Korean Friends

Anyeong haseyo! Early this year, around March, I received an email from a Korean girl inviting me to a free korean class every week. (Before this there were some Koreans who came to Malaysia for a short mission/study trip and I get to know some of them. Then one of them pass my email address to the Korean girl who was offering free Korean classes.) At first I was a bit skeptical but then I thought: "why not?" since its free =) Furthermore, I was addicted to a Korean drama called Princess Hours and it somehow triggered my interest to learn korean =p

So I went ahead. Little did i know that I will be making several Koreans friends whom I admit are the one of the nicest people around. The first korean class there was only me and another girl, Lee Sun (2nd year Engineering Faculty). The korean class was held in a condo and it was owned by a korean couple. When we finally met, the korean girl introduced herself as Miso(not her full name) and she looks more like a Malaysian than a Korean. She is cute!

The korean couple has 2 little daughters(Sarah and Yurah) who are very cute>.< (Yes, they look really Korean). There was another Korean guy living with them whose name was Peter and he also taught us in the korean class. We started our lesson by learning the 5 basic vowels and we were given a textbook each. The class lasted like 1 and a half hours. After that, we were served with a delicious meal of korean food! And each meal there is always kimchi=) And before we leave, we would sing a korean christian song^^

I really enjoyed the korean class and I was there almost every week(we stop for 2 months during the semester break). Now the class have grown to about 5-6 regular people. Occasionally, we would have a small korean party during the weekends and we would play korean games and enjoy korean food! I enjoyed those moments very much! One thing about the korean class that strike me the most is their hospitality. They are all Christians by the way and Sarah's dad is a pastor in Korea. They are willing to come to Malaysia just to have free koreans class for us and even provided us with free meals. Somehow in my heart I feel ashamed that even our own Christians don't go that far just to evangelize to people from other country. And they took pains to learn English for that very purpose. May God bless them for what they have done!

Pics:

Our first meeting!

Making Kimbab! Korean style sushi!

The korean class(not all are present)

Making korean ice-kacang! (Patbingsu) Delicious^^

Drizzt Do'Urden

I finally bought the 6th book for the Legend of Drizzt: The Halfling's Gem. It's a fantasy book about a Dark Elf, Drizzt and his adventures. So far it has been an interesting read^^ The only thing missing from it is romance but the rest like friendship, adventure and humor(only a little) are present in the book. I'd like to share what Drizzt said which I think was quite good:

"I am dying. Every day, with every breath I draw, I am closer to the end of my life. For we are born with a finite number of breaths, and each one I take edges the sunlight that is my life toward the inevitable dusk.

It is a difficult thing to remember, especially while we are in the health and strength of our youth, and yet, I have come to know that it is an important thing to keep in mind- not to complain or to make melancholy, but simply because only with the honest knowledge that one day i will die can I ever truly begin to live...For only when a person completely and honestly accepts the inevitability of death is he free of the fear of it.

...Perhaps the greatest evil I see in this existence is when supposedly holy men prey upon the basic fears of death of the common folk to take from them. "Give to the church!" they cry. "Only then will you find salvation!"...

...I can only look at it and sigh, for as death is the greatest mystery, so it is the most personal of revelations. We will not know, none of us, until the moment is upon us, and we cannot truly and in good conscience convince another of our beliefs.

It is a road we travel alone, but a road that I no longer fear, for in accepting the inevitable, I have freed myself from it...

I cannot control the truth of death, whatever my desperation. I can only make certain that those moments of my life I have remaining are as rich as they can be.

-Drizzt Do'Urden