It's a great feeling... catching up with friends, walking around SF, spending hours in front of the TV...

My mom and I started watching this Korean drama yesterday. Based on some old school novel from back in the days. Something about the wife of a "yang ban" family falling in love with the servant? But he's not your ordinary servant... he can read, he can fight, and he's much better looking than her husband. I like watching it cuz they speak "satooree" up the whazoo. I don't understand everything, but enough to make me laugh. I would think even Koreans need subtitles to understand all that "country talk." Me? I think I relate to it through my "country" gene. My mom tells me I was born in "Dae Byun." That's the name of the city, near Busan. Another translation for that is Big Poop. Lovely, ain't it?

Another thing I've really been into lately. Ping Pong. Every Sunday we get both tables set up and go at it. One table is reserved for the male Korean fobs. They take over playing doubles. The other table is for the kiddies. That's where I rule. HAHA. This kid Timothy came up to me yesterday and told me to sign up for the ping pong tournament. He created this bracket diagram with a purple marker and had names written in in kiddie writing. Cute.

I got a few comments from my fellow IM softball teammates on my previous post. Shout out to them. I miss softball. Flag football didn't have the same kind of effect on me. I don't miss flag football as much.

FREEEEDOMMMMMMMM!!!!

Man, I'm glad the exam is over. How did I do? That's all up to God. Honestly, no studying could have prepared me for the questions I got on the exam.

The CPA is set up like the GRE's, where they start you off on a middle level. Depending on how well you do, your next testlet is either dumbed down or you get all-star questions. The second testlet was considerably easier than the first. Shows you how well I did on the first testlet.

Time to play. No more worrying about that anymore. I'll find out in about 6-8 weeks... Pray hard.

A boy gave me a flower today. A pink rose.

I went to the Honda dealership to pick up my car, and he had a whole vase of pink roses. I guess because it was the end of the day he was offering each customer a rose to take home.

I think he was gay.

I was walking around downtown today and 2 girls approached me and asked if I had 5 minutes. Brought back memories of when I had to solicit time from strangers, so I agreed.

They were from a group called CARP and asked me if I had ever heard of it. They promote world peace through service, is what one of the girls said. So for their survey, they asked me 2 questions: 1. What are the 3 most important things to you? 2. Do you believe in world peace?

So after a little bit of chatting (we established that I was a Christian), they started telling me about their group. They meet right above the GAP and gave me a flyer for their introductory meetings.

I looked at the bottom of the flyer and this is what it said: "The vision of CARP has been inspired by the work of Dr. Sun Myung Moon, who had dedicated his life to finding paths of peace."

As soon as I read that, my whole body tensed up. Part of me wanted to scream at them, "do you know you're part of a CULT???" But how do you tell that to someone tactfully and show them the love of Christ at the same time? Our Christ. Not Dr. Moon's Christ. Because I'm sure they would say, "yeah, we love God, too." The other part of me told me, "Don't give them any more information. Get the hell out of there."

So I gave them an excuse about usually getting off work late (I know, bull), which was why I wouldn't be able to attend any of their meetings, and I took off.

Apparently, Dr. Moon has over 1000 organizations that he works through to appear legitimate, and President Bush is involved with some of them. I read this letter a former Moonie wrote to President Bush. The first part of that letter freaked me out... cuz had I been there 10 minutes longer, they would have taken me to their 5 o'clock meeting.

More about the Moonies

I hate running into acquaintances. Well, if you're on the go and you just pass by saying a quick "hi" that's not bad. What's bad is when you have to sit there and "catch up" when obviously, if you really wanted to know what was going on in their lives you would have made an effort long ago to be more than just acquaintances.

And there are 2 types of acquaintances. One: You used to be friends with them, and eventually just drifted apart. To catch up with them isn't bad, because wanting to know how they're doing can be genuine. Two: Your relationship has always been just that of an acquaintance. You see their face often enough to have to say a polite "hello" but you never had a real conversation.

That's the kind of acquaintance I ran into yesterday. She used to come to my church and I never really talked to her besides the occasional "hello" and "you look nice today," but even that you just say to break the silence. She's older and hung out with the Korean young adults when I was in high school. So she was standing right next to me on the Muni yesterday right before we got off. She lives in the same neighborhood, so we would have to walk together part of the way. So after a polite "hi" and asking her about her job and a few mundane comments about being really tired, she said, "I'm a little lazy today so I think I'll just wait for the bus" when the walk is less than 10 minutes. Whether it was an excuse or a lie, I wasn't at all offended. I was actually thankful that she saved me from making forced conversation when I know I'll just forget and ask her the same thing next time I run into her.

I could have sworn yesterday was Friday. I was ready for the weekend. Maybe it was because my weekend flew by. Maybe it was because we were in Milpitas all day working. But it felt like the weekend should have been approaching. I have one long week to go.

1 more week of prayer meeting. 2 more weeks before my exam. 3 more weeks before I go snowboarding. Let's fast forward...

I've been wanting to get these cool sneakers. But they're a bit pricey for sneakers so I thougth I'd hold off. But everytime I'm in the Haight, I walk by the shoe store and just stare at them. The Onitsuka Tigers. :)

I got a postcard yesterday from the shoe store. Onitsuka Tigers are on sale tomorrow... AND you get a free hat. It's a sign. I'm going to get it. My one treat I'll allow myself. Hopefully they'll have the color I want. Otherwise, that's just a lot of hot air being blown my way.

My new kicks