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Homer
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Work out.
Hit the spa once per week.
Read.
Movies.
Play Changi with the old dudes in the park on sunday mornings.
Hike.
Write. |
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Metsuke
Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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This may sound lame... but here goes.
Lately... I really enjoy staying in with a good bottle of red wine, and cooking a nice dinner. Eating said dinner, and watching some engaging cinema seems to round out the night very well!  |
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sparkx
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: thekimchipot.com
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| Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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I think i'm pretty typical. Nothing too out of the ordinary.
1. I like to hang out in sewers and smoke cigarette butts i find near calbi restaurants
2. I like to pretend yellow is purple
3. On saturdays I walk around my neighborhood with one eye shut. I stop evey korean i see and say to them "no, no don't worry I just have an eyelash in there. I'll be fine....seriously don't worry." Little do those fools know my eye is perfectly fine.
4. I make puppets out of deli meat and mud from the banks of the Han River. I name these puppets after 'Dave's ESL Cafe" personalities and have conversations with them using threads I read as scripts. |
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yomuthabyotch
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Hell, Korea
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| Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 5:07 pm Post subject: Re: What do YOU do for fun? |
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| keithinkorea wrote: |
| I jam with a few people and make music |
Where do you jam at? I'm planning on luggin all my equipment to Korea, and am concerned that if I move into my own place, I won't be able to rock out as freely as I can at my place here in the States. American neighbors seem to be more understanding about these things--at least I've never gotten complaints.
I'd hate to have some ajuma or ajushi banging on the walls and telling me to shiggruh!! |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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| sparkx wrote: |
4. I make puppets out of deli meat and mud from the banks of the Han River. I name these puppets after 'Dave's ESL Cafe" personalities and have conversations with them using threads I read as scripts. |
mate, I was with you up till this bit |
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hypnotist
Joined: 04 Dec 2004
Location: I wish I were a sock
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| Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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I picked my nickname purely so I wouldn't have to go into this.
But recently, I've been blowing all my money heading to Tokyo.
I'm also lamenting the lack of a rowing club in Suwon. |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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work out.
read.
go on ragers with the apkujeong cobras, the most unstoppable celebratory force on the korean peninsula.
download movies. watch them.
download music. listen to it.
explore. i go to a new area and explore it every sunday. the seoul subway is amazing. |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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| sparkx wrote: |
| 4. I make puppets out of deli meat and mud from the banks of the Han River. I name these puppets after 'Dave's ESL Cafe" personalities and have conversations with them using threads I read as scripts. |
This really disturbs me Sparkx, and I wish you had never posted it. I can never think of you in the same way ever again.
You have deli meat, and you're not telling us where to find it?
I WANT TO EAT YOUR PUPPETS!
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 9:05 pm Post subject: Re: What do YOU do for fun? |
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| yomuthabyotch wrote: |
| keithinkorea wrote: |
| I jam with a few people and make music |
Where do you jam at? I'm planning on luggin all my equipment to Korea, and am concerned that if I move into my own place, I won't be able to rock out as freely as I can at my place here in the States. American neighbors seem to be more understanding about these things--at least I've never gotten complaints.
I'd hate to have some ajuma or ajushi banging on the walls and telling me to shiggruh!! |
A band can jam in an apartment in USA?
Wow, the neighbours up and down must be REALLY tolerant ... |
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sparkx
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: thekimchipot.com
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| Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Son Deureo! wrote: |
| I WANT TO EAT YOUR PUPPETS! |
In my 28 years on this planet, I don't think I have ever read anything as sick and disturbing as this. I feel ill.
It's gutter talk like this which inspired the phenomenon known as the perma-ban.
MODS! (snaps fingers) Deal with this potty mouth NOW! |
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yomuthabyotch
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Hell, Korea
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| Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:52 pm Post subject: Re: What do YOU do for fun? |
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| Wangja wrote: |
| Wow, the neighbours up and down must be REALLY tolerant ... |
OH, NO-NO-NO! I meant just rockin' out solo. When I lived in an apartment in the States, nobody's ever bitched at me (yet).
I mean, I probably won't be cranking up the volume late at night, but I'm just worried that Korean neighbors might not be used to hearing somewhat loud guitar noises at ANY time of day!  |
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keithinkorea
Joined: 17 Mar 2004
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I find Koreans generally very tolerant of loud things. Seoul is a very noisy city, people shouting, spitting, getting drunk at all hours. Not to mention the loudspeaker vans selling veggies, fish and fruit.
No one seems to mind our late night jam sessions at all. We don't have a drummer but do on occasion use some percussion and drunmbeats from my computer. No complaints thus far and we've got pretty rowdy late at night on a semi regular basis for months now.
I think Koreans are just used to a lot of noise around them, or maybe they just really love our late night semi drunken jamming  |
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philinkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
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eat korean food
visit places at the weekend
read books and articles about korea and korean culture
go out drinking
study a bit of korean occassionally
go to jimjilbang
go out with friends and other teachers to eat, drink, play pool, talk
watch movies, dvd bangs are cool |
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yomuthabyotch
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Hell, Korea
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| keithinkorea wrote: |
I find Koreans generally very tolerant of loud things. Seoul is a very noisy city, people shouting, spitting, getting drunk at all hours. Not to mention the loudspeaker vans selling veggies, fish and fruit.
No one seems to mind our late night jam sessions at all. We don't have a drummer but do on occasion use some percussion and drunmbeats from my computer. No complaints thus far and we've got pretty rowdy late at night on a semi regular basis for months now.
I think Koreans are just used to a lot of noise around them, or maybe they just really love our late night semi drunken jamming |
Thanks! That's pretty reassuring, cuz if I'm deprived of my noisemaking, I'll go insane! So you guys don't jam in some rented space, just a regular apartu, huh? What kinda music do you all play? |
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keithinkorea
Joined: 17 Mar 2004
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| yomuthabyotch wrote: |
| keithinkorea wrote: |
I find Koreans generally very tolerant of loud things. Seoul is a very noisy city, people shouting, spitting, getting drunk at all hours. Not to mention the loudspeaker vans selling veggies, fish and fruit.
No one seems to mind our late night jam sessions at all. We don't have a drummer but do on occasion use some percussion and drunmbeats from my computer. No complaints thus far and we've got pretty rowdy late at night on a semi regular basis for months now.
I think Koreans are just used to a lot of noise around them, or maybe they just really love our late night semi drunken jamming |
Thanks! That's pretty reassuring, cuz if I'm deprived of my noisemaking, I'll go insane! So you guys don't jam in some rented space, just a regular apartu, huh? What kinda music do you all play? |
We live in a thing called a villa! It' not a villa at all but it is bigger than many teachers places. It's not like a one room or anything, but even before I hooked up with the fellow teachers I'm jamming with at the moment I lived in a one room 'studio' the size of an oil drum and used to listen to and make music quite loud. The only compliant I got was from a coworker downstairs who got pissed of with me playing loud computers games at 3 in the morning. Hell if you're playing SOF2 online you have to have the speakers cranked up!
In answer to what we play, we just jam. The typical format goes something like this...
1. I get some funky beats (and maybe a funky basslines and some samples) going on my computer. We drink a load of beer and have a slightly mad conversation while I do this.
2. We listen to some stuff we did before and see if it gives us a starting point.
3. We bitch about our retard of a boss.
4. We drink more beer and decide -roughly- what key we're going to be in.
5. Get the beats a pumpin' and start jamming.
FYI. I play the electric guitar-though not too loud, a friend plays acoustic guitar and our American conspirator raps a bit. It's a weird fusion of rock, jazz, blues, reggae, hiphop, techno and captain beefheart styles.
It seems to work. The locals don't complain and we have a lot of fun.
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