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Nice that Buddy can drag his leash around like that, and you can trust that he won’t run away.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 17/January/2022 @ 1:07 pm
I assume that’s Jonnie in the picture. Looks like Mark Twain!
Here are some Twain quotes I just found:
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Continue to live fully!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 16/January/2022 @ 6:18 pm
Good luck finding regularity!
Glad that things seem to be going well. May you continue to prove me wrong. Maybe Pearl now understands that Dick was the wrong man for her. I hope her mother gets that, too.
Great pics of the hike.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 15/January/2022 @ 1:15 pm
Steady as she goes.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 13/January/2022 @ 3:12 pm
“If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing.”
Antimetabole, a type of chiasmus!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 11/January/2022 @ 5:35 pm
Our own vaccine-pass mandate kicks in as of tomorrow. Over a thousand Koreans are doing a class-action suit to take down the mandate on behalf of the unvaxxed, but I have a feeling the suit’s gonna fail. Good luck to you and your community.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 10/January/2022 @ 4:42 pm
Getting to the heart of the matter
Falling dick-first into 2022!
Well, I’d cheer you on, for what it’s worth, but until you understand what love really is (you talk about love enough, but always in a superficially romantic way), you’ll remain in the same samsaric cycle you’ve been in for years.
Be a fool, enjoy yourself, but don’t be surprised when you find yourself alone again. Maybe you’ve avoided the might-have-been with Pearl, but I suspect not. Good luck, for whatever that’s worth. And Here We Go Again.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 09/January/2022 @ 4:39 pm
“Scott took a tumble down a steep slope but was able to grab a banana tree to avert disaster.”
I was really hoping the next picture would show Scott all sprawled and broken at the bottom of the slope, but it alas—it was not to be. I assume there’s some hiker’s code of honor whereby no one takes pictures of others’ pratfalls.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 08/January/2022 @ 5:59 pm
Okay, standing by.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 07/January/2022 @ 12:39 pm
Theatrical “jealousy” among the bargirls, eh?
Well, it looks to have been a nice walk. Good luck as “Bill” tries to set you up with a girlfriend. May she not turn out to be the usual low-quality trash. And may you aim higher—way higher—in 2022!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 06/January/2022 @ 6:06 pm
A good trail to kick off 2022. Speaking of “2022,” which only just began, what does the “2022 total” column refer to? And is Almoranus’s name spelled correctly on that chart? You normally spell the last part “-anus” (his name becomes “All the More Anus” in my mind), but on the chart, it’s “-anas” like “bananas.” And I thought he was German; his real name sounds very French. Did I misunderstand something about him way back when, or is he simply a German who happens to have a French name?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 04/January/2022 @ 6:31 pm
Welcome to the Hotel Central Park Reef
“There are men to gentle to live among wolves.”
Should be “too gentle.”
Both ways, eh? This book seems sloppily edited.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 03/January/2022 @ 3:03 pm
“Where are you hiding my love?”
No vocative comma, so I assume it’s the love itself that’s being hidden, and the poet wants to know where it is. Had there been a vocative comma (“Where are you hiding, my love?”), the poet would have been addressing his love and asking where she was hiding. Aside from that ambiguity (no comma = typo or not?), it’s a good poem. And You Know Who isn’t worthy of it. New year, new prospects.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 03/January/2022 @ 2:21 pm
The steaks look good.
As for noise… maybe this is what drives some people to live a simple life in the mountains. Go seek out a patch of land and “steak” your claim!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 02/January/2022 @ 4:17 pm
At least you got to ring in the new year among friends and friendly acquaintances. And that hike looked quite nice. You’ll have to ask Martin his secret as to how he manages to maintain a stable relationship with his gal (who seems way too hot for him, but this is the PI, I guess, so anything goes).
Happy 2022! You’ll do fine if you avoid the greedy, the selfish, the immature, the flaky, and the psychos. Shouldn’t be too hard, right?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 01/January/2022 @ 10:53 pm
I hope it’s a good hike, and I wish you a Happy New Year! Thanks for a year of exciting ups and downs, and for continuing to educate us all about Filipino culture from an expat’s perspective. Onward to 2022!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 31/December/2021 @ 3:35 pm
Meant to say this a few posts ago, but I see that 18-kilo Ass lost his beard. No more Santa, I guess.
Julie looks cute, but proceed with caution. I hope “Julie” is a fake name.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 30/December/2021 @ 6:13 pm
Bars of Barretto: The Green Room (Updated September 8, 2022)
It was a good, educational tour through the various watering holes. Certainly gives me a better feel for where you live. I’m not a bar type, so I doubt I’d ever visit any of these places (unless they served food), but it’s been interesting to get a peek inside them and sample a bit of the ambiance. Thanks again.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 30/December/2021 @ 3:19 pm
“She messaged me last night with an apology saying her failure to show wasn’t about me but offering no real explanation as to what happened. Lesson learned, don’t try and take a bar “relationship” out of the bar. Still, it was quite disappointing.”
Yeah, if you can’t get past basic reliability issues, she’s not worth the effort. I’d give you my standard “seek a better quality of woman” spiel, but I get that this was supposed to be more of a lark than anything serious (right?). And Roan doesn’t seem like the actively malicious sort; she’s probably just a bit flaky, the way a lot of the local females seem to be. Slight disappointment, but no big loss.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 29/December/2021 @ 7:20 pm
Cloudy December day.
I heard via my boss that the Philippines endured a supertyphoon (Rai) that killed nearly 400 people some days ago. (CNN of course attributes the supertyphoon to climate change.) I assume it missed your part of the country since you haven’t written about it. All quiet where you are?
Nice pics of the hike. I hope the kids don’t become feral if you don’t give them candy.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 28/December/2021 @ 5:35 pm
Just a reminder that love is not servitude (“I want someone who will take care of me”) but is instead a partnership between equals who want to cultivate each other’s growth. Until that lesson gets hammered home, the cycle will continue. And as always, true love will not focus on money. Take money out of the equation with any of these women, and what do you have? Nada.
But if true love is not your goal, then yeah, just enjoy the ride, keeping in mind that what you’re doing is all empty. Fun, but empty.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 27/December/2021 @ 12:48 pm
Per the written song lyrics:
Mary Christmas and Happy New years!
If you’re already back to checking out the ladies’ asses and promising dinner to Aine, I think you’re well on your way to healing. “Prrrl” did indeed prove to be too girly and superficial, especially if she can’t see Dick for who he is. You’re better off without her, however magnificent she might be in the sack.
Anyway, a new year of excitement awaits, and you still have time to fuck the other half of the village. Looking forward to reading about more shenanigans in 2022.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 26/December/2021 @ 6:35 pm
Belated wishes for a Merry Christmas!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 25/December/2021 @ 11:35 pm
People in Korea perform similar theatrics in front of ATMs, always taking a million years to do God knows what. Koreans are funny, though: at times, they can be the most rushed people in the world, scrambling here and there in a desperate bid to go from A to B. At other times, they can be obnoxiously slow, not caring how they might be clogging up traffic behind them. The common denominator is that they only care about themselves, offering little to no consideration of those around them. ATMs are when Koreans become obnoxiously slow.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 24/December/2021 @ 6:29 pm
Another nice walk. Congrats on the darts win! 11-2 is a curb-stomping. And yeah, things’ll get better soon. They always do.
Remember the 22 Stages of Heartbreak?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 23/December/2021 @ 8:47 pm
Life keeps moving forward whether we want it to or not. Meanwhile, Carol probably has a point. Have fun with hiking and darts!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 22/December/2021 @ 12:27 pm
People: source of both pain and joy. At least the local kiddies got something good. Meanwhile, I’m sure your sour mood will pass.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 21/December/2021 @ 2:42 pm
Ah—”commentary.” Yeah, I’m slow. Still doesn’t work well as a joke, though. Heh.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 20/December/2021 @ 8:14 pm
I’m just mystified by what “comment tarry” means. To tarry is to hang back and delay, to remain or loiter. Am I missing something?
Anyway, your town seems to have an endless supply of women, so at a guess, you’ll be happily strolling the streets again soon enough.
Good thing you gave Pearl the Yule log before Christmas, eh?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 20/December/2021 @ 4:20 pm
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» Posted By Kevin Kim On 20/December/2021 @ 12:37 pm