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Published: July 30th 2005
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Finally...
You can tell the guy there is an evil-doer, look at the way he hangs his shoulders. And Bear-cop is totally giving him the stank-eye. Finally got pictures up in this piece - I've taken 99 pictures in three days. I will spare you most of the horrible arty shots. I am the walrus...
In the past couple of days, I have spent a lot of time walking and taking photos. I have gone from here to there and back again. My feet have grown hair on the tops, hobbit-like, and I have started to crave Lambas bread. And my new camera has become "my precious."
She's an Olympus C-55 Zoom. She's a tough mistress, but fair. There are more functions than I will ever possibly need, but I've tried to use as many of them as I can in the past few days. For 500 bucks, I got a 5-megapixel, 5x zoom, point-and-shoot style camera with full manual operation, shutter and aperture priority settings, full auto, and various scene-specific settings (my favorite is the Fireworks setting, specifically for taking photos of, you guessed it, fireworks). Plus, I got a memory card that holds about 200 photos, a rechargable battery charger with batteries, a cleaning kit, and some software that I haven't figured out how to use yet. I would post a
Meet Mary and Matilda...
My guitars are having illicit relations here. Younger viewers be advised. photo of her, but she's shy. Seriously, I treat her better than I plan on treating my children, assuming I can mate with the camera. I keep her in her little dust-free bag, wrapped in a plastic bag. When I went to the beach today, I was so nervous that someone would take her from me, I couldn't even pee in the ocean. I was virtually wringing my hands every time I went into the water, watching the shore like a walrus watches its children, which, knowing very little about walruses, I imagine they do.
Aborted Cloud-Babies is the Name of My New Band
Right, so the day before yesterday, I couldn't do shit because the weather was constantly threatening rain, and occasionally delivering on the threats. So I went to buy a camera, a couple of espressos, watched a movie, and took all manner of pictures. I got over my fear of street vendor food, thanks to an extremely persuasive vendor. She pointed at me, made eye contact, and cut me off as I was turning away, gesturing toward the food. I had half a conversation with a Korean girl who was also there eating, who told
Oh, yeah.
Yesterday I also cleaned my room. me that the vendor thought I was "handsome." Then I went to the movie and took some night photos. Some cautionary advice on night shooting: bring a tripod.
Yesterday, the weather was still being a jerk, but I decided to take the bus down to Taejeongdae anyway. Taejeongdae (Pebble Beach) is in Taejeong Park, on a spit near the downtown area of Busan. It's a really nice park, with a hike, a couple of temples, a lighthouse, some huge metamorphic rocks that have just crumbled off the edge of the country into the ocean, and apparently a beach, which by the time I saw all the rest of the stuff, I didn't feel like seeing. I was hungry and the sky was still pregnant with cloud-babies, so I went to eat some Kal-kuk-su, which is soup with potatoes, cucumber, seafood and big rice noodles, sort of like a thin red chowder. I spent much of the rest of the night watching television and realizing that the internet killed the soft-core pornography industry. Don't ask.
Today, the sky opened up and there was blue all over, though Busan's blue sky is different from, say, Seattle's blue sky, due to
Juxtaposition
Two points for anyone who can tell me why I find this picture hilarious. smog. Still, though...Hooray! I ventured to Haeundae (Haeun Beach) today, having heard that it was nightmarishly crowded. Yeah. Holy shit, yeah. Someone described it as being like a massive rock concert. Check. "Even the water is crowded." Check. 200,000 people on a holiday weekend, in an area about a mile long and 200 feet wide. About 100,000 of these people are women, and there are a lot of attractive women down at the beach. There's also some water and stuff. And a teenage boy wearing a shirt that said, "Super Bitch."
Koreans love to wear t-shirts with English on them, even though the t-shirts would often be regarded as highly inappropriate in any English-speaking country. It is not uncommon to see the F-bomb on a t-shirt, considering one of the hotter sellers is a shirt that says, "Fuckin' T-shirt Designs." As you know, I'm not making any of this up. I didn't get a picture of Super Bitch, but maybe next time. There are some interesting English usages, both "Konglish" (English words in Korean phonetics, which makes the movie "Sin City" sound like Shin Shi...you get the point) and in regular old English. My favorite is on a binder
Pretty Flowers
Well, aren't they? I use to hold lesson plans and attendance sheets (see pic).
Now I am red as a tomato, and I have to pee, so I'll throw some pictures up and call it a night. I just noticed that the ads on my blog entries coincide weirdly with what I have written about - they are posted by google, which evidently has a mind of its own. Creepy, but interesting.
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