Oh, Carp

New photos from my Kyoto trip are up on Flickr.

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Tractors. Hats. Swoon!

So today, while looking around WordPress, I found out that you can post videos from YouTube.
I plan to abuse this in the best way possible.
So, for your viewing pleasure, here is one of my favorite music videos, courtesy of Kenny Chesney!

Because who doesn’t love a farmer’s tan? 
If you ever see me driving [...]

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October Will Be Expensive

What does October have in store for me?
Let’s check my Hyun Bin calendar!
 
3rd: Day off. Time to watch those pirated DVDs gathering dust on my bookshelf.
On Wednesday, I have to go back to work, but the holiday extends through–
5th-8th: Yoga in the mountains! Four days in Gyeongju, at my favorite temple. Which also happens to be [...]

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What The Geek

Nerd alert!
M just returned from What The Book in Itaewon with the first volume of Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore’s The Walking Dead.
Stupid me, I couldn’t wait and read the story synopsis on Wikipedia! I always spoil myself. I’m a sad, flawed woman.
Haven’t read an Image book since WildC.A.T.S. but I really feel like TWD [...]

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Squares

Last Saturday I met Z, his coworkers and The Motherfucker (who you knew previously as T). MF brought his girlfriend, “Janet.”
We stared at each other uneasily in Z’s apartment, unsure what to make of each other. She was taller, skinnier, whiter–enough reason for me to dislike her. And obviously MF had told her I was a coldhearted [...]

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A Seoul Girl

Before meeting some girlfriends for dinner in Sinchon, I take a long look at myself in the mirror.
When I started this blog a year ago, I was clad in my college sweatshirt, baggy jeans, thick glasses and hole-ridden socks.  Wet hair clung to an unmade face, cuticles grew over bitten nails. I didn’t spend more [...]

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Shoot The Messenger

peachykeen says: man, i got so drunk last night
peachykeen says: two shots of plum wine, three white russians
D says: u and ur usual 1 beer a month
peachykeen says: z kept coming on to me and i finally had to beat him with my umbrella. he almost cried, what a bitch
peachykeen says: i’m so pissed at him
D [...]

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Rear-Ended

I have just finished yogilates class and have one foot out the door when my instructor, “Seung-Eun,”  asks if I like tea.
“I studied in London for two years, and now I enjoy this tea,” she says, handing me a bag of Earl Grey.
Earl Grey is actually my favorite kind, but I don’t want to look [...]

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Grown Woman, Closet Fangirl

I’ve given in. After noting that I get five to ten hits a day from Hyun Bin fans, I decided to share a little present D gave me upon my return to Korea last month.

She’d been touring Incheon with her Korean coteacher, Amber, when they came upon a little stand carrying celebrity memorabilia.
“Pia loves this one actor, I [...]

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Wake-up Call

A week after I returned from Kyoto, we celebrated M’s birthday in Itaewon. I’d tired of the area’s nightlife, but it was the only place my brown and black friends felt comfortable.
Considering I only have one beer a month, it didn’t take that much to loosen me up. I was also on my period, and balancing on [...]

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