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something came over me as i was looking at these pictures over at cuteoverload.com.i don’t know how exactly to describe it, but it was kind of like tenderness, warmth, and cynicism all mixed together.looking those pictures of the interaction between two species of animals who are in a human-defined predator-prey relationship somehow makes me feel ...
최근에 배운 단어:[훈남/녀] 네이버에 있는 정의: 볼수록 괜찮은 남/여자즉, 얼굴은 빼어나게 잘생기진 않았어도 괜찮은 남/여자를 말하는 겁니다중국말로 하면 越看越耐看이라고 생각하면 된다.[정돈되다] 언니가 이렇게 말했다 – 네가 쓴 (영어) 문장을 보면, 너무 정돈된 느낌이 들었다.[역마살 驛馬煞] wanderlust언니 …
최근에 배운 새 단어:약다 / 약삭빠르다노망 났다옆자리 언니가 정말 잘 해주고 많이 가르쳐주니까 이제는 단어를 배우는 대로 포스팃에다 써놓고 여기다 적어놓기로 했음.언니가 나한테 한국어를 가르쳐주고 나는 언니한테 영어를 가르친다. 재밌게 하루를 보내고 있음~~오늘 저녁도 한국 세일즈팀과 회식을 하기로 했다~~ 기다가 된다 ^^그리고 …
this may sound incredulous (or maybe not) but i am actually speaking more korean here in singapore than i did in korea.even when i lived in korea, i never had to speak korean almost non-stop for 8 hours per day, five days a week.it’s good, of course, but the only problem is… because i have ...
오늘 내 옆 자리 언니한테 한 어휘를 배웠다. 본전도 못 찾았다는 말이다.본전도 못 찾았다는 뜻이 뭐냐면은 내가 다른 사람의 인정이나 동의를 받기 위해 애를 썼는데도 상대방을 설득하지 못 해서 무의미한 노력을 했다는 말이다.회사에서 한국말을 많이 쓰고 더 배울 수 있어서 좋단다. 1년 후에 내 한국말 실력이 막 늘었으면 좋겠는데 …
some wise person has warned us to “be careful of what [we] wish for”.i did wish to get a job where i can use korean.i did wish to land a challenging job.i did wish for my workplace to be near my house.and while a desk-bound job wasn’t my first choice, i didn’t mind compromising on ...
a workplace within walking distance of my house, a company that i admire, AND i will get to use korean at work.i never would have thought that i would one day be working for this company – i never even DARED to dream of it – but everything’s worked out perfectly. as me and ...
what i’ve been up to the past few weeks:went to see the extraordinary v conference (good show!! hope to go again next year);watched JUMP, the korean non-verbal comic martial arts show, which i didn’t manage to catch when i was in korea (only caught nanta when i was there);went for 2 screenings of the 5th ...
now that my immersion kids have gone home, i am now teaching the “regular” kids – students who are currently living and attending schools in singapore.some of them have lived in singapore for a few years, and i still haven’t really gotten used to hearing korean children speaking english with a singaporean accent (with bits ...
no idea what’s the name of this fruit…bird attack!rows of dragon fruit cactiorchids waiting to be packed then exported
yesterday after class, my students were going to sentosa and my little girl asked if i would like to tag along… i hesitated for only a while before agreeing to join them!!it was fun, though we didn’t manage to do many things – luge + butterfly park + merlion. hurhurhur.but it was quite amusing though; ...
i remember the time when leigh got a call from brett asking if we’d like to go sailing. that was when we had the dolphin encounter.and i remember brett saying something on the boat about sailing / dolphin-sighting.one of his friends had been wanting to see dolphins for quite a while, but whenever brett called ...
am so looking forward to thursday… the best friend is going to be legally married!!i still somehow can’t really get my head around it – one of my oldest friends in the world, someone whom i’ve known for more than a decade and whom i grew up with, is going to start her own family. ...
the kids in my class got themselves into ‘trouble’ today, or so they thought.they came back to class after break looking very worried, and couldn’t concentrate on the lesson at all, no matter how i tried to get them to do their work. all they could talk about was whether their teacher-in-charge knew about the ...
first few days of work.been alright – more than alright actually. am finding myself enjoying it more than i thought i would; then again it’s still early days yet, so who knows?but in terms of environment, it’s exactly what i want – no office politics, fellow teachers are nice, i don’t work full-time so i ...
so…… i landed a job without having to even look for one.am still having mixed feelings about it – i’d be starting on thursday and it seems like things are moving a little too fast for my comfort. i never planned to get a job so soon after i return; i still wanna bum around ...
i’ve picked up quite a bit on how to prepare gourmet raw dishes from sylv, and decided to try recreating some of them. since i’ve been home, i’ve made nutmeat balls, nut milks, green smoothies, fruit smoothies, raw sushi (no rice, no fish, just veges) and just a few days ago i had a go ...
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