Sunday, October 26, 2008
A day with the Big piano
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June
Tom Hanks가 젊었을 때 나왔던 'Big'이라는 영화를 보면, 뉴욕의 한 장난감 가게에서 발로 건반을 밟아가며 피아노연주를 하는 유명한 장면이 나옵니다. 그 장난감 가게가 바로 FAO Schwartz인데, 거길 가면 여전히 그 피아노가 있습니다. 예전 것 그대로는 아니고 몇 년 전에 새로 설치한 것인데, 직원들이 연주하는 걸 보여주기도 하고, 아이들이 줄서서 기다리면 직접 피아노 위에 올라가서 몇 분씩 놀게도 해 줍니다.
카이와 그 FAO에 다녀왔습니다. 지난 봄에 갔을 때보다는 더 많은 것들에 관심을 가지고 놀 수 있을 거라는 기대를 하고 갔는데, 좀 더 커서 오면 즐길 수 있는게 더 많겠다는 생각이 들었습니다. 사람만하게 만들어놓은 커다란 인형들을 무서워하는 건 여전하더군요. 사람이 안에 들어가서 움직이는 캐릭터 인형도 있었는데, 어찌나 무서워하는지 그 근처에만 가면 카이는 소리를 질러가며 울었습니다. 어쨌든 2시간이 넘도록 카이는 관심을 끄는 수많은 것들에 둘러싸여 잘 놀았습니다. 더구나 FAO 건물 앞에 작은 분수도 있어서, 물이라면 정신을 못차리고 좋아하는 카이는 더더욱 신이 났습니다. 집에 갈 때 분수 앞을 떠나지 않겠다고 징징거리는 카이를 달래느라 엄마아빠가 좀 고생을 하긴 했지만요.
사실 Manhattan에 있는 flagship toy store들은 장난감 가게라기보다는 거의 작은 테마파크처럼 꾸며놓아서, 아이와 함께 가면 많은 것들을 해보면서 놀 수 있습니다. 뉴욕에서 사는 사람들이 공짜로 누릴 수 있는 특혜 중의 하나인데, 특히 카이처럼 아직 장난감을 사달라며 조를 줄 모르는 아이를 데리고 가서 놀기엔 그만입니다.
카이가 올라가서 놀았던 그 피아노 옆에 가격표가 세워져 있었는데, $250,000라고 붙어 있었습니다. 빌딩 한 층 전부를 1살짜리 아기방으로 꾸며줬다던 도널드 트럼프 생각이 나더군요.
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June designs in New York City. His graphic design works have received lots of awards and been showcased in publications and exhibitions in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
In his earlier days in Seoul, he used to be a medical student, played a cello in an orchestra and participated in protests against dictatorship.
June likes iced coffee, black jack, typography, democracy, TV series Lost and Puccini’s operas and
he also enjoys traveling to the places he's never been to.
June believes he is agnostic and it is the most humble and rational way about religion.
He hopes the world to be the place where people can live more peacefully as well as less unjustly than now. And he lives with his wife and two sons.
Boyeon was born and grew up in Seoul and now lives by the Hudson river in New Jersey with her husband and two sons.
She studied computer programming as well as programming-based design and used to work as a programmer.
However, she is so busy these days in taking care of two boys that she cannot find enough time to even open her e-mails everyday.
Boyeon likes ice creams, Korean rice cakes, Klimt’s oil paintings and Michael Mann’s 1995 film Heat and
she also enjoys traveling culturally-distinctive places like southern Europe.
Boyeon is a perfectionist and has amazingly good memory. She easily shed tears, has an acute sense of taste and is a good cook.
Kai was born on October 19th, 2006 in New Jersey as Boyeon and June’s first son and it was 20 years after his parents first met in their junior high.
Now he is Tate's big brother.
His blood type is RH A+, his horoscope is libra and his zodiac is dog.
Kai is a Hawaiian origin word that means ‘ocean’ and also has a meaning of ‘willow tree’ in native American language.
His middle name is Haon, which has a concept of “True happiness can be found in small things of everyday life.”
It includes June and Boyeon’s wish for him to be a happy person who can find joy and meaningfulness even from small things around him.
These days Kai goes to a preschool and sometimes surprises Mom and Dad by saying very difficult words.
Kai turns three in this fall.
Tate was born on June 2nd, 2008 in New Jersey as Boyeon and June's second son as well as Kai's brother.
His horoscope is Gemini and his zodiac is rat, and his blood type is RH A+, which is what all of his family have.
The word Tate means ‘cheerful’ and has an old English origin.
His middle name is from a Korean pronunciation of a Chinese character 濬, which has a meaning of profound; to make a waterway by digging a river deep.
Tate’s name includes his parents’ wish for him to be a happy, cheerful person who also has depth in his life.
Now He walks well and tries everything his brother does. He doesn't get scared of new things.
Tate is in the second year of his life.

4 comments | 댓글 읽기/남기기:
언니, 애기들이 진짜 귀여워요~ 카이랑 테이트 둘 다 형부 많이 닮았네요~ ( from 꼬마 실뱌~)
억.. 수정이 안되서 지우고 다시 올리려고 했더니..
흔적이 남는군요. ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
구글 어카운트로 했더니 제 닉넴이 '곰!'으로 나오는군요.
저 문경(byeffort)이에요 ^^
다녀가요~~ 카이 넘 귀엽고...
형님 정말 부지런하시네요..
동영상 편집이라.. 게으른 저로서는.. 아하하..
실뱌, 문경이, 방문해줘서 땡큐~
구글 블로그가 디자인은 좋은데 한국의 블로그만큼 다양한 기능을 제공하지 못하는게 흠. 좀 고치면 될 것 같은데 그거 들여다볼 시간도 없고, 하기도 귀찮고..^^;
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