I bought a bible today: A letter to my sons - Page 2

On March 19 2012 02:47 Flowjo wrote:
Definitely read everything... man if I ever go back to Korea, please teach me your way MightyAtom I have much to learn.

On March 19 2012 02:50 Boonbag wrote:
Jesus you're 110 kg

wtf man

On March 19 2012 03:08 Agama wrote:
Just curious, how old are your sons? Also good read.

On March 19 2012 03:12 JudicatorHammurabi wrote:
Pretty good read, but I have a couple of questions.
1) Why did you leave the Canada to go to Korea?
2) If Korea is so shitty, why don't you come back to the Canada, or even the US?

I'm asking these things out of concern for you and for your family life. It's not good for kids to be growing up with one of their parents rarely being around. I understand you're basically working some sort of job that requires you to be all over the place internationally, but if there's any way to tune down the traveling a bit and spend more time with your sons, that would be ideal imo.

On March 19 2012 03:20 Ilikestarcraft wrote:
This is my favorite blog post from you that I've read. Your blogs usually share the wisdom and experiences that you have acquired throughout the years but I always wondered about the person writing these blogs inside. You mentioned outside details here and there about your life, for example that you studied theology and I always wondered what were the reasons why you were studying it. I hope that your kids one day do read this and learn something more about the person they always called dad.

Saechiis
I don't know whether I do or don't get your blogs sometimes, but I'm always grateful. Thanks.

chaosTheory_14cc
As always, your blogs are insightful and I'm so glad you're willing to share some of your wisdom with us. I hope when your sons finally read some of your material that they understand the point you try to get across, and appreciate what a really cool guy you are.

Linwelin
I really like your blogs. Always very interesting

dapierow
Was browsing Tl for past hour because I don't want to start my CompSci assignment that I know is going to take me upwards of 20 hours to complete and stumbled on this blog... realized that fuck... hardwork is everywhere in life and I should start now than later... thanks for the post!

lubu42
This is an amazing read. I think you definitely have one of the best blogs on TL :D Keep it up!

cmen15
Wow..I so need to reread this again lol. Thanks for sharing this with us! 5/5

On March 19 2012 04:31 mizU wrote:
Oh my god. I'm glad I read all of that.

You're so amazing 형.

From my point of view it seems like in Korea there isn't much room for advancement. You kind of get stuck in a class and can't really "jump" ahead, unless of course you get really lucky, but then again, I guess that's how it is any capitalist environment. How would you compare the opportunities of advancement to Korea? I don't really know the deep financial sides to Korea, so maybe you could enlighten me?

I know my friends at KU are going to get pretty good jobs because of the whole SKY network, and it seems like it's getting easier to get in (than before), but I still seem to have a lack of understanding on the whole socio-economic structure.

On March 19 2012 06:47 drooL wrote:
I think I love you a bit, MightyAtom. Thank you, for all of this.

On March 19 2012 12:12 MightyAtom wrote:


At your campus of KU, it is easier, but not the main campus in Anam; but even the entire SKY thing is becoming tougher, with it really only being a Seoul Uni thing- but basically - if you don't have parental support and networks or coming from a great uni or overseas uni, you're screwed. -.-

On March 19 2012 07:14 MisterD wrote:
noo never delete stuff like this, it's so important!

i remember a ted talk from some absolutely weird looking dude who was advertising putting money into research for prolonging life. He was convinved, that the children being born within the last 5 years could basically become immortal due to medical advancements by the time they were old enough for it to matter. And he gave a nice motivation as to why fighting natural death should be very important. It was something along these lines:

Do you consider the burnt down library of alexandria to be a tragic loss? Well, imagine, the life knowledge of one person was equal to one book (which is obviously a ridiculous underestimation). Then, by natural death alone, each year, the equivalent of three libraries of alexandria is lost. Just the relation of once a few centuries ago to three times a year, and that by using a horrendous underestimation, really gives an interesting perspective.

Now, while he was motivating research for avoiding death, you can even easier use this comparison to just line out the importance of life knowledge. And that to me makes texts such as yours here just so very important. You cannot buy any book that gives you such rather personal bits of knowledge. This is the kind of knowledge, people would learn by listening to the town elders in previous times. But with that happening less and less today because families move apart a lot more and divorce rates increasing (or even coming into existence in the first place, depending on the time span), it's blogs like these that i feel need to happen more often, because they offer similar wisdom.

I completely understand, that posting this can be hard and inconvenient because it's personal and sometimes contains revealing weaknesses, stuff that just doesn't feel good or right to even write, much less post. But next time your are facing this question, i'd like you to know that you would make me really sad if you don't post it :p This stuff is gold. It's certainly a good read and good lessons to be learned. But i think, on top of that, it is kind of important actually, to have more of this in a general society kind of view (that sounds weird Oo).



see, i have the same feeling now ^^ i think i've drifted into weird territories and probably written complete gibberish, and now i don't think i should post it. But i'll do it, cause your blogs are just to good to not try and get more of them :D And if none of the above made any sense, just take it as a "thanks for posting this, love it! give more!"

On March 19 2012 11:56 MightyAtom wrote:


First son, Ethan is 3.5 years, and second son Mark is 11 months. Thx, and I've already applied them for high school already lol.

On March 19 2012 11:55 MightyAtom wrote:


Not everyone can look like a model forever, like you kaka, I'm fucking ajushi now!

On March 19 2012 12:21 MightyAtom wrote:


Sincerely, thanks, I do know how you are talking about as well- Ray- but yeah, you can have all this info on the net, but in terms of really finding insight into something more day-to-day, really only comes from learning directly from others- I kinda always feel when I am writing on TL that I'm writing to everyone who if I did meet I would get along with in a unique way because we are gamers, we are more on the inquisitive side and it is just as though we are this tribe. Honestly I'm such a macho Korean guy - but when it comes to hanging out with young gamers, I just become giddy and stupid because I'm just so comfortable.

When I used to control and a lot of marketing spend, I use to fly into Taipei or Hong Kong and my clients would organize 9 other guys to play dota against of 3 other guys to play 2v2 SCBW against cause I didn't want to go drinking but play games in my off time. lol. It was cheaper for them than to buy me whiskey and a private room, than to call up their friend and find how who played dota and to leave me with them to lan for 5 hours. ^^ But thanks, I'm a bit embarrassed that the comparison you give is a bit too grand, but as long as you guys get a bit out of it, its more than enough for me as well. After all I have to contribute somehow ^^