in the interim of accomplishments, of life in itself, i suppose it's not so bad if there's a goal named & waiting even if not in immediate sight. kind of like when you ride out the shoe when it gets bad, when you push on a twenty, and your chips are cleanly diminishing. sit poker-faced, watch, hope, smile. but i never go to the table with a goal ( Read more... )

wow, how neglected my LJ has become... this is my 1st post of 2006 ( Read more... )

last night i watched 3-iron (bin jip in korean). there's really nothing like a korean film and absolutely nothing like jae hee. <3


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hmm... i think i'm up too late again, for i found this terribly amusing.

Your Fortune Is
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in some twisted fantasy of mine i have an impeccable command of the english language... perfectly precise superficially, yet ambiguous in meaning. as if of a cloud, of which each cirrus wisp and stratus undulation is clearly visible and open to calibration; still, people gaze up at it and wonder what it is supposed to be. "i think i see a dog ( Read more... )

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happy birthday, mildlycrazyazn!

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it was so hot today that i kept sticking to everything- the furniture, random pieces of paper, and even myself. for much of the morning, there was nothing to do except eat sweet, warm lychees that my boss had brought from chinatown, the peelings strewn around the cutting blocks as proof of our idleness. dinner rush was negligible, the customers ( Read more... )

long day. chicago, lunch with hong. we caught up with comfortable ease over orange chicken- i realized how much i'd missed her POV, her insights into my actions. my desire to impress her still hasn't faded, as if i have to prove that i, too, am sometimes capable of intelligent analyses. transition between topics is always smooth- work, family, ( Read more... )