9.12.06
Happy birthday, mom.
There are a lot of bizzare things here - naturally, as I'm a foreigner. However, some of these things defy logic. For example:
no one really uses paper towels. At work, in restaurants, people use either beverage napkins or toilet paper. This sucks when cleaning a spill or wanting to quickly and effeciently wipe your hands and/or face.
There are literally hundreds of karaoke bars between my apartment and work. If you've seen Lost in Translation, there's a karaoke part. Apparantly that's one of the 'in' things.
People wear the strangest things. Koreans really like t-shirts with English writing. Almost as often as not, however, there are misspellings and phrases that make virtually no sense. We keep trying to photograph them, but it's a difficult thing to do discreetly. Also, fashion spans several decades and is mixed and matched without hesitation. I saw a girl with a denim hat on the subway the other day. Really.
People are constantly running into each other and getting in each other's way in the city and in crowded stores. This, however, is countered by the fact that no one seems to get upset. Everyone apparantly brushes off rather easily. Either that or this country harbors the one of the most intense internal rages of our generation.
Happy birthday, mom.
There are a lot of bizzare things here - naturally, as I'm a foreigner. However, some of these things defy logic. For example:
no one really uses paper towels. At work, in restaurants, people use either beverage napkins or toilet paper. This sucks when cleaning a spill or wanting to quickly and effeciently wipe your hands and/or face.
There are literally hundreds of karaoke bars between my apartment and work. If you've seen Lost in Translation, there's a karaoke part. Apparantly that's one of the 'in' things.
People wear the strangest things. Koreans really like t-shirts with English writing. Almost as often as not, however, there are misspellings and phrases that make virtually no sense. We keep trying to photograph them, but it's a difficult thing to do discreetly. Also, fashion spans several decades and is mixed and matched without hesitation. I saw a girl with a denim hat on the subway the other day. Really.
People are constantly running into each other and getting in each other's way in the city and in crowded stores. This, however, is countered by the fact that no one seems to get upset. Everyone apparantly brushes off rather easily. Either that or this country harbors the one of the most intense internal rages of our generation.
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