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| no redeeming value |
| 02.05.04 (6:59 am) [edit] |
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i want to start collecting chopstiks. but collecting stuff sucks. it's pretty arbitrary. some things gain value over time. but half the stuff people collect is worthless. i ordinarily lov to throw stuff out. except when i threw some e's out. that felt terrible. BAH. but if i tell myself, 'oohh won't it be cool to, instead of throwing this out, to keep it and then keep heaps more of them! no begin, that won't be cool. when i sit around in ten years looking thru my coin collection, remembering all the good times we had together i know i'll feel differently.../~/`^^mmmaybe(((IDONTTHIN KSO((((
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| actually taking candy from a baby |
| 01.29.04 (9:25 pm) [edit] |
today at school the kindy kids had their monthly round-up birthday party. all the children with birthdays in January were the guests of honour. i missed the party as i'm currently teaching extra classes. however, i know how it goes by heart:
- students gather, sitting on the floor, in front of a table heavily overloaded with cake, snacks and decorations.
- birthday children enter dressed in traditional (though somewhat bright) Korean clothing: hanbok.
- songs are sung.
- classmates present gifts and teachers present a necklace made of candy.
- regimented fun is now over. children return to their separate classes to ingest sugar.
it's a bit lame but i enjoy the break from normal classes. seeing as i missed it this time, but i still wanted my share of the candy, i pulled a swifty.
during a later class i told the children i was sad I missed the party. and sad i had no candy. a couple of faux boohoos later and my plan worked like a charm. within seconds they were offering up their choco-pies, cookies, and mandarins.
ha ha! the fools! try and keep candy from me will ya!
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| break it down |
| 01.29.04 (5:56 am) [edit] |
i have this feeling like i have to be more exciting. or open. or revealing in order to benefit from this "writing process".
after reading [url=http://www.xiaxue.blogspot.co...]Xiaxue's blog[/url] in which she comes across quite the bitch, i feel a little inadequate. she says she doesn't like serious people. sometime, somewhere i've had such an allegation levelled at me.
YOU'RE SO SERIOUS!
maybe they weren't being, gulp, serious, but still it's stuck back there in my mind for a reason.
there are lines drawn in my mind. they're guiding barriers, making it easy to go where i want to go, where i'm used to going, without going off track, but also restricting me from exploring new areas.
i'd like to make a toast.
here's to fucking with the barriers.
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| missing 3.14 |
| 01.27.04 (6:08 am) [edit] |
after living in South Korea for over 2 years i don't miss much from home anymore. one thing that would be great to have at my fingertips though, is meat pies. specifically, mince and cheese pies.
when i visited home last year i consumed something like 11 inside of the first 7 days. they're easy to cook, or convenient to buy. they're hot and delicious, filling, but not debilitating. in short, they're a highly valued part of my diet.
i've heard rumours of their sale in Seoul. this doesn't help oven-less me unless they come piping hot. if you have any information on where i could find a pie in Korea, please leave a message.
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| ceasefire |
| 01.14.04 (5:41 am) [edit] |
it seems i've hit a lull in my reading efforts. it was to be expected. War and Peace is over 1300 pages long. coming off of a stint of reading some very fulfilling yet relatively quickly-processed novels by [url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/ob...]Haruki Murakami[/url] i'm missing the sense of completion you get with the last page.
however, i knew this would be the way from the beginning. i took a [i]really[/i] big breath to get as far as i have and am now just coming up for air before i run it home.
[url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/ob...]War and Peace[/url] is a great novel. i really enjoy and don't mean to suggest it's some sort of chore to read it. one of the things that has consistantly struck me about Tolstoy's writing is that he is writing about [b]everything[/b]. it's as if he's thought of, seen, and experienced it all.
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| keep your friends close, |
| 01.14.04 (5:16 am) [edit] |
keep your enemies closer. or so the classic [url=http://www.jgeoff.com/godfath...]Godfather[/url] line goes.
my friend Andrew said something which reminded me of this. he said he wouldn't mind people he doesn't know reading his words and thoughts, it's just the people he does know who he's not so comfortable with. apparently the scope for misunderstanding is too daunting.
i feel similarly. writing here, i'm asking myself, who will read what i've written? how open shall i be? it's kind of disconcerting the amount of things there are i could write about which i wouldn't want certain people reading about. i mean, at times i consider myself a relatively open and honest person. to be confronted with one's self-censorship provides a wee bit of a reality check.
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| good shit for free |
| 01.13.04 (7:08 am) [edit] |
my friend Matt sent me this http://www.epitonic.com for a site which doesn't provide those filesharing devices but is nevertheless allowing me to listen to good shit for free.
i'm not sure why, but who am i to argue? i've got the second disc of John Digweed's Sydney Global Underground playing. it's totally sweet. but while you're at it give the legend some [url=http://www.johndigweed.com]love[/url].
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| the hook |
| 01.11.04 (3:33 am) [edit] |
today was nearly perfect. in fact, it still feels good. as i'd hoped to earlier in the week i stayed home on saturday night. the 10 hours of delicious sleep still sit inside of me.
i rang my family. it's almost too late for a happy new year message but in my defense i do have a very small window of opportunity to call them timezone-wise. anyway, they're mostly good. mum talked about family and health. my brothers talked about xbox.
i read, for the first time in a while. i drank coffee and ate toast for breakfast and read. oh, it was so good.
then this afternoon i sent some important email, and generally got a whole lot of computer-based tasks done.
all this while i listened to fine sounds on the internet radio on jungle voodoo at http://www.junglevoodoo.com
the only drawback i feel is a little silly. my new jumper, which i'm wearing out of a love for it's newness, got caught on some sort of pin on the wall next to me. the pin pulled up a little hook of cotton which now presents to me the possibility of complete ruin. it could go if i pulled, it could all go.
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