Son Ye Jin in My Wife Got Married

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Biik!

Currently watching “Dal Ja’s Spring” and it’s fun! Of all the K-drama heroines, Oh Dal Ja is the most I can relate to and these screen caps from Episode 9 pretty much illustrate how I’ve been these past few weeks.

Argh! Now my pants are starting to get tight! X_X I tried cutting back on my daily intake, but I always end up feeling like Dal Ja in the last frame above. ^_^;; And food is one of the *few* pleasures I get to indulge in. I know I should be exercising, but I haven’t got the time nor the money for gym fees… Really, I’M JUST TOO LAZY!!!! It’s even a chore getting up early in the mornings. @_@

Yesterday it was my birthday
I hung one more year on the line
I should be depressed
My life’s a mess
But I’m having a good time

I’ve been loving and loving
And loving
I’m exhausted from loving so well
I should go to bed
But a voice in my head
Says “Ah, what the hell”

- Paul Simon “Have a Good Time”

Pink and lovely and mine! ^_^

Meet my new baby: a Sony Vaio CR VGN-CR323 in PINK!!!!

For specs (read: stuff I don’t understand/can’t explain), click here.

My old Compaq’s screen’s littered with these colored lines (of Gennari @_@), and while potentially salveagable, I think it would be more cost-effective to get a new replacement laptop (I was thinking then in terms of the trendy mini-notebooks, i.e. Asus EEE PC and HP Mini-Note PC.) than to have the screen changed. So I’ve been saving for a new laptop which I intended to buy come December. But my parents decided to get me one as an early birthday present. Thanks Mom and Dad!

I have yet to install Office and Photoshop, and most of my files are still in the old Compaq. I’m sorting through them right now and deciding which ones to send to the Recycle Bin, and which files to transfer to my new Vaio.

Loreto’s

Tonight’s Menu: stir-fried noodles, mixed veggies, sweetened pork, chili chicken wings… I went overboard with the rice again! Ugh! X_x

Tonight’s Guest: Sir Mel is here!

Annyong Haseyo

I was in Seoul last June 18 to 20, 2008 for the ICAS.

On our first night in Seoul, Sir Jessie and I got lost looking for the conference venue (good thing we thought of checking out the place the night before). We took a wrong turn and walked farther and farther away from the Grand Intercontinental Hotel. The programme said Casaville–where we were staying–was just a good 10-minute walk from the conference venue, but we’ve been walking for 30 minutes already and still saw no sign of it. We decided to go back to square 1 (quite literally) and realized that the Hotel was just across the block.

That area in Seoul where we stayed (Gangnam-gu) was like a busines district, with its high-rise buildings and chaebol names, the men clad in suits and women all dolled-up. It was like Makati, but the weather was of Baguio and the smell was of… HapChang. Or was it kimchi?!? Or maybe it was the Korean restaurant beside Casaville.

It was a full 2 days and we didn’t get to go around much. Most of the conference topics were also interesting and worth listening to. I also enjoyed the bottomless coffee and the fruit shakes. Occasionally, we’d play truant and go to the nearby COEX mall. The place is big (but nothing compared MOA). We were able to go to the Kimchi Museum, but not the Aquarium (where Samsoon and Samshik brought little Mijoo).

The only Korean drama-esque experience I got was the Dang Dae Mun market, which I think was where amnesic Ji Soo and Tae Hwa sold their merchandise. But I wasn’t too keen on relieving a Tae Hwa experience and the place is like Divisoria a hundred times more!!!! I wasn’t able to do a Sassy Girl in the subway, climb Yoo Rin’s 63 Building or the steps to NamSan ala Samsoon, run around N’Seoul Tower’s circumference like Yoon Soo and Sung Jae(?) or go to Lotte World. We missed the tour of the palaces coz we left a day earlier and we only realized that there was a Buddhist temple near the mall on our way to the airport. My only taste of Korean culture was the food which they served during lunch sympo, and the Nanta performance during the gala dinner.

So I had a lot of things planned but didn’t get to do, and I could allow myself to get disappointed. But I WON’T!! You see, one of the best things that happened during my sojourn in Seoul was unplanned and unexpected: My poster was among 21 recipients of the “Outstanding Poster Presentation” Award and I even got a handsome prince, ah este, prize for that. God is so good and gracious even if I have been ungrateful these past few days. ^_^;

Anyway, there’ll be lots of other opportunities to return. There’s the AOCCN next year and the 7th World Stroke Congress in 2010. So until then…

Hot Soup in Cold Weather

Outside it’s raining.
Inside, Natz and I are on duty, Sir Jessie is working extra hours for the upcoming PostGrad, and Sir Richie has just whipped up a most delectable bulalo dish. He has been tenderizing the meat since 1 pm, in the absence of a pressure cooker. And the result is a perfectly soft, hot, tasty and mouth-watering (more like mouth-greasing) beef dish. Yum! I like my soup dishes in a 2:1 soup-to-rice-volume ratio and I think I just had too much of it. I’m sated… satiated… satisfied.

In case you’ve noticed, this post is filed under “Residency Training”. Because eating is one of our cheap pleasures! Whether it’s dining out at Asian Bites by default or trying out a newly-opened resto in the Rob Midtown wing (this one ain’t cheap), staying in the hospital calling Jollibee delivery, or settling for rice meals in a box (or styro packs) or good old lutong-bahay, it’s a RIOT whenever we residents get together for food, especially when bangus is part of the fare.=p

Thursday the 12th

It’s the ICAS next week. Everything seems to be going fine. (Visa – Check. Flight – Check. Accommodations – Check. Registration – Check. ICAS poster – Working at it…) And it’s scaring me!!!! I already have this mental itinerary (long-conceived in my mind ever since I started surfing the Korean Wave) that I’ve been wanting to map on paper coz I don’t wanna waste a minute getting lost. But I’m afraid it might be a case of counting the chickens even before the eggs have hatched. Yes, I’m becoming more superstitious lately. But superstition has been proving itself true these recent weeks months. So I’m trying hard not to be too excited, lest I jinx this one and be disappointed.

Lolchat

A: ang cute cute cute ng avatar pic mo!

J: oo nga eh… kung gusto mo more of pics like this punta ka sa www.icanhascheezburger.com
A: oh been there, si C**** kase gusto den yung site na yan
J: hehehe, kami ni toobs we talk in lolcat na nga e
A: what is lolcat?
J: yung wrong grammar language nila is called lolcate din or kitteh pidgin… lolcat yung pictures and yung language nila… I can has cheezburger for example
Oh hai! – oh, hi.
Kthnxbai – ok, thanks, bye
A: you and C speak like that?

J: oo no
A: that is sooo gay
J: hindi ha. gay is this: I like cock

If you know these two guys, J and C, you’ll understand what I find hilarious.

Current addictions

I’m currently hooked on to Winterbells, one of the 59 flash games at ORISINAL. It’s a charming site famous for its cute and fun mindless games (though not totally brainless coz a good hand-eye coordination is required), gorgeous graphics and absolutely beautiful relaxing music, by the likes of Steven Cravis, Michael Dulin, etc.

Which leads me to the second thing I am currently hooked on–Steven Cravis music! His “Through The Kaleidoscope” has been playing en loop for the past half-hour and I’m not tiring of it. If you guys haven’t got any ideas yet for my birthday next month, I want Steven Cravis CDs!