I Believe

Brunch with the French Student Community (FSC) of McGill

Today, Akira-kun, his friend Michael and I went to the brunch organized by the FSC of McGill. It was at Chez Cora, close to Peel station. We met a lot of French people and ate a lot. It was nice to be surrounded by Francophones for once! ^^ They made us switch places a lot so that we'd get to know everyone of them... There was still a few people that I didn't really get to talk to, but anyways, it was fun.

After the Brunch, I went to Akira-kun's place with Michael. He wouldn't let us in, saying that his place was a mess... (And it probably stunk because of the hedgehogs)... But I really wanted to see his cat, Gemini! So he let the cat out instead of letting us in!!! lol it was funny. We played with the cat and then we went home.

Keumerz @ 6:22 PM< [[ 2 comments ]]

Friday, October 26, 2007

Lantern Festival & Birthday Tiramisu

Today, I went to the Botanical Garden of Montreal with Monica-chan and Nana-chan. There was a Lantern Festival called The Magic of Lanterns. I've had a busy week with exams and papers and so it was really nice to get together with some friends and relax. We met at McGill's main gate as usual, and went to a Japanese restaurant (Sakura). I used to go to that restaurant pretty often for my usual Katsu-don (fried pork on rice), but they recently changed the location to renovate it, making the restaurant look much fancier (the price went up a little bit too...).

Here's a pic of Monica and I at Sakura:

After dinner (I had Katsu-don... again!), we went to the Botanical Garden by metro and there was a ridiculous line-up......... We arrived around 7:30 PM and we got our tickets around 8:30 PM..... And the Garden closes between 9 and 9:30! I guess they kept it open a long time after the usual time, since there were a looooooot of people after us in the line. I hope they didn't line up just to be told it was closed, eh. Or else... poor them!

Here are some pics I took at the Lantern Festival (which is held in the Chinese Garden part of the Botanical Garden):

After the Lantern Festival, we went to St-Denis st., to get cake at the same place Nana-chan and I went to last week, La Brioche Lyonnaise. Nana-chan and I planned to celebrate Monica's birthday (which was last week) so I asked the waitress to add a candle to Monica's tiramisu so that we may celebrate her birthday. Happy Birthday Monica!!! :D

Here is a pic of Nana-chan and Monica-chan at La Brioche Lyonnaise.

Keumerz @ 11:44 PM< [[ 0 comments ]]

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Hide and Seek

Seems like phones have been playing hide and seek lately. I keep losing mine and finding it in the weirdest places.... (hence the fridge....) And other friends of mine have been losing their phones too... Kinda funny eh? Thanks to that, I forgot a bunch of things I was supposed to do (it's all recorded on my phone... I didn't do what I had to do, which means I will pay the price later... but at the same time, I find it nice to stop worrying about things... hehe ;)

Today I found out one of my friends (yu-chan) has a blog. If you know her or if you just feel like checking her blog out, just click on her link on the left of the page.... It looks just as cute as she is! ^^; sasuga Yu-chan.

Summer is gone and fall is definitely there. The leaves are falling quickly and my Mom said it would start snowing next week... Can you believe it? Well, my Mom could be exaggerating too... It's my Mom, after all! ^^ Oh I kinda miss her. And my Dad too... They recently just came back form a trip to Japan... lucky them! I'll post some of the pics they've taken when I go home.

Ta ta!

Keumerz @ 1:09 PM< [[ 0 comments ]]

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Studying for Midterms.... and Having strange dreams?

It's raining.... *sigh*... I woke up super late when I was supposed to wake up early and study... :( And I feel like I've forgotten something, but I can't figure out what... Hmm. Maybe I'll find out later. )These days I keep cramming for my Microeconomics course. It's boring... I don't really like it but I guess it's a necessary pain.... anyways. The exam is on Thursday and after that, I'll have only one exam (not as important) to study for... So.... basically, in two days I will be FREE!!!!

I had a funny dream about Spain yesterday. Surprisingly, I remember the dream very clearly. I dreamt that I was in Salamanca looking for the Chupiteria and Atahualpa (two bars). It wasn't there anymore! I was walking and I had no cellphone... So I decided to meet a friend under the clock of the main place (El reloj de la Plaza Mayor, where everyone meets). We walked and entered different bars and restaurants. Strangely enough, one of them was hosting a few homeless people and those people were kicked out so that we could sit!!! ... The tapas were ridiculously expensive and made of Chinese food... I remember feeling bad about kicking out the hobos and wondering why there would be Chinese tapas in Spain.... The dream was so weird!!!! lol Then all of a sudden, I was in a different place. It felt rather East European... and there was a big white house with a nice black car... My friend Hyun was there... What was she doing there? Hm. We were hanging out and two of her friends came and didn't seem to like me too much. At one point, I remember we were hiding behind a couch and someone else arrived, but I can't remember who it was....

I wonder if every dream has a meaning or if it's just bs most of the time....
Oh here is a pic of Salamanca....

Keumerz @ 2:37 PM< [[ 0 comments ]]

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Yesterday, I finished a very annoying take-home midterm... And I have more midterms in the coming week!! sniff sniff... Anyways, I was tired and sick of studying... So my friend Charles (from my hometown) came over! We had some tea and our usual long talks and eventually decided to have a movie night! We went to the rental shop and got 2046 (Hong Kong, 2004) and Ju-On//The Grudge 1 & 2 (Japan, 2000). We also watched Tanguy (France, 2001). It was fun... We stayed up till 5 A.M though... ^^

Keumerz @ 10:24 AM< [[ 0 comments ]]

Friday, October 19, 2007

Juliette et Chocolat

Tonight I had dinner with a Japanese friend of mine, Nana-chan. First, she introduced me to a friend of hers (Miki) and we went together to the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal... It was really interesting! The exhibit that I found to be the most interesting was by Vik Muniz, an artist who draws/paints with very particular tools, such as chocolate, ketchup, peanut butter, jam, etc. What's really amazing, is the precision of his drawings.... He even reproduced the famous Raft of the Medusa (Gericault) all in Chocolate syrup.... I couldn't find this specific picture on the internet, but here is an example of his art:

Pretty cool, eh? ^^

After the visit of the museum, Miki had to go home. Nana-chan and I walked down Ste-Catherine st. (main street) to find a place to have dinner. We walked (under the rain) to St-Denis st, one of the most animated streets of Montreal and found a nice French restaurant, called La Brioche Lyonnaise, whose specialties are sandwiches, crêpes and paninis. We both had crêpes and had a long talk. Afterwards, we found this amazing and delicious Chocolate place called Juliette et Chocolat. After seeing the Muniz exhibit, how could we not feel like eating Chocolate?? lol

Juliette and Chocolat specialize in all kind of products made of chocolate; fondue, hot chocolate, cakes, crêpes, etc. etc. Simply amazing... The atmosphere was a bit noisy but really nice. I guess it's a popular place, because there was a line of people waiting outside even under the rain (which kept pouring harder and harder.... )

Ahh, I had a good time. It's so relaxing, after cramming the whole week for my exams... ^^; We gotta do this more often...

Keumerz @ 10:08 PM< [[ 0 comments ]]

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

SSMU Early Booking Day Part 2

Today, we went back to the SSMU building... MJ, one of my friends and committee members of KCN, went there at 6:30 A.M. to make sure we'd be one of the first organizations to book a room. Ahem... we were 10th in line... Some people must have shown up around 5:30 A.M. or something, it's crazy!!!

The office opens at 9:00. So first, we waited from 6:30 to 9....
Then, we had to enter the office, get a ticket with our number... (that's another 20 minutes to get the ticket...)
Then, we had to wait till they called our number........................................ till 1:30 P.M....
So in total we waited 7 hours at that stupid office.... omfg... can u believe it?

Well, I guess at least the lady was polite this time....
Moral of this story? Patience is a Virtue! >.<

Keumerz @ 6:19 PM< [[ 0 comments ]]

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Tales of Mere Existence by Lev Yilmaz "Saturday"

So here is a funky video I've seen on youtube randomly... When I saw it, it totally reminded me of myself, thinking of the right order to be efficient in time... lol And there's a whole bunch of other videos by the same author, you can look them up on youtube, it's called "tales of mere existence". Enjoy! lol

Keumerz @ 4:24 PM< [[ 0 comments ]]

Can u believe it? Keumerz likes kittens!

Hmm... If you've known me in the recent years, you'll have noticed my unexplainable hatred for animals... especially pigeons and squirrels... well.. any type of birds and rodents................. I like dogs though.. sometimes... And recently, I found myself liking cats!!!

It all started with Akira-kun's cat, called Gemini. At first, I thought it was the ugliest rat-looking cat I had ever seen... But then as we started playing with it, I started to think it was soooo cute!! And I went over at Kyan's once in a while just to play with it... I thought "It's only his cat".

But then, Heeja and her roommate Iris got 2 kittens... At first, I thought they were just antisocial furballs... but then... they started playing and running around... and falling asleep in bra baskets... lol I started liking them too... What's wrong with me? Am I becoming soft?

Here's a pic that Heeja posted on her blog (look at link on the left).

Sorry for stealing! lol Well, I still gave Heeja credits....

Keumerz @ 10:07 AM< [[ 0 comments ]]

Monday, October 15, 2007

SSMU Early Booking................

This morning, Bebe-ya and I went to the SSMU (Student Society of McGill Univ.) to book a room for our amazing Korean Culture Night, which will be held in March. Since room booking every year proves to be difficult and we knew we'd have to fight our way in, we decided to go there very early, at 7 A.M (the office only opens at 9:30). When we got there, there was only one person before us and she had arrived there at 6 A.M... Insane... anyways. The point is... We waited there till about 8:00, until some Evil-mean-b*tchy lady came out to tell us there was no point in waiting.... Here is the dialog we had:

Evil lady: "Why are you there? Which events are you planning to book a room for?"
We: "Korean Culture Night".
Evil lady: "Oh today's only for SSMU's special events."
We: "But Korean Culture Night is a special event!"
Evil lady: "Sure, but KCN is under club activities. Why, don't wait here for nothing and come back on wednesday for the club activities room booking day!"

And the whole time she had this evil look and mean voice... GRR! >.<>

Here, an ugly picture of the ugly Shatner Building where we had to wait for nothing... :

And while I'm at it, I'll post some pics of McGill Univ!

Keumerz @ 8:57 AM< [[ 0 comments ]]

Sunday, October 14, 2007

A Funny Taxi Ride...

Hmm. I stayed over at Heather's last night after the party... I played with the kittens (and got allergies... lol), had a long talk with her and fought with her computer's internet.

This morning (afternoon?) I went home by cab, cuz I realized I had forgotten my bus pass... Argh! (I could have just bought a ticket, but it's so annoying...) So I took a cab on Dr.Penfield St. The guy was a Canadian-English who didn't speak French very well... but who had a Quebecois-French accent when he spoke English! He kept sputtering (postilloner?)... so much that every word he pronounced, I could see a fountain of water coming out of his mouth!! He told me many stories about Haitians and Asians whom he thought were really bad drivers.... He went on and on and it was hilarious!!

On the way home, I saw a church with a sign saying "Les gens voient ce que nous faisons, mais Dieu sait pourquoi nous le faisons." (People see what we do, but God knows why we do it) Then I thought that basically it meant, that we can just start burning people and killing them and stuff like that and be justified by saying "you and the other people don't get it, but God will understand"... I can't understand why a church would promote such a message.... Isn't it weird? Well it sure doesn't make me feel like becoming Christian...

Keumerz @ 2:47 PM< [[ 0 comments ]]

Saturday, October 13, 2007

KH Oppa's birthday

Haha, poor oppa. All week long I told him I wouldn't have time to go to his birthday party... What a terrible girlfriend I am, eh. However, his best friend and I were planning a surprise-party! He knew there would be a gathering of some sort, but I'm pretty sure he never imagined we'd be so many people. The look on his face was priceless. ^^;

Many people from his bboy crew were there, as well as friends from McGill and his university. It was fun! Food, drinks and good friends. All he needed for his birthday was there. I think. Oh and his friends prepared a cheesecake... that ended in his face!! They made him believe they were gonna take a picture and one of his friends came from the back and put the cake right in his face... lol It was hilarious... I'm not sure I would have liked it, but at least he smelled good! ^^

Seems like he had a good time. Yokatta ne. Wait for the video to come. As soon as I receive it, I'll post it!

Keumerz @ 2:17 PM< [[ 0 comments ]]

Life's like that...

These days, I am feeling... depressed. (lol. I'm saying that, but with a smile. No worries, I'm not gonna go jump off a bridge or anything.) Some say it's just the weather, but since September I've found myself unsatisfied with the life I am leading right now. Technically, nothing is missing in my life; I have a sweet boyfriend, a good family, I'm not doing that badly in school and socially I am surrounded by awesome people. Then what is the problem? Emptiness. It's the kind of feeling that is rather difficult to explain and that I believe, very few people can really understand... I feel lonely though I am in a crowd. Bored when I should be having fun. Frustrated with studies, when I should be giving it my all.

People tell me "When is the last time you felt actually happy." They don't understand. It's not about being happy or not. It's about having this special thing or feeling that fills you up and boost you. You can be happy without feeling filled. The feeling I'm talking about, only a few people would be able to provide it to me. But right now, I don't feel anyone is able to do so, therefore I feel empty. It seems to me as a very simple concept, yet noone seems to be able to grasp it.

Annoyed with people, I stayed home on my own to think. I've wondered "Why this. Why that." Most of all, I was wondering "what am I doing with my life? where am I going?" Even though I changed major to International Development Studies (IDS) many people tell me I don't have the profile for it. While I am writing this I realize the part of the sentence "many people tell me..." I keep listening to everyone's opinion without caring about what I really want. I thought maybe it's better to always keep others' desires above my own. This way, I won't be selfish and they will be happy. But life is not like that.

Sometimes you have to be selfish and do things you want the way you want.

After talking to a friend of mine who noticed my passion for languages, I finally found out why I was dragged to IDS. I started learning Japanese because there were friends of mine who spoke it and I wanted to understand their culture, understand them in the context of their own language and make them understand me. Then I realized everytime I was learning a language, it was like that. I want to understand people, work with them and in my own way help the different countries of the world understand each other instead of fearing each other or fighting. IDS is all about that. Helping the world's poor, saving the world from misery... Build a better future for our children and the children of our children. Reduce inequality in this world.

For sure, it looks like I don't fit this profile. For now. Right now, I am not sure I am ready to go in a refugee camp away from my capitalist comfort and security to go help poor people. Maybe I am not ready for it yet. Before helping someone, you gotta help yourself, I think. There are so many things I need to work on. Compassion, understanding, patience, maturity... All these things I lack are what I need to fit better the profile of someone who will be reliable to help people. I don't wanna be in the UN or any NGO just for the name or the sake of it. I don't wanna be one of those people who slow things down instead of helping progress.

I wanna be me, or an improved version of me, helping people improve their situation. You could say, I wanna save the world in my own way. Haha.. Maybe some of you will read this and think "It doesn't sound like Keumyeo." but u know what? I don't care and I will show you this side of me once it's ready to come out.

Keumerz @ 1:45 PM< [[ 0 comments ]]

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