there is hope

I was on soompi and came across this beautiful story.

"An incredible love story has come out of China recently and managed to touch the world.
It is a story of a man and an older woman who ran off to live and love each other in peace for over half a century.

The 70-year-old Chinese man who hand-carved over 6,000 stairs up a mountain for his 80-year-old wife has passed away in the cave which has been the couple's home for the last 50 years.

Over 50 years ago, Liu Guojiang a 19 year-old boy, fell in love with a 29 year-old widowed mother named Xu Chaoqin.. In a twist worthy of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, friends and relatives criticized the relationship because of the age difference and the fact that Xu already had children.

At that time, it was unacceptable and immoral for a young man to love an older woman.. To avoid the market gossip and the scorn of their communities, the couple decided to elope and lived in a cave in Jiangjin County in Southern ChongQing Municipality. In the beginning, life was harsh as hey had nothing, no electricity or even food. They had to eat grass and roots they found in the mountain, and Liu made a kerosene lamp that they used to light up their lives.

Xu felt that she had tied Liu down and repeatedly asked him, 'Are you regretful? Liu always replied, 'As long as we are industrious, life will improve.'
In the second year of living in the mountain, Liu began and continued for over 50 years, to hand-carve the steps so that his wife could get down the mountain easily.

Half a century later in 2001, a group of adventurers were exploring the forest and were surprised to find the elderly couple and the over 6,000 hand-carved steps. Liu MingSheng, one of their seven children said, 'My parents loved each other so much, they have lived in seclusion for over 50 years and never been apart a single day. He hand carved more than 6,000 steps over the years for my mother's convenience, although she doesn't go down the mountain that much.'

The couple had lived in peace for over 50 years until last week. Liu, now 72 years, returned from his daily farm work and collapsed. Xu sat and prayed with her husband as he passed away in her arms. So in love with Xu, was Liu, that no one was able to release the grip he had on his wife's hand even after he had passed away.

'You promised me you'll take care of me, you'll always be with me until the day I died, now you left before me, how am I going to live without you?'
Xu spent days softly repeating this sentence and touching her husband's black coffin with tears rolling down her cheeks.

In 2006, their story became one of the top 10 love stories from China , collected by the Chinese Women Weekly. The local government has decided to preserve the love ladder and the place they lived as a museum, so this love story can live forever."

reading stories like this, help me realize that there is hope. Everyone can find love, and these kinds of stories make me want to believe in soulmates. I'm sure the couple will meet each other again.

60 year-old Fobby Korean Man

My father.

He actually should start his own blogspot because of his weird ways and philosophies. Too bad the only thing he thinks a computer is good for, is for him to sit and play baduk(that one game with the white and black button thingys) and watch Korean dramas. But a funny thing happened last night.

Let's start off with this. I'm afraid of the dark. Pathetic right? I developed this fear in seventh grade that if I close the door and turn off the light, something is going to come out and cut my legs and arms off with a knife and I scream but my parents don't hear me, then I get killed. Pretty demented fear right? Well, I have a demented mind. This fear has been with me for five years now and my parents know my fear. So for most of the nights, before I go to bed, I open my door, I turn the hall light on, and then I sleep peacefully.

Yesterday at about 1 am I was still playing on my computer and what not. My dad came in (which scared the crap out of me) and told me to go to sleep. But he said it in a quiet yell. You know when people quietly yell through their teeth? yeah that's what he did. So he closed my door and I was thinking "pshhhhhyah, like I'm really going to sleep right now." But in reality, by 1:30 I was totally tired. So I got up, turned my computer off and was ready to start my nightly routine. I went to open the door and there my dad was standing. Dude, I thought my fear had come true. My heart dropped to my freaking colon, holy crap I was scared. My dad's only words were "took you long enough. Hurry up and sleep." Then he went to his room to go to bed. I was still too shocked to move.

So the moral of the story is:
If you live with a 60 year-old fobby Korean man and he tells you to go to bed, just go to bed.

swollen eyes

I finished the drama "One Liter of Tears". It's a J-drama about a girl named Aya Ikeuchi and she has spinocerebellar degeneration and her trials and hardships in her life. Spinocereballar degeneration makes it so the patient slowly loses control of their own body. Her life story inspires me. How does she manage to stay so positive when her body is the reason for her disabilities? How does she stay so positive when her mind is working perfectly, but her body is useless? If I were in her place, I would complain all the time, and I would say that life isn't fair. And although Aya thought that God was unfair to her because she had the disease, she learned to accept herself for who she was. After watching this, I feel that I have not been very appreciative about the gifts that I have. I now know that walking, speaking, writing and more are all gifts. They are not to be taken for granted. Why should I, a girl who is perfectly healthy and has no issues with her own body, be upset about life when there are so many people out there who are sick and are struggling just to survive?

At times like this, I wish I could be a doctor. Sadly I have no interest in medicine, nor do I have the diligence or the brains to be a doctor. But I think just watching this drama and learning a lesson in life, will help me be more positive about life. Thank you Kitou Aya.

thank you

Normally I wouldn't post twice a day, but I have to give thanks publicly.

Thank you Nickelodeon. Thank you for creating The Avatar, possibly my most favorite cartoon. The last episodes today were amazing. I had the same sensation watching the last episodes when I was reading the last book of Harry Potter.

Maybe Nickelodeon will conquer the Disney Channel Empire and be the new dictator of the world. I wouldn't mind that at all. I would actually give up my title as dictator...well maybe not. But if you can make a show like The Avatar all power to you to rule the world.

disney is magical, too magical

I was watching E! and I swear, every time I watch that show, there is something Disney related. I am 16 and I still enjoy a vast majority of the Disney Channel shows. Also, I am one of the many hopeless teenage girls who fell in love with the Jonas Brothers and Zac Efron. So what is it about Disney that sucks you in like crack? Well, that question is a bit too vague so I think I'm going to break it down a bit more.

1) What is the phenomenon that is... HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL?

Exhibit A: I don't really understand why so many people, including myself, have gone crazy for High School Musical. Seriously, what is the big deal? The story is a bit on the lame side and all of the songs are cliche, but I still find myself singing along to "breaking free" and "gotta go my own way". Let's look at "gotta go my own way" more closely.



Vanessa Hudgens is singing this song, not because she is going far far away from Zac Efron. Oh no, she is singing this song because she is not working in the same venue as dear zac. Now I am sure that there is a bit more meaning to this song, but when I first watched this, I didn't really understand. So she quit, good for her. She is going her own way, why the hell is Zac trying to keep her from that? I just thought of a way better song to analyze. Zac Efron's "bet on it".



This song is all sorts of wrong. Admit it, when all of you saw this song the day HSM2 debuted you were all squirming and trying to avoid the awkwardness that is Zac Efron. I don't know why he thinks that he is in West Side Story but that number made me want to leave the room and come back five years later. But I still play this song on my iTunes and sing along, even though the song reminds of the scene that gives me nightmares.

2) What is it about Hannah Montana that makes the whole nation want to get up and dance?

Exhibit B: Here is a Southern belle that knows her stuff. NOT! Really? Miley Cyrus is cute and all but have you seen her youtube vlogs with her friend mandy or manny or whatever her name is? It's teenagers on crack. I don't really understand why all of the young girls across the nation wants to be like Hannah Montana. I don't know about you, but I grew up with the wholesome Cabbage Patch Kids and Pound Puppies. Now these young girls want to where an ugly ass blonde wig and wear makeup like a whore. It is truly unfortunate, but I still love the show Hannah Montana. I have no idea why, but I always catch myself watching reruns all the time.

3) Why was Camp Rock such a success?

Exhibit C: Camp Rock. Where to start with Camp Rock. Well let's start with this. I love the Jonas Brothers (I'll rant about them in another blog) even though they are tid bit homo. My friend, empressck and I had a Camp Rock night where we watched the premiere of Camp Rock in my living room. Now we were really excited about this movie and we had high hopes that the movie would be good. Disney has done it again. They crushed my hopes and dreams that Disney will one day make a good movie. In actuality, Camp Rock was...really bad. No joke, the plot was stupid, Demi Lovato pissed me off half the time, and there were those random ass dancers that are now relatively popular on Disney Channel. Not only that, Nick and Kevin were in the movie for a good ten minutes and during those ten minutes, Kevin was, oh how do you put it lightly, Kevin was A LOT HOMOSEXUAL. Why must Disney hurt me so? And now E!News is saying the Camp Rock may have been better than HSM!!! THE LIES THAT I MUST ENDURE! If Camp Rock is better than HSM than I am the next Mao Zedong. Now I will admit that Demi Lovato's voice blew me away and I loved her song with Joe Jonas.



But the other songs, like We Rock, ect. were all bad. Also, what the hell was up with that random ass girl winning the talent show in the end? I don't even remember her freaking name.

Well it seems that this blog proved nothing. There is nothing about HSM, Hannah Montana or Camp Rock that will explain why they are such a phenomenon. But there is something that we, the nation, have established.


Disney Channel is the dictator of the whole entire world and they make is very hard for me, to arise as dictator of the world. they also obviously put drugs in the civilian's water so that we, the victims, will fall hopelessly in love with all of their stupid t.v. shows and movies.

seriously

In the lovely city of Sacramento, it was about 100 degrees outside and it was extremely smoggy and gross. I of course was enjoying the lovely afternoon inside watching some T.V. But I felt the sudden urge to eat a nectarine and so I went into the garage to get some. Mind you the door leading to the garage has NEVER been locked before. I step out into the hot garage and I hear the door close behind me. It normally isn't a big deal and I just went to the refrigerator to get a nectarine. After I got my sweet treat I went back to the door and pushed the handle down, but it wouldn't budge. I was really confused and I tried to push the handle down harder and push the door at the same time. Still the door wouldn't move. I was locked out. Of course, knowing the world, not only was I locked out, but I had nothing on me. No phone, no wallet, nothing. I went into the backyard hoping that I left a window open...nope; everything was locked. I had to resort to walking to a neighbor's house and asking if I could use their phone. In the end, Maggie was my life saver and called her aunt to pick me up. Thank goodness for that

potato chips

today my dad, my mom, and i decided to sit down and have a nice family meal. of course the family meal consisted of kentucky fried chicken (we need to go grocery shopping. no joke) and we were all clogging up are arteries, but it was still nice to sit down and eat together. we had an interesting conversation and i will translate it all for your viewing pleasure:

mom: "yohboh, this week is pastor parks birthday."
dad: "oh really? that's nice"
me: "how old is he going to be?"
mom: "the same age as me."
me: "... umm 54?"
mom: "yes."
dad: "huh i thought pastor park was a lot younger"
mom: -.- "he is young"
me: "hehehehehe"
dad: "sorayah, your turing 15 or 16 this year right?"
me: "appa... i'm already 16."
dad: "so you're turning 17???"
me: -.- "yeah"
dad: "jeesus"
me and mom: -.-
dad: (mumbling to himself) "sora...17. jungah...21. aery...27....)
mom: "yohboh. don't forget to buy ramen tomorrow"
me: "and tortilla chips. we have a lot of salsa but no tortilla chips"
dad: "okay. ramen and potato chips."
me: "no appa. TORTILLA chips"
dad: "okay" scribbling down the grocery list "sorayah? you wanted potato chips right?"
me: "NO appa i want TORTILLA chips please"
dad: "okay."

that was the end of our conversation and i have this strange feeling that i'm going to come home after class tomorrow and see the cabinet full of potato chips.