I’m reevaluating my life for the Nth time, I have concluded that I need to speak to a therapist. I need professional advice and a nice hand guiding me in the right direction. The last time I spoke to a therapist she told me that I was an alcoholic and I got pissed off and told her that I wasn’t, then she proceeded to tell me that I may be in denial. Gosh interventions are annoying.
But hello?? I was in college! Every other person at the least is considered and “alcoholic.” It’s not like I was drunkenly going around choking strangers and assaulting people… oh wait… whatever. Those days are over.
Monday, September 21, 2009
WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!
Been super busy at work and always had someone reading over my shoulder here’s an update:
I was working late on Thursday night in a conference room with a coworker we call Y2K around 6 pm the AC automatically turns off so naturally around 11 pm the conference room became extremely hot. The next logical thing to do was take off my jacket, underneath I was wearing a spaghetti strap shirt. In the states this is no big deal, too bad I’m in Korea. As I’m taking my jacket off Y2K lets out a high pitched squeal like a baby pig “WHAT ARE YOU DOING!??! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!” and I turned and looked at him “………..” and he says “DON’T YOU THINK THAT IS STRANGE?!??!?” at this point I was really shocked by his over-reaction and I said to him “I’m not sure I know what you are talking about.”
Korea and Korean culture never ceases to baffle me.
I was working late on Thursday night in a conference room with a coworker we call Y2K around 6 pm the AC automatically turns off so naturally around 11 pm the conference room became extremely hot. The next logical thing to do was take off my jacket, underneath I was wearing a spaghetti strap shirt. In the states this is no big deal, too bad I’m in Korea. As I’m taking my jacket off Y2K lets out a high pitched squeal like a baby pig “WHAT ARE YOU DOING!??! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!” and I turned and looked at him “………..” and he says “DON’T YOU THINK THAT IS STRANGE?!??!?” at this point I was really shocked by his over-reaction and I said to him “I’m not sure I know what you are talking about.”
Korea and Korean culture never ceases to baffle me.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
10 ways to be well liked at the office
1. Tell them you like to drink (this works VERY well with Koreans) or just invite coworkers to drink with you the first day of your job and then regularly. In college alcohol brought me closer to a lot of ppl, the same applies to real life
2. Find the loudest guy in the office and tell him your craziest office-friendly story, he’ll pass the story around and you’ll somehow become infamous for something you did 4 years ago.
3. Find the second loudest guy and make fun of him and give him a nickname early on and ALWAYS call him by his nickname. Example: I call baldy 기사 (gi-sah/driver) bc his position is 이사 (ee-sah/director) and they sound similar, also drives me around whenever we go offsite. this is considered funny because the words rhyme and is highly disrespectful.
4. Be really excited when you have to do really boring, tedious or frustrating things. for example (when working in a team) “YAYYYY OVERTIME PARTY!!!”
5. Never cry in front of people, esp if you work with mostly guys. If you feel the tears about to come just picture fattest guy in the office naked and doing the riverdance. It’ll snap you out of it. But don’t laugh and cry at the same time – my mom once told me that if you do that too much you’ll grow rainbow colored pubes… come to think of it, that would actually be pretty cool.
6. If you work among a lot of men – act like one of the guys such as lift heavy things, belch, sniff your armpits in front of them and say things like “danggg that girl is hot! Look at her thighs!!” but also throw in girly things like put on make up in front of guys, wear perfume, be well groomed and gossip with at least one female coworker about boys or whatever. This way the guys will think of you as a girl but also know that youre not weak.
7. Don’t be a picky eater – when you go out for lunch with people eat everything even if it makes you gag a little. I hate eating those mini squid things (the ink squid thing from finding nemo) but I pretend that I freaking love those little monsters.
8. Always be down and enduring – down to work longer, to drink longer, to be out late even though you slept only 3 hrs the night before.
9. Don’t complain to your coworkers – complain in a blog
10. And the most obvious: Get your work done on time and do it well
2. Find the loudest guy in the office and tell him your craziest office-friendly story, he’ll pass the story around and you’ll somehow become infamous for something you did 4 years ago.
3. Find the second loudest guy and make fun of him and give him a nickname early on and ALWAYS call him by his nickname. Example: I call baldy 기사 (gi-sah/driver) bc his position is 이사 (ee-sah/director) and they sound similar, also drives me around whenever we go offsite. this is considered funny because the words rhyme and is highly disrespectful.
4. Be really excited when you have to do really boring, tedious or frustrating things. for example (when working in a team) “YAYYYY OVERTIME PARTY!!!”
5. Never cry in front of people, esp if you work with mostly guys. If you feel the tears about to come just picture fattest guy in the office naked and doing the riverdance. It’ll snap you out of it. But don’t laugh and cry at the same time – my mom once told me that if you do that too much you’ll grow rainbow colored pubes… come to think of it, that would actually be pretty cool.
6. If you work among a lot of men – act like one of the guys such as lift heavy things, belch, sniff your armpits in front of them and say things like “danggg that girl is hot! Look at her thighs!!” but also throw in girly things like put on make up in front of guys, wear perfume, be well groomed and gossip with at least one female coworker about boys or whatever. This way the guys will think of you as a girl but also know that youre not weak.
7. Don’t be a picky eater – when you go out for lunch with people eat everything even if it makes you gag a little. I hate eating those mini squid things (the ink squid thing from finding nemo) but I pretend that I freaking love those little monsters.
8. Always be down and enduring – down to work longer, to drink longer, to be out late even though you slept only 3 hrs the night before.
9. Don’t complain to your coworkers – complain in a blog
10. And the most obvious: Get your work done on time and do it well
Friday, September 11, 2009
Learnin Korean
Last night I had my first Korean tutoring lesson. My coworker arranged something with his wife who is studying to become a Chinese/Korean teacher. She’s a Chinese born Korean so sometimes she has a Korean accent and then all of a sudden her Chinese accent kicks in and she starts saying “pe-poh” instead of “people”
The first hour is dedicated to Korean stuff and the second hour I teach her English, particularly how to speak like an American/Californian. It was super fun! I was like its BURGER not booger, BEACH not bitch, it’s FUCK not puck… and then I stopped teaching her bad words. haha
The first hour is dedicated to Korean stuff and the second hour I teach her English, particularly how to speak like an American/Californian. It was super fun! I was like its BURGER not booger, BEACH not bitch, it’s FUCK not puck… and then I stopped teaching her bad words. haha
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Dog Cafe - Bau Haus Hongdae
I went to dog café (bau haus) in hongdae last night. Basically it’s a café where 20ish dogs just roam around and play with you while you drink tea and also pee and poo wherever and whenever they want.
they bark like crazy whenever someone new enters the cafe and at least one dog greets you by sticking its nose in your crotch. it's a warm welcome.
There was this one dog who pooed and afterward got really excited and started running around back and forth really fast, hopped on to some guys lap and then around the table tops and on top of one particular table the dog sits and starts to hardcore drag his ass around the table top for a good 10+ seconds. GOOD THING THEY DON’T SELL FOOD THERE!!
they bark like crazy whenever someone new enters the cafe and at least one dog greets you by sticking its nose in your crotch. it's a warm welcome.
There was this one dog who pooed and afterward got really excited and started running around back and forth really fast, hopped on to some guys lap and then around the table tops and on top of one particular table the dog sits and starts to hardcore drag his ass around the table top for a good 10+ seconds. GOOD THING THEY DON’T SELL FOOD THERE!!
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Dude i freaking hate these stupid ads! theyre all over the internet.
Baldy came over to my cube to ask me a question and looked at my screen and asked in shock, "What are you looking at?!" I was confused bc I was innocently reading about NASA and jesus.... and then i realized.... ugh
Baldy came over to my cube to ask me a question and looked at my screen and asked in shock, "What are you looking at?!" I was confused bc I was innocently reading about NASA and jesus.... and then i realized.... ugh
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