THROUGH THE BROWN EYES OF A CANADIAN-KOREAN WOMAN
No matter what country you live in, no matter what culture you come from. The society and the generation of this world, today, live as humans obsessed with numbers. It all goes back to tests and exams that evaluate your level of education or “how much you have understood” by what percentage you get. Even your IQ is measured through tests and evaluations that end with specific numbers on your
I don’t have a goal for 2020. I used to set goals at the beginning of the year and would read through them all throughout the year. I used to set about 5 really simple goals. Things like, pray every day for the children or go to Zumba class at least 2 times a week. Stuff like that. However, I decided to start this year, I won’t be setting any
It’s never easy preparing myself for the next year. Especially when it comes to dairy, planners, or journal things I have to purchase. I always need one for the next year but end up not being able to wait and getting it purchased in November or October and have in handy. Although the next year is so many months away. I still have to get it soon enough and have
How do you teach your children the right things, in the right way? How? How do you get them to understand what you know from life and the order of things? How do you put all the things in life into words so that they may understand it? How? What logic can you put life experiences into? How do you lay it all out so that it’s understandable at the
Okay, so I have Asian eyes. Yes. The very Korean looking, Asian eyes that you see on TV or any kind of Asain show. Now, I can say “I had Asian eyes”. I hope I’m not offending anyone by saying this but I did have those eyes and now I don’t. I have the post-surgery Asain eyes. LOL As you can see, I have no double eyelid and I used
Everyone has some kind of turning-point in life. Whether it’s religiously or just in their daily routines. There comes a time when life takes you on a different path. I had my turning point last week. I went in for a usual and annual health check that made me go for a more thorough exam. A biopsy.
Life always hits you with surprises. It never fails to. Always, something unexpected. Abruptly it just comes up without warning. When those moments pass, you look back and pat yourself on the back. Congratulating yourself on how good you got over that life bump. Telling yourself how good of a job you did. But as you’re slowing approaching that climax. The one tiny top peak point, you’re dreading the moment
After the whole accident we had with Andrea last weekend, I think everyone in our family has had a hard week. Well, the week isn’t over yet so let’s say we’re just having a tough time. Ever since I got home on Sunday from Andrea getting treated at the clinic, my back has been aching so much. Right where it goes from my neck to the back of my shoulders.
Why does Jenny Han always have to be bang on with her writing? She makes me feel so guilty or sometimes even jealous. Not of her. But of the characters in her books. She shapes them so well! Then she makes me think of me. She ends up making me look back as a girl, as a teenager, as an adult, as a woman and then lastly as a mother.
