korea - day 9 - GyeongJu

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

i am embarassed, but i MUST complete this series. day9 of our korea trip was a trip to GyeongJu.  Joseph had read in the travel books about this place as the place to go to see Cherry Blossoms in korea. I briefly mentioned it to my uncle and next thing you ...

korea - day4 - secret garden, seoul tower, street market

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

so in my attempt to show joseph around seoul finally, i wanted to take him to the street market. that morning at breakfast i was thoroughly reprimanded by my aunt, uncle and cousin who demanded that i take him to see more things. so instead of just showing him things ...

korea - day2 - orientation

Friday, April 4th, 2008

day 2 was really our first day in korea, and it was really about orientation. relearning where things were like bus stops and the exchange rate. thankfully we bank with an international bank and my aunt also uses the same bank we do. my aunt drives us to this building that ...

more chopsticks!

Friday, February 29th, 2008

ok i must have an obsession with silverware because this is the third entry about it (choplery, pen cap silverware) . >_< as most asian folks do, i use chopsticks pretty often. not just for eating food, but also to grab things from very tight spaces, and stir my drinks for example. chopsticks ...

chopstick cutlery?

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

i seem to have an interest in alternative-use silverware (re: pen cap silverware). otherwise known as "choperly": These function as both chopsticks and spoon, knife, or fork! korean restaurants should place these at the tables, so people who aren't skilled with the chopsticks don't have to ask for forks =P i wonder how easy ...

kimchi for spacemen

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

one of my favorite things in life is kimchi. that's not surprising since i'm korean. most koreans are i guess a bit obsessive about their kimchi. in my case, my favorite kimchis are usually variations of mool-kimchi (water kimchi). Why of all kimchis mool kimchi? because it doesn't smell as much so ...