February 2012
1 post
Spent this morning at a police station.
Why, you ask?
I was trying to convince officers that my black patent leather Zara clutch was in fact mine, and that I did not steal it from some random Korean dude at a club, but that he actually had misplaced his exact same clutch and coincidentally saw me dancing with mine.
Only in Korea.
January 2012
3 posts
File under: newb 양다리 problems
I’ve been in a relationship too long. I don’t know how to casually date anymore. Not that I ever really did.
A guy messaged me online and we started talking on Kakao on New Years Day. He’s taller than me, ripped to shreds, older, and very very sweet. Speaks practically perfect English. Wants to meet for a date. I agreed to visit him in Seoul on the 20th (after a much...
I met a boy...
Well he’s technically an 오빠… but was so tres adorable that, with the help of FNWL, I shall call him Mankid. All the wonderful manliness of a man, plus the goofy, smiley sweetness of a 동생.
Every time I picture him sitting in his underwear on my bed, eating the breakfast I made him, bedhead hair all tousled… I can’t help but feel a bit giddy inside. Or when we were watching...
December 2011
7 posts
Also...
To the tall pajama-clad hipster with full body tattoos who joined me in my elevator at 8am this morning to take out his trash:
- THANK YOU
- Who are you and what is your story?
- I’m sorry that our shared time together was most certainly not as glorious for you as it was for me at ridiculous o’clock this morning when I had literally just rolled out of bed
- Same time tomorrow? I...
"It's Christmas and it's free!"
Logic behind Sunday night clubbing that, in the harsh reality only available during winter intensive schedules, seems significantly less logical.
My Christmas miracle: Morning Care
♥ From Noona With Love: Regarding the 'lip care'... →
himchi:
fromnoonawithlove:
Thank you for all the recommendations. I ended up popping into a chemist on my way into work one morning and buying a tube of Chapstick ‘True Shimmer’ in Botanical Berry flavour for about three thousand won to tie me over the few days till I decided what proper lip-care thing I was going to…
Watch as I deftly leap on this! Any good recs for deep conditioning...
Amen →
I feel yah Malia, I feel yah.
Pisces (February 20-March 20)
You are being financially responsible and accountable lately — what a great change! Expect some old loves to show up throughout the holidays.
Huh. Mysterious past luvah… 누구야~?
Hopefully it isn’t the ex from home who has recently changed his original “Meh… Asia isn’t my thing. Let’s break up” stance and is now asking for coming-to-Korea-advice.
...
“If you’re gonna have pizza with someone else, what do you have to do? You gotta...”
– NY Times: Teaching Good Sex
okay best metaphor
(via leraje)
And you know what? Some people like to share pizza, and some people eat it with just one person, it’s their own special ritual for no one else, or they eat it alone. Some people don’t like pizza and that’s fine too; they’re not somehow...
October 2011
4 posts
observando:
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
-Mark Twain
<3
observando:
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
-Oscar Wilde
Ach.
My sister has just informed me she has been diagnosed with Lupus. Not quite sure what that means but I’m about to google the shit outta that disease.
September 2011
4 posts
“If I’ve fucked you, you get an alien”
– FNWL on Kakao drunk msg etiquette.
1 tag
Finally having my first real cry about the break...
Only took a week.
The End of an Era
Muscles and I have broken up…? Are on a break? Still not quite sure but I am too hungover to even process it all and have just finally, at 7:30 pm, been able to keep down what I am eating.
A little soj and dancing goes a long way, eh FNWL? Until the next morning that is kkk.
August 2011
9 posts
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/07/05/farr.mixed... →
So… this is my life at the moment.
Muscles and I had a discussion over drinks this past Saturday about what is going on between us in our relationship.
I’ve mentioned to him a few times in the past month that he has been a little distant and not very affectionate. No, I am not one for grand displays of PDA, however lately I feel as though he treats me more like a buddy in public....
Dreams. Shattered.
http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110823000408
There go our chances Britt. Ha.
3 tags
Having a random homesick moment. Crept up on me unexpectedly. For the first time in a while I’m wondering what the hell I’m doing here.
Taking it as a sign that I need to get some sleep.
Good-bye short-lived vacation. Back to the grind.
July 2011
10 posts
"Teacher, water house."
My student, whilst pointing to a blister on his leg.
Ugh. Emo Friday anyone?
Intensives. You suck.
The real "King"
Because Muscles always tends to be the oldest we have this running joke that he is King. In his lab at school, all of his coworkers were younger than him so when I’d question him about playing games instead of studying he would joke that he wouldn’t get into trouble because, as he would say: “I am King.”
Yesterday afternoon while lounging around Muscles leaned in to look...
Jeogiyo..: Last night. This morning? →
scwlove:
Where to begin. Rambling time.
Running on about five hours of sleep here. Not consecutive sleep either because Britt has been throwing up all morning. Bless her.
We guessed it was going to be a shitshow from the beginning. When you throw in OBT into the mix it’s bound to be a mess. Still…
Interesting night indeed. OBT most certainly has swag. But, if it were my choice, Cub...
Not good..
scwlove:
If anyone comes across a raging/sobbing/freaking out Korean man and his broken-down car in the middle of the road in PNU this morning, that’s my 웅.
He just called me and literally spoke so fast that I couldn’t keep up. But apparently it’s COMPLETELY BROKEN and his life is now ruined.
I daresay that driving up and down mountains at a snail’s pace this weekend just might have had...
Dear HT:
Ten minutes after the start of my class, after all the Korean teachers have already left to go upstairs and I am sitting alone at my desk, is probably NOT the best time to inform me of the change in schedule.
Or to tell me said change results in me leaving an extra 40 mins later than usual all week.
:|
From,
ABiB
Dong-A Ilbo: `Slut walk` in the rain →
soniassi:
Like, okay. Criticizing English-language columns in Korean newspapers, especially second-rate papers like DongA, is basically what I imagine training a shotgun on a fish in bucket would be like. You’ll win, but you chose a method so easy that you’ll just end up hurting yourself in the process.
For some reason, I’m doing it anyway. This column has everything. Needlessly sexualizing...
June 2011
16 posts
Girls Before Flowers: crackle nail polish tips →
girlsbeforeflowers:
Honestly, you don’t need any tips if you get a “good” crackle nail polish. In the example picture of my own nails I had shown, I put a base coat, one coat of the gold sparkly polish, waited for it to dry, and then put on a coat of the crackle polish (& finished it off with a top coat). It was…
I love the one from The Face Shop! It works very well and comes in a...
Editor Who Blamed Lara Logan for Her Gang Rape... →
fromnoonawithlove:
Posting the link to this petition again today because only twenty one thousand people have signed it. This Dan Rottenberg’s article - basically blaming women who have ever worn shorts or halterneck tops should they find themselves raped - actually made my blood boil. And I refuse to believe that there there are only twenty one thousand people with access to the internet on...
Let the learning begin!!
Started my first Korean language class today. It’s supposed to be for beginners but I was sooooo lost. Maybe it’s because I’m joining in the middle or because my brain is slowly turning into mush after saying “There is one apple. Repeat. One apple” countless times over the past year. Or both.
The teacher speaks wayyy fast and my writing skills are not up to par just...
what's the thing busan does that annoys you most?
imnopicasso:
Tries to stick his finger in my mouth when I yawn. Which, for some reason, still surprises me every single time.
Ask me anything
Muscles does this to me all the time! Is it a southern thing?
And Muscles was of course amazing through the whole thing. He kept apologizing and telling me I did great. After I explained to him why I was upset he said that B had been very rude to Mong’s Korean ex-girlfriend as well. And that she has a lot of “self-pride” and understandably didn’t want to look stupid in front of others. Apparently she hates English, too. Super.
He...
Be careful what you wish for... (Pt. 2)
Alright… I’m kind of over it now so I’m just going to lay out a Coles Notes version of Saturday night.
Here goes!
Muscles has two friends that he has known for about 10 years now. There is his male friend who I will call Mong (they said he looks like MC Mong the pop star), and his female friend who I will call B (because her Korean name starts with that when...
Is this the real life...?
I skipped crossfit this morning (oops!) to catch some of the last rays before rainy season hits. I was just walking along to get some lunch, minding my business, listening to This American Life when some very attractive, tall, buff dude stopped to talk to me.
In perfect English he tells me he is in the secret service (how secretive of him) and that he is in Busan checking out the area because...
Be careful what you wish for...
So I have complained a few times that Muscles and I have been dating for over a year now and I have never really met any of his friends. Besides a drunken cheerfest one time during the world cup games last year I rarely know anything about his life outside of our little “us” bubble. I know he isn’t hiding anything because he is never dodgy when I ask questions, just the...
This one goes out to Britt in Busan *^^* →
britt in busan: Things I do know... →
fromnoonawithlove:
brittinbusan:
1. He’s in the army. On break. (only 60 days left though!) 2. He was born in 1990. 3. He drives a wonderful brand new BMW and has the pretty new white iphone AND amazing Gucci luggage I saw in the back of his car. I want it all. 4. He’s sweet. Rushed me to the bathroom after someone knocked their…
Pray tell, Brittinbusan, how did it all begin?????
I only...
My student keeps pronouncing "Cinderella" as...
Now that is one fairy tale I can get behind.
Bottoms up!
withoutlimitations asked: Yoooooooooo! How's it going, I'm some random American guy heading to Korea in three weeks O_O for that whole English teaching thing (in Yongin-si)
I stumbled on your blog and was wondering if you had any like...."OMG I TOTALLY WISH I PACKED THIS!!" type advice+general tips and tricks?
Oh and (I know I'm asking a lot, sorry!) do you have any...
I stumbled on your blog and was wondering if you had any like...."OMG I TOTALLY WISH I PACKED THIS!!" type advice+general tips and tricks?
Oh and (I know I'm asking a lot, sorry!) do you have any...