I think this is what we all should live by. No excuses
We only have one life to live. Lets make the best out of it in every situation.
and as this guys says, lets not live our lives making excuses.
Don't let ever somebody tell you you can't do something.
People who can't do something themselves are the same one who tell you
you can't do it.
If you got a dream, you got to protect it.
If you want something
go and get it. Period.
*just some inspirational videos.lol
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
Stay Hungry Stay Foolish
"The first step before anybody else in the world believes it is you have to believe it. There's no reason to have a plan B coz' it distracts you from plan A. Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity."
Note to self:
Never be mediocre. Never do things because people expect you to. Stick to the game plan. Don't be afraid to handle criticisms. Never falter, and don't hesitate either.
Give everything more than your all. and more importantly, believe in yourself. Believe that no matter what, something good will always come out, and that you have been given a gift and talent to share to the whole world.
Dont' and i repeat Don't give up on your dreams just because people say they're unrealistic - because most of the time this comes from the same people who gave up on theirs.
Set a Goal.
Set a Timeline.
Inch by inch.
"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” - Steve Jobs
Sunday, November 21, 2010
First Trip outside Seoul by myself
seoul-dajeon-asan-onyoung- asan- seoul in two days.
No plans. Just wanting to get away from it all and go to some countryside and practice my
half-baked korean.
Notes to remember in the future.
1. walked probably around 80km at the least.
7 hours of walking with only 2 20 minute break for dinner and leaving my things in the motel.
2. Non-city dwellers are more eager to help.
3. I got to practice my korean at hardcore level and guess i have to say im proud of myself for having returned in one piece with no plans whatsoever for this trip.
4. learned a TON of new words.<-thanks to the dozens and dozens of people who helped me along the way:)
5. Prepare for a longer trip
6. Logistics is important to get to the good places
7. you can ride KTX for free if you dont get caught.
8. North Face bag is awesome with the backsupport.
9. I got to buy a good cross trainer for walking. My sneakers just wont cut it.
10. Koreans are horny people willing to pay 500, 000 won for one night stands.
*special Mention and thanks to these people for the Gyudon, extra rice, and conversation
No plans. Just wanting to get away from it all and go to some countryside and practice my
half-baked korean.
Notes to remember in the future.
1. walked probably around 80km at the least.
7 hours of walking with only 2 20 minute break for dinner and leaving my things in the motel.
2. Non-city dwellers are more eager to help.
3. I got to practice my korean at hardcore level and guess i have to say im proud of myself for having returned in one piece with no plans whatsoever for this trip.
4. learned a TON of new words.<-thanks to the dozens and dozens of people who helped me along the way:)
5. Prepare for a longer trip
6. Logistics is important to get to the good places
7. you can ride KTX for free if you dont get caught.
8. North Face bag is awesome with the backsupport.
9. I got to buy a good cross trainer for walking. My sneakers just wont cut it.
10. Koreans are horny people willing to pay 500, 000 won for one night stands.
*special Mention and thanks to these people for the Gyudon, extra rice, and conversation
Traveling Alone
Traveling alone in your country is pretty hard.
Traveling alone in another country? harder
Traveling alone in another country that does not speak any of your language? arghh :| (pulls hair)
Traveling alone in another country's rural(countryside) area with no one speaking any of your
language? !@#!@#! arghh >:|(pulls whats left of his hair)
Traveling alone in another country's rural(countryside) area with no one speaking any of your
language and without enough cash? *cuts of head.
Traveling alone in another country's rural(countryside) area with no one speaking any of your
language, without enough cash, and constantly bothered by a foot injury and not to mention no one taking your picture there? priceless memory.
^^
Traveling alone in another country? harder
Traveling alone in another country that does not speak any of your language? arghh :| (pulls hair)
Traveling alone in another country's rural(countryside) area with no one speaking any of your
language? !@#!@#! arghh >:|(pulls whats left of his hair)
Traveling alone in another country's rural(countryside) area with no one speaking any of your
language and without enough cash? *cuts of head.
Traveling alone in another country's rural(countryside) area with no one speaking any of your
language, without enough cash, and constantly bothered by a foot injury and not to mention no one taking your picture there? priceless memory.
^^
me in subway waiting for the train.
Expo park creatively using my bag as a flat tripod
Sleeping
Monday, November 15, 2010
The road less traveled
"i walk by myself in campus looking at the marvelous yellow trees,
smelling the cool breeze and feeling the wind blowing against my face."
all by myself.
i walk.
i walk through the deep forest where no roads are found.
i walk through the hills where no flowers are around.
i walk up the steep road, hoping to find a better way.
when i look up, there was no better way- just more trees and hills floating my way.
i want to go back and take that road more frequently travelled.
less talks , less mistakes, less heartaches, less danger, less tiring,
more safe, more secure, more definite, more revealing.
no one in front of me, no one behind me and certainly no one beside me.
better life? greener pastures? more rewards?
for all i know there's nothing there in the end. and the road less traveled that i took was just
in vain.
who knows right? thats the price i pay for taking the road less traveled.
i'll never know.
all by myself.
I never meant this to rhyme..lol it just happened..:)
smelling the cool breeze and feeling the wind blowing against my face."
all by myself.
i walk.
i walk through the deep forest where no roads are found.
i walk through the hills where no flowers are around.
i walk up the steep road, hoping to find a better way.
when i look up, there was no better way- just more trees and hills floating my way.
i want to go back and take that road more frequently travelled.
less talks , less mistakes, less heartaches, less danger, less tiring,
more safe, more secure, more definite, more revealing.
no one in front of me, no one behind me and certainly no one beside me.
better life? greener pastures? more rewards?
for all i know there's nothing there in the end. and the road less traveled that i took was just
in vain.
who knows right? thats the price i pay for taking the road less traveled.
i'll never know.
all by myself.
I never meant this to rhyme..lol it just happened..:)
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
STAIRSsSsS
Stairs!! They are everywhere here in Seoul!
Seriously.
I think i took like a dozen to a gazillion photos of different stairs to where i was going.
Small stairs. Big stairs. Wide Stairs. Steep Stairs.YONSEI Stairs. Sexy Stairs Even.
*I promise to post those later. Have to buy a card reader first. I hate my school for not having bikes around.-_- YONSEI!!!!!!
I guess thats what sums my most of my day today going around seoul.
I went to Yongsan Market to buy this Electronic Dictionary that translate Korean-English and vice versa. What's interesting is that the models here is cheaper than what i've bought from China.
So i'm here guessing. It's either korean models are low quality or i just got duped back in China and bought an over expesnive dictionary.
Anyways, going back. Yes Stairs. Everything that happened to me today happened with some stairs around.
Scene 1
When i got lost in subway near Itaewon, i tried asking some people around for directions. Unfortunately i forgot people here speak little English.
Chinese did not help either.
Luckily, there was this German Lady and her CUTEEEE little kid spawning out of nowhere.
and guess what. From the stairs going down to the subway! yeah boi, and they did talk some good english.
So i guess what happened next is kinda boring if i'm still going to type it all down. I asked for directions and they happily guided me to Yongsan Market via Yoksu, Oksu and some other Su. bla bla bla
Scene 2
I saw this beautiful korean girl walking down the stairs...
...
End of story
Scene 3
Dinner time. I went to a restaurant nearby hoping to try something new. Yes, my Korean is still kinda bad, so i had to do stares, finger pointing, and charades to get what i want. Anyways, so i was in this restaurant trying to order something, however, the menu had no pictures. Only Words! So what was a guy like me supposed to do in that situation? i stood their opened my chinky eyes, and stared blankly.
lol
Well, that did kinda work since there was this guy that bailed me out and talked to the oyagi for me. Translated what i wanted to say and got me an OX Something soup(that supposed to taste really really good).
Reminded me the other night when a couple bailed me out when i was ordering some kimchiboekembap and manduk something dumplings.
Blank stares FTW.
and there are not stairs in this story. I just wanted to share
Yes, stairs stairs and more stairs. After this trip, im going to have buns of titanium and something else.
p.s. oh yeah i saw f16 flying around campus while smoking out some cool colors. got to hand it to the south koreans. too much money on their hands.
Seriously.
I think i took like a dozen to a gazillion photos of different stairs to where i was going.
Small stairs. Big stairs. Wide Stairs. Steep Stairs.YONSEI Stairs. Sexy Stairs Even.
*I promise to post those later. Have to buy a card reader first. I hate my school for not having bikes around.-_- YONSEI!!!!!!
I guess thats what sums my most of my day today going around seoul.
I went to Yongsan Market to buy this Electronic Dictionary that translate Korean-English and vice versa. What's interesting is that the models here is cheaper than what i've bought from China.
So i'm here guessing. It's either korean models are low quality or i just got duped back in China and bought an over expesnive dictionary.
Anyways, going back. Yes Stairs. Everything that happened to me today happened with some stairs around.
Scene 1
When i got lost in subway near Itaewon, i tried asking some people around for directions. Unfortunately i forgot people here speak little English.
Chinese did not help either.
Luckily, there was this German Lady and her CUTEEEE little kid spawning out of nowhere.
and guess what. From the stairs going down to the subway! yeah boi, and they did talk some good english.
So i guess what happened next is kinda boring if i'm still going to type it all down. I asked for directions and they happily guided me to Yongsan Market via Yoksu, Oksu and some other Su. bla bla bla
Scene 2
I saw this beautiful korean girl walking down the stairs...
...
End of story
Scene 3
Dinner time. I went to a restaurant nearby hoping to try something new. Yes, my Korean is still kinda bad, so i had to do stares, finger pointing, and charades to get what i want. Anyways, so i was in this restaurant trying to order something, however, the menu had no pictures. Only Words! So what was a guy like me supposed to do in that situation? i stood their opened my chinky eyes, and stared blankly.
lol
Well, that did kinda work since there was this guy that bailed me out and talked to the oyagi for me. Translated what i wanted to say and got me an OX Something soup(that supposed to taste really really good).
Reminded me the other night when a couple bailed me out when i was ordering some kimchiboekembap and manduk something dumplings.
Blank stares FTW.
and there are not stairs in this story. I just wanted to share
Yes, stairs stairs and more stairs. After this trip, im going to have buns of titanium and something else.
p.s. oh yeah i saw f16 flying around campus while smoking out some cool colors. got to hand it to the south koreans. too much money on their hands.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
1st Day
Arrived in incheon airport around 6 in the morning local time. Man, did i not get any sleep.
Blamed it on hunger, the inflight movie, and anxiety attacks every few minutes whether ill be able to get in Korea or not with my
passport.
*Flashback
You see I'm Filipino-Canadian. My Dad's Canadian and my mom's a filipino. Typical Foreigner marrying a filipina type of couple.
tsktsk mom. you got tricked. or was it the other way around. haha
Anyways, being nationalistic about my country the Philippines, i applied a student visa using my Filipino passport. Got all documents ready including the school certification(From Yonsei University KLI) and even my bank account certificate. Submitted them through a travel agency and happily waited for it to be processed.
14 days 6 hours 8 minutes later, i got a big fat denied visa from the korean embassy. For God knows whatever reason, the korean people just snub me. To think i've been to korea 5 times already using my Filipino passport. 5 FREAKING TIMES.
boooo
Flashback story cut short, i'm forced to use my Canadian Passport which entitles me to 6 months stay in Korea.
*flashback end
Where's the problem?
I'm not so sure whether the 6 months can be applied for study visit purposes. Since this is my first time using my Canadian Passport to go to Korea for study purposes. I was afraid i might get deported back to my country. lol
So i was there lining up in the immigration area, then in my line 3 people were interrogated extensively by the immigration officer.
yeah, that did not help at all.
It really did not.
I was really tempted to switch lines, but i think that would make me look more suspiscious. Fortunately though, the immigration officer in my line was cute. So i figured i would be better of being deported by a cute korean girl than some old fat guy on the other line.
Moment of truth
"Good morning"
*stare and hands shaking
"ahh Yonsei.. How long is your stay"
"Around 3 months"
"Okay"
*stamps my passport and places 6 months
*end
Seriously..anti-climatic...but hey, anxiety attack 0 confidence on my canadian passport 1 .
Blamed it on hunger, the inflight movie, and anxiety attacks every few minutes whether ill be able to get in Korea or not with my
passport.
*Flashback
You see I'm Filipino-Canadian. My Dad's Canadian and my mom's a filipino. Typical Foreigner marrying a filipina type of couple.
tsktsk mom. you got tricked. or was it the other way around. haha
Anyways, being nationalistic about my country the Philippines, i applied a student visa using my Filipino passport. Got all documents ready including the school certification(From Yonsei University KLI) and even my bank account certificate. Submitted them through a travel agency and happily waited for it to be processed.
14 days 6 hours 8 minutes later, i got a big fat denied visa from the korean embassy. For God knows whatever reason, the korean people just snub me. To think i've been to korea 5 times already using my Filipino passport. 5 FREAKING TIMES.
boooo
Flashback story cut short, i'm forced to use my Canadian Passport which entitles me to 6 months stay in Korea.
*flashback end
Where's the problem?
I'm not so sure whether the 6 months can be applied for study visit purposes. Since this is my first time using my Canadian Passport to go to Korea for study purposes. I was afraid i might get deported back to my country. lol
So i was there lining up in the immigration area, then in my line 3 people were interrogated extensively by the immigration officer.
yeah, that did not help at all.
It really did not.
I was really tempted to switch lines, but i think that would make me look more suspiscious. Fortunately though, the immigration officer in my line was cute. So i figured i would be better of being deported by a cute korean girl than some old fat guy on the other line.
Moment of truth
"Good morning"
*stare and hands shaking
"ahh Yonsei.. How long is your stay"
"Around 3 months"
"Okay"
*stamps my passport and places 6 months
*end
Seriously..anti-climatic...but hey, anxiety attack 0 confidence on my canadian passport 1 .
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