tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690858873353340242025-08-05T00:59:34.645-07:00Thoughts, videos and the occasional conspiracy theory about life, and my life in Jinju South Korea.3gyupsalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05221321128938672113noreply@blogger.comBlogger283125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-469085887335334024.post-496888031327721182013-07-23T08:41:00.002-07:002013-07-23T08:42:10.217-07:00

Okay so this is going to be a half assed post.  I meant to write it a long time ago but I've been busy.  A few years ago I was riding in my wife's car looking out the window.  We were on the East side of Jinju when I noticed a mountain.  The mountain was far away and it looked tall and wide.  I wanted to know the name of the mountain and if it could be climbed. 

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2012 may be the signal for the end of the world.  According to the Mayans it isn't really, it is just the beginning of the 13th Baktun, I think.  On the winter solstice the Mayan calendar will restart.  2012 was an important year for shifting world powers.  South Korea is set to elect a new president.  Also the Americans re-elected Barack Obama.  I would like to

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Finally, I'll write something about Gangnam Style.   A lot of white people who live in Korea tend to hate K-pop.   In the venn diagram of things, the usual male English teacher in Korea hails from musical interests that tends to scorn anything top ten.  The constant bitch from people like us it that K-pop is just mass produced fake bullshit.  To some extent that

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Six or seven years ago, I used to complain about the situation of coffee shops in Korea.  Jinju didn't have too many proper coffee shops.  There were a few espresso bars that served the usual espresso drink without much love.  Americanos came with sugar syrup in them.  Brewed coffee couldn't be found anywhere except for McDonalds and Dunkin Donuts.  I always had to fight

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I haven't written on this thing in a long time.  I'm in a slump of not really being interested in anything.  Wait, the whole Detroit Tigers in the World Series is pretty awesome.  To bad for Kalamazoo native Derek Jeter though.  That guy is true class.  He's a bright spot on the Yankees, I sold his dad newspapers a few times when I was working at the Michigan News.

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Fun Times in South East Korea is the largest and least important blog about Jinju. That is why it is so important for the other Jinju bloggers to step it up. I have found two other blogs about Jinju. One is by my friend, called Indie Jinju. He hasn't posted anything in about a month. The other is a new one called Yo Jinju. Yo Jinju looks like it aspires to have important information on it.

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New Rule: If you have the courage to leave your house in a pink dress shirt and lime green pants, don't get all shy in English class. New Rule: Let's have some more appropriate amounts of French fries. Fries and beer are great. I just want to stop hating myself. New Rule: Korea bloggers need to find something new to write about. Here is a basic summary of what the past few years have been

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New rules: Jason Mraz and Maroon Five suck. Lana Del Rey is awesome.

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New rule: If you are going to walk on an escalator, walk the right direction. I'm not necessarily angry at Koreans for breaking this rule, just the two geniuses who did so today. This morning I was at Homeplus pushing my son around. I was Half way up the escalator when this idiot woman decided she needed something else, so she started running down the escalator. This prompted me to issue an

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Haven't posted in a while. Sorry. I enjoyed my first garden tomato of the year. It was sweet and helped to complete an awesome tuna melt. Haven't had much to say,I've been busy. Also my computer is broke and it is a bitch to write blog posts on an iPad. I had some rage towards my former employer, but I got paid in the end. Word of the day: 청구서. It is a kind of bill. I faxed one to

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First of all.  I had no idea about this song until a few weeks ago.  Secondly, I haven't been to America in over two years.  I'm super homesick.  I don't think I'll be able to make it for another six or eight months either.   My impression of the place these days is that of an angry political smack down and a lot of people without jobs.  But for this to be the

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I had a baby last year, so now I'm starting to do a bunch of family stuff.  Like having a small garden. Tomatoes! Basil Baby!!!

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Today my son turned 13 months old. After an incident at Pasta Bueno I realized that my son might be the half Korean Pootie Tang. He looks both Korean and white.  There is a kind of beneficial racism that goes on for him when he encounters the college girls.   They go super stupid when they see him.  I will now partially fictionalize the romantic encounters of my baby,

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New Rule:  If you are a university and you are hosting an event with a cool sounding title like "Technopia," the thing better be some kind of awesome expo of Korean high technology.  It shouldn't be a bunch of engineering majors taking three weeks to learn dance routines and then taking a week off to play soccer.  Last year when I heard that the university I work for has a "

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I like the Bill Maher Show.  I'm going to adapt his "New Rules." Segment for this blog with stuff about Korea.  Here is the first one: New Rules:  If you spent over 500,000\ on clothes for riding your bike, you can't go slower than a fat white guy in jeans with a leather briefcase dangling from his wrist.  New Rules:  If Dunkin Donuts has Open 7:00 A.M. stenciled to

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So you go to the doctor, and the doctor gives you a prescription.  You take the prescription to a pharmacy and they give you a few bags of pills and you don't know what the hell they are. Well you can go to this website: http://www.kmle.co.kr/  Just type in the inscription on the pill and a very detailed description of your drug will pop up in Korean.  The chemical names will be

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Well folks, it has been a few weeks since I posted anything.  I'm kind of disapointed in the K-blogosphere.  There hasn't been much to read recently.  If I still worked at a public school it would be pretty difficult since there don't seem to be too many people bitching about their jobs anymore.   Actually I'm not dissapointed in K-blogland because of that.  I'm

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I wouldn't be who I am today or where I am today without some inspiration from Adam Yauch and the Beastie Boys. They really had a large part in shaping my life. As I Develop The Awakening Mind I Praise The Buddha As They Shine I Bow Before You As I Travel My Path To Join Your Ranks, I Make My Full Time Task For The Sake Of All Beings I Seek The Enlighted Mind That I Know I'll Reap Respect To

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The last post on this blog is a tribute to my friend's blog "IndiJinju," which is about "Independent" places to eat and drink in Jinju.  I have tried a few of the places on that blog.  Of course I have been to "Sound garden."  Sound garden is the hip joint in Jinju.  If you are a person who is visiting Jinju from out of town, it is the place to get krunk.  I don't want to

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Another Jinjer that I know has started a blog celebrating independence in Jinju. Check out "Indie Jinju." Mr. Lion does a good job of celebrating one of the finest bars in all of Jinju - Soundgarden. Soundgarden was named after a Seattle auditory horticulture movement that failed miserably-so everyone just decided to get drunk and listen to music. Oddly enough, I've heard that there is a

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I'm turning into an ajoshi. Technically I am an ajoshi. I'm married and have a kid. That makes me an ajoshi. What else makes me an ajoshi is how I spent my vacation. I had a month off last February. The family and I didn't go anywhere because my wife didn't have any vacation, so I ajoshied it up pretty hard.How so? You ask?I climbed some small mountains!My dream for when I turn forty is

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Korean T.V. shows tend to start at odd times. My favorite show these days, "High Kick," goes from 7:45 to 8:10. The show is very entertaining but it is too short. Unfortunately there are a great many T.V. shows that make me want to run from the house screaming when there is nothing to do on the weekends.1. Infinity ChallengeThe show may have had its day a long time ago, but these days it seems

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Well the good news is is that my Tae Kyon School seems to finally be taking off. I am no longer the only student. I got my black belt back in October or November, I don't know it was some month. Anyway I was in class today. 4 students me some middle aged man who I have never seen before. This kid who is like 6, and a college student. Mind you I am the highest ranking student in the school

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I'm sorry to the handful of people out there who read this blog and who must think that I have gone completely crazy for K-pop. The truth is kind of. I don't like the majority of K-pop but I am culturally sensitive to it since I see the music shows pretty much every weekend. After I had a kid I have found myself pretty much confined to quarters on the weekends. It is especially bad in the

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Okay, I'm totally on this group Sunny Hill now. There are a few reasons why I like them. No it's not their song "Midnight Circus." That song is kind of annoying. Strangely I'm kind of attracted to this group because of the guy in it. This dude is totally pimp. He is the band's leader, but you never see him. Check out this video of their new song "The Grasshopper Song,"&

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