tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25234169Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:06:50 +0000... how to overcome culture shock in just 10 short years ...http://koreangoldfish.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (MKM)Blogger191125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25234169.post-6957216130067154711Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:08:00 +00002009-09-03T13:50:15.114+09:00I've kept this little blogspot for almost 4 years, and I have no plan to stop anytime soon. However, I am going to move camp. I think a change of name and design would be refreshing. When I started blogging I was 5 months pregnant, determined to make my marriage a success, living in a town with 300,000 people and thought "code" was something on a cereal box. Things are different now so maybe a http://koreangoldfish.blogspot.com/2009/07/outte-not-over-dough.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MKM)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25234169.post-2218655194790965646Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:40:00 +00002009-07-05T10:42:15.907+09:00I can't help it. I just love these people over at Sweet Juniper.http://koreangoldfish.blogspot.com/2009/07/here-have-link.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MKM)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25234169.post-3261318457718676438Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:46:00 +00002009-07-03T01:58:40.521+09:00Each Teacher Trainer program here runs for about 5 months: 4 months of intensive class work and 1 month of overseas training. So far I've taught Methodology, EFL, Pronunciation and Technology/Multimedia. The last two (Pronunciation and Technology) are really my babies and I'm proud to say that I've created and taught these courses from scratch. I was given very basic instructions: "please design http://koreangoldfish.blogspot.com/2009/07/digital-learnerstechnology-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MKM)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25234169.post-2126645409270805049Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:49:00 +00002009-06-29T21:22:02.578+09:00When I was doing my undergraduate degree I joined our campus newspaper and wrote some (what I know now were) very crappy music/book reviews. I didn't know it at the time but my 3 year stint at the Muse would give me, not only the world's largest collection of free CDS and books, but also a dozen or so incredibly significant friendships and relationships. Between 1994 and 1997 I met some of the http://koreangoldfish.blogspot.com/2009/06/tweets-of-fate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MKM)10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25234169.post-4401367675683046809Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:48:00 +00002009-06-27T01:52:23.204+09:00Belated: a great parenting (Father's Day) post from Metro Dad. It made me smile. Parents? Future fathers? Single dads? Moms? Anyone with a smirk left inside? Check it out.http://koreangoldfish.blogspot.com/2009/06/cute-reads.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MKM)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25234169.post-243237455810781879Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:56:00 +00002009-06-24T01:18:04.748+09:00This was forwarded to me by an old friend from Newfoundland, and I really, really laughed. It was so good that I had to share some of it. If you aren't from Newfoundland, have never talked to anyone with a Newfoundland "accent" (really a dialect) or have never heard one, then this might not be funny (?) ... but give it a try anyway. I've been missing home lately and Newfoundland English, which http://koreangoldfish.blogspot.com/2009/06/oh-me-nerves.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MKM)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25234169.post-4185273023229644084Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:43:00 +00002009-06-23T01:18:50.982+09:00I've just finished reading "The Proxy Fight for Iranian Democracy" and thought it was interesting and informative. I've been coming across lots of references in the news to "proxy server wars" and Freegate (Chinese software that allows people from certain places to view restricted or prohibited web content) but I haven't really understood it fully, or maybe just needed visuals to go along with http://koreangoldfish.blogspot.com/2009/06/proxy-server-wars-link.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MKM)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25234169.post-660931153236828293Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:35:00 +00002009-06-12T01:39:49.516+09:00Every morning I take Hayden to daycare by myself. In Korea the daycare and pre-schools will usually send buses to pick up the kids but, like I mentioned in a previous post, it's hard to find a good daycare in my area (or rather: hard to find a good daycare that is accepting new kids and not already at its maximum capacity) so everyday I travel for about 30-40 minutes to bring Hayden to her "http://koreangoldfish.blogspot.com/2009/06/long-story-for-short-song.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MKM)18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25234169.post-727468435830025575Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:39:00 +00002009-06-10T10:22:07.339+09:00I was reading Mama Seoul the other day and was happy that she posted about some good maternity/nursing fashion sites. When I was last-trimester pregnant I managed to find 4 or 5 things that I liked to wear and I just kept washing and re-wearing those four items. There were a few clothing shops around but, as almost any foreign woman who has lived in Korea for more than 5 minutes knows, it's hard http://koreangoldfish.blogspot.com/2009/06/best-shoes-in-korea.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MKM)11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25234169.post-4484187058799081672Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:33:00 +00002009-06-07T09:31:00.249+09:00From The Sopranos:: Melfii: Sounds to me like Anthony junior may have stumbled onto existentialism.Tony: Fuckin’ internet!Melfi: No, no, no. It’s a European philosophy.I forget who said that existentialism was like realizing that we are free - but that we are free in a prison. I Googled it of course, in several ways, but came up with nothing. How appropriate! I was looking for the source because http://koreangoldfish.blogspot.com/2009/06/wok-me-through-this-one.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MKM)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25234169.post-5261223530283197901Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:26:00 +00002009-06-06T13:57:22.925+09:00Frightened Rabbit "I Feel Better" from Sam Molleur on Vimeo.http://koreangoldfish.blogspot.com/2009/06/video-frightened-rabbit-i-feel-better.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MKM)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25234169.post-8437144405960474334Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:54:00 +00002009-06-05T02:05:15.962+09:00Not yet anyway. I saw something like this on (I think it was) Sweet Juniper (a blog you MUST visit. Repeatedly) or perhaps MetroDad, a few months ago and I thought I would steal the idea. I still don't analyse my stats (not because I don't care but because I don't want to care, and also, probably, because I just don't have time) but I do take note of a) how the music downloads are going and b) http://koreangoldfish.blogspot.com/2009/06/breakdown-not-mental-kind.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MKM)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25234169.post-4200038201600187756Sun, 31 May 2009 09:38:00 +00002009-06-05T00:35:45.988+09:00Hayden just celebrated her third birthday (or her 27th, if you follow the Korean rules and related expectations) and she had a great time: there was a kiddie party at her daycare and then yesterday she hung out with her "big friends" at home. It was a nice mix of family, co-workers, internet friends and people I knew from Daejeon. Food and drinks and lots of pink presents made for a happy eveninghttp://koreangoldfish.blogspot.com/2009/05/fusion-toddler-hot-hot-hot.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MKM)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25234169.post-8221380885589630174Thu, 28 May 2009 04:54:00 +00002009-05-28T14:40:33.377+09:00http://koreangoldfish.blogspot.com/2009/05/video-thursday-national-on-q-tv.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MKM)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25234169.post-5150573822015023647Wed, 27 May 2009 04:13:00 +00002009-05-27T16:01:37.961+09:00Ulsan keeps coming up in conversation this days, and in memory, and on Facebook, so when I heard My Brightest Diamond covering Nina Simone's "Feeling Good" I laughed hard. I was listening to the original a few years ago in Ulsan - a sunny day, stepping lightly, feeling good - when I stepped off a curb to cross the street, at a green light, and was just-about-almost-nearly smote by a taxi that http://koreangoldfish.blogspot.com/2009/05/not-deadbeat.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MKM)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25234169.post-9054419219816525830Mon, 25 May 2009 12:24:00 +00002009-05-26T20:23:16.668+09:00So. Yesterday, as I was writing about how incomprehensible I find men, one of the nicest and most interesting men that I have ever met was writing a nice blog post about meeting me. Great timing on my part.I hope I don't have to say that my post yesterday had nothing to Gypsy Scholar or his wonderful family (who I met for the first time on Saturday) but I should say that I didn't mention meeting http://koreangoldfish.blogspot.com/2009/05/as-usual-impeccable-timing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MKM)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25234169.post-1401015917155022547Thu, 21 May 2009 02:03:00 +00002009-05-25T01:23:19.571+09:00I just don't understand men. That might seem like a somewhat prosaic and obvious statement but this is a revelation for me. I've always thought of myself as someone who gets on with men. Not a tomboy, not butchy - but you know, not oblivious. I can talk about computers and cars, I can shoot pool (poorly but I don't squeal and giggle) and I don't have to drink my beer from a glass. You know what Ihttp://koreangoldfish.blogspot.com/2009/05/h-e-double-hockey-sticks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MKM)11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25234169.post-885607866138395557Wed, 20 May 2009 10:42:00 +00002009-05-20T23:07:00.668+09:00In an attenpt to bring more music to the masses my workmate Amy H. (can't ... link ... so ... weird) and I have decided to throw a CD Exchange party on June 6th (Saturday). CD exchanges are really low stress/high return affairs and they follow a very basic agenda.1) You tell us you want to come2) You make a CD (any style, any music, any mix)3) You burn 15 copies of it4) Print the track list5) http://koreangoldfish.blogspot.com/2009/05/seoul-cd-exchange.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MKM)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25234169.post-8031942634138332873Tue, 19 May 2009 16:03:00 +00002009-05-20T01:40:42.738+09:00I've been working on a song list called "Your Blues Ain't Like Mine" but (surprise) it's kinda sad and melancholy so I've put it aside for a while. I feel happier and more dimensional these days (thanks mostly to the social ministrations of Roboseyo and We've Got Seoul) so today I give you:12 Songs That Just Sound Good Together a.k.a Half of The Best Mixed Tape Ever a.k.a 50 Percent Is Better http://koreangoldfish.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-heart-libsyn-uploader.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MKM)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25234169.post-5217193776212438483Sun, 17 May 2009 00:04:00 +00002009-05-17T14:19:08.319+09:00Customer: Look, there's no other way to say this, but I didn't come in here to be insulted.Bernard: Well, I didn't ask for the job of insulting you. In another life, we could have been brothers. Running a small, quirky taveria in Sicily. Maybe we would have married the local twins instead of wasting each other's time here in this dump. But it was not to be. So hop it. -- from Black Books Well, ithttp://koreangoldfish.blogspot.com/2009/05/customer-look-theres-no-other-way-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MKM)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25234169.post-3699706496612048066Thu, 07 May 2009 15:38:00 +00002009-05-08T03:06:08.977+09:00For a long time I had a difficult relationship with Frightened Rabbit. I would start to listen to their songs and after a few seconds would find myself skipping on through to a different track. There was something about the emotion in the music - and in Scott Hutchison's voice (either contrived or real) that made me feel uncomfortable: I would start listening to a track - intrigued - but then http://koreangoldfish.blogspot.com/2009/05/thursday-video-frightened-rabbit.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MKM)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25234169.post-3837938718242761119Sat, 02 May 2009 15:32:00 +00002009-05-17T01:27:55.940+09:00My MP3 host, after years of mediocre but MUCH appreciated service, is shutting down and pulling the plug, so this means a) I have to find a new way of uploading files and b) as of May 25th, all the Mp3's on this blog will be discontinued. If there are any songs you want to download (the last 30 or 40 files should still be up) then you might want to snag them soon.I'm looking for a new place to http://koreangoldfish.blogspot.com/2009/05/test.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MKM)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25234169.post-4336646731513369231Fri, 01 May 2009 10:13:00 +00002009-05-02T15:46:04.648+09:00"Words will often ride very slackly at anchor on their etymologies, will be borne hither and thither by the shifting tides and currents of usage". Richard Trench (1855)"OMG!! Did you actually say "lovely?"" My workmate (2008)I'm really interested in historical linguistics; in the way words change and morph and adapt and grow - semantics, I guess it is, in its most basic and original form. I'm http://koreangoldfish.blogspot.com/2009/05/polysemy-u-polyanna-u.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MKM)16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25234169.post-4490949755382028705Fri, 01 May 2009 00:19:00 +00002009-05-01T16:26:29.142+09:00The men in both of these stories made me laugh. Here's a snippet - but I recommend reading both stories for the full effect. In this story, two homes in Halifax burned to the ground because of a wildfire. One woman said she barely had time to leave her home once she had been told to evacuate. Terrible news - but I couldn't help but smile when she said: "I grabbed my house coat, my slippers. My http://koreangoldfish.blogspot.com/2009/05/2-great-stories-2-funny-men.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MKM)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25234169.post-2423732036090121832Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:12:00 +00002009-04-30T20:16:37.046+09:00I saw this on Psychedelic Kimchi - and had to steal the code (is it stealing if it's from You Tube?) and share it here. Enjoy~http://koreangoldfish.blogspot.com/2009/04/video-modest-mouse.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MKM)2