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  1. full circle

    August 30, 2008 by admin

    i met up with my ex-classmates near the university where we used to have our korean classes. it’s been so long since i set foot in that neighbourhood; i haven’t been back since i quit school and moved out.

    i’ll be back again tomorrow to help yenwen with her moving, so i will be there twice in two days after a rather long absence. it’s like things have finally come full circle–the snake’s head will one day eventually catch up with its tail. perhaps it’s time for me to start drawing another circle. or looking for another snake, depending on how you want to look at it.

    i’ve been having lots of deja vus recently, and today was no exception. as i looked at A while she started expounding on her views on a certain topic, that scene started to look veerrry familiar and i caught myself frowning a little. was it just last night that i was dreaming about A speaking of the very same thing? but before i could be sure, B chipped in with her own views, and as i turned to look at B, i was very sure that i had seen this scene before–B was saying the exact same thing i heard someone say in my dream. it was so surreal that i started to wonder if i was dreaming right then, right there.

    well, it’s just that today was the first time that i met B.

    i have been having a lot of conversations recently that strike me deeply, but i am nowhere near discovering the answers that i have been searching for.

    or maybe i have just been asking the wrong questions.

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  2. picture time~

    August 10, 2008 by admin

    i’ve stayed here long enough that i no longer carry my camera with me wherever i go, so i’ve only taken a few pictures while bringing the sis and her bf around.

    here are some pics from the past few days–the sis & her bf took a lot more pictures than i have, them being the tourists around here. i can’t believe my holiday week is over, just like that. ㅜㅜ am so not looking forward to work tomorrow… i need some change!! life is getting too routine and it’s making me fidgety&uncomfortable. ’tis time to leave korea; time for a new adventure!


    we watched nanta!! it was good! wouldn’t mind watching again. heh heh.


    caught in the act of camwhoring while waiting for nanta to begin


    met up with aunty roy and lx for a sinful dinner of bbq pork (삼겹살) and soju. aunty was rather zealous in ordering food: 2 portions of pork cheek, 6 portions of pork belly, 3 bottles of soju–all for 4 people (4, because i consumed neither meat nor alcohol and instead ate my fill of kimchi, garlic, lettuce and korean salad).

    the koreans love their drinks so much that even before dinner ended aunty was earnestly asking where we should go for ’round 2′ (of drinks). so we ended up at this rather nice bar for more drinks before heading home.


    just this area outside seoul station had a very 1950s european feel to it. what it needs are lots of pigeons (aka flying rats) to complete the picture.


    cheongyecheon, or cheongye stream


    dongdaemun

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  3. free service

    June 29, 2008 by admin

    my phone somehow reset itself and everything got erased–all my smses, phone numbers– so i met up with eunhee after work on saturday to get my phone fixed.

    we went to SK telecom’s yongsan branch, and eunhee had told me that i should expect to pay about 30,000won if i can’t get it fixed.

    so we went there, and eunhee lent me one of her old phones and transferred my phone number to that, and we didn’t have to pay a single cent, even though we did receive some form of service. o.O this is entirely new to me, and another reason why i love korea (yes yes i am a cheapskate, heh).

    i am also going to miss very much the super-duper high-speed internet where i can freely download anything *ahem*.

    and i found out on saturday that roy is one of those koreans who believe in fan death, and no amount of arguing will convince him otherwise, even after telling him that i sleep with the fan on and windows and doors closed every night.

    although he did concede that it appears to be a phenomenon that only happens in korea, though when pressed for a *logical* explanation he couldn’t provide one.

    oh, that and… he believes that if you consume ice-cream with soft drinks you will explode.

    YES. EXPLODE.

    ….

    i will let that sink in for a moment.

    …

    ok. at first i thought i misunderstood, since he was speaking in korean. we were eating ??? (or red bean ice kachang, where yoghurt is one of the ingredients) and he was drinking heineken, and he refused to eat the patbingsu. (in the end he tentatively took a few monthfuls after we informed him that there is something called an ice cream float, where a scoop of ice cream is placed on top of a fizzy drink, usually root beer.)

    apparently he confused the mentos+coke video with ice cream.

    so after he took a spoonful of ice cream, i made a show of moving my chair away (i was sitting beside him), just in case, you know, he really explodes or something. after all, i wouldn’t want to stain my clothes with beer-ice-cream-blood, would i?

    oh yah, so to anyone who’s reading this–if i am in your phonebook, please give me your number again! ^^

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