Home coming day

Saturday was homecoming day. Some of our friends who already graduated came to school to see us. It had been such a long time since I saw them. I was really glad to see them again. We enjoyed several glasses of beer having pleasant chats together. Most of them work in the other provinces away from Busan now, so it's not easy to see them often. Some friends left early and the rest of us had another drink. We were going to say good-bye after that, but we felt sorry about it, so we decided to stay over night in a karaoke room. We sang songs for over three hours. We were dismissed at about four a.m. I got home by taxi and went to bed right away. When I woke up, it was eleven thirty. I felt a bit tired, but it was such a good gathering. I'm already missing them. Hopefully, I also have a job when I see them again.

The end of year

I feel that time really flies especially when I look back on the past time. It feels like 2009 has started yesterday, but this year is almost over. It is already the end of November. There is the Korean movie, "2009- Lost Memories". I saw that movie in 2002 when I was a 3rd year of high school student. 2009 was 7 years later than that time, so it felt like it was fairly long future. I vaguely thought I might have a job and be married in 2009 at that time. Reality is quite different, though. I'm still a student and not sure when I'll get a job. I usually feel regret for something that I have not done even though I should have done at the end of every year. Then I make a new plan for the next year, reflecting the thing I haven't fully done this year. It's almost time to make a new plan and refresh myself.

Wearing braces

I started wearing braces at the beginning of August. One day, I felt that my teeth looked so crooked and ugly in the mirror. It was shortly after I pulled my last wisdom tooth out. I became really eager to straighten my crooked teeth, so I suddenly decided to wear braces. My mother strongly disagreed with my idea, though. It was because I was supposed to pull out four small molar teeth to do that. She didn't accept the fact that I had to pull four normal molar teeth out. I managed to persuade her in a week and got a permission, so I began to wear braces at last. It was very painful to set the braces around my teeth. I could hardly eat anything at first. After having a meal, it usually takes me more that ten minutes to brush my teeth. You can guess why. I'm getting used to it. It's true that it's very inconvenient to wear braces, though, especially when eating and talking. It's not as painful as before, but pain has started again because I went to see an orthodontist a few hours ago and he tightened the braces more than before. (I go to see an orthodontist every three weeks.) He said it will take about 3 years to finish straightening my teeth when I started wearing braces. It's around July, 2012. I'll look forward to that day.

Time machine

What if I can get time back with what I know at the moment? Sometimes, I wish like that. Now, I really want to go back to the time right before taking the teacher's exam. I'll be able to get all the answers correct then. If there exists time machine, when do you go back to? There were a lot of moments that I wanted to go back to. When I was fifth grade, I had a crush on the girl in the same class for the first time, but I was too shy to ask her out. I often thought I would have asked her out if I had been able to go back to that moment. Oh, don't get me wrong. I mean I just loved her when I was young. I don't love her any more, ha ha. She is just my friend now. The idea of time machine is just off the top of my head because I regret not studying for the exam as best as I could. Come to think of it, thinking about time machine might have something to do with regretting something. Of course, it might not be true if we want to travel into our future. Anyway, I don't want to regret something anymore..

How do you relieve your stress?

Many people get stress for a lot of different reasons. I'm getting stress because of the study for the teacher's exam nowadays. I usually listen to music to get the stress away, but it doesn't always work. Then I try to see something in a different way, more positively if it is what gives me stress. However, it doesn't work all the time either. The stress tends to go down as time goes by, but is there any effective way to relieve the stress very quickly? It might be a temporary solution if the main source of the stress still exists. Nevertheless, this kind of solution still helps me to refresh myself, so I can face the problem more energetically. How do you get your stress away?