nov first!

i cant believe mayo smith lost power.. and you had to camp at val.. wow.... so crazy... i thought it was funny at first..... but now I am shocked.. ㅜㅜ..

it wouldve been interesting if val lost power though... how would they feed 2thousand kids for a few days??? order pizza/wings every meal? some people might be cool with thatㅋㅋㅋㅋ just a random thought

today started out pretty ordinary! we had lunch at 구내식당

the menu was some kind of 국수 and 탕수육! both passable but forgettable..

I got pretty busy after lunch.. kept getting work after another .. like by the time i would finish one assignment.. 2 more would be waiting for me.. and so on... my to-do list grew out of control... and consultants had to fight for my time lol..... i became a precious commodity... ppl needed me.... all of sudden.. what would they do without me?? ... well i guess they could just hire another intern .. i am valuable at the same time.. dispensable... any time...!!

this is dinner i ordered last night!! 김치볶음밥 from 김가네~ 염.. 염 염.. the very first bite was ok... but the more i ate it.. the better it became!! by the end of the bowl.. i was craving for seconds!! lol.. i think that must be the power of MSG... 조미료... u cant stop once you start..

dinner was also at 구내식당! ppl are getting lazy to go out and eat.... ㅋㅋㅋ. I have a feeling this is going to be the latest trend.. eating at 구내식당 every meal... omg!! 딴것은 몰라도 저녁은 잘먹어야하는데1!!

besides getting good food, i look forward to dinner time every day cuz thats the only time i can get fresh air!!! i need to trick 팀장 into having dinners outside again.... need some ideas?? one of the consultants said... for one of the projects.. he ate at 구내식당 for 3 months straight... he did say.. he lost like 5 kg tho lol... he said 구내식당 food is healthy! maybe this is the greatest thing that happened??? ill lose weight without trying??? hohohoho ill take that!!

worked till pretty late.. but i didnt get to finish everything!!!

the butter brunch!

we usually go to our office on fridays so I decided to raid the kitchen to have breakfast!!

while rummaging through the cupboard, i found this lovely buttery goodness hehehe. bread pre-drenched in butter?? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ whoever thought of this idea is a genius!!

i put 2 huge slices into the toaster to get that golden brown crustiness and I applied generous amount of peanut butter to finish my deadly breakfast !! looks so good right??? yum yum yum.. so creammyyy

i felt guilty afterwards... but I am so going to make another one next friday when i return to the office!!

i spent the whole morning writing interview notes.... (these are basically written summary of expert interviews consultants conduct, the hourly rates for these interviews can be ridiculous!! some dudes get paid like 700-900 bucks an hour ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ more than lawyers??? )

during lunch, i went to do the daewoo interview at 여의도! everyone is busy with meetings on fridays so even though I was away for 2-3hours. nobody seemed to have noticed. !!

the dawesoo building was really nice on the outside... the lobby was super fancy. and the elevators zoomed between floors ㅋㅋㅋㅋ but the inside was ok... .. the interview room itself looked like a prison cell.. where police interrogate .. prisoners... there were no windows.. and wall was painted white! you will go mad.. if you stay there too long ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

it was cool to see finance in motion though!!! like you see on wall street movies.... numbers and graphs flashing on 100 monitors, and people bustling back and forth!

all that made me excited for a second!! and I could not help but notice this dude eating mcdonalds on his desk ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

anyways, the interview went ok.. It was no pressure environment so I just told him about my resume and my interest in finance.. like i told you on the phone.. the dude is new himself and is trying to build a team around him.... he had a 빵빵 한 resume though.. he worked at jp morgan,, hsbc and even had his own company.. before things went south during the financial crisisㅋㅋㅋ

he gave me a little pitch of what he was planning to do with his new team.. and it was quite interesting!

the position is going to be high risk/ high reward... like if the dude does well... everyone on the team will benefit.. but if he messes up.. and loses lot of money... im pretty sure everyone is going to be fired with him ㅋㅋㅋㅋ ... i feel like taking the position will be like gambling!!!

for dinner, I and the intern went to have 삼겹살!

고기를 열심히 굽고! 김치도 굽고!!

콩나물도 굽고!! 모두 다구웠지!! 히히히히히, 고기 was really 굿!! very chewy and juicy!!! 역시 고기는 돼지야!!! 꿀꿀꿀!! 돼지!

I have one question for you! , what is the difference between 생삼겹살 and regular 삼겹살?? i want to know!! 3인분 시키니까 적당하더라! we had 된장찌게, 소주, and 계란찜! a complete korean meal ! heheheh

빠이빠이!!

make up lovey pic!

 hello love!

i know our conversation was abruptly disconnected.. yesterday.. tried to call you this morning desperately, but i guess you were tired.. and 삐졌어? ill try to make it back early today. ! :(

today's weather was really beautiful, so I took pictures while thinking of you! cuz you said you kinda missed being back at amherst.

oh while i was editing the photos one of them disappeared.. I had one of my bfast pics! it was soy milk poured in my wine glass with a banana... then I went to yoga! oh i had a glass of white wine before that : )

friday we usually have morning sessions with the relaxing woman..but today michael keezing the writing center dude was substituting! and i was the only student! so i had a private yoga lesson. i dont usually sweat that much during yoga sessions..but omg.. .today was so intense... i couldnt daydream or anything but put my whole concentration on the yoga poses.. and i was sweating like crazy. michael was straigntening out all my poses, correcting errors, like 'make your spine straight, turn upwards toward the sky' or use your arms during vinyasas.. connecting posess. and i even had to do a proper handstand (' i believe you have enough arm strength yoonjeong!') afterwards all my muscles were aching... lol and he said at the beginning that he had to go early, but i looked at the time and it was 20 minutes over time.. maybe he got carried away or something. but it was good. im thinking about hiring a private yoga teacher when i get trip. one more added to the list my personal wine cellar and sommelier. and a magnificent kitchen fully equipped with shakers and wine coolers and decanters and wine glasses...omg.. sorry getting carried away.

its beautiful. i especially like this tree in front of val as you can see below.

 this is the quad! can you see how pretty it is.

in the afternoon after my chinese quiz we went to wholefoods to buy loads of ingredients, and on the way back we stopped by flavors!
aha! we're here.

moo~ lots of cows on the way.
a shabby cottage. magic hiding inside? you can see steph embracing you.

sylvia. you can see the flavors lining up!


 loads of flavors, alot of them concentrated on chocolate chips. i had a hard time choosing. i tried the molasses flavor, but it was too strongly ginger flavored.

loads of tubs inside! the woman scooping out our flavors. i got this flavor called inez.

 there was a sitting place inside too! it looks pretty cozy right? warm colored. alittle bit cluttered, but nonetheless sweet.

lots or ornaments and pics hanging here and there.
you can see steph here tooo!

 this is steph's blurry pistachio. you can see the real pistachios peeking out!

 this is mine! so mine is basically coconut flavored ice cream with almonds and bits of chocolate chips. really good. i liked the flavor mix.

but i felt like after the scoop it was a bit 울렁거려? too much ice cream? i guess it contains alot of fat.

after that i didnt eat anything!

I did major 대청소. 빨래, wiped all the surfaces available in my room (windowsill, desk, lamps, everything possible, fireplace..) and vacuumed the room and the common room as well. ah, all left to me to clean up the suite.

and then we made the dough which turned into a wine session. (wine and cheese provided by me...lol.... but i wasnt feeling that bad though! ) everyone was pretty happy and tipsy.

look at the weather now though.. can you see outside..
its a white halloween today.

wish you were here though.

surprising day!

 so this morning i had my quick fix of yogurt and blueberries, as usual :)

and went to probability class and she handed out munchkins, saying that there's something to celebrate. we were like, what? what is it? 

and she said: i think some of you might have already guessed, and one student in my other class actually came up to me and asked me: are you pregnant? Yes, guys im pregnant.

whoaaaa a dangerous question to ask, but yeah, considering her skinny build, i was also getting kind of curious why she was getting round around her belly. 

so this is my munchkin! had a sugar powdered one with strawberry jam, and took a picture of this! just took a bite and threw this one away. 

lunch was boring as usual. had loads of celery. with blue cheese dipping. and a few bites of the wrap!

 and a ripe apple!

and tried to study in the gloomy frost library.. today's weather was so cold... went to cox's office hours trying to get something out of him... but he was really vague.. but im slowly getting there! i just now have to write those proofs down over the weekend.

this week was world cuisine, so steph and i met up to go to val at 4:30 sharp! we were the first people there. today's theme is Spain!

The dinner menu: tada~

 fancy right? they had fancy music and fake lobster decoration along the tables and stuff. lol.
you know the place they usually put the cereal? it was decorated galore! with loads of plates surrounding it filled with tapas!
olives, mushroom salad, cheese... crackers with fig and goat cheese on top..some pie-like shell thingies? hummus, lots of bread...

and different types of gourmet cheese! they have a name! we tried this goat cheese before. i cant believe they actually had the real thing. it was so good.

 a different type of cheese!

there was a manchego too. sliced up just like this! isn't this really cool? the manchego was the best hehe... I stole some.. brought it back in my container.. 

 and some paella! it was pretty impressive, even though the flavor was soso. the meat in the back was lamb, also too much greasy fat in it, but overall okay? i ate the seafood!

 this is my paella!

 and my tapas!

 and the manchego cheese!

 and the prosciutto and some weird potato fries topped with red sauce? okay okay. the ham was good!

 but the bread was also pretty impressive. it was kinda like ciabatta! similar to the texture we had the sandwich shop we went with my sister once, and then nearby my interning place?  bucella! you remember the kinda chewy, soft texture? perfect for dipping in olive oil. I think that really filled me up.

and dessert was cinnamon ice cream. I topped it with cinnamon and raisins. yum....

i was so full.... i went to yoga and had a hard time digesting..lol.. to many movements...
so...i shouldnt eat too much tomorrow. maybe some on saturday dinner... but too much dinner today... the bread... dang!

and after yoga, guess what????? look what's falling from the sky!!

oh well. im too tired right now to study for my chinese quiz tomorrow! what should i do!!

hohohhoo deadly week

presenting to you SK's special vending machine!! hohohho, the first and the only such kind!!! no outsider has been able to see it until now!! I am going to be killed if I get caught!!

the pennies at your disposal!!! feeling tired? cranky? or u just want a crap load of coffee for no reason? no need to worry!!! sk penny coffee machine is there to help you!! 1 cup, 10 cups, 50 cups, 마음것마실수있는 싸구려 커피!

ok enough promoting this machine ㅋㅋㅋㅋ so instead of kitchen stocked with drinks and food, we have this cute vending machine!!! I havent really seen anyone use it though... I might be the only person who drinks it often.. lol... i think most ppl just get proper coffee downstairs.. ㅋㅋㅋㅋ the machine also has a few other drinks.. but those cost 500-800원 ㅋㅋㅋ.. one of the consultants told me he tried to insert 80 10원 to see if he can get the 800원짜리 음료수... but it didnt work.. 대박... it might have taken him good 5mins to insert all that coin....ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

another interesting menu at 구내식당 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ i cracked up so much when i saw the french toast !!! nobody seemed to care though.. except me.. i am the only one attentive when it comes to food!!

오무라이스 도있고, 미소 수프, pad thai, and potato salad!!

french toast was missing syrup!!

we went to the same 파전 place for dinner!. somehow the intern from dartmouth came up in our conversation.. and 팀장 said... "게는 진짜아니였어.... 아그리고 선물가지고 온다고 하지않았나? 우리가 진짜 싫었구나... 우린 역시 인연이 않이였어.. " i was trying hard to control my laugh ㅋㅋㅋ one of the consultants called him.. to ask for something multiple times.. but he never picked up or returned calls!!! ㅋㅋㅋ 대박... 완전 잠수탔어~~~ 뿅하고 사라짐!. im jealous though!! he must be enjoying his new found freedom!!

recently I have been thinking a lot about if consulting is a good fit for me.. the hours are brutal.. but the more think about it the more. i think it is a good fit!! I can see that even the new hires get so much responsibility ... and plenty of opportunities to develop skills.. its not like 팀장.. orders you to do stuff.. and thats all you have to do... its more like.. everyone has freedom to develop and form their own ideas.. n if its good 팀장 will respect you for that! . the expectations are high of course.. and if you dont perform... 팀장 will grill you to death... but that also means.. youll learn things super fast... become super sharp.. cuz your always pushing yourself

hmmhmh just a random thought!! sorry to bore you!!!! heheheh I need to explain why I want to do consulting during interviews too ㅋㅋㅋㅋ so I have been thinking what I want to say!! 메롱!!

pic pic pic

하이~~ updating my post!!

so this is a picture of me delivering food!! i bought loads of 김밥 this time ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ to please 팀장.. i think he was satisfied with food.. but guess wwhat.. i forgot to get chopsticks lol..... 그래서 또까였지 조금 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ omg i cant even buy food properly... what a failure!!! ㅋㅋㅋ

so while the rest of the team were eating kimbab at the meeting,, me and the other intern decided to just get a full meal.. at 구내식당! (우린 이제 이런 깡도 있어 ㅋㅋㅋ) . the menu was 육개장 and spam!!

the soup was 얼큰하고 맛있었어, 고기는 보지못했지만,, 야채는 듬북있었어!, i like the taste of 나물들 soaked in spicy broth, the combo works so well.. the intensity of the soup and the subtle flavor of 나물!!! so much better than raw 나물 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

I had no idea what that green thing was though. i thought it was 시금치? but it didnt taste like it.. probably a 나물 i dont know the name of !

after lunch, we went to have our coffee session! what compliments a meal better than an iced cold coffee!!! i ordered my usual latte... i recently realized that koreans pronounce it 라떄? instead of 라테?? i dont know the correct pronunciation but i always thought it was called 라테 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ anyways.. i had a hard time getting my order cuz the girl at the counter couldnt understand me!!

this place was weird in the sense that ice was made into a slush!! it was more like a coffee slushy than an iced coffee ㅋㅋㅋ

dinner is pictured below!!! 어디게 매롱 !
to give you a slight hint.. we ordered 재육 as well!! its funny how we dont go to 낚지 or 중국집anymore. i think that phase has ended and a new era has arrived!! the new flavor of the month is 파전 and 재육!! 한두개만 열심히 먹다가 ... 질리면다른데로 옴겨서.. 거기서 열심히 또먹는거야 until you get bored ㅋㅋㅋㅋ rinse and repeat..

miss you!~

nom nom what i want to eat day

this morning i had blueberries and yogurt! look at the munchies i had today hooray! 

i remembered to take pics of my bfast. hehe.. 

it was really cold this morning, i woke up with sniffles. but its on and off so..i just have to eat alot of vitamin C i guess? 

anyway i decided to eat the long saved yogurt (as the weather has become chilly, i have been shying away from cold yogurt in the morning...pretty understandable right? ) with the blueberries. 

yogurt, blueberries, almonds, some cranberries mixed with steph's leftover 선식, and some honey. simple! munched on some blueberries while chatting with my mom on the phone. 

 stole a fortune cookie from val yesterday. it says:

hmm... what personal affairs? I hope all becomes better with Maddie. She was on my mind in class today. I really don't want to lose her as a friend... I somehow feel like the reason she suddenly acted in such an impulsive way was because of her unique situation of coming back after taking a year off. She might have felt more lonely and maybe was expecting us to reach out more? and especially me cuz we have been corresponding over the summer. So I am going to keep on trying!

So I sent her another txt message impulsively during geometry class, asking if she wasnted to go to miss saigon saturday lunch. she responded pretty cordially : I have a high school friend coming over this weekend but I'll tell you how it goes!
oh well, I tried.

her greetings havent changed much, just like a breeze hi~ and thats about it. once it was just raising eyebrows of acknowledge of my existence. haha.

after struggling through more problems on my geometry midterm, headed to yoga - had a refreshing session, stopped by val with steph and jeongeun, just had a few leaves and poked at my fish..had some tea.. cuz i wanted to make this back at my room!

its kind of a new recipe, pears, blue cheese (st. agur from wholefoods), avocado, leaves, and some spicy vinegar dressing that i made!
it was okay, the pears could have been a little more ripe.

but the pears go really well with the blue cheese.
so i made some of these:

hehe..... cheated a bit. a little to go with the wine no? and munched on some 강냉이 to satisfy myself.

now am going to study for chinese... or maybe alittle more on my geo midterm? cant get a few problems... gotta think about it more .

today was 열공데이!

오늘 아침일찍 일어나서ㅜㅜ정신없이 이콘 공부를 또 시작...
아침에 요즘 일어나는게 많이 힘들당!
i had to pull myself out of the bed barely..근데 배가 꼬르륵..

그래서 오늘 아침은 추워서 오트밀을 먹기루했어!
apple instant oatmeal leftover from last semester hehe...
i chopped some green apple in, some craisins, and microwaved it!

but forgot to take a picture... guess i was too hungry.... but will take pic tmrw if i eat it again!
i was so cold... so i had some wine..hehe... opened a bottle of white!

after super cramming review of econ book, i biked crazily to merrill!

(my nyc map is constantly expanding right now..hohoho)

took the quiz ( i think im getting used to the quizzes now.but still hardwork..)

after class, i munched on some 강냉이 and almonds and had an apple! that was my lunch!
and studied at frost and struggled through my midterm for geometry. it looked more familiar than it was last weekend! this is a good sign right? hehe..

so for dinner i decided to make myself a yummy salad.

my new zealand sauvignon blanc! i think this was a very typical general example of sauvignon blanc. really dry, no fruitiness, and really crisp and to the point. kind of reminded me of the cupcake one we had with sushi. i think this would really go well with sushi. 

the grapefruit is really red! but really cold..... i stole the greens from val ystd  and chopped some avocados in !:)))hehe. and balsamic vinegar and craisins...

read a book while eating my salad, and munched on some more강냉이 before i left for my movie screening. but i was too sleepy cuz of the wine and the movie was also white and black and the characters were really fuzzy and mumbling.. came back and watched it on steph's laptop. it was much better. but the plot was really confusing.. tomorrow he said we are going to exchange our written reviews about the movie. hm.. im debating whether or not to go to class tmrw.. lol... i dont want to write a review.. what should i do? what do you think?

i have some hw left for chinese and probability and of course the midterm... but i am almost done with the probability hw and also chinese we have to learn more grammar tmrw...and the midterm..i want to think more about it tmrw... lol...

dont want to study but just sleep! why am i so sleep deprived nowadays.

Croissant!

갑자기 엄청 달리기시작 ㅜㅜ... 에고에고,

오늘은 좀빡셌어 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ there was a meeting with cleints in the morning.. and i think something went wrong there .. cuz everyone came out looking gloomy... and started giving us so muchh worrkkkkkkkkk ( I asked later and the clients wanted.. a master excel file with all the raw data..... so they can "sense check" and make sure we are not bsing anything..)

there was so much work and everything was due tmr!! even the associates had to punch in numbers, copy and paste.. and try to gather everything we have file into one sheet ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋassociates ... were 분노... 욕 to clients were flying across our cubicles.. ㅋㅋㅋ and one dude called it the worst day of his life...

we didnt have time to go out for lunch, so i had to go out and buy food!! I went to au bon pain cuz it was right next door ..I thought sandwich will be a good idea!!

I bought some roasted chicken sutffff.. supposedly the most popular one on the menu., also bought a cup of soup (soupe was 5천원 ... super so duper expensive... )

while waiting for sandwiches, i looked around and found this!! looks really crispy and buttery ㅋㅋㅋ i can SEE the butter!!! fatty but goooodd

oh like i told u... 팀장 . was not pleased... about the sandwiches he was like... "난 밀가루가 않맛는거같어"ㅋㅋㅋㅋ i think he wanted 한식... 애고.. 점심사는겄도 힘들어... there arent many choices~!! and only 한식 i can take out is like 김밥~~

we went to 구내식당 for dinner!! 오늘좀 푸짐하게 나옴!! there was so much food that I couldnt fit everything into one picture!! there was 매밀,, spicy 만두 ( never seen this one before lol.. 만두 in hot sauce?? SK food court invention???, i wonder who the main chef is ㅋㅋㅋ), 김밥.. which i finished on my way to sitting down.. i was so hungry.. and 순대볶음! yum yum..

quality is soso but quantity is superb!! i never leave this place with empty stomach, 언제나 배불르지. ppl must leave alot of leftovers though... no way girls can finish all this food... there is so much!

after dinner,, there was work work work work work work... until 3am... 오랜만에 늦게끝났어!!

집애가자마자, 사진올리고 골아떨어짐~~

i am going to add places into your map!!!