Attempt 5: Slow and Steady Wins the Race
I think it’s safe to say that Kai will never walk home with
me even though we live in the same building. He didn’t even say good-bye to me.
Instead, he disappears, and runs off to ask the professor a question at the
front of the class. He even beat the front row people to question the
professor. Seriously, that’s how fast he is. Stupid Mr. Ninja. Is he purposely
avoiding me? Is that how it is? I mean, I’ve never seen him go ask the
professor anything! Before, he’d just leave class as soon as possible....
26 January 2012
26
January
Attempt 4: Levelling up to Classmates
I got this down buddy. I so got this. I’m going to make this a bad romance that you’ll never forget.Exactly my type of chant. You know, when you’re lacking self-confidence, you really have to boost up your morale. So, I end up telling myself motivational words. They’re kind of like TED talks, except way more . . . concise. Let’s just put it that wa...
Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2012 by cubierock11
25 January 2012
25
January
Attempt 3: The Chase
And you’d think he’d walk a bit slower just because we’re
heading in the same direction, but no, the man is a lone wolf. He is a ninja, I
tell myself over and over again. Okay, it doesn’t really help that I tried to
play it cool and packed up faster than him. To be honest, he was packing up way
slower than before. Was he even waiting for me? I don’t know, but in the end,
he surpasses me, leaving me either to look pathetic and sprint after him or to
look very normal but secretly upset that we’re not walking togethe...
Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 by cubierock11
24 January 2012
24
January
Attempt 2: First Impressions
Please just tell me
that you’re shy, and that you’re not ignoring me, okay? Okay.
“Excuse me, I was wondering if I could survey you for my
business project?” I ask.
“Oh, sure,” he says.
“So, would you read advertisements on a coffee cup?”
“No.”
“And why not?”
“Because I...
Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 by cubierock11
23 January 2012
23
January
Attempt #1: You
You’re a little bit
funny. You’re kind of cute. I don’t know who you are, but let me tell you, you’ve
got my heart.
In a room filled with fatigued, keen, bored or focused students, you’re bound to find someone that you can’t take your eyes off of, and by instinct, I find him. My eyes have zoned in on him and I can’t help...
Posted on Monday, January 23, 2012 by cubierock11
21 January 2012
21
January
Final
The house is a mess. We’re packing to move to a house in the countryside for our newborn son, Taemin. The apartment is just too small for the three of us, and Taemin is crawling everywhere. Soon, he’ll need his own room, but Daeun has that all figured out. In fact, she has everything planned already. She likes to tell me that when Taemin is three, he’ll start cello and piano lessons. When he’s five, he’ll begin to learn Mandarin and Japanese. During this time, I should always speak to him in English and Daeun will teach him Korean. When...
Posted on Saturday, January 21, 2012 by cubierock11
21
January
03
I know something is missing in my life. I’m feeling it again on the day of my wedding. Maybe, I’m getting cold feet because this is probably the biggest commitment of my life, but I don’t think that’s the problem. Even when Minwoo is casually making crude remarks because he’s pissed that he’s not the best man, I can stand that. I can also stand having Junghoon as my best man. Although he irritated me much through university, he was still a good friend. He helped me secure my job at the clinic through his uncle’s connection...
Posted on Saturday, January 21, 2012 by cubierock11
21
January
02
“Wake up, sleepy poo.”
It’s Daeun’s sweet voice. That’s why I like sleeping at her
place. I get to hear her wake me up, and I feel that that’s something little to
look forward to each day. It’s too bad I can’t put it on repeat, then I’d want
to keep living.&nbs...
Posted on Saturday, January 21, 2012 by cubierock11
21
January
01
It’s like what they
always say. It’s only after you’ve lost something do you understand its
importance in your life, but I don’t think that way. I’ve never even lost
Jikyung in the first place. There was no beginning, no middle and not even an
ending. We were friends and still are. She’d probably say that I’m wrong. I use
this term too lightly, but I think everyone is a friend. We just have to focus
on their positive parts, and that’s what I like about Daeun. She’s always
smiling, reminding me of the good things in life. And then, there’s...
Posted on Saturday, January 21, 2012 by cubierock11
17 January 2012
17
January
Even if you threw me into a lions’ den, I would
not object. It would be better than being with you. You . . . you disgust me.
One thought had
whizzed by Sou’s and Jihyo’s minds when they both saw each other again in their
homeroom class: You again. Jihyo had already nestled in a desk beside the large
window with her exact coordinates being first column to the width’s end of the
classroom and behind four seats. She liked the position of 1, 5. She liked it
even more being adjacent to a window, where she could stare outside. She would
have...
Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 by cubierock11
14 January 2012
14
January
credits to dolcee.
From the look of your eyes, I never knew that
you were in pain. I always thought you were just like ice, harsh, cold and
cruel.
The typical reaction
of students entering the school gates for the first day of school would have
been anxiety, fear or perhaps even happiness. Jihyo, however, felt nothing.
There was nothing...
Posted on Saturday, January 14, 2012 by cubierock11
14
January
Chapter 00: Timing
So, I guess the two of us weren’t enough to
stop it all from happening.
You could say that we were strangers, at first,
but then we crossed paths quite expectedly.
For the two of them,
it was one of the worst and inhumane places to be at the hospital:
psychotherapy. All of their secrets would be unearthed with a sharp shovel and
dumped into a bucket, their infamous beige folders.&nbs...
Posted on Saturday, January 14, 2012 by cubierock11
09 January 2012
08 January 2012
08
January
I’m at Seoul alone, but I know what I need to do first. I search through my cell phone for the
right number at a local park; it’s Jikyung’s home phone. I know I just have to
press that green phone button, yet my hand is trembling. I’m being the coward
now. I can’t face her. What do I say? Will she forgive me? What if she doesn’t
pick u...
Posted on Sunday, January 08, 2012 by cubierock11
07 January 2012
07
January
03
As
soon as Lara came back from the washroom, she blurts, “Jikyung caught you with
another girl huh?”
Several
women end up glaring at me; I’m pretty sure they represent the whole female
species. What I did was wrong, and foolish. I was even being like my father,
who broke my mother’s heart. “I think she knew what I was doing, but chose to
be ignorant...
Posted on Saturday, January 07, 2012 by cubierock11
03 January 2012
03
January
02
“What?”
Lara hollers, almost frightening the flight attendant passing by. “And she
agreed to date you? You suck, Junghoon! You really suck.”
“Hey!”
I snap at her. “I was young, and lonely at the time.” Lara gives me a
suspicious glance, and immediately, I add, “Okay, fine. I did suck, but I did
get her.”
“Yeah,
but you didn’t manage to keep her,” she shoots back at me a painful message.
She must have seen my reaction to her words for she quickly remarks, “Sorry, I
was too harsh...
Posted on Tuesday, January 03, 2012 by cubierock11
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