| | although i already posted these lists on facebook, i feel weird not following my yearly tradition of posting them on xanga. perhaps next year i will be able to detach myself completely from my old ways. each of the listed items below is intimately intertwined with unforgettable moments of 2007, such that the act of enumerating them has costed me an hour of reliving the past.. 2007 BOOKS (out of 20 read - an embarrassingly small number) - Best Written - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
- Most Thought-Provoking - The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
- Book That I Related to the Most - A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
- Most Overrated - Bridge to Terebithia by Katherine Paterson
- Other Noteworthy Books - Trying to Save Piggy Sneed by John Irving, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, With Their Backs to the World by Asne Seierstad
2007 MOVIES (out of 53 seen - not all new, and not including the ones during which i fell asleep) - Best Movie Seen - Harold and Maude (Runner-Up - Pan's Labrynth)
- Best Action - Bourne Ultimatum (Runner-Up - Transformers)
- Scariest - Sorum
- Most Thought-Provoking - Hollywoodland (Runner-Up - Match Point)
- Most Disturbing - Alexandra's Project
- Best Chick-Flick - Pride and Prejudice BBC version (Runner-Up - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)
- Best Animated Movie - Ratatouille
- Other Noteworthy Movies - Lost in Translation, Billy Elliot, Babel
2007 RESTAURANTS/BARS/ETC (out of 38 new places visited, none in the midwest) - Best Sushi - Wild Ginger, Englewood, NJ
- Best Seafood - Hoopers, Ocean City, MD
- Best Asian - Jin Da Leh, Flushing, NY (authentic Yanbien food)
- Best Mojito - White Rabbit, NY
- Best Dessert - Max Brenner's, NY
- Most Memorable - Sooee, Virginia Beach, VA (American)
- Most Overrated - Cocoro, Franklin Lakes, NJ (sushi)
- Other Noteworthy Restaurant - Pio Pio, NY (Peruvian)
2007 SOME MEMORABLE EVENTS- PSALT revival (January)
- Elley Kim's wedding (2/17)
- Seeing Piermont at night (3/17)
- Getting a digital camera for my birthday
- DC group trip
- Demonstration in front of the Ch. Embassy (4/28)
- Julie Shin's wedding (5/18)
- My brother received green card (6/21)
- Last day of work - received two bags (one Louis Voutton), a $50 AmEx gift card (6/29)
- Translating for the Polaris Project and learning about the horrors of human traficking in America (6/29)
- Boston group trip (7/3 - 7/4)
- Wisdom teeth pulled (7/10)
- Biloxi, MS trip for Habitat for Humanity with Doo Ip (7/15-17)
- Virginia Beach group trip (8/2-4)
- Leaving for Michigan (8/13)
- Seeing a shooting star (9/23)
- ...and many more events
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