insomnia...

now with the monsoon no longer around

the rain is no longer and the hot and humid session of summer has begun...
this means sleepless nights with the fan keeping me dry and cool...

bleh...

i am an addict...

me = sudoku addict...

www.websudoku.com

you've been warned

Liquid

Busy bodies move about this room stress seems to boil in her eyes as she takes orders and with watchful eyes manages the establishment at hand. Busy bodies cruise throughout the room taking orders and fulfilling desires of those throwing stress aside for a few hours - taking a break from their lives of bustle and bustle. Taking a break, any break before they break under the stressors of their lives. Ice filling cups. Liquor filling bodies. Smoke filling the air that once filled lungs. Releasing stress onto those taking the orders. The cycle of stress engulfing every tall order. Each order fulfilled. Destruction though it may seem each smoke filled breath each alcoholic sip of life we degenerate we decay despite our choices to prolong or not this life of choices….choosing regardless our adventure choosing our fate. Finished. Done. With no more to say.

some random shots...

looks like me, Un-Mi and Hye-Ju

Hye-Ju and Sun-Gyung posing pertty..

Yu-Sun posing perttier...

these pictures were taken at a place called Liquid Lounge...
good tunes...good vibes

yes i am eating well...

a couple of friends from school and i went across the ways to have some sam-gyup-sal. this is like uber-thick slabs of bacon that are grilled and wrapped in lettuce with other sauces. no pictures of the food, but here is a nice little panoramic that i took in the restaurant of su-jin, oo-gyoo, and hye-ju

the chase...

sometimes i think we constantly search for the things that we can't have in life...
but sometimes i think when we have the opportunity to have that one thing, we let it go for anything else.

i am fearful to fulfill that desire or am i fearful that once i have it that i won't desire more...?

i think about Rob (john cusacks' character in High Fidelity) when he remarks about womens underpants and how he thought he would be surrounded by sexy underwear to come to the realization that that women saved the sexy panties for the nights that they knew that they were going to have sex...

later he remarks that he doesn't want the fantasy but he wants to be with Laura because she was real...

do we constantly search and look for this fantasy that doesn't exist...?

peak season...

We are in peak monsoon season, folks! that means rain...and oh boy, that means a lot of rain. i'm going to have to take the subway again just so i could take a picture for you all. but the han river which separates the north and south portions of south korea has risen soo much that some express/highways seem to be underwater. kinda reminds me of a water slide...but for cars.

i need to remember to get that photo. one never has a camera when they want it the most...


so here is one example...along the han-river there is a strip of park. people hang out and go on picnics, fly kites, get drunk, etc...but nobody usually goes there during monsoon season... ;)

The store right next door...

There is this little market right next door to my house. I go there only when I need something...Like...Right away.

they aren't unfriendly by any means, but most places here are uber-friendly, which makes this place kinda unfriendly...You know what I mean? Anyhow, the old man runs it with his wife and I think his son watches the place at night. But never any conversations and we never even greet each other when I walk by the place...Instead he pretends that I don't exist (which I probably don't - to him anyways). But the funny thing is whenever I buy stuff from any other place and walk by (because I need to go home) he always checks out my bag(s)...

in my own little mind, I like to think that he wonders about why I didn't buy the stuff at his store and actually sees bags of money walk by him (instead of the groceries). It's kinda sad..

a word on diet...

a friend told me that a group of people have this theory/philosophy on diet.
it is been said that (wo)man is made from the clay of the earth and so that when one retuns to this land, they may feast upon its fruits. In fact when that person returns to the motherland, the food actually tastes better because of that internal connection between the earth of the body and the earth from which the food came.

i find this amazing as i live by the idea that man is of the earth...
but secondly, because my appetite has become voracious while i have lived here in korea. i eat things that i would never touch such as mushrooms and cooked fish (i always liked raw fish).

i suppose a part of it is my open-ness to try new things as i am in new place, but that wouldn't explain why i would actually like it, opposed to trying it to realize that i still didn't like it.

this philosophy also explains the little belly that i'm started to get...although i could come up with some other explanations for that ;)

bastich...

damn that kim jong il....
my stocks are losing value because of him and his need for attention...

Raindrops...

keep falling on my head...