"Remember the Sweet Things"

"You are blessed. You are one of the lucky few. Don't be so greedy as to expect more gifts than the ones you have already been given."

Challenger

I just started to chiken out what I actually am going to do...


I don't know if it's going to work out or not.


But whenever I go on the next step, which sometimes look impossible to do, I see what' lacking me.


Of course when the next step is too high or I'm down mentally, I usually get knocked out.

But most of the time I'm a challenger.

"I never get beaten!!"


I'm happy with being a challenger.

But I want to believe myself more, to be honest.


It needs a long curement, maybe.


Oh, I need to get a book habit. I think reading books is the best way to gain knowledge, new words, new pespectives and good practice for reading any academic essays and writing.


We need input. and out put.


Interesting..

headache

Today I got a phone call from my friend in Japan. It was nice to talk with her.

She worrried about me being alone in here..

It is great that there are some people who know that I often feel lonely and weak at heart.



Being independent is admirable maybe, but sometimes to depend is needed.


I have been reading/watching two stories about the middle age women getting married.


One is called "Something's gotta give" a movie.
The main character is a productive, successful playwriter, who has divorced after long marriage. She met her daughter's boyfriend, quaint old guy, who has had a lot of affairs with young women. They met, and fell in love and broke up. She has been like a guy, macho, strong woman. He called her "flinty."

When she noticed she was heartbroken, she continued crying days after days..
like an adolecent girl, who just has been broken by her first love...(Actually she is around fifty or something)


Another story, a book, is called "Remember the Sweet Things." I haven't finished reading this book yet, but it seems a true story about the auther. She has divorced twice, being a single mother herself raising two kids. She has had such a dramas with the two ex-husbands, but she ended up with her boss at her new work place. This woman, too, has been so independent, slipping her femininity..isn't it so nice that she's been keeping track of what her husband has done for her and making a list of it, to give the list on Valentine's day? People tend to remember only what they have done to someone else, or what they have been done most of the time which was annoying to them.


These days, I've been enjoying movies and books in English. The more I read, the more I find in there, new words, new interpretations, new perspectives..


Today I baked bagels but it didn't go well, since I misunderstood Celsius and Fahrenheit...I try another one tomorrow morning.

Good night!

Movie..

Today I watched "Catch me if you can" with my friend.

Leonard Decaprio and Tom Hanks..I like both!!

This is a story about one fugitive criminal who keeps forging checks, chased by the FBI.

The main character, Frank, started to pretend to be someone, like a pilot, a lawer, and a doctor, because he wanted to make big money for his father.

He must be a good boy for his father. He was lonely...

It was impressive he gave up escaping when he was told nobody would chase him. It might be easy to live in the lies, but nobody cannot escape from him/herself.





I ate Indian curry today, and Korean curry yesterday. What kind of curry am I going to eat tomorrow?

Today!!

I hung out with my friends today...it had been several days since I talked and socialized with people last time...hah


Anyway it was fun but exhausting. Maybe because I woke up around 7am to bake cinamon roll. It was good. I didn't know that it doesn't take more than an hour to bake it. It's so easy..

We shared a lot of stuff with youtube. Now youtube is an important tool for sharing your culture. Through music clips, you see the culture underneath its country.

Language, fashion, trend, clothes, appearences.

Especially you will see what kind of people are popular in that country.


Skinny? Dyed hair? Big eyes?


I was so motivated by Korean stars with so skinny body shape. They are appalling skinny with long arms and legs!


I don't know about my plans for tomorrow. Maybe catching up the behind schedule?

Resume

I haven't updated my blog for a while.


I didn't have a terrible life but not a specutacular life either..


The good thing of being an international student is there is no end.


The goal is out of my sight, even though I'm sure of aproaching it little by little, which I sometimes notice.


I decided to stay in the states for this break, and I'm going to study English again..but I'd love to do that, actually! (It sounds so bad to some of people)

I guess it will be my best investment for my future. I want to be a native speaker. That was my goal, and even for today.


To do success in this project, I decided to start over this blog, in order to improve my "outputting" what I have learned.

Anyway, today is done, and I'm so excited about tomorrow!!

My friends are going to come over and make some foods!

Before their arrival, I'm going to bake something, hihi

See you!