THE FINAL

I didn’t write very much in this class only because I’m a really good procrastinator. But I did write some, I wrote some blog post on my blog. I really enjoyed doing blogs on blogger; it’s more organized than Tumblr which I used previously. I loved writing about quotes and sayings because I always used the one I posted on blogger: "what is more useful a gold coin or a pile of mud?" and I said "well the gold coin of course", "but what about to a flower?" my father replied. This is probably the most memorable post for me. Although I don’t write very many blog posts I love to write spoken word poem. Music is my fuel for these poems I feel like I can express myself or rather explain myself.

During this semester I really came to like spoken word poems and the idea of spoken word poems. I especially became interested in a college student named George Watsky. He first began to find out about his talent in his freshman year of college. Then he became to bloom and do mic shows all over the US. By learning how to articulate and use his words he became a witty rapper named Watsky, while still doing spoken word.

I really liked making this blog on blogger. The system was a little confusing at first but then I got you to it, actually I really liked the system. When I came up with the name I didn’t care what it was, but I came up with “Chinese food all day errday” which was pretty accurate about me because I work at a Chinese restaurant. It was kind of clever to me. I think I am going to use this blogger more often even outside of school because I feel like this blog has grown on me.
I remember grade school with my best friends. It was the best feeling in the world to just sit with your buddies and let life wastefully past by. If only I could get that feeling back, even for a minute. I would give anything. Now were grown up, cliché I know, but it’s the sad truth. I wonder if I’ll ever have that feeling again. Maybe heaven, that’s when ill have it. Till then I guess I’ll just have to substitute that with whatever I can. But when time has finally come for me to relive that feeling again ill call it mine

My journal does not have very much. I just write in it to write, but I want to use it more. The journal, also like the blog, has grown on me. writing is more a part of my life than it has ever been. Maybe one day when I’m older I’ll find it and read it. Hopefully it’ll bring back good memories.

My spoken word entries:



Favorite toy to play with?
Its pretty embarrassing but my favorite toy when I was a kid was He-man. Yes, He-man, back then he was awesome. I really wanted to be as buff and powerful as he was.. i especially admired his courageous attitude and how can you forget the ridiculously huge sword.

In the future, hopefully, i want to screen write full featured films. And after i make the script ill be the one directing it. I've always wanted to make movies, even when i was little i would always ask my parents to go to the movies and when we got back i would always tell them what i would have done different. i was just a little movie critic.

if i had to to leave with final words to this class it would be STAY CLASSY. The reason why I say "stay classy." is because I want people to be theirselves and ultimately not be jerk. People compromise their integrity and personality when they want to impress or be liked. I encourage everyone tostay them self.

Dan in Real Life

Three Advice to parents about teenagers

I would give parents these three pieces of advice: please do not interrupt. this really hurts the teenagers and their pride. And pride is important to a teenager going through puberty. number two, love tenderly. Teenagers are human too and being nosy, rude, and a jerk isn't an excuse for "I only do this because I care."Advice three is to accept your teenager. Accept them for who they are and who they will be. If you try to mold and from them into someone that you want then all thats going to happen is you are going to become distant with them.

Movies and Personality

I took the survey. I am a  85% aggressive movie watch. I like the fighting and the war and conflict, but that doesn't mean i don't like watching other movies. I mean, i got a 45% in romance movies. I LOVE ROMANCE MOVIES. i just feel like instead of putting all the effort into the fight or special effects directors can focus on the plot and characters, this makes a good movie.

Usually i don't have a set favorite movie, it changes depending on how i watch a movie. I'm never stagnate when it comes to favorite movies. Right now my favorite movie has to be The Avengers simply because of how awesome it was to see the comic books come to life. I read comic books all the time and Avengers: Earths Mightiest Heroes series was probably one of the best I've ever read.

I appreciate all kinds of movies except for slapstick comedy. Those kind of comedies to me have to value but just a couple of laughs. There is no real moral, no real stories, and it gets old very quickly.

Inspired by The Blue Dress

She may have been lying when she said that she hated me. Part of my being wishes she is, and the other part of me is wishing she isn't. I love her, I do, but what happens if she's like. Maybe she does like me, loves me. Maybe she'd like to spend the rest of her life with me. Maybe she wants to have kids together and settle down in a nice suburban neighborhood together, grow old together. Or maybe not. Maybe she just hates my guts, for what I said for what I did. I said or did something to upset her and she's just been adding it up every single time Ive never said sorry. Now I can honestly say I don't know. Even to the best of all of the men in this worlds combined knowledge, I just don't know.

Childhood stories

There was this one story my mom told me every single night when I was a child.

Once upon a time there was a man who wanted to go to the moon. Every one he knew, including his parents, disliked him because he was born with bad luck. Every where he went it seemed like he carried a curse and messed the village peoples work, crops and goods. So because of the dislike and disapproval from everyone he wanted to go away, he wanted to leave and never come back, he wanted to go to the moon. Early one morning he woke up from a dream the showed him how to build a rocket to fly to the moon. Immediately he began to work on it
"This is great!"
"And to think, people thought I had bad luck."
With in just a couple of hours he had built a black powered bamboo rocket. But with all the noise and ruckus he woke up the neighbors.
"Come here!' he shouted to the village people
"witness what the omens have shown me in my dreams, now i can finally leave this retched place and I'll never have to face you people again!"
The whole village come and sees this contraption and they were amazed. The cursed man enter the rocket and ignited the bamboo rocket. He ascends into the sky as the villagers watched in awe. But suddenly the rocket begins to fall apart and the black power burned faster. He explodes in the sky and died.

The moral of the story is never run aways from your problems, never!

Inspiring images

Spoken word poem

I guess it really takes just one step. One step to rule them, or one step to lose them. It might seem silly, or far-fetched, but a single step is all it takes to change the world. The step to wake up early, and be on time. Or the step you take when you step forward, for what you believe in. But there are bad steps too, stepping away, leaving an unsolved issue. Stepping off...a building. See, steps changes the world, those little tiny moves you do with your feet can change the world. Don't just stand there, move, move in the direction you feel is right. Take a step, maybe even backwards, anything is better than standing still.

Famous first and last lines

"Dally was so real he scared me."
The Outsiders












Gone with the Wind
"tomorrow ill think of some great way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day."
This line is from Gone with the Wind, published in 1936 by the author Margaret Mitchell, 1900-1949.  She also wrote Lost Laysen, and wrote for the Atlanta Journal. Gone with the wind is romance, it takes place during the civil war. Won the Pulitzer prize, Everybody loved this book, critics included One of the main criticisms was that it was very rascist. 

A memorable passage

“I’m alive”, he said to the boy, as they ate a bunch of dates one night, with no fires and no moon.  “When I’m eating, that’s all I think about.  If I’m on the march, I just concentrate on marching.  If I have to fight, it will be just a good day to die as any other.  “Because I don’t live in either my past or my future.  I’m only interested in the present.  If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man.  You’ll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens, and that tribesmen fight because they are part of the human race.  Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living right now.”  P.89 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

The Alchemist is probably my favorite book of all time. This passage is from the book where the main character, who is unnamed throughout the whole book, is realizing his personal legend. He begins to grow his own personality and his own identity. The boy is on a mission to find a treasure deep within a pyramid that a fortune teller foresaw and while on this mission he meets a king disguised as a peasant. The king and the boy talk which lead to the king asking "What will you do when you have this treasure, what is your plan?". I really enjoyed this book, every chapter had a lesson to teach me; love, money, patience, faith, kindness, etc.

I AM poem

I am

I am a rejuvenating nap after long days

I am the boring snore that you do in school even when you’re awake

I am the loathing look when a teacher overly long lectures

I am that guy

I am the laugh that is so awkward I stop others from laughing

I am tired

I am that itchy spot on your back that you can’t reach

I am SPARTA!

I am a Korean who finds much pride in being one, a Korean that loves the scent of little side dishes of a meal that escapes the kitchen and finds its ways to my room

I am a medium-well juicy, thick cut rib eye steak that was grilled on a wooden flame grill and topped with homemade apple glaze.

I am hungry…all the time

I am the manual zoom on a GL2 that captures that images that pop into my head

I am a Nikon d40 DSLR that quickly shutters and captures beauty in 1/200 of a second

I am the yearning to leave Springfield

I am a Cannondale road bike that recently put air into

I am ME

Music Over The Years

Actually maybe around 3 years ago, music wasn't a very big impact to me, but now music is a very vital part of my life. i think that with out music people tend to loose connection with people. Now music helps me in all ways, you could say i need it, its a necessity. Kind of like a drug, I'm addicted and without it I'm not myself.

Feeling evoked music

When I listen to music I try to listen to the message or the story of the song. Thats why i don't listen to music with out meanings or music with stupid meanings. Usually I listen to very lyrical writers and those artist make me feel like i am not alone. i listen to their music and i can relate to it.

First Love

Well, jee, she was pretty…

Gross I mean.

I don’t know why we even talked.

 Just standing there in her bright pink floral dress

And her dark chocolate hair

At least that’s what it reminded me of..

Ugh it disgusted me when her face cracked a smile

And her eye brow rose. 

Rose, the color of her lips, it was usually chapped

Her “S’s” were wrong just like mine,

I hated it

I Wish I Could Sleep Now

Don’t you remember when “ its time for bed”

Or  “its past your bed time”

You shook your head

And trotted away instead

You thought “my body is mine”

“ ill sleep when im dead”

Writers as readers

1. When I read I usually find comfortable. Other than that I don’t really have a preference to where it is I read. Obviously not somewhere extreme, but it doesn’t bother me if I have to read on a couch or a desk.
2. Usually I enjoy reading mystery or murder type books. The only reason why I like this genre of books is because it captures my attention and keeps it longer than other books. Compared to other genres like adventure or sci-fi mysteries keep me thinking and interested.
7. The very first book that I read, that I remember, was Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax. I’m not really sure why it stands out to me but I remember it the most now. When I went to go see The Lorax in theatres I was really excited because I remember everything from the book.

8. my favorite book would probably have to be The Alchemist by Paulo Coelo. I just think that the book has a lot to offer and is interesting in several different ways. The book is about a young boy how has committed his life to be a shepherd. He parts from his family and begins to travel with his sheep. Then he comes across a psychic that tells him that he will find a treasure in the pyramids of Giza. After hearing so he is stopped by a wise king who tells him his fortune of have a personal legend. His mind sparks, and he puts one and one together to conclude that this must be omens. So he sets out on a journey to find his treasure and personal legend. On the way he finds friends and foes that help him shape his character. This book is amazing the story is made so well and the characters feel like real people.

Dreaming?

So apperantly there have been dream studies that have led to an interesting conclusion. The conclusion states that under certain circumstances you can actually experience your dream. This is called lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is a state of mind where you are conciously aware in your dream. Lucid dreaming isnt an easy state of mind to achieve, the reason being is as soon as you realize youre “awake”  your mind makes you wake up. So once you dream lucidly you will then soon break your dream state.  Or do you? you see, there is a certain technique that can help you lucid dream. Stay in a warm environment and try to keep your body completely still while you fall asleep. Second, this is the most important part, think of one defined object or “thing”. Once you have done this you can fall asleep and hopefully wake up in your dreams.

Dream Thread

I think about the good times I've had with my friend and the friends I've lost. They were the wildest people I knew. I had alot of different friends in alot of different places. Some in Korea and some in America. everywhere i went they were attracted to me and I to them. A long time ago we would always play this game where one of us was on a bike with a green, plastic, jumbo bat and that person would just try and hit us. It was so funny, i would cry, even now my eyes are burning from reminiscing.