JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT #36 12/12

TUESDAY: When I came back home, I was really surprised to realize that the new harddrive had not been arrived. I e-maile the e-bay and they said, they did not receive such order, while I still paid the money. I was really pissed off, at least they had to give us back our refund, but they refused such an offer. I cussed ********* and turned off the phone immediately. I was even desperate to post advertisements that say never trust or buy any products from e-bay. They had ripped us, and I am willing to rip them back.

MONDAY: I was really surprised from how much work I had to do today. I was tired from the lack of sleep last night and wanted to rest immediately, but homework kept that at bay. I checked edline, and then to my surprise, I found more homework, that I did not write down. I hope I would be able to finish my homwork without drowzing to sleep during doing my work.

SUNDAY:  If time passes, wouldn’t it be possible to go backwords? The famous, inventor, scientist, pshycologist, philosopher, atomogist, chemiologist, nucleologist, and grendolnologist, Albert Einstine said, everything happens in two. There will be a good day, and a bad day, a right answer and a correct answer, a happy and a sad. He classifies the topics tha fit in between the “infinites”.

So if everything happens in 2, what about time? Will this question arouse to more questions and eventually bring up a worldwide case? If this conjecture is true, than the world will truely be as fascinating as it is, turing the food plate upside down, or simply, falling up. What will happen to the philosohphy of Jesus and god? The so called Dangun? Or what about this Aunt Louse from France? This truely fascinates me, and I love to sit down and think. However, before I go on to conclusions, I need to think about the present. How can we rewind time?

Medieval 2 TW manual:

     Today, I read a sample of a instruction manual of a game that has to do with the Medieval times. This game introduces a management of one of the Medieval powers and lead them to glory. It was like changing the history of Medieval times. What if I was the French faction and conquered England? That would raise a lot of questions, England was the superpower in the Renaissance and the Colonal Ages. There were also some modern day factions that I did not know that existed like Hungery, Russia, Denmark, and even Sicily.

     What surprised me the most was the Papal States. From what I learned, the Papal States was a small colony headed by the Pope, but in this game the Pope was a whole different figure. The Pope is the actuall person that helds real power, while Kings of medieval powers are just powerless figureheads. Everything balances in the hands of the Pope. If you inpress the Pope by killing the infidel, brights light would shine onto the faction from the Pope, while if you don’t follow what the Pope says, there is a chance that the faction may face excommunication, and despite of the glory or the feeble power of the kingdom, there might be rebellions, or the Pope can also call a crusade on the faction if it is really messing up the Catholic faith.

    I want to have this game, not because of the fame, or the fun of the game, but because I am so curious to see what will happen if I change history. There is a movie clip for every outcome of the game, hence forth, making the game multiple sided.

JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT #35 12/11

MONDAY: I got a e-mail from my friend, whom I have been apart for 4 years now. I don’t know how he managed to get my e-mail, as well know that I am not in the U.S. anymore. At first, I did not know that it was really him that  e-mailed me, but he sent me a web video that starred him infront of the computer. He told me about where he was now, and how it is going. I tried to send the same video, telling the changed that occured during thee 3 years. Unlike actors do in movies, I had a really hard time recognizing that it was him. He was more muscular, a larger head, and a more pointed chin. Maybe I can meet him later in life, that will be more surprising and seem like a coincidence.

SUNDAY: My Saturday night dream continues: All I can say about this dream was that  it was so horrifying. It was strange too, I clearly know that it was scary, but I don’t know what happened. In my dream I saw- my passed away grandmother and my uncle, and then I saw my auntie and my grandma, wearing the same scratched out, black dress – all having the silky white eyes. Then I ran, I was so tired of the vigorous running, but at the same time, I was horrified to notice my feet weren’t running. The rain now made my pants heavy, and imagining me running it was actually funny, I was running like a person with some disabled hip bones. Finally, I arrived at my house. It was really fortunate to find that all the lights were on, this was clear signal that my friend was there. Maybe I can seek refuge and desperately ask my friend for help.

But all hope is lost, my friend was soundly sleeping, and there was nothing I can do to wake him up. I pulled his blankets up and unclothed my pants, and borrowed one of his pants. After having a quick shower in  his bathroom, I went to the bus to fetch my ride home. 30 minutes later I was home, I walked in, my family were sleeping, but my brother was watching T.V. What further scared me was that even if I made a big show, nothing seem to make him notice me I was home. Ignoring him, I went to bed, then I woke up. Whew! This was Earth.

SATURDAY: I learned a really strange theorem today while watching the CNN news in computer. The page stated that some managers of nationwide hotels were associated with some ganster groups. I think these managers hold a lot of soil in their shoes, meaning that they have a lot of power. Maybe, gansters use these powerful people to bribe and corrupt so that they will have their beneficial needs.

JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT #34 12/10

SUNDAY: I was walking down a road to the shopping mall. I don’t know why because fro what I remember, my mom shopped groceries just yesterday. It was like I lost my memory and just got it at the same time.

The road was very unique. What I mean by unique is strange. The neighborhood was not like the one I was used to live in. There were no apartments, and the weather was very hot and dry. I tried to turn back. This place was to new that it almost gave me the creeps. But I had no control of myself, I was walking as if someone had a remote in my brain. Then who was controlling me?

I walked in to the shop and found the place dark, empty, and bare. I found 2 silhouette  figures in the corner. I wanted to go back, but something like a magnetic pulse kept me keep going. Then I saw two humane figures: a tall woman, and a small crouched woman. After a second I got to realize- it was my grandma and aunt. They wore black clothes and were skeleton thin. Their eyes were white.

Suddenly I woke up, fining my self overheating, with my table and my owl clock next to me. I theorize this dream was due to the visit to the hospital yesterday, to see if my aunt and my grandma were okay from their cancer. I hope they are really okay.

SATURDAY: I spent most of my time today doing my Social project about Toyotomi Hideyoshi. I planned to do a powerpoint and show some visuals. It was fun doing the powerpoint. Unlike other powerpoint activities, this one was especially fun to do. However, I wasn’t manually able to get visuals. I thought of creating a map, but I still had two more visuals to get. It was really stressful trying to think of what visual I was to bring. Finally, i decided to get visuals from my uncle who was a Japanese archaeologist. Next thing I know, I was riding to unky’s house.

FRIDAY: I leaned that my birthday is same as  Britney Spears and Tom Cruise- July 2nd. I was able to know when I was reading my World Almanac- calendar section. My brother’s birthday was also same as Barak Obama, and my mother as George Lucas. My father shared three people!  Thomas Emerson, a German actor I don’t remember and a singer called Christina Eloise.

JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT #33 12/9

SATURDAY: To pick up our dad from his company, we rode the car to Samsung Electronics headquarters located just 5 miles away from our house. I always wanted to go there because as a child, it was one of my favorite placed to play and run around before I moved to America. From what I remember, the areas around the company were just bare empty field. Now it is crowded with people and apartments. As I entered the company, I saw the Big Bend, a central park which had a maze made of stone, hills to slide on and even a water fountain to cool in. However, I was beginning to forget why I was here- to pick up dad.

FRIDAY: I was really sad when I realized my soccer team was kicked off because of 2 consecutive losses. I wanted to win the 500,000 won Lotte Mart gift card as well as a video camera which motivated me to join the tournament. I wasn’t able to do anything about it. But still, that didn’t mean that I did not get anything when I went to the awards ceremony, I received a pair of jeans, and a 10,000 won gift card. My mom said it would be perfect to buy some groceries and give the jeans to my cousin as a birthday present. Finally, I felt proud.

THURSDAY: I finally learned why they are having all the tournaments, marathons, free gifts and the awards. My mom said that it was because the local governor wants to influence more people and motivate them to come to our city, and live here. Our town was just constructed 9 months ago, so there aren’t really much people living in our town. No wonder I felt so lonely when I first moved in to home…

JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT #33 12/9

SATURDAY: To pick up our dad from his company, we rode the car to Samsung Electronics headquarters located just 5 miles away from our house. I always wanted to go there because as a child, it was one of my favorite placed to play and run around before I moved to America. From what I remember, the areas around the company were just bare empty field. Now it is crowded with people and apartments. As I entered the company, I saw the Big Bend, a central park which had a maze made of stone, hills to slide on and even a water fountain to cool in. However, I was beginning to forget why I was here- to pick up dad.

FRIDAY: I was really sad when I realized my soccer team was kicked off because of 2 consecutive losses. I wanted to win the 500,000 won Lotte Mart gift card as well as a video camera which motivated me to join the tournament. I wasn’t able to do anything about it. But still, that didn’t mean that I did not get anything when I went to the awards ceremony, I received a pair of jeans, and a 10,000 won gift card. My mom said it would be perfect to buy some groceries and give the jeans to my cousin as a birthday present. Finally, I felt proud.

THURSDAY: I finally learned why they are having all the tournaments, marathons, free gifts and the awards. My mom said that it was because the local governor wants to influence more people and motivate them to come to our city, and live here. Our town was just constructed 9 months ago, so there aren’t really much people living in our town. No wonder I felt so lonely when I first moved in to home…

JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT #32 12/8

FRIDAY: I got my results from the soccer game. Our team had already lost from 2 losses on Tuesday and Thursday. Too bad I wasn’t able to advance to the semi finals which was  4 games away. The winning team of the semi finals received a 500,000 won gift card on Lotte Mart. I still atteded the awards assembly. I got a free frying pan, 2 pairs of socks and a 10,000 won gift card for E-Mart. The awards were still useful. My mom actually thanked me for winning such prizes, but i was still down in the whole for not going to the finals, when I knew I can if I had played my best.

THURSDAY: I watched the final episode of the drama, which stars Bae Yong Joon as Kwang Ke To Great King. I was pissed of at the movie because of how it ended. The first 30 episodes went on great. It went on slow as the main character goes out to find all the sacred objects to become the great king, while simulataneously, he is off conquering some new lands. Suddenly, it skipps off 40 years, and there it was the last episode.

I think it was because the movie consumed a lot of money. There were really good effects, and plus the movie had to pay a lot of money to Yong Joon, since he is a worldwide famous actor. The directors did not have much money left, so they just shortened it and told what the Great King did in just 5 paragraphs in one episode

But the problem was that the story slowed too much. What happened in the story does not match with the title. I was very disappointed at what happened in the story. I saw in Naver. The overall ranking of this drama was 5.2. With 8.8 for the act, and 3.12 for the story.

WEDNESDAY: Today’s chapel was great. I learned a lot of things from it, but can’t specifically remember what. One thing I know was that it was a great message. I am really thankfull to have such chapel because our family doesn’t go to church yet. I believe I still need a lot of knowelgde in God to proudly say that I am a Christian. I still sin, I still pray, but that is no use because I am concentrating more on the world than him.

JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT #31 12/7

THURSDAY: Today was my second soccer game. Again, I was really nervous, because losing this game will be losing the whole tournament. I walked me way into the soccer field. The actual field was very close to my house. It can be seen from our back window. Even though it was an hour before the actual start of the game, the seats were already filled with hundreds of people.

I don’t exactly remember the exact events that happened during today’s game because I was so tired, and I haven’t prepared for the game. Sometimes, when someone is really tired, they do not remember what they are doing because they think of think of the pain more than they do of their work. However, I remember one fact from the game that was so certain- we lost.

WEDNESDAY: Again, my homeroom teacher announced that today’s school schedule will be changed, but she did not mention why. This made me really curious, not knowing something that just happened once  but already  two times.

That did not mean, I did not like today’s schedule. It was actually better than the normal Wednesday  schedule because it made me feel like the day was much shorter than usual . Having chapel last, and all the classes that I do not like first, was very fit for the day. I hope the schedule change will continue. Everyone knows that I like updates- which means I like newer and newer things. I am not the ‘original kind of type’.

TUESDAY: I was reading Shakespeare for the first time today. I was reading the ‘Tempest’ which told the drama between the princess and the wizard, and the quest of the Prospero to save her daughter. Reading Shakespeare, it made me remind of rap. I learned that Shakepeare used rhythmic words to further emphasize his words.

JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT #30 12/6

WEDNESDAY: Today’s schedule was just fit. Today was the second time that the Wednesday schedule was changed, for I did not know why. I think it is because we have some visitors at our school today.  I also heard from Mr. Wallace that the new 8th grader that I guided a few months ago will proabably joinung our eighth grade group next semester-okay. I did not know Finnish were so well built and tall. He almost overheightened me the first day of school he came. After talking to him, my back was so sore because I bent my head to far down to talk to him. His brother, who was in 7th grade was even taller, or at least the same height and was in 7th grade. I bet he was at least 6feet high. We were just amazed at their appearence. The 8th grader showed his muscles and all we had to do was open our jaws down and stare.

TUESDAY: Today was my first soccer game so I was really nervous, especially when thousands of eyes rained heavily on me as I entered the field. The first part of the game, we started out easy. The entire game was okay, but what I remember the most is the opponent’s team. Half of them were black and whites, and when I was young I learned that black and whites were very physicaly athletic  overall. They were, they were so fast, that sometimes I find myself just standing still in the middle of the field wondering where I am supposed to go and the opponents are heading towards. Their looks were fierce too, just focused on the ball and aim to goal. I was afraid to play, and my morale stroke. 

MONDAY: Today, I learned that the two Finnish brothers would be joining our eighth grade and seventh grade next semester. I learned the news today when I met Mr. Wallace face to face afterschool. He expression was normal, so I did not expect some big news, He just told me the news and went away. I think in his mind he is actually happy to have another eighth and seventh grader in the school.

JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT #29 12/5

TUESDAY: Today, was my first game of Dongtan soccer. I was really nervous because I did not know if I was good enough to make a contribution to the team. I wished that I will play good today. We played for an hour and 30 minutes like normal soccer players do in real soccer. We lost, and badly by 12-5. I think our team wasn’t very organized. We did not have any formations, neither did we actually have a manager to lead our team. Still, i was proud of myself for scoring one close goal, while some people were so ashamed of not having to score 5 goals when they scored 4.

MONDAY: It was really hard to go to school again. There is a saying “Monday is Payday.” It is when people start to work again, pay bills, work again, shop, and work again. The time of the day that only felt good was during the car ride to school. Monday had heavy traffic, so it gave me the opportunity to sleep the hours that I had missed during the last few days and refresh my mind. Today was also the first day I got to experience temperature that is below 0 degrees. To me it was a really big thing because I haven’t experienced it for at least 7 years, for in L.A., it is always in the 20-32 degrees Celcius range. During the car ride I also listen to radio songs like Cultoo(컬투) and Joman Jooman (조만 주만). They cheer me up sometimes after some depressing school days or freshen me up on the start of the day.

SUNDAY: If I had announced it to the public and posted on newspapers and local post stations, I will probably be in the Guiness World Records in the inventions/science section for the youngest inventor in the world. At age 7, I had invented a math formation to solve addition problems. I do not clearly remeber how I did it or actually how to do it but I know that it works and it is effective (in some way). If my formula is really proven true, then that is something I should be proud of.