Snapshots of Life Posts

Re-Fob

So instead of my usual destination in the springtime, I’ve told a few friends that I’m planning on going to Korea next year.

In preparations, I’ll be regularly visiting this very nifty site to brush up on my language skills.

That and watching lots of Korean DVDs and music videos.

I wonder if I’m going to start beating my breast and saying “Aigooo” more often now.

Also, learned from my friend A. in Seoul now that the hot new drama on is titled “Love Story at Harvard“.

Oh no! Do I smell like kimchi?

Now this, I find pretty funny. Granted my first boyfriend went to Harvard and he was extraordinarily awesome. But a drama in Korea about Koreans/KoreanAmericans at Harvard? What’s that likely to be about?

Peter/Paul/John Kim/Lee/Park aka Boy: “You know… I think of you some times…”
Jihwon/Sunghee/Grace/Mary/Sujin Kim/Suh/Roh/Koh/Chung/Moon aka Girl: “When you’re not drunk, smoking or shooting pool?”
Boy: “Come on now, I’m not like those guys from Tufts.”
Girl: “Oh yeah. that’s right. You’re a happy clapping bible study kid who sings acapella..”
Boy: “And dont’ forget my other overachiever extra curricular activities…”
Girl: “Kascon doesn’t count. Though I suppose starting that software company and selling it to Microsoft might.”
Boy: “Well, that’s so I can buy these nifty tweed jackets.”
Girl: “Whatever. I need to go study orgobiochem and nuclear physics then run off to my white boyfriend’s house.”

Hey

Annie Lin is famous and I get photo cred.

Woot

At some point some tv show in Toronto will be doing a piece on Hooping and apparently some pix that I took hooping a while back will also be used.

Wow.
I feel cool.

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Sometimes…

You gotta remind yourself that life is still pretty fricking amazing.

And there is much to be thankful for and that there are still more blessings than you can count in an hour of your day.
This keeps me sane.
And hopeful.
And without hope, there is no tomorrow.

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Ah

Not all of texas is lousy.

In fact, I rather wish I could be in Austin this weekend.

20×2 News at the Daily Texan

And hey, I get a mention for last year’s performance.

Mai Ling

Hey kids! It is me, Super Sexy Anonymous Guest Blogger, here to share some nuggets of wisdom and wit with Miss Min Jung’s readers. Please enjoy the following true life dialogue where the part of “Mom” is played by my mother and the part of “Me” is played by “Me.”

Mom: What is that scrubby thing in your shower?
Me: It is a Korean washing cloth. It is used to exfoliate and make your skin softer.
Mom: Where did you get it?
Me: Remember my blogging friend from San Francisco that stayed with me during SXSW? She gave it to me.
Mom: Well, you should call Mai Ling and ask her to send you some more.
Me: Mom…her name is Min Jung.
Mom: I knew that.

Later on that day:

Mom: My skin is so soft. Seriously, you need to ask Mai Ling for more Vietnamese scrubbing cloths.
Me: They aren’t Vietnamese, Mom. Plus, her name is Min Jung. If you can’t remember it, just call her MJ.
Mom: MJ, I think I can remember that.

Even later on that day:

Mom: Why don’t you call her now?
Me: Tell you what mom, if you can remember her name, I will call her right now.
Mom: *thinking* LBJ?
Me: *giggling*
Mom: WHAT?!?

Snaps Snaps Snaps for Me

Two things I’ve grown ever more in love with.

#1. Video-On-Demand on Comcast including the free movie content. I caught Legally Blonde 2 the other night. Yeah yeah yeah, I know, bubble gum goodness and a guilty pleasure — but then again, you already knew I was a dork based on my Flash Dance obsession.

#2. Taking pix of my friends.
Dealership on the night of their Tour Kickoff over at Eli’s Mile High – performance with 14 Year Old Girls.

Heavenly States

Rawk.

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New Gallery

So I’m feeling more confident about my photography lately.
It’s still loose, unstructured, and frequently sloppy.
But oh so fun.

After too many excuses, I finally cracked out the photoprinter and printed a set of 15 4×6 photos. Of course, they would be from the three Carwash Series of photos that I’ve taken.

Suds.
Brushes. Water.

I’m very pleased with how they turned out once I finally got them matted and framed.

Not Yet Hung Up

There is also a new gallery: Lofts.

Taken this past weekend at a friend’s phat bohemian paradise.

Sadly, no recent submissions for MB’s WordPhoto

Any tips/tricks/ideas in the interim?

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Logic Overload.

I’m silly, yes this is true.
But a logical person by nature.

And I recognize that these assertions are completely debateable.

Today has been…extraordinary.

#1. Work stuff actually feeling reasonably stress free and manageable
#2. Getting to leave work at a reasonable hour
#3. The most careful and loving note about faith I’ve received in a while. (LK, I’m vain. I know. But damn it, you still love me)
#4. Going to a shwank bar in perhaps the sketchiest part of SF ever.
#5. Being told about blonde hookers in the 80s by an internet luminarie.
#6. A phone call from someone whom I’d never expected to hear from again.
#7. Vietnamese food at Tu Lan where I realize that Julia Child has been drawn with man hands.
#8. Surviving a drive by.
(Well… some punk ass kids with eggs thrown out of their car while driving past me at …oh 45 mph…next time I keep a can of tuna in my car to chuck back. “Take that mutha fucka. What comes first? Egg? or Chicken of the sea?!”). I’m ok. Car is ok.
#9. A heart trembling apology that comes from years/miles past.
#10. Realizing that this has been a… very strange, wonderful, perplexing, exhausting, and overall confusing day. Possibly an indecipherable answer to some of my prayers of late.

Of course the logical person in me can anticipate only one conclusion from all these things coming back around again.

I must be dying.

New Galleries

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Locus Arts – Scrabble & Ishle Park

New gallery from the Scrabble & Ishle Park show this evening.

Scrabble is playing at the Hotel Utah Saturday 05/22

Ishle is in town promoting her new book

May 19th WritersCorps Benefit, CA – Ishle, Will Power
May 20th Cafe Malvina, SF, CA – BOOK RELEASE PARTY!
(co-sponsored by Youth Speaks & Citylights Books)
May 24th ISHLE’S BIRTHDAY!!

My copy is autographed. Neener neener neener. I know you’re so jealous.

Go fucking support.

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NextFest

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Hooping today!

A great turnout for Hooping today!

Lots of pictures today.
Yeeehah!

By the way, I took pretty much all of these pix while hooping.

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Housepainting.

Went housepainting at Ernie’s new digs today.


See the shots.

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