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Unscripted thoughts of a depressed, somewhat bi-polar Sydney-sider @ #blogspot

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I hate myself

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it’s short.

life’s short.

and maybe other things...like my hair, my height, my fingers, my temperament.

there are so many things in the world to be fixed, and I want to help fix them, but in order to make a difference, no matter how minute or remote, nowadays you need a degree. A Masters is better. PhD is even better since you get to be called ‘Dr’.

but why should I dedicate more than half of my life just to academia when I could be out on the field?

well we all know the answer to that- it looks better on my resume.

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oath.

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do you know what it's like, to love somebody the way I love you?

‘New York City’, The Chainsmokers

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Lifespot #4

To self,

Last Monday I finally made the decision to go to a cosmetic clinic to laser my face away...rather to rid the brown spots left on my face from old acne marks. (And also to reduce the size of my gigantic pores!)

I’m going in approximately 3 weeks due to conflicting schedules...speaking of which, I am not looking forward to next week, or the week after and the week after that...there’s so much going on and I don’t know if I can take it anymore. I’m so fed up with life that at the moment, I just want to quit. Surely other people are feeling the same at this stage, no? 

Anyways, here’s to living and technology.

Cheers xoxo

[mellowhanja-blog]

WINNER '2016 주 뗌므'♪ 슈가맨 21회

위너(강승윤, 송민호, 남태현)가 부르는 '2016 주 뗌므'♪ 깔끔한 음색으로 부르는 원곡과는 다른 느낌으로~ 귀에 속속 박히는 송민호의 자작랩까지! 위너의 매력에 퐁당~

기분 좋게 <3 

To make oneself feel good :3 <A beautiful rendition of an ‘old’ song>

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Headspace 101

I’m so full of contradictions that it’s doing my head in. I want to help society by doing some good. But I hate existing. I want to quit but I'm too afraid of happens after life (if there is something afterwards). My family think I'm a selfish brat when in reality I just don't care. I hate my degree but yet at uni I put on this fake af persona where I'm all happy n' shiff...but who is this persona for? For the people that are in the same grade, same major as me who don't associate themselves with me? To make uni more bearable? 

I just don’t care about my life. But I want to do well, but I don’t have the mentality to see through to the end. 

Why is living so difficult? Why is it so beautiful? Why is life so unfair? Why do some people suffer more than others and why does life place those with money + evil intentions on a higher pedestal than those who can’t even afford to buy fresh vegetables? 

[mellowhanja-blog]

& toi

finding that group of friends (or friend) that won’t let you down no matter what and you have entrust your life to them..

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day n’ life

Sometimes it’s so tiring doing life. It’s tiring continuing on when you know deep inside there’s something you desperately want to do but you don’t have the courage nor the willpower.

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Lifespot #3

To self,

I want to go on a cruise. I need a holiday minus the money involved.

Here’s to technology and blogging 👍

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Lifespot: Acne

To self,

I hope that one day my face will be clear of pimples and red/brown spots/patches that cover my face. It’s becoming a disturbance every night and every night I want to use sandpaper to rub my face to get rid of all these pimples. It’s embarrassing going to work and facing all these nicely dressed customers with clear faces.

I just want to hide in a hole.

Well then.

Here’s to technology and blogging 👍

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Lifespot #2

To self,

I hope you’ve been well.

There are so many things I wanted to say but now that I have the chance to actually write (well, type) them down, nothing comes to mind >_>

Problems 1) I’ve been using facial products by Avène for the past week and it seems to be slowly reducing the size of my pimples (i.e. I had a medium sized pimple on the LHS of my temple and after a couple days treatment, it has literally diminished.

2) Uni: 😫😪 (enough said)

Here’s to technology and blogging 👍

[mellowhanja-blog]

Lifespot #1

After a long hiatus on Tumblr, here is my first post in a while...

To self,

I decided to dedicate this page/blog/space/rant page to my face. Yep, my F-A-C-E. Currently in my late teens and a second-year university student, I have acne problems. It’s been ongoing since last year.

Problems:  - So much money (spent on facial products that supposedly deal with the acne) has been wasted - Exercise exclusive to: walking to and fro uni, walking home, standing up during retail job - Lowered self esteem (knowing I have ‘shit’ on my face)

Here’s to technology and blogging 👍

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Such a wild thing to observe: SKorea has developed so rapidly that our language has become riddled with foreign loanwords that our Northern counterpart can no longer understand - even if we speak the same language.

Excited to see technology being used as a powerful medium to better bridge the growing 70-year gap of our now two distinct cultures.

[goblinparty]

[captions]

Narrator: “27,000 North Korean defectors living in South Korea.”

[Students introduce themselves in Korean]

Narrator: “What is it called?”

[Students name objects in Korean]

Narrator: “Through 70 years of separation, languages of the two Koreas have grown apart. Would you mark any unfamiliar words? North Korean defector students could understand less than 50% of the terms in the textbooks. This led to them being neglected from regular education, and that led to disparity in employment and income. Even Google Translator could not solve the discrepancies in the language. So then we came to create our own translator. South Korean-North Korean translator. We designed it so that a simple scan of an unfamiliar South Korean word with a smartphone would translate it into North Korean. Translating several words all at once is also possible. It was hoped that with this app, the North Korean defectors would be able to get proper education. We of course plan to continue to help them adjust well to life in South Korea. Koreans were shocked, saddened, but motivated after seeing the translator for what had been the same language.”

[Dr. Huttman speaking German]

Narrator: “Nobody knows when the two Koreas will be reunified, but if the two Koreas are able to communicate without barriers through this translator, perhaps that day would come just a little sooner.”

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[enseoulment]

This is wonderful!

(Also, I always wondered what North Koreans called South Korea.  남한 is the obvious answer that I, of course, never thought of.)

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This is interesting but I’m going to nitpick – North Korean dialect ( 조선말) didn’t naturally grow apart from South Korea’s ( (한국말 ).  (The political distinction is right there in what each country calls their own language.)  It’s been a conscious decision for North Korean officials since the 1950′s to not allow foreign loan-words.  This is very much in line with the rhetoric of national purity at the heart of North Korean ideology.  So the difference in dialect is completely by design and, from a North Korean perspective, makes their language “better” than that of the nasty, capitalistic, pro-American whores to the south.  (North Korea doesn’t use nearly as many Chinese characters as the South either.  Instead of loan words, neologisms are always created.)

So while the video paints a picture of North Korean dialect as ass-backwards compared to modern, loan-word loving South Korean, I think that’s an unfair depiction.  For a nation built around narratives of cultural and ethnic purity, it’s actually kind of necessary, if not downright brilliant.

Also, it’s my understanding that if you said “South Korea” in the north you’d get in big trouble.  You’d be acknowledging that there are two separate countries, carved up by US fiat way back when, in fact, they are and always have been one – according to the North Korean narrative, natch.

Wiki.

[hanguknamja]

there are many countries around the world that have tried to limit the use of english loan words into their languages.

france, for example, has tried to impose neologized french words for a number of english ones as well as anglicisms, sometimes successfully (e.g. ‘ordinateur’ for computer), sometimes less so (’courriel’ for email, or mél).

in fact, there’s hardly a country in the world that hasn’t been impacted by a large number of english loan words in the last few decades. several, such as france and north korea, have taken political measures to limit them.

these are certainly artificially imposed, but it would be a mistake to assume that the proliferation of english loan words is a ‘free’ and ‘natural’ state of affairs. english words are imposed by cultural and linguistic hegemony. no one in south korea ‘elects’ to study english. 

the limitations on the use of chinese characters isn’t just a north korean thing. in 1970 park chung-hee also banned the teaching of chinese characters in schools and though the ban was eventually lifted, the use of chinese characters in south korea has never really recovered. look at any korean newspaper before the 1970s and you’ll see a lot more chinese there. a lot of south koreans in their 50s, even well educated ones, sometimes struggle to read chinese characters.

i would hope that a reunified korea would adopt some of the north korean words. i think 어름과자, for example, is preferable to 아이스크림. most european languages simply use their own word for ‘ice’ to designate ice cream, and i don’t see why korean should be an exception. 

also, in the video, the german guy is totally mistranslated in the subtitles. he doesn’t say that north koreans should play a key role in reunification, as the subtitles say, he simply makes the banal statement that without speaking the language of the land in which they live, north koreans can never be really be fully integrated.

[stevetomjohn]

A.) this is a super cool and important

B.) IDK if anyone ever answered enseoulment, but they call themselves 조선 so South Korea is 남조선

[danggeun]

fun fact: our North Korean dialects (with the exception of 문화어 and northern 함경사투리 would actually a lot easier to learn because

1. our words are much shorter. e.g. 지내 instead of 지나차게, -히 instead of -하게, -함 instead of any other ending with 하다, -까소 instead of anything formal with 겠 in it

2. our spelling is a lot easier. e.g. 녀자 instead of 여자 is much more logical because of the use of 녀, 저가락 instead of 젓가락, 낭 instead of 나무, 짱냐 instead of 짜증나다 3. less spaces between words. e.g. 할수잇는것 instead of 할 수 있는 것, 많잇소 instead of 많이 있어, 죽고싶어 instead of 죽고 싶어.

4. we cut sentences shorter. e.g. “ 내가 열정을 가지고 있으면서도, 창조적인 뭔가를 하면서 살아야 한다는 건 알고 있다” would be “내가 차조적인 열정을 하면서 살아야하는지 알아” (34 vs. 20) 5. instead of having many different English words to mean similar things; we ‘build up’ like: 양복치마 instead of 스커트, 나리옷 instead of 드레스, 달리옷 instead of 원피스, 동강옷 instead of 투피스 = with the literal ‘옷’ (clothes) and ‘치마’ (skirt) in it.

6. 고기겹빵 instead of 햄버거, 고층 살림집 instead of 아파트, 벌젖 instead of 젤리 are all cuter.

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So listen. Listen, and there is more to hear… the non-stop wonder of the son of the city you can hear if you listen [to] the song

and it stops

in some rare and sacred dead time, there is a miracle of silence

These moments are there, always, but they are rarely noticed and they rarely last longer than a flicker of thought.

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How to avoid kpop

You can’t.