Hello, hello? Yes, this is SAIA!

☛ Who are you?

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` SAIA

​☛ Catallena~

` first face claim | Park Hye Min / Pony  ( ✗ ) ( ✗ ) ( ✗ ) ( ✗ ) ( ✗ ) ( ✗ ) ( ✗ ) ( ✗ ) ( ✗ )
` second backup face claim | Kim Soo Yeon / Mint ( ✗ ) ( ✗ ) ( ✗ ) ( ✗ ) ( ✗ ) 
` blood type | A
` height  | 167cm
` weight | 47cm
` style     | I've never been one to care so much about clothing, it's just clothes. Though if I had it my way, I would wear cotton t's big over sized sweaters, the soft cotton kind with the big buttons, with a good pair of warn jeans and my sneakers! Jeans, shirts, skirts it doesn't matter, I like dresses as much as the next girl and really wont fuss. I do not like sweats, or sweat suits however, to me they are just tacky! I would rather cotton shorts for training. I don't own hoodies, but I do steal Kyuhyun's or Key's when I get my hands on them! I own about a million shoes and I like all kinds!

​☛ Let's Talk About You

` birth name |  Tien Saia  田赛啊 
` nicknames  | Sai -- mostly by everyone around me
+ Tien Sai Ah 티엔시아  Korean Name (this is actually a real name i know it's hard to believe but he Chinese population in Korea that kept their surnames of Tien (stylized  티엔 ) ...those that chose to simulate into Korean way of life took on the last name of Jeon (stylized  전 ), because she is proud of her heritage Saia chose to leave her name Chinese... Also Sai Ah is her way of spelling it in roman...its Shia (stylized 시아 ) this translated to a Italian Sicilian word meaning River....I know this because this is my actual name...
+  Ali -- It's a nick name my mom calls me
+  Elly Myers - English name my step father renamed me when he adopted me

` birthdate    | March 15 1989
` age                 |  25 → 26
` birthplace   | Gejiu, Yunnan, China
` hometown   | San Francisco, CA, USA
` ethnicity      | Chinese 
` languages    | Mandarin-Fluent, English-Fluent, Korean-Conversational (gets words turned around all the time) Japanese-Conversational (the bare minimal)
 

☛ Good to you~

` personality |
As the world See's it.
          I've been told countless times that I'm a cold person, I am very blunt, someone who would rather be in my own wold than bother with someone else. So first impressions of me are usually all the same. Saia is a very cold woman. I don't mind this, because those who are scared off by my cold first glance don't need to be near me.
          When I speak I don't think of others emotions when I talk. Will someone be offended if I say this? That's not something I think of. I tend to speak the harsh truth and offend people rather than worrying about those around me.
          No I wont say I'm much better once you get to know me. Because I am me and I will never change, but my friends and those close to me do say I'm not so mean.
Not so hidden but not so obvious
          I am a very down to earth person. Relaxed and let it all just flow. For the most part. I like my world a set way and get aggravated when it's not that way. I get up do this do that, some says I do something random, other days I just go where the wind takes me, but for the most part I know what I'm doing and how I'm doing it.
            Those who get offended easy need to stay away from me. Those that HAVE to have it THEIR way stay away because we will clash heads and end up kill each other (Kyuhyun aside).
          When given the option I would rather be nice to someone but I am not afraid to be the if I need to be. I don't take complaining, I don't take winning, and Pouting. The only one that gets away with it is Shi Yoon, and Shi Yoon alone!
         I enjoy laughing and having fun, joking, playing, exploring, really if is fun I want to do it! When something stops being fun I'm out!
         I have been known to over work myself to the point of falling over, I don't get the word quit.
         I'm a good person to tell your troubles to because I don't blab to the next person, I've been told I'm a good listener, though I feel you are cheated because half the time I might space out.
         I am very simple and to the point I wish there was more to me but there isn't. I can play around easy, play fighting, play arguing and would rather play than express real emotions. Maybe that is my down fall? I don't know, some find it off setting but I find it easy. A good example is if I'm aggravated at someone I will roll my eyes, tell them "Well you're just being mean, if you weren't you would see I'm correct!" I'm saying this in a very serious tone, but I'm playing, it get's on others nerves. I don't cry easy as well, when I do I yell at everyone, not a good crier.
          I'm not someone that leaves it alone when I don't get my way, in the past I might have tried to come at it a different way, or talked you around it. But now I just pull out the pouting and go to town. Only twice as the pout not worked, and we don't talk about it.
          The only trouble I face is my temper, now it's not easy to get on my nerves or make me mad. It takes a special kind of person to do this. But once angry has come to the table, all bets are off. I will yell, scream, hit, insult, I am horrible. I've been told I make a Jerry Springier episode look tame.
It's ON!
          Now there is a mode I get into with work. It's ON. Do not disrupt me, do not try and alter my train of thought, do not act a fool. I will yell at you, I will get short, and I will get nasty. Work is work and there is no way around it. I take pride in my singing, when recording do not screw around I will get angry. When on a photo shoot, it's alright to have a little fun and enjoy it but do not and I mean do not disrupt the flow. In dance practice, don't fool around. There are some born with dance skills, I am not that some, so be respectful!
          This is where most feel and or get the idea that I'm a stuck up . Because I will and have gone mental on someone who was disrupting work. I don't really care how the world see's me because those close know the real me. And I'm not a fake person, if a camera is rolling I will do my best to go with the flow but to disrupt the director or be out and out rude I will be rude back and tell you what for.
` background |
 (I have everyone in here because to Saia these people mean something, she met with a bunch of others in her years spent with SM but these few listed in her mind 'changed her life' I'm not sure what you mean by 'they don't have to be there...could you explain that more to me?)

   It's not the past that makes you...
           Born the only child of a single mom of 22 years in age, most would say I didn't have a chance. My mother went against her whole family to have me, being tossed out a few months before I was born. I was born in my mothers home town of Gejiu, Yunnan, China where her whole family has lived for as long as the Tien's can remember. My mother named me Sai after her mother, and Ali because she liked the name. So Tien Sai Ali was born mid March of 1989. Two months after I was born my biological father re a business tip to Gejiu and my uncle brought me to him. My mother couldn't be separate from me so my father paid her way to the US where he lived, in hopes to give us a better life.
            I grew up in San Francisco in Old China Town. Now most would think this a really cool opportunity to me it was just life. My mom worked a million and one jobs to keep me in school, she never accepted money from my biological father, he had done enough she would always say (this is where I get the the I can do it by myself attatude, I'm sure!) . By the time I was six I knew my way around our small neighborhood, I knew almost everyone and everyone knew me, they say I was a very sociable kid, I don't think that but my mother worked three jobs and I was always there to help her when I wasn't in school.
              When I was eight everything changed, I knew my father some guy who acted weird and came around every now and then to see how we where, but my mother told me I was getting a dad. I thought I could go pick one out but she had already done that for me and right before I turned nine I got a whole knew family.
              The Myers, my new father had a son and daughter already, his daughter lived back in Texas with his ex wife and his son lived with us now. My named legally changed to Myers once he adopted me and Elly was my new name because he couldn't understand my mothers accent when writing the paperwork, or better yet the woman at the desk couldn't. We moved out of China Town, to a small duplex that really shouldn't have been where we live. The cool part about Steven was that he didn't pull me out of my school he waited for me to get out of Elementary then in middle school I moved.
            In middle school I joined the choir because I needed to do something after school, not used to my mother being a stay at home mom, and Steven said I needed more activities. That's when the trouble started, after two years in training they told me I had a good voice and convinced my parents to send me to a 'real music school' meaning, longer bus ride and snobby girls. But I took it because my parents where happy and I enjoyed singing.
            High School was like everything else, snobby girls, looser boys, awkward teenage moments, you get the picture. Only lets add on the pressure of being a singer or in a band and getting a 'real job' later. It was hell to say the least.
              I did make a few friends and manage to not totally ruin my life. When I as seventeen is when peer-pressure got the better of me and my life took off without me knowing!
It's how you define that past that makes you!
              It was just a poster, SM Entertainment is hosting tryouts. We where free that day so we got dolled up, went for the day to wait. My friends didn't get in, but me, they called me back. My mom went crazy, I had faked her signature and all. It was Steven who calmed her down and made her see reason. That's when I got an agent, singing became a job and well SM Entertainment asked me if I wanted to 'be somebody'. At sixteen you like the sound of being someone so I said yes begged my mom, owed Steven a lot of thanks and was sent to Seoul to my new life.
             What ever life I thought I was going to live in Seoul as completely not what I lived. I was dormed with three other girls, we all spoke Mandarin as a first language various levels of English and Korean. I spoke NO Korean and was forced into a school that made me speak, write, and read it. Learn and Learn fast was what my room mate Victoria said to me and I did, she helped me out on so many levels. When I wasn't humiliating myself in class or trying to get through homework. I was in dancing lessons, singing lessons, acting lessons, things I didn't even want to know about. I thought about complaining then I remembered what I had told my mother to get there.
          "I want this so bad, I want to be on that stage and feel the crowed, live in that moment."
This is Realty...right?
            So in my down moments and in those years had them, I remembered what I said. Not all was bad, I had Victoria who was way to cool to be hanging out with geek me. There was Kibum, I met him in a dance class that I just failed at. I can dance, I can learn the steps, feel the rhythm, copy moves. This teacher however felt that anyone could just know how to dance. I hated her, Kibum hated her, we all hated her, all but those who could dance. Then I met the whole reason I will never leave Korea.
              His name is Kris, we where walking down the hall at each other I was fighting with my phone as always when I dropped it like a spaz and he picked it up for me. The moment was cosmic, out fingers brushed, he smiled and AH! that man is the man of my dreams and I decided in that moment to forever be where ever he was. Kibum of cores says I need to stop watching drams, Victoria was no help and told Kris that I kinda had a crush on him. He smiles at me and I just melt.
               Anyway  I also met my best friend. I can call him that because I think he knows more about me than I know of me. Cho Kyuhyun, now most who hear, "Saia is friends with Kyuhyun" will stop ask if that was said right and then laugh. We are to opposite people, but for some reason, this man I hate and I mean hate! Is my best friend and closet companion.
               Finally eighteen came and I got leave to go home for a few weeks, under prompting from the company, and Kyuhyun because he's so damn helpful. I legally changed my name from Elly Myers to Saia Tien. This aggravated my parents to no end and I returned to Korea early because of the fighting. Training became a thing I did no matter what, when I was sleepy, when I was board, when I had a million things to do. It was my life.
             Kyuhyun and Kibum debut and I cheered, my friends all kept going places and I stayed there. My dancing wasn't good enough, my vocals not strong enough. Really I kept working hard because I started to dream of that moment on stage.
Well it looks like it babe! Wait you are?...
            It all started to fall into place after a photo shoot with Kibum, a CF with Kibum and suddenly BAM! I had work and a million things to do. I was attending school for a fine arts major, working full time as a model, training twice as hard, I had CF's, photo shoots, clothing companies, hair magazines, beauty companies. It was all so much, but with ever flash of the camera I felt myself grow stronger. (this doesn't mean she's popular, just that she had work, or that she had something to do instead of waiting rolling on the floor thinking life would go nowhere, kinda like the ulzzangs...)
           Twenty came and I started to worry, with f(x)'s debut and me not going anwyhere... as well a few girls where being let go that came when I came, even some girls that came after me. Kyuhyun told me I was gold, I had talent and I brought in money on my shoots and CF's so I shouldn't worry. But you know how it goes.
            Then came a shoot for some summer wear, I can't remember and I met the most annoying person I have ever met. He called himself Yoon Shi Yoon. He was hot and cold I swear he is bipolar. Joking one moment then serious the next. He had me laughing so I think we where alright. He laughed freely as well, I'm not sure how we managed to get through the shoot without me killing him but we did.
            Life went on, but not the same way. I found myself in few more shoots and a CF with this Yoon guy. I think Kyuhyun laughed the hardest when I told him how this guy beat me with the pout. I was so aggravated, then Kyuhyun had to be a total and I was stuck on the phone with him.
             It's funny how late night phone calls turn into late night coffee talks, or how you find even if it's annoying you want to strangle that person you know you can't be without them. Seven months with Shi Yoon and then the epic fight happened the fight that would change my life.
                Becuase of being yelled at by a teacher I was sent to more dancing classes, one included some members of EXO to help pump up the tirainee's dive...then Kris offered to get me coffee. It was late at night we had a million more things to do, and wait KRIS ASKED WHO WANTS COFFEE! Hell to the yah! I want coffee! I offered to help him carry back all the cups. We joked and laughed, made small talk, it was the first time ever that he wasn't running away from me. Shi Yoon came across us and I was star struck by Kris I wasn't paying attention. Shi Yoon grabbed me I dropped coffee, Kris tried to get between us and if I live a thousand years I never want to see Shi Yoon look so angry again.
             To my credit I didn't know we where dating, to Kris's credit he didn't know what the hell was going on, to Shi Yoon's we had been talking and chatting for seven months even shared a kiss or two... So the screaming, the scene that happened next was no ones complete fault. I turned away, done! going home!, I didn't feel like dealing with anything and Shi Yoon screamed at me that I couldn't walk away we where dating and I needed to deal with it now. The next week was spent apologizing to Kris over and over, it was bad he went back to running away.
            Life turned to the every day after that, dancing, singing, flashing cameras, hearing sorry not this time, tryouts, punching Kyuhyun, stalking Kris, laughing my off with Kibum, rolling my eyes at Shi Yoon.
               My dream is not gone and I fight for it every day. I want to be there center stage, belting out, the crowd cheering, the music around me. That's what I want.

` likes |
● food, ah I love food and eating out!
● coffee, coffee, coffee
● playing the guitar
● dramas, I watch a lot of them
● KRIS!! I have posters, stalk and follow..
● animals, especially baby animals, they are just fun!
● kids, for some reason they are a joy, also you can hand them back to their parents
● riding the bus, it's like an adventure, I like going places
● pandas, how can you not like them! and also yoon has a thing for them!
● cooking, maybe because I like food I love to learn how to make it and share with everyone! .
` dislikes  |
● my phone, the thing is evil and out to get me!~
● the cold, can't stand it! I just feel miserable in it.
● people who wine or complain, because really it gets you no where
● Cho Kyuhyun, that should explain itself!
● Yoon's word game, he does it on purpose to make me look stupid!
● being told I can't sing, because I know I can!
● when someone yells at me, who really likes being yelled at?
● pouting -death glares shi yoon-
● bratty girls, come on really? are we children here?
● ignorance because there is no excuse for it.
` hobbies |
● guitar definitely I love it and even have my own, electric and acoustic.
● writing songs, it's calming to just get things down.
● doddling, a mindless task that is amazing.
● reading, I love to read and I'm crazy about it, much like Shi Yoon, always have a book handy.
● coming up with ways to stalk Kris, it's sad I know.
` habits     |
● playing with my hair, I am always doing it.
● chewing my lips when I'm nervous
● pulling gout the pout to get what I want, I know it's horrible but I blame Shi Yoon for teaching it to me.
● putting in earphones when I got to bed, if I'm not with Shi Yoon, I can't sleep other wise
● tapping/drumming my fingers while I wait
● spacing out, I will just randomly leave this world and get lost in my mind.
● riding the bus, it's calming for me and I can clear my head
● saying the wrong words, I'm still tripped up on Korean and I will simply say the Chinese word or English word when I get flustered
● rolling my eyes, I do it at everything.
● saying what on my mind, I'm very blunt about a lot of things.
● talking to much, some people have to tell me to shut up
● play hitting people, I don't hurt them but it offends some.
● I am always eating something sweet. ALWAYS have it on me!
` trivia      |
● I am a model for fashion, beauty, and hair lines
● I was in Shinee's hello MV
● I was a back up dancer for EXO for a bit
● I can ply the guitar and piano
● Can't drive and dont' like to be in cars
● Never learned to ride a bike
● I have Kyuhyun's social memorized so I can threaten him with failing a lawsuit or give it to the fans
● I have a locked file in my phone that is all Kris photos and will look at them at random moments
● I don't watch Yoon's dramas because I can't stand seeing him with other women
● My goal is to one day go to cooking school.
● Even though I officially live in SM dorms I spend at least six nights at my apartment with Yoon, when he is in town.
● Instead of going to the doctors I will use old Chinese treatments to cure myself
● I have a puppy her name is cupcake
● I enjoy slow soft mellow songs
● My fan club is called sweet hearts because of my obsession with sweets and handing them out.
● I've cos-played as HyunA and she commented that I'm good.