What an exciting day!!!

2/22/2008

After I got up, I checked my email and went to my (Korean) blog to do the usual daily update. I was surprised at the number of visits. I got almost fifty thousand visits yesterday! How did it happen? I soon found out that one of my entries was selected for a main section of NAVER, which is South Korea’s leading search portal, much like Google. Also, another blog entry was selected for the same portal and put in the recommended open dictionary section, a user-generated online knowledge archive. I was very excited!! My blog is now only less than a month old. Blogging certainly brings us an amazing opportunity to communicate with a lot of new and interesting people. And, the more people that visit my blog the more excited I get about developing new content.

After I finished a big project on February 19, I have been working at a more relaxed pace. Being a freelancer has both bright and dark sides, but having control over my own schedule is one of the greatest advantages. Of course, that is not the case all the time because I have to reorganize my schedule depending on client needs. Anyway, around lunch time today I watched a television show called “Little People, Big World.” This is the only show I watch regularly. It is definitely my favorite! It is a reality show about the Roloffs, a dwarf family.

Actually, they don’t call themselves dwarves, but “little people” (or LP for short). LP is considered a more appropriate name for both dwarves and midgets. Dwarves and midgets are also different. Midgets are smaller than average people, but normally proportioned, whereas dwarves have different body proportions. In the Disney animation, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves”, the dwarves have different body proportions than Snow White. They have short limbs and heads that look bigger than usual for the size of their body (disproportional).
The Roloff family is an average American family in many ways, who live an ordinary life, but just face different challenges than taller people. I like Mr. Matt Roloff, the father of the family. He is a little person and is an extremely passionate and capable man. He is always dreaming about new projects, and makes those projects happen with amazing courage and tenacious effort. He works in the computer industry, and owns a farm called “Roloff Farms”, a place I really want to visit someday. I respect his personality very much, and even though I am not a little person, I consider him one of my greatest role models.