콜라 캔 COLA C,

2010-09-01T22:29:00.000-07:00

2010-08-10T17:41:00.000-07:00

Canada-nice, nice :)

2010-08-10T17:34:00.001-07:00

Some nice views, starting with a dash to shore as a pending lightning storm promised to electrify our canoe ride.

2010-08-10T17:29:00.000-07:00

Skiing Davis Lake Ski Club

2010-08-10T17:23:00.000-07:00

Canadian pals

2010-08-10T17:18:00.000-07:00

The killer cat and lilly pads

2010-08-10T17:11:00.000-07:00

Since it is summer and we are in a citty that boasts 4-5 beaches inside the city, we hit the beach early and often :)

2010-08-10T17:02:00.000-07:00

Summer is arriving. A G.D. 1000 piece puzzle, weddings, the new Cola Beach and friends visit the Busan pad.

2010-04-11T03:08:00.000-07:00

Kites are good for you. If you don't think that it is fun to chuck a kite into the sky once in a while, you need to sit down and evaluate what you do think is important. I'm not saying that if you don't like kites, you're a whacko, but you are probably in the running :)

2010-04-11T03:00:00.000-07:00

Between installing a new starter motor and a bunch of drunk ladies trying to make soap and lotion on my kitchen floor, the motorcycle touring season has begun. Looking like a great season to come!

2010-04-11T02:51:00.000-07:00

I met Benny as he wandered his way into Korea. We also managed to meet Goner near his work and Greg made it up to Seoul. It was a healthy lunch during a long attempt to visit every bar, singing room and pool hall in the capital.

Sean Paul

2010-03-07T23:10:00.001-08:00

Here is a song from Sean Paul

Sean Paul-So Fine.mp3

2009-11-04T17:35:00.000-08:00

Here is a link to an odd music video my co-workers and I made last spring.
http://vimeo.com/7414705

2009-10-25T18:39:00.000-07:00

Fall has crept around the corner now. While this sneaky season has been sliking around the shadows, there was a film festival, a feild trip, fireworks and more.

The fun way to burn cash.

2009-10-25T18:10:00.000-07:00

At the end of Busan international Film Festival which happens alongside with the Jalgalchi Market Festival, they blow off about 45 minutes worth of fireworks. This video is the end of one of the 4 segments of the show. Turn your volume down, the speakers on the beach were so loud that they topped out the camera's mic and left everyone with ringing in their ears that night.

2009-10-25T18:02:00.000-07:00

Kicking it Jeju style.

2009-10-12T17:18:00.000-07:00

After a tour of Korea with Dorothy, we decided to get away and have a quazi--honeymoon. I was all for taking the motorbike and tent and camping on Jeju Island, but you can't really say camping and Honeymoon together. The island was pretty great and Kinam got her big goal of driving a Mini-Cooper

2009-10-12T17:07:00.000-07:00

2008-12-10T02:00:00.000-08:00

Once we got back to Korea, things pretty much went back to the way things used to be. It was hotter than Hades and the humidity was relentless, but there was a lot of time to get back into the swing of things.

2008-07-19T19:51:00.000-07:00

Here is Danger's rendition of a commercial advertising a Toyota with 200KiloWatts of power (for some reason, they measure engine power in Kw rather than horses) You can see the original on youtube here:

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=npnZvTLMR1w

Here is another favorite ad from Oz.

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=N_1yZSfYxxg

I was a big fan of that ad-especially the guy who staples himself to the gazeebo.

2008-07-19T19:11:00.000-07:00

Once we got to the beaches, Danger was a lot happier. We did a tour of the main island of Lankawi, and once realizing that there are some really expensive resorts there, we snuck into a whole lot of jazzy places for a peek even though we couldn't even afford to eat at the joints. Then a little snorkeling (since the flight was that night there was no one for SCUBA) Even though no one heard of it before, KiNam managed to land a parasail, off the back of a boat, into a tree. The guys running the boats and sail were pretty impressed...I mean I don't understand what they were shouting, but they were doing a lot of it at KiNam after she did that fancy landing ;)_ and then like we had never left, back in the, back in the, back in the U.S-S.Korea. If we could find an adaptor for the charger for my camer we could take a bloody picture and show you. Anyway, it looks all the same here except that there is a massive hole in the middle of what has become MY hometown.

2008-07-19T19:00:00.000-07:00

In my usual fashion, and much to Danger's regret, we went to Malaysia with out any plan other than we had a connecting flight in 5 days. We found a place to stay each night and we had a ball in the city, I don't know what all the fuss was about;; :)

2008-07-19T18:47:00.000-07:00

....the last days in Oz.

2008-07-19T18:43:00.000-07:00

Here we are taking the last few sips of our home away from home, away from home in South Yarra.

2008-07-19T18:36:00.000-07:00

Just because The Sweede was in the middle of South Korea, in the middle of getting married, that didn't stop, Danger, Softy and I from camping out at his aparment and its awsome view of the Melbourne F1 track. The race was a bit dull as most of the cars crashed but as you can see from the pics here, the local grid girls were quite fit;)

2008-07-19T18:32:00.000-07:00

Breaking Winter

2007-08-26T02:49:00.001-07:00

So, we have made it over the back of winter. I am pretty happy about that. I think that it was the most mild entire winter that I ever lived through, but since my apartment is so drafty, it was miserable. I am making the 35 Km commute each day to my school and that is treating me pretty good. I am looking forward to summer and summer holidays. The new pet is Bakers' Dozen, since he cost a lucky 13 bucks.

Deep Winter

2007-08-26T02:28:00.000-07:00

The winter seemed long.

2007-07-11T09:53:00.000-07:00

KiNam and I went on a road trip from Melbourne and as far as the Great Barrier Reef through the Whitsunday Islands. We passed through a lot of different types of geography and spent our fair share of nights in the scrub next to the road, cooking and relaxing next to a fire. It was 14 days and 7000 Km.

2007-06-20T07:47:00.000-07:00

So, Danger and I ended up in Melbourne while she studies a masters' degree and I teach English in a high school near here. It was a real challenge getting a working visa at my ripe age, but I did get 'er done. My sister said that she figured that once someone goes to Australia, they never go back but I figure that the prospects of a long, long stay in Australia are like a lava lamp: amusing but not very bright :)

2007-06-20T07:08:00.000-07:00

I was booted out of Australia in order to comply with a tourist visa. I took the cheapest flight outta here, and ended up in Christchurch, New Zealand. I was worried that there would be no church, and have the name just be a big bummer....but there were plenty churches, and big chess in the square. I headed to a bunch of mountains a few hours to the north, originally lured by the possibility of bungee jumping and nutty jet boats...both were a bit lame and too expensive...so I just started walking around in the moutains and spent the better part of two days there....the top was the most wind I ever felt while standing still...I literally had to hold onto a big rock to keep my footing. On the way back into town, there is a cliff, aptly named "Frog Rock".

2006-12-09T09:16:00.000-08:00

Seoul

2006-12-09T08:43:00.000-08:00

Now that winter is setting in, here are a few shots of fall from the open road. Look for the mudskipper in the water...

2006-12-08T00:04:00.000-08:00

These days I am running one appendix lighter. It was not all that theatrical, except when they had forgotten if I wanted to splurge for pain killers, which are not covered by my health insurance. So the doctors woke me up “au natural” and I was trying to tell them that I didn’t need any pain killers since immense pain like that would surely pass :). Anyway I broke down and splashed out for the good stuff and walked around the hospital like a muppets' moble hanging garden., swinging all types and sizes of I.V. bottles off my little spire on wheels.

I wandered around waiting to "pass gass" in order to get some food. It was really like a bizarre trick-or-treat. All the nurses would come around and ask, "How are you feeling? Did you fart?...No, well no food for you then:(". Really, of all the people who need encouragement to enjoy a bit of flatulence...I am the last one.

I checked out early since the guy beside me was a bus driver who had the living tar beat out him in the dead of night by a drunk. They played the story on the news quite a bit since the busses have a lot of survalence and offered some fantastic grainy black and white footage of the event. Troops of bus divers (probably not known for their civility), would come in and holler all types of swear works and act like idiots. I childishly told the nurses that I was getting up on my motorcycle and heading home…I forsook my chances at any lolly-pop with that maneuver since the ladies at the nurses’ station were less than impressed.

Then I had a trip to Seoul for documents.

Busangeles

2006-11-22T20:52:00.000-08:00

I was in Busan last weekend to take in a show. I went to a symphony that was originally described to me as a philharmonic, but turned out to be an academic symphony. It really is just a switch of an adjecttive in name, but the manifestation is much different. It may have been the best symphony show that I have gone to. Encore meant less "more" and more "do the same songs again". It was one of the few times that the conductor will turn around and encourage the audience to clap along. And at the end of songs it seemed to be the norm to stand up and shout "Yeah!! Give 'er!!!"

Shanghai

2006-10-10T08:01:00.000-07:00

I went to Shanghai over the Asian Thanksgiving holiday. It was OK. I was there alone so it was a bit boring at night, but I saw a lot. It was my first trip to China. I did notice that the televison was a bit strange...in a communist way. Other than that though, capitalism is alive and well in Shanghai. A nice place to visit but a horrible place to try and breathe; the air is thick with all types of fumes. The water was no great shakes either. It was a great trip and only an hour and a half away from home. It the birthplace of the noodle and there are lots of noodles. It was pretty fun to watch them make the noodles. It's like a variation of a pizza spinner. Dinner on the street cost about a dime.

2006-09-15T19:36:00.000-07:00

Back to the Grind

2006-09-15T17:52:00.000-07:00

I don't have any pictures of late. I am back to work, teaching some of the Elementary English teachers of Korea. We talk about methodology and pedagogy, but mostly we are gathered under the ruse of “Conversation”. It sounds pretty easy, getting groups of people to chat as a main part of making a living, but it can be stressful. I won’t bore anyone with the details…but standing around all day being sure that everyone is talking about what they are supposed to be talking about in the correct way of talking about that…can be a bit strenuous.
I think that it is a pretty good job, and the people in my classes seem pretty nice and laid back. I think that it should be a good time.
I joined a boxing gym last week. I had no idea of what goes on in these places. I got into it on the advice of Terry of Daegu;) It is a bit bizarre. Either that or the trainer at the gym is trying to kill me slowly. Who would have thought that skipping rope and hopping around in front of a mirror for hours could be so rough on a human body?! I don’t think that I would call it fun, but it is fulfilling.
Other than that, I am just monkeying around the country by motorcycle, car, taxi and train(there was even a high speed boat to Japan for Terry’s bachelor party; a total blastJ.

2006-09-04T06:01:00.000-07:00

I went to visit happy jinny(ex-KNUE-er). The lovely Ms. Bo Young came along. We went for a bike tour of SK park and a spin on the ferris wheel...fun, fun.

2006-09-04T05:54:00.000-07:00

I spent a good part of the summer at Dorothy's...sun, moon, city and bizarre wildlife.

2006-09-04T05:44:00.000-07:00

In the beginning of summer, we went to KiNam's close friend's wedding. 140mm of rain in one day. The window of the car broke and I got soaked. It was so hot, I rode in underwear, shirt and tie...interesting at toll gates;)