"You are so skinny but you have a chubby belly.  And you have big round eyes.  You're just like E.T."

I hate Asians.

 Here is a brief list of Korean technology that embarrasses it's American counterparts.

1)Cell phones - TV's with antennas are quite common on cell phones as are built in speakers for music.   This commercial does not give you any idea of the level of technology we're dealing with.

This video doesn't really show off phones, but it gives you a good ( Read more... )

 The holidays are over already.  It doesn't feel like they ever really started.  I kept waiting and waiting for the christmas trappings to appear. On December 23rd, I realized they weren't coming. Korea's Christmas season is as underwhelming as America's is overblown.  I saw maybe 10 Christmas tree, 20 different light shows, and no Christmas sales ( Read more... )

Ugh. And I was feeling so good about America lately.

God I hate the middle class.

Bookstore visits always makes me feel bad about how much I read.  I look at row and row of books I want to read: Bob Woodward's new book! Everything by Dostoyesky!  An autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. that was not written by him!  Hemingway's Nick Adams stories! And so on and so forth!  The best book was on a table in the entrance.  The book ( Read more... )

Omaha,  Fuck Yeah!

( Korea is like the Batman )

 Pictures of the Suwon BlueWings soccer game from my new camera with annotation.

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Last week Gemma, one of the Korean managers at Kim and Lee, asked me if I wanted to go to a dog restaurant with her.  Of course I did.  She'd never eaten dog either ( Read more... )