Charlie's Life'n'Stuff


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Different Days and a Halloween Heart

After locking up my bike downstairs I came up to my classroom, filled my mug with some hot coffee from the pot, sat down and started going through the class schedule. I gotta say, life now sure is different than it was a year ago.

Not a bad thing at all. Change is good when you’re unhappy. Any kind of change; it’s better than staying still. Consistency is good when you got what you need.

I came to work early, found some time and I figured I’d post a little something for all you people hungry for excerpts from my life (sarcasm). Life is great these days. Simple. Got money for food, got a bike (just two days ago) for transportation. Jacob and I found an awesome bar and made friends with the people working there. Maru, Eric, and Mari! Can’t forget YaeEun, the blanket girl! (I realize this means nothing to you guys, but if you come up to Nowon sometime, you’ll see). I don’t have plans for Halloween yet but I’m starting to get into the Halloween spirit. I was thinking about it this week and what I really like about Halloween is that it, more than any other holiday (yes even a little more than Christmas), brings back the feeling of being a kid again. All the Halloween specials on TV, the Halloween music. Even some things that aren’t even related to the holiday like staying up late and playing video games. [Had to step out for a meeting] So I just got back from a quick morning meeting and totally lost my train of thought. Damn. Well, until next time, cheers.

[I have an iPhone4 on it’s way so when it arrives you could expect many more updates in the form of short video clips and photos. Perhaps (definitely) I’ll show you my students and how awesome they are. Back to work!]

“

Good morning party people,

Charlie and I want to get breakfast at hash house a go go, where they’ll serve you a bloody mary with a fuckin strip of bacon in it. Also, pancakes the size of your mom.

If anyone wants to join us, meet in the casino at 9:30. My number is bla-bla-blah

Best,
Annie

”

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An email from back in January during CES 2010 (thanks for bringing this back to attention Annie!)

I think I need to find a way to go again next year.

Cooling Down

I love that this heat is finally getting a bit tired of beating down on us. Take that heat, ya jerk! It’s been cooling down here in Seoul and I love it. There has also been a ton of clouds, overcast almost every time I look outside. But, I love the overcast, I love what it does for photography, I love what it does for my mood, it’s all good stuff. It’s NOT “gloomy”, it’s just calm. More on this later, I gotta get to work.

Neighbors

Sounds sad but I get pretty lonely around here. This area is really great and all, I just wish I knew some neighbors. People I could go for a drink with after work. Or just hang out on the rooftop some nights. Maybe go for a walk in the nearby mountains. Someone to explore the local restaurants with. 

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I always think heavily about how much I want to “expose” myself on this blog. “Fuck it.” I feel like it

Tonights a good night, I felt like recording a cover of this song I loved back in high school, Poison Oak by Bright Eyes (emo as hell, whatever). And no, I’m not depressed these days, quite the contrary, I just like the song and I felt like recording it tonight and posting it, embarrassing mistakes and all! 

Cheers.

Charlie's Life'n'Stuff: PC 방!

Charlie, all you have to do is walk in, grab a PC card from the counter and sit at any available station.  You then enter your card number and hit start.  When you’re ready to leave, restart the computer or simply log off.  Give the person at the counter your card and pay your small fee.  It’s incredibly simple and fun.  Good luck. 

There we go, thanks Jimmy! I’ll head over there tomorrow night with a new found confidence! Hahaha

[I’ve been trying to setup a gmarket account for the past 2 hours on this damn laptop, and it doesn’t help that the gmarket website is horribly cluttered like some kids geocities homepage out of the 90s, also doesn’t help that it’s hella broken. ]

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PC 방!

Been wanting to go to this PC 방 right next to my apartment for a while. For a number of reasons including photo editing because my netbook is a piece of junk, browsing gmarket because my netbook is a piece of junk, and playing some video games because my netbook is a piece of junk, but for some reason I’m afraid to. I’m not sure how they run exactly, it seems like the kind of place where the majority of customers are “regulars”. Do I pay first? Do I get some kind of time card? Do I need to make some kind of account? My Korean is pretty basic so I’m scared to get into situations where they use vocabulary I have never heard, like technical talk. Bleh… I should suck it up and just go one of these days.

[Btw, I posted a tidbit on my facebook but I fell in love with a girl at my local Lotteria! I will make this into a story, whether anything happens or not (probably not).]

Floor plan

I was really bored tonight so I spent the past 3 hours making a floor plan of my apartment. I borrowed a tape measure from my boss on Friday and tonight I went around my whole apartment measuring every wall and cabinet to make my floor plan to scale.

So, here’s what my apartment looks like right now:

And here’s what I’m hoping it’ll look like in a month or so once I get some furniture:

Things to acquire:

  • bed
  • nightstand
  • bookcase
  • TV stand
  • TV

So revealing ey? Now you all know what it looks like in my apartment, weird.

New Home, New Town So I’ve moved into my new apartment here in 당고개 [Danggogae] and it’s really great! Aside from it not being furnished and being completely empty (I really gotta get around to putting some furniture in this place) I really love it, so far. A couple main reasons why: it’s got a giant window! Big windows are amazing especially when you have a great view to go along with it. Downside of this window is that I don’t have curtains yet so my home life is wide open for the world to see. There are thousands of apartment windows I can see out there who are potentially spying on me. Creepy. Also, the apartment has a high ceiling with cool recessed lights! I live on the top floor of the officetel (6th floor) and there’s a rooftop I could go out onto! If some of ya’ll come over it would be cool to chill out there, maybe a little barbecue, it’s also got a great view of the whole town up there.  At first I was a little sad that I couldn’t find a place down in central Seoul close to all the fun but more and more I am starting to love it up here. 당고개 is the LAST station up on line 4 so I live pretty far up on the north east side of Seoul. It’s really nice though because my little town is tucked into the corner surrounded by some beautiful mountains (definitely want to do some hiking soon). The mountain is only blocks away from my apartment. It’s also nice being away from the hustle and bustle of Seoul and just having the choice to go out there for weekend fun. My 동내 (neighborhood) is really nice. I got everything (almost) I need within walking distance. A bakery, PC cafe, bars, coffee shops, market, convenience store, tons of restaurants, the subway station, bus stop, bank, dark room, and tons more. Every night or so after work I take a quick stroll around my area. I try taking different streets each time so I could explore and see what’s tucked away. Found a few good places. I’ll be posting some photos of my area shortly. Cheers to a new start. I think I’ll be making some good memories here.

New Home, New Town

So I’ve moved into my new apartment here in 당고개 [Danggogae] and it’s really great! Aside from it not being furnished and being completely empty (I really gotta get around to putting some furniture in this place) I really love it, so far. A couple main reasons why: it’s got a giant window! Big windows are amazing especially when you have a great view to go along with it. Downside of this window is that I don’t have curtains yet so my home life is wide open for the world to see. There are thousands of apartment windows I can see out there who are potentially spying on me. Creepy. Also, the apartment has a high ceiling with cool recessed lights! I live on the top floor of the officetel (6th floor) and there’s a rooftop I could go out onto! If some of ya’ll come over it would be cool to chill out there, maybe a little barbecue, it’s also got a great view of the whole town up there. 

At first I was a little sad that I couldn’t find a place down in central Seoul close to all the fun but more and more I am starting to love it up here. 당고개 is the LAST station up on line 4 so I live pretty far up on the north east side of Seoul. It’s really nice though because my little town is tucked into the corner surrounded by some beautiful mountains (definitely want to do some hiking soon). The mountain is only blocks away from my apartment. It’s also nice being away from the hustle and bustle of Seoul and just having the choice to go out there for weekend fun. My 동내 (neighborhood) is really nice. I got everything (almost) I need within walking distance. A bakery, PC cafe, bars, coffee shops, market, convenience store, tons of restaurants, the subway station, bus stop, bank, dark room, and tons more. Every night or so after work I take a quick stroll around my area. I try taking different streets each time so I could explore and see what’s tucked away. Found a few good places. I’ll be posting some photos of my area shortly.

Cheers to a new start. I think I’ll be making some good memories here.

Furniture!

This weekend I’m finally going to buy some furniture to fill this empty apartment.

I’ve been plotting out my room on some graph paper (I like doing this stuff), and I’m wondering whether I should go with a full size bed or get a single and save space…

(I have a lot of fun organizing my living space, I think maybe I’ll draft these up into an excel sheet and post ‘em later, maybe.)

So now I’m curious about ya’ll, for all of my Korea friends, do you guys have a single or a full?