greatest commercial ever

this commercial makes me burst with pride - to the point of tears

GO CANADA

nostalgic things

so a friend of mine posted on her blog with this:

which brought SOOOO many old school memories. I don't even think they have these anymore in gym class!

Anyways, kind of made me think about the good old days such as:



pogs! before i was old enough to play video games! although... kids these days just seem to play v.games out of preschool...




learned SO MUCH from this show.
loved it until the voices started changing...



i used to LOVE this in preschool. it's a sprinkler! except it used to only really spray at your legs cuz it was tiny.


holy crap it's grown. orelse kids these days have shrunk


wrapping this around my finger and sucking on it


you can't find these anymore.. everyone (including kids) uses mech pencils



light up shoes! apparently these days they even come in air force ones.



greatest
console
ever


tamagotchi! old school
none of that oceangotchi or angelgotchi or tamagotchi with colour and enhanced graphics crap


So that's all i could really think about so far but it was fun!
never really got into the pop culture (ie. buffy, spice girls, bsb, nsync), miss the good old simple games.

study break

Sitting here studying...

embryology ... can't visualize
research design midterm on wed
stats.. forgot my book in loo
SIGH



on sunday, went out to lunch with aeri alice and jenny



They bought me a HUGE burger.. i didn't know xtreme meant TWO patties



Yesterday, went out with high school friends

got brick toast with ice cream, condensed milk, and chocolate
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

olympic highlights!

• bilideau winning canada's first gold in men's moguls
• groves winning bronze in 5000m long track
• robertson having the lead but then missing a jump in snowboard cross giving him silver
• ricker winning gold in women's snowboard cross - pure ownage
• lee sang hwa winning women's 500m long track AND
• mo taebum winning men's 500 m long track on his 21st birthday (feb 15, 1989)
• this brings it to 3 long track which korea wasn't expected AT ALL to do well in
  
• canada 10 switzerland 1 in women's hockey
• canada 8 norway 0 in men's hockey

the more and more i watch olympics,
and despite the many many many glitches happening so far,
the more and more i feel proud to be canadian.

i think in the past, i was proud to be korean because that's what my heritage is. but i'm realizing more and more how canadian i am and how proud i am to be both korean and canadian.

and it drives me nuts to see korean immigrants badmouth canada when canada's doing better than korea AND when canada's the place that's giving them opportunity, education, jobs, etc.

rebellious snowflakes

It's snowing like crazy outside!
I tried to take photos but it's so fast it doesn't catch it on my iphone. So i took a video in attempts of catching the speed (which has been changing the past couple of minutes from super fast to just falling), but it wasn't really clear

It's really cool, though, if you watch individual snow flakes. Although majority of them look like they're falling really fast, if you watch one by one of them, it just looks like they're gracefully falling. It kind of reminds me of a person being herded by a huge group of people in rush hour. And every so often, you'll find that odd snowflake that just goes against the wind, or jumps up instead of falling down.

What a rebel

Anticipation

Tada! Welcome to my one hundredth post!

I haven't been blogging for a while because i was trying to think of the greatest thing to blog about. I couldn't find anything until just now.

I realized right now, I am so happy and it's quite an awesome time for me:
within the next couple hours, it'll be:

• a new year
• valentine's day
• 1 day away from me being legal globally
• ladie's 3000 m speed skating
• freestyle skiing men's moguls

having my birthday and a significant other-less valentines day to spend with family, friends, and awesome food is much more of a blessing than I thought it would be. Today's family dinner had:

• 갈비찜
• sushi (WHITE TUNAAAA)
• shrimp
• crab
• 미억국

sorry dolly... no time to take photos.. but it was VERY good.


cake from my aunt (i love korean cakes)

My small group was awesome and cooked an amazing dinner and a beautiful cake as shown below. Not to mention their awesome words of encouragement and blessing made me want to cry - but i couldnt =P


my cake - see the heart? hehe


with candles.. apparently i have the mentality of an 8 year old


i hate too much...


soooo good... but the pieces kept falling off hehe


you guys made so much haha FATTING ME UP

Not to mention that the 21st winter olympics is during my 21st birthday, I am loving it so far including:

• korea taking the gold from ohno in men's 1500m short track
• korean women dominating in the short track relay semis
• korean women dominating in the short track 500m qualifiers
  
• canada killing slovakia 18-0 in women's hockey
• canadian pride
• true sportsmanship ie. finishing the mogul course with awesome aerials even when it's over for you
  

and despite:

• boring opening ceremonies
• engineering fails
• a korean short track-er taking out his own team mate and preventing a medal sweep
• jennifer heil being beat by kearney (who did do quite awesome)

this year is going to be a good year.

blogs i follow

Most are friends, but some are just random people or friends of friends of friends.... of friends...
The friend who introduced me to blogs and the world of wedding blogs, she is probably one of the few people i tell everything. Her blog screams out her personality ^^
project 365

Another friend who spurred me onto the world of blogging who's posts i really look forward to because they're really original and really well written; the photos are also amazing. I'd personally like him to post more frequently but hey, he's a busy person >.<
minus white

She's one of my closest friends and is quite the random person and I love how when she blogs, it sounds exactly like her
boxedemotions

She used to go to my high school and I feel really awkward writing that i follow her but her food just looks so delicious *drools*
milk and honey cafe

I found her while just randomly browsing through blogspot blogs. If she were in Toronto, I'd so hire her to do my wedding photos but sadly, like many good things, she's found in the states.
http://estherjulee.blogspot.com

Another friend who's doing 365 photos in a year, her photos look very ... bright, I think, and they often make me laugh.
indaylights/insunsets/inmidnights/incupsofcoffee

a friend of milk and honey cafe, i love her photos! and her and her boyfriend are tres cute hehe. okay i'm starting to sound a little stalker-ish
flush left

friend of ug. delicious food. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
little spoon eats

And then I have my obsession with wedding blogs..
wedding bee. what more can i say? ideas for my future wedding... preparing me for the future so i don't have to stress over it later. hooray!
wedding bee

although i'll never be willing to pay for them ($15000 dollars for videography), I love their stuff
stillmotion

And my obsession with Korean pop culture
allkpop omgkpop
why watch dramas when you can read them? Saves so much time!
dramabeans

And my obsession with geeky blogs, gadgets, and whatnot
gizmodo geekologie information is beautiful WIRED's Gadget Lab

is it too old fashioned of me...

to expect guys to let girls go first? I was at school all day today and I met ONE guy who let me on the elevator first - he was white. The others - majority Asians - either let themselves on the bus first or I had one guy push by me onto the elevator.

Now I can understand if the guy is in front of me to begin with or clearly it's easier for him to get off first. I know we're an equal society now but still!

Am I being too old fashioned?


end.

you are my resting place

Sabbath: a day of rest and worship

I was asked in an interview this week whether I'd rather have a job where there were ups and downs or rather steady. I replied I'd like ups and downs because I love feeling challenged but also having breaks.

This term, I'm doing a ton more. I'm doing small groups, being more involved in KCF, actually meeting new people, studying a ton more, watching NO dramas, reading more, cleaning more, being involved in Konnect, going to church. Yet, although I feel like i'm a million times busier, I'm not overly stressed.

What's the difference?

One thing different this term is the amount of time i'm spending with God. I'm enjoying every moment I get with him and i feel as though I'm renewed when I do take the time to put aside my thoughts and judgements about how the world should be and just ...

rest.

Matthew 11:28 says
"come to me, all you who are weary and burdened and i will give you rest"

I felt so tired this weekend. Frustration from a million things seemed to come to me in one day and I had no one to turn to. Being the immature Christian I am, I didn't even turn to God. It wasn't even something I thought about doing.

Yet when I dragged myself to church on Sunday, I was given so much rest. I was able to stop, slow down, and just be with the person who knows me even more than I do. And through this realization, I was able to lay everything on Him and just...


sigh.

keeping busy

thanks to a ton of encouraging friends and family, this weekend - although crappy - was bearable and i'm anticipating exciting things to happen this week as well as next week (reading week)!

to cure my controlling emotions, i've been keeping busy, focusing on school and especially the 20% environmental health assignement in which i have to learn as much as I can about manganese and what it does to the human body as well as the trends in emissions in canada. it's a pretty cool assignment - i just wish i had more time for it.

then there's stats which... i would love if the prof taught it better.... i think that's my priority during reading week.

interview today was okay. really want the job i'm getting interviewed for on thursday.

reading week plans

friday: mom comes to do interviews, have lunch with her, go home, go to small group
saturday: praise(?), all you can eat sushi with family
sunday: church, going out with alice and jenny
monday: my birthday (2NE1!!) which is dedicated to my family
tuesday: meeting dennis, then high school friends
wednesday: meeting alex + jaws (?)
thursday: loo people come over to house
friday: nothing!
saturday: kcf girls vball tournament
sunday: back to the loo

i... am going to try to fit in some studying there... haha



my face.. shows how tired i am... SO swollen
ps. thinking of getting lasik but then realized my eyes look REALLY small without glasses

david choi is coming to toronto feb 24!

i might go.
i've been quite spontaneous lately
been going out whenever i need to go out
studying when i need to study
i like it.



there's been something that's bugging me for a while too
and i wish i could stop thinking about it
but the more i think about it, the more it comes to me.

I think I found my soulmate hehe

I heard a guy reciting all the places on campus that had a microwave. Ithink I'm in love


end.

done! or.. not

With a lack of words, energy, or time to think of my next blogpost, here are some photos to entertain you :)

my version of ug in the snow



jocelyn's version of ug's boyfriend in the snow



if ug's boyfriend were a cartoon....
actually, if ug were a cartoon ...


the secret is out...