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Birthday cake

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Since I was two, I have had a birthday cake always on my birthday. Sometimes, I ended up blowing candles three, or four times within my birthday week among different groups of friends. That was good time. However, I hardly had a chance to blow candles on the birthday cake lately. First of all, people did not know about me much since I moved to VA. I hardly had a chance to go out to start friendship with anyone since my in laws have moved in with us. Finally, I did not want to get older from a couple of years ago. My dad always told me a story why I have gotten my birthday cake specially and always. My grandparents lived with my family because my dad was the first son. (It is a custom in Korea.) After I started talking around one years old, I noticed myself that whenever birthday came, I wanted to sing "happy birthday" song with a cake and candles. My dad was too busy to remember when I turned to two, came back home with empty hands. Guess what he had to do? He was kicked out...

Being a Professional

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While I was watching the super bowl, I could distinguish among players who are "professional" and "non professional" through their faces. Well, all of them are pro foot ball players but I still could distinguish who were more "pro" than the others by their attitudes, eyes, and even their smiles. I have thought about "living life as a pro....". We give people titles as "professional" or "armature" by people's positions. It is also different from "full time employee" or "part time". Not only hours of working, but also their abilities, resource, education, even attitude are elements to distinguish between them. I thought, how about myself? Am I a pro anything? I could say, I am a professional conductor. What else? How about a professional Christian? What makes being professional? If you learn how to play piano for more than 20 years, you become almost a professional. It depends on how much you practice an...