Trying to explain your ethnic culture, including food, words, shopping preferences, etc. can get exhausting after a while. I think that is why sometimes it's just easier to be friends with people who are from a similar cultural background as you. You don't have to deal with all that awkward, "Well my culture deals with it like this," or "My culture's food smells like that because," business. It's a balancing act, really. So this whole hyphenated consciousness we as Americans deal with everyday (Korean-American, Jamaican-American, Italian-Irish-Cherokee-American) is like a teeter-totter trying to stay even, but never fully succeeding.
I think I just don't have the patience to deal with people who don't "get" me right off the bat. Or maybe I'm just tired. I've been hungry and exhausted all day. I'm a big fat cranky baby. So sue me. And put me to bed. G'night.
2.05.2009
2.04.2009
Goood Foood Goood Tiiimes
I found a Todai in BJ! But it is freaking expensive... 198 kuai for lunch, which is like, 30 US bucks!! Even so, I think it would be worth it... I heard the food is good quality and with lots of variety... I just might put it down for my bday wish list ^^; I'm really cravin' some raw slices of mercury on top of acidified starch right now...
I'm in the process of sorting through all my junk right now, and I have so much of it. Why are women (in general) such pack rats? We keep that extra little thingy that goes with the other piece of another thingy that we will never use just in case that random part of the thingy will possibly go missing/break/fall off or the world will come to an end if we don't save it for a thingy day that will never come. It's hard to part with thingys that usually go unseen in our daily life, but hold a special thingy-shaped place in our hearts... and I think that is the difference between men and women. Guys don't have that thingy-shaped hole in their hearts like women do. So easy.
We met up as a team for the first time in over a month, and it felt good. I've missed hanging out and talking with my teammates... we are a very ecclectic and interesting bunch. Our conversation tonight ranged from leeches to theories on creationism to the price of food in Korea. I love my team :) We had some beef tacos tonight... deeeeelish. Rebecca and Jeff are one lean mean cooking team! We stuffed ourselves silly.
Goodnight, loved ones!
I'm in the process of sorting through all my junk right now, and I have so much of it. Why are women (in general) such pack rats? We keep that extra little thingy that goes with the other piece of another thingy that we will never use just in case that random part of the thingy will possibly go missing/break/fall off or the world will come to an end if we don't save it for a thingy day that will never come. It's hard to part with thingys that usually go unseen in our daily life, but hold a special thingy-shaped place in our hearts... and I think that is the difference between men and women. Guys don't have that thingy-shaped hole in their hearts like women do. So easy.
We met up as a team for the first time in over a month, and it felt good. I've missed hanging out and talking with my teammates... we are a very ecclectic and interesting bunch. Our conversation tonight ranged from leeches to theories on creationism to the price of food in Korea. I love my team :) We had some beef tacos tonight... deeeeelish. Rebecca and Jeff are one lean mean cooking team! We stuffed ourselves silly.
Goodnight, loved ones!
2.03.2009
Sparks
I woke up this morning to the sound of our front door squeaking open: My roommates are home! I was bleary-eyed, smelly, and messy-haired, but I gave them all huge hugs of welcome. Home seems like home, now that the sounds of other people in the house fill the silent corners of my formerly single-membered residence.
I spent most of the day rearranging, reorganizing, and cleaning out my new private bedroom. I had Bridget Jones' Diary and Edge of Reason playing in the background throughout the day, and revisited my old friends Bridge, Mark, and Daniel. There's something very appealing about a frumpy chubby Texan-with-a-British-accent who wins the heart of not only one above-average attractive Brit, but two, and double that one more time, with the sequel.
Ate lunch at a neighborhood favorite, what we like to call the "Muslim" restaurant with the roomies, and talked about their backpacking trip through Malaysia. They came back rosy from the sun and weary-eyed from their red-eye flight.
Did some yoga in the afternoon, and was reminded of my extreme lack of balance and flexibility, and a bit turned off by the vibrating humming of a man chanting throughout the soundtrack of the DVD. Makes me feel weird. Hopefully by summertime, I'll be able to do one of those poses without my back leg trembling like crazy (what's up with that??) and making my leg flex as straightly as the oddly masculine-yet-femininely attractive lady on the DVD.
I'm trying to be healthy with all the free time on my hands these days, so I've started tracking my calories and physical activity throughout the day. Most of the time these kinds of things don't last for me, but my goal is at least two weeks, for now. Yesterday was a whopping 2,487 calories (it might have something to do with the Dairy Queen Oreo Blizzard I had while waiting at the theater for Australia -_-;;), but I kind of made up for it with my 1,584 calorie food count today.
Tomorrow is our first team meeting in like, FOREVER, so it will be weird-awkward-good to see everyone all together again. I kind of wasted a lot of time doing nothing productive since I've been back, so I'm kinda nervous about seeing everyone else and 'fessing up to the fact.
Oh well, here goes.
I spent most of the day rearranging, reorganizing, and cleaning out my new private bedroom. I had Bridget Jones' Diary and Edge of Reason playing in the background throughout the day, and revisited my old friends Bridge, Mark, and Daniel. There's something very appealing about a frumpy chubby Texan-with-a-British-accent who wins the heart of not only one above-average attractive Brit, but two, and double that one more time, with the sequel.
Ate lunch at a neighborhood favorite, what we like to call the "Muslim" restaurant with the roomies, and talked about their backpacking trip through Malaysia. They came back rosy from the sun and weary-eyed from their red-eye flight.
Did some yoga in the afternoon, and was reminded of my extreme lack of balance and flexibility, and a bit turned off by the vibrating humming of a man chanting throughout the soundtrack of the DVD. Makes me feel weird. Hopefully by summertime, I'll be able to do one of those poses without my back leg trembling like crazy (what's up with that??) and making my leg flex as straightly as the oddly masculine-yet-femininely attractive lady on the DVD.
I'm trying to be healthy with all the free time on my hands these days, so I've started tracking my calories and physical activity throughout the day. Most of the time these kinds of things don't last for me, but my goal is at least two weeks, for now. Yesterday was a whopping 2,487 calories (it might have something to do with the Dairy Queen Oreo Blizzard I had while waiting at the theater for Australia -_-;;), but I kind of made up for it with my 1,584 calorie food count today.
Tomorrow is our first team meeting in like, FOREVER, so it will be weird-awkward-good to see everyone all together again. I kind of wasted a lot of time doing nothing productive since I've been back, so I'm kinda nervous about seeing everyone else and 'fessing up to the fact.
Oh well, here goes.
1.02.2009
Holiday Lull
School is pretty much over, students will be going back to their hometowns soon...
I caught a cold that's running its course through my body now... It feels like I'm gagging up my lungs every time I cough...
My roomies and I are leaving for a 3 day trip up north to HB, where the low currently hits -10F...
I made dduk gook for myself this morning, and now the dduk is bbooruhing in my stomach so I feel super full right now...
Happy New Year.
I caught a cold that's running its course through my body now... It feels like I'm gagging up my lungs every time I cough...
My roomies and I are leaving for a 3 day trip up north to HB, where the low currently hits -10F...
I made dduk gook for myself this morning, and now the dduk is bbooruhing in my stomach so I feel super full right now...
Happy New Year.
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