Life Goes On: LuxuryMagic #10 - Key to My Heart

My roommates designed above picture in the frame and gave it to me for my 24th birthday present. In the picture frame, it says 'carpe shipem'. It is a phrase from Latin meaning "seize the day" and living the moment in your life. I perceived the meaning of the word right when I heard from my roomate. However, I found myself not applying this beautiful message to my life until today.

Looking back and thinking about it, I don't think I have ever slept ever since I got into the college. Yesterday, I had a such a long sleep, when I woke up, my body felt extremely tired and everything seemed empty.



I have recently experienced overwhelming attention in my life that I have never desired for. I was extremely overwhelmed that I had a moment to give up everything in my life. However, I believe Jesus saved my life at my last moment because there are so many options available to you if you have made a decision to fold over yourself.

I have wondered why I have been chosen to go through this hard moment in my life and prayed to Jesus various times why I am going through this challenging flop on my life.






Today, I was working at my job as usual. Recently, I had overwhelming amount of work at my job all the sudden. Ironically, I got my daily tasks done a little early. I went to eat lunch, get some massage on my body, relaxed myself a bit, watched children playing around in the mall, watched beautiful sky, took a deep breath, and came back to work and thought about why I am working in the office at this moment. Everything I was responsible for was finished so why should I be in the office? Why can't I just go outside and whatever the hell I want?

I thought about myself and trying to figure out what I can do to enjoy in the meantime. I first figured out how I can possibly contribute my developers in the team by working extra amount of time which I got done fairly quickly. I honestly felt really good because I feel like I was finally be able to contribute something extra to the development team rather than working 8 hours straight, being lazy about myself, and just get things done like a machine.

I then forgot about work as I have no obligation or given tasks to continue. I then wondered what would be the first step to benefit more people other than people working in the office. Looking back and thinking about it, I had suffered so much in the past living on my own, working towards my future that I had always dreamed - best car, best job, beautiful girl friend, and etc. Those were so important to me and I had amazing amount of passion on various different things I enjoy in my life and I honestly felt it's reaching and I can accomplish that faster than other people. However, I decided to set all these aside and have a moment to think about what would be really is important in my life if I can only live a day.

I finally decided to accept myself that I desire a lot of different things in my life, instead of turning myself in a miserable mode and thinking about future life, I have decided to not to be sad about my life, worrying about tomorrow, or what the hell would happen if I do something. I simply decided to accept everything happening in my life and cope thorough with it regardless of the outcome.

I instantly felt extreme amount of stress going off of my brain and became happy. I am not sure if I will feel happy or sad tomorrow but since I am not a machine, I decided to forgive myself being sad, happy, or whatever but just stay positive on myself and use self discipline and patience not to lose self control.

I believe we all facet different types of challenging moments in our life and the question is how we perceive these different challenging moments in our life. I have decided to use my intuition to figure out what exactly is going on and deal positively instead of being negative and doubtful about myself, other people, or getting frustrated about the situation.



Just being careless about the current circumstance with controlled mind set was a simple key to my happiness. I strongly believe this is the soul that Jesus has given me while coping through my hard time and I will use my best judgment to protect this great freedom in my life so that I can truly 'carpe shipem' in my life with the people I love regardless of the law, money, perception of other people, and future life.

Life Goes On: LuxuryMagic #9 - Pursuit of Self Tranquility

I have been having this awesome art that I bought from the University of Colorado when I visited there for lunch. I hung it on the wall for a while but never paid attention to the message in the art. It says:

"The poor long for riches. The rich long for heaven but the wise desires tranquility"


LuxuryMaster says: exactly what I need to pursuit.

Life Goes On: LuxuryMagic #8 - CU KSA Soccer and DMV Gorilla

I think everyone played great and I feel sorry that Jungbin got injured while playing. I promised to buy you guys dinner if you guys win the first game. The game got tied therefore no dinner out of pocket as I promised on our temporary Cyworld website! ㅋㅋㅋ

However, I promised Sung bin that I will treat you guys a dinner for sure if you win the entire tournament so you guys better keep up the good work ^^!

Now, the pictures I promised to post for Korean Students Association in the University of Colorado at Boulder:


- S. Korea vs. Indonesia


- 준모형 - KSA 회장님


- 3명의 유령 - 누가 누군지도 잘 모르겟다는.. -_-;


- 한솔 and ...죄송 이름이(?)알려주시면 고쳐드릴꼐요


- 인경 and 정빈


- 건영 and 성빈 (He went to Google with me!)

Let's have another blast on our upcoming NBA event in Denver Stadium!

I went to DMV in Denver and won this huge gorilla for a bit over 9,000 in a couple of hours of playing. I played the game where you can move the cursor vertically and horizontally and drop the grabber to catch the bottle, If you successfully do so, you get bunch of tickets printed out and I won it when I went there with my friends from the Korean Central Presbyterian Church. Fairly impressively big one with only about 2 hours of playing.

Life Goes On: LuxuryMagic #7 - LuxuryMaster's Life BluePrint: Long Term Positive Effects

I have been living my life like a mayfly ever since I came to this country. I have recently learned that what pulled my life together to make become what I am today is not because I am born with brain that surpasses others.

I have surely worked harder than other teenagers and went through challenging moments when I was young but I do not think that is exactly the cause of what makes LuxuryMaster today. As cocky as it seems, I feel extremely proud of myself.

I have had a lot of miracle experiences ever since I came to this country on 2000. I have always wondered what actually made LuxuryMaster so lucky in critical stages of my life.

I first thought it was because of people who have been supporting me but after opening my eyes on a lot of things on different things on positive way, I have learned that there is something non-existent entity that has been assisting me - Jesus.

Because of so many miracle happenings in critical stages when I was young, I feel like everyday I live on the continent is blessing to me. I now have no fear of losing anything in my life except people around me.

When I like to make friends or start relationships, I like to view attitude of person's friends to determine if I like to be friend with him/her. I believe it is a lot easier to tell someone's true heart as people can always can fake their true intention. However, looking at his/her friends will tell you a lot of his/her past experience and future life. I can't express how happy I feel once I have no expectation but just do what I love to do.

However, if I lose something in unrighteously, I like to use best of my abilities to fight. This is why I sometimes had to tell my good friends that I can either become your worst enemy or best friend.

I have finally figured out what exactly is "Meaning of Life" is on my heart. I have decided to devote my future brainstorming an idea and turn that into a technology that can potentially benefit millions of lives using technologies just like Google. I have decided to walk through my future career with Translations.com to accomplish this goal.

I think the reason why I applied to Google is because I had gained that envision on my heart by going through certain experiences and perceptions recently. I still feel we shared somewhat vision and I still love Google although they might not like me:)

I perceive my life is simple as this: accomplish something that can positively influence other people while doing something meaningful, technical, and beneficial to others while having fun doing it. This has became very clear to me recently. No anticipation of tomorrow or expectation of result, just live a day like a mayfly while having fun doing it - This is what I call Jesus's blessing and I feel like I have earned it.

I view myself as a mayfly that currently flies in low altitude but I believe some mayfly envisions to fly high altitude with strong determination and positive heart although it is currently flying low. Carpe diem - "seize the day"

Life Goes On: LuxuryMagic #6 - "Engineer Myself"

I went to one of the Google's luxury office in Boulder, CO (an office filled with rock climbing walls, buffet, guitar hero... and etc) for the full time software engineering position opportunity with Google on last Friday (October 17, 2008).

I solved the problem given and failed to make it more efficient although I received 'A' on the algorithm from Andrzej Ehrenfeucht. I went like “Huh? Binary Search?”. Well, I know what binary tree is and also know a couple of searching algorithms but it wasn't popping up on my head during that time. I wasn't trying to prove my aptitude in this interview so I guess it doesn't really matter as I am fully aware I am not much better than other recent college graduates in that sense.

My teacher on the CU algorithm class was Andrzej Ehrenfeucht from CS department. His lecture didn’t teach me anything much about the CS algorithms and all I did was just doing homework solving some greatest common divisor and some graphs... sign... However, he is one of the distinct professor from CU who doesnt get fired for not walking into the classroom without advanced notice and make all students waiting over 20-30 minutes. I am sure he had his own reasons but I wasn't too happy with it.

I think we are all smart in a lot of different ways and he wasn't extremely smart about his teaching and genius about his research when I was taking his course. I would understand if it was just once but it kept happening and I remember just not going to his class but still got through his course fairly successfully I think =)

I should have studied more about algorithm but my life was too busy to spend extra time into that. I really wish I had John R. Black because he also teaches algorithm and I learned heck a lot from his CS6000 level network security course when I was in CU.

What I have learned in the industry during a couple months is the realization of scalability and performance issues and how to troubleshoot the problems before they even arise and avoid putting myself in a DOO-DOO situation. I am still learning though I ironically had never ran into serious one to research to come up with one on my own =)


LuxuryMaster says: time to engineer myself before attempting to engineer others.

Life Goes On: LuxuryMagic #5 - "Engineer (Y)ourself"

Alpha Version: LuxuryMaster.net is finally up!
Any ideas or comments are welcome and appreciated!

LuxuryMaster says: Engineer (Y)ourself.

Life Goes On: LuxuryMagic #4 - My Favorite Song Changed

Dj Encore feat. Engelina - Open Your Eyes

You can't keep me holding on I've giving you some time
I can't make you come along if you don't share your mind
Every time you close your eyes I know you feel the same
Everything you try to fight is drowning in the rain

What does it take to open your eyes
Don't let it fade
You got to let the sunshine through the rain
Open your eyes don't make me wait
You got to let the sunshine through the rain

TEll me why you turn away, whenever I believe
Finally you come to say I'm everything you need
Everytime you close your eyes I know you feel the same
Everything you try to fight is drowning in the rain

What does it take to open your eyes
Don't let it fade
You got to let the sunshine through the rain
Open your eyes don't make me wait
You got to let the sunshine through the rain

I'm not asking of you, to give yourself away
I just want you to hear the words I say
It's only a matter of time
It's only a matter of time
It's only a matter of time
It's only a matter of time
What does it take to open your eyes
Don't let it fade
You got to let the sunshine through the rain
Open your eyes don't make me wait
You got to let the sunshine through the rain


LuxuryMaster says: I've done it.

John O'Callaghan - Big Sky (Feat. Audrey Gallagher)

I know this silence - been here before.
I'm walking blinded through your door.
This is a sense of things to come,
This innocence... oh, oh.

Breathe in this moment - it's come and gone
Further and faster through your soul.
Open your eyes and breathe some more,
Open your mouth... oh, oh.

Release yourself - it's a big sky.
Reveal yourself, it's a big sky.
We love, we leave. We take, we give.
Release yourself - it's a big sky.

It's a big sky...

It's a big sky...

I know this silence - been here before.
I'm walking blinded through your door.
This is a sense of things to come,
This innocence... oh, oh.

Breathe in this moment - it's come and gone
Further and faster through your soul.
Open your eyes and breathe some more,
Open your mouth... oh, oh.

Release yourself - it's a big sky.
Reveal yourself, it's a big sky.
We love, we leave. We take, we give.
Release yourself - it's a big sky.

It's a big sky...
It's a big sky...

Breathe in this moment.
Breathe in this moment.
Breathe in this moment.
It's a big sky!

Release yourself - it's a big sky.
Reveal yourself, it's a big sky.
We love, we leave. We take, we give.
Release yourself - it's a big sky.

It's a big sky.
We love, we leave. We take, we give.
Release yourself - it's a big sky.
It's a big sky.

LuxuryMaster says: I'm on it.

Life Goes On: LuxuryMagic #3

"I am Feeling Lucky"

Life Goes On: LuxuryMagic #2

I have defined poker as my secondary job in the previous posts. I believe second job is something that you should always try to have not only because it gains you more money but I think it is doing something meaningful and enjoyful on your spare time. I have confirmed myself today that I have found my new second job and hereby degrading poker as a hobby until I feel like playing again.

I now strongly believe that taking an occasional break and pursue other things to get a broader sighted design on your color helps you shine your own luxury color!

Life Goes On: LuxuryMagic #1

A box filled with scrap of papers and rocks and two envelops on the very bottom of the box given to my good friend: