This is going to be
This is going to be a long entry so beware:
Hmmm... where to begin...
The past couple days were spent at Mt. Surack which is a famous mountain in Korea. We went with all of my mom's brothers (four of them) and their families so it was a big Lim/Choi family posse rolling through Korea. It was pretty fun although it rained like hell, but it was especially nice because my mom's oldest brother hadn't seen any of his brothers for a myriad of reasons for almost a decade now and their relationship hasn't always been great. With my mom here to sort of bring them together it was a nice reunion type thingy.
While at a hotel there my brother and I had a pretty interesting/freaky experience. We were taking an elevator to the 10th floor which is the top. So we're going up when it stop REALLY violently and we're like "whoa." Then, the door doesn't open... and we're like wtf... and we sit there for about 10 minutes pressing the call button and no one is answering! So we're stuck inside a freaking elevator with no way of contacting anyone. Eventually someone answers and someone comes and opens the door for us and we hop down to the 10th floor because the elevator had been shut down and parked up top while we were still in it! WTF!? That was weak...
Rain, rain, rain. We played some basketball at the YMCA in Won-Joo. YMCAs are free in Korea, the way it should be.
I saw a fish get beat to death with a baseball bat... about 10 minutes later we had some sashimi... you make the connection...
The drivers here in Seoul are insane. Far scarier then even NY drivers! The subways are much cheaper then NY, the food is cheaper, electronics are about the same, gas is WAY for expensive. I think South Korea should invade a middle eastern country and set up shop, my uncle spends about 200 US dollars a week on gas!
I saw something cool on the subway today, there was a video on the wall as we passed by that you could watch looking out the window! I'm not sure if it was projected there or if someone did the math and printed photos on the wall at certain intervals to simulate video... hmmm, if I was able to watch two simultaneously I could figure it out...
In terms of technology when it comes to consumer electronics, Korea seems to be way ahead of the US. They have some crazy stuff, most of it useless, but really neat nonetheless. The cell phones here are way more advanced, they have really cool stackable stereo systems that you can quickly disassemble and take just a part of with you as a portable CD player of MP3 player, etc. Lots of cool stuff.
As if the shoes weren't bad enough. A fad here in Korea right now is "couple tees." Basically it's when a boy and girlfriend go out wearing the same shirt. It's hilarious! My brother and I accidently went out once dressed similarly though. That wasn't so hilarious.
The Matrix 2, I don't want to spend too much time writing about it, but it just seemed so pointless and the computer animation at time wasn't very convincing. I didn't need to see Keanu Reeves' ass, Morpheus is starting to strike me as a parody of himself, and it was just too long. It was more entertaining then the average summer action flick, but it wasn't great or anything.
Today I got a Korean copy of Hail to the Thief! Woohoo! It came with a button, hell yeah. I also found a Radiohead CD there that I had never heard of. It came out in the Pablo Honey/The Bends era, it's called The Live EP and was printed in Holland. Totally sweet. I also got the new Blur album which I heard was great. The Blur cd came with 4 pins! CDs are cheaper here in Korea then they are in US too so I'll probably buy a lot. They had a really big Hail to the Thief poster at the store too but the employee wouldn't sell it to us. Jerk... I should've just stolen it...
Radiohead tickets go on sale in 6 hours! I get to take a nap then I have to wake up at 1 in the morning Korea time to go to a PC room and buy them on ticketmaster. WASTE has them for sale right now, but they're lawn seats only. I'm trying to get seats, but if I can't get good ones in the 100 level I'll just get general admisssion.
Hmmm... what else... oh yeah...
Rest areas here in Korea are insane. They're gigantic and really fancy with lots of stores and really nice really clean bathrooms.
Korea would be a really beautiful country if not for one thing. It's currently popular to live in apartment buildings that are really high and ALL look exactly the same. They're all over the country, you see them anywhere you look and they're all bunched together and look exactly alike. They're built by various corporations too so you'll see Samsung building 100 through 106 then next to those LG or DaeWoo might have built huge apartment complexes. It's ugly, the whole country is littered with them :( It's not even because there's no space to build homes, it's because they're so popular!? Apparantly people find them convenient... too bad they're incredibly ugly and have huge corporate logos printed on the sides of them...
Alright I think I'm done writing... can't think of anything else that I've been meaning to write about but haven't...
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yep, I'm out. Ahnyoung.
