the health club just wasn't cutting it so i joined a boxing gym. last night was my first visit. there were several points where i honestly thought i might die. i suddenly became very aware of any pain, regardless of how small, in my chest and started to imagine myself lying on the gym floor surrounded by koreans who were arguing about who should ( Read more... )

this week has been strange. i have ( Read more... )

i just bought a new cell phone...it's a friggin' video phone!

+street food- the quantity and quality is hands down the best i have experienced: all kinds of meats on sticks, a "traditional korean food" called toast which is basically an omelet sandwich, various forms of deep fried goodness and perhaps the greatest human achievement since the polio vaccine, a hotdog somehow covered i na batter of french fries ( Read more... )

everyone should get punched in the face, as a life experience. after last friday night, i can cross it off my list.

in a stroke of marketing genius, someone at the Lotte company came up with pepero day. for the uninitiated, pepero are chocolate covered breadsticks. pepero day is considered a serious holiday amongst all the good korean boys and girl. the only way to celebrate pepero day is to buy and exchange pepero a brandname owned by Lotte. i love it when ( Read more... )

for those of you who don't know, i'm headed back to korea.

-- President Bush declares victory in 2004 presidental election telling
supporters "America has spoken."

we're doomed.

tonight the green line was packed. at the st mary st stop an old lady well into her eighties got on and wedged herself in front of a man sitting in the handicap seat. she was wearing a mauve, ankle length coat, clutching her oversized handbag close to her chest. she smelled of aquanet and cookies. the seated man instantly got up and offered her the ( Read more... )

i am uncle two-shoes