Month: May 2013

  • poem for my mom

    she asked for it for her bday present. which is totally awesome cuz i suck at gifts and i'm on the other side of the world.

    ..- reposting for reference - 
    Life is hard,
    Life is tough
    Life is lonely,
    Life is rough
    I look out the window,
    I see either sun or snow
    I look to the sky,
    I see crows or cranes pass by
    Life is a blessing,
    Life is loving
    Life is moving,
    Life is worth living
    I look in the mirror,
    I feel something familiar
    I look at my face,
    I see the work of your grace
    Your tears through hardships cut stone,
    Your will and determination breaks bones
    No matter where I go or what I see,
    Is the image of my mother and our family
    Nothing can deny,
    till the day that I die
    You will always be,
    The greatest and awesomest MOMMY
    Happy birthday,
    From the son that's not your favorite
    ---Uly 
    Love you mommy dearest. hahaha
    P.S. Hope you liked your poem present even though it's not your birthday there yet. I'm sleepy .
  • korean pronunciation

    kinda sucks. i thought tones would suck w/ mandarin. NOPE.

    i can never get the sentence flow or the pronunciation right with a fair amount of words. learning how to speak japanese and chinese sounds like an awesome thing to do right now. but it would suck learning all those characters! at least i can read korean but i dunno if i'm saying it wrong or not whether i read the word or speak it! UGH.
    like when they say "sorry" / 마안해요.. (miah he yo) .. it sounds like a b!
    or when they say "who" / 누구 noogoo ... it sounds like a d!
    this is when they speak fast -______-. 
    IT'S. SO. FRUSTRATING. 
    it makes me hate spelling. i can't imagine learning english as a second language. it must me  f* pain in the ass! 
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    but.. i can't imagine learning thai or vietnamese or canto w/ their billions of tones. and i bet the dialects change their tones like w/ mandarin
  • car i want

    http://www.encar.com/dc/dc_cardetailview.do?carid=9952949&pageid=dc_carsearch&wtClick_korList=019

    this car'll save me money cuz it runs on lpg and stuff. >_< but it's a lil over my budget but it looks like it's in really good condition and only 140k kilometers. (only 86,000 miles!) 

    I can't wait to take it to the beach and shit! LOL.

    or the marcia..
  • ugh

    . No more party rock! Let's go balc2 motel. Sos sleepg! Gimme cardkey! No gamgnam style! Plz/nnnn so drunk

  • weekend

    Did a templestay. Got to meet some of the newer gen talks. I feel old. :P . Anyway. We got there saturday, ate bibimbap, had a hike up a mountain (with some meditation), had kimchi, veggies, rice and japchae for dinner. And then, we uhhhh went for some buddha prayer and then made a beaded necklace. U had a choiceto do the chants with buddha or just sit in the back. I mean, i cant even say the korean right so whatever. (Option for people of other religions). With the beaded necklace we had the choice to do a bow with each bead we put on. It was like 108 bows. :P .

    Then, we wrote wishes on paper lanterns and had some snacks. And went to bed. Had to get up at 4am -_-;;~

    So, we just woke up, did a morning prayer at the same temple, morning meditation, and a breakfast ceremony thing and tea with a monk.

    I swear i fell asleep 4 times cuz i was so effing tired. I was trying to hide behind kayla so nobody would see me but im pretty obvious.

    Thennn we mad pottery at a place and had lunch.. 닭볶음탕 (spicy chicken stew) and went to volunteer at an orphanage with kids.

    Kids didn't wanna be my partner lol. I thinkthey said i was ugly or something.
    Anyway, i got paired with this 17 year old (korean age) little person. She's pretty kewl. We all went on a scavenger hunt to find papers with english on them. The kids had to then explain what was on the card to the other teachers and if the teacher got it right, the kid got a prize.

    I wanna visit that orphanage again. It was a pretty new building too.

    Now kayla and i are on our way to daejeon to drink and club :P

  • http://m.encar.com/ca/cardetail.do?type=&carid=10579655

    this one looks like it's in really good condition. but is like under 2 grand. i want something just for 1 grand. but the ones that are 1 grand don't have an airbag on the driver's steering wheel. lol... :'(

  • teacher's day. fun story time.

    Volleyball Tourney
    so, korea has teacher's day. and actually celebrates it, lol.

    school is out and it falls right b4 buddha's bday so the weekend starts earlier usually ^_^ blahalhaha.
    usually there's a volleyball tournament between schools in each county. our school is pretty good but we lost ;P. but we made it halfway thru the tournament. 

    -insert rice wine and soju and food break here- 

    after that, we ate lunch. -insert soju and beer here-
    after that, we went bowling. -alcohol break-
    and usually there's a dinner or something after, but my school just left after bowling (or half of them left). i've been feeling like the school isn't as "together" or "cohesive" anymore cuz of the new principal & vp and some new teachers. it's a new dynamic but everyone is very nice. and plus, our principal lives 2 hours away so she has to drive and stuff so it's hard for her to stay long :( .
    Rescue Mission
    anyway, my friend did the triple threat and had another hwesik after bowling .. more drinking for her.
    so she called me to save her LOL. i mean, she can drink (wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy better than me), but apparently her principal doesn't know when to stop.
    omg.. after i got dropped home, i biked back to that part of town to locate the restaurant. she didn't answer her phone so i assumed it died (it did). then i had to awkwardly walk up the stairs to the floor where her school was. and awkwardly greet her school's staff to awkwardly steal her away. 
    i asked where she was and she was in the bathroom. 
    and then they asked me if i was her boyfriend. 
    i said no.
    and then her principal spoke in korean and another teacher translated it as "he can't let her go because you're not her boyfriend. he can't trust you" or something like that LOLLLLLLLLLLLL. and then some teacher yelled "fighting!" as if i actually wanna go out w/ her. 
    and then she finally came out. and then i told her what's up. and then the principal grabbed my hand and led me to where he was sitting and offered me a drink.
    typical korean culture.
    lol somek. (soju + mekju) .. soju & beer.
    he made me do a love shot. 
    then i was force fed. (i mean, it's culture for them to wrap up something in a leaf and feed you). 
    then another love shot.
    then, he introduced me to the vice principal.
    and i had a love shot w/ the vice principal.
    then, he introduced me to her mentor teacher. 
    then i had a love shot w/ her mentor teacher.
    then i got force fed again with another lettuce wrap but it had a bunch of wasabi. omggggg. i was hella hard to eat it, it was so .. spicy. (spicy? is that the word for wasabi? they were eating hwe.. like a korean sashimi) omg... 
    then, he introduced me to this one male teacher.
    and i had a love shot with that male teacher.
    and then, i said i had to go.
    and we motioned out.
    but then, as i got up, he brought two cups and we poured more someks for each other and had another love shot.
    FMLLLL LOLLL.

    of course, lareisha recorded my love shots on her iphone. 

    i swear, that principal. LOL. when cindy was there, i swear they said we were a couple too. 
    oh, my relationship with that school.
    Aftermath

    She said she was hungry cuz she didn't eat any of the hwe (raw fish). So we went to get pizza for her to eat later. But we ended up eating it at her house.
    omfg we were kinda obviously drunk. I tried to hide it as hard as I could. cuz we were at the pizza place across the middle school with kids. drunk foreigners out in the daylight.
    Like, i was explaining her how to order pizza w/ out onion and corn and like i could feel the ears in the place all on us.
    so we went back to her place and ate the pizza and me explaining to her her drunk escapades from clubbing last weekend LOL. 
    Man that was good pizza. shoulda ordered another one.
    Well, i fell asleep and woke up like at 11pm. Mind you, all of this was in the DAYLIGHT. I probably fell asleep at like 5 or 6. :P
    omg, fun times.

    I wanna get drunk w/ my school but people didn't drink much cuz they drove. But I mean, drunk tipsy teachers in public lawll. (I mean, not all of them, but quite a few of them). wow. Korean drinking culture. 

  • yesterday

    Only got a couple of hours of sleep.

    Woke up early for a kid to pin a carnation on me cuz of teacher's day. Lol then i basically slept till i had to teach. (At my desk).

    So lazy to lesson plan. Winged it again. :P gotta laminate letters for them to use, though.

    Kids were cute. I spun 1st graders around and threw some in the air during breaktime lawll. I'ma miss them. Wayy too cute.

    Awwh shit, I needa make a video for my mom's birthday and figure out what to buy her so I can send it early. Sould you guys mind recording a small video clip and saying "Happy birthday Uly's mom?" Lawll.

    I miss her. I teared a lil b4 skype calling her cuz i couldnt be there for mother's day.

    Of course i appreciate her more but i'm not done playing and gathering support for our dreams :P . She told me she really wants that pizza place.

    What made a little reality hit was like she was saying that she wants to see me graduate. She doesn't know how much longer she'll live. Which is true. Iono how much longer I'll live, so I have lots of things to accomplish.

    Anyway.. had lotteria burgers awith Kayla and met up at cafe haru with erica, lindi and liz. Had a skype session with a language exchange partner nd went with christine to practice volleyball stuff at a park. Tomorrow is the actual teacher's day, so there are volleyball tournaments in each county nationwide lol..

    Gotta wake up early again. I hope i play. But i hope we lose so i can go home early LOL.

    Dude, i bought so many pairs of pants and button ups for only 5 bucks each. AND they fit me. Love it!!!

  • "do you like sports?"

    I hate this question. lol

    mostly cuz i can't answer it. i feel like a boring person with no hobbies. i gotta explore. it's the easiest way to make people and to have a good time w/ out wasting too much money (like going to coffee shops or shopping) :P .
    let's see.. i like / wanna..
    indoor rock climb
    rollerblade
    skateboard
    hockey / ice hockey 
    ice skate
    badmitton 
    cycle
    kendo
    fence
    ........
    eventually i want to participate in some kind of art / drawing. maybe i can just take a class and explore in that area. i don't know what kind of medium i'd want. i'm leaning towards figuring out how to work game engines and to try to make videos / games. drawing / making characters sounds wayyyyyyy too time consuming to me. i'd rather work on a plot / story / game theory. 

  • national / ethnic identity

    Ya know. It's not that bad, but it still affects me.

    That I don't look Asian.

    Or, I don't even look Filipino.

    I was asked if I'm from a latin American country by a friend of a friend, and we're all filipino.

    I dunno.. it just sucks sometimes. I can't even identify with my family and amscestor's culture through looks or speech.