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i will be flying with asiana airlines before they close down/merge. i just found out that some airlines have trading cards. anyone know if asiana do this? google tells me they do but i'm not sure if that's actually correct

i'm also a huge plane nerd/i really like planes and transport in general. would it be weird to ask if i could take a picture with the pilots? i know a lot of people do this on american airlines but never heard of it on asian airlines. i've been flying with asiana for 4 years (which is small compared to others) but it has been memorable for me as it marked my first flight alone

in search of some bad bitch energy like camo. not just looks but music as well. i'm liking "tell me" and "don't text me" lately, was a big fan of "mapsi" and the whole fragile album. only song i liked on secret album was "you". as well as "mee6", "ring ring" "only you" "tyt"

hope this gives an idea of the type of songs/artist i'm looking for. she's not too gross with it, kind of has some elegancy to herself, and her music in general is easy to listen to compared to ash-b (who i like some songs and i think her skill is amazing, but most of her music is not for me)

a lot of people were saying lemon tang is very red velvet coded but i couldn't hear it. the only similarity to red velvet for me was the sailor outfits from cosmic. but the song itself, did not get much red velvet. i feel there is a certain sound red velvet have, kind of like mature but fun, bright, and clear. lemon tang feels fresh, musical-like, a lot of layers, and LOUD (but not noisy!)

howeverrrrr as i listen go lemon tang and heart emoji, I think it is closer to oh my girl. it's very reminiscent of colouring book, ah-ing, cupid, bungee

makes me happy because oh my girl was seriously a hidden summer gem for a while until dun dun dance and dolphin. kind of hoping we get more releases like this in general

applications for topik tests open next week.
i've been learning korean for a bit over 10 years. i have lived in korea as well and have no problems speaking with a native korean person (and they have no problems understanding me). however, a lot of my "studying" became very casual and colloquial as the years went by as i never had to use it in formal settings (other than my job in korea, but even then it was pretty relaxed). i stopped textbook learning halfway into my journey and started speaking with natives, and i became as fluent as i am now just from speaking with friends

i did a few mock/past tests and consistently got around 95-98% for listening and reading. i'm pretty confident in my reading and listening. however i'm very not confident in writing as again, my writing skills are very colloquial. though my sentences are correct, my skills are very much "writing a letter to your friend" level and not so much "write a formal answer to this question"

also, going through the TOPIK vocab books, theres a few words that i didn't know in the intermediate book, but a LOT in the advanced book. but i had few problems with the mock tests.

what sort of preparation should i be doing? is the writing section really that difficult? would i possibly be able to get a topik 5-6 if i get near perfect marks on reading/listening? just finding it difficult to actually study something as theres a lot i know just from experience but a lot i don't know formally

this post is putting her cancer story to the side and only focusing on the identity she portrays herself as.

i've watched her content since her first reel on her current account about how she lost weight. at first i thought maybe she is a mixed korean, until she started speaking korean. the typical "what is the word in english....i only know it in korean" but still getting it wrong. she 두유 is tofu, when it's soy milk.

then she made a video mocking koreaboos, when she is one herself lmao. a korean comment said "how did you get so fluent in korean" and another person said she is thai. so while she is making fun of koreaboos and jiMiN OpPar - she is cosplaying as a korean person with the name yoo jieun, having "seoul kr" in her profile and being extremely ambiguous about her background.

then there was the controversial thai vs korean women video where she didn't even mention she was thai, and made it out to seen like she is giving her perspective as a korean person. there was so much divide in the comments and she got a lot of backlash from both sides.

she only makes videos about thailand and her thai background when it suits her content. otherwise, she is a very ambiguous korean girl living in korea.

her recent video about her trip to france and ending up in the immigration office was just a whole complete lie. she claims she has dual citizenship but again, doesn't tell us what. but she claims that she explained to the officer "oh i have dual citizenship but i got the wrong passport" and apparently was free to go....? doesn't make sense at all. the comments are asking what dual citizenship and everyone is assuming korean. all her videos have comments assuming and speculating she is korean and she never corrects them. not even once did she comment "oh i'm not korean, i'm thai". i imagine she loves the attention from people thinking she is korean, and that she is sharing the korean perspective..?

she is thai, and people are saying she is of chinese descent. she is in korea on an E6 visa sponsored by uncharted influencers. i find it funny because she does not even look korean at all, yet she's given herself a korean name. this behaviour would be called out if she was not asian - and we all know it.

we have a new hire and in conversation they mentioned they have almost 10 years of experience. however it did not reflect in their service. no attentiveness to tickets coming out, no cleaning as they go, no looking around if things need re-stocking, no purging the steam wand and group heads, didn't know how to close the machine despite having training shifts. someone with 10 years experience should know these things.

even if they didn't know genuinely, they should ask questions. nothing frustrates me more than a new hire not asking questions and trying to figure out things by themselves. if you need to double check, ASK! i could not care less if it's a simple question either. they were going to backflush the machine with puly instead of cafiza...! surely someone with 10 years of experience would know what to backflush with? and they were going to do that with the regular basket instead of a blank.

when there was something on the ticket they didn't know, they wouldn't ask and would just do it..wrong. throwing tickets away because they were unsure if it was done or not. JUST ASK!

and when i said the puly is to clean the steam wand, they proceeded to...not do that. so the steam wand was not cleaned despite me saying twice. i'm in no position to tell people what to do, but when i'm reminding them of the cleaning procedures i expect them to...do it... i even let them know that i close every day so they can ask me if they need a reminder.

could be nerves, sure. i was constantly making mistakes on my first shifts here too but the difference is that i was asking questions so to not make those mistakes again. i don't know how to let the manager know without sounding like i'm bitching though. they are solo closing next week but not confident that they are comfortable with all the closing tasks

i'm a little taken back from this interaction. i went to a new salon as it's closer by and they do good discounts.

i went in the room and just explained how it's been a while since i got a wax done and i'm feeling a little self conscious. she said to not worry about it, and that i'm young and should be confident.

she was waxing my legs, and suddenly made a comment "you should work out, do some exercise"

before my appointment i was really self conscious because my thighs are very jiggly and have loose fat and skin. i just went through a 30kg weight loss but the fat distribution is still pending.

i explained to her that i had lost a huge amount of weight and that i am trying. she then was talking about her other clients and how much they changed through weight gain (with no moral of the story, just literally saying some of her clients are unrecognisable because they gained weight).

now waxing my arms, my upper arms have very stretched out skin dropping downwards, she didn't wax the under side of this. so when i checked, i still had a strip of hair. i had to pull my skin which was extremely embarrassing and uncomfortable. she could have had my arms bent and raised, no?

then as we finish she says how she "likes the look of" my (lower) arms and how slim they are. like she was trying to undo the comments she made earlier. but i've been getting rude comments about my arms since losing weight. so i'm just so sick of people commenting about what i look like.

if you're a beautician, please don't make comments and give unsolicited advice to anyone in your chair. you never know what they are going through. i'm literally so scared to go for another wax appointment now

i'm a little taken back from this interaction. i went to a new salon as it's closer by and they do good discounts.

i went in the room and just explained how it's been a while since i got a wax done and i'm feeling a little self conscious. she said to not worry about it, and that i'm young and should be confident.

she was waxing my legs, and suddenly made a comment "you should work out, do some exercise"

before my appointment i was really self conscious because my thighs are very jiggly and have loose fat and skin. i just went through a 30kg weight loss but the fat distribution is still pending.

i explained to her that i had lost a huge amount of weight and that i am trying. she then was talking about her other clients and how much they changed through weight gain (with no moral of the story, just literally saying some of her clients are unrecognisable because they gained weight).

now waxing my arms, my upper arms have very stretched out skin dropping downwards, she didn't wax the under side of this. so when i checked, i still had a strip of hair. i had to pull my skin which was extremely embarrassing and uncomfortable. she could have had my arms bent and raised, no?

then as we finish she says how she "likes the look of" my (lower) arms and how slim they are. like she was trying to undo the comments she made earlier. but i've been getting rude comments about my arms since losing weight. so i'm just so sick of people commenting about what i look like.

if you're a beautician, please don't make comments and give unsolicited advice to anyone in your chair. you never know what they are going through. i'm literally so scared to go for another wax appointment now

425 seems to not stop at bus stop D, the bus route information has been taken off the stand and TFL shows it stops at H -> L. so it skips D while the 25 goes D -> L. anyone know why this is?

seriously....we have an L shaped bar. till and pastries on the shorter end, coffee station on the longer end. the till is visible, and the coffee bar can clearly showcase us making drinks, no till.

customer comes up "hello, one espresso"

i say "yeah sure, you can order at the till over there"

this happens multiple times a day

what makes people think "ah yes, the baristas busy making drinks. let me go to them and tell them my order, it must be free since there is no till"

did we forget as a society how to order at a cafe? do you go to the chef directly and put your order in with the kitchen yourself at a restaurant? how are people allowed outside

i am working with a matcha brand to create 2 reels of their product. they have provided the products and props needed, and it is a paid UGC at £50 per video.

they gave me guidelines and i felt i ticked them well. i filmed and edited the videos, sent them and asked them to let me know for any tweaks (which i am not sure if i was even meant to ask this)

but the reply back is asking to re-film both videos with more angles (which was not mentioned in the initial guideline). they are also asking me to remake the drinks - to make one component a different consistency (i followed the recipe they provided me), and to not use a finger biscuit (the drink was a matcha-tiramisu inspired drink, which is why i used the biscuit, thought it was up to my interpretation as they said i can use any recipe). they are also asking to not stir the matcha (which again wasn't specified in the initial guideline). and to provide them with more shots of the drinks.

it's my first UGC deal and i'm a little confused. if they want extremely specific shots and specific drink recipes/aesthetics should they not be creating the content themselves? i feel like it's fair because they are paying me, but to ask for the entire thing to be remade in such specific ways that was not mentioned to me before...? is this normal? what is the difference between UGC and someone on the content creation team?

and the manager(?) refused to change it on the till. the sticker was a little ripped, but it was there on the tag. it was the only piece of clothing of that style on the shelves, and it was on the reduced rack. i looked all over the clothing section and it was the only one left.

took it to self checkout, showed the full price of £22. told the guy on the floor and he called out someone else (guessing the manager or supervisor) and he tried to say the sticker is half ripped off so it means the item is no longer on sale. never heard of this before

then he said "don't know if a customer put it there" - where would the customer get a 30% off sticker from and what would be the reason to do so anyways...? then he said something like "30% off, what is that? like £6? the item is £22 so.." as if to say a £6 discount is not that much and i should just get it full price.

went to the customer service till, and the line was not moving. then the same guy came into the customer service area and i knew he would just say the same thing and refuse to just apply the discount. so i left

i swear the law is to sell the item at the advertised price, no? why was the guy jumping around hoops instead of just applying the discount? this happened in sainsburys whitechapel. i don't mean to be a karen but i'm quite short on cash, so when i saw the item on sale i thought it would be worth grabbing it, especially as sainsburys rarely hold my size and i found one that would fit me. i was just upset that the guy working was making excuses and not just discounting it - it was the absolute last one on the shelf and isn't listed on the website either so it's obviously stock that they're trying to get rid of.

looking to get a dehumidifier or air purifier but not sure what i need. it is for my bedroom, which the window doesn't open. so while it gets hot and stuffy in the summer, it also gets dusty. heard dehumidifiers can help with the stuffiness and smell, while air purifier can help with the dust.

i'm looking for a low running cost option, as my mum is quite sensitive about electricity usage. which one sees more effectiveness long term?

edit: just seen hybrid is a thing! for a bit of a higher upfront cost. is the Meaco Arete One any good?

i got a super nice colombian geisha and brewed it iced. when i had it hot, it was super nice - sweet, balanced, tea-like which is just what i like.

i brewed it iced this time, and it's still sweet with a little "nuttiness" (don't know how to say in english), and i really liked it.

but as i search, i've seen people say they avoid brewing geishas iced/cold brew because of how delicate it can be. i usually like very mild and easy to drink pour overs, so washed geishas are my go-to.

drink what you like - yes! but i was wondering what is the optimal brew method for geishas? would it be weird to brew, say, a panama geisha as an iced pour over? i've never seen it in cafes where i'm from

i did my usual recipe on origami/wave filter, 100g of final brew in ice and grinded a little finer than usual