Reunion Man living in Korea

Mardi 14 août 2007

Summer time and travelling is easy

Hi dear:

This summer is one of the most active i had in terms of travelling. So far i have been visiting several regions of korea (새만금/석처, saemangum/seonkcho) and 물한계곡/황간 (a small valey, very beautiful), a new part of europe for me (england/france) and soon much more.

Is this because of my new freedom? I dont know. Even though i have no time, everytime i have the slightes opportunity to run into a trip well i think that i am doing it.

Tomorrow, i will go visit the most beautiful island of korea (Jejudo). Unfortunately for me the weather is not playing well (storm and heavy rain) so i guess my holidays "tombent a l'eau". But i am still proud to be able to finally visit this so famous island.

Next trip schedules:

end of septembre: japan

end of november: re-japan (conference)

december: cruise ??? who knows!!!

Here are some picture of some holidays i took with my band just to take some rest form the agitated life style we had recently (multiple concert and stresses of any kind^^ ).

good rest is good (i sually dont sleep much).

and more picture at: www.cyworld.com/kskusanagi

best,

Charles

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Vendredi 10 août 2007

Concert

Hi dear:

Promised there you go: here are some pictures of my concert at the ssamzie sound festival. The stage was nice and the sound really good i think.

Eventually you could see more pictures at: www.cyworld.com/kskusanagi

and the video of the concert is visiable at: www.ssamziesoundfestival.com

For the vdeo you would need a login you can use mine, login: lolitwin, password: loli

Any how i am just happy we did that concert, i dont expect much more but it would be nice of course. The competition is still carrying on, next step only 5 bands will be chose to play for the next concert... fighting!!

best,

Charles

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Dimanche 5 août 2007

Last concerts

Hi dear:

    Music, live performance, concert these are things i good live with and die with. But as many things in life there are up and downs and right now i am not sure hwether i am up or down ^^.

   The last performance we had at the ssamzie sound festival was defionitively great. We had great time and a great sync on stage, i felt like people did really enjoy that one and i hope they do! That was the good sound out of the week.

    We also attended a festival: saemangum rock festival. Basically 40 teams competing for prices and for fun.
    The first selection we had great time too it was fun, but short and we did very well.

    However for the final, where we had to play 3 songs, we totally messed up the whole thing.

    There have been concerts where i did some slight rythmic or chords mistakes, but that time was different. I would like to define better the context but this will not be used as a justification for our failure, but just notable factors that might have affected us.
    Since i arrived tuesday 31st, my band and i did perform about 4 times (rehearsals and concerts) so in a quite intensive manner, following a certain lack of sleep (due to late concert and long lasting transportations: indeed we travelled to remote places of korea). The day of the performance we were part of the last bands, we had to wait under the sun for about 4 hours whith few naps to recover our lack of sleep.

      The magic thing is that we all messed up. My guitarist forgot part of his solo (which he masterizes usually). The bassist was sometimes late and also forgot his solo. The drummer also had some problem to sync with us and to finish at the right time. I did mess up chords, rythm and thank god not the singing part but it was really frequent and noticeable.

      So here is the deal: that was a bad day, a bada performance. We are down now but we will get over it. Personnally i find it quite a hard time now because music is my main support and if i dont have it i have nothing much left. So i will work on it much harder form now on and bring it on!

       See you soon.

best,
charles

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Vendredi 3 août 2007

That feeling

HI dears:

That blog should change somehow. There is something missing.

I am not sure i mensioned it but my love life recently took a 90 degree turn. I broke up. There are many reasons for it but none of them justifies the decision. Actually some of the reasons are just bullshit, some others are part of the biggest mistakes i ever did, i hope, the only one i will do for my life.

See i still can't believe it's over, cause i am surely not over it. I don't know how long it take to be over. Well, i think i know why real love can't really die. It's just that there is no good reason for it to stop. Whatever happens life is hard, love is hard and you can do mistake only if you're gonna learn from them.

I borrowed this citation from einstein and used it in my thesis dissertation: " don't try to be a man of success, but rather be a man of values". I guess that recently i lost it. My mind blew, my heart speeded up, nothing was good enough for me. To be franck nothing is still good enough, but something has changed back in me.

I had the chance to meet good people on my way and thank "my good star" it was at the "right" time. i wish i had meet them before of course, but i think they didnt come too late so it's good enough.

Learning how to be honest with yourself and the people you wanna trust that's the key. Love is a natural product of honesty and admiration. I start to understand love again, cause i feel it and cause i opened my eyes bigger.

The people who saved me are now important to me as much as a second family. There is no aged to be taught and i really hope they still teach me much cause i am so young and so much willing to be a man of values. See the purpose of life is life, but being human, you can add the values and you have a good match... the match that i wanna reach.

I need everyone around me and i need everything i am doing now. I miss her, i miss you all. I think that nothings' gonna be the same. I still have a fear of failling again, but i will face it differently ... i hope as a grown person ^^.

Ok time to sleep.

best, and love,

Charles

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Mercredi 1 août 2007

Some Fresh ones

Hey:

   It's been quite some time since i gave any news to you guys and i am sorry about it. No good reasons justify this lack of communication from my side, so i just hope you'll forgive my "flegmardise" as we say in france.

   Some fresh news then:

I just came back from england for a conferenec it was fun and expensive, i actually have much to say about it so next week i will probably dedicate several post to tell more about this trip (plus photos!!)

My band Bobbygrovy got selected for 2 of the main summer festival of korea: Ssamzie sound festival organized by ssamzie a very huge company in korea, and the saemangum rock festival. I am really happy that we can make it so far and that people seems to like what we are doing. I hope everything will stay the same for a long time!!!

The audition for the two festivals are for tomorrow (2nd august) so i will have a very busy day heheh:

10pm: rehearsal in saemangum
1pm: main stage
4pm rehearsal in hongdae (seoul)
9pm: main stage

in brief we've got to run to win the public attention and have fun. I let you know what's going on very soon.

   cheerrrrrrssssss and keep following us!!!

charles loves bobbygrovy!!

ps: I spent a super really great time with my twin in london... guys you missed something!!! Soon pictures and videos !!

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Mardi 19 juin 2007

Website update

Ah!!!

Dear, I have the great pleasure to annouce that our Bobbygrovy website is 99% complete and that you can now enjoy it quite fully.

My twin did help me so much on that that it is hard to find how i could thank her, but it's also her baby and im sure she will enjoy taking care of it with me.

Here are the new features:

- album photos: including 3 albums of photos we made with some semi-pro photographs

- new background and design

- videos available and more soon

a new forum for koreans (i couldnt find any good discussion forum yet for france).

I hope you guys will like it and give me your impressions!!!

Let's groove!!!!!!!!!

best, charles

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Mardi 22 mai 2007

Festivals

Hi dear:

   I am sure that nowadays i need a lot of distraction and changes to forget about the bad things in my life, and happened that music saved me again.

    I am so happy to have this experience with my band. They really are like a family to me and more and more we grow this connection of friendship and musicality, so lovely.

    To help even more, the consecration of any band is the stage and this is what we have been doing the past few weeks, growing up on stage, which is different than growing up in a rehearsal room. See greenhouse and field aren't really the same for or friends flowers (yeah i know sometimes greenhouse is better).

     We had this concert (organized by my lead guitarist) with several bands from a university in Daejeon ( MokwonDae) which was short and quite raw let's say but the thrill was there.
     Meanwhile, we just finised a photo session. Taking pictures with semi professionnal photographers, wow that was an experience. We dont have the pictures yet but as soon as we do im on it, albums will starts to take off.

      And tonight, a concert of 1hour in KAIST at a bar called SHE BAR, we will play for 1 hour because no other bands are available at that time so it's all for us.

       Here is the poster, and soon videos, photos and updates on the website.

best

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Jeudi 10 mai 2007

Politics 2007

Hi dear:

   im anot a big fan of politics, but i guess that what's happenning in France right now is quite odd.

   I wouldn't claim any real side in politics, i more for the best proposition guy or at least against the worst. And i feel like the worse just won. I'm not afraid to say that i didnt vote for him because i think he is violent and that most of the people point him as a media manipulator (being also closely in touch with the biggest contractant of the french TV system).

   I felt like this election was more old generation agains young, and since the old one is still more numerous, they logically won.

   Gosh i feel bad having such a president, and i just hope that now we have him he will be able to keep things right (especially not through teasing the violence and anger of young people).

best regards,
charles

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Vendredi 4 mai 2007

Concert again

Hi dear:

    sorry for the silence, i m sure everyone is busy and suffocating while spending the summer.

    This post is simply to signal that there will be many concert this month and i have few dates

19th may: street performance in the downtown of daejeon
22th may: kaist rock festival (not registered yet)
end of may: soundday in Seoul ? (we'll try : this festival is one of the most important even in seoul, held every month)
3rd june:   ceoncert at going merry

    I will put some videos on youtube very soon, hopefully very very soon.

best,
charles

ps: our band have an official photograph now so we'll have some nice pictures too.

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Vendredi 13 avril 2007

Concert 2007

Hey guys:

2007... so far the worse year ever but few good points left:

- me and my band (bobbygrovy) are getting more mature and growing our own songs slowly but with love and attention in our little rehearsal garden.

2007 seems to mark a new start for us since, we are now a little more confident and we do have songs to play (not that much though, but enough for a concert).

There we go, the first concert of bobby grovy , 2007 tour: started the 7th of april and it was at the super "non crowed" plaza of Lotte dept. store.. yay.. and soon some update on the website

You oculd check some pictures in the album on the right .. enjoy ^^