so, this happened to me.

i think i'll try and play the sympathy card. although i think i need to twist the story a bit, because i kinda did it while playing basketball, and there's nothing heroic or interesting about that. i'll think of something. there's some pretty girls around, and pretty girls always want to feel sorry for a guy in some way.

I thought this was genius.
http://votefortheworst.com/
it makes me appreciate american idol more.

i was as i am as i sat around and i thought too much it seems sometimes i do just that as usual i planned around roadblocks and first wave trends too late to avoid being sucked in like forests and forests holding the nuances of commonplace with a complete lack of commonplace because we are all flippantly bringing ourselves down into the moss of this make believe.


oh wait, i intended to write something that made sense. shoot.

This past weekend I...


finally finished the painting i was working on here.


Went to Yeouido to see the cherry blossoms. apparently they only last about 2 weeks. and after seeing them, i realized that this country is so deprived of floral diversity that something that is only kinda neat like the cherry blossoms becomes incredible.

but the yeouido park had a couple of white bunnies running around loose.

the next day i went to itaewon. it's to korea for westerners as chinatown in toronto is for the chinese. it felt weird being around so many westerners. jon wanted to buy a knockoff watch, so we were lead into a back alley shop to view the goods. the guy that served us had a business card. his name was cookie.

there were other fun shops there too. such as this one. look at it up close.

...and we found this genius idea there. "itaewon self-regulating anti-crime unit". i don't know what it means, but it sounds like it would work.
but the real reason to go to itaewon was to see the montreal vs. toronto hockey game. it was a re-run from the morning. and sadly as hard as i tried to not know the score before the game, it didn't work. but horray, toronto won, and they looked like they were headed to the play-offs... and then NY Islanders won the next day and knocked toronto out of the playoffs. so all in all it felt like a wasted victory.

and that was my weekend.

My new vow is to reply to any personal email to me within a week, annnnnd i now have a phone. so i'll extend this vow to phone calls.
My home phone number is 031-816-8999
toronto hours-
Sun. : 4am-12pm, 6:30pm-8pm
mon. -fri.: 7am-12pm, 6:30pm-8pm
sat.: varies, try anytime except for 1pm-7pm

i think i did the math right, i hope that is the hours i'm available if calling from toronto.

This is essentially what my mind feels like. I mean that simply as reflection of too many of my thoughts wanting to be somewhere important. And as they push forward they all lose their place. I'm pretty sure i don't have too much work to do, but i'm constantly unsatisified and fickle about the best way to organize. sigh. the ironic part is that i actually enjoy organization... to an extent.

APRIL FOOLS

i didn't really cut off both my hands in a freak accident.

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and here i am. and where i go. and anything. i'm not sure. let me get the manual. it's lost amongst the factual. simple things turn complex. complex blurs to simplicity. you ordered a hamburger. you got a nuclear war gift wrapped for the long haul. before the fall we'll see summer. before you go, get me another cola. get me another full one, no more half empty anything. anyway. there is a needle in the hay, i feign desire for the discovery. channels. flip on my side. worried about disgust choking me on my back. coming to conclusions i didn't know i had. maybe i borrow these things like library books. i must have fines. i must have... something.

yesterday's spelling test. the words were:
1. bookshelf
2. stereo
3. picture
4. chair
5.kitchen

puppies for sale on the street corner. it said 70% off(or that's what i assume). but i don't know what price it's 70% off of if it's on the street corner.

information. kinda in a cheesy format, but some things are interesting.

http://www.break.com/index/shift_happens.html

so the video is the product of my 2 days off. i meant to do my whole day, but the editing was taking too long. i apologize for the green words at the top, they're there because the only video editing program i could quickly get was a trial version, and trial versions do stuff like that to your videos. it's times like these that i wish i had a mac.

this is one of those things that i shouldn't mention in case it doesn't get done. but i will anyway. i'm currently trying to make a video of my daily work routine. it sounds boring, but i'll punch it up with special effects.... no i won't. but i'll put a good song on it, and least if you don't like the video, you can just close your eyes and listen.

the problem is, i don't even know if my video editing software works, or even how it works exactly. and secondly, i'm not sure i can put the video on here.

but i'd like to get your hopes high now.

high five.this is chai milk jam i got in japan. i like sharing, or giving away most food things i have. but i think this is one thing that i wouldn't want to share. yum. do you have any items like that?

http://little-people.blogspot.com/

i really liked this. it was quaint.

i avoided watching tv for almost a year, but then i finally plugged my tv in here. sigh. but i only get one english channel, and that is the army base channel. so if i have the tv on, that's the channel it will be.

every commercial looks like it costs about $100 to make; and i'm not sure if any are not geared toward military viewers. 'make sure you have all your documents in order', 'eat at your regiments cafeteria', 'be knowledged about new housing that you'll move to', 'sexual harassment is never acceptable'. The one i find ironic is when they inform the officers that if they speak about any superior officer, or speak about the president with contempt, that is an offense that can have them courtmarshelled. meanwhile, the shows that are aired on this channel, such as the late night shows, they make it almost a nightly ritual to degrade the president.

tonight, dan rather was on jay leno, and dan taught me something about the middle east situation. he said that the opium plant is the number one product in the area. it isn't exactly legal to grow, but no one can stop it at the moment. a lot of the opium is sold in central europe. and this is a very good funding tool for the 'terrorists'. dan told us that if you want to know how the war on terror is going, pay attention to how well the production of the opium plant is being limited.

I've been here exactly 3 months today. this is my calendar i follow. i actually use the other side of it. it looks like this(look below). it's not as pretty but i can write how much i spend each day. it's part of the routines i've taken up. along with reading each night, and doing push-ups and sit-ups. i can do 80 push-ups now. i'm saying this not to brag, but rather because if you are reading this brad, i know that you have always been competitive with me in the sense that i, being your younger sibling shouldn't be more physically able at anything strength related than you. and so if you're slacking on your push-ups, after hearing a number i can do, you will make sure you can do at least the same. you have 5 months to stay fair enough shape to compete with me when i see you next. maybe i should just lie. um, i can do 300 push-ups now.
yes.

i've been intending to post the blogs of all my co-workers, along with a site that they enjoy. but so far i have not gotten to that.

all i can post at the moment is:

malcolm:
furtherfrom.blogspot.com
(the redundancy is absurd)
recommended site:
bitsandpieces1.blogspot.com
also try this one if you like cute:
http://letsbefriends.blogspot.com/

i'm reading 'eats shoots and leaves' right now. it's making me very conscious of all my punctuation. that doesn't mean i will be better with it, i'll just now realize that sometimes people will pick apart my comma placement. actually, right now i'm semi dissecting why i put colons in the above section. but only semi.

i went for a gallery walk today. i now have tuesdays off because of the way the schedule is working. i like tuesdays off. i'd rather have my days off spaced out, and i like a day off during the week when more things like post offices are open, and things are generally less populated.

anyway, before i went on my gallery walk, i compiled a list from online of potential places to go. i left late, so i was very limited on how many i could visit. i wanted to go to the biggest one.

i asked some older guy what subway stop this one location was at, and after much trouble with the language barrier, he figured out where it was, and pointed to it on a small subway map i had. he even wrote out detailed directions to it that i could give to some korean to ask for help. of course the problem was that after he pointed it out, i realized it was on the exact opposite side of town, and i wasn't going to go there. and i felt bad that he was trying so hard to help me out. so i went on the subway anyway and i just asked the someone i sat beside where another closer gallery was.

i found one, it had photography, and it was ok. and i say another that just had a submarine made out of garbage.

then i went to a big bookstore and bought a book of korean expressions. i'm gonna have to start writing them here. they're awesome.


oh, by the way, when i stated that notion of a possible audience of 1 in my last post, it wasn't intended to be fishing for compliments.

ps.(do you do ps's in blogs?) sorry no pictures. i'm in a pc bong.

i don't write here nearly enough.
i don't post pictures nearly enough.
communication motivation is sometimes elusive.
and maybe the idea should be to reduce my standards.
maybe i should write even without exciting stories, or intriguing insight.
i think the internet can get people into a presentation mindset.
it instantly represents an audience, even though the audience may just be 1.
and with an audience in mind it seems it's appropriate to dress up words with poetic phrasing, and pretty pictures.

i don't always have pretty words, and poetic pictures though, or maybe i just don't care to take the time.

anyway, i'm just writing now to fill the blank space of me not writing. and it's somewhat appropriate that the blank space is filled with meaningless words.

i'm in korea right now. adventure on the other side of the world, and i'm writing about not writing.

here, i'll put a pretty picture here.i think all fast food should have clocks like this.

i've been meaning to do a list comparing canada to korea. i don't think i will. but one exists inside my head. i like both places for many reasons. and i dislike both for other reasons.

i will list some reasons why i don't like korea.
-you never know when things are going to be open or closed. hours of operation are optional, and even when they are posted, they're optional to follow. and actually, even when there's an open sign on the door, it doesn't mean the store is open.
-actually, sometimes stores close, and they leave up their store logo and everything. the only reason you know they're closed for good is because you never see them open.
-sometimes a place also keeps up signs, or leaves items on the shelf when they won't sell those items to you. they keep it there because they don't know what else to do with it. it can be very frustrating. especially when you go back a second time to the same store to try and buy the same item they didn't sell you last time; and you try to trick them to sell it to you this time, but no, of course they won't do that. instead they'll just put the item back on the shelf, and say it's not for sale.
-i can't stand the traffic lights. they leave the pedestrians waiting forever.
-the cars try to run you over.
-all the food is either meat, or too sweet. it's not good for me.
-there seems a distinct lack of organization about things.

and those seem to be all the major issues.
so in all consideration, it's not that bad.
-honestly, how many things about canada can you name that you don't like.
-expensive subway(ttc)
-worries about theft/vandalism/murder etc.
-poor work ethic
-there's others that i'm not thinking of, mostly because i'm not immersed in that culture at the moment.

i'll do my list of things i like about each country later.