Friday, March 27, 2009

Big girl you are beautiful - Mika


This song has very familiar rhythm and repertory. Probably the reason why it sounds really intimate is it was a song put on a famous commercial advertisement. Sadly, It was merely put the short part, regarded as highlight, of the great song on the ad. I strongly recommend listening to the whole song with the well-made music video.

Monday, March 16, 2009

Bad Day - Daniel Powter


It is such a good feeling song and it encourages me when something badly happens. Even if something makes you frustrated, I hope for everyone, who I do love, not to let down.
Sometimes good events unexpectedly might be on you :-)

Saturday, March 14, 2009

A presentation of the process of my study


Those are the books which I have used to date. Majority of them are work book, but there are some books that I got individually.
Before I go ahead, I would like to say something - it is nothing in order to demonstrate my English ability, but it is something to show that I reached these levels at each moment. I have already been here marginally over half a year - I have merely another 4months. I swear I am predicted to try to work out far higher figures than I have got.
It shows that I got 23 of 40 marks when I got into my school (at 1st September) - it was the entrance test to distinguish my level. Eventually my first class was at lower intermediate.
I took this test again at 15th November.
It was the IELTS result which I took recently (at the end of February).
and guess what the next is.

Oxfam photos












It is where I am working every single Saturday. I believe that I already explained about my work as enough as you can easily understand - the details are below several writings. These photos were taken after work – that is why it looks extremely inactive.

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Trivia (academically explained)




Are you keen on being told a trivia of London? London had suffered from excessive stationary on most of the roads till several years ago. The concern was diagnosed and it worked out a legislation to impose citizens living and having their private motor vehicles in city centre more tax named congestion charging. It eventually was pretty efficient to reduce the enormous number of commuters by car- it seems more like plummeting. I, by and large, appreciate the law to control private cars in the centre of London. In spite of, it was one of the most successful transport policies, it is presumed as a very rough legislation in Korea if we completely copy it. Why I am thinking like that is the charge is extremely excessive - people living in the heart of London have to pay 8pounds, 1pound exchanges more than 2100won, each their own car every single day. I am wondering how many Korean people are able to pay that money to live on in Seoul.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

My name is..

I am often asked why I want to be called Jim and how I made the name. Do you know the simple reason why I altered my Korean name, WooJin, to Jim? You might be disappointed after being told that. I merely changed the last letter of my Korean name, Jin, to my current name. The idea was launched at the first day of my English camp named HEC, which stands for HanKuk University of Foreign Studies English Camp. As far as I remember, I had absolutely no idea while I was forced making an English name. Nevertheless, I made up my mind creating my new name using my Korean name - as you know, I am very spontaneous. The only idea that I can think of is Jim, honestly. That is why I have still been using the name and, likewise, I am that keen on. '-' To be honest, I can not understand why the situation, which English teachers in Korea promote their students making new names sounded English, is triggered. Personally we do not have to throw away our own name in order to study English, though they force us. Making English name is up to you, but you should know that you don't have to do it, though it might be rough to be called by foreign people. Over and above that, I don't think of that altering our names is really helpful to develop a sincere interest in learning English.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Oxfam


Oxfam is one of the biggest charities. It means enormous amount of volunteers constitute the organisation. I have recently joined a branch of the charity. Despite I just started working, I am absolutely satisfied with my work. My position is called customer service as typical workers in a bookstore – my store is especially specialised in books. The reason why I made up my mind to work for it is to have a good experience with something new. As I thought, it has phenomenally been an impressive experience. At the first day of working for Oxfam, I saw some people who were volunteers like me. The interesting fact is almost all of them have been working without paid except the manager, even they are British - there are 5people who are 4British and 1 foreign guy. According to one of my colleagues, many people after redundancy try out finding that kind of job like he does. Probably the best way to spend the times after giving up working might ironically be working which is far better than doing nothing.
Anyway I want to do well. Please cross your fingers for my new activity.