MUST DO!:

• study for MCATS
• GET JOB (Yanagi's? Waikiki hotels/restaurants)
  • pay off credit card bill
• pay Christie back $141

Other things:

• BACK FAT >:(
• Honolulu Academy of Arts:
  • Masterpieces of Korean Art exhibit Until June 26, 2011
  • Summer program: Watercolor painting ($120, May 24-June 28, 7 sessions)
  • Watercolor workshop July 16-17 (Sat/Sun) 9am-3pm, $150
  • Magic of Watercolor Aug 6-7 (Sat/Sun( 9am-4pm, $100
• Bishop Museum Planetarium
• 'Iolani Palace Kama'aina Sundays (July 3rd)
• KCC Summer Workshops

• technology - how it can improve medicine and health care. i feel that the future of medicine and health care is going to be technological integration and advancements. as people become more connected through social media, blogs, and the internet in general, the patient-doctor relationship is going to change where people are not only going to have access to all this information on the web, but are also going to feel more comfortable communicating electronically.
• being able to help people when there's nothing that they can do. to go beyond expectations and be able to save someone's life or improve their quality of life beyond what they can do. learning a skill that can be used so beneficially.
• everyone wants to make their impact on the world, but people go about it in so many different ways. Medicine and healthcare...

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Greeting

• informal (friends): 안녕, 야, (name)아.
• formal (adults, strangers, acquaintances): 안녕하세요
• super formal (business): 안녕하십니까

Dinners

• 순두부 찌개 / 막걸리
• pasta vongole / agile e olio
• 된장 찌개
• kalua pork / lomi lomi / haupia
• 갈비 / 파전 / 상추 / 식혜 (rice punch)
• butterfish / 보리차
• chicken tikka masala / lamb shahi korma
• Danish meatballs / potatoes / beet salad / ris a la mande

Lunch

• 김밥
• spam musubi
• chawan mushi / edamame
• pad Thai
• buritto w/ cilantro-lime rice and guacamole
• garlic shrimp and steak plate

these quotes reflect what i've been thinking or feeling in a more profound way than i could ever explain

On living life

❛ The best way to waste your life, ... is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate. ❜

• chuck palahniuk

❛ The only way to find true happiness is to risk being cut completely open. ❜

• chuck palahniuk

❛ If you only do what you know you can do, you never do very much. ❜

• tom krause

❛ Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it all together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true s...

things i need

• portable hard drive / Iomega 500GB
• ✔ speakers / iHome Mini Speakers

things i really want

• noise-cancelling headphones / Bose Acoustic
• canon eos 550d

• quotes, quotes, quotes
• tumblr/listography - giving my brain some room to stretch and breathe
• photoshop CS5 - photoshop, it's been a while (whatever CS5 minus version 7 is)
• epik high / b-side 01 breakdown (supreme mix), 02 one (planet shiver remix)

sometimes i forget that i'm not entitled to travel, that my parents work hard to help support me. these are the places that, thanks to my wonderful mom and dad, i've been lucky enough to have visited.

japan (osaka, tokyo, hiroshima, nara)

• 2 weeks for a soft tennis trip, summer 2007

australia (sydney)

• 2 weeks for a band trip, summer 2006

washington (vancouver)

• lived here for 1 year in the 5th grade.

washington (seattle, tacoma)

• spent winter break here with my friends visiting schools and being tourists winter 2007

canada (vancouver)

• visited with my family and aunt in 2000.

minneosta (northfield)

• learn to play this one song on the piano: Nuvole Bianche by Ludovico Einaudi

• dealing with depression (beauty in the breakdown)
• technology and the future of medicine

Cities and places to visit in Korea

• Gwangju
• Pohang
• Seoul
• Busan (want to tutor here)
  • Haedong Yonggungsa Temple
• Jeju-do
• Daegu

Goals:

• Learn Korean
• Learn about Korean history (class, museums)
• Learn to cook Korean food

Things to do:

• visit temples
• eat!

Seoul:

Things I need to do:

• Renew driver's license / Get copy of driving record
• Apply for summer volunteering
• Invite relatives for dinner | give gifts
• Hiking: Koko Head, Kuliouou, Manoa, Haiku Steps
• Lunch/Coffee with Carleton Alum
• BBQ: invite - Liz, Andrew, Austin, Katrina, Yuka
• IchiRiki Lunch: Christie (pay)
• Practice Korean w/mom, dad, grandma
• Dinner and movie nights: christie, yuka, liz/andrew
• Yoga classes
  • $62 (8 classes, student discount)
• Go paddleboarding! 1 2

Things I should try to do:

• MCAT Biology

• yuka: paris shot glass (stars)
• nina: paris shot glass (gold)
• andrew: rome mug
• kelly: paris shot glass (letters) + berlin postcard
• christie: paris post card
• JP: berlin shot glass + colosseum post card
• mom & dad: athens post card
• aunt jay & uncle bob: vatican post card
• aunt su: rome post card
• jenny kim: paris post card

my souveniers:

• greece: bracelet
• italy: shot glasses
• vienna: christmas market punsch mug + map
• berlin: berlin wall postcard + helios mpp c group photo + berlin map
• madrid: map

• Jindo

❛ One's destination in never a place, but a new way of seeing things. ❜

• henry miller

❛ The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. ❜

• st. augustine

❛ A traveler without observations is a bird without wings. ❜

• moslih eddin saadi

❛ Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. ❜

• miriam beard

❛ Once you've traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey. ❜

Life

• get my own apartment
• learn Korean
• live in Korea
• become a doctor
• incorporate cooking into my life
• visit all the different regions in the world
• go to a world cup

Back home

• try paddle boarding
• check out all the hiking spots
• find some good bars
• explore my hometown more
• visit maui, big island, kauai, lanai
• cage diving
• go fishing: catch a fish for dinner
• go to a jack johnson concert

living in denmark for the past 4 months has been an eye-opening experience in so many ways. these are some of the things that i've come to appreciate from the danish culture and want to bring back to my own life.

• hygge: candles, comfort, coziness
• tea: there's nothing more relaxing than a hot cup of tea after dinner
• alcohol: 4 months ago i made a promise to my liver to give it a break from alcohol. 4 months later i'm leaving denmark an alcoholic. in a good way :)
• speakers: this one's kind of silly, but in most homes i've visited in denmark they all had speakers in the kitchen or near the kitchen which made cooking so much more fun.
• appreciation for travel: every single dane that i've met and talked to seems to have done some serious traveling in their life. and after traveling on my own for a few weeks i've come to r...

• street photography
• french music (guillaume grand)

Don't Do:

• excessive coffee/tea
• SUN
• biting/picking
• sucking/licking lips

Treatments:

Exfoliation

• lime juice exfoliation
  • The right way to exfoliate the lips is to apply a bit of lime juice and allow it to get absorbed. This causes a mild tingling sensation as the citric acid soaks into new layers of the skin underneath, as this skin is quite sensitive.
  • After this you need to tighten the lips by opening the mouth, and using your finger gently rub along the length of the lips, using a similar motion to that of brushing the teeth. You will notice that the s...

• jjim dak (andong, south korea)

when I was a kid i used to walk out of the library with a stack of book as tall as I was in my arms, now i almost don't know where to start..

priority ✈

• Darkness Visible
• Lincoln's Melancholy
• Potatoes not Prozac
• Against Depression
• The Noonday Demon

Really want to read:

• OSCAR WILDE
• Jesus: A Revolutionary Biogrophy // John Dominic Crossan

Later:

• One Hundred Years of Solitude (life)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (sci-fi)
• The Little Prince (philosophical)

there's a special thing that films can do to pick you up when you're down, inspire you when everything seems so dull, and give you perspective when you get too caught up in your own thoughts

• A Beautiful Mind
• My Sassy Girl
• Before Sunrise / Before Sunset
• Oldboy (korean)
• After the Wedding (danish)
• Gone With the Wind
• Motorcycle Diaries
• Life is Beautiful (italian)
• Chocolat (french)
• Like Water for Chocolate (mexican)
• Bicycle Thief (italian)
• Babette's Feast (danish)

finished.

• Italian for Beginners ♥♥♥♥ (_very realistic_)

the world is such a large, diverse, beautiful place; i want to see as much of it as i can.

World

• australia
• korea
• brazil
• china

US

• new york
• san francisco
• los angeles
• san diego

Europe

• venice, naples, milan
• barcelona
• amsterdam

Europe stuff

• ✔ europe picture book
• julebryg candle holder

IN THE STATES:

• JP's family: wine (in cali)
• sister: lantern (in the US)

DONE:

• ✔ JP: danish cherry wine
• ✔ aunt jay & uncle bob: rosary bracelet from the vatican
• ✔ lone: greece tea jar + tea + cup
• ✔ gift wrapping paper!
• ✔ aunt su: danish cherry wine
• ✔ peter: deodorant?
• ✔ anders: hat? or Inception DVD?
• ✔ marie: ?
• ✔ mom & dad: europe photo book