Confession Tuesday #5

1. Poems kill me. It is my least favorite type of writing. That’s why I have a hard time when Mrs. Meadows gives me poems and I can’t really analyze the poem. I don’t know why. My brain just gives me no clues. Sometimes I think I was destined to be a bad poet. No matter how hard and creative I want to be, the poem just doesn’t come to my mind.

2. I have six golden teeth in my mouth. And no, I didn’t put gold on my teeth because I wanted to look cool or whatever. The dentist in Korea recommended me to replace parts of my teeth with gold. Don’t make a conjecture and say “Oh, you did it to look like a gangster,” I didn’t do it to be called “Gangster”. However. I do not recommend filling your teeth with gold. Now I can barely eat ice creams. The pain is excruciating. But look at the bright side. I will never get cavities on the six teeth with gold.

3. I barely watch TV. A lot of people around my age watch TV (Especially in the US. Sorry for the stereotype, but generally it is true) I spend a lot of time on my Laptop instead. There’s nothing to watch on TV. The only time I ever watch it is when they broadcast live NBA games.

Memoir Monday #4

Separation is inevitable. I realized this when I was in the plane coming to Panama. Before, I abhorred moving countries and moving schools. I really wanted and I still want a lifelong friend. I protested and whined whenever my dad decided to move to another country. Living in seven countries is not fun and leaving schools and friends is excruciating.

Now, I am used to moving countries and leaving friends. My dad’s job is a diplomat and moving from places to places like a nomad is now part of my life. I’ve accepted it. I’m not saying that now I enjoy moving from place to places. I still think its horrible moving countries & schools. Even though I have Facebook to stay notified with my old friends, the fact that I can’t see or hang out with them sucks. Somehow my dad thinks that it is good to make a lot of new friends because having a lot of friends will help me in the future. But I disagree with that. Well, sometimes I think that people who have lived in one country for their whole are lucky.

Now that I have accepted the fact that moving around is inevitable, I never protest anymore. But I’m pretty sure I’m not going to be a diplomat when I grow up. I hear that diplomats get low wages too.

Poetry Friday #2

It is horrible to only be able

To see you every

Three years.

Every time

You get older

And older

This summer, when I saw you

At the Korean airport

I felt both

Happiness and sadness

Happy to see you

But sad to see your

Wrinkled skin

White hair

Watery eyes

And curved back

I had to take in the fact

That you are already

75 years old

A step closer

To death

You told me stories

Of surviving the Korean War

Losing your brother in the Korean War

Stories about the hard life you’ve been through

You bought me everything

I wanted since I was young

Including this laptop

I’m using to write

This poem

I wish you had an

Eternal life

And guide me through

My life

Thank you

For everything you have

Done for me

Thank you

For sacrificing a lot of things

Just for me.

I love you, grandfather

Never say no to Panda!

Slice of Life Thursday

By: Kun Hee Yeo

Never say no to panda. Yesterday night, I was just scanning through the posts on Facebook, liking and commenting on them. But then, I saw a catchy title saying “Never say no to panda” with a video linked with the post. I was interested. I clicked on the video which took me to Youtube. The next five minutes filled me with pure laughter. It was one of the funniest commercial videos I’ve ever seen in my life. The video was actually a commercial advertising a cheese brand. But the panda in the video was very funny. Explaining the video will be a hard thing to do. The panda will ruin everything if you deny the Panda brand Cheese. That is the summary of the video.

I usually never linked URL’s of the videos to my friends. But this one was so funny that I just had to link them to my friends in Skype. It’s amazing how people can come up with these funny commercials that make people laugh a bunch. The normal advertisements on TV are usual and boring. They try to get your attention and fail.

Worldy Wise Wednesday #3

Wordly Wise Wednesday

By: Kun Hee Yeo

Why I love Mondays

Oh no! Tomrorrow is Monday! This sentence haunts me every time on Sunday nights. Both on Facebook and Skype, my friends abhor Mondays. But I think Mondays are affable. There is really NOTHING to do on Sundays. I go to the church and come back at approximately two o’ clock, but when I stay in my house after, it feels like Sundays are interminable. I feel as if I am a recluse. It’s better to go to school and talk to my friends and play basketball. Getting tired because you had school is better than doing nothing and getting bored.

Ok, there are people who have good work to do on Sundays. Some of my friends watch TV or play games with their PC (Mac) or video game consoles. Every day, I entreat my parents so we can go to the beach or somewhere where we can spend time sagely. But everything goes amiss and all I receive in return is a tirade from my irascible dad about why I never study or read books. It’s scary whenever my dad goes on a tirade because he shouts at me with a tremulous voice.

I don’t go to school so can I learn and get educated. I’m not a nerdy guy. I go to school so I can hang out with my friends and practice basketball. Saturdays are ok. I sleep all day. But Sunday is just total boredom. Mondays I am glad to be back with my friends. The profound boredom I have to face every Sunday… It is just unbearable.

Wordly Wise Wednesday

By: Kun Hee Yeo

Why I like Mondays

Oh no! Tomrorrow is Monday! This sentence haunts me every time on Sunday nights. Both on Facebook and Skype, my friends abhor Mondays. But I think Mondays are affable. There is really NOTHING to do on Sundays. I go to the church and come back at approximately two o’ clock, but when I stay in my house after, it feels like Sundays are interminable. I feel as if I am a recluse. It’s better to go to school and talk to my friends and play basketball. Getting tired because you had school is better than doing nothing and getting bored.

Ok, there are people who have good work to do on Sundays. Some of my friends watch TV or play games with their PC (Mac) or video game consoles. Every day, I entreat my parents so we can go to the beach or somewhere where we can spend time sagely. But everything goes amiss and all I receive in return is a tirade from my irascible dad about why I never study or read books. It’s scary whenever my dad goes on a tirade because he shouts at me with a tremulous voice.

I don’t go to school so can I learn and get educated. I’m not a nerdy guy. I go to school so I can hang out with my friends and practice basketball. Saturdays are ok. I sleep all day. But Sunday is just total boredom. Mondays I am glad to be back with my friends. The profound boredom I have to face every Sunday… It is just unbearable.

Confession Tuesday #4

Confession Tuesday

By: Kun Hee Yeo

This confession is dedicated to my close friends who are continuing the racial jokes against Koreans just for a “joke”. No names will be mentioned except one. Nicholas Brands Smit. The worst of all. First of all, I am not offended by your racial jokes. I know you’re only joking. But here are some points I want to make.

1. It is not the Republic of Asia. Korea and Japan are NOT the states of the “Republic of Asia”

2. Asians are NOT yellow people. We are not “Yellow Crackers”

3. Not all Asians know martial arts.

4. “Ching Chong” translates to nothing in Chinese nor Korean and Japanese

5. The following goes to ALL of you : ASIA IS NOT A COUNTRY

Really, I never get offended by these jokes. But if you go to Korea and make these jokes, you will not survive a day. The police won’t even help you. Actually, the police might beat you up as well if you make these jokes to them. Just wait 20 more years, when the core of power is moved to Asia. YOU PEOPLE will be the ones getting racist jokes. Unity through diversity. I want no racism or racist jokes. Please.