By This River

31 03 2008

I just bought two tickets for the Yoshida Brothers show on the 17th of May. Guess where I’m sitting? Table 3!!!

Hahaha, my dad and I are gonna be right in the front. :D Sweet! I love being a total nerd. The tickets weren’t available until like half an hour ago and I set an alarm for myself last week so that I can get the best seats available. I totally win. Okay, this time, I’m making an actual painting and I’m gonna do my best to give it to them. Since I’ll be next to the stage, it won’t be hard… Hopefully.

BUT I’M SO FUCKING EXCITED! XD Ah, I’m a loser and it’s awesome.

In other news, I’m screwed for my Astronomy lab class if the weather is cloudy tomorrow and I don’t find someone to copy the observations.

Arrrrgh.





Carpe Diem

25 03 2008

I’m fucking tired.

So I’m gonna waste my precious sleep time. (What??)
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Mu He

20 03 2008

I’m a little frustrated with life right now. I’m not sure what to do about it.

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I wish things were as peaceful and smooth as the clear night sky.

I’ve realized that the people that I’ve been hanging out/talking with, aren’t really people I want to be friends with after I transfer out. I take morals into great consideration when I shape my perspective on people. And just from the past few months, I have realized that some of these people and I have clearly different opinions on morals.

I do not tolerate taking advantages of people. No, it’s not okay at all. It’s never okay. This also includes stealing, cheating, and lying to benefit yourself because you are essentially taking advantages of their kindness. I’m so disappointed in myself to know that I forgave some people for these kinds of actions. But now, I’m absolutely disgusted to know that even some of the people who I considered one of my “closest friends” committed such inconsiderate acts.

I really don’t like crybabies. Ugh, please, don’t. Everyone has their own shit to deal with, don’t bring it to me because you think I’m carefree. If you’re gonna come crying to me about something, it better be something important because if it turns out to be something totally unreasonable, I will just point out how illogical you’re being and you probably don’t want to hear that from me. I just really hate crying.

I do not appreciate people with an ego. You’re the only one who thinks you’re so awesome. Shut the fuck up, save your reputation, and just accept the fact that you’re human. I swear, I can’t stand it when all someone talks about is themselves. This also includes people who break the flow of the conversation with some irrelevant fact about themselves. You’re not flattering yourself, you’re making yourself look like a DUMBASS.

Dependent people are one of the worst. Do I really have to explain? How do you expect to survive in real life if you can’t even handle the simplest of situations without an entourage of friends? If you keep asking for help on every little thing, they are gonna start disliking you and then you’ll have absolutely no one when you really need it.

Just because you’re like 1/16th of a race and don’t know jackshit about the culture, you look like a real dumbass to people who actually are of that culture when you refer to yourself as one of them and refer to the people as, “we”. People keep thinking that I’m only hanging out with the Koreans because I’m 1/4th Korean. Uh, no. A lot of them didn’t even know that I was part Korean for the longest time. I hang out with them because I like them as individuals, not because of their race and how “I feel connected to them through this relationship”. No. It’s not the ethnicity. It’s their personality. Don’t get me mixed with those people who are so shallow that they’ll base their judgments on race.

Agh, I really hate people sometimes! This is really one of those times.

I’m learning to be more honest to myself and voicing out things that I’m frustrated with. But a lot of the time, there’s just too many things I’m frustrated about.

I guess this is one of the reasons why I tend to hang out with people who are older than me. Immaturity is something I can’t deal with anymore. I’m too fucking fed up with dumbshits.





Corporate Ranks

13 03 2008

Dude, haha, I’ve been “officially” been accepted into the “business”. Though, I got the rank of secretary… Damnit. XD

Maybe I should explain this.

GiSu finally came to play tennis with us today. :) We played several games of doubles. It was JinWon and I versus GiSu and Tiger. Haha, we played like 4 sets or something and JinWon and I (Team Dijyu) won 3 out of 4. Nice. During one of the breaks, they called me the Korean word for secretary and I was like, “…What does that mean?” They told me that since I’m part of the group, I am the secretary cuz GiSu is boss #1, DY is boss #2, Tiger is boss #3, and JinWon is boss #4. XDDD I took JinWon’s old position since he was the youngest in the group before I joined. Since I’m the youngest by a margin of almost 2 years, it’ll be hard to move up… But anyway, I had fun in figuring out the actual ranks.

GiSu: CEO
DY: Chairman
Tiger: President
JinWon: Vice President
Me: Secretary

We told GiSu that he owes us $10 because he didn’t come to our previous tennis sessions. Then he told me the “activation fee” is $100 for the “company”… OTL DAMNIT! Hahaha. I want to figure out a name for our “company”. Mustard United? Crispy LLC? Dalgona Inc.? Hahaha, maybe I should ask the actual Koreans to figure out a name.

Ahaha, damnit, I just got off the phone with JinWon and he says in actual reality, we are both more like the paper pushers in the company. OTL Livelihood is our paycheck!! We have to work hard to go anywhere in this business… I don’t really have to pay the activation fee, but I need to open a bank account. XD WTF DOES THIS ALL MEAN?! And where did JinWon learn “paper pusher”?

But anyway, I thought about this and it reminded me a lot of Cultural Anthropology. (Wtf, it’s been a year since I took that class and I hated it.) Probably for the rest of my life, I will never really be considered an “equal” with them in the group because my ethnicity is only 25% Korean and my nationality is American. So I have much more leeway than any one of them and I’m not so expected to show as many traditional customs. Oh, also being that I’m the only girl, I probably have a little more leeway on top of that. So I guess I see what JinWon means by when he says that we’re both at the bottom.

There’s much more to this than I have written, but I’ll just keep that to myself.

Ugh, I’m not looking forward to my suicidal classes tomorrow… Damnit.





BREAD

8 03 2008

Aw, I miss the Korean boys and I’ve only gone a day without seeing them. :( JinWon called me today while I was working. I wonder what was up. And Tiger gave me the gift of correcting his essay… OTL What the fucking bread.

Work was INSANE. Oh God, Mike was supposed to be manager today, but he didn’t come in at all… He didn’t even call. We think that he forgot that he’s supposed to be manager, but he didn’t answer any of our calls and didn’t call back the whole day. So I’m a little worried. It was kinda weird because he’s a firefighter and there was this entourage of firetrucks coming into Robata and Akemi-san and I were expecting him to come out of one of them. Anyway, since Mike didn’t show up at all, Melissa and I had to fend for ourselves for a while and it was fine until it got busy. Oh man, then it got to be too much. We were annoyed that Fred was gonna come in, especially because I was so looking forward to NOT working with him. But actually, thank god he came because this turned out to be one of the busiest nights, EVER. We were still pretty full half an hour AFTER we had already closed. Jesus.

Well, I got my paycheck today and I’ll probably have to spend it on my car this weekend. I think the tire alignment is off and the brake discs need to be replaced. Ugh. I don’t want to bother, but then again, it seems I can get decent deals on them and it’ll boost the resale value for when I can buy a new car. OTL I just want a new car… This one’s giving me problems and I don’t have the frikkin time or resources to go without a car. Man, I hate people who have their parents buy them a car. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH YOU HAVE TO WORK TO GET A DAMN CAR?! T^T Fuck.

Dude, a friend of mine broke up with her boyfriend for, what, the 8th time? I don’t get it. If you’re gonna break up that many times, duh, it’s not gonna last so stop wasting each other’s time and energy. I really don’t understand. Which reminds me, Kiyomi’s ex came into the restaurant today with her family. AWKWARD. But he wanted to meet me because Kiyomi talked about me a lot, apparently. XD Interesting! I love Kiyomi. I want to become closer friends with her. :) Anyway, boyfriends… Eh. At the moment, I’m pretty happy being single. I can do whatever I want with my free time without feeling restricted or obligated. And I can hang out with all of my friends as much as I want without complaints or fights. Haha, the single life right now is pretty chill.





Painting it Out

1 03 2008

Hmmm… There’s a guy I might like. Notice the “might”. Too many people have been exaggerating this. Anyway, the might is because I’m not sure if I like him a lot as a friend or more than a friend. He definitely is an awesome friend, but just is it even worth having a crush on him? Having the crush on my previous crush really was a waste of time and effort. But this one, there actually is a chance… Ehhhh, I dunno what to do. Oh well.

Damn man, what a crazy day. JinWon texted me at 9AM and it woke me up, so I replied back and he then called me. We ended up talking for so long that it was pointless for me to go back to sleep. What a hilarious conversation though. Shokupanman! XD No butter, no jam, nothing… Just toast… I said I was gonna make karashi mentaiko pasta for lunch and he likes it too, so I made him some. Actually, the thing is, I ended up making two or three peoples’ portions of pasta… XDD

Lots and lots of tennis… Ah, that was so much fun. Hopefully, next time Gi-Su and DongYoung can come and play. :) JinWon said I’m better than Gi-Su, but I’m not so sure about that… I dunno, I haven’t played against him in such a long time.

Work was INSANELY busy. It hasn’t been this busy in such a long time. Phew. But the tips were pretty damn good. :)

Okay, I’m tired to hell. Sleep…