is nothing I can describe it to be, it is beyond any thing one can imagine, it is some thing that can only be lived. I still replay every moment of the concert in my head. I remember all of the members voices, their dances, their comments, and actions. I remember Donghae's voice, every move he made. I wasn't watching him from a computer screen, but he was walking on stage, live, breathing. He is real as anyone else in the dome. For that one evening, I didn't have to watch him digitally. I cried so much, of happiness. They performed the song It's You, the first song I listened to of theirs'. I felt the deep emotions of the song, their beautiful voices and the fact that it was the one song that introduced me to them...I didn't hold my tears. I cried so happily. And then right after, they sang Hero and it is the one song I go to whenever I feel down. My tears didn't stop that night.
One thing that was really special that night was when the members were performing Rockstar, each member had to do some thing unique to the audience and so when it was Donghae's turn he got off the stage and gave a warm yet tight hug to a dedicated fan. It was such a beautiful, and loving hug. He probably hugged for a min or two and then went back on stage. The whole audience was speechless and in awe. And that's why we love him more. He explained himself at the end that he wants to give hugs to each fan, and thank them for being with him for so long.

I will never forget this night. Best night of my life. <3

I can't help but thank God so much for letting me have this moment, for helping me meet them.

This is the one thing I recorded from the concert. The members wanted to see the Sapphire Blue ocean so all the stadium lights were turned off and our glows sticks were the only light. It was so beautiful. 

Group colour: Sapphire Blue

I bought one of each merchandise they were selling. I know I would never get this chance again. Best decision ever. 

Still Together

Happy 9th Anniversary, Super Junior!!!

Today, is the 9th anniversary of the Korean pop group Super Junior!
Debuted: November 6, 2005
I hope there will be many more anniversaries for them. Its a miracle to last this long in the Korean entertainment. I think each member is responsible for lasting this long and putting all efforts to sustain the group. They have worked so hard with tight schedules and long nights to maintain and promote as one group. After all these years, these men are not just band mates or co-workers but friends and most important, family. A family that is joined, not by blood but by love. It will always be One Love. Forever. With E.L.F.

So, I congratulate you, Super Junior members; Leeteuk, Heechul, Hangeng, Yesung, Kangin, Shindong, Sungmin, Eunhyuk, Donghae, Siwon, Ryeowook, Kibum, Kyuhyun.
Stay strong and healthy!!

Love, E.L.F.

Sadly, Hangeng (went back to China) and Kibum (focuses on acting) do not perform with the group but they are always part of the group. 

Credits: fanpop.com, various internet sites, SM entertainment