뜨거운 바람

The Week of July 16
Began with my our trip back from the 고속 Bus Terminal. It turns out that my bank had changed my PIN number when replacing my debit card, but somewhere in the conversations among New York, Los Angeles, Seoul, and Singapore, “Your new PIN number is” turned into “Use your existing PIN [...]

Ancient

The Week of July 9
Monday evening was a hard one to get through when the person I met asked me another favor by first confirming everything I could use to politely decline it and then presenting me with the bill of my own logic and a pretty uncomfortable request. After I sent the email she’d [...]

What I Remember From Ceilings

Sunday, July 8
Faith changed her plans. She would be leaving town earlier than I was expecting, so when her mother flew in from somewhere in Asia (she had a regional ticket and had been hopping around Japan, China, and Singapore) to pack her up, I met up with them to say goodbye.
We were planning [...]

Losing My Name/ "No girlfriend in this or any country."

The Week of July 2
Started with a sleepy Monday and a cash withdrawal. Following Sung Ho to a coffee shop to study, I found out firsthand what Athena meant when she told me about the Starbucks Index that everyone in Seoul seems to know about (and the linked article is 3 years old): the prices [...]

By Which I Meant More Often Than Not

This is the jelly-filled-self-resurrecting-exploding golden pig. For more, see Kaila’s blog.
Constitution Day has finally given me some time to turn out my pockets into real entries.
(Just as I finished that sentence, Jane came running down the hall with the news that she’d won the SK Telecom “Introducing Korean Culture in the [...]