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Thursday, April 10, 2008

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:00:15 GMT

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:43:04 GMT

RANDOM CAT

As i was walking back to my room tonight there was this random cat sitting on the stairs outside. For all you Pepperdiners i live in Towers to it was on those long stairs up to towers from Banowski. It was so weird to see a cat just chilling on the steps outside. I got really close to it and it didnt even move. It was just chilling. then i meowed at it and it looked up at me. Then me being me i start talking to the cat. like "why you here?" and "what you doing cat?" it must have not been in the talking mood. So i kind of just sat there next to it for a while just chilling. I thought by now it would have scampered off but it just sat there. So then i decide i would pet it. i thought maybe it wasnt the best idea because i could like scratch me or sumthing. but it just let me pet it. its probably a domesticated cat that just goes out. it was neat but then i had to go back to my room and i dont like cats that much ne ways. But then after coming back from running i saw the cat again. this time it like jumped out in front of me from the bushes. i petted it some more and then i went my way. it was a cool experience. it kind of reminds me of my old cat now. even though it was just fat and lazy i still liked having it i around. i was one of those cats that would go outside all the time and then come back later. my parents though didnt let it come back in the house before we washed it. but since it was such a hassle washing it we left the cat in the garage. eventually i never came back. it either died or got really sick of the garage.

Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:44:50 GMT

CALIFORNIACATION

Yeah yeah yeah so i used a cheesy song title to head my xanga entry. not the most original but give me a break im not a machine. Anyways as the heading points out i have returned to California. After a summer at home and then a semester at DC i will admitt i really missed this place. And really really missed the weather. I mean really! Coming back school is usually a drag to most people. I mean classes start and you have to study your brains out. But for me, I was really looking foward to it and still am looking foward to it. Over the past semester all ive been doing is working. Seriously, working is more of a drag then studying. Therefore i have decided to go to law school and extend my academic career. But that is a different entry for another time. One thing that is a huge super drag is living on campus again esspcially when you dont have a car for transportation. Which is why i love the DC area by the way. Metro can take you anywhere. Another drag is having to meet my new roommate. It has been 3 days in and we have yet to meet. The thing is when i moved in he had yet to come. He moved in the next morning but i was at class and didnt see him. By the time he retruned from whatever he was doing i was passed out on my bed because im still on the East Coast time and i was just tired. So it wasnt that he came really late but i was alseep really early. I gave him a groggy hello but that doesnt constitute a meeting. Then i woke up super early because i sleep super early and left before he woke up. So day 3 and still never meet my roommate. I wonder if i can go the whole semester without meeting. lets see how long the countdown continues. most likly it will stop at 3 so dont get your hopes up. But whose actually reading anyways and even more who has their hopes set on a countdown of how long i can go without meeting my roommate. What can i call that ne ways? THE DK ROOMMATE NON-MEET. that actually has a good sound to it.

Monday, December 03, 2007

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:01:05 GMT

New York

I went to new york this weekend with two of my friends from the DC program. One's from CT and the other is from CA. We drove up to my friends house in CT where they graciously opened their house for us and even made us pancakes in the morning. We got there late friday night and went into New York early saturday morning and spent the whole day there. Went back to CT late sat night and left for DC at noon on sunday. It was a good trip and thanks Lauren (friend from CA) i was able to go to the statue of liberty. For some reason when you are at a place you never go to the sights nearby. For example when i spent the semester in CA i rarly went to the beach even though it was across the street. Same way i have never been to the Statue of Liberty. It was never on my things to do list. Anyways we took the ferry in the blistering cold and say the giant women. Afterwards we tried to navigate the most complicated subway system ever. If you come to DC the subway system is very simple and easy to use for everyone. We found are way and it's not that complicated im just over reacting because i think the DC metro is amazing. So we walked around Times Square. Played ROCK BAND at the MTV store. Side note: that game is just great. then watched Rent. it was good but not great. the guy who played the drag queen stole the show but he was really talented. also the girl from american idol season one Tamayra Gray was really really good. Otherwise the rest of them were whatever. i didnt really want to spend the money on the show so i could be a little bias. overal great trip. I realized that i wont be able to study when i get back. I barly touched any books this semester. kind of worried about getting back to school.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:47:31 GMT

FREAKONOMICS

I have been reading this book called Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and this other dude. Sorry guy i forgot ur name. I would do the cool thing where its like currently reading but honestly i dont know how to. I've been meaning to read this book for a very very long time now. I have always looked at in when i go to the bookstore. Please dont think I go to the book store often and read a lot because i dont. The only reason why i didnt read it yet is because it hasnt been released on soft cover yet. the price was to steep for a book. I guess i could have just gone to the library. But i take so long with my books that i know i will never finish it in time and i hate the feeling that i have to finish a book so i can return on time. I mean im more than capable of doing it but i just dont like the feeling. I want to enjoy not rushed. I'm not even a quarter way through yet and i bought it last week sigh. I should really read more when i have down time. Even though i'm just a quarter way through it has been by far the most interesting thing i have read thus far. The ideas and comparisons are witty and at the same time probable and eye opening and neat. I just got to reading about crack dealers and how they run their business of selling crack is identical to the McDonalds mega franchise. Unfortunatly i didnt finish before my metro ride ended but now i want to get back on that metro so i can finish reading how a Big Mac and Crack are marketed the same way. It's rare for me to find a book that grabs my attention and keeps it till the end. I think its mainly because when im reading somthing that doesnt grab my attention from the start i tend to wander off. Not even like thinking of other things but just not thinking. Im just reading words that doesnt get processed. Like my brain just switches off. But i've been thinking maybe it has to do with the fact that i never read with my parents as a child. Reading was never introduced to me as something to do for enjoyment. I wonder if that has anything to do with my lack of interest in novels. But all i really wanted to say was Freakonomics is interesting and that you should read it even though economics bores you to death.

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:08:29 GMT

Black Friday Shopping

So this Thanksgiving i joined my friends in their madness called black friday shopping. One of my close friends decided to camp out in front to Best Buy the night before to be the early buyers of the on sale items. His crazy ass goes there at 7pm the day before to line up. Unfortunately there were even more crazy people who have been lined up there since 1pm. Completely ridiculous. Well but somehow they ended up at Circuit City. I showed up at midnight and meet them there. And of course they were in the most raggedy tent in the world. The tallest thing and swaying in the wind about to collapse. But that tent was amazing and kept us warm.

So there we were camping outside of Circuit City. Random people showed up so see our crazy selfs but then left because they aren't as crazy as us. But at one point in the night, i have no idea what exactly happened but, people started to rush the front and a really tight line formed. Before this it was more laid back and people were in lawn chairs and tents. But now we were in a really really really line. It wasn't pleasant and too cold so i had to go. I left at like 3am to go back home and sleep. To bad i couldn't buy my external hard-drive for really cheap but all is well.

Its fun to hang out with friends and do crazy thing but i don't think i will ever do it again unless i want to buy a tv or sumthing like that. I would wait in line for tickets to a sports event or a music event but to buy things is kind of extreme. In the end though it was fun.

I feel like i should write about how i observed somthing interesting about human behavior. Here is what i learned. People are crazy.

Monday, November 19, 2007

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:38:29 GMT

Driving Friends to the Airport

I noticed you can learn a lot about people from how they act when a friend asks them for a ride to or from the airport. Confusing, but I couldn't find better words to describe it. Early last week a friend of mine asked me to take her to the airport and I thouht "oh crap!!!" Though my initial reaction was unwilling I would never falt out say no if I didnt have a reason. So I relucantly said "sure" with a smile on my face. Later I was reminded of the numerous times I had asked for rides to and from the airport and thought of all the times someone was there to give me a ride. And I realized somthing. A really really good friend would take you to the airport.

Now, I'm not saying that if you don't take your friend to the airport your a bad friend because honestly the airport sucks. It sucks a lot. Besided the DMV, I can't think of a worse place to be. And just because you take someone to the airport doesnt automatically make you a good friend either but I'm just saying. Here is my rational. First of all the airport is never "on the way" to anything. Due to huge jumbo planes landing and taking off they have to build them far away from everything else in society. So wherever the airport is, its always out of the way. Secondly, it take a lot of time and thirdly, you use up gas. Sucks with the high gas prices these days. And worst of all your friend is porbably going someplace awesome or going home, making you super jealous that your not the one getting a ride to the airport. However, a good friend would bit the bullet and give them a ride.

So in my last words, can someone please take me to the airport Jan 4???? Haha just kidding!

Friday, November 16, 2007

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:27:23 GMT

I've been reading other's xanga or testimonials or web blogs about how their life is so very horrible or somthing awful has happened and then they end it with "well I know that God is still good" or some other Christian jargon. I used to love this sort of stuff. It would be very inspirational and moving. The fact that someone can have all these trials but trust in God beyond the fact. To believe in what you can not see. But now, it disgusts me. I can't even finish reading once I realize thats where the rest of the story is heading. It usually comes in a form of a new paragraph and starts with "but i realize that through it all God is....." - I know because I have written these types of testimonial lots of times; too many to remember. But now I wonder. Was that my true feelings or somthing that I thought would be most appropriate? You think, "there must be a reason why bad things are happening" or "what is God trying to teach me?" Maybe sometimes there doesn't have to be a reason or an explination of things. And "God is good" shouldn't cut it for the end all, be all explaination to all of our problems and "its ok, as long as I have God" shouldn't be the solution to all our life problems either. But so many of us have made it our all time definitive answer to all life's problems.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:10:33 GMT

Hello!

So the work week has started again and thanks to a great government holiday called Veterans Day I had a long weekend. Working in the government does has its perks, you get all the obscure holidays off. Well, I'm not really working for the government but we are government affiliated. But to get to the reason for this entry. Honestly mainly to kill some time but interesting thought I would like to write down.

Over the long weekend I was able to help out with the KUMC lock-in. It brought me back to my days in the youth group, before the leg-through-the-ceiling-hole-in-the-worship-room-fiasco. It was a great way to bond with your church members, to talk and play all night. I guess its different once you've graduated and moved on from the youth group. Its been pretty difficult to place my self there. I can definatly understand why college students rarely come back to become the helpful guiding mentors that youth pastors desprately seek. Mainly because we are trying to figure things out ourselves. It can become a very awkward time period. We are sorta displaced. I'm not really part of the youth group and I'm not really a teacher. Also, the familiar faces I'm used to start to dissappear as the years go by. Coming back on sunday, I was asked by an adult to help guide two new members and introduce them to people, but I didnt even know most of the people there. I think that was the first time KUMC was unfamilar to me.

I think I will always consider KUMC my home church. It is the place where my faith has ben nurtured and cared for. But, its not the same KUMC. Church is the ocngregation of people. And obviosuly the people have changed. The church has changed and will always change.

Some interesting thoughts about the the future of the Korean American Chruch. If you think about it the Korean American Church is going to take a gigantic turn. There is going to be a point when the leaders of the Korean American Church , if it even exists anymore, will be lead by 1.5-2 generation Korean Americans. The current pastors of the 1st generation Korean American church will retire and then there will be a huge population of 1st generation korean americans without a place to go. They will be some of our parents. So if this happens there will be no place for our parents and grandparents to worship like they are used to. Hopfully this wont happen but it is a possibility and can become very problematic. Something to think about.

This entry isnt nearly as interesting as the ones below so read them if this was dissapointing.

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:32:16 GMT

Hello again!! I'm back and this time I shall share a recent song I have written. I little back ground information on this one is needed. This song comes from my experience here in DC. To read more about it read the entry below. Very long so dont read it if you dont want to. Getting to the point. On the metro I always read the free paper they give and have been more up to date about matters in the news. Usually I read the sports section on my morning commute but sometimes theres other things that catch my eye. So I wrote this song in response to the Jena Six conflict and the Ohio School shootings. Also comes from some dissapointments from the church. Hope you enjoy.

"Words Don't Make Up the Play"
By: Daniel S Kim

Turn on the tv screen and all i see is the violence in the world today
Christians firing bullets of hate, carrying picket signs reading "God Hates Gays"
Why can't we learn to love one another? Isn't that what words of the bible says
but yet we mess it up to the point where Jesus' words just seem cliche

Look right next to you and see the pain that fills him full of rage inside
You might not know but all he wants is for somebody to acknowledge he's alive
A simple "hello goodbye" could have saved this man from becoming the next Columbine
You say your nice but when it come down to it all you think of is how can i get mine

We got it all mixed up from what we do and what we say
We have to realize its not the words that make up the play

Look in the paper in order to read how the world has just played us again
It's been over 40 years since Dr. MLK declared equaility here
But still there are those out there screaming racial slurs not with word but with stares
And politicians dont give a damn because minority votes are not in demand

We got it all mixed up from what we do and what we say
We have to realize its not the words that make up the play

I look into the face of hypocrisy pointing your finger at eveyone else
and in that mirror I see the face of one, none other than me.