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2009-06-12T13:32:00.000-07:00

well

I still have so many pictures to upload, but I am unfortunately unable to blog any of them since the pictures are saved in my laptop which is packed underneath my clothes.

I guess I can just upload them in Korea on facebook.

I am not going to upload this blog anymore; consider this post the very last page of the book you were really enjoying.

Lastly, I appreciate everyone who appreciated me and my blog and I will let you know if I get to have another blog in the future via facebook.

Thank you all!
and
I love all of you, especially Sisi Kiki, Ari, JP, Kevin (yeah even Kevin), and Nora.
Don't be sad, querulous, or mad and just inure yourself to love even the absence of my blog (and me)!

I hope I can see you again. Have a nice summer.

2009-06-11T12:12:00.000-07:00

We had a farm tour. I thought it was optional but it was obligatory, which totally obliterated my secret desire to take a nap. Unavoidably, I follwed my advisor and tried to have fun.

It wasn't so bad after all although I had difficulty...trying to avoid cow poop and goat poop. I couldn't even enjoy the nice scenery surrounding me, since I was so overwhelmed by the presence of poop that I just looked at the ground most of the time. Well, after stepping on few pieces of poop, I gave up trying to avoid poop and just cooly walked around.

Dylon was so into cows and goats. He kissed some cows and hugged goats. Later, we all went to the pig farm, and I expected that he'd kiss and hug pigs too, but he unexpectedly and strangely did not kiss or hug them...so I asked him "Do you not like pigs?''

He said "Idon't like animal that I can't not interact with".

2009-06-11T12:06:00.000-07:00

We chilled playing music, talking and wrestling (I took these pics black and white in order to somehow beautify those moments, but they came out just little funny).

John endlessly played his guitar and Sierra just jammed with him.

Oh Dylon randomly jumped on me, trying to wrestle with me. It was unarguably the scariest moment of the trip....if not of my life.

2009-06-11T12:05:00.000-07:00

Ah..!

Mariah is so strong!

2009-06-11T12:02:00.000-07:00

Pat was roaming around telling people what to do and what not to do. She was basically very pedantic about whether everyone was preoccupied with work while herself was hypocritically and ironically not so busy doing anything very productive but criticizing others. Well she could argue that her job was to supervise others.

My favorite part of Pat's "job" was when Pat spotted Anna Bertucci eating a very tiny piece of sliced water melon and sarcastically said something like "No one can eat any food before food's ready".

2009-06-11T12:00:00.000-07:00

Nate was sick. So he had to go home. I was honestly jealous, since I didn't want to stay at such a boring farm,but I now think it was a fine place to stay. It could have been better if Nate stayed for the whole time.

2009-06-11T11:49:00.000-07:00

Hochul said "That cat has sexy eyes!"

I asked him, "How can a cat have sexy eyes? and added "That's a bit hard to understand".

I looked at the cat up close if it really has sexy eyes, but to me its eyes seemed just little insidious. I finalized that Hochul has this weird ability to interpret everything in his own lustful way that may resemble Kevin's understanding of the world.

2009-06-11T10:45:00.000-07:00

I can't use the internet in Reagan...

and that's why I couldn't blog for a while :(

I will try to upload some more pics before graduation....

2009-06-08T13:44:00.000-07:00

Anna and Pat's group had to cook dinner on the first day. I chose to be in Mandy's bokchoi wonton team, since I like Mandy.

To be honest, it was more because I figured I wouldn't be doing anything considering cooking wonton is not something everyone could do without much experience. I thought Mandy and Dan who are good cooks, would do everything for me and Gretchen.

I almost spelled wonton "wanton", meaning something totally different. Nora made a joke about this malapropism I remember.

2009-06-08T13:37:00.000-07:00

It was to tease us I believe. Who eats raw horse radish? At first, i didn't even know it was something even edible. I thought it was a root of a random tree or something displayed for aesthetic purpose. Well, even so it was too ugly and Stephen Miller would have wanted to teach aesthetics to whoever put it there.

2009-06-08T13:30:00.000-07:00

JP: woh. What are they doing? Are they kissing?

I: Yeah

Either Dan or Mandy: No we aren't!

JP: Oh, I thought you guys were kissing. Are you putting a makeup on Dan's face, Mandy?

Mandy: Yeah.

Dan: Oh, Louis don't blog that I kissed Mandy. That's not true and she'd get mad. Oh but actually, she would get even more disappointed if she finds out about the make up thing.

Although I knew who "she" was, I wanted to ask Dan who she is just to clarify who she is for anyone who doesn't know who she is. It's a side effect of blogging too much; I just have to explain or at least imply things unclear pellucidly to others.

2009-06-08T13:27:00.000-07:00

"Oh, I look so different" said Kelsey as she looked at the picture.

"You look like an angel", I said to her in order to verbally re-express the extreme discrepancy between how she looks in the picture and how she looks in reality, but she took it as a complement I guess and said "Thank you".

2009-06-08T13:15:00.000-07:00

Jeremy's wife affirmed "Animals here are very happy" when she introduced the farm to us. But I wonder how she could be so sure; the milk cows looked so miserable chained in a pen.

I felt some sort of sorriness as I looked at them but at the same time felt humiliated by myself who would drink milk even after feeling sorry for them.

2009-06-08T13:03:00.000-07:00

Jeremy's wife whose name I forgot said "You guys can wrestle as long as you don't damage the cabins".

Some of us, Pro Wrestling fans, got excited by that cool rule and secretly smiled at each other.

In order to wrestle funly while not violating farm rules (and not getting caught by Anna Bertucci), they wrestled very softly and quietly (if not silently) in the dead zone.

The next morning when Stephen and Anna were absent in the cabin, I wrestled Seunghwan too. We got little mad at each other for some reason although we knew we were just playing.

2009-06-08T12:57:00.000-07:00

This is the cabin I slept in. Well, we couldn't stay up late since Stephen, Anna, Soren and his brother in Anna's belly also slept in our cabin, but it was actually better for me in that I indeed like sleeping early in total silence and darkness (it wasn't too quiet though since other boys in the cabin next to ours were so loud that the noise they made penetrated the wall).

2009-06-08T12:55:00.000-07:00

I didn't take this picture, but whoever photographed Alex and Ana has a good point.

2009-06-08T12:38:00.000-07:00

This is the center cabin where we had meetings and such.

Linda kept calling it Main Building. Of course, I laughed at the misnomer, but I somehow could understand where she was directing to in spite of the misnomer, since the cabin indeed felt like our Main Building. Though, she started calling the cafeteria "Main Building" as well, so I couldn't really know which place she was exactly referring to.

I avoided Linda whenever she appeared, after at some point she started calling pretty much every buidling Main building - there were only few buildings at the farm resembling each other, so I can sort of understand why she got confused-, for I simply didn't want to be acclimatized by Linda's strange notion.

2009-06-08T12:34:00.000-07:00

I was going to make the seinors' special hand gesture, but I figured it was quite too inappropriate. So.. instead, I made "I love you" sign.

When I first saw this picture, my gaze got fixed on Hochul's face, awkwardly dumbfounded.

2009-06-08T12:28:00.000-07:00

Jooyeob took this picture. I was very happy at that moment by the way, since it was when someone told me the farm we were going to was only 20minutes away from Oakwood; I frankly thought it was at least an hour away.

JP kept shouting "Senior 09! We are done with high school forever!" and Kevin just copied JP with full fidelity to JP.

2009-06-08T12:26:00.000-07:00

That's Seunghwan clinching his teeth for no reason. Although this picture is really bad and I feel sorry for Seunghwan, I think it's a good representative of Seunghwan.

2009-06-08T12:19:00.000-07:00

The bag I am holding in the picture is not a plastic bag. It's just a really big loose bag made of quite elastic fabric filled with my bedding.

I thought Jeremy or Anna would provide the boarders sleeping bags, but neither of them did. And that's why I had to bring my own bedding to the senior trip.

Jooyeob photographed me, and said I look like a refugee.

2009-06-04T13:34:00.001-07:00

I won't be able to blog for a while.

You know the senior trip thing....

If the internet works there though, I will bring my lap top and upload it there, but I doubt the internet'll work.

2009-06-03T16:42:00.000-07:00

Lacey told me to photograph Maurice. Jooyeob once told me he's only like 17 or 18. He's cool. He's probably the exclusive one I like, who works in the dining hall.

2009-06-03T14:30:00.000-07:00

I thought there are only two kinds of Vistas, the Spanish book: orange one and blue one, but today I found another kind on the bench in front of Randy's room.

It was also blue like the other kind but a strange drawing was on its cover instead of a picture of a futuristic silver building. I think it's specially editted edition.

2009-06-03T14:18:00.000-07:00

"Why are you not wearing glasses" I asked him littllllle bit sarcastically out of the blue.

"Oh I got contact lens", he replied in a cool manner without hesitating; I suppose many people ask him that question.

"Well, you definitely look better", I said.

"With glasses or without?, he asked me. He said it moderately but I could sense his clandestine impatience. But actually, that was the kind of question I was waiting for; I wanted to somehow conuterbalance the slight sarcasm I exposed when I first started the conversation, which could have offended him.

So I said "Of course, you look better without glasses". It seems as if I said that just to flatter John but I did mean it.

2009-06-03T14:11:00.000-07:00

Sierra wrote me and Harry rap songs. I honestly did not understand the lyrics but it rhymed I think. That's all that matters.

I remember that Harry was as short as Sierra last year, but he is noticeably taller than her now. I hope he doesn't get taller than me though so that I can always look down.

2009-06-03T14:07:00.000-07:00

Lucia made guacamole for the Spanich party but she figured it wasn't today. So.. she unavoidably provided her guacamole and chips to hungry people like me. Her guacamole was so good. I wish she makes it more often. Ah.. it's a meaningless hope since I won't be able really see her from now on.

2009-06-03T14:00:00.000-07:00

Ugh.. I look silly, abominatingly silly.

Anna asked me if she could hug me so I said she could but I didn't know how to. Actually, I know how to, but it's just that I can't process and simulate that fairly simple hugging procedure programmed in my mind.

Ariana appeared and tried to teach me how to hug really, but I guess it was pointless since I knew how to do it. She said, "You turn side ways and that's the problem. Oh and you don't cross arms. That's weird".

2009-06-03T13:54:00.000-07:00

I don't really love this picture; I look neckless. Mario, by now, probaby knows I am a hard person to satisfy, but he never tries to enhance or beautify my look.

Oh.. the reason why I made Anna take this picture was that I all of a sudden realized Marisa's Spanish class was the very last class in my highschool life. Moreover, I didn't (and still don't) have that many pictures of Ari and me together, so it was crucial to photograph us. I didn't look at the lens for I couldn't take my eyes off her.

2009-06-03T13:40:00.000-07:00

Sungbum did his calculation on the back of the award he got yesterday. I was surprised by his intrepidity ( the reason why it was such a daring thing to do was that Chad'd probably get mad once he sees the ugly caculation scribbled behind the award). Well, it is unlikely that Chad would check Sungbum's award just to see if Sungbum's done something bad on it; plus he may not even care about it if not appreciate it. Who knows* if he buys the arithmatic beauty of calculations.

2009-06-03T12:55:00.000-07:00

I needed an original medium to represent the path and phases of the moon so I used a box I got from Ginger, the Chinese food restaurant right next to Giacomo's, to create my presentation. Using the bottoms of paper cups, I made moon figures and labeled them so that I could mark azimuth and altitude of the moon on certain dates..

Frankly, I was so proud of my creation, for it was very innovative I thought but I got very dispirited by Changmin who imitated my innovation and handed his before I handed mine to Charlie. He technically didn't do anything wrong, since he could argue that it was a mere application of my idea, but I was mad.

2009-06-03T12:48:00.000-07:00

I had a combination of Cheerios, Life, blue berries and soymilk. It was soo good. It wasn't so filling so I had a Clif bar I saved for today after I finished the cereal. I eat a lot I guess. If dinner's horrible today, I am going to have cereal again.

2009-06-03T12:25:00.000-07:00

Ryan was wearing bizzare glasses. Well, he already looked like a child because of those glasses but the fact that he was drawing a piano on the asphalt with middleschoolers contributed to his childish look even more.

I think he's as special as Kevin, either one you know.

2009-06-03T12:04:00.000-07:00

The art department got me an award I haven't expected (it was more like a gift set). It was something I have never seen in my entire oakwood life so I suspected it was probably newly made this year I suspect. I was more surprised than I was happy, but it did make me feel nice. At least, I have something to rhapsodize on the blog.

I haven't unwrapped the gifts yet. I will wait until the point I can't wait.

2009-06-03T11:47:00.000-07:00

JP said "I wish our year was of 69. It could've been awesome if we graduated on that year".

One plausible yet extreme solution for him if that's what he truly desired is simply not passing for 60 years. It is very likely that he'd get expelled beforehand due to his terrible grades but there are many forgiving schools around.

2009-06-03T11:25:00.000-07:00

Harry came next to me even after one of the faculties'd declared that students had to stay put in their advisory groups. If Anna Bertucci were present on the bench, he probably couldn't have even dreamt about attempting it but she was away, which was very fortunate for him.

He slipped himself through the bench. I guess he didn't jump over the bench for it'd have been such a conspicuous way of transporting himself ; though, he could have appeared little cooler if he jumped. He stayed next to me for the whole ceremony. The award giving ceremony itself was so boring that I almost feel asleep but Harry kept me preoccupied. We were pretty happy since we both got the awards.

2009-06-02T17:23:00.000-07:00

I took these pictures yesterday but I never had a chance to upload them. He's Pete's dog. He was very cute unlike Pete (I think I should reword it I guess it's slightly offensive). He was cuter than Pete. You know Pete can't suddenly make others grow fond of him as his dog does with his appearance.

I didn't shrink pixels of the above pictures, so I recommend clicking the pictures to enlarge. He seems even cuter.

2009-06-02T17:18:00.000-07:00

Geesu insisted I take a picture of himself, Jongbum and me altogether, for we all got the tennis awards. I didn't think it was a bad idea so I said I would.

Ithought I could easily photograph us by myself considering my lens was a fisheye lens, but it was never very easy, so I had to ask Seunghwan to photograph us.

None of us liked this picture so much, but this is the best one.

2009-06-02T17:14:00.000-07:00

JD doesn't seem to like me. He never makes an eye contact with me and keeps avoiding me, but it could be that he likes me too much; a person tends to avoid someone he or she likes when overwhelmed by the beauty. I am not saying I am beatiful even if I am.

2009-06-02T17:08:00.000-07:00

Ari erased some of the pictures she didn't like but she left few pictures not deleted. Ididn't know which one to upload and had to think for a while. After all I decided to put the worst picture of her among the pictures she didn't delete as a return for the mental struggle she got me. If you enlarge the picture you will see her nose holes frankly portrayed.

Maybe, I shouldn't be mean to her since she wrote a lot on my yearbook. I will be nice next time I blog her.

2009-06-02T16:54:00.000-07:00

"I can't taste things as I used to be able to" said Sierra frowning.

"What do you mean you can't taste?" I asked her mindfully since I felt as though I had to do something other than simply nodding.

"Okay, like... I used to like this chocolate but then I don't think it's that delicious anymore", she explained.

I had two theories. I thought it was either that the chocolate company really had changed the chocolate recipe, which is very unlikely, or it was Sierra really not being able taste things anymore. But I figured neither of them were so probable and concluded that Sierra presumably worded her thought inappropriately.

So I asked her, "Could it be that you can't taste things since you are so full now? You know food doesn't taste so good once you are so full". She listened to me and commented "That might be it" as she smiled.

*by the way, Nora provided the chocolate, which was very kind and unexpected of her.

2009-06-02T16:40:00.000-07:00

Nora, during the 5 minutes gap time between classes, played with Kevin's sort of yoga ball. She was pretty good at handling and kicking the ball and I was pretty amazed although it's something I've expected.

Someone said "You are like good at everything Nora" so Nora unhesitatingly told him "I am modelled to be good at almost everything"; well, she never really hesitates.

Anyways we had an interesting discussion about artifial impregnation and sperm bank.

We were talking about clones and pre-designed babies.

Nora: So... even now. If you go to a sperm bank, you can choose a sperm of someone who has master's degree, someone who's atheletic, or a high school graduate. You do have options to choose from.

JP: Just out of curiosity. Okay, say someone is virgin and gets "artificially impregnated" (it wasn't his diction; I forgot what he said), is she vergin and pregnant?

Nora: Yeah.. .technically yeah... although it should've been after she tried to have a baby in a normal way.

Robby: Wait...Would that make Jesus.

We all laughed hard but his hypothesis was plausible in a way.

2009-06-02T16:30:00.000-07:00

I was there playing the piano during lunch. Nate and Sierra called me and started clapping at the lobby. They said "Yay, Louis" or something. I was somewhat annoyed not because they were making noise or anything but since I didn't know what to do.

Do they want me to look at them and say hi? or do they want me to keep playing? Should I keep playing since they are clapping for me or should I stop playing since they are clapping for me? All these intircate thoughts bothered me as I was playing the piano, which totally ruined the piece I was playing.

I think playing the piano is similar to dating someone ( Idon't know much about dating but still); you know you sometimes want to show off your relationship to your friends while you sometimes want to spend some time with the person you like somewhere quiet and private, and playing the piano, at least to me, is like that. I sometimes want to have audiences and sometimes don't.

2009-06-02T16:25:00.000-07:00

Robert has an original and cool way of expressing his fondness for someone. He just hits people he actually likes. I got punched in my stomach few times and I grew to like it even.

I hit Eli once for I wanted to develop that kind of coolness, but all Eli said to me was, "What was that for?"

2009-06-02T16:19:00.000-07:00

I was glancing at the painting hung in the dining hall and my gaze got fixed on the portrayal of aseemingly personified mouse that looked like Mickey Mouse.

As I looked into it, I soon became aware of the fact that the mouse was violating the dress code violation. I can see its shoulders and the tip of its pants or a dress is above its fingertips.

2009-06-02T14:51:00.000-07:00

This is Lacey's yearly project, making food. Well, this may sound simple and purposeless but she does it, i think, virtually to let you try cuisines from different countries and make her AP calc students preoccupied by any means. This year, she planned to make Russian, Chinese and Korean food. How motley. Andrey's absence seemed like a mote of problem since I thought no one would know how to make Russian food, but Lacey already knew the recipes and such.

Anyways, the premise behind her plan is the hard work of her students, for Lacey can't prepare for all that food. After all, those victimized or those who volunteered worked really hard for her. Although all I did was photographing, I had to miss Drama Tech outing to Dunkin Donuts in order to help Lacey, which certainly compensates her for my insincerity.

2009-06-02T14:46:00.000-07:00

I said to Mary (she said I could call her Mary few months ago. I don't call her Mary in real life though), "You look upset these days. I haven't seen you smiling for a while".

"Ah. Iam not upset or anything. Look I am smiling", said Mary very fast in a lighthearted tone.

I sort of smiled back at her and absently said, "Oh, I am glad".

2009-06-02T14:42:00.000-07:00

I brouhgt Mario upclose and Soren backed up. He murmured few words that might have been something I possibly could have understood. I should've listened to him more carefully so that I can blog what he'd said to me.

2009-06-02T14:33:00.000-07:00

Even if the artist who drew this did not put "Gretchen heart" part, I believe I could have figured it's Intae. Whoever drew this, he or she minimally and successfuly portrayed Intae's physical traits.

2009-06-02T14:29:00.000-07:00

For the first time, I tried the clif bar. One reason why I tried this particular kind was that I thought the wrapper simply looked cool, and the other was that I wanted to test if it'd give me two hours of energy as advertised.

It tasted fine and distinct. It was more like nutty cake though since it was very smooshy.

2009-06-01T19:40:00.000-07:00

I couldn't distinguish Robby from Jacob, but I am starting to notice the discrepancies between them. Well, obviously they do look superficially different from each other. But more interestingly, their life patterns, if you would, are slightly yet noticeably different.

While Robby plays a video game in a group with Matt Seff and Gab, Jacob has strong proclivity for playing a video game by himself. He's like the enlightened reclusive guy, meditating alone in the deep mountain who refuses to go to a temple for group meditation. Hm... I don't know if it's a good analogy, but I would say Jacob's like John Platt, who tends to wake up at 5 am and sit on the grass by himself, whereas Robby's like Peter Bailey, who loves MFW.

2009-06-01T19:35:00.002-07:00

Linda was asking people if they have air mattresses.

After Dan said he could provide some Linda excitedly said "Oh, that's so nice. I am glad I came into this room", and continued "who else could I ask?"

As soon as she said this, Sam Leach entered and said as he passed by Linda "You asked me that already". Linda seemed almost symphathetic at this moment since she didn't even say anything, but I could also understand why Sam had to do that... you know.

2009-06-01T19:35:00.001-07:00

JP was just being silly.

2009-06-01T19:27:00.000-07:00

"I hit the bird with my car and JP and Jen ran over it", Kelsey said as if she's done something splendid (at least, I thought it was pretty rare, and I buy rarity).

But the problem was that my annoying imagination brought me a lucid image of the bird exploding under JP's car due the pressure.....blood and bones flying being deconstructed from its body and everything.

2009-06-01T19:21:00.000-07:00

Oh... it's again that awkward and defensive pose I make when I get hugged. I wish I could hug someone back comfortably. Not only because I was not prepared for it, but also because I am not yet Americanized enough, I was so defensive about it and shrunk my body. Well, many of you already know how I am since I blog about this all the time. It's a recurring motif.

2009-06-01T19:16:00.000-07:00

Dramatech people went to this place of which name I forgot but anyways, we went there to return the costumes we borrowed from them for The Sideshow. Although the place was merely a mediocre place, I found that place somewhat weird, creepy even. It was strangely so familiar too.

2009-06-01T16:38:00.001-07:00

I have something called final and I have to study at least a little.

I will blog more at like 10 if I feel like.

2009-06-01T16:34:00.000-07:00

Sierra said she was at the concert over the weekend. She told me she saw some famous guys and listed few names but those names were unimportant to me, for I didn't(and still don't) even know them. She said she missed the half of the day today mainly because she got so exhausted by the concert.

I want to go to a concert too, not like the one I went with Harry and Eli. I mean it wasn't necessarily bad, but Harry knows what I am saying.

2009-06-01T16:28:00.000-07:00

Bridget made me a bracelet. She tied it so hard on my wrist that I had to askher, "Will I be able to take it off?"

She said I can't take it off forever but soon confessed that I will be able to take it off once the bracelet gets stretched out. Anna (I am purposely not saying which Anna it is for her privacy, but I bet you know how it is) who was standing next to us said the bracelet is made of marijuana. Of course I didn't believe it. I am not that gullible like that Gimpel The Fool guy.

*Although it seems as if my hand is touching Bridget in the second picture, it wasn't.

2009-06-01T16:27:00.000-07:00

It's them.

2009-06-01T16:21:00.000-07:00

By now, I believe I can reveal the fact that I am in the nominating committee. I had to sit there and give out pieces of paper for voting and pens to people. I also marked the ones who'd voted so that no one could vote more than once. Nora was so good at it, and I tried hard to catch up with her. I found it overwhelming but I grew to like doing it.

2009-06-01T16:11:00.000-07:00

I found a bird nest on the way to the dining hall. Gretchen Maslin (I hate to write one's last name since it seems as though I am not in an intimate relationship with that person, but the reason why I wrote Gretchen's last name was apparently to distinguish her from the other Gretchen) who was with me said "Oh, it would have been perfect if an egg was in it".

I nodded absently but then realized it was not something a vegetarian, who was once a vegan, would say. Did she hope there was an egg since she was hungry? or did she want it for asthetic purpose? Either way, it was so not vegetarian of her. To kill my curiosity I asked her in a vegetarian attitude, "But then, it must've been bad actually since the egg would not hatch without proper care of its mom bird, right?". I forgot what her response was. I think she just nodded.

2009-06-01T16:06:00.000-07:00

Lacey made me fold cranes, which I don't even know how to fold, I immitated Sungbum folding one so that I could sort of fold a it, but it wasn't yet so perfect.

Jooyeob was trying to fold a box but he had no idea what he was doing, so I folded it for him.

2009-06-01T16:03:00.001-07:00

I laughed so hard. I've seen Dylon lying on chairs assmebled like that at the library before, so it wasn't something totally new, but it was still interesting to see.

I copied them and made another chairbed next to theirs. I love Geesu's coquettish pose. Jongchan's pose is, in contrast to Geesu's, very prude.

2009-06-01T15:58:00.000-07:00

Lacey is so mom. Look at her motherly folder. I bet her screen name -if she has one- would be something like EliasAndAdele'sMom.

Some of you probably have noticed it, but Lacey's mom left me a comment on the blog!

She thanked me for photographing Lacey. I suppose Lacey's mom is also very motherly. Motherly moms are cool.

2009-06-01T15:54:00.000-07:00

Another Anna appeared and said "I was eating nutella over the weekend and it reminded me of you!" I asked her if she could finish the whole jar but she said she could eat only half. I told her it's still about 1000 Calories.

"I feel like I will get fatter" she commented.

"I don't see why you shouldn't get fatter", I said as a compliment.

2009-06-01T15:46:00.000-07:00

Ana made the whole presentation as a return for the poster I made. I was so glad she did that for me.

She said "Now, you can change that sort of you wrote on your blog".

I inevitably but willingly said "Sure, it's now definitely".

2009-06-01T15:45:00.000-07:00

Jenna gave me this notecard. She said she wanted to share artworks and stuff. I don't remember exactly.

She has a website: www.jennabauer.com

2009-06-01T15:42:00.000-07:00

Ari was drugged out today. She said her father gave her a sleepingpill yesterday and that made her lethargic and drowsy for the whole day. I was going to photograph her again for her face looked so dark in the picture, but I realized she looked too emaciated anyways.

2009-06-01T15:03:00.000-07:00

Harry got a tatoo, a sticker one. I don't know what he is. He's bottomless.

2009-06-01T14:45:00.000-07:00

We were watching a documentary about Zapatistas during Anthro class, and Hochul suddenly asked me "What do Zapatistas have to do with Maya?" It was after Charlie explained us who Zapatistas are multiple times, so I got ridiculed by his question.

Okay, if it were his first time asking me such a ludicrously obvious question, i probably have explained him very sincerely that Zapatistas are roughly descendants of Mayans. But obviously he has asked me something like that nuermous times; I guess he's been doing that at least 3 times a day since we've been at Oakwood. Anyways, I got mad and asked him a rhetorical question "Are you kidding me? Pay attention!"

I didn't stop and said something reprehensive. It probably went like this, "I think you have a problem with your memory" and added "I wonder how you remember my name; it was long time ago when I told you my name, wasn't it?"

He pretty much doesn't care whatever I say, but I could tell he got slightly aggravated by my sharp words. Funnily, whenever I sense that I hurt his feeling, which I usually mean to do, I after all feel sorry and try to soothe him.

2009-06-01T14:38:00.000-07:00

I counted how many people were in the theater. There were only about 30 at the most. Han said he would invite PDS people, but the only stranger I could point out was a boy who hung out exclusively with Stephanie; he's supposedly Steph's boyfriend.

I stayed there to photograph few pictures and left in like 3 minutes. Lindsey was sad because I left so early, but I couldn't sadden myself staying there.

2009-06-01T14:30:00.000-07:00

Considering Dave's name was not mentioned when Jeremy made an announcement so greatfully thanking those faculty memebers who oversaw the dance, I think Dave was there probably to support the dance, not to supervise it.

JD was having fun with the balloon but he could have done it home. Dave wobbled his body little bit but then stopped. They were literally just there.

2009-06-01T14:02:00.000-07:00

As you know, the dance was held in the theater on last Friday. As soon as I went in Han insisted that I should photograph him, I couldn't say no so I did. From Han's smiling face, I at first guessed many people'd come for the dance but soon I shook my head and realized he can sometimes put a fabricated smile on his face. He makes me think more.

Oh, I put a picture of Tri, since his hair was, to be honest, funny. Well, it could be a form of cultural preference.

2009-05-30T08:16:00.000-07:00

I never understood why I had to help setting up the dance only because I am in Drama Tech. I am not in Dance Tech. Dance committe should have done it by themselves.

But I helped them hard and quietly, betraying my growing subservience. I knew I could earn nothing from defying the authority.

2009-05-30T08:10:00.000-07:00

Although the future's so vauge, I am still keen enough to predict that Bridget will yell at me for uploading a bad picture of her. I don't even have a particular thing to write about her. This post is purely to test if what I've foretold comes true.

2009-05-30T08:02:00.000-07:00

Chris Mo and Miller are clearly best friends, reminding me of Daisy and Anna from good old days. Chris Mo told me that his father speaks no English and I supposed Chris either speaks Chinese or just doesn't talk to his father. Well, the former made much more sense, but I grew more and more sceptical for I never saw him speaking Chinese for the whole year. I wondered what it is like to not talk to one's own father.

Only few days ago, Chris was murmuring something I cannot comprehend. I thought he was just grumbling, but I realized he was speaking Chinese with Miller. I was somehow glad. He is bilingual.

2009-05-30T07:59:00.000-07:00

I can't believe Sarah and JP are siblings since siblings ususally do not go along very well especially when they are in their youth ( I know I am saying this as if I am not in my youth).

Well, my brother and I are quite fine, but we don't hug as SJP and JP do, not only because hugging is a quite strange notion in Korea particularly if it is between two boys but also because we never meet. He's fortunately coming to the graduation and I will try to hug him. Iam pretty sure it's going to be very awkward. If you have seen the movie "the step brothers'', my brother and I may look like Mike Farrell and his real younger brother uncouthly hugging each other at the end of the movie.

2009-05-30T07:55:00.000-07:00

I saw John Platt's class meditating under the magnolia tree. I looked at them as if I look at strangers, for they looked strange.

I went closer for a better picture, and I saw one guy, who looked like Jeremy meditating with them. But he wasn't Jeremy.. he was much thinner, older, and shorter. Maybe, he's John's meditating friend from a Buddhist temple.

2009-05-30T07:51:00.000-07:00

Jooyeob: You know... I play with JD when I am free.
I:Oh, yeah.. I figured.
Jooyeob: and you know I can be overactive.. sometimes. Do you know what JD said to me when I overacted?
I: What did he say?
Jooyeob: JD said, "you are too much".
I: That's somewhat humiliating, but really funny.

2009-05-30T07:49:00.000-07:00

Jamie was interestedly observing Robbie playing a video game.

Jamie: So... does the tank have a consciousness or is someone controlling the tank?
Robbie: I have no idea. Either makes sense.

2009-05-30T07:42:00.000-07:00

He is supposedly named after a father of King David from the Bible, but even Najah forgot his birthday. It was like a scene from a black comedy movie when he said "My birthday was a week ago!"
Oh... poor Jesse. I never really knew him so I didn't tab his shoulder to consolate him although I wanted to.

2009-05-30T07:25:00.000-07:00

I laugh at this poster every time I see it, for none of them in the poster really read (except for Tri); plus, Sonia's face looks simply funny in the picture.

What makes the poster seem more fake is the way Hannah and Daisy read. As you may know, no two people can possibly read one book concurrently in that everyone has different mind set and pace when reading a book. Also, the flower Hannah's holding is quite out of place, allegorizing the fact that everything is pre-set and contributing to the unnaturalness of the poster. Well, posters are to lure visitors and first comers anyways.