Yup, I'm still....

...alive, just busy with work. Plans for next week include rock climbing so hopefully I'll have some pictures up. And maybe some pictures from white water rafting which should be coming up soon as well. Oh yeah, and my upcoming trips to Shanghai. :)

I've got ugly curtains...

...in my master bedroom. As part of the contract with my the landlord I get curtains installed in all the rooms. When the owners asked what color I said it didn't matter as long as it match the apartment and looked decent and respectable. My only other request was to have black-out curtains in the master bedroom in case I have to sleep during the day after a long night of partying (or work).

A week later I have curtains. As you can see from the picture below they went with a very simple and elegant pattern for the entire house which I am happy with.

However, for my master bedroom they went with another choice. I don't know what the curtain designer was smoking or drinking when they chose this color but it's by far the ugliest set of curtains I've ever spied upon in my entire life. wtf. You can see them here.

It's been a while...

...but I've been real busy now that work has kicked up again. No real adventures to speak of since my last post except for that long walk home from East Gate Market and going out to hooters in Kangnam... speaking of Kangnam, that's where all the snowboarding shops are and I've gone ahead and purchased a new snowboard. It's the 5150 Covert, pictured below, it's an all mountain board at 155 cm and it's totally sweet. I can't wait to go boarding this winter. Only six months left.

More pictures...

Been busy at work. Got some new pictures. The first is a cafe at the local mall (IPark), the second is the view from my living room at night, the third is a picture of the lobby of a movie theater that's near by. Enjoy!

Weekend Recap.

For some reason I was pretty busy this weekend. I suppose the highlight of it all was the white water rafting trip on Sunday. The water was pretty tame and the rapids were probably class 2 or maybe 2+ but I wouldn't say there were any class 3's... For fear of getting my camera wet I did not take any pictures. Next time, I plan on going in August, I'll have a waterproof digital camera (i hope). Also, on Saturday some friends I went out on the town and ended up hanging out at this nice and overpriced cafe called Lamp. See attached picture below:

My new soccer cleats got stolen...

...by a one-star general yesterday. Well, actually he wanted to borrow them for a softball game. Yesterday all the Koreans and Americans at work participated in a field/sports day. Instead of Korean vs. American we had mostly mixed teams. I played in soccer and the relay race. Our soccer team won the tournament after winning three games by scores of 1-0, 2-0, and we won the final by a score of 4-0. The Koreans on our team were pretty good, too.

After the final soccer match there was a softball game between senior officers and general officers. I sat down and took my cleats off and a junior Korean officer came over, picked up my cleats, read the size, and then took them away to give them to the general... all without asking me. I thought it was pretty funny so I went to the general and told him that the going rate for renting my stinky cleats was 50,000 won ($45). He chuckled and said if I cut the price to 45,000 won then we'd have a deal.

Below are two pictures... the first is my scuffed up elbow from falling in soccer, the second is a picture taken early in the morning after it rained overnight.

The same as usual...

...work begins now in earnest, as does the fun (I think?). There's a lot going on this weekend, two softball games, maybe two soccer games, a bbq, and other stuff. Had softball practice today--jammed my thumb up pretty good trying to field a line drive, it started to bleed, but not badly. Of course, to stay hydrated during our two hour practices we drink beer. Lastly, helicopters kept trying to land on our playing field but they stopped after we hit a couple of pop flies towards them.