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When I get cranky, I get cranky at others. When others are cranky, I get cranky at them. When everyone's cranky with their own issues, we get cranky at each other and some decapitations may ensue. But, when we're all cranky at the same person, thing, or an event, we can laugh it off together and actually enjoy being a bunch of cranky, immature grownups that we are.

I wake up in the morning with the need to know the time: my hand hunts for my phone, my eyes gasp for air, and four digits of visual data gets registered in my head. Although my memory insists that I must rise from my bed and head towards the bathroom, I instantly consider disobeying and suppress that thought for a moment with the back of my neck crying a rhythmic, acoustic pop. Here I realize that friction has begun.

These days time passes by so quickly. But the funny thing is that I've never learned to cherish time despite realizing my stay here is short.

It's late at night, much later than I intended to stay awake, and like myself, not every life form follows the human clock: there's a dog next door barking at something I do not care much about. Still, I at least signal that I am aware of its presence by turning my head towards the window. There I see my own reflection. There weren't any reflections during daytime when the sun was shining bright. In darkness, however, everything lit shows up on both sides of the glass. A street sign, a notebook monitor, my face, and my hands. Here I discover a balance: for them and myself to coexist, I need to be just as strong as the ones outside.

I've recently read a collection of interviews from a Korean movie portal site, CINE21. They interviewed some of the best screenplay writers currently working in the South Korean film industry. It was a very interesting read for me, since writing scripts is the most practical thing an 'aspiring' film maker can do that doesn't involve budgeting nor a crew of more than three. Don't remember which of the writers gave this advice, but he/she suggested that keeping a journal/diary can be helpful to writers.

The blind date started at 7:20pm and ended around at 10:00pm. I think we had a good talk, although I wouldn't know what she thought of our conversations.

I've been a student at the University of Houston for well over eight years, now, give or take one or two semesters. It's done, although I still need to make sure the beast is completely down (waiting for my grades from this semester).

I like thinking about thinking. It makes you wonder why you have a certain way of thinking, a process that is unique to your own. And since it's also difficult to explain what that is to the others, such meditation tends to be continued by you only, getting another chance at reaching an understanding of yourself without interruptions or comparisons.

Recently, I have been looking at my old photos and archiving old Hi-8 tapes. It's amazing how much different I looked compared to now. I also started organizing my Word documents; categorizing them in their own folders, naming them properly (not named after the first sentence of the document).

I think it was the South Korean movie Friend that I first heard this line from. It was strange and ironic how it made me feel nostalgic about something I never really had: close childhood friends.

Working at an office is not much different from going to a movie shoot. You're the director, but you either don't have any work to prove yourself or your past films have totally bombed. So, although you do try to direct people to get stuff done, you have to be very careful.

In dramas, the characters portrayed possess one or more extreme characteristics that help justify their actions throughout the progression of their narrative. To make this obvious manipulation less apparent, these characters are placed in extreme situations, requiring their stronger characteristics to emerge on screen. In the end, the quality of this balancing act determines how well the characters are developed.

Recently, I've grown more and more tired of genre films, even the good ones. This is frustrating since film is what I am really passionate about. It doesn't help that I don’t get to watch as many movies as I used to, either. But I doubt that the sheer number of films has much to do with my lack of enthusiasm about films in general.

It seems improvement in technology doesn’t always mean better, but also a compromise of the old for the new. For example, word processing makes editing and distribution much easier and more efficient. However, a simple type writer doesn’t require you to be plugged into an electric grid nor require a complex, high maintenance hardware. Since it’s difficult to consider myself a futurist and actually have had used a type writer before, I would have to consider myself a techno realist. This is probably not unlike most people considering themselves middle class in terms of income.

There are things in life that just repeats and never quits. You promise or make yourself believe you're beyond that, but it just keeps coming back to haunt you: you obsess over it all over again. This is true whether it be TV, sleeping late, slacking off, or in this instance, gaming.