<center>2004.07.27</center>
<a name="notassocial"><h3>not as social?</h3></a>
<p>화요일 아침 tues morn: hrm, even tho' lately i haven't been writing much in korean, i <i>do</i> put the day n' sometimes time in korean. r u learning? ha ha. well, it's not like i'm <i>that</i> great @ the korean language. it's sort'f like when marge simpson sed she wanted to teach piano lessons to put lisa thru college: <font color="black">"i figure i just have to stay one lesson ahead of the kid."</font> it's the 2nd day'f the last wk'f july, the last wk'f my current co.op_position@werk.com, the last wk b4 my_new_position@werk.com, the last wk b4 august, which is the birthmonth 4 our whole household. yah, aug is a month full'f b.days. in fakt, it's also the birthmonth'f my brutha.in.law, my sister's husband steve. lots'f b.days! imagine if we went to todai 4 a free meal 4 every1's b.day... 'cept 4 sooni's, since they won't give her a free meal, i figure. ha ha. every yr, i wonder where can i get freebies on my b.day. i believe <a href="www.shadowbrook-capitola.com" target="_blank">shadowbrook restaurant</a> in capitola has some kind'f "birthday club" or sumpthin'. that's a pretty nice restaurant! well, u can always go to chevy's n' get ur free dessert n' sombrero! howzabout chuck e. cheese's? do <i>they</i> have a b.day special? last yr, 4 the beautiful <a href="http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~kaela" target="_blank">kaela hwang</a>'s b.day, we hit up malibu grand prix in redwood city. johnny tien, michelle martinez, roland dong, n' brian chong joined us 4 that. hrm, i feel a bit anti.social lately. i mean, i feel that we haven't been doing social things lately. is that true? i'm glad we 'least had lunch w/ church ppl on sun. i haven't cn my ol' buddies ken n' nelson in ages. i'll c toby this wknd, obviously. <font color="blue">berkeley</font> ppl??? i hope to hang w/ jerome when he finally visits norcal. yah, i feel i haven't cn my friends n' hung out in a while. *shrug* sometimes, i get nervous 'bout inviting ppl to do stuff. do u 'member when i was such a social organizer? well, i don't feel much like that these days. i dunno why.
<p>every wed eve thru aug 28, the city'f <a href="http://sunnyvale.ca.gov" target="_blank">sunnyvale</a> has a street festival, but i'm worried i'll c a big, fat sign that readsl: "no dogs allowed." that's what i saw outside their <a href="http://www.urbanvillageonline.com/sunnyvale/index.html" target="_blank">farmers' market</a>. :-( oh, apparently, <i>santa clara</i> has its own <a href="http://www.urbanvillageonline.com/santaclara/index.html" target="_blank">farmers' market</a>! well, i should've guessed that'd be the case. sat may 1 - oct 30, 900a - 100p, jackson st btwn homestead n' benton. u think it'll be also "no dogs allowed"? *sigh* prob'ly, huh? however, we should try to go w/ sooni sometime; otherwise we should just go to get some fresh <font color="green">veggies</font> n' fruits.
<p>yesterday, i started a topik that i couldn't finish, a topik i shouldnt've started if i couldn't finish, u know? i was talkin' 'bout the whole "life plan" / "life timeline" issue; how some ppl wanna get married by a certain age n' have kids by a certain age; yet in this day n' age, ppl r holding off on marriage n' kids n' mostly 4 the sake'f career n' well... $$$. it's quite trite to say that modern society has sacrificed "family values" 4 the sake'f $$$, status, n' pleasure ('specially <i>sinful</i> pleasure). [later] "family values" is a very exploited n' abused term, as u c. that's 2 bad / un4tunate. as much as ppl rag on my 4 being a pinko, liberal f@*&head, i <i>do</i> very much believe in family values, u know? i <i>do</i>hope to have kids someday n' hope that i'll be a good dad. as i sed yesterday, most'f our friends cm to be single. i dunno; is that true? after all, maybe that's why i haven't gone out as much as i used to: maybe it's hard to mix married n' single folk, huh? i suspekt that <i>is</i> a big issue. really! i imagine it's hard to mix single n' married folk n' also hard to mix ppl w/ kids n' ppl w/o kids. i dunno, if that's true, it's also un4tunate. (i used the term "un4tunate" 2ice just now.) well, is it also hard to mix unmarried couples n' single ppl? yah, <i>i</i> think so. is it hard to mix unmarried couples n' married couples? :-/ no, i don't think so; but it's hard to find other couples in gen'l 'mongst our friends, it cms. as i sed, it cms like most'f our friends r single. u know what else? it's hard to mix werking ppl n' non.werking ppl... or else students n' career folk. that's a prob i've cn b4 in the past. the big prob w/ that is, un4tunately, budget: werking career folk r kewl w/ doing stuff like going to nice restaurants or culturual events that require $$$ etc. students n' not.so.employed folk r on a tighter budget. in the past, i tried to get <i>every1</i> to hang out 2gether. <tt>:-/</tt> obviously, i sort'f got "burnt" in the process eventually, u know? "i don't wanna hang out w/ <i>those</i> stoopid, irresponsible, immature punks!" "i don't wanna hang out w/ <i>those</i> rich, snotty yuppies!" yah, yah, yah... altho' i haven't necessarily "<i>heard</i> it all b4," i certainly have <i>sensed</i> it. also, there've been issues w/ mixing cultures: "amerikan", <i>asian</i>.amerikan, korean, taiwanese/chinese... i <i>want</i> ppl to get 'long, as u know.<br><br><br>