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Well, I truthfully only drink on days that end in “y”…
So, the Y Diet, then.
Good to finally see a pic of pitmaster and all-around chef John Kim, sweaty pits and all. Has he told you what kind of training he’s had as a chef? He really seems to know his stuff.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 12/August/2021 @ 5:06 pm
A week in the life: Wednesday Walkers
Educated and professional women who are single are rare commodities in these parts.
That may be true, but that may also be because of the circles you choose to travel in. Enlarge your circle, move beyond your beloved bars, and I bet you’ll find better women.
Am getting a “here we go again” vibe with Jessel. Charlie Brown once more runs at the football. But I also recognize you may not want more than what’s locally available. Personally, I think this dooms you to an ongoing cycle of the same thing over and over again, but some people like crafting their own little hells. Hell is hot and painful, but at least it’s familiar, and when you’re unwilling to leave your comfort zone, your personal hell is your best and, really, only option.
My opinion, of course. And my opinion notwithstanding, good luck Friday. I mean that sincerely. Jessel may be exactly what you say: a diamond in the rough. I hope she is, but I won’t be shocked if she isn’t.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 12/August/2021 @ 6:43 pm
A higher quality of woman, my friend. Aim for that. I notice a lot of white guys go overseas and end up with the trashy, easy local women. They (the guys) have no taste and can’t judge character, or they’re horny, and they just don’t care. If you’re looking for fluff, then fine—you do you. A fuck is a fuck, and a trailer-park skank will service you nicely. But if you’re looking for substance, the Julicas and Joys and other beggars of the world are not for you. Start off by finding an educated woman who is responsible, punctual, responsive in a timely way, can hold her own in a conversation, doesn’t play petty mind games, and who didn’t get pregnant out of wedlock (or abandoned by her guy) as part of a series of godawful-stupid life choices constantly made in the third world, where the poor often shoot themselves in the foot and keep themselves poor. Someone will call me racist for saying all that, but based on what I read on your blog, there are tons of women who fit that description, all to be avoided. Surely, there are better women out there.
Rooting for you. Look outside your normal circles. Assuming you know what you’re after.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 11/August/2021 @ 6:36 pm
Reflections on a Tuesday afternoon
Filipinas seem to profess love at the drop of a hat, and I get the feeling it’s usually more an attempt at manipulation than actual love. Actual love isn’t transactional; it’s about commitment, compromise, and even sacrifice. Sure, you could say there’s a quid-pro-quo dimension that seems transactional, but if that’s all love is, then love is just business. Prostitution.
I’ve said it before: you need to find a higher quality of woman who has the basics all in place, and that includes being responsible and mature enough to communicate in a timely manner. If you’re feeling jerked around, then I’d submit that whatever this is isn’t love. Overall, I think you’re right to be cautious in general; that video you posted a while back, featuring the Pinay talking about May-September relationships, strikes me as one of the most cynical videos I’ve seen on the subject of “love.”
M. Scott Peck said real love is an action, not a feeling. Feelings come and go. Actions are what demonstrate the virtues cited above, like commitment and sacrifice. And true love can only be seen over time. Love is also mutual, not just, “I want someone who will take care of me,” which is selfish. Loving people take care of each other, and as Peck says, they’re oriented toward cultivating each other’s spiritual growth. That’s the constructive aspect of love. There’s some quid-pro-quo there, but it’s more than that. (Peck hadn’t yet converted to Christianity when he wrote that thought, so he didn’t mean “spiritual” in a spooky, ethereal way.)
I admit I’m frankly skeptical as to whether this is love. I’m already seeing warning signs, “jerked around” being one of them. Whatever you do—and I can’t tell you what to do—be careful. You’ve been warned.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 10/August/2021 @ 7:01 pm
A week in the life: Tuesday shopping
$200 per week is a lot for a single guy. $200-$300 a month is more reasonable, I should say. And with you eating out all the time, how could you possibly need to pay that much per week for groceries? Are you cooking meals that you’re not telling us about? I’m starting to feel cheated because I’m always on the lookout for food photos. Or is it that groceries really are that overpriced?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 10/August/2021 @ 3:00 pm
A week in the life: Monday Hash Hare
Looks to be a good trail for the Hashers. May complaints be minimal.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 09/August/2021 @ 3:26 pm
A week in the life: Sunday stroll
The various routes you walk to your favorite hangouts would be nice to see.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 08/August/2021 @ 9:32 pm
“I’m not going to let having a bad day keep me from drowning my sorrows though.”
Something like that is going on a tee shirt. Maybe a quote that’s a bit more succinct, like, “No bad day can stop me from drowning my sorrows.” You’ll be credited as inspiration, of course.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 08/August/2021 @ 8:02 pm
May tomorrow be a better day, but congrats on the darts win.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 08/August/2021 @ 12:10 am
When does rainy season normally end?
Good luck to your friend. May her business succeed. I hope to see food pics once she gets going.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 06/August/2021 @ 7:15 pm
Anyone in your town got an ass like that (the girl on the right, I mean)?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 05/August/2021 @ 5:45 pm
Well, thank you for the tour! And I can experience your neighborhood in the air-conditioned safety of my office, without having to deal with heat and humidity. I’ll call that a win. Some of those houses do look really nice, but I just can’t see myself ever living in the PI.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 05/August/2021 @ 4:54 pm
Sorry to hear it.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 05/August/2021 @ 3:28 pm
Diet drinks can provoke the cephalic response, in which the brain signals the pancreas to produce insulin in response to the perception of sweetness. Insulin is a fat-storage hormone, so you can still get fat even with diet drinks. The aspartame in many diet sodas also breaks down into two poisons: formaldehyde and methanol, i.e , embalming fluid and the alcohol that can blind you if consumed.
I thought “Jane” might become a thing, no?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 05/August/2021 @ 11:44 am
I guess
BLT
Cheesemight have been a better way to write that.
Congrats on second place, at least. The game of darts is a fickle mistress. As for Joy… I say dump her if you’re on the brink of something more substantive, unless your craving for sex is so acute that you have to bang someone so as not to explode. A classmate in college used to joke about the condition he called DSB, short for Deadly Sperm Buildup, his term for blue balls.
Continued good luck with diet discipline. I feel your pain. For now, I’ve found that reading a novel in the evening—during my intermittent-fasting period, no meals between today’s lunch and tomorrow’s breakfast—distracts me from any food cravings (I’m reading Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary; Weir wrote The Martian), but I do normally help myself by filling my stomach with fizzy water. I still generally avoid diet drinks, but I’ve succumbed to temptation a couple times. Sweet tooth.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 04/August/2021 @ 6:45 pm
Streets of desolation. I’m sure they’ll have their own houses soon enough, though.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 04/August/2021 @ 12:49 pm
A sane and insane day at the Hash
I took her shopping today and bought her a new phone.
Your good deed, and good karma, for the day.
Nice shots of the trail, and of the strongly running waterways. How did the insane group fare? Any injuries?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 03/August/2021 @ 6:58 pm
Alta Vista: MT. Rainier Avenue
Very nice houses. Thanks for the interior shot of Heidi’s house. Would be nice if you could finagle an interior shot of the other house, but I guess you’d have to get in good with the English chap first.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 03/August/2021 @ 6:49 pm
Liberals love inconsistency. Open southern border + mask mandate = hypocrisy.
Would have loved to see the beef omelet.
So I gather the crispy pork was John Kim’s take on tangsuyuk. Nice. I normally ask for the sauce to be separate so I can retain the crispiness of the pork. Occasionally, I find a restaurant where they serve the sauce on the pork, but the pork still somehow remains crispy. Such places are rare.
Belated good luck with the Hash! I assume you’re already back by now (I’m writing this comment at 3:05 p.m.).
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 02/August/2021 @ 4:05 pm
A pretty ambitious tour today. Thanks.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 02/August/2021 @ 3:57 pm
You know the senility is setting in when you can no longer correctly pluralize “flies.” As in “butterflies.”
Here’s hoping the Filipino engineers figure out a better way to deal with that stream as they continue to build the road.
“Bar & Grill” seems like false advertising if there’s no actual bar. That said, good luck to Marick!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 01/August/2021 @ 8:05 pm
cul-de-sac
With hyphens. It’s French for “ass of the bag.” No joke.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 01/August/2021 @ 3:31 pm
Now, it was a tad hot and muggy on my morning walkabout, but I’ll [let] that go this time.
That’s post-rain evaporation for you. Glad you got some sun!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 31/July/2021 @ 10:35 pm
I was shocked to see that carrots are nearly 10% carbs.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 31/July/2021 @ 7:45 am
Chicken and cake both look good. I envy you. If there’s a keto carrot-cake recipe out there, I’ll find it. Carrots aren’t considered keto, but cream cheese is. However, the sweetener for the cake and frosting would have to be artificial. Might have to find a carrot substitute so that it become “carrot” cake.
Ah—I see lots of recipes online, most with actual carrots. I wonder how that works with all the carbs in carrots.
Rain, rain, rain, eh? That’s a pretty impressive streak.
Happy birthday to Roan.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 30/July/2021 @ 6:41 pm
Keep ’em coming!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 30/July/2021 @ 6:58 pm
I’m watching that Filipina Pea video, and I have to call bullshit on her claim that Filipinas fundamentally want companionship. In looking at your history with Filipinas, it seems they want money more than anything else, with companionship being very much linked to whether the money-spigot is gushing or dry. She talks about the trade-off that Filipina women are willing to make between youth and “a few more inches of waistline” if that means being with someone mature. On some level, that may be true, but from what I’ve seen through your eyes, money is the driving factor in Filipina-Western relationships. Or maybe she’s right, and you’ve simply been moving from one trashy woman to another and haven’t met a good-quality Filipina yet. Stay away from the bars, man. You’ll never find a good woman there. Unless low quality is your thing, in which case, plow away!
I do like, though, how what she’s saying would infuriate most modern Western women these days. Western women don’t want to be told they’re living in defiance of nature.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 29/July/2021 @ 8:30 pm
If there’s one thing white women are good for, it’s boobies. At least when they’re young and ripe.
Sorry to hear it’s still pissing down over there. We haven’t had much of a monsoon season here, and August is now upon us, which means one last, great blast of hot air before things start cooling down in September.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 29/July/2021 @ 7:33 pm
You’ll have to hone your radar when it comes to women who turn out to be parasites. For Joy, the only thing about her seems to be sex. Aside from that, she seems to be as parasitic as all the others. Jane seems more promising, based on what you’ve written, because she doesn’t have money needs. At some point, you have to stop fooling yourself and see clearly, which means not being distracted by your baser needs.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 29/July/2021 @ 12:38 pm
«« Back To Stats PageWell, good luck with Jane. Sounds promising right now. What will this mean for Joy? Will you maintain your friendship with benefits?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 28/July/2021 @ 8:43 pm