Paul Park: I say....

On December 06, 2012, Supreme court passed incentive for WA and CO that allows the using of Marijuana for recreation purpose. This has been some what of a battle within legal system and Americans. Usage of Marijuana in America is nothing to be shocked about. I'm sure, 80% of population have tried it at least once in their life time and honestly, much as all these Anti-Drug people to scare people, weed is not a gateway drug that leads you to do harsher drugs. It might open the opportunities but it does not  make you want to use harder drugs. Anyways, after the incentive has passed people believe it's all good to do whatever you want with it. WRONG!. It's just incentive that passed, now states have to build the law around it. At this moment, in my town, the law for usage of Marijuana is like this: It's ok to have weed max of an ounce, you can smoke at your own place but you can not smoke where its visible to public, and you have to be 21. Of course, Im sure, some areas ar

I remember a story my father told me once. It was about Abraham Lincoln; he had to choose a congress man/ or senator and he rejected one of the candidate because he didn't look his age. His assistant asked him "Are you really not going to pick him because he doesn't look his age?" and Abe Lincoln said "Person should look his age because the look defines the persons' experience". Older I get, I seem to be agreeing more with my parents and realize how foolish I have been. Of course, I would not change everything that happened to me, if anything, I'm glad all these events happened to me because it made me the man that I am today. But older you get, you need to really find yourself and who you are. I remember I use to wear size 40 pants, xxl tall tee, and hats almost fits 2 of my heads in it. Yes, I look at my old photos and laugh at it too. But, no regrets. It was ok for me to do that because I was young. My mother always said, "Do everything when

Have we not heard the phrase " beauty is eye of the beholder"? It's all in someone's point of view. I believe so many things makes a person, who they are. Starting from genetics to parents, hobbies, friends, interest, priorities, to your likes and dislikes; person is combination of so many things. So, of course, someones point of view is going to be different. You might understand the circumstance of situation by measuring it to your, personal, experience, but you won't ever understand the opposite, fully. Do you know that, in criminal case, witness are unreliable evidence? It means, even if you committed a crime and someone saw you doing it, but the physical evidence aren't there, you are eligible to be acquitted. Because the truth is really depends on P.O.V. Let's do a little test. Test 1: Michael Vick was found guilty for fighting dogs and there were dead dogs in his compound. What's you take on it? Is he guilty of animal cruelty and deserved to

In my 26th years living in this world, I could say I had an interesting life just like everyone else could. But the world moves so fast when you realize the truth of the world and being modest only gets you so far. Life puts you through many tests and choices that are almost seen written for destiny, written for gods. Its your right to select, we always hope to choose the right one. Like our peers; we hope to select the right choice of friends; it becomes like G+ circles, but we feel it in our gut that you can trust them to hope that they can trust you. They say your friends are reflection of you, and that's correct. I may display that I might have many friends in my social networking sites but there is a small group of people that I know in my heart and hope them to be around for rest of my life. At this moment, I have about 1300 friends on FB, but I probably know 70% of these people and 40% I talk to and 10% I actually like and 1% that I love and trust with my life. But thes

Hello, My name is Paul J. Park. This blog is to help immigrants (from whatever country) adjust to America and it's culture. Shall we start? 1) Learn  English: They say "When you are in Rome, follow Roman's law" (or something like that). What makes you think that you can live in this country and not speak the language? I do not think they should let you take the driver test in anything except English. This is an English speaking country and you should do what the majority of people are doing. Of course, for older people it's harder to learn, I'm not talking about them, I'm talking about kids from age 5 - under 35. Learn English 2) Expect to see diversity of people: This country is known as the "Melting Pot" for a reason. You can find so many different ethnicity of people that you really need to watch what you are saying sometimes. This is not your motherland nor home country, this is place where people from all around come to live. So drop y

YOLO: You Only Live Once...Serious, one of the dumbest statements out. I am not saying you get few lives like you are in a video game but that statement was almost an excuse for dumb kids to......well.....act more dumb. These kids are pushing their limits and trying to do something that is, sometimes, dangerous and reckless for the reason of YOLO. You know what happen when you keep trying to live by that statement? You life will end more early than you expected. Life is a journey, and there are certain steps you HAVE to take to see what's on the other side and to open some doors. If you don't, might as well just settle for working 8 hrs at fast food joint and rent a one bedroom apartment and just say "Fuck It". Why not? You think you are destine to become something? Well, if you do, why are you rushing life? Nothings comes good when you rush things. Life is steps, you have to take first step to get to the next and so on. I believe, athletes understand this more than a

It's crazy to believe that it already been an year since you passed away. It seems like yesterday but that is the yesterday that I would not want to re-live again. Lot has changed since; let me tell you how everyone has been doing. Well, first, Goon finally got a kid; boy. He met a girl in Mexico and they had a kid together and fortunately, me and ash are the godparents. The kids in Mexico with his mother but Goon is in Cali right now trying to move them up to US. What's crazy is that, when you passed away, I tried to get hold of him but he ended up calling me few days later. He called me with joy in his voice but I was the first one to strike. He called and said "What's up?" and I went off on him telling him why he didn't call me sooner and I had to break the news to him. Funny thing is that he found out he was going to have the kid the day that you passed away. It's weird but I like there is some connection to it; god's mysterious of way of work, I g

Style; what is style? Trend? Brand name clothing? If you ask me, style is within you. Doesn't matter you shop at Bloomingdale or JCPenny, you should dress the way you are, not what's hot right now. I use to be trend chaser; trying to follow all the great trend and do better at it. But, in senior year of high school, I realized "Fuck, why am I putting money in these companies pockets when I could just make my own clothes.", so I designed shirts during that year and few years more after. I didn't want to follow trend anymore. It cost too much, it was too tedious for me, if you ask. Style is within you; some style that is perfect for you, may not be the best for other. But, style is what makes you. Rather than trying to look like millions of people out there buying same damn clothes with same style, looking like page out of catalog, you should find your style and your inspiration. I , personally, am heavily influenced by Hip Hop and Jay-Z but I do have some culture a

Life gets hard....you look around and you see all these memories with all these people....but when the issue hit the heart, u are the only one standing with a your own shadow. we try to understand by trying to measure the circumstance with their own experiences but they never seem to get it right, don't they? Its almost like standing on a rope and every step jeopardize you faith. Only bullet away. But most of times, its not for you. You go on everyday try to fulfill your own goals with love ones on our mind. So in a sense, you live for them too. Its a bullet away. But what gives me a right to give my love ones another bad news. And you find yourself thinking about yourself again. You have to live for them. Be a person who his friends can be proud of. But it's hard. Life is hard. And, I feel drained. But can give up. Your friends or family won't fixed the problem, but they, surely, are there to give you support and confidence. So, live your life, not just for your sake, but

Damn...Im here again, writing a blog that I wished to never write but life will throws these curve balls. I known Hayden ever since 8th grade from Redmond Jr. High. We played football together, he was really good at it, making to both Varsity and JV. But, I do not know Hayden because that, I remember us hanging out, going to Anthony's house together to just live life. young, wild, but still morally ethical. Yeah, we had fun.  But I knew we always didn't have a great relationship, we argued, but we grew next to each other, finding different world that suits each others personality. But, we were still a hand reach around from each other when we needed it one another . I guess, we drifted apart during our first to second year in high school. You had your crew and I had mine but we were meant to see each other and recognize each other and love each others accompany when the both of our worlds collided. Nothing but love to you. Now, if the readers don't mind, I like to write a l

I shall fight through these unknown hours to be the best that I could be I do not know what my destiny has wrote down for me but I will be exactly what my God has planned me to be Even though sometimes it seems darker than others but it's just lesson the world is trying to teach me The nagging I get is just another lecture that gives me the tools to become better, so I'll listen to it as it is just your way to show me you love me I shall forgive my foes as they are just another version of me They pretend not to like me but we are same people who tries to achieve something Let me inhale those hate and exhale as it is a motivation to make me stronger Something I would have settled for, now I will push to achieve more I shall not fear the unknown as I am an unknown to it First time for everything and I want to be the man who can say the everything has been first timed Even though I may look at it as it is something that is unfamiliar but I will soon to understand it O

They say I couldn't They say I shouldn't They say you can't be They say you shouldn't be They say I was downgraded They say I was crazy They say I was angry They say I was emotionally stressed They say I think too much They say I do not think They say I was wrong They say I am not capable They say I was an womanizer They say I was a perv They say I am an idiot They say I wasn't good enough They say I didn't work hard enough They say I was born with the silver spoon They say I was manipulative They say I was narcissistic They say I was too cocky They say it's too soon They say it's too late They say I am far from They say they know me better than I would They say I should have known it better than they would They say I was a trouble They say I am corruption They say I am outspoken They say I speak too much They say I'm not They say I am. They don't have a fucking clue....

US has the top technology and skills to provide the best health care system in the world, but how come we have more people dying in our country then others? US's health care system is a business that suits the capitalistic idea of the country. From outside in, it seems that US provide great health system and opportunity but if you live in US, you can tell that it's all smoking mirrors made by marketing gurus. The insurance system is a joke that takes money away from poor people. When people get hurt and need to go to hospital for some surgeries and something big, it always seems like that's the ONLY is not covered by your insurance. I am an immigrant from South Korea and yes, we did not have universal medicare, but getting help and seeing doctors wasn't going to make you eat cup of noodles for a whole year. It's crazy but if you don't have insurance, these doctors will just let you die on the street and I actually meant that. I do not know how many people seem t

This blog is not intent to used as presidential campaign nor trying to change someone else's opinion or choices. It's just one man's opinion, view, and hope. With all the presidential campaign and presidential debate going on, you feel overwhelmed and confused to see who is better choice to guide us through next 4 years. We are still in great economical debt with other countries for what the formal president, George W. Bush (R), did. In 2008, US made an historical choice by electing a first African-American president who used the slogan such as "CHANGE" and "HOPE" to see if we can do both for the economy and hoping to put US back on the top. However, deficit was not a small amount where cancelling of few government programs weren't going to fix this issue. This debt margin is surely one of the greatest amount US ever had to face and try to get out of, but not many people understand that US has been on debt for many many years even before the time o

If they go up, they must come down; similar to the logic of all living thing will die. Even though we look at our planet "Earth" as possible non-living thing, it's energy source is limited and it's date of doom will come. We can never say for sure when or how the world will end. 2012 surely make some ruckus as media took the idea of ancient Mayans and came up with one of the best marketing strategy; to make public fear. During the time, few priests and religious groups advised the followers to prepare and repent for the sins they have committed. But obviously that was a big hoax. But don't you lose the grip of intensity, because the judgement day will come. When I speak of "Judgement day", I am not mentioning it biblical, but more of astrologically. Every star has it's due time. Every star is born and dies the way it's been happening for many million, billion, trillion years. Earth is no exception. Every object with energy source will soon or lat

I'm not a celibate, if anything I try to practice sexual encounter much as I can. But what is intercourse without love? Is it just some exercise? Just another notch on the belt? If there is no sense of connection between two parties who is encountering in sexual act, is that something brag about? If that's the case, why can we just hire some hookers and get our "Fix"? It's not that I won't be able to "Get laid" but if the opposite doesn't get my genuine physical attraction, honestly, I don't think I will enjoy it. It will be almost like a rape rather than idea of intimacy. It's not a celibacy when you aren't just attracted to other person enough to have sex with them. And being a picky guy that I am, it's almost seems celibate when I refuse to have intercourse with someone that I am not genuinely attracted to. But the thing is, I am not looking for some super model to bang(of course, I would love that) but I look beyond the look o

I do not know how you guys feel or your opinion is on certain word, but to me, "WHY" have to be the most important word in English. "Why" isn't just a word to ask for an explanation, it is a word that describe our freedom and exercising  it.  We tent to just go with things we are directed to; from papers to television, internet, podcast. But which one do we believe or listen to? It all sounds like they are right? Well, if you are unsure about something, exercise your 1st amendment and ask the question of "Why". Politicians, bankers, media, even parents tell us shit that make us ask "WHY", well "Why" don't you ask them. It's our right to ask and it's their duty to answer. If not, then we are just some mindless sheep that these fat cats are controlling. So learn to ask why. Why is the most word in English.

Life is a chance, life is an opportunity, life is an one shot deal. But so many people out there in this world have miss use this chance and they have, unfortunately, fail to see the importance of it. We believe in "Working Progress" and tomorrow" and of course, why wouldn't you:? We live everyday and to think that tomorrow is not going to come will be a dramatic thing to think about, but what if tomorrow is your last day, would you be happy with the life you lived. I hope your answer is yes because if not, what have you done all your life and why did you do something that makes you miserable. I love how people now scream "YOLO"(stands for You Only Live Once; catch phrase started by Drake the rapper). I am not saying live your life like there is no consequence, but live your life that you don't ask the question of "What If". What if I did this that day? What if I took that girl out? What if I was there? What if question is endless fantasy you

Value is more than dollar symbol; value is described as relative worth, merit, or importance. What people value the most are: Life, Family, and Money. But, when you reach the age where the death is lot closer than your birthday is, you started to see value in little things. When you are young, you have your mind set focused on material things in the world. We want the toys, we want the opposite sex, we want the fame, we want all of these things that really doesn't have any values. But when you want to truly protect these things, you have to be able to give up these things. Like gamble; you should not worry about the money you are playing with or the winnings, than you will win more because you are more careless about it and you will follow your guts more than you would with your head (BTW, Hold'em is not a sport). Or another great example; love. If you want to protect your love, you got to be willing to give up that love to protect the person. Now, I'm not saying you should

What has happen to our beautiful state? In past few years, Washington(WA) state has been going down the hill faster than Halle Berry's movie career. Even though, I still think WA is geographically most beautiful state in U.S, politically, I'm ashamed. I'm not just talking of senators or governor(oh, don't worry. Chris Gregoire will be talked of), I'm talking about every State officials. What happened to this beautiful state with full of potentials and promises. Now, we are becoming like California.  When I first moved to WA in 2001, I wasn't thrilled about it. I was living in LA; full of Sun, styles, liberals, ideas, inspirations, and many many other things; so the idea of city that rains 80% of the year and all the green trees made me feel isolated and some what "Country". But years passed by and honestly, I grown to love this state more than any other states in U.S. WA has fresh air, great people, unique style, coffee, Microsoft, and many many other

Life is like a blank paper; we start it out with nothing and every hour pass, we slowly start to write things down on it. Somethings you write are personal; something you really do not want to show others or just prefer to keep it all to yourself. Most of things are for public; things you find funny, scary, or whatever emotional statues you will, you aren't scare to show to the world. This piece of paper can be used for many purpose, it will be your life anyway. But, what I'm trying to accomplish in this blog is for you to really see that piece of paper you started out with and see how interesting it it, so far. If your paper is filled with no empty space to write anymore, then I sure you that you had an amazing life so far. On the other hand; if your paper looks like it has a pie chart and say "50%: Just chilling with your friend at the crib", I am sorry but you have wasted lot of times. Life is like a blank paper that you write into and see how interesting it gets.

1. 30 minutes or Less:  Story about a pizza delivery boy who get strapped with a bomb by two thugs(?) and asked to rob a bank. But robbing bank isn't the only thing they have to deal with. 2.Anger Management: Starting Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler. Sandler plays a guy who gets pushed over and Jack is an anger management counselor who takes odd route to help Adam Sandler. 3. Couples Retreat: For sake of friend's ending marriage, they go on a couples retreat to some beautiful island. But they realize the true relationship within each other. 4. Date Night: Steve Carroll and Tina Fey plays a mid age married couple who have a date night. However, one special date night turns out to be little more than they asked for. 5. Down to Earth: Loving someone is more of loving someone's inner self rather than someone's appearance. Chris Rock falls in love with a girl, but he dies so he takes over a fat white guys body and try to get closer to her. 6. Forgetting Sarah Marsh

Think of love as box of pizza. Men will give you slice by slice, when,  women will give you the whole box from the start. That metaphor describes the difference between men and women's way of loving. Men are afraid of getting hurt and we will try our best to prevent from getting hurt again. Of course, there was a time when men gave the whole box of pizza to women; that would be his first love. But after getting hurt, he will give half to the next person he fall in love with, after that, smaller portion and the portion become smaller every heart break he goes through. Women tents to give the whole box from the beginning. Does not matter how many times the woman's heart been broken; to next man she fall in love with, she will give him the whole box just like the first time she felt in love. It's not that she does not want to get hurt, but she is actually putting whole faith in new relationship and give the best as she could from start, but every time her man messes up, she wi

Who remembers the movie "Total Recall" from 1990? Movie is about a man who goes on a virtual vacation to Mars, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real...or does he (As described on IMDb site). Starting Arnold Schawarzenegger as the main character; the movie paints the picture of future where we be living in mars. What interested me is, how so many things they have described as "Future" gadgets existed in our modern time, and it only been 20 years since the movie came out. Technology that were shown in the movie were video chatting system, identification machine using finger print, auto driving car, X-ray scanner at air ports, and design of the cars. Video chatting service was often used in the movie and to think of it, we have that service. The use of VoIP, we now have company call Skype that let us connect and chat using camera. How about finger print for identification? Oh, that is way too easy; so easy that our moder

What defines as "Love"? According to the dictionary, love is described as a profoundly tender, passionate affection to another; or, a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for parents, child or friend. Love is such a tender thing that we all hope to gain and hold on to. We all hope to love and be loved, but as an individual, what have you sacrifice for love? Nothing is that of important unless you sacrifice for the greatness of it's to gain the best. Like they say, "it got to be worth fighting for or it's nothing to cherish" or "It's not that important, if you don't remember it"; same analogy, just put in different timing or feeling. Loving someone or being loved by someone is probably best thing this mysterious life can offer us. Knowing someone out there is thinking of you, worrying about you, caring for you, wondering about you; and, as soon as they see you, their face light up like a lamp that turned on to bright u

A s the forefathers celebrated our nations to be free from them, we shall celebrate by illuminating the night sky bright as the day. We shall see the morning star covered with RED, White, and Blue and raise our glass to toast for our freedom.  HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!

There are so many movies that are labeled "Crime/ Mystery" movies, but ,to me, having a story about a detective or cop doesn't always mean it's a Mystery/ Detective story. Great detective story doesn't tell you who the killer is and how killer did it. NO, it does not. Great detective story tells you about the crime that happened, suspects, and it solves the crime with you; not tell you who the killer is. So, as a detective story fanatic, here is my Top 10 Detective/ Mystery movies: 1) Righteous Kill: Starting Al Pacino and Robert De Niro as two, old -time, NYC detectives. Let's see, if you can figure out who the real killer is before the movie tells you. 2) Seven: Starting Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. Morgan Freeman is an old time detective who is about to retire but takes on a last case that is dealing with a serial killer. Brad Pitt comes off as a rookie detective who is unwise and have no patience. Remember the 7 deadly sins. 3) Sherlock Holmes: ....

When I started to blog, it was for fun of it; more, it was therapeutic. I wrote about things I wanted to write such as Movie reviews, restaurants, and stuff like that. However, after an year of writing and some feed backs, I knew I was getting more readers by each blog I write. But they weren't just selected people or my friends; people were reading my blogs all over the world. Maybe because I write things on the news or maybe I try my best to stay relevant, but I, now, know that I have more variety of readers. Now, I try to take time and write about the subjects, not just certain demographics enjoy or interested in, but to write about subject that EVERYONE goes through. Writing should be timeless, so that future generation can learn that nothing have changed in common sense of things. 

Most of us heard of quote "Time heals all wounds", which simply put, in due time, your emotional pain will be healed. We go through so much things, every single day, every single moment. It might be nothing to some, but to you it is something very significant and single moment can surely change the direction of your life. But in 12 months, 48 weeks, 365 days; things will happen and you just can't get away from all of it. My suggestion? Make new memories to faded away the old ones. Doesn't matter if it's good or bad, those events will soon to be memories. I dated this girl in High school for 8 months. We had our ups and downs, but at that time, she was my life and my air to breathe on this earth. But, parents of both side knew something, the young lovers didn't know about. They knew it wasn't going to work out and the relationship was only dragging us down to bad rather than good. So the situation became similar to story line to, great work of Shakespeare

Eyes; they are known to do one thing and one thing only, let us see the world. But I believe differ. Eyes have so much more of doing than what we think it does. We have heard the quote "Eyes are the window to the soul"; well, I believe that very much. Eyes speaks so much language, we can communicate with eyes more than we could speak with our mouth. Of course, we speak more words with our lips but we truly speak more our emotions and real thoughts through our eyes. It's okay if you don't believe, nor agree with my logic, but you would think such because I have yet to provide examples. Let's see, when two men are about to fight, we often trying to stare each other down; hope one of them looks away so you know you are the alpha in that fight. Most often, none of them will look away, so it gets down to two ignorant men trying to prove their superiority....What a demonstration of ignorance. How about a man and a woman; when two parties have a relationship, the thing

Welcome to 21st century, where the generation is known as Internet Generation and we are still struggling with our recent recession. However, it seems that our technology usage have increased significantly and growing really fast; faster than transition between Gameboy to Gameboy Slim (Sorry, youngsters. You probably don't know what I'm talking about). But with all these development on our consumer electronic use, have our life became more simpler? By now, we are all use to sending E Mails rather than hand written mails, texting that basically is AIM or chatting, and Facebook to stalk your ex (Like you never looked up your ex on Facebook). What about our hardware rather than the programs we use? When you own a iPhone or a smartphone, you basically have all the media solution in your one device; from music player to internet usage, document creator, e mailing, chatting, reading news, watching tv, and etc. smartphone became the main solution for our media fix. But I do think that

There is no way I can write this piece to make everyone happy and agree....Well actually, it's my blog, I can write whatever I want, right? Anyways, Here is my TOP 10 COMEDY MOVIES. 1) 30 Minutes or Less: I gotta say, Jesse Eisenberg surely claimed his spot in Hollywood after a great performance in Social Network, but this movie is great. Its about a guy who is a pizza delivery boy and one day he get's kidnapped and they strap bombs on him, so he can rob the bank. Jesse and Aziz Ansari's partnership was great. Watch it. 2) Anchorman: Story of an Anchorman played by Will Farrell. 3) Animal House: Not many young generation or foreigners will know about this movie; I mean, I finally got around watching this movie so if no one ever told you about this movie, you wouldn't know about it.....BUT IT'S A CLASSIC COLLEGE HUMOR MOVIE. After watching this movie, I know where all the college humor movie's story line came from. 4) Beerfest: Guys from Super Trooper tak