end of a year.

hello readers and fans!

it's rhee-soo and i thought that the best way to close out 2008 was with a great blog post. i'm not sure if i can contribute any pearls of wisdom at this point because my brain has been inactive for about 13 days, but hopefully i can manage. just a quick update on life since the last post: as michael noted, finals week has come and gone, painful and stressful.. but at least it's over! i have returned home to my humble abode in seoul for the winter, and have been passing my time eating, sleeping, reading, websurfing, and did i mention eating?

now, for fun facts... composed of random tidbits from finals week and whatnot.

-russia withdrew from world war 1 in 1917 due to internal turmoil - they had two significant revolutions while the rest of europe was engaged in fighting. the february revolution resulted in the overthrow of nicholas ii and the tsarist regime. lenin returned promptly to mobilize his party and successfully overthrew the provisional government in the october revolution, as the bolsheviks came to power. did you know that the bolsheviks tried to seize power in july and failed? and - did you know that stalin, who took over after lenin's death, was actually crazy?

-flying from washington dc to tokyo takes 14 and a half hours.

-lost season five starts on january 21, 2009!

-i have been on this earth for 7277 days. guess when my birthday is.

and that is all for now, folks. happy new year!

curiosity

Seems that there is such a thing as an environment for learning. It not only is conducive to learning by providing a friendly environment but also spurs on a thirst for knowledge.

These past few weeks that I've been home, on break, I've found it harder to be curious and have just had much less of a desire to know things. It could be a result of my exhaustion but it seems to be something deeper than that. At school I have this fervent desire to learn how things work or understand their meanings. But away from school, my first priority is to find something entertaining, to find something to occupy my time until I go back. I just have less desire to learn or be productive.

Another reason however, is that I'm on break and feel like I need to make the most of it and enjoy it as much as possible, before it slips away. Whereas, at school I have alot of time that I don't feel a need to enjoy selfishly with instant gratification, I can be productive or allow my thirst for knowledge to grow.

Finals weak....

Hey guys, sorry about not posting anything recently, but it's finals week right now and my brain hurts. I'll try and get some stuff up as soon as my head recovers.