drink is the bad....

ugggghhhh, remind me not to drink so much wine again.....I got paid, went out to Seoul and spent way toooooo much of my cash on wine....weird fucking night, talking to girls in Korean, stumbling around city streets, trying to vomit in a bar restroom and falling asleep on the bus home ending up at the bus barn......all in all a pretty normal kind of Korean weekend....

Xbox Live

I finally got myself setup on the live service, so anyone looking to play some Halo or Burnout Revenge, go ahead and try to find me online sometime. My handle is rafterman1701...owing to the time difference I may be hard to find....but I can always get my ass kicked...

what's up bitches

Well, I see some people have found this lame-o little piece of the web I pissed on to mark. Well, here's the deal droogs-I'm still in good old Korea, but don't ask when I'll be back caue I have no fuckin' idea. I work five days a week from 3 to 10. My kids are all around ten or eleven. Teaching is hella easy most of the time. I work for a place called Avalon School. It's an all right place that actually pays me on time. Nice. I'll try to link some pictures or something here so you all can see what I do over in the far east. Now it's off to drink copious amounts of alcohol...

www.avalon21.co.kr

off to murder simulate!

Most video gamers in the know have heard of ol' crazy ass lawyer Jack Thompson. He has concluded that video games like GTA are murder simulators. You know what Jack? We don't need them. We've been doing fine for thousands of years without video games. How can so many be so stupid? Really? When will these anti games types give it up? Stop blaming things for humanity's problems. We suck, pure and simple and we like to kill each other pure and simple. Let's just take responsibility for it. So one crazy cop killers played a whole lot of fucking GTA. So fucking what? Why does that one fucked up guy have to blow it for the millions of us who don't commit violent crimes? And when will thse right wing nutjobs understand this? These people, the fucko weirdo crime committing types should not be blamed on games, but rather genetics and their parents. And maybe we should just blame them for what they do. It's this kind of blame thinking that is really indicative of a bigger problem with humanity: our need to explain everything we don't get by saying things like 'it's because of TV' or 'Heaven will be great, so I don't have to worry now.' Look, this believing in fairy tales kind of bullshit does nothing to help us as a society. It's merely looking for simple answers to difficult problems because certain people simply don't understand things like science or sociology or any of those other 'smart' things. Games do not make people violent. That is just a simple truth, but they are not good things for the crazy wack jobs to play. Why don't we worry about the crazy wack jobs instead.

Bonding!

Well, it's about time. They finally picked a new Bond. I'm glad. Really, now we can get to the whole making the fucking movie part. Here's hoping Casino Royale kicks major ass.

Banking

So I have it easy. Rent is free. Utilities are bundled in one nice bill. Water, electricity, building maintenance....all in one. So I pay roughly a hundred and fifty bucks a month to live in my apartment. My officetel. But, hey it is worth it. I have a nice place here in Bundang. Big, clean, modern and most of all private.
Each month the utilities are due by the fifteenth. I have to take the bill to a bank and pay it there. They list a couple they like where there is no additional fee. My bank, KEB, is not one. They list a KB bank. There's one real close, but there's also another closer to work. I go there. Not because it's more convienent or anything. No, not really any different than the closer location. It's just that there, well, there's a girl. Speaks English. Nice smile. So, I go to the bank with the cute girl. Sue me. I gotta get something out of life. Maybe one month I'll try to really have a conversation with her. Maybe. But I am too much of a pussy for my own good. So, we'll see.
Or we won't.

Go climb a mountain!

So, I had a big weekend. Avalon school, the place where I work, held a big ol' corporate hiking trip slash workshop. Get up far too early and go climb a mountain in the name of communication. Well, I'm not new to this place, so I dreaded what was about to happen. Imagine 200 people, 90% of whom are Korean. Now picture it all held in Korean with no translation. That's what I got. Tons of team building BS in a language I don't really know. You might feel kind of left out, right? Yeah, right. That part kind of sucked. Koreans have plenty of energy for cheers and jumping and especially crouching down a lot. Go figure. But the actual hiking, well that was technically I believe a bitch, but not too bad. One of those hikes that doesn't end. Reach the top, go down and then back up. Hour after hour.
But it's Korea, it's busy, it's packed. Shitloads of people. Imagine your typical line for a movie or the DMV and transpose that to a mountain. Narrow trail. Someone on your ass. Move, move, move. Aside from the pacing and the never ending feel, it was alright. Not really too hard, not bad on the heart. All in all a nice hike. Only it's been three days and I still see Koreans at work limping like they just got off the mountain. Wow, and I thought I was out of shape. Sure I broke a sweat, but I never had to stop to keep from passing out. So I guess I feel okay. I earned some good will from the company and about 75% of the trip was good for me. Just not the craptastic team building garbage. Sorry, but how can you build a team when you all don't share a language?
So until someone else drags me up a mountain, I think I'm done exercising.
And....I'm spent.

sweetasssss Star Wars magnets

Went shopping in the Yongsan electronics market today and had to look at some toys.....well I did manage to find some Star Wars Unleashed figs...the newest set. For only three times the cost. Fuck that. I can buy them way cheaper even on eBay. So, no to that. But I did find some cool little magnets in the shape of Star Wars heads. There are tons of these little surprise in a box toys that get brought over from Japan. These are high quality, made by the same people who design the way cool vinyl models that retail for like a hundred bucks. Now I did find some of those, including the new Episode 3 Vader. Awesome. Just wish I could waste all my money on cool toys.