{"id":219,"date":"2007-07-15T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-15T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/15\/sable-koo-wedding\/"},"modified":"2007-07-15T12:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-15T03:04:00","slug":"sable-koo-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/15\/sable-koo-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Sable-Koo Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Sunday, July 15th, 2007 my good friend Carl Sable married the beautiful Cha-Eun Koo in New Jersey. <\/p>\n

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While I was a grad students at Columbia University<\/a>, one of my first and best friends I made there was Carl Sable. I think the story about how we met is completely indicative of Carl’s character. I went to one of the first classes that I had to take entering the Master’s program in Computer Science, and I saw a guy wearing a Hoagie Haven<\/a> T-shirt. Since I grew up in the Princeton area, I knew about Hoagie Haven and knew that I had to talk to this guy. <\/p>\n

I went over and sat down next to Carl, and we struck up a conversation since the T-shirt made an easy introductory topic. Prior to coming to class, I had (for some reason) been thinking about palindromes. We started talking about those, and Carl let me know that he’s been making palindromes since he was a kid, and had a great one with: “We? I vote cinema! ME! Nice to view!” Of course, it takes some explanation, but is completely understandable. Carl loves movies. In a hypothetical situation where a group of people are talking about what to do, Carl might suggest to go see a movie, which is quickly vetoed by everyone else. After lots of arguing about what to do, someone else suggests a movie and everyone agrees to it. Then Carl is mad, and utters his palindrome.<\/p>\n

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I was really impressed and even more so when I told Carl that I had been thinking that it must be possible to make some sort of palindrome with “flog” and “golf”, but hadn’t come up with anything. Carl almost instantly responded with “Re-flog a golfer”. Since then, we’ve been great friends.<\/p>\n

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So when I heard that Carl was getting married, I made sure that I could make it out there for the wedding. The timing worked well, since it followed a business trip to Italy (which I’ll hopefully write something about soon) and I was able to swing by Dallas to see my family for a few days as well. <\/p>\n

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I am very happy for Carl and Cha-Eun. I’m not positive, but I think that the first time that Carl and Cha-Eun met was when I invited Cha-Eun, a friend of mine through our mutual friend Lena Park, and Carl to a Bishop Allen<\/a> and We Are Scientists<\/a>
\nconcert at CBGB’s. I’m not sure that this is correct though – I could just be misremembering horribly. I’ll have to ask Carl about that actually. <\/p>\n

Anyway, it was a beautiful wedding, with great friends, great food (and too much of it!) and interesting music. One of the (controversial) highlights was when Carl and Cha-Eun walked into the ballroom after the reception. The music was the theme song from “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”. Sounds strange, but it totally worked. <\/p>\n

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The ceremony was non-denominational, outside, and very brief. I was really impressed with how to-the-point the ceremony was. Cha-Eun’s grandmother dressed in a Hanbok, the traditional Korean formal dress, while the rest of the party was in western formal clothes. There wasn’t a very strong influence of Jewish or Korean customs, but some of each around the edges which was quite nice. I particularly liked how at the reception we sang and danced the traditional Hava Nagila<\/a> song, and also raised the Bride, Groom, and their parents in chairs. Everyone seemed to enjoy the dancing and food after the wedding. <\/p>\n

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The one complaint that I would have is that, when I think back to Dave Han’s wedding in Korea<\/a>, one of the points that most stood out was when Dave Han bowed to Jiseon’s parents, he got down on the ground and put his head to the floor. A full out kow-tow<\/a>. When Carl bowed to Cha-Eun’s parents, it was only a very small head and upper body bow! (Of course, I’m mostly joking Carl, I love you!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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