Once in a Lifetime 一期一会

You have just one life so choose wisely in what you want to do.  Sure I have made my regrets in life, but who hasnt made any mistakes.  We are all humans so it’s natual to make a mistake, but we just gotta correct them for next time. Choices are important for the path that leads to the future.

Fly if you wanna see the possibilities.  Dream big and explore every option that is out there.  It’s not the end of the world because life gives you many opportunities and chances to do anything.  To love, to work, to see the world, and to dream.

We’re still young to be so burdened in life.  Yet it does happen and it’s good to live with life with no worries and freedom.

So remember things only occur once in a lifetime and no matter what you cant bring it back.  I do love this line ” Once in a Lifetime” from Boys Over Flowers drama from the puzzle scenes of Kim Bum playing So Yi Jung and Kim So Eun playing Chu Gaeul.  In reality, life itself is once in a lifetime.  We cannot change the times and revert and think about the what if’s possibilities.  As much as we want to change our decisions, it’s not possible.  So live life with no regrets and strive for what you truly want to do since it’s once in a lifetime opportunity.  Make your choices wisely because money is not everything.  Choose happiness, love, friends, and family.

We cannot live without them or with them  HAHA!

It’s been a while since I posted -.- I’m still alive.  

I really like this song sung by SS501  It’s also from the Boys over Flowers OST.  Plus, the song reminds me of the sweet or tearful moments in BOF.  Of course I saw SS501 at the Hollywood Bowl Concert 2009  They were spectacular as the closer artists.  I couldnt wish more besides meeting them in person.  However, I knew with their busy schedule, I would have looked like another crazed fan so I think I would have pass the opportunity.  But the love for them never dies  

Sometimes I know I’m a bit stupid myself in related to the song in love or life.   I have to say dont live life with regrets which I had done before.  Now, I’m at a better place and taking initative of things.  I’m quite tired of people telling me what to do in life when I should make the final decision.  Life is hard yeah I know.  But do refrain when you speak like I never made a responsible decision.  And I’m glad I spoke out about it because I’m not being foolish or stupid anymore.  Who cares about their feelings when they never respected mine to begin with.  

Im learning to really treat myself with vacations  I have the wonderful opportunity to be in Los Angeles two weeks ago and in the last week of June, I’ll be going to Vegas  That’s what I learned throughout busy season that you cant continue to work yourself to death without treating yourself.  So I’m all about taking a vacation  and always take one or more throughout the year because everyone needs that break from everything.  Hell, I know I deserved one and I wasn’t gonna let anyone stop me or spoil my vacation.

Note: College students, enjoy your time while you can.

I have to say working in the real world is not as great as one would think.  As children, we want to grow up fast so we can make some money to buy anything we want.  But in the end, you’ll question do you really need that item?  Life is different when you start working.  There are no more times of I dont wanna go to class (which I barely skipped class during all 5 years of college).  Your life becomes like 8am-8pm schedule.  As an auditor, our schedules are different from the usual 8am-5pm.  Like I said, enjoy and take your time in school.  It’s not pretty in real life because college still shelters you a bit about reality. 

Yep, work has been dominated in my life.  HAHA!  But I have three parts of the CPA under my belt (passing).  So just one more part.  I do miss tv shows and many sports shows.  I do wanna watch Tomita perform, but I have to say they do not broadcast anything on regular tv channels.  I have to youtube alot of stuff  

I did wanted to share a fun thing I saw at a girl’s blogsite.  It’s about books one has read from the list.  See below for instructions and list:

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Change the colour of the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them.

1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch – George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34. Emma – Jane Austen
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41. Animal Farm – George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50. Atonement – Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52. Dune – Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones’ Diary – Helen Fielding
69. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72. Dracula – Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses – James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal – Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession – AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94. Watership Down – Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

OMG~ DBSK has their new full music video out – Mirotic.  It is freaking hot.  I must say their 3rd album I wasnt tooo impressed because I really love the 1st and 2nd albums alot.  Purple Line got me back on track.  But Mirotic got me hypnotized and ‘crazy for them’.  HEHE!  The lyrics to this song are very tantalizing and showing some skin and body is nice to watch.  I have to say they have matured over the years.  I dont think of them as young guys more like hot blooded men.  HAHA! I have to say that cuz JaeJoong’s body is nice.  Yunho o.O  I’m just soooo impressed.  But I must say their hairstyles are like -.- on a few of them.  Like what the heck are you thinking -.-  Hopefully they will fix that.

Cuz this song is smoking hot   I’m actually watching their live performance of it (fancam version) during the SM Showcase and it’s pretty hot.  That’s the link below.

Totally became a slave to DBSK once again! I must watch a clearer version of this comeback when it shows

Wonder Girls are back!  I actually like this song a bit more than So Hot.  So Hot was good, but this one shows off their vocal skills.  I like to watch them perform the retro style songs because they have that deep rough voice at times.  Which they need to show off.  The only thing that irked me about the music video was Park Jin Young being in the restroom – nature calls.

I really like Sunmi’s hair in the Supremes look.  I really thought the song was gonna be a ballad, but it’s a pop song with some vocals.  Good job!  SNSD has too much girly pop for me.  It’s always a damn happy song – and it needs a bit flavor.  This song shows the soul and different style that people need in life.

<3 Chicago!  I just came back from a two week training in Chicago.  It’s good to be back in Houston.  I know the storm was harsh because it looks so different from when I left. 

So I will be official working person – kinda hard to say   But still trying to pass my cpa exam.  Waiting for 2 more scores.  I wish they did not have give out grades in the range of 70-74..  SO wrong of them to do so! 

I’m just adjusting back to work/life balance. And being back in Houston.  Plus, I got sick during my 2nd week of Chicago.  Oh whenever you get the chance, you gotta talk to a Minnesota guy – they have a cool accent!

August 24th is a lucky day for me.  I got to watch the closing ceremony of Beijing Olympics and Shin Hyesung’s rocker comeback.  Let me tell you, I never thought Hyesung oppa as a rocker.  But I was so amazed by his vocals and look.  Both songs, Awaken and Because of You, are from his 3rd album, Live and Let Live.  I totally <3 it. 

Because of You makes me think about the rock band, Buzz!  I do miss Buzz too!  So GOOD – rock ballads and songs!  Now Awaken is more edgy rock with some scratching.  Awaken did awaken my senses out to cheer for this album.  I did wish it had more rock songs on it.  I think this album only has 7 or 8 real songs and the others are instrumentals.  I felt that it was more of a compilation cd.  Because he gets into a jazzy and then ballad mode.  Like his 2nd album, it was centered with ballads and a few pop song.  But I have to say it is still a good album to listen to. 

All my days of studying for the CPA has been these two songs   I do love his punk rock look, but I have to say he looks adorable with this new look.  I cant wait to watch another performance from him.  I wanna see him and Honey Lee sing their duet

Well Beijing Olympics has not officially ended, but it is ending tomorrow night.  I do feel some emotions arising out of me.  Because some of the sports have been the joy of me for the past two weeks.  I got so emotional when Michael Phelps swam every time.  Cheering on the USA teams in every sport.  Must I say I’m damn proud to be an American!    Had to say

But it has taken a load off the burden of the CPA.  Yep I am in pursuit of passing the CPA before the end of this year.  And the Olympics have taken the stress level out of it.  Sad to say, but it has.  I have been ohhh and ahhhh about certain athletes   Must I say anymore   Hiroyuki Tomita   Michael Phelps!  I have been watching the Olympics since I was a child and I’m keeping the one tradition that I have kept since I was a kid.  Always watching the Olympics whenever I got the chance.  It’s sad to say farewell to the games until the next four years in 2012 London.  That means no looking out for hot guys after a bit of studying.  And keeping up with the medals count. 

I have to say studying for CPA has put a downer in my life (no life – only studying), but Olympics have made realize to love the sports that I used to play as a team and for fun.  Competition is fierce, but you gotta fight for it to achieve the ultimate goal.  But also, second place is not that bad and you can still be happy if you get passed the job promotion. 

Oh yes I’m cheering on the NBA athletes for the gold medal game.  As much I want to stay up and be in awe with those players, I need sleep cuz it supposedly is showing now.  And it’s gonna probably be 3 hours game.  -.-  However I cant wait for everyone to get back cuz Houston Rockets ^_________^  WOOHOO!  I’m ready for football and basketball season to get started!

I’m thankful for the 2008 Olympics because I got to watch alot of new records, action, wins, and disappointments.  Life is unfair, but we gotta deal with the ups and downs in life.  It’s not always about winning.  It’s about losing too and keeping a good face about it

Kim Jong Wook is an amazing singer.  I think he get so adorable because he looks so shy at times.  He is having a good breakout as a newcomer due to his song, “Only You” which is the main song for We Got Married.  I watched the beginnings of We Got Married and it is pretty hilarious.  I do like the parts of Andy & Solbi. 

Now I know this song have been out for a while.  It’s a korean rendition of Way back into Love from the movie of Music & Lyrics with Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant.  I think Solbi does a good job – I dont know much of her singing/music career.  But I think she does pretty okay.  Yep I do adore Kim Jong Wook and his outfit.  Solbi looks pretty good in her dress though I wish she lose the crown -.- A little bit of a princess look. 

I was not expecting them to perform this song at all.  But I’m happy to see this song come alive on a video performance.

This is the main song from East of Eden OST.  Hearing songs from the OST in a live performance are rare.  I’m glad that many singers are promoting these songs besides music videos and mp3s.  At first, I thought it was Kim Jong Gook who had sung this song with SG Wannabe, but I could not recognize his voice in the music video.  But I am glad that it is Kim Jong Wook is singing.  He is a newcomer, but he has the major potential to become big.  I think he’s very handsome.    He also looks like the actor YooGun with that new haircut of his.

Yep everyone (SG Wannabe & Kim Jong Wook) have a new haircut so they dont look too shabby.  Kim JinHo of SG Wannabe has really taken control of his voice because he would be outsing everyone else.  I think the new team member of SG Wannabe Lee Suk Hoon is partly outsinging.  I like his voice in LaLaLa.  His voice is stronger than Chae Dongha, but it kinda overshadows everyone else.  So we will see. 

You will be able to see clips of the music video with Song Seung Hun, Lee Yeon Hee, Yun Jung Hoon, and Lee Dae Hee in the background.