Author: peterjang73

A nerdy father of two, a husband of a beautiful and understanding wife, an engineer who loves anime and tinkering with PCs and games, but most of all, loves God.
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K-Movie: “Holli-Dei” (aka. Holiday)

In the year of 1988, Korea held its first Olympics.  However, to do so, the government had to take down the slum areas of Seoul to try to improve its image.  Additionally, there was no concept of “rights” to inmates.  This movie captured the disillusionment and the sadness of those times while staying true to its message.

Though I didn’t shed a tear physically, my heart cried inside … Korea, like many countries, have loads of secrets that need to come out in the open.  I pray that movies like “Holli-Dei” will awaken the people around us to kick us out of our ignorance.

This is for the victims of injustice…  If you feel brave enough to see the movie, let me know… 

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Computer Upgrade Done Right…

So over the past couple of months, I’ve been scrunging to sell my older parts in the effort to upgrade my desktop PC, which is mainly used for gaming and video capturing (miniDV camcorder).  I don’t mind used parts so I found great deals and hitched up!    Here’s the rundown…

Before:

CPU: AMD Athlon64 Socket 754 3000+ (OC’ed to 2.4 GHz)

Memory:  2x 512 MB Patriot PDP+XBLK memory

Video:  BFG 6800GT 256 MB AGP

Motherboard:  Chaintech VNF3-250

HDD:  100 GB IDE Seagate / 160 GB IDE Western Digital

Now:

CPU: AMD Athlon64 X2 Socket 939 4200+ (OC’ed to 2.5 GHz)

Memory: 2x 1 GB Patriot EP PC3200

Video:  Sapphire X1900XT 512 MB PCI-E

Motherboard: Epox 9NPA+ Ultra

HDD:  250 GB SATA Hitachi / 200 GB SATA Maxtor

All I can say is…

Dual core helps a LOT in multi-tasking… my http://folding.stanford.edu project is now crunching out faster than ever to find the cure for cancer!    My games both look beatiful and runs so much faster…  hee… the satisfaction of building/upgrading your own rig is just a pure sensation!    Say what you will… at least I’m a very happy nerd/geek … 

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???? – The Island House Baby

??? ? ??? ? ?? ??
??? ?? ?? ?? ???
??? ???? ?? ???
? ?? ???? ?? ???

roughly translated:
When mommy goes to dig some oysters,
The baby is left home alone
And as he listens to the lullaby from the tide
He falls asleep lying on his arms.

This has been one of my all time favorite children’s song… something about it is so soothing and comforting… that I began sing this song to Anna and JJ…

Well, I begun the song again as I tried to put them to sleep… only to be stopped…  here’s the run down…

Me:  ??? ? ???
Anna:  ??, ? ? ????
Me:  Uh… it’s an island… anyway, ? ?? ??…
Anna:  ??, ?? ????
Me:  Um… ?? ?? ??…
Anna:  What’s ???

Well, you get the idea… with JJ, they both practically stopped me every other phrase of the song…    Oh well… the inquisitive mind wants to know…  It’s frustrating… but cute at the same time…  oh well… welcome to fatherhood! 

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Anna and Korean

Wow… I was very pleasantly surprised today…
Anna read an entire Korean story book by herself today!    Soojin has been teaching her how to read Korean for a while now and she’s proven that it’s very easy to read Korean!  I could also sense her sense of achievement and pride at reading it herself as well…

She definitely picks up that language ability from her mom.  Though I also took French and German, Soojin definitely seems to have the more natural knack for picking up languages.  I’m so proud of Anna… 

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JJ and Glass

My kids are acrobats.  Really. 

They sure proved themselves this week!  There’s this clock that Soojin got as a wedding gift from her friend that has a quilted background.  It’s covered by glass, of course!

Well, I was talking to my parents on the phone when I heard glass shatter!    Then I saw JJ on the clock with shattered glass!    He evidently jumped from the chair onto the clock!  Luckily, I was right next to him so I lifted him up before he even tried to move, sat him down on my lap, took out the big glass pieces off his feet before they did REAL damage, rushed him to the bathroom and washed his feet from tiny pieces…  Whew…  thankfully, he didn’t have any damage or bleeding… 

Who ever said that child raising isn’t full of excitement?!!     I still had to give him a good lecture and punish him for such behavior by not allowing him to play… boys are sooo much more troublesome!