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Well according to dictionary.com this is entourage, but unless you hit this word on dictionary.com you will get something differnet. You will get the drama Entourage, which is fun fun fun.

I was relaxing the whole yesterday and today morning (i should promise myself no more of this ‘relaxing’ ) and i found Entourage. I was actually thinking of watching it before, but it didn’t really grab my attention. I think it was the name of the drama ‘Entourage’ that i didn’t like. (Oh shoot i keep on hitting apple+S out of habit lol) I didn’t know what it meant and it sounded like some kind of criminal drama. But few days ago Jessica asked me whether i watched Entourage, and yesterday when i was looking for a good drama Entourage just popped into my mind. I watched it and i loved it! I love the actors, especially Ari he is adorable, i love California, i love the cameos, i love how each episode is short, and i love how it is so amusing and lighthearted.

Now i am on episode 12 season 2, yeah i am fast haha. Well, i love this show and here is the discription for the casts

this is Vince, played by Adrien Grenier. Vince is a rather…hmm lazy, egoistic, talented, pretty, and not so smart star. Vince is from Queens and now he’s a superstar. Lazy- he always wears baggy t-shirts, sweatpants never keeps his hair..kempt, for the “spontaneaty.” Egoistic – he’s in the center of everything..afterall, this drama is about the entourage of him haha. Talented – he knows to act. Pretty – that’s what everybody says in the drama. Not so smart – he doesn’t really make decisions for himself, instead he sticks to his friedn Eric, who he entirely trusts. Still he is a sweet guy with a warm heart. He actually feeds his entourage and sticks to them. I think Adrien Grenier is doing great job being in character. I don’t know if it’s because his rather furry and dreamy look but he really seems to be like Vince haha.

This is my LOVE ARI!!!!! He represents Vince’s agency. His is really obnoxious. He works works works. He has a terrible temper, needs some anger management. He loves pretty girls but is married. He’s successful, rich, and rude. Jeremy Piven plays Ari’s role, and he is just perfect. He really looks kind of crazy and it is just so hilarious looking at him scream, freak out, shout, make stupid jokes, and threats. Of course I will never like someone like Ari in real life, but he is sure LOVEABLE to watch in the drama. Here is the highlights of Ari Gold’s moments (I appoligize for the vulgar language)

I will continue with another post later byebye

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i don’t get sick too often, and i rarely go to the doctor, but i guess this time was one of those rare times. People get sentimental when they are sick, at least i think…so i think i am getting sentimental. This morning, i was searching for some new songs that will touch my sentimental heart haha, and i fell in love with one of the American Idols contestants, David Archuleta. Actually, i knew about him before i was sick, and i love his voice, but it didn’t really hit me. Yet, today, while i was listening to the American Idols contestants i realized how pretty David’s voice is.

Some compare him to Clay Aiken, but i think they are quite different. Clay Aiken has more power in his voice, i can feel that his voice is coming from his stomach haha, but Archuleta’s voice is a bit more softer, silkier. Maybe he lacks a bit of power because i keep on hear him being shaky. I’m not an expert so i can’t really say anything but i think vocal: Clay Aiken/ voice: David Archuleta, maybe it’s because he’s so young. I mean he’s only 17! However, the bottom line is that i like Archuleta.

While i was listening to his songs i ran into this song called “The Long and Winding Road” and it is just adorable. It is actually a Beatles song that he sang since the theme of the competition the was The Beatles. Of course, i cannot dare compare his performance to the Beatles, but i think he was special in his own way. His voice is really really pure and it just melts people!

here is his amazing performance

I really agree with Paula Abdul’s comment here.

I read some of the comments of American Idol, and some were saying that it is turning into cute guy contest. well, i do realize the David had a baby-like cuteness, and that it does not hurt his popularity, but i still think it is his voice that really moves the people

and here is the original version

the two are definitely different, but i can say for sure that both are beautiful

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all i have to say is..

i am sad

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OH MY GOSH

i am really really really really nervous

i cannot FOCUS at all

i am shaking my legs like a madman (although i always kind of do)

i doing nothing, unable to stick with anything

i am regretting like crazy

i am making a speech to myself

i am not able to digest my food (i think..or maybe i just ate too much)

why?

why am i showing these losing-my-mind symptoms???

welllllll it’s because of the chair tryout for MUN

hahahahahahaha

i did a really BAD job… i was supposed to make a speech under pressure, but for some reason i didn’t feel the pressure until 10seconds before the actual speech

and for some reason i was feeling much time constraint during the speech

which resulted in a disastrous 15second (hope it was longer) speech, more of a comment

i cannot believe myself for doing that………for some reason,,,i don’t know why but when i saw the unexpected Mr. Aitken i couldn’t ummm operate well

anyhow….my hopes are high and low because this is pretty much a BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG deal to me, but low at the same time since i messed up…….

i am going to be a senior next yr, so….if i don’t get the officer this yr i will NEVER get it………….and that will drive me crazy. Seriously, to me MUN is like my brother.. i hate and love it, and it is a substantial part of my LIFE. i hate it when it stresses me, and love it because it’s MUN and it’s what i do…Sunny does MUN, that ’s what she does…

I dread the results…..i hope there will not be ANOTHER DEPRESSION that will hit me HARD….i think i mastered the depression part pretty well. OH WOW i am nervous i am indeed

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There are certain things that you are not used to; there are certain things that you would not expect; there are certain things that you would dread…. Well, these things happened to me today and throughout last week

Nobody likes getting bad grades, especially almost no Asians like getting bad grades (or maybe it’s just a stereotype). I think…. i may be quite an extreme case of not wanting bad grades. I do not think i am obsessed with grades because i realize that there is so much more to life than grades, studying, and college, but i care about my grades. I really do. I fear that some might think that i am a super nerd, that i am a typical Korean student that lives and dies for grades, and that i am a shortsighted person who stresses too much on what is in front of me. But since i know that at least I am not the first two kinds of people i have to speak!!! for the sake of my mental health.

i am really really really disappointed by my grade…All of my makeup tests gave me considerable (NO, MAJOR) shock. Half of the problem was that i was unprepared and half of the problem was that i was in a terrible condition…at least i think. Other than these reasons…..there may be so many other factors that contributed to making my week just shocking.

The thing that bums me out more is that last week was the end of the third quarter and my tests dropped average 4 points for 3-4 subjects……..this is really depressing.

Actually, i was writing this post 2 days ago and had to save this temporarily, so i do not exactly feel like how i used to feel so it’s hard to write with the emotion that i used to feel. In nutshell, i guess what i want to say is…i am really sad because of my grades really just fell down…not just went down but fell down

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this pretty island is Cyprus

However, the story of this pretty island is not that pretty

Cyprus is a divided nation. 1/3 of the nation is occupied by the Turkish Cypriots and the rest by the Greek Cypriots, with the UN buffer zone in between. When i found out that Cyprus was divided i immediately thought about Korea’s division. However, i soon realized the different nature of the problem. Cyprus has two major different ethnic groups, the Turkish and Greek. They are very distinct in religion, heritage, and language, so the it contrasts with Korea, where the people are one. Anyhow, the sad division started as Cyprus became independent from the British. In the process of implementing and interpreting the constitution, the Turkish Cypriots and the Greek Cypriots had clashes. It was said that the complicated practices that could protect that Turkish Cypriots were the hindrance of the effective and efficient ruling of the government. Consequently, the president tried to make some amendments that could get rid of these practices. This act enraged the Turkish Cypriots, which led to many internal conflicts. Later the Turkish declared that they would no longer work in the government. Gradually, the the two Cypriots separated themselves from mixed villages. Finally, after much violence, the Turkish Cypriots set a new provisional administration.

Also, there were offenses led by the Greek Cypriots against the government for abandoning the enosis, which made the Turkish Cypriots hop in to the fight for protection.

At the end, most of the Turkish Cypriots fled to the North, and the Greek to the South, which is the nowadays Cyprus.

There were efforts made for the reconciliation of these groups but none of them could extract positive outcomes. However, finally, after the icy years followed by the rejection of the UN’s peace plan in 2004, peach talks managed to rekindle, with the help of the cooperative new president of Cypriot Mr. Christofias.

It seems that finally spring has come to Cyprus since the division of 1974. At this point, i could not help but asking myself why not Korea?

Frankly, i am quite neutral when it comes to unification. I understand both sides of the issue. Koreans, being one race from the same heritage share much history and culture. Also, it is cruel to just separate the families and so on. Moreover, there are predictions that Korea can grow more as the natural resources and surge of population will help Korea’s industry. On the other hand, there are pessimistic people who think that it is too early for Korea to unify. The economical disparity is great, yet South Korea is not yet capable of covering North Korea and to yield success. Most of these people adduce Germany as an example as even prosperous Germany had to struggle after the unification. I believe both argument are valid. However, the positive air of Cyprus made me think of Korea’s current state, because Cyprus is managing to go into a positive direction in spite of the differences of the people.

Unification must not be a simple procedure that can be done in a snap, but it is sure said that Korea remains to be separate when ironically the whole WORLD is trying to get together for globalization and cooperation.

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While i was writing a post about time, i realized that i had so much to say about sleep, so i decided to just write a separate post about it

I think sleep is really important, and regardless of the fact that i am a junior i have to SLEEP. There are few reasons that i have to sleep and i do sleep

first of all, if i don’t sleep i get sick. It’s not like i feel tired, but i really get sick. Those who know me well enough will know that i get bad headaches and stomachaches if i don’t sleep. Nobody likes being sick and i don’t want to be sick too, so i sleep.

Next, if i don’t sleep i can’t concentrate. Sometimes, i miraculously manage to not sleep to study for upcoming tests, but there is a half half chance. If i am luck i manage to fight to get focused and do well on the test, but if i am too tired i fail to concentrate so the results are not so good. This lack of concentration also affects my school life as whole. Almost the whole day i am quite blank. Although my eyes may be open, mostly my mind is dead. Weirdly, i value concentration even though, i myself am a very unfocused person, so when i see myself not focusing well enough i just stop whatever i am doing. Thus, i have to sleep because no sleep can translate to no concentration.

Also, the next day i sleep extra more. Although this may be hard to believe and although this may seem to be an excuse of sleeping a lot, i DO need sleep, perhaps more than others. I can really see this by the fact that i have all kinds of weird symptoms when i don’t sleep enough, and by the hurtful fact that i end up sleeping more than usual the next day. I nearly pass out the next day of not getting enough sleep. In fact, i can back up my theory with scientific findings cited from preventdisease.com. People all have their own internal clock, which is the circadian rhythm. This clock basically tells people when to sleep, when to wake up, and so on. Importantly, this clock divides people’s biological night and biological day, and for some people, this clock is set to make them sleep longer than others. Therefore, even though i try to stay awake my body is already experiencing the sleeping symptoms such as, changes in hormone levels and temperature. How can one possibly do something when the body is asleep!!!

Finally, i go weir…d if i don’t sleep. Normally, i am half unconscious if i lack sleep, so i talk nonstop. Most of the talk doesn’t make sense and most of the times, i don’t remember what exactly i talked about. I don’t want to lose my mind because of lack of sleep!

My post somehow turned out to be a list of excuses of my excessive sleeping hours, but really, people need to sleep. I even learned this in my psychology class. Lack of sleep results in worsened health, lack of concentration, grogginess, inefficiency, and so on. SO people lets all sleep enough! lol

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i always thought that i was a very very eager blogger, so when Ms. Porter told us that we needed to have 2-4 posts i did not worry at all, since i had a very very wrong assumption that i was a very very eager blogger. However, there was a reason that i thought so. I visited my blog every single day, so i took it for granted that i ‘did’ something, but today when i visited my blog i was in complete shock!!! The last blog that i posted was posted on march 8th, which is exactly two weeks from now. Then i realized how time really flies by in a snap…I barely realized that two weeks passed by but it did!

when i was in fourth grade my teacher told us that as you get older time flies by faster, and she said when you are 10, the speed of time is like 10km/h and when you are 30 it’s like 30km/h. I have to say she was ENTIRELY right. Time does fly by in a scary speed. It is always hard for me to appreciate time. Ironically, i think this is BECAUSE i don’t have time. During the weekends i think my mind is more relaxed that it lets me realize very very fundamental stuffs that i couldn’t realize. In my busy life, it is hard to think about the past. Almost all i worry about is the homework, project, tests that are UPCOMING, but not the past.

Whenever i think about how time passes so fast i get sad…….I don’t want to be an adult although i’m kind of an adult because of my age. Although this MUST be really weird i don’t want to say that since time goes by so fast we should appreciate the time. Even as i am starting to acknowledge the randomness and terrible structure and  coherence of my post i was playing with my hair. I guess, what i want to say is even though time does go by fast people shouldn’t be slaves to time, people shouldn’t be restrained by time. Everything we do can be nice memories and in my opinion, although we have enough time ahead us so that we don’t have to rush, we don’t have enough time to get held back by time.

boy that was random

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i LOVE Aqualung

this is Good Times Gonna Come

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these days i am really in to blogging so i go to other blogs and read stuff, and for some reason today it really hit me how different EVERY SINGLE PERSON is, so here are some of my realizations

-wow, everybody must be special

-wow, i’m really mediocre in every aspect

-wow, ppl are so talented

-wow, i’m such a bad techi person

-wow, wow, wow

(http://www.learningfromlyrics.org/onedbq.htm)

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