April in Estonia

It’s April! How?!

I landed in Estonia on December 19, 2011. It’s been almost 4 months here.

Life has been awesome. A lot of things happened.

Got my residence card. Time to look for a job now Though the SEO market here is empty, many people are very skeptical. I might just stick to making small business websites. KPOPSurf has been steadily growing. It only gets about 250 visits per day but the traffic doubled in a month. Hope to see more progress soon.

One thing that still gets me is the snow here. SNOW IN APRIL! WTH! Did not expect this at all. I hope it wont snow anymore… I felt the taste of spring and now looking forward to summer. I lived through the winter in Estonia, what’s under your belt?

Google Protests SOPA and PIPA

Google will post a link on their main page (www.google.com) to notify all of Google users to show their opposition to the bills presented by the U.S. officials. This will not only show their opposition, but will allow the users to gain knowledge about the bills.

Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) are things that should never pass. Many internet users and tech-saavy people alike are well aware of this and are trying to promote awareness.

Popular sites such as Wikipedia.org and Reddit.com are also participating by “blacking out” their website, or going dark.

This just shows you that the tech-companies are not with the bills, along with millions of internet users.

Have you gone so corrupt that you have to make a law about something you don’t even remotely understand? Did even a paragraph of the bills make sense to any of you?

This is outrageous.

Nujabes Spiritual State

DJ Nujabes, or Jun Seba (瀬場潤) is my favorite musician. He died in February 26, 2010 but left something amazing for the world to hear.
His last album, Spiritual State, was released in Japan yesterday – December 3, 2011.

The album features his best friend and my other favorite, Uyama Hiroto. The two are, in my opinion, the best combo in the history of music.

Anyways, the man is simply amazing and listening to this album makes me admire him even more.

It’s just too sad. He didn’t have to go so early.

Nujabes – Spiritual State.

I am leaving

I’ve bought my ticket to Estonia (yeah, you’ve read right, ESTONIA (IN EUROPE)) and the official date is December 18th, 2011.

Why?

There are so many reasons to list but I can certainly try.

Few of my friends know my situation; visa status, financial troubles, long distance relationship with this amazing girl in Estonia, etc.

I am looking forward to finding a job (because I can’t work in the U.S.) as I’ve been just bumming off my small Google AdSense checks for a bit. Plus I can see there’s a huge market in Estonia for practically everything related to anything (including technology!) The small checks I’ve been receiving are not enough. Not enough to support myself and definitely not enough to take my girlfriend out on dates.

With a new job, (and hopefully further development of my websites) I will have money to do most of what I want to do including going to school. I still want a Bachelor’s Degree, because this Associate’s isn’t good enough. Perhaps I will open my own business. There’s so much options laying around and so much room for me to grow.

I am pretty excited for school. I’ve been bumming and visiting universities around my area (Ramapo, William Paterson, Rutgers) and I can see I need to go back to school. There’s so much going on in college in terms of social activities, but going to a college is the same thing as networking. For my future, I need to meet promising people and make connections.

D-Day is coming up. I need to work on my websites and give my 100%. I have a little over 30 days left, and that means I can make 30 websites. Key word: CAN. It’s all up to me. I’m really trying to muster up all the will power I have to work. Not for my sake, but for ours.

My visa situation is fucked up. It has been for years now. I’m sick of hearing people say “hey, I thought you were leaving” or “hey, when are you leaving again?” over and over. My parents still want me to stay despite the fact that I cannot work legally and cannot attend school. I need to move on.

Moving to a new country, a country that’s completely unfamiliar to my knowledge is an adventure. I love this kind of thing, as it brings a huge change in my life. This is exactly what I’ve been looking for. And as it turns out, it happens that this all started by meeting a girl.

She is perfect in every sense of the word. They say love makes you blind, and I believe it’s quite possibly true. Even her imperfections seem to turn into something that I grew to love, and I can easily say that her imperfections make her perfect.

She’s calling me on Skype right now. Time to finish this up and say, I’m looking forward to my new life.

Change

There is a change.
There is a change in my life.
My life has just opened up many different paths to take. I know which path to take, and I am quite determined.
There is a change in my attitude.
I’ve become a nicer person – a more decent human being. Life seems like it’s full of colors.

I can’t wait for the future.

Hipsters Will Be the Death of Me

I swear.

Hipsters need to chill out. Everything they spew out of their f’in mouths is full of absolute, meaningless shit.

Some examples of hipster bullshit:

“Life is nothing, but it’s everything.”
My response: Wtf? Shut the fuck up.

“Writing frees my mind and soul and it’s the only way to express how I truly feel.”
My response: Yeah, creative writing is cool, but your writing sucks and life doesn’t suck OR is as beautiful as much as you think it is.

And another one of those everything/nothing quotes:
“YOU KNOW YOU HAVE EVERYTHING
WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE.”
My response: WHAT? How the fuck does that make sense? Don’t pull some Socrates bullshit on me because you are no Socrates. If anything, you are the furthest thing away from it. Ignorant hipsters, man.
A better quote would be, “YOU KNOW YOU HAVE EVERYTHING WHEN YOU HAVE EVERYTHING TO LOSE.” For one, it makes sense. Two, it’s realistic. Three, it fucking makes sense.

You see, hipsters pull this kind of shit all the time. They say shit that make absolutely no sense and have zero value and try to turn it into something more meaningful. By more meaningful, I mean it’s not actually any more meaningful but means EVERYTHING to them. So yeah, I guess this is one of those situations where NOTHING is EVERYTHING. Turning bullshit into more bullshit. You got it, hipsters. You’ve figured out the meaning of life.

I guess that’s the rant of the day. At least, this is what one Korean guy thinks… I wonder what the rest of the world thinks of these hipsters.