<p>oops i meant Ganglim church lol there is a 광림 and 강림 i meant to say the latter. it's rather small and owned by Canadians but they rent it to us koreans.</p>
<p>incidentally, back in korea i went to the other 광림 교회, that gargantuan church (or so it seemed... i around 6)! i still have a vivid image of the statue of Jesus with His lambs.</p>
<p>ok my self-esteem just disappeared..</p>
<p>Hey Guess what? I'm Korean, but the stuff that I do are totally white. For example, when my asian friends (only 4 in my school) try to talk to me in Korean, I get embarassed and walk away. I dunno why, but talking korean in a place where only english is spoke seems odd to me. I play guitar unlike the other asian at my school in orchestra. I am also attracted to white girls > Korean Girls. yea... I think the only thing that fits me in the asian category is that I put Math > English anyday of my life.</p>
<p>We call 'em twinkies... lol. Only joking. No offence meant.</p>
<p>With an environment like that, I'm not at all surprised. It's not exactly encouraging. But just remember, that at the end of the day, you're Korean, or Korean American, and you should be proud of it; you can't change it, so you might as well be.</p>
<p>hey mistermarbles how long have you been out of korea? i am whitewashed myself but it seems we are polar opposites. i find korean girls more attractive than white girls and prefer english over math.</p>
<p>Actually, now that neoking has brought it up, I'm like the polar opposite of mistermarble too. English over math (I suffer from a severe numerophobia - cold sweat, shivers down my spine, nausea, etc.), and Korean girls over white girls. Not that I don't find white girls attractive, but I just wouldn't somehow be as comfortable dating one.</p>
<p>Korean here too.</p>
<p>M1st3rmarbl3s, I can somewhat relate, although your "bannananess" is a bit more extreme than me. It's just that Korean-Americans have a different identity than straight up Koreans. But yeah, on the girls thing, I'm a bit with heythatslife... I used to prefer white guys but recently I've noticed I like asian girls more and more, specifically Korean.</p>
<p>haha Whitewashed and twinkies.. interesting terms..
I'm not exactly the polar opposite of mistermables but we're kinda..alike?. Like, I have more white friends than korean friends. And I prefer maths over english. I'm not even taking it next year. I find some white guys attractive, especially soccer players. But like heythatslife, i'd be kinda uncomfortbale.. Plus, korean guys here are very short. I'm close to 170cm (or 5'7ish) and when I'm walking next to a korean guy, they're either the same height or shorter. I know height is a weird factor in terms of attractiveness but I prefer taller guys.
But I find many korean actors very very very attractive.. to the point of drooling. Disgusting I know. Dennis Oh, 이동욱, 이주현 <333</p>
<p>And as sad as I sound, I live for korean dramas. I know. It's shameful. I watch toooo much tv :(</p>
<p>Opposite to mistermarbles in that i speak korean to other koreans..</p>
<p>lol nice nice. I watched korean dramas with subtitles sometimes, but i always figured out that they have the same exact freaking plot in their dramas. One guy falls in love with a girl, but cannot have the girl because of certain disease (leukemia, blindness). He tries every single way possible to get that girl even though she has that disease. There's this other biotch that the guy's mother/father or both wants him to marry to, but because of his love for this true lover, he does not want her and the parents get mad at him. The biotch tries to get him somehow but he rejects her all the time. Sometimes maybe the person the girl the guy loves sees the guy with the biotch and freaks out and thinks that he's cheating on her. And all this drama happens. It's uh pretty annoying after a while for me.. haha </p>
<p>well yea. You're like almost as tall as me. you are unasian in that aspect because most asian girls are like 5'2. haha. I'm 5'9 which is one inch above average. w00t! I watch shows in English now: House, CSI, 24, Without a Trace... mostly doctor, crime solving and action shows... haha i'm so white washed.</p>
<p>neoking - I do prefer white girls over asian girls, but i still think a lot of asians are hot. I just haven't been exposed to that many. </p>
<p>I've lived in a non Irvine Orange County City for 13 years. I've lived in LA since i was born. </p>
<p>maybe it came out wrong, but i don't shun korean girls at all. I always talk to them and stuff, but i don't ever speak korean to them. It always comes out wrong and when others speak it to me, it sounds retarded. Especially when i'm trying to concentrate in English class. ugh. yea...</p>
<p>You've got real good stats too... I just think I could've worked on more extra curriculars... but o well.</p>
<p>Oh and about the UBC thing... that's why you should have tried SFU :p
UBC profs never answer back or even when they do they say they are too busy for it or something... lol.
JR told me about the lab assistant thing so it's all thanks to him lol.
To neoking77:
Yeah... Burnaby north...ah I know a Columbia grad from your school... she's a taiwanese... Fiona Lee.. do you know her by any chance? She's applying to a law school this year.</p>
<p>Anyways, yeah, Southridge's a pretty new independent school... about ten years old? It's pretty small(K-12, around 600) and curriculums are really inflexible(like we are not allowed to take AP in our junior year... also a 3-term system with all same courses throughout the year)... but everyone's pretty smart I guess. I think it's getting more well known especially among some asian parents now cuz it got ranked co-1st in BC 3 times in the last 5 years in the Fraser Report... not that I give it any credence. I still think I should've gone to Churchill or a public school with lots of AP choices...</p>
<p>To M1st3rmarbl3s: hahhaah I know I know that's what I thought of Korean Soap operas...always the girl dying from an uncurable disease... lol and the funny thing is... Chinese people in BC are crazier about Korean soap operas than Koreans are... Anyways, have you watched the new series 궁 by any chance? Although it's supposed to be based on a girl comic (shoujo manga순정만화) I just d/led it and read/watched it cuz I got curious. Bloody hell. It was hilarious. lol. The idea's real fresh and stuff... it was really different from your everyday Korean manga/soap opera material. It starts assuming that the Korean Yi, or Lee or however it's spelled in English, dynasty of Chosun never died out. So in the drama, Korea is a constitutional monarchy like Japan, UK, or Canada;) and it's a love story between a prince and an ordinary girl... with a twist.;) It's not your everyday story. lol. The manga is better, although I still didn't like the drawing. Ahh. Too much talking... what am i doing at 4:25 am...=<em>=;; Okay ima go sleep now. peace -</em>-)v</p>
<p>mistermarbles do you watch grey's anatomy too? That's the only doctory tv programme i like lol. I tried to get into Without a trace but I dont really get it..
haha yeah the whole 'disease' thing got overdone.</p>
<p>I watched the first 2 episodes of 'my girl' last night. First I thought it was really really stupid because I didn't like the girl's acting. And then it started getting funny. And it has 이동욱 in it ;). I get so attracted to characters that are all hard and tough on the outside but sensitive on the inside. Are there any korean girls here with me?</p>
<p>Wow you guys get subtitles? That's so fancy! In canada/u.s they have like video tapes and stuff right? Or are they like dvds..?</p>
<p>I'm kinda sick and tired too of the cliched themes that appear in 4 out of 5 Korean dramas. That's why I never watch them, although some of my friends are crazy about soap operas. I would far rather watch History Channel documentaries</p>
<p>^ heythats life, you know like people our age, do they watch much tv? My mum always talks about how korean kids my age (in korea) go to tutoring till 3am, sleep for 3 hours, eat, stay at school till 10pm and that they never have time for tv or to read non-school books.. Is that true?
My cousins ( in seoul med school right now) said that they never had time to watch tv because they got home at 2am ish. But are they just exceptions or are the majority of students like that?</p>
<p>Well I'm kinda special because I didn't take the KSAT (수능, I think you know), which is pretty hardcore and important, since the score more or less decides where you go and what you do. I don't watch TV, but I did a lot of gaming. Thankfully, my parents don't know since I went to a boarding school.</p>
<p>To get into Seoul National U. med school, your KSAT score need to be in the top 150 (or thereabouts... not quite sure. Certainly under 200) NATIONALLY. You have no idea how hard that is. My dad was in the top 300 in his year, and he claims to have done nothing but studying for 3 years in high school.</p>
<p>idk KSAT is kind of easier than old times. my dad was 20th in the nation and all he did was play soccer with his buddies in 11th grade. Of course he studied a hell lot 12th grade. Anyways i think u can get in if u have like a 390 or higher. 400 is a perfect score and makes u really strong. I think my friend got something like 380 or 390 on his KSAT and applied to SNU law. It's pending for now.</p>
<p>Ohh did you go to those international special boarding schools where they send most students to ivy's?
wow i never knew that it was top 150! I thought it'd be about 250-300..
So would you say an average student (wanting to go to a good/average school) studies till 2am and sleeps for 3 hrs?</p>
<p>!! 20th in the nation!!</p>
<p>They've re-scaled the KSAT so it's now out of 500. I don't think the KSAT itself has become any easier - I do know that no-one, in 600,000 people that took it, got a full score this year. However, it is true that the competition was a little tougher in our parent's generation, since they were the post-Korean War baby boomers.</p>
<p>And imiracle, your dad's either a genius, is exaggerating, or both. Obviously you haven't observed Korean high schoolers who take the KSAT - half of the students at my school take it, and although I never had lessons with them, I can tell you they work pretty damn hard. And the reason for this is that nothing else, apart from GPA, counts towards your college application. That's right, no essays, no EC's, no volunteering hours, no nothing. Even the GPA isn't that important compared the KSAT score. I'm very thankful that I escaped that fate.</p>
<p>I saw that girl who got 1 wrong in the ksat on the internet. She had bright eyes. My mum said that smart people have bright sparkly eyes.</p>
<p>and im also very thankful to be studying here.. I wouldve commited suicide there :s</p>
<p>hahah. some people do that while some others don't. 3 of my cousins go to med schools right now in Korea, one of them in SNU med school, and the rest two in Catholic U med school, which is like 3rd in the nation right now. One of the ones who got into CU medschool did study really hard, but the other two did not really... They played PC games and had some fun too. But both of them are real smart... anyways, the youngest of those three says in Korea it's hard to get in, but once you get in, it's a joke... first two years of med school is 의예과, and he says all you do during those two years is skip classes and play.</p>