30 Things About Myself
1. I am from Ilsan. I was born in Seoul, and before elementary, school, I have lived in various places including Jeju Island. However, when I entered elementary school, my family moved to Ilsan, and I have lived there until I entered KMLA, except for the time when I was in Canada.
2. During the fourth and fifth grades of my elementary school, I lived in Toronto, Canada for two years in order to enhance my English skills. Unable to speak English well, I had much difficulty at first having to get along with the students in the beginning, but by then end of my stay there, my abilities devloped, and at the graduation ceremony I gave a speech as a representative of the grade.
3. I am currently the editor-in-chief of Minjok Herald. Currently, I am dedicating a lot of time everyday to Minjok Herald, and it is my biggest concern and interest. I am positive that the next edition can come out in late March or early April.
4. I do not have a planned major. I like a multitude of subjects and have no clear favorite. In college, I also wish to keep studying a vast range of subjects in both the humanities and the sciences.
5. For that matter, I do not have a dream career. After enrolling in the academic studies of numerous studies, I want to choose not a career that involves only one field of study but rather a coalition of numerous fields of academics. I am still in thought as to what job yields such opportunities.
6. I suffer from chronic sleep deprivation. This is because when I have work to do, such as homework or quizzes, I stay up until late, and it has become so much of a habit that I feel strange going to bed early. I usually stay up late, and regret it when I have to wake up.
7. I have another busy semester ahead of me due to the courses I am taking - just as busy as last semester. I am taking pretty much the same classes I took last semester. Last semester, there was a time when I had to forfeit my meals and substitute them with ramen, due to papers (AP World History especially) and quizzes (AP Physics C especially). I am not looking forward to it.
8. I like to do nothing, or at least nothing productive. I like to lie in bed and simply think about things, close my eyes and pretend to think about things and fall asleep, or just take my computer and play.
9. In fact, there is one single thing that I want to do in the future - retire. I want to be in a fulfilling job. I want to contribute to my field, my country, and perhaps even the world. I want to do this for a short time but passionately, like a fire, and then retire. I want to live somewhere where I can do nothing and probably watch TV all day long, travel, and do other completely meaningless things.
10. I like to take photographs, or at least did, and plan to do so again. I took photographs diligently in my freshman year, did just about nothing in my junior year, and plan to be about halfway between the activities of my first and second years of high school. Before I went into remission, my photograph style was gothic and depressing.
11. I consider myself very compatible. As a roommate, I think I am tolerant of just about everything, at least I am now. I try to understand the habits of others and accustom myself with them. I rarely demand that others change.
12. When I am given a job, I try my best to meet the expectations of others and more importantly, of me. I try to do my very best, and for this, some of my friends call me a perfectionist. This is the reason when I have much work to do, I stay up until late and sleep at three or four in the morning.
13. I am passive and unenthusiastic in interpersonal relations. I do things that are given to me diligently, but I have a tendency to feel tiresome with trying to find things I have to do. I also do not like dealing with other people. Even on formal issues, I do not like having to ask others for help or give them an inconvenience, so I end up doing things by myself. This part of my personality is one that I wish to change this year.
14. I care a lot about other people's feelings or perception with me. When someone is upset at me, then I cannot do anything. I feel depressed and distracted until I can settle issues with that person and make them not so discontented with me anymore.
15. When I am depressed, I like to watch movies or American drama, and then sleep, or if I am very down, listen to Gloomy Sunday. I am currently watching HIMYM. Gloomy Sunday is a good song.
16. My favorite sports is skiing. Each year, I like to go skiing at least a couple of times, something which is getting harder and harder due to my work at KMLA. The winter holidays before I entered KMLA, I went to Japan with my family on Christmas to ski. The snow was unbelievable.
17. I like a vast range of music, as long as it's good. I listen to ballad to rock to hiphop.
18. On the last day of the winter holidays, I went to Seoul to attend a concert. The Epitaph tour of Judas Priest was more than awesome. Despite his age, Halford seemed in good shape. I almost cried of exuberation when they played the Sentinel.
19. Concerning things such as music or food, I hardly dislike anything. I have no preference.
20. I am an atheist and am proud to be so, although I do not like talking about religion with others. This is because I realize that religion is an extremely sensitive matter to peoplle, and I do not like disputes or confrontations of any type, no matter how small.
21. I am a member of the 15th wave DIA. I am grateful for being a member for multiple reasons, some of which can not be disclosed. I often feel good when I think that I am contributing to the school and making it better.
22. My favorite movie is the Lord of the Rings, but every time I try to read the book, I have been foiled by work and studies. I wish I was watching it now.
23. During the winter holidays, I usually spent my time studying French, AP US History, or writing, whether it be homework for the school or competitions. I really enjoy studying French and have great interest in it, perhaps not as much as a few people, but certainly very much.
24. During the winter holidays, I had a chance to travel and hang out at places I had never been. In fact, I got to go to a city that I had never been in before.
25. I have been to numerous countries abroad. I lived in Canada for two years for English studies, and have traveled to the US, several countries in Europe, China, Japan, and others. Sometime in the next few years, I hope that I can go on a backpacking trip.
26. I have run out of things to say.
Very impressive ending indeed :) Perfectionist was also another name for me when I was in middle school. However, I found out that being perfectionist is sometimes quite stressful and consuming. Being not really a perfectionist any more, sometimes I envy perfectionists' ebullient energy to put one's tremendeous efforts to achieve something important to them.
ReplyDelete#4 and 5 together be an essay topic.
ReplyDelete#13 and 14 are also interesting.
Or maybe connect #8 with the fact that you are a perfectionist. Maybe the reason why you want to retire is because you are tired from meticulously taking care of all the details since you are a perfectionist? It's just my guess but it is an interesting link.
Personally, I'd like to read about number three - this may be an interesting topic to write about.
ReplyDeleteI also like the skiing part. You may be able to use it as a metaphor or an introductory anecdote!
The experiences you had abroad also sound pleasing and interesting.
I wonder why Sujae hasn't stopped by and called you "brave" like he did Taekmin for "not posting 30 things." A true perfectionist would have written 30! I'm only joking.
ReplyDeleteGood list, and I'm kind of impressed that you like Judas Priest. Good atheist music you'd have to hid from mom back in the 1980's. I still remember the first time I heard this band. My cousin had posters of Hallford in her room and I thought he was scary (just like his music). But it does rock. Some people have said that Judas Priest is as technical as Bethoven, and if you replaced the guitars with a symphony you would hardly notice that it wasn't true classical music. I love metal. How did you get into Priest???
I like your honesty about retiring early, and your desire to do as little as possible. I personally love not doing anything productive, but society often tries to shame us into feeling guilty about seeking meaningless entertainment. Gladwell's 10,000 hour theory might annoy you. If I had been reading and writing instead of playing video games or watching TV for 50,000 hours, where would I be right now? I hate that question. I wouldn't be anywhere because it's not in my personality DNA to obsess over "doing something productive." I appreciate people who admit that they watch TV.
Being good at many things seems to be your fortunate curse. You have artistic and technical talent, and I wish you the best of luck finding a way to use all your talents. Green energy? There's a future there.
There are many good numbers you could combine for a good essay, and I also like number 11. I'm like that as well, but sometimes I discover drawbacks to being so accommodating, and "getting along with everyone." It's an interesting debate, as some people argue it is best to be intolerant and to dissociate. I've seen some of that in other lists. An essay here?
Is photography the thing that you are the most devoted to? Then I want to hear more about your story about it, how you love it, how you got not to like it any more, and how you are getting to like it again:)
ReplyDeleteI really like the part you said that you like to retire early, because it's just the same for me. I am also planning to achieve enough success to the degree I wanted, and then I will focus more about doing the truly valuable things to me such as traveling the entire world, helping poor people, and reading as many books as I can. I think that your hope of retiring early can make people interested in who you really are and your characteristic.
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