Comments Posted By Kevin Kim
Displaying 1,051 To 1,080 Of 4,392 Comments
My date for the party
Thank God she’s not wearing Jackie O’s. I hate those. They make a chick look like an inscrutable insect. Not sexy at all. For my money, the sexiest sunglasses for women are aviators. But I’m talking mainly about white chicks.
I’ll be visiting the Kokomo floating bar later this afternoon.
Those banana-colored kayaks remind me of the transparent kayaks I saw in Jeju.
The Wet Spot girls were seated behind us.
Thus far, Swan doesn’t seem all that happy.
Jerry from Alaska Club with his big bag of balls in the pool.
I’ve been asking around what the purpose of those Navy supply ships is since I never see them docked for offloading. I’m told they are fully loaded and ready for deployment wherever and whenever the need arises. So, they move around between ports here in East Asia, standing by for any contingencies.
America is indeed beefing up its presence in that part of the world. One of the few things that Biden’s puppeteers have gotten right.
Should we take a walk in other’s shoes before we judge them?
If you examine the grammar of the question, you can quickly conclude the question should be rewritten. I assume the writer is using “them” as a pronoun to replace and refer to “other’s,” not “shoes.” But you see that “other’s” is modifying the noun “shoes,” so it’s functioning as an adjective. This means that “them” can’t replace “other’s” because a pronoun only ever stands in for a noun. Also: the word “other’s” is a possessive for a singular noun. The apostrophe needs to be shifted like so: others’.
Possible rewrite:
Should we judge other people before we’ve walked in their shoes?You are what you eat, pussy!
So, what’d you think of the comma error in the first frame of this meme?
Sorry, but I never really liked REM. Too annoyingly nasal and drawly.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 26/March/2024 @ 6:55 pm
Sorry:
That reminds ME of an old riddle.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 26/March/2024 @ 9:05 am
I don’t know much about either religion, but do their similarities derive from a common foundation (like Catholics and Protestants), or is it just a coincidence?
Common foundation. Buddhism arose out of a Hindu/Brahmanic milieu, so it shares certain basic concepts and assumptions about how the universe works. That said, Buddhism also subverts some of those basic concepts (like karma and dharma, for instance) and reworks them from the inside out. See here for a Hinduism-versus- Buddhism discussion of rebirth/reincarnation.
That reminds of an old riddle:
Q: What does a redneck Hindu believe in?
A: Reintarnation.The relationship between Hinduism and Buddhism is reminiscent of the relationship between Judaism and Christianity. Not an exact parallel, but there are thematic similarities.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 26/March/2024 @ 9:03 am
re: running out of candy
Kids (and many of us adults) have an infinite capacity for sweets.
This guy was nursing his wounded cock…must have lost the fight.
I shudder to think of what’s on the blood-spattered table.
Why, yes. Yes, I am!
Well, that’s a cool shot.
I was not in on it, but I had left too much cash in the register instead of doing the required safe drop, which raised suspicions.
That sucks. I’ve never been robbed. I think my bike got stolen once when I was a little kid, but the memory is fuzzy.
I wonder if it tastes as good as it looks[.]
Eating ass: Starter Kit.
We’re captive on the carousel of time
So, something close to a Hindu or Buddhist notion of time. A lot of people used to describe that notion as “cyclical,” but one brave textbook, when I was in grad school, called it “spiral time,” i.e., somewhat circular, but not repeating exactly, which struck me as a more accurate image to apply to the notion. Hindus and Buddhists don’t believe history repeats itself beat for beat; the situation is more like the people who say that “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.”
I looked up James Kavanaugh after seeing what he’d written about time. His view seems pretty dramatic (Karen Armstrong has written about the “drama” of monotheism), so I wasn’t too surprised to see he’d been a priest before quitting the Church. It makes sense that someone steeped in Christianity would see time as a master, a liar, and a death-obsessed tyrant. Joni Mitchell’s view of time seems a bit more abstract by that standard. In fact, her use of the term “circle game” calls to mind the Hindu notion of “lila,” or divine/cosmic play. In this view, the universe has a humorous, playful, random aspect to it, and it doesn’t move in straight lines.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 25/March/2024 @ 2:23 pm
re: old Bruce
Lots of jokes online about how the nearly unrecognizable Bruce Springsteen looks like either Megan Rapinoe, the obnoxious soccer player, or Ricardo Montalban in his role as Khan in “Star Trek II.”
re: universal-translator humor
Picard is saying, “First, I think that our universal translators have been damaged.” (Yes, he’s using the plural.)
I don’t know Hebrew, so I can’t translate that part.
Beverly’s saying, “Commander, our universal translator seems to have been destroyed.” (It’s hard to tell, in Korean, whether she’s also using the plural.)
I never watched the series “Star Trek: Discovery,” but I did see one clip on YouTube in which the entire bridge crew, kind of like in the biblical “Tower of Babel” story, suddenly starts speaking in foreign languages, with no one speaking the same language. So you hear French, Chinese, Vulcan, etc., spoken by people who don’t normally speak those languages. “Discovery” was panned as a woke turd, so I won’t be watching that episode to understand the context. I did, however, find the clip.
Nice to know Swan has her deeper side. Of course, I’ve suspected a deeper side for a while, now, given that she’s not the usual low-quality, cock-gobbling barfly with three kids, no coherent finances, and no life plan. She’s in control of her life, spending and budgeting wisely, and more or less comfortable with your habits. Most of the girls who’d left you before were flaky and flighty, averse to stability and responsibility because of their immaturity. Please don’t lose this one. She’s a catch.
This creative idea made me laugh.
For a while, this was a fad: severed-head prank photos. Maybe I can dig some up. I’d posted some pics a few years ago.
re: food pics
It all looks good, but yeah, I’d probably want to order more, too.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 25/March/2024 @ 12:24 am
Seven participated in the adventure.
The Magnificent Seven!
…dispensing cookies on the way
Two of them are monks in training.
It wasn’t far to the top, though
Someone seems rather far behind!
Six years ago, I took my team on a team-building trip to Buan on the West Coast. It was a great time and a prelude to my leaving a couple of months later.
This was unintentionally funny. If you left a couple months later, I guess the team-building exercise didn’t go so well. Heh.
Sorry, it’s the breast I’ve got today.
What beliefs does she cleave to?
re: Dr. Jo
Good to hear there’s been progress. May it continue!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 23/March/2024 @ 7:55 pm
Good luck with the Dr. Jo appointment!
The Govic is easier to walk than the National Highway, but there are places without a real shoulder.
Yeah, we’ve got spots like that here in South Korea.
One of my favorites, Kim, was still there but obviously a few months pregnant.
Is she making a smart life-choice or a dumb one?
So, if you don’t want my business, keep playing that shit. Rant over.
I rarely listen to music in the best of times. Blessed silence is more my style. I also don’t understand walkers who shut out the world with headphones. What’s so horrible about being alone with your own thoughts?
I still have not recovered my sense of smell since the nostril surgery.
Really? Smell is usually linked to taste. Are you tasting any of your food? If you’re not tasting much, this is a good time to be dieting! Lots of salads.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 22/March/2024 @ 7:30 pm
A tree I liked.
I wonder what kind it is. To me, it looks like an overgrown telephone pole.
A newly constructed house I rather liked for its simplicity. I could see myself enjoying a cold beer on the front porch. And then later dying of boredom.
Cultivate an inner life, and you’ll never be bored!
It was still a fun hike, though.
Sounds as though it was a bit of an adventure.
Bhel’s crew of well-wishers
Who’s the one guy trying not to be photographed?
First comes the sound…
The flash reveals all! Aine wears a lot of makeup, doesn’t she. You can see how pale her face looks compared to the rest of her.
I hear that A LOT from the bargirls…
But that will be changing soon enough!
Nancy Sinatra is still alive, but M. Emmet Walsh just died.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 21/March/2024 @ 6:04 pm
I have no idea whether you want to transition to something like a keto diet, but the best generic food advice I’ve heard is to make sure your food is as close as possible to wherever it came from—straight out of the ground, from the ocean, off the farm, whatever. It’s the processing that introduces all the bad stuff. While the keto diet would be strict about eating fruit (berries are okay because of their high fiber content, but other fruits aren’t so good), I’d say fruit is generally healthier than candy, cookies, or—dare I say—pecan pies.
If you’re going to try strict keto—and I know you’re not because of your attachment to beer, but if you were—then you’d have a carb budget of about 20 g of carbs per day. At 2.5 g of carbs per bottle of your favorite beer, you could have eight bottles of beer, but then, you wouldn’t be able to ingest any other carbs from anywhere. A less strict version of keto would give you a carb budget of 50 g per day, and if you skip keto entirely to just go generically low-carb, you could budget yourself about 100 g of carbs per day. Foods that are fibrous and not calorie-dense are your friends, especially leafy greens and cruciferous veggies (broccoli, cauliflower, bok choy, radish, turnips, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, etc.). Unprocessed meats have almost no carbs. Certain fermented foods are probiotically good for gut bacteria, such as kimchi and sauerkraut.
And if you’re desperate for bread on such a diet, here’s my favorite keto-bread recipe. You’ll need to buy some specialized ingredients, but it’s essentially a simple soda bread, and you can ask your caretakers to make it for you. It’s a bit on the heavy side, not the greatest for sandwiches, but you can make decent canapés with it.
Of course, you’ve done your own version of a “low-carb” diet before, and that definitely shrank the gut, so maybe try that again (no cheating!). Make it a 30-day project and see how that works out.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 20/March/2024 @ 6:26 pm
Is that 2.5 g of carbs per bottle or per 100 ml?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 20/March/2024 @ 9:47 am
The On-Home at Red Bar was pleasant enough, although I declined to partake of the food offerings (they looked pretty carby). After the Hash, I joined the group at IDM for a couple of more brews.
Even with the brews, though, the carbs add up. I see one site says that San Mig Zero (ha! “Zero”) has 5.6 g of carbs per 100 ml of beer; only two 500-ml beers, and you’re over your keto budget for the day. Another site says San Mig Zero has 2 g of carbs per 500-ml bottle, so by that reckoning, five bottles gets you close to half your daily carb budget on keto. Either way, five seems to be about the max, maybe more if the bottles are smaller than 500 ml.
I wouldn’t mind going back in time and being that guy again for a while.
Would you want to keep the knowledge you’ve gained over the years, or would you prefer to have your memories wiped and start afresh so you can reexperience the “innocence” (cough) of those times?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 19/March/2024 @ 7:19 pm
We are doubling up on our candy purchase for next week.
Some time ago, I would have joked that you should eat whatever candy is left over, but…
“Buddha is not Greek”
People in the West say “Buddha” and think of this guy, called Butai/Budai in Chinese and Podae in Korean. His belly represents plenty or prosperity. In the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, he’s considered a Buddha, but he’s not the historical Buddha. The historical Buddha, before he became the Buddha, practiced hardcore Brahmanic asceticism and spent much of his life skinny. One tale says he claimed to be able to place his hand on his stomach and feel his spine. I think the statues of the Starving Buddha represent this period of his life.
Good luck avoiding the Sausage trail.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 18/March/2024 @ 3:31 pm
Quit the drinkin’ and solve half of your problems right there! Cut out carbs and solve the rest. I think your exercise levels are already pretty good. With the walking you do, you’re easily over 150 min/week, right?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 17/March/2024 @ 5:52 pm
What’s a hike without a rickety bridge crossing?
I’d have a hard time crossing that. Ever thought about doing some bridge-improvement projects in your local area? Uprooting every one of those primitive bridges and replacing them with something sturdy and well made? Surely, you have craftsmen in your expat community.
I had just eaten turkey yesterday, and then this guy showed up.
Oh, great dinosaurs, how far you’ve fallen!
We rode back to Barretto in an [air-conditioned] bus. Not a bad way to finish a hot hike.
I can relate. Whenever I finish a 26K hike out to Hanam City, I take a bus most of the way back. The bus stops at Jamshil Station, after which I either cab it back or take the subway.
I’m loving that cracked seat back!
Humanity can be hard sometimes.
I’m only just noticing how the Buddha is substantially larger than everyone else. Subtle messaging.
Anyway, back to Dr. Jo for a follow-up this afternoon.
Good luck with that. Just a routine checkup? Followup on the new meds?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 17/March/2024 @ 2:51 am
No matter how hard I push the envelope…
Then he said 400 pesos, and I yelled again, stop! I exited the cab, walked across the highway, and caught a Jeepney back to Barretto for 20 pesos. Got out at Sit-n-Bull and had a great lunch.
So you didn’t pay the cabbie anything? We have taxi scammers in Korea, too, and I doubt they’d let you just walk out of the car without paying.
It was my waitress friend Em Jhae’s last night there
“Em Jhae” sounds almost Korean—certainly the “Jhae” part. But I’m guessing that someone was going for the “Spider-Man’s girlfriend” vibe.
I filled the hours with a mini-bar hop
This sounds as if you’re flitting from mini-bar to mini-bar inside a hotel. I suppose you could either lose the hyphen or use another word than “mini.”
a minuscule bar hop
a truncated bar hop
a shorter-than-usual bar hopOne thousand steps later, I was at the front gate of Alta Vista.
Looks like the entrance to some subterranean amusement-park ride.
7000 steps, the natural beauty of Subic Bay
Branches caught in wires… you guys get some strong winds.
The stats for the day, including my dog walk and bar hop.
Have you done the math as to how much you’re expending versus how much you’re ingesting?
Em Jhae enjoyed the birria tacos
Normally, when I see anything labeled “birria,” the food tends to be dark red. Is this a different kind of birria?
I ordered the Philly cheesesteak and was surprised to see it served on a bun instead of a roll. Still tasted good, though.
Yeah, I’d be more likely to call that a “cheesesteak burger” or something.
Time to get ready for tonight’s SOB dance competition.
Enjoy the female flesh before you. I hope you avoid being recruited as a judge.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 15/March/2024 @ 7:49 pm
Wednesdays come and Wednesdays go, but you can always enjoy them while they are here.
I can think of one way to enjoy the day also known as Hump Day.
So, we’ll see what the blood work results suggest as the appropriate course of action.
Good luck with that. And may your results be result-y.
It turns out Inday has family way up here.
And they look nothing alike! I wonder how they’re related.
A nice view from there, though.
Beautiful sky.
A meatball snack for my guests
Looks nice, but your pic is upside down! Hit “rotate” a couple times.
Sheila and I jokingly argue about who’s house has the best views.
Spot the error!
Those uphill portions would be horrible to hike in hot, humid conditions. I can see myself stopping several times on the way up.
Again, good luck with the blood work!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 14/March/2024 @ 6:15 pm
Well, congrats on all the new shorts, shirts, and shoes. Have you ever, in fact, found yourself with nothing to wear on laundry day? I always have a set of “emergency clothes” ready for such a contingency.
Chef salad looks good.
Sunset looks good.
You haven’t mentioned lung trouble in a while, so I assume the new meds are working out. Awesome.
Just reread your linked post. Thanks for refreshing my memory.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 13/March/2024 @ 8:26 pm
Were you with your kids long enough to get them into young adulthood? Even after all of these years, I’m still unclear about a lot of your past. Curiously absent from the blog are insights about fatherhood. If that’s a sore spot, please forget I asked.
Looks as though the Hashers had fun.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 13/March/2024 @ 4:36 am
Good luck to today’s Hashers. If I understand correctly, the way to avoid sitting on the ice is to have a complaint about the trail, yes?
Lovely shots of the Sunday walk.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 11/March/2024 @ 4:15 pm
Swan points to the lot she is buying so she will not have to be a renter all her life. It’s a little far out and inaccessible for my tastes, but I understand her sentiment.
What does this mean for the future?
Anyway, it looks to have been a good walk with lots of happy kids.
I’ve probably linked to this before, but here’s a cover of “Sweet Child of Mine” from the movie “Captain Fantastic.” Background: the movie is about a quirky family where the mom has killed herself. Her father, a proper Christian, wants her buried the Christian way, but the mom told her family that she wanted to be cremated, then flushed down a toilet in celebration of life’s comedy. The above-linked scene shows the family singing her favorite song while they cremate her. Then—flush.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 10/March/2024 @ 7:34 pm
Sounds like a good reception even if you had to retire early. Loud lady at the mike? Pinning money on the newlyweds? All sounds normal to me! I wonder whether you’d enjoy the romantic comedy “Plus One.”
I have lived in 5 states in the USA and I am 22.
Why’re you moving around so much, kid? Just restless?
I’ve never been to Paris, so I can’t say if it sucks or not.
Paris is big and complex enough to offer different experiences to different travelers. A lot will complain about the rudeness of Parisian employees (at restaurants, etc.). Many will be wowed by the city’s cosmopolitan flavor. Others will love all the monuments, museums, theaters, etc. Just avoid the shady sections where the predators try putting a woven wristband on a tourist’s wrist, then demanding ten bucks and calling you racist if you peel the “gift” off and give it back. Stay away from tents, mattresses, and the smell of piss.
Hope you’re nicely rested. I’m off to bed myself, having eaten nothing today, so I guess I fasted.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 10/March/2024 @ 12:12 am
Try blogging from your phone for a week—seven days straight. You won’t like it by the end, but you’ll get used to doing it. And teach yourself basic HTML commands—how to do boldface and italics and underlining, how to leave hyperlinks, etc., so that you can enter all that stuff manually if need be, without the help of your blogging software. Gain independence so as not to be helpless.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 09/March/2024 @ 5:08 pm
Ah. I guess I saw the discrepancy (13K vs. 18K) and defaulted to the longer distance so as not to “short” you unfairly. Upon rereading your post, I see that you did, in fact, explain the FitBit figures. Sorry.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 09/March/2024 @ 3:57 am
Congrats on the 18K walk! That’s the equivalent of walking from my place down to the Bundang neighborhood outside of Seoul (Seongnam City). It’s basically the route you and I did when you were back in Korea some time ago. Good job.
I don’t trust your Fitbit’s calorie count, though, unless that’s supposed to be a count for the whole day as opposed to a mere count of the 18K walk.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 08/March/2024 @ 3:24 pm
Looks to have been a good walk (despite being a harsh 4K), and the lungs held up fine. Most excellent. Keep at it!
Trail pics, sunset, and food pics: all nice.
A blissful day.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 07/March/2024 @ 8:22 pm
Hey, if it tastes good, then there we go.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 07/March/2024 @ 2:05 pm
My Tuesday started with a slice of Myleen’s pumpkin pie and a cup of coffee.
That’s a scrawny slice of pie. My Korean coworker has tried several times to make apple pie, and each time, he makes it way too thin. I keep telling him to make the pie thicker, but he’s stubborn or something. It’s frustrating.
Swan’s sister Charm is getting married on Friday, so she needed to leave after our meal and attend a bridal party at the Klimax Bar in Barretto.
Is “Charm” her real name? I’m guessing not.
Marriage? Klimax Bar? The innuendos abound.
Good luck with the tough walk.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 06/March/2024 @ 5:35 pm
And I took the short one. My regular group continued on the long trail and made their own shortcut later. I wanted to stick with this one, so we parted ways.
This is unlike you. Don’t you normally prefer to have a walking buddy just in case something bad happens?
Ah, a couple of out-of-towners. I wound up being their guide.
Oh. Well, there we go, then.
Let’s go thataway
Are the locals cool with all the chalk arrows and other indicators?
When I imagine myself as a homeowner with a huge property, and I further imagine people routinely walking through my property, I’m not sure how happy I’d be about that. As a compromise, I’d probably put up a fence and some signs showing where people can walk… and where they can’t.
Some sidewalk walkin’
Yeah, that would come as a relief to me after humping along an uneven, rocky, root-strewn trail. I’m a wimpy pavement/sidewalk person.
On Home at the Roadhouse (formerly Blue Butterfly)
Does the place serve food, or is it drinks only?
I’ll have to rewind and see what I missed.
“Rewind.” Funny how we still use words from a bygone technological era. It’s like when I say “dial” a phone number on my cell phone. Or how us older folks still use expressions like “sound like a broken record.”
I was good enough yesterday to complete the Hash trail without any breathing difficulties. It’s been too long since I could say that.
Again, congrats on the new lease on life. I’m glad the meds are working out, and it’s good news to hear you plan to push yourself.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 05/March/2024 @ 5:28 pm
On a more serious note, you are, of course, under no obligation to write any review at all. I’m just curious as to your opinion of the shows you spend time on.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 06/March/2024 @ 7:15 am
«« Back To Stats PageEpisode 5? You’re most of the way through the season! Awesome. I’ll be expecting two reviews, then!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 05/March/2024 @ 8:51 am