Ninja Assassin

About a week ago, I went and watched Ninja Assassin. It was not too terrible and bearible to watch, but I was still disappointed nonetheless. It was alot of action, pretty much mostly action and little dialogue. Body parts flew everywhere for the most part, blood was definitely a galore and not too mention, Ninja Stars. Rain, the main character is a Korean celebrity and he was pretty much the reason I went, to just support his efforts here in the states. I thought that he put in a lot of efforts for this role he took on. He had a hot body, that much I can say. The dialogue was pretty much cheesy and made me laugh from time to time, but other than that, it was action-spectacular. If you like gore, action and blood everywhere in the movie, then you should definitely catch this flick. It is not a bad movie to spend about 2 hours on if you are bored.
While I am talking about movies, the one movie I do want to see really badly is the new one with George Clooney, I am not sure if it is out yet and definitely definitely DEFINITELY Brothers, the movie featuring Jake Gyllenhaal.

The Passion

I read The Passion in my literature class. Overall, it was hard to understand because even though at a glance the book is just amusing and seems like an easy read. The book had things about magical realism as it integrated unreal things and brought them to life as if they were real. This was similar to how religion made everyone think. Jesus walked on water, and although this is a hard concept to grasp, because people believe, they accept this as a fact and as a miracle of Christianity. Just as so, The Passion had parts of the novel that integrated such impossibilities into reality. It made me think that if one were to believe something so much, as impossible as that idea may be, it can be the truth. 1+1=3 right?
So then, everything that we perceive to be true could possibly be all lies.

VIA?

Starbucks keeps putting forth new blends of coffee and the newest one yet? Aside from the holiday blend, which comes out every year around this time, is the VIA. Instant coffee mix that tastes just like the starbucks coffee brewed in Starbucks. Is that just amazing or what?! And not only that, but VIA now has three official kinds, medium, bold and decaf. One kind to suit any coffee lover out there. Now, everyone can enjoy a Starbucks coffee at the luxury of their home with just one packet of VIA. But, why is it so expensive? Does it really taste exactly like Starbucks coffee? I would try it, but I cannot dare spend so much money on some instant coffee mix that is not guaranteed to satisfy my coffee hunger. Anyone willing to try for me?
Lately, I have been enjoying coffee alot and cigarettes. I think when someone goes through a hard time, they tend to enjoy something that tastes bitter or sweet, one or the other opposite. Coffee leaves a bitter taste in the mouth, but it is delicious and I keep wanting more and more. That is so much money out since I don't know how to operate a coffee machine and am reduced to having to purchase coffee from cafes all the time. Not only that, but omfg cigarettes are overpriced!
Do i run low on money but satisfy my needs when in stress?
or do i save money and just keep adding stress to myself.
Lose lose situation. FML.



For viewing purposes: the New Moon trailer

Swine flu

LOL on the picture.
So the swine flu epidemic is actually alot bigger than everyone had expected and it is getting the best of the global population, or at least those I can see. Even here at UT, everyone is scared shitless for the swine flu. This is so apparent because those hand sanitizers are applied on every wall in every building. People stare you with glaring, evil eyes when you cough in class, and you have to wear masks when you want to see the nurse at the SSB. I actually really wanted the epidemic to be huge so that the school would close down. Never happened, so sad.
In Korea, where I am from, the swine flu epidemic is really big. Every day on the news, people are dying or are diagnosed with the swine flu. My friend tells me that everyone wears masks everywhere they go because of the fear of the H1N1. I wonder if the swine flu is actually a big deal in the states but the government is hiding the truth and the true statistic about it from the citizens. If that is the case, that is extremely upsetting because people are actually dropping and dying from it.
A Korean celebrity's son passed away two days ago from the swine flu and it was splashed across the news as one of the top stories. He died two days after being diagnosed with the swine flu. It is sad, but the true situation right now.
People be careful!!! and always wash your hands. :)

대체 뭐가 문제인걸까.
이걸 읽는사람들은 아마 이 글을 전혀 이해 못할거라고 .. 이미 알고있지만.
너무 답답한 내 심정이, 여기 말고는 적을수가 없으니깐 그러니깐
이렇게 나마 발악하는걸까?

Future.

What is so fearful of the future that everyone is scared for what it holds?
I know I am so scared of the future too, but the present holds enough problems to solve and the problems today is enough to handle for now, so why should we be so burdened with whatever tomorrow is going to hold right now? What if the mistakes we make today because we are so preoccupied with the fear of the future creates more trouble? I think that if we keep ourselves busy with taking care of what we need to today, then the future will unfold itself naturally the way it should.
I have always been so worried about what my future held for me that I overlooked the most important things I needed to grasp in the present. It over complicated things and it seems all stupid now. Two years back, I thought I would have been studying MCATs and solving problems that I am not even bothering right now. So in parallel, I am never going to know what future really might hold. So, I decided that it is more important to know and to do what I need to do now rather than worry about what I should do today to better suit the future.
This post didn't make one single sense. hahaha

Rainy day

"Why did you lie to me about that?" - A
"About what?" - B
"You know exactly what I am talking about" - A
"Maybe I do, but what is the problem?" - B
"You lied." - A
"I know. I'm sorry, but really I'm only human." - B





"I don't know if I can keep this up." - A
"Why do you say that?" - B
"I just can't." - A
"Can I at least have the reason why you're quitting?" - B
"Because I don't have the confidence that this is going to work" - A





Excuses and more excuses pile up and only end up hurting everyone ultimately.




Anyways, random post. Here's a song that I have been listening to alot lately.
It is a brand new song by Usher. I guess he hasn't lost it yet.

Good song

So I am at work and just bored out of my mind.
I'm just sort of sitting here and doing nothing except listening to music.
I listen to all sorts of music, but lately I've been really into Korean indie rock type music and of course always R&B.
I thought I would share one of the songs that I listen to. It's in Korean, but it is still pretty awesome so have a listen. Disregard the video and just listen to the audio. :D

Random quote

I was surfing the web earlier because I could not sleep due to a fever and I decided to look around my friend's "mini homepages" on Cyworld, a Korean version of facebook/myspace stuff. (It's much better though, trust me). Anyways, back to what I was writing about. I was at one of my friend's page and she had put up a quote on her diary section that read:

"Rather than being scared for what tomorrow might hold and not living to the fullest in fear, I would rather live today to the fullest as if there was no tomorrow to worry about."

I thought this quote was so fitting to what situation I am caught up in right now. Though my problems are personal, I will not be going into detail about what I am caught up in. But the storm that I'm weathering right now has been holding me up in my attempts to reach my potential of what I could accomplish that day because I keep worrying about what tomorrow might hold for me. But really, this is the truth. No one can look even a couple of minutes into the future, even death cannot be predicted. So I say, why not live the moment to the fullest and worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.

Les Thanatonautes

Les Thanatonautes is a science fiction book by a French author, Bernard Werber. I actually read the book in Korean. At first, when it started talking about death and the questions of afterlife and how several individuals began a movement that shocked the whole work at the time of the setting of the novel, my first reaction was like, "What the #$%$ is this?". Then, I got into the book and it is pretty lengthy, and I actually really enjoyed it. It raised multiple philosophical questions and it had little bits and pieces of different tales from different cultures and religions about their thoughts and ideas about the afterlife. Although I am a Christian and believe that there is afterlife for those who believe. I can never be sure until I am dead and finally there myself to witness it. However, I thought it was astonishing that this author did not simply stop at the thought of the question of afterlife, but rather wrote a whole book about these thanatonautes. It is a really interesting read. Makes you want to question how this author even came up with such a story, but it is pretty mind blowing and I enjoyed it alot.

Amusing

You can't really tell what the picture is, sorry. I didn't know how to make it bigger once it uploaded.
Anyways, the picture is a collage of books. Books that are meant to be self help books. Titles run from 50 Things a College Student Should Do, 77 Things to Do Before You Grow Old, ## Things to do...., etc.
Really???? That many books just to tell you what you need to do? Seriously, if you read all of these books. You have pretty much a million things to do when you are a teenagers, a million more to do before you turn 20 years old, add a couple of more millions to that pile to do in college, etc etc. When are we going to have time to do what WE want to do? I imagine, one cannot construct a unique life for oneself, if this is the case where all of these "To do" books are being published at an astonishing rate. It's like these books are rabbits, just keep popping out.

Anti smoking?

Blog entry from the past

Click on the link real fast. Its not a video, nothing grand.
Before running this particular blog, I had another running that had to do with advertisements and things that were visually impacting.
This particular one has to do with smoking. It was an anti-smoking campaign photograph that I thought was really interesting. It still is, don't get me wrong.
However, it is mildly amusing to me that I put not just this one but two other anti smoking ads on that blog because I am a smoker. I have no idea what I was thinking.
I guess in the back of my mind I know that smoking is extremely bad for anyone's health and those around the smoker. It still makes me laugh that I had this up on my blog.
I probably would still go pro on anti smoking campaigns.
The thing is, I should stop and quit smoking. Doubtless, it is hazardous for me and people around me are usually against me smoking. I often tell myself to cut down and smoke less until I get to the point where I don't need/want to smoke anymore. Regardless of it all, I guess it is true. Smoking is the most addictive habit I have ever caught on to.

We made google maps in our Writing in Digital Environment class and at first I gave it very little thought. Of course, I thought that it was pretty interesting how one could use a simple program like that on the computer and expand it to a project of such volume. Then, once I was at home and taking another look at it, I began to realize how I could also do the same with other matters. What could be a small thing at first sight could be the biggest tool or have the biggest impact. I guess the smallest things matter. Even what you pass off as the simplest or the most negligible matter could be quite extroardinary.

what is the purpose of sight... if one cannot see?
this whole mind, this thought was on my mind and I kept tracing back and forth trying to figure out why this kept bothering me. Any thoughts??

Imagine yourself in this guy's position. This guy, Jay Park, was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. That being said, 4 years ago, he left his family, friends, education and everything behind in his hometown Seattle to travel to Korea to train to become a star. Without a doubt, he had no guarantees of becoming a star, let alone have a future at all in Korea. Yet, to persue his dreams he came to his native country. If I were in his position, this would have been one of the most significant decisions to have made in my life, and needless to say, the hardest. This guy didn't know Korean fluently and had never been to Korea.

Now put yourselves in his position, would it be so hard to understand what kind of loneliness and hardship this kid would have been in 4 years ago? With regards to this, would it be so hard to understand that he could have said some negative things about Korea expressing his nostalgia and his yearnings for Seattle and all that he left behind? I mean, come on, it was on Myspace. Whoever took Myspace seriously? Ever?

Up until about a week ago, this guy was the leader of the hottest boy group, 2PM, in Korea. He overcame all his troubles and training in Korea to become the most wanted celebrity with the group's own tv show. Their song hit the charts and was number 1 in no time in Korea. Every girl and even guys loved him. Then one post from his Myspace 4 years ago was leaked to the public in Korea, and it took matters of hours for this guy to topple over and crumble in the hands of the nightmarish Korean "netizens" (citizens on online).

I think this is ridiculous. Koreans are infamous for saying some of the meanest things through their monitors and keyboards hidden away. So many stars with huge potential have fallen victim to these monsters on keyboards. I thought it was just so sad to see such a great guy, who no doubt showed his love for Korea far more than that one little Myspace post.

What do you think??