 It's November 9th, Monday. It's my 29th birthday today. I'm all done getting ready for radio. I'm going a little early because I'm going to have dinner with my producer and writers and key, I think. And I wanted to update you guys on the gift shopping. So the day after we went shopping, Joan went to Myeongdong by herself to the department store and got something for herself and for me. Next time we're gonna prepare in advance. So mine ended up being a surprise. Joan, we ended up getting her an iPad. Hopefully she can use it for her vlogs and for entertainment purposes and have fun with it. The gift I got is the Chanel card wallet. It's so pretty. So Joan went to the Chanel store and picked this out for me, it's actually my first Chanel. Thank you to my friends who chipped in to get me this. So grateful. My mom also actually surprised me this morning with the plant. She sent over a plant at like 9 a.m. I had no idea, but every year she sends me flowers or plants or cake and I'm so grateful that she still takes care of me even though she's so far away in New York. This is the plant she got me. I haven't decided where to put it yet. I'm not sure what this is called. I gotta ask her again. Thank you, mom. I'm gonna take the cap today since it's my birthday. I can treat myself to that, right? And also it's freezing today, so I really don't feel like taking the subway. Anyways, let's go have dinner. We're gonna eat samgyeopsal. Yay. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hi. I can't hear you. Thank you. He's here now. Thank you. Are you still in your 20s? Yes, I'm in my 20s. Who's gonna take me out on my 29th birthday? I'm gonna. It's so pretty. It's Ashly's birthday. It's a birthday gift unboxing. Ta-da. Ta-da. Ta-da. What is this, Ashly? What is this? Where are you looking at? Two, three, happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Ashly. Happy birthday to you. Thank you, everyone. Look how pretty the studio looks with all the gifts. From Australia, it says, Hi, Ash, happy 29th birthday to you. Words literally cannot explain how much I love and appreciate you and everything you do. What is your wish for your new age? Do you want to be surrounded by my loved ones like I am now? I just want my friends and family to be healthy and, of course, my listeners and my fans as well. But besides that, nothing really. We have a listener on the line, so let's get connected. Hello. Hello. Happy birthday, dear Ashly. Happy birthday to you. She's my best friend, Diana, and you know what's crazy? Today's her birthday, too. We are birthday twinnies. Happy birthday, Diana. I'm so excited to have lunch. I got garlic knots and mozzarella sticks. So I just posted this morning on Instagram about how I miss New York and how I miss garlic knots. Thankfully, Gino's pizzeria in Itaewon has garlic knots. This looks delicious. Visually, I like my garlic knots to be very kind of well done. Yeah, I wish it was a bit crunchier, just the outsides. Should I throw them into the air fryer? It's good, but of course it doesn't compare to the ones in New York that I had. Maybe it got soggy on the way here. Let me try mozzarella sticks, too. The mozzarella sticks are really good. Prince Charles over here is your drinking buddy. Again, fine. So I started learning Spanish again. I've always loved learning languages. Spanish was my favorite subject in school from seventh grade till I graduated high school. And after I came to Korea and became a trainee, I learned Japanese as well. So when I debuted with Ladies Code, they kind of pushed me at this global code, a quadrilangual girl. So I had to continue to practice my Spanish and Japanese because we would film, like, greetings in those languages. But I think towards the end of our Ladies Code promotions, we kind of stopped doing them. So I'm kind of rusty now. It's quite embarrassing when someone says, like, oh, I already speak four languages. I'm like, um... So when Rosetta Stone reached out to me to collaborate, I was so happy because I've known about Rosetta Stone since I was in the States. And I kind of needed, like, a push to help me study and learn again. And I thought it'd be great for me to share this with you guys since a lot of you guys are studying Korean and Japanese and even English right now. Rosetta Stone is great because you not only learn reading and writing, but the skills that you actually need, which is speaking. They have a speech recognition software, so you'll be talking in the lessons from day one. And it's super easy to learn anytime, anywhere because you can learn through your desktop, your mobile, your tablet. Once you sign up, you have access to all these different languages on their website, not just one language. So after I kind of remind myself of Spanish, I can move on to Japanese and study Japanese again. So if you guys are interested, Rosetta Stone is having their best deal of the year for Black Friday. The lifetime subscription will be reduced to $189. If you guys are interested, I will leave the link in the description box below, so go check it out. And thank you so much to Rosetta Stone for sponsoring this video. And I'm going to eat it all today to get some food. I'm trying this new place out called Chop Chop. Chop Chop. Chop Chop. Now that my stomach is full, I'm going to go check out a little stationery store. Mind things. So many stairs in your dittle. We're going to check out another lifestyle shop. It's called Grandma Cabinet. I think they have a lot of retro and vintage goods. Oh my God. Wow. Oh my God. Oh my God. This is my childhood. Cardcaptor Sakura. I have wedding peach. Everything Sailor Moon here. I have most of these though. So not to jealous of that, but these really vintage stuff. I used to love this. I'm so happy I went in because I got to see so many Sailor Moon stuff. It made me really nostalgic. We're going to a cafe now called Baekdu Gangsan. This is the only sign for the cafe. So you guys are going to have a hard time finding it, but I'll leave their Instagrams. But it's literally in the middle of nowhere. There's no signs. Wow. Now we're going to this place called Lemon. It's a retro gadget shop. They have goods from like the 70s, 90s. Unfortunately, we can't film inside. So I'm just going to have to show you guys pictures from their Instagram. But I'll let you guys know if I buy something. So let's go. They didn't have any of the turntables I wanted. Like the portable ones. They were all sold out. So I just got an LP. This LP is a compilation of various artists from Asia like Japan, Korea, Taiwan. It's like lo-fi. Sound powder artists. All right. Now I'm going to go try to get an iPhone. Got my new iPhone. So sexy. So this is what the camera looks like. This is the iPhone 10. This is the iPhone 12. You can definitely see the difference. Filming myself on my new iPhone right now. Like you can see like every pore. So yeah, this is very realistic. The camera quality is insane.