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January 24, 2005

Holy crap

You Koreans know about CyWorld... it's the Korean equivalent of Xanga, except everybody is on it. People like my old hakwon boss. And my mom's friends. And my relatives. Anyways ... I was curious about one of the Google AdSense ads ... and clicked the Nettiez link. And guess what?

Apparently someone has ported the Cyworld platform to English and they now offer the exact same service (with the same pop-up window and supergay icons) ... in English.

Oh Lord. Let's just hope it doesn't catch on as bad as it did in Korea.

. . .

It just occured to me that this is (according to Tabulas) my 1002nd post in this journal. I have surpassed the 1000 entry mark.

yay, me.

. . .

Oh dear lord. A fat kid singing to some European dance track. Does anyone know what song this is?!?!?!?

. . .

Engineers Without Borders

Posted by roy on January 24, 2005 at 04:49 PM in Ramblings | 11 Comments

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noramonster
Comment posted on January 29th, 2005 at 06:32 AM
http://www.unc.edu/ewb-usa/ Why rice? You got a hometown crew.
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pisces3jen
Comment posted on January 28th, 2005 at 06:37 AM
oh my god that's the song that we danced to constantly in europe!!!!
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PubertY2K
Comment posted on January 25th, 2005 at 02:44 PM
Thanks, Roy. You're the best!
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greenvodka
Comment posted on January 25th, 2005 at 08:07 AM
the song is called: 'dragostea din tei'. by 'o-zone'. romanian, i think.
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roy
Comment posted on January 25th, 2005 at 02:19 PM
WHOOOOOOO !Thanks for letting me know!
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greenvodka
Comment posted on January 26th, 2005 at 08:14 AM
i love the song too. try listening to 'despre tine' and 'de ce plang chitarele'.
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Leedar
Comment posted on January 25th, 2005 at 03:47 PM
That is like so half a month ago… Their music video is funnier. You can see it here ( http://mapage.noos.fr/martialro/ozone/video.html ).
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Lesley
Comment posted on January 25th, 2005 at 02:41 AM
Hey Roy,

I'm a big fan of your work on tabulas ^_^.

Anyway - I've wondered for a long time why nobody has made an English Cyworld yet. Thanks for the find :).

That link - you'll be suprised at how many people mock that song.The track is Ozone's Dragostea Din Tei (it was originally written by Haduicci). Many hate that track.
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roy
Comment posted on January 25th, 2005 at 02:19 PM
Thanks for the song name! I absolutely love it cause it's so silly ;D
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rocieljoey (guest)
Comment posted on January 25th, 2005 at 04:44 PM
BTW that guy was just lip synching. He didint sang that dont worry :D but I like that song too...

Maria hii~ maria huu~ maria ha~ maria haha~

PS: My friend has agreed to temporary host my site for me until the neopages severs are back up. now I just need the SQL dump of my site...can you send it to me please Roy?
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Leedar
Comment posted on January 25th, 2005 at 12:22 AM
I wouldn't worry, Koreans are seemingly different from everyone else — that is, everybody in Korea seems to gravitate to one particular implementation of a technology (well, that's how it seems with games; like Blizzard games of the respective genres and Lineage). Most others tend to diversify more.
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