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11-25 "Hey! The Canadian Air Force is doing a flyover! And there goes the entire Canadian Air Force...all of eight planes..." Daily Sports Editor and funny man Chris Duprey, watching the pregame cermemonies of the 88th Grey Cup...just really really funny. 11-24 Me: "People that have impacted me? Well, the first one is Andrew..." Andrew Park: "YES!!" Me: "...Chung...." Andrew Park (with a totally downcast and deflated look that only a 5-year old could express...): "oohhhh." Everybody in the room (with some laughter): "aaaoohhhh..." I love kids. Andrew Park, one of those priceless moments that only a 5-year old will generate...I did mention him as the third person that impacted me, he mentioned me as the first...so cute. 11-23 Me: "He watches each movie like five times, I don't understand it." Sean: "Hey man, me and television is just like you and studying. I don't understand how you can study every day, over and over...I guess there's just some things about each other we can't understand..." Sean Kim, talking about our differences. And taking a shot at my habits...=) 11-22 "I set my alarm for 11:45, and I got up then OK. I was ready to go shower, but then I looked outside and I saw that it was pouring snow. The next thing I know, I was asleep..." Yih Wei, talking about his excuse for going back to sleep. He is one of the hardest people to wake up, and you can see why. =) 11-19 "He made such an impact on me I forgot his name!" Jin Kim, such an appreciative person...=) 11-19 "I feel like I'm a buffer between the two...That's a classic application of applying chemistry to real life..." I think Alefiyah meant mediator...or matchmaker? But..she is a biochem major...that's what happens when you spend your life in the lab.... 11-18 "Julie: "My dad is so retarded." Mr. Namm: "Yeah, I'm so retarded. And that's why all my kids are really retarded too..." Mr. Namm! Whooping it up, that's one of the best I've heard from an adult. =) 11-17 "Child: "Where are you going with my little sister?" Mother: "We're going for her shot." Child starts crying: "Don't shoot her, she's my sister!" A little paraphrased, but this is the story my dad told me today about his coworker. I love kids. =) and... Sandra: "Do you have a girlfriend?" Isaac: "Yeah....I've got two pigs." Sandra: "Pigs?" Justin: "Don't you mean chicks?" OK, well, one of those you-had-to-be-there kind of things...I can't tell whether Isaac is ripping on girls, or is just not good with words. Pigs? No further comments. 11-16 "Jukes reminds me of my friend's....dad." Alefiyah Mesiwala, commenting on Jukes...ha ha, a sure sign of getting old... 11-15 "What day is Thursday?" Nicole T., no explanation needed. 11-12 "Write down what you want to do for others. I think of something special to do for Vai, and something special to do for Rebecca...well, I don't do those things, but imagine the difference that would make in their lives!" Dan Vis, commenting on his wife and kid, he's sleeping on the couch for a week at least...=) 11-5 "Yeah! We'd be a blocking team if people blocked..." Umm...thanks for the startling revelation Mericarmen. 11-4 "Yeah, I think it'll be funny to watch you make a fool of yourself..." Nicole Tomasovich-Morton, after almost dying of laughter when hearing that I was going to MC the talent show... 11-3 Julie: "We've got about 3 or 4 miles to go." Mericarmen: "We can make it in two if I drive fast." Julie: "No, I said 3 or 4 MILES." Mericarmen: "Yeah, we can make it 2 if we drive fast..." No explanation needed. Mericarmen is on a roll... 10-26 "If I say that, you'll say ugh, this guy's over the hill, and I am, but my point is..." 60 + year-old Professor Vinovskis, he said it not me... 10-25 Me: "Yeah, we got three people, so we can play some 21." Sean: "No, we can play some two on one, you know what I'm saying?" Sean talking about his basketball game, saying he could take Justin and I on. He backed out. No further comments. 10-20 Andy: "What do you think of when you think of a prideful person?" Julie: "Should we name names?" Julie Namm, that's my lab partner for ya. She was joking, by the way, and it was during lesson study for Sabbath School, thus the question by Andy. 10-20 Sean: "You know, I think this mousepad's messed up." Me: "I've never heard of a bad mousepad, ever." Sean: "Its from National Assembly Library of Korea, OK? Anything's possible." Sean, on mousepads. and... "First of all, just because I turned 20 doesn't mean that I'm mentally that old." Sandra Baek, no comment needed. 10-16 "Could you fix the duck of your cap?" Sue Pak, in July, telling Young Mi before a picture to fix the "duck"/bill, whatever, of her cap. later that same day... "Do you have the Pregoo?" I believe that's Prego to normal people... still later... "What's your horoscoop?" Thus capped one of the days for the ages...rivaling that of Mericarmen. 10-15 "Hey, we're here on time! We're only five minutes late!" Umm...contradiction? Mericarmen once again showing her desire to monopolize this section.... 10-12 "I wish my friend wasn't coming." Alefiyah again, you can see how much she values friends... and... "Your quote of the day page was just what I needed! I actually snorted toothpaste up my nose reading all dat stuff! And since when is Joe sucha womanizer?" Young Mi snorted toothpaste eh? Great visual picture... 10-11 Alefiyah: "When's your b-day?" Me: "5/9" Alefiyah: "That is May 9th right? I'm kind of slow...I think I have just proved my point that I'm a dumb___." Book-smart Alefiyah...proving her point. No comment needed. and... "It's easy money for your thoughts. I always knew my opinions were worth something 10-10 "I can take anything I want, 'cuz I'm a superstar." Ryan Rettman, professing his superiority and... "Monday is always the day after the Lions, which would always be depressing." Professor Vinovskis, on the Lions 10-8 "You spelled my name wrong in your quote of the day." Me: "Oh, yeah, how do you spell your last name?" Mericarmen: "You weren't even close on my first name." Mericarmen, getting me back for everything (see below) 10-7 "You took a picture of Jukes and Albert's behinds? All I have to say about there butts is small and smaller..." Anne Kim, responding to Sandra Baek...no explanation neccessary... a little while later... "I'd be so afraid of Albert if he were my dad, I'll bet he was the disciplanarian at campmeeting for those primary kids...poor kids, they must've been so afraid of him..." Again...no explanation needed...but I'm a nice guy! I don't know where she's getting this stuff...and for the record the disciplinarians at campmeeting were Jukes and Sandra... 10-6 "I see some of the engineers are getting up and leaving. That's OK, we didn't want them anyways.." Professor Lubman (P-Chem), the profs are on a roll! Oh, and I don't share those views of engineers...=) and... Me: "So, do you have any idea or is it up to God?" Young Mi: "It's up to Him and the people who read my essays." Young Mi adding a touch of humor to the college app process, but it is up to God of course... 10-5 "Can you speak Koreanese?" Alefiyah Mesiwala (granted, 5 years ago, but I heard about it today...) 10-4 Mallory: "Bye! Happy Birthday!!" Judy: "Thanks for coming!" Right now, you might be thinking, why is this remotely funny? Besides the fact that we actually pulled off a successful surprise birthday party for Judy...Mallory and Judy are roommates... and... Julie: "Don't you wear size 34?." Jukes: "My butt's size 34!!" Umm....sorry for the language...but for the record, Jukes has lost weight...but he has never ever worn size 34... 10-3 "That would be the equivalent of 10% of the population in Ann Arbor dying off. That would probably help with the parking situation, but..." Professor Vinovskis, making an analogy to the smallpox epidemic in early America. Academics can be funny? and... "If I knew I was going to die in six months, I'd be like why me? I stood with the Michigan football team after UCLA, why not someone like you who didn't even watch the game?" Vinovskis!! On a roll.. 10-2 "I'll visit your webpage, considering all the time you put into it." Alefiyah, ripping my dedication...any opinions for or against? and... "I'm destressing when I complain. Actually, I'm not stressed. Why am I not stressed? Alefiyah, you should be stressed." Alefiyah, mixing first and third person, wow...should be stressed eh? 9-27 Me: (really high voice) "He shoots, he scoorreess!!!!" Sean: (incredulous look) "Have you been studying too much?" Sean, questioning my sanity. 9-26 "Now lets say you're a witch, and you're going to wreck my tennis game...you don't even have to bother, but anyways..." Professor Vinovskis of History 160 (US History), making an analogy to the Salem witch trials... 9-23 "Yeah, believe it or not, I used to really be into rap...but now, the only rapping I do is wrapping presents and stuff..." Young Park, once again surprising us... 9-22 "Who brought their Bible, so I can give them money?" Miguel: My Bible's clear. Young: "So is my money." Young (DKAY Youth Pastor), and no, he doesn't bribe us to bring our Bibles... 9-21 "Wait..pole vault, isn't that where you throw the stick?" Mericarmen Peralta, a little off on the Olympic thing...but the best is yet to come... shortly thereafter... "They had only men's (pole vault)?? Isn't that racist?" Wow...on an impressive streak...and it's not over... later... Alice: "They grab each other by the belt." Merricarmen: "They grab him by the what?...Yeah, I was thinking it'd hurt to throw them by their..." Umm...a discussion on judo turns a little unkosher...so I edited a little...an impressive day by Merricarmen nonetheless... 9-20 "Yeah, if you don't have a Quote of the Day sometime just come to me...I say a lot of stupid stuff." Sean Kim...I can't tell if he's taking a shot at Quote of the Day or if he's taking a shot at me... 9-19 Me: "I saw a lot of good pics in your Korea pile..." Sean: "Yeah, if you put up the pics from Korea, girls'll be like, oooooo...he's cute. Then they'll be like, wait, him? Dang...ugh." Sean Kim, talking about how girls would react to his pic...his profile will be up soon so you can comment...=) 9-16 "Hey! I got a new job, I get to cut off mice's tails, it's cool...but I got cut by the razor one time, and I was so afraid, I thought I might turn into a mouse or something..." Sean Kim (roommate), talking to his sis about his new job. Um..yeah...turn into a mouse... 9-15 "Road rage is when your parents tell you not to repeat what they said while driving." Young Park, responding to Isaac's question of what road rage is. 9-14 "Where do rock seeds come from?" Nina Pak, walking along the ocean, looking at the big rocks...and wondering where they came from...that's quality Novi education for ya... 9-13 Me: "Do you have any senior pics around?" Sarika: "No, I'm not like Alefiyah." Ouch. Sarika making fun of Alefiyah, who has only pics of herself in their room... and... Alefiyah: "Why do I always get the stupidest and most annoying people IMing me?... 9-12 "You can never interrupt me, even when I've got verbal diarrhea...you know, when I've got a stream of words?" (check 8/17) Alice Park, giving a err...great mental image... and... Question: "What's your desired quality in your future spouse?" Answer: "A man that can be trained." Elisa Moore, talking about her future husband...well...that wasn't her exact quote, but it was the quote of Daniel Saugh who said she said it. Personally I think she did...=) and... Same question as above. Answer: "I want someone who is kind...not that my wife would die or anything, but..." Dr. Samuel Pipim, not in the presence of his wife. 9-11 Before: "I don't know if I'll fit in at South Quad, they're all nerds and jocks." (check 8/17) After: Cristiana Huynh, talking about the beloved South Quad at U of M, that's what it does to people! 9-10 "I just got fired from the dishwashing line. You know you got no skills when you get fired from the dishline." Raymond from New York, talking about the dishline at our retreat in Camp Au Sable. and... Me: "I felt so bad, because I was singing and playing piano last night, and that lady complained about not being able to sleep." Jukes: "It wasn't the piano playing that kept her up..." Wow...my singing must be really really bad...that's strike three 9-8 "Yo...turn it off." Sean Kim, my roomate, displaying his leftover Korean-ness in telling Gary to hang up the phone...he said this about 5 times in succession... 9-7 "Yeah...since all of Albert's relatives in Korea only know about Harvard, and think Harvard's the best, he wanted to prove them all wrong with Yale." Words of wisdom about Korea coming from a non-Korean! Ryan Rettmann never ceases to amaze me...of course I got rejected by both, but hey!...you know.. 9-5 "I'm so excited for Biochemistry tomorrow!" Alefiyah Mesiwala...the day before school starts...unbelievable. 9-3 Alice: "Rest in peace." Sandra: "Is that what R.I.P. stands for?" Sandra Baek...that's what you come to college for... 9-2 "Beef isn't holy, cows are holy." Jukes Namm, correcting some of the DKAY girls' views on the Hindu religion, and also making a pun sorta in the process.... and... "I'll bake a cake for you! Like you want me to...and I'll bake it right, and all through the night..." Sunny Baek, singing his 'kosher' edition of Boys II Men I'll Make Love to You 9-1 "Angie's kids would be too short to push over that railing." Sunny Baek, commenting on the balcony at Angie's house, she's 4' 11 or 5'. 8-31 Me: "Whenever I'm weary...from the battles that rage in my head...Ben: "Hey! I'm trying to listen to this commercial man!" Me: laughing..."hey, that's quote of the day!" Ben: "You think that's funny? I'm being serious!" Ben shooting my rendition of Richard Marx's I Will be Your Man down the drain, along with my attempt at a comeback in the singing biz... and... "If you need a date for err...Homecoming or a dance or something...just let me know, I'll hook you up..." Mr. Hanson (Novi tennis coach, 50+ years old and single!) matchmaker extraordinaire, telling freshman girl tennis players about the opportunities out there... 8-30 "Plus, it's still summer...I don't have to pretend to act smart like I do during the school year...MCAT stuff already? Now who's the real dork?!" Alefiyah Mesiwala, on acting smart...and about me and my MCAT stuff...grr.. and... Me: "OK...you must think I'm really weird now." Beth: "I just started to think you're weird?" Ouch. Double whammy, same day, Beth talking about how weird I've been/am. and... "Stupid men." Triple whammy! You hear that guys? And Michiganders from a couple days ago! Rebecca Chung again! Commenting on the male gender... 8-29 "Your favorite quote?" I asked. "It's better to give than to receive" that was my senior quote...No! I'm not stalling! I just...didn't get a chance to find one and scan it...I promise I'll send one soon!" Rrrriiggghhht...better to give than receive eh? Stalling on the giving part...Jean Lee talking about her profile pic 8-28 "I had a rehearsal today and on the way back (like 10:30) the car stopped in the middle of a cornfield...you must know what that would look like, you're in Michigan!" You hear that, fellow Michiganders?!!! Rebecca Chung giving a low blow...but wait...how was she stuck in a cornfield, if she wasn't in Michigan? Hmm... 8-27 "I have trig tomorrow...I'm shaking already. I am sooo afraid" You better be afraid...=) Nicole Tomasovich-Morton talking about her math class 8-26 "Alice: He's single eh? Isaac: Why, are you interested? Alice: Yo, he's my brother. Isaac: Andy's your brother?" Isaac and Alice, looking at my webpage...and yes Isaac, Alice and Andy are sister/brother... 8-25 "Maintaining a car is like maintaining a girlfriend...lots of stuff you have to do to keep it going/happy." Ben Lee, after struggling to put on the registration sticker on his license plate. 8-24 "He wasn't in a lot of pictures for our group, Flashers for Christ. Flashers for Christ was Jina's idea, but I like the name! It's an awesome name..." Umm...yeah. Jean talking about her campmeeting discussion group... 8-23 "Yeah I like nuts, I guess I'm just a nutty kind of guy." John Jones, responding to Brianna, who thought he didn't like nuts. Jones nutty? No way! 8-22 "I rock the house. For example, let's say someone's bill is $12.61, and they give me $20. Then I give them a 12 dollar bill and..." Leslie Yu, talking about how good of a cashier she is at her family's restaurant. 8-21 "You can see it through her leotard thing. it's awesome. Never have I seen a girl with a 6-pack. I've always wanted to. She was the first but now I gotta see one in person ." Joe Lee, commenting on the US Olympic gymnastic trials, and Morgan White in particular. It was late at night, so you have to excuse Joe. 8-20 "You sound like Elliot when he sings," Crystal said. "Really?" I replied. "Is that a good thing?" "Yeah, he sings well" she replied, "But you're not Elliot." Crystal (7 year old from Westmont), basically shooting my singing dreams down the drain at the campout. 8-19 "Have you ever 'gone' in a lake? I have, I was 7, it was in Korea, I just couldn't hold it." Isaac said. "Maybe that's why they call it the Yellow Sea." Isaac giving some, uh, unwanted info about his exploits in water in Korea...and Jin's answer to it. 8-18 "Hmm...it smells like campfire." Justin Namm, at our church campout, sniffing a burning stick that he pulled from the campfire 8-17 "Are there any other kinds of people besides nerds and jocks in South Quad?" Cristiana Huynh, asking about her future residence S. Quad @ U of M, of course I lived there last year, and I wasn't a jock...implying... 8-16 "If I do something wrong, you can beat the crap out of me, my wife always does." Mr. Frank Gomoll, one of the security guys I work with at the hospital, talking about what I'm allowed to do to him. 8-15 "I found out about what I want, and what I can get" Rebecca Chung (Schaumburg), talking about campmeeting...and guys...=) 8-4 "Do chips melt?" Sandra Baek asking about leaving chips in a hot car. 8-3 "Do you know what a recorder is? Juusstt Breath...anyways, do you know what a recorder is? I can feel you bbreeathe..." Justin Namm, trying to explain what a recorder is to me while listening to Faith Hill's Just Breathe 8-2 "She wasn't even hot is the reason that puzzles me , if she was hot and showed no interest it would be no prob..." Jordan Wilson, commenting about his date. 8-1 "No, the person sitting next to you...the invisible hollow man..." Ben Lee, responding to me when I said "who me?" 7-31 "See? I can be nice and charming...when I want to be..." Ben Lee, commenting on IMing Sue Pak 7-30 "I'm not even a player." Ben Lee, responding to me when I said "I've played with a lot of bad tennis players." 7-29 "Make them smell each other's socks." Andrew Chung, when asked what punishments would be appropriate for 6-8 year olds at campmeeting. also... "She's not born yet." Jucheol Nam, when asked who his future wife would be...after a discussion on the age difference between spouses in Hollywood.. 7-28 "You get to mow the lawn? I think that's cool, it'd be cool to mow the lawn...but I heard it's dangerous." Alefiyah "Never mowed the lawn before" Mesiwala, IMing me about me mowing the lawn. 7-26 "The mall is geared towards women, because women are the ones that shop. I mean, look around, women shop so much...and buy everything! Yeah...and you're one of them too." Isaac Lee, responding to Sue Pak, who said the first part of the quote. 7-25 "Can you have some normal things for us white people? I need food, and I need to know what it is so I don't have to have someone hold my hand in the food line to tell me what it is like some little kid, and we have to have forks. With those sticks (chopsticks) I won't get much down except for on my pants." Sean "hardcore" Henderson, IMing me while discussing my wedding reception. 7-24 "Why don't you go back to studying or something?" Jessica Kellogg (singer extraordinaire), IMing me. 7-23 "Stay away from roadkill, stay away from the road. But if you find any money, you can give it to me." Young Park (Detroit Youth Pastor), giving instructions before Adopt-a-Highway "Well, if the Lions go to an 8 game schedule, they'll be 6 and 2 and have homefield advantage." WDFN's Eric Pate, after a caller said the Pistons would go 10-50 (the season has 82 games...) |
