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Raised on promises She couldn't help thinkin' that there Was a little more to life Somewhere else After all it was a great big world With lots of places to run to Email me: lao.ocean @ gmail.com December Photos Now Playing: Sorak-san The Windmill Salmon Festival Soccer Goal   Where do visitors come from? (Since 20-Dec-04) Fave flowesr: Plumeria Birthday: DEC 31st
Dance like no one can see Love like you've never been hurt Live like it's heaven on earth 
 Let's set it straight - Is the country Laos or Lao?Here's the answer This week... Things that make me happy
Movies I've seen this month
What they're saying about me
"She's a nut! Not too sure how else to describe an "at-first-glance" seemingly quiet girl who dances like a chicken when she thinks no one else is looking, who likes to pass off her "made up" answer for fact, until you look at her and see her hopelessly trying not to crack a smile, who WITHOUT FAIL remembers to put a line of dental floss in her purse before she goes out (and isn't afraid to use it after dinner, thankfully NOT at the table!!). I can always count on her to know the hottest hollywood gossip, and to dance till all hours of the morning with me." "My co-worker just told me that there was a premiere for Bridget Jones 2 last night, just blocks from my work, and we missed it! Hugh Grant, my beloved and the framework upon which my future husband is based, was just blocks away, breathing the same oxygen, and I missed it! If I had a friend here who was as savvy with E-news as you are, this catastrophe would never have occurred!" Guess what I heard... Oh my god!! This donut is so good! - Ras about a Krispy Kreme donut "I want to do! But what is paintball? There is no such word in dictionary." - Suwa, Japanese teacher "I am now skipping church to see if I am going to win my bids!!!" "YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA.....I won the felt tip pens!!!!!!!! Yippeee...."who let the dogs out...arf, arf, arf, arf"...."let me hear you say Y..M..C..A"....oh yah, who's your daddy!!!" - Renee Other favorite quotes:
A gift is an offering. A selfless act that adds something to someone's life. Something that they need. Have you ever walked by something and you just had this feeling that someone you knew would absolutely love it? Faith is believing when there is no rational reason to believe. Homer: "We Americans are England's children... I know we don't call as much as we should, or aren't as well behaved as our goody two shoes brother, Canada... who I should mention has never had a girlfriend... I'm just sayin'..." Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life, and love should not be one of them. The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. When your heart speaks, take good notes. Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel's immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way. It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. Sometimes to see the light, you have to risk the dark. |
Salmon up the wazoo
10/22/2004
I'm excited for tomorrow. I'm going to Yangyang for the Namdaecheon Salmon Festival. As some people know, I love salmon. It's my favorite fish. For 20,000 won ($15.38 USD), ticket holders have the opportunity to wade into an enclosed shallow stream and catch a huge salmon with their bare hands! Tickets went on sale almost two months ago, but sold out in 5 hours! As most people in Korea know, nothing is impossible. It's just a matter of who you know. I know Christa, who knows somebody, who knows somebody, so I got a ticket a few days ago. I've never had Korean salmon, so it'll be interesting to see what it tastes like. This is a link to the Yangyang Inland Fisheries Research Institute, which is trying to bring back the salmon population in Yangyang. There's some good background information about the festival. CherryTrout.com is a site about fishing in Korea, and has a picture of the species of salmon that is in Yangyang, called Chum and Sima salmon. This is the official Yangyang Salmon Festival Website.
Breaking news! Korean scientists have proved what foreigners here have know all along... that while eating at a food card, dipping your odeng into the communal soy sauce dish is (gasp!)unsanitary. Duh! I like this quote: "On a good business day, the saliva of hundreds may be mixed in that dish of soy sauce. And consider yourself fortunate if the dish of soy sauce was used just for one day." According to the Chosunilbo, just because that old Korean man shakes away excess soju after finishing his shot, in order to pour yours, does not make it germ free. No matter how hard he shakes that little shotglass, it doesn't reduce your chances of getting saliva-transmitted infections like hepatitis. While we're on this subject of cleanliness, why do people choose to eat from food carts that are on bustling streets, where many cars drive by, blowing out exhaust in proximity of the food. I'm not dissing food carts, I like odeng and dapoki, but choose to eat at ones that look somewhat sanitary.
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