Updates and Random Thoughts June 3, 2003      Hi everybody~ It really has been long time sine I came here. I did occasionally come to check up on my site and now that I have more free time, I've decided to revamp the entire site. I will update everything....not right away but I will do one page at a time....that's promise....after everything is updated then who knows I might not update again for several years.      Today, I'm just going to respond to the recent questions and comments you made on my guestbook. I'll probably respond to the most recent 10 entries...      1. To Jeff: Yes, I'm still alive. I've been busy with work and church....I have another homepage for my church students that I have to monitor and I let this one go to waste but I won't do it anymore.      2. To Jisu from Calgary(forgive me, I spelled your English name wrong): I'm glad you enjoyed the poems. I will add many more Korean poems in the site.      3. To Jack: I'm sorry but I'm not Sophia Choi from CNN. I don't know what makes you think I am when you can clearly see from pictures that I don't look like her at all. If you like her as much as you claim to be, you should know right away that I don't look like her. I'm not sure if Sophia Choi from CNN has a website but if she does, I'll be the first one to put her webpage address up. I promise.      4. To Dae: I've never seen Chingu....was it good? I've been meaning to buy it from Chinese mall but my mom's been very adamant about not going to Chinese mall due to SARS. Not that I've stopped going to Chinese mall but what she doesn't know won't hurt her. I don't know what the big deal is about SARS in Canada or should I say Toronto...whenever I watch U.S news, they mention SARS in Toronto but most of the time, they show pictures of people with the masks on from Asia....but it's not like that in here....people look at you funny if you wear mask outside of the hospital setting.      5. To Jesse: Thank you for saying that my smile is greatest. I always get in trouble with my parents for smiling too widely in the pictures. Maybe I could show this comment to my parents and say "See, some people do like it better when I smile :)..."      6. To Tod & Chris: Read my comment to Jack. I'm glad you guys love Sophia Choi from CNN and I'm sure SHE appreciates it. Let her know by sending her the e-mail or mail to CNN.      7. To Paul: Thank you for liking the picture. I really hate taking pictures and I'm still trying to get over that...I usually like to blame my dad for that....you see, he used to work at Fuji Film in Korea and when I was young, he used to take tons of pictures of me. I couldn't go anywhere without my dad taking time to take pictures. I now know that it was his way of showing his pride and love but when I turned 12, I hated having my picture taken. I felt so awkward and weird....so the habit stuck wtih me but hopefully, I will get over it.      8. To Daniel: Thanks for the encouragement. I will try to do a better job next time.      9. To Sophia Choi from Australia: I also loved "My Sassy Girl"...and I'm from Haeju Choi not Kyungju. Sorry, we are not related but you know what they say in Korea...everybody is related.      Well, that's it for today. I will be doing major updates on my homepage so come and visit often :) March 13, 2000      Ow~ can't believe it's been almost two weeks since I updated this page....well but then I haven't updated for more than one year before so I guess I'm getting better....So let's see what's new with me....I have tons and tons of assignments and homeworks this week. Actually, I'm suppose to be studying right now but my brain couldn't take anymore so I thought I would come and take a break and update my homepage :)      Lots of new changes in my life but I thought I would go back to my memory lane and share the most embarassing moment of my life....well now that I think about it, it was funny but at that time, it was very embarassing. I don't remember when it was...probably during summer two years ago....I went out with my friend Hyun-Soo to Panaroma in downtown. We had a pleasant evening and we were heading home when it happened. We were on the subway going northbound and I noticed this really interesting ad. It was the ad for the game...don't remember what the name of the game was...but it was a game where you had to read out loud group of words that didn't make sense at all and have to figure out what it was suppose to be....well the ad said "Wheel yum air ream he"....I remembered watching the TV ad and knew what it was suppose to be. I wanted to know if Hyun-Soo will get it so I asked him to figure out but he couldn't....So I looked at him and told him the words out loud. I said "WILL YOU MARRY ME" and as soon as I said it, I realized how it might sound to other people around us on the subway. They didn't know I was just reading the ad, they thought I was proposing to Hyun-Soo in the subway!!!! This lady who was sitting infront of us glanced at us and just smiled with the knowing look. Hyun-Soo was laughing out loud and I was blushing and the lady was smiling with that look in her face...arghhhhh....I don't think I ever been that embarassed before....I think she expected Hyun-Soo to answer my proposal and give me a kiss or something....because for the entire trip between Bloor and Sheppard, she just watched us with that smile....It was the longest subway trip of my life.... March 2, 2000      I told you I was going to update more regularly :) Well, to tell you the truth, I wasn't going to update this page today but something happened and I just couldn't resist the temptation to talk about it in here. By the way, whatever I'm going to tell you the person involved in the story already knows and gave me the permission....      So what happened today? Well, one of my friend had SEX today...or maybe it's even better than just ordinary sex :) She was moaning like she was having some kind of orgasm. All that for $5!!!!! So what really happened? I introduced her to "White chocolate brownie", my favorite dessert at Moxie's. It's a mixture of whipping cream, chocolate sauce, French vanilla ice cream and finally white chocolate brownie. It's really really good. Everytime, she took a bite of this brownie, she was moaning and you can see the how much pleasure she was getting from this cake :) If you want to know what it was like, you should picture Meg Ryan faking an orgasm in the movie "When Harry met Sally". Okay, so she wasn't as loud as Sally in the movie but still....Anyway, you should try it out when you get a chance. It's really good. Oh but when you order, make sure you ask the waiter not to pour so much chocolate sauce on top of the dessert. Who knows maybe you might experience same kind of pleasure as my friend if you had the cake....all for $5 :) March 1, 2000      Ow~ Can't believe it's been close to one year since I last updated my homepage. Yeap, I guess it's official that I'm a lazy butt :) I don't even know where to start with this journal. Recently, I've been reminded that I have a homepage and that I haven't updated in looooong time....so here I am. I will try to update the journal page more regularly and then start slowly update every single section. I'm even thinking of changing the layout of the whole homepage...but we will see about that...      I've recently seen The Tigger Movie....it was very good. Didn't expect to be sad but it was. Michelle and I both cried and stayed a bit longer to hear the song called "Your heart will lead you home". Not sure who sings it but it just fits the movie perfectly. Other songs I liked were "Whoop-de-Dooper Bounce" and "Pooh's Lullabee" I think I'm going to see the movie again. Just looking at their official web page makes me want to go :) Maybe I will take my students with me. They been bugging me to take them to movie ever since they found out that I could get the tickets for $3 in Paramount.      Another thing that unexpectedly touched my life was the story of Heidi. I read this book when I was young in Korea but haven't had a chance to reread it in English. I was surprised to find how much I enjoyed reading it and how deeply it touched me. I've been having troubles in my personal relationship with God and this book helped me to rediscover my relationship with God and renew my faith. April 25, 1999      I swear somebody is stalking me....for a month and a half, someone's been paging me with 411. At first I didn't think much of it...you know one of those mistakes that people make...but it's getting really annoying. I think I get at least one at a day or more. I thought it would go away sooner or later but it hasn't. I wish I knew who it was so I could YELL at that person for bugging me....*sigh* I know I shouldn't yell at anyone but I can't help it. Anyone knows what 411 means other than "info"? April 19, 1999      What I am about to say will make majority of you jealous :) But it makes me happy so I will say it....I'M DONE FOR THIS YEAR!!!!!! you are probably thinking, "huh? What is she talking about?" Well, I wrote my last exam today. So my holiday starts now till the beginning of the September :) After what I went through today I think I deserve all the happiness I can muster...      So what happened today? TTC(Toronto Transit Committee) have been threatening to strike for couple of weeks over the wage increase and decided to STRIKE today!! Of all the days to strike, they decided on TODAY!!!!!! With the public transit on strike, I had no way to get to school except waking up early and asking my dad to give me a ride to school on the way he drops my mom off or something. Since my exam was at 2 pm and my parents were gonna wake up around 6:30 to leave home, I decided to take my chances and arrange my own way to school. I heard from my friend Thilaka that there was a GO train or bus that runs from near my house to the Union Station and from Union Station, U of T provides a shuttle bus for students. So, I called the GO INFO line to find out the closest station and found out that there was a bus at 11:30 am. One after that was 2:30 pm so you could see that I had no choice but to take the 11:30 one. And my next call was to taxi company so I could get to the station...now we are talking about 9:30 in the morning...I didn't get much sleep the night before because my ex-bf decided to call me that night and talk about some stuff(I know...I should have said "nope can't talk now") and I haven't gotten much sleep for few weeks from studying...so I was already feeling grumpy, nervous and anxious...I was put on hold for 10-15 minutes by taxi company and when I thought I was gonna get someone, that operator HUNG UP on me :( Don't you hate it when that happens? Anyway, so I called another company and finally got through and the operator advised me that it could take 10 minutes or 1 hour to get a cab. And even if I got the cab, it would probably take a long time to get to destinations due to a traffic jam. To tell you the truth, I had my doubts on whether I could make it to my exam on time....Well, to my surprise, the taxi came in 10 minutes and I got to GO station by 10:30 in time to catch the one before 11:30 bus. The bus came and you are probably thinking "she took that bus and went to school safely." Nope, things didn't end that easily for me that day. It did come on time but didn't bother to STOP :( Since it wasn't the bus I was suppose to catch anyway and there was another bus at 11:30 I wasn't that nervous...but people in the line up were discussing what they are gonna do if the next one didn't stop either....arhhhh....if I missed the second one then I would have been in HUGE trouble....I really didn't need all this stress right before the exam....well, God was looking out for me that day...another bus that wasn't in the schedule came about 15 minutes later and I was able to make it to school on time :) So happy ending after all....but then what other ending could Christians have in this world? Always victorious no matter what, right? :) April 1, 1999      Happy April Fool's Day!! hmmm I wonder people who's been tricked will share my sentiment but still...I thought I will take time to share with you one of my practical joke story. If you have been to ck, you know that I love teasing Myrian. Well, I'll tell you the last practical joke I planned but didn't go through with...it's kinda funny...well Myrian doesn't think so but I do :)      Recently U of T held nude co-ed swimming event at the Athletic Centre. It was advertised in our school newspaper and people who were interested were suppose to sign up for the event. You know what I was gonna do? I was gonna sign Myrian up to that nude co-ed swimming and tell her to meet me at the athletic centre for aquafit class :) Obviously, she will show up there by herself and have to face all those naked people in her swimsuit. hahahahaha just thinking about her shocked face makes me laugh. Don't you think it's a good practical joke? Well, too bad I didn't carry it out like planned. My conscience kicked in and it said "what if you were victim of this practical joke? how would you feel?" and also my practical side kicked in and reminded me of Myrian's last practical joke on me. So me being a nice, practical girl gave up on that plan. Good thing I did because the next event they held was "nude co-ed volleyball" :) There are more stories I could share but I will do that later. Don't want to tell you all the funny stories all at once.... March 28, 1999      Added another pictures page, mom's wisdom page and book pages has been updated as well. I'll probably add another picture page for my students as soon as they send me their scanned pictures. So hurry up guys and give me your pictures!! March 27, 1999      Went bowling for the first time in my life! I thought it was going to be difficult to learn but it wasn't...all you have to do is just aim and let the ball go :) Josh wanted me to do it in granny style but I didn't had to resort to that. I did okay doing the normal way. Both Myrian and Josh showed me their granny style and it was funny...      After bowling, we went to noraebang(karaoke) but there was no room available and we had to wait around 40 minutes for the next available room. So we went to Greens(Chinese tea house) and had bubble teas. Usually I have green apple cooler but today I tried honeydew and it was wonderful. I think I'm in love with the honeydew flavour. It was sweet but not too sweet, fresh and had a clean flavour. Yummy~ March 26, 1999      Our apartment had no heat for the entire week. Why did I not call the super right away? Well, I figured since it's suppose to be spring and so that they turned the heat down. arhhh....but that wasn't the case....everybody had heat except us...can't believe I suffered through 7 cold nights...Come to think of it, it was kinda funny because everybody in the house was wearing thick sweaters, socks, long pants and everything else that will keep us warm to sleep. I don't think I ever wore so much clothing to bed before... March 3, 1999      Can you believe we had snow storm warning today? I mean it's MARCH!!! I thought spring was here....but we had about 15 cm of snow...and it's freezing outside...I wonder when the spring will show up...      Added bunch of pictures to picture page and I will probably add more pictures of me and my friends when I get a chance to scan the pictures...I will be adding book pages soon as well... March 2, 1999      Arhhhh....I made such a stupid mistake today. I jumped to conclusion when I shouldn't have and it turns out that it was just misunderstanding....*sigh* Good thing he thought it was just funny instead of getting mad at me...I was so embarrassed though...I can't believe I said it...next time, I'm gonna just stay quiet till I know for sure before yelling at someone... Feb. 27, 1999      Today, 10 of Korean Hi-C students went for the first time to Scott Mission. I'm so proud of them....for some, first time in their life, they actually did something to help others instead of being preoccupied with their lives. Before going to this trip, I was afraid about many things...I was afraid that they might decide not to participate in this worthy cause, or even if they went, they might think the place is scary and awful and complain the entire time. I guess I underestimated them....Sure, they found the place different and a bit scary but they understood that they were doing something good. They understood that they were actually doing something to make this world a better place....I pray that more students will participate in this event and learn the joy of giving to others.... Feb. 19, 1999      Hooray~ Finished the book called "I Kissed Dating Goodbye" by Joshua Harris. Pretty interesting book....If you want to know more about it, go to my Books page to see what the book talks about in detail. Challenged me a lot in my ways of thinking regarding dating(obvious one, eh?) and marriage. I guess the reason this book interested me in the beginning was because it's unusual to hear about not dating these days. There are books everywhere talking about how to find your true love, the rules to dating game, different methods and ways to find a guy/girl, etc....But this book offers Biblical views on dating.      I know I want something different in my life. I don't want to go through the meaningless, short-term dating games. I'm tired of artificial relationships. I want something real. For past few month, I've been hearing about being unique in our society as a Christian...being able to stand out in a crowd and go against the trend...I know I don't have it in me to go against the current but with God's help I want to learn how to do it...*sigh* I still haven't analyzed the book well enough to talk about it. I thought I would just introduce it now so you could be familiar with this when I'm done analyzing. Hopefully, by then I'll be able to talk about this "new attitude toward romance and Relationships" better :) Till then you gotta wait for me or read the book.... Feb. 17, 1999      Gloomy day today. No sunshine. Just lots of cloud :( I'm beginning to miss sunshine...maybe I'll go to that new cafe where they have the artificial sunshine. I wonder if it will have the same effect on me as the real stuff.... Feb. 16, 1999      Saw "Life is Beautiful" again. Still loved it....I thought since I knew the plot I might not enjoy it as much as I did last time but I was wrong....it was still wonderful. I was talking to Jamie Unni and I was telling her that if I could find someone like Guido who could make me happy in any circumstances by just telling me "Good Morning Princess", I would marry that person :) * Home * Profile * Life's Delights * Pictures * Journal * Wisdom * * Faith * Arts & Lit * Books * Korean Food * Recipes * Links * "This is the confidence we have in approaching God; that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us-whatever we ask-we know that we have what we asked of him" 1 John 5:14-15