Highlights of my Day... Sunday, December 16

1. As if last night's drama wasn't enough, today my nice happy morning was interrupted by a totally uncalled for and extremely racist text message from Mr. Dong... you know, the disgustingly rude drunk that I punched last night. This is what he texted my phone:

"good luck with those f###ing slit eyed yellow dog eaters. u will never be happy"

2. Despite the million and one things I could say... should say... would say... and wanted to say, I decided that it best that I didn't text him back. I refuse to lower myself to his level. What he texted was incredibly racist and I don't stand for that kind of manner. It's just no manner. Moreover, I feel sorry for him. Does he mean I'll never be happy like him?! ... I sure hope not!!! He thinks he's happy?! How so? He's the racist living in a country full of the very people he apparently can't stand. And so, for him to say something like this, after the heat of the moment has died down and a good number of hours have past by, hints that either he's one very unhappy person or a bitter, bitter old man.

3. No sooner did I get his text but then I had to leave my house. I was meeting up with Hanna and her daughter for lunch. We haven't seen each other for awhile and so I missed her and getting that awful message made me really want to see her. She is a true friend... a person I respect. And so, when I saw her today, I greeted her with a big hug. It felt so good to see her again.

4. Off we went for tak galbi and shopping, just the three of us gals. This past month has been hard for Hanna and Seul. In addition to Hanna having exams at university, Seul (age 5) had her appendix removed and so she spent about a month in the hospital.

5. Today was Q's birthday and so we met up to celebrate it together. I had spent the past week or so embarrassing myself by asking random students of mine to edit my Korean birthday letter/card that I had been writing for him. It oozed with sappiness and was ultra sweet... I, on the other hand, was ultra foolish and ended up dropping it on our way to the movie theater. We went around looking for it but had no luck.

6. Q's all about bombarding me with as much Korean as possible and so tonight we went to go see the Korean movie called "Seven Days". It was a suspense murder mystery and wow... it was so hard for me to understand cause of it having a complicated plot and it being full of serious conversations. For the hour and a half that it played, I sat on the edge of my seat, seriously focusing on the language and trying to translate it all.... ahhhh... "head bing-bing"... hehehe.

7. After the movie, we headed over to Mainz for a nice and relaxing dinner. I was starving by this time and so feasting on some oh-so-good food at Mainz hit the spot perfectly, after which, we topped off the meal with the birthday cake I had bought. I had the "pleasure" of singing happy birthday by myself. Q told me to sing nice and loud and well, I did... hehehe.

8. We thought we'd simply go back to Q's house to relax. He still hadn't opened my gift at this point but when I went to the bathroom at his house, I opened the door and caught him opening up his present without me. I think he only meant to take a sneak peek but because the gift was all wrapped up inside the box, his curiosity took over... hehehe.

9. Q and I have this on-going joke about us giving each other a score out of 10. My original score was 8 apparently. But then I gained points. I gained mad points the other day when I proved that I had a high IQ the other day by retelling the main points of the last Korean movie we watched. He was impressed and so my point moved up to 9.5. Today I lost points when I lost his birthday card. Now I'm down to 9.

10. As for Q's score, I originally gave him a 9 but upon getting a low score, I moved him down to an 8.5. I gave him an 8.5 for the following reasons:
* he's got a very relaxed and carefree personality
* he's always giggling about something and smiling
* he enjoys his job (bonus points for scoring the "best employee of 2007" award)
* he is a university graduate
* he's not embarrassed to show that he's sensitive and to tell me that he misses me
* he always remembers and notices things -- even little things, my students' names, if I wear my hair a different way, buy new earrings... I love that
* sometimes he calls me in the morning when he knows I have to wake up early
* bonus points for the fact that he sleeps with a teddy bear on his bed... hehehe.
* his house is always clean and he takes pride in things he has
* he's a gentleman; opening doors for me and walks on the road side
* bonus points for having a huge apartment and truck
* he loves sports: is a professional boxer and is on a soccer team
* he's close with his family
* he's a walking teddy bear, very cuddly
* he likes studying and learning new things (currently studying Excel and English)
* he's super cute and I love it how his eyes almost totally disappear when he smiles or laughs
* he's a down-to-earth simple good guy
* he's a good listener and listens to my rambling, even when I know he doesn't understand
* he's just one of those "feel-good" people that, no matter what kind of day you've had, you just can't help but feel good when you're with him

BUT... lately he's been losing points because he hasn't been showing up at boxing as frequently as before, he's slacking off a bit with his English studies (I think it's cause I'm studying Korean and so he doesn't feel so obligated now), and he broke our promise (plans) twice now. So, his current score is 8.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Why?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.
-- Katherine Anne Porter