Until the last syllable recorded

It's early Thursday morning, but your mother's busy footsteps wake you up. You wake up and with the half-opened eyes, you wear some neat clothes. Soon the family gets into the car, then you close your eyes, leaning on the shoulder of your brother, sleeping as well. After a few bumping sounds heard, now you are in your grandmother's house. You meet your grandmother and hug each other. Relatives are sitting on the sofa, and you hug them too. You want to play with nephews, but it is better to save it and get into sleep early because you have to be prepared for some exhausting events scheduled tomorrow. It is how the traditional Chuseok would look like. However, my family's Chuseok has never looked like that before. It's not exhausting, but rather relieving, relaxing, and restful. On a scale of 1 to 10 in terms of exhaust, I'd rate my Chuseok a 0. Literally, there's no work to do on Chuseok in my family. We don't have any duty, but we perfectly k...

     My resolution is now concrete. I will perfectly prepare October ACT and get 36, also prepared for mid-term. I will get the Young-Jae Scholarship My firm resolution requires me to do so, and I leave it here, to promise in public.

     This is the image of Haeundae beach, taken from the left side, heading to the right side where the Westin Chosun Hotel is. I could not stop surprising because that is the place where I used to visit for almost 15 years since I lived in Busan. The Hotel was built in 1978, therefore, at least 30 years are passed from this picture is taken, and that brought me the point to write this post.      What I really surprised was that it really didn't change. It is just the same scene when we go there. Of course, clothes and some details are changed, but the atmosphere is the same. 30 years were gone but the way people enjoy the beach did not change. Humans didn't change, and I then reached to the point that humans are the thing that even time cannot change. Every human, old generation or new, is the same, in front of the beach. Individuals can change, but to think of a group of people, they tend to seem like same human group. Maybe that's because of the ins...

     Everything comes suddenly, and especially luck does. It is from the book named "Laws of Serendipity", and I was always expecting the moment that luck would suddenly come to me.      It came to me, exactly speaking, us, all a sudden. On the bus going back home, we, the Ongdalsam members were talking about how can we solve the social problems. It was just after the annual volunteering to Cambodia, and we all were full of enthusiasm. We talked about lack of shoes, lack of safe water, and reached to social minority problem. Then the idea suddenly came. Someone said, "How about a lecture platform that lecturer is social minorities, and they give a lecture in school, government, and everywhere they needed?" I thought that was a really great idea, and we started to develop. A few weeks later, the idea was organized, and we thought that this is so good that we decided to make this social-cooperative business as a real-We decided to become entrepreneurs. ...

     I am a monk. I am not really saying that I am really a 'monk', but I decided to live like them as much as I can after I read the book about the life of monks in Himalayan Mountains.      Humans are full of contradictions. When we speak, we are not careful enough that our words often logically collide with what we said in the past, just like present professor Jo-Guk is being criticized by the past Jo-Guk's twitter post. Or we use principles when we need to criticize others, but we often don't follow them. The Himalayan monks know so well about the inherent contradiction of humans, and their primary goal is to get rid of that with a high level of meditation. But no matter how much I desire to be a monk, it is foolish to do the same, giving up my school life. Therefore I made my own 3-stage training method.      The first stage is to eliminate the contradiction of myself by being a 'by-the-book' person, and the book should be written by...