I'm officially unemployed « lao_ocean

You made it...
Well, she was a Laotian-American girl
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

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(Since 20-Dec-04)

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Birthday: DEC 31^st
Location: Kangneung, South Korea
Homestate: Oregon. UofO alum
Job: Teaching English in Korea
Super Powers: Super delayed reaction time, perceiving the obvious, & hyper-indifference
Watching: CSI, Gilmore Girls, Cold Case, Lost, Veronica Mars, Arrested Development, Joan of Arcadia, Simpsons, The Daily Show
Fixated on: downloading TV shows, organizing my photos
Want to touch: Old people skin. Oooohh, so soft!
Currently annoyed with: not taking over the world due to my laziness
Looking forward to: Travelling after leaving Korea

Sing like no one can hear
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

Flying out to Panama on Monday, Jan 31st!
not working all week
sleeping in
discovering the world of webcams w/ audio

Movies I've seen this month

13 Going On 30
21 Grams
Garden State
Meet The Fockers
The Forgotten
Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
The Aviator
Hotel Rwanda
The Notebook
The Village

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

Just because I've been drinking doesn't mean I can't start shit. - Tom B.

You know what they say, if your burps smell like shit? You've been eating shit. - Melvin

"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

"I was sitting in my office the other day and I suddenly got this horrible wrenching pain in my ankle. It really felt like I got a type two sprain just from sitting there. The strangest thing. Too bad cause I saw that Richard Gere movie and I got some Swayzerific moves." - I asked Tom R. if he was going to dance this weekend.

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.

I'm officially unemployed

1/20/2005

Today was my last day of work. Has it really hit me yet? Not really, because I'm still here in Kangneung, still here in Korea. Whenever I get ready to travel, people will always ask, "Are you excited yet?" I think the answer they want to hear is "Yes, of course I am!" In reality, the excitement starts to build when I'm at the airport, holding my ticket. It's not until I'm physically there that I feel the anticipation of the airplane taking off. After boarding, I put my things away and head to the magazine rack. I get my pick, because nobody thinks to do that right away. Slowly the airplane positions itself on the runway, waiting for clearance to take off. The plane then jerks slightly and begins to gain speed. About 10 or 15 seconds into the takeoff, the airplane gains so much speed that it makes me wonder how mankind achieved the ability to move such a heavy object so fast from a standstill position. At that exact moment when I don't feel the ground underneath me... THAT'S WHEN I'M EXCITED!

My glamorous desk.	The view from my classroom. The sun starts to set on my last day.
After work, I went to dinner with my boss and the other 4 teachers. This is the BEFORE plate of "naeng myeon" (cold noodles).	The AFTER picture.... not so pretty.
We also ate "bosaam". A little fatty, but good.	Afterwards, we went for coffee at "The Antique Cafe" near Ojukheon.
There was a drama that was filmed there, so of course there are photos and autographs of the actors. Or, as I like to call them, "famous people I don't know."	These are two of the teachers at my school.
I had a mocha coffee, which was pretty good.	My boss had rosemary tea, and you can see the plant behind the table.

This is one of the reasons why I never moved to Seoul in the 3 years I've been here. Outside the cafe, the moon was so bright and you could see stars twinkling in the night sky.

Posted at: 11:19:16 pm

drebang
January 22, 2005 06:49 AM PST

just came across your blog... good stuff
Jeff Bue
January 22, 2005 03:12 AM PST

Have a safe trip back home. I've enjoyed your Blog for the short period of time I've been reading it. I just wish I'd have discovered this "Blog" stuff earlier. I am also reading a Blog by that Aussie fellow. He is such a hoot!! Good luck in all you do.

Sincerely,

Jeff
Newark,TX
John
January 21, 2005 09:04 AM PST

Looks like my vicarious living in Korean though you are ending as well. Bit sad but I am happy for your return to Portland. We have a recent cold spell here in PNW but things are warming up nicely. Have a safe trip back!