Mullets and Miniskirts

술

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan) — Mon, 12 May 2008 03:59:00 +0000

1919년때 이 포스터 보면 술 안 마셔??!?!! 아니! 보면 술 많이 마셔!!! 미국 사람은 아주 바보야.

저는 6개월 동안 일본 만화 봤어요. Bleach과 Cowboy Bebop 많이 봐요. Cowboy Bebop 때문에 제 제일 좋은 음악 찾았어요. 일본 재즈 펀크 아주 좋아해요. tomoyasu hotei 보다 The Seatbelts은 더 좋아해요

미안해요 뉴스 없어요. 오늘 석가탄신일 때문에 푹 쉬어요.

심심해

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan) — Thu, 01 May 2008 05:04:00 +0000

지금 두시간 쉬는 시간 있어서 심심해요. 중간고사 고쳐야돼지만 하기싫어서 안해요.

이번주 기쁜이 별로 안좋아요. 금요인날 한양대학교 인터뷰 있었어요. 저는 열심히 준비했고 일찍 갔어요. 인문대 잘 못 찾으니까 스트레스 많아요. 마지막 인문대 찾았지만 사람 없었어요. 인터뷰는 서울 한양대학교. 저는 안산 한양대학교에 갔어요. 진짜 바보야!

월요일 다시 인터뷰 있었어요. 15분 수업 준비했어요. 내 생각의 그것은 괜찮지만, 인터뷰 하는 사람들 아주 싫었어요. 스테판한테 나쁜 얘기했고 빨리 끝났어요. 끝는후 기쁜이 되게 안 좋았어요. 지금까지 생각해요. 이번주 가르칠때 항상 생각 영어 못 가르쳐요.

그리고 아이스 하키 안좋아요. 다 싫어한 팀 익이고 있어요. 나쁜주 있었어요.

아야!

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:55:00 +0000

이주 있다가 서울에서 연주회 준비했지만 오늘 우리의 기타를 치는 사람 그만뒀어요. 우리는 한번만 연주했어요. 우리의 친구 말했어요 "서울에서 보고싶어요", 그래서 스테판이 아주 흥미러웠지만 지금 그냥 슬퍼요. 헤이든은 새로운 기타 치는 사람 찾았지만 다시 노래 배우고 6월에 크레이그 (트럼펫 불는 사람) 캐나다에 이사해서 도 새로운 사람 찾야돼요! ARGH!!!

다른 뉴스는, 형이 푸에르토리코 가봤어요. 재미있게 놀았어요.

스테판은 여름 방학때 오스트리아하고 체코하고 독일하고 스위스에 가볼 거예요. 미나는 일해야되서 같이 못 가요. 같이가면 재미잇어요, 왜냐하면 가족 만날 수 있지만 다음에 할 수 있어요. 스테판의 할머니 90살 생일 때문에 오스트리아에 가요. 그것 때문에 가족 다 갈 거예요.

재미없어요

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:30:00 +0000

다음주는 시험 주야돼서 재미있는 이야기 없어요. 미안해요.

그러나 재미있는것 보고싶으면 이렇게 가세요.

공연

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan) — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:33:00 +0000

어제 우리는 공연 아주 잘했어요. 노래:
Chameleon - Herbie Hancock
Bra - Cymande:

You Know I'm No Good - Amy Winehouse
Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix
You Don't Love Me (No No No) - Dawn Penn
I'm Tore Down - Sonny Thompson
The Boss - James Brown
Bitch - The Rolling Stones

노래 더할수있었지만 관리인 말했어 "40분만 노래할수있어요" 그것은 미친 생각 있었어요. 왜냐하면 외국 사람 많이 갔고 우리 밴드만 보고싶었어요. 한국사람 노래불때 많이 손님 갔어요. 그리고, 돈 안 주고 술 서비스 안주었어요. 우리의 밴드 때문에 손님 엄정 많이 갔어서 스테판 화났어요.

재미있는 것

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan) — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:02:00 +0000

한국에 살아면 이것은 아주 재미있어요. 한국은 몰으면 그냥 귀찮아요:

황사 (다시)

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:33:00 +0000

봄이 왔어요, 그래서 황사 많이 왔어요. 매년 봄에서 스테판의 눈이 엄청 아프고 숨 못 쉬고 코감기 걸리고 그냥 불편해요. 수요일날 아주 바쁘고 어제 많이 아파요. 일직 자고시펐지만 1시반 까지 숨 때문에 못 잤어요. 오늘도 바빠요, 그래서 지금 아주 피곤해요. 생각 잘 못해서 수업 준비 안해요. 황사 끝나면 아주 기뻐요.

이건 학기 이상해요 왜냐하면 일 많이하지만 항상 돈 없어요. 일주 27시간 일하지만 항상 돈을 못 모여요.

첫번주 부터 다시 한국어 수업 시작했어요. 화요일하고 수요일 밤 제 집에서 새로운 영어 선생님은 한국어를 가르쳐요. 그것 재미있어요 왜냐하면 가르칠때 느낌이 아주 똑똑해요.

미나는 아직도 직업 없어요. 저는 관심없지만 돈 때문에 스테판 조금 걱정해요.

이번주 토요일, 우리의 밴드 "The Studs Lonigan Experience" 초음 연주 있어요. 그냥 중앙동에 있지만 우리는 잘하면 서울에서 연주할 거예요.

Hallowed Antiquity

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan) — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:48:00 +0000

With the Leafs season quickly coming to a close despite the best efforts of Pavel Kubina and Mats Sundin, I couldn't help but recall a time when the Leafs weren't missing the post season continuously. This was obviously post Harold Ballard. I found this tribute to my favorite Leaf of all time, Wendel "Captain Crunch" Clark:

Ah!

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:30:00 +0000

Life is beautiful.

Google Earth

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan) — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:24:00 +0000

Google Earth is so cool. I can spy on my parents and see that my dad didn't leave the office that day:

See where I used to live in Canada:

Or look at the Suwon University campus:

All of which is done while I should be getting on with my studies.

Justice

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan) — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:04:00 +0000

At least some justice can be salvaged from this wreck of a season.

이번주

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:31:00 +0000

방학 끝나서 다시 일해야돼요 (ㅠ.ㅠ) 처음 있는것 아주 쉬어지만 사장님 때문에 스트레스 아주 많아요. 그러나 새로운 학생 좋아해서 괜찮아요.

일요일날 마지막 스노보딩 했어요. 날씨가 되게 좋아서 눈이 아주 부드러워졌어요. 그래서 어려운것하고 빠른것 했어요. 조금 잘했지만 3번 큰 사고됐어서 지금 목과 등이 아파요.

스노보드 가는후 밴드 연습 했어요. 두 달 안했어서 잘못했고 노래 기억안했어요. 빨리 기억해야해요, 왜냐하면 3월 29일 연주할 거에요.

한국말 도 공부 해야해요. 오늘밤 부터 다시 시작해요.

Taiwan

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:16:00 +0000

So our foray into South East Asia ended with a one day stopover in Taipei.

Taipei is very similar to Seoul, or rather, Taipei is what Seoul should be. It is much smaller, but it's very clean, the subways run every two minutes instead of every fifteen, and it had interesting architecture, not just the same building built thousands of times.

We arrived in the evening and went out to Taipei 101. The sun had set by the time we got there, and no matter how many times I tried, I just could not get a good picture of the damn building. I had to use a slow shutter speed, and there was nothing appropriate to place the camera on that wasn't behind a tree or in the middle of the road. I therefore have many shaky blurry pictures of the building.

The elevator ride up was pretty cool, since it took less than 30 seconds to go up 84 floors, and the view from the top was awesome. However, we were surrounded by Korean tourists, and all of them kept talking about how the 63 building and Namseong Tower were more impressive. I got some strange looks from people as they were talking about it and I just started laughing. Korean nationalism is wonderfully obtuse at times that it just has to make you laugh. Finally, one woman caught on that I understood what they were saying (in Korean naturally) and gave me a dirty look as she walked away.

After the Taipei 101, we made our way over to the nigt market, which was pretty cool, and had cool gizmos that made you say "ooh, I want that!" before realizing that you had absolutely no need for it whatsoever. It was also quite exciting, because every 10 minutes or so, all of the street vendors in the middle of the aisle would VERY RAPIDLY pack up their goods and run away or hide in another store to avoid the policemen walking around. After that, it was simply hotel, airport, back to the apartment. Upon our arrival, we found that Mina's mom had bought us a new large coffee table, filled our fridge with food, and bought an electric blanket. Very nice way to come back. It's nice to sleep in my own bed again as well. Too bad I have to start working again though.

That's it, that's the entirety of the trip. I was out of Korea for a month, so there was no way they can blame me for burning down Namdaemun, which might have happened had I been here. Koreans like blaming anything bad that happens on foreigners.

Cambodia

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:38:00 +0000

When last we left them, Stefan and Mina were tired of the cold and decided to head for Cambodia.

We finally got on a plane in Hanoi at 6pm after huge hassles from our hotel that I'm still dealing with, and arrived in Siem Riep which was a wonderful 30 degrees. We hopped into a taxi and headed for the main strip where we figured we would find a hotel easily. WRONG! It still being the Lunar New Year holiday, everyone was still on vacation in Cambodia and taking up all of the accommodations. We finally let our taxi driver go and started wandering around. A young guy offered to help us and grabbed a tuk-tuk driving us to all of the hotels he knew in the area. After more than an hour of riding around to completely full hotels, we finally stumbled across the Siem Reap Hostel which turned out to be incredible. It had a pool, pool table, free internet, brand new accommodations, book exchange, and everything else you could possibly want from a hostel. So after our really crappy day, we finally had a nice place to stay.

For the next two days we just went around Angkor Wat, which is a collection of temples that have slowly been reclaimed by the surrounding jungle. If you ever get a chance to go see it, I highly recommend it. All of the temples had something different to offer, and were all gorgeous.

On the second night we met up with Angela and Dawn, two of the girls I worked with at Suwon University, and then on the third day relaxed before heading to the floating village for sunset. The floating village itself was ok, but to get there we had to take a tuk-tuk through an area of the poorest people I have ever seen. Small naked children running around, and families of six living in what would generously be called a hut made mostly of corrugated iron and tarpaulin. Lots of children were also wearing "Be the Reds" t-shirts which is for the Korean Soccer team, which I assume couldn't be sold during the last world cup, so they just got sent to Cambodia as a donation. I also saw lots of old Korean buses which was amusing because they still had all of the old Korean directions on them. At the floating market, we were shown a fish farm and a "coconut" farm. We were wondering how hey could grow coconuts in the middle of the lake when we discovered that our guide had made a mistake and used the word "coconuts" instead of "CROCODILES" similar sounding I know, but not the same thing.

After Siem Reap, we headed to Sihanoukville with Dawn and Angela and just relaxed on the beach for a week. Nice sunsets, warm weather, fresh fruit and seafood, and just about everything else I wanted from the vacation. At the beach we also randomly ran into Jeff, who we knew was in the area, but could never get in touch with.

Dawn and Angela left a day before us, and we finally made our way to Phnom Penh for a couple of days. On our first night as we were going to dinner, we once again randomly ran into Dawn and Angela, and had a simultaneous "What the hell are you doing here?" We chatted with them until they had to leave for the airport, got up, walked around the corner, and ran into Frank, yet another person that we work with. We were tired, so we arranged to meet up the next day to do some stuff.

The next Day was depressing day. We got Frank from his hotel and went to Tuol Sleng which was the prison where over 7,000 people were imprisoned under the Khmer Rouge before being killed. It was really awful because they had pictures of a lot of the victims, and many of them were small children that had had the misfortune of being related to a person that knew had to do math or some other heresy. After that we hadn't been sufficiently depressed, so we went to the killing fields, where a lot of the prisoners from Tuol Sleng were actually executed. There you could see the piles of skulls of the victims, and as we were walking around we saw some human bones lying around that hadn't been collected yet. If you want creepy, this is the place to go. Thankfully it was a nice sunny day, and not a gloomy rainy evening.

After all of this death, we hadn't had enough destruction, so we headed to the range, which was actually on a special forces base. Frank chose to shoot an Uzi, and as he was setting up they asked "do you want to shoot a chicken?" Yes, that's right. Not only can you shoot fully automatic weapons, but you can shoot them at farm animals. frank politely declined and then enjoyed his Uzi time. We then looked back at the weapons menu to see that for a mere $200 we could shoot a bazooka, and for a mere $200 extra, we could shoot it at a cow. Ah, Cambodia, there's nowhere quite like it. I decided to simply toss a hand grenade, which was quite the experience. We got a nice explosion that everyone could enjoy, and I can now cross "Throw a hand grenade" off of my list of things to do.

I was only a little upset that they didn't offer me any livestock to throw it at. Maybe a goat or a duck? We left feeling great with the adrenaline rush that can only come with automatic weapons and high explosives. we spent the rest of the day relaxing and contemplating what we had done before separating.

The next morning, Mina and I headed back to Ho Chi Minh, where we just did a bit of shopping before heading to Taiwan.

Vietnam

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan) — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:38:00 +0000

So I'm back and alive, with only a slight case of food poisoning (damn Vietnamese hamburgers!) Ho Chi Minh was crazy when we first got there (on our second anniversary as it so happened). Our driver told us there were 7,000,000 people living in Ho Chi Minh, and 6,000,000 scooters.

When you try navigating the roads, it's very easy to believe. The fun part comes when you try to cross the road. There are no red lights in large portions of the city, so the scooters all just weave around each other and any pedestrians that may be in the way, or even the random car. You just have to walk out into the street and slowly make your way across looking out for the drivers going straight and looking to the right or left. We ended up in De Tham which is basically the Vietnamese version of Khaosan Road without the prostitutes and grunge. We spent a couple of days wandering around looking at things on bicycle taxis before heading to Mui Ne on a bus.

Our bus driver was very enamored of his horn. The following is an incomplete list of things he hoked at repeatedly over the four hour trip:
1. I'm turning
2. I'm going over a bridge
3. I'm going around a corner
4. I'm going to pass you
5. I'm passing you
6. I just passed you
7. I'm driving like an asshole
8. I'm driving straight not doing anything
9. I just drove over a small child on a moped
10. I just want to be me
This was all exacerbated by the fact that the horn button was broken and the driver had to prod a loose wire into a hole in the steering wheel in morse code fashion to make it work. This was bad enough, but every now and then he would drop it and release a massive blast that shook my molars.

Mui Ne was a nice beach strip with lots of windsurfing and kitesurfing, but no young people. It was full of old Russian and German couples, and a few young girls trying to find a rich old man. The beach was nice and relaxing though, which was exactly what I needed. There was also plenty of fresh seafood and Pho to go around to please even the pickiest of eaters.

After a few days in Mui Ne, we headed to Nha Trang on a thankfully horn-free bus. Nha Trang had a nice beach and we took a cool boat trip out to four of the outlying islands which included a floating bar, which was the ships captain grabbing a case of wine and jumping on a life preserver in the water while everyone floated around drinking the Vietnamese wine. If anyone ever offers you this substance, do yourself a favour and politely decline. Nha Trang also had awesome waves for jumping in which I haven't been able to do for quite some time.

Our last stop in Vietnam was Hanoi. We wanted to go to Halong Bay, but the weather was cold and foggy, which would make a two day sea trip miserable in our summer clothes. We caught the train at 4:30am on Tuesday, and it was scheduled to arrive in Hanoi at 12:00pm. The sign neglected to mention however that it would be 12:00pm THE NEXT DAY! So after a lovely 31 hour train ride we arrived in Hanoi just in time for Tet, but it was about 13 degrees, which was really cold for us since it had been 30 the day before. We did the whole Tet thing that night and decided to high-tail it out of Vietnam as quickly as possible. Hanoi was also deserted for the holiday, which I had not anticipated. I thought it would be a big party. WRONG! Everyone closed up shop and went to the country to see their family. That being said, Hanoi is a pretty city, and while chilly, we did have a good time looking around and not being bothered by beggars and Xe Om drivers. We finally left Vietnam having travelled by plane, boat, bus, taxi, xe om and cyclo and headed By Plane once more for Siem Reap in the hopes of warmer weather.

음악

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan) — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:49:00 +0000

여러분 The Seatbelts 진짜 듣야해요. 일본 스타일 자즈-펀크이에요

I'll translate that for the rest of you since it's very important. You all need to go and find everything you can by The Seatbelts. They absolutely rule.

새해

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan) — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:17:00 +0000

새해 복 많이받으세요!

오늘 Fame Festival 가요. 아주 재미겠다!

저는 일 다 끝났어서 스키장에 보통 있어요. 다음주 부터 겨울 영어캠프 일하고 보드타요.

2월때 여행 있어서 지금부터 브로그 두달동안 안 쓰레요.

In other words, I'm off for two months. Don't expect anything.

병

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan) — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:06:00 +0000

스테판은 편도선염 있어요. ㅠ.ㅠ 목을 많이 아프고 얘기 잘 못해요. 얘기 때문에 큰 문제 있어요. 오늘 그냥 말하는 수업 있니까 목소리 엄청 나빠요. 진짜 싫어!

겨울

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:14:00 +0000

아야! 겨울 왔어요. 한국 사람이 한국에 계절 4개를 한족하게 생각하지만 봄과 가을 2주 만 있어요. 처음 한국에 살알때 텍시 아저씨 다 "Korea 4 season!!!" 강조하여 말했어요. 어제 첫눈 왔어요. 한국 스타일로 비로 바꿨어요. 항상 한국에 겨울때 날씨는 1도 있고 비 와요. 저는 진짜 싫어요! 추우면 눈 완해요. 추운 비 정말 정말 싫어요! 어제 오토바이 탈때 비 때문에 아주 불편해요.

겨울 있니까 다시 스노우보드 할수있어요. 친구랑 Phoenix Park에 집 임대했어요. 그래서 12월 12일 부터 매주 3번 갈 거에요.

1월 27일 부터 2월 26일 까지 겨울 여행 가요. 미나 랑 베트남과 캄보디아와 라오스와 일일만 타이완에 가 봐요. 저는 아주 흥분해요. 3주 있다가 1달 스노우보드 방학 있어요. 그다음 3주 일 많이 해햐해요. 마지막 햇변 여행 있어요. ㅋㅋ

어제 인터넷에서 무서운 것 찾았어요.

블로그

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan) — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:07:00 +0000

왜 블로그 있는지 잘 모르겠어요. 항상 조금씩만 쓰고 여러분 안 읽어요. 하지만 때때로 재미있어요.

네이슨이 아주마와 아저씨 파티할때 카메라 브러졌어서 지금 사진 업로드 못해요. 옛날에 조금 브러졌고 파티하면서 크게 브러졌어요. 큰 문제 있니까 스테판이 카메라를 파괴했어요. 네이슨은 더파괴할때 한명 거의 죽였어요! 카메라를 던졌고 사람의 머리 거의 때렸어요. 나의 생각 아주 재미있지만 정말로 아주 위험해요.

좋은 뉴스!!! 저는 새로운 오토바이 쌌어요!!!! 전에 백이십오cc 나쁜 오토바이 있었니까 오늘 효성 코멋 이백오십cc 쌌어요. 지금 아주 기뻐요! 내일 받알거에요. 목요일 아침 크리스이랑 같이 새로운 학생집에 오토바이 탈 수 있어요. 진짜 기뻐요. 오랫동안 나쁜 오토바이 탔어요.

다른 게이 한국 사람 이야기 있지만 한국말로 어떻게 말할 수 있는지 잘 모르겠어요.

캐나다

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan) — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:04:00 +0000

형 "이것 블록에 놓야돼요" 말했어요.

종교들

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan) — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:01:00 +0000

이것은 처럼 있는것 때문에 다 종교들 싫어해요.

Hockey

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan) — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:46:00 +0000

HEY! The Leafs have the best offence in the NHL!!! ... and the worst defence. Damnit!

연대

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan) — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:51:00 +0000

젓번주 중국 연대 가 봤어요. 아주 재미있는 시간였다. 토요일, 우리는 샤브샤브 비슷한 음식 먹었어요. 양고기 있었어서 네이슨은 아주 기뻤어요. 조금 쇼핑했고 "Ali Baba's" 술집에 갔어요. 얘거마이스터 때문에 우리 다 술 취했어요. 일요일 Tom하고 Anemik (sp?) 왔고 맛있는 중국 음식 먹었어요. Tom하고 Anemik은 네덜란드 사람이에요. 밤에 그냥 러그비 봤고 포도주 마셨어요.

월요일 아침 헤이든하고 수정 못 찾았어서 포도주 양조장 가 봤어요. 밤에 맛있는 일본 데판야끼 sp?) 먹었어요. 미나는 일본 음식 돼계 좋아해서 네이슨은 양고기 처럼 기뻤어요. 밥 먹는후 다시 술 마셨어요. 화요일 날씨가 좋았어서 햇변에 놀았어요. 축구는 네이스하고 헤이든 이기지만 나하고 톰 배구 세 게임 이겼어요. ㅋㅋㅋ

수요일 아침 다시 한국 왔고 미나랑 싸웠어요.

오래간만이에요

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan) — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:18:00 +0000

미안 해요. 다시, 오랫동안 블로그 안 썼어요. 요즘은 스테판은 아주 기뻐요! 운동 열심히해서 살 많이 바졌어요. 직업이도 돼계 쉽다. 제 학생들이 열심히 공부하고 같이 놀고 아주 나쁘지 않아요. 그리고, 매주 그냥 수, 목, 금 일해서 아주 편해요.

지금 프랑스에서 러그비 월드 컵 있어서 매주 토요일 좋은 스포츠 봐요. 젓번주 뉴지랜드 대 포르투갈 게임 봤고 네이슨이랑 내기를 했어서 샌드위치 이겼어요. 그 밤 홍대에서 좋은 밴드 "softcore" 봤어요. 홍대에서 많이 취했어요. 그다음날 오후 미나의 엄마 우리 집에 왔어요. 술병 때문에 얘기 못했어서 엄마는 조금 화났어요.

다음주 월요일 부터 추석이에요!!! 그래서 내일 부터 다음주 수요일까지 수업 없어요. 저는 추석때 중국 연대에 갈 거에요.

끝