My delightful secrets

To say the truth, my grandfather was once a rich. He was the owner of a big business company which produced a huge profit. Therefore, there was no problem to live for my mother when she was young. According to my mother, my grandfather helped a lot of people by lending money and being a supporter. (Until now on, many people who were helped by my grandfather are having good relationships with him.) However, he made a mistake – I don’t know which mistake it is – and that led to a fail of the business. He lost all the money that he put into his company and the bank, but there were some money that was saved by grandmother. It happened when my mother was in high school……maybe. If that didn’t happen, I would live plentifully.

To say another truth, I have pretty enough money to live now. I have a ground that consists 3000m² from my grandfather. I had been there twice, and did not feel much impression with that. It was just deserted ground with some mountains and houses. The part of it was used as a road and my grandfather didn’t know it at all. Also, my grandmother’s aunt lived on America for her whole life with a Navy General. Her husband was dead, but a lot of annuity was provided for her. She already wrote her testament to give her house and whole fortune to me. I don’t know why she gives me a huge favor, but I am thanking her deeply.

There are several small secrets, too. I played clarinet first in Canada, my cousin (Older sister) is the first professional recorder player in Korea, I have about 500 e-books on my computer, and I am writing my own fantasy novel. I deal with my father to buy laptop with my pocket money, my father is the chief of his architecture company (Lab3), and I played chess as the representative of my school class in Korea before. These are just very little secrets, not even a secret, aren’t these?


http://aladin00.blog.me/140057889749 -> You can go this website to see my cousin's play!

Black and White in people's mind

Do you know what the kindest animal in the world is? It is a human being. You can see a dedicate nurse such as Nightingale on the battle place. Then, do you know what the cruelest animal in the world is? It is also a human being. Frightened soldiers kill their enemies without mercy. As we can see, human beings have both sides of the mind, good part and bad part, in their mind. Some people try to conceal their bad minds, but some other people just express their cruel thoughts. I think the ability to control these minds is important for us to live in this world.

We can see these distinctions on our daily life. When I was on my way back to home from the school several days ago, I saw something pleased. A lost child was crying and a young man was trying to calm and help him. Finally, he stayed with the child until child’s mother found her son. On the other hand, I could see not good things, too. Students from other schools threw their empty cans and spit out on the ground. They toss a boy’s backpack over the fence and ran away. The most horrible thing was that they threw several pack milks toward the cars or abandoned animals.

Also, my minds are divided into half. Sometimes, I suddenly want to help elder people who pull their cart with recyclable wastes or when I see homeless. I usually overcome my laziness and study hard until I sleep. I always treat my friends well. I can say these are my bright sides of my mind. However, when my parents go out for some reason, I can’t stop myself from sleeping or being lazy. Also, I don’t like to take care of my sister very much. These are dark sides of my mind. I am keep trying to control my minds and moods; it’s not an easy task. When I am able to fully overcome myself, then I will be the great person by the meaning of humanism and idealism because I can pursuit my dream without falling behind.

Wedding Anniversary

April 15 is the special day for me. Well, not exactly for me, but for my parents. It’s my parents’ wedding anniversary! Because this is the day when my father and mother got married, I can say this is an important day for me, too. Therefore, I arranged the time for our family despite of a busy schedule.

I went to the bakery to buy the cake for anniversary without informing my parents. I was preparing the surprise party with the cake only… However, I didn’t expect to get champagne from the bakery. When a baker asked me the purpose of the cake, I answered it’s for my parents’ wedding anniversary, then he gave me the champagne for free! Maybe that’s because our family is a regular customer of the bakery. Anyway, I hided it with the help of my grandmother and went out for the dinner.

Near my house, there is a family restaurant called ‘Seven Springs.’ My mother didn’t like there before because there were narrow selections of foods and they were unhealthy. However, after she heard that the restaurant is using the fresh and organic ingredients, she led us to there. It was not bad. The mood of the restaurant was changed, menu became varied, and foods were really GREEN. (I didn’t like this part though…) After we finished the meal, we returned to our house and I brought surprise gifts. They just love it! I didn’t know I was going to write about this on the blog, so I don’t have any photo. My family spent a wonderful time and my parents said it was their best wedding anniversary ever! (I will not upload my parents image because they don’t want me to…haha…)

The restaurant!

Inside the restaurant!

Why Fantasy is not a Book!

About a billion of people in the world are reading and enjoying fictions these days. Even now, while I am writing this blog entry, at least a million of people might read fantasy books. Many people usually entertained themselves by reading or seeing fictions which contain fantastical content. Even in past, people like to see public drama. From these, we can infer that fantasy and science fictions are popular books between human beings.

Europe is well known for people as the house of fantasy. This is because many famous fictions such as Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter were published in Europe. The governments in Europe accepted these novels as one type of literatures. So, fantasy writers can live magnificently and earn a lot of money if they hit a jackpot. However, this is only the news from foreign countries. In Korea, fictions are not treated as a pure literature. There are several reasons for that. 

This is famous author of Korea, Young Do Lee.

First, there are so many people who write fantasies. Even people who don’t know about fantasy are writing it with low-grade background. They just start it by impatient passion and illusions. These people are who delegitimize the honor and true value of fantasy. I think this should be fixed. Although many people say that the writing improves when the writer practices, people who are going to give up soon should not post their writings.

In addition, there are not unique fictions which have the characteristic of Korea. Except for few works such as The Bird which drink tears, most writings are similar with western fictions. They have the backgrounds of Lord of the Rings and the culture of The Chronicles of Narnia. This is the most important and worst reason that Korean fantasies are not admitted as the pure literature.

It is really hard to put one country’s view of the world on one writing. However, I will try to find out the true value of our country’s heritage and struggle for the future of Korean fantasies. 

Birthday Party!!!

It is always good to have birthday party for many reasons. The birthday itself means happy day because one life was born on that day, and family and friends are celebrating it. Also, to say the truth, another reason is that we can meet and play for proper cause. So, my friends met and played yesterday for proper reason.

April 8^th was the birthday of my friend, Brandon (Sung Keun). Thus, he held the party on next day which was Saturday. I had to go to the party since Brandon was one of my best friends, so I finished all of my academy home works on Friday. That was very tired but I did it. I planned to meet my friends early because I didn’t know where Brandon’s house is. I met with them on 8 am at the train station and went to his house. We arrived on about 9 am and went to PC room first. We played games for nearly two hours and went to have a real party.

There were about ten people at the party place include me. We ate Bul-go-gi and went down to karaoke which was located under the restaurant. Brandon blew the candle on the cake at there and we sang for him. Next, we played for an hour at karaoke. When we got out from there, we went to Brandon’s house. Since he was a gun maniac, there were a lot of guns at there. We picked up for each one and went to play survival game. I was embarrassed to play it first, because it looked silly and childish. However, as time passed, I realized that it was really fun. I could understand Brandon’s hobby and loving toward a gun. After that, I left to the academy.

What I want to say is that…BIRTHDAY PARTY IS FUN!!!

Rain, Rain, Go Away!

“Rain, rain, go away! Come again another day! All the family wants to play. Rain, rain, go away!”

This is very well known children’s song about people’s sad mind when the rain is coming. All the family wants to play, so they are saying to the rain to come again later. Well, although the rain is not a bad thing, I totally agree with them.

First, I will tell you about the realistic problems of the rain these days. When the rain is pouring down, people have to bring umbrellas outside. Then, there are a lot of chances to bump with other people because umbrellas take some space. It is so uncomfortable in the bus or subway to keep umbrellas, too. Also, the most important part is that the rain contains radioactive these days. The recent explosion of Japan nuclear power plant caused it. For example of Korea, the radioactive rain fell on today, July 4^th. The government is saying that it is not quite harmful, but I think this can be dangerous to human beings.

Personally, I just don’t like the rain much. It gives me the gloomy feelings and reminds me the bad memories. So, I fall in kind of depression when I stare at the pouring rain through the window. For the most movies or books, there are always the rain on the background when the story is grief and gloomy. I think the reasons of that might be similar with my emotions toward the rain. Not only this, I really hate to wet by the rain. It’s damp and cold when my cloths soak by water. When I stepped in the bus today, I made a mistake to fold the umbrella and the water from it soaks my pants. That was not good…

Therefore, I HATE THE RAIN!

World Invasion: Battle LA

I went to the Mega Box in the Coex on the day when our spring vacation started. I didn't have a plan at first, but I met with my friends and went to play. We ate the dinner and watched the movie called 'World Invasion.' It was the action and science fiction movie. The main characters' names were Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, and Bridget Moynahan. Here is the basic plot of ‘World Invasion.’

The Earth is under attacking by unknown enemy. Famous countries such as London and New York were already destroyed. Los Angeles is the last place to block enemies’ attack on the west and the Los Angeles Marine is going to take the big role on that. For Sergeant Nantz, this is his last battle before he retires. He and his squad receive the mission to rescue civilians in the middle of enemy lines. However, they are trapped between enemies during the mission. How will they survive?

First, I liked the big scale and the story of this movie. Aliens were not so incredibly powerful that human beings could kill them and it didn’t end with the exhaust unlike other similar movies. Also, I was deeply moved during the movie when Nantz’s squads follow Nantz toward the enemy base. However, I couldn’t concentrate much on the movie because most cameras were shaking too much and the sound effect was too loud. These were the unpleasant parts.

In the meaning of that people struggle to survive from the attack by aliens, I can say ‘World Invasion’ is similar with ‘War of the Worlds.’ Maybe I can’t compare two movies because their genres are different. The first one is action and adventure, and the second one is drama and science fiction. However, if I have to tell about it, I think ‘World Invasion’ is much better than ‘War of the Worlds.’ In ‘War of the Worlds’, aliens are ridiculously strong and the movie ends so easily. Therefore, I will say ‘World Invasion is better.

Although the topic was common and the end was predictable, the story was very good and reverses were amazing. I will say this is the movie that people don’t mind to see it or not. However, I will recommend seeing this movie.