#242 - What a Difference a Day Makes
The prompt this week is inspired by the difference between how I felt yesterday (at work) and how I feel today (on holiday!) But I know that you can go deeper than that! The prompt is: what a difference a day makes.
I can't believe this lil' nugget is on holiday already. Same to all you Californians on budget cuts. I'm proud to say that while you're watching TV eating mickey Ds, I'm in the classroom getting what I paid for.
*sniffle*
um.
I'm sure I understand, but I have no idea where to start...
So yesterday, North Korea decided to have some target practice with a South Korean island by shooting artillery rounds for about an hour. When I heard, I called up my mom to tell her about it and she responded that it isn't a biggie. I was like, "mom, they just shot dozens of bullets the size of me onto SK territory," and she just derailed asked me why I was up so late (-.-). But she's right, the tensions didn't really escalate, and it isn't unusual for NK to just randomly aggravate SK by using whatever weapons they use. SK simply held an emergency talk with it northern half and I'm sure by now everything would be settled. Hopefully...
So I don't know how much of a difference in tension between the two changed in the past 24 hours, but I don't think it escalated too much, but I'm sure it isn't the last of Northern aggravation.
....
WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH THIS PROMPT, WHAT IS THERE TO WRITE ABOUT?!
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afghan kahzi abduhllah jabar taliban... i don't know, I felt like writing that explosion of random middle eastern terms because it's what i thought of when I rolled my face over the keyboard on the previous line. Not really on the rolling over the keyboard, but whatever. (HAHA, explosion of random middle eastern, get it?... i didn't get that till after i typed it. okay, not funny). Sigh, I wonder if things like this ever come up in a search engine that the government uses.
SIR! we found a cross reference for "taliban" and "north korea."
i KNEW it! bring it up.
Sir, it seems to be written by a UTD student.
Call up local officials immediately and bag 'em.
sir!
sigh. i give up.
fact: If you throw random items of clothing onto the floor in my house, the only difference in your next 24 hours is that you're not going to live to see the next 24 hours.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
PUBLIC
hahaha, oh dear. Reading my older posts are so embarrassing -.-. But i'M GOING PUBLIC.
note: i've changed a lot in the past 6, 7 months or so, so.....yeah
fact about me:
星晴 is my favorite jay chou song
note: i've changed a lot in the past 6, 7 months or so, so.....yeah
fact about me:
星晴 is my favorite jay chou song
C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER
After the prayer meeting today, I had one of those "What's life?" moments and I felt incredibly reluctant to go back to the apartment for no reason. So instead, I went to all the way to West Plano, my prior hole in the wall, to just "think." And I figured as a person who doesn't have an immediate "someone" to just talk to about stuffs, I wanted to find a place where I can go and just let my worries worry themselves away, kind of like those cliche movie scenes where a love introduces his/her lover to this "institution" where he/she can be free and not have a worry on her mind. Yeah, I found some place kind of like that.
This place is very specific in terms of location, but in general it's in a quite high class neighborhood and not too far from an outdoor shopping area, which is kind of like Irvine Spectrum in Irvine, CA, but rather it's more dining and less shopping. That area is more targeted to couples rather than a girlfriend shopping session, and it definitely exceeds quota in terms of a "romantic" night. Perimeter-ing that shopping area are blocks of very high class residential apartments and townhouses and right smack dab center of it all lies a big pond with a fountain in the middle. And on one particular side of the pond, if you sit down on one of the benches you can see the bright lights of the dining district (since it's the season, they placed a lit HUMUNGO christmas tree there and wrapped every tree with bright christmas lights within that district but not around the trees around the pond). However, the distance from that particular side to the dining district is just enough so that's it's ridiculously peaceful and calm.
As I sat on one of the bench-chairs I was pretty distressed to see that there weren't that many stars in the sky due to the heavy industrialization of the area. So if i were to bring a date or something (lol, -.-), we wouldn't be able to make imaginary formations with the stars, but instead, I came up with another game. "Find that star!" HAHA, although there aren't that many stars, there are enough for it to be a beautiful. So, as I sat there pretending there to be someone special right next to me finding whatever stars there are, the muscles around my mouth started to take form of what one would know as a smile. It was amazing because I smiled not because there is a picture being taken nor was it because of some video on youtube, but just for the sake of smiling, i smiled. All I could think about was how awesome it would be for someone else to experience the same thing I did; oh, how lucky she would be! (You're thinking: LOL, you're and idiot if you think someone's lucky to be with you. Yeah, iknorite?). And as people walked by looking at me like I was a lunatic, I realized that I can't come here often. Or more like i shouldn't because it's too precious to be seen every now and then. It's not something that I want to wake up in the morning and realize that I dont think it's something special anymore. I don't want to take it for granted. And as I pondered more about it, i realized that the idea is somewhat correspondant to having a wife. Sooner or later, a husband will wake up one day and take "seeing his wife's face" for granted. It's almost inevitable. And I don't want that; I want to take every opportunity that I see that smile as a very precious moment. That's why, I might if it doesn't deteriorate the relationship, for a portion of my marriage life, choose a career that has frequent and long business trips, so that when I come home, I'll come home with a big ol' botox-like smile that I can't control.
Sigh, I do realize that I'm on a low point in my spiritual life since i'm infatuated with all these ideas. I've been avoiding God because of all the things around me; It's too easy to have other things, like this, to be option number one. I have yet to submerge myself fully in the word of God and it's hard when I'm listening to jay chou and kid cudi back to back. :/
note: c-c-c-combo breaker is an internet meme that means "breaking a particular pattern"
in this case, i haven't been writing based on a prompt for the past few posts. but whatevers, today i felt compelled to write and i wish to read this one day in the future.
This place is very specific in terms of location, but in general it's in a quite high class neighborhood and not too far from an outdoor shopping area, which is kind of like Irvine Spectrum in Irvine, CA, but rather it's more dining and less shopping. That area is more targeted to couples rather than a girlfriend shopping session, and it definitely exceeds quota in terms of a "romantic" night. Perimeter-ing that shopping area are blocks of very high class residential apartments and townhouses and right smack dab center of it all lies a big pond with a fountain in the middle. And on one particular side of the pond, if you sit down on one of the benches you can see the bright lights of the dining district (since it's the season, they placed a lit HUMUNGO christmas tree there and wrapped every tree with bright christmas lights within that district but not around the trees around the pond). However, the distance from that particular side to the dining district is just enough so that's it's ridiculously peaceful and calm.
As I sat on one of the bench-chairs I was pretty distressed to see that there weren't that many stars in the sky due to the heavy industrialization of the area. So if i were to bring a date or something (lol, -.-), we wouldn't be able to make imaginary formations with the stars, but instead, I came up with another game. "Find that star!" HAHA, although there aren't that many stars, there are enough for it to be a beautiful. So, as I sat there pretending there to be someone special right next to me finding whatever stars there are, the muscles around my mouth started to take form of what one would know as a smile. It was amazing because I smiled not because there is a picture being taken nor was it because of some video on youtube, but just for the sake of smiling, i smiled. All I could think about was how awesome it would be for someone else to experience the same thing I did; oh, how lucky she would be! (You're thinking: LOL, you're and idiot if you think someone's lucky to be with you. Yeah, iknorite?). And as people walked by looking at me like I was a lunatic, I realized that I can't come here often. Or more like i shouldn't because it's too precious to be seen every now and then. It's not something that I want to wake up in the morning and realize that I dont think it's something special anymore. I don't want to take it for granted. And as I pondered more about it, i realized that the idea is somewhat correspondant to having a wife. Sooner or later, a husband will wake up one day and take "seeing his wife's face" for granted. It's almost inevitable. And I don't want that; I want to take every opportunity that I see that smile as a very precious moment. That's why, I might if it doesn't deteriorate the relationship, for a portion of my marriage life, choose a career that has frequent and long business trips, so that when I come home, I'll come home with a big ol' botox-like smile that I can't control.
Sigh, I do realize that I'm on a low point in my spiritual life since i'm infatuated with all these ideas. I've been avoiding God because of all the things around me; It's too easy to have other things, like this, to be option number one. I have yet to submerge myself fully in the word of God and it's hard when I'm listening to jay chou and kid cudi back to back. :/
note: c-c-c-combo breaker is an internet meme that means "breaking a particular pattern"
in this case, i haven't been writing based on a prompt for the past few posts. but whatevers, today i felt compelled to write and i wish to read this one day in the future.
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