Another School Year Gone

I finished my last final today. I am done. Another school year is gone and I have one more year left until I graduate. One more year until I go to a graduate school somewhere in the U.S.

My plans for Spring and Summer: Work 40 hours/week, study for GRE, take GRE, play hard...that's all I got so far. I should try to do something more productive. Then again, taking GRE is pretty productive.

I think I am going home on July 28th. My brother and his girlfriend are driving from Illinois to Utah to pick me up then to Sacramento, CA. I will only be home for 4 to 5 days I think.

As far as everything else goes, it is up in the air. I don't know how my life is going to be like. I am also thinking about being in a research team this Spring/Summer without credit. It might be a possibility but I need to sleep on it and think about it.

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Difference B/W North And South Koreas

This is so true.

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All Things Bright And Beautiful

Easter came and went... 

I enjoy seeing these trees everyday when I go outside.

Looking up at my house from the front lawn.

What I see everyday when I walk outside.

Some people enjoyed nice warm weather on Easter.

Ants liked the Sun too...and my leg.

Looking up from where I was.

The end of Easter.

I heard a noise outside and when I looked out, I saw a woodpecker. Not a very rare sight in Provo.

Banana bread I baked on Sunday. Will be great for my home-teachees.

The cloud looked like a wiener dog.

Rainbow...

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Why I Look Up Often

I look up often. I love clouds. I love the sky. I love trees. I love buildings. I love how everything just compliments each other.

When was the last time you looked up and couldn't take your eyes off of whatever you were looking at?

This morning as I was walking on campus, I saw a jet plane fly by. As it did so, it created "clouds" (I actually don't know if they are considered clouds) behind it and those clouds with the Sun created shadows on clouds above them. Kind of like the picture on the right.

I absolutely loved it. I thought it was one of the coolest things ever. Man-made clouds and natural clouds made such beauty.

Then I looked around me. I saw people walking by, looking at their books, working on something...busy. Too busy to look up at something so beautiful. They were missing out. I wanted to stop someone and tell them to look up at what I was looking at. I wanted to share what I loved. But I didn't. I didn't because I knew people would have thought that I was crazy or weird. They probably wouldn't have cared as much as I did.

Am I too busy to see what's around me? Am I too caught up with worries? Do I give more time to God and His creations to appreciate them more often?

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Not My Thoughts

If you haven't been following my blog for a long time, I have posts called "True Thoughts." They talk about my real thoughts with small filters on them. Some of them come straight from my journal entries.

This post is called "Not My Thoughts" because I learned a valuable lesson.

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord." -Isaiah 55:8-

Perhaps, instead of thinking about what I desire, I should focus on what the Lord desires from me. What the Lord thinks that I should do is way different than what I would like to do.
Sometimes I ask the Lord for something to happen, but it turns out that He doesn't want it to happen so that something else that He has in mind to happen. Most of times I don't know His will for me. I don't know what He would like me to do. However, I am glad that He knows what He wants me to do and His will for me because if I got everything I wanted, I would not have faith in God or would not have learned to be patient.

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Celebrating Easter Weekend

I didn't grow up as a christian and never celebrated Easter in my life. I didn't know anything about Easter bunnies or egg hunting before I came to the U.S. Actually, I didn't know anything God or Christ so Easter itself wasn't a part of my life at all.

However, for a week, my New Testament class teacher talked a lot about celebrating Easter. Not with chocolate bunnies or egg hunting but by thinking about Christ and reading about the last week of His mortal life. I thought a lot about how I could celebrate Easter weekend. The only way for me to celebrate Easter is through reading about the Atonement, the crucifixion, and His resurrection. Also, by sharing my own testimony of Christ with others. Also, I would like to share this short clip of 7 minutes about the last week of Christ's mortal life.

Christ did bleed at every pore and suffered so much because He loves us and wants us to be able to return to our Heavenly Father. It is impossible for us to do so by ourselves but He "bought" us with His life as a price and set a new "term" for us to return to God. The new "term" is that we keep His commandments and repent.

"For behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent;
But if they would not repent they must suffer even as I;
Which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit—and would that I might not drink the bitter cup, and shrink—
Nevertheless, glory be to the Father, and I partook and finished my preparations unto the children of men." -Doctrine and Covenants 19:16-19-

The death of the Savior came on the cross; however, He taught us that the death is not the end.

"And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have." -Luke 24:36-39-

"But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.
The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.
And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.
And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.
Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed." -John 20:24-29-

Let us all remember Christ during this Easter weekend and remember the most important works He had done during these last few days of His mortal life.

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Possible Graduate Schools

These are schools that I am thinking about applying to. I am actually going to get rid of one or two schools before I start applying (they might be one of SUNYs and Univ. of Cali.).
Schools I would like to get into are Reno, North Carolina, and Georgia.

*Updates 4/4/2012

I got rid of Baylor University and University of Arizona for one reason: It's way too hot in Texas and Arizona. After looking at climates, populations, locations, etc of different cities, I changed my favorites. Lighter blue ones are my favorites and darker blues are OK ones. But you know what, as long as I get accepted to somewhere, I don't care where I go out of these places.

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Koreans in the Library

You should watch this first.

And then watch this (Warning! It's might be a little bit vulgar).

My Point is that I know when Koreans are in the library because I can hear their voices from some odd places in the library and I understand what they are saying. Funny thing is that right now, there are two Koreans at the Help Desk working on something on a laptop. It's just funny that they are super loud! I know it's not that they are trying to speak loud but that's just how they talk (refer to the second video). They are not saying anything bad about white people so don't worry. However, they are really really loud compared to other people here at the library. Pretty funny, I think.

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You Won't Get It Unless You Grew Up Korean

This is the funniest blog about what it's like to grow up Korean. My brother can relate to it so much too. I love the comments about it.

A typical Korean family.

To add to the blog, you know you grew up Korean if you slept on the floor or only had mattresses on the floor. You know you grew up Korean if you sat on the floor when you had guests over. You know you grew up Korean if you recall all the tools your parents used to beat you up (we had a broken pool cue stick). You know you grew up Korean if you ate anything that your parents tell you is good for you. You know you grew up Korean if your pet dogs kept getting "stolen" and then you realize later that perhaps, they became a part of your parents or even you.

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My Flirting Skills

I am trying to write as many posts as I can tonight.

You might be wondering what this post is all about. It's exactly as the title says; my flirting skills.

I don't believe that I have any skills at flirting because I am pretty much an open book. If you ask me anything, I will tell you, or I might tell you anything without you asking even things that you don't care to know at all. If that's what you call my flirting skills then I guess it is.

However, if I do flirt and you think I am flirting with you, I really have no clue that I am flirting. I don't flirt knowing that I am flirting. Perhaps, I do it without myself knowing that I am actually flirting (I seem to do a lot of things without knowing/being aware that I am doing them). Maybe I flirt by teasing... Hmm, I don't think that's a very good way to flirt since I don't like it too much when other people tease me.

Oh, just to let everyone know. I may be an idiot/moron but I am not a jerk. If I say something that offends you, I didn't mean it to be mean but I am just really dumb.

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