To Paint With Light: 2010

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

There are lots of dumb people in the world. Intelligent people are vastly outnumbered by mediocre people. That is the nature of the bell curve.

Sorry for sounding so cynical and highfalutin. A dumb person ruined by day today. That person actually ruins my day quite often, but oh well. I pity you dumb person, for being so dumb and ugly. I don't think you actually ever think. Instead, you quack - involuntarily, like a duck.

On a side note, (I'm only telling this to bloggers, so you should feel special) I think I will likely be going home this january. It's a good thing I suppose.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Seoul

As promised:

It was nice taking pictures again.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

I'm dying to update, but I'm so busy these days.

usually, 'busy' is just an excuse but I've never been so busy in my entire life.

BUT, come first or second week of november, I will post a new entry with pictures, I promise. With GOOD pictures.

Monday, September 27, 2010

Staying lean is 80% food, 20% exercise, and 99% genetics.

Premise #1: Losing weight is 80% eating and 20% exercising (unless you're a serious athelete)

Premise #2: Human beings are wired to look for three types of taste: sweet, salt and fat; all of which are extremely infrequent in nature. But modern technological advances have made these tastes readily available, which accounts for most of today's dietary problems.

Premise #3: Many food sold in boxes are really food-like substances, not food. You can leave 'em out open for months yet no bugs or bacteria will eat it because either 1. all nutrients have been sucked up already or 2. it's filled with preservatives. Yet they still taste good because it has tons of sugar, which is what we're wired to look for.

Premise #4: Meats sold in markets are bad, even if it's chicken breast. Animals raised in
Concentrated Animal Feed Operations (CAFO) pose unique health threats to humans. Chickens in CAFO are designed to be slaughtered after 39 days. These chickens can barely walk, and are constantly fed anti-biotics because many of them would die without it. Even if they weren't slaughtered after 39 or 42 days, they would die soon due to cardiovascular complications. Do you really think it's healthy to eat these sick-ass animals overdosed with growh hormones, sitting in their manure all day?

Premise #5: Processed food contains the cheapest and the worst ingredients, yet they are designed to taste and look good through utilization of artificial flavoring and coloring.

Premise #6: Carbs are what makes you fat? Get out of here! (though it's partly true). It's not just the carbs; It's the process, stupid. Eating super-fat chicken, overdosed with hormones and only fed the most fattening feed is what makes humans fat, not so much the chicken itself. It's not the bread, but the fact that we've using refined (aka heavily processed) flour and adding corn syrup (aka sugar) to the bread that's making us fat. Complex carbs burn like wood - slowly, while simple carbs burn like gasoline.

Whether you believe in above premises or not, I think they are all true. Therefore, I will begin a new diet based on these premises.

If I don't know what I'm eating, I will try my best not eat it. For instance, MSG. Do I know what MSG is? of course I do - it's mono-sodium-glutamate, made from corn. No, but really - what REALLY is MSG? I can't REALLY answer the question, so I will not eat anything with MSG. Same thing goes for stuff like fruit roll ups. What's really in fruit roll-ups? Here are the ingredients.

Ingredients: Strawberry Ingredients: Pears From Concentrate, Corn Syrup, Dried Corn Syrup, Sugar, Partially Hydrogenated Cottonseed Oil, Citric Acid, Sodium Citrate, Acetylated Mono And Diglycerides, Pectin, Malic Acid, Natural Flavor, Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid), Color (Red 40, Yellows 5 % 6, Blue 1).

(What I don't know is in red.)

So, the name of the concoction is "fruit roll-ups," but what are you really eating?

No really, what the hell is acetylated diglyceride? And what exactly does "natural flavor" mean?

This pretty much means, no food in boxes or bags, unless I know exactly what's in there. e.g. grapes or peaches in a box. The original Tabasco sauce - its ingredients are pepper, salt, and vinegar (isn't that crazy?). Limited refined carbs - no white or wheat bread but just whole wheat. As far as rice goes, only 50% white rice and the rest will contain hyun-mi and other ingredients.

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As I'm writing all this down, I suddenly want to drink beer and eat some squid crackers. Diets and homeworks always start tomorrow. Good night.

Friday, September 17, 2010

I clicked on "new post," did some laundry, and completely forgot what I wanted to write about.

Anyways, I bought a scale. I also placed a calculator right next to it to convert kilograms to pounds. Long story short, I weigh 89.6 kilos, which translates into 197 pounds. I was somewhere around 210 (yes, that is effing fat) in the states, so I am making progress, though I'm not even close to my ideal weight.

My goal is to lose about 1~2 pounds every week until I'm about 135~ 150 pounds. people think that's waaaayyy to skinny for my weight but I disagree. BJ Penn (the UFC fighter) fights at 155 pounds yet he's only slightly shorter than I am. Does he look too skinny? I don't think so.

I'm really writing this entry for my own sake - because this way, it's easier for me to see the progress I've made.

Friday, September 10, 2010

It's been about 3 minutes since I used dual monitors, and I don't think I'm ever going back.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

"Take a look at her. Have you ever seen a woman with an uglier face than that? I doubt it.

But the funny thing is that Mrs. Twit wasn't born ugly. She'd had quite a nice face when she was young. The ugliness had grown upon her year by year as she got older.

Why would that happen? I'll tell you why.

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-oiut teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."

- Roald Dahl from the Twits.

I love Roald Dahl.

Sunday, September 5, 2010

My life in Hongcheon

One of my dreams is to become a diplomat. Unfortunately, the odds of becoming one are something like 5,000 to one, which means it will take a small miracle.

Although I signed up for the October test (they have "foreign officer" aka diplomat tests all over the world), I will not be able to take it. The only available dates are weekdays, and I obviously cannot miss work since I started this job a week ago. I will have to wait another six months - may be a year or more if the test is on a weekday again.

Anyways, I'm settling fine at Hongcheon, Gangwon Province. It's quite ghetto here, but I can handle it. I am the new "Native" English teacher at Hongcheon middle school - or should I say Hongcheon BOYS middle school. I emphasize "Native" because I'm technically not a native (though most young immigrants such as myself often forget their native language) and I emphasize boys because... it's all boys. I'll be honest - I resented going to an all boys middle school but they are cuter than I expected. They also smell a whole lot worse than I expected, but I should've known better.

I was made to introduce myself through a video - yes, all classrooms here have a huge tv, and they televised my introduction live. After the broadcast, I heard a little boy say in the hallway, "hey our new native teacher is Korean, but he's effing good at English!" haha, how cute.

Alright, since couple people told me that they were waiting for pictures, here you go: I only had about 15 minutes or so to takes these pictures due to the rain but they came out okay despite the time constraint.

and my room:

small disclaimer: Hongcheon does not look THIS ghetto. I just felt like taking ghetto pictures.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

This is my first post since I came to Korea, which is somewhat sad because I'm supposed to write everyday to "maintain" my writing technique.

I'm sitting in a semi-cubicle in my office as of now, and it's rather nice in the office because there are two things here that I lack at home: internet and A/C. Yes, my studio does not have air conditioning, and it's routinely about 82~85 degrees with what seems like 99% humidity (I have a thermometer in the room). I finally got my Alien Registration Card, which is an identification card you need for EVERYTHING e.g. ordering internet or getting a phone. Hopefully I'll get internet soon.

I want to take pictures of my neighborhood but it's constantly raining and I'm actually somewhat busy (shopping, finding out bus times, laundry, ironing, etc etc). Ironically, I'm actually busier when I'm not at school because all I do here is sit and surf on the web for about 4 hours since I'm getting "settled in" this week. I'm not complaining though. I already have nearly three weeks worth of lesson plans done.

I'll write a lot more later.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

I wrote a super long message to a friend of mine. In the message, I just complimented her, telling her how awesome she is over and over; that is all I did. Very strange, yes I know. But that's me though - sui generis and spontaneous.

Strangely enough, I feel really good about myself when she was the one being praised. I should do this more often, but only when I'm genuinely compelled to do it. Today, I was genuinely compelled.

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To spice up this meaningless entry a bit, I'll post couple pictures of the village I uploaded to facebook sometime ago:

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Black Box

What color is the black box?

The answer is orange.

Yet another useless information from Fred. Haha, but to add to the uselessness, "black box" would be quite difficult to locate if they were black.

Friday, July 30, 2010

In 2002, New York Times Magazine published an article that shattered the way Americans thought about food. The so called Atkins Diet, developed by Dr. Atkins, blamed carbohydrates for America's weight problem and claimed that people can lose weight and become healthy by simply restricting their intake of carbohydrates. Never mind the scientific studies or Dr. Atkins' qualifications, the low-carb diet quickly spread across America, as people suddenly began to eat lettuce wrapped hamburgers and omit rice in their barbecue.

Eight years has passed, and nearly every literate man, woman, and child in the United States cry out in unison that carbs are what to blame for our ever growing obesity epidemic. But as more people in the world begin to suffer from over-nutrition than malnutrition, why is our obesity problem getting worse? If everyone "knows" the root of the problem, why aren't we seeing a drop in the number of obese & overweight population? And how could it be that people from two skinniest developed nations in the world, Korea and Japan, happily eat pounds after pounds of carbohydrates (rice) yet stay so skinny? Why is it that French, who eat loads of pasta with their triple cream cheese, does not have an obesity epidemic the size of United States?

Saturday, July 24, 2010

To all the chipotle fans in the world:

http://www.chipotlefan.com/index.php?id=nutrition_calculator

enjoy, and don't have a heart attack. Well, I suppose you'll have one either way har har.

*It turns out McDonald's divested their interest in 2006.

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Immortal Technique - Leaving the Past

[Verse 1]
They told me I would never make it, I would never achieve it
Reality is nurishment, but people don't believe it
I guess its hard to stomach the truth like a bulimic
its a dirty game and nobody is willing to clean it
But this is for the paralygics, people dreamin' of runnin'
ladies married to men who don't please 'em, dreamin' of comin'
urbanly murderous like David Berkowitz when I'm gunnin'
Some cowards on the internet didn't think I would sell
scared to talk shit in person, cause they stuck in a shell
and couldn't understand the pain of being stuck in a cell
Hell is not a place you go, if you not a Christian
it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition
It's a bad decision to blindly follow any religion
I don't see the difference in between the raw and the wrong
Soldiers emptyin' their clips at little kids and their moms
I'm just like a desperate motherfucker strapped to a bomb
Humanity is gone, smoked up in a gravity bong
by a democrat republican Cheech and Chong
Immortal Technique, you never heard me preachin' a song
I'm not controversial, I'm just speakin' the facts
Put your hands in the air like you got the heat to your back
and shake your body like a baby born addicted to crack
And since life is a gamble like the craps tables at Vegas
I freestyle my destiny, it's not written in pages

[Verse 2]
I hate it when they tell us how far we came to be
as if our peoples history started with slavery
Painfully I discovered the shit they kept us secret
this is the exodus like the black Jews out of Egypt
I keep it reality based with the music I make
brought the truth to your face with the style I run wit
like the navy missile that shot down flight eighthundred
I'm like the Africans who came here before Colombus
and from the 15hundreds until after the model
I watch Latin America get raped in the sorrow
You see the Spaniards never left despues de Colon
and if you don't believe me, you can click on Univision
I never seen so much racism in all of my life
every program and newscast, all of them white
It's like Apartheid with 10 percent ruling the rest
that type of stress 'll make me put the fucking tool to your chest
Step in my way nigga, I wouldn't wanna be ya
I burn slow like pissing drunk with gonorrhea
I'll do a freak show in North Korea, burning the flag
while Jay Edgar Hoover politicians dress up in drag
Try to confuse you, makin' it hard to follow this:
capitalism and democracy are not synonymous

You swallow propaganda like a birth control pill

sellin' your soul to the eye on the back of the dollar bill

But that will never be me, cause I am leavin' the past
like an abused wife with the kids, leavin' your ass
Like a drug addict clean and sober, leavin' the stash
unbreakable Technique leavin' the plane crash
I'm out with the black box and I refuse to return
I spit reality, instead of what you usually learn
and I refuse to be concerned with condescending advice
cause I am the only motherfucker that could change my life

[Ending]
Some people think I won't make it
but I know that I will
Escape the emptiness
cause that shit is slow and it kills
the flow and the skill
I made y'all believe that it last
You can make the future
but it starts with LEAVING THE PAST

Sunday, July 18, 2010

I really should write more often; if I don't, my technique suffers. Since I'm currently reading "Omnivore's dilemma," by Michael Pollan, I will write about his book until I feel like sleeping.

What should we eat? is a question we ask multiple times a day. Such a question is unique to omnivores - After all, most animals rarely think about this question. A carnivore such as a lion will hunt for meat when hungry - it does not contemplate whether he/she will eat an apple pie or a salad for lunch. Other animals graze on grass without thinking. But omnivores? We were created to intake different nutrition from various sources, including the sunlight (did you know very little foods contain vitamin D? We get most of our vitamin D from the sun). Omnivores are not designed to eat solely one type of food like a lion (e.g. eating nothing but tofu for a whole year) for a prolonged period of time - that would be a nutritional fiasco. So what will YOUR dinner be tonight? This is the omnivore's dilemma. A dilemma unique to omnivores.

But it seems to me (or Michael Pollan) that people are becoming increasingly confused about what they should eat. After all, do most Americans even know what they are eating? Let's take a look at the modern American supermarket, where there are virtually no seasons (we often forget all fruits and vegetables have seasons in nature).

Starting from the vegetable section - this is quite easy. Everyone can differentiate between a broccoli from a tomato. The next easiest section would probably be produce. Even though these animals are chopped into small pieces, it's quite easy to distinguish between a cow and a pig.

But as you walk down further the aisle, differentiating becomes increasingly difficult. Cereals? Fruit loops? Twinkies? Well, isn't it true everything you're eating must have been either a plant or an animal at some stage? We all know that a steak used to be a cow, but what about a waffle? The frozen chicken nugget surely must contain chicken, but where does its 37 other ingredients come from? Which plant or animal are we eating when a food contains "xanthan gum" or "maltodextrin?" Is mayonnaise made from wheat, barley, chicken or what? Most of us have no idea.

Ever since The New York Times Magazine article ran an article about carbohydrates and the Atkins diet in 2002, it seems to me that nearly everyone in America became a nutritional expert, demonizing carbs in the process. The number of so-called nutritional/diet experts, however, seem to be indirectly correlated to the obesity epidemic, as Americans are becoming fatter every year. The truth is, very few people know about food and food industry in America, and even fewer people know what's really in their food.

So what's really in our food?

Surprisingly enough, there's actually a dominant ingredient to virtually all processed food. Thousands of food you buy at the supermarket is actually a cleverly engineered output of a single plant that triumphed over all fauna and flora in terms of human consumption. What does beef, chicken, coca-cola, twinkies, mayonnaise, frozen waffles, margarine, salad dressings, candies, canned fruit, MSG, and frozen yogurts all have in common? Corn. If we are what we eat, we're nothing but processed corn walking. Creation of food has become an industrial process in America, with corn being the dominant raw material.

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Photos that changed the world

Jonathan klein, president of Getty images:

Thursday, July 8, 2010

let there be light

when I tell people that light matters in photography, they really don't understand why. So instead of explaining, let me just show everyone.

(If you haven't noticed already, glass is transparent)

I wouldn't necessarily call this either bad or good lighting, but it is boring in my opinion. This is how glass normally looks - what's so special about it? nothing.

So let me change the positioning of the lights (and nothing else) and let's see what happens:

'nuff said. no photoshop or post processing on either pictures. Light matters.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

more pictures at www.topaintwithlight.com

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Project Revealed

As I have said before, I have been working on a project for couple days now. As many of you guys guessed, the project is a website. I am no where near finished, but I'm glad to announce that it's up and running. If my blog readers can kindly volunteer to be the beta tester of the site, I'd be grateful. Here is the link:

www.topaintwithlight.com

And there are no new pictures - you guys have probably seen all the pictures about a gazillion times by now, but the point is that website is running, and I can post new pictures in the future.

Tell me what you think ^^

Friday, June 25, 2010

My Project

I am glad to say that I am about 50% done with my project. It's not much, but nothing is during beginning stages - I suppose only the size of your dream and will is what counts right now.

Anyways, I'm working very hard on it. I even brought my laptop to church and worked on it during VBS. I was tempted to bring my laptop to bowling but I'm glad I didn't because I bowled 194, which is a really good score for me. I"ll let you guys know first when it's done!

Saturday, June 19, 2010

THE project

I am working on a project. What project? It's a surprise. Haha, it's not too big, so don't expect anything crazy... well it's not a big deal for most people, but it's a pretty big deal for me I guess.

I will let you guys know in about a week or two! I will probably announce it on blogspot before anywhere else, so when the time comes, feedback would be greatly appreciated. If it works out, you guys can be my beta testers; sort of. ^^

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*I will re-publish world cup TV listings, for my own convenience.

Taken from http://www.espnmediazone3.com/us/2010/01/espn-inc-2010-fifa-world-cup-schedule/:

Even if you don't have cable, you can still watch the games @ espn360.com. I'll also highlight the matches worth seeing (from a perspective of Korean American). Red is must see, orange is should see, yellow is may be see.

2010 FIFA World Cup Groupings (Team Rankings – December 2009)

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
1 South Africa (85)	1 Argentina (8)	1 England (9)	1 Germany (6)
2 Mexico (17)	2 Nigeria (22)	2 USA (14)	2 Australia (21)
3 Uruguay (20)	3 Korea Republic (52)	3 Algeria (26)	3 Serbia (19)
4 France (7)	4 Greece (13)	4 Slovenia (31)	4 Ghana (34)

Group E	Group F	Group G	Group H
1 Netherlands (3)	1 Italy (4)	1 Brazil (2)	1 Spain (1)
2 Denmark (28)	2 Paraguay (29)	2 Korea DPR (86)	2 Switzerland (18)
3 Japan (43)	3 New Zealand (82)	3 Cote d’Ivoire (16)	3 Honduras (37)
4 Cameroon (11)	4 Slovakia (33)	4 Portugal (5)	4 Chile (15)

2010 WORLD CUP TV SCHEDULE – ESPN, ESPN2, ABC AND ESPN360.COM

u All times EASTERN u Schedule is subject to change

u All matches in high definition u ABC Sports broadcasts in italics

*Date*	*Time (ET)*	*Network*	*Match*	*Group*	*Site*	*Match #*
Fri 6/11	9:30 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	South Africa vs. Mexico	A	Johannesburg	1
	2 p.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Uruguay vs. France	A	Cape Town	2
Sat 6/12	7 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Korea Republic vs. Greece	B	Port Elizabeth	3
	9:30 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Argentina vs. Nigeria	B	Johannesburg	4
	2 p.m.	ABC	England vs. USA	C	Rustenburg	5
Sun 6/13	7 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Algeria vs. Slovenia	C	Polokwane	6
	9:30 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Serbia vs. Ghana	D	Pretoria	7
	2 p.m.	ABC	Germany vs. Australia	D	Durban	8
Mon 6/14	7 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Netherlands vs. Denmark	E	Johannesburg	9
	9:30 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Japan vs. Cameroon	E	Bloemfontein	10
	2 p.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Italy vs. Paraguay	F	Cape Town	11
Tue 6/15	7 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	New Zealand vs. Slovakia	F	Rustenburg	12
	9:30 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Ivory Coast vs. Portugal	G	Port Elizabeth	13
	2 p.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Brazil vs. Korea DPR	G	Johannesburg	14
Wed 6/16	7 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Honduras vs. Chile	H	Nelspruit	15
	9:30 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Spain vs. Switzerland	H	Durban	16
	2 p.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	South Africa vs. Uruguay	A	Pretoria	17
Thu 6/17	7 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Argentina vs. Korea Rep.	B	Johannesburg	18
	9:30 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Greece vs. Nigeria	B	Bloemfontein	19
	2 p.m.	ESPN2/ESPN360.com	France vs. Mexico	A	Polokwane	20
Fri 6/18	7 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Germany vs. Serbia	D	Port Elizabeth	21
	9:30 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Slovenia vs. USA	C	Johannesburg	22
	2 p.m.	ESPN2/ESPN360.com	England vs. Algeria	C	Cape Town	23
Sat 6/19	7 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Netherlands vs. Japan	E	Durban	24
	9:30 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Ghana vs. Australia	D	Rustenburg	25
	2 p.m.	ABC	Cameroon vs. Denmark	E	Pretoria	26
Sun 6/20	7 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Slovakia vs. Paraguay	F	Bloemfontein	27
	9:30 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Italy vs. New Zealand	F	Nelspruit	28
	2 p.m.	ABC	Brazil vs. Ivory Coast	G	Johannesburg	29
Mon 6/21	7 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Portugal vs. Korea DPR	G	Cape Town	30
	9:30 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Chile vs. Switzerland	H	Port Elizabeth	31
	2 p.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Spain vs. Honduras	H	Johannesburg	32
Tue 6/22	9:30 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Mexico vs. Uruguay	A	Rustenburg	33
	9:30 a.m.	ESPN2/ESPN360.com	France vs. South Africa	A	Bloemfontein	34
	2 p.m.	ESPN2/ESPN360.com	Nigeria vs. Korea Republic	B	Durban	35
	2 p.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Greece vs. Argentina	B	Polokwane	36
Wed 6/23	9:30 a.m.	ESPN2/ESPN360.com	Slovenia vs. England	C	Port Elizabeth	37
	9:30 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	USA vs. Algeria	C	Pretoria	38
	2 p.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Ghana vs. Germany	D	Johannesburg	39
	2 p.m.	ESPN2/ESPN360.com	Australia vs. Serbia	D	Nelspruit	40
Thu 6/24	9:30 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Slovakia vs. Italy	E	Johannesburg	41
	9:30 a.m.	ESPN2/ESPN360.com	Paraguay vs. New Zealand	E	Polokwane	42
	2 p.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Denmark vs. Japan	F	Rustenburg	43
	2 p.m.	ESPN2/ESPN360.com	Cameroon vs. Netherlands	F	Cape Town	44
Fri 6/25	9:30 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Portugal vs. Brazil	G	Durban	45
	9:30 a.m.	ESPN2/ESPN360.com	Ivory Coast vs. Korea DPR	G	Nelspruit	46
	2 p.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Chile vs. Spain	H	Pretoria	47
	2 p.m.	ESPN2/ESPN360.com	Switzerland vs. Honduras	H	Bloemfontein	48

2^nd Stage – Round of 16

*Date*	*Time (ET)*	*Network*	Matchup	*Site*	*Match #*
Sat 6/26	9:30 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	1^st A vs. 2^nd B	Port Elizabeth	49
	2 p.m.	ABC	1^st C vs. 2^nd D	Rustenburg	50
Sun 6/27	9:30 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	1^st D vs. 2^nd C	Bloemfontein	51
	2 p.m.	ABC	1^st B vs. 2^nd A	Johannesburg	52
Mon 6/28	9:30 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	1^st E vs. 2^nd F	Durban	53
	2 p.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	1^st G vs. 2^nd H	Johannesburg	54
Tue 6/29	9:30 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	1^st F vs. 2^nd E	Pretoria	55
	2 p.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	1^st H vs. 2^nd G	Cape Town	56

2^nd Stage -- Quarterfinals

*Date*	*Time (ET)*	*Network*	*Matchup*		*Site*	*Match #*
Fri 7/2	9:30 a.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Winners 53 vs. 54	A	Port Elizabeth	57
	2 p.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Winners 49 vs. 50	B	Johannesburg	58
Sat 7/3	9:30 a.m.	ABC	Winners 52 vs. 51	C	Cape Town	59
	2 p.m.	ABC	Winners 55 vs. 56	D	Johannesburg	60

2^nd Stage -- Semifinals

*Date*	*Time (ET)*	*Network*	*Matchup*	*Site*	*Match #*
Tue 7/6	2 p.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Winners A vs. C	Cape Town	61
Wed 7/7	2 p.m.	ESPN/ESPN360.com	Winners B vs. D	Durban	62

Third Place Match

Sat 7/10

2 p.m.

ABC

Losers – 61 vs. 62

Port Elizabeth

2010 FIFA World Cup Title Match

Sun 7/11

1:30 p.m.

ABC

Winners – 61 vs. 62

Johannesburg

*All times are Eastern

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Hiromi

I love her.

This video only has 2000 + views???? are you kidding me?

I love how she mutes @2:59

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

facebook, SNS, electronic devices

Stupid world cup is depressing me. So far, this has been the worst World Cup ever. May be I should take pictures to brighten my mood, but where and what?

I originally wanted to post this on my facebook, but I feel like a blithering fool talking about soccer nonstop these days. I actually want to talk more, and have in depth discussion with other people about the beautiful sport but unfortunately, not many people are interested. The story of my life.

Oh! and I'm seriously thinking about shutting down facebook for good (though I'll probably re-open the account within weeks if not days... or may be within hours). There are two rationale for this: 1. Reading bunch of statuses does not make me more knowledgeable in subjects I wish to be more knowledgeable. It merely creates topic for gossip (hey that kinda rhymes). 2. In my opinion, I think facebook is detrimental to my social networking. As if email and texting weren't enough, facebook adds yet even shallower method to communicate - public notices. Because they are public, the content becomes shallower and shallower.

And what's the deal with everyone not wanting to offend other people or disturb their privacy? Because everyone is so cautious these days, they utilize "shallower" methods of communication, via facebook or texting. It is my theory that due to wealth of these "extended proximity communication" tools, the amount of face-to-face and verbal communication is dwindling. What is even worse is diminution of hand written letters. Call me old fashioned, but hand written words are honest and humane. It rings emotions deep within us. It cannot be replaced.

I think these electronic devices create more loneliness by adding needless space between human communication. We pretty much sucked out humanity out of human interactions.

p.s. I went six months in Mongolia, with limited access to ANY electronic devices, and never felt lonely once. Only in America do I feel lonely.

Monday, June 14, 2010

sound of silence. This one is worth blowing up.

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

I saw this note on my brother's facebook, posted by our mutual good friend, Danny:

"hey man, it's been a long time. you're looking good, though, all professional and everything. and you didn't get chubby like fred, so good job on that. =)"

I think I literally shouted out, "what the fuck?" and wrote this on my brother's wall:

"hey hyung, it's been a long time. you're looking good, though, all professional and everything. and I think I'm gonna compliment your good looks on a public domain by saying how you DON'T look like someone, namely Danny, so good job on that. =)

...seriously? I weep for common decency."

Hopefully I will never compliment people this way in public.

*p.s. Danny is still a good guy in my book. I didn't appreciate the comment though.

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

trying not to be angry.

Monday, June 7, 2010

I love NPR, for they celebrate talent more than popularity.

and I love their tiny desk concerts. I don't know why I didn't post 'em earlier.

Not to mention, Raphael Saadiq totally kicks ass

Friday, May 28, 2010

yes, Huburt popped the question:

(@ the Grove)

We were hiding behind a cart when we took this picture (and most of the other ones). I simultaneously experienced being a paparazzi and a wedding photographer. I'd seriously hate both jobs.

But this night was Huburt's night. Congratulations.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

World Cup TV Schedule (listings)

Taken from http://www.espnmediazone3.com/us/2010/01/espn-inc-2010-fifa-world-cup-schedule/:

Even if you don't have cable, you can still watch the games @ espn360.com. I'll also highlight the matches worth seeing (from a perspective of Korean American). Red is must see, orange is should see, yellow is may be see.