Also, this made me laugh (thanks Dan): Guys seek advice from girls, not other guys. Most guys think alike, so if one is confused, we're all confused.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
How everything should be...
A great example where, paradoxically, being smart is cheaper than being cheap.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Something to keep in mind... hahaha
Korean:
+ Starcraft
+ Taekwondo
+ Starcraft
+ Taekwondo
Lawrence Edenino Lao · Top Commenter
To marry a korean girl you have to defeat the father in taekwondo and starcraft... difficulty level impossiburu!
Sunday, November 20, 2011
悲しみと失望の間で希望は生まれるんだ
This is true, but I hope not in all cases
[Edit: to save future-me a google, reference from this blog, which is referencing this Bugy Craxone video]
[Edit: to save future-me a google, reference from this blog, which is referencing this Bugy Craxone video]
Saturday, November 19, 2011
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Absolutely fascinating, but why the hell are there other people doing this???? DAMMIT
Looks like I'll be going to Urbana-Champaign in March.
Better get cracking on JET and Hopkins-Nanjing application...
CCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
Also cereal guy for good measure, just because I like the picture.
Forgot a few things
Fascinating article on international marriage from the economist; particularly the Japanese women marrying down in terms of country-level, from urban to rural, etc. Maybe there's something in studying this type of relationship/sexuality/internationalism stuff? Toriaezu there's links to a few research bodies in the article itself, and I should ask Trish and Prof Lee about it as well.
博士号を取るとはどういうことか - Japanese translation of a very interesting and sadly true-to-life info graphic. Continue to long for life in simpler times, where it seems it was so much easier to discover new things. Also wonder if anyone else has drawn graphs of non-traditional methods of learning (street smarts, etc) as a response to this.
Not sure what this is about but apparently it's shocking and/or interesting.
Best advice I've had in a while
People are shocked when I tell them I'm lazy. I don't try to change the fact that I'm lazy; I exploit it. I try to make sure that the laziest thing I can do at any moment is what I should be doing.
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A girl once gave me a wonderful birthday present. Shocked, confused and feeling most of all undeserving, I exchanged promises to hang out more after break and parted ways. I later changed the goal of my travels to finding the perfect something to express my feelings of thanks -- my birthday being when it is and the stubborn lack of close friends during college, I rarely receive any personal (read:non-facebook) acknowledgement, and have only once had a surprise party (A going away party by Waseda-gumi I will never forget. Watch the douga every now and then to cheer up, remember the fukai kizuna we forged) -- and eventually settled on a cd I sampled in a huge Korean bookstore within an even bigger mall. Travel and the break itself came and went, and I found myself ready. Ready to give her my gift, let her know how much her time and effort and that small gift meant to me, how much strength it had given me. Time went by, my resolve weakened. I wanted to give it to her, yet still I hung onto it, could not bear to part with it. I think much of it was due to my weakness, confusion and reluctance. Partly because it was probably the first such open display of affection I had ever received (or at least remember[ed?]), she was Singaporean and I was still recovering from trauma (not that it's fully fixed now or anything) and second guessing both my evaluation of her motives/feelings and my own attraction towards her (I once half-joked that I only liked Singaporeans, when another smartass tried to confirm/assert that I like asian girls; I like to think it's initially a combination of the laid back-ness [no pun intended], internationalism[?], foodie-ism and accent that seems to be shared among the island's people). Partly because, well, just a plain fear of rejection. After that initial promise we never really hung out, didn't talk much and I sure didn't give her that present. I still listen to it, now and then. It's good. So good, I feel regret for still having it, listening to it, enjoying it. Maybe even guilt, and the feeling that yet another bridge was not burned, only left to wither and might well have already crumbled.
(A work in progress, to be streamlined and fb-statused later)
(Also while checking old fb messages can be shocking, it also reveals that we did make some plans (to go to a concert) and communicate, and probably even met up, during/possibly after the break; memory is definitely selective, definitely fallible, definitely playing up to what we want to believe in or say. Gotta work on harnessing this power...)
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As my advisor used to tell me, "Whenever I felt depressed in grad school--when I worried I wasn't going to finish my Ph.D.--I looked at the people dumber than me finishing theirs, and I would think to myself, if that idiot can get a Ph.D., dammit, so can I.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Ahhhh
This girl.
http://jhskim.tumblr.com/post/11779811563
Really struck me. That was unexpected.
On another note,
I Zhuan dao na ye le from youtube videos, where there's links to this girl's twitter, tumbler, facebook, and the name of the university she goes to is out in the open... someone needs to rehaul their internet privacy! Although it doesn't seem like too many people are watching her channel anyway though?
http://jhskim.tumblr.com/post/11779811563
Really struck me. That was unexpected.
On another note,
I Zhuan dao na ye le from youtube videos, where there's links to this girl's twitter, tumbler, facebook, and the name of the university she goes to is out in the open... someone needs to rehaul their internet privacy! Although it doesn't seem like too many people are watching her channel anyway though?
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