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Probably the last post i will post on this blog, it really has been a while. Ive just been caught up in this thing called Summer, maybe you've heard of it?
The reason I am saying this is my final post is that I dont believe i will use this blog again. I might make a new one in the near future when the stress of late night study sessions and... college, get to me haha. But yea. THis is a goodbye. A goodbye to all my faithful readers= myself.
Next Friday will mark the end of an era. The days in which I reside in Washington are coming to an end, and I will soon embark on a journey to a faraway land called California; where the grass is greener and the girls hotter (: (kidding). It's sad that a lot of the people i know are leaving Washington and starting their real life. It's sad knowing that we can't stay in Washington and be Toys 'R Us kids forever. But it's time to face reality. The reality where many close friends begin to "keep in touch" with you, but end up becoming strangers after some time. Where being with your family becomes nothing more than a vacation stay. Yes it is all sad and everything but in bad times, there is always light. haha.
As I begin this journey I look at things in a different light. I see, instead of a book coming to its final chapter, a story just about to begin. A whole broad spectrum of opportunities opened up for me to claim as my own. Although I feel sad, I cant help but be excited for the new experiences to experience and the different people to meet.
I will miss my friends, I will miss my family, I will miss Washington, Seattle, my car, my church, my room... As I said its the end of an era, but I only hope that everyone wishes me good luck as I begin this glorious adventure. And I will come back and visit once in a while because I am awesome, but I guess this is goodbye. All good things come to an end, but all endings have new beginnings. Farewell David of the past. I am now David of the future, a robot if you will.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Monday, May 31, 2010
Salamanders, children, and adults
post 10
Today I barely did anything productive. But as I was walking outside to go to my car to go work out, my very productive father called me over. He found a salamander while he was weeding and gardening and his reaction was probably the funniest thing ever. If you dont know my father, hes kind of like a tough guy, im the strongest in the family person, but he was like, "David, look at this, do you know what it is? It's so cute... haha. we have to raise it." I laughed and thought to myself, is this my father? Here's my dad that I thought of as the iron pillar of manhood my whole life calling a salamander cute. haha it wasnt as earth-shattering as you think.
It got me thinking. I wondered how such a little animal could create such a reaction from an adult. It probably triggered some kind of child hood emotion that my father had or something, but i also thought about myself and my peers and everyone. Now that I'm growing older, about to face the "real" world, a lot of my concerns are about looking older and acting older. And im sure that a lot of other people that are in the same time of life as me feel this too. We feel that theres this invisible standard that we have to meet as we become college students, and growing up is definitely not a bad thing. Especially for tools. Tools need to grow up and drop out of effing tool academy, haha.
What I'm trying to get at here is that you have to feed your inner child, mentally. If you fed it physically youd probably just stock up on candy and soda and get obese. Obesity is another topic for another time. You have to realize that sometimes, trying to seem mature and all has its limits and you have to have fun once in a while. Where does my basis come from? How do I know this is good for you?
Well, if you saw the look on my dad's face you'd probably understand haha.
_DavidSSSSKim_
Today I barely did anything productive. But as I was walking outside to go to my car to go work out, my very productive father called me over. He found a salamander while he was weeding and gardening and his reaction was probably the funniest thing ever. If you dont know my father, hes kind of like a tough guy, im the strongest in the family person, but he was like, "David, look at this, do you know what it is? It's so cute... haha. we have to raise it." I laughed and thought to myself, is this my father? Here's my dad that I thought of as the iron pillar of manhood my whole life calling a salamander cute. haha it wasnt as earth-shattering as you think.
It got me thinking. I wondered how such a little animal could create such a reaction from an adult. It probably triggered some kind of child hood emotion that my father had or something, but i also thought about myself and my peers and everyone. Now that I'm growing older, about to face the "real" world, a lot of my concerns are about looking older and acting older. And im sure that a lot of other people that are in the same time of life as me feel this too. We feel that theres this invisible standard that we have to meet as we become college students, and growing up is definitely not a bad thing. Especially for tools. Tools need to grow up and drop out of effing tool academy, haha.
What I'm trying to get at here is that you have to feed your inner child, mentally. If you fed it physically youd probably just stock up on candy and soda and get obese. Obesity is another topic for another time. You have to realize that sometimes, trying to seem mature and all has its limits and you have to have fun once in a while. Where does my basis come from? How do I know this is good for you?
Well, if you saw the look on my dad's face you'd probably understand haha.
_DavidSSSSKim_
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
A future of robots and happiness
Post #9
I am currently contemplating about the future. The future where I am slightly older and slightly more mature, although Im not sure that can be possible seeing as I am an amazing man right now. Older people say that we young'uns never think about the future unless it's about the future of what we're gonna do on saturday. And honestly I can say to those old people, screw you. Your old, go clean your dentures. I always think about the future. I think about how things are gonna be when i have kids, if i will even have kids, what my future will be as a certain career, and so on and so forth. All these things spin in my head like a cesspool of evil thoughts and plans to destroy the world. Although, the thoughts arent really that evil, cesspool just seemed like an awesome word to use.
And honestly when I think about the future, I get scared. I want to live here and now and be a Toys R' Us kid forever, but I cant. Thats a fact. We cant just stay living in the present and expect good things to happen. In order to grow, one must think about things that he wants to happen and work towards that goal. If not, you'll end up working a 9-5 shift at Mcdonalds thinking what wonders the weekend holds in store for you at age 24. Society defines that a good life is having a good career with lots of money and power, and those of you who are non conformists I hate to break the news to you but society is kind of right. You're life is all about you being happy. And of course being happy means being/ living comfortably which comes along with money and power, but if you are happy living on the streets and shitting in dumpsters, i bow my hat to you, my friend. Its all up to your own personal definition of happiness and how you can achieve that happiness, that is how you work towards the future.
Some day, though, robots will rule the earth so there will really be no point in thinking about the future. But until that happens, we can dream and have hope, but thats just wishful thinking :D. playin. be happy.
-DavidS kim
I am currently contemplating about the future. The future where I am slightly older and slightly more mature, although Im not sure that can be possible seeing as I am an amazing man right now. Older people say that we young'uns never think about the future unless it's about the future of what we're gonna do on saturday. And honestly I can say to those old people, screw you. Your old, go clean your dentures. I always think about the future. I think about how things are gonna be when i have kids, if i will even have kids, what my future will be as a certain career, and so on and so forth. All these things spin in my head like a cesspool of evil thoughts and plans to destroy the world. Although, the thoughts arent really that evil, cesspool just seemed like an awesome word to use.
And honestly when I think about the future, I get scared. I want to live here and now and be a Toys R' Us kid forever, but I cant. Thats a fact. We cant just stay living in the present and expect good things to happen. In order to grow, one must think about things that he wants to happen and work towards that goal. If not, you'll end up working a 9-5 shift at Mcdonalds thinking what wonders the weekend holds in store for you at age 24. Society defines that a good life is having a good career with lots of money and power, and those of you who are non conformists I hate to break the news to you but society is kind of right. You're life is all about you being happy. And of course being happy means being/ living comfortably which comes along with money and power, but if you are happy living on the streets and shitting in dumpsters, i bow my hat to you, my friend. Its all up to your own personal definition of happiness and how you can achieve that happiness, that is how you work towards the future.
Some day, though, robots will rule the earth so there will really be no point in thinking about the future. But until that happens, we can dream and have hope, but thats just wishful thinking :D. playin. be happy.
-DavidS kim
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Small things, Big arguments
Post # 8
One thing that I have never come to understand is how people get so riled up about such small things. I probably wouldnt be talking about this if certain people in my house didnt argue about everything 24/7... The smallest things like why someone didnt wash the dishes in someone elses absence or why theres a sweater on the floor thats not hung up. Seriously these arguments last hours. and I use someone instead of actual names because I dont want to have privacy issues.
I see these kinds of arguments in life outside of my household as well. Arguments over who is better at a certain game or who likes a certain show more or something, and I think its all pointless. Although sometimes it's good to argue, sometimes it's not. Its good to argue in order to stand up for what you believe in and deep stuff like that but trivial matters such as a sweater on the floor is just... dumb. Its almost as if stubborn people have a switch they turn on that keeps them running despite things happening around them. For example its 12:30 AM right now and certain people in my house have to go to school or work early in the morning yet they still argue... about washing the dishes. Over my many years of observing these types of arguments, I have seen that stubborn people when trying to win arguments pull evidence from different places in time like the past. If this is the case, the argument can go on for hours and hours.
The solution? Swallow your pride. As a person that likes to avoid long meaningless arguments I swallow my pride a lot. I believe I can be doing something a lot more productive with my time than arguing about dirty laundry. Although thats not to say I always swallow my pride. Shoot if someone were to threaten my girlfriend or family or friends I would not swallow my pride but thats a different story. Im talking about small things that if argued dont have any purpose for anything.
What I see with stubborn people is they attempt to swallow their pride. They say something like, "Lets stop arguing, we are just going to argue more and more and its going to get more and more stupid," yes it will get "more and more stupid" but saying this kind of thing only adds fuel to the other stubborn person's argument. Seriously just say, "okay you were right, Im sorry." It works. Although you may feel rotten inside go punch a wall for all I care. freaking a. so pointless.
sorry that was random venting. A lot of it may be not true haha.
-david S. Kim
One thing that I have never come to understand is how people get so riled up about such small things. I probably wouldnt be talking about this if certain people in my house didnt argue about everything 24/7... The smallest things like why someone didnt wash the dishes in someone elses absence or why theres a sweater on the floor thats not hung up. Seriously these arguments last hours. and I use someone instead of actual names because I dont want to have privacy issues.
I see these kinds of arguments in life outside of my household as well. Arguments over who is better at a certain game or who likes a certain show more or something, and I think its all pointless. Although sometimes it's good to argue, sometimes it's not. Its good to argue in order to stand up for what you believe in and deep stuff like that but trivial matters such as a sweater on the floor is just... dumb. Its almost as if stubborn people have a switch they turn on that keeps them running despite things happening around them. For example its 12:30 AM right now and certain people in my house have to go to school or work early in the morning yet they still argue... about washing the dishes. Over my many years of observing these types of arguments, I have seen that stubborn people when trying to win arguments pull evidence from different places in time like the past. If this is the case, the argument can go on for hours and hours.
The solution? Swallow your pride. As a person that likes to avoid long meaningless arguments I swallow my pride a lot. I believe I can be doing something a lot more productive with my time than arguing about dirty laundry. Although thats not to say I always swallow my pride. Shoot if someone were to threaten my girlfriend or family or friends I would not swallow my pride but thats a different story. Im talking about small things that if argued dont have any purpose for anything.
What I see with stubborn people is they attempt to swallow their pride. They say something like, "Lets stop arguing, we are just going to argue more and more and its going to get more and more stupid," yes it will get "more and more stupid" but saying this kind of thing only adds fuel to the other stubborn person's argument. Seriously just say, "okay you were right, Im sorry." It works. Although you may feel rotten inside go punch a wall for all I care. freaking a. so pointless.
sorry that was random venting. A lot of it may be not true haha.
-david S. Kim
Monday, February 22, 2010
late night drink run, didnt work out
Post # 7
I went to go get icees with my bro one night and we were listening to cube 93... The dj played this song and being a good dj proceeded to share a life lesson. He said "This song is about like a girl and a guy, but in my life, i've seen that things tend to work out."
I sat there thinking between brain freezes that what this guy said was so true. Well after coming home, my mom yelled at me for being lazy and blah blah blah. I then began to realize that "things tend to work out," sometimes, but usually, they never work out.
Ive set out three conditions for this quote to totally apply to your life. Things only tend to work out if... 1. you are incredibly good looking: Its true, attractive people have the upper hand in life and will always defeat us mediocre faced individuals if we dont have this next condition which is... 2. you have to be an intelligent person/ genius: If your a genius, you'll always find some way to succeed even if youre butt ugly. 3. If your parents are rich and you are rich, things will work out, enough said.
Unfortunately, I am not incredibly attractive, I have a normal, homely face, and my parents are not filthy rich. What i have resolved in this realization is someday, God, will recognize my great determination and perseverance and grant me with something. anything. i hope. So i will continue to live my life with hopes high hoping someday God will throw me a girlfriend, a nice degree, a nice job, and a happy life, but until then things probably wont work out that often.
I went to go get icees with my bro one night and we were listening to cube 93... The dj played this song and being a good dj proceeded to share a life lesson. He said "This song is about like a girl and a guy, but in my life, i've seen that things tend to work out."
I sat there thinking between brain freezes that what this guy said was so true. Well after coming home, my mom yelled at me for being lazy and blah blah blah. I then began to realize that "things tend to work out," sometimes, but usually, they never work out.
Ive set out three conditions for this quote to totally apply to your life. Things only tend to work out if... 1. you are incredibly good looking: Its true, attractive people have the upper hand in life and will always defeat us mediocre faced individuals if we dont have this next condition which is... 2. you have to be an intelligent person/ genius: If your a genius, you'll always find some way to succeed even if youre butt ugly. 3. If your parents are rich and you are rich, things will work out, enough said.
Unfortunately, I am not incredibly attractive, I have a normal, homely face, and my parents are not filthy rich. What i have resolved in this realization is someday, God, will recognize my great determination and perseverance and grant me with something. anything. i hope. So i will continue to live my life with hopes high hoping someday God will throw me a girlfriend, a nice degree, a nice job, and a happy life, but until then things probably wont work out that often.
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