In New Zealand, where they still say fortnight, the birthday boy or girl gets two weeks of celebration.  At least according to Meredith; I haven't confirmed this with Flight of the Conchords yet.  Saturday she wanted to dance, so we all went to Seoul to dance the night away. For the evening I bought a special cardigan.  See below.


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 In Korea many things are considered to be an aphrodisiac and stamina enhancer: Dog, snake, and eel meat, and red ginseng to name a few.

Today my boss, Jamie, a Korean, brought delicious Korean food for the office.  It  was disgusting of course.  Liver of something, noodles cooked in pigs blood (or something), something tempura, etc.  She told me ( Read more... )

I think I'm less handsome when I'm smiling, like Tom Riddle.

I bought some nice teabags the other day.  I open the package and take a good long smell, and it smells weird, not bad, just not tea.  In the tea bags there are little beans.  Plunging forward I make the tea.  It tastes funny.  Worst, it's not soothing like tea, I feel wired.  Then I realize what's wrong: Coffee.  The barbarians here put coffee in ( Read more... )

The older kids have to right a 250 word story in english once a month for Media Day. I gave them a set of parameters to abide in involving cows, police, canada, and the like.   The stories are awesome cautionary tales about the conflict between man and nature.

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Tomas goes to Gogilla Island to find treasure but gets chased away by a gorilla.  ( Read more... )

Been watching Asian movies.   And they're awesome.

Here's an opening clip to Ong Bak: Muay Thai Warrior.  Ai Tim has to go to Bangkok to retrieve the stolen head of his town's guardian Buddha, Ong-Bak.  A long the way, his moral goodness saves his friends from a life of drugs and stealing.  He neither kills nor fights for money.  It progresses like ( Read more... )

Korea stays up late.  Most Ma and Pa restaurants will stay open until midnight or later.  Routinely, in the building complex we work in, there are more people out and about at 10 pm than during the day.  Part of the reason is that not many people have a house to go back to.  Instead they have a small apartment on the 13th floor of there domino ( Read more... )

We keep hearing the horrible stories about people going to a bar flirting with the wrong person and getting beaten up.  The lesson is: stay away from  the crazy Asians, the Craisins.

Party time!  Jamie, the boss, threw a party, at a fancy buffet, that was 25 meters long, with sushi, and cheeses, and good bread, and ten kinds of soups, and dessert, and a mariachi band with real hispanics with fake mustaches!  It was great.  I told everyone Americans eat like this every day and we use gold medals as plates.

I'm really tired of NBCOlympics.com: it's a shitty website that doesn't tell American citizens living abroad that they can't watch their athletes compete live. Rather, it let's the citizen figure that out for themself after an hour.