It’s that move I was just talking about. Faster than you thought, huh?
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Hahaha I love that picture below (: Makes me smile every time.
Wow. As I was thinking about what to title this entry, the line that came to mind was, “Summer’s ending.” I am clearly losing my mind. Anyways, Winter Break is ending, and I don’t want to go back, even though I am excited about my Korean class. It makes me giddy. Because it makes me think of Big Bang.
I really don’t have a good reason to be posting here, actually. I’m just waiting so I can go to Borders and buy more books before I leave tomorrow – 30% off! I just thought I’d share this picture in the meantime:
I stayed up last night making a T.O.P wallpaper for myself, and I am in the process of thinking about a T.O.P layout, which would mean that I have to leave WordPress.com to put it up, so I’ve set up another account for me elsewhere where I can install WordPress again and continue this blog. I’m pretty tired of the standard template layouts here, to be honest. I’m never really satisfied, and I think that photoshopping is something that I’d like to get back into. So look forward to that.
I’m leaving tomorrow! And mourning the loss of my free time to read, gah. I actually feel like reading a good fictionpress story right now, to be honest. I also started writing a fanfic… but I doubt it’ll go anywhere (three guesses who it’s about). The problem with me and writing is that ideas weave in and out of my head but the inspiration for one solid story never stays long enough to get me anywhere.
My weekdays are all messed up. Yesterday was Monday but I thought it was Sunday. I’m totally aware of the dates, but not the days, which is kind of weird. Isn’t it usually the other way around? Well, the only reason why I’m writing in here is because I haven’t decided what I’m going to read next. Last night I actually went to sleep after I finished a story, instead of stopping in the middle of a story, so I woke up today (at 3:15….) and decided to go shopping instead.
Anyways, I thought I should do this friday five. It seemed appropiate, considering what I’ve been doing all of break.
Books!
- Do you enjoy reading? “I read like I breathe.” -my fp profile
- What is the first book you remember reading? That was forever ago… Baby Sitters Club? No… some random book for school I think
- Who is your favourite author? What a question… I have no idea, I can’t decide.
- What is your favourite book? What a question… DUDE. Why can’t I answer any of these? Well okay. On fp, I LOVE LOVE LOVE Sentiment Lost by Tijan, W is for WHAT?! by Lulai, Jilted by serako, Six Feet From Paradise by Jennifer D Allen, Queen of Glass by Sarah J Mass. Actually published (though QoG is to be published so you see my dilemna) I like Cross My Heart, Hope to Spy by Allie Carter, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hossieni, Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh, The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen, 1984 by George Orwell, and on and on and on. (No Twilight included, thank you tres muchos)
- What is the last book you read and the first you’ll read next? Last physical book: Visions of Heat by Nalini Singh, last fp story: Chasing Charlie by Katie Saychiadu. I’m thinking of reading Caressed by Ice by Nalini Singh (mainly so I can proceed onto the next books in the series and buy them before I go back to school) as a physical book, and maybe Unfinished Business by Maeven on fp.
It’s kind of obvious what I’ve spent the last 2.5 weeks doing. Lol. I’m kind of a nerd. Haha. Whatever. <33333 I wonder if I’ll have time to read once school starts back up again. I hope so. I’ll probably make time though, knowing me, haha. Oh okay, and one more (see, I’m behind. I’ve just been reading).
1. What decade did you attend/are you attending high school or college? Uh… this decade. Does this make me sound young? The zeros? Lol. And a little of the teens.
2. What clothing fashion from that time are you glad/do you wish went out of style? Ummm I don’t know. I kind of love/hate the whole Uggs thing because they’re so darn cute but so darn expensive and impractical, especially with me being in LA and all. I really have no excuse to buy them, so I don’t, but I still want them 
I’m trying to think back to any other fashions from this decade, but really. A decade is a really long time.
3. Do you still listen to the music from your high school/college years on a regular basis? Well, considering I’m in college, and just graduate from high school, yes. I’ve recently gotten back into Korean music, so I guess I went back to that, which started in 8th grade. And I still listen to the same American music, though I’m trying to expand my scope into more rockish now too, because although I don’t know much about it, I enjoy a lot of those songs too.
4. What hairstyle/hair color did/do you wear during high school/college? I’m pretty okay with the hairstyle I have now. Sometimes I wish I grew my hair out longer, but my hair gets pretty long already so Idk.
5. What was/is “the cool thing to do” while in high school/college? Uh… I have no idea. Hm. Maybe this is why I’m not “cool.” The “cool” thing to do is go and get drunk. Apparently.
Dun! Dun! Dun! Dun nun nun nununununNUN! I have Big Bang Sunset Glow stuck in my head. I think I’m in love. *insert smiley face with hearts as eyes here* Sah-woonnn! 
(I wonder if anyone is getting this reference… hint: it relates to the first set of Friday Fives I just did)
My mom always told me that she didn’t understand why I like My Name Is Kim Sam Soon so much (it’s funny), since she found Samsoon so disgusting and couldn’t comprehend why Hyunbin would choose her over the other girl. I never really thought about it until she said it, but there really is no good reason why he chose Samsoon. There really isn’t. I mean, Samsoon + Samshik forever man, but if you really watch for it, there’s really no good reason why he leaves his old love for Samsoon.
The story I just finished tonight got me thinking about it again. I was thinking about how the author wrote it (because it’s amazing), and one of the key aspects was character development, and the thought that was placed behind the coupling. Jace was a character who required a certain type of girl. It couldn’t just be anyone. She had to have a certain personality, act and think a certain way… she had to fit with him, complement him, complete him. And then I realized, that’s exactly the problem with some Korean dramas like MNIKSS. There is no thought behind the coupling. There’s nothing about Samsoon that screams that Hyunbin needs to be with her, and not anyone else. There’s nothing glaringly obvious, or even apparent at all, that makes you sit back and think, “Yeah. It couldn’t have been anyone else. It had to be her.” The script writers, the editors, the director, and even the actors and actresses themselves all failed to see that. Hell, I didn’t even see it. But realizing it, I suddenly feel enlightened. Is that dorky? I don’t care. Writing gets me excited. Figuring these things out and realizing that there has to be something about the characters that screams they complete each other, they were written to complement one another, gives me bursts of inspiration. Maybe it gives me hope. It gets the adrenaline in my blood running and suddenly I find myself wanting to do the same.
I’m inspired. Now if only I could act on it…
I read her story, and then I read how old she is – my brother’s age. With dreams of going to Georgetown or UCLA, and I think to myself, god damn, if only I was that much of a person at her age. I’m two years older and the me now can’t even compare.
ただいま！난 지금 집에 있어. 我今天回家了.
1. What did you do on Monday? Korean final and then went back to the dorm to finish my essay
1. What did you do on Tuesday? Rewrote 2 paragraphs of my essay and had a pizza party
1. What did you do on Wednesday? Edited my essay with Jason for 10 hours
1. What did you do on Thursday? Studied timeline terms, edited my essay, and took my cluster final
1. What are you going to do today? Flew home
A finals week of a 1st year UCLA student. But really, I wonder if that’s much different than the weeks of other students. Dudee, I’m so tired though I just want to sleep. I haven’t been sleeping much at all this past week and I don’t know why. I’ve become a really light sleeper for some reason, and of course I didn’t alter my habits of sleeping really late either. This drama I’m watching is making me really tired too, I don’t know why. I mean, I know it’s not that interesting and movies make me tired, but usually I don’t get this tired as long as I’m in front of the computer, especially this early into the night.
I don’t know how it feels to be home. The same, I guesss. Nothing all that special, I don’t know. I don’t want to drive around though. I don’t really want to drive at all – how annoying. And it’s annoying because people will expect me to drive 근데 시도, したなくない. I don’t know. I was talking about this to the guy I met on the plane, but I feel like after your first year in college, you really just hang out with the people from before who you actually want to keep in touch with. Right now, everyone is all excited to be back home from college and is trying to organize this and that and get together, and I feel like I’ve skipped that step, or like I just never really had any desire to be in that place. So I’m sitting here watching everyone organizing get togethers and honestly thinking to myself, “Why are these people contacting me? It’s not like we were even really that great friends.” I don’t know. I guess I never really saw the point in making an effort for people who, ultimately, don’t even really matter. Ouch, but whatever.
It feels so lame but all I really want to do is sleep x_x;; 아이구 아이구~ 나 간다. 잘자~~~ お休み～
(Should I concentrate in Korea or Japan? I really don’t know what to do anymore.)
People are very hypocritical. They’ll expect one thing from you but then do the opposite to you. It doesn’t really affect me much in this case but it’s still kind of annoying. Or maybe I just tend to expect too much from people, I don’t know. I think I’ve written about expecting too much from people before, somewhere back in my however many years of history of blogging. Oh well. I can’t believe I actually remember that.
So now I’m just trying to do everything I need to get done before our pizza party tonight, and mainly, before I can actually watch an episode of the drama I want to watch, hah. Mainly it’s just the timeline standing in my way, since I’ve already rewritten 1 1/2 paragraphs of my essay to make it better. I think I just need someone to read it at this point to check if the content’s okay first, before I can go plunging on into the organizational, grammar, sentence structure kind of stuff. I woke up this morning and realized that I really only have today and tomorrow to make it a perfect, A quality paper (which is impossible with my TA anyways) so I better get to it.
Goddamn college is such a slave driver. Will winter break just come already?
I feel like I’ve complained too much to actual people about my essay, so I guess I’ll just complain about all the things wrong with it here.
1) I don’t really get the prompt. I mean, I do, to an extent, but I don’t get how to formulate a thesis that will directly address the prompt, tie everything together, and not sound like a run-on. I also don’t get how to address each specific topic that I am writing about in relation to the prompt. For example, I have to do 2 paragraphs on print media, first in Vietnam and then in whatever the second country is that I’m doing (will be addressed later) but there was no previous print media in Vietnam to begin with. So am I supposed to focus on the fact that there was no print media, and now there is one? Or how the people were affected by the media, and how their cultural norms were affected? Or am I supposed to talk about the actual content of the media, like that it was an incorporation of both the old and new ideas, since ther was a wide array of different newspapers and journals printed at the time?
2) I don’t know which country I should write about. I originally wanted to write about Korea, and so I wrote both my introduction and conclusion addressing Korea along with Vietnam, plus two body paragraphs, but in doing so, I realized that I don’t really have much information on Korea to work with. Because my professor just goes off on tangents during lectures, I did not accumulate much knowledge through them, and neither did Denise, so it wasn’t even just me. The readings as well don’t really address the topics that I wish to talk about either. So the more I think about it, although it will mean having to rewrite about 4 paragraphs, I think that switching Korea with Japan will allow me to have stronger body paragraphs and demonstrate a better knowledge and understanding of the readings because I will be able to incorporate more of them into my essay.
3) This is my major thing that is driving me off the wall insane. I feel like I keep summarizing instead of analyzing. I actually think I did a pretty okay paragraph when I was writing about Vietnam’s cityscape, but after I came back and sat down and tried to do Vietnam’s print media, I felt like I was facing the same problem all over again. I don’t know. But when I go back and try to delete some of it, I just don’t know what to delete, since I feel like a lot of it is not really background information, but actually answering the question. I don’t know. I just don’t get how I’m supposed to analyze it, when they’re basically asking me what happened when aspects of modernization were implemented, and the readings just tell me. I don’t know. I’m so lost it’s driving me insane I hate this
4) I’m already past my limit of 6 pages. Horray for having to cut a ton… AGAIN. I’m hoping though that by switching from Korea to Japan, this will solve part of the problem since it will give me another shot at writing a language paragraph for Japan instead, one in which I won’t just have summary but actual analysis.
Hopefully writing this entry helped me. It kind of makes me want to go back and rework some things in my essay because I think I have a clearer understanding of what I’m supposed to write for my essay, and how I’m supposed to write it, but at the same time, I kind of think I should sleep too, seeing as I have a 9am final tomorrow morning and I plan on waking up at 8am to study for it. I don’t know what to do. Maybe I should stay up till 1 trying to fix my essay and then just call it a night?
Aigoo. Now I have to redo all my outlining/background research for Japan instead of Korea. Why didn’t I just think of this earlier? T_T
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1. Do you like the look of your country’s currency (bills and coins)? They’re getting more colorful and cooler, so I guess they’re okay.
2. Regardless of their actual value, do you like bills or coins better? Bills.
3. What is your favorite foreign currency? And why? I’d have to say euros… maybe. I like the coins – they’re think and cool. The bills are colorful and distinguishable, and the coins are different colors and unique too.
4. Do you collect coins or bills? Elaborate. Not really. I have money left over from when I went to China, Japan, and France, but it’s not like I keep them to collect them or anything.
5. Do you think human society could make do completely without money? Explain. Nope. We tried before and obviously failed, so why would it work again? Without money, less people would be able to trade stuff and exchange possessions because in order to get something new, I would have to have something that the other person wanted in exchange. Money, however, is more liquid, and thus makes transactions like these easier, and more frequent.
Aren’t I supposed to be studying for my math final that’s in 12 1/2 hours? Yes. Probably. Am I procrastinating? You bet I am. I even watched My Little Bride with Hiromi today, haha. It was a very nice break though – love that movie. I just didn’t like the thought of having to do math for hours straight again, like I did on Wednesday and sort of on Tuesday. I needed a breather I guess, but now I’m debating whether or not to go to Puzzles later tonight and have an ice cream too. I am soooo tired it’s ridiculuos. And I have too many swipes left over for this week It’s because I cooped myself in my room just to study, and because I was lazy, but that’s more of the unofficial reason, haha.
I have a math final tomorrow morning, Korean final Monday morning, and final paper & in-class GE Cluster final on Thursday. We just got the prompt yesterday, and it sounds pretty much exactly the same as the other two essays we wrote during the quarter. I look forward to it. And now I have to go. Because I need to study, for real now. I’m on chapter 7 though, if that makes my situation any better, meaning that I finished practicing for chapters 8, 9, and 11. I also went over my first midterm, so I’m nearing the end of this baby and I’m going to do amazing. Just watch.
No man. I’m serious this time… I need to be.
Usually I write a Thanksgiving post, but I guess I didn’t really do that this year. I guess it’s because I feel like they always sound the same, and I’m not even really the big of a celebrator of Thanksgiving. This year’s Thanksgiving didn’t even feel like any day out of the ordinary. Maybe I should start doing a year by year kind of thanks, to make it more unique. Like you know how you have new year’s resolutions, well you could have a this year’s thanks too.
I had a lot of things to say though, other stuff. Things that I thought of while writing in my head, as Ms. Satterstrom called it. I guess I do write in my head a lot. Stored somewhere in my mind, there are thousands and thousands of incompleted journal entries that pop in my head at the time and I never really have either the memory, the time, or the desire to actually write them down. Some of them do end up written down, but most don’t. I honestly don’t remember at all, not even the topic, of what I was going to say.
I actually don’t know why I’m blogging either. My first and probably most important final for me is in less than a week, but I haven’t really studied much over the weekend. Instead, I watched episodes 1-14 of this new drama that I found, and plan to watch 15 and 16 today, so I can “focus” and “study hard” this week following up to that damned, dreaded final. I’m not exactly sure how well that plan will pan out. Usually it doesn’t work out that way, especially since I have my essay due Friday, but I guess we’ll see. Wow. I just realized that this is my last week of classes – that’s freaking insane! I can’t believe how quickly time flew by. And I know that I keep saying that and saying that but seriously I can’t believe it, I have no idea where all of my time went this quarter. I always say stuff like “Wow, can you believe it’s already 7th week?” but it hasn’t really hit me until just now that HOLY SHIT after this week we won’t have these classes ever again! Nuts.
I scheduled last night. My schedule is still kind of ugly, despite the fact that I got all the classes that I wanted. I was the 20th person to sign up for my GE discussion that has a capacity of 20 people. I checked my enrollment and it also turns out that someone had dropped the econ discussion that I wanted, so I’m actually enrolled now, and not just on the waitlist That makes me 행복해~ (:
That’s another thing. Since I’ve been obsessed with this new drama and since I’ve been taking Korean classes, I am now thinking in like… konglish. Because half the stuff I’m hearing in Korean anyways, haha. But it’s weird because my Korean isn’t good enough so it doesn’t really work out that well. Oh well. I have to go now. I’m in the hotel room, supposed to be checked out (they keep checking back) and was waiting for my download to finish, and now that it has, I have to go. 안녕!
