Hae In Sa (Temple Hae In)

Chris from UBC Kendo Club, Mr. Lee, his roomy then and now turned into everyone's Seonbae (a respected senior member of a group) and I got together for a weekend hike to Hae In Sa (Temple Hae In, one of the largest buddhist temples in Korea) in far south thereof. Gradually more difficult to see one another now since we all live in different parts of the globe, the rare chance gave us valuable time to savor the good old days and envisage the bright blueprints. Although having realized life isn't sometimes exactly spreaded out as we planned, our hearts were still hot and wide enough to render

Happy Chuseok from Seoul!

<= my little niece before blowing her grandpa's 67th birthday candles>

The biggest holiday of the year in Korea, Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving Day) is only a few days ahead and I begin to see smiles on faces.

This morning, just outside of exit 7 of Yeoksam Station, the one that I take on my way to the office, I witnessed a group of people cracked out laughters and giving out tiny stickers for those turning their head and smiling back at them. "Weird," I thought. Of course, I looked at them and almost instantly cracked some laughters, and gave them my breathtaking wink. In return, I received my reward and a small green smily sticker on my arm, feeling proud.

Heading back toward my office, although I felt slight sadness, realized how desperately people in this city is trying to laugh, seek a tiniest piece of happiness to thereby regain a meaning of life. I was certain that I was pretty much the only person to return their laughs at that hassles and bussles of the intersection full with working people rushing themselves to work. Most of them looked at the group as if they saw some socially retardeds, and probably thought that's a bad luck to start a day with. How sad...

Today went okay, busy as usual. Completed some complicated legal translations for the newly opened Hotel's Fitness Club and handed into the Director of Finance who asked me to do the work. I have no idea how the work has been under control of DOF, yet like many other things at work, task boundaries are blur and so do their responsibilities. I felt proud at the first time when DOF personally asked me to do him a favor, which meant he thought I have things to offer, but later on things slightly became trickier when realizing my direct boss might not be too happy that I spent time, otherwise I would've spent for him.

It is 2:07 in the morning and I am still having trouble to sleep. This is very unusual for me to have sleepless nights. Not so sure if this is due to a pure excitement for the coming holiday or something else that I've longed for my life time and today is the day that I would find out the result whether I was meant for it or not.

Writing always has been one of my favorites, yet I find difficult to do so lately. Partly because of lack of time, but mostly of losing enthusiasm in observing things. Alert!

All sophisticated!

Dear all,

Spending most of my time for last three and a half months at the hotel located in downtown, I eventually turned into an all-around-urban lady whose fragrance mellows those nearby.

Monthly wages are not much different from those I earned at the law firm a while ago, but it seems my current work has been greatly extending my expense habit. God, help me! Although, it's not too much difficult to find an excuse for it, since there aren't much entertaining gadgets or personnel around me to fill up my scare free time, I decided to pay more attention on my gender characteristics, the things to define me as a female. And now I seem to get into the addictive habit that many girls find near impossible to get out of.