On a personal reflection… I don’t have much accents in my English even though I spent the most of my first 24 years in Korea. This often puts people around me and myself in a bit awkward (?) place. For example, at a wedding reception of one of my friends recently in Seattle, I was [...]
A sad news. Douglas Adams, the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, died of a heart attack at the age of 49. He was probably one of the most interesting writers of the 20th century. This definitely was a shocker this morning. Besides his novels, I’ve also experienced his creative personality firsthand. [...]
Just a divertimento. I think people have selective memory, very selective I should say. I seem to have many memories from my childhood which I have no idea why I should remember. One of them is my dad telling me that I lack observational skills. Since he knew that I used to say I would [...]
Man, it’s been a while… Actually, I don’t have anything particular to say today, but noticing how long ago I updated this page, I just wanted to scribble a few things. Yeah, November last year was about the time… Last winter, I noticed I was getting unfocused, listless and somewhat depressed. I lost interests in [...]
I just remembered again… It’s been several months now, but I found out quite suddenly that a good friend of mine died last October. I found out about it around March, I think. It was so unreal. I happened to see her at a Korean restaurant in Manhattan on the Fourth of July. I was [...]
I was reading an issue of BusinessWeek some time ago and found an interesting article (“It’s All in the Genes? Ha!,” BusinessWeek, March 16, 1999, pp. 100-102). It’s about the theory that challenges the established genetics community which believes that the genes are the only agents that transfer the traits from the previous generation to [...]