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we now temporarily suspend our regular programming as the individual behind this blog is away on a decadent shopping diversion as her sister has arrived in korea with boyfriend in tow.we should resume our services after 10 august, when said sister returns to singapore.we wish you a pleasant non-holiday.
yesterday, boss1 asked the office if we would like a movie outing. naturally everyone said yes–free movie ma, who doesn’t want?so we ended work at 5pm yesterday and headed down to catch the mummy 3.well, no spoilers, but some comments on the show:- jet li has put on quite a bit of weight eh.. heh ...
you know how everyone always says that they’re the luckiest person in the world? especially if they’re looking deep into the eyes of their significant other (when they’re not ripping each other’s throats off).well, the thing is, technically you can only have one person laying claim to that epithet, luckiest being a superlative.and since everyone ...
urgent!i need to borrow a video cam for a few days when i go back to sg in sept! can anyone help?? please please pretty please?? i’ll treat you to something nice in return! (this is for a personal project that i’m undertaking as a present to the best friend.)thanks!!
a few days ago, the best friend asked me:mari: let me guessmari: you are blood type B or Omari: am i right?mari: hahahame: hahaha why?me: i’m Ome: but my sis and dad are Bme: so i guess i also have B blood in me somewhere?mari: MUAHAHHAHAHAmari: it’s true it’s true!!mari: hahaahhame: what???then she forwarded me ...
saturday i went to edae with lx and her sis-in-law who was in seoul over the weekend, and we decided to go for some waffles.we passed by this cafe specializing in belgian waffles (MMMM!!), which according to lx has made quite a name for itself. my previous (and also first) experience with waffles in korea ...
i realized that i enjoy lying. to strangers, that is.to people whom i know i am unlikely to meet again, and to those whom i know i can lie to without consequence. especially taxi drivers.i fib about the most inane and inconsequential things–things that i can tell the truth about but chose not to simply ...
not too long ago there was this period where my phone went bonkers and was basically rendered useless: it couldn’t detect any signal, and i lost all my phonebook contacts so i ended up living without a phone for about a week or so.i think i subconsciously enjoyed the state of being uncontactable so i ...
movies watched over the past 2 weeks:- if only- hors de prix *- pathology- all dogs go to heaven- premonition- the godfather 1, 2 *- beetlejuice *- girl, interrupted *- the terminal- trainspotting *- analyze that *let’s see how long i can keep this up. i really really want to watch the dark knight! ...
i have had a bad start to this day, and it shows in the things that i have written this morning.if you don’t mind my french, hop over here to read.good day.
met lx for a movie on sat evening at the jongno area, and after the movie lx wanted to walk from jongno to city hall.as we were walking we noticed a group of people gathered in the middle of the road, and there were vans and cameras scattered around, so we thought that some filming ...
there are people who possess a healthy dose of ego, self-love and confidence, and then there are people who appear to be confident but do not actually think very highly of themselves.the latter group of people usually have low self-esteem and can be rather insecure about themselves, and it shows in the things they do. ...
i’ve always had a soft spot for men (especially older men) with wei1 yan2.i was watching the godfather part 2 in which a 30-years-younger robert de niro appeared. it’s all very surreal, watching de niro in his younger days; it’s like travelling back in time, trying to reconcile the de niro in all his wrinkly ...
movies i’ve watched in the past 2 weeks:- ensemble c’est tout *- singapore dreaming- harold and kumar go to white castle- definitely maybe *- big fish *- what’s eating gilbert grape *- the shawshank redemption *- the jungle book *- balls of fury- st trinian’s- sex and the city- analyze this *- an american tale ...
oh. my. freaking. god.hahahaha this is priceless!! and the ajumma pledge!!via mongdori, where user suddenlysusan has kindly translated the ajumma pledge into english.i vow to keep my perm nice and tight.muahahahaha oh. my. god. this is another one of those only-in-korea things.
so bossy told us the dates of our summer vacation yesterday, which is the week of august 4. work resumes on august 11. (for those not in the know, small korean companies usually don’t provide annual leave which you can take whenever you feel like it. what they have, however, is called “summer vacation” where ...
i just had a talk with boss1, and he asked me to stay on till december as a favour.i agreed, but i will probably stop work on the 2nd last week of november just to give myself enough time to pack and sort my stuff out.i will still head back to sg in september though, ...
met up with M for indian food last night (he’s canadian indian, so he knows the people working at the restaurant)… and i think i’ve found a gem! prices are reasonable (by korean standards–22,000won for 2 people), the serving is huge (though i don’t know if this is because M is friends with the people), ...
my phone somehow reset itself and everything got erased–all my smses, phone numbers– so i met up with eunhee after work on saturday to get my phone fixed.we went to SK telecom’s yongsan branch, and eunhee had told me that i should expect to pay about 30,000won if i can’t get it fixed.so we went ...
last week, me, roy and jean went out to the supermarket to get some stuff for our picnic (lx was still lazing at home, hehe).we were deciding on what fruits to get, so i pointed to a bunch of red grapes (see picture below) and asked him, “how about grapes?”he took a look at them ...
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