Here he comes...
... there he goes...
... and there he waits cause he knows as soon as I make him cross back over we'll be heading back home and he's having way too much fun to go home now.Monday, August 31, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Monday, August 31
1. See, I was right. Just like I had predicted, today Snickers had to be taken to the hospital again. What a surprise, that one day’s dose of medicine didn’t help him.
2. Gave the doctor my silly rendition of the evil eye and upon telling him that I’ll see him tomorrow again, he changed Snickers’ prescription to a three day prescription.
3. There’s a children’s daycare located across the park from my house and I think 11am marks their singing time. Today I entertained Snickers by singing along to them… hahaha. They were singing some English children’s songs I had taught back at the hagwon when I taught kindergarten.
4. Well my new sofa has finally arrived and yet I think the anticipation of waiting for it was more enjoyable than the actual arrival and using of the couch. I say this because the couch isn’t the so-called ivory color we picked but instead is a grayish-cream. It’s not as long as we had liked and it definitely looks better in the picture. Having said that though, it’s not bad but it’s not so good. I’m sure with a little time I’ll get to like it.
7. Of course I couldn’t be mad at him, we had both gone too far but my wrists were throbbing and starting to swell and so I had to cut my boxing short today on account that it hurt to make a fist with my right hand.
8. Left Snickers at boxing and went home in a huff. My wrists felt so messed up and I was ticked that he still hadn’t apologized… in other words, I pulled a typical Polish-high-pride move and, instead of being flat out and open about the situation, I chose to just leave the club.
9. My Sambu landlady continues to flood Snickers’ cell phone with calls, insisting that we put Sambu back to the way it was when I first moved in. “Does this mean I have to puke all over the bathroom?” I asked Snickers. So I was being rather sarcastic but honestly, when I first moved into Sambu it was a mess and I’ll never forget spending my first night scrubbing puke off the toilet and bathroom floor.
10. Tonight I made the attempt to go over there and clean Sambu. With my right wrist in a wrist sports bandage and my left one not doing too well either, you can imagine how “impressed” I was after trekking over to Sambu lugging a vacuum and a bucket full of cleaning supplies only to not be able to open the door. I think she changed the door keypad number. I tried calling her but had no luck and so back to Guum Ggum I had to haul all that stuff again.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What sounds logic to you?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
--Rita Mae Brown
2. Gave the doctor my silly rendition of the evil eye and upon telling him that I’ll see him tomorrow again, he changed Snickers’ prescription to a three day prescription.
3. There’s a children’s daycare located across the park from my house and I think 11am marks their singing time. Today I entertained Snickers by singing along to them… hahaha. They were singing some English children’s songs I had taught back at the hagwon when I taught kindergarten.
4. Well my new sofa has finally arrived and yet I think the anticipation of waiting for it was more enjoyable than the actual arrival and using of the couch. I say this because the couch isn’t the so-called ivory color we picked but instead is a grayish-cream. It’s not as long as we had liked and it definitely looks better in the picture. Having said that though, it’s not bad but it’s not so good. I’m sure with a little time I’ll get to like it.
He was testing out the new couch, and yes Vbuuren, Snickers does wear clothes. My house has a "limited clothes" policy though... hahaha.
5. Mi Nam may not like life on the roof top but he’s definitely loving the benefits that come with the change in house and so he gets absolutely crazy-hyper when I take him for a walk. Because there’s really no one around my house in the wee hours and the late hours, walks with Mi Nam have been lease-free for the last week and so morning and evening walks means he gets to run like the wild and jump in the small river beside Guum Ggum. He jumps in the wild weeds, does his duty and then continues to run and frolic like a little kid.
This sure beats the crazy traffic and city sounds that use to wake me up at Sambu.
And here's Mi Nam running to his new home.
6. What started off as a feisty and frisky round of horse-play with Snickers ended off on a sour note when I refused to let go. He had pinned me down and so I had a hold of his t-shirt collar with my teeth. He thought that grabbing my wrists and squeezing them tight would get me to release his collar but it was only after all the feeling and blood had been squeezed out of my wrists that I gave up and let go. By then I was in pain and so I rushed to the bathroom, locked the door and poured cold water over my wrists, leaving Snickers on the other side of the door pleading with me to let him in.
7. Of course I couldn’t be mad at him, we had both gone too far but my wrists were throbbing and starting to swell and so I had to cut my boxing short today on account that it hurt to make a fist with my right hand.
8. Left Snickers at boxing and went home in a huff. My wrists felt so messed up and I was ticked that he still hadn’t apologized… in other words, I pulled a typical Polish-high-pride move and, instead of being flat out and open about the situation, I chose to just leave the club.
9. My Sambu landlady continues to flood Snickers’ cell phone with calls, insisting that we put Sambu back to the way it was when I first moved in. “Does this mean I have to puke all over the bathroom?” I asked Snickers. So I was being rather sarcastic but honestly, when I first moved into Sambu it was a mess and I’ll never forget spending my first night scrubbing puke off the toilet and bathroom floor.
10. Tonight I made the attempt to go over there and clean Sambu. With my right wrist in a wrist sports bandage and my left one not doing too well either, you can imagine how “impressed” I was after trekking over to Sambu lugging a vacuum and a bucket full of cleaning supplies only to not be able to open the door. I think she changed the door keypad number. I tried calling her but had no luck and so back to Guum Ggum I had to haul all that stuff again.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What sounds logic to you?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
--Rita Mae Brown
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Sunday, August 30
1. Sunday is my only designated sleep-in day but today I woke up early to the sound of Snickers moaning in pain. I turned my head and there he was, sitting on my floor with these big puppy dog eyes and my blanket wrapped around him.
2. Spent a chunk of my morning in the hospital with Snickers. His throat was swollen, his head was spinning and he was having hot flashes like a woman in menopause. One minute he was sweating up a storm and dripping with sweat, and then the next minute he was quivering with the chills. My initial thought was the swine flu and so my mind raced back to all the places he’s been this past week or so. So much for the hospital and their thoughts about it being the swine flu, or even testing him for it for that matter. Instead what happened was Snickers got a shot in the bum, probably some measly vitamin dose, and then was sent home with a days’ worth of medicine.
3. Talk about a hazard waiting to happen, when the nurse told us to go into the next room I almost bumped elbows with a doctor in surgery… seriously, no jokes!!! Snickers opened the door for me and when I stepped to the side I turned and who should be beside me but a doctor sitting on a stool performing an operation. Okay, so it was a minor operation, he was sewing some kid’s big toe back on, but oh my gosh. Don’t they usually do that in their own set-aside rooms?! It wasn’t like the hospital was busy either. Nasty.
4. “You liked that didn’t you?!” was what the look on my face clearly screamed to the young nurse who had been appointed to go behind the curtain and give him a needle in the bum. Not too sure what it is with Koreans and them insisting they shot you in the bum for everything you go to the hospital for, but that nurse gave Snickers a good loud smack on the rear and I jumped a bit at the sound of it. I try to avoid Korean hospitals, hospitals in general actually, but ever since I had that whole revealing of my Polish bum at a hospital last September, I think I somehow blocked out the needle in the bum hospital protocol.
5. Quick question here, what the heck is ONE DAY worth of medicine really going to do? I asked the doctor the same question, he didn’t answer and so when we left I turned and said “I’ll see you tomorrow.”
6. My attempts at trying to cheer Snickers up, beyond the random “attack kissing” I did in the street, included taking him out for lunch. He asked to have sushi and so sushi we had.
7. I’m use to sitting on the floor cross-legged for my meals but today I had sported a short dress and so in addition to sitting cross-legged, I also had to pin my dress down in between my legs. Needless to say, it was quite uncomfortable. The meal was great and sitting in our own private room was excellent but I kind of had a little problem when it came to standing up.
8. Correction, I could stand up, I just couldn’t walk. Snickers thought I was playing a joke and so he stood there laughing at me. I couldn’t walk though, it was so strange. My legs had gone all pins-and-needles on me and I literally couldn’t feel my feet. Thankfully with Snickers help I managed to somehow get out of the restaurant. I started laughing so uncontrollably and so my eyes swelled up with tears. We stood there for a couple of minutes laughing at the whole situation and then I took another attempt at using my legs… hahaha .
9. For the rest of the evening I placed Snickers on “Nurse Amy’s” orders to relax and let me take care of him and so beyond the obvious that he loved that, it was nice.
10. Oh my gosh, I’m embarrassed to even write this let alone admit it… today Snickers thought it’d be comfortable for him to wear a pair of my pants. Now, I guess I should tell you hear that these aren’t just regular pants, instead, they’re kind of like leggings and so, besides the length, one size fits all, or so we proved tonight… hahaha. When he first came out wearing them I laughed my head off and then shouted out “I don’t think you’re having kids if you wear these long!”… hahaha.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
I can wrap my head around the possibility of losing a shoe, but how do you lose a toe?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.
-- Danish Proverb
2. Spent a chunk of my morning in the hospital with Snickers. His throat was swollen, his head was spinning and he was having hot flashes like a woman in menopause. One minute he was sweating up a storm and dripping with sweat, and then the next minute he was quivering with the chills. My initial thought was the swine flu and so my mind raced back to all the places he’s been this past week or so. So much for the hospital and their thoughts about it being the swine flu, or even testing him for it for that matter. Instead what happened was Snickers got a shot in the bum, probably some measly vitamin dose, and then was sent home with a days’ worth of medicine.
3. Talk about a hazard waiting to happen, when the nurse told us to go into the next room I almost bumped elbows with a doctor in surgery… seriously, no jokes!!! Snickers opened the door for me and when I stepped to the side I turned and who should be beside me but a doctor sitting on a stool performing an operation. Okay, so it was a minor operation, he was sewing some kid’s big toe back on, but oh my gosh. Don’t they usually do that in their own set-aside rooms?! It wasn’t like the hospital was busy either. Nasty.
4. “You liked that didn’t you?!” was what the look on my face clearly screamed to the young nurse who had been appointed to go behind the curtain and give him a needle in the bum. Not too sure what it is with Koreans and them insisting they shot you in the bum for everything you go to the hospital for, but that nurse gave Snickers a good loud smack on the rear and I jumped a bit at the sound of it. I try to avoid Korean hospitals, hospitals in general actually, but ever since I had that whole revealing of my Polish bum at a hospital last September, I think I somehow blocked out the needle in the bum hospital protocol. 5. Quick question here, what the heck is ONE DAY worth of medicine really going to do? I asked the doctor the same question, he didn’t answer and so when we left I turned and said “I’ll see you tomorrow.”
6. My attempts at trying to cheer Snickers up, beyond the random “attack kissing” I did in the street, included taking him out for lunch. He asked to have sushi and so sushi we had.
7. I’m use to sitting on the floor cross-legged for my meals but today I had sported a short dress and so in addition to sitting cross-legged, I also had to pin my dress down in between my legs. Needless to say, it was quite uncomfortable. The meal was great and sitting in our own private room was excellent but I kind of had a little problem when it came to standing up. 8. Correction, I could stand up, I just couldn’t walk. Snickers thought I was playing a joke and so he stood there laughing at me. I couldn’t walk though, it was so strange. My legs had gone all pins-and-needles on me and I literally couldn’t feel my feet. Thankfully with Snickers help I managed to somehow get out of the restaurant. I started laughing so uncontrollably and so my eyes swelled up with tears. We stood there for a couple of minutes laughing at the whole situation and then I took another attempt at using my legs… hahaha .
9. For the rest of the evening I placed Snickers on “Nurse Amy’s” orders to relax and let me take care of him and so beyond the obvious that he loved that, it was nice.
10. Oh my gosh, I’m embarrassed to even write this let alone admit it… today Snickers thought it’d be comfortable for him to wear a pair of my pants. Now, I guess I should tell you hear that these aren’t just regular pants, instead, they’re kind of like leggings and so, besides the length, one size fits all, or so we proved tonight… hahaha. When he first came out wearing them I laughed my head off and then shouted out “I don’t think you’re having kids if you wear these long!”… hahaha.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
I can wrap my head around the possibility of losing a shoe, but how do you lose a toe?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.
-- Danish Proverb
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Saturday, August 29
1. It was a Saturday morning and I was strolling into weight training at 6am… what’s wrong with this picture?! Did my usual ten minute run, followed up with an intense leg workout, and then wobbled my way home looking like I just got off a horse… hahaha.
2. Weight training was the only training I had on my schedule today but I did head into Snickers’ boxing club to watch him spar. He was scheduled to spar at 1pm with both Black Skinny and Panty Boy Jr. from my boxing club.
3. Junior Mint was suppose to show but turned out to be a no-show. I miss him.
4. For the most part watching Snickers spar means me feeling like my stomach is about to come out my mouth but today it was different. I’m not too sure if his opponents were having a bad day or if it was Snickers that had upgraded, but Snickers clearly won his sparring sessions. Black Skinny is about 3 or 4 weight classes above Snickers and so his higher weight is a huge advantage to him in the ring and usually means he’s pushing Snickers around a lot, not today however. And as for Panty Boy Jr. he’s a bit bigger than Snickers but his strength is in his speed. He’s very fast with not only his hands but with his feet, and his whole body for that matter. Today however, Snickers was much faster.
5. No sparring session is quite complete with at least one boxer getting injured. Black Skinny stepped out of the ring with a nose that is sure to be bruised within a couple of hours, Panty Boy Jr. scored a bit of a black eye, and Snickers scored a bloody nose and bloody lip.
6. I couldn’t stick around to watch the rest of their training as I had coffee plans with Buff Boy the Original at 2pm. So off I raced to Coffee Bean to see him. It’s been about a month since I’ve seen him, too long, and so we had a lot of stuff to catch up on. Turns out he and his girlfriend are thinking about taking my Monday writing class at Dankook and so he joked about wanting an A+. I consider myself a fair professor but I must admit that I don’t give out many A+s in my classes. Among my last year’s register of 300 some students, I think I only gave out 12 A+s, if even that.
7. Buff Boy the Original and Snickers, after months of me talking about them to each other, finally met in person.
8. Snickers’ grandfather collapsed the other day and so ever since then his family has been counting their days with him. As a result, Snickers and his family traveled out to see his grandfather today. The plan was for him to return tomorrow but once he got word that I was going to Little America, he decided to come back tonight. Ever since I took him to Little America and he got a small dose of the “interesting” scene there, it’s obvious he’s not a fan of me associating myself with that place. I go there for the Western goodies (ie. Protein mix and tuna packed in water) Pro Star can get me on the Air Force Base that I can’t get here in Cheonan but Snickers rather I not. I can’t really get mad at him though considering what went down the one time he went there with me for dinner. I think he used the word “vulture” to describe the behavior of the American soldiers there.
9. With my plans to Little America being a total flop, I called up Kitty Cat and asked her if she wanted to do some baking with me. "Oh gosh" I thought to myself, "I'm 29 and I'm so thrilled to be baking on a Satuday night, what's wrong with me?!" Anyway, we swung by Lotte Mart and loaded up on cooking supplies and then got straight to business with our baking. Turns out my oven only has top heat and so cooking or baking anything thick, like the muffins we so killed tonight, is a no-go. Regardless of the fact that our muffins failed miserably, we did make some pretty decent rice-bread-thing-a-ma-jiggees. I ended up eating one of the top-only-cooked muffins and no sooner had it reached my tummy but then my tummy started to send out “I-hate-you-now” signals. Sporting a huge tummy ache for the rest of the evening wasn’t fun.
10. Snickers returned earlier than scheduled and sicker as expected too. I knew he wasn’t feeling so good earlier on but I thought he just hadn’t slept well. No sooner did Kitty Cat leave Guum Ggum but I turned and there was Snickers totally flaked out in the middle of the family room floor.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Where is my sofa already?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Pleasure is the bait of sin.
-- Plato
2. Weight training was the only training I had on my schedule today but I did head into Snickers’ boxing club to watch him spar. He was scheduled to spar at 1pm with both Black Skinny and Panty Boy Jr. from my boxing club.
3. Junior Mint was suppose to show but turned out to be a no-show. I miss him.
4. For the most part watching Snickers spar means me feeling like my stomach is about to come out my mouth but today it was different. I’m not too sure if his opponents were having a bad day or if it was Snickers that had upgraded, but Snickers clearly won his sparring sessions. Black Skinny is about 3 or 4 weight classes above Snickers and so his higher weight is a huge advantage to him in the ring and usually means he’s pushing Snickers around a lot, not today however. And as for Panty Boy Jr. he’s a bit bigger than Snickers but his strength is in his speed. He’s very fast with not only his hands but with his feet, and his whole body for that matter. Today however, Snickers was much faster.
5. No sparring session is quite complete with at least one boxer getting injured. Black Skinny stepped out of the ring with a nose that is sure to be bruised within a couple of hours, Panty Boy Jr. scored a bit of a black eye, and Snickers scored a bloody nose and bloody lip.
6. I couldn’t stick around to watch the rest of their training as I had coffee plans with Buff Boy the Original at 2pm. So off I raced to Coffee Bean to see him. It’s been about a month since I’ve seen him, too long, and so we had a lot of stuff to catch up on. Turns out he and his girlfriend are thinking about taking my Monday writing class at Dankook and so he joked about wanting an A+. I consider myself a fair professor but I must admit that I don’t give out many A+s in my classes. Among my last year’s register of 300 some students, I think I only gave out 12 A+s, if even that.
7. Buff Boy the Original and Snickers, after months of me talking about them to each other, finally met in person.
8. Snickers’ grandfather collapsed the other day and so ever since then his family has been counting their days with him. As a result, Snickers and his family traveled out to see his grandfather today. The plan was for him to return tomorrow but once he got word that I was going to Little America, he decided to come back tonight. Ever since I took him to Little America and he got a small dose of the “interesting” scene there, it’s obvious he’s not a fan of me associating myself with that place. I go there for the Western goodies (ie. Protein mix and tuna packed in water) Pro Star can get me on the Air Force Base that I can’t get here in Cheonan but Snickers rather I not. I can’t really get mad at him though considering what went down the one time he went there with me for dinner. I think he used the word “vulture” to describe the behavior of the American soldiers there.
9. With my plans to Little America being a total flop, I called up Kitty Cat and asked her if she wanted to do some baking with me. "Oh gosh" I thought to myself, "I'm 29 and I'm so thrilled to be baking on a Satuday night, what's wrong with me?!" Anyway, we swung by Lotte Mart and loaded up on cooking supplies and then got straight to business with our baking. Turns out my oven only has top heat and so cooking or baking anything thick, like the muffins we so killed tonight, is a no-go. Regardless of the fact that our muffins failed miserably, we did make some pretty decent rice-bread-thing-a-ma-jiggees. I ended up eating one of the top-only-cooked muffins and no sooner had it reached my tummy but then my tummy started to send out “I-hate-you-now” signals. Sporting a huge tummy ache for the rest of the evening wasn’t fun.
10. Snickers returned earlier than scheduled and sicker as expected too. I knew he wasn’t feeling so good earlier on but I thought he just hadn’t slept well. No sooner did Kitty Cat leave Guum Ggum but I turned and there was Snickers totally flaked out in the middle of the family room floor.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Where is my sofa already?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Pleasure is the bait of sin.
-- Plato
Friday, August 28, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Friday, August 28
1. No sooner had I gone to bed but it was time for me to wake up again for weight training. I’ve been having some pretty whacked dreams lately and had woken up several times last night from a nightmare that I just couldn’t shake.
2. Trained triceps, biceps, shoulders, and abs at Hongik.
3. Had my usual mid-morning nap at 8am and then woke up again around 11am.
4. Spent my afternoon sitting around the kitchen table with Snickers. I’ve made a few packages to send to Canada but still haven’t gotten around to sending them which is pretty lazy of me considering I now live a skip, hop, and a jump away from the post office.
5. Deciding to sit down and write letters to accompany my packages put Snickers’ brain in motion and so he sat down to write a letter. When I asked him who he was writing a letter to I was shocked when he said “mom”, as in my mom. It was his first time writing a letter to her and so he told me he was so nervous. He started the letter off with “Dear Mom” and then continued the rest of the letter in Korean so I had to translate it into English. He then wrote out the English translated letter on his special paper.
6. At the boxing club today I met a new member of Snickers’ club, a young guy who’s deaf. He put on a hearing aid after training and so I talked to him for a bit. He left when Snickers and I left and so we took the elevator down together. When the doors closed with the three of us in it, he turned to Snickers and asked him “Are you two married?” Snickers snickered and I responded with “… he would be oh so lucky to marry me”. Truth of the matter is though, we’d both be so lucky to be married to each other.
7. Snickers has been contemplating getting a part-time job lately even though I’m totally against it but his sponsor hasn’t really been financially supporting him and despite him being at the top of his game, apparently holding a champion belt in Korea doesn’t really pay like it should. Snickers wanted a part-time job but I argued that he should wait till after his game. With him training three times a day and his game being only three weeks away, he really should keep his focus undivided and maintain his game-only mentality. So, tonight he had a meeting with a former coach of his regarding a part-time job that the man offered Snickers. Snickers and I both decided he wouldn’t take the job but he headed across town to deliver his decision in person.
8. While Snickers was out for a bit I thought I’d be a sweet girlfriend, test out my new oven and surprise Snickers with a home-cooked dinner. Made some Shake’N Bake chicken and then threw it on a home-cooked pizza. For the pizza dough, I stacked two tortilla shells and then loaded them up with tomatoes, sausages, green peppers, Shake’N Bake chicken, mushrooms, cheese, and onions.
All that cutting, chopping and cooking was all worth it when he smiled.
9. Realized last minute that I had forgot the pizza sauce, correction, the pasta sauce I was going to use was way past it’s expiry date. Got a new jar of pasta sauce and ended up just dipping the pizza into it.
10. Got crazy-mad rave reviews from Snickers for my pizza and so he added “Pizza Master” to my list of mastered-“Master” labels… hahaha.
2. Trained triceps, biceps, shoulders, and abs at Hongik.
3. Had my usual mid-morning nap at 8am and then woke up again around 11am.
4. Spent my afternoon sitting around the kitchen table with Snickers. I’ve made a few packages to send to Canada but still haven’t gotten around to sending them which is pretty lazy of me considering I now live a skip, hop, and a jump away from the post office.
5. Deciding to sit down and write letters to accompany my packages put Snickers’ brain in motion and so he sat down to write a letter. When I asked him who he was writing a letter to I was shocked when he said “mom”, as in my mom. It was his first time writing a letter to her and so he told me he was so nervous. He started the letter off with “Dear Mom” and then continued the rest of the letter in Korean so I had to translate it into English. He then wrote out the English translated letter on his special paper.
6. At the boxing club today I met a new member of Snickers’ club, a young guy who’s deaf. He put on a hearing aid after training and so I talked to him for a bit. He left when Snickers and I left and so we took the elevator down together. When the doors closed with the three of us in it, he turned to Snickers and asked him “Are you two married?” Snickers snickered and I responded with “… he would be oh so lucky to marry me”. Truth of the matter is though, we’d both be so lucky to be married to each other.
7. Snickers has been contemplating getting a part-time job lately even though I’m totally against it but his sponsor hasn’t really been financially supporting him and despite him being at the top of his game, apparently holding a champion belt in Korea doesn’t really pay like it should. Snickers wanted a part-time job but I argued that he should wait till after his game. With him training three times a day and his game being only three weeks away, he really should keep his focus undivided and maintain his game-only mentality. So, tonight he had a meeting with a former coach of his regarding a part-time job that the man offered Snickers. Snickers and I both decided he wouldn’t take the job but he headed across town to deliver his decision in person.
8. While Snickers was out for a bit I thought I’d be a sweet girlfriend, test out my new oven and surprise Snickers with a home-cooked dinner. Made some Shake’N Bake chicken and then threw it on a home-cooked pizza. For the pizza dough, I stacked two tortilla shells and then loaded them up with tomatoes, sausages, green peppers, Shake’N Bake chicken, mushrooms, cheese, and onions.
All that cutting, chopping and cooking was all worth it when he smiled.
9. Realized last minute that I had forgot the pizza sauce, correction, the pasta sauce I was going to use was way past it’s expiry date. Got a new jar of pasta sauce and ended up just dipping the pizza into it. 10. Got crazy-mad rave reviews from Snickers for my pizza and so he added “Pizza Master” to my list of mastered-“Master” labels… hahaha.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What are you the master of?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
You learn something every day if you pay attention.
-- Ray LeBlond
What are you the master of?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
You learn something every day if you pay attention.
-- Ray LeBlond
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Thursday, August 27
1. Woke up and it was rainy hard, “crazy rain” as Snickers called it. On account of the rain I was a no-go for weight training and instead stayed to lie in bed listening to it. I love the sound of a good rain storm.
2. No sooner had I stepped into the shower but Snickers and one of his sisters arrived and they didn’t exactly arrive empty handed. Besides the two twin boys they brought along, they also walked in with massive bags of food. I, of course, didn’t see it all until they left because I was trapped in the bathroom with nothing to cover myself but a measly face towel and I wasn’t about to introduce the two twin 5 year olds to the female body, or at least my version of it.
3. So what was in the bag, you may ask… food, too much food. I knew she was trying to help but I got really offended when I saw that she had packed 9 containers of rice and about 38 packages of seaweed. For starters, Snickers doesn’t even really eat seaweed and so I think it was mere “filler”, to make her gesture all that more elaborate. Secondly, Koreans are pretty religious-like with their rice and so eating cold rice is a no-go. I got the strong impression that she sent rice thinking that I couldn’t make it. Oh please, I thought, making rice is a no-brainer and consists of a mere switch of a button. Did she honestly think that after 5 years of me living in Korea I either a. still didn’t have a rice cooker or that b. I didn’t know how to make rice?!
4. Upon returning to one ticked off Pollack, Snickers tried to reassure me that the food was for both of us and that she meant well. I knew she had meant well but she went a little extreme with sending rice, and so much of it. I argued that if the food was really for me she would have sent either food she knew I liked or would have sent it before the move. Does she honestly think I’d let Snickers starve?! Honestly, if you were to come over to Guum Ggum you’d be able to see first hand that I by no means hard off or am in need of any kind of handout. Moreover, I am proud that I take damn good care of Snickers and while they all forgot about his birthday, it was me who took the time to make a gift and then it was me who took him out for dinner and then it was me who had bought him his first birthday cake in God knows how many years. I love Snickers like no other and if I could I would give him the world. I may not be a Korean girl but I find my ways to take care of him, show him I love him and he is by no means struggling or in need of some one to drop of cold rice.
5. Well, you can imagine my stubbornness and high pride mixed with Snickers stubbornness was like oil and water and so we got into a big argument. We’ve only one other time had an argument like this before and we both came out feeling like poop on the bottom of someone’s shoe.
6. I knew and I know… but I was still offended. It was nice that she had sent some traditional side dishes but she knew just the other week her mom and other sister had sent some. Snickers and I eat a lot but there was no way on God’s green earth that we would have finished those. But what really got me was had I been a Korean girl I don’t think she would have sent the rice. And yes, okay so it was just rice but it was way more than that. I have never in my life accepted any kind of handout like that. Maybe it’s because of my Polish pride, or maybe it’s because my parents taught me differently, but a massive drop off of food like that made me feel like I was incompetent, like a begger or some stupid fool who couldn’t take care of another person let alone herself. Whatever it may be, my views and her gesture definitely clashed but I felt bad for Snickers because it had instantaneously put him in the middle of it all. I really like his family, especially his father, but it hurt to think that she may think I can’t take care of myself or, more importantly, can’t take care of Snickers. I’ll have you know that I’ve had my own apartment for over 10 years now and am definitely not starving. Anyways, I told Snickers not to tell his sister but added that I want nothing to do with the food; it’s “gogee umshik” [begger’s food] I told him. Thankfully I have a big fridge now but even it is packed to the max because of this gogee umshik. I had to throw a bunch of my own food into the freeze to make room for it all, well, that and I fed a bunch of it to Mi Nam… hahaha.
7. So now, as it stands, I have32 extra containers of food and, with Snickers’ game just three weeks away, sending him dunkass (fried pork that averages about 800 calories) isn’t exactly the gesture from the heart, that is, unless you’re referring to the fact that those 800 calories could possibly clog that heart up!
8. Leave it to me to add more salt on the wound. When Snickers and I were making dinner tonight, he went to make fresh rice. I stopped him and added “eat your gogee [begger] rice”. It is times like this I really appreciate my parents’ tough love. As much as I respect and admire Koreans for their incredibly strong family ties, sometimes I view their family love as smothering and restricting. Restricting in that they always seem to have their hand in their kids’ coming and goings. Snickers can’t even so much go a day or two without his family checking up on him, like he’s some kind of child. As for my parents, they definitely didn’t give me everything on a silver platter or feed it to me with a silver fork, but instead they taught me how to go out and earn my silver platter and silver fork.
9. New temporary house rule: if something is bothering you, we talk about it all at once, agree on a solution, and then drop the subject.
10. By the time evening rolled around Snickers and I had somehow found a way to joke about the “gogee food”, as it is now referred to as. I knew full well that I had let it get to me more than t deserved to be and that she meant well but... whatever, it's over. Anyways, Snickers spontaneously took me out on a movie date tonight. We checked out the flick “G.I. Joe”. I’m not really into action movies but I was definitely into the much-needed smiles Snickers made while watching in. Later, after the movie, we headed up to our roof top patio where Snickers surprised me with a huge mosquito net tent. It was awesome. He had bought it today for us and so while we sat in it we chatted the hours away.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What piece of advice would you give to your parents?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
-- P.J. O'Rourke
2. No sooner had I stepped into the shower but Snickers and one of his sisters arrived and they didn’t exactly arrive empty handed. Besides the two twin boys they brought along, they also walked in with massive bags of food. I, of course, didn’t see it all until they left because I was trapped in the bathroom with nothing to cover myself but a measly face towel and I wasn’t about to introduce the two twin 5 year olds to the female body, or at least my version of it.
3. So what was in the bag, you may ask… food, too much food. I knew she was trying to help but I got really offended when I saw that she had packed 9 containers of rice and about 38 packages of seaweed. For starters, Snickers doesn’t even really eat seaweed and so I think it was mere “filler”, to make her gesture all that more elaborate. Secondly, Koreans are pretty religious-like with their rice and so eating cold rice is a no-go. I got the strong impression that she sent rice thinking that I couldn’t make it. Oh please, I thought, making rice is a no-brainer and consists of a mere switch of a button. Did she honestly think that after 5 years of me living in Korea I either a. still didn’t have a rice cooker or that b. I didn’t know how to make rice?!
4. Upon returning to one ticked off Pollack, Snickers tried to reassure me that the food was for both of us and that she meant well. I knew she had meant well but she went a little extreme with sending rice, and so much of it. I argued that if the food was really for me she would have sent either food she knew I liked or would have sent it before the move. Does she honestly think I’d let Snickers starve?! Honestly, if you were to come over to Guum Ggum you’d be able to see first hand that I by no means hard off or am in need of any kind of handout. Moreover, I am proud that I take damn good care of Snickers and while they all forgot about his birthday, it was me who took the time to make a gift and then it was me who took him out for dinner and then it was me who had bought him his first birthday cake in God knows how many years. I love Snickers like no other and if I could I would give him the world. I may not be a Korean girl but I find my ways to take care of him, show him I love him and he is by no means struggling or in need of some one to drop of cold rice.
5. Well, you can imagine my stubbornness and high pride mixed with Snickers stubbornness was like oil and water and so we got into a big argument. We’ve only one other time had an argument like this before and we both came out feeling like poop on the bottom of someone’s shoe.
6. I knew and I know… but I was still offended. It was nice that she had sent some traditional side dishes but she knew just the other week her mom and other sister had sent some. Snickers and I eat a lot but there was no way on God’s green earth that we would have finished those. But what really got me was had I been a Korean girl I don’t think she would have sent the rice. And yes, okay so it was just rice but it was way more than that. I have never in my life accepted any kind of handout like that. Maybe it’s because of my Polish pride, or maybe it’s because my parents taught me differently, but a massive drop off of food like that made me feel like I was incompetent, like a begger or some stupid fool who couldn’t take care of another person let alone herself. Whatever it may be, my views and her gesture definitely clashed but I felt bad for Snickers because it had instantaneously put him in the middle of it all. I really like his family, especially his father, but it hurt to think that she may think I can’t take care of myself or, more importantly, can’t take care of Snickers. I’ll have you know that I’ve had my own apartment for over 10 years now and am definitely not starving. Anyways, I told Snickers not to tell his sister but added that I want nothing to do with the food; it’s “gogee umshik” [begger’s food] I told him. Thankfully I have a big fridge now but even it is packed to the max because of this gogee umshik. I had to throw a bunch of my own food into the freeze to make room for it all, well, that and I fed a bunch of it to Mi Nam… hahaha.
7. So now, as it stands, I have32 extra containers of food and, with Snickers’ game just three weeks away, sending him dunkass (fried pork that averages about 800 calories) isn’t exactly the gesture from the heart, that is, unless you’re referring to the fact that those 800 calories could possibly clog that heart up!
8. Leave it to me to add more salt on the wound. When Snickers and I were making dinner tonight, he went to make fresh rice. I stopped him and added “eat your gogee [begger] rice”. It is times like this I really appreciate my parents’ tough love. As much as I respect and admire Koreans for their incredibly strong family ties, sometimes I view their family love as smothering and restricting. Restricting in that they always seem to have their hand in their kids’ coming and goings. Snickers can’t even so much go a day or two without his family checking up on him, like he’s some kind of child. As for my parents, they definitely didn’t give me everything on a silver platter or feed it to me with a silver fork, but instead they taught me how to go out and earn my silver platter and silver fork.
9. New temporary house rule: if something is bothering you, we talk about it all at once, agree on a solution, and then drop the subject.
10. By the time evening rolled around Snickers and I had somehow found a way to joke about the “gogee food”, as it is now referred to as. I knew full well that I had let it get to me more than t deserved to be and that she meant well but... whatever, it's over. Anyways, Snickers spontaneously took me out on a movie date tonight. We checked out the flick “G.I. Joe”. I’m not really into action movies but I was definitely into the much-needed smiles Snickers made while watching in. Later, after the movie, we headed up to our roof top patio where Snickers surprised me with a huge mosquito net tent. It was awesome. He had bought it today for us and so while we sat in it we chatted the hours away.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What piece of advice would you give to your parents?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
-- P.J. O'Rourke
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Wednesday, August 26
1. Trained legs today at Hongik. I always start my weight training daily sessions off with a good ten minute run and aim for the 170-180 calorie/level 12+ mark, and with all the skipping and jumping around I do at boxing I figure my legs already get a good workout. I haven’t focused on legs at weight training for some time mind ya and so I knew I’d definitely be feeling the pain of today’s session… good pain that is.
2. I practically went from being Snickers’ 29 year old girlfriend to that of a 10 year old when Snickers took it upon himself to literally spank me in the middle of a public street when he caught glimpse of me chewing on my finger nails. He has this thing with me bitting my nails. It’s a bad habit of mine that I really don’t notice I’m doing, apparently Snickers does though and he doesn’t like it.
3. My post-weight training protein-packed pancake got an upgrade today when I tossed in fresh blueberries. I have two blue-stained fingers now but let me tell you, it was definitely delish.
5. By the end of the day Snickers’ kung fu chops to my neck evolved to hammer punches to my thighs, resulting in me walking around the house with mad Charlie-horses!!! For some deranged and strange reason we seem to find great humor in physically impairing each other… hahaha.
6. So much for Snickers training at boxing with no shirt on. Today I practically took a chunk of flesh out of his body when he kung fu chopped my neck and I bit his chest. Ya, that marks not going to leave anytime soon.
7. In other news, I am convinced trouble finds its’ way in threes. Just a couple of Saturdays ago I got bad news, then I got word that my long time cat Scrappy-Jo died, and then just the other day I got word that a family member of mine has been diagnosed with lung cancer and has but only 10-12 months to live. Three out of my three new pieces of news from Canada all have to do with death and I really don’t know what to say about the matter except for the fact that this Christmas is going to be a hard one.
8. Okay so I was wrong, Snickers in fact hasn’t forgotten my name like I joked about. He hasn’t called me by my first name in about two weeks now but instead has resorted to calling me either “Angel” or “Su Hyun” (my Korean name). He did however have to say my full name to the SK lady on the telephone today and I laughed my head off, well practically, when he said my full name.
9. Late night training in the park with Snickers almost was dangerous and resulted in me literally doing a full flip and then crashing down in the grass. I had jumped on to the merry-go-round for a quick spin but when I jumped back off where should I land but in the only pot-hole around. My ankle twisted and I jumped in response, hence the flip. Snickers yelled out “Matrix girl” and then came running to my side. I laughed at the stupidity and pure fluke of it all but dang did it ever hurt.
10. I think Snickers knew I totally milked my pot-hole ankle injury tonight but I think he liked the fact that I let him tend to me. He has this whole “you-need-me-to-protect” you mentality going on and I see it daily. Whether it’s him walking me to and from weight training or not letting me walk Mi Nam alone at night, I think he finds pleasure in trying to protect and look after me. Sometimes I think it’s a bit male chauvinistic but I don’t think that’s the image he’s trying to give off. He does it out of love, I know and so I think he just likes doing things for me, like how when I take a shower I place my dirty clothes outside the door and he is always sure to pick them up and put them in the hamper. I’m always sure to say thank you to him but he giggles and always says “no thank you”. Anyways, tonight I milked my ankle injury, which wasn’t so serious I should note. Snickers piggy-backed me back to the house, rubbed my ankle, iced it and then what started off as a mere ankle massage turned into a full leg and back massage.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What are you thankful for?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.
-- Author Unknown
2. I practically went from being Snickers’ 29 year old girlfriend to that of a 10 year old when Snickers took it upon himself to literally spank me in the middle of a public street when he caught glimpse of me chewing on my finger nails. He has this thing with me bitting my nails. It’s a bad habit of mine that I really don’t notice I’m doing, apparently Snickers does though and he doesn’t like it.
3. My post-weight training protein-packed pancake got an upgrade today when I tossed in fresh blueberries. I have two blue-stained fingers now but let me tell you, it was definitely delish.
"You are the real Pancake Master" he said. "I know" I responded... hahaha.
4. Not too sure what it is with me and physical boystress play in my relationships but I love picking on Snickers. My main move is bitting him. He use to try to tickle me in defense but lately he’s developed, what I call, the “Kung Fu Chop”.
5. By the end of the day Snickers’ kung fu chops to my neck evolved to hammer punches to my thighs, resulting in me walking around the house with mad Charlie-horses!!! For some deranged and strange reason we seem to find great humor in physically impairing each other… hahaha.
6. So much for Snickers training at boxing with no shirt on. Today I practically took a chunk of flesh out of his body when he kung fu chopped my neck and I bit his chest. Ya, that marks not going to leave anytime soon.
7. In other news, I am convinced trouble finds its’ way in threes. Just a couple of Saturdays ago I got bad news, then I got word that my long time cat Scrappy-Jo died, and then just the other day I got word that a family member of mine has been diagnosed with lung cancer and has but only 10-12 months to live. Three out of my three new pieces of news from Canada all have to do with death and I really don’t know what to say about the matter except for the fact that this Christmas is going to be a hard one.
8. Okay so I was wrong, Snickers in fact hasn’t forgotten my name like I joked about. He hasn’t called me by my first name in about two weeks now but instead has resorted to calling me either “Angel” or “Su Hyun” (my Korean name). He did however have to say my full name to the SK lady on the telephone today and I laughed my head off, well practically, when he said my full name.
9. Late night training in the park with Snickers almost was dangerous and resulted in me literally doing a full flip and then crashing down in the grass. I had jumped on to the merry-go-round for a quick spin but when I jumped back off where should I land but in the only pot-hole around. My ankle twisted and I jumped in response, hence the flip. Snickers yelled out “Matrix girl” and then came running to my side. I laughed at the stupidity and pure fluke of it all but dang did it ever hurt.
10. I think Snickers knew I totally milked my pot-hole ankle injury tonight but I think he liked the fact that I let him tend to me. He has this whole “you-need-me-to-protect” you mentality going on and I see it daily. Whether it’s him walking me to and from weight training or not letting me walk Mi Nam alone at night, I think he finds pleasure in trying to protect and look after me. Sometimes I think it’s a bit male chauvinistic but I don’t think that’s the image he’s trying to give off. He does it out of love, I know and so I think he just likes doing things for me, like how when I take a shower I place my dirty clothes outside the door and he is always sure to pick them up and put them in the hamper. I’m always sure to say thank you to him but he giggles and always says “no thank you”. Anyways, tonight I milked my ankle injury, which wasn’t so serious I should note. Snickers piggy-backed me back to the house, rubbed my ankle, iced it and then what started off as a mere ankle massage turned into a full leg and back massage.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What are you thankful for?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.
-- Author Unknown
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Despite no signs of my sofa or gas range, food seems to continually enter my house in large quantities. Thankfully I have an actual real-sized fridge.Am all about chewing frozen fruit; it's my favorite snack. I've got frozen bananas, persimmons, grapes, strawberries, and blueberries.
As for the actual fridge part of my fridge, it's loaded with lots of veggies, chicken and eggs. Then there's my milk (low fat), Snickers' milk, various tea drinks we've made, and some of the Colas that Snickers is still living off of from his birthday... hahaha. Highlights of my Day... Tuesday, August 25
1. My current training routine has been the following:
3. My usual morning crash nap had to be put on hold because Kitty Cat and I had a pre-semester staff meeting at Dankook to attend. And so with coffees in hand, Kitty Cat and I headed off to Dankook together.
4. I received my expected let-me-try-to-impress-you-with-my-cheesy-pick-up-lines from a particular co-worker of mine, Mr. Not-So-Smooth. I remember when I first met him and he tried to win me over with his so-called smooth lines. He’s rather forward and pushy with me and so in my attempt at stopping his advances towards me, I once blurted out “I don’t like white dudes… I’ve got yellow fever.” Of course I didn’t mean yellow fever as in the real yellow fever but meant that I have a certain liking towards Asian men.
5. After the meeting today I let it known to Mr. Not-So-Smooth that I had moved. “Oh great! So when can I move in, too?” was the question he threw at me. “Actually, I’m not alone there… there’s a disgustingly beautiful man with an equally disgustingly delish 6-pack who is there when ever I am there and he’s usually half naked so I think I’m a bit too busy for another occupant.”
6. Surprisingly enough the expected 2-hour meeting was only about a half an hour and so that was definitely a sweet bonus.
7. Snickers and I headed off to boxing together at his club. I’m really missing UP Boxing Club though and so it was really nice to run into Black Skinny at the elevator. Black Skinny was running a bit late for a dinner party with some coworkers on the 7th floor but Snickers and I chatted with him for a bit.
8. Homebody-C took a pot shot at me and insisted I had a pot… pot belly that is, correction, a baby belly, as in an actual baby in my belly. That’s typical of Homeboy-C to say though. He’s all about teasing us but sometimes I think it’s a bit uncalled for and so when took a quick jab to my midsection and asked me if I was pregnant I thought I’d play with him for a bit. I joked around with him, teased him by playing stupid, and asked a bunch of silly questions like “How are babies made?” and “ Is it because I kissed a boy?” He continued to be all jokes with me until I lifted up my shirt and showed him my obliques. I may not have a 6-pack but I am confident that my obliques (side abs) are nothing to joke about, thanks... hahaha.
9. What was anticipated to be a simple stop at Lotte Mart for milk turned into quite the scene. Leave it to Snickers to jump to the challenge of the $3 dollar apple bag deal they were hosting. For $3 they give you a bag and you’re allowed to cramp in as many apples as you possibly can as long as you can fasten the bag closed after. Most people got 7 apples but Snickers proudly walked away with 9. He must have packed and repacked that bag a good ten times… hahaha.
10. Not too fond of the Building Tool but her husband is cool and I’ve won the attention and approval of her 10 year old son when I pretended to attack him in the stairwell tonight. The husband seems to like Mi Nam and today he joined me up on the roof top patio to chat. For the son’s sake, I’m hoping the he scored his brains from his father. Not too sure where he scored the idea to get only part of his front bangs bleached though, they look rather strange but he seems like a cool kid.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What is your body saying?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
The body never lies.
-- Martha Graham
6:00am weight training at Hongik with Kitty Cat2. Snickers is such a sweetie and I love that guy to pieces. He walks me to Hongik weight training in the morning and then does his own training on the mountain. By the time he finishes his mountain run Kitty Cat and I are just about done our weight training and so he walks me back from weight training.
Weight training six days a week on a three-day split
Day 1: arms/shoulders
Day 2: back/chest
Day 3: legs
7:30am return home, eat and then go back to bed
6:00pm boxing with Snickers
10:00pm “natural body training” in the park with Snickers
“Natural body training” consists of performing the following exercises on various playground pieces found in the park beside Guum Ggum.
Push-ups
Pull-ups
Chin-ups
Captain
chair lifts (abs exercise)
Standing calf raises
Tricep dips
3. My usual morning crash nap had to be put on hold because Kitty Cat and I had a pre-semester staff meeting at Dankook to attend. And so with coffees in hand, Kitty Cat and I headed off to Dankook together.
4. I received my expected let-me-try-to-impress-you-with-my-cheesy-pick-up-lines from a particular co-worker of mine, Mr. Not-So-Smooth. I remember when I first met him and he tried to win me over with his so-called smooth lines. He’s rather forward and pushy with me and so in my attempt at stopping his advances towards me, I once blurted out “I don’t like white dudes… I’ve got yellow fever.” Of course I didn’t mean yellow fever as in the real yellow fever but meant that I have a certain liking towards Asian men.
5. After the meeting today I let it known to Mr. Not-So-Smooth that I had moved. “Oh great! So when can I move in, too?” was the question he threw at me. “Actually, I’m not alone there… there’s a disgustingly beautiful man with an equally disgustingly delish 6-pack who is there when ever I am there and he’s usually half naked so I think I’m a bit too busy for another occupant.”
6. Surprisingly enough the expected 2-hour meeting was only about a half an hour and so that was definitely a sweet bonus.
7. Snickers and I headed off to boxing together at his club. I’m really missing UP Boxing Club though and so it was really nice to run into Black Skinny at the elevator. Black Skinny was running a bit late for a dinner party with some coworkers on the 7th floor but Snickers and I chatted with him for a bit.
8. Homebody-C took a pot shot at me and insisted I had a pot… pot belly that is, correction, a baby belly, as in an actual baby in my belly. That’s typical of Homeboy-C to say though. He’s all about teasing us but sometimes I think it’s a bit uncalled for and so when took a quick jab to my midsection and asked me if I was pregnant I thought I’d play with him for a bit. I joked around with him, teased him by playing stupid, and asked a bunch of silly questions like “How are babies made?” and “ Is it because I kissed a boy?” He continued to be all jokes with me until I lifted up my shirt and showed him my obliques. I may not have a 6-pack but I am confident that my obliques (side abs) are nothing to joke about, thanks... hahaha.
9. What was anticipated to be a simple stop at Lotte Mart for milk turned into quite the scene. Leave it to Snickers to jump to the challenge of the $3 dollar apple bag deal they were hosting. For $3 they give you a bag and you’re allowed to cramp in as many apples as you possibly can as long as you can fasten the bag closed after. Most people got 7 apples but Snickers proudly walked away with 9. He must have packed and repacked that bag a good ten times… hahaha.
10. Not too fond of the Building Tool but her husband is cool and I’ve won the attention and approval of her 10 year old son when I pretended to attack him in the stairwell tonight. The husband seems to like Mi Nam and today he joined me up on the roof top patio to chat. For the son’s sake, I’m hoping the he scored his brains from his father. Not too sure where he scored the idea to get only part of his front bangs bleached though, they look rather strange but he seems like a cool kid.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What is your body saying?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
The body never lies.
-- Martha Graham
Monday, August 24, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Monday, August 24
1. Besides the 6am weight training, boxing and then evening training in the park, the only real thing on our schedule today were our plans to build Mi Nam an outdoor living corridors on the roof top patio.
2. Got the go ahead from our landlady to use any and all the spare doors in the top stairwell for Mi Nam’s place which was really cool of her. In my house I got Snickers to take off all but the front door and the bathroom door and so we had a lot of wood to work with.
3. Met the “Building Tool” and she lives right beside me, great. This marked our first meeting and it occurred today when Snickers and I were up on the roof top making a dog house for Mi Nam. She came up to see what all the sawing and hammering was about and then complained about Mi Nam possibly stinking up the place. “But this is the outdoors” I told her, “and my dog poops on his walks, not in his house” I added. Snickers jumped in and acted all cute in order to try to get her to agree with my point and so I walked out on them both. A “tool” like her is the last person I care to have agree with me actually. Great, I thought, she’s worried about my low maintenance, well-mannered dog and has totally disregarded the fact that it’s her dog that barks its’ head off at random hours. Snickers and I both agree that her annoying dog is destined to become a football but until then, we’re both stuck living beside the Building Tool and her should-be-a-football dog.
4. The other day K-Gere’s house got broken into and so I urged Snickers to go get his boxing champion belt and bring it over to my new house for safe keeping.
5. Still no sign of my gas range or sofa.
6. Had one of those “Holy-lost-in-translation” situations when Snickers stepped out of the house and texted me. Upon seeing the text, I ran to the window to watch him walk down the street and then remained there until he came back 10 minutes later. Turns out “ggum bang” means “jewelery shop” but it also means “in a moment”. I, pulling a total I-am-such-a-girl moment, thought his message read “I am going to the jewelery shop” because earlier on today we had started talking about money stuff and our future plans together. As it turned out however, his message meant “I will come back in a moment”. Snickers found great amusement in this mixed message situation but I kind of felt sick. I had sent my hopes on a quick rocket to the moon but they crashed. Dang.
7. I figure it’ll only be time before calling my new residence the “new place” or the “new home” won’t fit anymore and so today I tried to think of a cute new name that’s more appropriate. My old place was called Sambu but that was because that was the first part of the actual apartment building’s name. My parents’ house is labeled “Polish Paradise” and my old house in Toronto, Canada was called “Melrose Place” because of it’s striking similarities to the apartment complex off the show Melrose Place. It too had the enclosed middle patio area with it’s surrounding suites being occupied with successful young hotties, minus the Korean landlord that is.
8. Anyways, as for my new place, I thought of using part of my new street name but it translates to “Shinbu-Dong [part of city I live in] Post Office Street”, how blah is that?! So using the street name was a no-go, instead however, I came up with “Guum Ggum”. Not too sure if my English spelling is correct, kind of hard to switch it from Korean. Laugh as you may but “Guum Ggum” translates to “Gold Dream” and considering what this place means to Snickers and I and how it is just one of many major stepping stones we’re taking to pursue our future together, I think it’s pretty appropriate.
9. Tonight was the last official night for me as a resident at Sambu and so Snickers and I headed over there to do one last cleaning, hand over my keys and door combo code, and to finally move Mi Nam from Sambu to Guum Ggum.
10. Mi Nam wasn’t a big fan of his new roof top patio corridors but we all had expected that and so it was no surprise to listen to him whimper for a good ten minutes. Still not sure on what will become of Mi Nam’s living situation once the chilly weather approaches but I’m keeping my fingers crossed and am counting it a blessing that I’m even allowed to let him live on the roof top. Mind ya, I question how the heck the Building Tool and her should-be-a-football dog got in… hmmmm.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What mixed messages are you sending?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
-- Jim Rohn
2. Got the go ahead from our landlady to use any and all the spare doors in the top stairwell for Mi Nam’s place which was really cool of her. In my house I got Snickers to take off all but the front door and the bathroom door and so we had a lot of wood to work with.
3. Met the “Building Tool” and she lives right beside me, great. This marked our first meeting and it occurred today when Snickers and I were up on the roof top making a dog house for Mi Nam. She came up to see what all the sawing and hammering was about and then complained about Mi Nam possibly stinking up the place. “But this is the outdoors” I told her, “and my dog poops on his walks, not in his house” I added. Snickers jumped in and acted all cute in order to try to get her to agree with my point and so I walked out on them both. A “tool” like her is the last person I care to have agree with me actually. Great, I thought, she’s worried about my low maintenance, well-mannered dog and has totally disregarded the fact that it’s her dog that barks its’ head off at random hours. Snickers and I both agree that her annoying dog is destined to become a football but until then, we’re both stuck living beside the Building Tool and her should-be-a-football dog.
4. The other day K-Gere’s house got broken into and so I urged Snickers to go get his boxing champion belt and bring it over to my new house for safe keeping.
5. Still no sign of my gas range or sofa.
6. Had one of those “Holy-lost-in-translation” situations when Snickers stepped out of the house and texted me. Upon seeing the text, I ran to the window to watch him walk down the street and then remained there until he came back 10 minutes later. Turns out “ggum bang” means “jewelery shop” but it also means “in a moment”. I, pulling a total I-am-such-a-girl moment, thought his message read “I am going to the jewelery shop” because earlier on today we had started talking about money stuff and our future plans together. As it turned out however, his message meant “I will come back in a moment”. Snickers found great amusement in this mixed message situation but I kind of felt sick. I had sent my hopes on a quick rocket to the moon but they crashed. Dang.
7. I figure it’ll only be time before calling my new residence the “new place” or the “new home” won’t fit anymore and so today I tried to think of a cute new name that’s more appropriate. My old place was called Sambu but that was because that was the first part of the actual apartment building’s name. My parents’ house is labeled “Polish Paradise” and my old house in Toronto, Canada was called “Melrose Place” because of it’s striking similarities to the apartment complex off the show Melrose Place. It too had the enclosed middle patio area with it’s surrounding suites being occupied with successful young hotties, minus the Korean landlord that is.
8. Anyways, as for my new place, I thought of using part of my new street name but it translates to “Shinbu-Dong [part of city I live in] Post Office Street”, how blah is that?! So using the street name was a no-go, instead however, I came up with “Guum Ggum”. Not too sure if my English spelling is correct, kind of hard to switch it from Korean. Laugh as you may but “Guum Ggum” translates to “Gold Dream” and considering what this place means to Snickers and I and how it is just one of many major stepping stones we’re taking to pursue our future together, I think it’s pretty appropriate.
9. Tonight was the last official night for me as a resident at Sambu and so Snickers and I headed over there to do one last cleaning, hand over my keys and door combo code, and to finally move Mi Nam from Sambu to Guum Ggum.
10. Mi Nam wasn’t a big fan of his new roof top patio corridors but we all had expected that and so it was no surprise to listen to him whimper for a good ten minutes. Still not sure on what will become of Mi Nam’s living situation once the chilly weather approaches but I’m keeping my fingers crossed and am counting it a blessing that I’m even allowed to let him live on the roof top. Mind ya, I question how the heck the Building Tool and her should-be-a-football dog got in… hmmmm.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What mixed messages are you sending?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
-- Jim Rohn
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Sunday, August 23
1. With still no gas range, meals at home have consisted of a lot of raw veggies and fruit. I guess I could try to boil eggs in my rice cooker but Snickers has been cooking barley tea non-stop for the past day or so in it. My protein intake is at an all-time low and so today I grabbed a much craved for chicken tortilla wrap from the Galleria.
2. The chicken wrap dude is always trying to strike up conversations with me and lately our conversations have stemmed from the fact that he was in the park that one night when the gang of annoying ajjumas yelled at Snickers and me about Mi Nam. Today he gave me thumbs up for it and joked about me scaring him that night with my strong tone and words.
3. My new home had its’ first real house quest, Kitty Cat. We had picked up coffee at Coffee Bean and then we headed over to my house to study in my kitchen. My new home got great raves from Kitty Cat and I got extra props for the beautiful kitchen window and roof top patio… sweet… hahaha.
4. Spent a good chunk of my day slaving away at my Korean diary writing.
5. Later in the evening Snickers and I headed over to Sambu to take back some of the remaining things I had left there. Sambu is no longer the crowded, comfy home I use to so look forward to going to. Instead it is now a dirty, empty shell that I am so incredibly relieved and happy to walk away from. Tuesday morning my Sambu apartment will no longer be mine and I couldn’t be happier. I love my new home beside the park. It’s tucked away on a side street downtown and it’s where Snickers and I have started to create our own memories together, minus the interruption of the past.
6. My home’s second official guest came around 10pm tonight. It was K-Gere, Snickers’ father. He came by to talk to Snickers and to see the new place. Moments before he arrived, however, I got an email that was quite upsetting and so when K-Gere arrived I tired my hardest to hide my face. I didn’t want him to see that I was upset.
7. K-Gere and Snickers stood in the kitchen talking for some time. K-Gere had noticed a picture on my fridge of a particular person in my life and asked about her to Snickers. I was already on thin ice with wanting to crack and let the tears flow so when I heard him start talking about her I kept quiet and stayed in the family room, nervous of dropping a tear.
8. When K-Gere left he handed me an envelop full of cash, I guess as a house-warming gift. We said our good-byes but no sooner had he left but Snickers turned to me and gave me a frowning eyes. He was ticked and asked me why I showed bad manners to his father. I didn’t mean to, honestly, I really like his father. I think his father is adorable and I really respect him for being so open-minded and for caring about me but this past week has been so incredibly hard for me.
9. My mind is still in complete shock over the news that got thrown to me over the telephone line last Saturday but my heart feels like it’s about to shatter. I wish I could tell you about it but I’ve been asked not to post about it. It’s consuming me though and at random times during the day I find myself consumed with thoughts about her and the whole situation. I wish I could drop everything, go to Canada, hug her and then drop kick her doctor. Okay, so maybe I wouldn’t drop kick him but I feel so helpless being all the way here in Korea.
10. Snickers has been more than supportive of me with everything and especially with the situation I have no found myself in and so when I told him about the email I got right before his father arrived, he felt bad for getting mad at me. It wasn’t his fault though, of course no. How could he have known?! Anyways, the evening ended with me in tears and Snickers using his shirt to try to dry my face. We sat on the floor with me all curled up on Snickers’ lap like a little child. “I can’t wait till she meets you” I told him. “She’s going to be so happy!” The other day, when I talked to this particular person on the phone, she had asked me if I knew who loved me the most and, without even thinking, I blurted out my boyfriend’s name. “No” she responded, “God loves you the most.” Oh ya, that is true but Snickers does give God some pretty good competition!!!
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Who do you love the most?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well.
-- Author Unknown
2. The chicken wrap dude is always trying to strike up conversations with me and lately our conversations have stemmed from the fact that he was in the park that one night when the gang of annoying ajjumas yelled at Snickers and me about Mi Nam. Today he gave me thumbs up for it and joked about me scaring him that night with my strong tone and words.
3. My new home had its’ first real house quest, Kitty Cat. We had picked up coffee at Coffee Bean and then we headed over to my house to study in my kitchen. My new home got great raves from Kitty Cat and I got extra props for the beautiful kitchen window and roof top patio… sweet… hahaha.
4. Spent a good chunk of my day slaving away at my Korean diary writing.
5. Later in the evening Snickers and I headed over to Sambu to take back some of the remaining things I had left there. Sambu is no longer the crowded, comfy home I use to so look forward to going to. Instead it is now a dirty, empty shell that I am so incredibly relieved and happy to walk away from. Tuesday morning my Sambu apartment will no longer be mine and I couldn’t be happier. I love my new home beside the park. It’s tucked away on a side street downtown and it’s where Snickers and I have started to create our own memories together, minus the interruption of the past.
6. My home’s second official guest came around 10pm tonight. It was K-Gere, Snickers’ father. He came by to talk to Snickers and to see the new place. Moments before he arrived, however, I got an email that was quite upsetting and so when K-Gere arrived I tired my hardest to hide my face. I didn’t want him to see that I was upset.
7. K-Gere and Snickers stood in the kitchen talking for some time. K-Gere had noticed a picture on my fridge of a particular person in my life and asked about her to Snickers. I was already on thin ice with wanting to crack and let the tears flow so when I heard him start talking about her I kept quiet and stayed in the family room, nervous of dropping a tear.
8. When K-Gere left he handed me an envelop full of cash, I guess as a house-warming gift. We said our good-byes but no sooner had he left but Snickers turned to me and gave me a frowning eyes. He was ticked and asked me why I showed bad manners to his father. I didn’t mean to, honestly, I really like his father. I think his father is adorable and I really respect him for being so open-minded and for caring about me but this past week has been so incredibly hard for me.
9. My mind is still in complete shock over the news that got thrown to me over the telephone line last Saturday but my heart feels like it’s about to shatter. I wish I could tell you about it but I’ve been asked not to post about it. It’s consuming me though and at random times during the day I find myself consumed with thoughts about her and the whole situation. I wish I could drop everything, go to Canada, hug her and then drop kick her doctor. Okay, so maybe I wouldn’t drop kick him but I feel so helpless being all the way here in Korea.
10. Snickers has been more than supportive of me with everything and especially with the situation I have no found myself in and so when I told him about the email I got right before his father arrived, he felt bad for getting mad at me. It wasn’t his fault though, of course no. How could he have known?! Anyways, the evening ended with me in tears and Snickers using his shirt to try to dry my face. We sat on the floor with me all curled up on Snickers’ lap like a little child. “I can’t wait till she meets you” I told him. “She’s going to be so happy!” The other day, when I talked to this particular person on the phone, she had asked me if I knew who loved me the most and, without even thinking, I blurted out my boyfriend’s name. “No” she responded, “God loves you the most.” Oh ya, that is true but Snickers does give God some pretty good competition!!!
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Who do you love the most?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well.
-- Author Unknown
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Saturday, August 22
1. My bed arrived!!! It’s been four years since I’ve had a bed and as much as I have become very use to sleeping on a Korean mat-style bed, it was definitely a sweet sight to see my baby pink bed arrive.
The before (naked bed shot) and the after (bed dressed in it's new stylin' cover).
2. Today marked Snickers and my 100 days as a couple and so I thought I’d kick things off by getting my hair done. I had called up my friend She-Ann the other day and the plan was to see if she could return my hair back to it’s natural colour. Turns out with black hair dye still in the ends of my hair, my hair will have to wait till it can go back to light brown. I was rather disappointed but had anticipated this.
These we supposed to be before shots of my hair but when I came back my hair looked pretty much the same.
3. What I hadn’t anticipated though was losing my gift I had made for Snickers. Often we leave love letters for each other. He usually hides his under my notebook computer and I usually put his in his backpack. Two weeks ago I sat down and started to write him one. It was a good one… a real good one, a really, really, written using the deep down in your heart feelings and all that kind of gushy stuff. I had written several drafts of it prior to writing the final copy and then ditched the drafts so he wouldn’t find it. Turns out not only did he not find it but I couldn’t find it.
4. With no gift any where to be found, I tried to get ready for our couple day date. In my big move I had discovered a dress buried at the back of my closet. It was a dress I had bought a while ago but it was still sporting the price tag. Visible cleavage isn’t a going trend in Korea nor is greeted by anything other than frowns from Snickers and so after pins failed to control the plunging v-line, I resorted to tape. Yes, I actually tried to tape the dress to me. I used double-sided tape but when it too, like the pins, failed, I finally resorted to wearing a sports bra under it. And so with a $200 dress and a cheap $20 sports bra, I headed out with Snickers for dinner.
5. Snickers was also dressed to impress and so I thought we looked like quite the eye-catching couple and so walking down the street arm-in-arm with my dangerously delish boyfriend I felt like a million bucks.
6. Plan was to grab movie tickets, head out for dinner and then have the real party start when we host our first midnight picnic for two up on the roof top of the new home. Grabbing a quick coffee at Coffee Bean before the movie started definitely turned heads and resulted in a couple of people taking our picture as we waited. Not too sure if they had recognized us from TV, we’ve been getting that a lot lately ever since we did a show together for Dynamic Boxing, but they seemed excited to spot us… hahaha.
7. Checked out the movie “Orphan” and it was awesome. I’ve got brutal nerves as it is and so I was definitely quite the jumpy movie goer tonight. Snickers, of course, loved playing the role of my hero by wrapping his arms around me as I watched the movie.
8. Our midnight picnic was definitely the icing on the cake in terms of how perfect it ended our couple day. I hung a lantern I had got years ago at a Buddha’s birthday parade and together Snickers and I sat under it on the picnic pad we had bought in Busan. It was nice to just sit with him and talk but Snickers took it a step further by walking me down memory lane.
Party for two.
And of course it wouldn't be a party without some party favourites... like ice cream!!!9. Am convinced Snickers has forgotten my name because he no longer calls me “Amy” but instead calls me “Angel”. I am by no means an angel but I must admit that I’m pretty sweet to him, as is he to me though.
10. Despite today being a joyous day, my mind couldn’t shake the sad news that I received exactly a week ago and so I hit a down spot in the evening when reminiscing about things with Snickers brought about me reminiscing about another important couple in my life. Like Snickers and I, they too are soul mates. Prior to her, he had never had any other girlfriend and the same was true for her, and it wasn’t until ten months after he started to date her that they actually had their first kiss. Their first kiss was June 1st, 1965 and it’s been heavenly bliss ever since and I prayed to God tonight for them, that they’d have many more years together despite what the doctors have told them.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Who holds your last first kiss?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Love me and the world is mine.
-- David Reed
Who holds your last first kiss?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Love me and the world is mine.
-- David Reed
Friday, August 21, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Friday, August 21
1. Woke up all sweaty from a bad dream that really wasn’t a bad dream at all but instead a continuous repeat of the long distance, cross country telephone conversation by which I had last night. I woke up seriously thinking that this person was whispering in my ear what they had said last night. I am surely convinced I will never forget what they said. “Keep your mind and heart strong.... always... you’re going to need it.” Those words haunted me today because of what and why she was hinting at.
2. Today was marked by more randomers coming in and out of my new home but today’s randomers consisted of service men. First to arrive on the scene was the Internet dude. An hour later he left, I had Internet access and what felt like a billion and one TV stations.
3. I forewarned Snickers, telling him that I’ll cut the TV cable if he becomes like a horse with blinders on in front of it. I can’t stand the TV and the only reason I even considered getting cable was because without it I got absolutely no channels, unlike in Sambu where I got eight. When I was younger my parents limited my TV watching time but I was more interested in playing outside than TV. Then, once I got my own place during my university years, I didn’t even own a TV. TV rots your brain, or so I am told. Very rarely do you find me watching it but I like the Discovery Channel and I figure having the movie channel will cut down on me trekking out to Little America to stock up on movies.
4. Watched “Prison Break” for the very first time today. I still don’t see what’s all the hype about.
5. With still no gas range it meant that the gas man’s return was put on hold. Consequently, it also meant the army-cold showers continue.
6. Headed out to UP to see my coach and collect my money. Surprisingly enough he handed over more than I expected and cut down his share like he did. Snickers thinks it’s because Junior Mint thinks I’m not coming back and so it was his attempt at… at what, I’m not sure… at winning me over?!
7. Hooray, hooray… the no-chicken and “don’t-eat-foods list” has been removed and trashed on account that Snickers doesn’t care to hear me tell me anymore “I-haven’t-pooped” stories and with his game less than a month away he’s bound to do his usual hardcore crash dieting a week or two prior to his game. I’d be more happy about this news if I actually had means to cook chicken. My gas range should be coming early next week but until then I’m limited in what I can eat. I thought I’d go raw for the week but instead I’ve gone out to eat, not quite the same thing… hahaha.
8. Decided to kill my pig today. About three and a half years ago I started two piggy banks. One was solely for 1000 won bills (~$1) and I’ve since have killed that, but the other one was for loose change. I use to faithfully put my daily loose change into it but lately it’s been Snickers putting his coins in it. Tonight we figured we cut it open and count the change.
9. Two hours later and about $400 dollars richer, we finally finished.
2. Today was marked by more randomers coming in and out of my new home but today’s randomers consisted of service men. First to arrive on the scene was the Internet dude. An hour later he left, I had Internet access and what felt like a billion and one TV stations.
3. I forewarned Snickers, telling him that I’ll cut the TV cable if he becomes like a horse with blinders on in front of it. I can’t stand the TV and the only reason I even considered getting cable was because without it I got absolutely no channels, unlike in Sambu where I got eight. When I was younger my parents limited my TV watching time but I was more interested in playing outside than TV. Then, once I got my own place during my university years, I didn’t even own a TV. TV rots your brain, or so I am told. Very rarely do you find me watching it but I like the Discovery Channel and I figure having the movie channel will cut down on me trekking out to Little America to stock up on movies.
4. Watched “Prison Break” for the very first time today. I still don’t see what’s all the hype about.
5. With still no gas range it meant that the gas man’s return was put on hold. Consequently, it also meant the army-cold showers continue.
6. Headed out to UP to see my coach and collect my money. Surprisingly enough he handed over more than I expected and cut down his share like he did. Snickers thinks it’s because Junior Mint thinks I’m not coming back and so it was his attempt at… at what, I’m not sure… at winning me over?!
7. Hooray, hooray… the no-chicken and “don’t-eat-foods list” has been removed and trashed on account that Snickers doesn’t care to hear me tell me anymore “I-haven’t-pooped” stories and with his game less than a month away he’s bound to do his usual hardcore crash dieting a week or two prior to his game. I’d be more happy about this news if I actually had means to cook chicken. My gas range should be coming early next week but until then I’m limited in what I can eat. I thought I’d go raw for the week but instead I’ve gone out to eat, not quite the same thing… hahaha.
8. Decided to kill my pig today. About three and a half years ago I started two piggy banks. One was solely for 1000 won bills (~$1) and I’ve since have killed that, but the other one was for loose change. I use to faithfully put my daily loose change into it but lately it’s been Snickers putting his coins in it. Tonight we figured we cut it open and count the change.
9. Two hours later and about $400 dollars richer, we finally finished.10. Plan for Snickers and I to start our own pig, feed it everyday and then crack it open in a year.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What do you have your eye on?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today.
-- Author Unknown
What do you have your eye on?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today.
-- Author Unknown
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Thursday, August 20
1. Heading over to Dankook to talk about a change in my schedule that I so longed for proved to be quite pointless in that I had picked the one day, apparently, that the assistant who had made the schedule was going to come into work late. She had some stuff to deal with regarding some of the new professors and so she was off doing that while I got all fidgety waiting at my office.
2. No worries… with one phone call to a higher-up gal I got my schedule changed. Sweet!!!
3. Meet up with that one student I’ve been helping prep for her speaking contest. Her contest is tomorrow and so she showed up quite stressed but ready to get down to business. I’m confident that she’ll do well and I tried to urge her to enjoy the experience. She’s an intelligent girl with a lot of mature ideas which is perfect for the questions she might possibly get asked during the contest/interview. Her main strength is with what she says but her weakness seems to be how she says what she wants to say. When she’s nervous she talks too fast and too choppy; it’s like her mouth has to stop to wait for her brain to finish processing what it wants the mouth to say. She’ll do great though, I’m sure of it. Correction, she’ll do amazing… I know it.
4. On account that this week marks me moving into my new home, I haven’t been to boxing for the past two days and don’t anticipate to return to it till next Monday. I haven’t not boxed this long since… hmmm… I don’t know when and I am missing it too.
5. Today started out loaded with frowns and an equal amount of rain. Snickers had arranged to have his best bud come from out of town with a truck to help us out but we had called off the arrangement on account of the rain. We had no tarp to cover up all the boxes… but wait… someone did! Money may not solve all problems but it definitely help and so today I hired a moving truck and a mover to help with the big move.
6. Most of my stuff in Sambu had been packed up and sat ready to be moved but I had ran out of boxes and so that’s where the mover came in handy. They had sent us an older man to help us with the move and, as it turns out, he was so perfect for the job if not better. He loved the whole Korean-man-foreigner-girl couple Snickers and I have going on and so we chatted the hours away while we slaved away at moving.
7. On our way out of the parking garage with the truck loaded to the brim with my stuff, I ran into one of the Sambu workers, an older man who does security at Sambu. He had noticed that I was moving and wanted to come out to talk to me. He asked me why I was moving, where I was moving too, and he topped his million of questions off with asking me if he’ll ever see me again. “Sure” I told him, “My friend lives here so I will make sure to say hi to you whenever I come by” I added. Am hoping to make my rounds this weekend and say goodbye and thank you to the two other older men that work at Sambu and who have continually been overly sweet and kind to me. I’ll miss them.
8. There’s one in particular Sambu man that I really am fond for. On average I’d say he says hi and chats to me about 4 times a day. He’s even kissed Mi Nam. Sometimes he tries to speak English to me but I’ll never forget the one time he stopped me on my way out the door and said, “When you don’t say hi to me in the morning I cry.” I’m not too sure who or how he learned that English sentence but I thought it was hilariously cute.
9. Today was definitely a busy day and I apologize for the total lack of pictures but it got lost in the suffling of the boxes when we loaded the truck. It wasn’t until much later that I found it.
10. By the time 11pm had arrived both Snickers and I were exhausted. We had packed everything in Sambu and had unpacked all but my clothes. Tomorrow we plan on “attacking” the massive clothes pile that sits taunting me on the floor… hahaha. Snickers headed over to Sambu to walk Mi Nam for me. You should see the mess we left at Sambu… yikes!!! We haven’t prepared Mi Nam’s new roof top house yet and so he’ll be living in Sambu by himself for the time being. I miss him already.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What do you see in your future?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
The past can't see you, but the future is listening.
-- Destin Figuier
2. No worries… with one phone call to a higher-up gal I got my schedule changed. Sweet!!!
3. Meet up with that one student I’ve been helping prep for her speaking contest. Her contest is tomorrow and so she showed up quite stressed but ready to get down to business. I’m confident that she’ll do well and I tried to urge her to enjoy the experience. She’s an intelligent girl with a lot of mature ideas which is perfect for the questions she might possibly get asked during the contest/interview. Her main strength is with what she says but her weakness seems to be how she says what she wants to say. When she’s nervous she talks too fast and too choppy; it’s like her mouth has to stop to wait for her brain to finish processing what it wants the mouth to say. She’ll do great though, I’m sure of it. Correction, she’ll do amazing… I know it.
4. On account that this week marks me moving into my new home, I haven’t been to boxing for the past two days and don’t anticipate to return to it till next Monday. I haven’t not boxed this long since… hmmm… I don’t know when and I am missing it too.
5. Today started out loaded with frowns and an equal amount of rain. Snickers had arranged to have his best bud come from out of town with a truck to help us out but we had called off the arrangement on account of the rain. We had no tarp to cover up all the boxes… but wait… someone did! Money may not solve all problems but it definitely help and so today I hired a moving truck and a mover to help with the big move.
6. Most of my stuff in Sambu had been packed up and sat ready to be moved but I had ran out of boxes and so that’s where the mover came in handy. They had sent us an older man to help us with the move and, as it turns out, he was so perfect for the job if not better. He loved the whole Korean-man-foreigner-girl couple Snickers and I have going on and so we chatted the hours away while we slaved away at moving.
7. On our way out of the parking garage with the truck loaded to the brim with my stuff, I ran into one of the Sambu workers, an older man who does security at Sambu. He had noticed that I was moving and wanted to come out to talk to me. He asked me why I was moving, where I was moving too, and he topped his million of questions off with asking me if he’ll ever see me again. “Sure” I told him, “My friend lives here so I will make sure to say hi to you whenever I come by” I added. Am hoping to make my rounds this weekend and say goodbye and thank you to the two other older men that work at Sambu and who have continually been overly sweet and kind to me. I’ll miss them.
8. There’s one in particular Sambu man that I really am fond for. On average I’d say he says hi and chats to me about 4 times a day. He’s even kissed Mi Nam. Sometimes he tries to speak English to me but I’ll never forget the one time he stopped me on my way out the door and said, “When you don’t say hi to me in the morning I cry.” I’m not too sure who or how he learned that English sentence but I thought it was hilariously cute.
9. Today was definitely a busy day and I apologize for the total lack of pictures but it got lost in the suffling of the boxes when we loaded the truck. It wasn’t until much later that I found it.
10. By the time 11pm had arrived both Snickers and I were exhausted. We had packed everything in Sambu and had unpacked all but my clothes. Tomorrow we plan on “attacking” the massive clothes pile that sits taunting me on the floor… hahaha. Snickers headed over to Sambu to walk Mi Nam for me. You should see the mess we left at Sambu… yikes!!! We haven’t prepared Mi Nam’s new roof top house yet and so he’ll be living in Sambu by himself for the time being. I miss him already.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What do you see in your future?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
The past can't see you, but the future is listening.
-- Destin Figuier
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Introducing the newest additions to the new home...
... the kitchen table...
... the fridge...(looking forward to staking this bad boy up with chicken and tomatoes!!!)
... the washing machine...which sits beside the freaky toliet that makes the water look black and, oddly enough, makes me always think of the movie "The Grudge" for some reason.
... the gas range...(temporarily that is, the correct one will come soon)
... and the massive clothes closet.And no, the handsome man didn't come with the furniture, I scored him on my own... hahaha.
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