new LAYOUT?

ho hum. tis a new layout! just for the holiday season!
Although, it's not very holiday-themed is it.
Oh well. I thought it was cool. I kinda want to add more stuff to it
but people (steff...) said that it would make their (her) brain explode. So I'll refrain
because they (she) will need it in the near future. But if you have suggestions, I'm more than willing to take them of course.

Well it's Christmas Eve and I didn't do much today. My family went to church though and the service was pretty good. My pastor is actually a really good actor, so he acted as one of the shepherds during the nativity story! It was really interesting and much more entertaining than a regular sermon. Thank god we have a cool pastor. Speaking of which, Korean pastors have the weirdest intonations in the world. they go blah blah blah BLAH blahblahblah. It's undulating (vocab word!) tone puts me to sleep. Quite unfortunate really because I'm sure they have interesting things to say. I wouldn't understand them anyway without the undulation because they use big Korean words. D: oh well.

I suffer. I've been going to an SAT class these past two weeks. I don't mind the math portion because our teacher is funny/entertaining but the english section just kills me. 4 hours of vocab, CR, grammar and MORE is not fun. Don't ever try to do it. don't. I know you're going like, "oooh it can't be THAT bad. People always exagerrate." Don't try to be cute. It really is not fun. It doesn't help that the teacher thinks she's a know-it-all and says, "Oh this section was so easy. I got all of the answers right!" and then the rest of us get -3. Great. Thanks. The emotional support is awesome. The homework load is ridiculous. She's making us do this Accelerated Reading something something where she sends us an article a day and we have to take notes on it, summarize, find vocab words, and other READING skills activities. AND these are articles from like heavy duty magazines. Nothing like Time for KIDS or Ladybug or ESPN. This is like nerd, people who know what's actually going on with the economy sort of magazine. It's like she doesn't have a life other than this class she teaches. We get one everyday INCLUDING Christmas. Way to spoil the holidays. I can picture her now at the computer going, "HAHAH. THESE KIDS WILL SUFFER FROM THE STUPOR OF THESE PATRONIZING ARTICLES. bah humbug." Quite sad really. I literally think that this is all she does. Quite sad, quite sad.

Anyway, I was feeling quite nice and holiday spirit-y until I thought of my SAT english teacher. BAH HUMBUG. So now I have nothing more to say.

MERRY CHRISTMAS
Guten...night. :O

UPDATE UPDATE

ho hum.
its been a while since i've last posted.
i'm sure you all missed my posts, oh so intriguing, oh so deep, oh so insightful...

HMM well finals are over
after hours of study, I feel like this past week has been the most intensive studying i've ever done.
not for calc though. I fail. i managed to not study properly for my first and most important final
-.- oh my what am i to do...
uh oh. what if a college sees this later when they're scouring the world wide internet and looking for slight traces of my true identity!
they'll think i'm lazy. and not a hard worker.
DEAR COLLEGES:
I have learned my lesson and I studied so hard i can barely lift my fingers writing this post....
well not entirely true... but i can barely lift my eyelids...

ANYWAY two weeks of break!
Things-to-do!

• relax
• catch up with friends I haven't seen in a while
• SAT classes (yesss...)
• celebrate Christmas
• Celebrate New Years
• Celebrate my birthday! (17! i'm legal... to buy m-rated games and r-rated movie tickets :O)
• watch a meteor shower!
  
• do something fun?
• practice for J-Band!

my brain is refusing to write anymore.
oh just kidding. i think i'll ramble about my day.
so today after the last final (BIO ftw.) i played rock band in mr florio's room
that was pretty cool. i forget do they have rock band 2? cuz im kinda tired of all the songs
on the first one...
anyway there was a huge open space because i guess the janitors came in to clean the floor or something and moved everything to the side
so I was doing the fall out boy and spinning in the air with a guitar.. yeah that was exciting.

i'm trying to weed out anything that sounds stupid because when i look back at old xangas
i just sound so weird. and retarded. i used to huse huge letters and like write little notes
to random people trying to act all cutesy and cool.
oh dear.

anyway, i think that's about it for me today...
hm
yeah.
CIAO

happy times

i'm so happy!

obama won the election!

the future looks bright!

i'm going out with the girl i love!

what can be better?

happy times!

I'm at a loss. 

What should i do?

hmm. create post? why not.

daily news:

• mmm did aright(not really) on the APUSH mc test
• Essay wasn't too bad
• Friday! went to Baskin Robbins with friends and had some ice cream
• OH I saw Marc today. that was cool
• Finished watching The Patriot
• get hooked on Fantasy again
• Beat my brother soundly 4 times at Starcraft. Winning is fun.
• writing in my blog again

so did I say this before? Amiti and Julia are burning me CDs which is really exciting. yay new music! amiti's being super cool and burning me like THREE CD's which like puts her up my rank of friends. not that I have a rank of friends, because that would be totally uncool. cough. anyway, tomorrow's the lawn-in! Bourne Ultimatum ftw. Jason Bourne is just too good. he can like be 100 m away and then suddenly BAM. punch you in the face. owned. Then he'll steal your identity, your money, your car, and pretty much any valuables you have in order to discover his own identity. he's like the manly man.

I think there should be an all out melee between super buff male movie characters. including

• Jason Bourne
• Batman
• The Terminator
• Ironman
• Jensen Ames (from Death Race)

FIGHT TO THE DEATH!!
any predictions?

Death Race was an intense movie. I swear someone was dying like every 5 minutes. Heads being blown off, bodies being shot, bodies being drilled through, neck breaking, head smashing, and any other gruesome and bloody death you can think of. Quite quite intense. Acting was eeeehhhhh. but the action was cool. Anyway, if you like that sorta movie, it's pretty cool. but like if you can't stand people dying, I don't recommend it.

I think boarding school would be super fun to live in. You can like take care of yourself. You live with your friends (hopefully) and there aren't any parents! Granted, it might be kinda hard sometimes, but who cares! you can learn to live by yourself. That'll be supercool. It'll be like college, but not. :O imagine the possibilities.

aright, im rambling about nonsense because i'm tired. i think im going to get some sleep.
ciao.

chrome is cool. but is slow.

yeah. chrome pretty much slows down my computer like cows in the middle of the road in Indian traffic. (nothing personal.) So i've stopped using it for a lil bit until they can fix it up. SO im excited because both Julia and Amiti have promised me some music! :D yay! I can now listen to some new tunes that'll refresh my ears because I'm tired of having to listen to the same music 24/7.

I find fantasy football quite fascinating. It gives you so much power and responsibility, it's kind of like you're spiderman or something. (poor pun D:) You have to keep track of your players and make sure they're healthy and you have to study things like trends, who your players are playing, what type of defense they'll be going up against, new hot players and such. It's really quite intense. But the taste of victory should be sweet. FLAMIN' FATTIES, I SWEAR I'LL BE THE BIGGEST UPSET IN HISTORY. behind the Giant's win over the Patriots. :( FF also makes you so much more involved in players and stuff.

So there's some news in the football world of how Daunte Culpepper has retired because not a single team has offered him a job so that he can return. Now for those of you who don't know who he is, he used to be one of the greatest upcoming football stars with huge expectations. that is until he busted his knee. His career went downhill from there. after being sent off to numerous other teams, he failed to keep up the momentum that he used to have. Finally, he got cut by the Oakland Raiders during the summer. So without a job, he decided to retire from the NFL. imagine having to leave something that you love just because you got hurt and was unable to live up to the hype. That would be depressing. that'd be like being torn away from the only world that you know and being left alone with nobody who knows you. The sad thing is that this sort of thing happens so often. so many musicians, athletes, and other famous people have suffered from this. It's really quite sad. I think someone should hold an event where people should have a chance to restart their careers and give their lives a jumpstart. That'd be cool. Then people wouldn't have to be so sad.

yeah. those are my thoughts for tonight.
ciao

chrome! is cool. kinda

yeah so I'm using the extremely nifty new browser by Google as I write this blog post. It looks pretty cool but like theres no tool bar at the top and at first I was like , "OH NO. THERE'S NO TOOLBAR?!?! WHAT DO I DO IF I HAVE TO FILE>NEW TAB?!?!?!" but then i found this like page looking button in the corner so now i'm all good. Yeah so steff told me that I should write about whatever comes to mind so I've decided about to write about one of the biggest problems in American society today. Over the years, I've noticed that the quantities and sizes of portions have decreased from since when I was about 5 years old. Most importantly, the size of the cookies within the Tollhouse and Chips Ahoy packets are just no longer up to par to today's demands. Over the now coming on 12 years that I have lived in this great nation, the size and the overall circumference of the cookie has decreased. Most specifically, the Chewy Chips Ahoy Chocolate Chip Cookie, AKA CCACCC. 

The CCACCC had been one of the top snack foods in the history of after-school snacks of America. 12 years ago, one was hardly able to dip the CCACCC into a cup of milk because the round edges of the cookie were just too large and round to get past of the edge of the cup. However, in modern times, one easily loses the CCACCC within the cup of milk and soon all that is left is a brown semi-solid drink that used to be milk. Thus, the size of the CCACCC has been reduced dramatically. 

The cause of this shrinkage could be fault of the failing American economy or a lack of interest and demand for the CCACCC. However, since the latter is impossible, the only logical conclusion is that the failing American economy is directly affecting the CCACCC. Thus, only by bringing the American economy back to its superior status will the CCACCC be able to return to its original state. 

As a result of this shrinkage of the circumference of the CCACCC, kids of modern and future times will no longer be able to savor the taste of the CCACCC in more than two bites, thus being forced to nearly swallow two CCACCCs within one mouthful. Putting children under such heinous acts should be considered abuse and phsychologically damaging. Thus, Chips Ahoy and its mother company should be dully persecuted and punished. 

whew. that was a mouthful. I hope you understand my reasoning. lol this thing was a slight exaggeration of the frustation of the tiny cookies nowadays but still. it's tiny. come on.

anyway, I hope you enjoyed it. lol GIMME SOME MORE TOPICS. 

ciao

wow. long time no post!

wowow. it's been a super long time since i've posted! :O oh no! i'm so sorry my dearest fans! I have let you down. Next time you should remind me. I have so many posts that i've started and never finished. I'm oh so dissapointed in myself :(. anyway. since the last post i've

• been to australia
• worked for 3 weeks at harker summer camp
• been to warped tour for the duration of one band :\
• started taking SAT classes
• gotten my license
• relatives from korea came over
• got a black hat that's pretty nice
• watched phantom of the opera in AUSTRALIA w00t
  
• made many new friends :D

many things, many things. So the fratellis have become quite addicting. their music is very quite catchy. I highly recomend them. their riffs on the guitar are not epic but earcatching. it brings you in quite quickly.

so school's starting soon. how am i going to deal with junior year you ask? Personally, I have no idea. On top of that, I'm in StuCo and already it's adding a little bitta stress on me. Me stress? oh no! that's not good! Anyway I hope that I can be as good as the class of 10 class reps have been in the past (way to go guys! props to you all!) so if any of you who're reading this blog and part of this awesome superduper cool class have any suggestions just throw em at me. OH. and I realized that we, the juniors, get to play the freshmen in dodgeball, tug o' war, and every other competing spirit competition. this'll be fun. I get to kick my brother's butt at dodgeball. w00t. gym jam is coming up! i'm pretty excited. mafia all night ftw. Mafia is quite the epic game. Emulating murderous gangsters plus backstabbing our friends without their knowledge always means a good time. I mean when else can you vote to kill your neighbors?? not even survivor does that. they just get voted of the island. wimps. Mafia is not for the weakhearted. You've been warned.

CIAO

not much to say

well it's been a few days since I last blogged and I must admit I have this urge to say things on a website that is completely open to the public and allows anyone and everyone to read it. yay for e-stalkers! :D (one of you are going to make a comment saying, "nobody would stalk you anyway.")
so Julia was nice enough to non-directly introduce me to a new band that goes by the name The Fratellis. They're really good you've probably heard them on one of the iPod commercial. Look up the song Flathead. Quite excellent. Anyhow, my internet router thingamajig is being an ass and blocking virtually every site that allows me access to the torrents, downloading, and even blocks Limewire. So I can't even download their album. I shouldn't say that on the internet... oh well. So if anybody has their album (old or new I don't care) that'd be really cool.They sound like what the Beatles would sound like in the modern day. Their voices sound like the the British people.

Just because she feeds me well and made me talk dirty in a pink hotel doesn't mean she's got eyes for me
-"Flathead" The Fratellis

nice lyrics too as you can tell. Anyway, I was at Steven's house all day yesterday and we spent most of the time playing games like we always do. good times. We dropped ourselves from helicopters over New York city then we went on to fighting wars all over the world as soldiers. There were instances when we fought a war in Lorderan also. Teehee. How nerdy am I.

PAINTBALLING. my first point. To all those who said they would come but stood us up: shame on you. You guys missed out. My second point: it was amazing. hahaha so much fun. No better way to let out inner frustration then pumping your friend full of paint. Rather, shooting plastic balls and giving the recipient welts for a few days. The feeling you get as you hear your foe shout and scream as you pelt him with plastic balls is quite satisfying. Screw anger management, go paintballing. I went in a boy and came out as a boy addicted to shooting paintballs at people.

Summer camp training starts on Tuesday! I'm so excited! I get to see summer camp people again after a long year. I can't wait for camp to actually start itself. I'm going to be missing the first week of second session and I'm going to be taking care of archery which is going to be slightly tedious but that's okay. I'll have fun anyway. I hope the kids I met last year are coming back. They were super cool. There's nothing that makes you happier than little kids. Seriously they are like the ultimate anti-depressant.

Anyhoo, I'm done for today. GNIGHT.
CIAO

LOST and middle school

O.M.G. what a good show. Did you know Lost is an awesome show? like. it's complete genius. So many things combined altogether in one awesome show. It's intense, scary, dramatic, sad, funny, romantic and so much more. what else can you ask for? i've been addicted to this show for the past like 2 days. If ANYONE, anyone at all, has season DVDs, you'd be really cool if you let me borrow them :) wink wink. hint hint. nudge nudge. All the characters are really deep too. Especially Sawyer and Locke. I think they're the two coolest characters in the show. Sawyer's cool because. he's cool. everyone slightly detests him but he's always cool-headed and he makes the best nicknames for everybody. Locke is so WISE. like it's not even old asian grandpa style wise, like with the weird sayings but in a make sense wise way. it's really deep. It's kinda creepy how he knows everybody so intimately and knows how to solve their problems. It's like he's become the island's representative. Remember that part way in the beginning of the series where he comes in contact with the monster thing? We haven't heard from it since. Ever since Locke saw it, it's never come again. What if the monsters taken over Locke? like what if it's a part of Locke now like some sort of weird wolf in sheeps skin sorta thing. LIKE ETHAN. WHAT AN ASS. SERIOUSLY. he creeps me out. er creeped* he's dead w00t charlie! anyway. if you HAVEN'T seen the show I won't spoil it anymore for you. You should most definitely watch it. OH one thing that really bothers me are the HORRIBLE korean accents. Seriously like do they not put in any effort to try to make the accents right? the only person with a proper korean accent is Sun, Jin can't speak korean, Sun's father can't speak korean. Jin's father can't speak korean. The korean hitman can't speak korean. Like i thought he was speaking gibberish. seriously. This makes me wonder if all movies and TV shows that have foreign languages actually have correct accents. We probably wouldn't know. Oh the scourge of them choosing Korean to be the language they butcher. Oh god why? Why such calamity? I cringe every single time I hear Jin. :(

Anyway going on. So my cousins are over with my uncle/aunt and great uncle/aunt. My girl cousin is graduating from Middle School tomorrow. So she was on the phone and gossiping, "oooh my goddd. I don't know if I'm going to grad dance tomorrow. *girly whine* ooooh i know! because Hojae (her boyfriend i presume? it says on facebook that he graduated from HIGH SCHOOL last year... let's hope not) isn't sneaking in. OMG. did you hear about kristi and kevin? she wants to dump him before grad! like like grad's tomorrow! *giggle*"
middle school. oh the memories. I don't think i was ever this bad. granted i was not a girl. sorry to disappoint. no dirty little secret to reveal.
She talks in this singsongy voice and its all high. It sounds like she's almost singing an opera. VALLEY GIRL. jeezus. I really wanna know what she'll be like in high school. WELL time will tell. I remember ms graduation. teehee. good times. I remember it was baking hot during grad practice and I got at least 3 shades darker. no joke. and mr. parker (? i forget his name) got annoyed during the pledge of allegiance because we paused somewhere in it and he said, "there is no comma there at all. It is a mistake to pause there." So during the actual grad, we messed up the whole audience by not pausing and there was like an awkward little moment as the audience kinda looked around with like a wtf? look. hahah. anyway. So the ceremonies were nice and everything. The speeches were sentimental. Kinda long but that's okay. The dance was awesome. The decorations were HELLA COOL. you guys remember the fire breathing dragon? wow. seriously we had a fire breathing dragon. hah. i bet you harker kids didnt have a fire breathing dragon. hohoho. anyway so the whole dance was decorated to a middle ages theme so there were banners hanging from the ceiling with drapes and pictures of knights and robin hood all over the place. But then the dance ended. I remember feeling that i might never see some of these people ever again. people were crying all over the place. i remember trying to hold on to the moment as long as possible. I didn't cry at school but let's just say that the car ride was really depressing. These guys were my whole childhood. I was leaving everyone that i'd known since i came to the US when I didn't speak a single word of english. For a few days afterward, I was kinda depressed. But then i met harker people and it was cool. i have two groups of friends now :D.

summer/rant on blizzard/my dependence on technology(not really)/and other stuff

WARNING: I have not posted in a few days. This post may consist of but is not limited to excessive capitals, exclamations, long paragraphs, the word "so", and the phrase "anyhoo". The party of this blog is not to be held responsible for side effects that can take place but is not limited to boredom, sleepiness, confusion, annoyance, etc. You have been warned.

summer's finally here! The sun is shining, homework is non-existent, studying is unthinkable, and i'm relaxed and happy.
BUT.
i cannot play DoTA. *sad face* partially my fault i guess. My brother wanted to learn how to play DoTA but seeing as we only have one copy of Frozen Throne, I told him to get a key generator (shhhh.). So he did. Then Blizzard decided to lay down the law on us (or me) and proceeded to block my IP. When I discovered this I FLIPPED. almost literally. I was like on my feet. (just kidding). I decided to research my little problem and lo behold, their technical forum states that my IP can be blocked from anywhere within a range of 72 Hours to 2 weeks. 2 WEEKS. What am I going to DO?! This was supposed to be the highlight of my summer. But now I might not be able to play DoTA for TWO WEEKS. *distressed face* so I've been wasting my time moping and groaning trying to find another way to vent out my frustration. I played GTA for a bit, shooting things, blowing up cars and it relieved my distress a little. But now I am posting up my feelings about my predicament on my blog. WHICH I find out has entertained many people and inspired them to which I am eternally grateful. i like comments *grin face*(hint hint)

anyhoo. moving on from my depression and angst. "angst. angst. angst. angst."
Tomorrow's like the true beginning of summer because it'll like be the first day when we're USUALLY in school. but we're NOT. *shock face* so that'll be nice. *smile face*

yeah so I think this'll be a good time to explain the reason that i'm not actually using faces and saying *____ face*. So my brother showed me this thing called Arby and the Chief. And if you guys don't know my enthusiasm and slight addiction that I have for Halo, then you are not a true friend. (sorry to break the truth to you guys) It's really slightly entertaining in a very stupid and dense way. It appeals to the most primitive senses of the humans. So both of the characters talk in 1337 talk. (haha) and Chief (one of the characters if you didn't get it from the title) occasionally does the face thing and the subtitles show the :( but he says saaaad face. teehee. So I thought it was funny and decided to use it somewhere. (maybe). look it up on youtube. it's funny. harharhar

GOING ON. We had our sophomore picnic yesterday which I must say was a SUCCESS. Hah. did your previous StuCo try stuff like that? (just kidding I love you guys). I was slightly worried that it might go OUT OF CONTROL AHHH. but it didnt *grin face*For all of you who didn't go, YOU MISSED OUT. we even had extra buns and wieners for you. (harharhar. buns and wieners. i crack myself up. hohoho) I don't know what we did with them. so you guys might have just caused like a huge waste of food. tsk tsk tsk. shame. but i'm sure you had a good reason for not bonding with your fellow classmates who you will undergo the trial and torture of junior year with. I'm sure you had a completely legit excuse. It's okay. We don't feel bad because you forgot about us and decided not to show up. We had fun without you. Just kidding. WE MISSED YOU ALL. Yeah so the picnic was a success. We had a slight bump in the beginning when we discovered that people reserved tables 3 months in advance and silly us, we only thought of the event last week. But that was okay because my mom brought over a table for us. Our grilling was a success and the food was nice and toasty. We were actually going to get some KFC but never got around to it. Sorry guys. I think it would have been a huge waste of food anyway. THANK YOU to all of those who brought something to share. Those brownies especially. They were delicious. *yum face* The park was humongous. There were water playthings, a baseball field, like 5 basketball courts, a huge field, another huge field, and grills. So yeah I think we picked the right park.

wow. this was a long post. I'm plumb out of things to say. NOT.

So i've been receiving Time the magazine for a few years now. Lately the highlight of the magazine has been the very last page where they have like mini essay sorta things. Yeah actually they're called Essays. I just checked. Anyway, they're about all sorts of different things that the reader has feelings about. Like this weeks issue had someone talking about their daughter's elementary school graduation. (quite moving and well written) All of these essays have been really good and interesting to read and it makes me want to write about things to. Not essays like those that we write in school but about topics that make me want to write essays. I guess that's kind of why I started this blog. As a way for me to start writing about things I want to write about where I can get feedback and things. Gosh. The Time articles are so clever and witty with their little jokes. I wish I could do that. Their random allusions to different things are so NOT random. it's so skillful how they do this. I guess this is why they're publishing articles for a national magazine that's been around for decades. The way they word things are ingenious too. they can turn any random topic into something so clever and amazing it makes me want to plop down and clunk out an essay. I should find something I want to write about. Hmm. This'll be one of my summer goals. to write an essay about something I want to write about.

This reminds me of another topic. So i've been listening to the Adam Carolla show on my ipod for a few months ever since their station got dropped from the bay area *sad face* You guys should listen to it. It's a talk show hosted by Adam Carolla (duh) who used to work on Loveline on 105.3. He's an incredibly intelligent guy and he's hilarious. Like the things he says and talks about are so interesting and clever, it makes me want to say, "why hasn't anyone thought of this before?" This guy didn't even go to college and worked in construction for like 20 years before finally reaching broadcasting industry. and now he's a radio talk show host who can talk hours about a single topic and the listener would never get bored. If the world was full of people like him, it would be a much better place. look up his show and listen to it. seriously.

wow. that really was a long post. that's like longer than all my posts combined. If you read this whole thing without skimming, eye glazing, scrolling over paragraphs, etc. etc. i applaud you. If you did, I don't blame you. *smile face* anyway, im tired now. im out of things to say, sorry to disappoint. I'll have more stuff to say later.

CIAO.
have you seen the movie, P.S. I love comments
(wow what a bad pun.)

music//more

yeah so im supposed to be studying for French but I'm talking to amiti on skype and she's giving some decent music. they're slightly generic but i guess that's alright. lol secretly addicting. shhhh. anyhoo. PRECALC. was pretty easy. surprisingly. this whole easy final thing is giving me a bad vibe. I hope i didn't bomb the whole thing and somehow fail. :( that'd be bad. OH my brother's being "promoted" tomorrow yayy congrats to him. he survived middle school. lol high school's going to be really weird with him next year but I'm okay with that i guess. I can keep an eye out for him and keep him from doing something stupid. I swear all his friends are complete idiots. but that's okay cuz I was weird in ms. Not as immature maybe but I was still pretty weird. HM. you guys should send me pictures of me from middle school so that I can laugh. HAHA. teehee. you can laugh with me.

ARGH French verb tenses are messing with my mind. so there's imparfait, subjonctif, futur, conditionnel. the horrible thing is that they look all the same. ESPECIALLY futur and conditionnel. :( but that's okay because French isn't that bad. Thank god I re-did french 1. I wud be in a load of unpleasantness if I decided to go onto French II. Not that I really had a choice. :P

yeah so im not done yet but i'll write more later

//edit.
aright going on. lately my parents have kept on bugging me again. they won't get off my back. Like it's gotten to the point where they're constantly talking to me, pestering me, telling me to study, that i'm going to fail at life if I don't get my life into shape. So a few minutes ago, my dad showed me this video of this guy in first place in a race then falling at the last minute. Pretty much he said, your life is going to be like that if you don't get yourself under control. You're going to be a fool. (almost verbatim) seriously. Like thanks for understanding dad. my life is completely different from yours. you grew up in some poor korean town and I live in America. It's a totally different place. All you have to do to succeed in korea is study. like constantly. unlike my dad in high school, i have a social life. there's thing I wanna do rather than mope around studying. I'm sick and tired of them trying to force me to do stuff that I don't wanna do.
god damn.

FINALS

Yeah. so finals. there's not much to say. there's only a few days left of school and my brother got me sick. seriously. i was fine until today and all of a sudden I start coughing and my throat gets itchy. argh. So I really don't feel like studying for finals but I'm scared that if i don't my very close to a B in math will actually drop down to a B. So i'm writing down stuff on notecards. well, not right now but you get the point. Anyhoo, SUMMER'S ALMOST HERE :D.

My Summer Schedule:

SAT on SAT. :OOO oh dear.
CIT training :DDD second week of summer AKA June 16-20
DOWN UNDER: July 5 - 25
HARKER SUMMER CAMP: July 28-August 15 w00t yayyy
Then I have random SAT classes :(

SO the whole point of having the schedule (pronounced shejual in some countries) is so that you can call me and we can hang out and have a jolly good time.

My PREFERRED Summer Schedule:

Sleep June 5 - 15
CIT
DOWN UNDER
SUMMER CAMP
Sleep until school starts
stick in some random hang out dates : movies, PGA, bowling, etc. etc.

that'll be pretty cool.
OH AND BTW. REMINDER FOR ALL HARKER SOPHOMORES READING THIS WONDERFUL THOUGHTFUL BLOG:
COME TO THE PICNIC on SATURDAY.
contact me if you want more info. :D

So that's all out of me tonight. MORE TO COME.
CIAO

new layout. again

hey y'all so I got another layout because I thought the last one was a little.. unprofessional? iono i didn't like it so i made a new one BUT stupid photobucket isn't letting me sign in so I can host my picture. ;( I forgot that I made a new password for my account because they told me old password was too small sigh. stupid password requirements. I had such a good one that I had for all my accounts but now the STUPID INSECURE sites aren't letting me keep my ingenious numerically based password.

Oh I also need a new background because I only made a header for the blog. So i need some inspiration. THIS is where you guys come in. any suggestions?

ANYHOO. more on my life. so this whole weekend I was supposed to study for finals/SAT but i kept on procrastinating and fooling off so I barely got in any study. Actually the only finals that I'm nervous for are chem and math. then on SAT i have SAT teehee. (pun intended :P) then after the SAT is the AWESOME sophomore PICNIC that all sophomores of HARKER should go to. :D if you don't know about it TALK TO ME so I can give you the info.

aw im so disappointed. so i've been watching the 4th season of the Office on www.hulu.com (which is an awesome site) and I thought there were going to be more episodes than I find out that the season's already ended. only 14 EPISODES. stupid writers strike. I can't enjoy more episodes of the Office until season 5 comes out. although I must admit season finale had so many cliff hangers! *spoiler alert* angela and dwight getting it on was slightly disturbing i have to admit. BUT THAT'S HUGE cuz she's supposedly engaged to andy. aw poor jim. he lost his chance to propose to Pam and now she's being insecure and might have second thoughts. NOOOO. and Michael finally found his soul mate but stupid JAN has to get preggy by some stupid sperm donor. ASLDKJHG. what is this world coming to?! Michael finally has something right going for him and he loses his chance. :(so yes. I hope September 25 comes around quickly so that I can start watching this amazing show again.

SCHOOL GETS OUT IN 4 DAYS. OMG. deargod. wow. that went by fast. like roadrunner who zooms through the desert. only a few days of long tests (although nothing like the AP i must admit.) and i'll be FREEEEE. :D I can RELAX. play SC/DoTA as long as I want. god that'll be the life. AND I can go to Australia! w00t. So i talked to my buddy over in australia and he seems pretty cool. He plays the alto sax in his school band which i think is kinda like jazz band so a little coincidence right there. He plays rugby too pretty hardcore. I wonder if Australians have FaceBook. Hmm. That'll be interesting. you know this leads me to wonder, what do Americans sound like to Australians? We think that the Australians and English people have accents but I wonder how we sound like to them. I think it'll be really weird to listen to an American accent. like we don't even have an accent. It's so weird to try to find the differences between accents and its super hard to find it but like once you hear an accent you know exactly they have an accent. SO WEIRD.

Anyhooo. That's about all out of me.
CIAO

layout!

YAY new layout for my lovely blog! it may not look like much but it actually took me a little bit because i hadta relearn everything from my old xanga days :( teehee. anyhoo i hope you like it. i'll add more stuff later

my family annoys me. it's like everyone in my family is from a whole nother world that they choose to remain in and not try to mingle with the regular people. my brother thinks that he knows everything in the world and tries to make seemingly clever statements that make him sound philosophical and wise. stupid. it's unbelievable. and my parents are so out of touch with the modern culture that we live in. my dad's always at the computer when he's at home and he barely leaves his work room. The only places i ever see him in this house is in the kitchen, his office, and his bedroom. He rarely comes into the other rooms at all. it's like he's so engrossed in his work that he barely bothers to try to know how we're doing. sometimes he doesn't even know about performances i'm doing or what any of my big plans are. it makes it seem like he doesn't care about learning about his kid's life. he just doesn't care. both my parents are slightly anti-social too. they think hanging out with friends at a mall is a waste of time. they think tv shows are out to poison our minds so that we become mindless tv addicted junkies that do nothing but watch tv. it's like they don't know how to have fun anymore. i'm so sick and tired of being stuck with my family all the time. I seriously need to get my license ASAP so that I can drive away and get some time by myself or with my friends. my whole life is structured with school during most of the day then with my family after that. then most weekends its my family 24/7. nowadays i can rarely get out and being in such close proximity to my family is killing me. it's probably because my parents and i are from such different backgrounds. my dad had a horrible school life where he was constantly miserable. his family never had that much money because of the state korea was in when he was a kid. my mom was second out of four kids where she had 2 sisters and a brother who were close to her age. me, im a kid who loves his school and friends, who is privileged, and has no money problems. i have a brother who's about two years younger than me but sometimes seems like 10. i have a sister who's literally 9 years younger than me. I have nobody to connect to in my family. it frustrates me so much. it's like i'm stranded in a family where i barely know the personal lives of the other members. the sad thing is it doesn't even bother me sometimes. sometimes i just stay in my room all by myself and only come out for food. it's like i've lost touch with my family and i can't go back to the way things were before. it just frustrates me that my family no longer really bother to do anything together. all of us have our separate plans. my brother always goes to his friends house or something. my parents go off together with my sister to god knows where. i go to the movies or something. even when we're together in the house, we barely talk to each other. we're all in our respective rooms doing stuff by ourself. the only time we get together is when we're eating and going to church or something. sigh. will this ever get better?

end of the year

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wow. the seniors are graduating on saturday. its unbelievable how quickly this year has gone by. I can still remember matriculation and suddenly the seniors are graduating! I feel like i'm a lot closer to this year's seniors than to last years. I barely knew any seniors at all last year but this year I know so many of them from Jazz Band, summer camp, Track, Football, and other places. Just at the thought of them leaving makes me feel kinda worried for next year. How are we going to survive without the seniors? Next year's seniors are forever going to be last year's sophomores to me. I don't know if they're going to be as cool as this year's seniors. It's already been two years since I came to Harker and i think i've changed ALOT from what I used to be. I've made new friends, lost old ones, rekindled some old ones. I'm so thankful for the new ones cuz you guys are the people that keep me alive as i go along. I'm kinda sad for the old ones that I lost and have slowly withered away but I know I can make it up to u guys and we can bring it back to life :D. To the ones that I rekindled its been super cool to get together again and update each other :D

Now that I think about it, I'm such a different person now than I was two years ago. On a superficial side, I wear polos, cargo pants, vans, skinner jeans, i have short hair, i wear glasses, i have an iPod :O, I grew a few inches. LETS COMPARE.

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lol. yeah I think im a much cooler person now than even last year. :P If I may say so myself. but like on a deeper note, I think as a person I've become much more open and carefree. Pre-Harker, I would always be careful to think about what other people would think about me and I would always be quiet around people I don't know but me now I go crazy whenever I feel like it. I guess it's a part of me finally growing up. So as like an end of the year thing i think i'm going to write little shoutouts :D (in another post) teehee

CIAO

HIIIIIIIIIIII

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HI EVERYONE THIS IS JACKIE SON ANND JULIA(R)!
WE ARE IN ENGLISH CLASS WITH MR. LEENERTS WHO SPELLS HIS NAME WITH AN S WITH A TAIL!

HES OUR SUB!
OMG

Won Hee Lee worships JACKIE SON
http://www.pimpmysearch.com/home.html?gname=i%20worship%20jackie%20son
look. its his homepage! HOW AWESOME IS THAT. :)

So today, JuliaR discovered how to use QUOTE MARKS in blogger.
(credit to Won Hee)

OMG LOLLZ. HAHAHAHAH. LOLOLOLOLOL. jfdkjd

dkjfdkjkdkjdkjdLOL

IRONMAN. and more

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SO Robert Downey Jr. is an amazing actor. And Iron Man was an amazing movie. I saw it yesterday after quite a hectic amount of trying to get people to come and planning etc. etc. Because it was post-AP week I wanted to actually have a social life for one weekend so me, jackie, juliar, chad, euge, went to go see IRON MAN. then we ran into dom and anthony. pretty cool. ANYWAY the movie was like the best ever and I really liked it. I highly recommend it. AAND I guess two key plot twist/things of the movie and might I say, I was two for two. :D in your face julia. she thought I read it somewhere. WARNING *PLOT SPOILER* DONT HIGHLIGHT IF YOU DON'T WANNA KNOW so almost in every movie the bald guy with the beard who pretends to be the hero's friend turns out to be the villain right. its a give. :D ok. so then after the movie we went next door to the brand new FROYO. they have pretty clever system that deserves some kudos. like you get the yogurt then you to... SELF SERVE the toppings. :O what a concept! seriously. it was pretty good too. not sour like some yogurts can be.

Yeah now I wanna see all the Robert Downey Jr movies but I'm afraid some of them might be bad and ruin him for me. :( that'd be bad. Oh and supposedly he's in a new hulk movie as Tony Stark that's coming out in the summer. I've never heard of this new Hulk movie because I've had no social life for the past few weeks. :( but I hope its interesting. PLUS the hot elf from LoTR is in it :D hahahaha. how nerdy am i. I deserve thick glasses and plaid shirts with pocket protectors. like the guy in white and nerdy.

That's funny. I thought with it being my plane and all, that it would just wait for me to get there. I mean, doesn't it kind of defeat the purpose of having your own plane if it departs before you arrive?
-Tony Stark

So true. The genius of Tony Stark. actually the person who wrote the script. but we can pretend. ANYHOO thats about it for me. MORE later.

CIAO

mini story!

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SO. I'm testing out my testing out my writing skills and i'm going to write a little story. I think i've enjoyed writing stories but never really wrote a full fledged one but no times better than the present. so here i go!

He leans on the locker, calm, cool, collected, talking with friends. The afternoon feels lazy, tired, hot, but refreshing. School's over, no more teachers droning on, no more schedule controlling every second that passes by. It's time for relaxation, for rest, for play. So he leans on his locker, chatting away. then he spots her. Walking down the hall, looking tired and weary but stunningly beautiful. The purpose of life should be to discover her secret. How does she do it? How does she keep her aura uplifting? Charming? Captivating? What's the answer? He tries to keep the facade, brain churning like an engine, chest thumping like drums, stomach rolling like a kid down a hill. Time slows. What should he say? What is she thinking? What would she say? She's coming closer. He opens his mouth, lips ready to speak, hand ready to wave. Then, she passes by. No word is said. No hand is waved. He wonders, what went wrong? What just happened? How did he miss it? He watches as she walks away. Lightly stepping, Gently moving. She's farther off now. He comes back to reality. The friends are still there. He talks again, joking, laughing, chattering. He looks one more time but she's gone. Maybe next time.

phantom of the opera

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so this post is dedicated to jackie because she reminded me that a blog of mine existed. so here you go jackie :P

I've had this obsession with Phantom of the Opera ever since I came back from New York where I saw it on Broadway. Might I just say that it was AMAZING. like no joke. its AMAZING. seriously. AMAZING. i just said AMAZING 3 times. (that's 4) its really that good. If you ever go to New York city and decide to watch a musical, POTO should be on the top of your list. its really that good. The music is awesome, sometimes its like a combination of pipe organ and 80's technorock, and other times its almost like an opera. It's like the ultimate combination of music and acting. I bought the soundtrack of the musical with the original cast and trust me it doesn't do justice to the actual musical. The present cast is so much better than the soundtrack. So you can't come to me and be like "oh i don't need to see the musical. I can watch it on youtube."
IF that is your response to me, I will do something god awful that will probably get me kicked off of student council. honestly. don't watch it on youtube. GO TO NEW YORK. You can see the awesome city along the way too. if you can't do go to New York then go to Las Vegas and watch it. It's not as good as the original NY but i guess it'll suffice. you won't regret it at all. Then after you come back, we can have a long discussion about how AMAZING the musical is. we can rant and make a fan-club and totally make it next new thing. :D

So yeah. POTO is AMAZING. But I'm in need for some new music. If anyone believes that they have an adequate candidate to wet my musically starved tastebuds let me know. I NEED NEW STUFF. :D

CIAO!

TED vs. BARNEY vs. MARSHALL

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okay. So lately I've gotten hooked on How I Met Your Mother (has become one of my top shows btw. you should definitely check it out) and a few minutes ago after posting up the sleepy post, I was thinking while I was brushing my teeth. I usually become quite philosophical while brushing my teeth at 12:00 AM in the morning. Anyway. I was thinking about my life, specifically my love life (:O) and SUDDENLY i had this revelation that I could relate to all three of the main guys in How I Met Your Mother! That was definitely one of the defining moments of the day. I will go on to explain my reasoning behind this idea.

SO first off Ted.
Now for those of you who don't watch the show (you're missing out) Ted is the main character who's narrating the story of how he met his wife to his kids (thus the title of the show) so far, the show is about him trying to find the "one", the one woman who would make him happy, satisfied, and in love. So far, he hasn't found the "one" yet. Alot of times during last year/this year (especially this year) a lot of my friends have been getting together with another person and they just seem completely devoted to each other without any sign of their devotion failing anytime soon. They somehow just click and gel with each really well. NOW i know i'm only in high school and I shouldn't be worrying about this stuff, I just wanna see how its like to be with someone who makes you completely comfortable and relaxed and easy to get along with and someone that I can really love. SO far, that person hasn't shown up and probably won't show up until like college and beyond. But still, you never know they might just decide to come out of nowhere and blindside me and knock me out cold. So that's how I relate to Ted.

Barney:
Barney is the guy who only wants to get girls for fun and then just leave them behind. He comes up with all these crazy schemes to pick up chicks and is quite suave if i may say so. :P anyway. I feel like I can be Barney sometimes. Sometimes, I'm just out to have fun. Not to get caught up in some huge mess and have to somehow fix the problem and get myself out ASAP. Now i'm not saying that I just completely desert girls and treat them like trash. But there's been instances where like the instant i take a teensy step further than just having fun, I just get completely annoyed by the person and don't wanna hang out with them anymore, don't wanna look at them. It really bothers me that I behave this way but I guess there's no going around it. It's just how I'm wired I guess. Somehow, I think it's a good thing, not the part where I get disgusted by girls, but I know that this person's not for me and just to have fun with, someone I can be friends with but not much more. So that's how I relate to Barney.

Marshall:
Now Marshall's the guy who's got it all together. He's engaged to the love of his life and he's studying to become a lawyer. Sometimes things just click for me. Things just smooth themselves out and somehow I have no problems in the world. I feel like I can be king of the world and achieve all my goals in a day. There's been girls who I thought were the perfect one and I thought I was in a perfect situation that felt like it was going to last forever. But sadly, nothing lasts forever. Those things turned bad and they weren't the perfect one. So I move on and eventually I know I can actually be like Marshall and have everything set and perfect in my life.

So that's the result of my philosophical toothbrushing. I think of weird things while brushing my teeth but hey! who cares? I think I actually understand myself a little better now :O imagine that! anyhoo. the times really late now and my eyelids feel like they have blow driers have drying them out. So i'm going to be going to bed. I wish you all a very goodnight.
CIAO

SLEEPY

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Good evening everybody
it is approximately 11 46 PM right now and instead of going to sleep i'm blogging :O.
Note my devotion to you guys. I'm losing sleep because I want you to know the numerous meticulous details of my life. Yeah but i actually haven't written in this thing for a few days now so maybe I'm not as devoted as I say i am :) shhhh...
ANYHOO

I've realized today during the wee hours of the morning while I was waiting for the first bell to ring, that Halifax was actually a decent band. Before this specific moment, I had thought they were tooo... hmmm.. emo? angry? iono but i listened to them today and i thought their guitar part was really cool. But i googled the tab for some songs and they're super cool guitar licks are actually not that hard to play. I really need some harder things to play.

I wish my life was more exciting so that I can write more stuff into this blog. I'm sure if i remembered all the things that I thought about throughout the day I would have stuff, but sadly I don't remember. So that's about all that's going into my post today (2nd post overall :O) I bid you all a fond goodnight.
CIAO

FIRST POST :OO

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SO. i have made a blog after reading numerous other entries by other people AND have deemed it interesting and worthy of my ramblings. so this blog isnt going to be like my daily activities because that can get boring pretty fast. BUT this will be a blog diving into the mind of won hee :O so be prepared for anything.... anyhoo! my first ramble of my first entry of my first blog! (unless xanga counts (it was in middle school. don't hate. i know you had one too))

FIRST TOPIC
so recently i went to the east coast to visit colleges right? AND i fell in love with YALE! of all schools! one of the hardest schools to get into and that has to be the one i desperately want to go to. SO since this is the school that i've decided to get into, my NEW AND IMPROVED lifestyle starts now.

MY NEW AND IMPROVED LIFESTYLE GUIDELINES

• NO MORE PROCRASTINATION
• STUDY FOR TESTS
• INVOLVE MYSELF MORE DEEPLY IN THINGS I ENJOY
• REMAIN COMMITTED

so those are my new guidelines for my new lifestyle. SO just next time you see me walking down the halls, be nice and remind of my new lifestyle :D

SECOND TOPIC.
middle school! o how i miss thee and thy lovely days
I was talking to someone who happens to know more about my brothers social life than I do and she was talking about one of my brothers numerous girlfriends (it runs in the family ;D) and how he made her cry and he didn't know what to do (i won't go into detail) and I was just thinking

about how stupid and socially awkward we all are in middle school. in elementary school we're completely oblivious to everything and play tag and other games OR if you were like me play horsie in kindergarten :). In high school we're mostly mature (key word of the post: mostly) and can manage intimate conversations with the other gender without awkwardness or silences. BUT in middle school we're coming out of our oblivious little shell but we're completely lost. its like we're expanding our borders little by little but every time we do something risky we go :O and freak out. SO on an impulse i've just had i'm going to list all the firsts that middle school consists of (DISCLAIMER: just because you never did any of these in middle school doesn't mean your weird) (well... maybe a little but thats okay everyone can use a little weirdness)

1. First HUG from another gender
2. First LOCKER
3. First DANCE ooooh this was a big deal :P
4. First SIGNIFICANT OTHER (BF/GF)
5. First LEGAL PG-13 movie
6. First time having more than one teacher
7. First CELL PHONE
8. First MUSIC ADDICTION
9. First KISS from someone outside your family

thats my little list that i have. you're welcome to comment (:D) and list some more. ANYWAY. I've pretty much lost steam now on my blogging for now. this is pretty fun :O I'll build up my blog endurance and write up some more later. CIAO~