Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Merry Christmas^^
I got the stuff I wanted this year^^ and that graphics card is huge. The fan/sync alone is as big as the palm of my hand, and I might not be able to fit it on my motherboard without changing/leaving open the case. I also got ... *looking at the stuff* ... some great clothes, tasty chocolate, an orange, some cool books + poetry, coffee mix, a mug, some music, some signs, and some other stuff which is just awesome! and I would know the names, but I'm a little bit distracted by the game of Monopoly I am losing. Everyone except Dan and Jared got bored and gave their property to Jared and is waiting to go into debt. I am rolling for Steph, because she is a ghost. I have enough money to persist, but that's all. I had to sell my last properties to pay off my debt (even postmortgage). This new "city monopoly" is super intense *.* tired.
Anyway, it's been a great Christmas. ^^
Sending some love to all my friends,
~Zac
"I'll just get two more junks to put in my trunk...."
I got the stuff I wanted this year^^ and that graphics card is huge. The fan/sync alone is as big as the palm of my hand, and I might not be able to fit it on my motherboard without changing/leaving open the case. I also got ... *looking at the stuff* ... some great clothes, tasty chocolate, an orange, some cool books + poetry, coffee mix, a mug, some music, some signs, and some other stuff which is just awesome! and I would know the names, but I'm a little bit distracted by the game of Monopoly I am losing. Everyone except Dan and Jared got bored and gave their property to Jared and is waiting to go into debt. I am rolling for Steph, because she is a ghost. I have enough money to persist, but that's all. I had to sell my last properties to pay off my debt (even postmortgage). This new "city monopoly" is super intense *.* tired.
Anyway, it's been a great Christmas. ^^
Sending some love to all my friends,
~Zac
"I'll just get two more junks to put in my trunk...."
Sunday, December 19, 2010
So NK and her family and I went to Jingujon, and some cool restaurants, and to church. She told me to journal it so I wouldn't forget.
지혜 says she really wants to keep in touch, and wrote me a really sweet letter that almost made me cryㅠㅠ. I feel like I miss her already. In her letter she said we should Skype twice a week, and I'm totally up for that. In fact, that might be what I look forward to most right now.
Oh man, God just put me in my place. I'm not even gonna blog about what just happened. You guys can ask me about it in private conversation.
My flight boards in 40 minutes, so I'm just wasting time now. Every Korean company under the sun offers wifi here, so it took me a few minutes to find one that was free.
I bought my last 녹차 라때 (idk if I spelled that right) just now. It's one of my favorite drinks here. I thought about getting some alcohol from the airport bar while I waited, but the cheapest thing on the menu is "Absolute Vodka" ($8), and It's probably not prudent for me to get drunk this close to my flight time. --and although I'm pretty sure it's just a shot, I wanted to "sit and drink", not "down shot(s) and leave", and beer is disgusting and they don't offer wine.
A native English speaker thought I was not American a while ago... am I getting an accent?
I'm slightly disgusted by super-conservatism now. Not that HGU or Korea for that matter was by any means what I'm talking about now. I'm referencing my previous mindset. My mind has been opened now to some new things which I think are worth discussing. Now, without being written off as a hater, or a liberal (because I'm not. I'm a super-conservative, too, but I just think we should check ourselves) There is a trend in heavily conservative groups to abhor things that are not necessarily unbiblical but which might be indicative of sin. The far-conservative attitude is in many cases mind-closing. My mind has been opened in my being here to some new concepts which I think even people at LeTU could benefit from. For example: gayness. it's not a sin to be gay, and people who are actually attracted to men are sometimes incurable, and the reasons for their homosexuality are irrelevant (nature or nurture). What's a sin is acting in lust, which is also a sin for heteros. The only difference is that gay people, if they don't work it out of themselves, might just have to stay virgins their whole lives to keep from sin. However, not that it's even all that bad. I'm a firm believer that one sin is not greater than another, because they are all equally forgiven, and when you have broken one commandment you have broken all of them. Murderers, thieves, prostitutes; everyone spends the exact same amount of time thinking, and although some people have naturally flawed logical skills, it is only natural that these people realize that what they are doing is wrong and don't need us telling them. In fact, if we go up to a prostitute and condemn her for it or, because of the reputation brought to us by misguided conservatives, even witness to her, she will probably wall up and dislike us entirely for it. What should we do then? Be kind to everyone. Embrace every person, and allow their sins to come with them, because it is a struggle for each of us to stop sinning, and if they are truly Christian they will, with God's help, improve their lives and SLOWLY sin less and less as time passes.
...so... moral of the story: don't be angry with people for sinning, don't be derogatory or belittling to people who sin in ways which society has deemed worse than yours. Love everyone.
Ok, well there goes 30 minutes.^^ This was a good idea^^
"Of course, you have the best teacher!"
지혜 says she really wants to keep in touch, and wrote me a really sweet letter that almost made me cryㅠㅠ. I feel like I miss her already. In her letter she said we should Skype twice a week, and I'm totally up for that. In fact, that might be what I look forward to most right now.
Oh man, God just put me in my place. I'm not even gonna blog about what just happened. You guys can ask me about it in private conversation.
My flight boards in 40 minutes, so I'm just wasting time now. Every Korean company under the sun offers wifi here, so it took me a few minutes to find one that was free.
I bought my last 녹차 라때 (idk if I spelled that right) just now. It's one of my favorite drinks here. I thought about getting some alcohol from the airport bar while I waited, but the cheapest thing on the menu is "Absolute Vodka" ($8), and It's probably not prudent for me to get drunk this close to my flight time. --and although I'm pretty sure it's just a shot, I wanted to "sit and drink", not "down shot(s) and leave", and beer is disgusting and they don't offer wine.
A native English speaker thought I was not American a while ago... am I getting an accent?
I'm slightly disgusted by super-conservatism now. Not that HGU or Korea for that matter was by any means what I'm talking about now. I'm referencing my previous mindset. My mind has been opened now to some new things which I think are worth discussing. Now, without being written off as a hater, or a liberal (because I'm not. I'm a super-conservative, too, but I just think we should check ourselves) There is a trend in heavily conservative groups to abhor things that are not necessarily unbiblical but which might be indicative of sin. The far-conservative attitude is in many cases mind-closing. My mind has been opened in my being here to some new concepts which I think even people at LeTU could benefit from. For example: gayness. it's not a sin to be gay, and people who are actually attracted to men are sometimes incurable, and the reasons for their homosexuality are irrelevant (nature or nurture). What's a sin is acting in lust, which is also a sin for heteros. The only difference is that gay people, if they don't work it out of themselves, might just have to stay virgins their whole lives to keep from sin. However, not that it's even all that bad. I'm a firm believer that one sin is not greater than another, because they are all equally forgiven, and when you have broken one commandment you have broken all of them. Murderers, thieves, prostitutes; everyone spends the exact same amount of time thinking, and although some people have naturally flawed logical skills, it is only natural that these people realize that what they are doing is wrong and don't need us telling them. In fact, if we go up to a prostitute and condemn her for it or, because of the reputation brought to us by misguided conservatives, even witness to her, she will probably wall up and dislike us entirely for it. What should we do then? Be kind to everyone. Embrace every person, and allow their sins to come with them, because it is a struggle for each of us to stop sinning, and if they are truly Christian they will, with God's help, improve their lives and SLOWLY sin less and less as time passes.
...so... moral of the story: don't be angry with people for sinning, don't be derogatory or belittling to people who sin in ways which society has deemed worse than yours. Love everyone.
Ok, well there goes 30 minutes.^^ This was a good idea^^
"Of course, you have the best teacher!"
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
I've only got like 3 days left here.
I ran all my important errands today. I put Dad's and Jess's gift in the mail. It should arrive in two weeks, but I hope it gets there sooner because Idk when Jess is gonna leave.
My music library is pitifully small right now and it's killing me. I saved all this for the flight home, but it's not enough for the next 3 days. I just don't have room for all of it on my laptop.
Tonight I have my last meeting with Chowon. It's gonna be kinda sad.
지혜 invited some other close friends of hers to our last meeting, and I didn't get a hug goodbye, but she said she intended to see me again before I go. I'm almost positive we won't have time for that, but I really hope she means it. She knows my schedule.
All my crap is packed except for my computer and my Korean phone... which I should plug in....
.....
Now that things are installing for me in Ubuntu, and I need it to play the stuff on my external harddrive (at least until I get a new one), I plan to install Ragnarok on it soon.
I should meet Chowon for dinner in 30 min, so It's about time to get off the computer.^^
"It doesn't work."
I ran all my important errands today. I put Dad's and Jess's gift in the mail. It should arrive in two weeks, but I hope it gets there sooner because Idk when Jess is gonna leave.
My music library is pitifully small right now and it's killing me. I saved all this for the flight home, but it's not enough for the next 3 days. I just don't have room for all of it on my laptop.
Tonight I have my last meeting with Chowon. It's gonna be kinda sad.
지혜 invited some other close friends of hers to our last meeting, and I didn't get a hug goodbye, but she said she intended to see me again before I go. I'm almost positive we won't have time for that, but I really hope she means it. She knows my schedule.
All my crap is packed except for my computer and my Korean phone... which I should plug in....
.....
Now that things are installing for me in Ubuntu, and I need it to play the stuff on my external harddrive (at least until I get a new one), I plan to install Ragnarok on it soon.
I should meet Chowon for dinner in 30 min, so It's about time to get off the computer.^^
"It doesn't work."
Monday, December 13, 2010
Got plenty of suggestions on the Facebook post for stuff to get while I'm here. I'm not sure if I'll have room for all of it (because one season of a show can be up to 15 gigs depending on quality, and I've only got 30 left) but I'll be saving some torrents to download just in case I get an external hard drive while I'm at mom and dad's place.
The Ubuntu hard disk manager, (not the Windows one,) shows that my external drive has about 1.5Tb of unpartitioned space, but whenever I try to partition it I get errors. I'm gonna guess it's just because they used the same firmware for all models of "MyBook" external hard drives, which go up 2Tb for the expensive ones (I think)... or something like that. On the other hand, maybe some tweaking would get me that extra space I want, or maybe Ubuntu sucks. Either way, I'm not gonna do anything about it now.
Dinner is soon.
I made that card for Gana, and I'll give it to her on Friday. It's not as well drawn as some of my other cards, and I couldn't think of anything special we've done which I could draw. I'm not that good, I just draw designy things so far, but I made a neat envelope out of four sheets of yellow paper and too many staples, and I think the written part was more heartfelt than most of my other cards. I've written several cards just to friends or acquaintances, but Gana's been a really good friend, and it's been a real blessing knowing her.
When I think about it, writing letters to people this way would be kindof weird if I were to do it in America to white people, but somehow being here kindof liberates me in that the people here don't all know American culture, so anything I do can be brushed off as cultural, and if I write a card to someone, they take it as if I really mean it, whereas in America they might not know what to do with it.
NK put me through a pretty hardcore guilt trip the other day, because she didn't want me to try and schedule a meeting with other friends while I was staying at her house this weekend... *gasp* I'm glad I never fell under that iron fist. Whatever~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Food. Food."
The Ubuntu hard disk manager, (not the Windows one,) shows that my external drive has about 1.5Tb of unpartitioned space, but whenever I try to partition it I get errors. I'm gonna guess it's just because they used the same firmware for all models of "MyBook" external hard drives, which go up 2Tb for the expensive ones (I think)... or something like that. On the other hand, maybe some tweaking would get me that extra space I want, or maybe Ubuntu sucks. Either way, I'm not gonna do anything about it now.
Dinner is soon.
I made that card for Gana, and I'll give it to her on Friday. It's not as well drawn as some of my other cards, and I couldn't think of anything special we've done which I could draw. I'm not that good, I just draw designy things so far, but I made a neat envelope out of four sheets of yellow paper and too many staples, and I think the written part was more heartfelt than most of my other cards. I've written several cards just to friends or acquaintances, but Gana's been a really good friend, and it's been a real blessing knowing her.
When I think about it, writing letters to people this way would be kindof weird if I were to do it in America to white people, but somehow being here kindof liberates me in that the people here don't all know American culture, so anything I do can be brushed off as cultural, and if I write a card to someone, they take it as if I really mean it, whereas in America they might not know what to do with it.
NK put me through a pretty hardcore guilt trip the other day, because she didn't want me to try and schedule a meeting with other friends while I was staying at her house this weekend... *gasp* I'm glad I never fell under that iron fist. Whatever~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Food. Food."
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Today I took two finals. As is just, I did poorly on the Physics final. I answered all the questions on my Korean Final, and I even had clever answers for the questions I didn't know, but, of course, my spelling was terrible.
My external hard drive has about 21 gigs left, so i'm compressing files to try to keep it near 10% empty. It takes forever, and it's heating my computer up a lot.
I now have:
.~*'MUSIC'*~.
Black Eyed Peas - discography
Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Neon Trees - Animal
Glasser - Ring
Quadron - Quadron
Martina Topley-Bird - Quixotic
About 3 gigs of VulpVibe
Deathcab for Cutie - discography
MGMT - discography
/*
Some other music, too. idk.
*/
.~*'VIDEO'*~.
Dune (the movie)
Samurai X
/*
Some other Anime's too, but I'll post those later. They're in a .tar.gz, and it takes forever to open those, and I saved it at the beginning of the semester, so I don't remember what's in it.
*/
.~*'GAMES'*~.
COD Black Ops
Star Wars The Force Unleashed 2
Freelancer
Halo [1w/multiplayer, 2w/out, I'll get the Reach cd image on request]
Srarcraft 2
Counterstrike (1.6, 2D, and the source)
CnC RA2+YR
CnC Generals
Half-Life DeathMatch (source)
Quake3
Unreal Tournament
Warcraft III
AoE2+Exp
Resident Evil 5
Super Meat Boy [it was #1 on the Gamespot top-games]
/*
This list, of course, only includes additions to the library during my time in Korea. There are others from when I was in Utah.
Also, I'm pretty sure there are Installation notes which I am missing.
*/
The Cablegate (a few times)
Ok, for real, I have gotten ZERO suggestions from people at LeTU, dispite my asking a few times to various parties "is there anything I can get for you while I'm here?". Now come on, guys. I know you guys were all complaining last semester about not having the games you wanted, and about how you didn't have the bandwidth to get them illegally, (except for Tank, who somehow managed to get like 5TB worth of everything we all wanted). Shane, I know you're like the only person at LeTU who reads this, so if there's anything you or anyone else wants, you've got only a few days to tell me about it. After compressing a lot of this, I've still got 30GB on my internal hard drive and about 30GB on my external, so fire away! I'll be posting a notice on facebook in "quad 4 vandals" group.
"Hey there heartbreaker, have you seen yourself lately?"
My external hard drive has about 21 gigs left, so i'm compressing files to try to keep it near 10% empty. It takes forever, and it's heating my computer up a lot.
I now have:
.~*'MUSIC'*~.
Black Eyed Peas - discography
Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Neon Trees - Animal
Glasser - Ring
Quadron - Quadron
Martina Topley-Bird - Quixotic
About 3 gigs of VulpVibe
Deathcab for Cutie - discography
MGMT - discography
/*
Some other music, too. idk.
*/
.~*'VIDEO'*~.
Dune (the movie)
Samurai X
/*
Some other Anime's too, but I'll post those later. They're in a .tar.gz, and it takes forever to open those, and I saved it at the beginning of the semester, so I don't remember what's in it.
*/
.~*'GAMES'*~.
COD Black Ops
Star Wars The Force Unleashed 2
Freelancer
Halo [1w/multiplayer, 2w/out, I'll get the Reach cd image on request]
Srarcraft 2
Counterstrike (1.6, 2D, and the source)
CnC RA2+YR
CnC Generals
Half-Life DeathMatch (source)
Quake3
Unreal Tournament
Warcraft III
AoE2+Exp
Resident Evil 5
Super Meat Boy [it was #1 on the Gamespot top-games]
/*
This list, of course, only includes additions to the library during my time in Korea. There are others from when I was in Utah.
Also, I'm pretty sure there are Installation notes which I am missing.
*/
The Cablegate (a few times)
Ok, for real, I have gotten ZERO suggestions from people at LeTU, dispite my asking a few times to various parties "is there anything I can get for you while I'm here?". Now come on, guys. I know you guys were all complaining last semester about not having the games you wanted, and about how you didn't have the bandwidth to get them illegally, (except for Tank, who somehow managed to get like 5TB worth of everything we all wanted). Shane, I know you're like the only person at LeTU who reads this, so if there's anything you or anyone else wants, you've got only a few days to tell me about it. After compressing a lot of this, I've still got 30GB on my internal hard drive and about 30GB on my external, so fire away! I'll be posting a notice on facebook in "quad 4 vandals" group.
"Hey there heartbreaker, have you seen yourself lately?"
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
I got a deck of cards from one of my professor.
I plan to study tomorrow afternoon and all day Saturday.
Not much else to report today. Just having a fun time with some of the guys in my dorm. A few of my friends got accepted to the law school programs or the medical grad school and such around here. It's just been a great week altogether.
I have two finals next Monday and one final next Wednesday. After that, All I have on my plate is packing. ㅠㅠ sad
I was thinking earlier about writing a summary blog of the whole semester, and the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I really can't write a good summary. Too much happened, and I can't seem to grasp it all in my head at once. My brother said to me a while ago "Sometimes these things don't really hit you until the flight home". I think maybe he's right, but I admit I'm taking his quote a little bit out of context. Overall, though, the semester has been amazing, and sometimes I wish I could live it over and over again... but the future has even more experiences waiting for me. It's almost time to journey on.
"The stale taste of recycled air"
I plan to study tomorrow afternoon and all day Saturday.
Not much else to report today. Just having a fun time with some of the guys in my dorm. A few of my friends got accepted to the law school programs or the medical grad school and such around here. It's just been a great week altogether.
I have two finals next Monday and one final next Wednesday. After that, All I have on my plate is packing. ㅠㅠ sad
I was thinking earlier about writing a summary blog of the whole semester, and the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I really can't write a good summary. Too much happened, and I can't seem to grasp it all in my head at once. My brother said to me a while ago "Sometimes these things don't really hit you until the flight home". I think maybe he's right, but I admit I'm taking his quote a little bit out of context. Overall, though, the semester has been amazing, and sometimes I wish I could live it over and over again... but the future has even more experiences waiting for me. It's almost time to journey on.
"The stale taste of recycled air"
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