She Knows Me Too Well

JJ: It was Psychic Roommate, me, and every 8-year-old boy in England—or people who might as well have been 8-year-old boys—at the Doctor Who Experience. Mum: So I imagine you fit right in. As she is my Mum, I suppose she knows me best. But yeah, I really am an 8-year-old boy at heart, aren’t [...]

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My Mother The Fangirl

Mum has the biggest crush on Park Yoochun, who is a singer in the Korean boyband JYJ (formerly of DBSK) and emailed me this drink commercial he’s in with the following: It’s funny and he’s really dorky but cute^^ JYJ boys make ma laugh~ Say what you will, but at least I came by my [...]

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Mixed Language Household

MUM: Hi Sarah, Hope all is well. Did you receive Halmoni’s banchan okay? I’m leaving Seoul tomorrow 1 day earlier than originally scheduled. Talk to you later. Love always, Mom JJ: I got the banchan, although the kongjang kind of exploded and made everything sticky. I salvaged what I could, but the myeolchi and the [...]

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My Mother Got a New iPhone

MUM: I’m not sure if I really like my iPhone…the touch keypad thing isn’t working too well with my finger nails:( Do they sell something like stylus for someone like me, do you know? Plus, I downloaded my iTunes playlist and the sound was rather weird as the music sounded unbalanced with the singer voice [...]

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Mothers and Daughters

Dear internet, I don’t believe I had adequately acquainted you with my mother. Like any mother-daughter pair, we’ve gone through some strife, but thankfully we managed to survive my melodramatic teenage years with our relationship intact and stronger than ever. It probably doesn’t hurt that the older I get, the more I realize we’re pretty [...]

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This Is Just To Say

New post at Running Roommates! Things I Learned This Past Weekend Running on ice works all the small muscle groups in your legs. Running on ice when you have one flat foot also causes blisters. You should always live with a tall roommate so she can do things like change your lightbulbs for you. I’ve [...]

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Guess My (Mother’s) Age!

If I could write poetry (I had an ill-fated foray into pretentious neo-classical poetry in high school but thankfully I have since then recovered my senses), I would compose rapturous odes to the glory that is my hair. Why did I wait 22 years before chopping all of it off? Why did no Korean hair [...]

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Drilling Me Softly With His Tools

The building in which I work has hired cleaners this clean the windows this morning. Ordinarily I don’t mind (aside from the very great fear I may witness one of them falling 26 floors to his death), but today they are using what looks like a chainsaw and sounds like 1000 fingernails scratching chalkboards mixed [...]

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Fold Your Hands And Sit Demurely, Child

A cigarette fast is easy to maintain when your mother is in town, who so heartily disapproves of them to the point that she almost disowned you when she found out you smoked, and you are staying with her at the Hilton New York this week in order to escape The Hovel Where I Live. [...]

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Where’s the Fucking Paper?

Mum made me cry again today. I seem to cry far too easily about the most trivial thing. I really wonder sometimes if I have a skewed vision of myself. I hear things like I am a type-A personality, that I’m far too driven, that I’m truly accomplished, etc. but I believe none of it. [...]

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