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Britain’s Got Talent: Paul Potts

May 18th, 2008 by

Before he starts singing, he’s just an average man with low self esteem. Very few people pays any attention to him, and no one knows that he has such a talent. Paul Potts was just an average man with a boring job, and no one had expected much out of him, just as we could see it on the face expression of Simon. But when he opened his mouth and started to sing, things became different. Paul Potts managed to impress all the audiences and dazzled them with his god-given voice. His looks are not exactly ‘prince charming,’ I know. But his voice really is something. I like him so much because Paul Potts gives hope to average people with low self esteem, believing that they aren’t talented at all. I love seeing an average person suddenly realizing the value of themselves, and Paul Potts, by the end of the Britain’s Got Talent tournament seemed to have realized his values and learned that he is a very special person indeed. When I first watched him sing, I adored his voice. I hope many others could enjoy it as well.

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Paul Potts- Nessun Dorma (From Britain’s Got Talent)

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Paul Potts Semi Final

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My sincere condolences- MONDAY KIZ(KIM MIN SOO)

May 1st, 2008 by

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Monday Kiz- crying with my heart

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Monday Kiz- Scar

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Monday Kiz- Gentleman + I’m a man part1

April 4th, 2008. Monday Kiz- Kim Min Soo died from an accident while he was riding motorcycle. May he rest in peace.

Talented singer, powerful voice. I was a huge fan. I still can’t believe his death. He was one of few singers who truly loved singing. He was a man with bright future. My condolences for his family members, friends, and his partner (Monday Kiz).

I know that I’ll remember you everytime I hear your song. You may be gone, but your songs will always remain.

May his soul rest in peace.

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A blessing called the “Ability to Cook”

March 9th, 2008 by

Most of the times when I want something that I don’t have, I try really hard not to get jealous. But there are few things I just can’t control myself. First one is knowing how to whistle, the second one is speaking many languages, and the third is knowing how to cook. To me, cooking is a blessing from God. It’s a divine, sacred treasure from God that God only chooses certain people to give it to.
I can cook few things now, but my ability is limited to few kinds: Ramen, rice, zzappaghetti, kimchi zzigae, fried eggs and sandwiches.

One of my closest friend is very talented at cooking. She can cook millions of food, and her blog is filled with pictures of delicious food that she made. Tons of people visit her website everyday just to get a glimpse of her secret recipe. I feel like a inferior being when I’m around her.

The very first time when I felt that God might’ve forgot to bless me with cooking was on Valentine’s Day. The very talented friend of mine that I mentioned above asked me if I wanted to make chocolate cake with her, so I gladly said okay. By that time I’ve only tried to cook ramen, so I was pretty confident with my cooking ability. I went to her house, and saw the kitchen that her mom designed and set up for her. It was a perfect place to cook anything. We talked for a little bit, and then we got started. I followed what she told me to do. She was worried about me, (I think she knew that I have no talent whatsoever at cooking even before I realized it for myself) so she often came to my side and checked up on me. I didn’t like that very much, because, as I mentioned before, was full of confidence and belief that I could cook anything in the world. I told her that I would be fine and that she should worry about her own materials. I repeated that I have everything under control and that there is nothing for her to worry about. So my friend let me go.

I started melting the chocolate. And then, it happened. I don’t know what I did, but the chocolate boiled too much, and it stuck to the bottom of the pan, all burnt. My friend was shocked. A blessed and gifted human being, she didn’t understand how a human could fail to do such an easy task like “melting the chocolate.” I was shocked. A non-gifted, cursed human being, I finally realized that when God put me on this earth, he had forgotten to give me one gift: the ability to cook.

After that, my friend didn’t say much, and neither did I. Both of us were thinking how to pass this situation withtout any problems. We just stood there, my friend making the cake mix and I, washing the bowl with the burnt chocolate on the bottom. I finished washing the dishes and told her that I have to go home. She looked quite relieved at the fact that I’m going home. We said good-bye, my friend promised me that she would make one for both of us.

The next day, she gave me a big Valentine’s Day gift. A homemade chocolate cake. But somehow, I wasn’t happy at all. It was very delicious, and I recall that it was even better than the cakes of some real cake shops. But I kept comparing myself to her on our cooking level. I would always cook ramen. And she would cook spaghetti. If I could cook rice, she would probably be cooking all kinds of fried rice of different countries. The gap between the two of us was impossible to fill. Even to this day, we never really talk about cooking in front of each other.

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Movies of My Life: My Top Five

March 9th, 2008 by

This is continuing from my top five book list.

1. Sound of the Music
2. Lord of the Rings 1~3
3. Brave Heart
4. Gladiator
5. Saving Private Ryan

I know that all the movies above are very famous. But I’m a historical movie geek, so I adore Brave Heart and Gladiator. I love movies with great lines, and 4 of the movies above all satisfy my need for awesome lines. It’s pretty obvious that Lord of the Ring will have good lines since the original version of Lord of the Ring was written by J.R.R. Tolkein. Brave Heart and Gladiator were two movies in which the main characters shone like no one else. They were unbelievably heroic characters whom I doubt could exist in real life. However, these heroes bring lots of flavor to the movies themselves. Saving Private Ryan is another heroic movie. I guess I’m a person who’s easily touched by good scence or good lines.

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One movie that’s different from all the other ones would be the Sound of the Music. Maybe the oldest movie among all five of them, Sound of Music had been my favorite ever since my childhood. The songs are still popular even today. I loved the song Favourite Things, and I still do love it very much. I would call the Sound of Music a movie filled with memories. My family sat down altogether and watched it on a sunny day. It was so much fun, probably even more because we watched it altogether. I think it’s the best family movie to watch.

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The Book of My Life: Top Five

March 9th, 2008 by

This week, I’ll list my favorite books and explain why. I hope it would do some help when one wants to read a certain kind of books.

1. Les Fourmis (The Ants) by Bernar Werber
This book was the first book that I got to know written by Bernar Werber. After The Ants I totally fell in love with Bernar Werber’s awesome but twisted imagination and read most of his books. There were other books by Bernar Werber that were amazing, but because this was the first book that I ever read, I can’t let go of it. A somewhat scary scientific imagination of Werber is shown through this book.

2. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandres Dumas

I absolutely love this book. My all time favorite classic. I fell in love with the character Edmund Dantes. I watched the movie and read all other books by Alexndres Dumas, and this book was the start of getting me into the whole classics. Count Monte Cristo’s successful return satisfied me so much as a reader. I read several classics after that, but I could never find a book that I liked more than this one. The words that Alexandres Dumas use, and the personality and quality of the characters are so satisfying.

3. ????? 1~6 by ??? Woo Hyuck Lee

A Korean fantasy, this book is a historical fiction written by a famous fantasy writer. The title of the book means The Ender of the Japanese War. Mixed with Korean traditional ghosts and demons, this book is hard to be called a “historical” fiction because the fictional part plays too big of a role in this book. However, this book once again reminded me the greatness of Korea’s national hero commander Lee Sun Shin. This book would probably be a bit hard to understand for those who’re not Koreans.

4. Da Parfume by Patrick Suskind

From beginning to the end, this book was full of themes and ideas that I liked. Patrick Suskind is one talented writer who never keeps his readers bored in his novel. I was charmed by his writing. Great story plot, awesome development, comfortable wordings that are not too hard to read, and lastly, my favorite way of ending. While I was reading the book, I kept counting the page number, because although there weren’t much pages left the book didn’t seem like there’s going to be an end. But needless of my worries on ending, Patrick Suskind presented a perfect ending for this kind of novel. I even got chills after finishing this book.

5. Ramses 1~5 by Christian Jacq
A French author and a Egyptologist, Chritian Jacq fully uses his knowledge as an Egyptologist in this novel. In his books, Jacq actually brings back the people during the Ramses’ reign. The first history book that I ever read. Ever since this book, I learned that history books can’t daunt me.

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Parody: The Silence of the Lambs

March 9th, 2008 by

(The author of the parody didn’t want me revealing the website address, so I won’t.)


Many people probably know Thomas Harris’s The Silence of Lambs. I read a parody of that book today and fell in love with it. While Thomas Harris’s book focused on the main character Hannibal, the parody I read today was focused on the loveline between the replaced character of Hannibal and the girl. I absolutely loved Thomas Harris’s original book, but I must confess that I was more impressed and drawn in to the parody of The Silence of the Lambs.
The parody version that I read wasn’t a published book. It was posted up on someone’s website, and I just read it for fun. But as I was reading, the parody became more than “just for fun.” It grabbed my attention so much that I couldn’t let it down at all. The parody writer didn’t have a beautiful word choice and notable imagination like Thomas Harris. But the writer gave me more satisfaction.

I don’t read books for their words. I usually see the contents, the story line. This parody writer failed to make it unique from the beginning in the fact that the story was the “parody.” Nevertheless, I found the book very interesting.

So what was different about the parody?
First of all, the characters from the parody were easier to relate than the characters from the real book. In The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lecter was portrayed more cruel, more cynical, more inhumane. In the parody, because there was a real love line shown between the man who replaces Hannibal and the girl, I could relate to the character much easier. This difference had to do with one being a actual horror novel and another being a horror-romance. It was much easier for me to focus on the romance part.
Also, the descriptions of the incidents were much more softened in the parody. The reason I enjoyed The Silence of the Lambs was because I was somehow attracted to the grotesque description of dead people and Hannibal’s murder. However, although it was fun, it was, at the same time, somewhat hard to read. The parody eased the situation by softening some words and creating a softer mood.

Both were very enjoyable. One might say that nothing can’t beat the original, but to me, the parody appealed very strong, and maybe even stronger than the original.

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My all time favorite! Banana Kick!

March 9th, 2008 by

Banana Kick

Most people don’t know this snack. My all time favorite snack, Banana Kick! When you go to middle school or elementary school, you stop eating Banana Kick because Banana Kicks are usually only eaten by babies. These sweet, soft yellow snacks are only eaten by babies who don’t really have strong teach, because they melt in your mouth. They’re covered with sweet, crunch outside and soft empty inside. When you put them in your mouth, the outside of the snack gives you a sweet loveable before and after taste while you feel them melt in your mouth. You feel like you’re eating a crunchy cotton candy.
I absolutely adore this snack. I don’t think I liked it much as a baby, but as a high schooler, my favorite snack had become Banana Kick. The store in front of our house never takes this snack in because they’re usually only bought from the mothers who have babies. I demanded the supermarket manager that we must bring this snack in. I tell them the history of Banana kicks.

“Don’t you know that Banana Kick is all time favorite for the little kids? You know, if Banana Kick company had lasted this long, this snack just gotta be that popular! I say that your market should bring in more Banana Kick.”
“Hey, hey, calm down. It’s not like you’re going to buy them all when they don’t get sold. You barely buy a pack of chips a week.”

Then I pleaded him that he must bring it in for me. So the store manager groaned and said okay. Next week, I saw boxes of banana kicks at the snack section. I ran to the isle and took out a bag. There was a lady with a baby girl in her arm, so I recommended her Banana Kicks. She told me how much her daughter loves this snack. We spend some time talking, and I commented her on how cute her baby girl was. I went to the store again next week and saw that most of the banana kicks were gone! I was so proud of myself at the fact that I! I recommended the store manager to bring in banana kicks and that the snack sold so well. I ran to the store manager at the counter. He wasn’t all that happy to see me coming at him. I didn’t care. I demanded him to agree that banana kick is a popular snack. He frowned and told me that banana kick wasn’t all that popular.

“Come on, you shouldn’t lie! Don’t you see that pile of banana kicks? I was double that size last week when you brought it in. And look at that! After just one week half of them are gone. Now that’s one popular snack!”
“It wasn’t that popular.”
“Oh my god, don’t you see that living proof at the snack isle? Are you blind?”

He groaned and frowned again. Then he told me the truth.

“Sarah.”
“What?”
“I ate them all.”
“Huh?”

“You know, I was craving for night snacks during my shift, and I remembered you all yelling at me for Banana Kicks. So I opened it up and ate it last week, and started eating it every night. I even ate it every lunch as a dessert. As a result, half of them are gone now.”

Banana Kick didn’t turn out to be the most popular snack at the store, but the store manager told me that he would continue to bring it in. I mean, he’s addicted now, so I’m sure lots of banana kicks will be sitting around the snack corner.

Great!

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My life narrated: How am I? What do I do?

March 9th, 2008 by

Coming back from school, she has a big fight with her brother on the elevator. They yell at each other, glare at each other, gets busted by their mother, then separate. 5 minutes later, they start talking again because neither of them are people who can stand sulking and being quiet. They get along well and have a great time talking to each other for 4 hours, and then they get into argument again. This time the fight doesn’t go as far as yelling at each other, but the older sister calls her brother names and the younger one is angry.
By four o’clock, they start doing their homework. Sarah shoves herself into her room and turns on her laptop. She first checks her email, then go into facebook, logs off after one minute. She doesn’t seem to get the use of facebook, but she loves watching her friends’ photos and the video clips. But soon Sarah gets bored and logs into msn. But she doesn’t want to chat with her friends, so she clicks the button and appears off line.
She starts doing her homework and finishes off after 4 hours. She doesn’t have that much homework but she goofs around with computer. She eats dinner around 7 o’clock and turns on TV. She watches TV for a fairly long time, about 2 hours. It’s usually onstyle or mnet, she rarely watches Korean dramas. She turns the channel to CSI or any other reality programs. If onstyle gives exclusives on one celebrity, she gladly set the channel and gets grasped into the TV program. Then she fights with her brother on remote control. Mom interrupts again, asking why they fight for the TV in the living room when there’s other televisions in other rooms. And then she goes on with a lecture that they shouldn’t have been watching TV in the first place. So both of them are forced to go into their rooms. Sarah reads some books, gets bored again after an hour, come out to the living room and see her mom. Her mom’s reading a magazine or watching TV, and Sarah starts talking about her day with her mom. Her mom gladly listens, and they start chatting. Sarah complains and talks about all kinds of things, and her mother, generously listens to Sarah with her ears open. After their talk Sarah feels much better. She feels like her load is emptied again.
Sarah goes back into her room and starts reading books again. But it’s for fun, and not educational at all. She gets bored and turns on her lap top again. She logs into msn, chats with her friends. She wants to go to karaoke. She sets up schedule for Saturday or Friday to play. around 12 o’clock, she lays on her bed and turns on her ipod. She listens to music for about 30 minutes doing nothing. Then she takes her ipod off, packs her bag for school tomorrow, and fall asleep.

Every school day usually passes like this, and same all day, but Sarah never gets bored.

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Spending leisure time as a procrastinator

March 9th, 2008 by

Waking up from the bed, the first thing I realize that it’s 11 o’clock. I can’t open my eyes, so I go to bathroom and wash my face. I finally get an idea what’s going on. My mom and dad have gone out in the morning, my brother went out to play basketball, so I’m home alone on Saturday. I don’t remember anything about what mom said except for doing laundry, so I shove pile of clothes into the machine and press the button. Feeling dumb, I stare at the glass window of the laundry machine turning around to wash the clothes. I come out of the laundry room and start singing and at the same time walking to the living room. I jump onto the sofa and roll around like a bug. The leather sofa feels all cold and makes me feel better. When the sofa gets all heater up with my body warmth, I sit straight and think of what I have to do for today. I remember that I have millions of homework left to do, but I decide to do them later today or on Sunday. When I turn on TV, a food program that shows every Saturday late morning is on, so I stare at it for few minutes and realize that I haven’t eaten anything for that day. But I don’t feel like cooking anything so I decide to starve. I turn to few channels, but in the Saturday morning there’s usually nothing for me to watch. Giving up, I set the TV on some cable channels where the people inside the box are laughing. I feel left out as I watch the TV program and soon loose interest. Barely watching anything on TV, I fall asleep again on the sofa. Mom and dad come back home, expecting me to have finished taking shower and dressing up. They see me and realize that I’ve done nothing while they were away. They yell at me for being the perfect “procrastinator”, and I reply that I must be a procrastinator on Saturdays to relieve any stress that I got during the weekdays. My mom thinks that what I said was the stupidest excuse she ever heard and tells me that they’re going to go out and eat without me because I’m not ready. I feel like whatever so I tell them that I don’t care. My friend calls me soon after my parents are away and asks me if I could play. I’m all pissed that mom and dad didn’t take me, so I decide to play. I finally take shower and prepare to go outside. It takes about an hour for me to get ready. I call mom to tell her that I’ll be going outside with my friends, and my mom says okay. I feel bad for blaming my parents for leaving me alone at home. My friends and I eat lunch first and then go shopping. Usually we don’t buy anything big, but just small accessories. Then we either watch movies or go to karaoke. Most of the time we turn to karaoke room because we don’t want to watch a romance movie with all girls. I return home late and realize that I didn’t do my homework at all. I start groaning and whining about what a stupid person I am. But I never get stressed out, and tell myself that I’ll be fine and will be able to finish it all tomorrow. I totally forget that I have a quiz or a test on Monday.
The next day, I sleep at 4 o’clock in the morning doing homework.

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