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Asia » South Korea » Seoul January 16th 2006

Fiona's just gone home, and so ends our week of mad tourism in an attempt to squeeze the country into a nutshell for her. This also means we don't have to do any more touristy stuff for the rest of the time we're here, yay!... read more
Jeongdongjin
Bongtigi

Asia » South Korea » Seoul January 13th 2006

Huh? It's some time in Vietnam, I have no idea which. Slept not at all. Sun is rising here in Korea, but it's already 8 a.m. Isn't this this land of the rising sun? Or no, I guess not. Had a great last day in Hanoi. $4 pedicure that lasted 90 minutes, which is a long #$#( time for someone who actually hates pedicures but I made myself stay and knew I'd be happy on 24 hours of planes with nice feet. Which I am. Also ran around buying gifts, and of course, lots of jack fruit snacks, which I am now addicted to. And coffee peanuts. Also some of that rice liquor... Will be back in NYC in only 26 hours, or something from now! Will download photos if I spring for another internet card. ... read more

Asia » South Korea » Seoul January 9th 2006

Some stuff has happened. For example, we began Uni today, and Fiona has arrived. Other stuff shall be contained within photos, please peruse them at your leisure.... read more
The game continues
The game continues
The game continues

Asia » South Korea » Seoul January 8th 2006

I just wanted to add a couple photos from the past few weeks. I'm really getting used to a normal life here, or as normal as possible, but its stange to stay in one place for so long. I just had a week break and stayed around Seoul while most of my coworkers hit the beach in the Philippines. There was a ton to do around here though and I had fun, a little too much maybe. Christmas Eve here is like New years back home, everyone and there mother is out partying, so we went local. Then one of my coworkers had a birthday a few days later. For New Years I went to see some big Italian DJ called Benny Banassi, who was actually really good. During the countdown they had all these ... read more
New Years Party
Downtown
Christmas

Asia » South Korea » Incheon January 6th 2006

I am here at the Incheon airport in Seoul waiting for my Korean air flight to New York. There is a nice Yahoo internet cafe here that I am using to check my email. Last night I went out to dinner with Will and one of her girlfriends at a nice Chinese restaurant. Her girlfriend is working on her master's degree in linguistics. We had a nice time. After leaving them, I called Wan and asked her to meet me for a final goodbye drink. We ended at a place called Radio City where they had live entertainment and a disco upstairs. Stayed there until about 2:30 am. Wan stayed there and she gave me a call when she left. I was hoping she would come over personally, but she never made it. Went back to ... read more

Asia » South Korea » Seoul January 5th 2006

After leaving Australia on the 27th... leaving the teary-eyed behind... we prepared ourselves for our inevetible onslought apon malaysia. This involved a fair portion of drambuie on my (dylan) part, however, matt piked after a couple of games of chess... During our stay in KL we partook in some sort of cheap brandy called 'Three axes' and a lot of chinese food... (photos included). Since our arrival in Korea, we have not really done a lot of sightseeing as we're waiting for Fiona to arrive, and for matt to stop eating (he eats perpetually). We have however studied a little Korean, missed the level test for our University (through no fault of our own), and seen a lot of friends from last year. Well... photos shall be included... most of which have been taken at our ... read more
Ridley Scott eat your heart out!
Petronas  Towers Kuala Lumpur
The Waitress

Asia » South Korea » Seoul January 2nd 2006

Okay, I'm on a 3 hour layover in the incredibly clean and actually sort of pretty Seoul airport. Flew in on Korea air, one of those double decker planes. 15 hours but I stretched across 3 seats and kind of enjoyed it? Only a couple hours sleep, despite 2 xanax and some wine but therre were lots of movie choices and i got work done. And the flight attendants were really nice, despite the fact that they had to wear very uncomfortable looking outfits. Though I was able to read all about them in the inflight magazine, which I am not proud to report I read cover to cover at least 3 times. Next flight is 5 hours and it's 5 something a.m. here (14 hour time change -- no idea still what the difference is ... read more

Asia » South Korea » Seoul January 1st 2006

This trip turned out to be kind of an Asia sampler tour because of the people we wanted to see and the flights arrangements we made (SF to Singapore, with loooong layovers in Seoul). We spent a few days in Singapore and Seoul at the beginning and end of our trip and we spent the bulk of our time in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and in Vietnam. We spent the first night of the trip, New Year’s Eve, in Seoul, South Korea. It was pretty cold so we bought some funky stocking hats from a street vendor and walked around the Gangnam area of Seoul. There were a lot of people out and it was pretty festive. We had some difficultly getting dinner at first. At the first Korean BBQ restaurant we went into, we were told ... read more
Swine Bar
Seoul on New Year's Eve
we had "pig" for dinner

Asia » South Korea » Suwon December 25th 2005

So after about 40 boring ass days in Illinois, I came back over to Asia for a second stint. I didn't come alone though. I brought my best friend Josh with me. I can't believe he came out here with me. It should be a blast (and has). We had a one month summer camp job for a ton of cash. The summer camp was great and the mngmnt was better. We really enjoyed ourself. ... read more
Josh in class
The classic Pose

Asia » South Korea » Seoul December 22nd 2005

Ho, ho, ho…we are getting ready to leave for Thailand! I (Kristy) just finished my last class before our week long break and I can already hear the beaches calling my name. In general, it feels like time is flying by quite quickly. I know for all of you at home it has probably seemed like an eternity since you’ve seen our smiling faces, but I’ll make sure to include lots of pics this time so that you get your fill.  Let’s see…both Colin and I are working quite a bit so our weekdays are just like the weekdays would be at home except we eat more rice here and dodge more motorbikes/scooters while walking to and from work. (These guys prefer to use the sidewalks for some of their motorized vehicles and some days ... read more
Huge department store
A different look
Move it




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