Saturday, July 22, 2006

#2. Q&A about You Kwon

Hehe,:)

1. What was the funniest thing I did when I was a baby?

▶What was the funniest thing I did when I was a baby? Haha, I think I was 'something' when I was a baby until like 5 years old. I had always had a problem with poo-pooing, and I was a (bit) hard-headed one. Hehe:) But among all the funny stories, I think this is the BEST one. Well, although I'm not sure if this is a funny one, or... whatever.

▶When I was like three years old, I had a neighbor (she) who's a year senior to me. According to my mom, I 'usually' got along with her very well, but once I get into a bad mood, for example, my mom didn't let me eat 'Gerber', -I'm sure all of you guys know what this is, and most of you guys must had loved it. Well, I still like it very much and buy some when I go to a supermarket with my mom. My favorite flavor is Apple with Cinnamon,- I cried, cried, and cried, and if my mom never gave me one, I became 'The Bad Girl In the neighborhood'. (Well, all these are 'according' to my mom, and she sometmes exaggerates stuff. Not really a reliable source.) My mom's friend visited us one day in the afternoon. I was in a bad mood the whole day, because my mom didn't give me the gerber in the morning just as usual. (She thought the gerber isn't something for a three year old girl. It's only for babies -to my mom.) I cried like (hell) and realized that she will never give me one, so I went outside, and stayed in a passageway alone. (We lived in an apartment.) And my neighbor girl saw me, came to me, and said, 'Let's play! I was playing alone with my doll!' When she came to me, she crossed a line which seperates the passageway from my house to her house. I'm telling you, I must had been in an extrem state that day, because, the moment she crossed the line, I shouted at her, 'Don't cross the line! Don't come to my house! I don't want to play with you now!' then I spat on the floor! Well... I, myself, was a witty kid ever since I knew how to speak, and I never showed this side of me in front of other adults -like my relatives, my parents' friends, and etc. Who would ever have known that the moment I was 'SHOUTING' and 'SPITTING' on the floor, my mom's friend and my mom's firned's friend were standing behind me, watching everything from the beginning up to the END? (Finale: Spitting)
I DON'T REMEMBER NONE OF THIS. -I swear. Haha
Well, since that day, I became 'THE REAL MEAN, BAD GIRL' among my mom's friends. Hahaha, up to now, especially the one who saw me (doing all those things that sounds impossible for a three year old kid to do), tells me whenever I see her, 'It's a miracle that you don't do those things to your friends anymore. You seem to adapt well in new places.'

2. What was my first word?

▶A-bba, which means Korean. I think I said papa first, because it is easier to pronounce than mama in Korean is. (Um-ma is mama in Korean.)

3. What was my first food/favorite food?

▶Gerber! Of course! That was my first food, and my favorite food at the same time! I still LOVE gerber very very much. (Quite expensive though.)

4. What was the craziest thing you did when you were a student?

▶I've always been a good, diligent, and studious girl. (Duh-! Wahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!) <- Not really. But I never did anything that sounds sooo crazy. How sad:(

5. How did you and dad/mom meet? (if it's too awkward to ask, you're excused)

▶My mom's best friend in highschool, who is also my dad's good friend in College, got married with my dad's friend. They met in their wedding. Haha. During that time, my dad was is military service (in Korea, all man is required to serve military for two years and a half. You don't go, you go to jail. Unless you don't have one eye, you are a handicapped one, very very stupid or very very smart. There always are exceptions.) My dad told my mom, I guess it was a joke at that time, to wait for me to finish my military service -He was in his last three months. After that, well, I'll leave it on your imagination!:D

6. If you could do anything other than what you are doing now, what would it be?

▶If I have these three things plus one more thing, Time, Money, Luck, plus a permission (from my parents), I am probably travelling around the world alone now -taking pictures (bringing 100GB memory stick, this really is my biggest dream I have), meeting many new people, contemplating all alone, reading a lot, learning all kinds of instruments, and etc. There are many things you can learn from books, but with limits. Living in this world is not all about 'learning' from 'books' -knowledge, which I sometimes refer to as a non-living, dead knowledge, and suffering with sine, cosine, and tangent. There are so many things that you can never learn and experience before you die. And these are more practical, and at least these things you learn out there, they are not 'dead' and 'dull'. These knowledge you can get from experiences and travelling (meeting new worlds and people) are just like freshly baked breads -more chewy, delicious, and enjoyable.
Oops... I sound as if I'm con-school or whatever. I don't have anything against school, knowledge that I get from books, and etc. It's just that if I were given two options to choose, either to learn from school or learn from outdoors, I would CEARTAINLY choose to learn outdoor (with books haha), seeing and experiencing many things. Experience teaches, remember?
(Really... Ilove school... I love doing homeworks, projects, and etc. I love longtests, quarter exams, blah-blah-blah-.)

7. Tell me a secret you kept from your parents. (*grin*)

▶I have a very good relationship with my mom. She's my best mother, mentor, teacher and friend. I tell her just about everything. No 'keeping things inside onself' policy in You's house.

8. Tell me something about you that I still don't know.

▶If I were to tell you EVERYTHING that you don't know about me, perhaps, I have to write a volume of books to tell everything. Haha!

▶I'm smart. (Oooooooooooooooooooooooo..................0_0 Really?)
▶I love philosophy, but it's hard. I love Ms Frim, too.
▶I love WOODROSE very very much. I'll miss this place and all the people! SuPER!

Monday, July 17, 2006

#1. Who Am I?

#1. Who Am I?

[you call me vain, fine, so what..?!]
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->Describing oneself is one of the hardest things to do in the 'Universe' to me, because, there simply is no way I can describe myself when I don't even know who I really am! This probably is the fourth time in my life when someone actually asked me to 'write' on this topic, who am I. Wow, I really have no idea how to begin, but let's do it, because this time, I sincerely want a clear and quite definite answer for this question, 'Who am I?'. Haha, Who do you think I am?:)


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'When you really want something, all the universe will conspire in helping you to achieve it.'
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1).Camera:
I will begin by telling a 'story' about me and my lovely camera. I love taking pictures. I take pictures of almost everything I see around me. Sometimes I just take pictures of my cellphone, pens, books, and computer. Sometimes I take hundreds of pictures of myself just in one sitting position. Sometimes, inside a driving car, I open the window and take pictures of blue skies. Sometimes I just go for a walk around the village and take pictures of rokcs, flowers, trees, and dogs -my usual surroundings. Why do I like taking pictures, them? Why...? Why? Hmmm... There is a saying that says, 'Eyes are the mirrors of the soul'. You might say 'Nah, I don't believe in such a thing,' but once you get to have a chance to see a drug addict in a hospital and a priest together (not exactly a drug addict and a priest, but two people whose souls can be obviously compared,) you will unnderstand what the saying really means. Well, that example I gave above, I have actually met a drug addict and a priet in Korea. (I think I was grade 7 -I didn't get to talk to them, but I saw them talking togehter.) Although I don't mean that drug addicts are all like that, (I'm not trying to offend anyone here... please.) but the person I saw had eyes which showed nervousness, dullness, and lifelessness of him -it's really hard to describe but his eyes were so dead and scary that I almost cried because I felt so sorry for him. While the eyes of the priest,... It's been more than 6 years since that day, but I can still clearly picture the eyes of the priest. They were so clear, vivid, and full of life that they made the eyes of the drug addict even more 'deadly'. What I really want to say here is that, just like the eyes, pictures can also show something more than just apparent physical beauties of our surroundings. Pictures can tell a story, can show people happiness, sadeness, and all different types of feelings, and can show the souls of people as well. This is the power of picstures. Just a small picture can tell us so many things, and that's why I love taking pictures so much:)

2). Smile: I always smile. And there's a really painful (and quite unknown) story behind it. My upper front teeth are protruded. I bet most of people who know me have noticed it at a glance, and therefore, I am wearing braces for 2 years now. These protruded teeth of mine were a great burden to me when I was still a kid. It 'was' my biggest complex, and I suffered so severely because of it. When I was in elementary school, some very naughty boys called me 'rabbit'. (Hmm. Some boys started to call me 'rabbit', and it gradually became my (whatta funny) nickname.) Since I hated that nickname so much and my friends love to call me 'rabbit', I always either cried in school or had small fightings with my friends. Now I am here, much grown up and matured, looking back at my old days, and I don't really know why I hated that name and these cute teeth of mine so much:) Although I didn't like and I still don't like the way how I looked when I close my mouth and the fact that I look quite different from my friends with normal human-like teeth, I never tried to hide it by covering my mouth when laughing, and I never closed my mouth. Well, in fact, someone said if you can't avoide it, then enjoy it. It was something like that. Since I can't do anything about my teeth, and I can't NEVER hide it, I started to smile rather than closing it tightly. At first it wasn't a nice smile, but eventually I came to have a nice smile, hehe. I always joked around with my friends that I will never be able to go to funerals because I can't close my mouth and smile there. (And I really thought so. Haha) Some of my old friends sometimes ask me if still hate my rabbit-like teeth and that I can't close my mouth like everyone else does without awkwardness. No, I don't. I do not hate my teeth anymore and the fact that I can't close my mouth. Who cares if I can't attend funerals? Who cares if I look like a rabbit when in fact I am a cute rabbit?:) I like it very much that people always think I am a happy person and that I look very cheerful, optimistic, and etc. I love it very much that I have a nice and big smile. Therefore, I love everything about my teeth and my smile!!!Well, this is all I want to say about myself, and if you really want to know more about me, be my friends, I will show you who I really am:)

Haha, short, ya, this is You...:) If you wish to know more about me, be my friend! Hahaha

(Ohh, I forgot to talk about my name, why I became 'You'... i'll talk about it next time!)