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[Rock]

When I'd come to Korea, I didn't want to know. How about all of you? Not that I wanted to escape something. I wanted to 'feel' far away, somewhere remote, crave solititude, not know where I was.

There's something to be said about that, craving solitude, not knowing. Maybe's it's simplicity. Or maybe it's the fact that it's soulfully soothing.

I think, too, many N. Americans were built this way. I'd lived months without seeing a foreigner like me, as I'd lived way out in the countryside. Loved it, did my best, fell into technological trappings and now feel lost.

Before I'd felt I was somewhere, even though I didn't want to know where. Didn't even have an email account, cp, computer. Now, I feel as if I'm just a clique.

[Masta_Don]

I think I can dig on what you're saying. I was mania-driven when I first came here. Go out to the bars every night, always looking for an adventure or something to do. Now I spend way too much time in front of my computer and there are days that the only time I leave the house before the sun goes down are to play the drum game at the arcade. Everything gets stale after a while and that's why I have to keep moving, to keep myself interested.

[The evil penguin]

[just4u]

Clique, or cliche?

[Qinella]

Reading that post sent me off into a 3-day psychotic LSD flashback that lasted 10 seconds in real time.

[igotthisguitar]

Moi, the nucleus of a stinking little micro-clique? Hell no.

Amazingly handsome & talented movie star, yes ...

[twg]

William G: Clique of One

[Treefarmer]

even most koreans don't do anything except play on computer games or get drunk

england gets laughed at for being the 51st state, but at least we would be like New York State or something. korea is like one of the dull states in the middle

[RACETRAITOR]

Most of my friends are in cliques but I do my best to stay out of them. I'm tired of high-school politics among friends.

[VanIslander]

[VirginIslander]

My first year I spent a lot of time in the bars and on Daves. Now, I'm able to stay away from the bars but not Daves, yet.

I always see an old woman standing outside my building, just watching the cars and people. She seems lonely but very kind.

She must be close to 90, if not older. She smiles at me and I nod and smile back. I wish I knew enough Korean to be able to talk to her about her life. I've spoken to her few times and she asked me to call her grandmother.

She's more interesting than the average drunk at the bar. I used to love talking to older people in the islands, but I could communicate with them. So, Im going to start studying even more and try to learn from her.

I'm trying to find ways to make thing more enjoyable and new in Korea. I did a lot of kayaking and sailing in the Caribbean and if I return after this year I will cough up the 1.5 and buy a really nice kayak. However, the Korean lifeguards probably wont let me leave the sandbar.

Traveling to all the hot spots in Asia is too cliche for me. I'll visit Nepal because my best friend's parents live there, Thailand stricly to study Muay Thai and cooking for a month or two and Japan because my girlfriend speaks Japanese pretty well.

Originality and novelty are out there; you just have to be willing to find it.

[RACETRAITOR]

And on the topic of cliches, I'd just like to say I break every cliche that I could be accused of.

[Rock]

You know, some of you Europeans and Canadians alongside seem so much more enlightened and in some respects, more intelligent than Americans. This is what wants me make a distinquishment.

There's a part of me that's wild, a part of Americans, I can't describe. I feel wolfish at times, hungering for the hunt, haunting local dogs, howling at stern cages, wanting to let it all go.

Ran one time naked in the night, a dog beside me. Felt the moon dripping on my canines, the drool of the creek crooked crossing. By Old Man Schwains, who'd built a bridge for no reason other than to burn his house down after an adulterous affair. Stare, looking at the ashes of the dead, Ronald B and others near.

I've studied the native lore, the tribes that were once there. This is what I'm saying. There's something N. Americans have inherited bordering on more than just welfare. And now, in Korea, it haunts me again, since I'd been so civilized, they thinking, this is all a democracy, what we're here for.

I came here to escape that lie.

[ChopChaeJoe]

Clich�s Of The World (b Movie)
by R.D. Davies


Sunset over the high-rise,
By a motorway,
A little man looks up at the sky.
An uneventful end to a wasted day.
Close-up on the man at the window,
Looking at the street down below.
It's obvious he's got things on his mind.
He shakes his head, pulls down the blind.

He start's writing a letter,
To make it perfectly clear.
He's just a man who's reached the end of his rope,
Expressing his doubts and his fears.
In a world, feels so lonely and afraid,
Disillusioned by the promises they made,
It's a pity that it ended up this way,
Life is just a clich�.

I'm gonna do tomorrow
What i did yesterday.
It's such a dull routine,
Somebody cut this scene,
It's such a boring clich�.

Live life, day to day,
Seems so pass�.
Everything you hear and say,
Just another clich�.

Like an actor on a movie screen,
Living out someone else's dream.
Living out a total misconception,
Reality, a false perception.

It's such a wasted life,
Without any conclusion.

Days drift into days,
His life just slips away.
People so blas�,
Everything's a clich�.
Yes it is.
Yes it is.
Just an illusion.
Just an illusion.

Moonlight over the high-rise,
At the end of the day.
The little man is asleep in his bed,
Tucked up, safely away.

In his dreams he's taken away by alien beings to another
Galaxy, deep in space. to a planet where a man can live
Out his fantasies, and experience unimaginable pleasures.
But morning comes and soon the realities of life will
Shatter his illusions, and the clich�s of the world will
Bring him down. but still he's waiting for a change.

Days drift into days,
His life just slips away.
Everything is pass�,
Everything's a clich�.
Yes it is.
Yes it is.
Just an illusion.
Just an illusion.
Yes it is.
Yes it is.

See the sunlight over the motorway,
The little man, with anger in his eyes,
Stands by the window, looks at the sky.

[just4u]