Thanksgiving break was pretty awesome. I got to take the whole week off and was able to spend a lot of quality time with my family. I began my first vacation by going out to SF and watching Cal whup Stanfurd at Jillian's. There were some Stanfurd fans in the beginning. However, by the end of the game, they all disappeared - just like Stanfurd's offense.

I came home - La Palma, CA - on sunday night. Sam-gyup-sal was waiting for me. I love my mom =) Monday, I went out to K-town with my mom, grandma, aunt, and 2 uncles. We ate naeng-myun at Ham-Heung Myun-Ok. Mmm... On tuesday, for dinner, my family went out to eat Ttuk-bo-ssam. Mmm... Wednesday, I had Johnnie's Jr. burger with Stanley. Mmm... Thursday, I had turkey and all that good stuff. Friday, I ate leftover from thursday.

Now, one might think that I ate well during my vacation up until this point. But no. Saturday was still to come...

On Saturday, I went to Carolina's place for Brazillian BBQ for lunch. THEN, I went to Ruth's Chris for dinner to celebrate Stanley and Will's birthday. Ruth's freakin CHRIS! AFTER a brazillian bbq.



Sunday, I wanted to take it easy before coming back to the reality. So, I met up with Kyu, his sister, and his mom at VIP Buffet in La Palma for lunch. -__-

Indubitably, my pants feel a little tighter and my hunger attack comes with a little more oomph than usual this week.

it's getting very cold. i absolutely love it.

There is so much to say, but I just can't seem to say anything. Know what I mean?

This picture needs no caption.

Some random thoughts.

What happened to movies? How come they don't make any good action movies anymore?? I'm talking about movies like 'The Rock', 'Face Off', 'Terminator 2', the 'Rambo' series, the 'Rocky' series, etc. I miss the 90's man... Now, they make feces like The Transporter. Absolute feces.

Lately, I've been getting the urge to study. GASP! Yeah, that's right. I want to study. Is it because I'm hating work life? No. I like my work. It's just that, I feel like I have more left in me. More left in me to contribute to this society by learning more. I know I miss college, but I never thought I would miss studying for midterms, finals, and all that. But yeah. I miss studying for midterms. I miss studying at the main stacks all night and walking home to Piedmont at 3-4am. I miss screwing around at the library when there's only ficb people left at the library. I miss WORRYING about failing my classes.

I miss it all.

More random thoughts.

I've been having these weird dreams. Not really WEIRD, but they have unexpected people in them. And when I meet these people in real life, I can't help but feel a little weird around them. Like, if I went through a crazy adventure together with them in my dream, I feel this bond between us in real life although we may never have even talked before.

I'm home in SoCal for Thanksgiving break. This whole week. It's my first vacation. It's been very relaxing.

I have so very many things to be thankful for from this past year... It's crazy how faithful God has been to me. And it's even crazier how much I've been rejecting Him. He breaks me just enough to hold on to him. JUST enough. He is indeed gracious. because he should be breaking me completely if I'm judged on my behavior towards him. I love Thanksgiving because of this: I'm thankful for His grace. Undeserved, yet always-received, grace.

November is ending. And as always, it's been an emotional one. Come December come! Let me give you one more shot...

I need to be more open-minded.

But what is being open-minded really? The way I see it, there are two different definitions:
1. Never regarding anyone else's opinion as 'wrong', because everyone is entitled to his/her own belief/interpretation/etc.
2. Treating people kindly with respect even when we believe that they are wrong.

What do you think?

Sometimes, I forget how beautiful this world can be. This photo of the Golden Gate Bridge at sunset is taken from my apartment's balcony. Yeah, we have a bomb view =)

I used to be her biggest fan in high school. Looking at this picture...daym...I think I still am.

How far have I come?

'How different would your life be if today was your last day? What would you do first? What would you do last?'

How far have I come in my spiritual walk?

Not very far. Sadly, I'm just happy to be looking in the right direction..if that.

I thought I lost you again.

I'm sorry I took your presence for granted.

I missed you so much.

My lips felt so empty without you.

And to think...I almost replaced you.

Don't leave me again...my chapstick.

Autumn in Korea

Kinda makes you wanna take a walk eh

To add onto my list of pet peeves..

4. People who continually annoy others by doing certain things (which is ok to a certain extent because no one's a perfect friend and I annoy others too), but when it happens to them, they just can't take it and get crazy angry/annoyed. so, it would be a variation of being a hypocrite.

To explain this further, here's an exaggerated, simple example. Let's say a guy named Dummy loves to mess up his buddies' hair for fun - like, mess it up by rubbing them or someting you know? And so his buddies are always careful around him, but they don't get angry because they know Dummy doesn't mean any harm. They all just laugh about it. A 'OH you got me today! hahahah' kinda thing. And one day, Dummy's friends decide to get him back and mess up his hair. And Dummy gets CRAZY mad. 'WTF it's not funny! what the hell's wrong with you' kinda response you know?

This annoys me. It would be perfectly fine with me if Dummy can laugh about it too because he does it all the time to others. So he should think 'haha i do this to them all the time. i guess i deserve this. hahahahhahah'. Put another way, if something annoys you, then you shouldn't do that 'something' to others. And because I'm not that nice, that's it. Meaning, if it doesn't annoy me, I'll just think it's ok to do it to others haha. I'm working on it though =P

to sum it up, given my pet peeves #1 and #4, if I were a tail-gater, I would be on my own list.


On a different note, I can't seem to sleep past 8 these days. Let the 3-day weekend begin!

My pet peeves -

1. Tail gaters. back the hell off.

2. People who let everyone around them know that they're either annoyed, angry, in a bad mood, etc. Seriously, just keep it to yourself. Don't ruin it for everyone else. Selfish..

3. Bicyclists who act as if they're driving cars. Either get off the street, or stay VERY close to the sidewalk. Or else.


Last night, I cried in my sleep. Like, I was sobbing. And it's not the first time this has happened. What the hell?

Another reason to visit Bensbargains.net everyday..

It's been exactly 3 months since I started work. For those who might be interested, I am a global IT analyst for Chevron. In a nutshell, my team (Software Delivery Infrastructure) maintains the global infrastructure for distributing software to 60,000+ servers/workstations throughout 180 different countries. Of course, there are more to it than this, but that's the most important and basic function of our team. It's kind of like Comcast's on-demand for TV programs/movies, except it's on-demand software. To be able to do this seamlessly all around the globe isn't as easy and simple as it might sound.

Today during our team meeting a topic came up about getting our new contractor who's joining our team from next week a new chair, new monitors, and all that good stuff. And my coworker, who started about a month after me, and I thought that we could probably use new monitors too because we've been using old CRT monitors. And we decided to ask our supervisor for TWO monitors each. I felt really bad...because it'll cost a lot of money. I was almost embarassed to ask, but I did anyway. He gave me that look - the 'what the hell you smoking' look - but said yes anyway. I know I'll be one happy and motivated employee when I get my two 19-inch LCD monitors set up on my desk, but until then, I will be feeling very bad. Especially because my boss has been very very generous in sending me to classes and business trips (including one in Denver and one in Houston) that cost thousands of dollars. All in the first quarter year of my employment. I guess I better work hard and show him that I'm worth all the investment.

My workstation is gonna be pimp..