The United States is such a beautiful country because it is a land that we all stole together. America is something that all Americans are guilty of -- it is a crime we perpetrate against each other in the ballot boxes each time we vote, forcing our own interpretation.

It's freedom; it's segregation; it's for the rich and it's for the worker and it's for the Christian and it's for the atheist and it's for anyone who ever bothered to come here and call it 'home.'

It is in such a unique position because it is one of the few lands that has an ideology rightfully ascribed to it. But it is an ideology that no one quite puts their finger on except we envision something grand and encompassing.

All of us take part in shoving ideas down each others throats here.

I will use this more to ducment my life or something

talking to a lot of people now plus i am single. so many good friends.

here is a cool signature:

what do you think of it?

Really troubled times.

The truth is always a lot to deal with, a lot to wrestle with when you really got to stare it in its ugly eyes and come to your conclusions. When the stuff really starts.

It is hard to keep your head cool. I guess I am suffering that right now.

We cannot always have good times or whatever.

Oh man, 오늘 많이 아파. 마음이 아파. ㅆㅆㅆㅆㅆㅆㅆㅆ

Pretty much done with this. Just need to go to bed, OK?

So it was my good friends birthday and half the people were straight
edge and the other half were drinking a lot. Luckily the straight edge
people were generally odd and strange to begin with so when we pushed
the envelope as far as it could go and began singing nearly the entire
discography of the Ramones they understood and got excited with us.

We went to a Noraebang and we sang our favorite songs for like an hour
and 20 minutes. We left the Noraebang. I got drunk with my good friend
Hyeonbeom until I went and vomited in a toilet and you know that makes
everyone laugh and have an even better time.

I bought like 24 beers and drank only four of them and then I bought 3
giant bottles of rice wine.  Between 2 AM and 7 AM we drank a bunch of
soju, rice wine and Budwieser and everyone was having a good time --
random punks and skinheads and hardcore kids showed up at random times.
Everyone was so happy it was actually quite stupid.

A 17 year old girl with red hair and red pants and a red leather jacket
that made punk rock look sexy in only that way that it can sat next to
me and slowly told me her life story focusing on the death of her
father who she was certain never loved her.

I nearly shit myself because she called herself a retard and instead of
telling her she wasn't I simply insisted I was also a retard. And you
know that makes her put her head on your shoulder and call you "Ohppa"
and then you are realizing this is probably a bad situation as
surrounding people keep encouraging her to be my girlfriend. I felt
kind of stupid about this and felt even more stupid when this other
girl starts feeding me beers one after the other.

I also cut my hand open.

weird times lately. Yushu and I have problems. Everything is problematic.

I might just stop drinking. Or drink a lot more. I am not sure.

What do you recommend, dudes?

What a time we have had.

I totally re-arranged my room so i is more comfortable to live in. I have had some great victories.

Yushu met the gang of four (Joe, Jorge, Youngmi/Kthai and of course Kev McCallister).

She was a doll as usual.

Life is beautiful.

Did a PT test today:

• Push ups: 57
• Sit ups: 70
• 2 Mile Run: 15:47

Frankly, I am slightly disappointed with the run results.

Oddly, though I have gone from 40" waist to 36" waist, I gained four pounds in the process. The mysteries of the human body astound me.

It is white day in Korea, meaning I get to go out and buy my girlfriend chocolate and do whatever she says.

Kathy mentioned how she is an only child and that may dictate a lot of her behavioral trends where she sometimes wants instant gratification and seems slightly self-centered. But these in the end have proven to be good things for me so I do not mind.

pump up the german polka music.

China is so big and great it causes me to almost be worried.

friday night at last. has been terrible week.

I am losing weight and lost in so much Army work lately. Yushu is a bit mad at me.

I figured out how to do a lot more with my computer and can finally get the CUE files to CD. It is a joy amongst joys.

My sleep life is lacking these days. I cannot explain it.

I am back in touch with Jed yet my phone calls seem to be failures.

I am re-energized in Christ and looking into some Orthodox literature that I admire.

Yesterday I found out I am staying in Korea until I ETS, thus I will be in Asia for a very, very long time.

It was the best news of my life. I celebrated afterwards with Palmy w/ some beers. He is leaving for Ft. Hood this April I believe.

But such is life. Oblidi. Oblida.