Uncertainty

It has been quite a while since I update this blog. Well, the truth is I have been really busy with my study and work> Now I have come to another cycle of my live. I will graduate next year February, and until now I haven't had a solid plan for the future. There are few options out there, but they are still unsure. Especially with the current bad condition. However, as one of my friends in church told me, "God is in control". I really believe that, and looking back I have seen how great His works are. Supposedly there's no need for me to feel afraid...but still I can't resist to be afraid and worried...

Acel and mama are here!!!

Super Excellent (SUPEX)

This week, starting from Monday-Wednesday, I went to SK Academy-Yongin city for the summer SK Global internship program orientation. In this orientation all of the interns from all SK groups from SK energy, SK telecom, and other SK company, are joined here to have orientation to know more about SK as a group. I really had a great time here, and I met a lot of new friends from all over the world. In my group especially (picture above-details can be seen here), we are all from different whole other countries; Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Phillipine, China, Germany, USA, Egypt, Kenya, Ghana, Sweden, Rusia, Kazakhstan, Irak, Pakistan, Netherland, And Turki...
There are a few lectures that we attended, but one special lectures was given by the CEO of Harley Davidson Korea. He explain about how "spirits in a product" is a very important factor. And also about passion which comes from the latin word "Pasus=pain", which means that passion is something that will change your life but it comes with a price. Another thing that I learned was about SUPEX-Super Excellent. Supex is the SK-way of promoting the excellence in SK people to achieve their maximum potential in their work. And I think it is a unique word, and has a very deep meaning in it.
Beside the lectures, we also had some other fun activities, like sports, body and mind training, hiking, and also wathing the SK wyverns baseball game.
I think I will be enjoying my time here for the next 5 weeks in this internship program...

Wings of happiness

Back to nature-Lab MT 2008

Last Thursday we went for our summer lab-membership training. This time we went to Juwangsan National park for hiking and fishing. We went there Thursday morning. It took 2hours to get to the national park. On the first day, we went to view the lake and fishing on a river. Unfortunately there wasn't many fishes there, so we could only caught 3small fishes. And then we went back to a small lodge to spent the night there.
The next day we went hiking for almost 6 hours in Juwangsan national park. It was a beatiful view the mountains, forrest and waterfalls.

ISASC2008 conference - Jeju island

For the last 4 days, I have been away to Jeju island for a conference. This is my first time to be in Jeju island. In case you don't know, Jeju island (제주) is this small beautiful island on the southern most part of Korea, it's about 1 hour of flight from Daegu.
I went there with my professor (Dr. Yoon, Dang-Hyok), my lab mate (Lee, Jong hyon), and another professor and 2 other of my schoolmate. The conference is located in Hyatt hotel just beside a cliff with amazing view of the island.


We came there on Sunday afternoon (8th June) for the registration and the welcome party. I saw a lot of expert in the ceramics field, especially in Si-based material being invited there to present their works. We collected our batched and meal coupons, and it turned out that I was representing Korea, well that make sense since I represent my work under the university's name.



My presentation was on Tuesday afternoon. I was very nervous, since I was the only presenter who are not even hold a master degree yet. All presenter have at least a "phd" title with their name. I was so nervous that I couldn't really enjoy the beautiful scenery, the fresh air, and anything on the first 2 days of our trip. But as the schedule goes on, and as I presented my paper, which I think it turn out not too bad, I slowly can enjoy the beauty of Jeju island. Right after my presentation ended, I went out of the conference hall to feel and embrace the beautiful and the fresh air.


It was an amazing 4 days trip for me. Too bad I can't spend much time to see the attractions that Jeju has to offer. But still I did have the famous food (Hek-Dweji and seafood platter) and visited the Seogwipo resort, the botanical garden, some of the beaches and more a long the way from the airport to the Hotel. But there are actually tremendous amount of interesting places that you can see in this island. Well anyway, it was a really fun and interesting trip. And by the way, the seafood platter that i was talking about earlier, the shell fish is still alive when it was served in our table but it was deliciousssssss....







You can also view some of my shots on the beautiful island of Jeju, in my newly created album "Jeju-Perspective".

Baseball

This is my first time to watch a baseball game, and I dun really know the rules actually. But I played before in a video games, so basically I understand a bit about the game. And it was actually an exciting games to watch. No wonder a lot of people liked it.

The game yesterday was between Samsung Lions (Daegu) vs. SK (Seoul). We don't really know the players but it was just so exciting to cheers for our Daegu team. There were also some entertainment during the game.

Like any other game it's all started with the national anthem. This is also my first time to listen to Korean national anthem.



And then there is the cheerleaders



And also the mascot




And the best part is the spectators waves



All in all, Samsung lions beat SK with score 7-6....

ISASC 2008 Conference

Next month I will be attending the ISASC (International Symposium on New Frontier of Advanced Si-based Ceramics and Composites) conference from 8th to 11th May 2008 in Jeju island. Two of our lab's paper will be presented during this conference. One paper will be presented by my professor:
DISPERSION STABILITY AND ITS EFFECT ON TAPE CASTING OF SOLVENT-BASED SiC SLURRY
Jong-Hyun Lee, Parlindungan Yonathan, Dang-Hyok Yoon, Weon-Ju Kim* and Ji-Yeon Park* (Yeungnam University, Korea, * KAERI, Daejeon, Korea)
and the other one will be presented by me:
FABRICATION OF SiC/SiCf COMPOSITE BY VACUUM INFILTRATION AND HOT PRESSING
Parlindungan Yonathan, Jong-Hyun Lee, Dang-Hyok Yoon, Weon-Ju Kim* and Ji-Yeon Park* (Yeungnam University, Korea, *KAERI, Korea)

I'm currently still working in my presentation slide.

White Love Story

White Love Story
애즈 원
커피프린스 1호점 OST

처음엔 알지 못했어
나를 보는 그대의 그 눈빛이
왜 그렇게 안타까웠는지
언제나 묻고 싶던 말
아주 조금 내 맘 알고 있는지
한번도 얘기한 적 없었지만
이젠 아는데 그대도 나처럼
하루하룰 헤매였던 걸
잠들 수 없이
너무 아파했었다는 걸
손을 잡아요
다시는 그대 놓지 않을게
사랑해요 내가 숨쉬는 날까지

그대로 멈춰버렸죠
나에겐 늘
모질게만 대하던 그대가
날 보며 웃어주던 날
이젠 아는데 그대도 나처럼
하루하루 헤매였던 걸
잠들 수 없이
너무 아파했었다는 걸
손을 잡았죠
다시는 나를 놓지 말아요
사랑해요 내가 눈감는 날까지

울지 않아요 이제 그대
내 곁에 있으니
고마워요 이렇게 모자란 내게
그대를 선물해줘서

White Love Story
As one
Coffee prince OST

I didn’t know at first
why your gaze, looking at me
made me feel so flustered
I always wanted to ask
if you understood just a little of my feelings
although I never told you

Now I know, how you were as lost
and wandering as I was
How you hurt so much, it kept you from sleep
Hold my hand,
I won’t let go of you again
I love you, as long as I breathe…

Things stood still
when you, who’d always treated me coldly,
smiled at me that day

Now I know, how you were as lost
and wandering as I was
How you hurt so much, it kept you from sleep
Hold my hand,
don’t let go of me
I love you, till the day I close my eyes in rest

I won’t cry
Now that you’re by my side
Thank you…
for giving me the gift of you

문경새재 (Munkyong seje)

문경새재 (red: Munkyongseje) is one of the famous Korean National park. This place is one of the most important historical places in Korea. I was amaze by the amazing scenery in this place, it was one of the most beautiful place I have ever seen. The first thing you will notice is the entrance gate with a green mountainous backdrop.

And then inside there is this village which was actually made for a movie shooting, however the view was awesome, it was like you are going back to the past. You can see different type of houses from the royal family, the rich family and also the poor villages.






I think Indonesia has also a lot of historical places that can actually be upgraded to make it more attractive...

Sunyang Masai marathon 2008-Daejon

This is the most unique marathon or even the most unique sport race I have ever joined in my life. The 2008 Masai Marathon was taken place at Daejon, around 3hours drive from Daegu. My Korean teacher initiate the idea of joining this race, so most of all my Korean class friend went there. We arrive there just before the race start, around 10am.
What was so unique about this race, one might ask. First of all the race is in a mountain road, which means, it was a small pathways with uphill and downhill and also thousands of people. So its not the normal asphalt road.


Second of all all the participants are advised not to wear any footwear, so you have to be bare-feet.



The participants was not only marathon fans or runners or athletes, but it was for everyone. Whether you are man, woman, children or oldman; from Korea, USA, Japan, Indonesia, India etc; whether you even disable people join this marathon




As usual, in any normal marathon, they have some sort of pit stop or a check points where you can have waters and some food. In this marathon we also have checkpoints, but not only water and food, there are also live musics. But not only that, there also a view performances like dances and traditional korean folk song, and all these are during the marathon.


Beside that, you also have a mud road along the way. I'm not really sure what's the reason they made this road. But it was fun.



At the finishing line, there are also cheerleaders shouting "Hwaiting...hwaiting...". a Korean way to encourage people.


After the race we got our medal, in the form of a foot made of wood, which is very unique. And then we also receive a Souvenir including 2 bottles of Soju (Korean traditional Alcohol drink). And we can enjoy a Soju cocktail after the race while watching some performances.