October 2011

Just a little update on my life. Well this blog post will probably for me to look at and realize what I need to do to become a better person.

Currently, I have bad grades. I have no idea why this is happening, but I just a few ideas. First, my body is really tired. I feel very slow. Reading takes forever, and I cannot focus at all. -.-  I tend to surf the internet too much. Second, I feel really demotivated. Mainly, "why am I doing computer science" quote keeps going through a while loop. This happened to me before at freshmen year, but its happening again. Lastly, I feel I need to see my parents/family as soon as possible. I probably didn't like my parents much, but I do feel that they are the reason I go to college.


So, maybe it is a slump for me.

After failing physics, I forgot how to be good on tests...  and I did the same thing on one of my computer science class.


I need to put myself together and start working from tomorrow. Fall break is coming, so I was thinking about relaxing, but I need to study.

Oh yeah.. it was also annoying that my computer would keep breaking that my homework would keep getting deleted. However, I got a new computer on the way so it should be fine.

I hope I remind myself to focus on the next test.



Fall break is coming soon. I'll post more about Korea soon!

Happy Gaecheonjeol!!!

Its national foundation day for Korea!

People usually set their flag in front of their house, but since I don't have one I decided to hang it on my blog <3

Why do Koreans eat cucumber when they climb mountains?

Actually I only found out about this 2 years ago, when I went mountain climbing in Korea with my grandmother. Well, for my grandmother it was more like mountain eating. She just likes to do a short climb and find a good place to eat and talk with other grandmothers -.- lol I would usually go ahead and go to the top. After I came back she gave me a cucumber.... At first, I was "...." Then started eating it.

But, when I thought about it on the way back, a lot of Koreans were eating cucumber on the mountain. I'm probably the weirdest kid to think this pretty funny because I keep picturing a kappa when imagine someone eating a cucumber. (Sorry, I'm those dumb people who laugh loudly without any particular reason). Anyways back to the main topic.

So, I quickly googled "why do people eat cucumber mountain climbing". Didn't work.. So I googled in Korean "오이 등산 왜" which is translated "cucumber mountain climbing why" lol.... Its actually grammatically wrong in Korean as well. Either way I got results!!!

1. Cucumber has a lot of water, easy to carry and eat.
2. When you sweat, your not just loosing water from your body. There are a lot of nutrients that leave the body and the cucumber can supplement your body.

I guess these are two very reasonable reason to eat cucumber while climbing or jogging.
Just a side note, cucumber is really good for your skin as well.
So, why don't you try cucumber during your long walks?