Have been really busy since new year. Work, exercising, parties, reading, and movies... There was one minute that I suddenly realized life was to be enjoyed.

Funny that I was staffed on an ITC litigation case that involves a Korea client, probably because I have a typical Korea last name: Song.  I was working like crazy the last two weeks, day and night, to review 170k pages of documents.  In the middle of the third week this month, I found that I had billed enough hours for the entire month.  The most interesting thing is that I had a chance to hang out with Korea people, hearing all about these stories of "yellow" and "white". That's what Korea people call the difference between East and West. 

I watch movie every day. The time used to be taken by LSAT is now filled with movies. The magic of movie is really not just about the story itself. We all tend to put ourselves into it and everyone reads on an entirely different meaning of it.  Recently, I've been in love with some classics, Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany's of legendary Audrey Hepburn.  And of course, anything about Jane Austen is always my favorite, including this movie that I just watched: Jane Austen book club.  One reason that I love movie is because I would feel this fantasy that the characters are actually talking to me and my life will be at least temporarily changed by the understandings that I share from the movie. Well, I know the movie is not about me, and in fact, it has nothing to do with its audiences at all.  But I also believe that every audience sees a different version of the movie, one that is interpreted by the audience himself/herself. After all, it never matters what it truly is, but how it is seen.

In this respect, movies are very close to books.  Recently, I discovered a nice place in the town: the regional library.  Sounds like silly that a library with not so many books in stock made me exciting.  I don't have so much time for books either anyway.  It feels refreshing when I was walking among those shelves. I used to be so desperate with books when I was a kid, and I spent much of my spare time in my neighborhood bookstore. Reading does not seem that popular in the town though. Most of the people in the library are kids or seniors.  Maybe those are the only ones who care about reading. Maybe those are the only ones who have the time to read. The rest of us are just too busy, aren't we?

Well, life is to be enjoyed, and it feels good when we do.