[29/91 weeks done][Song of the week][calendar] 비 Yourself Open Thread for 5/1 – 5/7.
» Your Cloud USA Yellow Ribbon for Rain Calendar is here! DOWNLOAD it (for free) and count down the days to his military discharge with your fellow CloudUSAers and your favorite soldier.
» You can visit the previous Open Thread HERE. And of course, don’t forget that our Cloud USA Forum is a most excellent place for Rain love, fan communication, and self-expression.
By the way — have you left a message for JiHoon on The Cloud today?
» Our Project page for newbies on how to register for and USE the Official Cloud Rain Fan Club site in S.Korea is HERE.)
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As of this moment, 5069 yellow ribbons for Rain have been added to Twitter and Facebook icons all over the world (of which our suave Ko SooBong is one)! In honor of that, the folks at Twibbon have graced us with this 5000-fan Yellow Ribbon For Rain Brigade wallpaper. How cool! We’re all standing tall and proud with you, JiHoon. And we’re going to keep on keeping on!
There are two options for sending snail-mail to JiHoon presently. For information on where to send handwritten cards and letters to him, please see our previous post HERE (military). For cards, letters, and gifts, do see our post HERE (office admin).
» Rain’s freshly updated official website. (Yes, there are still fans who don’t know about it yet.) Fresh pictures from the site, courtesy of RAINY Entertainment, are on our Facebook HERE.
» RAINY Entertainment’s official Twitter.
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SONG OF THE WEEK: “Up In The Club”, which was the flip-side of Rain’s 3rd single release “Move On” in Japan in September 2006. Yes, more JiHoon in Japanese! “D’You feel me, that I want you?” And in English. Mmmmmmm. I’ll say.
Courtesy of: lany68@YT. (You can also find this video to your right, at the very top of our media blog sidebar.)
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just watched “Joyful Noise” on DVD and to my surprise there were 2 BLASIAN (BW/AM) connections in the movie…..and guess what……….they actually showed one of them kissing………”Meanwhile, a vivacious member of the choir who choreographs their routines, Earla (Angela Grovey), after a long dry stretch, finds passion first with Mr. Hsu (Francis Jue) and later with Justin (Roy Huang).” (per Wikipedia)
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Boy, dolls sure have come a long way since I was little. (SMILES)
http://www.fashionavecpassion.com/barbie-dressed-by-famous-designers/?pid=445
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It’s all money, most little girls and some big want to be Barbie. Kimora has her own also but what I’d love to see is a Rain doll I’m so sick of the same old white Ken, at one point their was a black Ken, that didn’t last long and anyone that has one I’m sure its worth a lot.
JiHoon this would be another American market to tap into with lost of money.
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BiA forgot to mention check on my profile pictures there’s a Barbie there with real diamonds worth thousands and she’s of color?
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I will. The pic I posted made me curious and had me looking at Barbies all dang day! (HA!) However, I came across so many Barbies of color and a couple modern Black Ken dolls too. There are some natural hair Barbies of color. That Barbie collecting market is pretty huge. It’s really fascinating though. Made me want to look for my old “Julia” Barbie (Diahann Carroll). *SMILES*
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Aw! My Julia Barbie should have met your Julia Barbie! 🙂
Stephe ^@@^
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Yep, and they both could have had tea with my Sonny and Cher Barbies. Don’t ask me why I had Sonny and Cher Barbies it’s a question only little girl me could answer and Noona me doesn’t remember why. HA!! The looked kinda like these only my Cher Barbie came with a blue dress.
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BiA, I only had 1 Barbie and she was white, in Mipls you just couldn’t find a lot of black anything until mid 80’s. Sorry for late response I didn’t see it until I got on pc my cell kinda went haywire for a min. and lost some stuff.
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Lotus, don’t feel bad. I only had 2 black dolls growing up, my Julia doll and one giant doll that was as tall as me back then. The other barbies I had were Caucasian (had Barbie’s friend Skipper…..SMILES). They simply didn’t make too many dolls of color back then. Little girls have many more options these days…..lucky them. (SMILES)
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Rain is Amaizing!! The style and how to interpret each song is unique and his voice is unmistakable ….really wonderful… 🙂
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Stephe, please check your Cloud USA email. Thanks!……………..
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Got it…
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another one of the entertainment soldiers with Rain…….Park Hyo Shin……….I am so stuck on this video because his voice is “like butta”
I can’t imagine Our Man In Uniform and Park Hyo Shin in concert together, that’s enough to make ya “hit the floor hard” #BOOM….did I knock myself out again? (note to self: remember helmet next time)
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Dayum…..he’s good.
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Speaking of Park HyoShin… I absolutely LOVE him and Kim JiHoon, Mithra Jin and Yoo SeungChan in this special Dept. of Defense song and video, “Nice Guy”. So patriotic, but with a kick to it that makes me sing along and bop my head LOL
What an awesome job they did, in my opinion.
Stephe ^@@^
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PHS’s voice is flippin’ AMAZING. I mean dayum. That video was the very first time I’d heard of him, so you know my eyes were buggin’.
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Amazing!! Love the video, very patriotic as it should be. They did a really good job. 🙂
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OMG I check out those videos above of Park HyoShin and I must say that I like this guy a lot!! Very talented and handsome! I can hear his voice for hours! In fact, I ended up hearing almost all the videos! Lol!!! I’m a fan!
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whenever I hear this song, I think of Greek STEP shows! or You Got Served…..LOL HBCU’S stand up!
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Oh heck yeah, you could do some hard steppin’ to that!
Stephe ^@@^
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Love that song and the video too!! Lane do beautiful videos, so meaningfull and well done. She’s so talented!! Thanks for posting!! 😀
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One of my favs!
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I know here I go……………..but these had me cracking the hell up. Apparently, these are parody groups. One of them still has people guessing backed by Lance Bass.
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“Up In Da Club” baby!!……….Aah, Honey Love just “hurts” my senses sometimes. In a good way though. (SMILES) I need for some of my Cloud sisters in Korea to find if there are vintage Rain t-shirts floating around anywhere. I’m a t-shirt “junkie”…..love that shirt.
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Hey BiA, for this T-shirt try going to any T-shirt shop that does designs and they can create this one.
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You know Lotus….that’s a damned good idea. Why the heck didn’t I think of it before?……*SMH*……I’m gettin’ old girl. (SMILES)
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Hahahahahaha ain’t we all….. 😉
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What a great song! love it!! Rain in any language is amazing xD! thanks for one more wonderful open thread 🙂
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You’re welcome, Angela. 🙂 Thanks for spending time here with us. We’re really grateful.
Stephe ^@@^
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It’s my pleasure 🙂 really love this page, and I admire your hard work ^^
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love it!
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WOW!! I really love this song! So cool! I haven’t got this album, so I’m really happy to listen this song!!! Thanx my Dear! And thanx lany who makes this video with these wonderful pictures of Rain! So sexy and emotional! 😀
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