Yesterday was the Seoul Friendship Fair near city hall. This was my third or fourth Friendship Fair, and I must say, it was the best one so far. In previous years, the event was a little chaotic and the international food selection wasn’t so international. This year, the food booths were down the entire street next to city hall, and extended to the Cheoggye Stream. There were at least 40 countries selling delicious traditional dishes. I was also impressed by the many garbage bags, covered seating, and volunteers helping out. This was one of the few times in Seoul where I looked around and really felt the sense of internationalism that Seoul wants to portray. The weather, food, and location were great. It was a perfect day. Mark your calendars for next year. If it was anything like this year’s it’ll be another great time.

I didn’t take too many pictures because it was one of those events where you either spend too much time photographing and not eating, or eating and not photographing.  I chose to eat!

Check out the entire album on Flickr.

I ate two of those mango cups, and surprisingly, they were sold at the Columbian booth!  Paraguay had some great carne empanadas!

The left picture are Lao textiles for sale, and to the right were popular Turkish kebabs.

a quickr pickr post

Just saw this on Facebook. Someone had too much fun.

My brother’s birthday just passed on May 8th and today is Mother’s Day.  I got off the phone with her an hour ago, and as she usually does, she made me “speak” to our black lab McKenzie over the intercom.  She said McKenzie’s tail was wagging upon hearing my voice, but there’s no way to confirm that.  At least Ras wasn’t there to laugh at me, like he usually does.

Happy Birthday “little” brother, and Happy Mother’s Day Mom!

This picture was taken at The Butchart Gardens in Victoria, BC.  (I love my brother’s haircut and glasses!)

For those that don’t know, there’s going to be a G.I. Joe movie, set to be released in August 2009. If you grew up in the 80’s and watched these cartoons, you knew too well the famous phrase PSA: Knowing is half the battle

New pictures from the movie were leaked about a month ago, but I just got a chance to look at them today. Many fans say the casting is good, but the costumes look cheezy. You be the judge. (In true cartoon fashion, why couldn’t they make Duke blonde?)

General Hawk

Duke

Baroness

Breaker

Destro

Ripcord

Storm Shadow

Scarlett

(Personally, I think she looks too young for this role.)

Heavyduty

Covergirl

As a side note, Korean actor, Lee Byung-hun plays Storm Shadow, whose face will be covered most of the time. Ray Park plays Snake Eyes, who I initially though was a Korean-American actor. In fact, he’s from Glasgow and played the characters Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace, and Toad in X-Men.

Storm Shadow also has a leisure suit. Look at those shoes! He’s rockin’ the 2001 Korean men’s shoe fashion.