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[semphoon]

[Ya-ta Boy]

[nautilus]

Korean women that have spent a few years abroad are incredibly more attractive than those who haven't. They have a slightly more appealing dress sense and a more balanced temperament/perspective.

[JongnoGuru]

Watskeburt?

[Xerxes]

I'm back!

Tokyo was really weird: not only was the weather grey, but all the people in the city and the cars and the buildings were all black and white and shades of grey. No color in the city anywhere practically. The men ALL dressed in badly cut black suits. ALL of them. Not even the women wore any color in their professional clothing. Very little make-up.

Bazarro world. Then I arrived in Seoul and all the women wore gaudy, weird color combinations and I knew the world was back to normally weird again.

[Xerxes]

[JongnoGuru]

I want thank you all for these five pages of nearly unadulterated banality. ("nearly" because some of you veered dangerously close to the sheer cliffs of interesting at times) Though it's not what I had intended or expected, I like it all the same. I like how a few people discerned a theme or a request, one I hadn't consciously made, started the ball rolling and then others joined in. It truly was a team effort, and everyone deserves a share of the credit.

Okay, let me play along now. Hmm... I wonder what Xerxes was doing in Tokyo, whether it was a visa-run or for business/fun.

They're saying the Yellow Dust is really awful today. I heard something about it on the radio earlier, a woman was saying it's "9-on-a-scale-of-10 bad, and what's Korea coming to?, and what sort of future does Korea have if this keeps up?", and she's not letting her children out of the house until tomorrow. I've sneezed several times (and they were those really loud sneezes, you know, like thunderclaps of an angry god) and was rubbing my eyes earlier, but I wouldn't call it the worst I've ever seen.

What else... Oh yes. You know how you'll be going along, maybe you'll just wake up and suddenly you've got this overpowering, irresistable craving for something besides sex? It doesn't happen often, but it did this morning. A toasted bagel, I wanted one with a vengeance. Not just for the taste, not just because I was hungry. I wanted all of it -- the taste, the aroma wafting from the toaster, the yummy things I'd put on it, the crunchy goodness of biting into it, the delightful "party in your mouth" interplay of soft moist topping and dry crusty bread, yes. Yes. The Bagel (religious) Experience, the Whole Damned Bagel Gestalt. That's what I was after. But I didn't have any bagels.

So I went out and bought one at the nearest bakery. Never tried those before. The little hand-made sign said "bagel" and they looked like bagels. But when I got them home -- I bought two -- sliced one and was just about to put it in my toaster, I noticed something. Something about the texture, the consistency, the colour of it... somehow looked slightly different from other bagels I've had. And later the toasted finished product, that certainly tasted different. How to describe it... It was like dense, doughnut-shaped white bread with a smooth slightly browned crust. I suppose that accurately describes any bagel. But for some reason I couldn't get over the look/touch/smell/taste sensation that I what I was eating was not a bagel, but rather a Korean-made bakery item that was shaped like a bagel and called "a bagel".

I don't know whether that bakery uses the wrong ingredients, substitutes ingredients, or leaves some ingredients out, OR whether they don't abide by the same bagel-baking procedures (we call those things "recipes" I think) that the rest of the world does. But as I can buy the genuine article at so many other places in Seoul, I won't be buying those ones again. It's like they had some left-over bread dough and thought, 'Hey! Let's stick this in that doughnut mould over there and we'll call them "bagels"!' I think Korean snack-food makers use the same product-development approach. ('Gee, look at all this left-over grease. Hmm... I know! Let's toss in this squid-flavour packet I found in my pocket, fry it up and we'll call whatever comes out "Squid Sticks"!!! )

[Zyzyfer]

[periwinkle]

I wonder how many pages we can keep this thread going for~

Nice clouds today. Remind me of Charmin ads. Yup. Big, fluffy, white clouds.

[Zyzyfer]

Water tastes like water. FACT.

[Free World]

7 out of 16 grade 3 students were wearing pink socks today.

[Porter_Goss]

Me-chin-nom does not merely mean, as one class suggested, "Crazy Boy."

[CaptainConjunction]

[semphoon]

Today is Tuesday.

[kermo]