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  • The Shipping News

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    Before I left the UK, I decided to ship some items to Korea on the basis that if I wanted my life in Korea to eventually feel more like home, I should save at least a few of the possessions of my former life before the rest hit the bins and the charity bags. A few items had sentimental value, some of it was purely practical, but many were simply things which would be hard to replace in Korea, such as books and DVDs.

  • Honeymoon: Macau Tower

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    Throughout my limited travels of the globe, I have come to learn that most respectable cities have their own tower, with an exception being my hometown of Adelaide. On our last night in Macau we went to Macau Tower, mainly because we were interested to see the lights of the city. The Portugese name for the tower is Torre Panorâmica.

  • The Experience Collector

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    When I was younger, maybe 12 or 13, I had a fantasy one night while laying in bed that as I was about to fall asleep, someone burst into my room with some sort of crises easily solved by someone who had been in that situation before. Someone like me. I would be an adviser, a guide, what I would later realize might be the equivalent to a dorm's resident director, perhaps? In my mind, I was Charles from Charles in Charge. Somehow, I thought Charles from Charles in Charge was cool.

  • Soi Min Part 2

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    I asked Soi Min where he was stationed, “Mizoram, Bangladesh and Chin State in Northern Burma.”

    I asked what he ate, “Bamboo shoots and snails,” he smiled, like a fox, swallowing a mouthful of buttered yam. I asked about rice, “We carried only rice and matches. Sometimes only matches.”

  • Nata Tat and The Ajusave

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    Aside from my weekend trip to Jeju Island, which I will post about later this week, nothing of note has happened to me lately. Something of note did happen to a friend of mine a couple of weeks ago, so I'm going to tell her story, in the way that I tell all stories - by making them all about me.

  • Sunday Dinner

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    Sometimes the best part about being an adult is being able to do exactly what you would have done when you were a tiny little person - except now there is nobody around to tell you it's getting late, or not to make a mess.


    You still play the same old fun games .....




  • This is why we are friends.

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    [8:49:24 AM] Rhylon: I had a super weird dream about you last night

    [8:49:48 AM] me: mmmmmmmmmmh

    [8:52:57 AM] Rhylon : you were in this massive spiderweb in a big grey factory and all the yarns of the spiderwebs were intraveinously connected to you tubes and they were all pumping different kinds of sperm from different nationalities and you were spitting out babies and they were being rolled up in the flags of different countries like so many kimbaps

    [8:54:28 AM] me: I am officially terrified for the day

    [8:56:39 AM] Rhylon : hahaha

  • Soi Min from Mizoram Part 1

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    I am unemployed, broke, in debt and dependent on my parents. I can’t to receive unemployment benefits for another six months. I have the flu, asthma, possibly a hernia –  and no Medicaid. I ’m not speaking to my brother, and don’t want to speak to my mother. Right now I am hiding in my parent’s basement hoping to get some time to myself. Man I could cry you a river all night if you wanted me to.

    But instead I will tell you that this was the best Thanksgiving since my Benjamin was born!

  • Random pictures, part 27

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    My wonderful readers, for your eyes only: The newest random pictures around Seoul from yours truly.



    No idea what kind of cell phone it's supposed to be, but this guy seemed oblivious at my attempts to call him. Culture street near Nowon Station.

  • Honeymoon: More of Macau's Opulence

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    The Venetian Hotel complex is one of the most famous landmarks in Las Vegas. Its counterpart in Macau is perhaps less well known, but after recent developments is now larger and more impressive. It is now the largest hotel in Asia and the fourth largest building in the world by area, with floor space covering 980 square kilometres.

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