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Because he emigrated from China, my dad always expects me to work hard and perform well in school. “You are smart. But being smart is not going to help you at all if you don’t study hard,” my dad was always telling me, but I never believed him. I had

High school was a bad experience, and I’m learning to correct the mistakes I regret making. Loose ends were never something I was good at dealing with. I’ve always felt like I’ve had to finish whatever I completed. Maybe that was just my inherent nat

My heart was pounding as I stepped onto the ice.  With a phony smile plastered on my face I took my starting pose.  The music started and everything from then was muscle memory and the result of countless hours of practice.  The following four minute

Losing is painful. For some, this statement may seem like a silly slogan for a Gatorade commercial or a Nike ad. But for me, it truly describes how I feel whenever I lose any game or competition. Many people believe that they are very competitive, bu

Life is short and sweet. Although beliefs of after life differ between people and culture, there is only one moment at any one given time. The present becomes history, and once history is established, it can never be changed again. Therefore, history

People make mistakes and I’m the first one to admit that. However, for a most of my life, admitting it was the last thing that I wanted to do. You’re supposed to try your best to hide all your mistakes. No one wants to see your flaws. Otherwise, you’

You know how for some people, the very first thing they crave when they wake up is coffee? Well, mine is cereal.  I absolutely love cereal – it’s amazing how those sugary little flakes of vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates and pure awesomeness can tra

  Perfectionist. I find it utterly amazing how one simple word can define most of my twenty years of life, yet largely fail to embody how this enduring quality became my own worst enemy. Growing up, I naïvely believed that being a perfectionist was s

My first surgical operation was on a pigeon. He literally fell out of the sky into the street in front of me one day, wing broken from a BB gun pellet and orange eyes glazed from the pain. After trying to bandage his wing, he continued to trip on the

Life presents many opportunities, but it is in one’s actions that success will be made.   In forty years I do not want to regret any decision I made, rethink my choices, or know I could have done one thing differently to make my life better.  My fami

When I was six years old, I went to church and thanked God for giving me a complete, happy family. Two weeks later, my dad left me and my mom for another woman. When I was eleven, my best friend and I caught her mom cheating on her dad with their goo

The monotony was as familiar to him as the rising of the sun from the east every morning. He had the same old job, behind the same old desk, and the same old feeling of dissatisfaction that had now become a routine. My alarm rings and I wake up with

JinSun Bok

Art & Architecture 10 (section1A)

31 January, 2010

               I always tried to do everything perfectly. If I did not complete well what I have to do, I got really nervous and afraid of what happen to me. Thus, I always made very specifi

I was scared when he asked me, “what if death is not the end of your life?”

I am not a Christian, yet I have been attending church events for the past two years. I met this amazing man from a fellowship in Berkeley and very soon, we were in a relation

Pi day.  March fourteenth.  Why is this pi day?  March fourteenth or 3-14 has the same numbers as the first three digits of the irrational number that relates the diameter and circumference of a circle.  When was I first told this?  When I was in fif

       For some reason, Las Vegas and I do not get along very well. Years of experience told me that only trouble is found in this “Sin City.” When I was five, I made a wrong turn and ended up on top of the MGM Grand’s roof for an hour. Then when I w

My parents forced me to go to Tae Kwon Do practice five times a week until I got my black belt. When I was a child, I never had a free moment to myself. Every monday was Piano practice, every tuesday through thursday was Tae Kwan Do practice, every w

Every country plays its own national anthem before momentous events, every student walks to Vitamin C’s Graduation as they reach their graduation point, and every wedding couple strolls to Recessional as they make their way towards matrimony. As we k