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Pictures from when Hye Jin came!

It was so cool when Hye Jin came. (Click the picture above for a bigger version, so you can see Hye Yeon's (on the right) simple undecorated living room!! I think she should add decorations!! Click here to see a picture of me and Hye Jin hanging out in my silly room....Anyway, I didn't get to see a lot of her when she was here... but it was really fun hanging out with her while she was up visiting! ^^

Yesterday, Young Min invited me to a party at his house.. .. it was fun, a lot of drunk silly people. By the time I came home I was spinning inside my head! hehehe ^^;; Me and him were going to go on a roadtrip this weekend, but we had a few mixups and we are changing our plans! Maybe next next weekend?? Hmm.. anyway, thats all I have to say for now! uh-huh. Word to the people. SAMPAI JUMPA!

War Kills People

Its a sad world when people fight with eachother. Why are we going to war? In my opinion, and its only my opinion.... This war is sad, why is this war happening??? I could talk forever about how America is being a bully, and about how we are being abusive of our status, and about Bush being insane... but its all been said already, and in the end the only thing left to say is how sad it is.... daag.

Ladies and Gentelmen, and now for an annnouncement...!

»ýÀÏ ÃàÇÏÇØ~! HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEUNG ONE!

S.O. is having a birthday on the 19th, this is a little early but... HAPPY BIRTHDAY CUTE S.O. YOUR SILLY! (the text on the animation is Japanese for "happy birthday".. actually, "congrads!")

Saturday was cool. I hung out with Nakayama and we met Minako (who I hadn't seen in months) with Akane and we all went to the American-style Mexican resturant downtown. After that I went to Ryu's birthday party... that was interesting... started out with a lot of people playing chess (really!) and I met the young guy from Nicky's early version of the Hamster Report TV show (karate segment) it was interesting to see someone who I had seen on a TV show, well, a TV show that hadn't made it but... he was a cool guy, none the less, maybe Nicky can sneak that segment into his new show? Eventually a lot of people started drinking and getting crazy (Although I'm proud of myself, I didnt drink anything! ^^ ) ...it was a lot of Americans who thought they knew stuff about Japan and Japanese but who didn't really know as much as they thought (I'm sure me included!)...Actually, at the party I did a very geeky thing! ^^;; I was walking around and I saw a book about Ethopia, and I started reading it. The book was all about Ethopia, and it brought out some interesting facts. Although Ethopia wasn't ever really "colonized" by a European power, it did its own colonizing of other African areas (like when it annexed Eritrean territory in 1962) ... It made me wonder if society has a "be the oppresser or be oppressed" attitude.. it was a weird thought that I'm still thinking about. The party was interesting though. Sunday I did my radio show and it was crazy, tons of calls. Apparently there is this freaky punk music band from japan who came to bellingham for the last month and they have been causing chaos and tons of people like them, so people where calling about that. Made the show wild... would be cool to get that band in for an interview or something! And after all that, Priscilla took me to dinner at the commons tonight. It was nice of her, good food and I met a lot of people I know! yay! ALSO! A word to the wise... Vicky has a really cool blog. Wanna know what its like to live in Japan? Read her blog. Anyway, I need to go study now. peace! SAMPAI JUMPA! ^^; ...

Hye Jin came to visit!
This last weekend was really cool because Hye Jin Shin came up to visit Bellingham... we took a few pictures, but she hasn't sent them to me yet so I'll have to upload those later. Brendon and Maralise gave me and Hye Yeon (one of the Korean students going to school here) a ride to the seattle airport to meet hye jin. Brendon asked me what she looked like while we were waiting, and I was in the middle of describing her when she walked up! She's changed, longer hair and lost a little weight it seemed like. But its been almost 7 months, so people change. We rode back, and in the car I interviewed Hye Jin with Brendon's MD recorder (he said I could use it). It was late when we got back to Bellingham, so I let them go to sleep with plans to hang out Saturday night.
Saturday day I hung out with Nicky. It was fun seeing him, he seems to be doing well. (Right now he is making a 10 second movie, called "duel"... click here and rank the movie "duel" a high vote! 10 or something... if you don't see the movie "duel" keep clicking the view link because its sometimes random.) I came home at night, but Hye Yeon and Hye Jin weren't able to come home until real late so we didn't hang out.
On sunday, I went to my radio show and played the Hye Jin MD interview. It was so fun, it was like having her in the studio... even a few people called to ask who was in the studio.... !! In the early evening, Nakayama invited me to pizza & movie with her room mate, and that was really fun... after that I came home and waited for Hye Yeon or Hye Jin to call. And this time Hye Jin really did come over to hang out! (Hye Yeon didn't, said she was busy studying).... it was fun hanging out with Hye Jin, we started to watch a korean movie, although I distracted her with some of my pictures and stuff. But anyway that was that weekend. Pictures soon!

I don't like really being so politcal, but this "war" stuff is really sad. Why do people want to kill each other?

Also, on Tuesday or something I saw a really racist cartoon and that pissed me off. Why is the world so mean sometimes? ohh.. and in good news:

I'm graduating in spring!?

if all goes as it seems to be going I'll be graduating university finally, after 5 long years, with an offical "nothing" degree. Yes, its offically a degree for people who have no specific field of study... its a nothing degree... but oh well. I'll be done finally! yay! Well, I'm going to home to study or something. DAAG!

YAY! Hye Jin Shin is coming to Bellingham!

One of my friends from BIP Korea is coming to Bellingham tomorrow, to visit Hye Yeon (one of the other BIP people who is here) and me! yay! Its going to be fun seeing Hye Jin again... I'll post pictures here when I get them.

... I did some creative "hacking" off Hanmail and now I have all sorts of digital ways to express myself. Yay!

ALSO! My current FAVORATE SITE is awesome!! OK its sweedish (whats up with me and sweedish stuff recently??) but its so cool ~!! Farm animals doing weird things and stuff! You can even learn some sweedish from this program... I'll include some sweedish I learned so far, to help you....starta is guess what.. start! click this to start your journey into crazyland! bonuspoang is bonus points (try to get these!) and aterstall means "clear" which means start over in a few of the games... avsulta is close (use this to close some of the games)! ,.,.. for somewhere to start, click on the "sheep" and play the pooping letters game thing, its fun to write with shit! uhmmm. yay! (You'll need Flash, shockwave, and a fast connection to use this site!)

And in other news... I performed a Japanese rap at an open mic yesterday. I was cutting into it, busting out rhymes in Japanese, doing real good and smooth... and then I heard someone do a little laugh.. maybe they though my rap sucked, maybe they thought it was so good, (or right now I'm thinking maybe they didn't get it so found it funny?) but in any case they made a little noise that distracted me and BOOM suddenly I lost the next verse, my mind couldn't find it.. I was so frustrated..!! so I made a funny face, said a few random lines in Japanese about not being able to know what to say next, and then cut to my final chorus. It was a fairly good save, but I regret not being able to do the third verse.. its one of my favorates because the rhyme setup is sweet! anyway... thats my word to the people. SAMPAI JUMPA!!

I'm a silly silly person.

Anyway, life is rolling around. I'm going to go talk to the Dean tomorrow about graduating, I want to graduate!!

And now, ladies and man-like beasts, drum roll please! Vicky is the latest one to join the blog-army, and she's got a freaky cool blog now too! Yay! I added a link to it up to the left, under outside links... or you could just click here... her background is my favorate color, rainbow! ... well, it cycles through the colors...~! (I didn't ask, so if she wants me not to link to her blog, I'll take the link away!!)

My friend Mio is silly. She sent me a post card that I got yesterday... all it said on the back, in big letters, was "Whats up?" ...thats all. I actually thought it was kinda funny..~! Do you all (who am I kidding? No one reads this!) see the comment box below my entries that Nicky made me make? Use it! ^^ DAAG!

weekend update...

Of course this weekend wasn't as wild and crazy as the weekend when Hyo Eun came up. (Yeun Kyong sent me even more silly pictures from then! Funny one huh? Sorry its small..~) But I still had fun!



On friday I hung out with Polly and drank Kahlula & milk. We watched cartoons at her place, and basically chilled out. After coming home I had a cool conversation with Nicky on the phone, I haven't seen him in months!?! And then I stayed up until the late hours of the night having a drinking competion with myself and a 40oz beer... somewhere in the middle of this competion Hyun Jung called me from Wyoming (spelling?) and I was kinda drunk, so I hope she could understand me!

On saturday I went to a cool Salmon eating party at my American friends' (Roz & Nathen) house. There was so much salmon! Teriyaki salmon, lemon and stuff salmon, salsa and black bean salmon! and there was a lot of baked potatos... basically it was some really good food!! ƒ��[�I‚¨‚¢‚µ‚©‚Á‚½‚æ�IAnyway, I really liked it. After that I hung out with Nakayama and her room mate, etc, watching The Matrix... well, I didn't pay 100% attention but thats what they were watching... and then I went home and stayed up late again, went to bed at 3, or 4:30 and then.. Vicky called me at about 5 in the morning, from McDonalds? I was so surprized (and because of a time difference it wasn't so late... early? ... for her..) and it was really cool talking to her. She seemed so excited to be hanging out with her friends, it was cool. This sunday my radio show was fun, I played some new music.. got a few requests, didn't make any big mistakes.. was cool ^^

If your wondering the bouncing bunnies that are currently on the upper left (this will change soon) that say congradulations in english and then 'congradulations BOUNCE' in Japanese are for Nicky, FC, and their baby that will be coming soon! woo! ... Anyway, I'm going now. TEMAN SAYA, SAMPAI JUMPA!

Hyo Eun visits us in Bellingham!

Ok up there is the very normal picture we took when Hyo Eun first got here to Bellingham to visit me and Yeun Kyong.
but! We took a lot of crazy pictures too!! I wish I could put them all here, but... heres a few! (click the links!)
hyo eun tries to lick the camera
I promise me and yeun kyong weren't drunk!!?
good picture, except I almost look like I'm swallowing my chin!

Anyway, it was so cool that she came to visit us from Na-na-nanaimo, Canada.. (only a few hours away actually) On friday we had a drinking party with some of yeun kyong's korean and japanese friends... on saturday I invited them (and Bored Girl) to go with me to this really cool African Caribbean culture show on campus, which was really cool... and after that we went back to my appartment and had a "pizza party" while watching a weird Korean movie named in English "Barking Dogs Don't Bite"... on Sunday, Hyo Eun came with Yeun Kyong to my radio show... I interviewed Hyo Eun but Yeun Kyong wouldn't talk!! But anyway, it was a lot of fun! Yay!

in other news... CONGRADULATIONS NICKY AND FC (as he refers to her on his site)!! They have a baby coming, and I'm so excited for them.. and if its a her, a really really really vote for Zoe Loi, because I think that name is awesome! (I put a link to Nicky's page on my outside links to the right!) anyway.... SAMPAI JUMPA!

Quick note about MASSIVE AMAZING self realizations:

Found my name under the traditional song: "Dansen Ungdom" which is a Slangpolska style dance often played on Nyckelharpa or Kontrabasharpa instrements. This is so true.

Read all about the Nyckelharpa, which is sweedish... leading me to belive I might have found the orgin of my name? A sweedish name? This is interesting. Not sure, I am sure I have a theme song for the moment though. Ok everyone sing with me: "Dansen Ungdom medan ni for mar innan eduranga arforsvinna..."!! .....anyway, as is said in Tagalog? PALAM!

I just got my LA pictures back, and I have a lot of cool pictures! I should post them on the internet... the above picture is a stop sign that someone put a red "war" sticker under, so it reads "stop war" ... pretty clever I think. (I took that picture while driving around LA with Kayo in her cool rented car.)

This Friday was awesome! ISC & some of CSA went out to a Thai resturant, there was 8 of us all sharing food so it ended up really cheap! After that some of us went to see that new movie Dare Devil. On saturday several friends had said they were going to hang out with me, but none of them called or came by my appartment so I just hung out with myself. I actually really like hanging out with me... but I wanted some cold beers, but I couldn't find my ID so I couldn't go buy any... which annoyed me! But yeah.. uhm. I'm ok! ... Today is my radio show (Sundays! 3-5pm, 89.3fm~!) and I'm actually looking forward to it even though I'm kinda tired today. DAAG!

Fresh from Japan: Shibuya

Kayo sent me another damn cool picture from Japan with her kickass Nipponese cellphone thingie. Thats "downtown" tokyo (saw a segment on Travel channel yesterday with the same view!) and its very ‚Ȃ‚©‚µ to see that picture. (OK, I said I wouldn't type ALOT of Japanese here, for that go to my Japanese journal)

Life has been spinning past me. Mid-term tests are in my college this week, seems too fast. I'll surive though... and maybe someday I'll graduate. Maybe! SAMPAI JUMPA, TEMAN SAYA!

I can't belive this! I am feeling really frustrated about not being able to graduate, and about how my teacher seems to want me to want her vision or she wont let me graduate.. and I was watching TV right now and the most ironic Twilight Zone is on the TV. Its a show about students who can not leave their school because they have computer chips in their brain that control them and keep them in school. One person's opperation fails and he knows, he becomes aware that the others are being controled. He complains to his room mate who is controled by the computer chip and his room mate says "No ones leaves school until they graduate, and no one graduates until they are with the program." Its so scary... I can't explain how ironic this feels to me right now.