Wednesday, January 21, 2009

To Osaka, Japan!

I have been quite busy this past week.

Had some meetings at work and planning vacation... Had one with boss, i'm a bad boy ...lol, i threated to "throw my shoe" at a student like the middle eastern reporter did at Bush. apparently students tell only half the story to their parents: "my teacher takes his shoes off in class" blahh. lol, maybe i shoulda just hit the kid then they'd gotten the REAL picture. ;)

Friday and Saturday was spent relaxing watching movies and being cheap...
Saturday night i had an amazing Thai dinner! We got pad thai, red curry, and kaprawl! Certainly in an odd way felt like home food (charlotte's thai house, sigh)... that was a good time.
Sunday we had a boiling bowl of soup u cook your meat in. its great.

all this was to talk about Angela, Alex, and I going to Japan for lunar new year!

Friday we leave at 9am... play around Osaka with a friend i met at my semester in Dublin City University and enjoy sights and then new years!
we'll be staying at:
Raizan Hotel...

http://www.raizan.com/raizan-english/location.html

and then the sheridan, this place has a hot tub and the works! Its all about going cheap, then go big! so we'll b having a good time. more to come! just remember. its not the money you will remember...but hte memories you made!

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Duck!!!

So nothing much happened this past week while i recovered from... FOOD POISON! I got my computer at yongsan, came back and ate "take out" at my place. yum, i could never order in korean on the phone...hyesung certainly helps me there! haha. so monday we went to emart to buy something and grabbed dinner at that "cafeteria" kinda like walmart grade mall asian food. i thought it was safe and tasty...i ordered beef and rice and seaweed. oh how i regret. After we finished i went to sleep quite soon and woke and went to work. At work, lunch time, i was soo pale and felt like i got shot in the stomach. i managed to puke, then it went all downhill...it had already entered my system. i had to leave early (and if someone subs for u...u have to pay them! not cool!) so i went home and hyesung (oh angel, haha) bought me meds and i was on teh road to recovery ....after a night of around 104 fever and massive leakage. i kept hydrated, my other friend got dehydrated same week and had to get an I/V for water. ah, so i went to work Wednesday with major weakness ( ihadnt eaten for about 24 hours) and then got off work and ate a little..finally. Thursday i ate more...and then Friday i devoured kalbi!!! never tasted so good! i got to meet some good people and we laughed about oh the couples and singles differences... co-worker carrie and her bf mainly was the new fun friends. it was an early night after all the tireing and no sleeping. Saturday ...went to Mark's bday and had fun... hyesung works 6 days so way exhausted and i just called it early too.

Sunday was great. Danny was free and came to see justin and i! We went to see transporter! ah, always good action! so he also....was just like a dad and i was just like a kid! haha, he bought my ticket...and popcorn...and then this little action figure of naruto i wanted! i wasn't going to buy it because eh, its money...but then he goes and buys before i can say no! :) silly fun it really is great how a simple little 5 buck item makes me happy and how it also just...he's changed my perspective on a lot of how friends should be! so we watched, then went to find a place to eat duck. he has this amazing red sport car so after watching the movie...we're a little racing mood haha, but we get there and eat some great meat! duck, ribs!!!! (i did it southern way, got down and dirty while they used plastic gloves and were nice and neat about it) and some sausage and pouridge, it was quite good.
after that just simple night...just went home to prepare for work! OH! hyesung got a guitar saturday! and i havnt seen it yet but its yellow---i think it should b called little miss sunshine! but eh...

now its testing so i've been writing while they test! time to finish.

things to remember---don't buy cheap beef! eat at your own risk!
meds cost only 5$ here...and they work!

let people take care of u...they're ur real friends! :)

New Year!

Welcome 2009!

So, 2 days of work then new years! we worked hard, then went direct to R&B for a concert by the rocktigers. The lead singer wore a dress that looked like Dorthy from wizard of Oz...and the guitarist looked like elvis. oh it was fun. then we brought in the new year! it was a great way and just relaxed the next day...for we had to work on friday :(
friday finished work at 7:30 and then Avalon paid for us to go to the greatest seafood restaurant for sure! Maris! just imagine... Tin Tin in Charlotte (chinese buffet).... times 5!!! The japanese sushi bar was 3 bars... the udon and soup bar was also its own room. then the korean, american, american pizza and pasta...just whoah. huge. and as such... i spent the next 2 hours gorging on ...REAL ramen, sushi sushi sushi (blowfish!!! can kill 30 men if cut wrong..), tandori chicken, salmon, herb chicken, steak, crab legs, shrimp (with heads on too!), cous cous, pinnaple, these mangos (sooo cool...like a smoke bomb shell, etc. frozen), they had pizza and other foods but i went after the goods. they shut down at 10 and kicked us out...we then went to a noribang to sing songs for a co-worker's bday! that was good fun. sure laugh at how quick they get tired and go to sleep...but thats ok, some had to work in the morning! yuck! i went and played some darts with a friend that lost his job (long story...miscommunication...he'll get another one but still frustrating) and then went to sleep for a happy celebration.

Saturdaywas nothing...just relax i believe. Sunday hyesung and i went to buy my computer! that brings us to the previous update. as u see it was jam packed of party and happy memories.
to bring in the new year!

huzzah!

Thursday, January 8, 2009

While at work...

Happy new year! ah the feast! Buffet at Maris! Then Noribang and R&B and ah what a great concert and toast!...

in fact i'll write a whole blog about that later each labeled...

Just was going to say i'm alive. I didn't update this past sunday because well, its been fun and such.

I bought a netbook! LG x110 fancy little toy.

160gig
1gig ram
1.6 atom proc
10"
2lbs

basically for work and travel. only 2.5 hours of battery use, bleh. but plug weighs so little too...

hm,so that was sunday... Then you have monday i ate some...beef from the cafeteria in E-mart (kinda like a...mall/walmart) and well, got food poison. bad. it wiped me out for the next day and had a huge fever that night, then barely jumped back on it and now i'm better. phew. glad to know i have some good people to take care of me :) and its true and rare that my recruiter is still willing to take care of me...not any extra pay or anything. came last night to see me and this other recruit...

Lots has been going on, i know i've been busy here trying to get "life" in order... on teh 2nd we started "intesives" means my schedule goes from 10am until 7pm sooo...that has ruined a few of my plans but opened up night life here! Now i need to take care of work.

Bottom line?

I had turkey for christmas.

glory.