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Weird exchange with Joy. When women do the same thing as those online ads that trick you into sitting through an hour-long spiel before getting to the point, you know something is up.
My first experience getting out of a taxi in Rome’s Piazza della Repubblica was getting propositioned by an old, ugly prostitute. First impressions…
Good luck with the Hash!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 23/November/2020 @ 1:01 pm
My instinct as an introvert would be to keep the gathering small and relatively quiet/sedate, so there would be no joining of forces for me. The more people you involve in prepping something, the more potential for fuck-ups, miscommunication, personality conflicts, etc. No, thanks. Having said that, I realize I’m Monday-morning quarterbacking, so just ignore everything I’m saying and stick with your decision. I hope the gathering goes well, that no one acts like an asshole, and that the food turns out to be plentiful enough. (I also hope Ed’s ham will add enough protein to feed the hungry troops.) Good luck with prep and service! I’ll be wanting to see pictures of all the victuals!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 22/November/2020 @ 11:48 pm
Trivia: “Santa Fe,” in French, is “Sainte Foi,” i.e., “Holy Faith.”
“It dawned on me that[,] here in the Philippines[,] rice-growing season is year-round. Duh!”
Maybe this is why Koreans love telling foreigners that “We have four seasons in Korea!” In other words, “We’re not Southeast Asia!”
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 21/November/2020 @ 4:45 pm
“Good luck to you, Iline.”
I’m thinking more along the lines of, “____uck ___you, Iline.”
She sounds as if she’s stuck in her own little samsara—a self-inflicted vortex of pain and suffering rooted in an inability (or a lazy unwillingness) to pull herself out of the spiral. The more I think about it, the more I think that we’re all kind of that way about something. Maybe we like our suffering. Or maybe laziness really is at the heart of most human problems, as M. Scott Peck contended. Maybe we’re too lazy to break out of our respective samsaras, and that’s what dooms us to keep repeating the same stupidity, again and again. And again. Didn’t Erich Fromm contend that human beings are afraid to exercise their freedom, so they find any excuse to run away from the godlike powers of choice and responsibility? The path of self-improvement sits right in front of our nose, obvious as hell, but we rarely embark upon it, doomed by our compulsions, but more than that, doomed by the laziness that keeps up us from fighting our compulsions.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 20/November/2020 @ 7:38 pm
Congrats on the weight loss, and better luck next time re: darts. I expect you’ll be at the top of your own league in no time… at which point everyone else will grumble about your domination and leave the league. Heh.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 19/November/2020 @ 3:12 pm
Good luck as the BS League moves forward! As for Iline, I’d say “fuck her,” but that’s the one thing that’s not gonna happen.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 18/November/2020 @ 4:43 pm
A good day, indeed! I’m glad the response to your trail was positive. Here’s to many more well-thought-out trails!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 17/November/2020 @ 2:23 pm
Depends on the size of the frijoles. Pinto beans = OK, but I think you said you had kidney beans in your chili, so yeah, maybe you’re right: big-bean chili isn’t ideal for chili dogs.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 17/November/2020 @ 4:13 pm
And no one thought to sell chili dogs?
Scandaleux!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 17/November/2020 @ 2:25 pm
Chili looks good! I hope the Hashers enjoy the trail.
Those pale “Euro-Swiss” sausages look as if they come right out of Soviet Russia. Maybe they’re tastier than they look…?
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 16/November/2020 @ 2:58 pm
I hope that laying powder proves to be as fulfilling as laying something else!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 15/November/2020 @ 1:55 pm
The treehouse is awesome. And having your own nipa hut/shwimteo is a good idea, as long as it doesn’t get blown away in a storm.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 15/November/2020 @ 12:43 am
Before I read the Wikipedia explanation, I had taken the Madonna-whore complex to refer men’s desire for women who are a combination of virginal/pure and utterly slutty. This would explain men’s attraction to younger, doe-eyed women who look innocent, but who might be ready to do (insert, munch, lick, suck, etc.) anything in the bedroom.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 14/November/2020 @ 8:18 pm
“Filipinas are much sweeter”
Yeah, that parenthetical (“pretend to be”) is a necessary modifier, given what I’ve learned about Filipinas from your blog, and from the lengthening trail of relationship wreckage behind you. Those Pinay chicks seem to be about as cold and as calculating as the Korean women you’ve known. But as I’ve said, you meet a certain quality of woman when you frequent a certain type of place. Upgrade your haunts, and you’ll upgrade your women. (Unless you likes ’em skanky, which I kinda suspect you do!)
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 14/November/2020 @ 2:50 pm
At a guess, the women stay hot and healthy by constantly running away from a neverending series of natural disasters that also depress the economy and keep people from overeating.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 13/November/2020 @ 4:37 pm
Those’re some incredible, and depressing, pics of extreme flooding. As I said earlier, drainage is serious business (levees, too!). Glad you’re safe, but sorry to read about your being without power for eighteen hours.
You planning to buy an ATV? I see one on your computer screen.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 13/November/2020 @ 3:52 pm
6 Best Hurricane Shutters to Protect Your Home in 2020
Something to think about! That, or get a-caulkin’! (You can also cheat and buy that spray-foam insulation, but remember that it puffs up huge, so use it sparingly. Results tend to be messy.)
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 13/November/2020 @ 4:16 pm
Yikes—leakage inside the house? Can the land be re-landscaped to divert downward-flowing water around your place? Drainage is serious business; here in Korea, there are all sorts of poorly designed walkways next to buildings for which drainage is a problem. In the short term, it might not be a big issue, but in the long term, a leaky, damaged foundation is hellishly expensive to repair. Better to do preventive maintenance now.
Anyway, great pics of the greenery and the terrain and the shanty shacks. I saw shacks like that during my walk—even took a few pics of them. Good luck to those who Hash your path!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 12/November/2020 @ 2:48 pm
What Isaiah 6:8 actually says:
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”
And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
I’d heard the sheep/sheepdog/wolf thing in other contexts, so I knew something was up. Plus, the prose sounds suspiciously modern and doesn’t match the musicality of biblical verse.
The community center looks to be an awesome venue for get-togethers. It is a community center, after all! I hope the Hash and the after-party (or whatever the proper Hash term is) both go well. Good luck plotting out paths and prepping for parties.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 11/November/2020 @ 7:14 pm
I saw that “outpost” photo and, completely unbidden, a question popped into my head: how do you all handle pooping while on the trail? Just move off to a discreet (ahem) part of the woods and drop your bombs? Or tough it out until you’re On-Home? I can see the latter solution being the more popular one: these walks are short enough to endure a poop urge. I’ve had moments on my various Incheon-Busan walks where I’ve held off for ten kilometers or more until I reached civilization… or at least a decent porta-potty. Best solution for me: manage the rhythm of my intestines so that poop urges don’t happen while I’m on the trail!
Unrelated: Cream Filled Cupcake is indeed a cutie.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 10/November/2020 @ 3:51 pm
Regarding the “French Benefits” tweet at the end: I recognize the sound of introversion. Heh.
Sorry about your lame darts partner. Always sucks when such people don’t take good advice. I remember watching “Top Shot,” Season 2, where one of the contestants was a golf instructor in his regular life, and when the other veteran shooters tried to give him advice on his shooting stance, he’d always reply that he knew what he was doing, thanks. Arrogant twat eventually got knocked out of the contest, but even in his exit interview, he wasn’t at all reflective or repentant: he simply talked about how proud he was to have bested more than half the shooters before being eliminated. Some people just don’t have the capacity to learn, and they think they’re doing A-OK. Dunning-Kruger.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 09/November/2020 @ 3:36 pm
I hope the massage helps with the neck problems, at least.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 08/November/2020 @ 5:17 pm
Well, there we go, then! Lanzones!
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 07/November/2020 @ 9:10 pm
A Google search of your fruit image turns up a promising result: it’s called the amla in Hindi, or the Indian gooseberry (which also comes in lime-green varieties), and possibly the bangkiling karamay in Tagalog. The fruit can be golden, green, red, or even grape-purple. See here. The Latin designation is Phyllanthus acidus.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 07/November/2020 @ 8:12 pm
I answered three questions affirmatively on the quiz you linked, Kevin. I guess that makes me an addict or perv or something. Oh well.
I confess I took the self-assessment while trying to role-play you. I initially checked off four items, but then I went back after a few hours, did the thing again—more soberly this time—and ended up checking off only two. So I guess my average is three, which means I could be a so-so FBI profiler. Heh.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 08/November/2020 @ 12:05 am
“She’s free of the former boyfriend now[,] so her cheating with me is no longer an issue.”
Or so you hope! Heh.
As for Mary… why, why, why, why, why, John? Ya’ gotta stop thinking with your dick, man.
(presented only half in jest)
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 06/November/2020 @ 8:35 pm
“Well, I guess we will all be sorry. I fear for the well-being of my country and I’m very disappointed in my fellow citizens.”
I know your theory is that the problem lies with much of the American populace, but I think what we’re seeing, in terms of skewed voting numbers, has more to do with the actions of a malicious few who put their vote-harvesting plans in place and then acted on them. It could be that the left as a whole agrees with the actions of the malicious few (like the idea of mainstream Muslims quietly agreeing with the agenda of Islamist extremists), but in terms of the actual bad actors, I’d say they’re in the minority. For what it’s worth. Of course, this is part of a much, much larger discussion that would occupy a lot more than just this comment thread, so I’ll just stop here.
Keep on a-walkin’.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 05/November/2020 @ 6:21 pm
Another American perspective here. From afar, as I’ve learned in conversation with European interlocutors, Democrats and Republicans look and sound the same, and everything seems minor and petty—small differences in degree, not in kind. I’ve heard some Europeans scoff at what we Yanks call “socialism,” saying that whatever is happening in America is a far cry from real socialism. I beg to differ, and I temper the European criticism with the knowledge that, were I to say something like “Labour and the Tories are basically the same to me,” I’d be accused of lacking nuance. We see things from our own perspective, and a far-off perch makes all problems both smaller and less significant. My point: for us Yanks, this election is urgent, dead-serious business. Yes, I agree that America will survive whatever happens over the coming weeks, and if Biden ends up in the Oval Office, we’ll survive that, too. But such a path seems consistent with a deadly downward trajectory that some thinkers, like the one I linked to above, have been talking about for years. (Malcolm and I are no longer on speaking terms, but his intelligent blog is worth a read. I respect his mind even if I don’t like his character.)
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 05/November/2020 @ 1:43 pm
Well, you could be at least partially right. I just blogged that Trump isn’t going to win by a landslide, although he does seem to be on course to win. This seems to indicate that the “shy Trump voter” wasn’t nearly as numerous as previously thought, and it may also validate your sentiment that the average voter is stupider than s/he should be. It’s incredible to me that all four members of the Squad have been reelected, but yeah: people are idiots. America as a whole, however, isn’t so stupid as to vote Biden into office. (Although North Carolina and/or Georgia might make a liar out of me yet!)
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 04/November/2020 @ 7:28 pm
«« Back To Stats Page“A young father and child. Or maybe brother, hard to tell these days.”
That cracked me up.
Speaking of crack… you guys are lucky to be in the PI, where you can get away with 69-style celebrations without being charged with sexual harassment! I guess a man like Guenter needs a steady dose of hills and valleys to keep him sane.
» Posted By Kevin Kim On 03/November/2020 @ 4:07 pm