Some things are just so simple follow but we let thoughts and other curiosities get in the way.

This is obvious but interesting to see unfold:
-don't get involved with anyone associated with an ex
-don't get into relationships until you're ready
-don't take things hella seriously and take things lightly to avoid falling hard in the beginning

Watching people and relationships freaks me out about how things can go wrong.

I'm starting to think that just like not needing to have children, we don't need to actually be in any relationships.

But I still have that need to be loved and the feeling that someone is thinking about me in a special and romantic way like would.

Oh the human condition. Lol

I'm very greatful for the priviedge (sp?) to come and experience the culture. There's so many things i got to experience living away from home, living alone, and in another culture. There's things you can appreciate from both sides of each culture. I felt weird in public school cuz i feel like my sryle of learning is like here, where you ask questions after class and dont ask too much during class (middle nd high school here, i've heard). What i like is that society is less sexualuzed. Despite the half naked people in kpop, nobody dresses like that all the time lol. And that's probably why they make all that money ㅎㅎ. 정/ family/ togetherness is encouraged with all the 회식s (work parties) and all the sports that middle schools do. (Fot us, it's volleyball wednesdays).

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It would be cool to have some kind of togetherness like that if i was a principal ㅎㅎㅎ. Maybe i can get old and teach korean and become a principal and make shit happen. My first task would be to remove all that effing gum on deer valley's floors. Next would be to reform the education system for something more long-term and with better level assessments, individual attention, real-world exposure, experience, and flexibility.

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So i'm really frustrated that I can barely hold a conversation. I feel that in general, I'm a boring person. I don't like talking about myself cuz it's like showing off. I mean, i dance and do martial arts. Ahat do i say about that? Lol. Plus, in korean? Ughhh.

I had a convo about this with my friend as we checked out the east coast last weekend. It's hard to get emersed into the language while teaching english. We can't just completely abandon english. I was saying to her that im thinking about having a korean day when i can only utilize korean.

I feel like i dont use enough korean to command them to do things and to the teachers.

I made chicken adobo last week and it was good(not like my family's but..) i want to awe them and u guys at my cooking skills!! Hahah.

So, my next step is making homemade broths.

I read that boiling down bones to make ur own broth is better than those at the store. This whole broth thing brings me back to my mom boiling chicken bones left over from rotisserie chicken and seeing bones for sale at supermarkets.

Anyway, i wanna make my own chicken and pork stocks. And also that freakin an anchovie stock for all of maangchi's recipes.

Had a nice trip to the east coast in 속초-- and got to see a lil of seoraksan. I'm at the bus terminal waiting to go back home. I stayed at a jimjilbang .

I always wondered why Koreans have so called good skin and read about their scrubbing. So at the jimjilbang, I went in the sauna, the hot tubs and the cold pool twice to "losses my skin" so I could scrub. Damn the hottest tub at 44 degrees and the hottest steam room at like almost 100 was effing hottt. I think it's Celsius and maybe Kelvin in the sauna? Ionosphere, it was hot.

I scrubbed so hard some skin turned red hehe but I was already a Lily red cuz of the water. Omg I feel so refreshed! Don't think I've ever scrubbed my skin in my entire life lollz. They have attendants that u can pay for them to scrub ur skin I read. (I always thought that they were there for massages)

So one weird thing happened. My breathing was restricted as I walked out of the cold pool at the end of my soaking. I held my breath underwater for a minute and felt my heartbeat slow down. I brought my head above water but held my breath so calmly that I didn't feel the need to take in a breath. I started to walk out of the pool and noticed that I haven't even started breathing yet. Weirded out, I calmly let in a lil air but I was barely breathing and it felt so good! I walked around to make sure I was still alive LOL cuz I've never felt like that before. I was thinking so that's how whales feel when holding their breaths underwater lol hahaha. But really, I didn't feel the need to breathe the first steps out of the pool other than me being freaked out that I hadn't yet.

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So waiting in the terminal.. a young lady at across from me and I swear she mumbled something but I could make it out. I assumed she was talking on the phone but I looked at her and she wasn't! I was a lil embarrassed cuz I didn't say anything. I don't like to scare people away with English. So I looked away. Then she mumbled something frustratingly and she tried to dip out but like I felt she was a lil off cuz she went to pick the phone off the payphone and looked in the trash next to it before heading towards another direction. I think she said something like "어디에 살았어?" But I couldn't hear her and I was confused. (That means "where do you live?"). Hmmmm lol I feel bad I left her hanging but ionosphere man. Iono.

fitocracy... how to use it? i also thought there was a lot going on, but i figured some things out. basically, i juse use it to track my quests & workouts to level up. it's like, slowly replacing facebook. (i hope dance & korean also fill that gap but like, i get frustrated and discouraged easily ) ...

Starting out: you just enter all your information and then you can "Choose your starter workout."

starting & logging in a routine & exercises (not including saving): Click "Track" on the upper menu. You can choose to start by hovering over one of the "Choose your starter workout" options or you can actually log/track your own exercises and even make your own routines. You should see the date and a search bar with "Search for an activity" in the field. If you type in "run" many options pop up but you can scroll down and find the right choices like "running, run (treadmill)".. like that.


Saving the routine: below, you'll see the big button that says "Save Routine." WATCH OUT. lol, make sure you logged in all of your exercises. I made the mistake of logging in only one and I couldn't get my quest points cuz all of them have to be saved at the same time for that to happen P=.

Under "Advanced save options," you can ..

"Save workout" ---> just normally logging in your workout & calculating exp points
"Save workout & save new routine" --> you can log your workout for the day to get your exp points & save your routine for another time, so you don't have to search all your workouts all the time. you get to name your workout
"Save a copy as a new routine" you can just save the routine for reference. on the left bar it says "your routines". you can always delete them.

I don't think the weight matters in your profile.

Questing: Click "You" on the upper menu and there's a "Quest" section on the left.
I usually open another window so I can enter in exercises from the quest section to form & save a routine for the day, But you just log all the exercises in the quest--with the mimimum amount of reps or more-- and you get points. REMEMBER... to watch out for the amount of SETS or REPS. meaning, if it asks you to do a minimum 20 reps of pushups, you can have as many sets as you want as long as it adds up to 20. If you need a set of 15 lunges, you need to log in a set of 15 lunges. I didn't read it right one time and did 20 lunges but logged it in as two sets of 10. -_-;;. I just did the workout again cuz I don't think you can backtrack. That's probably the only drawback. Cuz, it made me workout again anyway .

Also, I saved my sets of crunches & didn't get my quest points ...(bootcamp) cuz I accidently pressed "Save workout" before logging everything else in. So, I just waited till another time during the day to do crunches again so I could log it all in and save it at the same time LOLL. Made my abs sore for a lil .

E-mail reminders:
On the "track page", you can log and schedule workouts. Click the arrow to change the date so that you can schedule workouts for the next day so that you can save time and just log in the workouts instead of searching for the exercises. You can click "schedule workout" at the bottom and you;ll get an e-mail reminder that day

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Microwaving food. So I decided to take another look and I've come up with you lose nutrients by cooking food either way. Steaming it or not cooking it at all seems to be the best option. But people say microwaving also doesn't loose as many nutrients as boiling or baking either.

Pros: The "microwaves" are not as radioactive and are non-ionizing. Since the food takes less time to cook in the microwave, less nutrients are lost. There's 3 levels of safetly locks mandated by the covernment to make sure the microwave's radiation doesn't leek out. The way it cooks is outside in, so the heat from the outter layers radiates inwards just like if you were to cook something else on the stove. Not to mention that we get hit by radiation everyday; from the Earth, the Sun.. blah blah. Also, it's effing convenient to use .

Cons: Cooking food may be hotter than boiling it, which I guess could leads to a loss of nutrients. In 1992 or something they said that microwaving breast milk loses nutrients (but I mean, did they measure that side by side with boiling it?). Why does the government require 3 levels of safety locks? lol.. but I guess better safer just in case. I also read that carrots release more of some vitamin by boiling. hmm. & that the Earth's atmosphere absorbs most of the sun's radiation . (But I mean, that means we're still getting some anyway)~

I use everything. I have a stove, microwave and that boiling water thing . I stick pasta in my water boiler cuz I have bad memories of my mom overcooking pasta in the microwave -_-;; making it taste nasty & soft. Sometimes I do that on accident in the boiling water thing (it's built for ramen haha ).. but it's okay. It heats up water super fast & I can drain it directly from the container, cuz there're wholes. SUPER CONVENIENT. hehe. (But I still need a pot holder cuz I have to hold the lid when pouring the water cuz it's super hot--still less to wash)

I brought my "cookbook" I got from Dixon at a thriftshop. It's called "Microwaving light & healthy"..hahaha. Copyright 1985 . looks awesomeee!!

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Apps
Productieev- Haven't used it much :/ ..the widget always opens the app. I just want to work from the widget!! The other app I have to complement it LAGS when it updates. Both do. ughhhhhhh I just want to log tasks and stuff without Google spying on me. LoL.

KakaoTalk- It's annoying how you can't just delete friends & you can only "block". oh well. Also, I guess you can keep all your contacts if you make a KakaoStory account but effing I have a million accounts for shit.

(Not to mention that Hang's number still shows as "Connie" in my android contact list -_-;;)


Food Planner -- I'ma try this app again lol. I wanna plan meals & shtufff.

been microwaving sweet potatoes. enjoy the sweet potatoes over there anielle, the ones over here aren't as orange or sweet lol. i'm thinking of microwaving squash and carrots soon to cook. Because, I'm mega lazy and that it also keeps a lot of nutrients. But, I read boiling carrots releases more stuff, so I guess I need to make minudo .

the sweet potatoes have been curbing my food cravings. I've been eating less & am less hungry cuz of my "regulated" sugar levels. hope the squash does the same. the sweet potato here tastes so plain :/. i usually have it in the school cafeteria and they drizzle honey /sugar over it .

my arroz caldo failed so i mixed it with the adobo i was making lol. i didn't have chicken bouilon. it just tasted like ginger-y chicken adobo lolll. (i didn't add the rice in yet anyway).

this morning i did a 3.5k run / a lil walking on the treadmill, 40 pushups, and 100 crunches but i accidently saved the 100 crunches before adding the other workouts so... i have to do 100 more b4 i can log the other stuff so i can successfully finish my "boot camp" quest. :]. lollll.

i didn't have time to eat my ginger adobo cuz working out took up most of my morning; along with moving my "closet" err.. clothes rack. (cuz, it's one of those with poles that extend to the ceiling to stay in place and it makes a bunch of noise whenever i move it). i want to move stuff around for winter. my bed was near the window/veranda or whatever towards the end of spring & all of summer.

i have hella shit >_> i wish i could store my fan in the veranda/laundry room but.. loll maybe i can try??

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you can microwave potatoes & sweet potatoes :]. i read you don't lose as much nutrients as when you boil it or fry it. baking eats a lot of energy on my bill for some reason and takes forever.

i <3 my microwave xD.

sweet potatoes here aren't as orange-y or vitamin packed like those back home. you should engoy them anielle! they're sooo goood. just microwave 1 or 2 for a min and turn it over for another minute and maybe even put a lil honey on it. so healthyyyyyy.

but for "breakfast" i only had a mini vanilla protein powder "shake" (i.e. water + protein powder & i shook it up) and 2 real small 고구마s .. sweet potatoes. I feel okay but i'm a lil hungry. crazy though, i don't crave any certain type of food, just any food for fuel. sweet potatoes are awesome :] ~

I wish i could get into the whole "kale" thing but like...dunno where the heck i can find it here. i don't think my body likes blended raw lettuce so i'll try spinach and maybe make green smoothies again. like spinach + kiwi + banana or kiwi + apple or apple + grapes. mmmm~

i want to know what foods are good to help you fall asleep but the lists online talk about the ones with a high glycemic index causing a crash; causing you to sleep. lol...there must be another nutrient people aren't talking about.

i also wanna include carrots too (not cuz of the vitamin e, but another nutrient that's found in red veggies & fruits that helps the eyes)... i wonder what tastes good with blended carrot.

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i feel like i need to buy hella more sweet potatoes to snack on. i bought a bunch of peanuts too to snack on. 1kg of peanuts was like 7.5k (around $7).

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i wish i could go vegetarian for a couple of days to see what happens but my school lunches always have meat. maybe i can do it one weekend when i'm home. like sat-sun-mon, since i don't catch the early bus to the branch school to eat lunch.

cuz,.. i want energy/eat healthy and want to limit farting LAWL. so, i wanna try bringing eggs back in my diet but oh man... my farts ㅎㅎ. maybe only if i eat too many.

i miss peanut butter---i'ma buy a huge jar at the end of the month.

KOREA BLOCKED MY PORNN.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

lol. the only site i really use! and the other connected.

*tries last site*.

it works!!

blahahaha....one site left.

i write hella shit, maybe i can put it all on xanga. i tried using google docs but still >_< ...

Dangit! I didnt do my fitocracy workout today >.<.

Anyway..
http://www.livescience.com/14617-brain-calories-ghrelin-hunger.html

Found an article about what happens to your body when you eat food that has a lot of calories or not.