To-Do

I guess Thanksgiving isn't a big thing.

Stay awake people, don't drift off into sadness and loneliness.

I wanna talk about free time, when working full time, there is not much free time left after, working, getting to and from work, dishes, household chores, sleeping, occasional fights with squirrels who think they have a right to live in your apartment rent-free, laundry and other such chores.

What happens with this free time. This is actually the only time you completely control in what you want to do and most of the time I fill it up by watching crappy TV shows, some interesting documentaries and surf the insane-flash filled-blog ridden-pop ups- waves of the Internet.

This time needs to be spent more usefully and I come up with grandiose ideas to use this time at work and I create long to-do lists which somehow get forgotten when I sit down in my chair in front of my computer.

Again to you, what do you do in your free time and what do you feel you should do?

Thanksgiving and Thanksgetting

This Thursday it will be Thanksgiving here in the USA and I guess that small weird island group of Hawaii too.

So we have been complaining so much lately, but what are we gratefull about? What do we appreciate about our lives?

the 27 club

Soon we'll have to change the name. Damn it!!

Minx and I are turning 28 in December, and the rest of you guys are also turning 28 soon....
What's scary is though... in Korean age, we are 30. Thirty years old!

When did we get aged this fast? Although... I feel less pressure about age these days though. But still... still.... it's so unfair. How can it be 30?

Any one wants to go to the National Assembly or a Court in Korea to petition against this?


Got so much to do - it's good in a way to get my mind focused on something.
One thing at a time, otherwise I might go crazy.

Quarter Life Crisis

Wasabi Peeps,

I really think it is a quarter life crisis. It just tough to decide the right direction we want to take our lives in. Not just career wise but also “location” wise” creating own family” wise “keeping in touch with friends” wise it’s a very crazy dynamic period filled with opportunities yet doubts.

Actually it’s a bit of a luxury problem since in the old days and in allot of areas in the world people don’t have choices. They just finish school and work to support their family or stay at home and take care of the home and pop out some babies and have to forget about their dreams and desires. But we can choose and we should. Like I say allot it is very easy to take the path that society (parents, friends) expects from you, to take the high paying attractive pressure filled job even though it may not be your dream just because that’s how they (parents , friends, your own pride) perceive your success. In the end though it all comes down to what makes you happy because there is only one person who is living your life and has to deal with your issues.

My issue for the last few years has just been finding a direction. I don’t know what to do career wise. I do not want to be sitting in a cubicle working on financials or doing marketing research even though people around me think I am good at it. I want to be creative in an creative environment with energetic creative people around me. But I can’t just figure out what I should do.
That’s also another point that Sooyoung mentioned earlier. Happiness is all about your own perspective but before I get into that I have to state though that the people you surround yourself with help influence your perspective. If you are hanging around negative complaining people al the time you will become so, maybe not by choice but subconsciously. So it is really important to find the right people to spent time with if you are around negative colleagues.

Happiness is all about perspective though. All about internal view, how in the end it is just a choice of looking at things and feeling happy. Most people equate happiness with external surroundings, money, perfect partner, perfect place to live, people who admire you. But this does not really matter in the end. That’s why there are some garbage man in the world that are some of the happiest people in the world and some celebrities or their kids who try to commit suicide because of horrible they are feeling. Just because it seems like somebody has it all doesn’t mean they are happy. Only you can make yourself happy and now. I used to think that once I get this amount of money and this skill in photography and this amount of friends to hang out with then I will be completely happy, but that’s wrong, there is a big chance that perfect situation will never happen and maybe once it happens I change and would rather be alone, I would rather have the choice myself to make myself happy at any point in life.

So in the end figure out your role, what you would like to do and then take the steps to get there. Once you have a goal to where you want to be its easy to get motivated and work towards that. As for myself I still need to find that role/goal.

Where do you want to go?

Glorious Return

Welcome Peeps and Peepettes,

Pink Mandu is back !

Were your days filled with sadness and gloom and did the sky turn grey everytime you walked out your door?

No More my Friends for Pink Mandu has returned.

So lets enlighten each other, inform each other challenge each other and more importantly lets send some money to Nestor just for being Nestor. Isn't that what its all about?

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Minky so what else are you doing besides job hunting ?

And is the US the only possibility you would consider. What about Europe ? South America ? Do some volunteer work for a few months ?

I am still floating around here, trying to see what other options I have here.

Unstable

Hiya peeps...It's been awhile since i last posted eh?
So next week sunmi and sooyoung will be arriving in Korea... can't u belive how time flies?? craziness...

i'm back in dry land...(aka Korea), searching for Kindergarten jobs.. not easy as many of the kindergartens are not employing new teachers as of now...hmmmm
anyhow... besides that ...nothing is new... no guy in my life...no job... oh gawd.. how sad can it get!?? hahahahahah
but i started bikhram yoga.. (hot yoga)...basically, you're doing yoga in a room that is 40 degrees celsius...so you sweat like a pig.. great workout...great for the mind and body..hahahah

anyhow....i really wish there was something interesting to tell you guys... but i'm the same...everything is just so bland...

so nesty...looking for options other than the US? i'm sure everything will work out! ^^

one last sakura

Sakura is almost gone now which means the time to leave has come.. It is sad but on the one hand I am
quite excited going back to Korea.
Now face the music !!! back to reality.

Odi odi odi odi

Wasabi people ?

I have been m.i.a. because my parents were visiting me. I took my first 2 days off during my internship and took them to Washington DC to meet mr. Bush, but he didnt show up and I took them all the way up north to Canada to watch some water fall down a cliff ( niagara falls).
What have you guys been up to.

And Quetal, Canada wasn't as bad as I imagined it to be ; )

Out to sea

While I was looking for screencaps I came across this picture which I thought was nice

This is crazy, the tragedy in VT..

"An air of unreality hangs over the small town of Blacksburg, home of Virginia Tech University and scene of the worst gun rampage in US history. "

This is a truly tragic event, reminded me the movie, "Elephant....," another tragic event happend in High school in US.

This whole accident made me wonder why this kinda tragedy had happend. Was it preventable? Was it just because of gunman's own individual problem or it's rather casued by socio-problems?

It's too shocking ....that not only the scale of those who were died, but also it was done by ethnic Korean. I cannot believe that just happened. All I could do is praying for the victims and their families.

Below website is where you can send our condolescene to those who lost their beloved one.. oh god...this is insane.
http://rosa.hosting.vt.edu/index.php/memorial/N50/

Is that what youre thinking minky ?

F' Y eah !

Na

Self portrait taken for my last class assignment.

Old School

Subject: greetings earthlings~

Odi odi odi odi

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the good ol' dayz~

those were the good old days.. i was rummaging through my pics and found this one!

i luv it!!!!

Movies i want to see within the next 2 weeks

300
music and lyrics
dream girls

can u believe i haven't seen a movie in like.... 3 months??? gee~