great jobs for little work

1.  Playing the triangle.  Yes, there are people who  make money playing the triangle and make a living out of it.  There are 8 ways to play it.

2. Stacatto clapping.  In flamenco dancing there's someone playing castanets, guitarist, and clapping very fast.  Yeah, the hand clapper just has to clap his hands. 

3.

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You’ve been in Korea too long when...

1.  When you no longer think it's unusual to see toilet paper and scissors at a dinner table.

2.  When you find yourself speaking Konglish.

3.   When you wear lots of pastels and fluorescent colours, especially if you are a man.  Especially when the colours don't even match, patterns don't match, and lots of colours are used.

4.  When you call your apartment "home".

5.  When you can name various types of kimchi, know what "good" kimchi is, and when you can eat it straight without rice or kim.

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So you want to move to New England.
Category: Blogging

For anyone who wants to move to New England, I will have to give you some pointers.

1.  First, New England has strange weather.  The weather can change very quickly, especially in Spring and Fall.   You may be in a coat for part of the day, then a T-shirt later on, and back to a coat.  Some people have the heat on in their car and the air conditioning in the same day.

2.  Southern New England and northern New England are two different worlds.  Southern New England is more diverse and urban than northern NE.  Northern New England is mostly rural.  To them a city is a town with 20,000 people.

3. New England is a hiker's and skiier's paradise.

4. To a New Englander, Ohio is the Midwest and Pennsylvania is almost the South.

5. New York is NOT New England!!!!

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Paul, the Chief of Sinners

This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief (1 Timothy 1:15 KJV).

Paul was one of the most loving of all the apostles.  He used to be a cruel man, killing innocent people.  He then turned his life around when he accepted Jesus as his Saviour. 

Paul then became a missionary, going to far off places like Malta and Crete.  He wrote a lot of letters in the New Testament, all about God's grace, love, and mission. 

Yet even though Paul became a Christian and became a kind person, he still called himself the chief of sinners.  Why?  Even though he became a good person, he still wasn't perfect. He still needed a Saviour.

We can't think that just because we have decided to become a Christian that we are now immune to doing wrong.  We are still able to fall away.  That's why we must be close to Jesus.  Even the nicest people are subject to evil thought, revenge, greed, and other bad things.  I myself have been trying to be a good Christian person, yet I know that I need to keep asking God to keep my thoughts and life pure.  I need a Saviour every day.

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What I Look For in a Man
Category: Life

Recently my family and I went to the town green for a local event.  We later took a walk down Main street after leaving the green.  We then went into a shop just to look around.  The shop was new and my mother and aunt hadn't been inside before.  It was one of those shops that specializes in health and new age things.  It had perfumes, incense, hand lotions, fancy clothing, and purses.  There were also tarot cards, books of spells, and feng shui books.  Some of those things I would buy, some I would never buy because I am a Christian. 

The store owner asked us if we came in from the theater, we said we had come from the town green.  She said that she missed many things because she had to tend to her store.  She said she needed to get out more so she could find a boyfriend.  My mother said to her that I had been looking for a boyfriend for some time. 

The lady then decided to give me some advice.  She said that I need to get out and meet people.  I can't expect them to come to me.  That made sense.  She then said that I should set up a corner in my bedroom and call it my "relationship corner".  I should set up something that would keep reminding me of what I want in a man and focus on it.  I need to get a card and write down on it what I want in a man, from the eye color to the height.  I can then get what I want.  I was also invited to attend one of her workshops that she had in the shop.  I knew she was talking about feng shui.  I thanked her politely and then we left. 

I can't agree with feng shui at all.  It's mysticism and I don't believe in that stuff.  I also believe that asking God in prayer for what we need is more effective than trying to "channel energy" into getting what we want.

Anyways, what do I want?  First, I think that the color of someone's eyes and hair do not matter at all.  I also don't think that someone's height and size are very important.  What matters is what is inside, not outside.  I want someone that has a good character. 

As for other things, I want someone who likes the outdoors.  I like to spend free time outdoors very often.  I want to do hiking, swimming, camping, and travel with a partner.  I also want to be able to talk about intellectual things. I want someone who is very intelligent and knows a lot about different subjects.  Someone with a mind that they feed with books and doing cultural activities is someone I like to be around.  Smart is attractive.  Someone with a great mind is sexy. 

I hope to be soon be spending time with that special someone.  For the time being, I have to be satisfied with being a single person. 

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Beethoven and Bipolar Disorder
Category: Blogging

I found a web page that mentioned Beethoven's possibility of having Bipolar Disorder.  He had many episodes of highs and lows.  He sometimes had so much energy that he would work on a composition for weeks on end and do nothing else.  He was someone that was very tortured, and yet made some of the most beautiful music in the world. 

It seems that many very creative people were like that, they were very intelligent and yet suffered from depression, possibly mania, and other disorders.  Many of the best novelists, poets, artists, and scientists were people who had some sort of disorder.

Franz Joseph Haydn said to Beethoven:

"You will accomplish more than has ever been accomplished," wrote Haydn at the beginning of Beethoven's career, "have thoughts that no other has had. You will never sacrifice a beautiful idea to a tyrannical rule, and in that you will be right. But you will sacrifice your rules to your moods, for you seem to me to be a man of many heads and hearts. One will always find something irregular in your compositions, things of beauty, but rather dark and strange."

Oh, that there could be five more like him.

http://www.healthyplace.com/communities/Bipolar/Site/depression/beethoven_manic_depression.asp

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cheap gas!!!!

The gas at the convenience store down the street in Putnam is being sold at $4.17!  I couldn't believe how CHEAP that is!  Well, I was seeing it sold for $4.45, and that's actually a relief!  My goodness.  In Thompson, CT I saw it for $3.97 and I was shocked.

I never thought I would be calling gas cheap just because it is under $4.20.  Those oil barons keep making so much money on our misery.  In Europe they are paying astronomical prices.  In the USA, people rely on cars much more and high oil prices are making us suffer.  Public transportation isn't as available as it is overseas.  

I do think offshore drilling would be a good idea. I also think that the USA needs to get more oil from Texas, Oklahoma, and Alaska.  Canada and Russia have oil and they are also good to get some from.  They have better relations with us.  Yet, the Middle East and the oil barons in the USA have alliances.  I think that's why they keep using their oil.  It shouldn't be that way, we shouldn't have to be having fights over oil.  Of course, they don't really care.

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World’s Fair in Yeosu, South Korea
Current mood: adventurous
Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes

From May 12-August 12, 2012 there will be a World's Fair in Yeosu, South Korea.  The theme will be "The Living Ocean and Coast".  Yeosu is situaated on the southern tip of the peninsula, so it's nearly surrounded by ocean.  There are many islands nearby.  The southern tip also has some nice national parks. 

I do hope to go there, regardless of where I am in the world at the time.  I would like to see the fair and then do some more travel around Korea.

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School, how things have changed

There are some things I learned in school as a child that have changed.  First, I was taught that humans only use 3-4% of our brains.  I heard that by many teachers.  One person told me that Einstein was so smart that he used 10% of his brain.  It's all myth, we use all our brains. 

Also, I was taught that there are nine planets in the solar system.  Recently, Pluto was voted out as a planet.  I thought Jupiter had 16 moons, now it has at least 50.  Saturn has at least 30, Neptune and Uranus also have many more.  Pluto has three moons.  Right now I am not even sure how many planets there are in the solar system because the minor planets or Eris, Qaoar, Sedna, and Xena are all there.  Do they count?  I guess there are just 8 "real" planets now.

Of course, there's no more USSR, West Germany, Yugoslavia, or Czechoslovakia.  There are some new countries on the map.  I still find it interesting how diverse the former USSR countries are.  Kazakhstan and Estonia are very diverse from each other.

I was taught we have five senses, but we have more than that.  We have taste, touch, smell, hearing, and sight.  We also have nociception which is the feeling of pain.  There is also proprioception that gives us a kinesthetic coordination of our bodies.  Thermoception helps us feel temperature.  The more complicated one is equilibrioception.  That sense gives the body a sense of balance that is located in our inner ears.  The sense also gives us direction, speed, and acceleration.  So there they are, nine senses.

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Nice instruments to play

Piano.  I used to play the piano when I was a kid.  I took my first lesson when I was 8 years old.  I became quite good at playing the piano.  When I was 11 years old I quit playing because piano just wasn't "cool".  My mother got cable and I started watching television instead of practicing.  I had also changed piano teachers when someone agreed to give lessons at my school.  That never lasted long.  I regret giving up piano now and I would like to learn again.

Flute.  I play the flute, yet I haven't been taking it out enough.  I played it in high school band and I brought it to South Korea with me.  I sometimes played it on the roof in my apartment building in Seoul.

Mandolin.  I listened to three musicians from Venezuela.  One had a guitar, another had a cuarto, and the last had a mandolin.  Their music was heavenly.  I could have listened to them all night.  One piece they did was called "The Bell Bird".  There is a bird in their country that actually sounds like a bell.  The piece had some mandolin trills that nearly sounded like a bell.

Guitar.  It seems that everywhere I go people have these. 

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