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[extemporally]

Heeey, what's up. It's only 10 a.m. over here and I feel so cranky already! I am mostly cheering myself up by thinking about how awesome Asada Mao is. She competed at the 2008 Worlds without a coach, you guys. And then she won! Is that not amazing! She is pretty awesome.

Additional pet peeve:

-- I dislike it when people refer to East Asian skaters by "given name, family name". That is not how it goes! I always twitch when I see mentions of "Yu-Na Kim", although weirdly enough I always catch myself calling Mao "Mao Asada" in my head. This is when I >:( at myself again.

But here are some things that makes me happy:

-- Mao is the South Koreans' favourite Japanese celebrity. Yu-Na is the Japanese' favourite Korean celebrity. :D!

-- They are BFFs. THERE CAN BE NO HATESEX WITH THEM. EVER. (Um, that came out a little cranky.)

-- Mao's pretty.

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[aurora]

She competed at the 2008 Worlds without a coach, you guys.
DAMN, GIRL. And she is indeed gorgeous.

although weirdly enough I always catch myself calling Mao "Mao Asada" in my head.
I do that too, while I'm on board with 'Kim Yu-Na'. Maybe our brains uses the 'shorter name first' sorting method?

[extemporally.livejournal.com]

Right? SO PRETTY OMG. *_______________*

Hm -- kyasuriin has pointed out that it may be her choice. Like I said to alex_boylove on chat, I'm not convinced by the 'shorter name first' thing; we don't see anything weird about Western names like Amanda Brown! So it may indeed be down to what we see the most often in print or whatever -- Yu-Na does get referred to as 'Kim Yu-Na' most frequently, after all.