This week I am happy to present my favorite Sassy Girl, Jeon Ji Hyun.  I’ve actually featured her most famous movie appearance in a blog post, remember?  Here’s a great clip from that film.

She’s a woman of many moods as well…

Elegant Ji Hyun.

Enticing Ji Hyun.

Inviting Ji Hyun.

Innocent Ji Hyun.

Talented as well as she demonstrates in this commercial.

And also naughty, as there is apparently some scandal concerning these (NSFW) photos.

And that’s just about all there is to see here folks.  Move along now.

Just in one of those lulls where there isn’t much of anything worth saying.  Heh, I’m sure that will pass soon enough.

Takin’ the nephew to see Nanta tomorrow night, so there’s that. It’s a great show, here’s a taste.

I asked for and was granted my release from the Rubbies.  So, I’m without a dart team for the first time in a long time.  No controversy or drama, just not enjoying playing when I can’t throw well enough to help the team.  A Division has gotten very cutthroat this year and that has sucked the joy right out of the game for me.

Still not smokin’ and still exercising on a regular basis.  The weight is slowly coming off.  Very slowly.

Got pissed off at work this week for the first time in LONG time.  Some smart ass O-4 yanking my chain.  Well, I should be above takin’ the bait from a field grade, but I had a chat with his boss to make sure we were trackin’, then I gave the Major a call to express my displeasure directly.  He didn’t really back down, I’ll give him that.  I came right up to the edge of acting unprofessionally, then regained control and ended the call on a relatively positive note.  This is Korea, we’ll call it an armistice.

Tom and Yuli were by over the weekend and he walked me through reformatting the iPod.  So, I’m back up to where I was, 17,000+ files.

Finished up season 3 of Dexter and I’m still enjoying the hell out of it.  Highly recommended.

And welcome to Jeff, a new reader here at LTG.  Glad you’re here, but as the regulars could tell you–Prepare to be disappointed!
And I think I will stop here, having proven my point about having nothing of note to say.

OK, once again I have braved the archives here at LTG looking for some golden nuggets to share as the “best” of the year.  Man, it was a journey through some pretty pathetic drivel, but these two tied for least worst of 2006:

Stupid is as Stupid does  recounts the sad tale of some firsts for me in Korea–my first blackout, my first ambulance ride, and my first stitches.

A Clean Well-Lighted Place  I think nicely captures the quiet desperation of the mundane life I was living as my second year in Korea came to an end.

And this picture from that same time period reflects my emotional state of being.  2007 brought some changes good and bad, but my outlook was definitely more positive.

Finally, I call Greetings Earthlings! the best of my photo-essays from 2006.  Partly because for some reason my server dropped most of the photographs from my posts back then.  Anyway, I have photos of Namdaemun Gate and the marketplace, vintage Dolce Vita shots, pics from a Busan trip, and also the DMZ tour.

Stay tuned for 2007 once I get around to wading through the muck and mire of my so-called life…

The beautiful Korean woman for this week is singer, model, actress Park Soo Jin.

Not too shabby, eh?

She was a member of the popular K-pop group “Sugar”.  You can watch her perform with Sugar here.

And Ms. Park also does lots of commercials.  I couldn’t decide if I liked this one or this one best.  Heh, it’s all good, right?

So, yesterday I take my winter coat to the dry cleaners in preparation for putting it away until next winter.

And of course, I wake up to snowfall this morning.  Appears to be 3+ inches of thick wet snow on the ground and it is still coming down.

Ah well.

Actually,  when I dropped the coat off I wondered when I might ever have the occasion to wear it again.  I don’t expect to have much need for any of my winter clothes there.  Or my suits for that matter…

…as a dinner meat option here in Korea.  The photo above is a joke of course, but the real photos of dog slaughter are not so pleasant to look at.

Anyway, I don’t eat dog meat.  Some Koreans do and it is culturally acceptable for them to do so.  I would not want a Korean judging me for liking tacos and so I cut them the same slack.  Ask a Korean has a fantastic post up about the whole man eats dog phenomonom here in the Land of the Morning Calm.  Have a read, it is rather fascinating.

For those of you watching at home, here’s what’s been going on:

I had some dinner guests, Tom and Yuli who you will recall introduced me to Bali.  Tom is also the captain of my dart team.

This is the aftermath of what was my standard grilled rib-eye steak dinner.

The highlight of Tom’s visit was that he set me up with this keen system that allows me to watch content I’ve downloaded from the internet in the comfort of my living room on the big screen TV.  It is really awesome!

“Let’s see, this wire plugs in here, and then…”

So, I’ve been looking for good quality entertainment on the internet (hey, there’s more than porn there, who knew?).  I’ve managed to watch “The Blind Side” (which I found to be quite excellent by the way) and an old favorite “The Prince of Tides”.  But where I’ve really be spending my time is on watching the Showtime series “Dexter”.   Just finished season one and I am hooked.  Great show.

So dear readers, I need your help.  I know how to search for visual entertainment, but I’m not at all sure what to search for.  I mean, Tom suggested I try “Dexter” which I had otherwise never heard of.  So, what else is out there I should be watching.  Leave your suggestions in the comments.  Thank you very much.

Last weekend my blog buddy Jenn of I’ve Got 2 Shoes fame came up from Ulsan for a taste of big city life.  I fear she may have been a little disappointed because other than dinner and a short bar hop on Saturday night, I couldn’t motivate my sorry ass to get out of the house much.  Well, we did the usual base tour.  Anyway, she said she enjoyed chillin’ here at the LTG abode and she’s always welcome to sample the mellow life in Seoul.

Friday night we had the going away dart tourney for Chris Hayes at Dolce Vita.  Yep, I came out of semi-retirement for the event.  And yep, my game is still crap.

Chris is returning to the USA after 12 years in Korea.  He has a new job and is excited about heading home and starting his new life.  He’ll be missed here of course.  Monday nights will be a tad quieter, that’s for sure.

Rex, CH, Ace, and Lucky…

Chris brought a couple of newbies out with him…

Alistair brought his pretty wife Juri and her pink darts.  She’s actually getting to be a pretty good darter.  She and her partner Ace took a second place at the tourney.

Jim an Chris figuring out the brackets…

Ron, Doug and Lonnie talk it over…

My theory is if you aren’t throwing well, drink more!

Juri and Jee Yeun agree that there is nothing more exciting than Friday night darts at Dolce Vita!

Anyway, it was a pretty good night all in all.  When didn’t have many of the boys from the UK with us, I guess because they were resting up for their mate Ciaran’s wedding on Saturday.  I had the honor of attending the event and it was well done.

The understandably happy Ciaran with his lovely bride Eun Jin.

Ciaran is a very nice young lad from Wales and I wish him and Eun Jin much happiness in the future.

So, today I’ve been playing with my iPod (I somehow managed to delete my library and I’m slowly rebuilding).  Got a pot of chili cooking and my nephew Justin will be joining me later this evening.

And that brings y’all right up to the minute in my thrilling life….