Saint Patrick's Day in Seoul

I’m of course far from being any breed of Irish (come on), but just the same, my housemate and I spent this afternoon going nosey over at Marronier Park in Hyehwa-dong to witness Saint Patrick’s Day celebration here in Seoul. I read about it in the papers during the week, and the news was just in time for my usual brew on weekend activities to try out. Woohoo!

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Nami Island Trip

Being the ultimate Winter Sonata freak that I am, I checked out this famous island in South Korea— Nami Sum (Nami Island), located in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province so I can catch the last day of the said island’s “Foreigner’s Free Festival”. The said event celebrated Nami Island’s third anniversary of independence. It declared its independence in March 2006 and renamed itself as Naminara Republic. Now, what’s cute about this half-moon shaped island is it has invented its own passport, currency, and stamps since then, as it now promotes itself to other countries. Talk about living up to its “independence”, eh?

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On My First Bookstore Trip

It’s a bookstore to me when it could have been a salon for the more normal women. And it’s a book on the racks when it could have been a haircut--- you know this cliché on the usual state of women when they actually decide to go to a salon alone to even have their hair razored for hell’s sake? Ha-ha. There. I just wouldn’t want to outrightly admit— I am at it again. D-------d. I’m just surprised to find out that I tend to be geeky when I am on a big D. Boo-hoo.

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Jason Mraz in Seoul

Jason Mraz is one great artist whom I truly, truly admire— someone I am definitely willing to trade decent lunches for a week or two, just so I can finally buy a ticket to his concert. The guy already had two concerts back in the Philippines which I knew about, though I frustratingly did not get the chance to catch both. The first was due to lack of the moolah, and the second was due to lack of time.

I finally was able to muster both when I got here in Seoul, and finally had one of the most meaningful two hours of my life. Woohoo.

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The Financial Crisis Explained

I am just as confused as everybody else. Don’t count on me as more-knowing for having technically finished my Business Economics degree because there are far better people who have the logic and wit to understand the matter than I ever will. And so I do what I do best—googling, in my search for a topic for my monthly presentation at work, and stumbled upon this video that has a witty take on what the financial crisis really is.

It’s simply about daddies finding it hard to tell mommies that they don’t look good.
Hahaha.


                                

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Birthday Post

I know. Such a lame title above. Ha-ha.

“Are you at work today?”
“Yeah. I’m chatting with you in the office.”
“Tell everybody that it’s your birthday, so you can make it even for a half-day leave. Tell them it’s the Philippine working culture.”

And all I can do is hold back the giggles. “I am at the office”, I had to remind myself.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

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First December Holiday Away from Home

I check the last post that I wrote in here, and I thank myself that I have actually put a couple of updates on what I have been doing in this supposedly perkiest month of the year. It’s so ironic to think that it’s that time of the year in the office when the workload is not that many-- for anyone to do some extra things, yet I have never really mustered myself in filling this blog with updates. I mean, come on! It is December. It’s the time of the year when people get a bit lax with the serious stuffs that have pre-occupied them the whole year long-- and in turn get rowdy with all the merry-making activities of the season.

It would of course be a lot better if I were back home, for I’ll sure be getting more kicks to get oh-so jolly for the holidays. I sure missed home and my family whom I prepare the gift-giving practice with, as well as my friends whom I pig out and practically share the lovely season with. But hey, stop the longing. Fact of the matter is, I am in another place, and I ought to do the merry-making in my own independently creative way.

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Dinner with my Sisters ;-)

Now I just want to tell everyone how my current stay here in Seoul has allowed me to create such surprising friendships that I could just hope will last even if fate will someday direct us to paths that won’t let us physically see one another. I mean, I consider this life that I trod now as temporary. I got here with a future that says I will go back to my birth country. But hey, I can never really tell.

I had dinner with wonderful sisters tonight— Lemons, Cha, and Park. The idea sprung from a cancelled dinner that was earlier called by another new friend, Karyn, who unfortunately couldn’t cook dinner for us tonight in her house because she was helping somebody transfer to another place.

I met them tonight at the Exit 2 of Seodaemun station, which will forever be a memorable place for me, for this is where and how I met the sister trio. Okay, a short backgrounder.

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Snowy Christmas Party with Geniuses

It was snowing a great deal when I woke up with a pair of heavy eyes this day, getting ready to meet up with a friend at Itaewon for a Christmas party. I obviously slept late the night before, and my friend has apparently been sending me text messages a few hours before ten in the morning, when I forced myself up.

I then just remembered. A few weeks prior to this, an office colleague shared to me how the first snow of the winter season is a special day that most Korean couples look forward to, for they treat the first great snowfall of the year as THE giant mistletoe where they can “kiss”, and spend such sweet moments together. FINE!

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Weeh! You're Welcome.

Awww, I am equally touched. I'm telling everyone, my current life here is making me go back to the conventional ways of maintaining contact with people. Who says snail mails are dead? This whole technology frenzy is just making the old practice of licking envelopes of much, much value. Emotional value at that.

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