Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • [simage=4227,200,n,center,][simage=4228,200,n,center,][simage=4229,200,n,center,] After getting over the excitement of finally feeling like a proper professor and getting my own brand-new office, I quickly wanted to make it my own. While walking down the hallway and looking in the other rooms, I noticed that everyone had the same layout and felt everything was rather “square”. [simage=4236,200,n,center,] So, I took a few moments, recalled the many times I rearranged my bedroom whilst growing up and began to…

  • Took a bit of a computer break yesterday and am back to work today. The new campus is pretty impressive and I love that I have my own office. Tomorrow I will take pics… today I am wiped! I’m out of practice for a full day’s worth of this working thing… 😉  

  • As the day to return to work draws nearer, I find myself feeling a little depressed. It’s not that I oppose working, or even that the job itself is bad. I mean, really, how can I complain about having the holidays that I have?? So, I have been trying to sort out why I seem to have this down feeling when I actually used to like preparing to head to work. At the…

  • Hard to believe another month is about to start. Just another couple more days of vacation freedom, but I suppose it will be good to get back into the swing of things at work. I know that it will start off with a sprint, so I am working hard to just enjoy the last bit of slow days! 😀 [simage=4219,288,n,center,]

  • I joke that I don’t do anything that makes me sweat…; it’s mostly true, but getting older means that I should try to be conscientious about my health. So, I try to eat a little less (still love food, tho!) and exercise. When I moved to Abu Dhabi I got into swimming regularly despite my previous general dislike towards the ocean. Swimming in the Arabian Gulf is easy. 🙂 Plus, even though I…

  • Thanks again to 8Asians, this trailer for a documentary on young adopted girls – Somewhere Between – looks interesting. It is nice to see/hear the voices of young adoptees and those from other countries. What is striking is that the issues and thoughts are the same as those I am familiar with – a sign that despite changes in the world, some things still have a lot of room for growth! 🙂

  • If you actually read my blog and actually visit the actual URL site, then you can see I have changed the header of my page. The old one felt dark and with the black background made everything feel somber. It was probably how I felt at the time of starting the site, but it seemed time for a change. So, I have given it a brighter header using a sunset picture from our…

  • I have decided to start a new series of posts related directly to my adoption experience. This is mostly because I have started to delve more and more into the world of adoptees who are starting to express themselves about this whole being adopted thing – especially Korean-American adoptees. I know that some are reading, some are searching for support, etc. – like me. So, I feel like it is time to share…

  • This is a bit random, but this article on 8Asians (again) reminded me about struggling with issues of make-up. I have long since given up on the idea of eye make-up and wear a minimal amount in general despite being told by a few older Asian ladies that I am beyond the age of needing to be wearing more make-up. 😛 I wear enough, I think! Anyway, something that has long bothered me…

  • A while back I read this post on 8Asians and thought about how Koreans love emotional drama – more so than many of the other countries I have visited. Koreans and Japanese are often compared, but I always find Japanese people too stoic and though their tv dramas attempted to be dramatically emotional, it was rare that it succeeded for me as it often felt more forced than real. In any case, this…

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