had a full tank of gas, an open road ahead of us, a full day, lots of music to sing to, and a whole country to discover to our heart's content. We ended up at Daechon Port.2. We walked through the big smelly fish market and had a good laugh at all the eager sellers. They greeted us with huge smiles and told us their specials. This one young seller tried to use her cuteness to pursue us to buy at her stand. She was all cute until I told her in Korean that fish are disgusting... and then she got really loud! ㅋㅋㅋ
3. Once again I found myself in a conversation regarding secrets and so my mind drifted off to when I was a university student and life was so different. I had great grades, a supportive family, a boyfriend, a job, and a cheap apartment off campus where my landlady cleaned and often
cooked for me. However, things came crashing down one day (6 years ago) when I discovered a secret, a terrible secret. My happy-go-lucky life flipped upside down and, as a result I was involved in a very vicious fight. I had promised them I wouldn't breath a word and so later, in front of my parents, landlady and the police, I lied. I couldn't tell them the whole truth and so, in trying to keep the initial secret, I created another. Four people are free men right now because I unwillingly was forced into carrying the weight of this secret to my grave. If only they really knew what happened!4. However, this past year, after six years of being burdened with this secret, in a moment of weakness, I told Kim Tae. Honestly, I don't even know if he understood what I told him but nonetheless, I told him. I told him because I believed he'd always be here for me. I thought he was a true friend. Turned out was only here for me as long as he thought he had a chance to be my boyfriend. And now, now that he knows I'll never be a couple with him, where is he? I don't know.
5. Snapped out of it and came back to reality... there I was sitting at the end of the port with my beautiful friend, the wind on my back, sweet spring weather... it was perfect.
6. In the market my friend picked us out some jumbo shrimp and so we tagged along with the seller lady down some random street and into a restaurant where we then sat and cooked it. Despite having to rip of the shrimp heads (got my friend to do that for me), the meal was awesome! We sat there for quite some time and it felt so good to be chilling with my friend on this beautiful day.
7. Silly me freaked out over shrimp brains on my hand and ended up totally toasting my wrist on the side of the cooking pan... ouch! Third degree burns on a Saturday afternoon isn't fun. I'm ok though.
8. Our trip to the sea was great. Back when I lived in Toronto, Canada, I use to live literally 5 minutes from the beach and so I miss the water. It was so great to come out here today. After a couple of hours we headed back to Cheonan.
9. Oh my gosh... my friend broke my toilet!!! This is the second toilet seat I've had to replace in Korea! The first one was at my old house. I had forgotten to turn my curling iron of and so it burnt a whole right through my seat. ㅋㅋㅋ.
10. I've come to the conclusion that I think way too much and so I envy the idiots of the world who don't think at all or rarely think. I think my philosophical and deep thinking comes from my father who, upon looking at rush hour traffic, would always comment, "Look at all those brains!" Ha, ha, ha.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What is my dad doing at this very minute?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.
-- Yanni
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