The movies I REALLY want to see:

The Hurt Locker: OMG YES...The guy who plays Walsh on The Unusuals as a soldier in Iraq who disables bombs...Omg Yes. I want to see this movie so badly. I think I have an unhealthy obsession with the Army. Considering the fact that I am too afraid to join the army. That's bad right? To be obsessed with the military? 

Transformers: Revenge: ...OF COURSE I WANT TO SEE THIS MOVIE. ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?

Star Trek: From what I've heard it's GREAT and I'm gonna see it on IMAX. Now I'm not a huge fan of the Kirk era of Star Trek going more for the Voyager era but hey it's redone, it's new, it's not hokey, I so totally want to see this film.

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: I have to admit, the trailer looks freaking FANTASTIC. And while I usually don't like Harry Potter movies all that much, it's tradition, I have to see it. If only to wail about how it doesn't compare to the books. Hopefully this one will.

Every Little Step: A documentary of how A Chorus Line came to be. I love musicals, I wanna see this film.

UP: Pixar...need I say more? 

The Princess and the Frog: OMG the trailer looks so good! I wanna see it so badlyyy...I miss Disney.

The Movies I kinda wanna see:

Julie and Julia: It's Meryl STREEP for crying out loud. I love Meryl Streep, she's great!

My Sister's Keeper: It looks really good. Go look at the trailers.

Post Grad: I kinda wanna see it, it's about life after college, which will be me in a couple of years. I don't know, it seems interesting and relevant.

The Proposal: Hey it's Sandra Bullock who I loved in Two Weeks Notice and other movies like Miss Congeniality, and Ryan Reynolds who is freaking HOT...Scarlett Johansen should be Mrs. Ryan Reynolds, not Ryan Reynolds as Mr. Scarlett Johansen.

Shorts: It looks so cute and the kids seem like really good actors.

Fame: It's like an updated version. I'm kinda skeptical because the old one was so influential and none of this contrived, and excuse me for cursing, shit. Which is all I can think of to describe what has happened to movies dealing with teenagers. High School Musical anyone? But hopefully they will be just as society changing...I don't know, maybe I'm setting my standards too high. It does have Kay Panabaker which is number one sign that this will just be like a trying-to-be-grittier High School Musical but not quite succeeding. Maybe it'll just showcase great talent that we wouldn't have seen otherwise?

Wolverine: I kinda wanna see it even though I heard it was bad.

GI Joe: Same thing with this movie. Even if it's a special effects extravaganza, I still have to admit, the movie looks pretty cool.

Oceans: It looks so cool. I love wide angled documentaries on the Earth.

Angels and Demons: Sure The Da Vinci Code was pretty bad. But I liked Angels and Demons a whole lot better than Da Vinci Code as a book, maybe it'll be the same for the movies as well.

Public Enemies: Johnny Depp, clean shaven, Christian Bale, need I say more?

The Great Raid: Already released, I want to see it because it's World War II...again with the unhealthy military obsession.

Terminator Salvation: Christian Bale once again. GAH.

The Losers: Jeremy Renner again, the one from The Hurt Locker. This time about Special Ops. It's still in production so we'll see if the trailer is interesting enough for me to see it.

A Night at the Museum 2: I wanna see it cuz it features the Smithsonian and it looks fun. It looks like a lot of fun. The first one I didn't like all that much because I felt bad for Ben Stiller's character but this one is in Washington DC my FAVORITE PLACE ON EARTH so...yeah.

Inglourious Basterds: I KINDA wanna see it just because it's WWII but I don't like Quentin Tarantino. He's gory for no reason whatsoever. I mean seriously. Kill Bill? I don't need artistic blood, and the fact that he's touching WWII...makes me kinda angry.

Land of the Lost: I kinda wanna see it because it looks fun. Like that one movie Journey to the Center of the Earth which I thought was going to be really bad but was actually kinda good.

Movies I do NOT want to see: 

Watchmen: Seriously...seriously...when the trailer came out it looked like it sucked, I read the comic which was okay but not a revelation in book form like everyone was saying, there is a big blue man who is naked...and everyone said the movie was bad anyway.

Series I want to see:

The Pacific: Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks do it again with their take on what happened in The Pacific during World War II. Um...so who's going to be first in line? *I raise a hand* Well I would be, but I don't have HBO which means I'll have to wait for it to come out on youtube or tudou or something. And then if I like it, which I probably will, I'll buy the DVD. HAHA. But it was kinda weird, I was looking at this guy's photo on IMDB and I was like, he looks like he could be in Band of Brothers and I checked his Filmography and he's cast in The Pacific...wow, I am GOOD when it comes to casting. I should totally become a casting director.

Generation Kill: Which already came out as well but I really wanna see it. It's about the war in Iraq and what kids are going through now.


So you guys should tell me what you want to see. Leave a comment! Haha.

So while I'm supposed to be studying for the FOUR FINALS THAT I HAVE COMING UP...I have been thinking back on the difference between my college life and my high school life. And I must say, even though I want to cry about the amount of work I have to do in college...I love it here. I love the people I hang around with, even though sometimes there is so much drama I want to tear my hair out...I'm honored to be part of even just their drama. The relationships I have in college are so much more meaningful and deep than the ones I had in high school. I don't even want to go back to my high school friends other than the ones that I talk to online already because the pettiness and the shallowness of high school is just something I don't want to get back into. I love each and every one of my friends in college, I feel like we are a real family, something that has saved me this year. It has saved me from being a lonely college girl trying to make friends. I love the people I hang out with and all they do even though they exasperate me sometimes. High school was so immature, just immature everything, especially what we talked about, how we bashed each other behind each other's backs, how we hated on each other, how we thought that was fun. At least in college people care about me and love me for who I am. I didn't have to pretend to hate or hide my faith or feel like a sap when I was talking about God or become a worse person for being friends with people. The friends I have in college try to make me a better person, talk openly about faith, pray for me, care for me, and I am so grateful to them. I am so glad to be out of high school it's not even funny. That side of me, that was so very violent has mostly gone away. I don't lose my temper as often, I do care more for people, I have changed, because these people have changed me. I have never been so happy to hang out with a group of people in my life. I'm always happy now. I actually stay still for pictures now, I laugh a lot, I smile, and I'm just so happy.

Thank you to everyone who has been part of my experience in college. To CSFC. I love you all.

So there was a Benefit Concert yesterday for Uganda put on by my college so not a whole lot of people went but it was great that at least some did. It wasn't packed at all but the people who didn't come didn't know what they would be missing because it really was touching. And I found a new music group that is GREAT! I can't believe I didn't know about them before. They are Tim Be Told and if you want to hear them go to Timbetold.com and listen to some of their songs. It's crazy! They are SO great and can you believe the guy singing is Asian? He doesn't sound like it. The voice that comes out of his mouth is...God-given. And they are Christian! Double Great! So check them out!

At www.timbetold.com

So my name isn't terribly hard, I mean seriously, Lauren...it's one of the most popular names among the kids of my time. So why the heck do I get called LAH-ren, LOHR-en, it's LAU-REN, or the emphasis on the second syllable, Lohr-EN. And then the SPELLING!...Loren, Laren, Luren, Lauran, Loran...how can you not know how to spell my name?? And don't even get me started on my last name...it's OH! ...not...O..not OHH...not HO...how many times do I get called Ho...many many many many times. And a lot of problems come with trying to alphabetize my name. They put it in L, or O, or H, or one time even M...There is nothing in my name that corresponds with M...geh...

I seriously must love to torture myself. I know I have to get up early tomorrow and yet I still am not sleeping. What is wrong with me? Do I like the feeling of pain? Do I want to be tired? I mean dude, I'm gonna have to stay up all tomorrow ANYWAY..._ _;; There is something wrong with me...

I got into University of Washington...YAY~! At least I'm not a complete idiot.

:DD

WHOOO~!!! I did it~! I changed my layout AND my mood theme ALL BY MYSELF...with a help from a few tutorials and a website that was really easy to change the layout with. GO CHECK IT OUT.

I AM SO HAPPY~!! And it's Tarepanda which is the cutest thing EVER and then I have Norrington for my mood theme since...well yeah...I have a fetish for Jack Davenport. But then I also have Pride and Prejudice and Chronicles of Narnia and Phantom of the Opera mood themes as well. WOOT~! Oh yeah, go me, oh yeah, oh yeah...*does little dance* I'm so PROUD of myself.

Anywho. School's about to start soon and I don't wanna go back.

Other than that...nothing of real importance to report.

I have Otakon pictures though...maybe I'll put them up...Right NOW in fact. Hmm...waiting for them to upload...this might take a while

While I'm waiting...I have to write an essay for this contest on how great Seoul is...HOW HARD IS THAT??? I can't do that...I feel nothing but animosity for this city, except for it's subway system which IS really clean but that's it...oh and the shopping which is really cheap and that's it...So how will I write about how this city is so wonderful when I would rather get away from it? It has a $2000 grand prize to help toward my tuition but I don't know if I would even GET it...considering Korean people are allowed to enter too..wouldn't they have much more praise toward the city they grew up in?? What would I say? "Came, saw, hated, went"? LEIKOMG THAT WOULD TOTALLY WIN ME THE PRIZE. :B 
But I have to try...it's expected of me...so I will try to write something that doesn't criticize Seoul and it's citizens. I'll try to focus on it's beautiful *COUGHCOUGHCOUGH* landscape instead even though I breathe in horrible fumes and everytime it rains it's like acid and a lot of people I know acquire cancer here for some reason and some days the smog is so bad you can't even see Namsan Tower which is like RIGHT THERE. I will TRY....

Rawr...this picture thing is taking a while...I might not get it up right now...so I'll go and save the pictures for later...sorry...

HAHAHA...I DID IT.

Wheee...I just got my AP scores....well only one...I got a 4 on my AP ENG. So I'm really really REALLY surprised and happy. I don't know what I got on my APUSH though...So that's the one I'm REALLY worried about.

I SAW POTC 2...AND OMG...PEOPLE SEE IT SO THAT I CAN RANT ABOUT MY FAVORITE AND NOT SO FAVORITE PARTS!!!!! And so I won't be spoiling it for people. So when you see it please comment so I can be like...OKAY NOW I CAN WRITE MY ENTRY.

As Minerva McGonagall, your strict facade is complimented by a warm heart, and you always do what is for the greater good.

I'M GOING TO OTAKON...

Jen...What about the hotellll???
HUHHHHH????
*spazzing out*

I have a boyfriend...hahaha...

yes I do...

^__________________________^

Oh...and I'M GOING TO OTAKON...My dad has everything set up...but I don't know how to register...someone...help?

I have a date to prom, v. surprising. And what's even MORE surprising is that I had asked him first...kinda. And there are like...at least two other people who like him too and were GONNA ask him but I got to him first which..kinda had me even MORE shocked. I feel like such a guy..._ _;; Aren't guys supposed to be the one to ask? I mean...now I feel even MORE masculine then I'm supposed to. And the guy I'm going to the prom with seems to me like...such a girl...well he's metro but...you know. It's odd. And if we're going to the prom does that mean we're something more or just friends? Maybe I'm reading too much into this...

LJ Interests meme results

1. books:
   Well, who doesn't like books?? I ABSOLUTELY LOVE books...I can't live without them, without a book is like...without oxygen to me. Like for example, I went all today without a book in my bag and I felt so lost, and like...so...bored. I had nothing to do. It was sad.
2. chorus:
   I...used to love chorus, now not so much. Maybe it's because of all the obligations I have to it now that I don't wanna do, maybe it's because MOST OF THE PEOPLE IN THE CLASS ARE ASSHOLES AND DESERVE TO DIE A PAINFUL AND HORRIFYING DEATH...*ahem* excuse me. Anyway, they don't do anything, they don't try to learn the notes, relying on whatever god-given talent they don't posess. RAWR
3. dvds:
   I love DVDS they are the best invention on the planet. Special Features ROCK AND you don't have to rewind AND you can skip to whatever part you want with a push of a button. Now THAT is great thinking.
4. fruits basket:
   The manga that is SO messed up it's not even funny but we love it anyways. I love it, that's for sure.
5. hatori sohma:
   WHOOO...HOT Doctor dude in Fruits Basket. WAY hot...hahaha
6. kyo sohma:
   Well...I'm not sure if I root for Kyo/Tohru pairings. I think she should have both. They should just...share her...hahaha...even though that'll be really weird and not...well....ew...hahaha...
7. machall:
   LOVE Machall, one of the BEST webcomics out there. It's so funny and random and so geeky that it = Love haha.
8. monty python:
   MONTY PYTHON...how can anyone NOT like Monty Python?? I can quote Monty Python and the Holy Grail all day, along with Life of Brian.
9. ranma 1/2:
   A manga and anime that I have seen and read but haven't gotten very far, I do like it though.
10. shin:
    Who is this? I can't figure out for the LIFE of me who this is. If any of you recognizes this name from any manga or anime you have seen please tell me because I don't know...I KNOW it's not Shin from Saiyuki though. Maybe from..Pretear? OHH...Is he the little one? The on with the nature power?? Aww... yeah he's so cute...

Enter your LJ user name, and 10 interests will be selected from your interest list.

SO...Bored...and feeling slightly...depressed, I guess you could say. Mostly because I've been listening to too much BSB and am now feeling thoroughly nostalgic...especially for all of YOU, my VA friends. Has it really been that long?? Two and a half years is a long time. I feel so detached. I know you all still love me because you have told me so and I love all of you...but I feel so out of the loop. I guess that's all that can be expected of since I haven't been to school with you all for YEARS but I still feel a little homesick. I yearn a little for the close-knit group we once were. I remember I used to get calls everyday, so much so that my parents wouldn't even really pick up the phone and kinda automatically go, It's for you. I miss having people tell me their secrets, who they liked, observing interaction between the opposite sexes I knew. I miss studying my Japanese during lunch and having people ask me what character I was trying to memorize. I miss sitting in Chorus with Tracy, feeling utterly bored and passing notes to one another. I miss pairing up with Phuong during English and having her ask me all these questions on the particulars of how pretty it should look and none on the real "learning" part of it and mostly hogging all of the project, not that I minded. I miss whining about not sitting near you guys because the seating chart thingy hated me so and would always distance me away from my friends. I miss having people ask me for money all the time. I miss having gym and feeling stupid because all of you would be before me and I would lag behind with people who actually walked my speed. I miss dreading Biology because none of you were there, I miss walking down the hallways and actually feeling elated when I ACTUALLY KNEW SOMEONE WHO WOULD SAY HI. I miss walking down the hallway and seeing two of my friends in deep conversation and then I would feel a little left out. I miss the firedrills where half of the school would gather in front of the school, on a meadow, that was probably less than 10 feet away from the main building, meaning that if there was a HUGE spike of flame that came out of the building most people in the front would be burnt to a crisp, I miss the pep ralleys and making fun of the breakdancing club. I miss the pep ralleys on the bleachers near the football field, I miss hanging out on the bleachers. I miss lunchtimes in the cafeteria with people who came by all the time, I wish I was part of the loop. I wish I could have stayed long enough to GO to Chicago with everyone. I have never had any of you guys over for a sleep over. But most of all I miss just having you guys around....so I feel slightly...down. Hahaha...oh well... tis life I guess. One of these days we will get together and tell each other what has been going on for the past few years. I wanna know EVERYTHING...heehe.. ^____________^ And that will be a time to remember.

Everyone knows I'm not much of a chain mail fan but this is kinda scary. I mean...I did it because of course I do all the little puzzle fill in thingys just to see if it's correct and it WAS...IT WAS SO FREAKY...OMG......yeah....hahaha...it's hard to explain but it was.

this is so true.it works !!!

You scored as Geek/Nerd. Haha! ok. go computer geeks! </td> Geek/Nerd 60% Punk 20% Emo Kid 13% "Ghetto" 13% Hot 13% Jock 13% Prep 0% Stoner 0% Loner 0% Goth 0% What Highschool Clique Do You Belong To? created with QuizFarm.com

Of COURSE I am, what else would I be?

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Banshee-like

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OMG...it's so right...HAHAHAHA...

I know this doesn't pertain to many of you, my friends but I really really really really don't like Korean people. I really don't and this may be something I'll have to reconcile with when I get older but right now I'm happy to hate them. Let me hate them, it gives me joy.
Preps I can handle, most of the time but Korean preps are NASTY to each other and other people and they hang around each other and only speak Korean even though it’s an AMERICAN school. If they have so much Korean pride MOVE TO KOREA FOR GOSH SAKES, give up your American citizenship for all I care, I know there are real people out there wanting to become an American citizen really badly and they’re just taking up the space and air with their Anti-American views on life.

Now I know I may seem a BIT harsh but that’s ok because….I’m Korean too….actually no, I’m not…I’m AMERICAN with Korean heritage in the background. I’m American and I’m damn proud of it and I have something against my own heritage. Probably because of my own family, not my immediate family but like extended family, and their annoying Korean habits. Growing up as a Korean-American is not piece of cake and it’s very weird to go to a white friend’s house and see them having nice loving grandparents. Instead I get the cranky old grandparents that can’t speak a word of English and complain that I can’t speak Korean. Well EXCUSE ME….I could speak Korean when I was little and then I forgot and then my own family put me off of my own heritage so it’s not entirely my fault. And then my parents have the GALL to tell me that I'm being anti-social, unfriendly to Korean people. WELL EXCUSE ME FOR NOT KNOWING THE LANGUAGE. IT'S YOUR FAULT YOU DIDN'T TEACH ME FROM THE BEGINNING. I don't understand it.

My parents tell me that I'm mean, that I put people off, well GOOD. I don't want a bunch of people hanging around me anyway. I don't know why, but right at this moment, I don't like people very much. Why can't I just act the way I am? Why do I always have to be scared that it would offend someone else? If you don't like me then go away. I don't understand why people hang around people they don't like, people they complain about behind their backs. Fine, you don't like me, well I don't like you. It gets so annoying. Yeah, I know I have faults, I know I'm not perfect, no one is but at least I know I'm annoying, at least I admit that my voice is high and screechy and that if I get annoyed it seems to go an octave higher. I know that I can be loud and obnoxious, I KNOW all these things and yet if you want to tell me again that's FINE because I know it. But don't go around pretending your innocent, that you have no faults, that you don't know what the heck perverted people are talking about when you do. Sometimes I don't know what people are talking about and sometimes I like it that way but when people talk about sex I know what that is. DUH WHO DOESN'T? If you don't know what sex is by now you need a life. A big one...and Health Education. Where have you been for the past SIX YEARS? Yeah, I'm prudish but I've gotten a HELL of a lot better. I don't mind swearing, have you noticed? And sex is something that is talked about all the time at my lunch table...we're in HIGH SCHOOL for crying out loud.

You know else really annoys me? Emos. Yeah I know people can have their emo days when things get really bad but when someone is complaining about their damn life all the freaking time yeah that's when it gets annoying. Okay, if you hate life so much GO AHEAD, KILL YOURSELF, WE DON'T CARE, stop wasting oxygen and my time telling me about how much you hate your life because I don't know...I don't even know why these people are wasting my time by telling me how much they hate their lives and how much they want to kill themselves. If you DID want to kill yourself you wouldn't tell ME about it. Not really, you probably would have just done it and someone would have found you and it would have been a BIG shock. I understand when life at home is really bad but when I KNOW you and you're pretending that life is so bad even though you have two loving parents, a roof over you head, food on your plate and your grades are FINE then I tell you to get a LIFE.

My parents tell me I'm narrow-minded, that I have no tolerance for other people. Well, yeah, sometimes that's true but mostly it's because I really don't care about other people. I'm self-centered, I know that. I really shouldn't be, but I am. I'm sorry to say. I don't know really how to be totally selfless. I always take and never give back. Mostly because I'm lazy and also because I don't know how. I wish I were selfless, I wish I could be kind and open-minded and like I said, while I'm wishing I would like a pony. Many people tell me I should stop wishing and just do it. Well, how? If you were never taught how to do something how can you do it? If you were never taught your ABC's how would you feel if someone told you to "READ, NOW or DIE" could YOU do it? I couldn't. I would say HOW? So, I will try, with all my heart to be selfless, to be less self-centered, to help people, to give back (especially to you Tracy and Jen) but I'm SORRY if I can't. And I know those are just words but I WILL make it up somehow. I WILL right the wrongs that I have. I will I will I will~!

/end rant

BAH, SNOW DAY...whee...

I have absolutely NOTHING to say, I'm really really really really really really really bored though...

I hope we have another snow day tomorrow.

Wow...I really have nothing to say.

Hmm...I got a big writing streak yesterday and have been writing quite a lot. I want to get a book published. That would be so nice. I have one...well I wrote a synopsis so tell me what you think.

In a world where poverty threatens the majority, three kids have decided to fight back against the major mogul corporations who control the world’s markets. They are the smartest of their classes and specialize in the illegal acts of stealing, rerouting money and hiding from the “law”. They give their money out to whoever needs it the most and take it from those who don’t. In a place where school does nothing and only by birthright are you rich these children are out on a mission to change the world.

Yep...so maybe I'll become a famous writer one day. HA~! Like that's gonna happen~! But I can dream, can't I? And while I'm dreaming I would like a pony.