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| I received this email from JAN a couple weeks ago but just got around to reading it. i always thought my family was just weird, but i guess we're just Korean!!
Read on (especially if you're korean)...its hilarious!!
i've bolded ones that are especially true
YOU KNOW YOU'RE KOREAN AMERICAN (or IRISH, CANADIAN, Australian,....basically 2nd Generation Koreans?) IF (in random order)....
122. Your parents ALWAYS want you to stay home and not go out - read a book instead, etc.
121. You had to drink "han yahk" before when you were sick (almost puking at the smell...)
120.
For punishment they've made you go on your knees and raise your hands
up high, or they made you stick your hands out so they can smack
them...or beating....usually for disrespecting them unintentionally or
talking back....ouch....ahyahyah.
119. you can haggle like noone's business (you most likely learned it from watching your mom/grandmother)
118. you started studying for the SATs in 7th grade
117.
your parents sent you to the Korean government sponsored "gyopo" summer
camp in Korea to "learn about your roots" (little did they know it was
just a big meet market/hookupfest)
116. you're fluent in "Konglish". (Appah, can I borrow your cha tonight so I can go to the noraebang?)
115.
your parents have always discouraged any interaction with the opposite
sex, but the day after you graduated from college, they started
badgering you about when you were going to get married
114. you actually like daenjang jigae and can tolerate the smell
113. no soft mesh body sponges for you - you shower with the painful, sandpapery "italy towel". (i actually use one still!!!-GK)
112. When your parents wave for you to come over, they wave down towards them.
111. ...if your parents carefully opens the gift wrap so that they can save it and someday use it on someone else's gift
110. You have an aunt (emo) that always slips you a $100 bill when
they see you. They try to do it discreetly too which makes it all super
secretive but then your mom sees and says "aii...uhnee" and your aunt
goes "ah..tehsuh..tehsuh.."
109. Your mom has mixed raw egg with soy sauce and rice for you to eat as a kid
107. You've eaten raw ramen noodles as a snack - Sapporo Ichiban - the red packet
106.
When someone in your family drives a Toyota or Honda (usually with a
box of tissue somewhere in the car, like in the back window)
105. Grandmothers/moms use pots and pans as noisemakers -
hitting them with metal spatulas and such - when rooting for their
church volleyball team to win...or any sport.
104. Your mom packs food in a napkin before leaving the casino buffet (muffin...fried chicken...) (from John Nahm!)
103. You've had a bowl cut at some point in your life.
102. Your mom has short-permed hair (have you guys seen my mom?-GK)
101. You're a girl and you've put tape on your eyes before to make "sanguhpuhr" or...perhaps you just got the surgery done.
100. You have had a piece of rice stuck to your shirt or hair before
99. You've been called an "Ee-nuhm-uhn-jai-sheik" or "Kai-she-nah" by your parents many times in your life
98. You eat seaweed soup on your bday prepared by your uhmah!
97.
When you or guests are leaving your parents' house, they wait for you
to get into the car and leave before they go back in the house. Won't
close the door, until you're gone. Doesn't matter if it's freezing cold
outside...they'll linger and wait until you're gone first before they
go back in the house.
96. I like....flat butts and i cannot lie! Your mom has a flat butt which is usually covered by Korean brand polyester pants.
95.
Your parents always eat some sort of fruit for dessert...apples, asian
pear, oranges...and your mom peels the apple skin, the core and slices
it into "crescent" shape pieces.
94. you just love, love, love them korean faux fur blankets.
93.
There is some piece of Korean furniture in the house somewhere like a
folding korean table or a black ebony chest with cranes all over it. (we have the chest - my dad told us he made ours himself...still don't know if thats the complete truth but he can freehand cranes like no other!-GK)
92. Your mom has bulk packs of Korean nylon knee high stockings - and wears them with sandals
91.
Your parents put Salon-pas or Ben-Gay on their aching bodies. When your
dad or mom is sick, they put a wet washcloth on their forehead.
90. Your parents never drink water (except soju and other
alcoholic beverage) until they finish eating their meal, no matter how
heavy the meal is. Now that I think of it, they don't even have water
pitcher or cups out until they've finished with their meal. Actually,
forget cups, they just pour the water in their rice bowls to drink it
up. (from Chun Shin)
89. Your parents only buy thousand island dressing and think it's the only dressing that tastes good
88. When you're out eating with an older brother or sister, they usually pay for your meal. (yep!-GK)
87.
When you were younger and at a restaurant with another korean family,
your parents would fight over the bill...usually the dads...they start
grabbing it out of the hand and/or try to pay and the other one pulls
him down going ..."ah yai..yai..yai...". sometimes this back and forth
process will take 15 min. - everyone else waiting until the parents
duke it out and pay.
86. You open the refrigerator door, and fall back - potent!
85. Your parents are tired, so they do the kimchee squat wherever they're at.
84.
At church retreats, you eat kimchee bowls at like 11:00 pm with
everyone. you know what chappegetti, sapporo ichiban and neoguri
are....one or the other are always in the kitchen cabinet.
83. You have one of those asian fruity purple/orange/blue whatever color car fresheners in your car
82. Your parents never paid for napkins...they just took a whole stack from mcdonald's, restaurants...etc.
81. When you were in trouble, your dad/mom tried to hit you
with their korean slipper from the kitchen, rolled up korean newspaper
or your dad's shoehorn (the slippers didn't really hurt)
80.
You're a girl - when you go to the Hello Kitty store you still want to
buy everything no matter what your age (you still have and use cute
pencils, pens, korean/japanese stationary)
79. No matter how wealthy your family is or isn't, they never
waste or throw away food; after you're done eating and completely full,
you mom says "that's it? eat some more!" as she gives you a 3rd plate
of food/rice
78. Someone in your close circle of friends is named John,
Paul, David, Peter, Esther, Susan or Jenny Lee/Kim....actually, quite a
few of them are named that.
77. You can't eat ramen without kimchee or bap. And if you have to b/c you ran out, you feel like something's missing.
76. You hit someone sitting next to you from laughing so hard. In fact, you SILENT laugh while hitting. (see...its NORMAL!!-GK)
75. You play guitar, violin, or piano
74.
Failure means telling your parents you are not going to be a doctor but
feel called to go to seminary instead to be a mok-sah-neem. Watch out
while the rage begins - "Nuh Mee Juh Suh!!!!"
73. Your parents have lived in the U.S. for 20 years+ but they
mainly speak Korean. In fact, one of them doesn't speak English at all.
72.
You hated eating Korean food in high school (preferably going to get
American food with friends). Now that your out of the house, you crave
Korean food all the time!
71. Your dad is always on the couch after work, quietly reading the Korean newspaper or watching the Korean news/videos.
70. The Korean newspaper is the 2nd bible to your parents.
69.
Your mom knows a friend, who had a friend, who had a friend....that
something bad happened to therefore, you need to listen to your parents
and do as they tell you althought there is no logical connection
whatsoever to the story they just told you (usually that "friend" is
just a news article they read from the Korean newspaper)
68. Your dad would explode and yell with a passion about once
every few months or year. The rest of the time, he's quietly reading
the newspaper.
67. Your mom works more than full-time, cleans,
cooks homemade meals, sews, serves, is always go, go, go and worries so
much that she nags you about what you're going to do with your life.
Your dad has never cooked or washed dishes in the kitchen but man, when
it's time to grill that kalbi....he's all over that!
(SOOOOOOO TRUE!!!!!-GK)
66. You communicate through your mom what you need to tell your dad and vice-versa
65.
Even in college, when you have large group get togethers, the girls are
in the kitchen preparing the food, while the guys stay in the living
room hanging out.
(WHY is that!??!?!-GK)
64. Even though you are a gifted artist, you know the only
professions that exists for you are in medicine/business/computers or
law.
63. Most Korean girls you know are teachers, pharmacists or nurses
62. Most Korean guys you know are accountants, IT/Engineering, doctors, lawyers or Seminarians
61.
Your mom always dresses up when going out of the house. At home, she
dresses like a homeless woman wearing your old clothes/sweats and
mismatching.
60. In high school, you get depressed when you get a bad
grade, evaluating the existence of your whole life and wondering if
you'll ever amount to anything
59. When playing large group
games, embarrassing and targeting someone in front of the whole group
for ridicule pleasure is fun and normal...in fact, he/she probably
likes the attention
58. Writing your name with your butt, sizzling like a bacon,
getting your wrists hit by other people's swinging fingers and the
guys' version of "motorcycle" are all normal behaviors to you
56. When eating a grilled fish, your mom eats the fishhead and eyeballs like it's filet mignon
55.
On special occasions, your parents will go to a Chinese restaurant
where they won't have Americanized Chinese food, but "Fear Factor"
Chinese food (
E.g. jellyfish, shark fin soup). You're disgusted, starving and think
their weird for eating it. Your parents are happy, delighted and think
you're weird for not eating it.
54. Your parents are part of some sort of social group. It usually involves secret group money collecting/exchange.
53. Getting toilet paper, toothpaste, or any highly practical item is an appropriate and wise prize during team games
52.
When you're around non-Asian people, you stop using slang words, start
enunciating your words and start using proper grammar/English or just
stand there remaining silent thus adding to the already quiet Asian
stereotype. When you're with your Korean friends, you're a whole new
personality.
51. Where you're at a church retreat, skits are your favorite part and there's always a dance-off or breakdancing of some sort.
50.
Your parents have embarrassed you in public before by their mannerisms
(dad yelling too loud "Eun Jung AHHHH!!! YUH-GEE-WAH!!!", parents
swearing in broken English at another driver)
49. You only know the first line of the Korean National Anthem
and sing it "Dong Heh Muhr Nah..." and then stop b/c you don't know the
rest of the words.
48. If you're a girl, when talking to someone
of the opposite sex, your voice gets higher, pitchier, whinnier, with a
lot of fake giggling...E.g. "Ah, oPaHhhhhhhhhh!!! giggle....soft fake
hit on the arm"
47. If you're a guy, when you're with your friends, you play basketball or massive multiplayer video games for fun.
45.
When you go to the beach for a bbq, camping or an amusement park, your
parents bring the 3 golden Ks - kimchee, kalbi, kimbab
44. Parking lot syndrome. This is quickly broken when someone suggests you guys get some boba.
43.
You have name-brand style....mad style...more so than other asians
(except perhaps the japanese who are bit funkier in a weird way.)
Music/talents/dramas from Korea highly influence you.
42. If you are a girl, you spend $150-$250 getting a straight pah-mah to make your hair look "naturally" straight.
41.
Even though you really wanted to go to UCLA, your mom finds your
Berkeley acceptance letter and mails it out behind your back confirming
you'll go there. (true story!)
40. When you're around your parents, you tone changes and you
speak like a baby or little kid "Uhhhhh-MMMMMaaaaahhhhHHHHH! Nah beh
goo pahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!"
39. When you're around your parents, they
treat you like a little kid/baby and like you don't know anything or
have been anywhere.
38. If you are a girl, you have had a crush on the praise leader (Godly, talented, well-dressed, great voice, smart, romantic)
37. If you are a guy, you dream of a girl like the one in the korean video (perfect, cute, serving, fun, passionate, tender)
36. For those who can relate to #37 and #38, WAKE UP AND SMELL THE KIMCHEE CHEE-GEH!!!
35. You know when your mom's cooking dang-jang-jee-geh....the minute you open up your front door. Whoo! Potent!
34. Your dad or mom planted something in your front yard, backyard,
wherever there's dirt - they'll plant and grow. Lettuce? Corn?
Something... (we have a date tree, lettuce, cucumbers, green onions, aloe vera, a lemon tree, radish...-GK)
33. You are so artistic that when you go to
different stores and see something you like, you naturally think "I can
make this. Cheaper too." (I think Koreans are highly creative and
artistic!)
32. You get excited when someone suggests playing korean group
games. You just love them Korean group games!!! Never a dull moment...
31. Your church parking lot has more Lexus, BMW, and Mercedes cars than the local dealership
30. Eating on the floor with no chairs is considered normal when with a big group of people.
29. If someone walks into a room/house with shoes on, it makes you highly uncomfortable and nervous.
28.
Your parents are looking for a toothpick after they've eaten at a
restaurant. When they find one, they cover their mouths with one hand
while picking their teeth with the other.
27. Your parents have lived in the U.S. for over 20+ years, and they still don't vote.
26.
You used to lie to your parents in high school telling them you were
going to the library when in fact, you were really going out with your
friends. (heehee)
25. Three types of Korean girls - the k-town l.a. club scene
girl, the goodie/holy try to act super cute modestly dressed church
girl, and the ones that no one really pays attention to.
24.
Three types of Korean guys - the bad boy gangsta wannabee, the best
all-around good looking worship/church leader that all the girls have
crushes on and think that's the guy for them, the nice, ordinary guys
that get easily overlooked
23. When your mom cooks, she never measures anything. And when
you ask her how much you should put it in...she says "ah...you know. a
little bit here. a little there. just taste."
22. When you like
a guy/girl, you make him a praise mix or write encouraging letters on
cute asian stationary (which includes the mandatory scripture verse)
21. A kid gets into an Ivy League school and their parents are touted as being the greatest parents ever!
20. Your mom puts potato salad in between two slices of bread
19.
Your parents have a professional karoake machine complete with a
rotating disco ball; you hate it when it's your mom or dad's turn to
sing b/c they sing these whiny korean folk songs with electronic
background music.
18. Your parents have a free calendar hung on their wall from church or the local Korean market.
17.
Your mom randomly tells you what their friends' kids have done,
especially if they did something good for their parents. You feel like
they are comparing you to them..which they are.
16. A date night for your parents, is lying in the electronic
heated blanket with thick puffy faux fur korean blankets in the living
room watching Korean videos.
15. When going to the beach with
your mom, she's covered from head to toe with her 10-inch sun visor,
her robotech sunglasses, lightweight jackets and such. In fact, they
will most likely drive to the beach, look at the water, say
"Cho-TAH!!!" and then drive back home after one hour.
(LOL!!!-GK)
14. If your parents call you "Kah-She-Nah" or "Jai-Sheik" if
you haven't called them in over a week and then feel guilty about it
13. While watching a korean drama, you had an epiphany and realized your parents' loud voice level was just normal.
12. You've washed your hair in a river before on some road trip when you were a little kid (I HAVE!!-GK)
11. You've never seen your parents kiss
10. When you were in 1st grade, your parents used rice instead of buying Elmer's glue
(YEP!!-GK)
9. Your mom has a collection of empty kimchee jars for future
use, big rubber basins in the backyard for making kimchee, a gallon of
koh-joo-jang and a 20lb bag of rice. Your dad will even comment on the
koh-joo-jang or kim being really good b/c it's from korea but you can't
tell the difference.
8. You wash your dishes by hand (only using the dishwasher on special occasions)
7. Your parents rarely show teeth or have big smiles in pictures
6.
You get straight A's on your report card with one A- or B+ . Your
parents are really worried about the A- or B+, say do better next time
and pray about it.
5. You know you have to marry a Korean. They don't even have
to say it. You just know. (Unless MAYBE if the guy's super rich and
Chinese)
4. Your mom keeps her rubberbands around the kitchen sink faucet handles
3. Your mom uses water and an old rag to clean everything
2. Your mom has a bag of frozen anchovies (meh-duh-chee) in the freezer
1. Your mom has a drawer in the kitchen that has everything - messy and unorganized - gum, tape, packets of ketchup, safety pin
(we've cleaned it up a couple times but somehow it always comes back into existence!-GK)
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| Hey I know i said good bye to xanga but I wanted to share Kenya with you. We have our sharing and debrief tonight and i'm excited to share what God is doing in Kenya. If you can't make it tonight, track me down/call me up-i can't stop talking about it!
GrX (the church i'm attending and currently working with) has partnered with a church in Kahawa Sukari, Kenya (right outside Nairobi). This past summer was the 2nd year a KidZone (GrX's children's ministry) team was invited to come for a short term missions trip and this year we were asked to do VBS for Deliverance Church.
Here is a letter i wrote to my supporters:
Dear
Friends,
Bwena asifiwe (Praise the Lord)!
Life changing. Heart breaking. Humbling.
Amazing. Those are just a few
words that I can use to describe my experience in Kenya these past two weeks. I came home Friday afternoon but my heart is
still in Kenya. Thousands of things I want to share with you
are going through my head. However, I’ll
restrain myself from sharing EVERYTHING and just list a couple highlights in
this letter.
We arrived on a Friday and spent the next
couple days preparing for VBS (Vacation
Bible School). Our faith was soon tested when we learned
that only a handful of House of Praise Deliverance Church (DC) would be there
during the week to help with VBS. The
expected number of children to come out was 300. The minimum number of helpers we needed to
even make it happen was around 20. Our
first day we had a turnout of 185 children.
God is good! Gradually, this
number would grow to 362 children and miraculously, God kept on providing the
number of helpers each day! DC high
school youth kids were given their first opportunity to serve as leaders in the
church. Here is a part of an email from
one of them to us before we ever even left the country:
“Every time I would pass near
church memories of the wonderful times we had with GRX team kept flashing
through my mind and every time this happened I would keep balancing my tears as
a sign of painful fact that you were all going back to America .It hurt so bad
that the time we were with for guys for the last days (when we had lunch on
Sunday) I would hide my face secretly and wipe a tear of my eye but luckily
nobody could notice. The same thing happened when remembered God’s favor upon
my life. May God open the floodgates of Heaven and rain down His blessings upon
you for wonderful service you did by planting God’s seed into the little
children’s hearts.”
This same young man wants me to email him
on how he can personally contribute to the Unstoppable Campaign. Giving everything they have when they have
close to nothing. This and their love
and reverence for God were just a few things we learned from the people of Kenya.
I believe that the partnership between GrX
and DC is one united by Christ and hopefully long-lasting. In preparation for next year’s team, will you
please join me in collecting any children’s clothing, toys, paperback books,
shoes and book bags? I don’t have
anywhere to store it, so if you can just let me know that you are collecting
items in your house we’ll make arrangements to pick up, pack up and send off
the items next year and maybe even throughout the year.
Thank you for your support and
prayers! I was definitely blessed
through this trip and can’t wait to share the experience more deeply with
you. Some things we’d talk about: slum visit, orphanage visit and letters from
the children, kitchen crew, the rain, Pastor Wang’ombe, house visits, sing and
play stampede worship time, team unity, God’s power, my family in Kenya and
MORE! =) With
much appreciation and love,
Grace Here are some pics from Kenya:
VBS Day 1
The one in the back is CLYDE, the high school crew leader who wrote the email and wants to support UNSTOPPABLE, GrX's capital campaign.
Anthony came to VBS at Deliverance Church Kahawa Sukari but lives in
Mwihoko, a village 10-15? miles away. He is ALWAYS smiling...except
maybe when he's picking his nose.
Literally 5 minutes before this shot was taken, i was crying from my
heart being broken. We had just come out of a house where a
grandmother was taking care of her grandchildren (orphans because their
moms had died of aids and their dads had left). the grandmother was
sick and could barely speak. all she said was that she was happy
because she knew Jesus as her savior and she was grateful to us for
remembering her and visiting and praying for her. As we were leaving,
we saw the youngest grandchild..maybe around 15 months old and could
barely stand. she LOOKED weak and hungry (and frightened by the
"white" visitors-to them, anyone that is not black is white). All i
could think about was who would take care of her if/when her
grandmother dies. As I watched and prayed for the girl my heart broke.
i left crying uncontrollably and was greeted by this group of kids who
had FOLLOWED us from our bus to the house (about a mile walk). as each
of the girls took my hand they looked at me and the boy, Joffi, asked
me, "why are you crying?" I realized that they had nothing to cry
about. they were so happy to just walk and talk and so thats what we
did and we became friends.
the kids in Mwihoko. to my right-Joffi (Job) and Davis we're the only
ones who spoke english. Davis wants to be a pilot
and Joffi wants to be a good dad when they grow up. I asked Joffi and Davis to pray for me and i promised to pray for them everyday.
agnes, wambui, me and david
this was a GREAT day! I don't remember why but we laughed so much!! i think it started with my chopping skills or lack of.
Agnes and her family (they live in Mwihoko; Agnes was one of our housemates and part of the kitchen crew)
wambui is teaching me how to do laundry =P
Wambui and Agnes ended up doing our laundry for us. They were so facinated by our laundry machines back home and how they can find the stains on each piece of clothing.
This is Wangui (also my kikuyu name). She was the MOST BEAUTIFUL baby i had EVER seen! I literally could NOT stop looking at her. Every part of her face was PERFECT. She lives in Mathare, the 2nd largest slum in Kenya. slums have no clean water, electricity or sanitation.
Don't pity the people or children of Kenya. Pray for them. They are so smart and have so much potential. May God bless them with opportunities. They know God and love God and have faith that He will provide. May they continue to have hope and find comfort in his love.
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| hey OMCers!
Lets do a reunion! Give me some ideas on when and where and i'll try to get the ball rolling!
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| i've moved on to facebook! come find me as Grace Kim (not Yun Kim) - good luck though, cuz there are 479 Grace Kims on facebook!
if you don't have facebook, its time you get one!
its been fun xangans!
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| Get ready ya'll...Kim sistahs REUNITE!!
July 4th-18th
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