LATENIGHT - KOREA

Saturday, April 26, 2003

The local pet store in our building

Stomach this...
Blah. I've been spending almost all of my off hours in bed for the last half week or more. I'm just starting to feel a bit better. I didn't miss any class though. My stomach has been bugging me and I'm not entirely sure what was wrong. Is it possible to burn your stomach by eating foods that are too hot, temperature-wise? People kind of laugh when I suggest this but it's the only thing I could think of as a cause. I had some bulgogichigae at a restaurant earlier in the week, which was served in it's usual hot-off-the-burner, boiling and bubbling style. Normally I would let it cool down a bit before eating but the place was about to close and I was lucky they served me at all... so I wolfed it down rather fast. Well, that's my theory. For medication, Tylenol has helped me get a couple hours of sleep here and there-- and I've been testing my "burn" theory by drinking Aloe Juice and it seems to be helping. Then again, I just really like Aloe Juice anyway *grin*. I also have avoided coffee for the better part of the week and been pretty careful with my diet (no junk food). I would have gambled on seeing a doctor today, but I think I am almost better now.

So what's in the news... letsee... corruption, animal cruelty, plastic surgery-induced suicide (but Donna beat me to the punch and linked to that story already). The Russian mob activity in Busan seems pretty fascinating but I don't want to wake up with a horse's head on my pillow-- so I'll skip talking about that.

... ergo that's it for the news.

Proving the old adage about rabbits...
On a more immediately relevant news note... I have had a shocking revelation in the last week. My dear little rabbit, Molly, is decidedly not female. I've sort of suspected it for a while but springtime has a way of confirming such things in the animal kingdom and Molly's new habits of late are very noticeable and distinctly masculine. On a positive note, a new animal hospital just opened up across the street which will make it a lot easier should the decision be made to render him um... less active.

Country Roads, take me home...
There's not much other Korean content I can add to this post. I've been taking it easy. I have found a couple of great websites though, and I'll pass them on. Remember my fanciful quest to study civilization from the bottom up? I've found a website by a professor of Chemistry at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia that fits the bill perfectly. It's called Caveman Chemistry and mirrors my goal perfectly. Kevin Dunn, the site's author, takes a loose, scientific approach all the way from the harnessing of fire, and invention of stone tools (showing you how to make a silicate arrowhead out of the bottom of a beer bottle), all the way to electricity experiments and plastics. Each chapter of his book is "narrated" by various historical personas so the presentation is quite entertaining and borders on metaphysical at times. He even uses alchemical symbols to present scientific info, instead of the modern, conventional chemistry symbols. It's a neat web site. Go check it out. For all you Odinists out there, he's got a chapter on making mead, too *smirk*.

I've also been looking at designs for water wheels (for sawmills, grist mills, or electrical turbines), and windmills (smock mills, etc.). Someday when I build my house back in the country, I'm hoping to use some of this technology to make the place more environmental and self-sufficient. I've been reading up on churning butter, making soap, dipping candles...

Best of all, while surfing I also came across another wonderful site, written by 87-year old, Mabel Jones, called 'Good Ole Days'. Mabel grew up on a farm in Alabama in the 1920's and has written up lovely, sentimental accounts of everything from farming sweet potatoes, to milling sugar cane, to country "toothbrushes" and her mom's .38 revolver. I'm about halfway through her site now and can attest that it's one of the finest reads I've had in a long time.

My students in the History Club class that I teach on Fridays, were all subjected to a watered down version of this occult pioneer lore. We've covered the Spanish and New France. This week we started into the Thirteen Colonies. With luck, I'll score some videos for them for next week.

I've spent some time on the CBC's "Hippy Society" archive collection this week too, but I don't think my students would be interested in that.

Tuesday, April 15, 2003

Motels in Nowon

So now I've learned about another holiday. We were discussing special days in one of my classes today and we remembered that today is also a special day. Now bear with me, because I feel like I explain this every month (which I guess I have been doing for the last couple anyway...)

Today is Black Day!

February 14th is Valentine's Day when girls give chocolate to boys they have crushes on.
March 14th is White Day when boys return the affection and give candy to the girls they have crushes on.
April 14th is for anyone who was moping about not having a Valentine this year. On this day, single people in Korea celebrate Black Day. What are the appropriate activities? Unlike what my goth pals back home might suspect (dressing in your darkest clothing and lamenting your loneliness to the melodious tunes of Switchblade Symphony or the Cure) you actually are encouraged to go out with other singles to the local Chinese food restaurant and order 切舌檎 (Jajangmyun) which are delicious noodles covered covered in a black bean paste-- the favourite meal of cartoon character, Pucca. Happy Black Day, everyone!

Dave's ESL Cafe Gathering
I made it out Saturday night to the meeting held by some of the posters on Dave's ESL Cafe. We all met at a club called, Stopwatch in Hongdae before moving on to the scandalous G-Spot. Afterwards, some of us split off and Yeji and I were taken to a place to which I WAS SWORN TO KEEP SECRET *smirk*. All I'll say about it is that it wasn't your typical dance club. Hidden away in an UNDISCLOSED location, I had no idea it would have existed if not for our amiable Irish and American guides. Wow. That's all I'll say.

The whole evening went great. Everyone was friendly and it was a terrific crowd. People from all corners of world were there. But I have to admit that I was having a bit of an anxiety attack going in. It's not every day I get to speak to other foreigners from back home (in fact there's only a handful of people that I even meet on the street in a given month). I guess I worry that I've lost my ability to socialize. Among the folks I met was a guy that works on the floor below me-- the same building where I work. He's been there almost as long as I have and is actually finishing his contract this week-- yet I've never met him until now. There were a couple of familiar faces, but they required some quick reintroductions. The next time one of these gatherings comes around, I'll now be sure to know lots of folks. There's talk of a June/July barbecue by the Han and judging by the number of Canucks at this event, I'll likely run into a few at this year's Canada Day celebration. (Of course all nationalities are welcome at the July 1st shindig and I'd be more than happy to meet up with Saturday night's Koreans, Aussies, Yanks, Kiwis and Brits too. Come for the steak-- stay for the beer!)

Tossing and turning...
Of course, due to my infrequent socializing, I nevertheless ended up tossing and turning Sunday night (last night) over whether or not I made a decent impression at the getogether. I think this contributed to one of the craziest dreams I have ever had related to Korea.

The dream...
In the short hour or so that I was asleep, I had a dream that I was back in Canada and I was taking my aunt to a museum up on the Acadian peninsula. We went inside and there was a kind old man at the desk who could, of course, only speak French. Now I'm not bilingual but I know enough French to get by (in this case to purchase a ticket) and I was trying desperately to say, "Combien se co?te le billet?" (or somesuch) but the words wouldn't come out of my mouth! As soon as I tried, the only thing that I could voice was "Ol-mah-eh-yo" in Korean over and over and over...

Maybe it's a sign that I should brush up on my French. Personally I found this page of French phrases to be entertaining if not helpful.

...? la prochaine!

Saturday, April 12, 2003

It's the second anniversary of the Kyungnam to Kyunggi to Killbox Journal (せせせ). More on that later, though.

Lately I've been having a writer's block/shock of sorts. It's not that there's nothing to write about. Good things happen. Tonight for instance, I am going out to Hongdae with the hopes of meeting some fellow online expats... but in the back of my mind, I'll be remembering the warning that's been flashing across AFKN about avoiding subway Line 2 due to a large-scale demonstration. Guess I'll take a taxi after all.

Maybe it's best to let sleeping dogs lie.

Saturday, April 05, 2003

One of the myriad road-alley hybreds in Jungno

This is shaping up to be too funny to miss: Reclusive North Korean potentate, Kim Jong Il has as blog. (Link found earlier today on Dave's ESL Cafe).

I'm starting to realize how fast time flies. This is largely since I've scaled back my blogging. I'm still trying to make sure I have at least one post for each week, rather than let the archives get spotty-- and in so doing, I am also realizing just how fast the weeks go buy. A full quarter of my current contract has gone by and it seems like I just re-signed a short time ago.

There were no news stories that really peeked my interest this week. I'm on a bit of a self-imposed news blackout. The most interesting thing that I actually bothered to snag was a story detailing an increase in the average height of apartment buildings in Seoul. Just to spoil the suspense, I'll tell you now that it's 18.3 stories.

School became weird as the week progressed. It began in a rather mundane fashion but with the added twist that we have a new schedule for April. I'm now teaching a full 6 classes virtually every day. That's more than any of my coworkers. The downside is that when one of our teachers called in sick this Thursday and Friday, it was up to the Korean teachers to fill in for her since I have absolutely no break in my schedule and couldn't help pick up the slack. Pardon me for being overworked as it is. I could sense the cold shoulder.

Maybe I'm jumping to conclusions but Thursday seemed to be the start of some odd vibes all around. We had two separate fights break out between students at the same time. One of them involved a prize pupil of mine... his third infraction this year. No one wants to get rid of him but suspending him from the hagwon would seem to be the natural thing to do. He was threatened with being kicked out after the second time and I guess it just didn't sink in. Either way, the student he hit sprayed buckets of blood from his nose-- like a shower head. This is probably also a good time to point out that no one here really has a concept of First Aid. I've asked around as to whether anyone had taken a course (seeing as how it's a nice thing to know). I eventually lowered the bar to, "Has anyone heard of a First Aid course?"... and then finished with a vocabulary lesson on what "First Aid" is. It was the second student nose bleed of the week and I was miffed that no matter how much I protested, it was impossible to get anyone to put pressure on the nose to get the bleeding to slow. They just insisted on letting it drip into tiny scraps of tissue, pretending it was working, until crimson puddles started forming around their ankles. Oh well... It shouldn't surprise me after I also heard some stories this week about Korean hospitals.

It could be worse. I could contract SARS for instance. If I did, it'd probably be diagnosed as an electric fan-related illness. I'm not surprised that Korea hasn't reported any cases yet. I was speaking to friend of mine about this tonight on MSN. He pointed something out, which I hadn't considered until now. I'm still expecting to make it home this summer for a vacation. In a worst-case scenario, I could end up spending half the time in a quarantine station simply for having departed from Asia. In a best-case situation... people who I haven't seen in two years will ostracize me as if I have been exposed to the plague.

Taxi cabs are exceptionally p*ssing me off too this week. Ever since the war started, getting a cab has been like catching flies in chopsticks (well more so than usual). The same situations have been constantly repeating themselves. On my way to work, I reach the crosswalk and meander over to where the cabs park. I change facing and begin walking to a cab... the driver sees me and the taxi cab drives off (empty). On the way home, I usually try to grab a cab near the convenience store across the street. Thursday night, I walked out to hail a cab and some old ajumah did the typical thing that ajumahs do. She walked in front of me, about a foot away so that I had to back up, blocking me like Minnesota Vikings linebacker, and then proceeded to hail her own cab. I was diplomatic. I retreated to the sidewalk and moved further up the street so that once again, I'd be first in line. A taxi came, I swung my hand, and the taxi slowed. The driver looked me in the eye, then saw the ajumah and gunned the engine past me so he could pick her up.

You just can't win. What makes it worse is that the same exact thing happened to me with a cab again tonight!

The only thing I can take comfort in, is that when they have an accident, which they are statistically more likely to do in this country than in any country other than Turkey-- no one will be around who can administer First Aid.

Colour me jaded.

It's now 5:30am. In a few hours, I'm going to get up and we're going to the electronics town in Yongsan. I haven't been there before so it should be a good experience. Until then, I'm sitting back, drinking that Molson Canadian I mentioned, and reading blogs from back home.


	CHANGWON ∙ The Kyungnam to Kyunggi Journal ∙ SEOUL
	Saturday, April 26, 2003 The local pet store in our building Stomach this... Blah. I've been spending almost all of my off hours in bed for the last half week or more. I'm just starting to feel a bit better. I didn't miss any class though. My stomach has been bugging me and I'm not entirely sure what was wrong. Is it possible to burn your stomach by eating foods that are too hot, temperature-wise? People kind of laugh when I suggest this but it's the only thing I could think of as a cause. I had some bulgogichigae at a restaurant earlier in the week, which was served in it's usual hot-off-the-burner, boiling and bubbling style. Normally I would let it cool down a bit before eating but the place was about to close and I was lucky they served me at all... so I wolfed it down rather fast. Well, that's my theory. For medication, Tylenol has helped me get a couple hours of sleep here and there-- and I've been testing my "burn" theory by drinking Aloe Juice and it seems to be helping. Then again, I just really like Aloe Juice anyway grin. I also have avoided coffee for the better part of the week and been pretty careful with my diet (no junk food). I would have gambled on seeing a doctor today, but I think I am almost better now. So what's in the news... letsee... corruption, animal cruelty, plastic surgery-induced suicide (but Donna beat me to the punch and linked to that story already). The Russian mob activity in Busan seems pretty fascinating but I don't want to wake up with a horse's head on my pillow-- so I'll skip talking about that. ... ergo that's it for the news. Proving the old adage about rabbits... On a more immediately relevant news note... I have had a shocking revelation in the last week. My dear little rabbit, Molly, is decidedly not female. I've sort of suspected it for a while but springtime has a way of confirming such things in the animal kingdom and Molly's new habits of late are very noticeable and distinctly masculine. On a positive note, a new animal hospital just opened up across the street which will make it a lot easier should the decision be made to render him um... less active. Country Roads, take me home... There's not much other Korean content I can add to this post. I've been taking it easy. I have found a couple of great websites though, and I'll pass them on. Remember my fanciful quest to study civilization from the bottom up? I've found a website by a professor of Chemistry at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia that fits the bill perfectly. It's called Caveman Chemistry and mirrors my goal perfectly. Kevin Dunn, the site's author, takes a loose, scientific approach all the way from the harnessing of fire, and invention of stone tools (showing you how to make a silicate arrowhead out of the bottom of a beer bottle), all the way to electricity experiments and plastics. Each chapter of his book is "narrated" by various historical personas so the presentation is quite entertaining and borders on metaphysical at times. He even uses alchemical symbols to present scientific info, instead of the modern, conventional chemistry symbols. It's a neat web site. Go check it out. For all you Odinists out there, he's got a chapter on making mead, too smirk. I've also been looking at designs for water wheels (for sawmills, grist mills, or electrical turbines), and windmills (smock mills, etc.). Someday when I build my house back in the country, I'm hoping to use some of this technology to make the place more environmental and self-sufficient. I've been reading up on churning butter, making soap, dipping candles... Best of all, while surfing I also came across another wonderful site, written by 87-year old, Mabel Jones, called 'Good Ole Days'. Mabel grew up on a farm in Alabama in the 1920's and has written up lovely, sentimental accounts of everything from farming sweet potatoes, to milling sugar cane, to country "toothbrushes" and her mom's .38 revolver. I'm about halfway through her site now and can attest that it's one of the finest reads I've had in a long time. My students in the History Club class that I teach on Fridays, were all subjected to a watered down version of this occult pioneer lore. We've covered the Spanish and New France. This week we started into the Thirteen Colonies. With luck, I'll score some videos for them for next week. I've spent some time on the CBC's "Hippy Society" archive collection this week too, but I don't think my students would be interested in that. posted by Ian at 8:54 PM - link ... 0 comments ... Tuesday, April 15, 2003 Motels in Nowon So now I've learned about another holiday. We were discussing special days in one of my classes today and we remembered that today is also a special day. Now bear with me, because I feel like I explain this every month (which I guess I have been doing for the last couple anyway...) Today is Black Day! February 14th is Valentine's Day when girls give chocolate to boys they have crushes on. March 14th is White Day when boys return the affection and give candy to the girls they have crushes on. April 14th is for anyone who was moping about not having a Valentine this year. On this day, single people in Korea celebrate Black Day. What are the appropriate activities? Unlike what my goth pals back home might suspect (dressing in your darkest clothing and lamenting your loneliness to the melodious tunes of Switchblade Symphony or the Cure) you actually are encouraged to go out with other singles to the local Chinese food restaurant and order 切舌檎 (Jajangmyun) which are delicious noodles covered covered in a black bean paste-- the favourite meal of cartoon character, Pucca. Happy Black Day, everyone! Dave's ESL Cafe Gathering I made it out Saturday night to the meeting held by some of the posters on Dave's ESL Cafe. We all met at a club called, Stopwatch in Hongdae before moving on to the scandalous G-Spot. Afterwards, some of us split off and Yeji and I were taken to a place to which I WAS SWORN TO KEEP SECRET smirk. All I'll say about it is that it wasn't your typical dance club. Hidden away in an UNDISCLOSED location, I had no idea it would have existed if not for our amiable Irish and American guides. Wow. That's all I'll say. The whole evening went great. Everyone was friendly and it was a terrific crowd. People from all corners of world were there. But I have to admit that I was having a bit of an anxiety attack going in. It's not every day I get to speak to other foreigners from back home (in fact there's only a handful of people that I even meet on the street in a given month). I guess I worry that I've lost my ability to socialize. Among the folks I met was a guy that works on the floor below me-- the same building where I work. He's been there almost as long as I have and is actually finishing his contract this week-- yet I've never met him until now. There were a couple of familiar faces, but they required some quick reintroductions. The next time one of these gatherings comes around, I'll now be sure to know lots of folks. There's talk of a June/July barbecue by the Han and judging by the number of Canucks at this event, I'll likely run into a few at this year's Canada Day celebration. (Of course all nationalities are welcome at the July 1st shindig and I'd be more than happy to meet up with Saturday night's Koreans, Aussies, Yanks, Kiwis and Brits too. Come for the steak-- stay for the beer!) Tossing and turning... Of course, due to my infrequent socializing, I nevertheless ended up tossing and turning Sunday night (last night) over whether or not I made a decent impression at the getogether. I think this contributed to one of the craziest dreams I have ever had related to Korea. The dream... In the short hour or so that I was asleep, I had a dream that I was back in Canada and I was taking my aunt to a museum up on the Acadian peninsula. We went inside and there was a kind old man at the desk who could, of course, only speak French. Now I'm not bilingual but I know enough French to get by (in this case to purchase a ticket) and I was trying desperately to say, "Combien se co?te le billet?" (or somesuch) but the words wouldn't come out of my mouth! As soon as I tried, the only thing that I could voice was "Ol-mah-eh-yo" in Korean over and over and over... Maybe it's a sign that I should brush up on my French. Personally I found this page of French phrases to be entertaining if not helpful. ...? la prochaine! posted by Ian at 3:40 AM - link ... 0 comments ... Saturday, April 12, 2003 It's the second anniversary of the Kyungnam to Kyunggi to Killbox Journal (せせせ). More on that later, though. Lately I've been having a writer's block/shock of sorts. It's not that there's nothing to write about. Good things happen. Tonight for instance, I am going out to Hongdae with the hopes of meeting some fellow online expats... but in the back of my mind, I'll be remembering the warning that's been flashing across AFKN about avoiding subway Line 2 due to a large-scale demonstration. Guess I'll take a taxi after all. Maybe it's best to let sleeping dogs lie. posted by Ian at 6:17 PM - link ... 0 comments ... Saturday, April 05, 2003 One of the myriad road-alley hybreds in Jungno This is shaping up to be too funny to miss: Reclusive North Korean potentate, Kim Jong Il has as blog. (Link found earlier today on Dave's ESL Cafe). I'm starting to realize how fast time flies. This is largely since I've scaled back my blogging. I'm still trying to make sure I have at least one post for each week, rather than let the archives get spotty-- and in so doing, I am also realizing just how fast the weeks go buy. A full quarter of my current contract has gone by and it seems like I just re-signed a short time ago. There were no news stories that really peeked my interest this week. I'm on a bit of a self-imposed news blackout. The most interesting thing that I actually bothered to snag was a story detailing an increase in the average height of apartment buildings in Seoul. Just to spoil the suspense, I'll tell you now that it's 18.3 stories. School became weird as the week progressed. It began in a rather mundane fashion but with the added twist that we have a new schedule for April. I'm now teaching a full 6 classes virtually every day. That's more than any of my coworkers. The downside is that when one of our teachers called in sick this Thursday and Friday, it was up to the Korean teachers to fill in for her since I have absolutely no break in my schedule and couldn't help pick up the slack. Pardon me for being overworked as it is. I could sense the cold shoulder. Maybe I'm jumping to conclusions but Thursday seemed to be the start of some odd vibes all around. We had two separate fights break out between students at the same time. One of them involved a prize pupil of mine... his third infraction this year. No one wants to get rid of him but suspending him from the hagwon would seem to be the natural thing to do. He was threatened with being kicked out after the second time and I guess it just didn't sink in. Either way, the student he hit sprayed buckets of blood from his nose-- like a shower head. This is probably also a good time to point out that no one here really has a concept of First Aid. I've asked around as to whether anyone had taken a course (seeing as how it's a nice thing to know). I eventually lowered the bar to, "Has anyone heard of a First Aid course?"... and then finished with a vocabulary lesson on what "First Aid" is. It was the second student nose bleed of the week and I was miffed that no matter how much I protested, it was impossible to get anyone to put pressure on the nose to get the bleeding to slow. They just insisted on letting it drip into tiny scraps of tissue, pretending it was working, until crimson puddles started forming around their ankles. Oh well... It shouldn't surprise me after I also heard some stories this week about Korean hospitals. It could be worse. I could contract SARS for instance. If I did, it'd probably be diagnosed as an electric fan-related illness. I'm not surprised that Korea hasn't reported any cases yet. I was speaking to friend of mine about this tonight on MSN. He pointed something out, which I hadn't considered until now. I'm still expecting to make it home this summer for a vacation. In a worst-case scenario, I could end up spending half the time in a quarantine station simply for having departed from Asia. In a best-case situation... people who I haven't seen in two years will ostracize me as if I have been exposed to the plague. Taxi cabs are exceptionally pssing me off too this week. Ever since the war started, getting a cab has been like catching flies in chopsticks (well more so than usual). The same situations have been constantly repeating themselves. On my way to work, I reach the crosswalk and meander over to where the cabs park. I change facing and begin walking to a cab... the driver sees me and the taxi cab drives off (empty). On the way home, I usually try to grab a cab near the convenience store across the street. Thursday night, I walked out to hail a cab and some old ajumah* did the typical thing that ajumahs do. She walked in front of me, about a foot away so that I had to back up, blocking me like Minnesota Vikings linebacker, and then proceeded to hail her own cab. I was diplomatic. I retreated to the sidewalk and moved further up the street so that once again, I'd be first in line. A taxi came, I swung my hand, and the taxi slowed. The driver looked me in the eye, then saw the ajumah and gunned the engine past me so he could pick her up. You just can't win. What makes it worse is that the same exact thing happened to me with a cab again tonight! The only thing I can take comfort in, is that when they have an accident, which they are statistically more likely to do in this country than in any country other than Turkey-- no one will be around who can administer First Aid. Colour me jaded. 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