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yangban
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The Great Green Pacific Northwest
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 Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 8:38 pm Post subject: How do you keep in touch with relatives back home? |
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| I like Yahoo, but it is getting increasingly unreliable. I want to show them pix and video, while being able to write to them regularly. How do you do it? |
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Imbroglio
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Behind the wheel of a large automobile
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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| You could just blog. |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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| blog- that's what I did- easier than sending out group emails which then come back with 3 out of office replies, one person who couldn't get the mail since their account was full, so can you send just the pictures to [email protected] please?- finding out you missed someone off the list and now they're upset at you... |
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komtengi
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
Location: Slummin it up in Haebangchon
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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| its called a telephone... stick in some numbers and someone at the other end will start talking |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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telephone's all well and good but
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and there's a limit to how many 20,000won telephone calls I'm willing to make at weird hours to compensate for the 8 hour time diff. |
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Eazy_E
Joined: 30 Oct 2003
Location: British Columbia, Canada
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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telephone's all well and good but
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and there's a limit to how many 20,000won telephone calls I'm willing to make at weird hours to compensate for the 8 hour time diff. |
Have you not heard of phone cards? |
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kangnamdragon
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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| email pics and videos |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Have you not heard of phone cards? |
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Yes yes you're all quite right, keep doing exactly what you're doing, I'm the one who's stupid for backing up an ideal answer to the OPs question. |
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kangnamdragon
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 12:44 am Post subject: |
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| Swiss James wrote: |
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| Have you not heard of phone cards? |
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Yes yes you're all quite right, keep doing exactly what you're doing, I'm the one who's stupid for backing up an ideal answer to the OPs question. |
There can be many ideas. It does not mean one is ideal. Possibly his family has no idea what a blog is.
"Hey Grandma, look at the pic on my blog."
"Don't use that language around me boy." |
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Crois
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: You could be next so watch out.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 12:58 am Post subject: |
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| I phone them and get them to phone me back. |
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SarcasmKills
Joined: 07 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 2:14 am Post subject: |
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| Webcam over MSN Messenger... freeeeeee! |
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kangnamdragon
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 2:15 am Post subject: |
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| How old is she and are they real? |
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yangban
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The Great Green Pacific Northwest
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| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 4:06 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Swiss James for your support.
Umm, I actually have phoned my relatives, but I guess I can show them the real Korea but holding the phone up to the room and letting them "listen" around. Good idea? Anyway Komtengi, I was looking for some original and alternative ideas to talk to my family, considering I have just found them after losing contact with them for over 20 years. (Haven't seen them since I was little). So I have a lot to talk with them about and the phone bill will be getting quite expensive, and is quite expensive already, not to mention the cash I have laid out trying to find them. Thanks for your clever and thoughtful input.
A blog sounds like a wonderful idea. But is it possible to keep it private and not having get found in search engines? |
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rudyflyer
Joined: 26 Feb 2003
Location: pacing the cage
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| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 4:43 am Post subject: |
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My aunt I use MSN and email, my father its the phone, he refuses to buy a computer and even has refused me buying or giving him the one we have in storage in the US and paying for the net. At least phone cards are cheap 24,000 won gives us 400 minutes, use one of those every 2 months
rest of my family i rarely hear from exvept for the rare email
Mrs Flyer uses email and the phone |
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sadsac
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: Gwangwang
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| Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 8:13 am Post subject: |
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Kangnam Travel have a phone card that is about 58 won a minute to the US. Very inexpensive. 50,000 won will get you about 15 hours talk time. Aside from that I'm a big Yahoo fan, but if they are backing up MSN Messenger is a worthwhile alternative. Another option is get yourself a .com nad set up a web page and post the pictures there. Spiderhosts have an excellent deal for about US$30.00 a year for full domain hosting. Just a thought. You can find a link to Kangnam at www.pusanweb.com  |
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