15 Random Things About ME That NO ONE Knows About!!

1. I was almost kidnapped by a young lady in korea when i was 5 years old. Me and my mom were getting off of the bus and i was holding her hand. A minute later, i hear someone calling my name from about 50 yards away. I turn around and it's my mom calling for me. Who's hand am i freakin holding onto right now, i thought. I looked up and it's a random lady i've never seen before. I quickly let go and ran to my mom. She said i was babo (stupid).

2. All the white girls i had crush on from first grade to senior year were blondes. No brunettes.

3. I received a ticket from a park police when me and a close friend decided to find a discrete place in the park to make out.

4. I had to take one of the engineering courses over again the following semester for failing it. the same professor who failed me, on the first day of school asked me why i'm taking the course again...in front of the entire class.

5. I got into a fight with a black kid in the 5th grade and called him the not-so-nice N-word. At the same time, my teacher hid me in the closet for an hour cuz the black kid was coming after me and she was scared for me.

6. I was sexually harassed over the phone when i was in the 3rd grade when a perverted pedophile randomly called me and asked me if i was home alone. then he asked me about the size of my weiner and wanted to come over to make me feel good.

7. i lit my very first cigarette when i was 6 years old. i was walking down the street, found a pack of cigarettes. i brought it home, showed it to my older cousins (they were 8 and 9 yrs old) and they wanted to smoke it. so we all smoked it until we ran out.

8. on my 17th bday, on my way home after hanging out with two very cute girls, i decided to be stupid and try to hydroplane my car in my neighborhood when we had couple inches of snow. i lost control and hit my neighbor's parked corvette.

9. when i bought my house, i decided to get drunk for the very first time. i drank like crazy alone, threw up many many times, and passed out in the bathroom.

10. when i first came to america, i used to steal pencils and markers from classmates. after my esol class, when i came back to my classroom, the entire class would be in recess. instead of joining them outside, i would go through everyone's desk and take their goodies. i never got caught.

11. in 9th garde, during PE class, i was in a wrestling match with this dude. my stomach wasn't feeling right and i accidentally let out a silent but deadly fart. i pinned him 3 seconds later. i went to the restroom to check and it turned out that i had sharted.

12. in 10th grade, i was set up by a friend for my school homecoming dance. the entire night, this girl refused to dance with me or even talk to me. i was pissed. when i saw her slow dancing with one of my buddies, i decided to walk over there, tap him on the shoulder so i can cut in and continue the dance for him. he acknowledged but she said she didn't want to dance with me. at the end of the night, she pulled me aside and told me she didn't like me at all. what a biatch.

13. i kissed a guy and i DID NOT like it, especially the taste of his chapstick. it was a bet and the loser had to pick the guy to kiss. the guy who lost didn't want to choose any particular guy so we all put our names in a hat and he drew my name.

14. i was at a strip club, getting my very first lap dance when i asked her...do you have any other moves?

15. i got kicked in the face by drunk koreans. after a night of drinking, me and two of my friends were just chilling outside in the parking lot when a group of 10 drunk koreans also decided to chill. i guess it was one of the guys birthday cuz they were throwing pieces of cake at each other. a piece fell on my friends car and i told them to watch the car. then they proceeded to beat us up.

Goals for the New Year

Now that 2008 is long gone and over with and the new year has already begun, many people probably already have made their infamous New Year's Resolution. I for one never believed in such thing and haven't made any attempts to do so for the past 10 years or so. I think New year's Resolutions are stupid and was created to give people false hope for whatever changes they so desire to make in their lives. Most likely than not, people tend to give up on their so-called resolutions within the first month of the year.

This year is no different; I will not make any New Year's Reolutions. However, I will make a list of goals I want to accomplish this year. I will not just list them, but I will describe how I intend to meet these individual goals.

1. Read the New Testament twice - last year i finished the amazing race in 11 months. i read the entire bible now 3 times in my lifetime. this year, i want to focus on the new testament and try to read it two times. if i can read the entire bible in 11 months, i can certainly read 54 books within the same window of time frame.

2. Read two christian literatures - i bought so many christian books over the years and never finished any one of them. i would read through a quarter of it and then get bored and stop. after having read the bible, i feel like i can read anything.

3. Improve Korean - i hate hanging out with fobs 'cause i become super insecure about speaking korean. not only does my korean suck, it comes out in satoori...which doesnt' really help my confidence. if i could speak korean fluently and used satoori, then it's another story. i think i would get mad phone numbers if that were the case. i want to watch more korean videos and start surfing through korean websites. the more i surround myself with the korean language, the more i can improve.

4. Play more poker - people, especially church people have always been telling me that i should stop playing poker because it's not good to gamble. although i believed that they really don't know what they're talking about, it always hindered me from enjoying playing the game to the fullest. this year i don't want to let that bother me and want to start doing what i really enjoy doing. i want to start playing on a regular and daily basis and increase my hours to about 15-20/wk.

5. Start dating more - two years ago, i went on zero dates and i got sick of it. last year, i decided to open up and go on more dates and did just that. this year, i want to go on even more dates. hopefully, i will meet someone who can tickle my funny bone.

6. Lose weight - I want to lose about 10 lbs and maintain it. my peak was about 183 lbs about 4 years ago and i went on all fruit diet for a month with regular exercise. I lost 15 lbs and weighed 168. Then i gained  it all back...as quick as i lost it. This time around, through healthy eating and regular exercise, i want to lose the weight and maintain 170 lbs...like forever.

I purposely waited a month to do this to mentally ensure these are personal goals that are not based on a time schedule, a list i hope to accomplish sooner than later. Hopefully, I will have the discipline to meet these goals. Again, not resolutions, but goals.

Gnashing of Teeth

 The Bible is full of references where hell is a place where there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. It often talks about how sinners will go to this "outer darkness" place and suffer...part of suffering being, again, gnashing of teeth. I never understood that. What is gnashing of teeth? Does it mean you will be grinding your teeth? The only logical explanation I can think of is that since there will be much suffering and pain, all you can do is just bite your teeth down and take the pain as it is. I've seen on tv where a dude is being tortured as a prisoner and they often give the prisoner a stick of some sort to bite down on as they're beating/torturing him to death. I guess, that's what i'll be like.

Anyway, the reason i'm talking about his is because of my teeth. I have no good teeth left...especially my molars. They're all practically have a filling or a crown. It's ridiculous. It seems like at least every year, one of my tooth goes bad and some major procedure must be done to take care of the pain. This week, I had another root canal done...this is my third one.

It's weird because after my very first one, I wasn't in pain at all. I was pretty surprised that I had no pain immediately after the procedure. I often wondered why people say root canals are very painful. Then came my second root canal. That thing hurt like nothing else. But eventually, the pain subsided and I could eat on that tooth again. Now, this third one, hurts like i'm gnashing on teeth!! It hurts much more than the second one. Even with the slightest touch, it hurts. I have to keep my upper and lower teeth separated when i close my mouth so that it won't hurt. I really do hope this is typical of a root canal and that nothing wrong happened.

At this rate, i'm gonna have no teeth left within 10 years. I'll have no teeth to gnash on. I have dreams where all my teeth fall out. I hate those dreams. It would be devastating if one of those dreams eventually came true.

Net Worth

So i've been trying to calculate my personal net worth at the end of every month. I started doing this after reading someone's blog and i thought it would be fun and interesting how my net worth progresses from month to month. Ideally, you want your net worth to increase every month, especially if you're saving money. If you have huge debt and you're just paying the minimum, you're probably going backwards. You can use this website, www.networthiq.com and it compares your net worth with people similar to yourself.

For me, due to the recent downfall in the economy, my net worth has fallen drastically, since a big portion of my savings are in stocks (at least used to be, % wise). Also, the housing prices continuing to go down doesn't help much either. My net worth from October to November decreased by about 25%.

Why is this important? I think it gives you a reality check, especially when you're in debt. If you're debt is not decreasing, you really do need to something about it..and i believe calculating the net worth every month will give you a wake-up call. For me, it encourages me to be more wiser about my money and where i spend it. If my net worth is decreasing every month, that's really saying something about how you spend your money.