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Monday, September 08, 2008

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:06:44 GMT

i got bored last night.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:31:57 GMT

eeeefffffffffffff first day of school.....

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:03:21 GMT

sooooo schools about to start. got another 2 weeks or so. kinda exciting. kinda not. i think im ready for school to start actually. so much stuff to look forward to. hanging with everyone again. i havent seen anyone in so long cus of work... and i miss always having somewhere to play basketball. lol. im really looking forward to going snowboarding again too during winter break. and visiting albert in LA and michael in NY.

this summer was so eventful. i think mainly cus of work. after working i realized how i should utilize each day and make each day count. haha. that sounds super cheesy but its true. and i dont regret working on an oil rig for the summer. overall id say good experience. usually summer feels so short when its ending but this year its different. it felt the perfect amount of time. so im glad :).

i dont know what else to write. i just felt i should write cus i hadnt written in a while.

Go Rockets! im glad we got ron.

Monday, July 07, 2008

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:57:10 GMT

this is from one of Forbes' website lists of top paying jobs. i saw this and remembered why i'm studying to be a petroleum engineer right now. hahaha. only 3 more years to go...

19. Petroleum engineers

Mean Annual Salary: $113,890

One-Year Change: 12.07%

No. in Employment: 15,060

Top-Paying Industry: Employment Services ($136,340*)

Top-Paying State: North Dakota ($136,300*)

Top-Paying Metro: Fort Smith, AR-OK ($202,410*)

Devise ways to improve oil and gas well production and determine the need for new or modified tool designs. Oversee drilling and offer technical advice.

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:35:45 GMT

i love being home. its so relaxing.

yesterday i tried to play basketball at this park by my house. every time i go to work and come back i find that i cannot shoot a basketball. then i spend the week before i go back to work playing basketball so i can regain my shooting. and it always comes back right before i leave again. then i have to do the whole thing over again... ehhhh.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:06:09 GMT

6 days down! 8 more to go............ crap. well i dont know what to feel right now. i want to go home but i want to get paid so if they let me leave early ill be caught in a dilemma. i might just stay for the week even if they say i can go home just so i can get paid more. uhhh... what people will do for money. so i had some problems getting my iphone that i bought off ebay but the guy explained everything and im getting refunded. no worries because i bought another iphone. lol. so i cant wait to go home so i can get it.

Friday, June 20, 2008

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:05:33 GMT

i hate my job but i love the money that i get... so i keep working. ehhh good thing this isnt a life job just for the summer. one of my friends told me to make sure i like what im doing and shes completely right. lol.

im missing the last 3 days of vbs and its really making me sad. i love doing vbs. i dont know if i love kids or if i love working with the youth group. whatever it is i love it. ive been thinking alot lately and for a while i thought maybe my calling was to become a youth pastor. then i was like id have to drop out of school and go to seminary and whatnot. i decided that thats not my calling not because im being selfish but because i feel that God is going to use me in another way. i think maybe either through praise or missions. there were a few incidents in my life that have prompted me to come to this point. here comes a long story...

so growing up in the church, i always looked up to the leaders of the youth group/praise team. when i finally was old enough to be part of the youth group i moved churches. that was ok with me after a little while cus i love everyone at my old church. so moving on... ive always wanted to be part of the praise team because it was my favorite act of worship. i loved all the songs, all the praise, and just all the amazingness that is part of praise. if you havent known me for long, let me tell you that i have no musical gifts because although i played piano for years as a child, i hated it so much that i forgot everything. also i never sang in choir or anything like that or even by myself. i didnt know how to play like 3 different instruments like every other korean kid. but i wanted to do praise. so as i got into high school, my pastor asked my sophomore year if id like to join. i was excited but i didnt know how to play anything. i started out on bass because that was not extremely hard or difficult to learn. one of my friends, albert, at my church was learning guitar while i was learning bass and for some odd reason we ended up switching instruments. so as the years went on i went on to singing while i was playing guitar(which was not very easy for me at the time) and eventually i became a praise team leader. weird. i know. now im here in freer, tx on my summer internship after my first year of college and i realize that one of my few passions is praise. (others incude: God, basketball, friends, and family) im certain that God will use that some way as my life goes on. i know i skipped over alot of details... haha.

heres a picture of work today. err i guess tomorrow since im updating this today. haha.

so you see those big metal stand looking thingys with the legs? my job for the past 2 days and probably upcoming day and a half has been and will be painting those. its stupid. i have to coat each one with white primer. then i coat it again after it dries. then i paint it blue. then i paint a second coat of blue. then im done with one. there are like 8 of these things. i dont know if the picture describes it but theyre like freaking 30 feet long and 6 and a half feet tall(where the legs are). i have so much paint on my arms and hands that after i wash up after work and then take a shower im still covered in paint. heres another picture post washing:

just so you know how i feel. i hate paint now. lol.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:59:38 GMT

thank God i'm back home...

i bought an iphone on ebay. it was $230. im satisfied.

Friday, June 06, 2008

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:23:17 GMT

ok. my work day just ended. day two was a little better than day one. it was a little hotter but it started to rain and i didnt have to do as much work. just like yesterday a 4 and a half hour drive to houston seems like heaven right now but i cant quit. hopefully all the money im earning will be well worth it. i watched most of the game yesterday night and even though the 4th quarter started out very exciting and boston was only up by 4 i had to go to sleep at 10 30 cus i was falling asleep watching the game. i know. i almost fell asleep watching a basketball game. i never do that. maybe that shows you how tired i really am. lol.

on another note. i had the most amazing dream last night and it involved a girl i hadnt seen in years and then we were reunited after a sequence of random events that led us together. it was awesome. better than a movie. so then i started thinking about her throughout the work day. it helped the day past faster. Thank you God!

Thursday, June 05, 2008

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:26:21 GMT

my first day.

so i finished my first day of work. it was just as hard as expected if not harder. my basketball coach from high school called me last week and asked if i wanted to help coach a basketball camp this week. id much rather be doing that. so my day was basically full of moving heavy things, fixing pipes and hoses on a rig, and moving more heavy things. my clothes were instantly dirty after a few hours. it looked like i picked them up and threw them around in the dirt. i thought waking up at 530 would be the worst part of the day but the work makes waking up early every morning feel so easy. the town is tiny. theres 2 restraunts (one of them is a dairy queen) and like 3 gastations. the people im working with are actually pretty nice. they cuss up a storm (even more then when paks plays madden) and a few of them have been to jail but theyre actually really nice guys. i feel like im writing in a war journal. detailing every part of my day. whatever.... i already cant wait to drive 5 hours and come home. id do it right now if i could. but then i wouldnt get paid. ok well thats about it. game 1 of the finals is on tonight. randomly we have cable tv and wireless internet (very hick as you can tell). so thatll keep me happy. i dont even know if i can stay awake till the game finishes because im so effing tired.

only 12 days to go.......

after my first day. you cant see my jeans which were the dirtiest part.