<center>2006.02.02</center> <a name="punxatawny"><h3>punxatawny</h3></a> <p>목요일 아침: when i looked up "groundhog day" on a <font color="#550000">ko</font><font color="#000055">rean</font><img src="journal/graphics/tinytaegeukki.gif" alt="대한민국 태극기">.english diktionary, i end up w/ "성촉절 suhngchokjuhl." it's groundhog's day, i guess. happy groundhog's day. i need an extension on the snowboarding season; so, yes, i want "winter" to last as long as possible. man, it's crazy that i spent so much time base reparing n' waxing our boards after our last day on the slopes, n' now we haven't returned to the slopes since. <p>[later] 오후: check out <i>this</i> article on nbc11.com: <a href="http://www.nbc11.com/traffic/5252471/detail.html" target="new"><font face="comic sans ms" color="black">"CHP Busts Man Riding With Dummy."</font></a> pretty funny, huh? <p>yesterday, i felt i was coming down w/ a cold. i was so exhausted after a long werkday. when i got home, man... i just went straight to bed. i didn't care that i was going to be @ ~800p. i slept until the beautiful <a href="http://www.realestatesforcharity.com" target="new">kaela hwang</a> finally came home. she woke me up momentarily n' made me eat some kind'f "holistik" medicine n' drink some lemon tea. then i took a shower n' went rt back to sleep, skipping dinner. this morn, i aktually <i>did</i> feel better. whereas yesterday, i had a sore throat; i didn't so much. i hope i've successfuly defeated this cold, but i've been wrong b4. it's funny cos on sun, steve n' grace thought mason was gettin' sick, n' i was reminded'f how all'f us were sick earlier in this winter. i wondered @ that pt if we were all done being sick or not. <p>[later] 밤, 958p: how r u? i werked late, then came home n' cooked some 우옹 oodong 4 dinner. the beautiful <a href="http://www.realestatesforcharity.com" target="new">kaela hwang</a> came home w/ a headache, so she was on the couch watching tv. i cooked. we watched this nbc olympic preview thing the whole evening. yah, it's sort'f getting me pumped a li'l to watch the olympiks. well, the only events i <i>really</i> care 'bout r the snowboarding 1s, i guess. i dunno... others r ok. i guess figure skating's really popular, but i don't care <i>that</i> much 'bout it. i 'member 1 nite prob'ly a decade 'go now when toby n' i were @ my mom's house in san jo, n' wwe watched this campbell soup figure skating championship where michelle kwan became really famous. rt off, we both thought she was kind'f cocky; but whatever. while watching all these clips'f olympik athletes i get sad, thinking 'bout how i'll never be an olympian. sure, i have hobbies etc., n' i guess i'm ok @ some'f them; i'll never have an olympik medal. maybe the prob's that i was so unathletik as a kid, n' pretty much all'f these olympians became superstar athletes when they were kids. it does just go to show what a shame it is that asian parents always just push their kids to study, totally neglekting things like sports. sucks... but oh well... i hope i don't try to live out my unfulfilled dream thru my own future kids n' push'em 2 hard. <p>on the slopes, i ride a santa cruz gian simmen pro model. gian simmen is a swiss snowboarder who won a gold medal in 1998. he's riding 4 switzerland 'gain in torina this month. he's only 29, a yr younger than me. <p>[later] 1041p: in an e.mail to roland, i told him b'out how these days, i do things on a snowboard that i only dreamed'f doing on a skateboard as a kid, like riding various rails n' catching decent air. however, now that i'm picking back up skateboarding, i don't expect to do those things on a skateboard. there just isn't the safety'f decently soft snow underneath. <p>[later] 1110p: dude, 4 a good laff, go to <a href="http://www.video.google.com" target="new">video.<font color="blue">g</font><font color="red">o</font><font color="yellow">o</font><font color="blue">g</font><font color="green">l</font><font color="red">e</font>.com</a> n' type in "curry-n-rice girl." it's a desi (south asian) parody'f gwen stefani's "hollaback girl." it's pretty funny. of course, every1 knows 'bout the "asian backstreet boys" or "asian backdorm boys" from china. yah, they're pretty funny. [later] 1127p: cr@p, i just typed in "berkeley" n' saw a berkeley taekwondo demo team video clip! *sigh* wow... *sigh*<br><br><br>