Tag Archives: eye-candy

25 Oct

arm candy

Who taught: Jake and Andrew

arm candy

arm candy

It’s getting closer to Halloween. There are a few things that accompany Halloween. What are they? In my opinion, they are kids and candies. In Halloween evening, kids walk around to trick-or-treat. As a result, they all get candies. I have bought some candies for that.

Before I get into today’s expression part, let me ask a question. What do you think when you see candies? They are hard to resist, right? Even looking at them makes you happy and smile. Don’t you agree? That is the feeling you should have for today’s expression. Keep that feeling!

Yesterday, Jake texted me to let me know an expression that Andrew just learned. How cool is it that I get to learn one that my American friend just got to know?

It was “arm candy.” When I saw Jake’s text with this expression, the first thing I thought about was this, “eye candy.” So, it was not that hard for me to have some feeling about this expression. You know what I mean. I knew that it would be something about an attractive person. Then, my question was “what’s up with ‘arm’ part here?”

If there is a candy that is physically attached to my arm, then that would be my arm candy. But, we know candy here means an attractive person.

Let’s think about a situation where you have a girlfriend who is very attractive and you go to a big party with her. (Assuming you are a boy.) You would most probably show up arm-in-arm. There it is. She is your arm candy.

So, would Jessy be my arm candy? Is it OK for me to call Jessy my arm candy? I am not sure. Honestly, I am not sure how I would feel if Jessy calls me her arm candy. Well, at least that means I look attractive. Hopefully!

What do you think? Do you want to be someone’s arm candy? Or, do you have your arm candy?

05 Jul

eye-candy

Who taught : Ari

When there was a team programming competition in my company, my team name was “IO Candy.” Well, IO stands for information optimization that my company’s technology is focusing on. When I heard of it, I did not really feel anything special about the name, I just thought…. you know… something sweet for information optimization.

Eye-candy

Then, a few days ago, Jessy, Alex, Ari, Juan and I went to a frozen yogurt place where we got into a discussion about different cultural aspects of different countries. When Jessy and I first got here, I was mainly in school whereas Jessy had some free time to walk around. One day, she found out that there is a park near to University of Pittsburgh and a lot of students enjoy sunshine whenever the weather is great. By enjoying, I mean some of the female students wear bikini, lying on the grass. Interestingly, Jessy did the same thing and I did not know that. Honestly, I do not like her doing it. When I talked about that story, Ari told me that I should understand it and in Germany, people even got bolder so that some of the ladies are topless in some parks when the weather is really good. I was actually shocked when I heard it. In Korea, no people would wear bikini or be topless in any park. If you would, I am pretty sure you would get arrested. Discussing about this, Ari told me there is a good expression American people use. Eye-candy!! Definition of it is “someone who is pleasing to look at!” Who would be a good example? Oh…. I know who is really pleasing to look at. I can see him all day long. It is me! Don’t you agree?

While she was telling me this expression, she said, “You know, everyone should have the right to enjoy eye-candy. Don’t you think?” Well, I guess I agree with her. But I still feel like wearing bikini in park is almost like me wearing speedo, lying on the grass. Am I being too sensitive here? After hearing this expression, I actually thought about the name of my team for the competition. It has very similar sound, isn’t it? IO-candy vs Eye-candy. So, I wonder whether my friends in my company thought about eye-candy when they heard my team name. Even more, when we, as team members, talked about our team name, did we intend to make it to be similar to eye-candy? Is it, Julie, Kara and James? Very curious!