thinking differently

My english got worse and worse.

2010-07-11T22:04:00.006+08:00

I came back to Korea around end of November 2007 so I haven't been speaking or writing English almost 3 years now. Yes, sometimes, I spoke English but not for long.
And my writing English skill wasn't good at all. Truthfully, it was really bad.

Now I really need something to write in English and my horrible written English makes me crazy. :-(
I did thought about recording it or make video but my English was horrible so I couldn't afford to do that, either.

Oh, maybe you don't understand what rubbish I am talking about. so here is one of good example. I couldn't even spell out "suffering" so I have to find out from dictionary. :-(

Darn. I'm seriously hoping that there has real English town in Korea so I could go there and practice my English again.

I am really missing the Cameron Highland in Malaysia. Because that is my favourite place for writing. You can look at some photo from here

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^_~ Ara

I don't even close to bookworm but...

2009-10-30T18:47:00.003+08:00

I have taken the note from Emma. She has been read 41 books from the list. I should just say 'Wow'.

I have read a lot of technical book such as computer programming book when I growing up. A lot of people can't count how many books they read but in my case, I can count on them in Korean novel and English novel, too. Because I haven't read a lot of books.

If you want to check my list of read book in English, you can check out here.

My reading novel in Korean also quite same as that one. I mean it wasn't that much.

I was very surprised that I read that list far better than most people so I am trying to do that, too.

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y - I haven't read original story but I read it as rewritten for young age novel.
k - I have been read Korean translated version of book.
b - I bought a book for reading someday in future. :-)

Xn - I have been read part of serise.

r - I have been reading it.
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The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

Instructions:
Copy this into your NOTES. Put an 'X' next to those you have read. Tag other book nerds.

[b] 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
[X, k] 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (I couldn't bring myself to finish this one)
[] 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
[Xn] 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
[X] 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
[] 6 The Bible - God (the whole thing) Got to the bit about not being worthy of His love if you're not willing to take up a spear for Him and got pissed off.
[y] 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
[] 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
[] 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
[] 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Total: 3 (1 Xn, 1 k)

[] 11 Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
[] 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
[] 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
[] 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (I've read and perfomed, but not the complete set)
[] 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
[] 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
[] 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
[X] 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
[] 19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
[] 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

Total: 1

[] 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
[k] 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
[] 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
[] 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
[] 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
[] 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
[] 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
[r] 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
[] 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

Total: 1 (k)

[] 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
[] 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
[Xn] 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
[] 34 Emma - Jane Austen
[] 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
[X] 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
[] 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
[] 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
[] 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
[] 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

Total: 2 (1 Xn)

[] 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
[X] 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
[b] 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
[] 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
[] 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
[] 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
[] 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
[] 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
[X] 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
[] 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

Total: 2

[X] 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
[] 52 Dune - Frank Herbert
[] 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
[] 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
[] 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
[] 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
[] 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
[r] 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
[X] 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
[] 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Total: 2

[] 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
[] 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
[] 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
[] 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
[] 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
[] 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
[] 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
[] 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
[] 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
[] 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Total: 0

[y] 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
[] 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
[] 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
[] 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
[] 75 Ulysses - James Joyce
[] 76 The Inferno - Dante
[] 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
[] 78 Germinal - Emile Zola
[] 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
[] 80 Possession - AS Byatt

Total: 0

[] 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
[] 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
[] 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
[] 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
[] 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
[] 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mxistry
[] 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
[X] 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
[] 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
[] 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

Total: 1

[] 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
[] 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
[] 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
[] 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
[] 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
[] 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
[] 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
[] 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
[] 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
[] 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Total: 0

Grand Total: 12/100 include two part of serise and one of Korean translated one
b: 2
y: 2
r: 2

Isn't it strange?
Or my reading habit was what most people would interesting to read.

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^_~ Ara

wild duck family made home at Sinchundunchi, Daegu

2009-09-30T16:14:00.004+08:00

They were staying between Suseong-gyo and Dongsin-gyo. Korean word 'Gyo' is bridge and Korean word for step-stone bridge is 'Jinggeumdari'.

When Daegu city government were building the jinggeumdari, I did notice that wild duck family staying same place most of time.

So I took the photo of them with my Nokia 6210s phone camera.

#1 I think they were staying there quite sometime now. I have no idea how long they were there because they looked same to me.

26th August 2009

night shot of wild duck family at Sinchundunchi, Daegu #2

8th September 2009
They were staying same place at night.

Below photos were taken at 18th September, 2009.

#3 Cubs are playing around but mother duck(I don't know whether it is female or not.) doesn't much moving around.

#4

#5 Mostly she staying there for long time.

#6 Some kids wanted to feed wild duck. That's why they were looking at the same direction.

#7 Finally, she will trying to follow her baby.

p.s. My original writing is here in Korean.

p.s. I couldn't see them anymore. They probably were heading to the south for staying at warm weather. They were left there at first October.

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^_~ Ara

I was so happy to buy Nokia 6210s but…

2009-07-27T01:51:00.005+08:00

I wrote about the phone at twitter.com.

I can't keep up with too much techie style of Korean mobile phone. So I ordered Nokia 6210s. http://bit.ly/d0X7J

10:55 AM Jul 20th from bit.ly

It can't play the video. And camera only show it in black screen so I have to send back to internet shopping mall for repair. :-(

I took the photo near my home by Nokia 6210s with geo tagging which is tag for map.
So you can see the photo with where I took it.-You have to check out from photo's hyperlink.

about the Nokia's enter the Korea's cell-phone market

I wrote about that in ovi.com.

near Sincheongyo Daegu, Korea @ 7/26/2009

I took the photo for testing by Nokia 6210s which name is same as Nokia 6210 Navigator.
But my phone's camera doesn't show any image just plain black so I have to request for change the phone from seller.

You see. Nokia said that they want to succeed in Korea but a lots of Nokia 6210s seems to be broken down so who wanted to buy it? Do some work properly, Nokia.
People complain about the small manufacturing problems but real problem is Nokia 6210s' firmware which included Korean version. Because my phone's camera was work a few times after the using the Nokia Software Updater program.
You see the problem?
And video player doesn't showing the video, too. But it can only play the music. So it was problem with full screen control.

Anyway, I hope that Nokia do better on Korea's cell-phone market.

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^_~ Ara

This is what makes me crazy.

2009-06-20T17:43:00.004+08:00

This is what I wrote in my twitter.

26 minutes ago from bit.ly

open letter to Kansas School Board:Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster http://bit.ly/Vv6VS FSM Korea is this http://bit.ly/4C7C0 RAmen!

25 minutes ago from bit.ly

Wikipedia explain that http://bit.ly/Z1bdS FSM is the deity of the parody religion.But certainly that was wrong because that's >>

25 minutes ago from bit.ly

>> against freedom of religion.This is why US's education system was collapsed and people are having more stupidity. It wasn't funny. RAmen!

Actually, I don't know anything about US's education system so it was false statement and other things too. More precisely they need more evidence and I will write it some day. Because I am quite busy for writing in Korean about this.

But why I wrote that statement because I know the Korean's education system very well which is mix of US's and Japan's education system. And especially religion thing was very like US but different way.

Now I found this twitter's message

17 minutes ago from bit.ly

forsafety This is happening in Korea.Priest who was helping the protest people, attacked by police. http://bit.ly/19VBiU

so I have to write about in Korean.

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^_~ Ara

Korean's famous star Kim Yuna on twitter

2009-05-31T17:13:00.006+08:00

Kim Yuna on Twitter http://bit.ly/tHKmk who won a few times world champion in figure skating and became extremely famous in Korea. It probably far more famous than Brad Pitt plus Angelina Jolie. (I'm not kidding.)
Most of Koreans don't know anything about twitter but when she started twittering, 5000+ people follow her. That, We cleverly call them as "dynamic Korea".

[via Ara on twitter]

P.S You can see it yourself how famous she was. http://bit.ly/tHKmk

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^_~ Ara

I really like the word 'productivity'

2009-05-29T00:21:00.008+08:00

better than 'innovation'.
It sounds really nice and comfortable. I don't know why. But I do know that it can make differences.

When I need some application for iPod Touch, I always look up at productivity categories. Actually you can't find a lot of applications, though.
Most of them are personal managements stuff such as note or memo, todo list and checklist. Simple but, it is most productivity stuff.

Why?
If you have a idea or some thought, how you gonna keep it? Memorize it? No, right? You probably wanted to write down. That's why small piece of paper was most powerful tool in the world. :-D
You can write down by word. Also you can draw something. Whichever you like it.

Anyway, I just found one websites called "WeFollow: A User Powered Twitter Directory" and then there has tag for productivity.
I found one interesting twitter user called "productivity501". And I found one very good quote "If you are looking for a big opportunity, find a big problem.~Anonymous" so I follow on twitter.

So I retweet it like that.

RT @productivity501: If you are looking for a big opportunity, find a big problem.~Anonymous >> That's exactly why I came back to Korea.
31 minutes ago

I will tell you about my first or second favourite word next time.

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This blog is more like diary. Nothing more.

2009-05-18T20:21:00.006+08:00

You probably don't understand what I am saying because most of people come here for check out my English. Does it make sense?
They don't understand what I am saying but they wanted know my level of English. It was nonsense so that is why Korea's English education system was totally corrupted.

Anyway, I don't have much time for writing anything here because I am really busy blogging with my Korean blog. So if you were interested, you can visit Ara's global mind column blog or Ara's properly Learn English blog or Ara's think logically twitter.

I didn't expect so much fun from twittering because I don't like writing sms because of limitation of 160 characters or so.
But now I really enjoyed it in Korean which is update with facebook.com's my account.

And then someone followed me so I checked out who he or she was. And then I really enjoyed what he was twittering. He or she is Ralph Wiggum.-You know, I don't have any idea about any name from gender.- That link is his twitter page.
I can't writing any English in thinklogically account because Korean can't understand English. So now I am thinking about make one more twitter account for English.

I am thinking about it but I can't decide because I have too many blogs and twitter accounts.

Hey, one more thing.
I told you this is more like diary. I am not writing this from Microsoft Word which can check spelling and grammatical error. So don't complain about my grammatical error.
Think wisely and don't be an arse.

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^_~ Ara

Isn't it funny? (about my English)

2009-03-22T12:08:00.010+08:00

Yes, I know that my writing wasn't that good. But when did I say that I can write English better than Native English speaker? Are you crazy or what?
How can I someone learn one language for 6 to 10 years and then he or she can write and speak better than Native English speaker? Are you dreaming?

Even my Korean writing skills are quite poor because I haven't study well when I was in high school. So if someone can speak Korean as second language but writing was very poor, I will credit for that. Because I know that learn a language as second language wasn't easy thing.

I wrote 'about secondhand stores in Korea' and then lots of people complained about my grammar and wrong vocabulary.
Later on, I read it again that writing and then I realized that it was really poor. Yes, I know that.
But what's the problem? I should be far better than Native English speaker? That's why I said 'So what?'.

I will show you this. Whatever I wrote here, it will publish at my facebook.com's account. So when I wrote 'vegetarian food for Korean word', my American friends didn't mention anything about English. Can't you see the your problem?

I will say this again. If you don't know anything about learn English AS second language, you should learn and research and then you can talk to me about my grammar or vocabulary.
I don't want to give you a free lesson. So go away quietly, if you want to fuss about my English.

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^_~ Ara

Who am I? I am what I am.

2009-03-18T09:26:00.003+08:00

I wrote this on my Korean blog http://asrai21c.tistory.com/348 @ 2009/02/21 02:43.

This is not suppose to be here in my Korean blog but I just wanted to say what I wanted to say.

It is not intention to understand what I am saying here by Korean because I want to talk about why I am doing this. I know that you probably find out that who am I based on reading my article here or find out my personal history from Ara's profile.
But you will never understand why I was wrote lots of things here because I am talking about something else. What I am trying to do here is that revolution of the Korean's future. You probably think that how ridiculous what I just said.
Yes, it is ridiculously super(??) crazy talk. However, it is possible if you let me talk and if you listen carefully what I am saying here.

I am not trying to convince you. I am just trying to ask you that why do you think that way? People claim that I was wrong but you know I was right. Why? That's the thing. Why?

That's the what I have been really doing. Why do you think that he was right or I was right or you don't know? Why?

I believe that you subscribe(I don't know what's the word for RSS reader's subscription.) in my blog here. Because you probably felt that it is something you can learn.
That's really good start. Listen... and think... and think. That's what you have to do.

It is almost eighty-something people subscribe in my blog so I just wanted to say whether you can understand or not..

People never change. But people can change if they can accept(or learn) other people's mind.
So please be patient and learn from other people's thought and mind.

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^_~ Ara

about secondhand stores in Korea

2009-02-16T14:24:00.002+08:00

You can find anywhere in town for secondhand stores. You can find shop name with "Je-hwal-yong centre 재활용 센터". So if you want to ask to Korean, you can ask with secondhand stuff as " Joong-go-poom 중고품 or Joong-go mool-poom 중고물품" or secondhand store as "Joong-go Sang-jum 중고 상점".

But problem is that store was quite complicated because some shop selling the furniture only, some shop selling the home electric only. Some of them selling the mixed up with anything. So it will be difficult to find what you wanted.
And price was not that reasonable. Because you will find out that new one wasn't that expensive.

If you didn't buy the stuff with carefulness, it will probably break or explode.

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^_~ Ara

vegetarian food for Korean word

2009-02-10T23:24:00.005+08:00

When I heard about this, I didn't even come up with 'Chasik juui' which is exactly same meaning as vegetarian.
Because you can't find any vegetarian around any town in Korea. Yes, it will probably exist somewhere but it is very very rare.
That's why I couldn't think of that word.

Korean didn't think of vegetarian food so we mistakenly wrote down the vegetarian food, Bibimbab which is mixed vegetable with rice and put in the mince beef.
There has beef in it but they didn't realized it because not many Korean fully understand English and we don't have many vegetarian.

Yes, there has Buddhist monk. I also couldn't realized it.

So if you are vegetarian and then you wanted to explain to someone, firstly you said them to I'm vegetarian which is Korean for "나는 채식주의입니다. Na-neun Cha-sik-ju-ui ib-ni-da."
Secondly you explain to them food which eaten by Buddhist monk "Su-nim-i muk-neun um-sik ga-tun-gu-yo. 스님이 먹는 음식 같은거요."

Korean don't much use that 'Chasik juui' word and your Korean pronunciation won't much to help. So not many Korean will recogniz it so if you explain about the Buddhist monk's food, it will help to understand by Korean.

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^_~ Ara

Palm Pre hands-on video & T-Mobile G1 vs. iPhone

2009-01-12T21:14:00.002+08:00

Palm Pre hands-on video Favorite http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget/videos/139/13/ by engadget

You should check out the Engadget's T-Mobile G1 video hands-on Favorite http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget/videos/56/ by engadget

You can differentiate with T-Mobile G1, iPhone and Palm Pre.
T-Mobile G1's web browser was fairly fast.
iPhone's web browser was quite fast.
Palm Pre's web browser was really fast based on this video.

A lot of people thought that Google Android phone can make good competition with iPhone. But it didn't happen.
This video revealed possibility of Palm Pre can make competition with iPhone. Because Palm Pre's user interface looks good and fast response.

Atonement 2007 - overrated film

2008-12-28T19:45:00.003+08:00

I replied the zebrasnake's topic 'Overrated film' which is in imdb.com's Atonement (2007) discussion board.

---------------------------------------------
I think I will agree most of your comments about the movie, zebrasnake.
I really liked movie until close to ending part which is interviewing the Briony. If they didn't include that part, maybe I can rate them about 6.9 or close to 7 out of 10. Because I thought it was very clever way to telling the story until...
As soon as I was watching the interview scene, I felt that this is all fake even if it is true story.

And then now I did know what wasn't enough about movie when I read differences between the book and the movie from mikuhgtt's explain at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783233/board/nest/120606384
That differences explain the book was so special but movie is not so special.

Now I can rate them about 6.2 out of 10.

If this movie is one of best movie, why imdb.com rate them as 7.9(out of 10) and 7.3 in rottentomatoes.com.
It is good movie(I probably say it is just not bad movie.) but it isn't best movie yet.

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^_~ Ara

wordpress localization for Korean

2008-09-07T01:11:00.000+08:00

Korean version was already there but I am just trying to modify a bit. I don’t know this will help to Korean who would like to use the wordpress blog.

“Translating WordPress « WordPress Codex,” http://codex.wordpress.org/Localizing_WordPress.
“WordPress in Your Language « WordPress Codex,” http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language.

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Rule Number 6 from 'The Art of Possibility'

2008-08-01T10:34:00.003+08:00

I quoted this story from book The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander.

"Two prime ministers are sitting in a room discussing affairs of state. Suddenly a man bursts in, apoplectic with fury, shouting and stamping and banging his fist on the desk. The resident prime minister admonishes him: "Peter," he says, "kindly remember Rule Number 6," whereupon Peter is instantly restored to complete calm, apologizes, and withdraws. The politicians return to their conversation, only to be interrupted yet again twenty minutes later by an hysterical woman gesticulating wildly, her hair flying. Again the intruder is greeted with the words: "Marie, please remember Rule Number 6." Complete calm descends once more, and she too withdraws with a bow and an apology. When the scene is repeated for a third time, the visiting prime minister addresses his colleague: "My dear friend, I've seen many things in my life, but never anything as remarkable as this. Would you be willing to share with me the secret of Rule Number 6?" "very simple," replies the resident prime minister. "Rule Number 6 is 'Don't take yourself so g-damn seriously." "Ah," says his visitor, "that is a fine rule." After a moment of pondering, he inquires, "And what, may I ask, are the other rules?"
"There aren't any."

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^_~ Ara

link - Languages by population

2008-07-09T19:07:00.003+08:00

http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/help/top-100-languages-by-population.html
Top 100 Languages by Population
These are the top 100 languages in order of number of first language speakers.
This is from the 13th Edition of the Ethnologue (1996).

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm
Internet World Users by Language - Top 10 Languages

http://www.britishcouncil.org/learning-research-futureofenglish.htm
The Future of English? (1997) By David Graddol

http://www.britishcouncil.org/learning-research-englishnext.htm
English Next (2006) By David Graddol

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HA28Df01.html
South Asia Jan 28, 2006 -BOOK REVIEW
Whose English is it?
Asian Englishes: Beyond the Canon by Braj B Kachru
Reviewed by Martin A Schell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population
Wikipedia - List of countries by English-speaking population

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/lan_eng_sta-language-english-status
Language Statistics > English status (most recent) by country

http://www.nationmaster.com/red/graph/lan_eng_spe-language-english-speakers&b_map=1
Language Statistics > English speakers (most recent) by country
(probably native speakers only)

http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/languages.htm
The World's Most Widely Spoken Languages

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^_~ Ara

reality of Korean's English communication skill

2008-06-17T14:31:00.005+08:00

I saw a group which name is Daegu Friendship Club in facebook.com and I was glad about their effort. But, I would like to let them know the reality so I wrote a article here http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=25235250140#/topic.php?uid=25235250140&topic=4887

I wrote this because I would like to help their activities.

Topic name : Please read this, if you are Korean.
I don't know why I am doing this but you have to see the reality of Korean's English skill.
This group's admin, Daegu Central offer the friendship to the Daegu citizens but how is it going to happen? Because foreigners can't communicate with Koreans. That is the truth.

If you don't want to believe me, I will tell you other story. I have been check out a lots of group in facebook but I couldn't find any active group with many Koreans. I know there has a lots of active group, if most of them are foreigners or American-Koreans.

I believe you probably join facebook for learn English so I hope you should learn English properly.
If you are interested in learn English properly, you can see article here http://kr.blog.yahoo.com/asrai21c/

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^_~ Ara

funny episode from TV show 'are you smarter than a fifth grader'

2008-06-01T22:57:00.003+08:00

dumb blonde american: are you smarter than a fifth grader http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uEP7uti0PDw

Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? Contestant Avis Whitmore from http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WoQccz4VtJY

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^_~ Ara

World clock with statistics

2008-06-01T22:52:00.003+08:00

This is free program which can be put in to the your homepage or websites.

You can check out poodwaddle.com

Poodwaddle.com

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^_~ Ara

WWDC 2008 and Steve Jobs' keynote

2008-05-15T00:40:00.004+08:00

Related article One more thing... (WWDC 2008 officially announced) by AlexRADL at iPodtouchfans.com and originally news article from here, apple.com

"This year’s WWDC will showcase two revolutionary development platforms, the ground-breaking innovations of OS X Leopard® and OS X iPhone™, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system. ...
... fully explore the capabilities of the OS X iPhone 2.0 software, including the iPhone SDK and the App Store, a breakthrough way for developers to wirelessly deliver their applications to iPhone and iPod® touch users." from http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/05/13wwdc.html

That's exactly what I have on my mind. You can see my article(unfortunately, I only wrote on Korean.) http://kr.blog.yahoo.com/asrai21c/2656 which I mentioned more supporting on platform like Palm and Windows CE OS and application environment.

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This is brilliant act from Britain's got talent.

2008-05-14T00:31:00.006+08:00

This is brilliant. That's why Amanda said that 'bloody brilliant'.

originally from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA2B5X0LhMY

If you've seen the first series of Britain's got talent, you would be waiting for this.

I don't know what do you think about this brilliant act. This is harmony of western and eastern. If you know much about Indian dance, you will understand what I mean. You can see how same dance can be different each other.

I think I should watch the second series of Britain's got talent.

If you would like to watching HD quality video, you can go here Britains Got Talent: Michael Jackson Suprise HD QUALITY

Britain's got talent homepage : http://talent.itv.com/
Britain's got talent general information on wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain's_Got_Talent

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^_~ Ara

iPhone can have closed caption movie.

2008-05-13T02:12:00.004+08:00

There has capability in iPhone and iPod touch but Apple never give any information on this to anyone. Here is websites.

iTunes Adds Closed Captions by Social Edge
Tutorial of how to make a closed caption by Israel Melendez, Jr.
[Updated: SUCCESS!] Non-Handbrake solution for Subs/Captions by Kneeslasher
Discussion about closed caption in iPhone in Handbrake forum

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^_~ Ara

amazon.com moving forward in the gadget business

2008-04-29T01:03:00.005+08:00

When I was trying to check the amazon.com's homepage, I saw the letter from the CEO for restocked the Kindle(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindle) which is wireless reading device.
If you know how unusual that amazon.com put the CEO's letter in the their very first page. Have a look at this.

Picture taken from http://www.amazon.com/ at 2:15 29th April 2008.

If you think it is just digital gadget such as smartphone and iphone, you should better think about it again.
Because, device was not the issues here.

What this letter mentioned is that they added 25,000 additional books, blogs, magazines, and newspapers which bringing the total to more than 115,000. A hundred fifteen thousands.
I will just briefly tell you about the history of ebook(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebook) viewer. Almost none of portable gadget succeed in the market, before E-ink came out. E ink (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eink) screen is most comfortable for human eyes-I haven't seen it yet but a lot of people talked about that way.- and feel like paper because it is one of electronic paper technology(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_paper).
So it is possible technology to make new big market.

Whenever I thought about it, I felt that amazon.com was just online version of bookstore. I know their main business was not selling the book any more so they became online shopping mall long time ago.
So they don't have to sell the actual books in the future because they can sell the ebook.

I know it still need a lot of time but it will happen someday.

Kindle product - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FI73MA/ref=amb_link_6750302_1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=gateway-center-column&pf_rd_r=1Z71PJ4PTSF3JRNE32VF&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=389635101&pf_rd_i=507846

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^_~ Ara

p.s. I skipped a lot of details so some day I will write more about it.

'The Real Korea' from facebook.com's South Korea network 2

2008-04-26T22:55:00.001+08:00

originally http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2245127154&topic=4701
I copied some of the post because facebook.com doesn't keep the post long time.

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Someone replied to your post on Apr 18, 2008 at 7:28 AM
well I can't write well as you. I'm just a English student. And It mean I dont know English very well. And even, I'm not sure I understood your writing.
But I wanna say culture is just culture. Nobody cant change artificiality.
the culture always absorbs other culture. and It changes itself. Not just about foreign people or their culture. Lot of other slang languages are broadcast on TV. And It distory our culture? No I dont think so. It is just changeing. We don't know how it is changeing. And we cant say it's good culture or not. it's just culture.

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You replied to someone's post on Apr 18, 2008 at 7:48 AM
Thanks for reply.

You didn't much understand what I was saying so I won't talk then. But, I think you should know what the exact meaning of 'slang'.
Here it is - Slang consists of words, expressions, and meanings that are informal and are used by people who know each other very well or who have the same interests. (2006, Collins Cobuild dictionary)

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'The Real Korea' from facebook.com's South Korea network

2008-04-18T01:25:00.003+08:00

originally http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2245127154&topic=4701
I copied some of the post because facebook.com doesn't keep the post long time.

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someone wrote on Apr 6, 2008 at 2:29 PM.
Itaewon looks like shit now.
English fills Korea.
Korea is becoming westernized because all these white fucks keep coming in trying to fuck our women.
They come to "teach" english. They come to "learn" about our culture because they "like" our culture.
Yeah right. Look at what happened to Japan. You got white nerds with Japanese names thinking they are more Japanese or asian than asians.

You got American Marines in Korea causing trouble and you got western businesses taking over.

Good Korean land is bought off to the rich white man. Korean women get swindled by the sweet talk that white men are so good at.

Hollywood has made the white man, whether he is a nerd or a fag, a "hot" man.

Look at this. I join the South Korean network, and this place is crawling with rednecks and wiggers and yellow-fevered horny white guys trying to "teach" english tryna get some pussy.

revolution is near muthafuckas

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You replied to post on Apr 11, 2008 at 8:39 AM.
Shall we do some reality check here?
Who blame to who?
Who want to be fuck? Was it white man or (I will borrow your expression.) our women?

Hollywood made the white man as hot man? Who made that kind of brainwash(It wasn't proper expression but if you are Korean, you will understand what I mean.)? Was it hollywood or our Korean broadcast channel?

I will ask very simple question. Why that muthafuckas do that? Because,,, because Korean woman looking(or wanted) for it. It is very simple economic(I don't know what the proper name is.) rule. Why there has product? Because people wanted that product.

If you really want to do something about it, you should go learn more(our real Korean culture and society and real Korea), study more and then teach to the Korean men and women, first.

You can see so many Koreans learn very very bad things and problem is that they don't know that is bad thing. I can't tell you everything(because I have to do something about it.) but I can make a few examples of it. I was shocked when I was watching Korean broadcast.(Because I haven't been in Korea for 6 years and rarely I am watching TV.) Comedian or some entertainer said that 'Oh, my god.' or some show program show some guy using the English name. Have you ever thought about why they doing it?

I can't remember what the name of the show and then they asked some American-Korean entertainer(or who was staying US for long time when he was baby or kid) that what is useful English expression(or similar kind). And you know what he said? 'Bro'(or with something) and then TV showing the 'The fast and furious 2' or something and then repeated a lot of 'Bro' scene. Did you even bother about this? US or UK people complaint about too much slang on their TV but we Korean suggested to use more slang on TV.

Ok. Let's see here. Why the hell people using Korean name as reverse order? Why they do that? Do you even understand why am I say this? If you write the Korean name to English, it sill is Korean name and Korean language. So grammatically, follow the rule of foreign language so your name must be same sequence as Korean. So my name should be always same order like 'Seong pill kon'. It can be change only if they were born in America or immigrant there.
I will make quick example. Gang is river. 'River Han' was used some movie and newspaper. So have you ever seen any newspaper say that "Gang Han"? No, right? Why? Because it is foreign language so follow the same sequence "Han gang". But why don't we use this rule to our name? Why?

That is the reason I say you should learn more. It is nothing to do with foreigner. It is all OUR problem, not theirs.

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someone wrote
13 hours ago.
There are a lot of offensive statements in this thread. In particular, I think that Simon needs to grow up. Blaming everyone else, including your own people, means that you can't take responsibility for yourself and your problems. Maybe someone has treated you harshly for being a Korean and now you are out to get the "liberals." That's great. Nobody is impressed.
If the Koreans didn't want Western people here, they should not be hiring native speakers in droves.
If the Koreans want to participate in the global economy, they need to learn English. This is the only way for a developing country.
I came here because I studied ESL in college and decided to become an ESL teacher. I looked at many countries and decided on Korea because of the pay. I came here for the job, because I want to teach.
I did not come for sex or drinking. I think that it is really disgusting to see so many college graduates using this time to party. It certainly lends to a negative stereotype.
Since I have been here, I have tried to study Korean every day, for survival and because of a genuine interest in Korean language and culture.
The Korean people that I have met have been overwhelmingly kind and friendly to me, probably because I try to speak Korean, dress appropriately, and do not walk around on the streets with a soju bottle in my hand. I have learned to bow to my elders and act in a respectful way, even if someone is treating me with disrespect.
I can't do anything about people who came here to have a vacation from their lives in Western countries and just want to pick up Korean women and drink a year away. Yet I have to face discrimination because of this. The fact is that there are immature people everywhere, not just here. You can chose the make the most of your experiences or not.
It's disappointing. It might be avoided if Koreans tried to hire people who have backgrounds in English or education, people who actually want to be teachers. This might not be economically feasible.
I'm sorry that I don't know more Korean, but I'm learning every day. I'm sorry that I don't understand many aspects of the Korean culture, but I'm learning every day.
The Koreans will find a way to preserve their culture. The world is changing. Everything changes. Get over it and move on.

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You replied to post 17 minutes ago.
I am very glad to hear your story.
Yes, I know I can find a lot of foreigners like you.

Anyway, if you read my previous post, you will know what really problem is. I am really harsh on Korean but truth should be come out. Here, you can't find a lot of Koreans who living in Korea so technically they don't know much about Korean culture.
Secondly, they were too young to know things properly.
Thirdly but most importantly, that person wasn't born or treated like average Koreans. What I mean is that if you met Korean who spoke fluent English, he probably went to US when he was young(like kid or baby). His parents should extremely rich and he never learn normal(average) Koreans lifestyle. So they don't know much about Korea.
You will see a lot of Koreans here thinks that he knew Korea but that was not real Korea. It is their imagination or from the television.

You think I was wrong but you can find very simple example from this post. First page, you can see my post and nobody reply my post but they reply everything else. Why? Because they don't know anything about what I wrote. So what do they know about Korea.

It is sad that Korean do very wrong way to learn English so they will not improve.(You might say they can improve but you almost can't find someone spoke English fluently when he or she started learn English after 20 years old.) Problem is that you almost can't find Korean who explain real Korea and Korean.

That's why I don't really post here because I can see a lots of wrong statements here. And I was too tiring to explain to them. No point to explain also because a lot of them don't even understand.(You can see one good example from my previous post which is Korean name thing and that I wrote here before. At the time, I've got very wrong answer-statement or idea or whatever- from Korean-American or Korean.)

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^_~ Ara

3G iPhone and some more...

2008-04-17T23:30:00.004+08:00

These are quite believable guessing article.

February 11, 2008 - 10:17 A.M. 3G iPhone, best guesses: When? What Price? Specs?
http://blogs.computerworld.com/3g_iphone_best_guesses

February 29, 2008
Apple gears up for June launch of 3G iPhone(http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3460650.ece) by Jonathan Richards
Analysts have suggested that Apple is working towards a mid-year launch date for the much-anticipated 3G iPhone

Those two news article were just guessing but if you surf the Korean websites, you will find that it became fact.

Brett Schlesinger from Lodon, he commented very important thought on second article. He said that owning an iPhone is a user experience not a technical spec. This is the thing I would like to write it for Korean in my future homepage.

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^_~ Ara

Daegu Baram Festival - 8th Sulmaji Daehangjin (Korean new year parade)

2008-02-04T19:20:00.001+08:00

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=4225&uid=2245127154

I just found out the event and I will join in. So I thought someone might be interesting this.
You can go there yourself or feel free to join me.

I created event in facebook but this one does not show in South Korea Network so I wrote here.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=8260524666
Daegu Baram Festival I
8th Sulmaji Daehangjin (Korean new year parade)

This is Korean New Year festival in Daegu.

- 3rd February 2008
Location: Subway station Dongdaeguyeuk
12:20 2008 new hope for parade
Daegu Gonggo Neguri (departure at 12:20) - Pyeunghwa Sijang - Patima Samguri - Dongdaeguyeuk -

Subway Dongdaeguyeuk Gwangjang(arrive at 1pm)

13:00 (Subway Dongdaeguyeuk) Musical('Hyeung-Ah') and Korean traditional game for Sulnal

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Location: Daegu national museum
Family musical & Madangnoli
14:00~17:00 6 - 7th February 2008

Craft & flying traditional Kite
11:00~17:00 6th February 2008
13:00~17:00 7th February 2008(flying kite onl　y)

Traditional food (Tea, sweet, cake)
14:00~17:00 8th February 2008

Traditional game(Yutnoli, Jegichagi)
6 - 8th February 2008
Location: Daegu national museum

Festival detail (Korean) http://www.daegu.go.kr/Government_Pr/Daegu_Now.aspx?infoID=52&no=417&rNo=417
http://daegu.museum.go.kr/10notice/notice_01.htm?bmode=content&b_idx=212

This is event poster.

picture from http://daegu.museum.go.kr/10notice/notice_01.htm?bmode=content&b_idx=212

picture from http://www.daegu.go.kr/Government_Pr/Daegu_Now.aspx?infoID=52&no=417&rNo=417

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new movie in imdb top250

2007-12-12T22:11:00.001+08:00

make-up = mask?!

2007-11-19T15:12:00.000+08:00

This is a quite famous story about 10 or 20 years ago in Korea. It suppose to be funny but I am not that good at story telling so you should have to compensate.

One guy met one girl at the cafe. He liked the girl because she was quite pretty. So when they met day by day and then they fell for each other.
We, Koreans normally working 10~14 hours day so most of the time this couple dating at the very night of the day in the cafe where is very dark but there also has very pretty colorful light in it.
So finally they were getting married one day and went honeymoon to Jejudo where is island and famous for honeymoon destination.
Normally, Korean society does not allow to sex before marriage. (This changed a lot nowadays, but this story was old one so...)
After they arrived Jejudo and then they checked in the hotel. They were very shy to staying same room together but meantime very excited, too. When the girl came out from the shower, this guy shocked and said that "Who... Who are you?"

Because this guy never saw her face without make-up.

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^_~ Ara

watching movie especially good one

2007-11-19T15:07:00.000+08:00

If you would like to watching movie especially good one, you can just go here http://www.imdb.com/chart/top (After that, you feel like you want to have some more, you can visit here AFI's 100 years.. 100 movies http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/movies.aspx and Time magazine All-time 100 movies http://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/the_complete_list.html. You can find some other websites, too.)

I am really enjoy watching it. I strongly suggest that do NOT use subtitles.
I was regretted that I couldn't watch it more earlier and why didn't I learn English more earlier.

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^_~ Ara

about me...

2007-11-18T15:54:00.000+08:00

This is me Ara who came from Korea and studying at Malaysia.
Finally, I have done my study and I am going back to Daegu in Korea at 28th November 2007.
I haven't been to Korea for 5 years so you think I am not familiar with Korea, you are wrong. I knew too much about Korea. That is the actual big problem because I can do a lot of things if Korean people let me. Either case, I will be powerless.

I am not that interesting about working at Korea(because I will probably powerless person on the earth.) so I will try my best for what I have to do in Korea and probably move on to other country.

------------ This is new one for facebook.

I would like to listen someone's opinion. That should be cultural thing, technology, internet business, movie or TV series. I am not living in London, but I would like to listen Lodon talking 97.3MHz radio(http://www.lbc973.co.uk/) program through internet, because I can listen people's opinion about a lots of things.

Here is my blog: http://ara21c.blogspot.com/
Here is my Korean blog : http://kr.blog.yahoo.com/asrai21c
Here is my movie rating list: http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=11583805
Here is my movie comment: http://www.imdb.com/user/ur5108219/comments

------------ new one

You'll be surprise once you getting to know me, because I don't use fancy word and look not very nice. I just express what exactly have in my mind, no more no less. That's what most girls-maybe Asian girls- don't like me because they too much care about fancy word and how he looked.

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^_~ Ara

Topic in facebook.com - None of my Korean friends call me 'pll kon seong' but why would I want to foreigner call me 'pill kon seong'?

2007-10-27T11:59:00.001+08:00

originally http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2245127154&topic=3453

So every body call me my name for 'Seong pill kon'. Isn't that a wise decision?
I wrote my Korean blog about this issue - 이름을 영어로 표기하는 방법 http://kr.blog.yahoo.com/asrai21c/993
But, a lot of Koreans still use either way. Please, read my blog's article and think wisely.
Think about very carefully.. What was your name for?

If you would like to have some special name, there has a nickname right? That's what nickname for. So you can use nickname instead of changing your real name like me. So sometimes I can write 'Ara Seong' because if I said to Korean that my nickname is 'Seong Ara', Korean will imagine meaning of my name and laugh at it-When I thinking about it, I admit it that I laugh, too. So I will probably use just 'Ara' to Korean.

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^_~ Ara

my movie rating

2007-10-09T14:48:00.000+08:00

Recently, I have been watching movies which was in imdb.com top250. I was very much enjoyed movie and I was regretted that why I didn't watch it and learn English more earlier.
I realised that I have to re-rating the all my favourite movie from the imdb.com's my voting. So I just left this for remember it.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=11583805

"Mirai shônen Conan" (1978) 10
The Great Escape (1963) 10
Hotel Rwanda (2004) 10
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 10
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 10
The Matrix (1999) 10
Oldboy (2003) 10
Ratatouille (2007) 10
Roman Holiday (1953) 10
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 10
Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (1986) 10
The Usual Suspects (1995) 10
V for Vendetta (2005) 10
28 Days Later... (2002) 9
Aladdin (1992) 9
Alien (1979) 9
Baramui Fighter (2004) 9
Before Sunset (2004) 9
Dawn of the Dead (2004) 9
Finding Nemo (2003) 9
Forrest Gump (1994) 9
The Girl in the Café (2005) (TV) 9
Groundhog Day (1993) 9
Kaze no tani no Naushika (1984) 9
Léon (1994) 9
Life as a House (2001) 9
The Lion King (1994) 9
London to Brighton (2006) 9
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 9
The Matrix Reloaded (2003) 9
The Matrix Revolutions (2003) 9
Mononoke-hime (1997) 9
No Man's Land (2001) 9
Notre-Dame de Paris (1999) (TV) 9
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) 9
Saving Private Ryan (1998) 9
Singin' in the Rain (1952) 9
The Sixth Sense (1999) 9
Spider-Man (2002) 9
The Sting (1973) 9
Toy Story (1995) 9
Why We Fight (2005) 9
"Robot Taekwon V" (1966) 8
"Roboto Taekwon" (1976) 8
300 (2006) 8
Barfuss (2005) 8
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 8
Casino Royale (2006) 8
"Great Performances: Cats" (1998) 8
Chaos (2005/II) 8
Click (2006/I) 8
The Constant Gardener (2005) 8
Danny the Dog (2005) 8
Dear Frankie (2004) 8
Death of a President (2006) 8
A History of Violence (2005) 8
The Incredibles (2004) 8
Kaena: La prophétie (2003) 8
Kung fu (2004) 8
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) 8
The Matador (2005) 8
Meet the Parents (2000) 8
Nanny McPhee (2005) 8
Notes on a Scandal (2006) 8
Remember the Titans (2000) 8
The Road to Guantanamo (2006) 8
Saw (2004) 8
Shark Tale (2004) 8
Shaun of the Dead (2004) 8
Shrek (2001) 8
Something's Gotta Give (2003) 8
Spider-Man 2 (2004) 8
Spider-Man 3 (2007) 8
The Thing (1982) 8
Venus (2006/I) 8
Walk the Line (2005) 8
50 First Dates (2004) 7
Amos & Andrew (1993) 7
Anger Management (2003) 7
Banlieue 13 (2004) 7
Chinjeolhan geumjassi (2005) 7
Cursed (2005) 7
The Devil Wears Prada (2006) 7
Gonggongui jeog (2002) 7
Gonggongui jeog 2 (2005) 7
Injeong sajeong bol geot eobtda (1999) 7
The Longest Yard (2005) 7
Million Dollar Baby (2004) 7
Mr. Deeds (2002) 7
Music and Lyrics (2007) 7
My Summer of Love (2004) 7
My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006) 7
Naboer (2005) 7
Night at the Museum (2006) 7
Notting Hill (1999) 7
Ong-bak (2003) 7
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) 7
She's the Man (2006) 7
Siu lam juk kau (2001) 7
Sliding Doors (1998) 7
Snakes on a Plane (2006) 7
Tajja (2006) 7
Toy Story 2 (1999) 7
United 93 (2006) 7
War of the Worlds (2005) 7
WaSanGo (2001) 7
The Amityville Horror (2005) 6
Arahan jangpung daejakjeon (2004) 6
Boksuneun naui geot (2002) 6
Crash (2004/I) 6
Happy Feet (2006) 6
Land of the Dead (2005) 6
Les Misérables in Concert (1995) (TV) 6
Mapado 2 (2007) 6
Match Point (2005) 6
Meet the Fockers (2004) 6
The Number 23 (2007) 6
Saw II (2005) 6
Saw III (2006) 6
Separate Lies (2005) 6
Silent Hill (2006) 6
Stay Alive (2006) 6
Wedding Crashers (2005) 6
Wonderful Days (2003) 6
Captivity (2007) 5
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004) 5
The Hills Have Eyes (2006) 5
Ice Princess (2005) 5
In the Bedroom (2001) 5
Pearl Harbor (2001) 5
Slither (2006) 5
Titanic (1997) 5
Hostel (2005) 4
House of Wax (2005) 4
Lady in the Water (2006) 4
The Ring Two (2005) 4
Scary Movie 4 (2006) 4
The Break-Up (2006) 3
Kong Pil-du (2006) 3
Mystic River (2003) 3
The Pink Panther (2006) 3
Abominable (2006) 2
Embrace of the Vampire (1995) 1

1 lower rate than before :
28 days later, finding nemo, life as house, dawn of the dead, life as house, the lord of the rings: the two towers, notre-dame de Paris, pirates of the Caribbean:the curse of the black pearl, the matrix reloaded, the matrix revolutions, spider-man, chaos, Danny the dog, a history of violence, the incredibles, the matador, nanny McPhee, spider-man 2, spider-man 3, cursed, Gonggongui jeog 2

comment for my friend's blog

2007-10-02T09:35:00.001+08:00

orginally http://navinkaur.blogs.friendster.com/the_life_and_times_of_nav/2007/09/its_my_way_or_t.html

Hey, Navinda. How are you?It's good to see you here. Even if I don't visit here a lot.

It is good thing that you try to something different. You should read "Who moved my Cheese?"(It's story about why change is necessary.) or "The 7 habits of highly effective people"(I read it very long time ago but what I remember is that if you want to succeed in your life, you should become a extremely well human being.)

I just tell you one thing. My friend said to me that "life wasn't fair!", you know. But, what I wanted to tell my friend is that "You did not acted fairly." It's like that, you know. If you playing bitch, everybody do bitch to you.That's what I call the life of fairness.

But, normally Asian country does not need girl behaviour like that. So why should you care?
Maybe, true. But, if you want to succeed in your life or career, you should try it.

Working is always hard but if you try like what I mentioned, it won't be that hard.

Anyway, have a enjoy your life!

I will copy this to my blog, too. It's here http://ara21c.blogspot.com/

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^_~ Ara

quotation about the being a logical mind

2007-08-21T20:45:00.000+08:00

* require proper citation(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation)

Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire. - Leonhard Euler

- Thank you for smoking 2005
See Joy, that's beauty of argument. If you argue correctly, you never wrong.

- Numb3rs Season 1 Episode 1 : Pilot
Don : It's different. It's not about numbers.
Charlie : Everything is numbers.

Don : Forty agents working two days straight. You tell me that what you did mistake.
Charlie : Not my mistake. It is data you provided.

Don : She was hiding something. Maybe, this is it.
Charlie : Numbers don't lie.

- Numb3rs Season 1 Episode 8 : Identity crisis
Terry : How is this math?
Charlie : It's not math, it's logic, really.
Mathematicians are trained in logic.

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^_~ Ara

comments for the 'Ratatouille (2007)'

2007-08-21T15:16:00.000+08:00

movie info - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382932/
originally http://imdb.com/title/tt0382932/usercomments-281

Make a new history and new future for Pixar and Disney

I watched it a few hours ago and I could not help to stop thinking about this movie.
Every scene was beautiful and incredible story and it was really funny movie.
I believe I laughed almost an hour or more.
Plot pace was quite fast so I felt that movie is more than 2 hours movie and enjoyed it very and very long.

Reason for saying this movie is make a new history and new future for Pixar and Disney.
Because when people talk about the animation is for child only and then movie was not good enough for adult, this movie can shut them up.
Most interestingly, when I watched movie in Malaysia cinema at 4.40pm show during weekday, I heard that adult are laughing around (let's just say) half an hour and kids are laughing around half an hour and they are laughing together around half an hour.
It was very interesting experience. I watched movie alone so sometimes I felt bit sorry for kids beside of me because I laughed a few times when their not laughing so they did not understand why I am laughing at.
So my point is adult can enjoy movie very much and kids, too.
Adult should not have to lower down their expectation from the movie.

I do not know about what happen in the native English speaking country's cinema but I think it probably have same happen to them.

So I believe Disney and Pixar did it again for new generation of family movie.

There has one problem, maybe. Kids are not enjoy much than other Disney Pixar movie, maybe. I am not so sure about it. But, at least all the family member can enjoy it so it was good thing.

I highly recommended to anyone.

10.0 out of 10.0.
* added at 21 August 2007
I rated as 10 but it is possible to go down when I was watched it again. However, it will most likely stay at nine-point-something rate between 9.5 to 9.8.

my comments http://www.imdb.com/user/ur5108219/comments
my vote history http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=11583805
my profile and recent posts http://www.imdb.com/user/ur5108219/boards/profile/
my movies(currently empty) http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=11583811
must see http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=11583809

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^_~ Ara

comments for the 'Notre-Dame de Paris (1999)'

2007-07-22T19:40:00.000+08:00

musical info - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285800/

originally http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285800/usercomments-9

I am not big fan of music but this musical amazes me.

10 out of 10

I knew music was beautiful and it makes me feel better but I do not really enjoy listen the music and especially classical music such as opera, Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart's music and philharmonic orchestra. I knew it was all wonderful music but whenever I listen to them, I will definitely go sleep. So I wouldn't enjoy it. I can enjoy part of the music. For example, the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" when Andy go to the prison's announcement room and then playing the opera(I believe this is one of the best scene in all time.), it was beautiful music.

But, I do like watching musical bit childish way because I would like to watching classic Disney cartoon movie such as Beauty and the beast, The lion king, Aladdin and so on.

I watched "Notre-Dame de Paris" about 1 or 2 years ago and that time my English wasn't that good enough to understand the subtitles and interestingly I don't even remember what story is about so I don't have any idea what to say about it.

And then a few days ago I have been listening the some musical album such as Les Misérables and Cats. Surprisingly, I realised that how much I enjoyed their singing and playing. This is the what happen when you watched best movie or performance. It's out of nowhere it came to my mind. I don't even know what they talking about or what this story is about but I was so badly wanted to watch it again and listen to music again.

I must give rate for 10/10 because I don't even understand what they were saying or talking about but I still want to watch it again.

This is extremely powerful and beautiful performance and energetic and splendour musical. It doesn't matter whether anyone likes musical or not so I highly recommended to anyone.

my comments http://www.imdb.com/user/ur5108219/comments
my vote history http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=11583805
my profile and recent posts http://www.imdb.com/user/ur5108219/boards/profile/
my movies(currently empty) http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=11583811
must see http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=11583809

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^_~ Ara

comments for movie "Hwasango (2001)" (modified)

2007-07-22T19:37:00.000+08:00

orginally http://imdb.com/title/tt0301429/usercomments-54

It was funny movie. It made that way., 14 July 2007
Author: Ara Seong from Kuala Lumpur, Daegu(Korea)

** I modified this comments.

User rating was too lower than it seems. This is advice for how you can enjoy watching it.

1. Avoid watching English dubbed version.

2. This movie is comedy.(IMDb.com forgot to mention it.) Don't even think about otherwise. It is like Kung Fu Hustle. This movie's proper genres are action, comedy and fantasy.(This movie is based on the comic book.)

3. You can enjoy watching Jang hyuk's silly and funny acting. I believe his one of best acting on this movie.

This movie was extremely funny like Kung Fu Hustle. If you enjoyed Kung Fu Hustle, you can very much enjoy this movie, too. I don't remember how long ago. When I visited some VCD shop, I saw a lot of times shopkeeper watching this movie. It was that funny movie.

My rating - Kung Fu Hustle (8.3/10) - Hwasango (8.9/10)

Hwasango was so high rating because I don't need subtitles. It is one of my favourite like Oldboy.

*** I just watched again and then I realized that it was a little bit overrated. What I remember the movie was that it was extremely hilarious. And it was hilarious but this time I recognized that action scene(i.e. flying scene) was not really smooth. Maybe, because last time I watched it through VCD so I couldn't recognize. Shaolin soccer also quite same happened.

I am not sure what will happen if I Kung Fu Hustle watched it again, probably my rating should less than that.

My rating - Siu lam juk kau(Shaolin soccer 7.1), Hwasango(7.5)

my comments http://www.imdb.com/user/ur5108219/comments
my vote history http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=11583805
my profile and recent posts http://www.imdb.com/user/ur5108219/boards/profile/
my movies(currently empty) http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=11583811
must see http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=11583809

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^_~ Ara

comments for movie "Hwasango (2001)"

2007-07-15T22:50:00.000+08:00

orginally http://imdb.com/title/tt0301429/usercomments-54

It was funny movie. It made that way., 14 July 2007
Author: Ara Seong from Kuala Lumpur, Daegu(Korea)

User rating was too lower than it seems. This is advice for how you can enjoy watching it.

1. Avoid watching English dubbed version.

2. This movie is comedy.(IMDb.com forgot to mention it.) Don't even think about otherwise. It is like Kung Fu Hustle. This movie's proper genres are action, comedy and fantasy.(This movie is based on the comic book.)

3. You can enjoy watching Jang hyuk's silly and funny acting. I believe his one of best acting on this movie.

This movie was extremely funny like Kung Fu Hustle. If you enjoyed Kung Fu Hustle, you can very much enjoy this movie, too. I don't remember how long ago. When I visited some VCD shop, I saw a lot of times shopkeeper watching this movie. It was that funny movie.

My rating
- Kung Fu Hustle (8.3/10)
- Hwasango (8.9/10)
Hwasango was so high rating because I don't need subtitles. It is one of my favourite like Oldboy.

my comments http://www.imdb.com/user/ur5108219/comments
my vote history http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=11583805
my profile and recent posts http://www.imdb.com/user/ur5108219/boards/profile/
my movies(currently empty) http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=11583811
must see http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=11583809

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^_~ Ara

iPhone, sounds like they succeed already?

2007-04-03T21:27:00.001+08:00

Apple - iPhone http://www.apple.com/iphone/

iPhone Reviews - iPod, therefore iPhone http://www.iphonefreak.com/iphone_reviews/index.html

Apple iPhone Reviews. Smartphones Reviews by CNET. http://reviews.cnet.com/Apple_iPhone/4505-6452_7-32180293.html

Apple iPhone Review http://www.appleiphonereview.com/

Apple iPhone Reviews. Smartphones Reviews by CNET. http://reviews.cnet.com/Apple_iPhone/4505-6452_7-32180293.html

YouTube - SNL -- Weekend Update iPhone Specialhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4VieMjZYfI
Steve Jobs said that "The iPhone is product that revolutionize the way we communicate."
When I saw the "CBS: A closer look at the iPhone" video, my mind immediately response that it will succeed more than iPod.
This time I won't tell why is that so because I will develop my own website for this kind of things and I can consulting to the other gadget develop company about this.

CBS: A closer look at the iPhone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgW7or1TuFk
This video reveal the why iPhone was different than smartphone. And it reveal the possiblity of new type of smartphone like iPod. Look carefully...

Below's news article from http://www.appleiphonereview.com/in-the-news/att-receives-1-million-iphone-inquiries/.
March 27, 2007 @ 1:46 pm
AT&T Receives 1 Million iPhone Inquiries
Posted by Chris In the News Leave a Comment
One million people to date have contacted AT&T, Cingular’s parent company, asking about the iPhone, said AT&T’s Chief Operating Officer Randall Stephenson today.
Stephenson (pictured below at CTIA) said many of the inquiries were people asking if they could pre-order the iPhone.
(more…)

I know a lot of very nice pda or gadget such as Palm, iPaq, Clie, HP jornada, Nokia's best selling phone, Motorola E398, Razr V3, Sony Ericsson's a few Walkman model and PSP.
I've got impression not like any other gadget. I felt like when I first time saw Palm Pilot with Nokia 3310.(Nokia 3310 was quite different experience because I am Korean and I couldn't speak English when I first time saw Nokia 3310. And when I was little a bit fimilar with English, this phone came to me. When I learned English more, I did learn this phone's real identity.)
That was the reason why I choose that article title. If you know Palm Pilot and Nokia 3310 very well, you will know what am I talking about.

You can also read a lot of iPhone related news from http://www.appleiphonereview.com/.

further reading :
Personal digital assistant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_digital_assistant
Nokia 3310 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_3310
Palm (PDA) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Pilot
Gadget - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadget

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^_~ Ara

gp2x - handheld gaming machine with linux

2007-03-31T04:32:00.000+08:00

GP2X.co.uk official site - Buy the GP2X Linux console http://www.gp2x.co.uk/

Main Page - wiki.gp2x.org http://wiki.gp2x.org/wiki/Main_Page

GP2X.org http://www.gp2x.org/

myGP2X: The GP2X FAQ http://www.mygp2x.com/faq/#_Toc119326348

I was surprised, when I read "The GP2X FAQ". So I just cited the some part.

------------------------------------------------
What's a GP32?
The GP32 is a really cool predecessor to the GP2X and has been very successful on the homebrew scene. Although it looks like a Nintendo Game Boy Advance, it can do a whole lot more.
We're not going to cover the GP32 in details - you can find out more information than you can throw a stick at over at GP32 Wikipedia entry - but this 133 MHz device with 8Mb of RAM (though both could be overclocked and upgraded respectively) was a big hit because anyone could put software onto the GP32 and not have to pay royalties or purchase a costly device SDK (unlike every other handheld manufacturer). This ensured a solid cult following.

I've never heard of a GP32! Why?
The GP32 was only really available in Korea at launch and it took months to get the GP32 into Europe (by which time the GP32 had evolved to the more feature-rich GP32 BLU). There was a lot of confusion surrounding the European launch and despite lots of very developer-friendly features; it was never really noticed by mainstream press / users. Additionally, the GP32 never made it officially to America.
------------------------------------------------

Yesterday, I bought Linux magazine which was published a few months ago and I did know there has Linux console which is GP2X and official site was UK.
And then I found out that GP32 was originally made by Korean company because I think I heard about GP32 from somewhere definitely not from Korean because I don't even read any Korean news paper or article.

I am telling you. If you are working this kind of Korean company, you can contact me for better oversea business. I can consulting a lot of things which you can make more bigger business.
Yah. I don't think you can understand what I am saying.. Don't worry I will wirte this one to my Korean blog by Korean.

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^_~ Ara

about Locationfree TV, Slingbox

2007-03-29T01:35:00.000+08:00

Wikipedia - LocationFree Player
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

CES: PSP LocationFree TV details
Posted Jan 5th 2006 3:30PM by James Ransom-Wiley
* Toby Udstuen's comment
10. This Location Free TV product from Sony is a complete and total SCAM!!! Sony has taken a page from the Microsoft Media Center play book. Sony completely blocks the PSP from playing streaming media over the wi-fi link from the web. So now you have ponied up the $250 bucks for the PSP, then Sony adds this location free tv feature, great, right! Then Sony hits you up for another $300 bucks for the wireless tv base station that in reality is a completely usless bit of hardware when an informed customer looks at the alternative products availible for wireless tv viewing. I have been running ORB TV software on an old 2.4 ghz desktop pc for 6 months now. Orb needs a tv tuner card installed which cost me $130 bucks for a dual tuner tv card from Hauppauge. Then you download ORB's software and create an ORB account. As long as ORB is running on your desktop pc you can literally view/record live tv, photos, and videos from anywhere that has a high speed internet connection using any pc, laptop, pda, or EVDO windows mobile phone. The best part is that the ORB software is free! So lets see 300 bucks for the Sony base station which only streams to the PSP or the ORB setup using your desk pc and if you have no tv tuner requires the purchase of a minimum 40 dollar investment for a tuner card. I have been floored by the great quality of the ORB TV software it has allowed my to watch my local news programs in realtime or schedule recordings while I am on the other side of the country flawlessly and I have also watched recorded video's over the web on a friends pc that uses a 56 kbs modem and found the stream surprisingly good if a little small. This whole product line from Sony is their way of SCREWING their PSP customers. This whole thing is just like when Microsoft started marketing their MCE software. Microsoft from the beginning decided that the MCE operating system was not allowed to be sold to users unless these users purchased an entire MCE pc through an OEM costing literally thousands of dollars, now after poor sales Microsoft sells the MCE software individually! This is exactly what Sony will find out after they find that no one will shell out 300 bucks to watch wireless tv on a PSP's 7 inch screen and by next year after poor base station sales Sony will release a firmware that allows the PSP to view streaming media content from any source not just Sony's solutions.
Posted at 6:46PM on Jan 9th 2006 by Toby Udstuen

LocationFree TV sounds great, but glitches are a turnoff
By Edwared C. Baig
Posted 12/1/2004 10:07 PM Updated 12/2/2004 12:01 AM
USATODAY.com

Can your video iPod do this?By David Carnoy Executive editor, CNET Reviews(November 10, 2005)

Sony's new Locationfree TV drops the location free TV
Posted Sep 5th 2005 9:45AM by Ryan Block

Sony Location Free TV
Ashley Norris
Thursday June 22, 2006
The Guardian

LocationFree - Overview
Sony Learning Center

Slingbox
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sling Media - Products

How Slingbox Works
by Julia Layton

Orb (software)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

MyCast your digital media with Orb 2.0 remote pc access software
Orb Official site

VideoLAN
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

VideoLAN - Free Software and Open Source video streaming solution for every OS!
VideoLAN Offical site

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^_~ Ara

most powerful brainwash...I have ever seen

2007-03-24T12:04:00.002+08:00

Actually, it is second most powerful brainwash.I know one of best brainwash, but it will make a lot of problem so I will talk about it some other time.

I do not know how many people will believe what I am saying. But, I have been debate about network marketing(Here I am talking about the multi-level marketing but I don't know what is proper name for this so I just wrote the network marketing.) for 2 times with my friend. Problem with talking with my friend was I cannot tell the truth. For example, everybody can make money that easily how come nobody tell me how much money they made. Of course, there has success story but it is top people only.

And it was clever way to buy product with point which can make money so I asked price of cheapest product.She said that 17ringgit for Shampoo or something which I can buy it 10ringgit from Carrefour or Jusco.(I also ask 2 or 3 more cheapest product but price was expensive than Carrefour or Jusco.)So truth is they don't give back point for buying product. Actually, you paid extra money and that goes to the point. And not only that. Some of extra money goes to company and your network marketer, too.

And she explained to me about how it works and she drew me the network diagram. So I asked why someone want to buy from you because she has her manager or something. I mean if I want to do this network marketing, why I should buy from bottom line's network marketer. Because I will buy product from top line's network marketer. And then she was confused and she was not sure about that..

You see, that was most important thing in network marketing how she was not sure about that.

I explained about this by very logical way. But, she never listens. And she was not happy because she said that I gave too much negative..That's what I call the brainwash. I cannot explain by logic and I cannot questioning about their problem.

You see, they advertising all kind of nice word like "You can work at home." or "You can work at home and earn 5,000ringgit a month" but they don't tell the truth about themselves.

Most strong point she thought she made was that "I am nothing too loose.". I couldn't reply it but actaully I would like to reply it. You wasted a lot and a lot of time to learn bad business behaviour and wasting money and wasting your energy. I don't know much about sales person's skill but I believe what Larry King(audiobook - "How to talk to anyone, anytime, anywhere" ) explain about the sales skill. He said that "Know what you selling". So sales person must understand(learn or know) their product perfectly. She can't learn their product well so that's the reason I said "bad business behaviour".

Some of multi-level marketers complain about what I wrote. So I found more proper answer about this. I haven't read it yet but it looks good answer for multi-level marketing.

Futher reading :Ten Big Lies of Multilevel Marketing by Robert L. Fitzpatrick http://www.mlmwatch.org/01General/10lies.html
The Bottom Line About Multilevel Marketing Plans by FTC(U.S. Ferderal Trade Commission) http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/pyrdalrt.htm
What's Wrong With Multi-Level Marketing? a.k.a. "Networking" Companies by Dean Van Druff http://www.vandruff.com/mlm.html
Four Lies about MLM by John Milton Fogg http://www.mlmwatch.org/01General/mlmlies.html
Wikipedia - Multi-level marketing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_marketing
False Profits http://www.falseprofits.com/default.html
MLM Watch http://www.mlmwatch.org/index.html

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^_~ Ara

microSD to Memory Stick Duo Adapter

2007-02-15T14:09:00.000+08:00

I just thought about adapter(Nowadays store sell the a lot of small and cheaper flash memory such as Mini SD, xD or Transflash.) for this kind of one and I found it.

TwinMOS Converter for MicroSD to Memmorystick DUO £7.00 http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=329280
TwinMost company's website http://www.twinmos.com/flash/flash_p_ms_duo_adapter.htm

I hope this company make more things like this one(converter mini SD and Transflash to memory stick) so Sony must cut down the price for memory stick duo.

From
^_~ Ara

GameStop considers opened game cases as "new"?

2007-02-09T14:03:00.000+08:00

Main article is GameStop considers opened game cases as "new"? from PSPupdates in Qj.net.

Why customer should talk about this? Why police(There has a lot of association for software piracy.) did not charge the illegal acting?
Whether he or she working at store or not was not issue here. If someone does not buy the license, it was illegal, was it not?

It sounds like you are working at mobile phone or funiture shop so you can take mobile phone and funiture at home and try it out and then selling to customer for new.(I do not know who want to buy this kind of new product.)

You cannot even compare with case that someone borrow CD from friend because friend pays license fee.

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^_~ Ara

To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee

2006-12-30T00:18:00.003+08:00

앵무새 죽이기 -
하퍼 리 지음, 김욱동 옮김/문예출판사

To Kill a Mockingbird (Hardcover)

To Kill a Mockingbird (Mass Market Paperback)

I do not want to finish reading because I really love to staying that beautiful moment.
It was extremely good story. I do not want to talk about how I felt because it was not enough to express how I felt.

I am really happy to read this book and I will keep this book for myself and definitely read again.
I believe it was one of best book and it was my most favourite story.

You ought to read this. You will not regret.

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^_~ Ara

related to PSP news

2006-12-07T14:33:00.000+08:00

New Aussie law says "yes" to mod chips, "no" to region locked games
Posted Dec 06, 2006 at 01:17PM by Alaric S.

Will Australia be the PSP games capital of the cosmos?
Posted Dec 01, 2006 at 02:01PM by Alaric S.

EA's Larry Probst on the PSP: "I think the price point needs to be lower..."
Posted Dec 01, 2006 at 02:12AM by Ian C.

PSP "scam" sites? Dark_Alex homebrew sold? And how to avoid scams
Posted Nov 30, 2006 at 01:41PM by Max F.

Dark_AleX quitting game dev scene...WT*?
Posted Nov 28, 2006 at 07:09AM by Tim Y.

PlayStation Pornable: more worries from concerned investigators
Posted Nov 30, 2006 at 02:13AM by Ian C.

Dark_Alex impostor site brings bricks to homebrew *Update*
Posted Nov 27, 2006 at 05:49PM by Victor B.

EMI music on your PSP
Posted Nov 27, 2006 at 04:11AM by Ryan A.

Sony shifts PSP ad campaign to target moms
Posted Nov 25, 2006 at 10:36AM by Karl B.

PSPBlender: Too good to be true?
Posted Nov 24, 2006 at 05:43AM by Ryan A.
- fraud site

Tekken DR advert gets banned: underage fighters "sexualized"
Posted Nov 24, 2006 at 04:00AM by Ian C.

Dear Sony: firmware 3.00 disappointments and more
Posted Nov 23, 2006 at 12:20PM by Myra M.

3.01: what the Japanese site had to say
Posted Nov 23, 2006 at 06:41AM by Ian C.

SCEA: prices of PSone games for PSP
Posted Nov 22, 2006 at 03:00PM by Jex H.

"They could bring out a PSP Lite" - Climax on Sony
Posted Nov 21, 2006 at 06:55AM by Ryan A.

Sony: More ads for the PSP
Posted Nov 21, 2006 at 05:51AM by Tim Y.

Portables' prices: The PSP would sell better if...
Posted Nov 20, 2006 at 09:08PM by Victor B.

---------------- program
PspIrda 0.0.1
Posted Nov 29, 2006 at 06:19AM by Remi M.

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^_~ Ara

North Korea has nuclear weapon so what?

2006-10-11T02:32:00.000+08:00

I would like to listen the LBC radio through internet. This is speech raio in London. I do not live in there, but I would like to hear people's opinion about something. And it is interesting, too.
I do not exactly remember, but almost every half an hour I can hear about the north Korea's nuclear test. I understand people's fear but how about other country. A lot of country have nuclear weapon, they are not?

North Korea sounds like quite different from other country but it was quite same. They are just communist country like China with something bit more.(I think their country's culture was more like kingdom style which is exist long time ago.)
I do not know much about terrorism but they did not do a lot of terror to other country, did they? If I am not mistaken, north Korea sold some weapon to Iraq or some other country and then they became terrible country to all over the world. But, other country also sold some weapone to Iraq or some other country, is it not?

What makes so special about the north Korea? Is there any famous terrorist group in the north Korea?

I am Korean. I understand if it is terribly hot issue in south Korea. Personally, I am not worry about that because I do not believe north Korea use nuclear weapon for against south Korea. I just think that they are use it for political power only. I know some of my friend will say that too easy thinking but that is what I believe.

Anyway, I am just curious about why other countries are so much concern about north Korea.

From
^_~ Ara

Talk is cheap. However, talk is expensive.

2006-10-11T02:01:00.000+08:00

Do you know why talk is cheap? Because, you can do anything and you can be anyone by only talk. I met some people who were kindly offer me something and then they never did. So they did it to me by only talk. That is why talk is cheap.

However, do you know why talk is expensive? I read some book and explain that people who were public speaker or presentation to people are made a lot of profit for talk. Why they are expensive for the presentation or talk? Because, their talk are probably information. I mean very accurate information. You already knew about information is power and money, right? That is why talk is expensive.

I will talk about this a lot in the future.
I know nobody visit my blog. That I do not care. Anyway, I will make my website about this kind of thought and I will move my Korean blog to there.
It will be a quite interesting website.

From
^_~ Ara

Logic made easy by Deborah Bennett

2006-09-16T16:13:00.000+08:00

I have got this nice quote from the Logic Made Easy by Deborah Bennett.

The great mathematician, Leonhard Euler(pronounced oiler) said that logic "is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire." - Euler(1997), CV, p.469

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^_~ Ara

internet trend

2006-08-15T18:36:00.000+08:00

Life, Love and MMO's

MySpace: A Place for Dolts

Who Will Google Buy Next?

Proposal for a collaborative learning system

How to Learn a Language

How I Learned French in One Year

Amazon.com, Ebooks and "Chump Change"

From
^_~ Ara

about the free ebook

2006-08-10T12:39:00.000+08:00

The Assayer - book reviews and dicussion for the free-information renaissance

Textbook Revolution - the web's source for free educational materials

All Systems Go: The Newly Emerging Infrastructure to Support Free Books

Amazon.com, Ebooks and "Chump Change"

Do Open-Source Books Work? - by Ben Crowell

Free Books: A Sneaky Success - by Ben Crowell

Rip-off 101: Second Edition
How the Publishing Industry's Practices Needlessly Drive Up Textbook Costs

Lulu - Self Publishing, Print on demand
wikibooks - a collection of free,
open-content textbooks that you can edit

From
^_~ Ara

some of news for the PSP

2006-08-03T14:42:00.000+08:00

More PSP Games Price Drop at Play-Asia

PSP finally breaks into DS-dominated Japanese market

Nintendo Units And Titles Looking Good In This Week's Japan Sales Charts

It's Merry Christmas for the UMD - More Sales!

PSP Is For PlayStation Phones

PS3/PSP "Insider" Information Part 3: PSP Sales, PSOne, and UMD

Japanese Hardware Sales (August 14 -20)

DS Heats Up, PSP Cools Down

PSP 2 in March 2007?

PSP homebrew meets the rest of the world

PSP and DS Games - It's More Than Just the Numbers

Monthly US Sales (July 2006) - All Systems Down

Sony Plays the Numbers Game: 20 Million PSPs Shipped

PSP-related news-snippets from Comic Con
<-- This article's data reveal why Sony does not want to intellectual property about the homebrew program.

Comic-Con PSP Updates' Round up

Japan Monthly Sales (June 2006)

Sony Sues Fake Memory Stick Sellers

Hackers Vs Sony, A Homebrew Game (*UPDATED*)

Target Is Dropping UMD Movies

Monthly US Sales (June 2006) - Holy DS, Batman!

Harris Interactive: Sony Still the Best Brand

Target Pulling UMDs From Shelves?

Homebrew community blends hackers and gamers

DS and PSP War in UK Heating Up

Handhelds boost gaming industry

Newsflash: It's still cheaper to import games!

On What Sony Connect Lacks

2.5/2.6 Downgrader FINAL Released!

MMORPG at qj.net http://mmorpg.qj.net/

Korean Horror Movie Mutates into Cellphone and PSP Games

How to Get a Man's Attention: Tekken and a Huge PSP

EA Tells Sony to Pick it up on PSP!
This article shows that what is problem with Sony. It was important that PSP was not just gaming system any more but it does not mean that this is PDA, Portable Media Player or something.
Here in Malaysia, PSP game price was too expensive. Price was more expensive than Sony website's shopping mall price. So I do not think game quality was not that good enough than what I pay. And most problem was not many choice for game and not interesting.

Q&A: In-Stat on Handheld Wars -- PSP and DS

When Previously-Played Games Are Sold as New

PSP Chinese Version

PSP Greatest Hits - Funny Commercial

PSP to Become Virtual PS3?

Global Gaming League Lists Top Ten Gaming Colleges

From
^_~ Ara

The Chronicles of Narnia : The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

2006-03-22T13:34:00.000+08:00

I have been read The Chronicles of Narnia "The Magician's Nephew" and "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe". It was quite interesting to read. I have been enjoy a reading.
I already heard about the author C.S. Lewis, but I thought his novel was not very old fantasy story because I did not know the a lot of novel and how old that book published.

I think one of my friend or website said that J.R.R Tolkien was friend of C.S Lewis and then I did know the how old that book must be and I did know the publish year from the wikipedia.org.
One interesting thing is that "The Magician's Nephew" was published almost last of the chronicles. And publish company decided this one was first book of the chronicles. It was children book so it was understandable. I also read follow the that sequence but I imagine that what if I read sequence by the published year and maybe I can be more interesting to read.
Because I believe that

From
^_~ Ara

I do not want to think about her.

2006-03-03T00:45:00.000+08:00

She did not come to class today and it just came up from my mind.
I cannot deny that is my worries.

I just need more time for forgetting.
I still have my hope. I could not deny it. But, it does not make any good. I mean I realised that I do not like some of her personality. So I have to eliminate any desire from my heart. It must be very hard but I do not have any choice. It does not matter how hard it will be. Because decision was already made.

I just need more more time... That's what I wish for.

From
^_~ Ara

I thought my life was quite changed.

2006-02-23T06:41:00.000+08:00

But, it is not. It is just dream.

I was so tiring, but I could not fell sleep easily. And then I woke up around 5:40am and tried to sleep but something was so much bothering me.

I thought I was special to someone but, I figured out that I was not.
I am just nobody who always staying easy access place for her for her convenience.

How could I believe that someone said that love me, but me was not important than her friends. If it is her bestfriends, maybe I can little bit understand. But, it was just friends. So it is special friends thing what she wanted to our relationship before when she said that she loves me.

I almost quit smoking around half year, but I started again. Of course, it was me did it again.
I tried to quit smoking again, but I could not because everytime something was so much bothering me so I could not help it.
It is the time, isn't it? It is the time I should let her go.

From
^_~ Ara

Love always brought sadness with great happiness.

2006-01-02T02:58:00.000+08:00

Whether you like it or not, love always brought great sadness with happiness. I know title was either way but, it is depend on what you wish for.
I believe love cannot bring the happiness only. It always bring the sadness, too.

I believe happiness can very easily found in small happen so I wish I can find everywhere and everytime. But, it is still in hidden place so I do not know how can I find. I just hope that I can find soon before I gave up.

From
^_~ Ara

Happy new year, my friend!

2006-01-02T02:42:00.000+08:00

Here Malaysia is already 2nd Januaray but, maybe you are still in 1st Januaray.
So I just say Happy new year and I wish you have got what you hope for.
I do not believe all dreams come true but, I do believe some of dream can come true, if you really hard to try.

I met girl first time in my life. I still could not believe whether it is true or not but, I am just trying hard to make a real. I do not know what it will happen in the future so I cannot promise anything but, I promise myself that I will try hard as you cannot imagine.

I wish you all the best and trying hard to yourself and then maybe... maybe next year you make all dreams come true, my friend.

From
^_~ Ara

It's just happened so fast.

2005-12-23T18:40:00.000+08:00

It was me who did stupid thing but, I really did not intend to this happen.
It cannot make excuses about this terribly big incident, I think. I cannot go back to past so I will just miserable myself.

I quit smoking quite a long time but, it really is easy to start all over again. I really do not want to start again but, I could not much help myself. I know it will killing me but, I do not care about my life now. I could not promise to quit again soon.
But, someday I will quit again, I think. I do not care, if I cannot quit.

Life is not really easy for me. Maybe, because I do not know how should I living with other people.
I just hope that time will heal me.

From
^_~ Ara

My favourite scene in Spiderman

2005-12-02T09:43:00.001+08:00

I was busy doing my study so I could not able to write piece of my thought.

This is almost ending scene.
You must miss him so much.
- It's been so hard without him.
There is something I wanting to tell you. When I was up there and I thought I was gonna die, there is only one person who I was thinking of. And it wasn't who I thought be. It was you Pete. I kept thinking, I hope I make you through this. So I can see Peter Parker's face all the time.
- Really?
There is only one man who's always been there for me. Who makes me feel like I am more than I ever thought I could be. That I am just me and that's okay. The truth is I love you. I love you so much Peter.
[All I wanted, was to tell her how much I loved her.]
- I can't.
You can't, what?
- Tell you... everything I mean... so much to tell.
Yah. There's so much to tell.
- I wanted you to know. I will always be there for you. I will always be there to take care of you. I promise you that. I will always be your friend.
Only a friend? Peter Parker?
- That's all I have to give.
Whatever life hold store for me. I will never forget this words "Great power comes great reponsbility". This is my gift. This is my curse. Who am I? I am spiderman.

I was dictated from movie so it can be wrong. Especially, last two lines can be very wrong.

From
^_~ Ara

I bought gift from Incheon airport.

2005-10-01T23:13:00.000+08:00

Isn't it cute?
Doll's clothes are Korean traditional clothes.

From
^_~ Ara

How can I change people's mind?

2005-09-29T00:18:00.001+08:00

Most of Korean cannot speak English.(Some of Korean or some people will be complain about what I said.) But, let us face the truth. Do you know why I say so? Some Korean sounds like can speak English but, they do not really understand what exact meaning is. For example, if I say "Let's go to the eat.", they understand "Let's go to the restaurant.".(It is just example of situation.) Can you say they speak English, can't you?
That is why I am trying to change the their way of learn English. But, how can I?

I know that one of most diffcult thing should be the change someone's mind.
I just hope that many Korean people realise the fact. I really hope so.

From
^_~ Ara

I apologise about could not keep in touch with you.

2005-09-25T21:52:00.000+08:00

To. all my friends

It happened because of my laziness. Also there has other reason like difficulty about writing by English.
I am writing about learn English by Korean in my Korean blog site and then I realise that I am not that uncomfortable with writing something by English. Nowadays I have a different problem. I am forgetting or confusing the English spelling. It never happen before so I just lost my word :-( Whenever I write something, I have to check out my computer dictionary more than 7 times. It is driving me crazy :-(
Well. I can writing the email to you when I have a little time. From now on, I will try to keep in touch with you.

I hope you well and take care! Keep in touch!

From. Ara

DEAR OH DEAR !!!!!!

2005-09-17T00:26:00.000+08:00

I have got email from my friend.

Phone Tale:
"Hello?"
"Hi, honey, this is Daddy .... Is your Mummy near the phone?"
"No,Daddy. She's upstairs in the bedroom with Uncle Frank."
After a brief pause, Daddy says,
"But you haven't got an Uncle Frank, honey!"
"Oh Yes, I do, and he's upstairs in the room with Mummy, right now!"
"Uh, Okay, then ... here's what I want you do. Put down the phone, run upstairs and knock on th e bedroom door and shout to Mummy and Uncle Frank that Daddy's car's just pulled up outside the house."
"Okay, Daddy!" A few minutes later, the little girl comes back to the phone.
"Well, I did what you said, Daddy."
"And what happened?" he asks.
"Well, Mummy got all scared, jumped out of bed with no clothes on and ran around screaming, then she tripped over the rug and went flying out the front window and now she's all dead."
"Oh my God!!!!! And what about Uncle Frank?"
"He jumped out of bed with no clothes on too and he was all scared and he jumped out the back window into the swimming pool but he must have forgot that last week you took out all the water to clean it, so he hit the bottom of the swimming pool and now he's all real dead too."
***long pause***
***more pause****
Then Daddy says, "Swimming pool???? Is this 555-7039?"

Isn't it funny?

My korean blog

2005-09-06T14:38:00.001+08:00

I did not plan to doing the Korean blog last time(Because keep it two blog and language is not easy. Last my blog is good example-title is 'War of the world'- because, I did it English after that I did it Korean again. I felt uneasiness and difficulties.) but, I have a lot of thought about the learning English, wrong idea of other country's culture and people, problem the system and Korea society.
I learn many cultural things from staying Malaysia, visiting Philipines and learn English so I can write about my thoughts.
Korea has many blog sites so I could not decide which one should I use. Finally, I decided it and I will introduce here. I think nobody will check out the my Korean blog because of Korean language but, I will left it here.

http://kr.blog.yahoo.com/asrai21c

Have a nice day!

From
^_~ Ara

War of the worlds

2005-08-01T00:19:00.001+08:00

movie info. : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407304/

Before I watched movie, I heard about the movie from my friend. And he did not say nice but he said spectacle. It is Steven Spielberg's movie but not very famous, I guess. So my mind become this movie is not good enough.

Yesterday I watched movie with my friend. Screen is just normal size because they show them already long time ago. It is a spectacular movie. Actually, I do not like Tom Cruise's acting because I feel his acting was just okay and I do not feel nice or good.(I like his old movie's acting.-Cocktail, Jerry Mcguire, Interview with vampire-)

I was not very happy with that movie's actor or actress(except Tim Robbins's acting) because I am really interesting about the actor or actress's acting.(Last time, I was not happy with watching the Troy-I felt boring- but, when I saw the Achilles's die scene, I terribly impressed by his acting. And then my mind become love to watch again.)

I thought I also would not like this movie. But, when I saw the scene where they drove the car to the crowd, I was impressed. It shows that realistic of what human being like. That is why I like too much.
I still does not like the actor and actress's acting and strange stroy line but, I like the message. I believe that good movie has a good message.

I also surprised with Steven Spilberg because his most of movies has hero but, this movie does not have it. I do not like heroic movie because it is difficult to see the realistic. (Because, I prefer to watch the realistic movie like drama.)

From
^_~ Ara

Welcome to my brand new blog.

2005-07-20T01:19:00.000+08:00

Just now I shifted all my blog from http://www.xanga.com/ara21c
I will start write new blog in here.

From
^_~ Ara

I quit smoking again.

2005-07-19T21:41:00.000+08:00

I have not been smoking since 27 July. It is very hard to quit smoking. Finally I have got the serious sickness and then I am trying to quit.
Smoking is very addictive so a lot of times, I was thinking about smoking again. But, I will quit smoking completely this time.

I am planning about change the my blog site. It will be blog.com. http://asrai21c.blogspot.com/

Because, I am having problem with connect this website. When I was trying to connect here or xanga.com's homepage, it said that cannot connect this domain. So I decided to move my new blog site.

From
^_~ Ara

I hurt someone and myself.

2005-06-01T13:59:00.000+08:00

I really did not mean to. It suppose to be different but I wrote sms to friend of mine and I realize that a few things can be hurt. That's why I did not suppose to be use sms. I should have to talk not sms.
She said that to me about last time but I thought it is not matter to her because she did not say anything about them. But, she also said that last time also she hurt. I cannot think about what exactly misunderstand about what was I told to her. I have not a clue.(I thought it can be sms but she said that when I talk to her. But, if so, why she did not tell to me.)
So I do not know what to do because she did not want to meet me now.

My sms did not mean to be sad because it cannot be. But, my thought could based on Korea and her thought could based on Malaysia so I think it is definitely different culture and can be happen. That's why I want to explain to her.
I feel cultural thing is not easy. I just hope that I have chance to explain about what I wrote sms for her as soon as possible.

I really hate this happen because it is not suppose to be.

From
^_~ Ara

I got intersting message from someone in friendster.com.

2005-04-26T02:36:00.000+08:00

Subject:
hi
Message:
Dear Sir,
I am Mr. Klaus Homsy, Department of accounts division, nationwide bank (NATWEST), London. On January 14 1999, one Mr. John Montsko , an American National,made numbered time (Fixed) Deposit, valued at (US$3.7m) for twelve calendar months in my Bank Branch. UponMaturity, we sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers he was aboard the, American Airlines Flight 587 which crashed into a residential area near John F. Kennedy International Airport on November12,2001, www.cnn.com/2001/US/11/12/newyork.crash/ After further investigation, it was discovered that he died without making a WILL and all attempts to trace his next of kin proved fruitless. On further investigation, it was discovered that Late Mr. John Montsko did not declare any next of kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paper work here at the Bank. The total sum is US$3.7M still in my bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will ever come forward to claim it. In accordance with the Federal banking Laws and constitution, the money will revert to the ownership of the Government if nobody applies as the next of Kin to claim the funds.
Consequently, I shall present you as a foreigner to stand in, as the next of kin to late Mr. John Montsko so that you and I can benefit from the fruits of this man's labour. Upon acceptance of this proposal, I shall give you detailed information on how this deal would be carried out. We shall employ the services of a solicitor for the drafting of the letter of probate in your favour, and to obtain all other relevant papers in your name for the necessary documentation for payment approval in my bank. The money will be shared in the ratio: Sixty percent for me, thirty fivepercent for you and five percent for any arising contingencies during the course of this transaction. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law as I will use my position in the bank to secure approvals and guarantee the successful execution of this transaction. Please be informed that your utmost confidentiality isrequired. If this interests you, please reply me immediately, and please include your full name, mailing address, private telephone number for voice contact and fax number so I can provide you with more details and relevant documents that will help you understand the transaction.
Awaiting your urgent reply.
Thanks.
Best regards,
Mr. Klaus Homsy
Alternative:kh3452001@yahoo.co.uk

Isn't it interesting? It seems to be well-made story.

From
^_~ Ara

My favourite movie list

2005-04-09T13:08:00.000+08:00

Here: http://www.ymdb.com/user_top20_view.asp?usersid=24612
If you like talking about movie, you can register that site. Other good place should be imdb.com.

From
^_~ Ara

My favourite Korean movie

2005-04-08T20:45:00.001+08:00

공공의 적 SE (2disc)

쉬리 S.E.

화산고 SE(dts)(CJ한국영화2차할인)

I have not seen many Korean movies but, a lot of movies I like them.

Most my favourite movie should be the Gwicheondo(Gate of Destiny, 1996) directed by Lee geyung young. I know some people said that they just like the sound track called 'Guichundoae'. I like that song, too.
When I watched movie, I was impressed very much. It is quite different from any other movie. It was quite artistic and new style of Fantasy movie.

The other one is Gonggongui jeog (Public Enemy, 2002). When I was watching the movie, I would not like it because conversations were terribly impolite.
I was impressed because of Sul geyung gu's acting. Also it's nice movie.
Now you can see the Public Enemy 2 in Korea. I am not sure still showing in cinema or not.

Whasango (Volcano High, 2001) - I love Jang hyuk's acting.
Swiri (Shiri, 1999)- I like actors-if you know or watched the Seoul's moon-Seoul?? Dal-, you know what I mean.- TV series but, I watched English dubbed one so I do not know how they act.

From
^_~ Ara

It was an unbelievable.

2005-04-01T21:59:00.000+08:00

I read news article from Korea.net. Title is 77% of Koreans carry mobile phones. I was impressed. That mean was everybody using the mobile phone. Non-mobile phone users must be only baby.
What an impressive fact!

From
^_~ Ara

I hope people are safe from earthquake.

2005-03-28T15:26:00.000+08:00

I heard that news report about near Sumatra Island from LBC internet radio. Reporter said that everything was destoryed and people were panicked.
I feel very sad about that happen. I wish it won't happen again. That can't be possible so I wish that there has some way of protect people from earthquake.
I am preying for that.

From
^_~ Ara

My condominium was moving.

2005-03-28T02:42:00.000+08:00

I'm not feeling well(I was terribly tired.) so I thought I had a dizzy. Suddenly my housemate knocked door and then asked about shaking building.(I think it happended at 12a.m.) It was like moving very smoothly and slowly moving my desk, computer monitor and everything. It felt more like I was in the ship, that's exactly I felt. I'm living Petaling Jaya(near Bandar Utama and Damansara Uptown) in Malaysia. I could see the back side of my condominium that everybody went down to condominium and then went to far away(just in front of building.) from building. My housemates and me also decided to go out and then do same thing as that condominium.

I called my friend who living quite close from here(15 minutes by walk). She said that she felt same thing. But, I called other my friend who living bit far from here(20 minutes by car). We waited outside for an hour. She didn't feel anything. Rescue911 was came for checking up the building. They said it needs for 2 hours but, after hour it finished. When I was outside condominium, I don't know anything about that earthquake so I thought next time I should have bring the radio.

I found out what happen. 8.2 magnitude earthquake from Sumatra Island in Indonesia. You can read news article from Yahoo! News.

From
^_~ Ara

Do you like play game?

2005-03-26T11:15:00.000+08:00

I just finished play game Prince of Persia : The Sand of the Time. It is so much fun. I would loved play. Many people remember that Prince of persia. That was very old game so I thought not many people know about that game but, I did wrong. Many people are known that game and remember it.

I played that game in Playstation 2, when I visited my friend's house. It was quite impressive so I thought I want to play the game. But, that time I have a laptop computer so I couldn't play. Later, I bought a computer(I sold out my laptop computer.) but, that computer couldn't play the prince of persia. Something happens and then I bought a computer, again. And I played that game and finished.

I feel like played movie, you know. Each stage has movie and it used automatic camera so it feels like that. Someone likes watching movie or playing action game, I really suggest to play this game.

From
^_~ Ara

I quit somking but....

2005-03-19T09:43:00.000+08:00

It was very hard to quit smoking. I tried a lot of times and a few month ago I finally quit smoking but, today I smoking again.
I feel very bad and kind of stressed out and then I got crazy feeling about smoking...
I don't know I will smoking again or I can quit again.

It's been a long time. But, I still do not feel to write about something. I do not know why.

From
^_~ Ara

Beware of your SMS.ac membership type

2004-08-31T03:54:00.000+08:00

A few days ago, I got daily SMS message from 32151(It was not free. Each message is 50cent. Every day I got two sms so my phone credit deducted 1ringgit every day.) Last time I subsribed Yahoo mobile alerts news but that time doesnot working with MAXIS and nowadays it working with them so I thought it was from Yahoo mobile alerts. Three days ago, I tried to remove them but it couldnot stop. Two days ago, I tried to remove them and remove my phone number. But it could not.
Just now I called MAXIS Cusomer Care Centre and then I got the phone number. I called that number. That number is SMS.ac so I checked out the my profile in SMS.ac. My membership type is "Pay As You Go, RM0.5/per message"(which mean is "Daily FREE messages: In order to receive your Daily FREE messages, you must Opt-in to Mobile Promotions."). I removed them.
result [
Daily FREE messages: In order to receive your Daily FREE messages, you must reinstate billing for your phone click here
Membership Type: Billing Disabled. To reinstate billing for your phone click here
]
I also remove all the smsClub and smsChannel. If it doesnot working, it's not problem with SMS.ac.

From
^_~ Ara

No more free sms.

2004-07-30T09:56:00.000+08:00

I donot exactly remember that ICQ has been stop the free sms in many countries.(Last time more than 50 countries but now just 6 countries only.)
You can check the follow the link. http://web.icq.com/sms/smsnetworks/

http://www.sms.ac/ also no more free sms. If you want to send sms, you have to pay.

That was very useful because I can save money and easy to write message. I cannot use anymore.
If you are using Celcom or Maxis, you try to use Yahoo messenger. But, this is not free. More information : http://asia.mobile.yahoo.com/my/messenger/

From
^_~ Ara

What kind of movie do you like it?

2004-07-03T11:45:00.000+08:00

I really like watching movie. I donot mind about what kind of movie is. Old movie, black and white movie, strange movie and whatever kind of movie. I can watch it and enjoy it. Many people are like watching the action movie, I think. I also like it. But, sometimes after watch that movie I got feel bit stupid. So I asked to myself 'Why I felt like that?'. I think that most of action movies' stories are very similar and meaningless. Because after watched movie I would like to think about story, character and everything.
So I think about again. Most my favourite kind of movie can be drama. It was more realistic, meaningful, natural and I can think about that movie.

Nowadays I have been watch the TV drama series 'Friends' season 1 to 6. First season and second season(maybe it should include third season, too) was very funny. I enjoyed it. But, after that season I got feel that 'Why am I still watching it?'. I think most of character become more more dumb acting and very unbelievable situation. But, I donot have any other movie or something. So I will keep watching.

I really like watching movie. I am going to watching movie with anybody. I donot think about that is dating. If you are woman, could you go for watching movie with me?

From
^_~ Ara

Is it using okay with the Friendster.com?

2004-06-30T11:00:00.000+08:00

I donot remember when does it happen. I think that after the improve their connection speed, it does happen. They start showing some advertisement with adware and my friend put the testmonial but it has gone. I donot know why. I think some of my message also gone. It's bit strange. So I donot feel enjoy the Friendster.com. I mean quite uncomfortable.
Are you okay with Friendster.com?

I am trying to move to the Hi5.com but I cannot, maybe.

From
^_~ Ara

I donot become a your boyfriend or something.

2004-06-14T02:45:00.000+08:00

Date: Jun 4, 2004 22:12 PM
Subject: I donot become a your boyfriend or something.

Donot worry.
I just want to being friendly or talking, something.
Why am I talking about it? I got sms message from my friend. I will write it.
She was going to somewhere so she was in the bus.
"She was chatting with beside guy. He ask her that do you have a boyfriend? She said 'Yes, I have.'. He doesnot want to talk with her anymore.."

It is like that. It happen in any Asian countries, I think.

Here is Malaysia so I undrestand that. I feel like little bit better than Korea. I can easy to talk with some girl. I just chat with her. But, I can see that her friend's face. It was feel like 'Is he interesting with my friend? or Is he trying to become my friend's boyfriend?'. I wish I am wrong thinking. But, I got some happened(I cannot talk about it here.) so it should be prove that I am right thinking.

Many other student also like that, I think. So you should better trying to more open-minded.

Last time I never thought about talking is important. When I was in Korea, I met my friends and we spent long time but our conversation was mostly very short. After I learning English, I changed it. I donot know why. But, I know it was good thing. Why donot you try?

From
^_~ Ara

Why people want to know my age?

2004-06-03T02:41:00.000+08:00

Date: Jun 3, 2004 00:22 AM
Subject: Why people want to know my age?

[ I must say about my English writing. It was horrible. Actually I can talk and read, but writing is really bad. I think my way of writing is conversation style so please donot angry about my informal writing. ]

I mean I understand that.
I am talking about first in Korea. When I was young, not many people are ask about that, I think. Nowadays bit strange, because just we met and then he or she asked to me about my age. I donot know he and he doesnot know me so he trying to know me. But, if he knows my age, is he really know about me? It is not, is it? It doesnot matter.
It was also happening here. I get feel more difficulties because I cannot good way of ignore that question.(Of course Korean language is my first language so I know how should ignore that question.) When I got that question, I felt very uncomfortable.
Please do not ask about my age.^_^

If you are extremely interesting know about my age, I will tell you how can you get it. Actually it is very simple. You can talk about last time happen. And then you will be get my age. I will show you example.
"How long have you been in Malaysia?" ?? years
"What did you do before came to Malaysia?" Study or Working
Can you see that? Not exact age and more direct question, but you can use more good way.

I know I look like baby face, so many people cannot regret my age. A lot of interesting happen but I cannot tell because you should know my age.^_^
It was not bad happen because they already understand that. Before we already talked about a lot of things. We also understand each other.

If you want to know about me, just give me message. Now you know that, except 'How old are you?'

From
^_~ Ara

Hello. I am Ara.

2004-05-30T02:36:00.000+08:00

Date: May 31, 2004 11:32 PM
Subject: Hello.

I am Ara.Name is bit strange, isn't it? It is bit more like girl's name, I know that. But, actually my name came from another Korean word. After I used that word but many people were asked about my nickname because that was literature word.(Have you seen my email address? That's the my nickname.) 'asrai' I removed 'sr' and 'i' from my nickname. That's more easy to any Korean. Many people were called to my nickname. And then I got very familiar with that. I used to use my nickname. Also easy to call my name from foreigner.

I missed my Subang friends. It was not far from here, but I don't have much time.

Have nice a day!

From
^_~ Ara

Is it beginning?

2004-05-30T02:30:00.000+08:00

Why am I doing this? Actually, I need improve my writing English. Which mean is I should writing a lot, so maybe I thought should try writing diary. But, I feel that is too boring for me. So this is the better way. Luckily, I cannot connect internet everyday so I donot spent a lot of time in internet.(If I have a internet line at home,I will be whole day staying on-line.) But, on the other hand, I cannot often visit here.

From
^_~ Ara