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[bogey666]

I can NOT find a diet coke, Pepsi, etc ANYWHERE, they didn't even have them at E-mart. What's the deal? I mean this is 2008 after all, globalization.. everywhere I have ever been had DIET version of Coke/Pepsi,, even if it was called "Light" - same thing.

Lack of this is a bummer. Sure it's not really healthy anyways, but the combo of taste (I now prefer taste of diet, can't drink regular), ZERO calories and CAFFEINE, is a nice combo to have. What the *beep*? anyone know where I can score some?

I'm finding out my appt/area isn't as quiet as I thought, especially on the weekends... why do these asswipes in trucks drive around in the morning, hawking shit on the megaphone ENDLESSLY? Look dickhead, it's bad enough you announce it once but if you must OK, then if I want it I'll come down ok. Driving around 50x pisses me off....

there's a dog closeby whose bark is more like a yelp.. a hideous whiny and annoying sound , the only thing more annoying is the constant wailing of a baby. I need to put this dog out its misery somehow.

I'm convinced that if you spend a year sitting in a PC bang you will develop lung cancer immediately from all the secondary smoke. Imagine sitting in a room with 50 chimneys running full blast.

Can't wait till I get Internet at home.

the decision to bring the George Foreman grill was surefire winner. Grilled up my chicken breasts from E-mart, and I'm set. Other than the chicken, almost all the other stuff I can get from my corner stores (except for diet soft drinks! help! haha)

btw.. I have yet to have an adjumma or adjossi for that matter bump into me anywhere.. I haven't been with them in very close quarters but everyone keeps a nice healthy personal distance, so I don't quite "get" all the commotion made on this board over this.

(ditto for being stared at, as I've already noted in posts past)

One thing I forgot to mention in previous posts is that everyone is SURPRISED when I try or exhibit at least basic knowledge of mores and customs (some of which picked up/learned thru this board, so THANK YOU)

as an eg.. at my off the flight dinner, I didn't touch any food or drink, waiting for the VP to go first.. my handler's was like why aren't you eating.. and I motioned over to the VP and she's like aaahh... where did you learn Korean customs.. well I didn't.. but I am as I go... and such customs aren't only Korean, some things are similar the world over.

Even in US on a business lunch/dinner for e.g. with an important client, you always wait until he/she starts before you start.

Funny story with my landlord.

He's an interesting character, I don't quite know what to make out of him, except I'm pretty sure he's KIND of a dick.. not a complete dick mind you, but I think he's kind of one

He's useful because his English is probably better than anyone else's in 10 mile radius, outside of my Korean handler's (and it might beat hers).
So I'm trying to figure out the garbage bag stuff and I ask him... what to put where.. etc etc He's being helpful but not particularly, says ask your teacher (Korean handler)
Then I call him over because I want him to show me how to use the fucking washing machine (why is it that in the US we make directions,. etc in 4 languages sometimes but in Korea everything is in fucking Hangul?
(and ONLY Hangul?)

He got in front of the machine... and then got agitated and said.... ask your teacher.. ask woman! it was like putting kryptonite in front of Superman. I mean, dude.. I don't like washing clothes either, but it's a fucking washing machine... not like you're washing them by hand and then ironing/pressing and folding (which I never do). Maybe using the washing machine was a huge affront to his Korean manhood

Now.. maybe someone can explain the garbage thing again.

Ok, the white bags you buy at the store, that's for paper, etc and such trash.

Then you put in recyclibles in any old bag.. and someone will pick that up, right? (cans, bottles, plastic bottles too?)

Then there's a special little small container for food leftovers, etc.. which you're supposed to buy some stamp for?????? I don't really have any food leftovers... but what about apple cores...(you know. I ate the apple, what's left is the core?) does THIS go in the "food container"??

(on a sidenote, I don't have one of these, the landlord shrugged when i told him, saying the previous FT must have lost it/left it outside)

lastly, I was napping a couple of days ago.. there's a knock on the door.. I figure what the *beep*? has to be landlord.. who ELSE can it be?

I get up, open the door and there's this woman... wants to come in.. and check something... I kind of figure out she's checking gas stuff... so she comes in.. and checks for "gas leaks"....Landlord later opens door and tells me they do this every 3 months... then later says... next time a woman comes to your appt you shouldn't be naked (by this he meant topless). Well look asswipe.. I wasn't expecting HER, far less a stranger (though he may have been saying this in a jocular tone.. I don't know.. can't quite read him yet)

anyways.. the lady wants my name and my cellphone number.. and I'm like... call HIM (point at the landlord). Someone will call me, start speaking Korean and what good will THAT accomplish?

so - newbies.. beware of the gas leak patrol

p.s. I've just heard something WORSE than Celine Dion.
Some Korean woman singing Celine Dion style songs in Korean. Why would someone put on something that awful in a PC bang?

combine that with chimneys all around me and I'm going to have a huge migraine.

[Vlad Spinner]

You could always try "Cool Piss," or "Human Water." I think these are diet.

[jetrash]

hey artist.
CokeZEROtm

you can get it everywhere,every street corner,every 7/11
all of the american imperialism,none of the calories.

your welcome

..now tell me more at great length about how to eat live squid ,and how amazed Koreans are you can use chopsticks.



(if this isn't conceptual art.. please get a f.ing blog)

[Roch]

[jetrash]

the bogey666 posts/blog are not real.

its deep concept art..all of the cliches about western korean experience condensed as a easy to digest "journal on Daves"

its a "newbie" version of "princess"

pointless....but hey,so what.
art sometimes is.
its the esl version of a shark sawn in half.



away from the flock

[bogey666]

[jetrash]

CokeZEROtm




blogger666:your korean CokeZEROtm time is now.
E N J O Y


no sugar..all the caffine.

...the wiki link indicates it still has caffine content(actually 0.5mg more):

[bogey666]

[cheeseface]

Just buy coke and put some water in it?

[raketbaler]

[quote="bogey666"]so - newbies.. beware of the gas leak patrol :)quote]


Noted.

[Mea]

Coca-Cola Light (Diet Coke) is everywhere - I've never had a problem finding it.

[bogey666]

[SirFink]

[bogey666]

[Tiger Beer]

Pretty funny about the landlord, yet real typical of most Korean men on every level.

Pretty typical about people coming to the door as well. They usually just barge right in if they can, even turning the nob relentlessly and shocked its locked. They always knock with such an emergence like there's a fire just below you, so it's real easy to get distracted and go to the door regardless.

I lived in one place where my bathroom was next to the front door, and I KNOW they can hear if someone is showering or not (as I tested it later). But on different occassions while in the shower, I had that insistent knock. Once it was like 'I know you are in there, because I hear the shower running' relentless knocking and much harder because of it. I threw on a towel and dripping wet with the hugest scowl on my face and they just apologized at the door. Sheesh...typical Korea stuff though, so typical.

More funny in respect, you just don't get that in Japan. Japan message boards are fairly dull in comparison because of it.