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Info has been found (+/- 100 pages, and 4.5 MB of .pdf files) Now i have to wait untill our team leader has processed it and learns html.
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These are the team members: Drewes van der Laag urlLink mail Ruiyu Xie urlLink mail Bryan Aaldering (me) urlLink mail
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In het kader van kernfusie op aarde: MAAK JE EIGEN WATERSTOFBOM How to build an H-Bomb From: ascott@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Andrew Scott) Newsgroups: rec.humor Subject: How To Build An H-Bomb (humorous!) Date: 7 Feb 1994 07:41:14 GMT Organization: The University of Western Australia Original file dated 12th...
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testing!!! testing!!!
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11,June,2004
Thanks to Yahoo!'s Toolbar I can now 'capture' the URLs of popups...which means now I can show you some cool links to Korean Pop (K-Pop) audio and video without the need to relate instructions like: 'go to the site, click on the pop-audio button then choose...'. So, without further ado here is the link to...
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10,June,2004
I had an interesting conversation with my Dad this morning. We were talking about where Koreans put their money. Invariably, they have a lot of real estate and cash. (Cash would include short term investments under one year as well as savings accounts.) The reason? Real estate makes money here. A lot...
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10,June,2004
Somehow Coca-Cola has a way of summing up things so well. In the early 1970s they had as their flagship jingle 'I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke' (to the tune of 'I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing') that pretty much summed up the post-Woodstock era so well. It didn't add much to sales, but it was a cat...
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10,June,2004
If anything, Korea is a country of extremes. Everything here seems fad-based. I think it may come from Korea's history. It has been invaded a reported 700 times over the years, and each time they got independence I imagine they had to move quickly to get to the next level before the next war or occupati...
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10,June,2004
Take a read of this news article from urlLink JoongAng Ilbo about North Korea's opinion on the scaling down of troops in Seoul and Korea (specifically, 3,600 troops are heading to Iraq and by the end of 2005 the current total of 37,000 should drop to about 24,500). North blasts U.S. troop cuts North Ko...
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09,June,2004
I surf the English news sites a lot looking for tidbits on Korea and how foreigners (like me) view the 'Hermit Kingdom' but also as a way to keep up with this fast-moving place. Sometimes, though, one needs to check the veracity of the figures put in the papers...especially the local ones. Here are two e...
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09,June,2004
Ah, the Korean language...it looks so difficult at first, then as you figure out how to read Hanguel (Korea's surprisingly easy-to-learn alphabet of 24 characters) it seems so easy. Then the vocabulary starts. Oh no. Then the backwards (to us) sentence structure. Yikes! Luckily there are many options for...
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09,June,2004
If you click on my profile you'll make a not-so-startling discovery...I was born in Year of the Pig, as they say in the Korean/Chinese calendar. But blogger.com figured it would be more appropriate to call it Year of the Boar/bore...thanks guys. Anyways, you may be wondering how a fat, lazy, smelly Canad...
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09,June,2004
Last night was pretty fun...mostly because of the company I kept. I recently met a couple of finance-types here in Yeouido (which isn't too hard to do, as it's referred to as Korea's Wall Street) who spoke pretty good English (which is a rarity here not only in Yeouido but everywhere in Korea). They had ...
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09,June,2004
There is so much that is different here from anything I've ever seen (well, I haven't travelled that much, just in Canada, the US, Philippines and Japan). And I mean totally different. Maybe it's because I've been here long enough to see a lot, I dunno. Anyways, if you'd like more on this place take a l...
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09,June,2004
urlLink Here it is, the superfantastic phonebox! Today is a great day. Our lovely officegirl Jung Mi (please no letters, that's what secretaries are called here) went to LG Twins building and got me a new phone. I really needed one on account of (i) my old one was all in Korean...which was fine beca...
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09,June,2004
One thing I love about Seoul (and I mean this about Korea in general...I just happen to be a little Seoul-centric) is the street sellers. I don't really trust the food they sell on the side of the road (except ice cream) but virtually everything else is fair game for me. For example, to get ready for my ...
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09,June,2004
urlLink Wonderful oh-gyup-sal at my favorite pork restaurant. It's official, pork has now outstripped beef as the top meat import to Korea. (See urlLink JoongAng Ilbo link ) and no wonder...what with Mad Cow Disease and Avian Flu virus going around. The only thing that seems 'safe' is pork. Of cou...
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18,June,2004
Here is the latest from the Korean rumor mill (it made it all the way to Coquitlam, and my wife's ears). It seems The Grand Hyatt Hotel's (in Itaewon) urlLink J.J. Mahoney's has a reputation for beautiful Korean ladies using it as a place to pick up foreign (likely white) men...even married ones. So, i...
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17,June,2004
Well, I stand corrected, again. Yesterday I blogged that Coquitlam was an oasis of Whiteness in the sea of Asians that is Vancouver, but oh how I was wrong. We went to the, aptly named, Coquitlam Mall today and put Spencer in the play area with a few other kids. I heard a lady speaking Korean to her boy...
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16,June,2004
So I've been in Vancouver a few days now...in Coquitlam, actually. It's really an interesting place; I used to think it was full of Chinese people (not that there's anything wrong with that, but Vancouver's #1 mother tongue is Mandarin/Cantonese, so you'd assume there'd be tons here). Our area is up on a...
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15,June,2004
Whenever I see a pregnant Korean lady I really feel for her, because I know that within a few months she will have a 3-5 year sentence to complete and utter child-rearing duties. As with most things Korean, mothers go all out...right from before conception to...well, it never stops. Today I got a taste...
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14,June,2004
My wife posed a strange question to me tonight. Apparently this is the new fad in Korea...men are asked 'if your wife and your mother are drowning (neither can swim) and you have time to save just one of them who would you choose?'. Many men say, 'my mother, because I can always remarry...but I can never...
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13,June,2004
As readers will know, my favorite airline is Singapore Air (SAI). They have those personal monitors for everyone with on-demand movies, TV shows and games..and some lovely-looking stewardesses, of course. Another thing going for them is their empathy with their passengers. I've twice been bumped up to b...
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23,June,2004
When I was in Seoul these last few months I thought my wife had it kinda easy here with 'just' our 2 kids to take care of. Now I know that this parenting thing is pretty tough. The worst thing is they 'tag team' us. For example, one stays up til 3:30AM, the other wakes up at 7AM. One has a nap, and the...
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22,June,2004
You may have noticed a new feature on my blog...it's a blog email notification thingy ( urlLink Blogarithm ). All you need to do is put your email in the space and 'Keep it Fresh' and you'll get an email every time I update this blog. I use this on blogs that I normally read (once I get better at code I'...
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20,June,2004
Korea, especially Seoul, is pretty cool; and Canada, especially Vancouver is pretty cool too. Here are a few things I will (and will not) miss: Things to miss about Korea: being a celebrity (well, a little one, at least...just for being me); 100 kinds of ice cream at the local convenience store (and all ...
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02,July,2004
It seems everything is not all that smooth in Seoul concerning the recent changes. This makes sense because, as Koreans would, they decided not only to change the payment system but also all of the bus color-schemes, routes numbers and routes and even the structure of the roads in some areas of the city (...
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01,July,2004
This may be a long blog...got a lot of thoughts going through my head this last couple of days, not least because of my reading urlLink A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market --a very cool book and one that I wish I read before embarking on the urlLink CFA designation exams (wrote 2 of the 3 required ex...
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01,July,2004
I've always thought of Seoul's urlLink subways as a real joy to be on. They are clean, fast, efficient(more or less) and CHEAP. Buses, on the other hand, are a bit of a mystery to me. I take one bus regularly, but that's it. urlLink taxis , however, are plentiful, cheap and (once you know a little Ko...
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30,June,2004
Big cities are famous for being expensive places to live, some more than others, of course. Here is the latest (2004, urlLink source ) list of priciest cities to live in (sorry not sure how to format a table): 1 Tokyo, Japan 2 London, UK ...
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29,June,2004
Koreans have a great sense of community. So much so that sometimes they figure they can have a nap any old place. Now I understand taking a snooze in a subway car (they are safer here) or taxi (done that a few times), but on some steps? Well, it happens. urlLink I couldn't resist taking a pic of th...
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29,June,2004
urlLink The business class tag for baggage. I have to keep this in pristine condition for future flights.
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29,June,2004
I used to cook for myself all the time (making bulggogi, kalbi and even lasagna). Now, however, I'm getting pretty lazy. Food is so good, plentiful and cheap in the restaurants (nevermind that Koeans love to go out to eat so if I did cook a large amount of food about half of it would go to waste anyways)...
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29,June,2004
I often wondered where the restauranteurs heated up the briquettes or brinks or rocks that they placed in the table for traditional Korean cooking...then I saw this. This place (not a good pic, it was from a taxi with my phone-camera) actually has a fire on the sidewalk right in front of it! The guy is p...
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29,June,2004
It feels like I didn't even leave this place, which is a little scary. Things will be a little weird for a bit (as I take about a week to get over jetlag, unlike some people I know who take about 2 days) so postings may be a little sporatic for a bit. As well, work is getting busier...which is fine my me...
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27,June,2004
It's been a busy last couple of weeks, but I'm on my way back to Seoul today. Didn't get near what I wanted to get done on this trip--had planned on heading downtown to see a few buds but couldn't get the time to get away at all. A few friends made the trek up to our place, though, which was cool. It's...
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10,July,2004
A night out in Korea can seem pretty overwhelming, especially in HongDae, Kangnam Sinchon, urlLink Sincheon , Itaewon, Daehak-ro or any of the other major hotspots in town. Hongdae, Sinchon and Daehak-ro make a name for themselves by being close to the major universities; Kangnam is a place for lavishing...
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09,July,2004
Some of you may remember my first article on oh-gyup-sal (five layers of fat pork). Oh-gyup-sal is a one-up on sam-gyup-sal (three layers of fat porl), so it only makes sense that this land of hyperbole would come up with chun-gyup-sal (1,000 layers of fat pork)--and it did. As amazing as it may seem, som...
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08,July,2004
Sometimes this place really makes me think. So many things are so different here (language, expressions, people, culture, shopping, driving habits) but, yet, some things are just like home. Take my building, for instance, there are a few guards (we call them 아저씨, ajeosshi, or 'mister') in the lobby...wel...
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07,July,2004
A readers will know, shopping in Seoul is a little different from back home (assuming back home is a Western country like Canada, the US, UK...). For one thing ( urlLink more things here ), you can haggle at almost every 'store' (and some for sure at every place that is not a store, but like the picture b...
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06,July,2004
Recently I downloaded Go-Stop (a traditional Korean card game, played almost exclusively by men, Yahoo!'s version is urlLink here ) to my phone. (There is one called Sexy-Go-Stop too, for those who are into Anime.) Well, I've been playing it (the clean version) so much that my battery dies sometimes whe...
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05,July,2004
One of my favorite places in 여의도 (Yeouido) is urlLink Wingswing located on the second floor of the building behind the Lexington (formerly the New Manhattan) Hotel. It's run by the son-in-law of a Korean who spent 20 years in New York and Atlanta running similar places...and now the old man is here to r...
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04,July,2004
Over the last few weeks I've been to a couple of Western movies ( urlLink Troy and urlLink Spiderman 2 ) and a few Korean ones as well: urlLink 여친소 (Yeochinso/Windstruck) ; urlLink 올드보이 (Old Boy) ; urlLink 공공의적 (Gong-gong-ui Jock/Public Enemy ; urlLink 와일드카드 (Wild Card) ; and urlLink 범죄의 재구성 (Beomjw...
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14,July,2004
In any developing country (and I believe Korea is 'developing' and really only started on the road to a real economy with the onset of real elections in 1994) there can be trials and tribulations for those who lead (politicians, heads of business) and follow (workers, students). Don't get me wrong, Korea ...
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13,July,2004
Koreans have an interesting saying when referring to guys like me: 기러기아빠 ( urlLink gi-reo-gi a-ppa, wild goose dad). Whenever I told Koreans that I was here and my wife and kids are in Vancouver they would call me this, and now I know why. My boss explained it to me quite well (although he called the bi...
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13,July,2004
This urlLink Korea Times Business Section editorial speaks of Jwa Seung-hee's (president of an economic research institute for the Federation of Korean Industries) 10 mysteries of the Korean economy. #1 Western-style economic reform has eroded the dynamism of the Korean economy. #2 Seoul has become big...
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12,July,2004
urlLink Paris Lovers...what a happy couple. Looking at Korea one can see something of a Leave it to Beaver mindset when it comes to relationships--especially in the minds of 20-something girls here. One could compare it (as I will) to a monk living life in a temple and then having everything change...
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11,July,2004
I must have been nuts. Every 2-3 months I take off to Canada for 1-3 weeks. My latest trip ended in late June, and I ended up getting into Incheon on Sunday (June 27th) evening...just missing the Canada Day party. (Canada Day is on July 1st, but they staged the party early so it'd land on a holiday.) L...
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23,July,2004
Just so you know, this blog isn't about being political. If anything, it's about as apolitical as you can get for blogging. However, there is something that I wanted to comment on: you can use it to form your views or not. Oh, and I talk about some of the important points in here, so if you're going to se...
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22,July,2004
Korea is, as you may have guessed, a hyper-competitive place. Once a store, restaurant or whatever they always make a big deal of it. One of the best ways they have to get attention is dancing girls. Ya, you heard right. Girls in cheerleader-like outfits dancing up a storm to hiphop in front of a balloon a...
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21,July,2004
I was going to hold off on writing this until I had a ton of pics of some of the public urlLink washrooms they have here, but I had a pretty brutal experience in one today so I figured that was a sign or something. Here's a restroom to avoid: near Line 4 at Seoul Station Subway...unreal. As soon as I wal...
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20,July,2004
Ah, urlLink the monsoon season has ended and thus begins the urlLink dog days of summer on the peninsula. I promised myself that I'd never be in Korea (and especially in Seoul) for this, but it looks like I'll be here for about half of August. Oh...my....God! It will be so hot. Many Koreans take this...
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19,July,2004
urlLink Samsung has a new phone ...with a THREE megapixel camera. LG and Panitec/Curitel have similar ones out as well. The only problem is the things are about 700,000 won (600USD). So, I'll wait a bit until I get a new phone/dica (digital camera, as they abbreviate it here). For now, I'm having fun ...
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19,July,2004
It's been a while. Been busy. Was entertaining a British friend of mine (originally from Manchester, now in K.L.-Kuala Lumpur) who has basically been ruined by Asia. You see, once a Western guy comes here he can hardly go back to life in the West...you'll know if you're here. Two other Aussie brothers ...
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30,July,2004
Man, it's been busy lately. Out every night working (here that means having drinks with friends, clients, suppliers and partners (business partners, that is, I'm not into the girlfriend scene). Thus, all I've got today is urlLink a link to this other blog . Some funny scenes from the Seoul Subway system. ...
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29,July,2004
Ok, you're probably looking at that title and wondering what the heck the connection is. It's tenuous, but here goes. First, these are four countries I likely will not drive in (although I did drive in the Philippines, or Phil, but that was in my younger days) the first three because of the amount of nutti...
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28,July,2004
I'd like to thank my bud Peter in Vancouver for the picture below. It shows me that it's urlLink not just Koreans that are into voyeurism (although the Swiss version has one-way glass so people can't see in, and the Korean versions have none such discretion, it seems). urlLink Is it me? Or does s...
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27,July,2004
Last night I saw urlLink Silmido . Man, it reminded me of The Dirty Dozen. The (true) story is: the North sent a platoon (31 men) of commandos to Seoul in January 1968 to kill then-president/dictator Park Chung Hee (he was later assassinated by a cabinet member in 1979). Their plan was thwarted, but the S...
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26,July,2004
Yahoo! Finally, after being in Seoul for almost 2 years we closed our first deal. I had almost given up on this place/market, but looks like we've go our foot in the door. Never give up is the motto here. Reminds me of a client of mine I had in Vancouver. I knew he was quite wealthy and invested in my area...
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06,August,2004
urlLink As promised yesterday , last night I saw a Korean horror movie: urlLink 분신사바/Bunshinsaba . First, though, there was time to kill before the movie so a little sam-gyup-sal was in order. We went to Don Don Restaurant in Jong-no (downtown) where there was an interesting concept. It's on the fourth ...
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05,August,2004
I came across this in my daily readings of Korean news and sites...just trying to get a handle on this place. urlLink The anti-traditional Korean lady...holy crap, they look strong! And push-ups! More pics on urlLink the site (it's all in Korean, but no translation needed for the images. Now, I...
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04,August,2004
Seoul is a pretty good place for outdoor activities, as long as you live in the right part of town (which I do, thank you!). There are a few parks around but 2 of the largest are Olympic Park (a massive place that I lived near for 6 months when I stayed with my in-laws when I first came here...they were ri...
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04,August,2004
Man, how do I come across some of this stuff. Anyways, there are a couple things that may help get my buds over to Seoul sometime soon (you know who you are). Many have threatened to come here, and some read my blog and may be on the verge, but this should about do it. Here it is: urlLink Seoul, home of ...
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03,August,2004
신촌 (Sinchon, an area of Seoul near 홍대/HongDae, or the university district) is a pretty cool place. From Yeouido the subway is pretty inconvenient, but there's is a bus that goes there and cabs are a cheap and fast option as well. A few times, though, especially in this warm we...
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02,August,2004
Forgot I had this in my phone/camera. Actually got a series going of this dude at one of these dance video games. Think I remember seeing them in Vancouver too, but this ones is not just feet but arms. There are lasers or something that sense where and how he moves his arms and if it's in sync with the ...
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02,August,2004
There are a few ways to beat the heat here in Seoul. One is to simply stay at work, but with the government-imposed urlLink 5-day work-week coming into effect (and since I can't really figure out why I'd work 7 days a week) that isn't a very viable option. You could go to the beach, but it tends to get a...
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13,August,2004
Ok, it's not at all scientific. I was just taking a look through my millions of jpegs and such and found these two to be, well, eerily similar. urlLink DPRK's Kim Jong-il and U2's Bono Is it me? Or does urlLink North Korea 's (Democratic People's Republic of Korea/DPRK) 'Dear Leader' look at least...
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12,August,2004
Just in time for Mel Gibson's urlLink The Paparazzi movie, here is a candid shot of Tommy from urlLink 하나둘셋/hana-dool-set (1-2-3) fame! urlLink It's Tommy! Actually, he's on the snippet-show urlLink 'Wake-up' where he and a Korean girl (and a lovable muppet-like fr...
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12,August,2004
Man, with all that is going on I can see my posting to the ol' blog getting bogged down the next couple of week. Got a ton of stuff to do at work as well as the trip (at which time I'll be in full-Daddy mode for the duration) which means precious little time to blog. Well, we'll see how much I can relate...
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10,August,2004
Korea's pretty funny sometimes. Take a look at urlLink this article about changing the age of majority from 20 (already a year younger than the U.S.) to 19 (the same as British Columbia, Canada, but higher than the 18 that is prevalen federally and in some Canadian provinces). Here parents are commenti...
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09,August,2004
Ya, I'm off to Canada/Vancouver again soon...ah, to be back in the land of fresh air, real mountains and diapers. Luckily, I think my oldest boy is out potty-trained now. Not sure, though, haven't been home for about 2 months...and a lot can happen in that time. Now that we've done a deal here my boss/CEO...
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09,August,2004
Ah, finally...someone else I know is coming here from Canada for a visit. First was my cousin, Lars in May of 2003. He came at the perfect time. Weather was getting warm, but not unbearably hot and urlLink Children's Day and Buddha's Birthday were celebrated (day off) during his time here too. That was c...
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08,August,2004
I think if I'm going to claim 여의도/Yeouido as my new hometown I should know something about it...and by extension you should too. I've got a little more to add to my urlLink background on it thus far . As you may know, ~do can mean two things in Korean. One is: province, such as 경기도/Kyunggi-do. The other ...
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08,August,2004
Being gay in Korea is like being gay in the U.S. military...in 1950. Let's just say that it's not near as lovingly embraced as in the West/US. Gays marrying in Korea? C'mon! There are no Korean gays! Of course, if one is gay one can hardly be Korean. I'm not trying to piss of PCers out there, this is just ...
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