I can’t concentrate right now, so here I am blogging away. I have chemistry and asian studies finals tomorrow, algebra on Thursday and its all over. Its unbelievable that its already been a year since school started in August. It always seems like time is just passing by faster and faster. In just two years, I’m going to be done with highschool. That gives me shrills down my back.

I was looking through my videos (again) and I came across my summer english homework last year. It was all filmed during my vacation in the states. I interviewed college students and highschool students about what they would do/feel if they applied to one school and got rejected, the basic storyline of The Catalyst. That was you-can-read-whatever-you-like book that I chose last year for summer reading. Persuing through next year’s summer reading list for American Literature class, I can already picture myself going crazy over essays.

Anyways, here is the video. I feel that this video doesn’t apply to me anymore. Its time to speed things up. I wanted to stress the idea that sophomore year is when you really get to learn about highschool and yourself. Now, as juniors, its a different story. You still discover who you are, but under a bit more pressure.

I just checked my youtube account for no particular reason and gasp. My video has 4,083 views!!!!!!! It was the English Final from last year for Mr. Bray. We modernized The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan to fit it into the Korean society. We had so much fun filming this…….:)

Many people have been asking me who Dr. Reid is.

1. He is from Criminal Minds
2. His real name is Matthew Gray Gubler (pronounced GOOBLER)
3. He is perfect

This is a show that premiered on CBS in 2005. Since then, it has been continuing its series up to season four. Criminal Minds is about a group of profilers at the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) of the FBI who works together to solve cases. You might be thinking this is another one of those CSI mystery series, but its not. Criminal Minds is more about the “CRIMINAL rather than the CRIME itself”. While CSI is more “sciency” and “techy”, this show digs deep into psychological issues. Profilers make “profiles” about a certain criminal by analyzing their environment, past, possible stressers, and their psychological state. The BAU can analyze the smallest hand movement and find out about the criminal’s past, or motives.

Now, Dr. Reid is one of the characters in the show. He is a genius who graduated highschool at the age of twelve and now, in his early twenties works with the FBI. He has an IQ of 187, and eidetic (”picture-taking”) memory, and can read 20,000 words per minute.

Hotchner: This is Special Agent Dr. Reid.
FBI Student: Oh, you look too young to have gone to medical school.
Reid: They are Ph.D.’s, three of them.
FBI Student: What, are you a genius or something?
Reid: I don’t believe that intelligence can be accurately quantified, but I do have an IQ of 187, an eidetic memory, can read 20,000 words per
minute.
[pause]
Reid: Yes, I’m a genius.

Hahahahahaha but really, you need to watch the show to really find out about him. I love the fact that he’s a super nerd, and is socially awkward. Although the youngest member of the BAU, he probably contributes the most outside knowledge essential to solving a crime. For example, he remembers every single book he’s ever read in his life. He remember every single quote, picture, place, person- you name it. Here are some of my favorite quotes.

Morgan: So tell me, what does keep young Dr. Reid awake at night? Wait, let me guess. Memorizing some obscure textbook? No, no, no. Working on cold
fusion? No, I got it, I got it, I got it. Watching Star Trek and laughing at the physics mistakes.
Reid: Actually, there aren’t that many scientific errors in Star Trek. Especially considering how long ago it was made. There are certain improbabilities, but not that many outright errors.

Morgan: Right.
Morgan
: Oh, you gotta be kidding me. OCD? I’m thinking more like OMG.
Reid: OMG? Object Management Group?
Morgan: Oh My God.

Sigh. Well in real life, his name is Matthew Gray Gubler. He is currently 29, and was born in Las Vegas. He graduated NYU’s Tisch School of Arts, where he majored in film directing. (So he’s a nerd in real life too. ) He used to model for designers such as Tommy Hilfiger, Marc Jacobs, and Sisely. The one thing that I like the most about him is his creativity. Check out his site: http://www.matthewgraygubler.com. He is extremely artistic, and his sense of style is amazing. He also enjoys filming movies, hence, his dream is to become a director. He said in one interview that he never thought of himself as an actor before. It was all coincidental. While attending NYU, he was recruited to model, eventually modeling part-time, since he needed the money anyways. Also starring on Criminal Minds was unexpected, but somehow worked out this way when someone told him to audition. Like i’ve said, his real goal is to become a successful director. He still directs music videos now and then and makes movies for enjoyment.

You need to check out his mockumentaries on youtube. They’re called: Matthew Gray Gubler: the Unauthorized Documentary. There are up to five episodes and every single one of them is hilarious. However, don’t mistake him as the person he is portrayed in the movies. They were recorded to parody Hollywood behavior :)

Here is a video that I found on youtube that edited the “Best Moments of Reid”.

This site does a great job summing up everything about Reid.
HERE

Btw, most of the pictures were from a facebook site for Gubler.

P.S. GUESS WHAT. GUESS WHAT.

oh yeah. he accepted my friend request. HAHAHAHAHHAA. I don’t even DO MYSPACE.



This is my latest artwork that’s actually incomplete. I haven’t put the glitter on it yet, and I haven’t named it either. I wish I can get a better quality picture of this…

Anyways, art is something that I love to do. If you shuffle through my notebooks, you’ll see random doodles everywhere. I draw when I’m thinking (which some people consider it to be weird) or when I’m stressed out. In elementary school,I used to draw ugly pictures of my friends when I was mad at them rather than screaming at them.  So, all my life I’ve been somehow interrelated with art.

My mom majored in art. So, when she used to teach at a University when I was five, I used to look through her students’ works. Also, naturally, because of my mom, I went to numerous exhibitions, museums, and galleries as a child. Moreover, my aunt and uncle are both designers. My aunt is a jewelery designer and my uncle designs…light. Here’s his site: http://www.studiomakelight.com. Check it out!

As a child, whenever I would visit my aunt’s house, I was never bored since I had access to all her colored pencils and pens that she didn’t use. However, I’ve never thought of art seriously. It was always just something fun to do. Something to keep myself occupied. But as I grew older and entered highschool, it just seemed to hit me- whatever I do in the future, I want to do something related to art.

So, I’m still not sure exactly what I want to do, but I know for sure it has to do with art. I enjoy it and I have a vision for it. Plus, how can you NOT enjoy drawing or painting? You gave an entire blank piece for yourself. For YOU to color in. For YOU to do whatever you want with it.

This is the flower that took me quite a while to finish. The orange one looks much better in real-life. I wanted to paint other flowers, but eventually decided that roses would look the best.

This was 100% randomly done. I did sketch it out first, but I ended up totally ignoring the pencil lines and drawing on my own. I was going to have the lines eventually form into one big face, but this “side and seek” style of injecting faces here and there turned out okay. The background, if you can see, is a mixture of yellow and blue. I wanted it to look like tie-dye but it doesn’t show up so well on pictures. :(



I would like to thank everyone who cheered me on and voted for me. I feel bad for letting those people down. Thus, I’m going to point out a few special individuals.

My lovely Jiji - Someone who was there whenever I needed her. Advice, campaigning – everything. She’s a friend who stayed up with me, someone who really gave me all the support she had till the end.

Soymilk – My dooyoo. The one who helped me kill the butterflies ;) & so much more.

Ilmin – Although demanding at times, he was another individual who truly rooted for me. We were on skype last night listening to each other’s speeches, and editing them.

P.S. Shabang for screaming her voice out today ;)

And there are plenty of others. Freshman, Juniors, Guys, Girls….you guys know who you guys are. Well, frankly, I was disappointed, but I’m pretty much over it now. I did what I can. And this was another chance for me to realize the number of people who have my back. Thank You everyone.  Love you all.

Oh yes, I’m up and walking again just like that ducky. After sleeping for 15 hours straight- I actually feel….alive. The doctor made me promise not to talk or study during the weekend. I can probably keep the first one, but the latter- I’m not too sure. APs are in…ugh I don’t even want to count the days. Let me go into sparta mode for just two weeks and its over. Just two weeks. Then, I can do whatever I want.

I feel so sick, I can’t concentrate on my homework right now. So instead, I’m blogging. I guess you can’t really call this procrastinating since I’m technically still doing work.

Anyways, this is good news for all the history AP takers. I bet some people are hoping that the test date has been pushed back or something, but its even better. I found a site that can help you get prepared for APs. I actually knew this site for a while now, but haven’t really made much use of it until the past two months. It contains information for AP World History, AP European History, and AP US History so take a look. I only looked into the AP World History page carefully, but I think the site contains the most information for AP European History. I’ll have to double check that.

It provides you with notes, outlines, maps, essay examples, other helpful sites, quizzes, flashcards, terms, practice essays and so much more.

Click HERE to get a 5

I’ve been sick the entire week. APs are just around the corner and my condition can’t get any worse. I feel dead. If I could just go to some paradise for a week- that’s all I need right now. A break. But obviously, that’s not going to happen…ever. I’m buried under homework and projects (yes, projects during AP season). That’s reality-  blowing my nose every five minutes while trying to stuff information about the Iranian Revolution. Actually, I’d rather die from being suffocated under a workload than from being unable to breathe through my stuffed nose. I’m serious. That’s how painful this cold is.

Hm, anyways, my pills are really pretty this time. Prettier than the orange ones. I shall take pictures and upload them sometime.

I’m moving from my “heartimixture” page to here. It seems like no one knows about it, and it doesn’t even show up on google readers so here it is. Its basically just a picture of the day kind of thing, and my little blurb about it. So this should technically count as six short posts. I’ll start posting one at a time from tomorrow. ☮

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I love this picture. Not only is it totally adorable, but it definitely reminds me of myself. Actually, hm, I still believe in aliens. But really- the universe is ENORMOUS. We don’t even know HOW big it is. There must be SOME other creature living somewhere, right? Anyways, I think I’m going to move all these pictures to a category on my actual blog. These posts don’t show up on google reader, and people don’t even know that I have a section like this. And I need to start putting the dates of each posts. Eek.

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I watched E.T. when I was in first grade. I don’t remember much of it, but that bicycle scene was definitely my best. The silhouette against the moon is just incredible. And the tree on the lower right corner of the moon gives the entire image a mystifying mood.

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Probably some random graffiti somewhere in the world. I’m only fifteen but I do remember “back in the day” when I was six. I miss those times. In fact, I still keep in contact with all my kindergarten friends. I should write about them next time.

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Where the Wild Things Are. My all time favorite storybook when I was in kindergarten. I used to have dreams about it do. I heard that the movie is coming out soon. There are rumors about it but I’m going to watch it anyways.

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It would be interesting if I tried something like this with ink. (Koreans call it “muk”) I have no idea what this painting is trying to portray though. Those girls look like little elves placed with buffaloes on a snowy background. I should try something like little girls with huge rabbits next time.

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I wish I had bunnies in my hair.


listen to

romance for journey – sentimental scenery
romance-for-journey


Read

Great Escape


great art book filled with vintage collages and
old pictures. love the style, love the colors.

I need to go somewhere and get a break from all this madness. Don’t get me wrong, I’m happier than ever these days. (Which I honestly don’t understand for myself considering APs are in 20ish days). Just things are starting to really coil up. What I need right now is a good 10 hour plane ride out of Korea. Like what Shabang said, I just want my Ipod, camera, and sketchbook and wander around for weeks.

Everything is starting to speed up now. If I was warming up and pacing myself my freshman and sophomore year, junior is definitely when I need to push it. It always feels like my head is ahead of me. I think “ill do that, ill do this” but I’m not thinking about whether I’m really capable of doing such things. I don’t know if I’m going the right way either. I chose a road- but is it really what I want? Is it?

I should stop before my entire blog post is about my future :]

So, you see how I need to get away from everything. Therefore, the other day, I was shuffling through blogs when I came across fun pictures. I love how they used those cheap useless souvenirs to take such wonderful pictures. These are my favorite from a bunch. I would do anything to go to Disney World right now. Seriously.


Click HERE to check out the actual blog/site I got these pictures from, and all credits to them.

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