day 8 of HW Academy.....

since day 1, all we have done was listen to lecture after lecture of technical issues concerning cell phone development. it was alrite for the first couple of days, but now, after 8 consecutive days(excluding weekends) of nonstop classes from 8AM through 9PM, i have the least interest in what these lecturers have to say.....it seems that most of my colleagues feel the same way too. no more laughing and talking during breaks. we are so tired that we don't even get together online during class for chat sessions on the corporate messenger that we used to enjoy so much. everyone's just having this glazed look on their faces.

I hope that our bosses are getting the message:

"WE ARE SICK OF LECTURES!! Let us go HOME!!"


can't believe we have to go through 6 more days of this nonsense.....arrrrrgh!!

Sights of Autumn (season of 天高馬肥)

season of high skies and fat horses.......I did take pics of high skies, but i don't think i had the chance to see a fat horse anywhere lately..haha!

anyways, enjoy!

Slow traffic at Seoul

Clear skies and yellow-orange leaves.....beautiful!

it's one of the best times of the year to be in Korea

parking lot in front of our apartment complex

parking lot

driving from saem-ma-eul(jeewoong's) to in-duck-won(my place)

night out with the the boys...plus one wife

@ the gopchang house.. man, we look constipated haha!

wonkyung debating issues with jeewoong

dongyoung posing in front of his bigass PDP tele

hey backoff hombre! I got a knife and I know how to use it!!!!

Had a good time at shinchon with donyoung, wonkyung(a.k.a mrs. kwon haha!!), & jeewoong.

had plenty of soju(pansy jeewoong had to have this fruity low alcoholic concoction because he was so too girly for soju..haha!! dude, man up! even wonkyung was drinking soju!).....jeewoong and wonkyung had a small(?) argument after getting quite drunk....later, everybody made up and went for a little karaokeing and went back to dongyoung's for more drinks and wooing over how well the house makeover went.

next day, while me n jeewoong drove back to pyungchon, I couldn't help but imagining this was how our parents probably hung out right before they had me....a motley crew of singles and married couples hanging out late into the night enjoying their last gasps of freedom before KIDS! COMMITMENT!! REAL RESPONSIBILITIES!!

i know that i'm being overly dramatic and i'm sure that most of us are fit to handle such issues, but still...it is a bit humbling to know that yes, even though we are still young, we are getting older....

so jason...Carpe Diem!!(i know it's a cliche but still sound good as ever!!)

job sucks?

During my senior year at high school, it was all about going to med school. Then being an engineer, then business consultant, back to med school, grad program in electronics/communication, and now.........................

its been about 3 months since i stepped out of my unemployment status and became a member of the LG handphone development division. all in all it's been pretty good.... great colleagues, a paycheck every month, manageable hours... but somehow i find myself in the position of wanting more than that.

yesterday, at the persuasion of jeewoong, spent the night applying for a position at a prestigious re-insurance firm. there were also several openings in the investment banking field that looked really interesting. especially since in these firms I could be given a chance to relocate in other countries around asia.....hong kong, china or maybe even SG! I'm not exactly sure if i'm want to change my professional field yet or even be able to get accepted to those firms in the first place, but i definitely want to keep my options open~!

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housewarming party tomorrow at shinchon for mr. and mrs. kwon dongyoung haha!!

oh yeah, i'm taking another round of manatory training

placed dead last in the test we took today...
i hate rote memorization!!!!!! it's pointless....arrrgh!

better get higher scores for the next test or might get fired

stuff to think about.....

Duty to the Past

"Goodness, beauty, and truth, however, and all great accomplishments need time, permanence, and memory., or lest they deteriorate. The man who has no urge to do his duty to the past and to shape the future is a man without a memory, and there seems to me no way of getting hold of such a person and bringing him to his senses. Every word, even if it impresses him for a moment, goes through one ear and out of the other. What is to be done with him? It is a tremendous pastoral problem."
February 1st 1944

Metanoia

"It is not some religious act which makes a Christian what he is, but participation in the suffering of God in the life of the world."
July 18th 1944

excerps from Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

i'm exhausted from all that laughing~!!
man...will ferrell and darrell hammond are geniuses~!

more of SNL's version of celebrity jeopardy ~!

and here's a compilation clip of alex trebek(will ferrell) and sean connery(darrell hammond)

omg, i laughed so hard during training watching this!

Saturday Night Live

(I love this show!! the 90's cast were the best.. hands down!)

celebrity jeopardy sketch

one thing that i've learned over the years is that it's really REALLY hard to find a person that you feel a instinctive connection with.... i won't/can't go into details because it's something that's better experienced than explained.... like i said, it's instinctive, you just know =)
for me its seems harder to find that connection because of my background.....living as a korean in korea, but raised in america.

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I had a good conversation w/ yun-hae today for the first time in over a year or so. we dated for a month and afterwards i got my heart shredded to pieces during the breakup... naturally, it was really awkward seeing each other at church for quite a while after that.....

we were both pretty messed up when we started dating. she was getting over a big breakup of her own and i was this ball of insecurity and loneliness. well, we both turned out for the better after the breakup. she was finally able to stand up on her own.... getting her degree in social welfare after next semester, being content w/ life in general and where she's heading. for me, got myself into another relationship and another breakup...in the process, became more confident about who i am.

all in all though, it's a good feeling to realize that you've put your past demons behind and became wiser/better person.

visited eun-bi's grandma's funeral yesterday... and the day before as well...
a typical korean funeral usually lasts for 2 nights 3 days where visitors can come by anytime during that period to pay their respects and have a good time w/ friends and family. There's an unlimited supply of food and booze so people tend to get really rowdy, which i heard is a good thing because it takes away from the grimness of the funeral and supposedly makes the spirit of the deceased happy(I could be wrong of course). anyways, i got a chance to talk and meet up w/ several good friends that i haven't had a chance to catch up with for quite a while. Eun-bi was in a good mood and was doing okay considering she slept for about 5 hours for the past 3 or 4 days. everyone had a good laugh and a good time... well into the wee hours of the night haha (today's friday so it's alright)..... ironic that it was someone dying that was the catalyst for so much laughter for us.

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being busy at work doing odd errands and stuff has left my seminar preparation untouched.... kuai dian jason!!

arrrrrrgh!! I hate this security program on the company's network!!!
can't upload anything on the web!!

couple of useful sites that I've found while surfing the net.....

http://www.coastalcontacts.com/ a place to buy contact lenses at a big discount

http://kimc911.egloos.com/ free MP3s! mostly old rock music (one of the few places that have doors stuff haha)

http://clustrmaps.com/ provides your page w/ a free map that shows all the international hits you recieve on it
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a new task~!
prepare seminars on Bluetooth and WiFi technologies respectively.
5 page powerpoint pesentation included!
not too challenging...i think..i hope =)
better start by looking up wikipedia

oh yeah, chose to get off late from work yesterday.... extra money to party w/ this weekend... yeeeeah haha!

10:08....@ work......do i wait until 11 to get off work and make a little bit more cash or leave now, get home early(...er) and rest up??? hmmm...

the weatherman....good movie

sometimes you CAN learn about life through movies haha.

worked out before dinner, worked overtime, n got paid extra for it because i stayed untill 11 to finish up. ￦20k..not much but feels good to know that you made a bit more today =)

for the most part, things are going smoothly at work. got our team assignments last friday, said hello to everyone.....rumor has it that this is the team that developed the prada phone by lg. haven't gotten around to asking if this is true or not. anyhoo~ since everybody's busy doing their own work to take interest in me, i'm free to do whatever i want......

i thought this was a good thing but after 2 days of endless internet surfing and B/S-ing with colleagues......i want work!!

maybe this is how lg breaks in new employees.... make them so bored that they WANT to work...haha

so far...it's working

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request for my business cards came through...
kinda looking forward to it considering it is my first time getting a business card. =)

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seung-hoon from college is getting married next month~! congrats~!

it's getting chilly outside!!
wore short sleeves to work and almost froze to death cause it was so cold out!
note to myself: listen to the weather forecast tmr morning

oldies...... but goodies =)
no matter how good the current chart-stoppers are, they'll never take place of those songs that i listened to during highschool.... good songs, good memories ^^

thank you for your unfaltering grace.....even though I may have forgotten, you never forget.
please let me be humble, gracious, and faithful...
also thank you for this awesome life that you've given me and also, thank you again for allowing me to realize that it is an awesome life.... Thanks big guy! =)
in Jesus name..AMEN!

Korea uni wins la!!
by 3 wins and 2 draws
take that!! yonsei!

it's that time of the year again where students from my alma mater and those low lives from shinchon(inside joke) duke it out at jamshil olympic stadium for nothing more than bragging rights. 5 sports events(baseball, basketball, ice hockey, rugby, n soccer...oh yeah, 應援 (cheering) too even though this is an unofficial thing) played out today and tomorrow in front of over 2-30,000 screaming, chanting college kids.

definitely, it's the biggest yearly event between korea and yonsei uni and it's also the biggest university event in all of korea.

for the members of our cheerleaders, it's the pinnacle of their year; it's THE rationale for all the
training, planning, and hard work that everyone has gone through the year. and when i say hard work, these guys know what hard work is! they are the people who plan the whole event out. although planning an event of this size with limited manpower is not an easy task, it does have it's brighter moments. i guess alot has to do with working with good company, good friends....shooting bull around while doing the banner decorations on the stadiums...complementing how our 'deco'(cheerleader lingo) looks much nicer than yonsei's, eating late nite chinese food after all the preparation for the event are done.

for me, it'll be a change of pace from last year... relax and soak up the atmosphere, maybe even do a little bit of this ↓

anywhoo, Go Korea Uni! Beat them yonsheins senseless!!

高大!

必勝! 全勝! 押勝!

it's going to be a rout!!

at work....
just goofing around..... nothing to do...
we just got our laptops and our group assgnmnts yesterday. but still no real work to do..

so.....we keep on waiting........with internet =)

SG was.... SHIOK la!!!!

omg, i don't think... no not think..more like NEVER had such fun in all my life. haha! Delicious food, awesome parties, and last but definitely not least fantastic company. Elsie was such an awesome host. I can't thank her enough, and she probably heard enough thank you's from me already. I really hope that she had as much fun awesoming in SG as I did. was a bit afraid that partying too hard was causing her to be very tired during saturday and sunday, but she rolled with me and i'm just sooooo grateful for that!


couple of things i learned about myself in SG/ should start doing


1. I really felt comfortable in SG: seriously, think abt moving there after getting some work experence.

2. improve my spoken english: I guess living in korea for 12+ years has finally gotten its toll on me. after about 5 days of using english, i noticed that I kept repeating the expressions I was saying, had a hard time trying to explain complicated things. I know that once I start to speak english more often, my english will come back

3. My chinese suck! study!!: a person can only go so far with chinese learned in youtube..yeah you heard it right...youtube haha!!

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4. jason can dance to rave, indie, electronica!^^

5. SG weather....best cure for allergies and sinus conditions: everything cleared up once I t/d in SG.....so wierd

anyways, gotta sleep now.... work work work!!

me n elsie at cafe del mar looking awesome after tanning =)