Korea vs. Iran

Totally bragging about this but I went to the Korea vs. Iran soccer game last night! I was 9 rows (that's right, it was in the single digits) away from the field. :D Honestly though, it isn't as close as you'd think because there's all that other stuff before the actual field starts (all that stuff as in like those people who run and catch the ball and then the camera stuff etc etc etc.)

Anyway, it was AWESOME and somewhat depressing too because there was one shot that #3 (sadly I don't know names of the players) could've made but he failed at the last minute. X.x

Apparently North Korea has qualified for the World Cup now due to Iran getting this tie. I don't know how I feel about North Korea because I feel like they're just trying to toot their horn and say that they're this strong and powerful nation (when they really aren't) and the world is letting them play in the World Cup! I'd ban them. I mean aren't they back on the terrorist list or whatever again? Who's to say they aren't going to bomb South Africa or whatever?

It's interesting though because fellow Koreans and Korean Americans completely disagree with me, saying that politics are politics and soccer is soccer. MEH. But then again, I also must admit that I am vastly unaware of the intricacies of the actual politics between South Korea and North Korea. All I know is that I strongly dislike Kim Jong Il and someone needs to assassinate the dude. Perhaps I should do my research before I go spouting off my opinions.

Oh well. Such is the case when I am apathetic about politics.

Haydn, Handel, and Mendolssen Concert. O, and grad school

So I think I spelled Mendolssen (Mendolssehn? I feel like there's an 'h' somewhere...) right.

I've decided I think Handel (besides Messiah) is boring. We listened to some concerto for flute or something. Don't get me wrong, the flutist was incredible and the sound that he produce was really beautiful. I can't really describe his sound... it was sweet and light and fluid all at once. But the piece itself was so static I found myself dozing. On the other hand there was some kind of other piece (in F sharp...) called "Farewell" by Haydn where orchestra members started leaving in the middle of the piece, which I thought was reeeeally cool. It was like modern art in music! It's like a musical where the actors leave the stage in the middle of a song (ooo! like that song in Sound of Music! So Long, Farewell or something). Yet the ending still had a finished quality to it which clearly showed that the players leaving the stage was intentional.

I thought that was waaaay cool. If I ever become an artist, I'm going to have an exhibit called "Farewell" as a tribute to Haydn. :D hahaha (but that'll never happen...)

O yeah, also for all y'all that that I haven't emailed (i'm sorry, I know I'm terrible at this)

I've decided to apply to grad school in Korea! I figured that while I'm here, I should be productive with my time and getting a masters in Korea is mad cheap (and when I mean cheap, I mean CHEAP - like $5-7K/year cheap). :D So it's definitely an option for me ^_^ But then it leaves the question , do I want to go ahead to England for my PhD or back to the states? X.x I reeeeeally want to go to England but I definitely have to decide if I want a PhD in Brit Lit (and what era?!) or American Lit. *sigh*~ I think I'm definitely leaning towards Brit Lit, but there's just so much that I have to explore before I make my final decision......

Anyhoo, that's about all that's going on for me for now. This has got to be one of my busiest weeks btw. X.x I have to like make time for muay thai. :( sux. I wish work was like school - 6 hours, the occasional homework and the endless pursuit of all those other extracurriculars (then I could do muay thai, be in an orchestra and still have time to fb, chat, watch anime and the like...) haha o well. I shall opt to sleep instead :) g'night!

Sunday

Went to church today. :)

O and I had a warm brownie with vanilla ice cream. That made me happy though I feel a little sick from all that sugar... X.x

haha there's my update for today. :D

I may end up scrapping this blog... it's really boring hahaha.

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Ok so I just read my comments for the previous blog and maybe I'm not so boring! (thanks Emma :D haha) I'll keep this going for a while if I can.

Honestly though, not very many interesting things happen to me.

O actually I guess there is one interesting 'happening' from yesterday.

A bunch of friends and I went to the Han River (한강) and drank and set off some fireworks! That was cool. It was a perfect night too - cool with a little bit of a breeze. :) I wish we had those sparkler firework thingies but o well - we didn't really plan ahead. ^_^ I wanna go back though. The Han River is so awesome at night.

New Blog

To update y'all on the going ons of my life.

This one will be purely superficial - generally more about what I did in terms of significant events as well as any plans that I have for the future and hopes of things that I want to do. I don't think I'll really blog about anything particularly deep but for those of you curious as to what's going on with me and want to keep in touch! ^_^ unfortunately, I'm terrible at keeping in touch so at least this is one way of doing it! (I mean fb is another, but I honestly haven't had too much time to go on...)

With that said, I would like to talk about my first significant soccer game! I went to another one but I was sitting in the nosebleeds and honestly, it was a pretty awkward experience because it was with an uncle that was considerably older than me and we really didn't have much to talk about.

This time, we were like 10 rows or so back on the sidelines. I want to say that 박주영 (the Korean soccer player for ManU <- he participated in this game cuz the ManU season thingy is over) was about 50-100 yards away from us? :D HEHE

That aside, game was ok - it was against Saudi Arabia and it tied so I mean it wasn't completely completely exciting though the atmosphere was pretty cool (got to do all those cheers and what not) :D HEHE

Went with Sae (Resonance) and Mary (Impress) and 2 coworkers (Tim and Richard) so it was nice. :)

Think I'm going to get tickets for my dad.

Ok honestly, this is an extremely boring first entry. I can't believe I made the World Cup qualifiers sound so bland. I blame it on the fact that I usually don't blog about my going ons because they're exactly what it is - boring. X.x haha

O well. There's always the next one. ^_^