Life in Korea:

When it rains, it pours! ^^

Whaaa...it's 2008 and I still got old news here...hehehe. It's not that I don't have new materials to write about. In fact I've been busy doing stuff --both fun and serious... I've been meaning to document each of my activities, but I haven't gotten around to doing so cause I'm swamped. I'm still in the middle of an important project... and I've got another one coming.  I don't know how I manage to have my activities overlap.

Here is a preview of my upcoming blog entries:

1. My family's  yuletide holiday in Hainan, China --I've posted some photos already. The article --to follow (hopefully, soon)

2. My promotion at Ewha Girls' High School -- I've been promoted to the rank of a full-time senior foreign teacher. I have outranked my NS colleague. My duties: supervise my NS colleague and design ESL modules for 2nd Graders.

3. Our company ski trip -- slated this weekend (1/19-20). I pulled an all-nighter last night preparing our stuff for the trip. I had to pack two separate traveling bags cause I will also be away on an out-of-town English Camp the day following the ski trip.

4. Winter English Camp -- I've been outsourced by Baemoon High   School to do a lecture series. Joining me are two American teachers. (1/21-23) .

5. My business trip --tentative (still have to plan). I should leave after the Lunar New Year (cause I have household duties to fulfill).

6. March 2008 marks the new height of my professional achievement at Ewha Girls' HS. It also marks the beginning of my son's introduction to formal academic schooling (he enters Elementary School this year...He got accepted to a school that is exclusive to Samsung Remian residents...hihihi^^)

7. This year also marks a bold venture for me ---2 words: passive income.

MY YEAR ALWAYS BEGINS WITH A SPIN...

And I love it! Wouldn't have it any other way.

Modern Woman

It seems that the plight of the modern woman hasn’t improved much

since the days of antiquity. In Korea particularly, everyone is an enemy of a modern woman -- the patriarchal society, the filial hierarchy, even elder women are antagonists too. For generations, they have been preconditioned by tradition to devote a life of servitude to men.

But God did not create woman to be man's slave. He created woman to be man's counterpart. Counterpart means similitude, a species of equal character and strength, and therefore entitled to the same dignified life as man.

If there's no exit to our present situation then we, the women of the world, must take it upon ourselves to change it. THE WORLD WILL NOT IMPROVE IF WE JUST QUIETLY ENDURE. Our part as mothers to a son -- is NOT to RAISE A MAN,  but to RAISE A GENTLEMAN.