24 3월 2006


Mmmm...kimchi stew!!!

So an Australian, an American, and a Korean walk into a bar...no, it's not a joke...it's how I got a new roommate for the next few weeks! Remember my habit of taking in strays? Well, Jiyeon found a stray Australian who needed a place to stay and since I have a spare room we all figured why the hell not?!? Saturday night we went out to Itaewon, where the American soldiers acted like a bunch of sweaty pigs who had never been out in public before. Quickly tiring of that scene, we left for parts less American and ended up having a blast. I didn't get in until around 4, which pretty much killed any hopes I had of making it to the hash on Sunday. What kind of hash starts at 10 on a Sunday morning?!? Sounds like something Quick N Little would do!

So Sunday I got caught up on sleep, went grocery shopping, and then the new roommate (her name is Sarah, btw) and I went to Namdaemun to go shopping and say hi to Kim. Later we met up with her friend Brandon and Kim joined us when he was done with work. The big news of the day was all about baseball...Korea had been kicking ass, but lost a super close game to Japan, knocking them out of the tournament.



We were pretending to take a shot of Sarah in hopes of getting a picture of the unbelievably green outfit the guy behind her was wearing, but not only did we not get the shot, I got totally busted trying to take their picture.

23 3월 2006

Palace Shots




Weekend Update

Ok, Ok...so it's Thursday night and I'm just getting around to filling you in on last weekend. Sue me. I've been a little busy lately. Unfortunately it's been mostly work related busyness, instead of fun stuff.

The weather on Saturday was really beautiful. Such a great day to be outside. I went with Jiyeon to The Palace of Something or Other, where King I-Can't-Remember-His-Name lived until he died in his bedroom about a million years ago. How's that for a history lesson? OK, hang on...I'll dig out my Lonely Planet guide and look it up...it was Deoksugung, which became a palace in 1593. It was really beautiful...the kind of place that made me wish I knew a little more about photography. In 1919 the former King died here in his bedroom. This is a picture of the view from his bedroom window now. Think he ever imagined Korea being anything like this?

Here's a few more shots of the palace...I was trying to get some of the colors and details, but again, I'm no photographer.
MOTHERFUCKER!! I hate blogger!! It takes forever to upload photos and then it doesn't fucking work anyway!! Sorry guys, I'll try again later.

So, where was I? Oh yeah...after the palace we went to a museum, where we saw an exhibit called '100 years, 100 chairs.' I'm not kidding...we actually looked at 100 chairs, many of which looked like shit you would find in the basement of a condemned building. We got yelled at about a million times for touching them, so my 'I don't speak Korean' face actually came in handy for once. Usually it just makes me look like an idiot. At the end of the long line of chairs they had some really cool black and white photos of famous people sitting in the chairs. We also saw an exhibit by Robert Indiana (which was the real reason we went - it wasn't for the chairs!). Just tried to upload a few more shots of the museum, and of course it won't work. I'm heading out for some coffee...hopefully blogger will be a little more cooperative when I get back!!