Monthly Archives: October 2011

reflections in the haze

Posted on October 28, 2011 by YS — 1 Comment ↓

It’s the first Indian grand prix this weekend. Looks rather smoggy and dusty there, just north of new dehli. The event may rival korea’s first race, last year, for chaos levels. Five minutes into the first practice a dog ran…

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dirty weekend in chungju

Posted on October 24, 2011 by YS — No Comments ↓

It was J-e’s birthday last week, and so, seemed like a good enough reason to go away for the weekend. The main idea was to catch the ferry across the Chungju lake, see the autumn foliage and stay in Danyang,…

Tagged with: chungju, danyang, ferry, justifiable homicide, korea, lake, tourism, travel
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The world’s a nicer place in my beautiful balloon

Posted on October 14, 2011 by YS — No Comments ↓

The circus (formula 1) is in town (the country) this week. The weather’s been poor today for practice but it’s supposed to be better on the weekend for the actual racing. I (we) decided not to go this year after…

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Posted on October 13, 2011 by YS — No Comments ↓

<a href=”http://twitter.com/stuckinseoul”>stuckinseoul</a> brianbouchard that’s awesome brian; finally I have a way to get back at the litterers!

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Posted on October 11, 2011 by YS — No Comments ↓

@luizrazia yes quite common. Reminds me of breakdancing. Youre here early!

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Posted on October 10, 2011 by YS — No Comments ↓

<a href=”http://twitter.com/MBrundleF1″>MBrundleF1</a> jakehumphreyf1 let me know if there’s any korean people or place names you want pronunciation tips with later in the week :D

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Posted on October 10, 2011 by YS — No Comments ↓

@karunchandhok Is that Freshness Burger? .. yum..

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Posted on October 5, 2011 by YS — No Comments ↓

RT @gregorycurley: Korean judiciary logic: five years for marijuana use (http://t.co/gv8YXOdM) and three years for rape (http://t.co/WAw83aLR). Bat-shit crazy.

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veloster

Posted on October 3, 2011 by YS — No Comments ↓

That’s the name of one of Hyundai’s new cars. It’s supposed to be a combination of the words velocity and roadster. I find myself thinking colostomy bag. At first I was a bit puzzled by the look of it. It…

Tagged with: cars, girls, korea
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Footy, Footy, Footy!

Posted on October 2, 2011 by YS — No Comments ↓

I don’t think I could watch the aussie rules football regularly even if I wanted to. The Dickensian bandwidth limits imposed by the ISPs there mean that not much coverage from TV there gets uploaded to the outside world. I…

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