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T-dot
Joined: 16 May 2004
Location: bundang
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20,000? no prob.
buy a bag of mandoo, some instant noodles and bread.
go to a vendor and get like a 1000 won worth of dukboggi once in a while (that stuff is filling).
you can also buy a decent role of gim bab for a 1000 won.
options are endless, being broke and hungry? been there and done it. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:29 am Post subject: |
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| Wait, aren't the original two weeks up by now? Or almost? How did it go, OP? |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:44 am Post subject: |
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| osangrl wrote: |
2.5 weeks and 212,000 W left and im freaking out.
My cat needs food and litter too......... i don't think i can make it. PS i hate noodles, and tuna.  |
So then, Miss Osan Girl, how are you faring?
Check one or two of my previous posts about Korea's best-kept secret for us weygooks in need. (That's not directed at you, Osan Girl)....
If anyone here in Korea is REALLY hard up, you might try the pawnshop route. It's really quite ideal for us non-Koreans. No stigma, not worries, and trust me -- you WILL get your stuff back, and for silly-low interest rates, too.
The "free-sampling" raids at department stores are cute, but I can't recommend it. GAWWWWDDDDD, I was in Japan in the late 80s when "buffalo bill & buffalo betty" (downtrodden western hippie-types) and Japanese media turned that "survival tactic" into the latest "let's all snicker at the stupid poor white trash" national pasttime. I'd really hate to see the Koreans latch on to it, too.... Don't give 'em the chance.
The Guru |
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waggo
Joined: 18 May 2003
Location: pusan baby!
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| Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 2:39 am Post subject: |
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Go down to the railway lines and pull up all the vegetables that the old people are growing on the sidings.
Also wait until you see a car reversing and start screaming that theyve run over your foot...try and put some sort of black mark on your shoe that looks like a tyre mark...it works better if you have a Korean 'passerby' accomplice as well...50,000 won guaranteed on the spot.
You're more than welcome. |
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Hardy Boy
Joined: 03 Jul 2004
Location: I live in a shoe. Made in B.C., Northern Vancouver Island
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| Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 4:05 am Post subject: |
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I spent 5,000w of my last 8,200w on lunch at a Korean restaurant that has all-you-can-eat gimchi and I did! It was my only meal of the day.
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| Wait, aren't the original two weeks up by now? Or almost? How did it go, OP? |
It started last Friday and finishes next Thursday. But it's already felt like two weeks.
I am tired of rice but I have a lot of it left. Perhaps I should have bought a smaller bag.
I ate all the bread. I knew it wouldn't last. But it sure filled me up yesterday with thick amounts of jam.
I found lemon and cranberry juice crystal bags in my desk, so my vitamin C deficiency won't be great. (I do wonder how I could maximize my fruit or vitamin intake with my last 3,200w.)
Tomorrow I'm going to my Korean friend's place again, so it'll be some home cooking on the weekend.
I think I'll make it. |
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phaedrus
Joined: 13 Nov 2003
Location: I'm comin' to get ya.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 4:07 am Post subject: |
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| You can buy Vitamin C candy. Mmmmmmm.... |
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Hardy Boy
Joined: 03 Jul 2004
Location: I live in a shoe. Made in B.C., Northern Vancouver Island
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| Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 4:12 am Post subject: |
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| phaedrus wrote: |
| You can buy Vitamin C candy. Mmmmmmm.... |
What does the packaging look like? How can I identify it? And is it cheap? |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 4:17 am Post subject: |
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| One word: Lemon-C soju. (okay, two words...) |
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phaedrus
Joined: 13 Nov 2003
Location: I'm comin' to get ya.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 4:47 am Post subject: |
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| Hardy Boy wrote: |
| phaedrus wrote: |
| You can buy Vitamin C candy. Mmmmmmm.... |
What does the packaging look like? How can I identify it? And is it cheap? |
It's on the gum racks. Can't remember for sure the packaging. I think you can get a few "doses", like six to eight, for 1000 won. It will eat a third of your budget. |
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Rain
Joined: 06 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Give me your account number and I'll wire you some money. |
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beast
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 1:04 am Post subject: |
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| Your abs must be super ripped to the bone. |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 7:45 am Post subject: |
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| Friends, lentil me your ears. Back when I was 24 I once ate only cooked green lentils. I was at a new job waiting for the first paycheque and I felt lighter and stronger like...Lentil Man. |
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osangrl
Joined: 04 Nov 2003
Location: osan
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| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 5:31 am Post subject: |
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I have 62,000 W left. And i get paid on the first. Im on the survivor Osan diet. Rice.
Actually i just wasted 22,00 W tonite. I purchased a bunch of veggies to make the cabbage soup diet soup... and a big pot, since i don't have one,...
Come home, hungry, sick and ready to eat.
Guess what?
My gas has been shut off. I didn't know i couldn't skip a month.
im pissssssssed. |
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Hardy Boy
Joined: 03 Jul 2004
Location: I live in a shoe. Made in B.C., Northern Vancouver Island
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| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 5:58 am Post subject: |
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Osangirl, you have 11 days to go with only 62,000 W?
And you can't cook now? Not even to heat water?
Perhaps your mom should come visit a little earlier than planned! Or, since you are a public figure around here, known to some, perhaps somebody will hear about it and offer to help you pay your gas until the end of the month. How much is the gas?
Or some of the chivalrous men and women who PM'd me offers of money could help you!
I have three days until payday and enough rice, anchovies, jam, crackers and Vitamin C pills to get me there.
Osangirl is the one who needs help now. What does one do when one can't cook? |
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rawiri
Joined: 01 Jun 2003
Location: Lovely day for a fire drill.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 6:02 am Post subject: |
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| God bless my director, she agreed to pay me every monday no qualms at all. I think this way is heaps better, stops you from splurging on the 10th of every month, or whenever your payday is. |
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