Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Four...
The countdown titles are pathetic, but I'm trying my best to get excited about the holidays. Just don't seem to have it in me. So it's a half-hearted attempt to inject some suspense into the run-up to Christmas.
Brain no work so good today. What was initially a brief social drink with Debbie and Heather last night at Tara's (the coolest bar in, well, the universe, to be quite frank), ended up lasting till 5am. Heather helpfully reminded me of the time (and her level of inebriation) by transporting some stir-fried pork from our plate to the outer wall of the Shack. Unfortunately we weren't on ground level so poor old Roy's going to have a hell of a time cleaning up.
Roy's Korean, but he wears tinted glasses and gels his hair, which leaves him looking uncannily similar to Roy Orbison. He doesn't know his name is Roy, and he just thinks we're crazy waeguks because every time he comes to take our order we sing "Pretty Woman". Actually haven't seen him at the Shack recently, so it may be Elspeth or Brenda who has to clean the wall.
It's in these little ways that I amuse myself in Korea. I should feel guilty about mocking others when they don't understand me, but I've picked up enough Korea to understand a bit about what some of the Koreans say about us foreigners. And it's not very nice sometimes.
Brain no work so good today. What was initially a brief social drink with Debbie and Heather last night at Tara's (the coolest bar in, well, the universe, to be quite frank), ended up lasting till 5am. Heather helpfully reminded me of the time (and her level of inebriation) by transporting some stir-fried pork from our plate to the outer wall of the Shack. Unfortunately we weren't on ground level so poor old Roy's going to have a hell of a time cleaning up.
Roy's Korean, but he wears tinted glasses and gels his hair, which leaves him looking uncannily similar to Roy Orbison. He doesn't know his name is Roy, and he just thinks we're crazy waeguks because every time he comes to take our order we sing "Pretty Woman". Actually haven't seen him at the Shack recently, so it may be Elspeth or Brenda who has to clean the wall.
It's in these little ways that I amuse myself in Korea. I should feel guilty about mocking others when they don't understand me, but I've picked up enough Korea to understand a bit about what some of the Koreans say about us foreigners. And it's not very nice sometimes.
# posted by Stuart Reid @ 4:23 PM 
