월요일 오후: it's mon(day). unbelievable! how does the wknd fly by like that?! time flies, but time stands still. "세월은 유수." "seiwuhleun yoosoo." "참 세월 빨리 가네!" "cham seiwuhl bbalri ganei!" "시간은 화살처럼 빨리 흐른다." "shiganeun hwasachuhruhm bbalri heureunda." the wknd flew by, but i can/can't hardly wait 4 the beautiful kaela hwang to finish skool. i don't look 4ward to gettin' older but hope to have kids someday. maybe it cms like i wanna turn back time n' be 13 instead'f 31 w/ my skateboarding n' all, but... *shrug* i don't like finding white hairs or wrinkles. i'd like to have a more stable finan¢ial situation sooner than later.
i was reminded this wknd via the christian life profile assessment tool (a werkbook) that i don't give back 'nuff'f my monetary blessings; yet each month, honestly, i'm barely scrapin' by. it's been like this ever since kaela went back to skool, leaving me as the only person paying ne bills. i really try not to lust after mat'l things, but... i realise that several yrs 'go, i let myself get caught up in "gadgetlust" 2 often. 2day, i had an encounter w/ "gadgetlust": after i (finally) changed out the screen protekting, adhesive film on my "pa1mone" tungsten t5, the touchscreen wouldn't werk rt. <:-o! well, after lunch, i tinkered kind'f extensively w/ it n' eventually got it werkin' 'gain. 4 a while i worried that i'd need to buy myself a new palm tungsten t|x. nope. however, kaela sez she needs a new pda. what's w/ stuff breaking all the time. i discussed w/ kaela, during lunch @ home, the idea that extended warranties might aktually be worth their pri¢es sometimes. i dunno. after all, after eating leftover snapper n' 반찬 banchan w/ 건강밥 guhngangbap (healthy rice) w/ kaela on the living rm couch (cos the dinner table was covered w/ kaela's textbooks n' readers, i dropped off a malfunktioning 320gb usb 2.0 hard drive @ ups to return to buy.com on an rma. i need to exchange it cos the power switch doesn't stay on. things break. as much as i hate $pending $$$ these days; yesterday, i noticed that our dishwasher did a very bad job on our dishes.
[later] 저녁이지만 아직도 직장에서: i realised sumpthin' this afternoon - myspace:teenagers::friendster:20sumpthin'ers::linkedin:30sumpthin'ers. 'f course those r just stereotypes. me, i'm most familiar w/ friendster.
[later] 밤, 1036p: 'twas a full_day@werk.com. i haven't been @ the sunnyvale skate park since fri morn. :-( big time frown! i didn't go the whole wknd cos i was bizzy on sat morn, werkin' on dj stuff n' on sun morn w/ church stuff. on fri nite, kaela n' i had some fun... what did we do? uh, we went to dinner @ porridge place in the cupertino 99 mall cos kaela had a stomachache n' wanted 죽 jook. i saw the sister n' bro.in.law'f the bride'f the last wedding i djed. then i saw 1'f my cowerkers. hrm, it's funny how i often c ppl i know, i guess. i dunno... is that true? the sobay's a big place, n' i can go 4 a while w/o cing ppl i know, rt? i werk @ a big company, but i don't run into cowekers that i know that often. grx's a big church, n' i run into grx ppl i know decently often, i think. 'least i run into grx ppl i recognise. neway, after eating our 고구마죽 gogoomajook w/ pressed tofu n' w/ cold tofu w/ pork "sung" n' "1,000 yr.old egg," n' some bamboo shoots; we went to amc mercado 20 to watch a movie. we watch the last kiss w/ the ubiquitous zach braff. is he s'pposed to be the face'f my generation or sumpthin'? i tolerate scrubs cos it's a sitcom unlike other hospital shows, but i really don't like hospital shows! grey's anatomy? skrew that, man! i'm not gonna watch that cr@p. e.r.? no! i'm so sick'f hospital shows. as i keep saying, we need shows 'bout engrs not doktors! [later] 1109p: neway... we watched the last kiss. it's a movie 'bout relationships n' life stages. i don't 'member what terms of endearment was like, but i saw it as a li'l kid n' think that it must've been like this. does ne1 know? i 'member the theme song. *sigh* funny, huh? yah... well... the last kiss's an interesting movie. like, while watching previews 4 movies, i thought 'bout how media n' amerikan society in gen'l promotes humanism so much... like.. me? like, it's easy 4 me to poopoo humanism. that comes from 2 sources: 1) as an asian i've inherited beliefs in humility n' abnegation... beliefs that say that no human should consider himself that important. 2) as a christian, i guess i tend to want to believe that god is more important than humans. however... so many movies r 'bout being an independent free spirit, shirking responsibility, moving off to some countryside in europe, living 4 pleasure... what do u call it? hedonism? yah, i guess so. neway... yah, it's easy 4 me to blow off the idea that a person ought to treat himself to the nice things in life 1nce in a while... maybe cos it's 2 often not just 1nce in a while 'bout all the time... i mean, media cms to beg us to treat ourselves to the nice things in life all the time, not just 1nce in a while. advertisers want us to do that. it's a bit'f a turn off to me cos well... i know i could buy into that 2 easily if i let myself, rt? *shrug* dude, i'm making absolutely no sense, huh? neway... *sigh* i've had 'lot on my mind lately btwn trying to avoid materialism, trying to be more generous, n' trying to have nice things 'round in our marriage... u know? i mean, i need to take kaela out to a nice dinner every so often, don't i? we used to go out more... but we used to have more'f a combined source'f income in the past, rt? i don't totally understand why; but our finances never recovered since kaela went back to skool. i don't get it cos i don't think we $pend more... in fakt, i'm pretty sure we $pend less than we used to... however, i feel like i'm in deeper financial trouble now than b4. it's inflation, huh? yah, i think so. it must be inflation n' the jump in the ¢o$t'f gas, huh? *sigh* neway... i'll try not to whine 'bout finances cos i really shouldn't. however, it's sumpthin' on my mind, no doubt. like, i can't necessarily really make more $$$. real raises just rn't that easy to come by in my career... 'least @ the pace it's goin' these days. i try to pin&ch; pennies wherever n' whenever i can. however, dude... somehow it's just not werkin' well 'nuff. what to do, eh? *shrug*
neway... dude, what was i talkin' 'bout?! i was gettin' 'round to talkin' 'bout the last kiss. it's very interesting cos it's 'bout a group'f ppl reaching 30 yrs'f age. kaela n' i r @ that age. it's also 'bout parents'f ppl 'bout that age. it's pretty interesting. i dunno... can i talk 'bout it ne more w/o spoiling it? *shrug* who's eric christian olsen? his name sounded familiar n' he looked familiar. apparently, he was in dumb and dumberer: when harry met lloyd, not sumpthin' to be really proud'f, i guess. oh, dude; i read the kewlest quote 'bout this movie: "is 30 the new 50, or is it the new 12? this is one of the questions implicitly raised by the last kiss, which is not so much a coming-of-age story as it is yet another story about how hard it is, these days, to act your age." -- a.o. scott in the new york times review "your girfrliend is pregnant, you're wandering astray, and worse, 30 is near." dude, kewl quote! oh! this movie's a remake'f an italian film?! i hadn't known that!
well, on sat, i met up w/ a nice couple to talk 'bout djing their wedding next may. i met up w/ them @ the milpitas fantasia. b4 that, i was burning cds, but kaela's laptop was having big probs. then i went home. kaela'd gone to the santa clara farmers market w/ sooni. what fun! she cooked some pasta 4 us. what else did i do? uh... i 4get, but soon, i had to go off to phil's bbq in the oakland hills. on the way, i 1st picked up some freshly printed flyers 4 our new couples bible study small group t3 light from our friend deborah. then, i picked up our friend eric johnson from his apt in fremont. well, phil's bbq was a much more intimate event than i'd expekted. i thought it was gonna be a big party; but it was just phil, toby, eric, n' me; out on the deck @ phil's place on the side'f the hill. we had plenty'f nature n' a beautiful east bay sunset! wow! phil cooked such good fud. i ate 2 much.
on sun(day), we went to church. i promoted our new small group at the "fall launch small group fair" after service. then, kaela n' i went to hobees 4 brunch. kaela ordered some caramel apple sweet potato pancakes w/ vanilla yogurt. i ordered the italian sausage ommie, which was missing spinacci cos'f the recent e. coli scare. man, what a delicious brunch. then, we went to the santa clara (rivermark) fantasia, so kaela could study, n' i could werk on my christian life profile assessment tool. then we went home. i took a quick nap. then, i went to annie n' abel's 4 a grx small group facilitators / coach mtg w/ pastor abel. annie 사모님 samonim (ha ha) cooked some pasta n' italian chicken. most'f the guys weren't that hugnry cos they all ate late lunches cos'f the fall launch skedule. i ate ok. then i came home n' werked late on some werk.com stuff, while kaela studied. we ate some double rainbow soy vanilla aisukuriimu w/ mango sorbet. 'twas delicious.