Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Lions and Dragons at Halloween

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I went to a huge gathering on Monday night--Halloween; but oddly, not many people were dressed in costumes. I did get one good shot with so...
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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Education News Roundup

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With this being the Halloween weekend, I couldn't resist this story about how Korean mothers simply have to whine about every-damn-thing...
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Saturday, October 29, 2011

Street Scenes XIII

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To be precise, this scene wasn't exactly on the "street" as it was in a newly opened mall adjacent to Sindorim Sta. These ch...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

End of Language Series

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As a great fan of Stephen Fry, I have enjoyed the Language series partly, I'll admit, for hs erudition--but mainly because of its insigh...
Saturday, October 22, 2011

Book Report #27

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At three years, four months here in the Seoul Patch, it's blog post number 701 (and book report #27)! Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

In The Xenophobic News

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First, I must apologize to my faithful readers and "followers" for having been so lax in the last few months about updating.  No g...
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Sunday, October 9, 2011

Education News

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My friend and colleague 'Hwang-tae', as he is colloquially known, mentioned to me a couple of weeks ago that he was going to see a m...
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Saturday, October 8, 2011

Stephen Fry on Language

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If you are interested in language, as presumably those of us who are English teachers should be, you will be interested to watch Stephen Fry...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Variety at E-Mart

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My local E-Mart (that's directly across the street) has really expanded its beer selection; you can't necessarily count on getting a...
Friday, September 30, 2011

Riddle Me This

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Second graders this week had an easy time of it after their exams, just playing word games and puzzle type things, including some riddles.  ...
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Happy Time Over

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My school has been doing mid-term exams during the last week, which means to me arriving at school at the usual time (7:45), sitting around ...
Saturday, September 24, 2011

Autumn is Here

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In the last few days, the weather has changed--unsufferable heat and humidity gone, mild, breezy days with temps in the teens to mid-twentie...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

I Like Sports!

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Recently I attended a baseball game at Munhak Stadium in incheon where my Heroes faced off aganst the SK Wyverns. The scores are best lef...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Chuseok Reading List

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Old Man's War by John Scalzi - My friend The Stumbler lent me this book, which turned out to be a very good mix of hard sci-fi and bat...
Saturday, September 10, 2011

My Chuseok iPhone

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Chuseok is a three-day Korean holiday roughly equivalent to American Thanksgiving--it is the autumn harvest festival. This year's festi...
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Sunday, September 4, 2011

An Argument for Streaming

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I have not been a very good blogger of late, and for that I do apologize to my regular reader. I do have a few reasons/excuses, just as a p...
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Sunday, August 28, 2011

TW3

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Well, I showed up for my first day of classes for the new semester on Monday, only to learn ... there were no classes. I wasn't exactly...
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Sunday, August 21, 2011

Education News: School Begins

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Well, tomorrow marks 개학하다, the beginning of school, the second semester at least. And my seventh semester at 영일고. Not a lot of new prep to...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

What I Read on My Summer Vacation

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I read six and a half books during my 12 days in Bali, the half being the sci-fi anthology "Year's Best SF 16" purposely left ...
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Bali: Nusa Lembongan

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Nusa Lembongan is relatively quiet, low-key beach. But happily, not entirely deserted: It is probably best known to tourists for the wo...