Okay, contrary to what I wrote in my first post, I don’t think I can maintain a blog about me being shy. It’s difficult writing about what I feel. As you might have read in the previous entry, “Dim Sum, Yum~,” it’s difficult for me to put into words what goes on in my mind, and it’s difficult for me to describe my actions.

So, since I can’t really write about “being shy,” I decided just to make this a miscellaneous blog. I’ll write about whatever’s on my mind. I like a lot of things, so I don’ t think it’ll be a problem to write about them all.

Just so you have a little foretaste of what I’ll be writing about in the future, I’m into Korean music and culture. I like listening to many genres, and enjoy learning new things and experiencing new things about the culture. I also enjoy learning the language. However, this doesn’t close me off to other cultures. I’m fortunate to have grown up in such a diverse environment. Since I can remember, I’ve always been exposed to all kinds of cultures. All the schools I’ve gone to have been extremely culturally diverse, and all the friends I’ve grown up with, and made, are all from different cultures. I think it’s a shame to be narrow-minded to other cultures; understanding someones culture helps to understand part of their mentality…but enough of that.

Besides Korean music and culture, I enjoy playing music. I started playing the clarinet in 5th grade, played the bass clarinet from 6th-9th grade, started learning the guitar (and am continually learning) around 8th grade, and started learning how to play the piano, by myself, about my first or second year in college. There are actually so many instruments that I still want to learn…the flute and the bassoon are the two that I really want to learn right now.

Okay, aside from music, some of my other “passions” are languages. I’m currently majoring in Linguistics. I find enjoyment in learning languages, but I also find enjoyment in studying a language’s structure, to see how all the parts of a language work and fit together. Language is like a clock with all its cogs and springs…alone, they are pretty much without function, but put them together, and they work beautifully. However, aside from language, my greater passion is the eyes. I am also studying optometry, and will apply to an optometry college soon…hopefully. What’s more beautiful than looking at eyes…eyes of different colors, of different clarities, of different needs, etc. To be able to fix the organ by which one sees the world is a wonderful thing.

Speaking of the eyes, I also enjoy photography. I’m an amateur at it, but I enjoy taking pictures. Taking pictures allows you to immortalize your perspective at a given point in time, and it lets others see things through your eyes and from your perspective.

Then, there’s photoshop. I enjoy dabbling with photoshop when I have time. I’m also an amateur at this, but it doesn’t stop me from using my imagination.

Okay, I also love to sing. I’ve recorded a couple of cover songs (not professionally, just from my desk). I sing all the time. Seriously, in the car, when I’m driving to school or anywhere, really, it’s a given that I will be singing in the car. It’s almost something I can’t help. I MUST sing in the car.

I’m also a nerd. I love to learn new things all the time. Some of my ongoing “nerdy” enjoyments are Mt. Vesuvius (I don’t know how many documentaries I’ve seen on Vesuvius, space (especially planets), and martial arts. Oh…I love watching anything on Sumo Wrestling….seriously, when I was in elementary school, before I would leave for school, I’d watch Sumo wrestling matches (they don’t show any of them anymore).

While I’m on the subject of exercise, I am a runner…sort of…I don’t enter races or anything like that (I did do a 5K once, though…and I would like to run a marathon at least once in my life). I started running, about November 2005 to lose weight, and since then, I’ve grown to love running. It gives this sense of accomplishment when I’m driving and re-trace my run…it always surprises me that I was able to run such distances…it’s very rewarding physically and mentally. I actually haven’t been able to run for the last 6 months, though, which makes me very sad. First, it was because of a knee problem, now it’s because of my hectic school schedule.

Well, as you can see, I like a lot of things, and I like to talk about a lot of things. I think I’ve written too much for today. If you’ve finished reading this blog in its entirety, thank you, and I’m sorry you had to endure all this. End.