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I woke up somewhat after 4:30 with a mild stomachache. Arthur and Flo both get stomach ick when they have colds. COVID IS NOT A COLD. But yes, snot is the common denominator between my current condition and a cold. While I was sucking on a Tums (which helped), I started looking up the birthdays of various members of Stray Kids, to follow up on a line of inquiry from the previous day. Background - the slightly complicated system of what to call older sibs in Korean is based on gender of each person involved. Those names can be used for metaphorical sibs as well, and sometimes as endearments in other ways. At any rate, Stray Kids and Twice are both employed by the same company and are acquainted. Chris Bahng, oldest member of SK, has referred to the Twice members as "big sisters" even though he is older than some of them. So I started wondering percentage-wise how old the average SK is compared to the average Twice member. Then I noticed that the years-old math is about to look different, because three of the eight SK members were born in about the same week in 2000 - Han on September 14, Felix* on September 15, and Seungmin on September 22. What is it about September? Two BTS members also have September birthdays, including Kim Namjoon tomorrow. I realized that I don't remember the general time of year for any specific Zodiac sign other than mine, although I have a vague idea of Arthur's and think that maybe this time of year is either Libra or Virgo. I am not going to look it up, because I don't care, but the reason it flitted past in my head to start with was that maybe some people would give that answer about why September is special.
The simplified answer to my original question is that even the youngest Twice member (Tzuyu) is older than all but two of the Stray Kids and the four oldest are older than all Stray kids (The birthday of Nayeon from Twice is also September 22, but 1995). So older sisters makes sense.
[Edited to add:
I skipped the Chicago trip to see Stray kids in person due to my Covid worries. If I had known that exactly a month later I'd catch it on a regular random day doing my usual stuff, would I have gone? Yes, but I didn't have a crystal ball, so I didn't know. In terms of predicting the future, I wish I had skipped the outing to Spectacle Island, because I did something to injure my left big toe while walking on rocks on the beach and it still hurts. Or at least decided to avoid the beach.]
* Felix was born and grew up in Sydney, Australia, but his parents were originally Korean and he has a Korean middle name, 용복 which is Romanized as Yongbok. I often get tripped up by trying to break down Korean words into their component parts. A Korean friend of Arthur's thought it was hilarious when I pointed out that one of the words for fish literally seems to mean water meat. Names don't necessarily have to mean anything, but Yongbok broken down in a similar way might mean Dragon luck. I typed it into my online Korean to English dictionary and the translation it gave me was FELIX (yes, in all caps). That's fame.
The simplified answer to my original question is that even the youngest Twice member (Tzuyu) is older than all but two of the Stray Kids and the four oldest are older than all Stray kids (The birthday of Nayeon from Twice is also September 22, but 1995). So older sisters makes sense.
[Edited to add:
I skipped the Chicago trip to see Stray kids in person due to my Covid worries. If I had known that exactly a month later I'd catch it on a regular random day doing my usual stuff, would I have gone? Yes, but I didn't have a crystal ball, so I didn't know. In terms of predicting the future, I wish I had skipped the outing to Spectacle Island, because I did something to injure my left big toe while walking on rocks on the beach and it still hurts. Or at least decided to avoid the beach.]
* Felix was born and grew up in Sydney, Australia, but his parents were originally Korean and he has a Korean middle name, 용복 which is Romanized as Yongbok. I often get tripped up by trying to break down Korean words into their component parts. A Korean friend of Arthur's thought it was hilarious when I pointed out that one of the words for fish literally seems to mean water meat. Names don't necessarily have to mean anything, but Yongbok broken down in a similar way might mean Dragon luck. I typed it into my online Korean to English dictionary and the translation it gave me was FELIX (yes, in all caps). That's fame.
