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i recent met up with the little kiddies i love so much in yyz (and i still am so lucky to catch up with some more to go!) and these particular kiddies all have something in common: we are all koreans and ended up being more of transplants than anything else, and yeah, we all studied music. re: transplant, it's a bizarre thing to grow up in foreign soil sometimes. for instance, i came over to canada when i was twelve and somehow i have became what we call a 'twinkie,' yellow on the outside and white for inside. the opposite of a twinkie would be a f.o.b, for fresh-off-the-boat. as ridiculous to use the stereotype, it is somewhat true. ask any immigrant family, especially the ones who comes from tighter-structured and traditional world to freer-world (and it does not get much freer than north america or austrailia, trust me). i know lots of kids who came at my age to canada and they look as if they just got off the plane, however long they have been living ...