비노와 사촌 진의 고양이 오리오 beno w/ kaela's cousin jean's kitten oreo
오후 539p: 오늘이 2004년의 첫날예요. 어떠세요? 새해복 많이 받으세요. 오늘 아침에 아름다운 캐이라 황 떡만두국을 만드렀어요. 맜있어요. 칠면조의고기 만두였어요. 소고기 돼지고기 않았어요. 캐이라 정말 수고 했어요. 우리의 친구 쥬리 같이 먹었어요. 우리의집에서 먹었어요. 539p: 2day's the 1st day'f 2004. how r u? happy new yr. this morn, the beautiful kaela hwang cooked dduhkmandoogook. it was delicious. it was turkey mandoo. it wasn't beef or pork. kaela really werked hard. our friend julie ate w/ us. we ate @ our house.
어제밤에 우리의 친구 브라인 정의 집 새해 파티 갔어요. 어, 사실은 처음에 저의 아버지와 수와 그라이스와 스티브와 메이슨같이 저녁식사를 먹었어요. 우리가 호움타운 뷔페에서 만났어요. 그때 가족이 우리집 방문했어요. 새로운 호움타운 뷔페 한개 우리집 가까이에 있어요. 지금 막 열었어요. 약2주전이었어요. 어쩼든 그다음에 브라인의 새해 파티에 갔어요. 쥬리가 우리같이 갔어요. 그리고 나중에 우리의 친구 제이슨이 파티에서 우리를 만났어요. 나중에 제이슨와 쥬리는 우리같이 우리의집에 돌아왔어요. last nite, we went to our friend brian chung's new yr's party. uh, aktually, 1st we went to dinner w/ my dad, sue, grace, steve, n' mason. we met @ hometown buffet. then they visited our house. a new hometown buffet opened right by our house. it just opened. that was like 2 weeks 'go. neway, after that, we went to brian's new yr's party. julie went w/ us. also, our friend jason met us there. later, julie n' jason came back to our house.
작년의 남은 것 last yr's leftover:
1115p: of course, i'm not used to writing "2004" instead'f 2003 quite yet. 2dasy, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i got a very late start to the day. we went to ikea to buy a couch, which'll be delivered 2morrow, then to the gym, n' then to safeway marketplace @ the rivermark. i don't think i'm just "trying to be cute" by saying "safeway marketplace @ the rivermark." i believe the sign aktually sez that. that's a recent trend w/ safeway n' new urbanism, which i noticed both in the sobay n' in sf. heh, u c, on new yr's eve / new yr's (late nite / early morn), jason n' i sort'f discussed the idea'f whether or not the silly valley's ne less'f a suburb than orange county n' ne more'f a metropolis, etc. of course, i know that san jo is not as metropolitan as sf. 'member my big rant 'bout this on bronx's junkyard forums, where hyun really tried to tease me hard 'bout the whole "san jo: suburb or city?" issue. ppl know that'll get me talking! ha. funny: right now, on korean tv (channel 28), i'm watching some dokumentary 'bout the tech industry, n' right now they're talkin' 'bout the silly valley n' agilent technologies. whenever they have news footage'f tech industry stuff, now, i always look 4 my company's produkts cos i know that virtually every chip in the world is made w/ equipment that my company makes. neway, i digress!!! it's interesting that i have cn "new urbanism in both sf n' san jo / santa clara / etc. u c, new urbanism is sort'f a modern day reaktion 'gainst suburban sprawl. young professionals 'round my age don't want the ho.hum suburban life, thus they want sumpthin' more urban. critics'f new urbanism'll say that new urbanist communities r very artificial; n' yah, they have a pt. however, it's funny to c that not only do young ppl look down 'pon suburban sprawl; they also find new urbanism to be more convenient than ol' fashioned real urbanism. the real, original urban communities'f sf r 2 real 4 some yuppies 2day, apparently. thus yah... there r some new urbanist communities in sf that have safeways that say "safeway @ blah blah blah," etc. safeway n' albertson's r battling 4 territory in these new urbanist communities.
uh, by the end'f 2004 u'll want me to shuda#!!@% up 'bout this whole "new urbanism" thing; it'll be ur most despised wurd. ha ha. oh yah, 'bout my list'f things i grew very annoyed w/ 'bout 2003... i sed: "some unnecessarily overused terms in 2003: 1) outsourcing, 2) metrosexual, male, 3) recall elektion / governator, 4) weapons of mass destruction, 5) paris hilton, 6) las vegas, 6) wingman, 7) fo' shizzle, izzay, etc. 8) rustic /artisan;" but i 4got to add "ashton kutcher." l man! that guy got way more exposure than he deserved last yr! speaking'f ashton kutcher, last nite @ julie's, we watched charlie's angels 2: full throttle (which has ashton's gf demi moore). we also watched bruce almighty.
these days, we do watch korean tv on channel 28, n' i like it. i think pops in seoul is on 2nite. i think ppl w/ cable n' the int'l channel know 'bout pops in seoul. hrm... it's still the dokumentary 'bout the tech industry. it's totally sumpthin' i'd watch in 1'f my classes. 1'f my profs always used to show dokumentaries like this 0.5way thru our long class as a break. she'd usually just show part'f a dokumentary cos'f the lack'f time. neway, we watch several shows on channel 28, such as nonstop, in your eyes, n' uh... that drama w/ kim minjong, where he plays a filmmaker... oh yah! it's called 진주 목걸이 (pearl necklace).
yesterday nite, we went to julie's apt. she made dinner 4 us, we watched those movies, n' we ate some roll cake from sogo bakery @ lion market. sogo bakery's such a good bakery!
i can't believe my almost 2 week vakation from werk's almost over! on mon, i return to werk. i only have 1 weekend left. altho' i go back to werk on mon, i'm still estatically happy that skool doesn't resume till later this month. auh, it's such a nice break not to hafta werk 10-12 hr days n' then try to study or go to class, etc.
1217a: yesterday was sat, n' now it's teknically sat, but u know how i am 'bout those things: it's really still sat nite in my mind. on sat, i woke up in the morn, went to rite.aid, went to costco, went to big k (kmart) which is closing down, went to hangook market, n' went home. later, toby n' betty came down. we went to lunch @ tk noodles on stevens creek blvd, over by de anza. we went to sogo bakery to get a green tea mousse cake. we went back home. toby n' betty came in. brian chong came over to return a scarf to me that i left @ his house during his new yr's eve party. i joked 'bout how that's the kind'f thing gurls do to guys that they like. ha ha ha. well, the afternoon w/ rush rush, n' the beautiful kaela hwang n' i went over to my mom's place 4 hot pot w/ grace, steve, n' mason. it's crazy: mason can really talk now. i mean, of course, he's not like a big orator yet, but he's expressing some'f his opinions 'bout eating n' what's fun n' what's yucky, etc.
after dinner, kaela n' i filled up my car w/ some'f our garbage from my mom's house n' brought it back. oh yah, @ my mom's house, we ate the green tea mousse cake. we dropped off dvds @ blockbuster on the way home. then we unloaded the car n' headed off to fremont to meet up w/ fahad, but i couldn't get ahold'f him on his cell n' didn't know how to get to his house, so we eventually just had to go home. [later, after a shower] 1247a: yah, now i've showered.
2day/2morrow's sun. that means we go to church. that means, on mon, i return to werk. have i toldju? during this whole 2 wk hiatus from werk, i've just kept having nitemares 'bout skool; i kept having bad dreams 'bout skool.
2nite, after we came home, we watched 진주 목걸이
(jinjoo mokguhli, pearl necklace).
오후 1006p: 오늘 저는 직장에 돌아갔어요. 오늘 월요일예요. 2day, i went back to werk. 2day's mon. 지금 아름다운 캐이라 황 하고 같이 아브래즈 조우 2을 봐요. now, i'm watching average joe 2 w/ the beautiful kaela hwang. i never talked 'bout average joe (1), but i should have... if i hadn't been so bizzy back then. it was obviously the most publicised tv show'f 2003, n' well... altho' i don't really condone trash tv; i gotta admit it was ok n' brought up a sort'f interesting issue... n' it did so much better than mr. personality or whatever that show was where the guys wore masks. u c, that show sort'f had no pt cos it was s'ppose to make the bachelorette pick a guy based on personality n' not looks, but... u could tell certain things 'bout the guys' appearances thru their masks, such as their height, weight, build, (to some extent) ethnicity, etc. the average joe 1 was pretty kewl cos, yah, the guys were pretty interesting... well, some were... n' yet, in the end the bachelorette (or whatever i should call her) on the show still picked the so.called "good looking" guy over the "average joe." personally, i believe good looking ppl can also have good personalities, so i think that it's fine that she picked the so.called "Good looking guy." furthermore, the final "average joe," Wasn't avg as he was a millionaire, n'... geez, i think those folks @ nbc did their best to rig the game so the sekret millionaire'd be pitted 'gainst the "pretty boy," u know? well... in the end, it's all just trash tv, n' nbc's refusing to yield to fox this season... that's all. oh well.
i saw a kewl article on the silicon valley metro website: "Arrested Development: One year closer to the mallification of Silicon Valley" all the recent developments in post.internet.boom san jo that i like, other ppl critise; n' i totally appreciate that they offer an opposing opinion! check out this quote: "But if you're a south San Josean, you no longer need to drive to Valley Fair. Instead, you can visit the renovated Westfield Shoppingtown Oakridge Mall, which now looks like Valley Fair. Yes, Oakridge--that old-school San Jose mall--the one we all rode the 27 down Blossom Hill to visit when we were teenagers; the one whose dumpy theater let us sneak into R-rated movies; the one that housed such suburban perfection as the Time Zone arcade, Music Land, Taco Villa and Bullock's--has now gone the way of upscale monstrosities like Valley Fair." i like valley fair, i like santana row, i like rivermark, i like the new oakridge. however, i realise some ppl consider these places 2 artificial. u know, i've already spent a good chunk'f my life in the urban jungles'f bezerkeley. i enjoyed it 4 all it was worth. furthermore, i wasn't 1'f those homebody berkeley students who didn't explore sf. i exploited berkeley's proximity to sf n' enjoyed the cosmopolitan landscape it offered. i do know what true metroplises r n' am not a person who grew up in a suburb n' only know suburbs n' not real cities. other ppl, who grew up in my time or b4, when san jo was more just a suburb'f san francisco, some 50 miles south, still wish that san jo had more urban grunge, more'f that fragrance'f ppl's peeing on the street, etc. :-/ sure, if i'd never lived newhere but suburbs, i might've ended up w/ this complex'f wishing my hometown'f san jo had more'f that kewlness faktor that comes w/ urine soaked streets, etc. eh, as long as the silicon valley maintains or else increases its level'f "liberalness" in its politiks, i'm fine. sure, we've now got nicer things, but 4 the most part, as a city or region, we've managed to "keep it real." 1nce i start noticing that we're not "keepin' it real," i'll be pi$$ed; n' yah, @ that pt, i'd prefer that ppl peed in the streets just like they do on telegraph ave. u know how it is 'round here? in the silly valley, u do find mansions. however, u don't find so many "gated communities." supermike n' i 1nce discussed how awful gated communities r. gated communities separate the rich from the poor n' create hostility. just think: if u build a gated community, that just means u, as a filthy rich person, r just gonna get jumped by the angry, poor ppl on the other side'f the gate 1nce u leave ur gated community. in urban areas, where there rn't so many gates or land btwn the rich n' poor areas, i think rich ppl r better 'bout taking care'f the community, u know? after all, sf n' nyc have lots'f rich ppl n' very hi co$ts'f living, yet the ppl, 4 the most part, vote 4 gov't that takes care'f every1, not just the privileged. neway, my pt is that i do like valley fair, santana row, rivermark, n' the new oakridge; but i totally appreciate these newspaper columnists / authors who present their opposing view. that's totally kewl by me.
yesterday was my last free day b4 returning to werk. i was glad i sort'f made it to church cos, yah, that's how i wanted to spend my last free day; receiving some spiritual enlightenment. however, i got to church very late. 'round 945a (church begins @ 950a), i received a fon call from ikea's delivery service midnite express. the woman on the fon asked me to clarify the time i wanted our coach to be delivered. we had selekted the 400 - 800p time slot on the form while @ ikea, but the woman sed she had it down as "400 - 800a." ?:-o huh?! who the heck'd want their furniture delivered @ 400a?!?! well, sure, the company's called "midnite express, but... whuh?! neway, i clarified 400 - 800p. then she sed that the delivery truck was in our area right then, so they wanted to come earlier. i sed after 1200p'd be fine. then she called the driver, n' he sed that they had to be back @ the warehouse by 1230p, so they had be come over w/in 30 mins. whuh?! well, i was sort'f happy to get the couch early, so i agreed to it. i told kaela to go off to church 1st w/o me n' then i'd come join her. the driver arrived sometime after 1000a. he apologised n' sed he'd thought he had our couch in his truck but didn't. i called up the delivery company, n' they sed they just had to deliver it on mon (2nite) instead 400 - 800p. well, 2day @ werk, i got a call 'round noon. it was a truck driver 4 ikea's delivery service company, n' he sed he wanted to drop off the couch soon cos he was in the area. eh, i agreed to it n' went home just a li'l b4 100p to meet him. we got our couch. now, we have plenty'f furniture.
on sat nite, this past weekend, after having hot pot w/ my mom, grace, steve, n' mason, we tried to meet fahad @ his family's home in fremont, but i couldn't contact him n' didn't know exaktly how to get to his family's house, so we had to give up after driving a bit 'round fremont..
2nite, after werk, i werked out @ the company gym a li'l. i've been trying to lift more weights these days. i dunno; since it's winter, it just cms right to do more weightlifting rather than cardio. *shrug*
651p: i've wanted to keep u better updated, but i've been, of course, very bizzy. i reached a big milestone accomplishment thingy @ werk 2day, so i'm happy. sumpthin' i've been werking @ 4 the past coupl'f months or so got done... it felt good to hear "congratulations." yah, i was very happy.
these days, all my $$$ goes to the house n' house things like furniture. i dunno; what did i spend my $$$ on in the past? snowboarding?
[later] 1011p: i came home from taekwondo sparring practice a while 'go, almost an hr 'go. i put 2gether a bookshelf we got @ target. it's a dark brown, wooden bookshelf. i guess it's nice; but it does feel weird to spend my $$$ only on furniture... not like i should try to spend more $$$ newhere, but it's just not my usual thing, right? or am i just maturing? @ the same time, i gotta admit: sometimes it is fun to put furniture 2gether. it's sort'f like building model aeroplanes or sumpthin'. maybe this is just what yuppies do; altho' i'd never call myself a yuppie. i thought i was 1nce 2 hip to be a yuppie, wasn't i? <:-( yuppies r the kind'f ppl who get bagged on in the silicon valley metro n' maybe in the sf bay area guardian or sf weekly, etc. those r all good papers, i think. *shrug* then 'gain... what do i know? u should ask some1 more knowledgeable 'bout print journalism, like phil.
well, taekwondo sparring practice was fun. considering i haven't sparred in ages n' haven't been doing taekwondo much over this "winter break," i was surprised @ how much i could still move 'round. we had guests: mark's friend ernest n' his gf joyce (they came b4, n' we went to eat @ korea house on el camino near san tomas), n' this dude lawrence that i talked to on tues on the fon cos he was 1nce from berkeley taekwondo. right now, i'm eating jjajangbap, which the beautiful kaela hwang cooked. i can't type in korean right now cos i'm telnetting in n' typing this. i guess i could've typed it in notepad n' ftped it up to the server. neway, i'm on kaela's 'puter right now cos my 'puter's really messed up. i even bought a new 450w power supply 4 it 4 really cheap on ebay, but it's still being fussy. *sigh* tech troubles... i don't have time to deal w/ 'em! this jjajangbap's very good. i don't think kaela put zucchini in it, altho' i did buy some 4 this from safeway, the last time we went to the nice safeway marketplace @ the rivermark.
oh, hey! i wanna thank antonia 4 signing my gbook. that was back on 2004.01.04; i've aktually put up a new set'f gbook qs since then. please sign the new version! :-)
last monthversary, i took kaela to emile's, a french restaurant in downton san josé, perhaps the nicest french restaurant in san jo. *shrug* we had their prix fixe dinner 4 the nite, n' it was very good. they had this split pea soup @ the beginning that was just totally unlike ne other. sure, we all like andersen's split pea off the 5, but man! this soup was really good! it tasted so fresh. well, hey, i wrote a review on dine.com, so why don'tchu just read that:
last nite's prix fixe included a wonderfully done split pea soup, a asian.fusion style grouper w/ daikon sprouts n' tobiko "caviar, " a bacon wrapped medallion of beef w/ some kind'f cute, fried potato, n' a pear cornucopia'f veggies, a gruyere cheese mixed greens salad, n' a grand marniere soufe. it was great! i gotta say: the portions in san jo restaurants r much bigger than portions in san francisco restaurants. altho' san jo is hardly a suburb nemore w/ its downtown nitelife n' "new urbanist" communities, i think the co$t'f living's still a li'l less, so we maybe cling on to the suburban ideas'f quantity in cuisine; altho' we don't have a claim jumper here or nething.
oh! so that's what i wasted my $$$ on b4 i started $pending it on furniture n' home stuff, eh? *shrug* well... that was a special occasion, it's being our monthversary n' christmas n' all... u 'member that i didn't really totally feel like i gave kaela a christmas present this yr: i bought her her new palm zire 71 like in nov or so... n' she sed it was ok if that was her christmas present. well, ok... but i wanted to take her to a nice dinner 2, u know? if i weren't wasting my $$$ on furniture n' homestuff; maybe i'd be trying to buy a nice 'puter or sumpthin' since mine stinks so badly right now. 4 months, i've talked 'bout how much i've wanted to buy a bike, so i wouldn't hafta drive to werk, but that just never happens. i've pondered buying weights (4 exercise), but really... that's not a smart move cos it's just better to go to the gym: u'll be more motivated; n' if u hurtchurself, there'll be ppl to take care'f u.
oh yah! on sat, kaela
n' i r gonna teach taekwondo @ a local korean skool! isn't that funny?
heh. it's cos ben was s'pposed to do it 4 shim sabuhmnim, but ben's
gotta go do his army reserve duties; so well... we'll do it!
morn: last nite or else early this morn, i woke up in a sweat from a nitemare that i had received a "c" in my "spacecraft dynamics and controls" class. i was so freaked. in my dream, i got a 60 out of 100 on my 3rd midterm of 3. i just checked my grade online: i got an "a." :-) woohoo! i feel everything's coming up "beno," the way milhouse sez "everything's coming up milhouse." yesterday, i had that big accomplishment @ werk. last nite, i had a good taekwondo sparring practice n' put 2gether furniture. 2day, i got the good news 'bout my grade. *sigh* i'm very happy... but more than that, i should be n' am just plain thankful. b4 the christmas break, i had so much stress: i had sooo muchskoolwerk, sooo much pressure @ werk (n' so much was going wrong 4 me @ werk), n' sooo many things to take care'f w/ the new house. now? things r better. things r going great @ werk. i feel, aktually, that my whole group has accomplished 'lot; so i feel really optimistic @ werk. skool: i'm glad last semester turned out well, but i know i gotta werk hard next semester as well. 'member: i'm really worried 'bout my master's project. i gotta put in lots'f extra time on that soon. same w/ werk: altho' i'm glad i accomplished what i did; i know i gotta keep werking hard. i feel this is a good way to start out the new yr. i feel good; i feel positive. i still have plenty'f housewerk to do, n' i guess that just never ends. [later] early afternoon: i'll be taking my lunchbreak very soon. i gotta go home n' take apart our kitchen table w/ kaela hwang. u c, after we assembled the table, which we bought from anton @ people's furniture, we noticed a crack on 1 important wooden part. anton sed he'd exchange the table 4 us, so he's coming to pick the old 1 up this afternoon n' drop off a new 1.
[later] 628p: i think it's 'bout time to leave werk on a fri eve, don'tchu? i'm gonna take kaela out 4 our monthversary 2nite. early... that's cos we're s'pposed to go snowboarding w/ ken n' gordon next sat, so i wanna do this this weekend. i'm gonna take her to turmerik in sunnyvale. it's s'pposed to be a nice n' fancy indian restaurant. we'll c.
2morrow, we teach taekwondo to li'l kids. on sun, we host couples' bible study @ our house.
1218a: it's mon morn / sun nite. on sat nite, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i watched 시월애 (shiwuhlae, english name: il mare. if u can read korean, u can check out this page to read 'bout it: http://www.koreafilm.co.kr/database/movie/siwolae/siwolae.htm. after that, we watched our weekly 2 episodes'f 진주의 목걸이 (jinjoouy mokguhli, which means "pearl necklace." on sat, during the day, we went to teach taekwondo @ the 실리콘 밸리 한국 학교 (silicon valley korean skool). maybe kaela's favourite story from that class was when this li'l ~6 yr old kid in the line i was holding paddles 4 sed "hey, ur hair looks like mine!" heh, heh... kids can be so funny. after that, we went to 한국 마켓 hangook market to get some groceries to cook 4 2day's bible study @ our house. on sat, after eating a late lunch @ home (kaela cooked some 비빔밥 bibimbap.), we went to costco. costco was sooo packed!!! 'twas 'round 445p. oh, b4 costco, we went to goodwill to donate some stuff n' to orchard supply hardware to exchange a plant. b4 we went to goodwill, i changed a ceiling mounted lamp in our house. @ costco, we bought lots'f fud n' household stuff. we bought some costco sushi to eat 4 dinner.
upes, by "2day" i meant "yesterday"... i mean... when i was talkin' 'bout the bible study... that was aktually yesterday. neway, yesterday, we went to church. then we came home to sort'f clean up the house b4 bible study. ken n' grace came over to give us a desk n' a gift'f 2 cappuccino cups that say "caffe latte." me, cos'f that, i say they're "latte" cups, but kaela sez they're cappuccino cups. eh! either way... i guess, in so i married an ax murderer, mike meyers sez, "hellooo! campbell's cup o' ccino," n' he's holding a cup like these. ken also took 'way the cabinets on the side'f the inside'f our garage. we've been wanting to give them to him since we moved in cos we need the extra space to park both our cars more easily n' he wanted cabinets. right as ken left, 정 목사님 chung moksanim arrived 4 the bible study. other ppl soon also came. bible study was very fun. i was so happy to have ppl over, n' it was just a really good experience in general.
after bible study, after cleaning up, kaela n' i watched 축재 (chookjae, english name: "the festival.") on kbit, ch 28. chookjae's an earlier film by 임권택 im kwontaek, the guy who made the famous movie choonghyangdyuhn. it was sort'f depressing, yet beautiful, somewhat deep, n' educational 'bout more traditional korean culture, all that confucianist n' buddhist stuff.
on fri nite, i took kaela to turmerik, a fancy or "upscale" indian restaurant on s. murphy in historic, downtown sunnyvale, an area that reminds me'f a mix'f stanfurd's university ave n' san rafael's historic downtown... in a good way... 4 the most part. it's a nice, quaint area. there r several clubs n' bars, but hrm... personally, i don't think it's as happening'f a place as either santana row or downtown san jo... like, it cms a li'l 2 much like a place that engineers that immigrated to the silly valley from other parts'f amerika would've hung out in back in the late 90s tech boom cos they didn't know where else to go. i can imagine that. however, my saying that doesn't make it sound as nice as it really is.
1023p: honestly, 2day, i felt a li'l groggy. i dunno why. it's not like we drank alkohol last nite or nething. *shrug* neway, i went to werk. oh yah, on my way out'f the driveway, i noticed that the garbagemen refused to pick up our recyclables... or aktually, they rejekted some'f our recyclables; they did take some. they left a note that explained that we can't just mix everything 2gether n' that we gotta cut up cardboard boxes down to under 3' by 3'. yah, i knew it'd come to this. neway, i came home to eat lunch. the ppl from people's furniture had dropped off our new dining table. we returned our old 1 cos'f a crack in the wood. they took it away from us on fri, n' they dropped off the new 1 2day. that was pretty bad timing cos we really could've used it yesterday. oh yah, we were really excited 'bout cooking dinner 4 the bible study on sun. we made 해물파전, 조랭이 떡볶이, 매운 닭구이, 군 만두... (haemool pajuhn, joraengi dduhkbokki, maeoon dalkgooi, goon mandoo... it was fun. even if u know what dduhkbokki is, u very likely don't know what joraengi dduhk is. i saw it @ hangook market, n' thought that it was just cute dduhk, but some ppl from the bible study who'r more recently from korea knew that joraengi dduhk is a kind'f dduhk from a specific region, n' it's aktually 4 joraengi dduhkgook (soup). well, i had some dduhkbokki leftovers 4 lunch. after werk, i went to the gym @ hamilton n' meridian. i tried to do more weightlifting. man, i haven't done 'nuff cardio lately. i ought to do more.
2nite, 4 dinner, kaela n' i cooked some pasta (fettucini) w/ spam lite, asparagus, zucchini, onion... just a big mix'f stuff, u know? it's hard to keep the kitchen clean, but i try.
late, late morn; almost lunchtime: 2day's wed. hrm, now it feels like this week's moving a bit faster. yesterday, some'f my cowerkers sed it felt more like thurs or fri than tues. *shrug* i didn't think so; yesterday, it felt like a totally normal tues. *shrug* the only thing 'bout this week's that last week was our 1st week back after the winter holiday break. how's life been? schroedinger: thanks 4 signing my gbook. i hadn't heard from u in a while... n' u could say, "likewise" cos i did take a bit'f a break/hiatus. i'd like ppl to sign my gbook, but maybe that presidential elektion question's 2 serious, huh? i noticed that schroedinger cms to like the green party, n' i think they're fine. i didn't list ne green party candidates on that question; i know. what i still resent 'bout the green party right now's that they create a distraktion that lets the evil republikans win elektions that they don't deserve to win. ralph nader's sister was my anthropology professor @ berkeley. she referred to herself in the 3rd person when referencing her own writings in her lektures. some profs do that. in fakt, in some cultures, it's perfektly acceptable 4 a person'f higher rank to refer to himself/herself in the 3rd person. neway, back to the presidential elektion q: maybe i'll add a "abb" option -- "anyone but bush."
[later] ~lunchtime: in general, life's been pretty good, as i've been saying in my recent journal entries. this morn, i got a li'l bummed out cos i heard from some1 that my chances'f getting into a particular program @ my company rn't so good cos they're s'pposedly not recruiting @ sjsu. i reminded them that i got my bsme from berkeley n' hope that'll keep me in the running; but i dunno. i still hope to land a permanent position @ my current company, but this makes me more motivated to look elsewhere, n' i shall. i was so happy @ the end'f last week that i can now raise my gpa on my current résumé! i'm very happy 'bout my grades from last semester but'm now just nervous 'bout the upcoming semester.
i heard that kodak's now discontinuing u.s. sales'f film cameras. isn't that interesting? every1's switching over to digital pix instead'f film. here's the y! news article: "kodak to stop selling traditional cameras in u.s." oh, the article aktually just sez they're gonna stop selling traditional film cameras. they're gonna keep selling disposable film cameras... n' maybe some others... however, they're definitely focusing more on digicams. hey, whadya think: is it cheaper to print out ur own digipics on a printer @ home or to have them printed @ a foto place or costco? digifoto paper has gotten pretty cheap, but inkjet cartridges r still expen$ive. this past weekend i printed out lots'f digipics cos i realised we need to fill up foto frames 'round the house. we have lots'f those flip frames, which r sort'f like foto albums. i have yet to move over my ol' foto albums from my mom's house. while browsing thru the digipics from the past few yrs, i worried that i look dorky in all these pics. i thought i looked better than that. i almost felt like making a new yr's resolution not to take nemore goofy shots. 1'f our good friends made that resolution a few yrs 'go. don't i have ne pics that make me look more dignified n' studly? heh... well, i guess i look somewhat dignified in our wedding pics... but i didn't wanna have just wedding pics in the frames 'round the house. "the picture you see is no portrait of me." that's from a new order song, right? it's a song from their technique cd/album, right? while browsing thru those digipics from recent yrs, i also wondered if i look older nowadays. some ppl say that men look better as they mature. i worry that that's not true; but i do! aktually believe that many women look better as they mature. sure, a "cute gurl"'s "cute," but a good.looking, somewhat mature woman can be more "sexy," right? ha ha, now it sounds like i have some kind'f sr citizen fetish or sumpthin'... ha ha, but i don't! [later] 836p: 'member back when i werked @ ebmud? there was this dude named jeff sumpthin' sumpthin', this big, ultra politikally conservative fellow. he had 2 favourite sayings: "what's better good, ol' p@$$% or ol', good p@$$%" n' "there's nuthin' better than middle.aged women... cos they know what to do!" yah, those r pretty vulgar sayings, but they're his not mine. neway, yrs later, when i told the beautiful kaela hwang 'bout this dude's "middle.aged women" quote, she sed he just sed stuff like that to make himself feel better, since he's middle.aged n' his wife's middle.aged, etc. eh, i dunno. there's nuthin' like 28 yr.old men... cos they know what to do! hrm... that just doesn't sound very appealing in ne kind'f heterosexual way, huh?
neway, 'nuff'f that stoopid nonsense talk! this morn, i was really bummed 'bout that whole "not recruiting from sjsu" deal. life's pretty good these days; but yah, i'd love to know that i'll have guaranteed employment in the future... since i've now experienced real unemployment. the idea'f unemployment's scary. however, i went to the bathroom, sat on the can, n' prayed, n' realised the whole "daily bread" concept. god provides 4 us day by day, n' i don't need to demand that i have everything i need 4 the rest'f my life. i can only ask that i have what i need to get thru 2day. in ne case, i've been blessed w/ a good edukation, good experience... i can feel somewhat secure that i'll be employable whenever the time comes 4 me to find 'nother job, etc.
[later] 1101p: after werk, kaela n' i went to costco to buy some shampoo cos they have some coupon that gives u a free conditioner w/ the purchase'f shampoo. since my hair's relatively short, i don't really use conditioner. we bought a costco rotisserie chicken n' some salad 4 dinner.
it's really frustrating that none'f our 3 'puters really function w/o some probs. right now, my home 'puter is totally nonfunctional. our laptop crashes on me all the time. kaela's home 'puter? she doesn't use it much cos she uses the laptop. i guess it's the healthiest'f the 3, but it still has some probs. :-( i dunno what to do 'bout this situation. i can't get to ne'f the files on my home 'puter. this laptop has matlab, n' i really need to use matlab 4 my master's projekt n' other skoolstuff. *sigh* i am scared cos i really need to have a healthy 'puter 4 my skoolstuff. :-(
934p: sorry 4 the lack'f updates. we went snowboarding 2day @ dodge ridge. yesterday, i had bad fud poisoning. :-( do u know where 2day's title's from? it's from the simpsons, episode 9f11, entitled "selma's choice. in that great episode, homer eats some really old, giant hoagie, the leftover of a 10.ft hoagie from his company picnic. obviously, he can't finish it all off in 1 sitting, so he werks @ it 4 a week n' gets fud poisoning. 'round 343a yesterday, in the middle'f the nite, i felt like homer. well, no... when i woke up n' got ready 4 werk, i felt like homer. homer was insisting on taking his kids to the (fiktitious) theme park duff gardens (a slight parody on busch gardens) but then faints cos'f his illness. i was shivering like homer yesterday morn but went to werk where i continued to shiver but werk hard as the dedicated werker i am.
thurs nite, i had 'nother fun taekwondo sparring practice. i dunno why, but sparring practices really feel good to me lately. i'm not as excited 'bout olympic style taekwondo sparring as i used to be, nor am i usually as excited 'bout it as most'f my taekwondo friends. i mean, that's only cos lately i've been more into demo taekwondo, traditional taekwondo, n' like self.defense kind'f stuff. however, lately, thurs nite taekwondo sparring classes have gotten me pretty pumped up. perhaps 1 big reason that i'm enjoying it is that many more black belts have been showing up 4 sparring practice these days. it's so much fun. however... :-( my sjsu msme classes start in a coupl'f weeks on jan 29. after that, i can't go to tues or thurs taekwondo class. :-( :-( :-( i'm going to be very sad cos i have never gone more than like a month w/o doing taekwondo. i dunno what i'll do, but we'll hopefully find a way to do some taekwondo on some alternate day, maybe on the weekends. we'll c.
yesterday, after werk, i came home to go right to sleep. well,
aktually, when i got home kaela was talking to our neighbours. oh,
thru.out the day, my stomach got better. i shivered 'lot, but i
didn't eat, n' i started to feel a li'l better. then the beautiful
kaela
hwang brought me a taro milkshake taro
drink. her cowerker had given it to her. i dunno why, but
her cowerker tends to give her stuff 4 her n' me to eat... n' i guess
drink. yah, it was a tasty drink; but after i drank it, my stomach
started to hurt 'gain, so when i got home, i just wanted to sleep.
i stayed awake n' watched tv tho'. later, peter park (bronx'f the
world famous bronx's
junkyard stopped by to chat w/ us.
941p: as i sed yesterday; yesterday, gordon, the beautiful kaela hwang, n' i went to dodge ridge. 4 each'f us, 'twas the 1st time. how was it? well, lemme tell u: dodge ridge is sort'f a bargain resort. i've toldju b4, snowboarding, 4 kaela n' me, is not some ritzy, snobby, upperkrusty leisure aktivity: it's much more'f an aktive, athletic sport. we go snowboarding, not to lounge 'round the lodge n' drink brewskies w/ our ol' prep skool buddies whom we've gotta catch up w/ as we went to diff ivy league universities, etc. we make lots'f daytrips to tahoe cos it's cheap, effektive, n' gets the job done. sure, 1 can argue we ought to have a cheaper hobby, but well... we do what we can to make it a cheaper hobby. in ne case, u need to know that dodge ridge is not in tahoe. dodge ridge boasts that it is "the closest snow" to the bay area, as it is 160 miles 'way from sfo aeroport, situated a li'l north'f yosemite or sumpthin'. to get there from the silly valley, 1'd take 680n, 580e, 205e, 120e, n' 108e. that route takes u past pleasanton, tracy, manteca, n' oakdale. dodge ridge's in pinecrest, ca. dodge ridge is located in the stanislaus state forest; it's some kind'f more state.run ski/snowboarding park. it's definitely a "no frills" kind'f place. u know... i'm totally not a republikan n' thus some ppl'd say i'm prob'ly more 4 gov't run stuff as they'd assume i'm a total kommuniste or sumpthin'. whatever. i do appreciate a gov't that does more 4 its ppl instead'f just letting the rich get richer n' the poor get poorer, yet i do find it kind'f humourous that dodge ridge is this sort'f state.run snow resort, n' it's totally a "no frills" place. back in the cold war days, ppl prob'ly would've joked that this is what a kommuniste snow resort'd be like. eh. do u know what boreal mountain playgroud right on the side'f i.80 on the top'f donner peak in tahoe is like? do u know what mountain high "sourthern california's closest winter resort"'s like? [later, midnite 2004.01.19] they're both pretty "no frills" places, where... well, it's not the best snow. it's not the nicest amenities. it's not the best variety'f terrain... but well, u get to ride the snow. dodge ridge fits in this category. 1 funny thing i noticed is that the site boasts how it's closer than tahoe: it sez dodge ridge's 160 miles from sfo, while kirkwood's a whole 161 miles from sfo. >X-D ha ha ha! 1 whole mile closer! the thing is: 1) the roads to tahoe have more lanes thus easier traffik since local yokels tend to drive slow as if purposely to frustrate ppl who bring $$$ to their local ekonomy by coming to snowboard/ski, n' 2) the snow in tahoe is worlds better. i had a great time @ dodge ridge, but tahoe snow is much, much, much better! the fud @ dodge ridge is a teensy bit cheaper but has no variety. that day, kaela n' i shared a chili dog n' "way nachos." "way" 'pparently's like "supreme," u know? these "no frills" resorts aktually r pretty good 'bout catering to snowboarders cos they build relatively nice snow parks n' freestyle terrain. that's kewl. u c, snobby skiers r more into the downhill stuff, not the terrain parks, so these dinky li'l resorts know what to do 'least to find some favour 'mongst boarders.
on our way back, we stopped in tracy n' ate pho.
on sun, kaela n' i went to church, then ikea, n' then to amc mercado 20
to watch cold mountain. later, @ home, we watched a movie
called aje aje bara aje on ktvn/kbit ch 28, a movie 'bout buddhist nuns.
오후 704: 지금 사무실에 아직도 있어요. 예, 요즘 아직도 바빠요. 학교에 되돌아기를 좀 걱정해요. 1월29일에 학교 계속해요. 반학년 하나만도 있어지 만 걱정해요. 예, 사실은 그냥 기도 하기 필요해요. 그래요.
어제 오후에 영화 cold mountain을 봤어요. 아름다운
캐이라 황랑 제가 영화를 봤어요. 좋은 영화 었어요. 좀
놀랐어요. 이런 미국
남북전쟁의 영화를 싫어할것 같았어지만 좋아했어요. 이야기가
좋아요.
오후: 모래가 음력설날예요. 어제가 아람다운 캐이라 황와 저의 6번째 monthversary. 6개월동안 결혼 했고 있었어요. 어제밤에 캐이라가 큰 저녁식을 만들었어요. 어떤 동양식사요. 특별한 씬가포어의 오댕 국수 국을 만드렀어요. 많이 맛있어죠. 오늘 오후에 그 남은식사를 점심으로 먹었어요. 캐이라가 다른것도를 만들었어요. 어떤 중국식 야채 생선 하고 어떤 시금치와 버섯을 만들었어요. 다 맛있어요.
이주말에 스노보딩 갈까요? 응, 제가 모르겠지만 많이 가고 싶어요. 갑시다! 아이이이~~~! 다음주에 학교가 다시 시작해요! :-o 아아아아~~~! 저 어떻께해요?! 다음 다음 월에 fahad의 교혼식 있잖아요. 정말 이것으로 아무것도를 안했고 많이 해아되요. 저 bestman 이잖아요. 많은 걸 해야 되요.
앗! 정말 저 요즘 매일 기도 해요되요. 매년 요즘 사업에 대단히
바빠같아요. 아마 크리스마스와 설날 곧 긑났기 때문에요. 잘
몰라요. 요즘 너무 많이 먹고 너무 우동 안하죠.
오후: 오늘 월요일예요. 어떠세요? 전 괜찮아요. 오, 금요일 직장에 좋은 소식을 좀 들렸어요. 제 원하는 인터뷰를 받알게요. 희망 있어요. 이걸 들때 너무 행복하고 고마워요. 3월5일에 인터뷰 있겠어요. 준비해야되요.
토요일 아름다운 캐이라 황 같이 아침: 오늘 손님 어떠세요? 전 괜찮아요. 오, 학교가
목요일에 게속하겠어요. 오, 좀 걱정해요. 오늘 화요일예요.
이 주말에 스노보딩 안가같아요. 토요일 아빠 같이 어떤 대만
춤의공연을 가보겠기 대문에요.
오후: 손님 시간 있을때 제 방명록 좀 사인 해주세요. :-)
evening: darren (idigu), thanks 4 signing my gbook. yes, every1: please sign my gbook when u can. i know i haven't been good
'bout translating the korean text in my journal lately. sorry.
it's not like there'r things i wanna hide or nething. i'm
just writing in korean... just cos. 그냥 대문에요. well,
where did i leave off in english? uhm, i talked 'bout the movie
cold mountain. i liked the story. even tho' i don't
get so excited by the civil war etc., i liked the story. lessee...
what else? well, lately i'm just sort'f nervous cos skool resumes
on thurs eve. this past sat, we went snowboarding @ sugar bowl.
i spent fri nite waxing n' tuning our boards. on sun, we
went to church. it was fun. then we went to valley fair.
we have some gift card credit to spend. it's not like we've
got 'lot'f ca$h to throw 'round these days, but i guess it's nice to buy a
few things w/ the gift card, u know? then on sun nite, we went w/
chuck n' julie to watch a midsummer night's dream @ the san
josé rep theatre. it was quite an interesting play.
afterwards, we had some drinks n' snacks @ e&o trading.
last nite, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i went to the gym. btw, if u
haven't checked out kaela's website in a while, u should go c how she's
remodeled it. i guess she's still werkin' on it, so check back
'least now n' then. i really need to redo my website!
:-(
2nite, we'll go to taekwondo. after 2nite, i won't be able to go
to taekwondo 4 a long time cos'f my class. :-(
i have not watched the movie lost in translation.
i worried that it'd be yet 'nother movie that uses an asian country as a
backdrop, saying that asian culture is so weird n' backwards, etc.
i hear the movie's s'pposed to be pretty good cos it got lots'f award
nominations. well, out'f these award nominated movies, i 1st wanna
c lotr3. 1017p: check out this article, when u have time: "coming soon - tap water with a different taste" on y! news. the article discusses how sfpud next week'll start using chloramine instead'f chlorine to clean their water. i don't get it. we were using chloramine @ ebmud a long time 'go! *shrug*
2morrow skool resumes. 2nite, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i met up w/ my classmate friends dave n' brian n' brian's friend janey @ joy luck place's noodle n' jook joint 4 dinner. wow, joy luck place's preserved egg n' salted pork jook's really good! the fud's a li'l more expen$ive there than @ shk (sun hong kong) in berkeley, but the fud's better, i think. afterwards, we went to fantasia to get some boba drinks. last nite, after my last tues nite'f taekwondo 4 the semester, kaela n' i got boba drinks there. *sigh* <:-( i'm so sad that i can't go to taekwondo on tues n' thurs nites this semester. :-( i hope to get some'f the other u.s. taekwondo academy students 2gether on some other nite'f the week 4 some kind'f praktice. so what's up? 1 thing i 4got translate out'f korean into english was how i've got my interview 4 1'f the permanent positions @ my company coming up on march 5. it's the position i really want. man, i really need this job. i gotta get myself ready 4 the interview. it's on the day b4 fahad's wedding.
i can't believe skool starts 'gain 2morrow. yah, it was a long winter break. man, i really got used to it. <:-/
dude, u should check out this deal: sipix digicam free after rebate
hrm, sometime, we gotta go grocery shopping. this weekend, a whole bunch'f my ol' hi skool friends r going to tahoe on sat. kaela n' i rn't going. 'nother thing i didn't translate from korean into english is that, on sat, kaela n' i r going w/ my dad to watch some taiwanese dance per4mance. yah, so no tahoe 4 us. i'm a bit disappointed that i won't be able to go w/ all my ol' hi skool friends, but well... neway, we don't have as much'f a budget 4 snowboarding this season... however!!! lift tix r much cheaper this yr cos'f lots'f good deals! $39 @ sugar bowl via safeway, $39 @ alpine meadows every day, $35 @ dodge ridge via save mart, $36 @ boreal... aktually, boreal always has $10 fri 4 students; isn't that crazy?! i never 1nce got to take advantage'f that deal, n' i can't now cos i'm werking n' can't take fris off. heavenly tix r $52 instead'f $64 via albertson. kirkwood tix r cheaper thru costco. i think a 4.pack'f diamond peak tix @ costco comes out to $29/tic. there's lots'f good deals.
there's this korean aktor that kaela n' i c all the time on korean tv that looks like jerome. i never catch his name, but he really looks like jerome w/ glasses on, n' he speaks in korean like jerome. thurs morn:
i can't believe it's already the last few days'f january. i
don't even know who's playing in the superbowl: new england? carolina?
[later] there's this tasty nugget, scooby snack, doggy treat beef jerky
that i gotta get from costco. when we went to dodge ridge, gordon
brought them, n' he reminded me that ryan had brought them w/ us on our
tahoe fishing trip last summer.
[later] afternoon: as far as popular amerikan musik, what's hot these
days? i like outkast's "hey ya" n' no doubt's "it's my life."
[later] evening: think 'bout how stephan pak always used to boast 'bout
being a no doubt fan down in tustin (orange
county) way b4 they were popular. where's linkin park from?
*shrug*
well, i'm gonna be going to skool soon. *sigh* it feels so
weird. i haven't been to skool in uh... over a month! i've
adjusted to life as just a werking guy w/o skool... however, now it's time
to convert back to full.on combat mode: skool + werk, etc. student
+ werking dude + homeowner + husband ... heh... oh well, 2morrow's fri!
ha, can u believe it?
[later] 1149p: i went to skool. b4 my class, i got a bk veggie
burger meal @ the burger king on campus. class was pretty good, but
2day was totally just an intro. after class, i went to the gym n'
werked out. then i came home. kaela had cooked spam curry.
even tho' i wasn't very hungry, i ate plenty cos it was good. :-) 1235a: right now, i'm sort'f watching jay leno's tonite show.
honestly, i like jay leno's philosophies the least out'f all late nite talk show hosts. i think both david letterman n' conan o'brien, in general, have better views or whatever. 2day's the last day'f the 1st month'f 2004.
yesterday, (which feels like 2day @ this pt), i had my 1st session'f my masters projekt class. man, that really makes me nervous that i've gotta wrap up my projekt in the next coupl'f months n' then graduate. i also have my "advanced control systems design" class, u know. these days, i go to werk, then come home 4 lunch, n' go back to werk. my lunchtime might vary a li'l. i like coming home during my break, so i can check up on the house, etc. i dunno; now that i own a house; yah, i am sort'f protektive'f it, etc. of course, i wish i had more time to pull weeds, etc. neway, 2day, i went to my class; n', in the evening, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i watched lotr3: the return'f da king @ amc mercado 20. yah, it was a pretty good movie; but i felt the ending kind'f dragged on. *shrug* i guess i'm just not as much'f a lotr fan as some other ppl. i did enjoy the movie tho'. every1 does, right? funny: we watched the movie 4 free cos my boss gave me 2 free movie tix 4 christmas. then, cos we used our amc moviewatchers card, we got a free jumbo popcorn n' soda. wow, that was fun. we had lots'f popcorn n' cherry coke. "chicka cherry cola..." is that what savage garden sings in "i want you"? i liked that song waaay b4 it was popular! heh heh, that's always fun to say, right? well, the movie started @ 605p n' let out @ 'round 930p. after the movie, we ate dinner @ the mexicali grill right there. kaela had these good mole rojo enchiladas; n', cos i really needed to eat some veggie, i had the pollo tostada. since i don't wanna get fat, i didn't eat ne'f the shell. u do know how bad those tostada salad bowls r, right? so the elf dude is agent smith! ha ha ha... i kept waiting 4 him to say, "mr. annnderson...." after dinner, we went to albertson to use this $10 off $50 coupon i got in the mail when we moved.
in the silly valley, we have lots'f expressways (expwys). they rn't freeways, but they're not ur typikal local streets like avenues, boulevards, roads, etc. they have less stoplites n' sometimes have exits instead'f intersektions. the speed limits r usually 45 mph if not maybe 50 mph. there rn't usually many houses on expressways. they usually have @ 'least 2 lanes on each side. some'f our important expwys r: almaden expwy, lawrence expwy, san tomas expwy, montague expwy, capitol expwy, central expwy... there r some other less important 1s like southwest expwy. my dad taught me to drive freeways by taking me down central expwy near sunnyvale, where it's more like a freeway. we didn't live newhere near central expwy, but he always researched good streets to take me to to practice driving. sometimes i'd ride in the car or drive on san tomas expwy @ nite n' pass streets like homestead, stevens creek blvd, n' el camino real. back then, i lived far 'way from these streets, but now we live pretty close to them. back in the 1980s n' early 1990s, when i drove/rode past stevens creek blvd on san tomas expwy, it didn't look like such a happening place; but sometime in the past decade, that intersektion received a jumbo barnes & nobles; so it's much more lit up @ nite, u know? i don't mean to say that the existence'f a barnes & nobles indicates cosmopolita or nething. u know i'm always trying to tell u how office space could never happen in the silly valley cos that setting was waaay more'f a "typikal amerikan suburb" w/ the addition'f a few hi.tech companies, a place more like pleasanton, u know? neway, just think how the silly valley area's changed in the past decade. really, santana row's a big development. neway, these days, it cms like stevens creek blvd's pretty happenin' w/ santana row, valley fair, n' lots'f other biznesses as it goes from san jo to santa clara to cupertino. it is santa clara 4 a bit, right? it doesn't just go from san jo to cupertino... or does it? neway, the intersektion'f stevens creek blvd n' san tomas expwy sort'f stands out as an intersektion'f 2 important silly valley streets. if u turn north on to san tomas from stevens creek blvd n' drive a bit, u'll hit the famous el camino real. back in the 1980s n' decades b4 that, el camino (i think) was sort'f famous 4 cruising. i guess that meant lots'f kids in low riders'd cruise that strip. i believe there r still some signs that designate the street as a "no crusing zone" as a result'f that. nowadays, it's just packed w/ lots'f asian biznesses, as i've sed many times b4; mostly korean n' indian. personally, i feel that el camino real is sort'f boring east'f san tomas expwy. when u go east on el camino real away from san tomas expwy, u'll go past the scott blvd, where my office is (just a li'l north) n' then pass santa clara university, after which el camino real sort'f turns into the alameda. to me, the interesting stuff is wet'f san tomas expwy on el camino real. on el camino real, from san tomas expwy to 'round wolfe rd, there's tons'f kewl stuff. after that, 1nce u get deeper into sunnyvale n' then palo alto, it's still kewl. i like el camino real. neway, cos el camino real gets better after san tomas (going west) as opposed to what it's like east'f san tomas, i say, "life begins @ san tomas."
if u know 'bout silly valley geography, ponder this: camden ave starts in almaden valley. leland hi skool's on camden ave in upperkrusty almaden valley. if u drive away from almaden valley on camden ave, u'll pass hillsdale ave, where there's a target n' a 24 hr fitness. then u'll pass union ave, where there's a carl's jr, where there used to be a dunkin' donuts, n' where there'r a coupl'f strip malls: 1 old, 1 new. then u'll pass bacom ave., where i used to hang out as a hi skool kid after i got my driver licnse. right by the intersektion'f bascom n' camden, u've got guitar showcase, a place i went to 4 the guitars n' 4 the dj equipment. when u go just a li'l further, u hit hwy 17, which can take u south to santa cruz or else north, where it turns into 880, onto oakland/berkeley. after u pass hwy 17, camden ave soon turns into san tomas expwy. san tomas expwy takes u from more'f the suburbs deeper into the heart'f silicon valley. as i sed, u'll pass important streets like stevens creek blvd, homestead rd, n' el camino real. after passing the major bizness road el camino real, u'll soon pass some industrial, hi.tech office space n' soon hit hwy 101. u can take hwy 101 south down to los angeles or north up to san francisco. of course, sf'd be the much closer destination from this pt. a bit after u pass hwy 101, san tomas expwy turns into montague expwy; n' u'll find urself right smack in the middle'f the heart'f silicon valley. u'll pass offices 4 companies like agilent teknologies (sort'f a competitor to my company, i guess), sun microsystems, n' cisco. u'll pass the much talked 'bout, new rivermark neighbourhood: the heart'f silly valley's famous testament to new urbanism. the rivermark has townhomes in a variety'f sizes n' kind'f megastripmall down in a much more tasteful fashion than they do it in those regions that promote suburban sprawl. u know what i mean by "suburban sprawl," right? i'm, of course, talkin' 'bout the segment'f amerikan culture that believes that, since amerikans own cars, we might as well live far 'way from the hustle n' bustle'f the city, out where land is cheap n' then make lots'f jumbo strip malls w/ big parking lots n' big, big lit up signs telling every1 that u've got all the major "big box" stores, all the popular family restaurants (where the servers must wear 31 pieces'f "flair" each [office space allusion], n' the most recent fast fud franchises (such as quizno's, cold stone creamery, etc.). i guess most'f amerika subscribes to "suburban sprawl," eh? well, the silly valley's quickly growing to rejekt it n' is quickly adopting new urbanism: the idea that it's ok if we don't each own our own ranch but instead own a decent home that's near places hip ppl hang out, etc. neway, after u pass the rivermark n' go deeper into milpitas, u'll pass 880 (u've already passed 880's former self, aka hwy 17) n' the great mall (the outlet mall, sumpthin' like ontario mills). then u'll pass 680. 680's an interesting freeway cos it's also known as 280 1nce u pass the intersektion'f 680/280 n' 101. also, @ that pt, ur direktion'll flip. u'll go south on 280s, cross 101, n' then be driving on 680n. do u understand why this happens? if u know nething 'bout the shape'f the san francisco bay, then u'll be able to figure this out. u c, 280 connekts sf to san jo, if u'r driving south on it. then it aktually turns to follow the contour'f the sobay (south bay) n' travels in a more easterly direktion. then it crosses 101 n' turns 'gain to follow the sobay's contour n' heads north to pass towns like fremont, pleasanton, concord, n' cordelia, where it merges in w/ hwy 80 to bring u to sac(ramento) n' more importantly lake tahoe!!!! woooooo! tahoe! :-) neway, 1nce u drive on montague pass 680, the road'll turn into landess avenue. u'll pass kaela's office, where u should go to buy or sell ur home w/ her, n' then drive right into the eastside hills. if u know silly valley geography as well as silly valley sociology, then u'll have a much greater appreciation'f my discussion 2day. by driving on this 1 single rd, u've gone a very long distance. w/o making a single turn, u've gone thru such a variety'f neighbourhoods. almaden valley is quite a bit diff from northeast san jo. someday, u should check out y! maps n' c 4 urself how interesting this whole camden ave, san tomas expwy, montague expwy, landess ave deal is. it's much more interesting than u think. u just think u know everything, eh? well, shoot! u didn't know how interesting what i sed is, but later u will!
if u don't understand the silly valley 2 well but 'least understand cali4nia sociology to some extent, then u'll realise the significance'f how i mentioned certain hwys: 101, 680, 280, 880, 80... u should notice that i didn't call them "the 101," "the 680," "the 280," "the 880," "the 80"... however, unlike some norcal folk, i'm totally tolerant'f socal transplants' appelation'f our freeways as the this n' that... that's totally kewl by me. in fakt, it's almost flattering! X-D u c, socal has such a better freeway system than norcal. if a socal person refers to hwy 880 as "the 880," it makes me feel like they're more accepting that freeway as a real freeway... n' well... that really means sumpthin' to me. u know? it's like if i tried to bake french bread, n' a french person tasted it n' sed that my bread was as good as baguettes he/she ate in france. well, shoot! i certainly don't expekt him/her to say it's better than baguettes from france, thus 4 him/her to acknowledge my bread like that'd be such an honour, right? neway, let it be known that norcal'll always accept socal transplants... 'specially'f they're those much talked 'bout "hot socal women"!!! ha ha ha. >X-D i dunno; that's just 1'f those blaison populaires that develop @ uc berkeley where norcalers n' socalers come 2gether, u know? guys get 'round to saying that socal gurls r pretty good looking, in general, etc. however, shoot, that's all sort'f a generalisation n' all, of course. i don't mean to diss norcal women... heh, but i got myself a hot socal woman! ha ha ha. so if she ever calls it "the 880," i'll be fine w/ it. however, i dunno if i ever heard her say that, but i know jerome used to say it now n' then.
the show that the jerome.look.alike aktor was on is 3층집 사람들 (the 3.story house ppl) n' is known in english as happy tenants thanks to the arirang tv netwerk, which teaches english to koreans in korea n' korean to native english speakers wherever. if u buy a satellite dish from ken, u'll get to watch it all the time. someday, i'll pick up my ol' satellite dish from my mom's house n' hook it up. it still werks, i just gotta get it someday when i've got more ca$h to pay 4 service, u know? heh.
i'm confused: what is the notrious msg?!?!? i know darren (idigu) cms to like them, but i dunno what they r.
btw, (it's 236a now.) if u don't know what "blason populaire" means, u do need to find out by ne means necessary cos u should know the basics'f folklore studies, u know? it's just 1'f ur responsibilities as a human being. 1000p: 월요일예요. it's mon. what's up? i went to werk 2day. i came home to eat some odds n' ends 4 lunch. after werk, i went to the gym. in a couple'f day's the date'll be 2004.02.04. that'll be lots'f 2s, 0s, n' 4s. later, the date'll be 2004.04.04, or "04.04.04." crazy, huh?
on sat, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i did not go snowboarding. 'member? i sed we weren't gonna. as i sed, on fri nite, we went to watch lotr3: return'f da king n' to eat dinner @ the mexicali grill, etc. sat morn, we woke up n' went to the palmer chiropractic college open house cos kaela likes that kind'f stuff, u know? 'member: i went to palmer chiropractic college's clinic this summer 4 chiropractic treatment from my friend brian cheung's cousin clayton wu. i only had to pay $5 a visit, as opposed to the typikal like $60~100+ a visit that ppl usually pay 4 chiropractic visits. the open house gave us lots'f free fud. i ate 2 much. u know, when i was a kid, i took a field trip to palmer chiropractic college n' looked @ cadavers. i've toldju this story b4. it was back when i was in this program called lyceum. hrm, i wonder if they have a website, then i can better explain to u what lyceum was. here u r: http://www.lyceum-scv.org/public_html/index.htm it's an interesting program. u should check out the link n' read 'bout it. neway, yah, as a kid i saw cadavers there. on sat, i saw cadavers. luckily, when i went 4 chiropractic treatment back this summer, they didn't make me look @ cadavers. ha ha. neway, cadavers don't totally gross me out; they don't scare me or nething. however, they make me not wanna eat meat! i don't like cadavers. neway... after the open house, we went to tri.city sporting goods store to return these glove liners that kaela bought back b4 our 1st snowtrip'f the season. tri.city's having their famous 30% off sale right now. as u know, i say that tri.city's the best place to buy snowboards n' ski equipment. i don't hang out much w/ ppl who buy ski equipment, but yah... i've taken many friends to tri.city to buy snowboards. it's really a good store!
4 dinner, we met up w/ my dad n' sue @ 금봉황 geumbonghwang, aka china
china, 4 buffet. their buffet's pretty good; but i noticed that their nigiri sushi fish slices have gotten thinner. the 1st time kaela n' i ate buffet there, it was their grand opening, n' they were very generous w/ their raw fish. after dinner, we went to the taiwanese cultural center in sunnyvale somewhere 'round 237 n' 101 off lawrence to watch some taiwanese dance per4mance. hrm, it wasn't what i expekted... or well, i should've expekted sumpthin' like this... but... well, i don't think the group was that professional, but they did a variety'f dancing. 1st off they did a bit'f that pop muzik, back up dancer type stuff... u know... like when u c baby v.o.x. videos, etc? neway, the 2nd song they used was a mandarin version'f 이정현의 "미쳐" (lee junghyun's "michyuh"). if u don't know, that song's the ringtone that i programmed into my fon. it was featured in benomix4집. kaela get's annoyed w/ these mandarin cover versions'f korean songs; but personally, i think imitation's the sincerest form'f flattery. @ the cupertino village fantasia, we hear lots'f mandarin versions'f korean songs. yah, it's funny: in taiwan, they cm to watch lots'f korean dramas translated into mandarin n' listen to korean gayo pop muzik translated into manadarin. kaela doesn't like it cos she sez these taiwanese young ppl should just learn korean. :-/ well... yah... i did... but i wouldn't say that every1 who doesn't sucks or nething... yah, it's been interesting these past few yrs to c lots'f taiwanese/chinese ppl get so into korean stuff. u know there's this ol' 1980s alphaville song called "big in japan." it some song 'bout how u know u'r popular n' famous if u make it big in japan, u know? well, u know what? i think aktually, u know u'r all that if u make it in taiwan more than in japan. *shrug* sun, we went to church. after church, we went to fry's. it'd be ages since i stepped fut or foot inside a fry's cos i just don't feel i have $$$ to $pend on stuff 4 myself these days, u know? after fry's, we went to valley fair. 4 dinner, since i was just 2 tired to think 'bout cooking, we used kaela's free $7 rubio's card to get us some tacos. every1 know their fish tacos r good (altho' the fried fish tacos @ the valley fair location rn't as good as the 1s i've had @ the el cerrito location), but they now have these carnitas street tacos that r really good!!! after dinner, we went to target @ sunnyvale town centre.
tues morn: this y! news article "Plain Old Cell Phones Fading Away in U.S." sez, "After years of trailing Japan and Western Europe, where cell phones have long had color screens, e-mail, music, video games, cameras and other accessories that make American cell phones look backward in comparison, handset makers are finally pushing a new generation of units on the domestic market that offer the full range of functions available elsewhere."
afternoon: yah, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i've been pondering getting new cellfons n' plans. we're still gonna stick w/ verizon cos they have the undisputed best coverage out'f all the providers out there. i think they have some kind'f free, unlimited mobile to mobile deal right now. i've gotta talk to ken. 오후(밤) 1042p: on mon, the big news everywhere was that janet jackson showed her breast @ the superbowl 0.5time show. i guess justin timberlake ripped off her top or sumpthin', n' the costume didn't have nething under or sumpthin'? i haven't cn the uncensored footage n' have only cn the newsclip over n' over while @ the gym, where i can't hear the audio. s'pposedly, ppl r complaining that there's 2 much filth on tv etc. cos'f that. me, i'm a total berkeley liberal, right? however, i aktually agree: yah, there's 2 much filth on tv these days. i just feel there's lots'f trash, like ppl on tv shows r really trashy, slutty, perverted, etc.
on mon n' tues nite, the beautiful kaela hwang
n' i watched 눈으로 말해요 (nooneuro malhaeyo) on ch28, as
we always do. i felt really sad after the mon nite episode cos the main male character got dumped by his gf. yah, i felt really bad 4 him. i started 'membering: single ppl really go thru 'lot. me, i'm happy i've found the 1 4 me. i'm very lucky. however, yah... i 'membered now that single ppl go thru can go thru all sorts'f pain n' heartache. also, single ppl can really play w/ each others' feelings/emotions, etc. i really felt 4 this guy, right? then i thought, "how come i never feel so much emotion after watching amerikan tv shows?" u know what i think? i think in amerikan tv shows, like relationships r usually diff from the kind'f relationship i c in korean tv shows. like, 2 often in amerikan tv shows, a guy n' gurl c each other, eye each other 4 a while, exchange flirty pickup lines w/ sexual undertones, eye each other some more, then make out n' have sex. then, a few weeks later, some1 gets dumped when the other gets all horny 4 some1 else. >:-/ u know... some ppl'd say it's all really passionate, that we're all passionate sexual beings w/ needs, so i shouldn't be such a conservative prude n' just accept the whole freelove thing n' accept that ppl have sex w/o deep emotions, etc. >:-/ i don't like watching such shallow relationships. >:-( yah, in korean dramas, often there'll be a couple that r so coy n' shy w/ each other even after months'f going out. yah... true, that's so 1950sish, so leave it to beaverish. furthermore: is that even a good way to have a relationship?! after all, it cms like the couple doesn't really know each other, u know? "where's the passion?!" u say. i dunno... i'm just sick'f how love n' relationships r shown on tv. it's all so cheap, u know? like, on "reality" love shows, it cms like it's pretty mandatory that the ppl make out. i think it's really disgusting, personally. like, reall, when i was single, i would never have kissed a gurl unless i really liked her, u know? to some extent, these ppl just want attention. i mean, shoot... yah, every1 has some amt'f sexuality, but like... they don't always hafta be so nasty, u know? i don't mind when movies n' tv shows have sexual images or sexual situations, etc.; but lots'f what i c on tv isn't very sexual or erotik, just plain trashy!
neway, some amerikans, when they c asian culture'd say that it really is like how 'merika was in the 1950s. ppl r so uptight, guys wear suits, women r more likely to be housewives... as i sed, i'm such a berkeley liberal, but u know what? i think the 1960s aktually gave amerika some bad things. i mean... the 1960s gave amerika lots'f good politiks, i guess. the whole equal rights thing n' racial/gender equality thing r good. however... i think i think there r some bad things that sort'f came out'f the 1960s: drug abuse, sexual promiscuity, sloppy dress habits n' grooming... *shrug* neway... i'm glad the 1960s gave us more like anti.discrimination legislation, etc.
2day, i was very bizzy @ werk. in the afternoon, i had to put on a "bunny suit." i had class 2nite. after class, i went back to my office to werk on some stuff n' wait 4 mark to call me. mark called me, n' i met up w/ the us taekwondo bunch 4 dinner @ 장모집 (jangmojip). it had been so long since i went to a korean hof type place, so i pigged out. :-/ it sucks that i don't get 'nuff exercise, but the fud was just so good. yah, i worry 'bout not getting 'nuff exercise cos i seriously have hi blood pressure! :-( really: i can't eat so much sodium, n' i need more exercise n' less stress! i'm not kidding! listen: i'm very much set on not becoming a career werking man who werks sooo hard to pay off his mortgage n' isn't appreciated @ all by ne1 n' doesn't get ne exercise n' has hi blood pressure n' dies'f a heart attack! i need to get exercise. i need to get more exercise!
please sign my gbook n' tell me how much u like cing nasty, slutty ppl on tv pretend to be so horny just to get attention n' how much u love george dubyah. it's been so long since i put ne pics up on my journal, but i plan to do so sometime soon. 1219a: it's now tues. this weekend, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i went snowboarding w/ our friend from church jane. we went to sierra@tahoe. last yr, we had the double whammy season pass that let us go to sierra n' northstar all the time; not this yr. this yr, we're getting more variety. we don't make nearly as many overnite trips as we did back in the heyday, back when $$$ flowed much more freely. yah, back then, i was more willing n' able to spring 4 a hotel/motel room, etc., u know? these days, we mostly make daytrips. however, this past weekend was sort'f diff. we snowboarded 4 only 1 day; but we aktually drove up on fri nite, stayed @ jane's parents' house, n' then hit the slopes, then drove home. on fri nite... well, 1st i had my master's projekt class. that ran late. i came home n' hastily packed. we drove up. we ate in.n.out on the way in pleasanton. it was raining. the burger joint filled up w/ lots'f teenagers. sat morn, we ate some mcyukyuk's sun, we went to church. after church n' bible study, we went to galleria market w/ other church ppl to eat lunch. kaela n' i got some 빈대떡 (bindaedduhk), 오댕 (odaeng), n' 떡볶이 (dduhkbokki) from the vendors outside. afterwards, we bought some 붕어빵 (boonguhbbang). that's a really hi carb diet, u know. it's sooo hip to be lo carb, but i'm still eating hi carb now n' then. after galleria, kaela n' i went to the sunnyvale trader joe's. then we hurried to couples bible study @ 목사님 (moksanim [pastor])'s house. there was also lots'f fud there, n' i feel i really ate 'lot this weekend.
yesterday (which is more like 2day 4 me since it's 1243a)
was a very bizzy day @ werk. i'm really bizzy these days. u know, v.day's coming up. fahad n' wendy's wedding's coming up. man, i wish i had more time to write this journal. have u noticed i haven't had many pics up in my journal so far this yr? yah, i feel bad that i haven't been able to do much w/ my journal lately. :-(
2nite, i werked till ~800p. i pretty much werked a 12 hr day. then i werked out in the company gym. i stayed @ my werk till 'bout 1000p. then i went to albertson to buy some juice, milk, n' cereal but ended up buying other stuff 2: anchovies, lunchmeat, n' oranges. 2day, i have a big, big credit card bill due. it's a huge bill cos'f all the furniture i bought back in december, u know? i've got a li'l bit'f a cold right now. afternoon: 2day's such a spring day... in the middle'f feb.
v.day's in 2
days. it's so warm n' sunny outside right now. during my
lunchbreak, i met up w/ the beautiful kaela hwang
@ wireless dimension (ken's n' ryan's store) to pick us up a coupl'f new
lg vx6000 camerafon [later]: from y! news, "Men, Having Friends Is Good for the Heart" - "Men who have many friends they can turn to for support are
significantly less likely to develop heart disease, findings from a new
study show."
yesterday, i was very bizzy@werk.com; very bizzy. i didn't get to eat lunch till after 400p, 'round 500p. 2nite, i have
my "advance control systems design" classs 700-820p. 2morrow, i have a presentation to do in my master's project class. also,
2morrow's ken's b.day. it's gonna be 'nother bizzy weekend.
that's not a bad thing.
[later] evening: i just talked to ken 'bout kaela's n' my possibly
doggsitting moonah 4 a weekend or so.
moonah a big, black
"akc" german shepherd.
[later, aktually 104a, 2004.02.13] whoa, didju know buy.com
morning: according to the lg electronics us website, here r some specs 'bout our
lg vx6000 fons:
[later] afternoon: it's cloudy 2day. will it rain 2morrow?
i have a presentation in a li'l over an hr. 오후 219p: 오늘이 미국의 대통령의날 예요. presidents' day... 오늘 좀 이상해요. 제가 집에 있지만 아름다운 캐이라 황이 집에 없어요. 2day's sort'f strange. i'm home, but the beautiful kaela hwang isn't. it's rarely like this, 'specially not during the day! if it's ever like this, it's in the evening. 아침: 2day's the beautiful kaela hwang n' my 7th monthversary. :-) well, it's a thurs 2day, so we really can't do 2 much to celebrate. :-/ i have my "advanced control systems" class 2nite 700-820p. yesterday, i werked 'nother 12hr day, which happens now n' then. i've gotta werk hard since i have the interview 4 my permanent position coming up in a couple'f wks. feb's a short month.
what did u do 4 v.day? i took kaela to dinner @ cascal, a tapas restaurant in downtown mtn view (mountain view). mtn view's really improved in the past decade! castro st used to be such a dinky, li'l st. now it resembles a st in sf soma or so; nice (내이스). we ate tapas: a caeser salad w/ anchovies, roasted quail w/ some kind'f berries, roasted monkfish, lamb oaxaca tamale, [a li'l later] sun, we went to church. after church, we went to dimsum w/ david n' youmi in milpitas @ a restaurant in the 99 strip mall. it was good. after that, kaela had an open house in sunnyvale. i werked on my controls hw in my office n' also had a bit'f "werk werk" to do. roland came to visit us. he arrived on sun afternoon n' left on mon afternoon. on sun nite, we ate dinner @ 금봉황 (geumbonghwang, china china) on el camino. it's so close to our house! :-) we like it. we ate sizzling rice seafud soup, 깐풍새우 (gganpoongsaewoo, fried prawns in "garlic" sauce), n' szechuan chicken. 'twas very good. the restaurant was pretty crowded 4 a sun nite. afterwards, we went to santana row to stroll cos we were so full. since 'twas so cold, we ended up just going to borders. we saw tim fong studying his law skool stuff in the café there.
mon was pres' day, as u know. roland helped me move my dj coffin out'f my mom's house n' into kaela's n' my house. 4 lunch, we went to the tk noodles in the milpitas 99 strip mall. i bought some new windshield wiper blades @ kragen. 'twas a rainy day. kaela n' i went shopping later. i got measured 4 my tux 4 fahad's n' wendy's wedding in march. 4 that, i went to men's wearhouse on stevens creek blvd @ winchester blvd. after my thing, while kaela ran some werk errands, i walked in the rain to valley fair. i sort'f window shopped n' started cynically thinking that all clothes look the same now: tons'f neon, fluorescent colours. n' what's w/ this look'f wearing 2 polo shirts @ 1nce?!?! it's just so abercrombie & b!tch can sell u 2 shirts instead'f 1; double the profit$!!! who really wears 2 neon polo shirts @ 1nce? kaela n' i used to have lots'f macy's gift cards from our wedding, but now we've used up that credit. we aktually used lots'f it on presents 4 other ppl. otherwise, we spent it on pots n' pans, bedding... i bought a kenny cole shirt 1nce n' some facial soap, as u know.
we wanted to buy some shams. u know what shams r? they're big pillows 4 ur bed. we had to run btwn vallco macy's n' valley fair to get them. we had a surf city squeeze smoothie @ vallco n' a coupl'f pastries from grain d'or there. we were s'pposed to go to the gym, but we didn't. valley fair, vallco, then back to valley fair... then we went to safeway@rivermark to grocery shop. we came home n' ate pasta.
on sat, (i'm not being very chronological here. i'm going back to v.day.) in the morn, we went to a special couples' v.day spin class @ the hamilton/meridian bally gym. i think we were the only couple there. 'twas a 90 min class. after that, we ate lunch. where? uh... oh yah, boston market @ hamilton n' bascom. then we met up w/ mark, grace, n' dennis. kaela showed mark n' dennis some 4plexes that they were interested in buying. the rose garden neighbourhood's very nice! have u cn it?
[later] 138p: i'm @ home right now 4 lunch, eating some frozen fud n' typing on my 'puter. someday soon i gotta go to osh to buy a lawn mower, fertilizer, a fertilizing cart thingy, a sprayer (4 the hose), some small, hand gardening tools... morning: if u ever need to get ahold'f me urgently by e.mail n' i'm not @ my desk in my office or @ home, u can e.mail me @ "[my fon #]@vtext.com]." u know u can do that? most ppl have cellfon's w/ txt msging now. if the person u'r trying to reach has verizon, then u can e.mail [that person's fon #]@vtext.com. of course, if a user gets 2 many text msgs, then he/she'll get charged per msg. we get 100 free txt msgs/month on the plan we have now.
[later] bloggers will inherit the earth. u've heard the saying, "the geeks shall inherit the earth," right? of course u have; every1 has. it's a very common saying. i s'ppose a variant might be "the nerds shall inherit the earth." other variants might be "the geeks will inherit the earth," "geeks shall inherit the earth," "geeks will inherit the earth," "nerds shall inherit the earth," n' "nerds will inherit the earth," right? well, i say "bloggers will inherit the earth" cos bloggers r just kewl ppl... altho' i don't call my "online journal" a "blog."
[later] after lunch: i believe we're snowboarding 2morrow.
[later] up till now, n' maybe still, my "recent" / "handheld edition" journal fits in my 1100kb allotment on avantgo. i guess my journal's small so far this yr cos 1) i haven't been writing 'nuff, n' 2) i haven't had many pics or graphics. yah, i ought to. it's been kind'f kewl to be able to carry my yr's journal w/ me everywhere on my handspring visor edge, but eh! we'll c.
2day @ lunch, my group @ werk.com went to taxi's hamburgers @ the mercado off 101 @ great amerika parkway. i had a turkey burger w/ a side'f curly fries n' some diet pepsi. during my projekt class, which always runs late, we had some cookies that 1 student brought cos the prof sez we should take turns bringing cookies each wk. i ate 3 cookies n' realised that i used to have really healthy eating habits where i really didn't touch sweets, u know? like, if some1 were giving out cookies, i aktually might've passed. i know that's sort'f atypikal, but i used to do stuff like that, i think. i think most ppl never pass up free cookies, u know?
*sigh* i've gotta get totally readjusted to the hi.stress life i had last semester as a werking guy getting his master's degree. it was intense last semester, n' i gotta get back into the tuff mode to deal w/ the fakt that it's still intense this semester. in fakt, it's prob'ly more intense. i've gotta submit my master's projekt @ the end'f this semester. i'll need to get my report hardbound. on her website, my projekt advising prof has a list'f students who have done research under her supervision. i felt really honoured to c that she updated the list n' had added my name n' projekt title a few weeks 'go: http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/wdu/Homepage/Du.htm. (that address's case sensitive.)
i need to go to osh sometime n' buy a lawnmower, fertilizer, that fertilizing kart thingy, a nozzle 4 the garden hose, some handheld garden tools... i've sed that b4 here, i know; but i really can't 4get to buy these things b4 the sales end, u know? our front n' back lawns r really small, so i'm tempted to buy a "push" mower, a nonmotorized mower. 4 not that much more, i can get an electrically powered 1. i'm sure i don't want a gas powered 1, but how r elektric mowers? r they convenient? do they recharge or what? *shrug*
[later] 903p: yesterday, as i sed, was the beautiful kaela hwang's n' my 7th monthversary. it was thurs. i had to werk. i had a very bizzy day. after werk, i went to class. after class, i went to the gym. on my way home from the gym, i stopped by the cheesecake faktory @ valley fair n' got a slice'f choco godiva cheesecake 4 kaela n' me, to celebrate our monthversary.
b4 stopping by the cheesecake faktory, i got gas @ the rotten robbie on hamilton, west'f bascom, east'f winchester blvd. i noticed that gas was sooo expen$ive: $1.93/gal. it was awful. i figured, "shoot, might as well fill up cos i guess gas is just expe$ive these days." after i filled up, i saw that the arco on winchester blvd, north'f hamilton, had 87 octane gas 4 $1.83/gal. then i noticed that the chevron down the rd had 87 4 $1.91/gal. whah?! then i saw that the hansra n' the sumpthin' sumpthin' petroleum (generik places) were 'both like $1.99/gal or sumpthin'. whah?! why's the generik stuff more expen$ive than the designer, brand.name gas?! is it some kewl thing to be alternative now?! i wish i had bought the techron instead. 755a: i woke up early this sun morn cos we sort'f went to sleep
early. not really early, but we went to sleep right after
진주 목걸이 (jinjoo mokguhli), which ended @ midnite.
(they show 2 episodes in a row on ch 28.) feb's quickly coming to a
close as it's a short month... but is this yr a leap yr?! why yes,
it is!. that means 1 extra day... 1 extra day to do my master's
projekt, 1 extra day b4 my big interview 4 the permanent position @ my
company, 1 extra day until i turn 29, 1 extra day b4 i gotta start christmas shopping...
this is an elektion yr. now more than ever, altho' i've sed it b4,
this nation's divided into 2. in the past, i wouldn't have been so
partisan, even tho' i lived in such a politikal hotspot as berkeley. really, back then, i wouldn't be so partisan; but, in this day n' age, it's hard not to be. this nation's @ civil war. :-/ well, there's no real civil war, no guns. it's uh... a civil cold war? heh, now that's just silly to say. neway, this nation's obviously very polarised. every1 knows that! even the obviously conservatively biased media admits to that. the term "liberal media" is so lame cos it's so obvious that the media isn't on the side'f the liberals these days. i mean, @ best the liberal can find a friend in npr, but that's 'bout it. in the morns, i 1st wake up to the sound'f npr, then to korean news on the tv; then i change the channel to nbc's today show. there's such a diff btwn npr n' nbc's today show. it's not that npr's so liberal; it's just that nbc's so conservative. after all, arnold schwarzeneggar began his whole gubernatorial campaign on nbc's tonight show w/ conservative nazi jay leno. i know i'm just being silly calling him a nazi, but our nation's @ civil cold war, so all's fair. speaking'f cold, in cold mountain the saber rattlin', young southern punks bust into nicole kidman's dad's church n' yell "we got our war! we got our war!" heh, just imagine that happening in this day n' age in amerika w/ all the enmity btwn conservatives n' liberals. "where is the love?" the black eyed peas sang, way back in 2002. indeed, "where is the love?" "What's wrong with the world, mama? People livin' like they ain't got no mamas." those r the opening lyrics to the black eyed peas' 2002 hit song "where is the love?". is that considered a good rhyme these days? "mama" n' "mamas"?!?!?! now that's what's wrong w/ the world 2day. neway, the song speaks the truth in that our nation has 2 many probs @ home to be off killing ppl in iraq these days. "proud to be an american. ashamed of our president." it's a civil war: u'r either a bush backer or a bush basher, n' yet ralph nader wants to run as an independent candidate 4 the presidency. @ this pt, i think it's obvious who the next president'f the usa should be: john kerry. i dunno if ppl say he copied howard dean, but kerry s'pposedly has a blog on his website, n' we know as a fakt that "bloggers will inherit the earth," so this alleged blogger 'least ought to inherit the white house.
n' yet i ask, "where is the love?" if u r a bush backer, r all ur friends also bush backers? r u sure? if u bash bush, do u only make friends w/ fellow bush bashers? personally, i have friends on both sides'f this politikal chasm, which isn't just 'bout the man in the white house but 'bout all sorts'f issues that've been 'round, it cms, since the beginning'f time. shall we just agree to disagree? well, my grandpa told me to stay out'f politiks in order to live a long, healthy life. basikally, politiks just boils the blood, right? or does it just angry up the blood? i'm not sure but i know 2 things: 1) politiks angries up n' boils the blood. 2) now is not the time to be an apathetic bystander 'bout politiks. now is the time to rock da vote. "you the man! you the man!" "dude, watch out for the man. don't trust the man. don't sell out to the man. the man's always keeping us down." "you the woman!" u never hear ppl say that. it's nice when ppl get 'long. it's nice to have peace. it's a shame that this nation's @ civil war. i don't think this politikal chasm is the fault'f the "liberals."
moving on to further discussion 'bout current politiks, 1 could chat 'bout the latest sf same sex marriages. that's all over the news. the conservative media obviously loves to make a circus out'f the great state'f cali4nia, as we saw w/ last yr's ridiculous gubernatorial recall elektion. "look at those freaks on the west coast," they say. on our car ride back from tahoe last nite, the beatiful kaela hwang saw a truck on the road w/ some name'f some rice company on it n' pted out that some rice is grown in cali4nia, but most'f the rice we buy is imported from out'f the country, while other amerikans eat nonasian style rice such as uncle ben's. she then mentioned "the san francisco treat," mistaking that slogan as belonging to minute rice; but i corrected her n' explained how "the san francisco treat" used to be rice.a.roni until the company freaked out that they were being associated w/ homosexuals. what the heck?! it's just rice! is eating a certain brand'f rice gonna make u catch gay? maybe amerikan consumers more feared that eating rice.a.roni'd turn them into conscientious citizens who believed in treating homosexuals as fellow human beings, straight but not narrow. i don't know 'bout u, but when i vote i consider how jesus loved the ppl whom the rest'f society despised n' how forcing a young gurl to give bear an unwanted child who'll just have a tortured life isn't gonna bring either the mutha or the child ne closer to christ n' comprehension'f god's 4givness. it's 854a sun morn, n' i'm not 1 to preach.
yesterday, kaela n' i went to tahoe. we left @ 710a w/ the
intention to visit alpine meadows 4 their $39 lift tix, good every day 4
the rest'f the season. we'd 4gotten that this past week was "ski
week" 4 local k-12 skools, so tahoe was gonna be totally jam.packed.
on our way up to tahoe, i made great time. we stopped @
mcyukyuk's 4 tasties n' still made it to tahoe in ~3 hrs. that's
how it used to be always, but these days there's usually 2 much
traffik to make it to tahoe in 3 hrs. then 'gain, back in my berkeley days, we'd depart 4 tahoe no later than 600a. there's less traffik @ that time. when we got to alpine we saw a big backup on the 89s, n' i quickly caught a glimpse'f a green "sold out" sign in the middl'f the entrace to the access rd up to the parking lots. accordingly, i quickly busted a "'u'ie" on the 89 n' headed back to squaw valley usa, where lift tix co$t an outrageous price cos squaw's just a shade less'f a snobby, luxury resort than heavenly. earlier, i had sed we could either go to alpine 4 $39 or dinky, li'l boreal 4 $36. to beginners terrain doesn't matter, but u gotta understand we're not beginners so we do care what kind'f slopes n' snow we hit. after turning away from alpine, we were not gonna drive all the way back up donner peak to ride boreal; so, yah, we just went to rip.off squaw. (we didn't go to rip.off (v) squaw! we went to rip.off (adj) squaw.) squaw valley usa, as the atmosphere reminded us, is disneyland on snow. on ur way home, they hock popcorn, pretzels, hotdogs, n' corn on a cob. we rode mostly on the red dog part'f squaw, over by the resort @ squaw creek. @ lunch, we took our meal @ the li'l snack area @ the resort @ squaw creek. lemme tell u: that place has the nicest bathroom i have ever cn @ tahoe snow resort but the most expe$ive fud i've ever cn in tahoe... well, not necessarily the most expen$ive fud i've cn, since u can always go to a more upscale dining facility, but it has the most rip.off fud i've cn in tahoe. man, i don't even wanna tell u the price they charge 4 a hotdog cos u'll faint. ha ha! well, i still think heavenly's the snobbiest most elitist place in tahoe, but wow! the resort @ squaw creek was such a upper tax bracket environment. how was the snow? it was pretty good. u know... i really need to get back to the terrain park. i found li'l ledges n' bumps to jump off of, but it's not the same. also, it feels kind'f weird to be doing tricks n' stuff down a run crowded w/ average skiiers that totally gawk @ u, u know? ha ha, i'm basikally saying, "i'm so bad@$$ that i'm a danger to the publik cos other ppl on the snow ended up crashing n' falling while watching me in amazement @ how bad@$$ i am." ha ha ha! i know that's what u read/hear, but all i'm saying is that ppl who never watch freestyle boarding r really impressed when they c some dude jump, spin, twist, this n' that, n' i get sort'f self.conscious; while @ the terrain park, i'd just be just 'nother joe shmoe wannabe, n' no1'd pay ne attention to me, n' i'd feel fine. on our way home, i avoided traffik by taking the 5 to 205 to 580 to 680 instead'f just 80 to 680. that helps cos i realise that ppl who ski/snowboard tahoe come from 3 places: 1) san josé n' vicinity, 2) walnut creek n' vicinity, n' 3) marin county / north bay. taking the 5 instead'f just the 80 eliminates more than 2/3 of the returning tahoe traffik! u understand, right? however, the commute back from tahoe combines all those bay area folk w/ the local sactown/tahoe traffik. it's so interesting to look @ the license plate holders n' realise that 'least 90%'f the ppl who go snowboarding/skiing r from the bay area. the locals don't ski/snowboard. yet, explain to me gobacktothebay.com. that site is a "liberal" site that assumes all bay area visitors to tahoe r a bunch'f bush backin' nazis n' should just take their d@mn suvs right back down to the bay area. ever heard'f a li'l town called san francisco? ever heard'f a city called berkeley? these r examples'f communities in the bay area that rn't so brainwashed by the amerikan conservative media. i mean, it's un4tunate that some ppl in the bay area don't have a conscience, yet the whole "i hate bay area yuppies coming to tahoe" mentality'f some tahoe local yokels makes no sense, as we all know tahoe has no industry to support itself n' relies on bay area buck$ to survive. by this rant, i'm referring to those particular incidents i had on snowbomb.com.
when we did go back to to the bay, i told kaela that i'm very unhappy that we never eat korean fud these days, so we had our dinner @ 청기와 (chunggiwa, blue stones) on el camino real. we ate 아구 매운탕 (agoo maeoon tang, spicy monkfish stew) n' 오징어 볶음과 우동 사리 (ojinguh bokkeumgwa oodong sari, spicy mixed squid w/ udon noodles). ah, i miss spicy seafud stuff.
2day, i'm 154.6 lbs n' 5.1% body fat. how r u? please sign my gbook n' tell me to go back to the bay n' just believe in whatever jay leno preaches from now on.
[later] 945p: this morn, we went to church, after church, we went to
valley fair. we bought kaela some clothes n' stuff. then we
went grocery shopping @ hangook market. 2nite, kaela made daegoo
maewoontang 4 dinner.
*sigh* there's sumpthin' i've wanted to talk 'bout here, but i
can't 'member. :-( don'tchu hate that feeling? as i don't
get 'nuff opportunities to post entries these days, i can't afford to miss
a chance to say sumpthin' i wanna say, u know? *sigh* oh well... :-( it's
sun nite right now.
mon afternoon: tues morn: last nite, i heard the weatherman say, "get ready to get soaked" or sumpthin' like that. it's nice when the weatheman can pretty much boldly guarantee sumpthin'. yah, it rained this morn. it wasn't 2 bad on my morn commute (if u can call my 6 min drive down the block a "commute"). a few sprinkles may've touched my scalp thru my short, black hair. 2day's date: 2004.02.24. 1nce 'gain, that's 'lot'f 2s n' 4s: 3 0s, 3 2s, n' 2 4s.
[later] this morn: george dubyah condemned same-sex marriages n' aktually asked 4 a constitutional ammendment to ban them. there's just absolutely no christlike, compassionate love 4 fellow humans in anti.gay legislation. closet case pansies support anti.gay legislation.
[later] afternoon: last nite, i left werk sometime after 800p. i went to orchard supply hardware (osh) to buy an electric lawnmower, weed.killing herbicide, n' a handheld weeding tool. afterwards, i went to the sunnyvale towne center target to look 4 the 11.piece set'f miracle blade 3 knives advertised in their circular n' online weekly ad. i didn't find the set. on my way back home i filled up on designer petrol @ the chevron on el camino near lawrence. 87 oktane co$t $1.95/gal. is it $1.95 or $1.959? i haven't noticed the 0.9¢ lately, but i'm sure gas stations still do that. some chinese dude was sittin' in his car, chattin' on his cellfon as he filled up. later, he accidentally almost drove off w/o disconnekting the nozzle n' hose from his gas tank! when i got home, i made us some 육개장 (yookgaejang) 4 dinner.
[later] afternoon: [later] 921p: i've been sitting in my car in the parking lot'f cupertino village (the 99 plaza), in front'f fantasia, waiting 4 kaela to join me 4 some boba drinks. she went to taekwondo practice 2nite, n' i went to my "advanced control systems design" class, which i have every tues/thurs eve, as u know. kaela's prob'ly taking care'f werk bizness right now, n' that's fine. i'm hungry. i wonder what's 4 dinner but know i shouldn't eat 2 much cos i haven't exercised 'nuff lately. i need more exercise as i shouldn't have hi blood pressure. maybe we'll have either 우동 (oodong, udon) or 짜장면 (jjajangmyuhn) 4 dinner. *shrug* i've got lots on my mind re: skool n' werk. also, i'll be helping w/ 2 weddings this yr, u know. i have my big interview on march 5.
this eve, @ werk.com, i filled up my starbucks h2o bottle w/ green tea instead'f plain h2o. i also did that yesterday. wed morn: 2day, the bay area has a rainstorm, lots'f violent weather. ha, maybe the conservative nuts'll say this is a noah's ark flood to purge the land'f same.sex marriage condoning sinner liberals. ha ha.
[later] afternoon, lemme tell u: if u like cute things, u should check out this site n' look @ their li'l push button ikons: http://photographytips.com/page.cfm/1. yah, very cute.
[later] late afternoon: @ lunch, i ate 우동 (oodong, udon) w/ kaela @ home. yum yum, udong. yum yum, kaela. :-)
[later] 1103p: what a nite! i stayed @ werk till 1015p.
as i drove home in the rain, i felt my car pull hard to the right.
i pulled over n' saw i had a flat! i fixed it w/ a fix.a.flat can
n' went to the nearby chevron to pump it up. after that, i
discovered the tire had no leak, but the valve stem cap had malfunktioned.
u know what kind'f valve stem caps i have, right? back
'round christmas, i
was so excited to get these colourful valve stem caps that tell u when ur tire is flat by changing color. well, i soon realised that was sort'f a so.so idea cos, well... if i'm gonna look @ my valve stem cap to find out my tire's flat, i'll prob'ly have already cn the flat tire in the process, u know? well, 2nite, i found that the plastic valve stem cap had sprung a leak n' was letting air out. *sigh* that really sucked! oh, by the way, it's now 1243a on 2004.02.26. i'm werking overtime on this journal entry! ha ha.
on sun nites, kaela n' i watch korean movies on ktvn ch 28. this sun's movie was 꿈 (dream) by 이태원 (lee taewon). it's a story 'bout a buddhist monk who's infatuated by this gurl that comes to visit the temple. these sun movies r often historical movies n' teach us 'lot 'bout korea's buddhist side more than nething. it's weird, we c so much korean buddhist stuff every sun nite. ha. koreans in amerika, 'specially korean.amerikans in my generation really try to pretend korea's so christian n' doesn't have the buddhist culture that countries like china n' taiwan also have. the 2 weeks prior to this sun, the sun movies were these old, old 1980s or 1970s taekwondo movies. they were like bruce lee movies but 'bout korea n' w/ taekwondo fighting instead'f kungfu. they were really fun to watch altho' old. the storm is really raging outside! 937p: 저 체육관에 있어요. i'm @ the gym. 2day, my werkday was totally booked w/ mtgs. i'm happy that the tasks the company, or 'least my group, gives me rn't typikal intern duties but real, professional, full.time engr tasks. i like that; it feels good. however, i still gotta interview a wk from 2morrow 4 the aktual "permanent" position. i've really gotta get the job. recently, i got 2 fon calls from nasa/ames research 'bout jobs. it's nice to be getting calls 'bout jobs. i like it. i feel like things r picking up. grey skies r gonna clear up!
@ lunch, the group i had mtgs w/ went to rivermark quizno's. :-) toasty! i had a small sierra smoked turkey on their famous ciabatta bread. i cm to get that 2 much. i ought to try other sandwiches there, but i don't often feel like eating the fatt'ning stuff, u know? someday, i'd like to have a good philly cheesesteak 'gain. when i was a fat kid, my dad 1nce bought these incredibly awesome cheesesteak sandwiches, but i dunno where he got them from... somewhere here in san jo. *shrug*
rt now @ the gym, the tvs r playing extreme makeover n' the stereo's playing paula abdul's "forever your girl." earlier, they were playing electronic's song that goes "whereever (or however?) i look it clear to see that i love you more than you love me" n' the pet shop boys'... i 4get which song but a good 1... was it "what have i done to deserve this?" maybe. they keep bouncing btwn "modern rock hits'f the 1980s n' 1990s" n' "1980s top 40." earlier they played some catchy huey lewis (i think) song that i'm sure i used to really like (split infinitive) n' still just now enjoyed. now, they're playing the 1980s scottish group big country's only song "in a big country." 830a, sat morn: how r u? please take a few mins to sign my gbook! :-) it's a li'l chilly in the 'puter room or "office" here in our house. i'm conflikted 'bout whether to turn up the heater or not. right now, it's @ 55øf, which basikally means it's turned off. my fingers get cold when i type. u might not know 2 much 'bout our house cos i don't give out lots'f details 'bout it here, i know. sometimes ppl (like jeanna) say i give 'way 2 many details in my journal n' ask, "rn'tchu 'fraid'f stalkers?" well, i've answered that question b4 like this: 1) i try to be a nice guy n' hope that makes it so less ppl wanna come after me n' kill me etc. 2) i think i'm not totally helpless altho' no superman by ne means... what i mean is: it's the martial artist's worst mistake to think that he/she's safe n' invincible cos he/she's studied martial arts, even if it's been 4 more than a decade, but the study'f martial arts along w/ good, solid martial arts philosophy does somewhat empower a person to some finite extent. i know u can't lower double knifehand block a bullet or hand grenade n' am thus relying more on pt #1 than pt #2 in those cases but am just saying there's extreme worth in pursuing some martial arts edukation 4 urself when u can. when u realise this, come on n' join us over @ us taekwondo akademy, unless u'r closer to berkeley, in which case, u ought to head right 'way over to ucmap. in either case, we'll c u @ 1'f those really soon, k?
"benomix.com: bigger than google!" wow, that's extreme blasphemy, u know? if a person sez "i'm bigger than microsoft." every1'll have a good chuckle (*snort* *snort* *push up glasses*) n' go on w/ their happy existences, knowing u just sed sumpthin' like "i'm bigger than the devil!" however, we all know that entities like linux n' google represent all that's good in teknospace. @ my office, there's this bookshelf w/ a sign that asks ppl to take a book n' leave a book. i haven't taken a book from the shelf but 1nce left a copy'f wired magazine. on the cover'f that magazine's linux's originator linus torvalds n' the caption "leader of the free world." uhm, check out this website: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/torvalds/. is it linus torvald's real website?! u've got to be kidding! it looks almost as primitive as mine! *sigh* i've really gotta contmeporise my site. have u cn the beautiful kaela hwang's personal website lately? well, she has 2 websites: her personal n' her bizness. in ne case, both look better than this piece'f prehistorik ddong! i need to bring my website up into this century/millenium. we're no longer living in the 1990s! ... the glorious 1990s... heh! don't sob!!! haven'tchu noticed nething?! we're no longer in that blue funk (yes, i know blue funk's written in red.) that immediately followed the era'f the matrix n' pets.com, etc. yes, we've all gotta admit the yrs 2001-2003 were sort'f the dark ages 4 amerika, as many amerikans decided to stop thinking n' to let republikans back into control'f the gov't, but hey! u know? we never know: maybe the demokrats'll regain control this yr n' the ekonomy'll recover. heh, as i sed: i was never this partisan b4; but it's just that this country's simply @ civil war, n' it's extremely hard to be in the middle as the conservatives keep grunting that u'r either w/ them or 'gainst them. when u say that n' ur breath reeks'f cannabilised human flesh, it's harder 4 ppl to "go w/" u, u know? heh... i know i'm just being silly; n' maybe sometime this yr, this civil war'll end, n' then we can all love each other 1nce 'gain. in ne case, i believe the ekonomy's already gettin' better, 'member? just go to the movies here in da silly valley n' witness on the screen all the myriads'f employment ads the theatre's paid to projekt onto the screen. mechanical, elektrical, n' 'puter engineers cm to be in demand.
i know kaela n' i went to the movies last nite. we
watched 50 first dates altho' there were many, many, many lines full'f thousands'f ppl waiting to watch mel gibson's s'pposedly controversial film the passion of the christ, which opened this past wed. i can talk more 'bout that later, 'specially after kaela n' i watch it 2morrow afternoon w/ our church group. 4 now, lemme say that 50 first dates's an extremely cute romantic comedy. :-) i mean, sure, there r more warm n' fuzzy romantic comedies such as this past christmas season's love actually, but man! this movie had such a kick@$$ soundtrack full'f islandish cover versions'f kewl 1990s cure songs such as "lovesong" n' "friday i'm in love." the sndtrk (or "ost," as we really ought to say) also has kewl islandish covers'f such kewl 1980s oldies as the car's "drive," spandau ballet's "true," n' modern english's "i melt with you." when u get a chance, u can buy the 50 first dates ost
now 'bout the passion of the christ: 'gain, kaela n' i'r
watching it 2morrow, so i'll have much more to say 'bout it after
that. last nite on conan o'brien's show, 4 the 1st time, i
saw a clip from the movie when conan interviewed the star. kaela
was sort'f surprised to hear that mel gibson isn't starring in the movie, but i reminded her that if he did that'd be just a li'l 2 self.promoting, like mr. burns' film on the simpsons. furthermore, mel already martyred himself 1nce, thru braveheart. the today show keeps saying that the passion of the christ is sooo controversial cos jewish.amerikans r outraged that it puts blame 4 jesus' death on jews. hrm... really? that makes me guess it'll be the 1 movie this yr shown in the big theatres that doesn't negatively portray asians! ha ha ha ha. nah, mel'll find a way to have some clumsy, unrealistically dorky chinese guy come deliver some egg foo yung n' scream sumpthin' like "whah?! mee no tipee?!" shame on the asian aktor who sells himself/herself out to pick up cheap roles like those! yet those who do say those r the only roles available. 'member b.d. wong's mission statement that sez he promises to refuse roles like those? hrm... cynics'd scoff, "well, b.d. wong ain't 'xaktly a household name." which asian aktors r household names? russell wong, jet li, jacky chan... of course lucy liu (if we use "aktor" in the genderless, unisex, or co.ed sense)... yah... i wonder who's the most recognisable asian aktor/aktress in amerika? heh, i know u want to say william hung, but he's yet to make a movie or tv show (besides his famous few secs on fox tv's american idol) as far as i know... [later] 1113p: i'm aktually now @ the capitol/aborn bally gym 'bout to write to u more 'bout my "pre.thoughts" 'bout the passion of the christ while stretching. last nite, right b4 we went in to watcy 50 first dates, kaela n' i saw plenty'f ppl exiting a couple'f showings'f the passion of the christ. they all looked so glum, not joyous @ all! jesus died on the cross 4 our sins to save our souls, right? that's good news, right? this movie must be depressing n' gloomy as well as gruesome n' violent. a laser printed, paper sign on the window'f the amc mercado 20's ticket box office warns that the passion of the christ's rated r, violent n' qruesome, n' in aramaic n' hebrew w/ english subtitles. shoot! those statetments convince me that the passion of the christ'll be a good movie. my wise, wise 9th grade world cultures teacher @ leland hi skool mr. charles sullivan sed no good movie is rated less than r, n' he was right! that's cos real life's rated r if not nc.17 or better yet "category iii"! no real movie 'bout jesus isn't in aramaic n' hebrew. now, i wonder: didn't "conservative christians" boycott the last temptation of christ? yet "conservative christians" r supporting the passion of the christ. u realise why, right? u c, the whole s'pposed controversy 'bout the passion of the christ's negative portrayal'f jews's a ploy by the conservative media to rile up the troops'f the "morale majority" to hate liberals 4 always saying everything conservatives do offends them. "how dare those liberals, jewish n' all, diss our saviour?!" publicised "controversy" never fails to get the mindless masses into theatre seats! just spread a rumour that asian.amerikans r offended by n' those boycotting ur movie n' u'll end up making billions'ff all the ppl that'll come support ur movie just 4 that!
[later] 202p: after the gym, i went to the atm n' then to the story rd lee's sandwiches to get lunch 4 kaela n' myself. i hadn't driven 'round eastside in so long that i got a li'l lost. traffik in eastside was sooo horrible 2day. 2day's a beautifully, azure skied day after a wk'f storms here in the bay area. i guess every1 wants to come out while it's not raining. kaela's werking in her office 2day.
[later] 517p: i mowed our lawn w/ our new mower! it was so kewl!!! neway, i've gotta go pick kaela up from werk now. ttyl. mon lunchtime: [later] afternoon: tues morn: my timex helix works watch; which has a digital compass, thermometer, altimeter, barometer, n' chronometer; does not keep track'f the yr, so it didn't know we're in a leap yr. cos'f that, i thought yesterday was the 2nd day'f march n' 2day's the 3rd; but my handspring visor edge 'least knows 'bout leap yrs n' thus gives me the correkt date. that's why my journal entries have the correkt dates 4 yesterday n' 2day.
it's sad: my timex watch's face has gotten a bit scratched. i should put a screen protector on it, like those used 4 handhelds. wed morn: i didn't get 'round to mentioning to u yesterday that i went home yesterday @ lunch n' mowed the lawn, the backyard lawn. ah, it was such a beautiful, sunny day yesterday, a beautiful, sunny, blue.skied day! on my short drive from the office to our house during lunch, i couldn't help but wish i were in tahoe. (please check the tense'f that "were.") it had rained pretty much all last week n' this past mon here in the bay area. up in tahoe... when it rains here in the bay area, it snows in tahoe. ah, last sat must've been a totally bodacious day on the slopes. (if we're all wearing neon colours as if it were the 1980s 'gain, why can't i use the wurd "bodacious"?) un4tunately, last weekend, the beautiful kaela hwang had to werk. in ne case, these days, i have lots'f random tasks to which to attend, u know? 4 example, mowing the lawn... whenever i have the opportunity, i try to tidy up the house, here n' there. i can always c tidying up that needs to be done. the place could always be tidier. u know i have my big, big interview this fri. i have this big info session / orientation thing to go to on the thurs afternoon b4 the interview, @ the embassy suites hotel. funny, i'm s'pposed to meet @ this hotel. other candidates r flying in (or driving) from whatever "top tier" universities in this country. i live like right next door to the hotel, practikally. funny. applicants from local universities, such as berkeley n' stanfurd do not get a free hotel room, unlike those coming in from university of michigan, m.i.t., or wherever… aktually, i heard that they rn't even considering students from university of michigan this time. they weren't gonna let me interview as a san josé state (sjsu) student either, but i kept emphasizing that i'm a berkeley alumni. they're being very selektive 'bout whom they hire, n' that scares me 'li'l, but i gotta keep in mind: 1) i'm a kick@$$ engineer that can kick all these other candidates' butts, n' 2) i've got so much experience here @ my company n' other places. i've really gotta figure out what i'm gonna wear thurs n' fri! i have hw to turn in on thurs eve in my "advance control system design" class. i have hw due every thurs eve.
since i've been so bizzy w/ mowing lawns n' getting' ready 4
interviews, etc., i haven't really been that good w/ my journal entries as'f the past coupl'f days. aktually, i really wish i had been more produktive this past weekend. :-( isn't that sumpthin' 4 which we all can always hope? sun, we hung out w/ friends from church pretty much the whole day. i still haven't sed 'nuff 'bout our viewing'f the passion of the christ. on sun nite, on korean tv (ch28), we watched the movie seventeen. that's a really kewl movie. i had heard 'bout it b4. i was happy to watch a recent movie 4 1nce. that movie 'prob'ly came out in 1999 or so. kaela n' i were also very happy to watch a movie that wasn't sooo depressing 4 1nce. 'member? we've watched 'lots'f these movies that show traditional, korean, buddhist culture. these movies r made by such critically acclaimed korean filmmakers such as the 춘향뎐 (choonhyangdyuhn) guy. these movies r very beautiful but somtimes pretty depressing, u know? 4 example, that movie 꿈 (ggoom [dream]) 'bout the buddhist monk was very depressing. neway, seventeen was a really kewl, fun movie; n' i could figure out when the movie was made cos'f the muzik: i heard songs like fin.k.l.'s "ruby," sechskies' "couple," etc. it was very 1998/1999.
while i mowed the lawn during lunch yesterday, i felt so 4tunate, so blessed. who else gets to mow his lawn during lunch?! i felt so happy 4 lunch yesterday, i ate a ham sandwich n' a dannon fruzion driinkable yogurt. these days i think i eat 2 much 4 how li'l exercise i get. 1 thing, these days, i've been pretty consistent 'bout eating breakfast. i keep hearing 'bout the importance'f eating breakfast in relation to maintaining a good weight n' shape, u know? speaking'f diets, lemme tell u 'bout how i read in men's health 'bout the importance'f eating w/in 45 mins'f werking out. u c, some ppl say u shouldn't eat late @ nite. however, back when i was on the cal taekwondo team, we'd 168 or koko house every single nite, late! 'member? however, back then i reached a minimum wt'f ~137 lbs!!! right now, i'm 'bout 150 lbs, but whoa, 137?! how could i be eating such bad.4.me fud, so late @ nite, but be losing so much weight? well, it's cos i was eating w/in 45 mins'f a good, hard werkout each nite! isn't that interesting?
[later] afternoon: so how was the passion of the christ? if u asked me, "was the passion of the christ a good movie?"; it'd be sort'f like asking, "is the bible a good book?" [later] (it's the "good book," right?) it's indeed a gruesome n' intense movies. @ times, i felt like i was watching a marilyn manson muzik video, not a mel gibson, wholesome, christian produktion. in case u don't know, i'll tell u that this movie's 'bout jesus's last 12 hrs as a human.
[later] [later] (still afternoon, or else sort'f early eve): so how r u? i know a couple'f ppl have recently signed my gbook: kaela n' phil. thank u very much. does ne1 know why phil's geocities id's "citygod"? i wonder if ne can tell me. i realise that, as kaela pted out, i didn't give my gbook guests the option'f saying dubyah'll be the next president'f the united states. however... since he's the current president'f the united states, he can't be the new 1, right? @ the same time, i didn't mean it like that. what i really wanted to ask was who'll be the president as'f next yr. u understand? my question was s'pposed to imply that dubyah will get ousted in this nov's elektion 4 sure, that we won't hafta wait till the 2008 elektion to get a new pres. ne way, i know i just haven't been very kind here recently to my republikan friends. really, i don't like ur candidate, but u ppl r still alright w/ me. i think many readers, who would've otherwise signed my gbook, avoided it cos they either felt 2 much pressure (from themselves) to pick the aktual winner'f the demokratic primary or else really want dubyah to stay in office 4 'nother olympiad. shall i change the options 4 that questions to "dubyah, kerry, n' nader"? personally, i really wish nader wouldn't run 'gain. sometimes, i feel i'm hoping 4 the best but expekting the worst... (r u gonna drop the bomb or not? i guess that just means i wanna be 4ever young.)
i've been saying that the job market looks much better a' y! news agrees, but last sat's sj merc begged to differ w/ its headline, "jobs still in the pits." 월요일 우후: 봄이 오고 있어요! 요즘 날씨 따뜻해요. 이 지난 주말에 파하드와 웬디의 결혼식을 다녔어요. [later] eve(ning): so spring is rapidly approaching like crazy. these days, it's really warm. this past weekend, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i attend fahad n' wendy's wedding down in palos verdes estates @ la venta inn, on a hill overlooking the pacific ocean. we flew down to socal on fri eve n' return on sun eve. wow, so much has happened since the last time i updatedchu. yah, i surely have not been as good w/ updating lately as i have been in the past. sorry.
well, my "recent" journal entries still fit w/in my 1100k allotment on avantgo. as i sed b4, that means i have all my journal entries from the current yr w/ me @ all times on my handspring visor edge. it's nice, but i guess i shouldn't write less just to achieve that. eventually, my "recent" journal entries'll exceed 1100k, n' i'll just hafta let that go. that's just how that is.
so what's been going on? last thurs, 2004.03.04, i had my orientation 4 my big, big interview. from 400-700p @ the santa clara embassy suites hotel, i sat in a room n' listened 'bout my current company, while sittin' w/ a bunch'f college students. i guess i was the only current employee there interviewing 4 those positions. there were 30 interviewees there, mostly from georgia tech. 'bout 0.5 the room cmed to be from georgia tech. the next largest group was from cal (berkeley). there were 3'f us from san jos&ecaute; state. however, i'll always consider myself more'f a berkeley student, not so much a san josé state student. is it just cos i'm more proud'f berkeley's prestige? no, it's not just that; it's also that undergrad is the real college experience. grad skool, it's sumpthin' else! i don't feel like a college student. i'm a career, werkin' guy who takes classes in the eve to get a master's degree. however, last yr, i was a full.time grad student, on campus all day. man, do u 'member what those days were like?! u know, so many'f us were unemployed during 2002. think 'bout that. so many'f us had nice jobs in the yrs 1998-2001 or so... n' then so many'f us were unemployed during 2002. do u 'member what 2002 was like? 4 me, i gotta admit, it was sort'f relaxing not werking n' being a full.time student. however, just like 4yr undergrad university life isn't the real world, neither is being a unemployed, full.time grad student.
neway, what was i talkin' 'bout?! i s'ppose i was talkin' bout the interview or, aktually, the interview's orientation. well, all the out'f town students got all their travel expe$es paid 4. i told my ol' classmate friend gilbert that he should take me out to dinner on his travel expen$e account, but eh! i also knew i had to go straight to class after the orientation. that's what i did, i went to class, my "advanced control systems design" class. after my class, i went back to my office 4 a short bit. then i went home. in ne case, i spent the rest'f the nite gettin' ready 4 the interviews.
the next morn, i had 4 interviews in a row starting @ 830a. i interviewed w/ 3 technikal interviewers n' 1 hr interviewer. if i had gotten the afternoon interview slots, i would've had betty's sister as the hr interviewer. they gave us lunch. i ate 'lot cos i had skipped breakfast. after lunch, we toured 1'f my company's facilities. it's kind'f funny to take a tour'f ur own company w/ a bunch'f other ppl interviewing 4 the same position. that's the funny thing: while other ppl were interviewing 4 a job, i was sort'f interviewing to keep my job, u know? well, after the day'f interviewing n' touring i went home n' packed 4 the trip down to socal 4 the wedding.
we flew southwest out'f sjc to ont. when we landed, kaela's mom picked us up w/ jeanna. kaela n' i took the car n' drove out to lakewood to attend the rehearsal dinner thingy @ this totally awesome halal indian restaurant called shahanawaz, i think. that was the best indian fud i'd eaten in a very long time! ahhh, it was sooo good, n' we ate sooo much! it was very much fun to chat w/ fahad, wendy, vince, n' fahad n' wendy's families. well, after that we just went back to kaela 's family's house, kaela n' i. i was s'pposed to spend the rest'f the nite finalising my speech/toast, but i ended up playing ape escape on the ps1 (playstation 1) instead. (where's that "what rhymes with playstation? weighstation!" bit from? i heard that somewhere.) in the morn, i werked on finalising the speech.
sat, we ate lunch/brunch @ kaela's family's house. after that, we left 4 the portofino hotel in redondo beach. we checked in. the hotel looked nicer on the website... however, i did appreciate the seals. we could watch seals play in the ocean from our room. they'd sit on buoys n' knock each other off. they swam n' jumpd out'f the water in synch. can u believe that? just in their own natural habitat, they already learn to do tricks. it's crazy. well, after kaela got ready, we drove off to la venta. we got lost n' were really late. i felt so bad, since i was the best man! :-(
neway, 'twas a beautiful wedding. the ceremony was very short. i carried the ring up to the alter n' gave it to the judge when asked. @ the reception, i made a toast/speech. the fud was really good, n' the meat was halal. that was the 1st time, i'm sure, that i saw fahad eat beef. the cake was chocolate. it was very beautiful. the dance muzik: they had lots'f those typikal wedding songs, but they also played some smiths, morrissey, n' cure. fahad really likes the smiths n' morrissey, u know.
[later] 824p: 4 the past ~20 mins, i've been werking out @ my company,
right by my cubicle. on 눈으로 말해요 (nooneuro malhaeyo, known as in your eyes in english, thanks to arirang tv), 장기웅 (jang giwoong) (or 장대리님 [jang daerinim, agent jang]) werks out on the roof in his underwear during the werkday. i'm lucky, heh, heh. 2nite, i was so torn btwn werking out here or @ bally total fitness. well, i'm here now, stretching. [later] 847p: still here, stretchin' n' lifting... shall i ever be as fit as i was right b4 the wedding? when was i healthier: during my cal taekwondo team days or else right b4 the wedding? in 1999, i was very lean w/ great cardio. in 2003, i was more muscular, not that i've ever been buff or ripped. [later] 854p: still here...
the weather's been so warm, n' i'm thinking it's already spring boarding season. springboarding... ha ha. this past wknd was the uc open taekwondo championships up in berkeley. of course, kaela n' i missed it; but others from us taekwondo attended n' participated.
[later] 1106p: 운동하기후에 식품쇼핑 갔어요. 화요일 아침: 수요일 아침, wed morn:
[later] 4 our bible study this sun on "relationships and roles," we're s'pposed to read
1248a: man, these days i never have clever names 4 my journal entries! i haven't titled my entry yet, but by the time u read this sentence (by the time i post this up on the web), i shall have. i've been sooo bizzy these days w/ skool n' werk!!! very bizzy. last nite, after my bizzy, bizzy_day@werk.com, i went to visit my committee chair advising professor. it was kind'f late cos i had to wait to borrow a laptop from my cowerker. neway, @ 1st i couldn't find her, so i decided to go to the library to pick up some book that i had reserved thru interlibrary loan a coupl'f weeks 'go. i had sort'f 4gotten what it was that i reserved. neway, i walked thru the nicely mild precocious spring nite air to the san josé pride n' joy, the martin luther king, jr. library. well, i noticed there were lots'f cops 'round. also, earlier i was a bit frustrated w/ the lack'f parking 'round campus n' even in the garage. i found out what was going on, when i passed close by a kron4 news van: sideshow arnold was in town gettin' interviewed right on our sjsu campus. (the only reason i'm saying "sideshow arnold"'s cos'f that "sideshow bob 4 mayor" episode'f the simpsons where sideshow bob turwilliger (or however u spell his name...) gets voted in as the republikan puppet mayor'f springfield. apparently, the name'f the episode's "sideshow bob roberts" n' u can read all 'bout episode 2f02 @ http://www.snpp.com/episodes/2F02.html. i can't spell turwilleger, but i can spell schwarzeneggar. wolfgang castlemeyer? no! rainier wolfcastle!!! boy, i sure haven't had time to watch simpsons lately... n' that's taking it's toll! neway, i went to library to pick up my book... which turned out to be 3 volumes, each as thick n' heavy as a big, big diktionary! man! it was a good werkout. after that, my professor called me, n' i met her in the lab.
neway, *sigh* i'm really tired right now. 2morrow, i have a very full day. i'm gonna do some very important labwerk all day n' then go give a presentation on my master's projekt @ skool @ 400p. u 'member my projekt title, right? "image processing for machine vision based auto-calibration of wafer-handling robots"... i dunno why akademic paper titles gotta be so long... but i guess in this case, longer's better or sumpthin'. *shrug*
there's so much i'd love to chat 'bout here on my journal; but, lately, i just don't have the time. :-( i wonder if i've used up my 1100kb on avantgo w/ my recent journal entries yet. *shrug* well, how 'bout if i put up a coupl'f pictures? in that case, i'm sure to go over my 1100kb!
i'm hoping to hit the slopes on sat. we'll c. there've been times when the beautiful kaela hwang n' i drove up to tahoe on fri nite but stayed in sactown on the way up n' completed the drive in the morn. in a way, that's kind'f silly: it's sort'f like driving up from san jo to berkeley but taking a rest 4 the nite in a hotel in fremont. ha ha, well, it's not that bad.
4 a long time, i've known this, but i haven't mentioned it here yet, i don't think: kaela n' i r getting baptised this easter, 2004.04.11. yah, didju know? prob'ly not...
speaking'f religion, i read this great article in christianity today in my company gym 'bout christians in the demokratic party. yah, it's such a misconception 'mongst narrowminded amerikans that only republikans r christians. i saw a bumper sticker 2day that read: "if god exists, then capitalism wouldn't." hrm... i do appreciate a pt that sticker makes: the whole capitalism thing really isn't very holy, u know? however, i'm not a kommunist, n' i do appreciate kapitalism cos i get paid 4 doing my job, etc. the thing is: i realise that my support'f kapitalism is not very holy... in fakt, it's sort'f a sin cos support'f kapitalism's a form'f greed, w/o doubt. so... well, the way i c it, all'f us kapitalists r sinners that keep on sinning. some christians say that homosexuality is a sin. well, in that case homosexuals r sinners who keep on sinning, if they r practicing homosexuality, right? likewise, all us kapitalists r sinners who keep on sinning cos we're practicing greed. *shrug* dunno what to make'f that... however, i think that 1 sin's not as bad as 'nother, that all sin is equally bad in god's eye. *shrug*
u know how there's all this hype 'bout sf gay marriages lately n' that dubyah even went as far as to do sumpthin' as ridiculous as ask 4 an ammendment to the constitution to ban it? n' u know how the media can't stop talkin' 'bout sf gay marriages n' mentioned 2day that san jos´ is officially recognising these gay marriages? well, in ne case, what do i think'f homosexuality n' christianity? well... i've sed b4 my unpopular belief that jesus was neither hetero nor homo but asexual. however, the bible does have text that sort'f condemns homosexual akts, right? right. n' it has plenty'f text that condemns just plain 4nikation including that'f the heterosexual nature. in ne case, is it right 4 christians to support anti.gay legislation? after all, r we not just trying to ban a sin? isn't that what we should do as good christians? me, i say u. if ne'f us christians really care to save the soul'f a gay person, why should our 1st step not be simply to make friends w/ an openly gay person. why should our 1st reach out to gays be sumpthin' so negative n' hateful?! how many christians who support anti.gay legislation aktually have gay friends? me? honestly, my closest friends r all hetero. however, i do have some friends who r gay here n' there. well... like, have i talked to them 'bout christianity? if my aim really is to bring my gay friends to christ, why shouldn't my 1st move be just to plain talk to them 'bout it rather than to attack them maliciously 'bout what sins they have. shoot! there's so much in the bible 'bout not being like that! it's like the whole mary magdalene story, u know? personally, i don't believe jesus would support anti.gay legislation. @ the same time, he wouldn't support premarital sex whether it be hetero or homo. does that make postmarital homo sex ok? now, to me, that's sort'f debatable... but in ne case, there r worse sins in this world to think 'bout... n' the sins that i think ought to be punishable by law... well, they don't include all this hoo ha hoo ha... in that christianity today article i read 'bout a bumper sticker that i haven't cn but find very clever: "what would jesus drive?" ha ha ha, that's great! it's a environmentalist sticker; n' as a christian, i totally appreciate it.
neway, it's 124a, n' i gotta be @ the lab by 800a up n' running! man, oh man! it's gonna be tuff. as spring rapidly approaches n' the air fills up w/ flowery scents in the nite, i know that when the climate gets as warm as it was in july last yr 'round our wedding, it'll be hard to sleep. in winter, it's hard to wake up cos i just wanna hibernate like a bear, but in summer i can't sleep @ nite cos it's so hot, n' then i wake up in the morn cos it's so hot.
i wonder if i've gone over my avantgo limit now. if so, u'll notice that i'll remove entries from the begining'f the yr from this recent entries page. u'll always be able to read past entries in my archives, u know. who does, tho? even i don't! ha ha ha... well, u should! 948p: 2day was a hot, sunny day in santa clara. yesterday, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i went snowboarding @ alpine meadows. it was a pretty good day, i s'ppose. u c, alpine meadows has 1'f the best deals 4 a day'f snowboarding in tahoe. $39 gets u a lift tic, compared to like $62 or more @ heavenly, u know? it was a hot, sunny day. the snow was very soft. the day started out kind'f bad cos i lost my lift ticket n' lost kaela here n' there when we took diff routes. however, the day got better. i was happy to get lots'f nice jumps in n' stuff. u know, this season, i really haven't ridden rails much. however, i think i've improved my form in diff, silly, li'l tricks n' 360s n' stuff. i've taken better care'f my back on the slopes, so my back doesn't hurt @ all, but my legs a bit more sore. in the past months, my problem was that i was a lazier snowboarder. yesterday, i made a conscious effort to tuck and bend my knees more while jumping, so i don't land w/ my back bent over, u know? it looks very unkewl n' hurts my back neway... but i was doing that in the past few months just cos i had gotten lazy. we got to have a portobello shroom burger w/ garlic fries @ lunch n' saw peter tsai. when we got home, we went to sushi o sushi 4 dinner n' took a short walk 'cross the street to return the rented lost in translation dvd @ blockbuster. i had rented that uh... thurs nite? i 4get... or was it fri nite? ah, yes... 'twas fri nite, after my presentation in my master's projekt class. that presentation went well. it was a warm eve(ning), n' we master's students were sort'f "stuck" in a warm room 4 4hrs, from 400p to 800p, on a fri eve. fri, during the day, i had sooo much werk to do... all this lab testing. i got 'lot done, but i know i can always do more, u know? yah, that's sort'f a werkaholic's motto, huh? *sigh* i dunno... i do have a bit'f pressure@werk.com cos u know... i hafta make sure i land the permanent position. 오전 1232a: 오늘 (어제) 아름다운 캐이라 황 하고 제가 진돗개를 바닸어요. 여성 진돗개... 예 이름이 "순이" 예요. 만히 만히 귀여워요! 그리고 너무 똑똑해요. 1249a: i'm surprised that i haven't it my 1100kb avantgo limit yet. that's strange. well, i'm sure these 2 pics'll push me over: 2nite, we went to petco fri morn: 2day's the beautiful kaela hwang's n' my 8th monthversary, wedding monthversary. :-) also, 2day's andy wang's b.day. happy b.day, andy. last sun, kaela n' i went to costco. we bought some nice things like blueberries n' a pineapple. it's good to eat fruit. i picked out this hi.fibre, blueberry cereal. i treated myself to a nice pushbroom. :-) heh, does a pushbroom make me happy? well, a clean driveway does. dude, does that make me sound really domestic? domesticated? *shrug* i dunno; but i feel very blessed right now: beautiful wife, beautiful house, beautiful doggy. heh. these days, i'm just so nervous cos i'm s'pposed to hear back 'bout that "permanent" position. <:-/ i feel so jittery, nervous, n' anxious. i wanna put more'f my $$$ into mutual funds. i've been thinking that ever since i went to that financial planning class @ my werk last week. hrm... do i just sound that much like an "all.grown up" person? marriage, home ownership, doggy ownership, mutual funds... clean driveway... lawn mowing... eh, who'm i kidding? i'm still immature!
[later] dude, as 4 asian politiks, isn't it crazy that the taiwanese president was shot n' the korean president was impeached? 2day, our president talked 'bout the 1 yr anniversary'f the iraq war.
[later] lately, the weather's still been absolutely beautiful in the bay area. since i'm outside more now, cos'f dog walking, i need to wear sunscreen n' hats.
[later] afternoon: i took my cowerkers to lunch to celebrate my new position! :-) u don't hafta spread this, but i was the #1 candidate, so i get a signing bonus. now, i really feel blessed!
[later] i know u guys don't watch 진주 목걸이 (jinjoo mokguhli, pearl necklace), but u should in order to answer that age.old question: "what do u do when u discover that ur fiancée's aktually ur long, last li'l sister?" it cms like we all find ourselves asking that question all 2 often. just kidding; but it's a great show. 809a: i'm clonflikted 'bout whether to go to fresno or not w/ the beautiful kaela hwang nor not. she's going in order to show our friends some income properties. i've already walked sooni, so i s'ppose she won't go crazy w/o me here. i'm very proud that she lasted so long yesterday w/o cing us. when we 1st got her this wk, i was so worried 'bout her separation anxiety, but it's getting better. she really likes her home in the backyard n' cms to take pride in it. she doesn't do ne damage to the backyard. she does do 1 funny thing. on mon nite, @ petco, we bought her 1'f those huge bone.shaped, rawhide chewtoys. that nite or else the next morning, she buried it. she didn't dig a deep hole. that'd be bad. she just moved a bit'f loose soil n' covered it up. u could totally c it poking out from under the dirt, so it was so cute. all those things that ppl say doggies do, all those things u c in cartoons; they really do! ha ha.
yesterday, kaela took my car, but she was stuck@werk.com, so she couldn't drive me to my class. instead, i took the 304 vta bus from my office to downtown san jo n' then walked to campus. after class, i took the light rail to great amerika n' the 57 to somewhere near our house n' walked. it was sort'f fun n' interesting to take publik transportation, n' all vta rides r free thanks to my transportation pass provided to me by the university as a student. altho' i love saving gas n' saving the environment, i've gotta admit that being able to drive on a regular basis does give me a huge advantage in my career n' edukation. yah, it's really un4tunate, in a way. i hate to think'f myself as sooo privelaged etc... but yah, having a car let's me werk later n' still make it to class. i get more done. i think i'm a good engr n' a good employee... n' a good student... yah, like, i don't like to think that my successes thus far, as modest as they may be or whatever, have been somewhat helped by the nice background i've had. do u know what i'm gettin' @? i really appreciate all the help n' support my parents gave me thru.out my life, like the fakt that we could live in a nice neighbourhood n' that i could go to a nice skool... n' that i was able to have a car ever since i got my license, etc. u know? it's not like my family's really aristokratic or nething; but yah, they've provided 4 me when i needed help, u know? after all, kaela n' i were able to crash @ my mom's house 4 a yr, right? i dunno; some ppl'd say, "what parent wouldn't let his/her unemployed, full.time student kid live w/ him/her?!" eh, that's not so much the pt. i realise now n' then that i've had a somewhat spoiled upbringing. however, i know 'least my parents to some extent each made sure i wasn't 2 spoiled, right? well, 4 1 thing, if i was that spoiled growing up, wouldn't i not even think 'bout stuff like this? don't "rich kids" go thru life just expekting to get handouts from their parents n' w/o ne shame?
maybe i'm just thinking more 'bout this cos i rode the lightrail yesterday n' saw several panhandlers. i considered giving $$$ but didn't. i dunno; was that wrong? i had gotten the great news 'bout my new job. i'd even received my salary n' signing bonus info! i was very pleased w/ it. i dunno if u readers realise how much mechanical engrs get paid, usually; but well, i'm satisfied w/ my salary right now n' even more satisfied w/ the salary i'll get in a few months.
[later, after washing some dishes] 836a: now that i own a house, i've been looking into putting more $$$ into mutual funds. lemme tell u: when u'r a kid, u think that "saving $$$" means throwing into ur savings acct. now that we're older, that is sooo wrong. if u throw ur $$$ into a savings acct, u'r losing out due to inflation n' might as well just spend it on things that make u happy instead. real investments r, of course, real estate n' mutual funds, stocks, bonds, etc. @ that financial planning class i went to @ werk.com, the financial planner teaching the class highly recommended robert kiyosaki's book rich dad, poor dad. yah, i'm curious, very curious. i've, of course, cn his infomercials on late nite tv, yet would never spend the $$$ to buy his real estate investment seminars or tapes/cds or whatever he sells. howver, i've noticed that his book is selling very well, n' ppl cm to thnk ok'f it. the whole idea that real estate's a good investment, that's a total given, n' i'm already totally sold on it. however, now that i have sunk $$$ into our house, what should i do w/ the rest'f it? well, i guess 2 things: 1) invest wisely, n' 2) spend it on things that aktually make us happy. ok... that's not the holiest'f lists. if i were that good'f a person, i'd say i'd give it to charity, heh. well, yah... however, 1 thing i've heard in robert kiyosaki's infomercials that i do belive in these days is this: if u have $$$, hording it doesn't make u happy. if u don't use it to do thing things u really wanna do in life, u lose ur ambition. well, the most important thing is this: a penny save is not a penny earned. it never was, n' it never will be, thanks to inflation. u understand? perhaps u can even say: a penny saved is a penny spent. ha ha. well, i dunno if i'd go that far, but maybe some ppl would. it's important to spend $$$; but, true, u gotta do it wisely. wisely spending it doesn't mean not spending it. i think wisely spending it means 1) spending it on things that truly make u happy, 2) getting 'least somewhat decent deals on the things u buy, not just paying waaay 2 much 4 the things u buy, n' 3) spending it on investments. hrm, maybe u could say, u gotta spend ur $$$ on things that payback either in $$$ or happiness. *sigh* heh, this is such a republikan, "greed is good" a la michael douglas's character in wall street paragraph. yah, these r some'f the most replublikan wurds u'll ever hear me say, n' i won't say them often. i understand that republikans believe that u should let rich ppl be rich, so that it encourages amerikans to try harder, werk harder, n' make more $$$. to them, nuthin' in life should come w/o hard werk, no matter how disadvantaged or disabled u r. it's better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish, they say. eh; i dunno if i buy all that, but i do know that it's better to invest ur $$$ than to pretend it doesn't exist. in my earliest days as a werking engr, i guess i was almost a li'l ashamed'f making $$$. i was living in berkeley 'mongst students w/ lots'f young, student friends. i was worried that buying a house would make it 2 apparent that i was making a somewhat ok living, u know? i gotta emphasize: it's not that i'm mr. moneybags, it's just that, things like investing in real estate r easier than u think, n' more beneficial than most young ppl realise. mon ~noon (circa noon, 'round noon): i didn't talk yet 'bout what the beautiful kaela n' hwang n' i did 4 our 8th monthversary. kaela werked hard that day n' got home sort'f late. if u 'member, i told u that i took the bus n' lite rail home from skool. when i got home, i played w/ sooni. she's not really a puppy; but sometimes, she akts like 1. when kaela came home the 3'f us went to santana row. we had a nice monthversary dinner @ the yankee pier, outside. 화요일 오후, tues afternoon: yesterday morn, i signed my papers 4 my new position. that felt good. basikally, i'm gettin' a big promotion, u know? :-) the new position, aktually doesn't start till aug 2; but i'll just keep werking my current position till then. cowerkers asked, "don't you wanna take a vacation in between?" well, i don't mind: 1) i believe it makes all the paperwerk n' bureaucracy stuff easier if i don't have a gap in between. 2) i surely don't mind werkin' n' gettin' paid. 3) i don't mind my job; i really don't. i like it. 4) altho' i know we gotta travel more, we have a doggy, whom we can't leave @ home alone. we'll c. maybe we'll be able to take a short vakation sometime. we'll c.
on fri nite, @ the yankee pier, i had this grilled blue marlin (swordfish) w/ sesame soy glaze, red potates, n' cole slaw. that cole slaw must sound funny, but that's cos u get to pick 2 sides, n' i picked cole slaw as 1'f them (n' red potatoes as the other). the beautiful kaela hwang had this really good grilled sea bass. i liked her fish better. sooni was very well behaved, n' sat w/ us out on the patio, along the street, by the sidewalk. our dining neighbours were very nice to her. they were also dogowners, altho' they didn't have their doggy w/ them. the waitress liked our doggy 2. the waitress brought me my dish. it was a fish steak on top'f some cooked greens on top'f some red potatoes. yah, i've cn seafud dishes like this b4 @ places like skates, etc. it's pretty typikal to put a fish steak on top'f some starch, u know? i noticed that the potatoes were a bit cold n' told kaela. i think the waitress noticed i was unhappy 'bout sumpthin', n' came back. she asked, "sir, do you like charred?" "hrm," i thought "i guess it's healthier not to eat carcinogenic, burnt fud." "no, aktually i don't," i replied. she apologised n' took 'way my plate. she came back w/ a plate w/o the greens. heh, we had a few chuckles n' laffs @ that pt. the waitress hadn't sed "charred," as in burnt, but "chard," as in "swiss chard," which i 'member from the foothill dining commons up @ berkeley. u c, even if u speak perfekt english, it's still a messed up language, eh? heh heh.
[later] 'member: u can come to our baptism on easter, if u want. this's a totally open invitation. it's @ san josé first korean christian church, on the morn'f april 11. the church's located on arques just north or west'f lawrence expy, by fry's n' applied materials, the #1 maker'f semiconductor manufacturing equipment!
[later] 902p: after class, i'm waiting 4 kaela by fantasia. wed morn: 2nite, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i gotta go back to h&r block to finish up our taxes, which we started on sun afternoon. we also went to costco on sun afternoon. we've been going there more lately, as u c. yah, costco sort'f symbolises the domesticated life if u don't think 2 hard or whatever. *shrug* i dunno. as i've sed b4, it's important to separate maturation from aging. hrm, 1's a "i.o.n" noun, the other's a gerund. 4 better parallelism, i could've sed "it's important to separate maturing from aging." it's important to differentiate maturing from selling out. some say, it's important to differentiate settling down from just plain settling. neway, we've all gotta pay taxes, n' that's sort'f part'f growing up, right?
phil huang passed on this important article/discussion/whatever to me: gay or asian? this website talks 'bout an article that appeared in details magazine. usually, i consider details magazine to be more intelligent n' socially responsible than other "men's magazines" such as maxim, fhm, n' stuff. i don't read playboy (no1 ever does; they just look @ the pics!), but i have received a few issues'f maxim, fhm, n' stuff, which all feature fotos'f scantily clad women but no naked women, unlike playboy or penthouse, which's really just straight up porno (or pr0n, as cyberkids say to throw off search engines by intentionally switching the "r" n' the zero that replaces "o.") jeanna 1nce sent me a link 4 a free fhm subscription, so i get those. however, i found out that the articles r extremely juvenile in their offensiveness. it's not even just a matter'f politikal correktness etc. but just a matter'f our not all being a bunch'f immature 12 yr olds to young to buy mags w/ pics'f "real" naked women. i'm sure u've heard many college boys say, "maxim's for pu$$ies! real men read playboy!" 웃기네! literacy's sexy, eh? (real men read the beno journal.) pics'f naked women make many adolescent boys sin, but we all know they can be nice sometimes n' not the main prob w/ 2day's men's magazines. obviously, the main prob w/ 2day's men's magazines's that they brainwash li'l boys into conservatives. their immature articles that bash france 4 not supporting dubyah's iraqi war imply that men gotta be conservatives, which isn't true. cynical scoffing boy'd then ask, "so, beno... u want a pinko, liberal men's mag w/ pics'f hairy berkeley lesbians w/ saggy +!+$?" no; some ppl'd label me a conservative cos i do believe that women should maintain their appearances. then 'gain, some ppl'd label me gay cos i also believe men should maintain their appearances. in the days b4 "metrosexuality" became the trite buzzwurd it is 2day, our taekwondo master friend jang inkwon sed it best as he replied to an interested man in sf's castro. the man asked, "are you gay?" master jang replied, "no, i'm korean."
[later] lunchtime: i came home n' cooked pasta w/ asparagus, artichokes, onions, shrooms, n' trimmed bacon, which sort'f stands in 4 proscuitto. i usually never by or eat bacon, but i had a savemart coupon 4 a free pack. i usually never buy or read immature, so.called "men's magazines," but i had a url 4 a free subscription.
[later] 1053p: so some ppl'd say that asian guys, as a generalisation, tend to take care'f their looks. in that case, if u r just a typikal brainwashed amerikan who thinks the term "metrosexual"'s so hip, then u might say that many asian guys r metrosexual. if u r just totally clueless, then u don't know that "metrosexual" refers to guys who r heterosexual but take care'f their looks. obviously, so many amerikans've a prob w/ metrosexual guys n' accuse them'f aktually being homosexual n' not just metrosexual. whatever. personally, i think it's important that we all, whether male or female, take care'f our looks. *sigh* i know; i haven't gotten 'nuff exercise lately. :-( 654a: i've been awake 4 some time now cos i woke up to sooni barking 'bout sumpthin'; i dunno what. i'm thinking'f taking her 4 a short drive to the bank to get some ca$h. *shrug* i had a pretty good jog w/ her last nite. we jogged over to this nearby park n' then to 교포 시장 gyopo sijang. i took her 4 that jog, while the beautiful kaela hwang cooked some kimchi jjigae n' dooboo juhn (i guess that's what u call it... fried tofu.). sooni n' i made great time, but i got a fon call on our way back, so i started walking instead'f jogging. i guess sooni noticed i was distrakted by the call, so she decided to pull this way n' that way in order to sniff everything in existence. doggies do that, u know. when we got home, kaela ate. 2 costco trips 'go, we bought a flat'f gordon biersch blonde bock. wow, it's not as lite'f a beer as we'd thought we'd 'membered. it tastes darker than it aktually is. hrm... i concluded that it's just that we're now used super lite beers like michelob ultra etc. u know health studies say that drinking wine, beer, or some kind'f alkohol 1nce a day can be good 4 ur heart. notice: meidkal doktors've sed that drinking alkohol can be good 4 u n' that maybe drinking coffee or definitely drinking green tea's good 4 u. however, they'll never say that smoking 1nce a day's good 4 u in ne way. out'f all these substances that ppl abuse, u really shouldn't smoke.
@ fry's right now, there's this viewsonic 18" flat panel tv/monitor on sale 4 $499 after rebate. man, imagine that! we could sit in the living room, watch tv n' werk on werkstuff on the 'puter all @ 1nce. it sez u can watch tv over ur data. so u can watch n' werk, right? that'd be kewl. i think someday, i'd like to get a tv/monitor like that. right now, we totally live out'f 1 room, our bdrm. if we get a tv out in the living room, we'll spend more time in the rest'f our house, i know.
oh yah, i wanna thank this person bing 4 signing my gbook! i've really gotta update those 'q's. i need to answer them myself. let's say this is the last call 4 gbook signatures 4 this round. then i'll answer the 'q's myself n' change 'em.
name: 비노 황 beno hwang
tues afternoon: originally, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i had planned to snowboard this past sat. however, we cancelled cos i felt we just had 2 much stuff to attend to: kaela had werk to do. i had car maintenance to do, n' i had to build some kind'f trap to stop sooni from jumping over the fence. in the morn (on sat), i dropped my car off @ a shop in sunnyvale. kaela n' i went to costco w/ sooni. sooni's not allowed inside, so each'f us had to take turns watching / holding onto her. we had breakfast @ mcyukyuk 's on lawrence by 101 n' visited fry's, where kaela bought a handsfree kit. ppl who like dogs love sooni, but there'r ppl who hate dogs n' r scared'f her wolfish shape. after fry's, kaela dropped me off to get my car. i went to home depot to get materials 4 sooni's trap. i spent the afternoon building the trap while kaela werked.
oh yah, on fri nite my class ended early. kaela had werk stuff to do, but later we ate a nice dinner @ the mccarthy ranch pasta pomodoro. we ate outdoors n' kept sooni w/ us. after dinner, kaela went to wal*mart, n' i waited outside w/ sooni.
sat nite, we ordered a sausage n' shroom pizza from pizza chicago n' had ken n' grace over. i went to safeway@rivernark to buy some salads n' found a purse in a shopping cart, which i handed over to the manager. after dinner, we watched starsky and hutch @ amc mercado 20. [later] 943p: i just took sooni 4 possibly her last walk w/ ovaries n' a uterus. 2morrow morn @ 600a, i take her in to get spayed. i felt sort'f sad 2nite. well, when i came home from werk, i ate a quick dinner'f a microwaved janguhgui (unagi) over some leftover rice. then i took sooni to the nearby petco to buy her some treats cos these beggin' strips were or sale. i know they're pretty much just junk fud 4 doggies, but eh... it's her last nite w/ ovaries n' a uterus, u know? after petco, i went to the gas station. i hoped that sooni'd stay in the car, but i had to let her out n' hold her leash as i pumped gas. as i drove home, i thought 'bout her gettin' spayed 2morrow n' felt sad that she is such a purebred of a rare breed n' won't get to pass on her genes. however, i'm sure if we let her go unspayed, she'd end up getting pregnant by ne ol' breed'f dog, so she wouldn't have valuable purebred jindotgae puppies neway. that's my guess. *sigh* it's 2 bad, tho', i know. spaying's just the right thing to do 4 pets.
i know my journal cms to be all 'bout sooni these days. last nite, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i went to taekwondo practice. we could cos i'm teknically on spring break, u know? we brought sooni w/ us, n' she behaved pretty well. a few times she got all excited n' wanted to come in, but she just put her head down n' slept thru most'f it. i feel good when she's able to chill like dat. after practice, kaela n' i got boba drinks from fantasia. i got the drinks while kaela walked sooni 'round cupertino village (the 99 mall).
i'm sleepy n' should go to sleep early so that i can wake up to take sooni to get spayed.
well, what else can i talk 'bout besides our cute doggy? i heard that starbucks is gonna start selling customised, burned cds @ their stores. notice that ppl don't say really say starbucks ?cafés but starbucks stores? come to think'f it, i haven't hung out @ a café in a while, have i? if i were more'f a student, i would, i guess.
oh yah, bernard... bernard huang! thank u 4 signing my gbook. thurs early eve: i picked up sooni from the clinic after her spaying. she looks sad, disoriented, n' as if she's been crying.
[later] sooni sighs when she's bored n' yawns when she's tired.
[later] i made some spicy fried rice just now. [later] 832p: i'm gonna go back to werk 4 a bit 2nite cos i took some time off in the afternoon to pick up sooni, etc. i'm gonna take next mon off as a floating holiday in order to study 4 my upcoming midterm. oh, 2day's april fool's day. 830p: the 2nd episode'f a 1 hr'f the simpsons's 'bout to start. how r u?
2day's date's 04.04.04, as u know. "die, die, die," that
means. 851p: last week, i skeduled 2day as a day off from werk to study 4 this thurs's "advanced control system design" midterm. i stayed home 2day n' studied @ the kitchen table. i'm definitely not done studying but feel i've made decent progress so far. i went out during lunch to pick up the beautiful kaela hwang from her office n' have lunch w/ her @ tk noodles @ the barber ln 99 mall. as usual, i had a #8 combination egg noodle soup n' a #65 strawberry squishee drink. we had a relatively quick lunch. afterwards, i swung by home depot to pick up a bit'f rabbit proof fence (bunny proof fence), which i use as sooni proof fence (it's just this cheap, green, vinyl, netted stuff u use in veggie gardens.) n' a $1.97 woven rug, which sooni'll sleep on from now on, so she won't wanna go into our carpetted rooms or nething, hopefully. right now, as i type, she's sleeping on that $1.97 rug. it was amazingly cheap n' nice. i wonder where they get these rugs so cheap. r they made by underpaid werkers or by some automated machine?
i sat @ home most'f the day, @ the kitchen table, studying. thru.out the day, i saw sooni try very hard to stay 'wake n' then get droopy eyelids b4 nodding off to sleep. it's really cute. she's sick right now, tho'. :-( i think she has some kind'f cold. i'm thinking she must'f caught a "kennel cough" from her stay @ the human society clinic when she got spayed, vaccinated, n' chipped. cos she has a cold, she's been snoring 'lot. even tho' it's sad that she's sick, it is very cute when doggies snore! heh heh. sometimes, she snores loud n' wakes herself up. i know ppl do that 2. very much un4tunately, cos she's sick, she's not eating. that's very bad cos she's already anorexic. she eats so little. u'd think doggies'd wanna eat everything in sight, but she's very much not fud.motivated. she's getting very skinny. when we 1st got her, she wasn't eating. then we got her to eat some 4 a while; but, now that she's sick, she's not eating. :-(
on fri nite, kaela n' i had dinner w/ dave yee n' cal le. it was very fun. they drove over to our house. then, we drove'em over to santana row, where we dined outdoors @ cazuelas. mmm... they have great mexican tapas! it was very fun. i had a great time! cazuelas' guacamole's really good. i know guacamole sounds so mundane in comparison to all the hip, kewl tapas dishes u've undoubtely experienced, but their freshly made guacamole (some ppl call it "guac," i know.), which is made to order beside ur table, is awesome! their freshly made corn tortillas r also awesome. we ate some chicken in mole sauce, some prawns or shrimp in mole sauce, some filet mignon, n' some hongos (shrooms). ah, it was all so good. also, it was so fun to catch up w/ 2 ol' friends.
on sat, kaela n' i refereed @ the "american open" taekwondo tournament hosted by sky martial arts (yoon sabuhmnim) @ chabot college. i center reffed the whole time. my throat was so sore afterwards from all the shouting. i barely had a voice to cheer 4 ben n' ernest. ben sparred our ol' friend leo 4 his gold medal.
yesterday was sun. daylite savings time started yesterday @ 200a. we went to church. surprisingly, we got there relatively on.time. cos it was the 1st sun'f the month, the em congregation ("em" = "english ministry") enjoyed some donuts n' our famous "donut cake" in celebration'f april b.days. i was so full from those pastries, that i didn't feel much like lunch afterwards. we went home n' well... i guess we cleaned up stuff or sumpthin'... oh yah, we did yardwerk! oh man, i was saying b4 that our neighbours must hate us cos they maintain their landscaping so well, just as the previous owners'f our house prob'ly did, n' we've been so bad so far. well, we did lots'f yardwerk yesterday. then i drove kaela out to south san jo, where she took some digital fotos'f houses 4 an appraisal she's werking on. after that, i finally could say that i was not full nemore from that blueberry donut n' slice'f donut cake (w/ rainbow sprinkles), so we went to galleria market to buy a coupl'f 빈대떡 bindaedduhk n' a coupl'f 김치부침kimchi boochim from the 2 아줌마 ajoomma that run that weekend 포장마차 pojangmacha. we had brought sooni w/ us out to the house foto shoot, (which was a like a safari, cos kaela mostly shot from the car), n' we had her w/ us @ galleria. the sunny weather was quite brisk, so we ate in the car instead'f @ the outside picnic tables in front'f the market's deli area. then i took kaela n' sooni out to cupertino's stevens creek county park, where we walked a li'l down to look @ the creek n' @ some horses. when we got home, i found a tick on sooni's fur, but it had not bitten her. phew, good thing i got the tick off'f her! when we had just gotten out'f the car @ the park, kaela sed the place looked like a place that'd have ticks. b4 we went home from cupertino, we stopped by target on stevens creek blvd, n' i bought some laundry detergent.
2day, 'round 700p, i went 4 a ~45 min walk w/ sooni over to 교포 시장 gyopo sijang n' back. it was quite brisk outside 2nite.
ha ha, it's really funny how we don't have a proper, portable water dish 4 sooni. u c, they make these kewl, cloth water dishes (which can hold water), that u can take w/ u n' give ur doggy water wherever u go. instead, i carry these red dixie brand plastic cups, which we have plenty'f cos we bought them from costco 4 that time we hosted the couples' bible study @ our house. the funny thing is, ppl who've been to college parties know that these r typikal cupes u c @ house parties... so they're basikally known as "party cups," which would typikally contain some keg beer, a tequilla sunrise, a screwdriver, or sumpthin' like that. heh, it makes me chuckle now n' then to c sooni passed out (asleep) next to her red party cup; she just looks like a "party animal," u know? neway, i know i talk 2 much here 'bout our doggy, but i think the pt u gotta take from 2day's long blabbing 'bout sooni's that it's sort'f cute when she snores.
u know, kaela n' i r getting baptised this upcoming sun (easter sun). church service starts @ 1000a, but our baptism, which takes place during the korean language service, as opposed to our usual english language service, 's @ noon. plz feel free to come to san josé first korean christian church this upcoming sun morn to c this. u can get there @ 1000a or @ noon, either way. the church is on arques by lawrence expwy, near fry's electronics n' applied materials, the world's #1 maker'f semiconductor manufacturing equipment: we make the machines that make virtually every new microchip in the world... or sumpthin' like that.
ok, the time's now 933p, n' i should get back to studying. c ya. i guess 2day's sort'f my own personal "dead day," altho' thurs' exam's a midterm not a final. it's just sort'f interesting if not ironic to say that since yesterday was 04.04.04. tues morn: last wk, my cowerker eric sent me this url, which i meant to share w/ u right 'way:
http://dogbreedinfo.com/jindo.htm this webpage very, very accurately describes sooni. 1243a: y! news article "Avoid Logs to Avoid Ticks, Experts Say" mentions researchers from robert lane's uc berkeley lab: "Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, used themselves as bait to see where the greatest risk of picking up a tick was, and found logs were the worst places to sit."
2nite (as in yesterday) i had my "advanced control systems design" midterm. i studied hard 4 it. i hope i did ok. i felt pretty good after finishing the test, but as ppl discussed the answers, i didn't feel as good. it's not that i had wrong answers... but i felt that my answers just weren't as good as the they could've been. do u know what i mean??? well... sometimes grading's subjektive, u know?
what's been going on? well, this week, i studied. what else? 2nite, i ate el pollo loco's pollo bowl 4 dinner. on my way home, i found the beautiful kaela hwang n' sooni walkin' down our street in the dark. sooni recognised my car; how cute! i picked them up n' drove over to the nearby el pollo loco cos i was hungry n' hadn't yet eaten dinner even tho' 'twas ~945p. 4 lunch, i had a turkey burger, seasoned criss.cross fries, n' a diet coke last nite (as in 2 nites 'go), kaela cooked some pasta. earlier this week, i had bought some portabello shrooms from albertsons. i marinated them earlier in the evening, walked sooni, n' studied. later, when kaela came home, we went to petco to buy some dogfud etc. we went to the cupertino petco, hoping that dukkyung'd be werking, but he wasn't. what else have i been eating lately? 1 nite, kaela cooked 새우 김치 순두부 saewoo kimchi soondooboo (shrimp n' kimchi tofu stew).
2nite (as in last nite), i was so happy cos i uploaded sechskies' "couple" onto my lgvx6000 as a ringtone! :-) i also uploaded some graphics. i've gotta upload more kewl ringtones. this lgvx6000 to pc cable from gomadic's sooo kewl! u've gotta get 1! it also let's u dl ur pics from ur lgvx6000 to ur pc. that's very important. i'll be putting up more pics here soon. surprisingly, i still haven't gone over my 1100kb avantgo limit!
don't 4get: this upcoming sun, kaela n' i r gettin' baptised; so u can come, if u want.
i bet u expekted i'd inundate u w/ sooni pics. well, here's a pic'f this kind'f wildflower that's been growing 'round our house lately. it's very pretty.
오전 1248: 어제 아름다운 캐이라 황과 제가 세례를 받았어요. :-) yesterday, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i were baptised. i've been telling u here 'bout it 4 a while now, n' it happened. last nite @ 200a (sat nite / sun morn), kaela's parents arrived @ our house. they sort'f surprised us w/ their visit. we had thought they weren't coming, but they changed their minds on sat n' told us on sat eve that they were gonna drive up right then. i'm glad they came. my mom came to witness our baptism. even tho', kaela n' i usually attend 사효세 제일교회 san josé first korean christian church's english ministry, we were baptised during the korean service. it was very interesting. n' yes, getting baptised really meant 'lot to kaela n' me. well... in the past, i always believed in the idea'f "spiritual baptism," that u become a total n' maybe complete christian as soon as u accept in ur heart jesus christ as ur lord n' saviour. in that sense, i figured, yah, as soon as u believe that, u'r guaranteed to go to heaven when u die. however, the idea'f a water baptism... i guess i've come to c the importance'f it. it's important not just to believe in ur heart but to be committed @ 'least to the point to announce in publik that u've made this commitment to follow the bible n' god. well, it's now done. we went thru w/ it.
2day during our lunch, i was talking w/ our friends david n' youmi
'bout how all 4'f us just got baptised @ a korean church altho' david n' i r taiwanese. well... does it matter? does it mean nething? why wasn't i baptised @ a taiwanese church? well, i think the more basik question in that direktion is "why don't i go to a taiwanese church?" well, i very much like our church. i really do. i really like the atmosphere, the congregation, chung moksanim... when the 4'f us 1st started going to fkcc (as it's acronymised), we really appreciated how chung moksanim tolerated all our questions. there was never ne "u just gotta believe it" kind'f talk. he was very open, honest, n' understanding. n' yah, most'f the ppl in the english ministry congregation r like that 2, n' we really appreciate that. yah... it's a church, amongst all the churches i've attended that i really like. do u know what churches i've attended? well, on a regular basis @ some time or 'nother, i've attended canaan taiwanese christian church, oakland's christian layman church, n' now san josé fkcc. i've been to a few others here n' there like berkeley's huge first presbyterian church (i was aktually an employee there 4 a while: a dishwasher.), new church (which's right 'cross the street from my ol' 2520 hillegass ave apt), sf vineyard... hrm, i guess i've visited some other korean, chinese, n' taiwanese churches here n' there. i can't necessarily 'member them all. in college, aktually, going to an aktual church wasn't my main spiritual aktivity but rather attending intervarsity christian fellowship (ivcf). however, many christians say it's important to have a church as well as fellowship. aktually, 4 a while after graduation from berkeley, i was going to christian layman's services on sun morn's but wasn't really having ne kind'f "fellowship." "fellowship" is basikally interaktion w/ other christians... in sort'f a spiritual/social mix, u know?
on fri nite, after my master's projekt class, in which i presented, i picked up kaela n' sooni from the li'l strip mall on el camino n' bowers that has petco, hanmi bank, sushi o sushi, 양평 해장국 yangpyuhng haejanggook, 길목집 gilmokjip, hana maki sushi, arirang noraebang, hana dvd, juicy burger, etc. we went to look 4 a restaurant w/ outdoor seating in sunnyvale. we tried p.f. chang's in the cherry orchard strip mall, but they don't have outdoor seating. we ended up @ the pasta pomodoro in the same strip mall. just a few wks 'go, we were @ the mccarthy ranch pasta pomodoro. now that we bring sooni w/ us to restaurants now n' then, we sure cm to like pasta pomodoro 4 their outdoor seating! :-) yah, lots'f these italian restaurants have outdoor seating w/ those inefficient patio heaters that i surely appreciate more now. i had this pollo griglio, n' kaela had that malfadine w/ fettucine... i think that's what it's called.
on sat, we left the house early w/ sooni n' picked up mark n' dennis to look @ some more fresno properties. wow, we're all getting pretty familiar w/ fresno n' fresno real estate investments! we had lunch @ a panda express on shaw in fresno. after all, i wanted chinese fud on fri nite... if only p.f. chang's had patio seating... we came back 4 dinner, expekting to meet up @ ken n' grace's but cancelled in order to get ready 4 kaela's parents' arrival.
ah, it's late. it's 127a. i gotta hit the hay 'specially
since i obviously gotta wake up early to walk sooni as usual.
[later] mon morn: last nite, i watched on ktvn.nc / ch28 the 2001 movie 물고기 자리 the pisces. i was looking 4ward to this movie since earlier last week cos i had checked the ktvn.nc website n' saw that a relatively contemporary movie was playing; n', in fakt, i had recognised the title, prob'ly from browsing yesasia. after all, it's nice to get sumpthin' diff from all those historik movies 'bout buddhist monks n' this n' that, filmed in the 1970s or 1980s, u know? if i get into a discussion of 물고기 자리 the pisces i'm gonna spoil the movie 4 u, n' i think u should watch it... not that it's the greatest movie in the world, but it's better than some crappy movies here n' there that u c, u know? after all, right now in the amerikan movie theatres, there really rn't many good movies. i s'ppose the best movie out right now's still the passion of the christ. i c ads 4 lots'f stoopid movies these days. neway, i dunno if i'm saying 2 much 'bout 물고기 자리 the pisces if i tell u that it's 'bout a gurl who's obsessed w/ a guy... in what i'm guessing is a fatal attraction way. u c, i never saw fatal attraction, but i think i sort'f understand what the gist'f it is. hrm, i'll continue discussing 물고기 자리 the pisces, but write in some light grey font, so that u'll hafta selekt the text, if u wanna read it, u know? eh, it's not like that many'f u'll really ever watch this movie, so nevermind. the movie's sort'f depressing cos it sort'f implies that true, deep love's often 1.sided, right? or *shrug* is obsession n' lust really true love? i think many'd say no. it just sounds like right to say that obession n' lust rn't true love, right? some ppl'd define "lust" as some kind'f desire that goes 'gainst god's will in that a person who lusts puts the thing/person he/she lusts after b4 god, u know? have u heard that b4. that's how some christians'd define "lust." other ppl define "lust" as simply romantik or maybe sexual love. u know that a song that'd i've like thru.out the ages's depeche mode's "a question of lust" from their 1986 black celebration album. it's a very pretty ballad, n' u've often heard/read me quote from that song's chorus: "it's a question of lust. it's a question of trust. it's a question of not letting what we've built up crumble to dust. it is all of these things and more that keep us together." personally, i've always that that's pretty true in good relationships, but in saying that (as a christian), i'm defining "lust" simply as "romantik love," not this putting this or that b4 god, etc. as i've always sed, in regards to that song, i feel "lust"'s "romantik love," "trust" is that "brotherly" kind'f love (or "friend" kind'f love), n' "not letting what we've built up crumble to dust"'s kind'f a "family" kind'f love, not that u should have a romantik relationship w/ a family member à la 진주 목걸이 / jinjoo mokguhli. 진주 목걸이 / jinjoo mokguhli n' 눈으로 말해요 / nooneuro malhaeho r definitely my favourite shows on tv right now, n' i wondered last nite as i washed the dishes after the movie if korean dramas or other asian dramas'll someday break into the amerikan.dominated mainstream global market just as japanime has broken into that market. in the amerikan market, japanime is mostly appreciated by kids n' then a more cult.like adult following, right? well, do u think asian dramas could get that kind'f following 2? after all, don'tchu think that there r 'least some amerikan ppl who r sick'f the trashiness'f amerikan soap operas? :-/ 4 a while, stoopid shows like entertainment tonight tried to say that amerikans were loving australian soap operas, but i never really saw that catch on. i saw a few'f them get shown on like sat or sun afternoons 4 a while, i think. however, i think the appeal'f those was aktually that they were trashier than amerikan soap operas, wasn't it? mexican tv has lots'f soap operas 2, i've noticed, but i'm guessing they also sort'f follow the amerikan style; but i'm not sure. 1 very big diff from amerikan soap operas in asian dramas, as i've sed b4, is that they emphasize family bonds n' some'f the more routine, daily aktivities in a household. in that sense, i feel they're so much more realistik. asian dramas r a bit more candid; 4 example, 눈으로 말해요 / nooneuro malhaeho has scenes that take place in the office restroom, not in a nasty way, but just in a way that sort'f pts out the truth that some ppl tend to use the restroom now n' then in their lives. neway, back to ruining the movie 물고기 자리 the pisces 4 u... in the movie, the obsessed gurl breaks into the guy's apt n' confronts his gf who happens to be sleeping alone in his bed. after experiencing this, the gf tells the guy that she thought she knew what love was but now, she thinks that she really doesn't love the guy in comparison to the obsessed gurl so she breaks up w/ him. that kind'f statement endorses obsession as a deep, true love. i dunno; in a way, i think true, true love's when obsession goes both ways. 1.sided obsession's pretty unhealthy; i think most ppl'd agree. i believe it's hurtful to both the obsessor n' the obsessee. some guys'd say it's so flattering n' all if a gurl were to obsess over a guy, but it hurts the obsessee to hafta rejekt the obssessor, u know?
[later] on sat eve, kaela cut my hair cos'f the baptism n' just cos i was getting sooo shaggy! it was rather warm in fresno on sat, n' it was fun to have sooni w/ us there! :-) she was very well behaved in the car! she slept 'lot during the drive to n' from. 4 dinner on sat, kaela n' i ate 비빔냉면 bibimnaengmyuhn @ home. on sat, i received a shipment from yesasia: albums from wax, bada, cherry filter, a club gayo one shot remix set, n' the 진주 목걸이 o.s.t. jinjoo mokguhli o.s.t..
[later] afternoon: earlier this afternoon, i went to campus to talk to 1'f my master's projekt advising professors. it's nice, warm, n' sunny outside. i neglekted to tell u that i bought a pair'f nice maui jim sunglasses a coupl'f weeks 'go on ebay. i received them that fri that kaela n' i went to dinner w/ cal n' dave. they r really nice glasses, n' i like them very much. a long time 'go, i didn't know 'bout maui jim sunglasses. then some yrs 'go, i bought kaela a pair. i found out they're really good. now that i have a pair, i really know they're really good. the world just looks more beautiful thru maui jim glasses. (what an endorsement, huh?) really! cos'f the nice, polarised lenses, i c colours more brilliantly cos i can c thru bright reflektions. really, things like flowers on trees n' colourful leaves look so nice! maui jim sunglasses r usually kind'f expen$ive, but i got them 4 pretty cheap on ebay. tues afternoon: i was disappointed last nite cos ktvn.nc / ch28 was down last nite, so i couldn't watch nooneuro malhaeyo. yah, lately they've had many teknical difficulties. the beautiful kaela hwang n' i were very frustrated that the station was having all these awful teknical difficulties during the climax of sat's climactic episodes'f jinjoo mokguhli. >:-( i was saying that the korean video stores must've sabotaged the broadcast so that ppl'd come to their stores to rent the video recordings'f these shows, u know?
[later, wed morn, 2004.04.14] last nite (2004.04.13), i decided to name this journal entry "better luck tomorrow 2004" cos yesterday's date was 04.13, n' those r sort'f 2 bad luck numbers, u know? of course, me? i don't totally believe in luck, as u know. my philosophy, as u've heard/read me say/write over n' over 'gain is that bad luck n' good luck is aktually just ur perspektive on ur current situation n' how u choose either to focus on the good things happening in ur life or the bad things happening in ur life. well, altho' yesterday wasn't the worst day'f my life, thank goodness, it was not the greatest. thurs morn: yesterday, i tried to reserve a spot 4 sooni in a 6.wk doggy training class on sat morns @ a skool in south san jo called happy tails to you.
done w/ ur taxes? kaela n' i finished last min w/ h&r block's e.file service. they're 2 expen$ive, so we probably won't go back there next yr!
[later, 'round noon] a few wks 'go i came up w/ an observation 'bout my current 2 favourite tv shows (spoiler alert), 진주 목걸이 / jinjoo mokguhli n' 눈으로 말해요 / nooneuro malhaeyo: 진주 목걸이 / jinjoo mokguhli's 'bout a guy n' gurl who falls in love n' then discover that they're aktually siblings (not to spoil it 4 u), while 눈으로 말해요 / nooneuro malhaeyo's 'bout a guy n' gurl who akt like siblings (but really rn't) n' then fall in love w/ each other, (gain, not to spoil it 4 u). 금요일아침: 금요일이고 난 사랑하고 있어. fri morn: friday i'm in love. i haven't heard ne cure in a while.
[later] a couple'f good deals i've cn on buy.com [later] have u ever used the word "comprise"? here's the m-w.com definition 4 "comprise.":
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funny, i looked it up cos i was gonna use that debatable 3rd sense. yah, i guess i've heard it used that way so many times i thought it was ok... 'specially since i am an engr, n' it sez it's used in that 3rd sense in "scientific" n' "technical writing." yah, that's true. however, when i tried to check the wurd w/ ms wurd's thesaurus, i couldn't justify my usage. ah, well, now, i understand. 월요일 아침: 오늘이 아름다운 캐이라 황과 제 9개월 결혼 기염일예요. 2day's the beautiful kaela hwang's n' my 9th (wedding) monthversary.
on fri eve, after my class, we aktually left sooni @ home n' went out 4 fri nite dinner @ the sunnyvale cherry orchard pf chang's. while waiting 4 our table, we went over to borders bookstore. we ran into my cousin lisa n' her husband (my cousin.in.law[?]) henry, n' we talked 'bout doggies 4 a long time, since they have a 1 yr old yorkie. pf chang's was so crowded. ppl can argue whether pf chang's is asian.fusion or americanised chinese fud; but kaela n' i enjoy visiting the restaurant now n' then n' aktually really like the décor. then there r ppl who'd criticise going to a restaurant just to enjoy the décor, but well... u gotta live life now n' then... whatever floats ur boat, this n' that... we like good décor n' atmosphere now n' then. to eat, we had hot fish, long beans, n' chicken lettuce wraps. dessert? no way! we were so full. hrm, funny; i just realised that we ended up back in sunnyvale 4 dinner on sun nite.
sat, we took sooni to the happy tails to you dog training class, as i sed we would. i hadn't received an e.mail from the instructor that told me not to bring our doggy to the 1st class. upes. we brought sooni. @ 1st, we tied her out to a post outside the classroom, which is located in a strip mall on santa teresa blvd @ cottle rd. the instructor kept hearing jingling behind her from sooni's collar n' asked the class, "is there someone outside?" i told her sooni was waiting outside, n' she told us to let her come in. as sooni's (un4tunately) a "velcro dog" (1 that wants to be stuck to her owner(s) 24.7), she was happier inside on the floor by our feet. the instructor used her as an example several times n' sed that, altho' she might not be well.trained yet, she's well.behaved. i'd like to think so, n' i'd like to think she's made quite a bit'f progress in the past month n'll continue to do so; or maybe progress @ an even faster rate.
after the class, we went to expo on almaden expy near blossom hill rd n' hwy 85. kaela went in to order some address numbers 4 our house, while i rested in the car w/ sooni, w/ the cd player on. later, i went in the look 4 a classy "beware of dog," but only found a coupl'f options to order a custom made sign. when we were ready to leave, i realised the cd player had 1nce 'gain drained my old car battery. :-( i had to get a jump from our neighbouring parked car. then we went to costco to eat a polish sausage n' combo pizza lunch n' buy a new car battery. afterwards, we hung out w/ ken @ his house 4 most'f the afternoon. we walked our dogs to the nearby starbucks n' back. later, we went to petco n' talk to duk kyung n' get some dog fud n' stuff. then we went to sogo to pick up a b.day cake. u c, sat nite, we celebrated 3 b.days: julie's (april 17), duk kyung's (april 16), n' mark's (april 2). we went home. brian chong 1st showed up. we ordered 2 tasty pizzas from pizz'a chicago, a new sort'f favourite'f mine cos they have some pretty gourmet n' healthy toppings, including soy cheese. we ordered a "the untouchables" (bbq chicken w/ smoked gouda) n' a "joliet jake" (portobella, shiitake, crimini, n' button shrooms w/ dried apricots n' basil). kaela ordered the pizzas both w/ soy cheese altho' only the "joliet jake" comes standard w/ soy cheese. i didn't even realise our "the untouchables" had soy cheese. wow! i'm sure the others also didn't realise. julie showed up next; then mark. duk kyung didn't show up. we knew he was werking @ petco till 900p n' that his parents gave him a surprise visit from oregon. un4tunately, more us taekwondo academy ppl couldn't show up, but we had fun. mmm... sogo mango mousse cake!
kaela n' i taped 진주 목걸이 / jinjoo mokguhli n' haven't yet watched our weekly 2 episodes. we did watch something's gotta give on dvd on sat nite. it's pretty funny.
sun, we went to church. 'twas 정 목사님 / chung moksanim's last day. :'-( it's really sad to c him go, n' we hope to c him 'gain in the future. @ church, we ate this awesome chicken teriyaki lunch, that the english ministry (em) congregation specially prepared 4 pastor's last day. after church, kaela n' i brought her kia sportage 4 our monthversary, last nite, i took kaela to dinner @ il postale on washington near murphy in ol' town sunnyvale 'cross the street from sunnyvale towne center, which's a dead mall 'cept 4 macy's n' target. we had caesar salad w/ anchovies, lobster bisque, fettucine w/ shellfish, a thai sesame prawns pasta, some kind'f blackberry sorbet, espresso drinks, n' johannisberg riesling. the fud was great, but i sort'f regret ordering that asian.fusion dish @ a pretty traditional italian bistro. i think i would've been better off w/ an italian dish like kaela's. the thai prawns pasta was a li'l bit 2 salty. the portions were very big. as i've sed b4, u get so much more 4 ur $$$ in silly valley restaurants v. sf restaurants. i've been eating 2 much n' exercising 2 li'l!!! >:-( after dinner, we needed to walk, so we did some shopping @ target.
last nite, the korean movie was 체인지 / change a silly, lighthearted comedy from 1996 or 1997.
[later] [later] this morn @ werk.com, i made coffee in our area's "coffee station." somehow, the ground got into the big serving cannister thermos thingy w/ the pump. it tasted pretty bad, n' i overheard other ppl talkin' 'bout how yucky the coffee was. i heard 1 guy joke that it was turkish coffee, which i've had @ la mediteranée in berkeley. (i think turkish coffee's s'pposed to have grounds in it.) tues morn: this morn, i had a weird dream: i was @ some1 else's house w/ the beautiful kaela hwang n' sooni. sooni was in the yard. from the window, i saw sooni chewing on some electrical cable n' went out to stop her. then sooni wasn't a dog but a li'l gurl; like she was our kid. weird dream, huh? well, i hope i'll be a good dad when we do have kids.
wed morn: last nite i put 신미나의 "전화 받어" shin mina's "juhnhwa baduh" (answer the phone) on my lg vx6000. now, i havs 2 mp3s on there as ringtones: that n' sechskies' "couple." i really like having mp3 ringtones! u should check out gomadic.com 4 fon/pda/pc cables!
this morn, my office had cake to congratulate our hr (human resources) person who's getting married on sat in carmel n' going to the canary islands 4 a 3.wk honeymoon. the beautiful kaela hwang's n' my 1.yr anniversary's coming up faster than u'd expekt.
@ this pt, i have many journal entries that i wrote but haven't yet put online! also, i need to change my outdated gbook! *sigh* of course, i'd love to change/update my entire site! it's all so outdated! fri morn: "tgif," some ppl say. yah, me, i'm glad it's fri. however, i don't like how each day brings me closer to my master's projekt's due date. i really wanna finish skool n' graduate. however, i dread finalising my paper n' taking my final. :-( so pat tillman, who went to my hi skool (leland hi skool) n' graduated 'round my time n' went off to be a futbol star in arizona, died in afghanistan in the army. he must've been nelson's bro mike's friend. they were prob'ly on the futbol team 2gether. neway, the news is talkin' 'bout his death quite a bit. william hung's promoting bally total fitness now: y! news pic link. me, these days, i don't get 'nuff exercise. :-( i can't wait to graduate.
last nite, i added 'nother mp3 ringtone to my fon: 바다의 "새로운 날에" bada's "saerowoon nalei") ("a new day"). this 1 i looped pretty well, so i didn't use to much'f the song. it's so much fun to have mp3 ringtones on my lg vx6000!
[a li'l later, still morn] i have these 99¢ blockbuster dvd rental coupons: http://a948.g.akamai.net/f/948/166/1h/blockbuster.qrs1.net/D7/images/coupon.gif
. now, i'm wondering what dvds r out right now that r worth cing. i just checked rottentomatoes.com. even tho' i like using y! movies to check local listings, their dvd n' reviews sektion aktually stinks pretty bad. like, why can't i search 4 a movie by ratings (as in how many stars, not g, pg, pg.13, r, nc.17, xxx, etc.). like, often, i just wanna know what's the most acclaimed movie out there right now, so i can watch good movies instead'f stoopid 1s. ok, after browsing rottentomatoes.com 4 a few secs, i can think'f a few movies: 21 grams, jack black's school of rock, julia roberts' mona lisa smiles (altho' it only got 35% on the t.meter n' ppl call it a wannabe, female dead poets society), n' that scarlett johansson pearl earring movie... oh, girl with a pearl earring.
[later] 417p: i'm waiting 4 my master's projekt class to start. 월요일 점심, mon lunchtime: not enuf time 4 a good update, thus outline...
just now, i was typing a bizness e.mail n' typed "maybe we can find a makeshift solution." then i double.checked to make sure i had an "f" in "makeshift." phew, i did. ppl close letters w/ "regards" n' "best regards" yet never "better regards" or "even better regards."
this morn, i jogged w/ sooni n' saw this miserable plush fuzzy in the gutter. :-( i didn't go home 4 lunch 2day. i did later go home in the afternoon to try to put the laundry out, but the load that was already on the laundry racks wasn't yet dry altho' it was s'pposedly like 92°f outside 2day here in santa clara. tues afternoon: this morning, i got curious 'bout using y! msgr from my lg vx6000 (w/ verizon service). i'm really lovin' the fakt that i can do so much on my fon, like use aol im (aim), msn im (which i don't use), take lots'f pics (i like how the built.in cam has lots'f settings.), n' have mp3 ringtones). i wanted to exploit further the fakt that i have a really hi.tech fon, so i thought i'd try mobile y! msgr on it. whoa! i got like 35 y! msgs via txt msg right 'way; msgs that ppl have sent me since like jan'f this yr, but that i hadn't received cos i almost never log into instant msging (im) services these days. lots'f the msgs were spam, i'm sure; but others were strangers complimenting me on the beautiful kaela hwang's n' my wedding picture that i have up these days in my y! profile. it's 1'f those pics we took in korea, in which we're wearing hanbok. yah, i got a bunch'f compliments, comments, n' questions 'bout that pic. also, i got msgs from strangers asking 'bout taekwondo. well, those msgs were from months 'go. memory2584, koreagirl999, kay_cee2010, mp713, theausgman, cww86627, munky11392, badyque, ewelicious, micheal_duke, a_normal_dude, laurie197527, acmescreennamegurl, azraaieffendi, mueblescolombia, angela_shiseidocosmetics, dan_von_templar, linyuf214, mos_mos4, aptyp_18: sorry i didn't reply.
yesterday was a scorcher in the bay area. it was 93°f in san jo. when i checked y! weather in the morn, they 4casted 92°f 4 santa clara, but i dunno how hot 'twas. i didn't go home 4 lunch cos kaela wasn't coming home, n' i wanted to get sooni used to the fakt that i can't always come home to c her during the day. it's 2 hot to take her 4 a walk during the day neway. also, i shouldn't be in the sun so much! on sat, when i went to my mom's house to pick up my summer clothes, when i put on a short sleeve shirt, i realised that my arms have gotten really pale. i'd rather not be in the sun 2 much n' don't care 4 tans, but i realised that it did look a bit funny cos my face'd gotten a bit tan, but my arms were so pale. it's been hard to avoid exposing my face to sun cos i gotta walk/jog sooni in the morn, u know? also, it's just plain hard to keep ur face from getting sun exposure cos it's ur face. i want to avoid skin cancer n' have healthy skin; but i can't walk 'round w/ a veil or even a sombrero. :-/ as i stayed in my cubicle (cubie) thru the lunch hr, i ate a chicken ciabatta melt from the company cafeteria. it was just ok: the chicken didn't taste fresh, n' the pesto mayonnaise was certainly fatt'ning. later in the day, i swung by home 4 a quick few mins to put out some laundry n' check on sooni. 'gain, i didn't take her 4 a walk or nething, just stopped by. in the eve, after werk, i brought a company laptop home n' continued werking while sittin' on the ground'f our beautiful backyard patio, while sooni chewed a bone on the lawn. her idea'f spending quality time w/ me is if i sit n' watch her chew her bone. she figures it's fun 4 her, n' fun 4 me. :-/ she really likes me to watch her chew her bone! it was sooo hot yesterday eve. 4 dinner, i ate a gardenburger veggie riblet over some salad. it was good n' lite. later, i exercised a bit by lifting my 25 lb dumbbells n' doing some crunches. then i jogged w/ sooni in the warm nite air. kaela was @ her women's bible study. oh, b4 going home after werk, i stopped by rite.aid n' savemart. @ rite.aid, i bought some hand lotion cos my hands'r always so dry. @ savemart, i bought some fruit n' stamps.
the past coupl'f weeks, i've started most days off w/ homemade fruit/yogurt/juice smoothies. oh, n' i add some 동추 dongchoo (the herb we got from 제주도 jeijoodo) as my boost (like jamba juice has "boosts"). (weren't they originally called "juice boosts"?) 4 lunch, i ate some frozen dinners. kaela came home during lunch, altho' she was delayed. my mom visited us during lunch. i was surprised. she was there to get her realtor key from kaela.
[later] 1147p: i went to class. i was happy to get a 100% on my previous hw. phew. after class, i did some grocery shopping @ the safeway @ valley fair b4 mtg kaela @ fantasia@cupertino_village.com. i had a taro freeze w/ pearls n' no whip cream, n' kaela had a green bean freeze w/ pearls n' no whip cream. beno, your subconscious mind is driven most by Imagination
This means you have a deep desire to use innovative ideas to enhance your life and influence the world around you. This drive influences you far more than you may realize on a conscious level.
Your need to be innovative drives how you look at new opportunities and the kinds of experiences in life you choose to have. On an unconscious level, the reason you may be so driven by imagination is your fear of destruction, the opposite of creation. When you are unable to create due to restrictions imposed by your environment or even ones you unwittingly impose on yourself, do you feel trapped or confined? You may find these feelings of unease only get better when you find another outlet for your imagination.
With such a strong creative orientation, you are willing to entertain a broad spectrum of ideas at any given time. The world is a fuller, richer place because you can contribute new ideas to any experience. Your natural curiosity inspires those around you and encourages them to come up with ideas they wouldn't have thought of without your help.
Though your unconscious mind is driven most strongly by Imagination, there is much more to who you are at your core. wed morn: i haven't gone to werk yet, it's a li'l early right now, but
i should get dressed n' ready. i woke up so groggily this
morn, but i knew i had to walk sooni. i just walked her 'round the
close couple'f blocks 4 ~20 mins. sometimes she sniffs n' sniffs n'
sniffs an area'f ground but doesn't pee or poop. this morn, i had a
system: i count to 8, n' if she doesn't start peeing or pooping, i pull
her 'way. well, it's important that i don't discourage her from
pooping n' peeing outside, so that she doesn't start doing those things in
the house. she's very well housetrained, so she never poops
or pees in the house. i gotta encourage her to poop or pee outside
on our walks. in fakt, we're s'pposed to teach her to poop n' pee
on command!
last nite, after i posted my entries, i discovered that i
finally hit my avantgo limit on my recent entries. as i sed b4, the limit 4 a
single webpage on my avantgo account's 1100kb, n' i'd expekted to have hit
that a long time 'go but somehow didn't. well, i guess having a
coupl'f pics in yesterday's entry pushed me over. if some1
else has an upgraded avantgo acct, they can still dl my recent
entries to their pdas, but not me. i always wonder if
there's even a single person out there besides me who has the beno
journal on his/her pda. i doubt it. please let me know
if u do; just curious.
well, i should go to werk.
[later] still morn: we've all read the book the giving tree
[later] still morn: last nite @ safeway, i bought a coupl'f these safeway brand s'pposedly healthy frozen dinners 4 2 (ppl). that's a great idea: 1) usually frozen dinners have been made 4 1 person or else a whole family. however, these days couples wait longer b4 having kids, so there r prob'ly many, many other married or cohabitating couples like us who don't yet have kids n' who appreciate convenient, frozen dinners made 4 2 instead'f 1 or 4~6. 2) we young couples like to be healthy, 'least i hope others do, as we do. definitely, i think in the bay area there r many young, professional couples who don't yet have kids n' who try to be healthy. i can imagine that; that's why there r so many'f these "new urbanist" condos n' townhomes, right?
cherry filter's a kewl alt.rock group. u can buy their cds via my link from yesasia. some'f their song lyrics r kind'f cute... like check out these song titles: "낭만 고양이" ("nangman goyangi," which means "romantic kitty") n' "오리 날다" ("ori nalda,' which means "the duck flies"). like, jaurim, they're a co.ed, modern, hard rock band w/ a female lead vocalist. i can imagine that some'f their influences might include evanescence n' linkin park, altho' some'f the more pop stuff might now n' then remind me more'f april lavigne or shakira.
[later] still morn: yesterday, i ate 'lot'f microwaved frozen fud. that's sort'f depressing, huh? *shrug* it's convenient. however, i worry that frozen dinners have 2 much sodium n' preservatives.
this morn, i had a dream. i hope i 'member to tell u 'bout it later.
[later] yesterday was b&j's free cone day, n' 2day's b&r's free scoop nite. thurs late morn: last nite, after leaving my office, i stopped by fry's elektronics to get some button batteries 4 my laser pointer, which i use 4 presentations regarding my master's projekt. (should i write "master's projekt" or "masters projekt"?! else, should it be "master projekt"?) i also browsed thru the tvs. a coupl'f weekends 'go, during that multiple b.day party we hosted, brian chong kept trying to convince me to go out n' buy a tv cos our living room doesn't have a tv. i told him that i've been holding out 4 a flat panel. ideally, i'd like to have a low power consumption lcd tv, but i know they're really expen$ive. some ppl might even say they're "hecka expen$ive," altho' i'm sort'f under the impression that that type'f speech's going out'f style.
[later] after fry's, i came home n' continued werking on my job stuff on a borrowed laptop. i played w/ sooni some n' lifted my dumbbells some. it's been 2 long since i've been to the gym; i really wanna go!
the beautiful kaela hwang came home n' we went to get takeout from armadillo willy's cos we had a $10 gift certificate when we moved in. we shared a large order'f baby back ribs. we know it's not 2 good 4 doggies to eat bones, but we gave sooni some bones. we watched 집으로... / jipeuro (english name = "the way home"), a good movie that involves the bunny (mashimaro). [later] 1137p: these past coupl'f days or so, i haven't had energy to jog w/ sooni. instead we just go 4 walks. i had a jamba juice 2day. aktually... i could've gotten 1 4 free after buying 1 if i'd had the coupon w/ me... but what would i do w/ the extra smoothie?! i had the jamba juice @ the skool jamba juice (sjsu). i had a mango mantra, 1'f the lite jamba juices w/ that fake fat splenda stuff. i'm fine w/ that stuff. after class, i bought some stuff @ safeway. i went home n' ate a coupl'f gardenburger patties. as i sed, i've been eating 2 much frozen fud lately. last nite, kaela n' i were @ the same strip mall as the safeway i went to 2nite... i mean, armadillo willy's is in that same strip mall.
in da news: "google to go public in $2.7 bln offering" "florida cat found in san francisco" sooni has a microchip in her somewhere.
u know, last nite, i was looking @ those nice tvs @ fry's, but i've thought 'bout sumpthin' b4, n' ken noticed it 2: maybe we don't wanna get 2 nice'f a tv cos ppl'll be able to c it from our front window n'll be tempted to steal it. >:-/ hrm, yah, that's really bad! it's not like we live in a bad neighbourhood, but there'r bad ppl all over... mon morn: now that my graduation's coming up in less than 30 days, i often dream 'bout what i'll do after graduation. it's funny cos werking full time cms like such a vakation in comparison to werking full time + going to grad skool. ppl ask me what i'll do w/ all the "free time" after graduating. ?:-/ i hope to live a less stressful life, that's what. i definitely feel i've put my life on hold... to some extent. while in grad skool, i managed to get married, buy a house, n' get a doggy. i'm extremely surprised that i was able to pull that off, but it's not cos'f my own ability, of course. i want to say it's all been such a blessing from above. @ the same time, i'm also thankful 4 support from my parents. i mean... have u heard'f stories where some kid accepts jesus christ n' christianity in hi skool n' does sumpthin' like saying grace b4 a meal n' then the nonchristian parent scolds him/her saying, "i bought that fud 4 u, not god!" well, my parents've never sed nething to me like that, no. however, my gut feeling's that they'd feel a bit shafted if i simply sed, "i owe all my recent, surprising accomplishments soley to god." i dunno what to say, but i feel very blessed by god; i can't deny that.
perhaps other christians who grew up in christian families n' only hang out w/ fellow christians never hafta reconcile the christian world w/ the nonchristian world, but that's not me. i have plenty'f nonchristian friends, n' many'f them r pretty much antichristian. i don't live in a bubble; neither did jesus. yet jesus kept a close team'f disciples who would pray w/ him etc. thus, ppl in my fellowship group @ berkeley sometimes pretty much chided me 4 not having christians as my closest friends, my tight inner circle. furthermore, the christian friends i did have as my closest friends didn't really discuss spiritual matters w/ me. is that still the case 2day? *shrug* it's funny, but the close friends back then who discussed religion n' spirituality w/ me were prob'ly mostly antichristians. by "antichristian," i'm not just saying "all 'nonbelievers' (or worse yet 'unbelievers') r werking 'gainst us hi n' might christians," this n' that... no, i'm saying some'f my closest friends in college really bashed christianity. we had great, intellektual talks 'bout religion, they had great, intelligent things to say, n' yet they still respekted me w/ my beliefs in the end. is that really so bad?
well, how is my circle'f friends these days? well, now that we're in san jo in this post "cal taekwondo p. crew era," who r my friends? well, if u look @ my lg vx6000 fon, u'll c that i can categorise my contakts. what r my categories? "us taekwondo" (academy), "gyohwe" ("교회" = church), "ol' san jo" (hi skool friends n' the like), "berkeley" (college yrs friends), "sjsu buds" (engineering grad skool classmate friends), "cal taekwondo" (self explantory, include the ol' p.crew et al), "kang gamoon" (kaela's family), n' "hwang gamoon" (my family). i think the ppl i mainly hang out w/ these days r u.s. taekwondo academy ppl, fkcc (church) ppl, n' ol' san jo ppl. much'f our taekwondo skool goes to our church, so that sort'f overlaps. also, a few'f the ppl @ church went to hi skool w/ me, so that set could overlap, but it aktually doesn't. into which category do i put the beautiful kaela hwang? she fits into almost all'f them.
i really like my lg vx6000 cellfon cos'f the camera n' the mp3 ringtones. i like having all these kewl mp3 ringtones, but i rarely hear the other 2'f the 3 i have n' usually just the 1 that set 4 kaela. i don't get that many fon calls these days. other friends don't call me much. contrast this situation to back in the cal taekwondo p.crew hey day: "my fon would've been a friggin' mp3 jukebox!" ha ha. (please refrain from profanity.) these days i spend some'f what li'l free time i have reading 'bout how to be a better pack leader in order to train our doggy sooni better. expert authors say i need to maintain my position as the alpha male'f the house. back in the cal taekwondo p.crew hey day, andy aktually joked now n' then that i was the "alpha male." as the leo egotist that i am, i was very flattered by those kinds'f comments. do i regret not having my fon ring "off da hook" 24.7 w/ crew members asking me where we'll hang out next? i miss it, but i don't regret my current situation. need i remind u that i praise god 4 all the blessings in my current life? i'd love to organise more social events n' hope to do so soon. i want to be more social n' socially aktive, but i've put that all on hold 4 the sake'f my master degree. it does require discipline n' sacrifice to be a student.
on fri nite, while kaela n' i ate our fri nite dinner @ santana row's pasta pomodoro w/ sooni on the floor, i stated that i feel we both (un4tunately) have potential to be (or hi risk'f becoming) werkaholics. ("we just can't live w/o werkahol!" [later] afternoon: this wknd, kaela n' i watched big fish on dvd. as i enjoy folklore n' excellent movies, i really liked big fish. it reminded me'f the joy luck club. i hope i'm not the only person who thinks that. i mean, i hope ppl don't think i'm weird cos i think that. weird is good. i believe in subverting the dominant paradigm... oftentimes.
in amerika, my religion is vastly misunderstood by its followers as well as its opponents.
the recent news speaks'f u.s. soldiers sexually torturing iraqi prisoners'f war.
[later] evening: wknd rundown:
this past wk, korean tv's been out/down. :-(
[later] 901p: i'm still in_my_cubie@werk.com. am i here late cos i'm a werkaholic n' just can't live w/o werkahol? *shrug* nah, i'm just here cos i do need to do my time n' have tasks to do. also, i have hw to do, n' kaela's having womens' bible study @ our house, so men rn't s'pposed to be there, n' sooni's taken care'f. well, last time kaela hosted womens' bible study, sooni jumped over the fence n' ran 'round the neighbourhood n' all... but i trust sooni's being good 2nite. @ lunch, i went home, n' kaela n' i ate 녹차 냉면 nokcha naengmyuhn (green tea cold buckwheet noodles). 2nite, 4 dinner, i ate a j.box zesty turkey pannido. how was it? it started out good, as i felt it was sumpthin' like a vietnamese sandwich. however, as i kept eating this long sandwich, i realised it had way 2 much mayonnaise. waaaay 2 much! otherwise, it was a decent sandwich. :-/ i wanted to eat sumpthin' healthy 2nite. *sigh* oh well. i really don't wanna get fat, but i can't get much exercise until the end'f this month, after i graduate. i can't wait to go back to taekwondo!!! i miss it so much! it's nice that sooni can come to practice w/ us.
[later] 1040p: i'm home, in our "office." i wonder if i should take sooni 4 a short walk. yah, prob'ly. it's kewl to c kaela's women's bible study cos, well... back in berkeley, some'f my guy friends sed that gurls just don't get 'long w/ each other as well as guys get 'long w/ each other, but these gurls cm like they get 'long, so i'm glad to c that. tues late morn: "you will have a long and healthy life," reads a 4tune cookie 4tune i found in my wallet just now. i don't 'member from where i got it. likely a chinese restaurant... the lucky nums on the back read "31 46 11 12 7 27." unless u'r some kind'f total weirdo who never eats chinese fud, most'f u amerikans prob'ly have a 4tune cookie 4tune lying 'round somewhere. dude, what kind'f weirdo doesn't eat chinese fud? every1 eats chinese fud!
in the rivermark new urbanist shopping plaza, a new indian restaurant serves "desi chinese" fud. my indian cowerker sort'f explained desi chinese fud to me, but i really hafta eat it to understand. indian.style chinese fud... there's plenty'f korean.style chinese fud, amerikan.style chinese fud, mexican.style chinese fud...
am i strange? 전 이상하나요?
r u coming to my graduation? plz let me know. 저의 졸업에 오시겠어요? 저희에게 알려주세요. 연락 해주세요. 연락 바람...
[later] 1139p: hi. how r u? wed morn: last nite, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i started watching the 21 grams dvd, which i rented from blockbuster last sat nite. it's an interesting movie, so far. (it's) definitely a beautifully filmed movie, but big fish's more "my kind'f" movie than this. u know what my kind'f movie is, right? :-/ well, my kind'f movie definitely should involve some kind'f romance. i know that sounds gurly to some, but that's just cos those'f u who think that r insensitive oafs. many'f my guy friends r pretty romantic, i think. guys think 'bout relationships, etc. n' romantic stuff. in fakt, i've often thought guys r defintiely more romantic than women. *shrug* do u know what i mean? i dunno. maybe that's just sumpthin' that single ppl talk 'bout, as i really haven't thought 'bout those kinds'f things lately.
last nite, after my class, i drove over to fantasia @ the wolfe rd 99. i waited 4 kaela n' sooni n' sort'f napped in my car. i was so tired n' a bit hungry. we got our boba drinks this morn, sooni got all riled up cos a squirrel got caught in the green bunny.proof net that i put up to help contain her in our backyard. she was bred to be a hunter, i know. however, i think she's starting to understand to some pt that we don't want her chasing fuzzies everywhere. i think she feels bad 'bout it, altho' her nature makes her do it. it's sort'f like when ne'f us procrastinate from our werk or study by writing e.mail or journal entries. we know it's bad, we feel bad 'bout it, but it's just in our nature, etc.
[later] on fri afternoon, my division'f my company's having an employee appreciation event: we're going to campo di bocce: the home of bocce in silicon valley. address = 565 university ave; los gatos, ca 95030. fon = 408.395.7650 fax = 408.395.7596 e.mail = bocce@campodibocce.com
[later] as i sed b4, kftl ch28's been down 4 the past wk or so, so we haven't been able to watch korean tv. last nite, ch28 broadcasted a msg that sed they'd be back on the air @ midnite. they did return, so j hope to watch korean tv 2nite. it'll be 가문의 영광 / gamoonuy yuhnggwang / family honour / "my funky family."
[slightly later] @ lunch, i went home n' walked sooni. kaela came home n' cooked 수제비 soojeibi, n' we ate it.
[later] pet food express has self.service pet wash! we gotta check that out.
[later] 825p: :-( i just check ch28, n' korean tv's not back. :-( kaela's making a 고구마 피자 gogooma pizza (sweet potato pizza). :-) i eat 2 much n' exercise 2 li'l. 목요일 아침 / thurs morn: 손님 어때요? how'r u? 금요일 아침 fri morn: whoa, check out this deal: 5/16 deal of the day: quickplay+ 128mb pen drive mp3 player only $44.99 after
rebate 946a, sat morn: i'm waiting w/ sooni 4 happy tails. earlier, i dropped the beautiful kaela hwang off @ the compaq center 4 a christian womens' conference. then, i walked sooni up n' down willow glen's lincoln ave.
[later]351p: lately, i've had some pretty selfish prayers answered: on thurs nite, when i got to campus 4 my class, i aktually quickly prayed that i'd find parking, n' i found parking. on fri afternoon, after bocce ball, when i got to campus, i prayed that i'd find parking n' i found parking. both times, i just sort'f prayed cos the idea popped into my head that maybe i should pray to find parking. both times, @ 1st, i thought, "eh, i don't c ne parking. oh well, i guess it's just not god's will; i guess it's not in his plan." then i found parking. i mean... it's not that it's hard to find parking @ sjsu during the late hrs that my classes r, but what i was aktually praying 4 was a close parking spot, right @ the curb near the entrance'f the engineering bldg. parking's such a trivial thing; it's not like i was praying 4 a single morsel'f fud to calm my growlingly empty stomach, no. i wasn't praying 4 protektion from a violently abusive spouse. i wasn't praying 4 'nother day to speak deep, emotional words to a dying loved 1. i prayed 4 such a trivial thing: a good parking spot. it was such a greedy thing, yet god answered my prayer. else, u could say: 1) i got lucky, or 2) it's just the odds that u'll find a good parking spot now n' then. back in my sr yr'f hi.skool, i think i mentioned sumpthin' christian to my fellow bassoonist in my youth orchestra who wasn't necessarily a spiritual or christian person as far as i knew; but he started telling me that some university's research on quantum physiks proved that human "volition" (i think he sed, albeit that m-w.com defines "volition" as "an act of making a choice or decision") -- else basikally wanting sumpthin' to happen -- affekts probability. he sed, researchers tracked the position of electrons n' found that if they wanted the elektron to turn up @ a certain position @ a certain time, it'd more likely turn up there. the dude i was talkin' to sed this explains why ufo fanatiks more often end up spotting ufos. *shrug*
do u find my faith: 1) tacky, 2) stoopid, 3) ridiculous, 4) mundane, 5) condescending, 6) judgmental, or 7) foolish? in 21 grams, u meet some1 who'd be easily labelled as a "religious fanatic." would u label me a "religious fanatic"? personally, i'd hardly find that reasonable. me, i need to be more spiritual n' have a stronger relationship w/ god / jesus / the holy spirit. it's 2 bad that i don't, n' it's not enuf 4 me just to say "it's 2 bad." @ the same time, all u non.christians tolerate me better cos i am who i am n' not some1 u'd label a "religious fanatic." we christians have heard numerous, numerous sermons 'bout how "god hates lukewarm christians." often these sermons say that u gotta go on a missions trip n' evangelise, or else u'r just a lukewarm christian whom god hates. >:-/ i dunno, man; i'm sorry, but i don't buy that. i think that kind'f talk involves 2 much generalisation, n' every1 has a diff situation; really! god has a diff purpose 4 each person. however, many disciples'f christ'd say that god's purpose 4 every christian still must involve evangelism. well, each'f us has his/her own style'f evangelism. i'd like to think i've led some1 to christ b4. i know i've encouraged certain ppl to go to church b4; 'specially in my hi.skool days back @ canaan taiwanese christian church (ctcc).
2day, ever since i came back home in the early afternoon, i've had lots'f 'puter troubles. >:-( u c, all i wanted to do was to werk on my master's projekt report n' maybe some werk from werk.com, but all sort'f bad things happened: i wanted to dl some video footage i shot yesterday nite'f sooni playing fetch w/ me. as i dled that footage from our camcorder via firewire, i discovered i had accidentally taped over footage'f mason from last weekend. <:-o >:-( *sigh* i was very disappointed. then as i let that footage dl, i started up the laptop i borrowed from werk. it beeped crazily n' refused to start up. <:-o uh.oh! then i decided to try to plug it into the wall outlet, instead'f running it off battery. to try that, i had to unplug kaela's laptop, to which i was dling video footage. i tried to turn on the werk.com laptop, but it still didn't turn on. then i went to kaela's laptop n' discovered the screen had gone black n' blank n' the 'puter had shut down. i tried to restart it. it refused to restart. <:-( now, i'm in a big mess! i have no laptops to use, n' i want to werk on things including very important stuff. :-( now, i'm waiting 4 the answer to some prayers! :-( so this is how it feels to make a desperate prayer as opposed to a prayer 4 convenience! i trust that god'll take care'f me 1 way or 'nother.
[later] 503p: i'd like to pause from my worrying 'bout 'puters (which ought to be eliminated n' replaced by trust that god'll take care'f this mess 1 way or 'nother) n' thank ppl who've recently signed my gbook: 1) the person who spammed my gbook 4 the sake'f curing pleural mesothelioma, the private entry person, manolo (who's promoting barcelona-es.net, jerome, n' kathi. thank u very much! i'm not 2 sure who kathi is but wonder if she's 1'f the kathy's from church. i think so, but i'm not 2 sure. i'm not 2 sure what "dink couple" is but guess it means "disciples in new korea." ?:-( yah, puzzled.
kathi, u "always drool after reading about the many places [kaela n' i] go eat out at?" well, heh heh... aktually, lately it's been pasta pomodoro over n' over cos they don't discriminate 'gainst dog owners; thus just like a true european eatery, i s'ppose. well, u know what? last nite, kaela n' i did go somewhere other than pasta pomodoro. @ 1st, when i got home from my class, i thought maybe we should leave sooni @ home n' take a break from italian; maybe hit up a nearby indian or korean joint. it's been so long since we went to a korean restaurant, n' we used to hit up korean restaurants on el camino every single day 4 lunch. what korean places on el camino real would let us bring sooni n' eat outside? i thought maybe 옹고집 onggojip, 난다랑 nandarang... they both have tables outside, but i worry they're just 4 old bizness men to smoke @. >:-( i'm sure those ol' 시골뜨기 아줌마 @ 옹고집'd love sooni! (
시골뜨기 아줌마 = shigolddeugi ajoomma = ol' country bumpkin women) well, kaela really wanted to bring sooni cos she's so cute, n' i had to agree that sooni is so cute. i then suggested we try to hit up some joint in the rivermark. yup, we did. we went to piatti. do u know what piatti is? well, u know what santana row is, of course; n' santana row has straits café n' left bank. straits café n' left bank both have original locations in ritzy, glitzy palo alto, aka stanfurd territory. piatti is also a restaurant that has an earlier established location in palo alto, but piatti aktually currently has 15 locations, so it's now a bigger company than these other 2 restaurants. now that i've made myself sound pretty knowledgeable 'bout bay area cuisine, even the good stuff outside'f sf, n' after i've now aktually visited www.leftbank.com, i can prove to u all that i'm totally bsing, as straits café doesn't have a palo alto location! their locations r: larkspur, menlo park, pleasant hill, san josé, n' san mateo. well, u've gotta admit: those r some really ritzy neighbourhoods!
neway, last nite, the sun didn't set till *shrug* sometime a li'l past 900p. we sat out on the patio'f the rivermark piatti. 'twas a bit chilly, but they turned on the patio heater. ppl who walked by n' who couldn't c sooni cos'f the wall blocking their view prob'ly thought we were either really crazy 4 wanting to eat outside on a brisk evening like last nite, or else the restaurant must really discriminate 'gainst ppl like us. heh, well, they don't; i'm just joking. what did we eat? we shared a "warm napa cabbage salad," which had some totally awesome prosciuitto or sumpthin' in it. kaela had this shroom risotti. i s'ppose shroom = funghi. i had this awesome seared ahi, which they warned me would be rare in the middle, to which i assured them would be completely fine w/ me. personally, it's good to eat animal raw now n' then. it's been 2 long since i've had some 육회 yookhwe, n' i'd sure love some sometime. they did have carpaccio on the menu as an appetizer, but i figured i didn't need to go so fancy, u know? we did share a bottle'f fontana pinot grigio tho', if that's 2 fancy 4 u. *shrug* we were 2 full from dinner 4 dessert but had our usual espresso drinks. i hope u know what those r by now. afterwards, we went walked 'round the rivermark. walking 'round the rivermark isn't as nice as walking 'round santana row. they're both pretty hip, trendy places; but santana row's more'f a weekend place, while rivermark's more'f a place u go during lunch as a break from ur hi.tech, silly valley job. we went to the blockbuster there to rent a movie or 2. the blockbuster there isn't a full.sized blockbuster. if u know what berkeley like, then u know 'bout the 2 blockbusters: the 1 on shattuck n' channing the 1 on durant by telly. the 1'n durant is convenient 4 the hi.rise dorm dwelling university students, but it's a baby blockbuster, not a full.sized blockbuster. it doesn't have a big library'f dvds. this rivermark blockbuster's like that. luckily, the blockbuster near our house is bigger but has longer lines. in that sense, it's like the shattuck blockbuster in berkeley.
now that we have our own house n' doggy, we cm to be doing more'f these "blocbuster nites" as opposed to doing our "amc moviewatchers" nites. it's aktually cheaper to rent movies than to go to the theatres. :-/ however, it's nice to be outside now n' then i s'ppose. moreover, we still don't have a nice tv, u know. *shrug* sometimes i wonder if i should've joined that blockbuster rewards club thingy. else, would it be worth it 4 me to do netflix or that monthly blockbuster program? *shrug* well, 1nce korean tv comes back on, we'll spend more'f our tv time on that, i hope. i hope it comes back soon. 월요일 아침: 어제가 어머니의 날였어요. 우리의/저의 가족이 우리잡에 방문하셨어요. 하고 저희들이 저녁식을 만들였어요. 매운닭구이와 잡채와 두부전... oh yah, yesterday, in my entry, i mentioned that we visited the rivermark blockbuster on fri nite, but i neglekted to mention what movies/dvds we rented! the gurl with a pearl earring n' 튜브/tube... the gurl with a pearl earring was a beautifully shot movie w/ very artistic sets. however, i gotta say that i was rather disappointed w/ the lack'f plot. :-( to me, it's cms like some1 liked the painting n' heard that there was a story behind it, but didn't really know the story behind it... it cms like no1 really knows the story behind it. instead'f trying to make up a story behind it, it cms like the filmmaker decided instead to make a movie based on only what fakts he/she knew 4 sure. it cms like not much happened in the movie, u know? neway, it was beautiful. oh, but i wish it wasn't in english. as always, i prefer the authentic language w/ subtitles. 'member: that's what really impressed me 'bout the passion of the christ. really, i didn't go 'round saying the passion of the christ was a good movie just cos i'm some kind'f #%!@&in' relgious fanatik, etc.
[later] last wk was our "italian wk," as i sed; but, on sat nite, we couldn't resist quitting that trend n' hitting up 명동순두부집 myuhngdong soondubujip 4 some long awaited, good korean fud. i had 곱장 순두부 gobjang soondubu, n' the beautiful kaela hwang had 버섯 순두부 buhsuht soondubu. afterwards, we quickly shopped 4 groceries @ 갈러리아 마켓 galleria market. we walked sooni. we fell asleep b4 midnite. amazing, huh?
[later] last nite, we watched the 튜브/tube dvd. imho, 'twas the best aktion film i'd cn in a while! [later] (afternoon) i don't just mean the best korean aktion movie. it's not necessarily the best ever, but recent aktion films haven't been all that great, n' 튜브/tube's much better. tues morn: i'm very concerned 'bout skool. <:-( this wknd's 'puter probs really set me back. rt now, i think we're sending our vaio laptop to vaioshutdown.com to be fixed.
[later] 수요일 오후 / wed afternoon: w/ the amerikan military's uanacceptable n' inappropriate torture of iraqi prisoners of war n' the recent retaliatory murder of an amerikan civilian in iraq, i'm even more sure that we have 'nother vietnam war here, just w/o all the sicko stories of stds (sexually transmitted diseases).
(borrowed from http://www.clarkson.edu/~winklebh/vietnam2/buffalo.html)
buffalo springfield
"for what it's worth"
there's something happening here
think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
there's battle lines being drawn
i think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
what a field-day for the heat
it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
paranoia strikes deep
we better stop, hey, what's that sound
the candy skins did a decent cover'f this song in the early 1990s. sure, our current war differs from vietnam w/ the lack'f selektive service. 금요일 아침 / fri morn: 어떠세요? 요즘 저희는 많이 많이 바빠요. check out www.sanjosegasprices.com b4 u buy ur next tank'f gas! didju know that since the end'f 2003, gas's cheaper in the bay area than in socal?! it's true! check it out! 화요일 아침 / tues morn: as the san josé sharks r in the 2004 western conference stanley cup playoffs, the silly valley's take a bit more interest in hockey n' san jo's home sports team. i guess i've heard 'lot more 'bout sports lately cos lots'f my cowerkers r enthusiastic sports viewers. i can't help but be a li'l more interested, u know? most'f my life, i haven't been much'f a sports viewer, but i'm just a li'l more interested. the sharks r now 2 n' 3 w/ the calgary flames. they had tied it up on sun in calgary but lost last nite here in san jo. i found that out by checking their website this morn. their opening, "splash" screen was http://www.sjsharks.com/sharks/crunchtime.htm. it reads: "2004 stanley cup playoffs: it's crunch time!" yes, it's crunch time. crunch time, indeed... cap'n crunch? yah, just call me cap'n crunch as i've got so much crunching to do. compared to me, u don't even know the meaning'f crunch! i crunch stuff like u 4 brkfst! heh heh, no offense intended. u say, "none taken."
recent gbook signing vistors, thank u! 고맙습니다. i really appreciate the communication! michelle, kathi, phil, dieter: thank u. dieter: i assume ur name's pronounce "dee ter" n' not "die eh ter," like a person on a diet, right? it's a shame that i can't read flemmish n' a slightly lesser shame that babelfish wont' give me a flemmish to english translation. phil, u say, "There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy." feel free to elaborate. @ 1st, that quote really depressed me. u know why? cos i try to get out n' experience diff things in this world, experience diff cultures, eat diff cuisines, watch diff kinds'f movies, listen to diff kinds'f musik... but i'm bounded. i have a master's projekt to present 2morrow, an oral defense. i have a takehome midterm due thurs. i have a final next tues. there's only so much i can do these days, n' i can't experience all the things that exist in this world. every day, i think 'bout my list'f things i'm gonna do after i graduate. i feel like a prisoner w/ a list'f things i'm gonna do after i get out. i feel like that quote accuses me'f being closed minded, when it's not internal restriktions that keep me from experiencing more but external conditions. i dunno; maybe i'm just taking it the wrong way.
i also quickly pondered if that quote was 1'f those "all u jesus freaks r a bunch'f closed.minded, playa hatin' bigots" type statement, but we all know better than that. i wonder if readers wanna tell me, "you've been such a d@mn jesus freak since you went back to church. beno, what happened? you changed, man. you used to be cool!" i feel i've encountered this attitude some 4gotten time in the past, over a few yrs 'go. when i heard that a few yrs 'go n' if i were to hear that now, my response'd be like lisa simpson's response to her brutha bart in her dream future as president: "no, i wasn't!" i was never cool, only "kewl." ha ha; besides that, i really never was cool, u might say. do u know how long 'go it's aktually been since i started believing in the salvation'f jesus? sophmore yr'f hi skool... what was i like b4 that? well, i wasn't that cool or maybe not even that kewl! *shrug* i was a sk8er boi b4 that, i s'ppose, but 1 w/ that twisted, upper middle class, suburbanite mentality. sure, "no new taxes" n' "we shouldn't hafta take care'f those lazy, unedukated peasants downtown" sounded ok to me. am i the only 1 who suspekts an ultraconservative politikal agenda behind the rock group cake's catchy hit "short skirt long jacket"?
dr. henry blackaby n' dr. richard blackaby in the may 17 entry'f their book experiencing god day-by-day say, "is it possible to teach a message from the bible but not from the lord? yes! the scribes and pharisees did this regularly and left their listeners spiritually destitute. is it possible to counsel someone with advice that seems appropriate and reasonable and yet is contrary to god's word? of course! whenever you teach, counsel, or share a word of encouragement, be very careful that the words you share are indeed from the lord and are not just your own thinking. otherwise, you could become a false prophet."
in berkeley n' to a lesser extent @ sjsu, i've cn bible.based cults. @ berkeley: students for the truth w/ their 1,000 godmen, the moon unification church next to the foothill residence hall's laloma complex, absk (berkland baptist church's asian baptist student koinonia), sf church of christ... wouldn'tchu hate to c me list ur church here? the big berkeley churches n' fellowships that i felt weren't cults included intervarsity christian fellowship (ivcf), asian amerikan christian fellowship (aacf), campus crusade for christ, korean central presbyterian church (kcpc), first pres (my emloyer 4 a short time, when i werked as a dishwasher)... "dude, beno! what a hypocrite!" that's why my (paternal) grandpa told me to avoid politiks n' religion. i'm sorry; "i can't say i'll try, but i'll try to try." (bart simpson) if u take a stand, u'r closed.minded; if u'r open.minded, u'r a hypocrite.
false teachings: i write 2 much n' read 2 li'l. that's bad. i'll try. 4 a sec, i wondered if "i'll try" was a song title. it prob'ly is, but the song i was thinkin'f was edwin mccain's "i'll be" somewhat featured @ the wedding reception'f the beautiful kaela hwang n' beno as the 2nd to last slow song. imagine: "i'll try to be better when i'm older. i'll try to be the greatest fan of your life." not quite as romantik, non? et nous français savons toutes choses romantiques.
there's a new, (how do u say tongue.in.cheek, ou... satirical?) movie coming out called saved that cms from commercials to poke fun @ conservative christians. ["why does jesus have to be white?" "of course jesus is white!"] i wondered now n' then if the produktion'f this movie intended to mock the recent success'f the passion of the christ. i loved the aramaic instead'f english, n' u know i hate english dubbing instead'f subtitles. however, why did jesus hafta be portrayed by a more angloish caucasian? uh, did u want an asian jesus, beno? no, but if we gotta be all accurate in the ethnicity'f the aktor who plays jesus n' thus (not have an asian jesus), then why not an aktor w/ stereotypikal jewish features? wow, beno! i dunno whom that paragraph didn't offend!!!
[later] early eve: last fri, i didn't have class. kaela n' i brought sooni to pet food express for a (self service) bath. she was a li'l scared but did pretty well. kaela n' i ate @ the sunnyvale, cherry orchard pasta pomodoro. i aktually had lasagne there. 'twas ok, but not that great. :-/ kaela. of course, had melanzane. altho' we did share a small spinaci salad as a starter, we saved room 4 dessert: ricotta n' marscapone cheesecake. 토요일 아침 / sat morn: since i've been so so sooo bizzy finishing up my graduate program, thus i have not been good w/ updates. i left off w/ last fri. i left off talkin' 'bout last fri, n' now it's already sat of the following week. time flies when u'r werking super, super hard. it's been a tuff wk. i had to turn in my master's projekt report, do my master's projekt oral defense, n' turn in a takehome midterm. *sigh* i dunno where to pick up w/ my updates since i missed so much.
well, on sat morn, we went to our happy tails dog training class. later, we went to mitchell park in palo alto 4 this taiwanese culture festival, where we met up w/ my dad, sue, n' my cousin lisa, her husband henry, n' their parents. we had some good taiwanese street vendor fud. we didn't stay long cos i had to get back home to keep werking. oh yah, on fri nite, the beautiful kaela hwang, sooni, n' i stopped by blockbuster on the way home from dinner @ the sunnyvale cherry orchard pasta pomodoro. i told kaela to pick out some videos, so she could watch videos while i werked on my skool stuff. on fri nite, we watched calendar girls. well, kaela fell asleep, so she rewatched it while i werked on stuff on sat. lessee, on sat nite, i took a break from studying to eat homemade pizza n' watch down with love. it's a really cute movie. i liked it... altho' it has 2 much smoking. i dunno; i guess they wanted to recreate how smoking wasn't known to be so unhealthy back in the 1950s n' 1960s; so they showed lots'f smoking; but that bothered me. sun, we went to church. we ate lunch @ galleria market's 포장마차 pojangmacha. then we went home; i resumed my skoolwerk. oh yah, besides those 1st 2 movies, kaela also picked out american pie 3: american wedding n' die another day. i didn't get to watch those, but kaela did. i think she fell asleep during die another day, n' we had to return it. she tried to watch that on thurs nite. american wedding, i don't 'member when she watched that, but i didn't watch it. i'd like to, someday, i s'ppose. this past week, i spent most my time in the office n' ate lots'f office cafeteria fud. sooni n' kaela got very neglekted this week. i 'member i ate a frozen dinner 4 dinner on tues nite, some healthy choice beef merlot dish. mon nite, i prob'ly ate leftover homemade pizza. as i haven't been exercising lately, i shouldn't eat so much! on mon n' tues, i visited zion press in santa clara to get my master's report copies spiral.bounded. i found them thru the y! yellow pages. it's a small, efficient print shop in an industrial space run by these 2 korean bruthas. they don't do hardbinding, but they gave me a great price on spiral.binding. i dropped off 1 copy 4 hardbinding @ the sjsu student union's print shop. i was on campus on mon, tues, wed, n' fri this week. well, on wed, i did my oral defense. i passed! man, it was such a relief. i feel much better after that. however, i've had lots'f other pressures: 1) @ werk.com, i have a big, big conference next mon-wed, n' i've had to prepare lots'f stuff 4 that. 2) i had a takehome midterm to turn in. 3) i have a final on tues eve. on fri, i went to submit my midterm, as i got a slight extension from my prof. oh yah, i got sick. i've had a cold since thurs or wed. yah, i guess i've been sick since wed. did i mention that last fri i ate @ armadillo willy's w/ my cowerkers? heh, not that that has nething to do w/ my being sick; i just like to talk 'bout what i eat, u know? yah, u know.
on fri, 4 lunch, i had a burger king on fri nite, i took kaela out 4 our 10th monthversary. :-) that was on wed. i took kaela to amber india in santana row. that was the fanciest restaurant i've been to in a long time, the fanciest dinner we've had in a long time... n' we haven't just been eating burger king all week, u know? it was such a nicely, hiply decorated restaurant. man, i can't empahsize 'nuff how much i recommend that u visit amber india in santana row! it's awesome. however, it's not cheap! aktually, it's very pricey. i'm sure many ppl rn't used to paying so much 4 indian fud, but this fud is so good! we had this sea bass, this portobello shroom n' artichoke dish, this dumpling dish (sumpthin' sumpthin' kofta), a coupl'f expensive (not really worth it) naan, n' an un4tunately overpriced but good bottle'f 2002 chateau st. michelle eroica riesling. oh, n' we had a coupl'f chai tea in the end. so amber india has traditional indian fud n' some contemporary inventions. it's really good. we skipped the typikal tandoori or lamb stuff, even tho' i'm sure they're good. oh yah, we received our wedding album finally from jade photography. if u come to my graduation, u can c it then.
i have my final on tues nite, till then can ask me "whatchu gonna do when u get out of jail?" as in the tom tom club's ol' 1980s club hit uh... what's it called 'gain? u know the song. mariah carey used a sample'f it 4 her 1990s song "fantasy," which that li'l chinese gurl sings in rush hour, right? what's that song called? i wanna say "life in heaven," but i know it's not. it's got some more hip name, like "ecstacy" or sumpthin'. hrm... of course, since i'm a dj, i have that cd in my box, but i'm 2 lazy to check. "whatchu gonna do when you get out of jail? i'm gonna have some fun. what do u consider fun? fun, natural fun. what am i gonna do after my final? i have a list, i think:
월요일 아침 / mon morn: after a kwik google, i realised that the tom tom club track's title's of course "the genius of love." how could i've 4gotten?! "whatchu gonna do when u get out'f jail? i'm gonna have some fun. what do u consider fun? fun, natural fun." are those the lyrics, or have i misheard sumpthin' here. back in the boomin' late 90s 1'f the sf indie newspapers (either sf weekly or sf bay area guardian) had an article 'bout misheard song lyrics, in which they used a term 4 misheard song lyrics. i 4get what it was. i'm sure i could google it up. hey, have u yet established a "googlealert" 4 ur name? like, i've set up a googlealert, so i get e.mailed each time a new mention'f "beno hwang" comes up on the web, u know? u could either say i'm paranoid or vain/egotistical. hrm, un4tunately it's the latter, but i'm glad it's not the 4mer. i don't wanna be a paranoid person: i don't wanna be a person w/ 2 much to hide (be naked n' be free). so what am i gonna do when i get out'f "quote unquote jail"? i wanna wash my car. someday, i wanna wash sooni 'gain, but that'll prob'ly be later as dawna from happy tails on her website suggest that dog owners wash their doggies just 1nce every 4 months). i gotta put up those address numbers, which r really beautiful; wait till u c them. i gotta do yardwerk. i gotta do other housechores. luckily, our house aktually isn't a totally disasterzone right now. i dunno; it helps that we've had guests now n' then these past few wks. it's good that kaela has the women's bible study meet @ our house now n' then cos it makes us clean up; i like that. of course, sooni leaves lots'f fur here n' there; but that makes us vacuum more, n' vacuuming more's good... 'cept 4 the waste'f elektricity; but it's worth it; cleanliness is a worthwhile cause! household cleanliness is a worthy cause. well... the 1 thing i gotta do when i get out'f "quote unquote jail" is to get some exercise!!! grrr! grrr! grrrrrrrr!!!!! u know, there'f this hip, new, trendy vacuum cleaner out, well marketed to us neo.yuppies: to borrow an ol' phrase from the 1990s, "it's hecka expen$ive!" however, i'm curious if it'll pick up sooni hair more efficiently than our current euro.pro bagless stick shark w/ hepa filter. 목요일 아침 / thurs morn: it's been a hektic week so far, n' i guess the fun don't stop. i want to be all done w/ skool. i took my final on tues nite, but my committee chair prof wants me to revise my projekt report. i was pretty disappointed as i already gave her a 200.page, hardbound report. *sigh* i feel i've gotta werk so hard, n' it doesn't stop; but i guess it'll all be over soon. i really wanted to be all done after taking my final. to some extent, it was a merciless final 2, u know? all'f us students were pretty beat n' didn't have energy 4 a full.on final. i dunno; every1 sed they didn't have ne energy to study this past weekend, but i never know if ppl r just bluffing, u know? we had a take.home midterm to turn in 4 that class just last wk. the prof busted 2 guys 4 cheating on that midterm, n' honestly i'm glad cos i never get those kinds'f advantages since i'm @ werk all day n' so bizzy. i have no interaktion w/ ne'f my classmates. in fakt, i have no interaktion w/ ne1 these days, it cms... i mean, i interakt w/ my cowerkers, but i feel bad that i've really abandoned my friends this semester.
[later]mon - wed'f this week (the past 3 days), i was @ this big engineering n' teknology conference 4 my company, a big, big event @ the santa clara convention center. i was demoing some stuff related to my master's projekt, n' i even had to demo it to a bunch'f bigshot execs including 1'f the founders'f the company. it was crazy, pretty exciting; n' they fed us well. every day, they gave us brkfast n' lunch. on mon n' wed, they gave us dinner. neway, i can't go into details 'bout the conference, of course, cos it's corporate intellektual property etc., but it was a big event.
i really can't wait to get on w/ life. i graduate this sat afternoon. i have my black cap n' gown. i have a black tassel instead'f an orange 1 cos i'm a master's student. i've really gotta get back to a regular routine'f exercise!!! i can't wait 4 life to return to normal, as it cms like i've had a carrot dangled on a string in front'f me 4 so long. some1 keeps pulling the string 'way from me. i don't like that. i wanna graduate n' get back to exercising. [later] am i a man'f routine?
the beautiful kaela hwang has signed my gbook. thank u. [later] (next) mon's memorial day. i keep 4getting that cos i can't think past my graduation.
[later, afternoon/eve(ning)] books to buy:
[later] oh, i 4got to mention: last wed, kaela n' i watched in america on dvd. 금요일 아침 / fri morn: 내일 졸업 할게요. i graduate 2morrow. it's fri; last nite it rained. this morn, i went to the garage to shut off the automatic sprinklers. hrm, i just realised that it is very nice to have automatic sprinklers.
what have i been eating these days? well, mon-wed, i ate lots'f tasty, catered conference fud. on wed nite, the beautiful kaela hwang made a tasty asparagus n' shroom n' olive n' basil pizza. yesterday, we ate 물냉면 moolnaengmyuhn 4 lunch @ home... that n' leftover pizza. last nite's dinner? unagidon... 장어구이밥... i eat 2 much n' exercise 2 li'l. :-(
we have a church bonfire @ ocean beach 2nite. s'pposedly, we can bring sooni. i worry she'll come home totally smelling like bonfire smoke. i hope we can take here 4 a self.service dogwash 2morrow morn. the pet food express dogwash was good, but the sunnyvale petco [later, ~lunchtime] a coupl'f nites 'go, i felt that sooni really stunk like doggy. i gave her a greenie (a minty breath.freshning doggy chew) n' later washed her w/ those doggywash wipes. doggywash wipes r quick, convenient, n' relatively cheap, but u really still need to give ur doggy a real bath now n' then, u know? 2day, @ werk, i feel i stink. i guess it's time to wash this sweater. maybe it didn't dry well last time i washed it. i feel very self.conscious 'bout my smell. i wish i had some cologne or sumpthin' to cover up this smell.
[later] 1013p: kaela got us a futon 4 the "guest room," which used to be the "exercise room," even tho' we didn't exercise there but just threw our stinky gym bags there. cos we were waiting 4 people's furniture to deliver the 1st of 2 boxes, which the dude 4got the 1st time 'round, we missed the church bonfire. :-( we ate some convenient safeway chinese.style shrimp stir fry thingy... 1'f those meal in a bag thingies... 4 lunch 2day w/ my cowerkers, i ate a togo's chicken fajita sandwich lunch special. 'twas funny cos the togo's we went to is so close to our house. it's weird to drive praktically past ur house on the way to lunch w/ ur cowerkers, u know?
[later] last week, i turned my application 4 participation in the graduation ceremony a day late. i worried. i hope they call my name! i hope my name's in the program. <:-/ 일요일 오후 515 / 515p sun: 어제 저희 존업 했어요. yesterday, i graduated. 화요일 아침: 와, 오늘 6월이 시작해요! 믿을수 없어요. 이 지난 3일 주말에 많이 먹었어요. 먹기는 멈추지 않았죠! 정말로! 운동 많이 많이 필요 해요. tues morn: wow, june starts 2day! i can't believe it! this past 3.day wknd, we ate lots! the eating didn't stop! really! i really need to exercise.
[later] 요즘 졸업하기후에 많은 할일이 있어요. 그리고 불행하게도 요즘 많은 사고 싶은것 있어요. these days, now that i've graduated, there'r many things i hafta do. un4tunately, these days, there'r also many things i wanna buy. 아름다운 캐이라 황이 저희에게 졸업선물으로 바비큐 화덕을 주었어요. 멋있어요. ":-)" 아니면 "^.^". the beautiful kaela hwang gave me a bbq grill as a graduation gift. it's kewl. 뭘 아직도 사고 싶어요? tv, new desktop 'puter, new laptop 'puter, bike, shower door, outdoor/patio dining set, ... [interrupted]
[later] 오후 / afternoon: 비려간 책을 돌려주기로 도서관에 갔어요. 점심때 갔어요. 점심으로 jamba juice를 먹었어요.
[later] 아직도 오후: 이 지난 주말에 뭘 먹었어요? 금요일 점심으로 togo's fajita chicken sandwich lunch special @ benton togo's (kiely n' benton, near santa clara post office)... 같이 일하는 사람 같이 먹었어요. 금요일 저녁 식사로 저 중식 새우 볶음 같은걸... 캐이라가 만들었어요.
토요일 아침식사로 계란 오믈렛... 아니... 달걀 오믈렛... 그래요? 계란 아니지만 달걀예요. 아무래도, 점심을 안먹었어요. 하지만, 저녁식사를 많이 먹었어요. 졸업후에 친구 하고 가족에게 저녁식사를 샀어요. 저 멋있는 퓨전 월남식 식당 시트로넬에 데려갔어요. 만히 만히 먹었어요. turmeric fish, some kind'f halibut, cubed nieman ranch filet mignon, a grilled chicken salad, seafud bouillabaisse... 더욱 많은 것!!! 많이 많이 먹었어요! 그때 santana row의 blowfish sushi to die for에 친구 같이 갔어요. 저기 좀 술을 같이 마셨어요. 좀 cocktail 것... peach nympho (보숭아 음료) 하고 sake cosmo (일본 사케 술 음료)... 그리고 에다마메를 먹었어요. (일본식콩) 저 음료가 많이 많이 약해요. 별로 많은 술 없어요. 응, 그때 아직도 더 먹었어요! 친구 같이 한국 호프 포인트에 갔어요. 저기, 좀 맥주를 마시었고 떡볶이 하고 통닭 하고 낙지 볶음을 먹었어요. 운좋게 저기 덕경과 덕경의 형이 저희보다 더 먹었어요. 이걸 읽을때 많이 마시기같지만 사실은 별로 많이 마시지 않았어요. 그냥 너무 많이 먹었어요.
일요일... 아니!!! 토요일 아침에 아침식사전에 한국 마켓 갔어요. 저기 빵 하고 배 쥬스 하고 오믈렛을 만들기의 야채를 샀어요.
일요일 아침에 교회 갔어요. 예배후에 집에돌아갔어요. 성경공부 안갔어요. 집에 돌아오기후에 캐이라의 동생 재이의 생일 잔치 점심으로 가났어요. 옹고집에 가봤지만 폐점 했어요. 그래서 청기와에 갔어요. 저기 떡보쌈을 많이 먹었어요. 오, 정말 많이 먹었어요! 고기를 많이 먹었어요. 그리고 아직도 안멈쳐요.
저녁에 저희들의 친구 마크가 저희들을 cheesecake factory에 데려갔어요. 저희는 fish tacos을 먹었어요. 캐이라는 중식 shanghai wonton salad을 먹었어요. 모든분 cheesecake slice 2개를 같이 머었어요. 마크의 교회의모사님과 사모님을 만났어요. 저 교회가 한국 교
회 이지만 영어 목사님과 사모님은 백인 사람이세요. 사실은 이상하지 않아요. 오래전에 저희 다니는 대만교회가 이것 같아요. 하지만 이분이 많이 젊아세요. 저희들 같아세요. 오래전의 대만교회의 목사님과 사모님은 대만갔는 선교사님들 이셨고 대만어와 중국어 좀할수 있셨어요. 하지만 이 한국교회 목사님과 사모님은 한국말 안하시고 별로 한국인 안같아세요. 지금 여기 저희를 이해해주세요: 이 분이 너무 좋은 사람 같아세요.
월요일이 memorial day (미국의 전몰 장병 기념일) 예요. 점심으로 저희들의 친구 로란드을 yan can에 만났고 같이 먹었어요. 순이도 같이 갔어요. 오후에 저희들이 보바 음료를 마셨어요. 어제는 저의 엄마의 생일도 예요. 엄마의 생일잔치으로 토다이에서 저녁식을 먹었어요.
[later] 1212a, 2004.06.02: upes, it's now the next day... 'least according to the clock on my 'puter. i didn't get a chance to finish my entry, nor did i get a chance to translate what i wrote. sorry, u'll hafta wait. 수요일 아침: 읽는 손님이 어때요? 요즘에 인플레션이 많아요. 그리고 요즘 금리가 좋아요. 그래서 요즘이 아마 어떤것을 사는 좋은 시간인것같아요. [later] mid.afternoon: now's a good time to buy things, especially houses n' semiconductor manufakturing equipment! yesterday, i received in the mail a paycheck stub 4 a sizable bonus. sans doute, i feel blessed these days. i'm able to maks my mortgage payments n' then some. (i pay off extra principle.) however, w/ interest rates so low, i wonder if it's silly to pay off extra principle right now. well, i figure it's better than letting my $$$ rot in the bank. *shrug* stocks r doing so $#!++y these days, which'd lead the fool to think it's a good time to buy stocks. it sort'f is, i guess... it's better than throwing ur $$$ into the trash or in the bank, but far from as good as investing in real estate. sure, a diversified portfolio's important, but it cms to me that these days u should buy a house (n' a microchip making machine) b4 buying stocks... these days... w/ inflation as big'f a wurd as it was in the late 70s n' early 80s or whenever it was such a big wurd, i wonder if i need to stock up on spam. mmm... tasty spam... now there's an investment, u mfin' neo.alex.keaton wannabe! kids these days only know michael j. fox as the dude from some old, old show called spin city. dude, it's all 'bout teen wolf n' back 2 the future!
a month 'go or so, in my last order from yesasia, i bought wax 4집. @ times while listening to it, i thought, "wow, lots'f muzik these days in sort'f retro80s," but then i'd 'member, "oh yah, wax's debut hit was a reincarnation'f cyndi lauper's 'she.bop.'" (of course, i was thinking'f "오빠 (oppa)." unless u'r totally out'f it, u know the song.) it's not just wax nor just korean muzik. i've noticed hip spanish pop muzik à la viva 105.7's sort'f retro80s. viva 105.7 kicks major @$$, n' i always hope we'll someday have a similar radio station'f 4 korean pop muzik. mas musica pop y rock en español! viva ciento cinqo punto siepte!
on sun nite after the cheesecake faktory, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i walked sooni to blockbuster n' rented jack black's (the) school of rock n' the hours. we have yet to watch the hours, but we watched (the) school of rock, n' i 'membered that we 1st saw jack black in john cusack'c hi fidelity. isn't it crazy that he now gets to be the star n' be in movies w/ gwyneth paltrow? i wonder how his collaboration w/ ben stiller envy is.
last nite, i made my "glorious" or "triumphant" return to taekwondo. 2day, honestly, i'm a li'l sore. after praktice, a small group'f us got boba @ fantasia n' pho (월남 쇠고기 국수) @ pho hoa: duk, his bro chan, julie, kaz, kaela, n' me.
2day's been a decently bizzy werkday, so i couldn't go home as planned 4 lunch. instead, i ate an unhealthy teriyaki beef sandwich @ werk. 'twas not the best thing i've ever eaten, n' as i was hoping 4 sumpthin' like berkeley's café espresso experience's bulgogi sandwich, i was majorly disappointed n'/or bummed!
if c kaela n'/or me @ this coming wknd's u.s. olympik taekwondo n' judo team trials @ the sjsu event center, where i graduated this past sat, please say hi.
yesterday, my site got a whole lot'f hits from soompi.com users cos some1 posted my site up on their forums as a pager code reference. u know, bronx's junkyard (forums n' all) is back up, right?
nelson's like the dude from big fish in that (altho' he's a good guy) he has this set'f stories he tells every1 he meets that his ol' friends r sick'f. let's make a nelson story anthology! if 4 no other reason, this it an excellent praktice'f folklore study, as the true skolar simplk defines folklore as oral tradition. (legitimate folklorists r ppl like prof alan dundes.)
[later, 956p] lemme tell u, i'm creating this anthology'f nelson's stories not to mock him, not @ all; but rather cos this is a serious study in folklore. nelson's what we call an aktive bearer'f folklore. he's spreading oral tradition. lots'f this stuff happens to a "fof"'f his: f.o.f = friend of a friend... (it also means friends of falafel, doesn't it?) (upes! it's not "fof," it's "foaf," friend of a friend!) nelson's a good friend, a really good guy. i want to preserve these stories'f his in writing. the things he talks 'bout, they get immortalised thru his oral tradition. in that sense, i'd love to find out that he's told stories'f my going to cluck u. chicken n' doing the 911 challenge, as he was there. i'd be flattered. neway, think'f this more as a tribute than nething... altho', yah, i have a bit to say in rebuttal'f some'f the stories nelson tells 'bout korea.
[later] 1107p: 2day was a bizzy_day@werk.com. i wanted to hit up the gym after werk, but stayed@werk.com 2late. instead, i lifted my dumbbells @ home n' took sooni 4 a jog. when i got home, kaela got home from the gym n' we ate 빈대떡 bindaedduhk that her mom made n' brought up last weekend. 2morrow's thurs; crazy. 목요일 아침 / thurs morn: 미국인 너무 많이 영양가 없는 간식을 먹어요: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=350&e=3&u=/kpix/20040603/lo_kpix/10265 무론 새로운 소식 아니요. 저희는 너무 많이 영양가 없는 간식을 먹어요? 잘 몰라요. 아, 안녕 핫에요, 읽는 손님. 어떠세요, 오늘은? 저희는 괜찮아요. 오늘 아침에 더 일찍 일어났어야 했어요. *한숨* 요즘 아침 900 회사에 도착해요. 음, "회사" 아니면 "직장"예요? 아, 그래 이틀전에 태권도 연습하기하고 어제밤에 운동하기대문에 오늘 몸이 좀 아파요. 좋지 않아요. :-( 요즘 아침 900 직장에 도착하지만 더 익찍 도착하고 싶어요. 오래전에 아침 800 아니면 700에 도착했어요. 그겋지 아니면 저희 그냥 꿈을 꾸었어요? 그냥 꿈을 꾸고있어요? 그냥 상상하고 있는가요? *한숨* 매일 아침에 순이를 산책시키야 하잖아요! 매일 아침에 아침식사를 먹어봐요. 집에 아니면 사무실에요. 항상 저희들이 순이보다 먼저 머거야되요. 순이가 먹기전에 저희들이 먹어아되고 순이가 이걸 보야되요. 알겠어요? 왠지 알겠어요? 모이를 쪼아먹는 순서 대문에요.
[later] still morn, late morn: so what's up? bless the gbook, when u can. it feels good to be exercising 'gain. on fri eve, we have private dog training w/ dawna caldwell'f happy tails to you dog training. as i've sed, we need to teach sooni to be nicer to other doggies. <:-/ sat is the u.s. olympik taekwondo / judo team trials @ the sjsu event center. sun's couples' bible study.
do u get ur $$$'s worth @ todai? the beautiful kaela hwang n' i sure don't. we don't eat 'nuff. however, we enjoy what we eat. in that case is it not that we do get our $$$'s worth? nelson 1nce made an excellent comment: in amerika, buffets can never be that good. they can never be as good as they can be in asia. u know why, right? in amerika, 2 often n' 2 easily, a fat, overeating fud addikt'll come n' clean out ur buffet n' bankrupt u! no matter how ridiculously hi'f a price u set, u just can win 'gainst an obese, overconsuming, fud.obsessed amerikan! u c, in asia, u don't get that nearly as often (even despite amerikan tourism), so u can have nicer buffets. ever heard'f some chain called "crazy buffet"? it's just now making its entrance into the silly valley w/ a lokation on winchester blvd n' 'nother on el camino real. steve sed he discovered that it's aktually very well.known.
i hadn't heard from my ol' college friend eileen kim in ages, only knew that she was attending seminary, but recently found out she's a missionary soon to be if not already in the czech republik.
it cms to me that now's a good time to buy stuff. however, i'm not stoopid; i do think 'bout funding my tax.sheltered ira: save it 4 a rainy day à la new order's hit single "regret" from their "republic" album. [2004.06.04, comment: aktually, it's "save it for another day. it's the school exam; and the kids have run away."] putting ur $$$ in da bank's hardly better than stuffing ca$h in btwn the mattress n' boxspring; but 1) we don't have a boxspring, n' 2) the rain'll come someday, bringing w/ it need 4 car repairs, house repairs, medikal bills, compensation if sooni chews up some1's chihuahua... we're very blessed now but don't need to spend recklessly like fools or nouveau riche (bling bling).
our 'puters rt now have so many probs. <:-( i often wonder how best to remedy this situation: buy a new desktop 'puter, buy a new laptop 'puter? fix our 'puters despite major opportunity co$ts? listen! time = $$$! from what i understand, my company'll give me a brand spankin' new, kewl, personal laptop in aug. however, i worry that i shan't be able to use that laptop to make home movies or werk on my dj stuff. what to do?
@ the moment, according to y! driving direktions, we live ~6 mins from
my werk. starting in aug, we'll live ~2 mins from my werk. obviously, we're not moving but my office lokation'll change 4 my new position. w/ current, outrageous gas prices can i afford not to get a bike?!
[later] 오후/afternoon: 점심시간에서 집에갔고 우동을 만들었어요. 집에서 캐이라하고 같이 점심식사를 먹었어요. 먹기후에 저희들이 순이를 산책시켰어요. @ lunch i went home n' cooked udon. i ate lunch w/ kaela. after eating, we walked sooni.
this morn was overcast, but now we have a cerulean sky in santa clara: sierra azul. let's relax! let'f destress. 금요일 아침: 아... 금요일이야... 오, 좋아, 좋아... 안녕 하세요, 읽는 손님. 어떠세요? 어제... [가로막했어요... 나중에] 어젯밤 valley fair에 갔고 쇼핑했어요.
[나중에] 오후: 같이 일하는 사람들 같이 점심식사를 먹었어요. 1'f my cowerkers is getting married next wk n's leaving 2nite. we went out to lunch @ st. john's over by lawrence expwy in sunnyvale. i had a jalapeño chicken sandwich. rt b4 i got married, i think, my cowerkers @ the time took me to st. john's. it's a burger joint but also some kind'f pub n' tavern, i s'ppose, sort'f like kip's. i guess it's an engineering frat boy hangout, in a way; but i don't mean that in a negative way. i think it can be a good place 4 guy friends to hang out.
2day's fri. mmm, that's good. [later] i wonder when the beautiful kaela hwang n' i should host a bbq.
oh yah! my sister grace n' steve r having 'nother baby. i could say, "i'm gonna be an uncle 'gain," but does that make sense? mason'll have a li'l sibling; he'll be a big bro.
[later] did u hear that sony's gonna stop making new cliés? crazy, huh? this is interesting: i wonder if this is really the beginning'f the end of palmos. up till now, i've figured that palm os:pocketpc::macos:windows; however, do u think palm's losing now worse than macos? just like macos relative to windows, palmos provides convenience n' agility. pocket pc is a slow os, n' the devices that run it r big n' bulky. also, why feed the microsoft pig? sure, nerds argue that pocket pc is more powerful, n' they r right. however, don't slick playas n' nerds alike wanna be able to enter that hot chick's number/e.mail into their pda right on the spot w/o having to wait 4 their pda to boot up, etc? well, the tekno unsavvy cynic'd scoff that only a nerd'd carry a pda n' the real slick playa'd write the hot chick's number on the palm'f his hand not into a palmos.based pda. however, listen up: we live in the silly valley, so even the slick playa'd better wise up n' learn to give in to the fakt that microchips run the world. if we were real palmos fans, we'd argue that palmos:windows::linux:windows in order to give palmos a bit more credit.
247p: i'm in valley fair women's macy's.
[later] 915p: ugh, it's such a warm evening! ok, i'll just sit in my jeans n' "wifebeater" instead'f having this short.sleeve button.up on top. ok. yah, it's really warm. so what's been up? well, mirei antonia, thank u 4 signing my gbook. i should answer those qs (questions) myself soon. ok, so what's been up?
on fri, i came home from werk. then we had dawna caldwell'f happy tails to you dog training come meet w/ us re: sooni. it was a good session. she got us started on clicker training. u know, there's so much to being a good dog owner. mark (lee) sed that we'll be good parents cos'f the way we take care'f sooni. i hope so. the beautiful kaela hwang made a good comment 1nce: some ppl say that owning a doggy is good praktice 4 raising a kid. other ppl say it's totally diff n' so irrelevant. this 2nd group'f ppl is totally wrong. it's not that keeping a dog isn't like raising a kid; it's that so many ppl r bad dog owners. that's true. some ppl think we give sooni so much attention. maybe; however, we don't spoil her. we make sure she doesn't get the whole queen'f the house / 공주병 / princess syndrome that so many pampered doggies get. 4 example, lots'f small doggies such as pomeraniens or malties rn't kept in check by their owners. u c, big doggies; their owners know they can be a threat n' menace. ppl don't like big doggies jumping up on them etc. however, small doggies often get 2 many liberties: like, when they jump up to get attention, ppl think it's cute. when they nudge n' yip to get pet, ppl think it's cute. however, if a big doggy pushes n' barks 4 attn, ppl don't tolerate it. so, my pt is that we don't spoil sooni, we just give her lots'f attention cos we're trying to train her. sooni's almost 3, so we've gotta akt fast. her original owners were most likely not good dog owners. i'm glad dawna tells us there's hope 4 sooni. however, it was a li'l sad 4 her to pt out to us that the original owners definitely lied when they sed they were giving sooni 'way cos their daughter grew up n' didn't want to take care'f a doggy nemore. i c the light n' realise she's right: just think; sooni's way 2 cute'f a doggy to give 'way just cos u'r kid doesn't wanna take care'f her. the parents would've done it. the thing is that sooni's not that problematic'f a doggy, i think. i think there're millions n' millions'f doggies that behave worse than her. after all, she's housetrained (doesn't poop or pee in the house... altho' she may pass gas now n' then), she's very nice to most ppl, she rarely barks, she stays well in the house while we're gone, n' she doesn't harass ppl 4 fud, u know? her 1 prob's that she's often not nice to other doggies. however, i'm realising now, after reading many doggy books that it's most likely a learned behaviour: maybe her original owners taught her not to be nice to other doggies. also, i suspekt that i, myself, have made it harder 4 her to socialise w/ other doggies. ever since the 1st time she cmed to get ruff w/ some bull terrier @ santana row, i guess i was scared to let her get close to other doggies, so i always pulled her 'way, n' that lead her to believe that all other doggies mean bad news. i understand it better now. altho' i always thought i had sooni's full respekt. . . [unfinished entry] 월요일 아침: how was ur wknd? how many ppl prefer wkdays over wknds? i'm certain there'r some. i s'ppose an obvious gbook q's "what's ur favourite day'f the week?" 4 me, it'd definitely be either fri or sat. would some ppl say sun instead? *shrug*
last thurs nite, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i tried to watch the hours on dvd but fell asleep. on fri nite, we watched it. honestly, i didn't like it much cos it's just plain depressing. >:-( back freshman yr'f berkeley, i was in english 20 or sumpthin' w/ phil (huang). we were assigned to read virginia woolf's to the lighthouse, but i honestly couldn't pay attn n' kept falling asleed. :-( sometimes i think it's hopeless that i'll ever be very literary, u know? in case u don't know, the hours is sort'f 'bout virginia woolf or 'least heavily involves her. i think i watch plenty'f feminist cinema.
last wk, i received lots'f packages in the mail: dog books from amazon, dog treats from ebay
[later] afternoon: recently, in the shower, i thought 'bout some cure lyrics: "i'm coming to find you if it takes me all night, a witch hunt for another girl. for always and ever, it's always for you. you're just the most gorgeously stupid thing there ever was in this world." however, the true lyrics to the cure's "a night like this" cm to be"i'm coming to find you if it takes me all night, a witch hunt for another girl. for always and ever is always for you. your trust, the most gorgeously stupid thing i ever cut in this world."
[later] last thurs eve, kaela n' i went shopping @ valley fair n' had dinner @ the cpk (california pizza kitchen) there. kaela had this chicken walnut waldorf salad, n' i had this jambalaya linguine. we shared a tiramisu as dessert. it felt so good to be out on a thurs nite now that skool's over.
[later] early eve: the smashing pumpkins did do a cover'f the cure's "a night like this", right? i'm not imagining that, right? in fakt, didn't james iha share the vocals w/ billy corgan or sumpthin'? let's google up an answer! oh, according to some sources, james iha does all the vocals 4 that track, ok. 화요일 아침: 안녕하세요. 읽는 손님이 어떠세요?
a: 아주 귀여운 개를 기르는군요. 수놈입니까, 암놈입니까? [later] late morn: on sat, we watched lots'f judo n' a li'l taekwondo. we ran into a few berkeley taekwondo familiar faces, n' we really liked that! :-) i do miss berkeley ppl. u know, i werk in a field that's often thought'f at not so "ppl.oriented," yet in my personal life, i really value ppl. the team trials event was very long. honesly, the judo matches sort'f bored most'f us taekwondo ppl, but we understand n' knew that the taekwondo matches prob'ly bored lots'f the judo fans. @ dinnertime, a bunch'f went w/ the stanfurd folks to some vietnamese restaurant on santa clara. honestly, the beautiful kaela hwang didn't much enjoy the fud, altho' the company (as in the ppl we hung out w/) was fine. both kaela n' i felt stomachsick from that meal. it was pretty overpriced.
[later, still late morn] on sun, we attended church in the morn. we lunched galleria market's wknd pojangmacha. as usual, we had 2 빈대떡 bindaedduhk n' 2 김치 부침 kimchi boochim. we bought some groceries n' went home. oh yah, @ church, i found out a family @ our church owns melody cd, the korean muzik store on el camino real. after we dropped off groceries @ home n' dilly.dallied w/ chores etc., we made a quick trip to valley fair. kaela needed to get her glasses fixed @ lenscrafters, n' i needed to return some shams. (pillow cases... most unmarried men don't know what shams n' duvets r.) we went to couples' bible study. our friends' puppy bit thru kaela's shirt sleeve, n' she was not unhappy as it was the shirt i got her 4 our engagement portraits. we left early. later, we went grocery shoping @ the rivermark safeway. we came home n' ate uh... oh yah! kaela has gonna make brown rice 김밥, but that didn't werk, so we ate some kind'f makeshift 비빔밥 bibimbap. we started watching our 러빙 유 (loving you) dvds. bronx's junkyard types'll know this kbs miniseries best 4 the lead aktress: 김유진 eugene (kim)'f the ol' gurlypop trio s.e.s. i like korean dramas as they r just sooo much more romantik than nething on 'merikan tv.
yesterday, kaela n' i met @ home 4 a mish.mash lunch'f spinach salad n' expired tofu bratwurst. last nite we aktually both went to the gym; i hadn't visited the gym in 'bout 2~3 months!!!
[later] afternoon: [later, still afternoon] i've gotta read fud labels avoid nething w/ "hydrogenated" as well as high fructose corn syrup. let's all try to eat healthily.
i think ppl should be allowed to bring dogs into restaurants, but ppl should not be allowed to smoke.
[later] 1052 p: if u r asian.amerikan n' w/ internet access (i.e. breathing), then u get borderline spam mail from s.b. woo n' the 80-20 gang. i saw an interesting spam mail 2day, interesting 'nuff that i'll put it up here, i guess:
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'bout politiks, we all know that while some'f us were watching the u.s. taekwondo n' judo olympik team trials, 4mer president reagan passed 'way. u should definitely read phil huang's take on all the hubbub n' hype over reagan's death. i'd feel bad being 2 harsh on a dead man, but i guess amerikkka is a country @ civil war, so we've all gotta grab our guns n' pitchforks n' join 1 side or the other, u know? *sigh* it sucks, but i dunno; maybe it's true. 목요일 아침: 오늘 저의 누나의 33번째 생일예요. happy b.day, grace (my sister grace).
a wk 'go, last thurs nite, the beautiful kaela hwang n' went shopping @ valley fair, n' it felt so relaxing to be out on a thurs eve(ning) (n' not in class). mon eve, it felt great to be @ the gym 1nce more. (recall the diva [디바] cover'f the carpenters' "yesterday once more.") yesterday eve, kaela n' i went to petco it's almost summer. doesn't that thought cheer u up? doesn't summer bring w/ it memories'f jerome's introducing ppl to nox's 1 semi.hit "미치도록 (michidorok)"? *sigh* good times... however, let us not 4get that 2000 happened 4 yrs 'go; n' furthermore, 1999 happened 5 yrs 'go. it's so easy to live in that past cos they were fun times; fun, web.surfin', start.uppin', dot.commin', matrix.watchin', phantom.menacin', 노래방in' (noraebahngin'), 168in', 꼬꼬.하우스in' (kkokko.housin'), 아바론.clubbin' (avaron.clubbin'), cal.tkd.p.crewin' days. it's easy to live in a past like that, rt? our nasdaq tech stocks were soaring, yet u gotta admit that ppl were more socially conscious, environmentally friendly, globally aware, culturally tolerant, n' thus better amerikans than we c 2day. (the amerikkkan gestapo's coming to kill the 1stborn son'f each household, but if u put up an amerikkkan flag outside, they'll passover ur house. apparently, the blood'f an innocent foreigner, smeared on ur door'll also do.) back in 1999/2000, we were already scoffing @ the gangsta rap n' gangsta requiem rap'f mid.1990s: "how many bruthas fell victim to the street? rest in peace young blood; there's a heaven for a g." 2day, we send our young bruthas n' sistas off to die in iraq. did u know that esteemed leland hi skool alumnus pat tillman died by friendly fire?!?! i never heard that on nbc's today show but read it on phil's website.
what's better 'bout 2004 than 2000 or 1999? affordable flat panel lcd displays; affordable dvd+/-r/rw; dirt cheap dvd playas; affordable laptop 'puters; hybrid cars; camera/camcorder fons; affordable, miniature mp3 playas; affordable digital camcorders; dirt cheap multiple megapixel digicams; better websites; affordable dsl; wi.fi! n' wireless lan; solar.powered, rechargeable garden lites; n' beno's now being married to the most wonderful woman in the world! i gotta admit; life's better 4 me now, n' i wouldn't trade it 4 a hundred yr 2000s or a million yr 1999s.
[later] ~noon: it's good to eat more fibre. what's 4 lunch? *shrug*
[later] 오후/afternoon: @ lunch, i went home. the gentle leader that dawna caldwell'f happy tails sent us arrived. sooni aktually wore it ok, n' i took her 4 a walk. i tried to make it fun, more fun than usual. i tried. *shrug* i hope sooni does well w/ it! 4 lunch, i ate a southwest caeser salad, 1'f those packaged salad kits from safeway. while out walking or walkin' sooni, i accidentally left my cellfon (휴대폰) in my car in the garage, but i needed to keep, sooni amused n' thus didn't bother to return home 4 that or the hat i 4got. my mom called n' left a v.mail to remind that i saw ronald reagan in 1980 in idaho falls. yah, i'd already thought'f that. i've cn 2 presidents in person from afar: ronald reagan n' george h. w. bush, 2 republikans tho' i grew up to be a demokrat. i think toby saw 1'f the 2. he wanted to take a pic, but his camera battery died; so, out'f anger, he popped the battery in his mouth n' felt a tingling sensation. last time i talked politiks w/ toby, which was ages 'go, he was a republikan. 금요일 아침: 아, 금요일예요. 항상 금요일에 기분 좋아요. 금요일이 저의 좋아하는 요일예요? 잘 모르겠지만 아마 그렇죠. *으쓱* (*shrug*)
this morn was reagan's funeral. as i viewed it on the ultra conservatively biased nbc today show, i knew 4 sure ppl'd make a big deal out'f the hollywood scene'f nancy reagan's kissing the flag.draped casket. i knew ppl'd compare that image to that'f jfk, jr @ his daddy's funeral. nancy reagan was ronnie's 2nd wife, right? wasn't reagan a divorcé? which hollywood aktress was his 1st, do u 'member? jane sumpthin' sumpthin'.
from http://www.tokorea.com.cn/yule/stra_prople/god/nonamec.htm:
"friday night" - g.o.d.
맘 이맘 부풀어오르는 이밤 right alright it`s friday night
[later] early eve: u don't know, but kaela n' i r buying a new sony vaio laptop cos our old 1's got 2 many probs, etc. *sigh*
[later] 744p: i'm sitting in the lawrence expwy costco's parking lot. my day started ok, but sometime rt after lunch, it took a huge nosedive n' turned ultrastressful. :-( kaela had told me that she wouldn't go to costco to buy new tires 2day cos'f her cowerker's wife's funeral, but it ended early n' she headed to costco n' needed me there 4 my costco membership n' car. she does need new tires. then my prof called me, n' i found out i hafta do a bunch more werk on my master's projekt report but that i should show up @ skool ~530p to collekt all the necessary signatures. kaela met me @ my office n' i drovh us over 4 that. then, since we were far 'nuff south we stopped by my mom's house to pick up some things, including sumpthin' kaela needs 4 werk 2morrow. then we headed back. i was planning to go to church 4 praise nite, but kaela's car'll be done sometime btwn 800 n' 830p. kaela fell asleep in the car. i went in to let ppl know what i have to do n' that i'll try to come back. now, i'm in the costco parking lot. kaela's asleep. i guess i'm waiting 4 the tire center to call kaela. i c her car in their bay or garage. i guess they're werking on it, but i'm so stressed out. :-( i'm not happy on this fri nite. :-( 토요일 오후 1239 pm, sat: rt now, i dunno what to do. it's sat. the beautiful kaela hwang's @ werk. me, i'm home w/ sooni n' a long to do list'f stuff i should do 4 werk n' skool. yesterday started as a pleasant fri, but as the day progressed, the potential 4 having a fun, relaxing wknd sort'f faded. :-( cos i had to go pick up kaela from costco's tire store, i started feeling obligated to take a laptop home n' werk on some matlab code. then my prof called me n' told me'f all these revisions she wants 4 my paper, so i should werk on that. also, cos i needed those 3 signatures, i had to leave werk early n' felt more internal pressure to take werk home. my classmate friend has a b.day party @ shanghai 1930 late 2nite. i wanted to take kaela to shanghai 1930 4 dinner, but the party starts @ 1100p. it's not a dinner party, but a club party. the sf asianam club party scene's interesting like that. i want to celebrate dave's b.day, but i have pressure 'bout getting to church on time 2morrow morn.
i feel so overwhelmed. last nite, when kaela went back to werk after costco's bizzy tire center finally finished w/ her kia sportage 701p: we went to my mom's house. sooni ran 'round the backyard. we went to my sister n' steve's house. sooni ran 'round the backyard. we went to the rose garden. we walked sooni 'round the perimeter as dogs rn't 'llowed inside. wow, the rose garden is prob'ly the nicest neighbourhood in san jo. altho' there r likely wealthier n' snobbier neighbourhoods; the rose garden neighbourhood is expen$ive yet has character n' true class.
well, i guess we'll do shanghai 1930 2nite 4 dave's b.day. 일요일 저녁 (오후) 652p: 체육관에서... is a good day 4 bay area sports fans a day when l.a. teams lose? dodgers v. red sox; lakers v. pistons: dodgers r losing, but lakers'll prob'ly win. 월요일 아침: so... the lakers n' the dodgers lost yesterday. wow, was that the best day in bay area sports in a long time then? *shrug* some bay area sports fans complain 'bout l.a. sports fans, saying they're so annoying. r they just so annoying cos their teams win? :-/ i've heard some sports person say that l.a. is maybe the best sports city in the u.s. well, it's easy to hate the lakers cos so many players on that team have inflated egos. neway, i'm not a sports guy, so i won't talk 2 much 'bout sports.
maybe lucky 4 u, i haven't talked 'bout church stuff in a long time here. yesterday, we had a guest speaker rick park 전도사님 (jdsn or "juhndosanim"). 1 thing he touched on was living a moderate life. yah, even tho' i've talked 'bout how now's a good time to buy n' $pend, i guess it's important to think a li'l 'bout the diff 'bout what u need v. what u want. funny, if u visit target, they have these posters that advertise various produkts: the posters each feature a person w/ the produkt n' then either the wurd "need" or "want." funny.
on fri nite, when the beautiful kaela hwang went back to werk, i changed my car battery, sumpthin' i've been meaning to do 4 wks if not months. after he heard that kaela n' i had sears auto center install kaela's car battery, bernard huang told me that it's really easy to change a car battery, so i should do it myself in the future. a few wks 'go i printed out a webpage 'bout changing car batteries. i followed those instruktions. what no 1 warned me 'bout is that when i get the new battery connekted, the car alarm may blast in my face.
yesterday after church, kaela n' i had 냉면 naengmyuhn 4 lunch @ 청기와 chunggiwa (blue stones). as usual, i had 세끼미 냉면 seiggimi naengmyuhn. kaela had 비빔냉면 bibimnaengmyuhn.
on sat nite, kaela n' i never made it to sf, to shanqhai 1930. instead we had a good time by ourselves @ a local korean hof called 난다랑 nandarang on el camino. u c, we came home from our day'f walkin' sooni n' visiting family. then we fell asleep, which i figured was a good thing if we'd be out late in sf. however, we fell asleep 4 2 long, i guess. when we woke up, i realised it wouldn't be worth it to travel up to sf just to party it up 4 a short time n' come home. originally, i wanted to drive up to sf, eat dinner @ shanghai 1930, party it up a li'l, n' then come home. however, when we woke up, i realised that we prob'ly wouldn't have time to eat dinner @ shanghai 1930. *sigh* i was pretty frustrated, unsure what to do w/ the nite, u know? well, kaela n' i went to this korean hof that we've been curious 'bout 4 a while. it was very fun! :-) we had 양념 통닭 yangnyuhm tongdalk n' 소시지 와 새우 볶음 sosiji (sausage) wa saewoo bokkeum. the waiter recommended shrimp (saewoo), saying it was fresh. the fud was really good. we had a couple bottles'f 오비 맥주 o.b. maekjoo. yesterday, after the gym, we went grocery shopping @ the rivermark safeway. 'xaktly a week 'go, we were there grocery shoppin'. it cms to me that we spend an avg'f $80 each time. :-/ hrm, r groceries not getting more expen$ive? man, i really c inflation! i think we've gotta stock up on spam n' other nonperishables.
oh yah! after lunch, we went to 금성 비디오 geumsuhng video, which i think is the closest korean video store to our house. we originally wanted to rent the end'f 진주 목걸이 jinjoo mokguhli. the store owner sed that ktvn.nc'll start showing it 'gain next week. i think he sed they'll start from the beginning. he also asked sumpthin' like "why do u wanna watch such a depressing show? don't u young ppl wanna watch sumpthin' happier n' funnier?" we rented a few episodes'f a few shows. last nite, we watched 결혼 하고 싶은 여자 gyuhlhon hagoshipeun yuhja (the gurl who wants to get married). it was fun, but i gotta admit that's it's a bit 2 gurly 4 me. u know how i don't like ally mcbeal? like that... but luckily not nearly as bad.
요즘 매일 아침 커피를 만들어요. these days, every morn i make coffee. i used to make sumatra coffee, but we ran out'f that, so now i make starbucks organic guatemala coffee. as i've sed b4, i prefer dark, rich coffees. i like espresso n' french roast. i don't really much like guatemala coffee, but if i add in some fat free irish cream coffee mate, i can enjoy it. in this case, it's more like "milk coffee." yah, un4tunately, i've been drinking coffee a li'l 2 regularly. :-(
this morn, i took sooni 4 a short jog.
[later] last nite, 4 dinner, kaela n' i ate a safeway rotisserie chicken n' some salad. funny, when sooni saw us eating the salad, she looked like she couldn't care less that we were eating; but when we whipped out the chicken... whoa! she definitely was thinking, "hey! u didn't tell me u had a chicken!" even tho' she was still well.behaved, we hadn't cn her so interested in our dinner in a long time. after we finished eating, we gave her some bones.
i'm really glad i took sooni 4 a jog this morn cos i really need exercise!
[later] last thurs eve, kaela n' i went to valley fair. afterwards, it was late, but we got some 짜장면 jjajangmyun to go from 옛날 짜장 yeitnal jjajang. we brought it home n' ate it while watching 러빙 유 (loving you). this wkend, i guess on fri, we finished watching the kbs miniseries.
[later] 오늘 점심에서 집으로 돌아갔어요. 어젯밤의닭 남은 식사를 먹었어요. 벼를 순이에게 좀 주었어요.
sometimes i feel i have plenty'f ups n' downs in life. u could sort'f call it "drama," but it's not the exciting, fun.to.watch kind, u know? maybe "it's just me." in all honesty, i haven't felt verk "sure'f myself" or self.confident these past few days. constantly, i feel overwhelmed n' undermotivated. i s'ppose this slump started on fri. :-(
[later] @ lunch, i went home, ate some leftover chicken from last nite, n' gave sooni some'f the bones. i hope she's happy. i wonder if i'm hittin' the gym 2day or what. 화요일 아침: 금요일이 저의 좋아하는 요일이면 화요일은 어때요? <:-? 저 잘 몰라요. *shrug* 어제 저녁 체육관에 갔어요. spinning class에 갔어요. 좋았어요. 집에 돌아왔을때 저는 순이를 산책시켰어며 아름다운 캐이라 황은 김밥을 만들었어요. 어제 캐이라의 새로운 laptop 콤퓨터가 왔어요. 많이 멋있어요. 오! 어젯밤에 북가주 한국 방송 ktvn.nc ch28 계속했어요.
[나중에] http://www.80-20initiative.net/flagproject.html talks 'bout a proposal 4 asian.amerikans to join 2gether in displaying usa flags on july 4 to "erase our foreigner image." ever since 9.11, usa flags sure have been more popular. what do u think'f this idea? in 1 sense, it is prob'ly a great idea cos, yah, 2 many ignorant or else unin4med (likely older generation) non.asian amerikans do perceive us asian.ams only as foreigners. however, it's sort'f a shame that, while amerikans'f certain other ethnicities may burn the flag as an exercise'f 1st ammendment freedom'f speech, we asian.amerikans need to hide behind it as a magik shield that'll hopefully shield us from racial hatred altho' we can't necessarily count on it. neway, i'm not dissin' this flag idea nor the flag itself. i am an amerikan 미국 사람. the other day on npr (perhaps the last honest source'f news?), i heard a great editorial piece 'bout ray charles n' his rendition'f "america the beautiful." 수요일 아침: 어젯밤 태권도 연습에 갔어요. cos i drank so much coffee so regularly earlier in the week, yesterday, i severely suffered from caffeine withdrawal. i did not like it. 싫어해요. 태권도 연습후에 팬태지야 fantasia에서 보바음료를 받았어요. mon was like christmas 4 kaela n' me cos all this internet.ordered stuff came to us: kaela's sony vaio laptop, kaela's maui jim nani sunglasses, n' my ben sherman jeans. my jeans. i've gotta exchange them cos they're a bit 2 butt tight. :-( i tried on a pair @ macy's that fit great, but they must've been a diff style/cut. i got these on ebay. i wanna go to the ben sherman store in the great mall (in milpitas) to try to exchange them.
요즘 읽는 손님은 어떻게 지내고 있어요? 전 괜찮은 것같아요.
[later] 오후/afternoon: dog friendly santa cruz (http://www.lighthousedogs.com/friendly.html), dogfriendly.com's city guide: santa cruz, california (http://www.dogfriendly.com/server/travel/uscities/guides/w/cities/wonlinecityCASanta_Cruz.shtml), the county of santa clara - places to take your dog (http://www.parkhere.org/content/0,4745,chid%253D162737%2526ccid%253D30101,00.html)...
[later] @ lunch 2day, i went home. i ate 2 soy hot dogs: 1 w/ guacamole n' 1 w/ kimchi. i ate 2 0.5 cobs'f corn. i vacuumed my car a li'l. where's my sunglasses case?! ah! i just found it in my bag! i walked sooni. i did 'lot during my lunchbrk. *sigh* do u think i'll be the type to try to be a "superdad"? what'll life be like when kaela n' i have kids? u know how i think 'bout dog ownership's similarity to parenthood. 목요일 아침 / thurs morn: 안녕 하세요. 오늘 어떻게 계세요? [a li'l later] *sigh* un4tunately, these days, i still have plenty'f stress: rt now, my transcript sez that my graduation was denied, n' i guess that's cos my prof still hasn't assigned me credit 4 finishing my master's projekt. *sigh* i totally finished my report on time, but i used the 4mat that i used in berkeley. there was never ne defined 4mat 4 a master's projekt report, only 4 a thesis. *sigh* this stoopid master's projekt report thing just won't end, n' i'm so frustrated.
last nite, i picked up the beautiful kaela hwang from her office n' went to the great mall in search'f a ben sherman store, which we did not find. we did each eat an auntie anne's pretzel tho'. then we stopped by home to drop off kaela's car n' say hi to sooni b4 going to macy's @ valley fair to look 4 sumpthin', a present 4 some1. however, we didn't find it. we went home n' ate soy hot dog beanie weenie. sooni had a very good dinner last nite cos i gave her some leftover 양념 통닭 yangnyuhm tongdalk scraps as well as some beanie weenie, along w/ her normal fud. the trainer sed it's totally fine that she eats table scraps now n' then as long as she eats after us. however, i'm starting to think we'd better cut back on the table scraps cos she's getting picky 'bout what she eats, u know? did i mention the 현미 김밥 brown rice kimbap that kaela made earlier this week? uh, was it on mon nite?
u know that i read lots'f books on dog training by certified animal behaviourists, right? i mean, i read stuff written by professors not just so n' so. in ne case, these animal behaviourists, who r basikally specialised psychologists, i guess, have 'lot to say 'bout how 1 big gap in communication btwn us n' our doggies is that we're primates n' they're canines. it's sort'f depressing how they keep reminding us that we're just primates, just big apes but w/ opposable thumbs. when training a doggy, u give her a command. if u repeat it cos she didn't listen, then u'r demonstrating ape.like behaviour, apparently. that whole repeating a command while getting frustrated, that's what apes do n' 'pparently not a behaviour compatible w/ doggies.
i really miss watching 러빙 유. hrm, it's funny to say that, i guess, since we finished watching it. neway, it was such a fun miniseries, n' i miss it. i 'member, as a kid, my dad teased me cos i liked to watch the weekend japanese dramas, even as a li'l kid. he teased me, saying that i liked to watch japanese soap operas more than amerikan soap operas. as i've sed b4, asian dramas r romantik, while amerikan soap operas r cheap n' trashy.
if u've been to our house in the past few months, u know that sooni's fur gets all over the place. kaela n' i read that jindo shed 2ice a yr, n' we're guessing that those 2 periods each last 6 months. sooni fur, couldn't that be a name? "soonifur," like "jennifer"... yah? ha ha, imagine naming a daughter "jennifur"! ha ha, that looks like some kind'f benospelling! ha ha, she'd get so much cr@p from other kids, huh? they'd say she can't spell her own name, etc. however, there'r ppl w/ alternate spellings'f names, 4 example "cyndi" or "sindy" instead'f "cindy"... n' whose to say "kaela"'s more correct than "kayla" or "kaila"? "kayla" looks like a total white, "americana" name, while "kaila" looks hawaiian.
do u know what i mean by "americana"? well, i think the concept'f "americana" validates the existence'f a legitimate "white.amerikan" culture. "americana" means that wasps rn't all "white trash." i can understand that, in the whole ethnocization'f amerika, it's easy 4 caucasian amerikans to feel left out, to feel like they're always referred to as "the man," that they've lost their place in amerikan society. think 'bout michael douglas in falling down. 'member, jason lee gave me that dvd 4 my b.day last yr. it was a hot topik in the early to mid 1990s: the white man felt left out, like he was always the antagonist. well, i s'ppose the concept'f "americana" ('least the way i think'f it) sez that white amerika has a culture 2. altho' we've gotta stay 'way from the whole white power, kkk idea, we can say that "comfort fud" is a cuisine that can sit amongst indian fud, chinese fud, korean fud, mexican fud, etc. personally, i hate the term "comfort food" when used to describe pork chops etc., but that's what amerikan society has come to accept, u know? well, i figure the whole "comfort food" craze'f the late 1990s, which was a reaktion to all the fusion n' cali4nian cuisine'f the 1980s n' 1990s is a big part'f this "americana" concept. fusion cuisine in the 1980s was sort'f premature or immature, it wasn't quite ready yet. back then, fusion fud meant pesto potstickers n' teriyaki spareribs. i think there've been lots'f improvements to fusion cuisine thru.out the 1990s till now.
last nite, i didn't find the ben sherman store in the great mall cos there is no ben sherman store in the great mall. i had misread the website: it's not that there's a ben sherman store in the great mall but that some store called mojos in the great mall sells ben sherman stuff. if u 'member, the reason i was looking 4 a ben sherman store is cos the jeans i bought on ebay fit a li'l tight. what do u think? they're 32 x 32, which's s'pposed to be my size, should i just keep 'em n' wear 'em? uh... sheesh, i know u think it's a totally gurly n' less than male heterosexual question, but skrew u, if u think so. heterosexual males do need to worry, "does this make my butt look big?" well, does it?! maybe i was just pulling them up 2 hi; i don't need to be steve erkel. (i hope u kids rn't 2 young to 'member... what was that show called??? family matters???) i have 'least a coupl'f pairs'f pants that r 31 x 32. i don't wear them as much nemore. u've got to admit that i was slimmer in those 1999 cal taekwondo team days. however, as vain as it sounds, i'm sort'f glad that in the past coupl'f yrs i've put some muscle on my upper body.
[later] 1224p: i'm on the sjsu campus, drinking an aloha pineapple jamba juice as i wait 4 my prof. [later] back @ the office. my car's cd playa keeps skipping, so i stuck the cleaning cd in it. i just let the cleaning cd keep spinning in there, hopefully knocking some dust off the lens. while it does that, i listen to the radio. usually, i listen to viva 105.7, but cos there was a commercial on during my short morn commute, i switched to 104.9 4 a while. this afternoon, i heard the ol' smashing pumpkins tune "today." the naive listener thinks that "today is the greatest day i've ever known" is a really optimistic lyric, but the more intelligent listener knows that this song's 'bout suicide. suicide's not a good thing, altho' this song's rather beautiful imho.
last wed eve, when kaela n' i were @ pasta pomodoro w/ dave (from my classes), a bee landed on sooni's side, she was getting nervous n' sort'f bitting @ it. kaela took out a water gun n' shot the bee a few times, n' it fell off. 2day, while drinking my jamba juice outside, i saw a yellow jacket n' thought 'bout that incident n' also 'bout the time we saw a puppy eat a bee @ the rivermark peet's coffee.
[later] late afternoon: just now, i was so hungry. i was very tempted to duck out n' get some fast fud. instead i visited the vending machine. rold gold pretzels rarely tasted so good w/o beer. 토요일 오후 225p, sat: 오늘 아름다운 캐이라 황과 저희의 11번째 monthversary. 2day's the beautiful kaela hwang's n' my 11th monthversary (wedding monthversary). we're going to shadowbrook restaurant in capitola to celebrate. back b4 christmas, kaela won $100 there from her office party. this should be fun. un4tunately, we can't bring sooni.
on thurs eve, we had our private doggy training w/ dawna caldwell'f happy tails to you dog traning. i'm so glad sooni's been pretty good 'bout wearing her gentle leader. she's also ok w/ her muzzle n' crate/kennel. i think she's getting better w/ other doggies... but she still needs more werk.
kaela n' i've been watching the sbs miniseries drama 천국의계단 (chungookuy gyeidan) on rented video tapes. the english name's stairway to heaven or heaven's staircase. we love it, n' kaela's addikted. last nite, we stayed up to close to 400a, watching.
last nite, 4 dinner, we brought sooni to the rivermark n' sat outside in the brisk, brisk evening air @ yoyo sushi. the weather reminded me'f sf, n' the waitresses were so reluktant to come out to serve us cos'f the cold air. eh, it wasn't that great'f a restaurant, but it's 1'f few japanese restaurants w/ outdoor seating, @ 'least that i know'f... i guess the owners r either cantonese or vietnamese. it's not that i can't distinguish btwn the 2 languages but that i heard the staff speak both. we ordered 2 much, n' kaela had to pay cos i accidentally left my wallet @ home cos i changed clothes after werk. we had their ufo roll, their dynamite roll, amaebi, sake (salmon), n' beef sukiyaki. it was cold outside, so wanted some warm fud, rt? sooni got to eat some beef from our sukiyaki after we ate more than our share. we only let her eat after we're done; the whole pecking order thing. we strolled after gorging, n' i ran into my cowerker kiy, who's my next door cubicle neighbour @ werk.
so what's up? on thurs, b4 doggy training, i went to skool to talk to the dept chairman 'bout my master's projekt report. i really wanna wrap up this issue asap. i wanna get on w/ life!
[later] 1 thing u need to be surprised how li'l i've talked 'bout here is kaela's new sony z1 vaio laptop that is almost the world's most extravagant 'puter, u've got to admit. besides having some super.powerful ati video card 'long w/ its centrino cpu, it's got a built.in dvdr/rw writer, ieee1394 firewire, memory stick pro slot, 802.11b/g, bluetooth... it's crazy! my gbook answers:
name: 비노 황
화요일 아침: 아, 화요일만예요? 아이...
South Korean Hostage in Iraq Wins More Time -Mediator(y! news)
[later] mark sent me this msnbc.com article 'bout women v. men n' finaces. here's a good quote: "pet peeve - Putting off buying a home because you want to wait until you find a man and get married:
Nothing is sexier then a woman who owns real estate. Most important ? nothing is more crucial to your financial security than owning a home. Men never put off buying a home and neither should a woman."
[later] mon eve (still @ werk, but should leave to the gym soon): yesterday's church picnic was so much fun! :-) [a li'l later] we went to huddart park in uh... which city? uh... peninsula... snobby town... uh... uh... [later] 1057p, 2004.06.22: oh yah, woodside.
so i heard the militants in iraq killed kim sunil. when u spell it that way, it looks like an indian name.
these days flags r @ 0.5 mass, 0.5 staff, 0.5 mast, or whatever they call it. r ppl still doing this 4 reagan?! it's been how many wks now? we ought then to do this 4 every president that passes 'way, including demokrats. or shall we keep our flags down until this awful war's over?
yesterday was the longest day'f 2004, n' the beautiful kaela hwang n' i played tennis @ the nearby hi skool. we brought sooni w/ us. 711a: whoa! i'm hearing/watching the most obviously right wing biased interview'f president bill clinton by nbc today show's katie couric. wtf! she starts out by saying the only reason ppl r buyiwg his book is to find out more 'bout his ol' affair! whuh? what a #@(*!ng biased piece'f $#!+!!! now they're trying to bag on kerry by matt's saying that kerry's not as popular as clinton.
[later] on a lighter note: 2day's foxtrot comic courtesy'f y! news. 목요일 아침: 안년 하세요. 어떠세요? [나중에] 다음월 31일이 토비의 벳티의 결혼식예요. [later] early evening: it's been a long, werk.packed wk. 2morrow's fri.
[later] 1107p: i don't feel good. i caught a cold this wk from the beautiful kaela hwang. i've been feeling pretty bad, n' 2nite i've started to get irritable in that pms way, u know? it's just ur typikal male.pms nite. i've been so_bizzy@werk.com lately, n' i haven't had time to update on the things i've done lately. i'm sort'f counting on having time to do a real update this wkend. *shrug* 금요일 아침 fri morn: 벌써 금요일 다시 왔어요. 미들수 있어요? 미쳐요. 금주 빨리 흐렸어요, 빠리 갔어요. 어젯밤 아름다운 캐이라 황과 저희는 천국의 계단을 보기 끝났어요. 다 봤어요. last nite, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i finished watching 천국의 계단 (chuhngookuy gyeidan, "stairway to heaven"). this wk flew by.
[later] yah, as i sed b4, i haven't had time to give u a real update. i haven't talked 'bout shadowbrook yet even. if u've already read my recent entries, u'll notice "a glitch in the matrix." there's an asynchronicity or whatever in 1'f my recent entries. lately, i've been writing pretty much all my entries on my handspring visor edge. i think 1 day, i accidentally started writing a continuation'f 1 entry @ the end'f 'nother... thus an asynchronicity or whatever. the day jumps from tues back to mon n', i think, back to tues.
[a li'l later] on tues nite, kaela n' i skipped taekwondo practice cos we had dinner w/ my dad, my profs, n' some other'f my dad's old asme friends. asme = american society of mechanical engineers. we ate @ this chinese restaurant called fluorishing gardens on monterey rd. the dinner was skeduled 4 630p, but we were late as it's hard 4 me to get out'f werk b4 700p these days. *shrug* i dunno if i should come in earlier or what; but i always get in some time b4 or 'round 900a. *shrug* as it's summer, yah, i should try to get in earlier. in fakt, it's funny cos in the colder months, i was getting in earlier. i would wake up like @ 600a n' walk sooni as the sun rose.
some things i'm thinking'f purchasing from fry's or wherever:
[later] after lunch / 점심후에: [later] instead'f "best regards" or the dreaded "sincerely," my cowerker signed his e.mail "HTH." what does that mean? "head to head"? "heart to heart"? "hard to handle"? "hard to hold"? what if i wrote e.mails like this:
hey ted,
can you give me the exq-5 report from tvd?
(Y)
[later] evening: i should leave werk soon. what's gonna happen 2nite? s'pposedly, 2morrow, i hafta werk @ an open house. funny, huh? i'll werk as a real estate agent sort'f.
토요일 오후 200 (sat, 200p): i'm @ 6398 camden ave, werking as a real estate agent... sort'f... i'm hosting an open house. it's my mom's listing, n' the beautiful kaela hwang's @ betty's bridal shower ("toby n' betty" betty). their wedding's next month; crazy, huh? it must be hektic 4 them, but i didn't get a chance to really talk to toby on thurs when he called. this wknd's his bachelor party in las vegas, but i told the guys i can't go. *sigh* already, u know i'm not a big fan'f las vegas 4 several reasons. i know i should've made an exception 4 my good, longtime friend toby in celebration'f his getting married, but *sigh* i mean... it just didn't cm right 4 me to go, u know? i dunno. after all, i figured i could use the $$$ to buy them a better present instead, u know? u know i didn't really have a bachelor party. i mean... u know how the nite went: we had a co.ed wedding shower, n' then the guys n' gurls split up. nelson took me over to his friend's house party, an 1980s them party. i had a good time, but it wasn't really a "bachelor" party, u know? n' i'm totally fine w/ that. i know some ppl'd say a man's not s'pposed to talk 'bout what happened @ his bachelor party, but u know... 4 the most part, i try not to do things that i wouldn't talk 'bout to the publik... not that i'm a sinless man or nething like that! far from it! there's a diff btwn recognising that u'r a sinner n' rejoicing in the fakt that u'r a sinner. :-/ neway, i dunno what the guys r doing in vegas rt now, but like... i mean, on an unrelated note; me, i've never done those bachelor party things, namely gone to a strip club. never. as a stoopid freshman in my foothill dorm @ berkeley my area hired a stripper to come n' strip 4 our very pious, devout christian ra (ra = r.a. = residential assistant = the dude or dudette that busts u 4 doing bad things in ur dorm). it was really silly. some woman came n' stripped down to lingerie, while sort'f dancing to u2's mysterious ways, which is really interesing since 1990s berkeley christians considered that song a very spiritual song. neway!!! the whole nudity, sex, n' sin thing sure is overpublicised! really, not every1 biggest temptation 4 sin is a naked human body, etc. there r many other sins in this world besides sexual lust, u know? appreciation of the human form (or function) doesn't necessarily equate to sexual lust, u know? just think: there're so many wonderful pieces'f art that depikt the female, naked body, u know? r they durty pieces'f trashy pornography? no, they're not. in fakt, 1 must differentiate btwn erotica n' pornography, u know? *shrug* ha! the cynic scoffs sooo hard here: "yah, guys sure dl a lot'f computer erotica!" yah, yah, scoff all u want; i don't give a cr@p. *sigh* we've gotta really re.examine human nature n' furthermore human sinful nature n' stop just assuming everything u c on nbc is true.
neway, i'm here @ this open house. if only u had a time machine, u ought to travel back in time after reading this n' come visit me. time n' space, u know? space.time continuum... fly me to da moon. it's a durn hot day here in the almaden valley. i'm here, right 'cross the st from my elementary skool alma mater: simonds elementary skool. rt now, i have no guests. perhaps that's cos it's such a durn hot day here in the almaden valley. do u know almaden valley? it's 1'f the snobbiest neighbourhoods'f san josé, 1 could say. certain areas'f it r really ritzy. it's not necessarily the snobbiest or richest neighbourhood in the silicon valley or the bay area. it's not necessarily the most elitist or "white." i grew up here in the almaden valley, n' things've changed. in general, i'll definitely say w/o doubt that it's a better neighbourhood than it was when i was growing up. definitely, we've got even more mansions here now than we did back in my day. me, i grew up in a modest 2.story, middle.class home. ... :-o ough! i just witnessed a horny mourning dove akting like a horny pigeon, chasing a female mourning dove cross the fence. in ne case, where was i? oh yah, the almaden valley... yah, i grew up here, playing youth soccer: almaden valley youth soccer league or whatever... our colours, back then were green n' yellow. heaven knows what they r now. *sigh* while growing up here, were there ne fast fud joints? well, when we 1st got here when i was in kindergarten, there was a taco villa @ the via valiente plaza off of almaden expwy near rajkovich. (i 4get how to spell that street's name, but it's pronounced "ray ko vitch" n' looks like some kind'f indian or eastern european name, i guess...) uh, did rajkovich exist back then? i 4get. it was a li'l more'f a modest neighbourhood when my family moved in, n' then the wealth'f silicon valley just sort'f poured in, u know? silly valley... more mansions popped up on the hillsides. it's a valley. here, in the real almaden valley, we don't have those (whadya call'em?) big box (?) stores. the via valiente strip mall has a pw supermarket n' now a longs drugs. it has a round table pizza that, a long time 'go, used to be pizza world or sumpthin' like that... *shrug* i don't think i ever really visited pizza world, altho' my mom, after finishing some computer programming nite skool class had a party there w/ her class, i think. i did, however very frequently patronise round table pizza. i was a very fat kid n' could pretty easily finish 0.5 a large king arthur's supreme pizza by myself in 1 sitting. maybe it wasn't that easy, but i could've done it. w/ the thick crust, i would've failed, but w/ the thin crust i would've been such a success n' was! ...if u call that success. i apologise 4 the train'f thought style'f writing, but i gotta mention here that all i ate 2day so far was a bowl'f "red berry" special k 4 breakfast n' a cup'f lowfat strawberry cheesecake yogurt 4 lunch. new paragraph... the almaden valley was 1nce orchards, as was the rest'f silly valley. almaden valley, i s'ppose, was 1nce sort'f known 4 its quicksilver (mercury) mines. the 49er gold rush prospektors needed mercury to extrakt gold from *shrug* other stuff. i've hiked in the quicksilver park hills many, many times as a kid. i was a cub scout, u know. i hiked there w/ cub scouts, w/ my family, w/ my good childhood friend, n' w/ church (i think). back in the 1980s in the park, u would find either good, nature.lovin' hikers or else pot.smokin' stoners (trying to smoke pot w/o gettin' caught), u know? those were the original ozzy.heads, 1s that would never have imagined that ozzy osbourne would have his own tv show w/ his wife n' kids. me, i totally don't condone the use'f marijuana. however, i don't need to talk 'bout that now. instead, i'm s'pposed to write more 'bout almaden valley. *sigh* well... *shrug* i grew up 'mongst pretty elitist n' sheltered kids. i say that only in retrospekt. as a stoopid, fat kid; i obviously accepted all that as the norm. u can understand, can'tchu? if not, that's 2 bad 4 u. kids 'round me really worried 'bout wearing the right brand.named clothes, u know? designer this, designer that. however, no! we weren't quite beverly hills kids. we didn't really know hi fashion. we didn't really know all that gucci, prada, fendi, escada stuff or nuthin'. don't think that i'm saying that we were 90210 n' all, no! we weren't. we were just @ that level'f snobbiness that required every1 to shop @ macys, u know? it could've been worse. santana row didn't yet exist. instead, it was just that (pardon my ukranian) $#!++y li'l town n' country village mall. ha! someday, some wise@$$'ll refer to "that $#!++y li'l santana row"!!! ha ha, "rotflmao," as some ppl say. (other ppl say, "rotflmaoymfbamf," just imagine that @$$ isn't the only wurd there that might be considered obscene. heh heh. me? i really don't swear much.)
as i've got off.topik 'gain (i think), i request to start a new paragraph. is this a long entry? i'm typing on my targus stowaway keyboard connekted to my handspring visor edge. b4 i get further off topik... almaden valley! well, as gordon n' i discussed on our way to dodge ridge w/ kaela back this past winter, the almaden valley had less asians when we were younger. however, 1 must realise that the asian population in the almaden valley peaked. 4 a while, it went up; then it dropped, i believe. or 'least "the delta" or 'the rate of change" decreased. engrs use that term "delta" a li'l or 'lot. when i was in hi skool @ leland hi skool, the asian population, 'specially the asian immigrant population really shot up. asian immigrants were mostly from taiwan, i'm sure. the next biggest group'f immigrants? i dunno; i think they'd prob'ly be south asians (indians), right? yah, mainland chinese or hkers (hk = hong kong, of course) n' koreans were definitely up there 2. (however, i never really knew if these mandarin speakers were direkt from the mainland or else immigrants via taiwan or what, u know? it's a really fuzzy area in definition.) 4 a short time 'round my graduation, a 99 ranch supermarket existed near but not in the almaden valley. it was off blossom hill. i believe that x.street's snell, but my memory sometimes stinks. as i grew up, my dad'd really try to get me to 'member street names, saying that someday i'd hafta drive n'd need to know the names'f streets. obviously, i was somewhat reluktant but the knowledge sort'f seeped in here n' there but not 100%. that 99 ranch had a fatal flaw, w/o ne doubt in ne1's mind: the 99 ranch developers failed to buy out the entire mall n' convert it into an asian mall. that was such a fatal flaw, but i'm sure the developers weren't to blame as i'm sure they tried. that 99 ranch had to close up shop not 2 long into my college yrs. that event really defined the end'f the asian influx into almaden valley. that event proclaimed way up hi on a mtn top that cupertino, el camino (sunnyvale / santa clara), n' saratoga had ultimately triumphed as the top east.asian bizness/commerce areas. [just a tad bit later, after helping some guests] let's not be 2 stoopid tho' but rather keep in mind that ppl don't necessarily all wanna live right by the shops that they patronise or operate. el camino real rt by our house in santa clara is filled w/ korean n' indian biznesses, but the houses in my neighbourhood r mostly filled w/ white ppl, i think. still, just think: can u possibly argue that cupertino is not a city w/ lots'f asians? of course, cupertino's most famous to the world as apple 'puters' headquarters. does apple employ lots'f asians? *shrug* do i know ne asians that werk @ apple? do i know ne ppl that werk @ apple? when i was in hi skool, 1 mormon family @ my skool, their dad werked @ apple.
2day, to drop kaela off @ betty's bridal shower n' later pick her up so that she could let me into the open house n' then take my car back to the bridal shower, i drove thru cupertino n' the area'f san josé that borders saratoga n' thus is often mistaken 4 saratoga. it is filled w/ asian biznesses. u c real asian biznesses such as asian cafés, not those fake chinese restaurants that really cater to the so.called amerikan palate. u know? u jive? u c signs in chinese, 1s that really say stuff, not just jibberish icons that spell out some senseless poetic mumbo jumbo that discribes some restaurant as li'l dragon house or little hong kong or flower gold lake this or that... chinese characters sure look nice n' catch ppl's attention even when they don't say nething. some 2nd generation asian.ams like to poke fun @ the asians back in the muthland, saying that they're so easily impressed by english wurds on a t.shirt. in fakt, ca$hiers in korea always sed my signature was so "멋있어요" ("muhsissuhyo") or "멋있다" ("muhtittda") depending on how 4mal they wanted to speak. they were just impressed @ how fast i could write roman letters, u know? well, shoot! i wish i could have a kewl korean signature like 장나라 아니면 짱나라 "jjang" nara, right? yah, i can sign my name in korean as beno hwang or else hwang myuhngrok, but it never looks that kewl. uh... was i not speaking 'bout the almaden valley? no, i switched over to discussing asian demographics in the silly valley. ok.
well, 1'f the set'f guests that came was a asian mutha w/ her 10 or 11 yr old son. she sed she had 'nother son in leland hi skool. personally, i was a li'l surprised cos i thought she looked a li'l young to have a kid in hi skool. middle skool? ok, but not so much hi skool... but we all know that as we mature ppl look younger to us, right? neway, i mentioned that i grew up in the almaden valley n' went to skool right 'cross the st, etc. her son had just finished simonds elementary skool, n' she sed she had lived in the almaden valley since the late 1970s. that means, she'd lived there b4 i did, so i s'ppose she could tell u better 'bout its history. however, i'm the 1 writing here, n' i sure talk 2 much, in general (if u know me), so u'r stuck w/ my rendition whether u like it or not! in ne case, i'm off the almaden valley topik 4 now n' on to asian demographics in the silly valley. well, what's there to say? there r lots'f asians in the silly valley. taiwanese n' mandarin speakers basikally own cupertino n' the area near saratoga, n' koreans n' indians own el camino real in sunnyvale n' saratoga. those r just obvious fakts. now what 'bout the east side? i really haven't spoke much 'bout the east side. i guess, i'm just a west side kind'f guy like yoo seungjoon, that b@d@$$ mofo! ok, let's move on to discuss east san jo n' milpitas etc.
when u go 2wards the east hills, the demographics do change, n' u can't deny that. i think 2wards the east, that area used to be pretty chicano.dominated. during the 1980s thru 1990s n' then much furthermore in during the glorious dot com days, i guess the east side turned into a jumbo li'l saigon. definitely, the *shrug* southeast asians really took over the east side. u want a good vietnamese sandwich or else authentic pho? well, shoot! u should've joined bally total fitness w/ kaela n' me n' we could've hit up some really good vietnamese joints 2gether, don'tcha know? altho' i grew up in san jo, i don't know 'nuff 'bout vietnamese culture to discuss those cafés w/ the scantily, skimpily dressed waitresses w/ the silikone breasts. i've never been to 1 but used to hear lots 'bout them when we 1st moved back to san jo.
so east san jo is very vietnamese n' southeast asian. as u move along up north along 680 or 880, u'll go thru some north san jo areas b4 getting to milpitas. asian demographics? yes. i believe it's still pretty vietnamese out there. *shrug* then u get to milpitas, n' u get the 99 ranch mall on barber lane. on some weekend day, prob'ly over 0.5 a decade 'go, my mom n' i visited that barber lane strip mall; n' my mom commented that it was so crowded n' humidly cloudy that it felt just like taiwan. *sigh* yah, i can imagine. i mean... now i can [do] more than imagine, as i've visited taiwan 2ice since then. barber lane's 99 ranch mall gets very crowded. u can get great taiwanese n' chinese fud there, but i haven't hit up that spot all that much lately. 4 1 thing, it is extremely crowded n' the parking search... well, if i were to say it rivals trying to find a student parking spot @ san josé state university's garage on a weekday morning in fall, i'd be sooo lying cos that's reallybad. rather, hrm... on a bad day @ barber lane, it's almost like trying to find a shaded parking spot @ valley fair on a spring or summer day. u, of course, know that the parking space hunt @ valley fair is worst during the christmas season cos u'r a smart person since u'r reading the beno journal n' all, u einstein, u! i imagine there r 'lot'f taiwanese n' chinese professionals living in milpitas. uh, it doesn't take much'f an imagination 4 that; it's aktually very obvious. ok, well, if u travel more north up 880 u'll hit this trio of cities: fremont, union city, n' newark. some ppl think that fremont, union city, n' newark constitute the "tri.cities" else or the "tri.city," which is mentioned in the name'f tri.city sporting goods, which i believe is the best place to buy snowbarding equipment. me, i always thought the tri.cities were fremont, pleasanton, n' dublin; after all tri.city sporting goods used to have a store in dublin, i believe. *shrug* some1 who really knows what he/she's talkin' 'bout (unlike me) can give u a real answer. neway, when u get to fremont, i believe the demogrphics do shift. 1st off, fremont has lots'f indians n' south asians. if u want to challenge my statement, feel free; but i'm pretty certain. the fremont - newark - union city area also has lots'f pinoy/pinay. u know 'bout manila taekwondo, right? rn't they in union city? or... hrm... what was the place that chals/charles/chulho went to 4 taekwondo as a kid? oh, was it manila taekwondo? maybe. if u want a real answer instead'f my stoopid answer, maybe u can ask him. there r other pinoy taekwondo skools in that area, i'm pretty sure. union landing has a jollibee's. i've yet to go to a jollibee's, but i know they have some kind'f hamburger w/ a fried egg in it. union landing's always crowded w/ lots'f youngsters... lots'f hi skoolers or else community college kids, i guess. 'nother area'f the bay area that cms to have 'lots'f pinoy/pinay is the south san francisco / daly city area. some ppl call daly city "dc" (d.c.). only recently did it dawn upon me that san mateo can be translated as "saint matthew." 4 that, some ppl'd call me really dense.
ok, earlier this wk, i knew i'd be sitting in this open house writing my journal entry; but i'd that i'd be doing a recap'f the wk's event instead'f trying to lekture'n asian.am demographiks in the bay area. after all, i'm hardly qualified to do that! however, u prob'ly have less ammunition to argue 'gainst my belief in what events took place in my life this past wk, right? *shrug* i dunno; i s'ppose if i claimed to have won a free throw contest 'gainst some nba all.star this past wk, u'd argue that i was lying. well, no, i didn't; n' i never sed that i did. what else did i not do this wk? get 'nuff exercise. i'm ultimately unhappy 'bout that. i really should've gotten more exercise this past wk. i was s'pposed to go to the gym on mon but played tennis on the longest day'f the yr outside @ the nearby hi skool w/ kaela n' sooni on the side instead. u know what? that's totally fine w/ me. that was totally appropriate. i'm glad i played tennis on this past mon nite instead'f going to the gym. however, why didn't i visit the gym on wed nite? oh yah, i went to uh... what did i do? well, i guess i stayed @ werk.com late n' then took sooni w/ kaela to petco. yah, that's what we did. sooni needs to be fed, u know? on tues nite, u know, we went to dinner w/ my dad, sue, my profs, n' my dad's asme buddies. we know that. after that, we went to rivermark safeway to do a slightly abridged version'f our wkly safeway@rivermark shopping trip. as u should know or might not, we got groceries @ costco on sun afternoon, didn't we? yes, we did. i also wanted to hit up hangook market or galleria market, but we didn't. instead, i washed my car, mowed the lawns, etc. those r important things, u know. u really do know. also, on sun, i believe, we tried to buy toby n' betty's wedding present. we failed, if i 'member correktly, but ended up getting it on thurs nite, right? right. thurs nite was my big male.pms nite. the hi.lite'f that nite, i s'ppose was eating 곱장_순두부@명동순두부.com gobjang soondubu @ myuhngdong soondubu, but my stuffed sinuses prevented me from really enjoying the dinner to the max. u know, it's now possible to have non roman characters in domain names, right? u can have hangeul domain names, but i'm pretty sure 비노믹스.com'd be only visited by me. :-( rt? oh! how sad, right now, i have 2 howling, li'l doggies in the garage behind my chair in this open house's eating area (connekted to the kitchen). i heard that the doggies r a daschund n' a mop doggy, but i... [a li'l later] i was gonna say "i have yet to c them," but the owner's son just came in n' went to the garage n' i caught an infinitesimally short glimpse'f the mopdog. neway, the doggies were both howling. i think they were howling cos they could smell or hear the son approaching the house. ha, i'm not saying that the dude smelled bad; it's just that doggies, as u'f course know, have good senses'f smell or else a good sense'f smell.
ok, so back to my recap'f the wk: no, i didn't get 'nuff exercise this wk. on thurs, b4 going to the mall w/ kaela to pick up the wedding present, i went to the university to discuss my paper or projekt report w/ my dept's chairman. he clarified what i need to do to make sure i graduate in may 2004. as u know, it's now june, but the dept can ensure a retroaktive graduation date 4 me as long as i revise my paper to fit their strikt format. it's all formatting stuff. the profs n' the dept r fine w/ my paper's content; it's just formatting. now i just saw that horny mourning dove 'gain. 'lright, what else happened this wk? hrm... well, as i sed, we finished watching chuhngookuy gyeidan (stairway to heaven). those'f u stuck in the 1970s w/ ur musik r likely curious whether the show used the ol' led zep tune or not. well, if u'r a real zep fan, uh... i guess i should apologise cos they did use the led zepelin tune... a totally muzak, elevator muzik version.
[later] 849p: speaking'f "stairway to heaven," the benocritic ought to pt out that this entry is full'f 1 particular thing (not a 4.letter wurd): i keep talkin' 'bout sins n' stuff like that n' either pting out that i don't do them or else trying to justify whatever questionable behaviour or opinions i have, u know? the astute benocritic knows this n' *shrug* sez "worst... entry... ever!" or sumpthin' to that effekt. *shrug*
well, kaela picked me up in my car from the open house. i was really hungry. we picked up all the open house signs i had set out in the hot sun. we drove home. i ate some ribs that kaela brought from the texas.themed bridal shower. we gave the bones to sooni. oh yah, b4 i realised that kaela had ribs, i ate a microwaved soy hot dog. we dilly.dallied n' planned to take sooni 4 a bath @ pet fud express. we dilly.dallied 2 much; by the time we got there, they'd closed their self.service pet wash 4 the nite. i think the manager could tell i was really disappointed, so he gave us a coupon 4 a free pet wash! :-) even tho' i like petco we walked sooni 'round the strip mall n' tried to get in contact w/ ken n' grace cos we were hoping to do dinner w/ them or sumpthin'. well, i reached ken, but they were having dinner w/ ken's parents. we took sooni w/ us to 옛날 짜장 yeitnal jjajang. earlier 2day, i noticed that they'd set up a backyard.style dining table on the paved area btwn their bldg n' the parking lot. i wondered if they'd let us sit out there n' eat. yup, they sure did! we loved it! it was awesome. the manager woman came out n' sed "오, 멍멍, 안녕!" ("oh, muhng muhng, annyuhng!" n' kaela n' i got a kick out'f that since we love the wurd muhng muhng so much as u know.
1051p: i'm watching mvs (musik videos) i dled via hinet recorder from bronx's junkyard. in korean musik videos n' movies, the korean countryside looks so romantik. the beautiful kaela hwang n' i were there last summer during our honeymoon. most'f the time we were in the bus. we got out n' walked in the mtns here n' there. kaela didn't like the lack'f clean bathrooms. i, on the other hand, enjoyed the lack'f clean bathrooms. ha ha, just kidding. we say that the next time we go to korea we'll stick to 서울 seoul n' maybe 제주도 jeijoodo. the vids i've watched just now: 성시경의 "차마" sung shikyung's "chama," 김창현 kim changhyun's "eternity," n' wax's "관계" "gwangyei," which doesn't take place in the countryside but maybe in boosan or somewhere.
2day, the church had a picnic 4 the graduates... which meant me n' jane. earlier, all graduates from elementary skool, middle skool, hi.skool, college, n' grad skool went in front'f the korean ministry congregation to be recognised n' receive this wooden cross necklace, a candy necklace, n' a present. i'm wearing this wooden cross necklace right now. it's been a long time since i wore a cross necklace. i dunno; i like it, but u know, when i wear a cross necklace, i do sure feel pressure to make sure i'm behaving n' akting my best, u know? n' well... why isn't that a good thing? *shrug* 2day's picnic was fun, n' i got to bring sooni. she behaved pretty well. she played w/ lots'f kids n' played well. there was 1 incident, where this li'l black chihuahua.like doggy came running up to her. she looked scared, then like she was ready to fight. i pulled on her leash, n' she jumped into my lap! i yelled 4 the owner to come take the li'l doggy 'way, n' this woman came n' took it 'way... but it was so funny to have sooni on my lap, looking kind'f scared'f this chihuahua dog. ?:-/ i'll have to ask our dog trainer dawna what she thinks'f this.
b4 the picnic, after church (btwn church n' the picnic), i quickly stopped by fry's to buy a replacement vacuum cleaner filter 4 our euro.pro bagless stick shark vacuum cleaner n' a kvm switch. heh, i aktually purposely bought a model made in taiwan instead'f china. earlier this week, when kaela n' i were @ macys, i was talkin' more 'bout my refusal to buy shoes made in china. *sigh* yah, italian shoes r uh... usually a bit more expen$ive.
after the picnic, i met up w/ kaela @ the pet fud express on stevens crk blvd. we gave sooni a bath. when sooni n' i reached the self.service bath area, i guess memories clicked in sooni's mind, n' she didn't wanna go, but i made her go. we bathed her. she was sort'f reluktant, but man! she looks n' smells sooo much better now!!! afterwards, we drove home, dropped sooni off, n' went to 한국 마켓 hangook market.
yesterday, b4 we left the house, i received my latest yesasia shipment'f musik cds: boa's latest, cool's best of compilation, this current hits dance compilation, n' uhmjunghwa's latest. in my car right now, i'm listening to cool's best of compilation. ah... so many good memories, u know? this 2.cd set has tracks from 1994 to 2003... or is it 2004? man, in ne case, that's a long time... i mean... of course time is relative... but i mean, in 2day's pop muzik world, that's a relatively long time. just now, i've been watching this 코요태 "체념" koyotae "cheinyuhm" video. i haven't been really paying attention to the video n' thought, "wow, they look so young. this must be an old song!" soon after, i realised that the kids i saw dancing in the video were 2 boys n' a gurl imitating koyotae's dance moves 4 that part'f the video... i mean... i don't really understand the plot'f the video... 1'f those kind'f weird videos... but 4 that part yah, these kids were dancing as if they were koyotae.
aw, shoot; i gotta put the trash n' recyclables out. *sigh* chores, u know?
월요일 아침 / mon morn: this morn's such a mon morn. [later] 'lot'f ppl r on vakation 2day. i guess it's pk vakation season, huh? how r u? *sigh* most likely, u won't answer me. ppl usually don't... when i ask here. it looks like a beautiful day out there. however, when it's sunny outside, i don't wanna be outside so much. i prefer to avoid sun damaging my skin. bronx's junkyard recently posted up a bunch'f new mvs (muzik videos). they're mostly boa, i guess. 4 a long time, i've been meaning to express here how much i miss the days when all my friends had up.to.date blogs or web journals. 'member the good ol' days when the beautiful kaela hwang, joon kim, n' jerome (ri) had web journals? ah, those were the days... 아 옛날이야... spking'f 옛날 짜장 yeitnal jjajang, i've thought 'bout making my own "dogfriendly" webpage, 'nother list'f restaurants that let dog owners bring their 멍멍 muhngmuhngs. however... i realise that 1 reason more "dogfriendly" sites don't exist is cos ppl like me know we can't inundate these generously tolerant merchants w/ doggies. sooni might go crazy, n' the restaurant owners might grow not so tolerant'f doggies. :-( in ne case, i really need to update my website! however, i'm really not good @ web design. :-( i need to get some physikal exercise this wk!
yesterday eve(ning), we ate 비빔냉면 bibimnaengmyuhn 4 dinner. earlier, @ 한국 마켓 hangook market, we bought a small package'f 생선회 saengsuhnhwe (sashimi), n' we put it in the 냉면 naengmyuhn. yesterday, @ the bbq picnic, i ate a hot dog n' a chicken burger.
u know, 4 the past month or so, every so often i thought 'bought the whole asian.am scene. by "the asian.am scene," i'm referring to the asian.am art/film scene, the asian.am politikal/service scene, the asian.am club party scene... like, a montd 'go or so kaela n' i saw a bit'f an episode'f stir on ktsf 26. stir is an asian.am "magazine show," i guess u could call it, prob'ly geared 2wards young asian.ams: hi.skool thru yuppiehood. u knon magazines like a magazine? i'm sure this show has tried to head in that direktion. i guess it features local sf bay area asian.am artists, musicians, personalities, n' celebrities, etc. while watching the show, i noticed sumpthin' n' started talkin' to kaela 'bout it: how come so much'f the "asian.am" scene's geared 2wards singles? there's always so much talk 'bout "where can i meet asian guys/gurls?", "how do asian guys percieve asian gurls, n' how do asian gurls percieve asian guys?", "what do u think'f interracial relationships?", "what do asian guys expekt'f asian women, what do asian women expekt'f asian guys, n' how does ethnicity/race affekt expektations n' gender roles?", "who's the cutest/hottest/sexiest asian.am celeb?", etc. personally, i'm pretty talked out on those subjekt; n' they now barely interest me. @ my age n' ttage in life, some'f those topiks don't apply as much as they used to. what if asian.am media n' web communities focused more on asian.amerikan marriages n' starting a family as asian.amerikans? i think a magazine did that a li'l. i thought, @ 1tym, that kaela should've started an asian.am wedding planning service; a professional service, u know? i think i understand the overwhelming emphasis on younq single life in asian.am media: ever since our youth, amerikan media has really skrewed w/ our self.perceptions as sexual beings. amerikan media tells young asian.ams that they r sex objekts, 1 way or 'nother. furthermore, asian men r subjekted to a retaliatory emasculation by amerikan media. asian women r told they r good 4 nuthin' but sex, that they're all just prostitutes. it's quite a confusing msg 4 young asian.am kids' n' many might carry w/ them emotional scars/baggage. aktually, perhaps more confusing than their self.perception is their perception'f asian.ams'f the opposite sex*. thus maybe single asian.ams really feel they need some sort'f support group.
in a way, in the past few yrs, i've sort'f receded a bit from the "asian.am" scene. it's funny, the expert n' well.skooled benoskolar (1 who's studied beno's life) might pt out that my cultural aktivities really changed over the decades: in hi.skool n' early college, my aktivities were all taiwanese things. then in late college, my aktivities were more pan.asian/asian.am. now, 1 might say my aktivities r more korean/korean.am. the antagonistik benocritik scoffs, "pfft! what a #!!@*in' sell.out. he prob'ly hates his taiwanese heritage." that's very untrue, as the well.versed benoskolar knows. i really don't speak mandarin. i've tried, but i have yet to learn it well. so many taiwanese events end up in mandarin; n' those r the more culturally authentik events, if u know what i mean. if u don't know what i mean, then i'll just head 2wards being blunt. the young taiwanese events/groups where ppl don't spk mandarin but english instead were often uh... rather "amerikanised" n' @ best r the same as the pan.asian/asian.am events/groups, n' so yah... during college, i shifted from those taiwanese groups, which r 2 often only 'bout overseas politiks as opposed to domestik ethnic affairs, n' over to the pan.asian/asian.am/api/aapi scene. as i've sed earlier, i've found the "asian.am"/api scene to be overly concerned w/ those sf club parties n' pickin' up on the opposite sex. those that rn't like that 2 often r just the asian lgb (lesbian, gay, bisexual) groups. n' u know what, right? thru.out college n' beyond... well, u know the whole durn, overtold story 'bout how i was indeed looking 4 my "asian roots" n' ended up getting more involved w/ korean culture than chinese culture cos i could read n' write korean but not chinese, cos i was more involved in korean aktivities than chinese aktivities, n' i just felt more compatible n' com4table w/ the culture etc. it was never nething 'gainst taiwanese or chinese culture, just matter'f where i felt most com4table.
[afternoon] let's bring dat funky beat back like a 1990s party mix n' get back to the original discussion'f asian.am media/community. so yah, in recent yrs, i've felt more com4table w/ the asian.asian scene as opposed to the asian.am scene. in that sense benocritics can cry out retrofob or fobabee (wannabe fob). "retrofob" makes no sense cos i was as born in the u.s.a. as ne bruce springsteen song. the "retro" in that term'd imply that i'm going back to sumpthin'. there'r lots'f white guys who go to asia to study, learn the language, party, n' say that they're so immersed in this other culture. if 1 were to criticise an asian.am 4 doing the same, he/she ought to be shot or 'least locked in sooni's stinky crate 4 a while, since i'm not much in favour'f the satanic rite'f capital punishment as it's known as in the u.s. if i go to a club or bar (n' i do), i like to hear korean muzik n' have korean.style drinks n' snacks. i like korean muzik, tv, n' movies. the last time i was @ santana row's blowfish sushi to die for on my graduation nite (a joint founded by john lennon's son, i 4get which), i realised sumpthin': it's a bar n' restaurant w/ a total japanese theme, a very contemporary japanese theme, but do i as an asian man really feel a connektion w/ it?!?! yah, think 'bout it!!! think 'bout, ponder, n' consider sunset strip's miyagi's niteclub n' sushi restaurant. besides the sushi n' architecture n' maybe 50%'f the clientele, what's so asian 'bout it?! in the few yrs, i've been repenting from the 2nd gen asian.am's biggest sin: rejekting genuine asian culture as the fobby n' backwards nonsense'f our parents yet buying into the distorted, bastardised version that mainstream amerikkka peddles!
just mull over 4 a few hrs how many 2gen "i sei" asian.ams rejekted 한약 hanyak "chinese medicine" from their parents cos it was steeenky but'll chug down gallons'f ginseng n' don quai laced sobe. think 'bout the "i sei" yuppies who rejekted accupunkture as primitive witchkraft but'll do it every wk as "alternative medicine" paid 4 by their health benefits. think 'bout the gen 2 kids who had no respekt 4 buddhism as a religion until richard gere n' his gerbil friend came out'f the buddhist closet! heh, even tho' this makss the 2nd gen as.am kids'f the turn'f the century sound bad, @ least they're not as bad as the 1980s as.am kids who's proudest asian moments included listening to the vapours' "turning japanese," a song 'bout masturbation, n' cing boy george in a kimono! >X-D neway, all u as.ams that rejekted asian ways, repent now or spend the rest'f ur life locked up in mtv's dubbed version of 화산고 / hwasango (volcano high). if u'r not careful, u might end up stuck in quentin tarantino's kill bill series, right?
[later, 741p, in the company gym] "secular v. christian asian.am organisations," now there's a topik i haven't discussed'n ages! [later, 929p, home] some ppl'd complain that i have this topik "secular v. christian asian.am organisations." they'd complain that i ought to have it as "secular v. religious asian.am organisations," but get real. r there really asian.am religious organisation' of other faiths? i mean, really! i mean, if they're buddhist organisations, they're usually either asian.asian, not really asian.am, or else just plain amerikan, u know? well, if u'r smart, the exceptions to my rule that u ought to bring up r south.asian.am religious groups!!! if u brought that case up, then u'r smart. yah, think those hindu n' muslim groups do qualify as asian.am religious groups. neway, this particular topik'f secular v. religious/christian asian.am groups is way 2 heavy 4 now. let's fight 'bout it some other day, k? i mean, we'd obviously hafta get into the concept'f young asian.am ppl using churches as pick.up joints etc., n' that's just 2 much 4 me to think 'bout right now, u know?
[later] 1111p: i connekted the kvm switch, but i'm using 2 monitors: kaela's desktop n' my desktop. i feel that i'm just doubled my screen space! :-) [a li'l later] oh shoot! it doesn't werk w/ the tilting scroll wheel! kaela's wireless intellimouse is a wireless intellimouse 2.0, so it has the tilt wheel, but it's not werking thru the kvm! :-( shoot, @ this rate, i might hafta return it to fry's! [a li'l later] no, it is werking, the tilt mouse! it does werk. *shrug* i dunno why it cmed not to be werking a sec 'go.
[later] 1156p: well, looking 'bout on what i wrote 2day, i feel the entry's not that great. of course, ppl think i'm being rather subversive 2wards the whole apa/asian.am movement. *sigh* that's not the pt. i wholeheartedly support the movement. just, as an insider, i wanted to provide some construktive criticism n' pt out how the apa movement could better serve its community as a whole. i know the downside to speaking up like i did: already, there just isn't 'nuf posi+ive cohesion in the apa community. panasian.amerikan ethnicity... i really do still support it. check out this kick@$$ secret asian man comic strip from a few months 'go:
thurs morn: this morn, while reading the latest issue of laptop magazine, i pondered whether i should bother getting a new mp3 playa to replace my broken creative labs muvo or just skip to 1'f these new personal multimedia playa devices that play video files such as wmv, asf, avi, mpg, etc. well, now that i think 'bout it, i should get a mp3/wma playa / thumbdrive, just to have quick portable storage n' a way to have mp3s in my car via tape playa adapter, u know? they're relatively cheap on ebay
금요일 오후 218p, fri: 4jx2004's comin' up in a coupl'f days. i haven't been good 'bout updating my journal this wk. this wk, i've been very produktive @ werk.com, n' i got more exercise than i'd gotten in months! on which days did i visit the gym? tues-thurs, i believe. last nite , the beautiful kaela hwang n' i went to taekwondo praktice. afterwards, we had an awesome dinner @ 난다랑 nandarang :-) -- 감자탕, 닭똥집 볶음, 오댕국, 야끼토리... gamjatang, dalkddongjip bokkeum, odaengook, yakitori... 토요일 아침 845a: 2day's the b.day'f many'f my ol' time friends. i 'member cos i've had to go multiple b.day parties on july 3 b4. i 'member sam lee, alex kim, n' eugene kim all have b.days 2day, so @ least those 3, but i know there r more. just think: what's so special 'bout july 3 - 9 months? what is july 3 - 9 months? well, the same as july 3 + 3 months, namely oktober 3. well, happy b.day, guys! i mean... guy n' 2 gurls. funny, all 3 names could be guy's or gurl's... but more commonly guy's. 수요일 아침: 오래만에요... [a li'l later] yah, i surely have not had much time to update my journal lately, altho' i have a few measly entries that i haven't yet uploaded to the web server. how r u? i'm ok. u don't know yet, i guess; but the beautiful kaela hwang n' i spent the 4jx2004 (228th usa independence day) in chino w/ kaela's parents n' sister jeanna. we rented an ekonomy car from avis via *hotwire*. it co$t $19.95/day - $10 discount = ~$60 after taxes. we wanted to save wear n' tear on our cars. we brought sooni w/ us n' had a fun time.
dude, seriously; where do i start this journal entry?! i feel so behind n' thus hopeless! where do i start?! "where do i begin?" isn't that a quote? in ne case... *sigh* yah, besides being out'f town, i've also lost opportunities to update cos i've been werking very hard lately. i wish ppl'd understand... but then 'gain... *sigh* i really shouldn't werk 2 hard @ the risk'f becoming a werkaholic that can't life w/o werkahol, u know? really! *sigh* it sort'f feels now that i had more time to relax/play when i was werking n' going to skool than now that i'm just werking... altho' i always dreamed that i'd have more time to relax/play after graduation. u know what, my graduation paperwerk just went thru 2day. as'f 2day, i'm really a sjsu msme graduate! :-) neway, 1 could say that the grass's always greener on the other side, right? i mean, i used to tell every1 how much i dreamt'f this promised land: life after graduation, where life isn't werk + skool but just werk n' then relaxation n' play, u know? well, i've gotta admit: i think i do have it a bit easier now than a couple'f months 'go. yah, i'm pretty sure life was tuffer then. yet, how come i managed to find more time to jog w/ sooni back then?! *shrug* what is it? is it that i've finally gone back to gettin' some exercise now n' then? maybe; after all; sheesh! i really abandoned exercise this past semester n' am so very glad that i'm finally getting back to gettin' some exercise!!! i dunno if u understand how happy i am to be gettin' some exercise. it really makes me feel better. u understand?! i want to exercise 2nite, but i'll be helping toby w/ some wedding muzik stuff.
i feel bad. ever since our wedding, when i'm a groomsman, i feel i haven't done a good job. really! i ok that i did a good job as ken's best man. however, u know i feel guilty that i didn't werk as hard as fahad's best man. he didn't ask much'f me; n' he sed that he didn't. however, it cms like we asked sooo much'f our wedding party in comparison, u know? i guess ken n' grace n' then kaela n' i had very diy (do.it.urself) weddings, more us than ne1. however, i dunno; fahad had many'f their services taken care'f; otherwise the bride's side took care'f more, fahad admitted. w/ toby n' betty? *shrug* hrm; i think they did 'lot on their own... maybe betty's got her gurls werking 4 her. *shrug* however, toby surely hasn't asked much'f me. however, 2nite i'll help him w/ wedding muzik stuff. weddings... u know? *sigh* putting on a wedding's such an ordeal... but neway, weddings n' graduations r pure celebration! :-) i'm sure baby births r 2.
ok, so what's been up? i sort'f got sidetracked just now. well, on fri eve, after werk, kaela brought me to avis @ the sj mineta aeroport. i picked up a bright red pontiac sunfire, which they consider a subcompakt car. i didn't have a choice. neway, it was roomier than i expekted. kaela had planned to bring up a tv from her parents' house. however, i wanted a small, fuel.efficient car. well, this sort'f split the diff, u know? to sooni's slight dismay, this car was a 2.door; so she couldn't easily stick her head out the window, u know? well, i picked up the car n' brought it home. we loaded up the car w/ our hastily packed bags. i asked our neighbour bill to take out our trash n' recyclables. we left the house... uh... @ what time? hrm... i think it was 'round 745p or so, but i 4get. hrm... i know i picked up the car sometime shortly after 600p. *shrug* well, we heard there'd be lots n' lots'f traffik, so we sort'f waited it out, u know? we drove down 101. @ 152, after a missed exit n' a u.turn, we stopped @ gilroy's in.n.out 4 dinner. i had an animal style burger n' kaela had an animal style cheeseburger. [later] so, maybe u'll ask me, "how was the socal trip?" it'd be very nice'f u to ask that. well, how was it? it was good. yah, there was plenty'f traffik on the way down. we stopped @ the bakersfield exit to get some mcdonald's coffee n' soft serve. sooni got to walk 'round n' eat the end'f our soft serve cone. it was pretty warm @ nite. i guess it was almost midnite @ that time. there were so many other ppl who had stopped @ that truck stop 4 a break. i think from there, kaela took over the driving. we stopped in west covina (i think) 4 gas. we got a bit lost somewhere on the 210 (i think) looking 4 the 71. we didn't know that we were looking 4 the 57 to connekt to the 71. i know we took the 15 somewhere. *shrug* neway, we got to kaela's parents' house sometime 'round 300a or so. it was so much fun in the early morn (like 3 hrs later) to hear kaela's sister jeanna scream when she stepped out'f the room n' saw sooni in the dark. kaela told me that sooni was just as shocked / scared. it's just like in a cartoon, u know? somebody runs into a monster, n' both scream, u know? sooni is a quiet doggy. she doesn't bark much. she didn't bark then, so i was telling kaela that i can imagine that, altho' she made no sound, there was a big exclamation pt 'bove her head. ha ha ha >X-D sooni's such a funny doggy! :-) jeanna was on her way out to werk; that's why she was going out so early, u know?
well, sat, what did we do? well, i took sooni 4 a walk in the late morn. then sooni escaped from the backyard cos kaela's dad's employees left the gate open. in order to catch sooni, had to get in the car n' drive. u know how that werks: whenever she runs away, 1'f us has'ta jump in a car n' start driving. altho' she loves to run 'round n' cause trouble, she loves car rides even more, luckily. i drove her over to grand ave, past the chino spectrum, over on the other side'f the 71. i saw great clips was having a $4.99 haircut sale n' that henry's marketplace had a tent in front'f it that was giving away fuze drinks. upes, i left my free bottle'f fuze in kaela's parents' fridge. heh... well, i hope somebody enjoys it. it's a green tea fuze. well, i went to the atm w/ sooni. then i went home. later, i went back out to get a $4.99 haircut from great clips. man! i really needed it! i hadn't had a haircut since b4 my graduation. oh yah! i hadn't had a haircut since my master's projekt oral defense!!! that was a looong time 'go! ok, what else happened on sat? *sigh* good question... hrm... i would've thought that kaela n' i went out in the afternoon, but i can't 'member where we might've gone. :-/ oh yah! we went out to rowland heights to life plaza to get bogo (buy 1 get 1) strawberry boba. [later, while eating my pork tenderloin cafeteria lunch] lessee; sun was 4jx2004. what did we do? i 'member being a li'l frustrated earlier in the day cos we didn't do nething, n' u know... i tend to like to be aktive now n' then. i took sooni 4 'nother walk. on sat n' sun, we walked 'cross the street to don lugo hi skool. the 4.h club there has some cows, including a "panda cow"; that's what i call this particular 1. it has the same color scheme n' pattern as a panda bear. later in the day, in the late afternoon, kaela n' i took sooni 4 a drive, but we didn't go as far as i had planned cos it was already dinnertime n' socal always has such bad traffik, u know? after dinner, kaela's parents took us to 온천 onchuhn (sulfur hot springs). it was in lake elsinore. whoa, to the uncultured amerikan, this korean.amerikan hot springs resort must be the absolute oddest sight!!! ok, u pull off this ol' ghost townish dusty road in the boonies n' into the parking lot'f this ol' roadside motel that, from the roadside, looks pretty norman batesish, u know? the gravel parking lot is packed, n' the cars r nice cars that u wouldn't expekt to c @ a motel like this unless some biznessman were having a by.the.hr experience, i guess... if u wanna think perverted thoughts... well, 1nce u get out'f the car n' walked up to the gates, u c tons'f korean families picnicking on the grass w/ a family'f kittens. well, from there on, it just looks like a publik swimming pool kind'f place, 'cept there's motel rooms. apparently, korean.amerikans drive from all over socal to visit this resort. the main attraktion is this li'l jacuzzi w/ sulfur springs h2o. well, when i was a kid, my parents took me to some hot springs in idaho, i guess. that hot springs was really sulfuric. i suspekted that, even tho' the hot springs bath surely was refreshing, it was sulfur h2o mixed w/ normal h2o. or maybe the hot springs there just doesn't have as much sulfur as the 1 i went to in idaho w/ my parents. *shrug* well, i sat 'round the hot tub w/ a bunch'f senior citizens. i swam in the pool w/ a bunchf' kids. almost every1 there was korean, 'cept 4 1 chicano family i spotted. kaela figured that some1 in that family werked 4 a korean family, n' the employer brought them there. yah, prob'ly; i saw them w/ this korean family, n' they cmed to be baby sitting the kids, but *shrug* i dunno... well, it was fun n' refreshing. it was also fun to drive the rental car extra miles, since i had unlimited miles. afterwards, kaela n' i really wanted sumpthin' cold like 팥빙수 patbingsoo. after we stopped by home, kaela n' i took off to search 4 some 팥빙수 patbingsoo. well, we tried that greenland market, but the li'l fud stands were closed. we ended up back @ rowland height's life plaza 4 some taiwanese style tsua bing, which is essentially the exakt same thing w/ some minor variations, u know? well, we also ordered some oa jien (oyster egg pancake). on bronx's junkyard forums, some kids were saying how life plaza has gone downhill n' is just a teenybopper hangout now. wow, they r sooo right! the fud, drinks, n' service there have totally gone downhill! i notice that part'f the prob w/ the service is that all the werkers r pretty young n' inexperienced. oh well... still, diamond plaza's pretty kewl. they've set up some stands on the outside now, n' that reminded us'f taiwan's great nite markets! :-) we went upstairs to cue (i think it's called) n' took a set'f japanese neoprints. is that place called cue? or is that the billiards place next door?
[later] evening: we saw firewerks from the car n' from kaela's house. unlike in norcal, in socal, firewerks r legal 4 the avg schmoe. sooni was in the backyard but got scared'f the firewerks, so she came in. when kaela n' i got home, we saw a beige doggy in our headlites. "whuh?" we wondered, "did sooni escape?!" then we thought, "how come she looks all weird, stretched out, n' big?!" it wasn't sooni! some stray dog had wandered over to kaela's parents' house. weird. later, kaela sed her dad sed that earlier sooni'd cn that doggy n' growled @ it.
on mon morn, we had to leave. conveniently (in the sarcastic sense) sooni escaped from the backyard n' was off terrorising the neighbourhood. [later, 1122p] luckily, we could count on her wanting to jump into the car as we took off 4 norcal. :-) phew... [unfinished entry] 목요일 저녁 628p: i'm still@werk.com. 150a: i never have time to update my journal these days. i feel kind'f bad cos i've been stuck@werk.com 'lot these days. i dunno what to say; u should think that my company has very good produkts cos ppl like me werk hard. @ the same time, i dunno; maybe hearing that i'm @ werk so much worries u? *shrug* well, i definitely don't wanna be a werkaholik who just can't live w/o werkahol. *shrug* 2day (as in yesterday, i was doing lots'f chores. i was unable to update my journal; but i had lots'f thoughts on my own, that i had to keep to myself... unless i find time to write them out now. me, i feel that i don't "have a thought" unless i dokument it... most likely here, u know? i'm a bit addikted to on.line journalling, i s'ppose u could say. i'm unsure if that wurd usese 1 "l" or 2. *shrug*
neway, while doing my housechores, i thought 'bout how lately, since i've been stuck@werk.com, i feel that i don't feel much nemore. uh, u need me to further explain what "i don't feel much nemore" means. well, think 'bout this: back freshman yr'f cal, i told my iv small group how my life just didn't have that much emotion nemore. like, in hi skool i felt i had lots'f drama, but in my freshman yr @ that time i felt i didn't have much drama. perhaps it was cos i had yet to build strong relationships or friendships (whatever u wanna call 'em) w/ ppl @ berkeley n' was, instead, having more shallow relationships/friendships. (plz don't get confused: by "relationships," i absolutely am not referring to "romantik" relationships... just a more mature way'f saying "friendships," u know?) maybe... *shrug* in ne case, that's what i sed freshman yr to my iv small group, n' i felt a li'l in that direktion these past few wks. do u know what i mean? like, i'd gotten 2 content w/ my life in that i was finally done w/ all that drama'f fulfilling my msme graduation requirements, i've now got a beautiful wife, a beautiful house, n' a beautiful doggy... n' i was stuck@werk.com all day n' into the evening, so i didn't have much'f a chance to think 'bout life. do u understand? like, what was left to pray 'bout? what was i s'pposed to pray 'bout? well... 2day (as in yesterday), i felt like i encountered troubles n' trials.
yesterday (as in 2 days 'go), the beautiful kaela hwang got a nice, delicate sweater stuck in the washing machine. when i got home from werk on fri evening, i tried to get it unstuck but w/o 2 much luck. ("doing the unstuck" is a cure song from their 1993 release wish. uh, wish came out in 1993 not 1992, right? i think so.) these kinds'f situations sound really trivial, 'specially to those'f u who don't own ur own home yet, etc. however, these kinds'f situations r aktually really stressful n' frustrating. what to do? should we call up some washing machine repair shop?! *shrug* then... urgh, 2day (as in yesterday), uhm... kaela backed her car into mine on her way out in the early afternoon. now my "millennium forester" 1nce 'gain has damage to its body n' needs repair. <:-/ what to do? *sigh* things to take care'f, right? things to pray 'bout...
some'f u prob'ly were so frickin' glad i stopped talkin' 'bout prayer n' spirituality/religion. well... heh, i dunno if u want me to apologise or what. 2day (as in yesterday), while doing chores, i thought: "ppl these days don't really apologise." after all, when was the last time u apologised 4 sumpthin'. i dunno, but to me it cms like in this world or 'least in this country there sure is 'lot more bad attitude such as "i don't need to apologise 4 nething!" n' it cms to come from an "i am what i am" kind'f angle. *shrug* *sigh* like, when do ppl apologise? when do ppl admit they're wrong?! it cms to me that in societies w/ more hierarchy, ppl r 4ced to apologise more often, u know? i feel in amerika, since we so much believe in equality, we don't have as much hierarchy n' thus do have more'f this attitude'f "i ain't apologizin' 4 nuthin'!" *sigh* think 'bout this: does it ever cm like u don't hear many sincere apologies. instead, u either hear shallow apologies, or else justifikations n' excuses instead'f apologies. instead'f apologisin', ppl hold grudges n' figure, "well, u'd better remember this incident the next time i do sumpthin' bad to u... n' i plan to do sumpthin' bad to u someday!" n' along the same lines, justifikation cms to often come in the form'f "well, i don't need to apologise cos u did sumpthin' bad to me some finite time 'go." *shrug* well, in case u've got the wrong idea, kaela did apologise 4 denting my car, so i'm not writing this w/ that in mind or nething. furthermore, i know i'm more guilty'f this reluktance to apologise than many ppl. *sigh* let me just blame it on amerikan tv as i always do! (ha ha ha.) don't ever 4get: "kill your television."
"i love tv." this past wk, kaela n' i rented the final 4 episodes'f 진주 목걸이 / jinjoo mokguhli. watching 진주 목걸이 / jinjoo mokguhli after this long break from it felt like a class reunion or sumpthin'. we got reacquainted, u know? well, every1 knows that now that 진주 목걸이 / jinjoo mokguhli's over, it's all 'bout 애정의 조건 / aejuhnguy joguhn. however, since kaela n' i r just so behind the times, 2day (as in yesterday), we went to 금성 비디오 geumsuhng video n' rented the ol' drama 겨울의 연가 / gyuhooluy yuhnga. i think the english name's "winter sonata" or sumpthin', right? it's an ol' drama n' is very popular across asia now that it's been translated into chinese n' japanese. kaela n' i saw a li'l story on a korean magazine show 'bout some japanese fanatiks'f that show.
since u cm to be letting me go on 'bout korean entertainment, i wanna finally talk 'bout sumpthin' i wanted to talk 'bout 4 a while. u know how on bronx's junkyard some ppl were really raving 'bout the movie 어린 신부 / uhrin shinboo ("child bride") n' the main aktress (문근영 moon geunyoung)? (i think the lead aktress played the child version'f some important female charakter in the super.famous, ol' korean drama 가을 동화 / "gaeul donghwa" ("autumn fairytale").) neway, the movie's 'bout some 20.sumpthin' dude that's 4ced to marry a hi.skool chick cos'f his grandfather's dying wish or sumpthin'... uh, maybe u should read the synopsis'f the movie instead'f taking my wurd 4 it cos i honestly don't 'member what the gist'f the movie is as i haven't yet cn it. neway, u know how nelson always jokes 'round that he wants a really young gurl? well, i s'ppose this kind'f situation might be to his liking, but *shrug*. in ne case, when i heard 'bout this movie, i was thinking: "is it this rather pedophilic?!?!?!" i mean, shoot! didn't that fad'f having super.young korean gasoo sort'f go out'f style? i mean, 'member when s.e.s. n' fin.kl were so young?! n' well... no 1 really topped boa in youngness n' popularity, right? as u all ought to know boa has a new album these days, which i already have: boa 4집: my name boa. we all know the album's title doesn't make 2 much sense; oh well. in ne case, i'm not all that impressed w/ the album, i've gotta admit. u know how i was disappointed in her 3rd album? well, i'm not all that pumped up 'bout this 1 either. on bronx's junkyard, jerome put up lots'f videos'f boa per4ming "my name" on various korena muzik shows. i've cn some'f these videos n' saw the aktual mv (musik video) on arirang tv's pops in seoul on thurs nite. it's pretty obvious that boa's stepped up the britneyness'f her dancing, heading more 2ward the risqué, i s'ppose... i mean only since she's like 17 yrs old or whatever, u know? the way i c it, tho', this li'l gurl sure shakes her hips 'round 'lot n' does these s'pposedly sexy dance moves, but *shrug* i mean... she's really just a kid, imho; n' like, not to like diss on her or nething, it's sort'f like a robot doing so.called sexy dance moves, u know? hey! i'm not dissin' on robots: i make robots 4 a living n' all, u know? boa's currently featured track "my name"'s a li'l 2 "i'm a slave 4 u" 4 me; but, on the other hand, an album that i'm currently diggin' is 엄정화 uhmjunghwa 8집: self control. honestly, listening to the tekno tracks on disc 1'f that 2 disc set made me want to dj 'gain asap. un4tunately, on wed nite, when toby came down w/ his friend audrey to werk on toby n' betty's wedding muzik, i let them take off w/ my whole coffin. well, it's not "un4tunate" necessarily: i want toby n' betty to have good muzik @ their wedding. in return 4 helpin' w/ the muzik, toby took us out to dinner. we were originally s'pposed to hit up rivermark's baja fresh; but, as it was closed, kaela n' i redirekted our group to mezbaan the indian restaurant w/ desi chinese fud. n' i apologised to toby 4 bringing us up a notch in price range.
how was this past wk? on tues, we went to taekwondo praktice. wed was that thing w/ toby. on thurs, kaela n' i had dinner @ kubota sushi on 5th st in sj j.town. we ate some sushi such as spicy tuna roll, mirugai, amaebi, n' perhaps hotate or sumpthin'. we also ate some'f their fusionesque small plates that might be referred to as japanese tapas if u'r that kind'f person: green onions rolled in beef, garlic potatoes, oysters n' croquette... nething else? *shrug* well, we shared a large asahi. u know how we like them asian lagers. on fri nite, we went to church 4 this praise n' prayer nite, altho' we were really late. after the church event, a group'f us had a late dinner @ the santa clara pho hoa. kaela n' i used our bogo (buy 1 get 1) coupon to each have a #7 (rare flesh n' tripe) w/ nonfat broth n' steamed sprouts. we also each had a 3.bean drink thingy. on sat, we had dimsum @ bamboo garden (or whatever it's called) near sunnyvale's town center: all sorts'f seafud dumplings, etc. we had mango pudding. on sat eve, kaela n' i had a "부부 빙수" (booboo bingsoo, previously advertised as "couples patbingsoo") @ galleria market. it was awesome. we also bought some 붕어빵 boonguhbbang (fish.shaped pastries filled w/ red bean).
i've still gotta get sized 4 my tux 4 toby n' betty's wedding! as i was doing housechores all day, i didn't get out to do that.
do u know 'bout the pic below? did i talk 'bout this incident?! b4 we drove down to chino 4 our most recent trip, i opened the trunk to pack our things, n' sooni got so excited 'bout going on the trip that she jumped right into the trunk!!!
2day's 2004.07.11 (sun). if u go to a 7.11 store, u s'pposedly can get a free squishee! 월요일 아침: how r u? how was ur wknd? mine involved lots'f housechores, but i had plenty'f fun. yesterday, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i hosted our church's couples bible study. i had lots'f fun w/ that. i have so much fun w/ church stuff but worry if i'm having 2 much fun n' not doing enuf besides having fun. <:-/ i need to do more in.depth bible.reading, etc. yesterday, during the normal em adult bible study n' also during the couples bible study (or 'least the conversation afterwards), we talked 'lot 'bout pentacostal churches n' all this faith healing n' revival stuff. i never realised that, altho' my beliefs n' views may be labeled as liberal, my preferred worship.style is very conservative as i'm very uncom4table w/ the concepts'f speaking in tongues, faith healing, exorcisms, etc. my personal take on spirituality is that it requires lots'f logical thinking, intellektual analysis, n' then also lots'f emotional introspektion, etc. i personally am not all that com4table w/ really outward displays, etc. i don't like televangelists, etc. i'm using lots'f "etc."s 2day.
i think kaela n' i had lots'f fun cooking 4 the bible study. i know i did. we cooked: 미역국, 된장 찌개, l.a. 갈비, 흑돼지 불고기, 닭똥집, 골뱅이 무침... (miyuhkgook, dwenjang jjigae, l.a. galbi, heukdwaejibulgogi, dalkddongjib, galbaengi moochim...) of course, me, i only handled the bbq stuff. it was so fun to use my new coleman portable propane bbq!!! i accidentally only cooked 0.5 the galbi, so we need to have 'nother bbq asap.
i just thought'f sumpthin': in tv commercials u hear these 2 terms: "hi-speed connection" and "wireless phone." who the heck uses those terms in real life?! u've gotta be really unhip n' unkewl to use those terms. instead, kewl ppl say "broadband" n' "cell fon." neway, that's just my humble opinion.
we all know that kaela's n' my 1st wedding anniversary is coming up exaktly a wk from 2day.
yesterday, i finally put up that address numbers that we bought from expo. they look very nice... i hope. i hope i put them up straight n' equally spaced. however, while i was installing the numbers n' hoping that they'd be straight, i 'membered how supermike used to tell me that only gay guys care if the stickers on their snowboards r applied straight n' that we (as 2 single hetero guys) oughtta have poorly aligned stomp pads in order to get chicks on the slopes.
[later] ~lunchtime: i realised 2day that toby's bachelor party is thismonth on the weekend'f the 25th not last. *shrug* i'm confused n' a bit surprised that the guys would take toby to vegas the wknd right b4 his wedding. i hope i didn't spoil ne plans by discussing the bachelor party early here. i just figured that toby was having his bachelor party on the wknd'f june 25 cos that's when betty's bridal shower was. i'm confused. i'm totally confused. i'm thoroughly confused. in ne case, i sed that i wouldn't be able to go, n' i still don't plan on going. as i sed b4, i have a bit'f an aversion to las vegas even tho' i know that i ought to make an exception 4 sumpthin' like this. *shrug* in ne case, it's mason's b.day party that wknd... funny, i know that kaela's friend linda has a co.ed (or else so.called "cowed") wedding shower on the 25th down in san diego. funnny how these 2 pre.wedding events happen on the same wknd. neway, yah... i personally think the co.ed wedding shower's a better idea than the ol', traditional guys' bachelor party n' gurls' bridal shower or bachelorette party. *shrug* 목요일 아침: so how've u been? what's been up? what's been up w/ u, what's been up w/ me? well, w/ me, yah, i've been 2 bizzy w/ werk. i attended the famous semicon west on tues in sf @ the moscone center. it was a huge, huge, huge tradeshow. i guess it was a pretty fun day. in fakt, it fun just to be in sf. it's hard to believe i used to go to sf every weekday to go to werk. back when i lived in berkeley, i went tosf 'lot more. i mean, besides 4 werk, i went 4 fun 'lot, u know? *sigh* the bay bridge... sf's a beautiful town w/ beautiful architekture n' beautiful nature. that's somtimes hard to find in 1 place, n' sf's a small, dense city.
[later, late morning] dude, i sure wouldn't mind watching farenheit 9/11 sometime. it sure sounds like a lot'f fun. just now, i was reading part'f this y! news article: 'Fahrenheit 9/11' Brings News to Theaters" 워요일 아침: 2day's the beautiful kaela hwang's n' my 1st wedding anniversary. last wk romy havard sent us an anniversary card. that was very nice'f her, n' we appreciate it sooo much. yesterday, my mom gave us a card n' picture frame. yah' we need to print out more pix! :-)
4 our anniversary, i took kaela to the ritz.carlton in 0.5 moon bay. we ate dinner @ navio restaurant there, spent the nite, had breakfast, took a yoga class, n' had a massage n' spa thing.
[later] evening: duk kyoung watched our house n' sooni while we were gone. last nite, we took him to the sunnyvale cherry orchard pasta pomodoro as a thank u. maybe sooni prefers sunnyvale to be "soonivale." 수요일 아침: 월요일 아름다운 캐이라 황과 저의 첫 번째 결혼 기념일이었어요. mon was the beautiful kaela hwang's n' my 1st wedding anniversary. on mon eve, kaela took me to dinner @ tamarine restaurant in palo alto (546 university ave. [btwn webster n' cowper], palo alto, ca 94301; 650.325.8500). if u aktually have a good memory, then u'll 'member that brian chong brought us to tamarine sometime this past winter cos the restaurant itself was having an anniversary party. funny, huh? yah, that nite i drove kaela n' julie up to palo alto. do u 'member? a chp pulled me over cos he sed i was going fast, but i really wasn't going very fast n' explained to him, i had simply sped up cos the car on my right wasn't letting me into the exit lane, n' i had to speed up to get out... i mean, it's not necessarily a really good excuse cos the most law.abiding driver would've just slowed down or missed the exit. however, the chp officer knew i wasn't a young punk out to race or nething, n' that i wasn't drunk; n' so he let me go. don't ever use that excuse w/o my permission cos that's my excuse. seriously tho', i wasn't going very fast; n', in fakt, we weren't even in a hurry! we were just casually making our way up to palo alto, up the 101 that nite. i think brian had had a housewarming party or sumpthin' earlier that day. my sjsu classmate friend kent van was there n' so was my cowerker eric's roommate who werks 4 our corporate competitor or whatever u call it. in ne case, yah; kaela took me to tamarine 4 dinner. we luckily found some parking near the restaurant. even on a mon nite, this ritzy stanfurd neighbourhood was so crowded. i s'ppose rich ppl never cook 4 themselves, eh? tamarine is prob'ly the nicest vietnamese restaurant around here, isn't it? like, i definitely like citronelle 2, but i think tamarine is a notch up in poshness n' fanciness. i mean, u can argue which is overall the better restaurant, 'specially if u take budget into consideration, but well... i mean, tamarine is more'f a luxurious restaurant, u know. what did we eat? uh, we had asian pear salad, hobo's purse soup, scallop coconut curry, n' mekong bass. we also had these figs w/ coconut aisukuriimu desert n' a bottle'f 1999 schlumburger riesling. it was a very delicious dinner, of course; very tasty. u prob'ly dunno what hobo's purse soup is cos it's not like a common dish or nething. well, it's some kind'f seafud (like a fishball or shrimpball) wrapped up in a cabbage leaf n' tied up w/ a green onion. oh yah! we also had some crab wontons 4 appetizer. it might sound like we really pigged out, but these r small plates, tapas style, u know? that's a rather common way to eat @ posh restaurants these days, right? i know we prefer this style cos we like to taste lots'f dishes w/o piggin' out. the restaurants prob'ly like it cos they can charge u lots 4 li'l, right? eh... whatever. btw, i didn't mention that we went to lunch @ straits café on geary blvd in sf on sat. there we had their appetizer sampler w/ stuff like samosas, chicken satay, etc. then we had some kind'f rado dado or roga roga or sumpthin' salad, which had bean sprouts, cabbage, sweet potato, n' peanut sauce. we also had some kind'f "origami" sea bass, which was a (small) sea bass filet baked in a paper box w/ some shrooms n' peppers. it was very good, but kaela had a stomach ache. do u know what we ate @ the ritz carton's navio restaurant? we had the nite's tasting menu, which included uh... well, i 'member the delicious raw tuna w/ tenessee caviar, the lamb medallions, some dish w/ lobster n' "hen'f the woods" shrooms n' gnochi... uhm, i 'member a sorbet dish n' the final desert'f aisukuriimu n' some kind'f chococake. there were other dishes; i'm sure'f it. they were li'l tasting.size dishes. there was also some cold cantaloupe melon n' shrimp soup that was served in a demitasse as a sample compliments'f the chef. fud, fud, fud. fud n' celebration. i told kaela i don't want a fud.related b.day celebration this yr. last yr, on both'f our b.days we really pigged out, n' that kind'f disappointed me, i s'ppose. do u 'member how bad it was? like, 4 kaela's b.day, i took her to an oversized sushi lunch @ sushi o sushi on el camino. then 4 dinner... uh, we went to spiedo. 4 my b.day, kaela took me to an oversized 순대와 떡볶이 soondae n' dduhkbokki lunch @ 장저 순대집 jangtu soondae n' todai 4 dinner.
presents instead'f fud? *shrug* well, on mon nite, kaela gave me an anniversary present; an anniversary present that "really rocks!" mpgio mg-603f 256mb mp3/wma/etc playa w/ fm tuner n' voice recorder!!! dude, it rocks! 1) it has korean font on its nice, hi.res, backlit screen!!! 2) it has some really cute graphics, like when u turn it off u c this teddy bear sleeping! it rocks! oh yah, do u know how small it is?!?!?! it's smaller than most lighters! it's crazy! kaela bought it on ebay, as it's not sumpthin' commonly sold in amerika. *sigh* doesn't it suck that we don't get all the cool gadgets in amerika, the 1s that u can get in asia? *sigh* oh yah, altho' it does need a special cable 4 data xfer, it can be used as a thumbdrive. it's really kewl! even the earbuds that came w/ it rock! the earbuds that came w/ my ol' muvo 128, which un4tunately broke when i dropped it last dec(ember) when i was in a big, big hurry to submit my final exam 4 my "spacecraft dynamics n' controls" class, were really bad. i'd really like to ebay off that broken muvo, even if i can only get like $5~10 4 it. it's nonoperational, but maybe some1 can fix it n' use it.
neway, so yah... i don't want a really fud.related b.day. well, heh... tho' this might some contradiktary, i s'ppose if i get a free dinner @ todai, that'd be kewl... but eh! basikally i don't want kaela to waste $$$ stuffing my face 4 my b.day. it's not necessary this yr. my b.day's just 1 month 'way. i'll turn 29. well, in general, i don't expekt nething from ne1; no big deal. seriously!
kaela's b.day's a wk b4 mine, n' sooni's observed b.day is the wk b4 that. all our b.days fall on sats! :-) we all have wknd b.days this yr. that rocks, doesn't it? i like it; i really do. what do we do 4 sooni's (observed) b.day? *shrug* (i say "observed" cos we know she was born in aug but r unsure'f the day.) should we take her to the beach 'gain? maybe pt reyes? *shrug* some mag article i read suggested having a doggy b.day party, where friends come n' bring gifts 4 ur doggy. altho' i can't imagine gifts, i s'ppose sooni n' many other doggies do enjoy the whole pack (human pack) coming over n' giving attention, right? *shrug*
[later] last thurs nite, i bbqed the leftover raw 갈비 galbi 4 dinner n' ate lots'f meat. on mon, i had taco bell 4 lunch: a ranchero chicken soft taco n' a 0.5 lb bean burrito especiale, which was 99¢. the ranchero chicken soft taco was $1.59. i also had a small soda, n' my total was $3.85. yesterday, during my lunchbrk, i grocery shopped @ albertson's. i ate a smart ones frozen entrée 4 lunch. this morn, i ate an albertson's pina colada lowfat fruit on the bottom grade a yogurt. i wished it were nonfat, but only lowfat was on sale. last nite, after our excellent (most excellent) taekwondo praktice, kaela n' i got boba drinks this morn, i thought 'gain 'bout how we need asian.am dieticians, ppl who won't just tell u to eat grilled chicken n' steamed broccoli in order to lose weight. when u read 'bout good diets, they never include fud that asians n' asian.ams like us want to eat. those diet menus r so geared 2ward ppl w/ an otherwise meat n' potatoes diet. there r fuds in every culture's diet that can be good or bad, right? *shrug*
[slightly later] 2day n' yesterday, i've had a stomach ache.
[later] 오후 /afternoon: what r some (web)sites u read when u'r bored? (is this a good gbook q? 1 site that is somewhat interesting to me is slickdeals.net. mark lee 1st told me 'bout this site. u can find some good deals on random things n' get a few freebies here n' there. i also know'f fatwallet.com from kaela's brutha jay, but mark sed it's not as good these days. i dunno, i think slickdeals has its ups n' downs 2.
in ne case, speaking'f gbook kaela recently signed my gbook on mon. b4 that, some dude named "beno" (not me) signed it. thank u! :-) i've gotta change those qs!!!
more than that, i've gotta hit the gym... n' hit it
hard!!! let us not 4get how much i've been eating lately. heh heh. do u want to hear (read) my thoughts on health n' diet n' exercise? i figure we should all avoid eating fat. that's my #1 rule. ("you're still my no. 1.") next, like every1 else on the planet these days, i think 'bout protein n' carbs. those r such buzzwurds; they're disgusting, so disgusting. if i've been doing muscle.intensive exercises like weight lifting, i try to eat more protein while still gettin' them carbs. if i'm gettin' ready to do more cardio.type exercise, i try to eat more carbs n' thus less protein. in ne case, i try to minimize fat n' maximize fibre (uk spelling). i try to avoid hi fructose corn syrup n' drink lots n' lots'f h2o. [later] as u know, i love spicy fud, but i must monitor my sodium intake. also, i s'ppose bad cholesterol's bad, huh?
is there nething u want these days? i keep repeating myself, but i think i need a new pair'f everyday "bizness casual" shoes that rn't made in china. support countries w/ more conscientious labour praktices!
oh yah! yesterday was mason's b.day! (mason's our nephew.) he's been heard asking, "where sooni?" deep down inside, rn't we all asking that same q? yes, i think so... especially when she jumps the fence n' gets loose. when she's lost, she asks, ""where sooni?" 목요일 아침 / mokyoil achim / thurs morn: 어젯밤에 저희들이 너구리를 봤어요. 아룸다운 캐이라 황과 순이와 저는 작은 너구리를 봤어요. 일요일 아침, 820a sun morn: 오늘 일요일예요. 저희들은 오늘아침 교회 갈게요. 2day's sun, n' the beautiful kaela hwang n' i r going to church this morn. what's been up? drop me a line sometime, k? a wk 'go, i was hangin' out @ petco i can't believe that next sat is toby n' betty's wedding. so this wknd "the boys" r in vegas. obviously, i'm not there w/ them, but *sigh* i dunno what to say 'bout that. u know i'm not a big vegas fan, but *shrug*. i guess it's good that i didn't go to vegas cos yesterday was mason's 2nd b.day party. when my sister called to 'mind me'f the party earlier this wk, i obviously had to think, "should kaela n' i bring sooni or not?" however, immediately i sensed that there'd be lots'f other kids there n' that it might be a complicated situation, so it'd be best not to bring her. it's not that i expekt to her cause probs w/ lots'f kids 'round (unless those kids happen to be canine), but eh! i figured it'd be better not to put her in a weird situation right now, since we're heavily training her. on thurs, fri, n' sat, we sort'f pressured her into accepting the presence'f other doggies. on thurs, my cowerker eric went to the santa clara doggy park. i emailed him @ werk.com earlier this wk to tell him to let me know if he's ever going to the doggy park. on our last visit w/ dawna'f happy tails to you dog training, i asked her if it'd be a good idea to tell a friend to let me know if he's going to a doggy park ever, so that i can bring sooni to the doggy park n' expose her to my friend's dog thru the fence.
u의
얼글 비누 좀 잦아려 갔지만 메이시스 찔의 제품을 안팔아요. 우리
메이시스의 선물 카드 있어요. 어떤 캐리포르니아
노르드표 얼굴 비누를 샀어요. 일요일밤 쥬리 호고 처크 같이 극을
가봤어요. 산 호세
레퍼토리 티어터의 미드 섬머 나이트스 드림을 봤어요. 그때
이 앤 오
트래이딩에 좀 마실것 하고 간식을 머겄어요.
재미있었어요.
lost in translation
2004 spring semester's eve
. $20 - $20 = 0, not bad! well, if u buy it, please use my link. :-) ha, the other day i got a 15¢ check cos some1 used my link to buy sumpthin' from kaplan
, the test prep ppl. :-) i dunno who did it, but thank u! :-) the postage on the check co$t 37¢; ha ha.
마지막 첫수업일
movies to watch:
life begins @ san tomas
big in taiwan
http://www.falafeldog.com
한드폰
토끼 양복 :-)
do u know what that is? in a semiconductor fab(rication) plant, u gotta keep a very clean environment. they call the rooms "cleanrooms," in case u don't know. neway, i had to go into a lab that's sort'f a simulated fab, so i had to get suited up in a "bunny suit," which is a hood, a jumpsuit, mask, goggles, boots, n' gloves. i was blasted with air b4 i entered. it was sort'f fun.
land w/ a straight back
4 brkfst, n' then got to the crowded, crowded resort 'round 1030a or so, i think. yah. it was a beautiful day. there was plenty'f fresh, fresh snow n' a blue, blue sky. it was the best day'f snowboarding so far this season. i told myself not to be lazy. u c, i realised that recently, i've been a really lazy snowboarder. sometimes, when i'm snowboarding w/ other ppl n' there's maybe some guy that's also pretty experienced w/ boarding n' can go fast, my competitive side comes out, n' i say i gotta be faster than him. in that case, i just keep my board flat n' bullet down w/o turning or carving. u c, i ride a really short board, a 151cm. i don't mind flooring it, since i really feel like i'm still in control, even if i let my board go full throttle, u know? i've gotten used to it. however, unlike other modes'f transportation, w/ snowboarding, going faster aktually means doing less. in a way, it takes more effort to go slow than to go fast. i'd gotten lazy. well, this weekend, i told myself not to be lazy. instead'f just bulleting down the slope, i told myself to do whatever it takes to have fun. my 1st love in snowboarding has always been more the tricks n' jumps than just going fast, u know? i realised sumpthin' else: u know how i sed that the big jumps don't hurt my back, but the li'l jumps sometimes do? i found out why! previously, i thought it was cos i was compressing my spine landing on the flat instead'f landing on a downward slope, which'd dissipate the impakt into 4ward movement. that might be true, but i realised what has really been hurting my back is my bad tendency to land w/ my upper body leaning 4ward when i'm not really prepared. 4 example, on the boardercross run, i sometimes try to hit a whole bunch'f jumps in a row, n' i'm sometimes not ready 4 each jump, so i end up landing w/ my upper body leaning 4ward... n' yah, that ends up hurting my back. i made a conscious effort to land w/ my knees, not w/ my back, to land w/ my back straight instead'f bent over. when we got home on sat nite, we ate @ 옛날 짜장 (yeitnal jjajang): 짬뽕 (jjambbong), 짜장면 (jjajangmyuhn), n' 고추잡채 (gochoojabchae).
lgvx6000
s.
after we got our fons, we went to huong lan on serra way to get
vietnamese sandwiches, drinks, n' spring rolls. it was so warm n'
sunny outside.
has musik downloads
?!
dang, check out thelg website: even tho' i like the vx6000,
the cdma fons they've got in korea r so much better than what
we've got here!
more lgvx6000
대통령의 날
7th monthversary
hrm... n' some dish w/ hearts'f palm... 4 dessert, we had a choco soufflé cake w/ some coffee aisukuriimu. [later] of course, i also had a demitasse'f espresso, n' kaela had a nf latte. so often kaela takes a pic'f me w/ a demitasse after dinner. i have so many pics'f myself w/ demitasses. i should make an album just'f those pics.
alternachic petrol
it's fri 2day. 오늘 금요일예요. how r u? plz sign my g. book when u can! :-) i haven't gotten many responses lately. :-(
leap day approaching
this pic's from 2004.02.05 when i wore a "bunny
suit" 4 werk.
남은 매운탕
how u 2day. 4 lunch, i went home n' ate leftover 대구 매운탕 (daegoo maewoontang) w/ the beautiful kaela hwang.
lawnmower man
@ lunch, i went home n' ate leftover 육개장 (yookgaejang) w/ the beautiful kaela hwang. this morn, 4 breakfast, we both ate leftover 대구 매운탕 (daegoo maewoontang). we've had lots'f homemade korean fud lately. what's 4 dinner 2nite?
강아지꿈
오늘 아침 / 어제밤에 꿈꾸었어요. this morn / last nite i had a very vivid dream that the beautiful kaela hwang n' i owned a medium.sized, brown, white, n' black doggy, some kind'f beagle or sumpthin'... a hound? 'twas the most vivid dream i'd had in wks if not months.
day full'f mtgs
passionfruit
@ buy.com
. if u buy it, plz use my link. :-) beggin' 4 change here, u know! cyberpanhandler... in ne case the movie was really funny. u know it stars adam sandler n' drew barrymore, right? funny, it also has sam astin'f lotr fame, but his char's much diff here from there! he's gonna be in 'nother comedy really soon, isn't he? 'nother movie that's very much diff from oscar nominated lotr3, right? speaking'f that green, bushy eyebrowed monster who lives in a garbage can, the oscars r on this sun eve.
no lawn mowing
yesterday, on leap day 2004, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i went w/ our church group to watch the passion of the christ @ amc mercado 20 @ 315p. b4 that, we luncheoned w/ church ppl @ chili's on el camino n' lawrence.
i went home to
eat lunch: a leftover springroll from sat, a healthy choice chicken dijon
frzn dinner, n' an expired, albertson's strawberry 
nf yogurt. b4 i left 4 lunch, i considered quickly
mowing the backyard lawn during my lunchbreak, but it was raining.
[later] yesterday, i was s'pposed to mow a lawn 4 my mom, but it was 2
dark by the time we exited the movie. rt now, i've really gotta
organise my life. i have my... [interrupted]
don't leap over leap day.
lawn mowing lunch
i really wonder what i should wear thurs/fri. i think i'll wear a tie on fri. i think. i haven't worn a tie to a job interview in ages cos engrs don't wear ties.
봄이 오고있어요.
아직도 날씨 좋아요.
오늘 손님이 어떠세요? 전 괜찮아요. 아직도 날씨 좋아요.
matlab things to do
오늘 할일 목록:
install matlab on floating laptop (done)
altho' my manager n' supervisor r out 2day, i still have plenty'f werk to do here @ the office... i mean, aktual werk werk... i'm not including my hw n' master's projekt stuff... i mean some'f my master's projekt stuff is direktly relevent to the company, but i know some'f it is more personal in nature. as u can c, i do 'lot'f matlab... 'member? i used to say that i'm the matlab genius, heh heh.
2day's really a bizzy day! 바쁜 하루죠.
relationship n' roles bible verses to read
1100kb?
i took this pic on our last trip up to squaw valley w/ my lgvx6000 camerafon.
alpine meadows... finally!
진돗개
2 pics 4 march
the beautiful kaela hwang n' me @ alpine meadows on 2004.03.13
sooni
, where our friend dukkyung werks, the 1 on de anza blvd a li'l south or west'f stevens creek. after that, we ate @ yiasoo; gyros. oh! by "2nite," i mean yesterday. yesterday, i had a very bizzy.day@werk.com.
8th monthversary
fresno real estate
yankee pier
blackened greens
put some 맥주 in the 냉장고
lcd tv? someday...
e.mail: beno at o c f dot berkeley dot e d u
homepage url (don't 4get to use http colon slash slash!): http://www.benomix.com
new yr's resolutions? didn't i answer this way back in jan?!?! i must've resolved to keep a nice house or sumpthin'... i think i resolved to graduate.
please describe what u were like 10 yrs 'go.
purple.haired alternadude... i went to alternarock concerts w/ fahad all the time. i didn't study hard 'nuff in berkeley but didn't party much either. i played guitar.
who should be the new u.s. president?: kerry
please give me a fortune cookie fortune: you will get married in less than one year. (in bed?)
what's a bread u like? altho' i do enjoy them buttery, asian bakery breads; in a case like this, i'll hafta vote 4 some kind'f healthy, hi.fibre, whole.grain bread.
do u try to eat healthily?: yes
pizza, pasta, mcyukyuk
take a right @ the next left.
wed afternoon: 2morrow morn, i bring sooni to the nearby silicon valley humane society to get spayed n' chipped. i'm teknically on spring break right now.
볶음밥 del fuego (bokkeumbap del fuego)
sa sa sa
study day
dogbreedinfo.com
midterm done
@ our company cafeteria. sooni was a good gurl 2day n' didn't jump over the fence @ all. phew! she has a cold tho' n' sneezes 'lot. i know she has a stuffed up nose.
wildflower
부활절과 세례식
better luck tomorrow 2004
공사공사십사
wed morn: 2day's date has more 4s in it than yesterday's. do u have a lucky number? [later] as u know, altho' it's not really a "lucky number," the beautiful kaela hwang n' i have a special number. 'twas the num that we both coincidentally used 4 each other's speed dial back b4 we were going out.
행복한 고리를 받으세요.
comprise
:
Pronunciation: k&m-'prIz
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): com-prised; comp-rising
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French compris, past participle of comprendre, from Latin comprehendere
1 : to include especially within a particular scope
2 : to be made up of
3 : COMPOSE, CONSTITUTE
usage Although it has been in use since the late 18th century, sense 3 is still attacked as wrong. Why it has been singled out is not clear, but until comparatively recent times it was found chiefly in scientific or technical writing rather than belles lettres. Our current evidence shows a slight shift in usage: sense 3 is somewhat more frequent in recent literary use than the earlier senses. You should be aware, however, that if you use sense 3 you may be subject to criticism for doing so, and you may want to choose a safer synonym such as compose or make up.
9 months
to the precision auto tuning (or whatever it's called) on stevens creek blvd (near san tomas expy) 4 an oil change, brake inspection, n' tire rotation package. while waiting 4 her car, we strolled 'round valley fair, where we shared a large banana 
mocha boba 
@ bosion fusion.
man, i can't wait to graduate. hey, that sort'f rhymes! 2day, @ lunch, i went home, ate pf chang leftovers, n' walked sooni. i really need exercise!
fatherly dream
2 mp3 ringtones
earthday
2day's earth day n' thus also ben & jerry's free aisukuriimu day. [later] 649p: i'm waiting 4 my class. earlier, the beautiful kaela hwang told me that ben & jerry's free aisukuriimu day's not till the 27th.
99¢ blockbuster nite
바람
바람이 임의로 불매 네가 그 소리를 들어도 어디서 오며 어디로 가는지 알지 못합니다. (요한복음 3장8절)
the wind blows wherever it pleases. you hear its sound, but you cannot tell from where it's coming or where it's going. (john 3:8)
gutterbunny
don't let ur bunny turn into a gutter bunny!
inkblots
i took this inkblot test: http://www.megat.co.uk/quizmo/quiz.php?quiz=126,n' it sed that i'm "abnormally kind." now, i took the tickle.com inkblot test n' got the following results:
sooni on 2004.04.19
standing 8 count
by shel silverstein, right? it's a very touching story, n' the thought'f it stirs up emotion inside me. in that respekt, it's like dr. seuss' oh, the places you'll go!
. in ne case, story'f the giving tree describes how the things 1 wants out'f life change as 1 matures n' gets older. i guess it's sort'f like the 1960s quasi.folk song "(the) circle game." how have the things that u want in life changed as u matured? that'd be a good gbook q... someday. however, a few days 'go, i did already change my gbook qs, so please take a sec n' sign the new version'f the gbook. while u'r @ it, yah... please discuss how the things u want in life have changed over the yrs by writing in the comments sektion or by e.mailing me! :-)
someday we'll get a nice tv.
somewhere over the rainbow
allusion to the simpsons) yah, i worry; i worry 'bout that. the way i am now is not the way i plan to be 4 the rest'f my life. i plan to change my life after may 29, or maybe even just after may 25 (my final). is it that i plan to be a new man? do i plan to be a new man? "i'm looking at the man in the mirror," sang michael jackson, back when i was in middle skool. back then, i enjoyed that tune. wasn't michael jackson's life better back then? we'd hafta ask him. how 'bout u, do u plan to be who u r now 4 the rest'f ur life? if not, what do u plan to change? gbook time!
중화 반점
italian week
(뽀뽀???): kaela - green bean, beno - lychee; as usual both w/ pearls but no whipped cream on our frosted drinks. when we got home, i was still hungry, n' we tried to finish the pasta lefotvers from kaela's mon nite women's bible study, which she hosted. it was a bad idea to try to finish all that pasta. i was so stuffed, n' yet we still didn't finish. i'm very upset that i eat so much these days n' don't exercise. i hate it.
456
friends ends.
last nite, the beautiful kaela hwang n' i watched the series finale'f friends
along w/ the rest'f this country. i never loved friends; but, as i watched the clip show b4 the episode, i realised that i've watched most'f the series thru.out the past decade, mostly thru syndicated reruns. do i like the show? well, it has its funny moments, i admit. who's ur favourite friends charakter? i think my favourites r joey n' phoebe cos i find 'em the most interesting. u could say they're the most airheaded, but i just think they're fun to watch. i'm sure ross's a good guy, but his lack'f commitment always bothered me. 1 movie i notichd on rotten tomatoes' dvd sektion that i wanna watch's far from heaven. 'nother's jack black's
school of rock.
parking n' puters
tubular earrings
toilet talk
some ppl talk on their cellfons in the restroom, not me. in there, we find a whole variety'f sounds diff from those in the outside world. don't those sounds travel over the cellular air waves? most ppl know the slogan 4 las vegas tourism: what happens in vegas stays in vegas. i hate that slogan cos i just don't approve'f promoting sin so blatenty n' shamelessly. however, i'd like to believe what happens in the bathroom stays in the bathroom. furthermore, what happens in the toilet stays in the toilet.
persian springrolls
stephen stills, 1966
what it is ain't exactly clear
there's a man with a gun over there
telling me i got to beware
everybody look what's going down
nobody's right if everybody's wrong
young people speaking their minds
getting so much resistance from behind
everybody look what's going down
a thousand people in the street
singing songs and carrying signs
mostly say, hooray for our side
everybody look what's going down
into your life it will creep
it starts when you're always afraid
you step out of line, the man come and take you away
everybody look what's going down
stop, hey, what's that sound
everybody look what's going down
stop, now, what's that sound
everybody look what's going down
stop, children, what's that sound
everybody look what's going down
sanjosegasprices.com
it's crunch time!
1) the chick changes her name from kitty to karen. isn't that to avoid association w/ kitty dukakis
2) the chick n' dude meet @ megacorporate citibank.
3) the chick trades in her mg 4 a white chrysler lebaron. isn't that cos "europeans r all a bunch'f socialist pigs, n' white's the color'f the ppl who ought to be in power"?
4) the dude wants a gurl w/ "good dividends," more proof that thing song's 4 those alex keaton type berkeley college republikans.
whatchu gonna do when u get out'f jail?
"spicy tendercrispy" chicken sandwich meal. is that what it's called? or is it "spicy crispytender" chicken sandwich? in ne case, it was fatt'ning n' greasy; n', just to make matters worse, i had onion rings in my meal. b4 that, i went to buy my graduation attire: the gown, the cap, the black tassel (as sjsu graduate students wear black tassels), n' my gold (engineering) hood. :-) i get to have a hood!!! woo hoo! i can't wait.
the genius of love
endura
other ppl wana sign? let's communicate!
ok, the latter 2 rn't books, but they're nice things.
graduation eve
also has a self.service dogwash.
졸업
많이 많이
lemme tell u
does this sound like a man who
has had 'all he could eat'?
st. john, u'r so fierce.
parentpraktice
woolf woolf!
how r u 2day? it's mon morn; how was ur wknd? mine was pretty good. we spent most'f sat @ the u.s. olympik taekwondo n' judo team trials @ sjsu event center. "event" or "events" center? *shrug* [later, still morn] i think it's singular.
, n'러빙 유 (loving you) kbs miniseries drama dvds from yesasia.
러빙유
b: 암놈입니다.
maybe peeing on the toilet seat should be considered a crime punishible by law!
(Being brief, the following is not comprehensive)
The Democratic Party mostly counts on folks in big cities, African Ams., Hispanics, immigrants, union households, and liberals (people who believe in change in order to cope).
http://www.80-20initiative.net/membership.html or PERSONAL checks are payable to "80-20 PAC", mailed to:
Jing-Li Yu
80-20 special Assistant
P.O. Box 527340
Flushing, NY 11352-7340 .
Write down your E-MAIL address & PHONE no. on the BACK of the check.
happy b.day, grace!
to get sooni 순이 a muzzle, a bone, n' some more training treats. we really appreciate 덕경's employee di$count! it's funny; he's got a tamed.down version'f a mohawk haircut rt now. ah, to be young n' free, free'f the stylistic constraints'f corporate amerikkka! after petco
, we dined @ the cherry orchard pasta pomodoro w/ dave yu from my classes. oh, of course sooni was w/ us! i ordered the salmone [sic, the 'e's cos it's italiano.] sumpthin' sumpthin', n'f course kaela had her usual, melanzane fettucine. 'twas a brisk eve, n' we appreciated the gas.burning patio heaters.
$29 - $20 mir = $9 w/ free s&h
friday: the good, the bad, n' the ugly
(작사:박진영, 작곡,편곡:방시혁)
감 예감 좋은 예감이 드는 이밤 tonight's the night oh friday night
오늘밤 오~오늘은 왠지 월급탄 밤 기분이 삼삼 한밤 아침부터 왠지 좋은예감
yeah, it's ok 자 기분 좋아 yeah feel alright 자 어디든 가
우리 쭌이형 태우 호영 데니 다 모두 나갈 준비 됐니?
어두워진 거리를 미끄러져 나가는 우리들 g.o.d. 다섯남자들 주머니 꽉 찬 시계는안봐
uh! you want me? i want you too then tell me? i'll come to you
맘 이맘 부풀어오르는 이밤 right alright it's friday night
감 예감 좋은 예감이 드는 이밤 tonight's the night oh friday night
드디어 도착한 클럽 앞에 들어가려고 기다리는 사람들의 줄이 늘어서고 서로 의식하고
저마다 자기들의 무게를 잡고 마음의 준빌 시작하낟 이제 곧 있으면 시작한다
오늘의 승자는 누구 일까 또 어떠한 커플이 탄생할까
선수입장~~ 들어간다 자 들어간다 g.o.d.가 나가신다 모두모두모두 비켜나라
자 울려 퍼지는 음악소리 자 돌아가는 조명들이 금요일 밤이 온걸 알리네
자 어서 이밤을 즐기세 좋아 기분좋아 그대와 나 오늘 멈추지마 음악 멋진 음악 흘러나와
and it'll feel alright pump it every say tonight's the night tonight's the night hey ho tonight's
the night tonight's the night pump it every say tonight's the night tonight`s the night
ho ho ho ho tonight the night tonight the night 이제는dance time come on stage 어디지
오 저기서 우릴 부르지 우리들을 향해서 손짓하지 자 우리들의 무대다 어서 비겨라
남자들은 비키고 여자들은 남아라 그리고 보아라 you want me? baby baby you can have me
맘 이맘 부풀어오르는 이밤 right alright it's friday night
감 예감 좋은 예감이 드는 이밤 tonight's the night oh friday night
backyards'f the silly
valley
, i took sooni 4 a long walk on her gentle leader. it was somewhat relaxing, i s'ppose. i wonder if i should take sooni somewhere now. if so, where? c?! dog ownership's like parenthood... 'least, good dog ownership. it's 100p or even 106p, according to my watch as opposed to my handspring. what to do?!
bay area sports
flag day
the waiter brought plenty'f 안주 anjoo (bar snacks, which r sometimes fancier than ur typikal amerikan bar snacks). it was so much fun to eat, drink, n' listen to korean muzik. kaela pted out that there were very few wives @ the hof. if there were females, they were really young n' came w/ a young group'f mixed gender friends. we didn't c other married couples, but we saw married men in groups w/o their wives. yah, i know: i have a fun wife! i really had a good time. :-)
stars & stripes
soy hot dogs
sooni was such a good doggy during taekwondo praktice; she just sat outside n' was all calm n' everything. :-) i like that! of course, it felt so good to praktice taekwondo! :-) heh, when we got home, we had sort'f a weird dinner'f sort'f odds n' ends: corn on da cob, soy hot dogs, chips n' guacamole. the beautiful kaela hwang sed 'twas like a picnic; n' she was right: it was like a picnic! we've gotta sometime have a bbq.
soy hot dog beanie weenie
11 months
u expekted me to say, "maekjoowa tongdalk."
e.mail: beno at o c f dot berkeley dot e d u
homepage url (don't 4get to use http colon slash slash!): http://www.benomix.com
religious affiliation? nondenominational protestant
techie or fuzzy?: techie... of course if "fuzzy techie" were an option, i'd pick that... but it's not.
what do u have in common w/ beno? love 4 the beautiful kaela hwang
please suggest a good fud/beverage pairing: 1997 trimbach riesling w/ indian fud from turmerik
which'f these best describes ur preferred living style? (country bumpkin, suburbanite, cosmopolitanist, neo.urbanist): i sort'f wanna pick "neo.urbanist," but most ppl'd consider our neighbourhood a suburb n' thus me a suburbanite. can i say "neo.urbanist @ heart"? well, that's unfair cos it wasn't a choice 4 u in this multiple choice question. thus, i'll just say "neo.urbanist" n' let the critics have their day.
if i were to give u $85 n' sed u had to spend it by sundown if u look back @ my "fud n' beverage pairing" question, u'll find 1 fast way to drop $85 n' more! of course, i'd take the beautiful kaela hwang.
additional comments: tumerik n' tamarine... who comes up w/ these names?!
korean hostage
vast right wing conspiracy
just 1'f those [male pms] days
다람쥐와 너구리
i lunched w/ my cowerkers @ el torito, had a pronto lunch combo w/ chicken tamale n' tortila soup.
(-.-)
(")("),
beno비노 황 부동산
now, i return u to ur regular programming. the almaden valley... yah, it's a quaint place. however... i personally think it's very misdefined. the geographical definition'f the boundaries'f almaden valley or else the almaden valley were diff than what ppl commonly use 2day. back in our day, when we sed "almaden valley" or "almaden," we were referring to the region bounded by:
in our somewhat narrow definition'f almaden valley, we were sort'f beeing snobby n' elitest by making sure that certain neighbourhoods which weren't as posh @ the time were excluded from our definition. well, the dot com age came n' went, n' wow! all'f san josé really cleaned up while i was 'way @ berkeley. yes, it's diff now. some wise@$$es'd say it's more orange county now, 'least in the area near the almaden valley. is it? no. to the unedukated, yah... the similarity btwn certain areas'f san josé n' orange county r very captivating. however, the edukated person must realise that silicon valley, or what was called "orchard valley" in the earlier 20th century has quite a diff history than orange county, 1 that ensures that the silly valley'll never be orange county. am i dissin' on da o.c.? no, i'm not. however, the unskooled can sometimes be so ignorant n' not know that the silly valley is not necessarily suburbia as they know it. neway, i'm gettin' off topik. i'm now talkin' 'bout the whole silly valley, when i was s'pposed to be discussing just the almaden valley.
cos'f our dukkyung hookup, i gotta say that pet fud express surely is a really conscientious, customer.oriented store, u know? the 1st ever pet fud express was founded on mlk jr. way in berkeley not 2 far from where kaela n' i used to live! :-)
캐이라 황 - kaela on the way to the bridal shower
비노 황 - beno @ the open house
순이 황 - sooni wearing her gentle leader
다람지와 누룽지
doesn't that look like fun?!
aktually, sooni's really nervous in this pic.
random mumblings 'bout asian.am this that
* i purposely used the wurd "sex" cos gender is a social construkt.
sight n' sound... to go
, n' i can find 1s w/ lcd displays that can do korean hangeul font, i believe.
best exercise week in a while
ol' friends' b.days
trying to ketchup thru 4jx2004
it was a nice warm day, if i 'member... uhm, no; it was 2 hot, if i 'member. we drove back home via local streets mostly... we saw lots'f asian biznesses. we went home 4 dinner. then we called up joon. we met him @ the block @ orange. we watched shrek 2 w/ him n' had such a good time hearing that his ol' jindo teddy's so similar to sooni! wow! they both hate h2o. they both need car rides to get them back home after running 'way. hrm... all sorts'f other things. like, we've noticed that sooni's not always the typikal jindo, but teddy's just like her! kaela sed that it sounded like teddy's sooni's soulmate, but teddy's like 10 yrs old, joon sed. shrek 2 was hilarious.
20040708
"once again with feeling" (btvs [buffy the vampire slayer] allusion)
붕어빵 boonguhbbang
부부 빙수 booboo bingsoo
주부 비노 househusband beno does some housechores n' is gonna vacuum u up!
soon in the trunk'f our rented pontiac sunfire
20040712
20040715
벌써 1년
tamarine n' 엠피지오 mpgio
i just thought'f sumpthin'. [a min(ute) later] a few entries 'go in "20040712" on 2004.07.12, i sed that unhip, unkewl ppl say "wireless phone" n' "hi.speed connection," while hip ppl say "cellfon" n' "broadband." well, no! kewl ppl don't say "broadband" either; that 2 is more'f a wurd only used in commercials, right? kewl ppl say "dsl n' cable modem," don'tchu think? i now think that "broadband" is a pretty spent term, isn't it? what r some wurds that r more current? well, the other day i liked saying "wi.fi n' fi.wi," in which "fi.wi" refers to ieee.1394 firewire.
from fantasia. i had a frosted green bean, n' kaela had a frosted mango. the mango drink now friggin' co$ts a whoppin' $4 believe it or not! other frosted boba drinks r mostly still $3.50, 'cept 4 the frosted caramel latte or whatever. the frosted mango drinks r really good right now cos they've got 'lot'f fresh mangoes. phresh n' phunky, 'f course... phresh, phunky, n' phat! phugu instead'f fubu? "fugu me," homer sed, demanding his blowfish / puffer fish sushi. 북어 bookuh... in ne case, after we had our boba drinks n' walked sooni 'round the cupertino 99 plaza, we went home, watched simpsons (even tho' it sucks that upn44 has shown that same dang spelling bee / ribwich episode a zillion times in the past coupl'f wks), n' ate some costco shumai.
작은 너구리
mason's 2nd b.day party
w/ dukkyoung while he werked. while there, sung (sungjae park) called me. he told me he was moving back to korea n' was hoping to c kaela n' me 1 more time. i called up kaela on 3.way calling cos she was driving home from werk @ that pt. we talked 4 a while, n' sung kept begging us to have kids cos he sed his ol' friend n' roommate that he was visiting in chicago @ the time had a nice life w/ a house, wife, n' a baby. heh, as if we can have kids just cos our friend requests it... ha ha. sung told us to e.mail him later in the wk so that we could try to meet up on thurs nite or so. i e.mailed him a coupl'f times, but we never heard back from him n' didn't end up mtg up. :-( *sigh* it's 2 bad. i imagine the next time we c him is whenver we visit korea 'gain. i dunno when, but someday we ought to do a taiwan/korea trip. it's funny cos those r definitely countries i could visit 4 werk if i found myself in the right/wrong position. i mean, i say "right/wrong" cos i wouldn't mind going to those 2 countries a li'l 4 werk, but i surely wouldn't want to be in a position that required me to travel all the time. i don't think my wife or doggy would appreciate that, i figure. in fakt, sooni cms to prefer that i werk@home, but that ain't gonna happen.