Heyyyy
It’s Ryna with many many hobbies and I’m a teeny tiny little baby.
Yo! Fucking finally it’s Fabruary now! Gosh, that was a brutal decade of January.
Anywayyyy
The other day, I saw a tiktok of someone who’s turning 38 and celebrated it by giving themselves Ateez merch. The comments were full of people wayyy older than me talking about how old they are and what silly little kpop things they purchased for themselves recently. It was so cute!
Also, to these people, I’m a teeny tiny little baby which feels nice.
I’m usually surrounded by people younger than me at these tbz related 모임. Though I’m always the mom friend of any groups I’m in, I actually don’t really enjoy being the “big sister”. It’s more fun to be that organized-but-deeply-sarcastic kid adored by the older sisters/brothers, you know? Like, it’s better that people are surprised by my maturity than expecting it. Also, there's less pressure when you’re adored than admired. idk.
Anyywayyy
Do you know which day of the week it was when you were born?
I saw a video of (G)i-DLE’s Minnie talking about it yesterday and apparently Korean people don’t know theirs? If you ask any Thai person which day of the week they’re born, 98% of the time they’ll know it by heart. Day of the week is important to us since birth. Sometimes, our parents or the monk would name us based on which day of the week we’re born. There’s like a whole ancient book about which letters are good and which letters are bad or will bring misfortune. This only applies to your “real name”.
For example, I was born on Friday and the letters that should not be in my name are ย ร ล ว and my real name contains none of those because my mom owns a book on names that bring good luck and she takes it seriously. She chose my name herself and chose the one that means “a smart and unique scholar”.
I googled and found that February 23rd, 1998 was a Monday. (Monday's child is fair of face btw, according to the nursery rhymes)
Monday is special. People in Thailand can guess who were born on Monday based on their names very easily, wanna guess why? Monday children are not supposed to have vowel symbols in their names!
But how would that work? Well, some Thai consonant symbols also serve as vowels like อ is a consonant symbol but it works as a symbol for ㅓsound. Also, when you put some consonant symbols together, there’s automatically a vowel sound depending on which letters they are. This is hard to explain so I’m not going to.
Now, Kevin is written เควิน in Thai, right? And เ and -ิ are vowel symbols so it doesn’t really count, HOWEVER, Hyungseo is written ฮยองซอ in Thai and there’s no vowel symbol!
Your name is lucky for a Monday child!
And weirdly enough, your name is the only Korean name in tbz that when written in Thai, doesn’t contain any vowel symbols.
This is very fun for me to discover lol.
I thought I already talked about how Thai people have an assigned color for each day of the week, but I ctrl+f and couldn’t find it. I haven’t talked about it yet?
The assigned color for Monday is yellow btw. You are also often associated with the color yellow, so this is coincidentally fitting again.
Okayyy! That was fun for me to write. Now, we’re onto the birthday event updates!
The cupsleeve has been revealed!
Joy made the poster and the cupsleeve design.
Other than cupsleeve and gifts, we have activities that people can join in like bingo, your birthday charity project by Jaan, and my letter writing thingy. (It’s on the poster so you’d know anyway🤷♀️ your resolution this year’s to read more, right? Well, be prepared.)
I’ll be back with more random topics and updates.
Have fun in Japan and don’t get sick!
Love you (strictly productively),
Ryna x
PS. I haven’t watched your live yesterday yet bc I was at work when you went live, but thank you for stopping by!
PS.2 Joy also made these.