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

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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!