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Shiny Won't Share Candies!

Daily Words 2009. 11. 11. 16:35

Shiny won't share candies.
Candies are only for Shiny... and maybe some for Bella (her baby doll), but not for others.
So cute, especially when she says NO to her mom asking for just one candy.

It's a well known fact that I love babies and kids (I mind anything about babies or kids even if I don't like their parent/s).
It sucks that I never met Shiny in person.
But she does look a lot like her mom... Actually exactly like her mom...

I did send her some gifts and tried to video chat with Shiny (the night when the infamous typhoon hit Manila to leave everywhere flooded), and she was cute then trying to do facial impressions I made looking at the screen.

I think I could be easily the favorite uncle of Ella and Jojo (since Eric is not around)... I know I can easily be Shiny's favorite uncle, too, if I were around. Sucks, but I guess I should accept my limitations. It could have been a little hard anyway, since probably my Chinese is almost nonexistent now... I doubt if I can say a whole sentence now.

PS: But still....wow, I still can understand Chinese... even though it's just For-Babies level. 11 years living around Chinese peers is a no-joke experience.

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A Perception of Beauty

Daily Words 2009. 11. 2. 15:07

I think I developed a different perception of beauty from average Koreans.
(I actually have some friends who can back me up on this.)

I didn't notice until I came across 김태희.

I have no idea why she is so popular in Korea.
For me, she is just not ugly. I don't know if she is pretty or hot or cute.....
Well, out of all the pictures of her I looked at today, the second one is the only one I can appreciate - for a tiny little bit - and I know it's because of the shadow-ish make-up.
The rest of the pictures were just some big-eyed, fair-skinned, decent-looking Korean girl to me.

But she is considered like one of the prettiest actresses in Korea.
Until very recently, I honestly wasn't not be able to tell people how 김태희 looks like. I watched bits of the Love Story in Harvard, but I was never impressed. She was nothing so I just forgot about her. I sometimes watch Korean commercials on YouTube once in a while, since they are so different from the American ones, but I never realized it was 김태희 on all those commercials. I thought they picked up some decent looking girl for the commercials.

SHH told me it's because I am Americanized. He also said he could not understand why Koreans are so hot on 김태희. Then he also told me many Koreans think Beyonce is fat... I said "WTF!!!" and he said "Yeah, you are americanized."

I won't forget how Beyonce looks like... but 김태희 is sooo forgettable to me. It's not like she is hot... or cute adorable enough for me to remember.... She is just decent.

I just thought it's something fun to write about... I watched a couple episode of Iris after talking to JYK, but yeah... I thought the North Korean spy was more impressive than 김태희... Oh well... I still think 전지현 is pretty, so my perception is still within the range of many Koreans'... only 김태희 is a huge mystery to me.

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Phone Calls

Daily Words 2009. 10. 27. 16:45

I hate phone calls.
Well, I hated phone calls.
I was indifferent with phone calls until I got my first job in July 2007.
Even though my English was pretty decent for an international,
my boss at that time used to scold me for my less than expected communication skills. That job required me to talk to lawyers most of the time, especially on the phone.

I was a TA and also had other tutoring jobs when I was a student, and everything was fine. My students liked my explanations so my TA session room was full that we had to borrow chairs from other rooms. But those experience at the job just killed all my confidence in communicating with others, esp through phone calls.

So, since then, I got choked when I was speaking on the phone.
And then, I began to hate speaking on the phone.

Thanks to the tech world, I relied more and more on emails, IMs and social networking sites.
I was never big on SMS although I am a superb typist on any phone.
It was only when I was in high school that I was hot on the SMS thingy.

So, by the time I terminated my AT&T contract (I left for Verizon after this for a while until I came back with AT&T for the iPhone), my rollover minutes were at least 3,200 minutes every month. I never talked on the phone more than it was necessary for a long time.

But recently, I find myself going easy on phone calls again.
I think I am getting more confidence in discourses again.
My first job and the boss was just such a trauma to me. I have been thinking if I am not good in English, and losing touch in Korean, WTF am I supposed to speak and write?
But I realized that it could be fun to talk on the phone again.
I also made some easy calls for work, instead of emails, too. Man, why was it so difficult? LoL
Or maybe it's just that some people can connect and any means could work?!
Whatever... talking with someone for real can be fun - now that I realize.
(Of course, it's not fun with anyone... I only call 5 people regularly now, including my parents. Before it was 2, including my parents... LoL. I emailed with NR누나 and only IMed with JYK형...and...never really knew JYK)

BTW, recently, I realized that I tend to think in English before I speak something in Korea...WTF!!! How horrible is that... Korean is my mother tongue...
In addition, when I was on the phone with JYK, and I finally heard my Korean in American English accent.. WTH!!!!!!! It was hella slurry, too... If I had adopted the British accent, can my Korean accent be less slurry? Just thinking...