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Food looks great. That prank cracked me up.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 21/October/2015 @ 9:37 pm
Safe travels. You might be spending your Thanksgiving as part of a cleaning crew!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 10/October/2015 @ 4:05 pm
There seem to be a few of us expats who are on track to debt-free living. Congrats!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 07/October/2015 @ 7:10 pm
Yikes. Nice and bloody. But I thought you’d already blogged about abortions.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 07/October/2015 @ 6:14 pm
Tried to leave a comment via my phone, but it got eaten again. Ah, well.
What I wrote was: “Which is better—shaving a hairy dog or shaving a hairy pussy?”
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 30/September/2015 @ 11:27 pm
That’s an impressive crock pot.
Glad you got home safely. Too bad you seem to have such bad experiences with cabbies. For me, it’s bad only when I’m in neighborhoods where most of the cabbies are looking to take people outside of Seoul.
Also glad that you and the boss seem to be getting along. Imagine what life would be like if employer/employee relationships were shitty.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 26/September/2015 @ 5:06 pm
Shitty for you, but I had a good laugh the moment I read about the big brown smear. Too damn funny. This could have been France, which is also the land of grudging, half-assed solutions.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 22/September/2015 @ 11:20 pm
Way too much drama in the darts world for me ever to get interested in trying my hand.
As for weight loss: well, you chronicled a pretty impressive weight-loss regimen before, so if you can do it once, I have faith that you can do it again. Good luck!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 15/September/2015 @ 9:49 pm
You’re absolutely right: “bada” is “sea” and “mul” is water, but the thing to know (and this is why Korean can be confusing to learn) is that those are both pure-Korean words, whereas “hae” meaning “sea” is Chinese, and so is “mul” meaning “creature/thing.” Korean has, you might say, two “layers” of vocabulary: very often, there’s both a pure-Korean and a Sino-Korean way to express something. Other examples:
chan-mul = cold water (pure-Kor.)
naeng-su = cold water (Sino-Kor.)meori = head/hair (pure-Kor.)
-du = head (Sino-Kor., bound particle)saram = person (pure-Kor.)
-in = person (Sino-Kor., bound particle)jeol = temple (pure-Kor.)
-sa = temple (Sino-Kor., bound particle)naganeun-got = exit (pure-Kor.)
chul-gu = exit (Sino-Kor.)A bound particle is a noun that never appears by itself: it’s always part of a larger word. For example, if I want to say, “I’m going to the temple,” I’d say “Jeol-ae gayo,” and never “Sa-ae gayo.” If you say the latter, no one will understand you because “-sa” always occurs in context, bound to another syllable, hence the term “bound particle.”
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 06/September/2015 @ 9:44 pm
In that first photo… is your steering wheel really on the right side of the car, or has the image somehow been flipped?
Looks as though it was a good trip. Marital bliss is indeed a splendiferous thing. And that haemul-pajeon (the “pizza”) looked great. Crunchy, flavorful, and rib-sticking.
hae = sea
mul = creature, thing
haemul = sea creatures, seafood
pa = onion (green onion)
jeon = type of pancake
pajeon = onion pancake» Posted By Kevin Kim On 06/September/2015 @ 9:18 pm
Pork is looking good. Did you make the slaw, too? Everything on that plate looks mighty edible.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 06/September/2015 @ 6:27 pm
How times change! You were spelling it “hoop dee” back in 2006.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 02/September/2015 @ 8:41 pm
It’s so awesome that you’re friends with Louis CK. I want his autograph.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 01/September/2015 @ 8:07 pm
The amount of effort, material, and postage it took to produce and send that check is worth more than the value of the check itself. Wow.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 30/August/2015 @ 12:33 pm
Religious historian Mircea Eliade called the holy an eruption of the sacred into the realm of the profane—with definite emphasis on eruption.
So, yes, I think we can safely classify this as a miracle in the biblical sense: it was a life-affecting event during which something appeared that hadn’t been there before. Hallelujah!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 29/August/2015 @ 1:10 pm
“Blessed is he who sharts in the name of righteousness.”
—Matthew 5:25» Posted By Kevin Kim On 29/August/2015 @ 11:32 am
Still crazy after all these years
You said “hard and long.” Ha!
How’s that for juvenile? Keep it young, I say.
And Happy Sixtieth. “Sixtieth” can be rearranged to read “sixth tie.” A hint about your sartorial future? Another anagram is “exit shit,” perhaps a reference to the idea that you’ve finally left all the shittiness behind and have truly entered those fabled Golden Years.
I envy you that cheesecake. I’ve come to like Korean-style cheesecake far more than the thicker, heavier US version.
Anyway, here’s to a marvelous future. Much happiness, much fulfillment, and may many friends and loved ones be with you along the way.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 27/August/2015 @ 10:21 pm
60 on Thursday! Good Lord. Well, if I somehow neglect to catch you that day, please accept this slightly early HAPPY BIRFDAY. That’s five times around the twelve-year Chinese zodiac, and Koreans normally celebrate this with a special party called “hwan-gap,” a reference to having completed the 60-year cycle. If no one’s said anything to you about hwan-gap plans, it could be that you’ll be in for a surprise on Thursday. And, hey—if you don’t get a proper hwan-gap celebration, go have an awesome meal at your favorite meatateria, anyway.
Seriously, though, congrats on an exciting and adventurous life well-lived—one with many more adventures to come. Happy Birthday!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 26/August/2015 @ 12:31 am
Quite the family! Is that Little Bro in the vest and tie? Who’s who in the above picture?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 23/August/2015 @ 8:00 pm
It’s no distance. No matter. It’s the ride.*
Subway fare? Wait a sec– don’t you have a car now?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 18/August/2015 @ 6:13 pm
“If it goes in greasy, it comes out easy”
So you’d recommend Linus? I’d heard about that guy from back before he had a permanent restaurant of his own.
Congrats on—and good luck with—the clunker.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 15/August/2015 @ 5:09 pm
Wow. You know, I tried to find that pic on my blog and somehow failed to locate it. Hats off to you and your sleuthing skills.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 13/August/2015 @ 2:15 am
Good to hear that work is going well for you. It helps you reestablish a routine and gives you a fuller sense of self, I’m sure. Congrats on the darts victory; may the reign of terror continue.
(Pretty sure the verb is “eke,” not “eeke.”)
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 08/August/2015 @ 2:11 pm
“An old fashioned ass-whupping in darts last night. I followed up last week’s 12-0 performance by going 3-9. My game was a tad off I suppose, but I kept drawing this hot shot Korean who is plainly a superior player. I guess that was the yin for my yang.”
Sae ong ji ma. (새옹지마, 塞翁之馬 = poor old man’s horse)
You might want to ask the Missus to explain the meaning further. Meanwhile, Naver’s dictionary offers this take on the proverb:
“세상만사(世上萬事)는 변화(變化)가 많아 어느 것이 화(禍)가 되고, 어느 것이 복(福)이 될지 예측(豫測)하기 어려워 재앙(災殃)도 슬퍼할 게 못되고…”
Very roughly: fortune is always changing. Life is always swinging between good times and bad. The original story of the poor old man’s horse comes from China, but it’s known throughout East Asia. The Missus doubtless knows a version of it.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 28/July/2015 @ 9:11 pm
Sorry to hear about your Filipino friend. I have mixed feelings, too, when it comes to illegals who cross the border and bust their asses working instead of becoming a drag on society. The go-to example, for me, is the team of Central Americans who worked, under a Korean foreman, on the renovation of my parents’ house in 2008. I’m pretty sure they were all illegal, but they started work in the morning, stayed until evening (enjoying a Korean-style lunch cooked by yours truly), and never once showed a sub-standard work ethic. Seems a shame to truck such people back over the line. Makes more sense to find a way to keep them (and, I hope, integrate them), given how they’re already contributing to society.
But yeah, then there are the other people who make all immigrants, legal or illegal, look bad.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 25/July/2015 @ 6:04 pm
Thus do we see, in the dust prints, the close connection between “Volvo” and “vulva.” I do hope you get to buy and enjoy your new vulva.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 23/July/2015 @ 9:01 pm
Congrats on the license and the visa, and good luck with the hooptie. Have you driven in Seoul before?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 22/July/2015 @ 1:30 am
Well, I think you did all you could do for poor Mike, there.
I’m curious as to what his dirty joke was about. I’ve told people the sickest joke I’ve ever heard, and it, too, revolves around those sexy, sexy little children. A friend of mine from New Zealand—the last guy in the world, you’d think, to engage in such filthy humor—was the guy who told me the joke. A few of us were in the car, driving along a Korean road at night. When John uttered the punchline, we all cried out as if we’d been simultaneously hit in the balls—the joke was that hideous and, by extension, that hilarious.
Anyway, here’s hoping Mike finds whatever it is he’s looking for. If he goes to Thailand and can’t find a shrink, he should think about talking with a monk. Monks also specialize in the ins and outs of the mind, and there’s no shortage of them in Thailand.
Damn. He was dead broke after, what, a year at a hagwon (although I guess he had the money for a plane ticket)? Maybe he’s saddled with more debt than I have. Or more likely, maybe his mental condition means that he and his money are easily parted.
And, hey—since when did you become Father Confessor to the lost sheep of Itaewon? Has this happened a lot?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 15/July/2015 @ 2:02 am
Looks amazing and fascinating. Now if only I could get past my hatred of heat and humidity (humidity averaging 85% according to this site)…
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 11/July/2015 @ 9:23 pm
«« Back To Stats PageLooks beautiful. I’d better go there before it all turns Muslim.
Just went through your eight linked posts. On some posts, you wrote how many days you were there, but I’m not sure I saw the total number of days spent. (I may have missed it.) How long did you stay in Bali?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 11/July/2015 @ 5:40 pm