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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
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OMG. I love the lady at the convenience store downstairs.
I went down to buy rice and curry sauce today (an hour ago...around ten at night) ...llike the microwavable type. And she probably recognised me from my last two microwaving adventures and tried to help me with the microwaving this time. So anyway, she asked me to get a bowl from the cafeteria and pour the curry inside to microwave it and actually helped do everything including putting it in and turning the knob and stuff. When it was done, she asked me to eat in the cafeteria and when I said I was going back to my room, she actually asked if I had cutlery.
So after eating the curry back in my room.
I went down to return the bowl and thought I'll bring her a plum as a token of appreciation cos I bought a bag the other day. And she actually gave me a packet of tomatos before I even passed her the plums. She said (thats what I think in my limited korean) that its good to eat tomatoes after eating curry or something like that. OMG. Super nice!
haha. damn happy now. I love meeting nice people. And besides, according to arashi no shukudai kun, tomatoes are supposed to remove the effect that chilli has on your tongue. I can feel it working.
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haha. got so inspired reading a friend's blog that I think I shall write more about Korea. Hers is really informative though...mine is more like some how I felt in Korea thing. Kinda similar to changmin's diary except I censored all the evil thoughts I ever had out. Mwahaha. But then again, with the amount of stress? more like the need to have something to talk about all the time that comes with being in a foreign place for me, I have convieniently became a meaner person...maybe it was always there and just became more obvious in the last week or so. On second thought, I have felt meaner in the past....hahaa....so now what: resignation to the fact that changmin isn't gonna marry me cos I'm mean in addition to being slim and pretty? hahahaha
Anyway, spent loads of time skyping over the past two weeks...I think I murdered everyone with my meanness in general but it was really fun. haha. of course, I think everyone kinda knew that I am not like the kind and good natured type to start with. But anyway, thanks for staying up to talk...it was really fun for me at least. hehehe
anyway, back to the korea bit.
Thinking back about the entire country and all, even with the shopping and stuff...I did sense a not very nice bit, I guess it comes everywhere but maybe I took special notice cos its a foreign culture and stuff...
At the airport for instance, I noticed that they take extremely long to process your entry into the country, at the immigration counters, if you had the wrong skin tone or came from the wrong country. It's extremely racist and rather irritating to watch. Like does being dark make you more likely to do something illegal or what...was kinda shocked by the blatent difference that was shown. Like if some caucasian person and some dark skin person stood at different lines, the darker tone one would take three times the time to pass through customs. They checked our bags at the airport too...might have mentioned that. But they didn't check mine eventually.
And at the shops and all, while people are really friendly, the pressure to buy comes quite strongly too. Like they pull you into shops and stuff and when you say no thanks, the faces kinda change for some places. I guess thats not limited to korea or anything...just a general thing. Of course, bargaining is like an art here, you can bargain like practically everywhere? Being foreign entitles you to do that at least I think.
But then again, most people are quite interested and friendly once they realise you are foreign. Cos with being chinese and all, its not that hard to pass off as a local if I keep my mouth shut. So once I stutter a reply in my awful korean they will ask where am I from and stuff and they are usually quite nice. Its kinda scary once they realise you are foreign and understand a little korean though...had people rattling long sentences at me without understanding a word...the cleaner at the dorm is a case in point, I tried real hard to understand her but no word rang any bell, maybe because her accent differed slightly too? not sure. And looking korean isn't always a plus for the same reason, like I got approached at the subway by some salesman and tried to explain to him that I don't speak korean...actually, its not a plus at all because once you open your mouth to ask for the price, they know straight away that you are not korean anyway.
haha...is this negative aspect of the country? Anyway, I think there are many other things waiting to be discovered, both good and bad, will write more when I come across them,.
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haha. so much for blogging about korea...its been two weeks and I covered only the first two days...
Anyway, shall still go on in chronological order...as much as I remember at least,
Maybe just the key points:
Basically continued walking around the ewha area for the next few days, not much happened really except that we went to the city hall area on one day and looked at the palace there, The palace was really quite similar to the gazillion chinese ones in China, but I stared at it for the longest time anyway trying to imagine people living there. Not sure if it was some replica of what was originally burnt down in 1904 though. Realised that Seoul was thoroughly destroyed in the earlier part of the last century with the japanese occupation, second war, korean war and internal unrest along the process...><
Anyway, went to music bank on friday. We didn't actually think we might get in, going without tickets and all. But met this guy at the subway who turned out to be working there and he took us to the place and helped us loads with the staff and all. So finally, they said we could go in if they have space and in we went. Not much to see except that the entire place was about the size of a school audithorium and the stage was tiny and nothing like what you see on tv. It was kinda hard to imagine dong bang performing somewhere like that...maybe because I always had the impression it was some mega big hall. Anyway, watched random people performed...including moon hee jun, voice of soul and 4minute. The closing act was shinee...juliette and snsd performed just before them. The fans were the more interesting ones really...there was this group of diehard fans of HOT who screamed moon heejun through the entire time he performed. There was maybe five of them...but they really gave their all into screaming. At the snsd perf, it was kinda weird to hear the guys cheering and the guy beside us took out his mega large camera..the professional type, hid in a corner (because you aren't allowed to take pictures) and started photographing stuff. Now you see where all the high quality fancams come from. Shinee was obviously the IT of the event with around half the audience being shinee fans. They looked super cute though...I was super happy after watching them perform.
Went to dongdaemun after that and walked around...nearly died in my heels then. Anyway, I discovered that the place is huge...its simply humongous with levels selling the same things in every shopping centre. The stuff ws pretty fascinating minus the heels problem. But I realised after that that everything is actually cheaper at ewha...haha. I didn't buy anything though...cos I wasn't planning to go back to Singapore then. ^^
Went to everysing after that which was super pretty but also around twice the price of usually karaoke places in korea. They sell dong bang and suju merchandise there too...quite fun singing everything with the real pv for once and perhaps the best part was that if they don;t have the mv for a particular song, they substitute it with a sm artist vid, So there was britney spears with a dong bang video and wrong number to the mirotic video. whee
Anyway, got back at three plus and was locked out of hostel with the one o'clock curfew so we sat at macdonalds till dawn which comes really early in korea. By six, its daylight and looks something like eight o'clock.
haha. So that was the summary from last week.
Moving on to this week.
Didn't do much over the weekend. Was super tired on saturday after the night out and spent sat night skyping after that so sun was pretty much a dead day too. Besides, I think the weather wasn't great so I stayed in my room and ate.
On monday, went to everysing with some of the other girls and stumbled along the yoochun ice cream place accidentally. We took a wrong turn and I thought the orange signboard looked really familiar so I looked it and voila there were hugh yoochun pics on the wall. I was like...fate. Anyway, didn't eat icecream then but repeated the everysing experience. That night, after karaoke, we walked to sm and saw random fangirls standing around outside. Ook backtracking. theres an sm story on friday night too.
We were trying to figure out how to get to everysing. So I Thought it might be better if we go to sm to try our luck and ask the fangirls. There were these three girls there and they told us in english, super detailed directions to get to everysing. So being grateful< i thanked them and asked who they were waiting for...and they refused to say, So I asked where is the sm building because I didn't actually know we were standing right next to it and the answer was :just around the area....
But they did give us super accurate directions to everysing...so well, the pain of fandom.
Thats about all on the apkujong area for monday.
Went to ilsan on tuesday and visited the pizza shop which took forever to find. But we found it and when we sat down and after our orders came and all..the man himself, the father that is, appeared. He shook everyone's hands and tried to guess where we were from...taiwan...then we told him and he asked if we would like to take pictures. So he brought us to the life-sized junsu board and we took the picture there... that, from what I heard is what all foreign visitors experienced. The man is super friendly and super nice, totally pefect father-in-law...yoochun ah.
Anyway, the pizza was real good and completely different from what they serve here, It's like the perfect excuse to go down there just to eat except you can probably find similar stuff in seoul. So after eating, we took an hour train ride back to seoul cos everyone was too tired to shop around after the long pizza search. Went to apkujong and had icecream at, well, the yoochun icecream place. I didn';t like the icecream that much though...what I bought was slightly too sorbet like for my liking but it wasn't bad or anything, just that I like other places more. The key point is not the icecream of course.
When we were eating, this woman came in and everyone started greeting her. We then realised she was Yoochun's mother. Asked her for a picture but she said she preferred not to though...so we just watched fangirls passed her random gifts for herself and yoochun, It was like a fanclub there, everyone was obviously there because its yoochun's shop. They were all ogling posters or carrying dong bang files and notebooks. Then again, they all greeted the mother...which is an obvious enough sign.
Stayed in on wednesday and was planning to go to gyongbukgoong on thurs, but it rained the whole day so we changed our plans and i accompanied by gyongbukgoong friend and her friend to ilsan again. They were semi-dong bang fans too so the key aim was the pizza place of course. It was around eight plus when we got to ilsan because it is an hour plus away from seoul. And we actually browse around the shopping area for a while this time, one shop actually, on our way to the pizza shop, and the stuff was uber cheap, I did my first clothes shopping in Korea. Apparently, ilsan is cheaper because its non central seoul and the shopping centre was cleaner and tidier too. Shall go back to shop there soon...
Then getting to the pizza, this time we kinda stood and took loads of pictures of posters and all while waiting for our order to come. It was around nine and we were the only people in the shop. We saw his father in the balconey and my friend was like deliberately taking my photos there so he might notice us. Anyway, he came out a short while after the food came and the whole tuesday ritual was repeated except that he recognised me and went...we know each other, In my limited korean...i tried telling him i came before. Anyway, we took pictures after that and I just brought my camera...phone actually along too. Was wondering whether to take the photo again when he told me to take it again. So I just took another picture which is now in my phone. HAAPPII
The pizza was really good as well and we all went back to seoul happy and fed. The hour plus ride was worth it,. I love ilsan.,,the air, the clothes, the pizza. mwahahaa
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haha. I figured I should blog about Korea since I'm going to be here for the next six months and writing about it gives me a record of what I actually did and bought....of course, what inspired it was probably what happened right at the end...yesterday as a matter of fact, that will only come at the end of the entry because i have a festish for chronological order...it is a record.
Anyway, got here last Saturday at around seven in the morning and there was this held-up at the airport cos they wanted to check our bags and stuff but they ended up not checking mine which was lucky since I kept food...pork floss too, swine flu? haha....in it and I heard bakkwa got confiscated before. Took a cab to check i to the uni dorm after that, the dormitory was atop a large hill...I didn't actually think taxis could go up such hills, it felt steeper than the one in the driving test centre to me. Put down stuff and all and that was went I met my roommate who was sleeping and looked really awkward so I kind of ran out and came back in again to unpack like half and hour later. Went to yongsan after that to get my phone for 30000 won which was decent. It has a dictionary and says I am hungry in this uber cute voice in korean when the battery is about to run out. XD Anyway, also tried Korean food here at this dinghy basement place and it was good and pretty decently priced...like 5000won...it was a dinghy basement. There is a story when it comes to buying the phone. I was just asking how much each one cost when I decided I shall just tell him to recommend the 30000 ones. Then the next two phones I picked up became 30000....coincidence? I'm not sure...but anyway, pleased with my phone. haha. Went to this supermarket...emart, which is supposedly owned by shiwon...as in the suju guy, and the stuff there was all sold in bulk. I got shampoo for around ten bucks...and found that if you buy three bottles, its only five bucks more which make each bottle around five dollars. but no...nothing is going make me carry three industrial size bottles of shampoo around. I made the stupid mistake with sanitary pads though...I think I might have about eighty pieces now...
On the second day, monday, we had this placement test which was basically just to gauge our abilities and stuff since everyone;'s gonna be in the same class. I thought it was decent cos the vocab was ok and half the grammar while never taught before is just stuff you see around and somehow pick up. Met my buddy after that and it was this really nice girl. She asked me what korean singers i liked and i told her...she was like...I like changmin, so I guess we clicked. After that was lessons and yah...school started. >< Went to the ewha uni area after school with a friend and had congee for lunch...its like chinese food^^. Only they serve kimchi as a side. It was super super nice and full of clams/mussel looking stuff cos I ordered seafood congee. XDD Then I did my hair at this salon place that was super cheap, she rebonded it for like 45000won and it was almost shoulder length...maybe slightly less. She also trimmed it without an extra charge...that never happens in Singapore...you pay like a 100plus to rebond and twenty more? for the cut....lovely lady except she spoke no english...but I actually found out that rebonding in Korea is known as magic straight...so I just went magic straight.
Tha hair cut place was completely amazing. It took only three hours to rebond and when we were waiting, they actually have internet access on computers...they place the heating things near it so you can surf while your hair is being heated...then they had this really cool beanbag with cardboard on one side thing that lets you read magazines on your lap, like it sort of props them up. Met more friends at night and they didn't want Korean food so we ate at this italian place, I bought seafood risotto for 7800won and the others got similar valued stuff...there were four of us. They served us bread before the food came and biscuits with homemade icecream after our meal. Then I went to pay, and they gave us a cookie each. like omg...the amazing amount of freebies for 8 bucks plus...like seriously, I went to the faceshop on sun to buy two items and the bag came with four things...they give away free samples and cotton pads.
haha. That was only two days in Korea.
Its kind of long, will continue later...and eventually get to the point which was yesterday...anyway, as a brief lead...I went to music bank yesterday.
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
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OMG. I got the tickets...and then somehow IE blocked my pop-up and the page disappeared along with the tickets. EEEIKSS
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I saw all the signs...I just tried to ignore them.
But anyway...the era of jaesu has arrived.
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Omg I just witnessed the wonder of the korean ticketing system.
I clicked on the purchase button. This loading window came out. I thought it hanged, closed it and refreshed the page. Voila the tickets, all 3000 plus of them were gone.
like wow. I don't even feel sad..just amazed.
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I will study hard next next sem.
and on a edited note:
And this fool I know just posted her grades in her msn list...she got a list of 'A' s of course, why else would you do something so silly...but still, it wasn't brilliant enough for like especial mention and doing silly things like that merely draw irk...to think I used to wonder why people dislike her....
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
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Dying. I need to fangirl...does fangirling on lj denote my sad lack of a social life or what...bwahahaha (Three?) was gone when I came on once more...><. Gah...Fujiki Naohito! He is so freaking hot and they are so cute together...I love the whole, I even love the stupid ending...it was freaking cute. Happi! Please watch hotaru no hikari if you haven't...omg, I love his mean comments even, even if he is like almost twice my age....ahaha
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Technically this is belated since it's the 30th here having passed twelve midnight. But anyway, here's wishing suah a happy birthday! Thanks for being a fellow yoosu fangirl that follows the analytical and intellectual side of the fandom! Hope you have a great year ahead of you and best wishes! As a present: Yoochun?
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Saturday, March 21st, 2009
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I was an inch from escaping the evil clutches of sme...I mean, park jungmin is my wallpaper now.
Then they sang lion heart....
and bolero live
with a full orchestra
The wallpaper is staying though.
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
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Tagged by suah!
(1) List 16 celebrities you would have sex with without even asking questions. (maybe not that extreme, just people I find really hot)
(2) Put all of them in order of your lust for them. (1 is the hottest.)
(3) Say which movie/show/thing it was that hooked you.
(4) Supply photos.
(5) Tag five people!
( Sexy! )
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
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haha. This is to celebrate the return of my internet. Guess who has done without a connection since saturday...it died on saturday morning and today....thursday (night) is the earliest I can get a replacement...talk about a healthy cny holiday, I just read old fics instead. hahahaha. Back
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
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Tagged by suah on this...and shall do it since I have technically never done a meme before and because I feel bad for disappearing for so long...she even has a new user-name now...><
Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 17 random secrets, facts, habits or goals about you. At the end, choose 17 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you.
1) I eat more than normal people do. My mum says my intestines are stretched
2) I try to lose weight, I set mental goals on the time but they remain in my head
3) I feel super happy when it rains on days that I have time cos then I won't have to go swimming
4) I have barely any secrets...things like crushes and stuff are not considered secrets, I just don't say.
5) I want to go to a certain school (Not a secret either, just too embarrassing)
6) I am a yaoi fangirl. If you didn't know that maybe you shouldn't be reading this
7) I have no sense of co-ordination whatsoever which makes stuff like dance and sports rather elusive
8) I Iike dong bang shin ki
9) I am a yoosu fan
10) I am introverted
11) I want to have good grades without studying (my largest secret which is now out)
12) I don't like perfect people. Who does?
13) I wake up before the alarm clock rings (most of the time anyway)
14) I never get sick of eating the same things...egg is the love of my life
15) I cannot multi-task. (I can walk into the wall if I'm talking on the phone)
16) I cannot drive, related to both 7 and 15
17) I have no directional instincts...I can't tell left from right and can get lost on a road I take everyday. which makes it a good thing that i cannpt drive?
OK, done, I don't think there are even 17 people on my f-list...refer to point 10. But if you are reading this, consider yourself tagged and drop me a note so I know you did it. XD
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I am back!
Actually I was back on saturday but I more or less slept through the last few days. Managed to catch up with kagen before she left for some faraway freezing land though...hope she re-appears thawed soon.
Vietnam was super duper loads of fun. Service learning really sounds like some nitty gritty gross thing before you go and I felt...apprehensive? cos there was practically no one that I really knew before the trip, I think I basically started finding out names and recognising faces at the airport which is kind of scary. But it turned out well, maybe because most people were really easy-going and to talk to.
Anyway, the key aim of the trip was to go there to teach English and paint walls. It was sort of like alternative tourism I guess since we were only there for two weeks and did real work for maybe a week so what we learnt was loads more than what we taught. The kids were nice...very sweet and so adorable I actually started to like children. You can't dislike them, even I liked them, they are so innocent and cute. XDDD. Couldn't say the same about the walls though....I got paint everywhere. Like seriously, even without painting I managed to get paint on my shirt which certifies my status as an official disaster on the worksite. On a separate note, I hate construction sites, walked into one by accident once and only realised there was a guy behind on the ground...he was lying in some drainage area...I was wearing a skirt and he gave me this lewd smile at which point I kind of swore, silently of course since it was in public.
But the painting at the school was fun though, in a masochistic manner, I got paint on everything when painting as well, even on my skin. But the fun part was really when the kids came to watch and you get to take pictures with them. So much for not taking favourites, I practice such obvious favouritism it confirmed that I should never teach...its kind of super ficial if you think about it, but well, I like Boy bands. Saw quite a few potential pretty boys though, kagen, if you see this, please make a visit to vietnam in the future. The 2pm guy is from thailand anyway...
Shall post pictures of the kids when I muster enough energy to remove the sd card from my phone^^
Vietnam was a really interesting place. The only thing I bought was coffee, ok I bought other stuff, but no a lot, pair of shoes and some random souvenirs for people. The stuff was quite nice though, i realised that only on the last day though, when I bought the shoes, and there was hardly enough time to buy anything ><. BUt still, there to help, not to shop. Spent real little cash, except I got a hair cut there...rebonding was a third of what it costs in Singapore...and the effect is about the same, my hair is super stubborn so it really doesn't look rebonded but i think my head looks smaller now...XD
Friend gave me a ride on her scooter when I was there...it was fun! Haha, limited vocab now, but it wasn't very fast so it felt very safe and was just like riding on a hyper fast bicycle. You must understandi that that is a new experience for me since I canot ride a bicycle...I remember full house everytime I say this...I rather bi teaches me how to ride. Or maybe Yoochun? But back to the point, saw some colonial stuff built by the french and it was real pretty and all even if my head is strongly anti-colonialism...another story...and on the way back, we got lost so I got to witness the chaotic coolness of Vietnamese roads. You basically just turn anywhere to like, you can make u-turns at any point, you can go any direction on the road and no one really minds because everyone does the same thing. Getting lost was fun too, felt like some action film when you keep seeing larger vehicles flashing their headlights in your direction. Adored the friend for taking me ^^
On to politics...entire issue is kind of sensitive but it was really amazing when they talked about liberation from the French and Americans...the first bit isn't foreign but the second bit was. The different perspective they had of history was probably what really struck me. Visited the war museums and stuff too, and this cave thing that they built in the Vietnam war period...the booby traps were amazing and they living conditions were more thn unbearable. Even without listening much to the guide I understood the cold war and proxy war stuff loads more than when reading the gazillion pages of history notes.
But why discuss gloomy issues like that...
There are gloomier ones.: my grades were a complete disappointment. ><
But oh well, theres more to life than grades I guess...I could get plastic surgery and get a rich husband? Shucks, anyway, shall work harder next sem...this sem was probably deserved...I got a b+ for korean...GRRR.
Ok, back to happier things. Vietnam was so much fun! (exclamation marks are supposed to make you feel happy) Met loads of people and had many interesting conversations, was probably the highlight of the year. I start to feel more positive about uni life now. Shall attempt to go for exchange next year and have more fun. XD
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
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I see the light.
At this rate, I might actually pass.
Guess who read two textbooks in the past week. That's a thousand pages. Although I still couldn't answer any of the questions posed during lecture yesterday...the stupidest lecture I ever wasted my life on. I actually though the terms sounded familiar. XDDD
hahahah. Shall resume the mugging after lunch
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
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I hate to admit this...but the mbc programme might be a cause of my less than perky mood.
Gah, entertainment is supposed to make you happy.
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
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Guess who is now on facebook.
Time to start applauding if you haven't started.
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
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One more week together. Even with my half-dead brain and walking zombie existence I can feel the excitement of the fourth release. Mirotic...I watched the preview, the 20 sec one, like who didn't...They might as well call it erotic. Whee, more korean programmes, more yoosu.
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