Autumn

Young girls in braided sweaters and colorful scarves.
Plaid skirts, pearl earings, fluffy puppies.
Honking geese in ragged formations, slowly flying south.
Orange grass, red leaves, crystal blue skies.
Pumpkins, squash, cool apples, warm cider.
Crisp leaves dead from frost early morning.
New semester, smiles, thanksgiving, bountiful harvest.
Plump squirels scuttering across drying grass, picking up acorns.
Leather loafers and pink Uggs.
Navy blue peacoats and red lipstick.
Crisp, clean, dry, cool.. air.

Homesick for autumn. Those who are able, please enjoy it while you can.

1 September 2009

I opened the door
and Autumn fell in.

I truely missed you in my hair.

Confidence

It is exhilarating to be able to choose a new destination without anyone else's permission.

Yet it is also devastatingly lonely.

Price of freedom, I suppose.

Which is why only the truth can set you free.

Wisdom

Do not bite the hands that feed you.

Quite honestly, you are not the aforementioned hand.

Charity

You are the only person in the world who will first care about the well-being of yourself. Your family and loved ones are a close second, yet still a second. Thus, if you do not think of yourself before everyone else, no one in this world will put your own well-being as first priority. You will perpetually become a second priority person. Your existence will never be first place. Which is why selflessness is overrated. And it never pays off.

Love yourself. Love only those who are as lovable as you. Because you are definitely worth that kind of love.

Selfishness is the best investment one can make in life.

G.I. Joe

Ever since I became a real engineer, I just cannot watch sci-fi movies anymore without laughing my eyes out. (Do NOT even get me started with the terrifying nonsense that was Wall-E.) At least the corny promotional videos that engineering firms and manufacturers show on their websites are based on real cutting edge technology. Science fiction these days honestly seem incapable of evolving out of the original Star Wars series. Only after watching these movies do I realize how high tech the work I am doing actually is, and that regular people who are blissfully non-engineers will probably have absolutely no idea on what I do for a living.

Well, I did hear that G.I. Joe was nonsense to even those aforementioned non-engineers. The movie was hilarious for all the wrong reasons. Dare watch the movie only if you are interested in watching ridiculous science fiction that pretty much does not care for anything else. (The future is in nanotech!)

The big, big life-saver for this movie was that Byung-hun Lee was extremely hot and amazingly proficient in English. Did I mention that Byung-hun Lee was extremely hot? I would even watch the blatantly advertised sequel as well if Lee were to appear again. Even if the second movie is as corny as the first one. And Byung-hun Lee was extremely hot.

USA vs Korea

The US education system assumes that every kid is special; they just need to find the area of expertise at which they can be most special.

The Korean education system assumes that every kid is an idiot until proven otherwise. And the Korean definition of "idiot" is very, very broad.