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It was a week ago today that my six day Chuseok vacation started. It didn’t seem like I did much at all, but time sure flew by. Here’s a quick recap of what happened this past week: Friday: Ras had chicken and beer with Bart after work. I met up with them and we then [...]

This street performing arts festival has peaked my interest, especially since it’s less than a half hour away from where I live. It takes place the weekend after Chuseok. I’d like to see the French and Belgium troupes perform.

18,000 won for all-you-can-drink French wine.  Sounds too good to be true?  Not according to this. 2007/05/16 The monthly “rendez-vous” party, “Le Cafe du Commerce,” hosted by Novotel Ambassador Gangnam, is a good opportunity for both local and foreign lovers of French food and culture. On the second Thursday of every month scores of them [...]

Don’t you hate PeOplE ThaT Typ3 lIKE ThIS?  How about the Facebook poker?  Do you think it’s as useless as I do? You don’t call people on the phone if you have nothing to say to them. You don’t send your friends e-mails that are completely blank. So why would you poke someone using Facebook? [...]

About a month ago, Ras bought a portable media player (PMP) – the Cowon Q5. It’s a 60 GB touchscreen media player that can stream local TV shows (and record them while watching), holds music, videos, photos, has a dictionary and encyclopedia, is a navigation system, and runs Windows CE. Check out a video of [...]

Well, not really, but it’s the closest I’ll probably get to having a maid anytime soon.  A couple weeks ago, when we left Jenay’s, the cleaning lady she hired was just arriving as we were leaving.  It seemed so decadent, but the idea of having someone clean your apartment for such a cheap rate (when [...]

Around 2:00 pm yesterday, it started raining at the flea market, so Ras, Reardon, Kevin, Kevin’s girl Min-hee, and I made plans to escape from the liquid sunshine.  We decided to go have mussels and wine at La Cigale Montmartre in Itaewon.  We had all been there several times and knew it was a nice [...]

If you’ll be stuck in the city, here’s a list of things that are open and closed during the long Korean Thanksgiving holiday. Business Closings During Chuseok Holiday in 2007

Ras and I had lunch at the Homever Food Court yesterday and then made our way to the World Cup Stadium Flea Market at exactly noon. When we arrived there, things were well under way, and there were a ton of people already browsing. It seemed fun at first, but I quickly realized there were [...]