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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Birthday: DEC 31st  
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.

Things To Do
1/22/2005

My last day working was on Thursday, but I'm still here in Kangneung for another week.  Ras will finish teaching at his English camp at the end of this month.  I'll meet him in Seoul next Saturday, and then we fly out Monday morning, January 31st.  The ticket is from Seoul --> Tokyo --> Dallas --> Miami --> Panama City, Panama... phew!  This coming next week, I've got a lot of things to do.

  1. Pack
  2. Send off my taxes
  3. Finally read the manual on my Sony DSC-9 camera
  4. Backpup my computer files on CD and send them separately back to the States
  5. Write emails and clean up my hotmail "inbox" which has 7 pages!
  6. Update my website (separate from the blog)
  7. Update my photo album (which will inlcude all my pictures from last year)
  8. Archive all my blog entries from last year (most likely won't be happening)
By the way, if anyone wants to teach English in Korea... specifically at my school, email me.  My boss is still looking for a replacement to start in March.  I have nothing but great things to say aboout my school, and would stay if I hadn't already been in Korea for 3 years.  I'm getting my last paycheck, bonus, and airplane ticket with no problem.  Anyway, email me with any questions.

Posted at: 10:36:46 am

lao_ocean
January 26, 2005   01:35 PM PST
 
Brian,
Thanks a lot for your nice words!
KoreanBlog
January 24, 2005   02:33 PM PST
 
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lao_ocean
January 24, 2005   12:05 PM PST
 
Evette,
To teach English in Korea, you need to have a degree from a 4 year university, in any major. Plus, the job is a one year contract. Hope that helps.
Evette
January 24, 2005   03:21 AM PST
 
Hi, I know you said we should email you with the questions, but it's just a simple question, do we have to have some certain teaching degree?? am a construction engineer, but I lived almost everywhere so I dont think I 'll have problems teachin english, I've always wanted to visit korea, so if it's possible, just let me know.. thanks
brian
January 23, 2005   09:01 AM PST
 
We've never met but have communicated a few times. I'll miss your reports on what my coworkers get up to on the weekends.

Have a safe trip and keep up the blog so we can follow your adventures.
   

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