Ramblins o late

 

Good ol PSP

Furniture dump/tomb

  I like motorcylces.  The best part is when I drive one.
  19 more weeks...19 more weeks.  My mantra of late.  This place is played out, yo.
  I was thinking about the piano the other day.  That shit just looks impossible to play.  I mean the two hands going at once?  All those keys?  Seriously, how does anyone manage to play the piano?  Just saying.
  After that Penguin Swim I drove to the southwest of the island, to bird around the old Japanese Kamikaze airfields.  The weather was decent, so I said fuck it, I'll go up to the Yongsu Reservoir near Gosan (up the west coast).  Bad move.  I froze my fingers off.  That west coast is cold as hell.  Had to stop at Gecko's on the way back for a coffee just to warm up.  And a pizza.
 

Penguin swim / I've been here HOW long?

I swung by the Jungmun Penguin Swim dealio a few weeks ago.  Walked over, ate my free meal, and walked back to my bike.  Korean festivals, all the same, innit.  But I realized that the Penguin swim in 2009 (2209!!! I'd capitalize number if I could.  @))(! 2009!) was where and when I made my first real friends on Jeju the first time round.  I saw B-mil with his camera and started chatting with him about cameras.  Also met Piss-Bottle-Man and J-roc that day - The Thunderbots!  B-mil invited me to Gecko's a couple of weekends later and the rest is infamy.
  The point of all this fuzzy recollecting is that it was in 2009.  Five bloody years ago.  Sheesh.
  Anyway, I'm still waiting to make my first real friends this time round.  Har har!  Hermits don't need friends.  Especially when they have a dog.

Click to see 2009's Penguin Swim - My 10th post

Eats o late / The smell of another man's shit

Rice, veg, ang beef porridge from Bon Juk - amazeballs

I forget from I forget

Two chammers from Kimbap Chunguk - the classic

  Eat and shit - on some days that's all I manage to get done, it seems.  When left to my own devices, I eat a lot of 'That'll fill up the old crap-factory in the quickest, cheapest, and moderately healthy way' foods.  Tuna on crackers.  Peanut butter on toast.  Sometimes I cook massive cauldrons of soup or stew, then feed off that for days, like pig to trough.  Koreans make some decent soups in the winter.
  Now to the other end of things.  I don't mind when my bathroom smells of shit - as long as it's MY shit.  The smell of my shit doesn't bother me.  Not that it doesn't smell - because it smells like shit, but it just doesn't bother me.  What bothers me is when my bathroom smells of another man's shit.  Or when my bathroom smells like a big miserable shit-smelling symphony, featuring the amazing and varied shit-odors of every resident of my entire apartment complex.  Must be the plumbing in my awesome 35-year old 'Oldest-fuckin-apartment-in-Seogwipo' apartment.  Because when I come home from a long day at the mines and my bathroom reeks of stranger shit, it's not cool.  Just not cool.

An eating place / GOOEY SAUSAGE BREAD

  I got really drunk on Christmas Eve and ended up watching Heat at 1:30 a.m.  Has anyone noticed that Al Pacino is a complete fucking maniac?  Like the whole time he's just improvising and saying random insane shit.  In the end I just had to fast forward to the epic shootout scene.

Randumbs / phonesmart-mandumb

 

  When my smart phone died the other day it made me realize just how dumb it had made me.  THE DRONES ARE COMING!  THE DRONES ARE COMING!  DRONEWORLD!
  But seriously dude, I slept until noon because I had no alarm clock.  But I didn't know it was noon, because I had no clock-clock either, and I couldn't see where the sun was, because the Jeju skies have been all hazy and shit lately.  So I wandered around aimlessly, looking for the phone witch-doctor.
  My phone is ok now, ooh-eeh-ooh-ah-ah.
  Oh, I saw a guy driving a truck full of gas cylinders smoking the other day.  Insert hilarious exclamation here.

treetruckmen

 

I had two angry Korean guys get out of a truck and chase me because I was taking pictures of these thingies sticking out of some trees next to a public path at Oedolgae.  They were irate, and came running at me shouting 'No no no no no no!' and pointing to my camera.  WTF.  I happened to be next to my bike, so I sassed the fuck out of them and sped off.  Bitchezzzz!
  Turns out it's legal pesticide to help mitigate the pine wilt disease that's been ravaging Jeju's pine trees this year.  Not sure why they were chasing me then.  Maybe they just wanted to stomp a waygook.  Fuckfaces.

Signs from Seoul and not

Cute smokes for children!  

I don't know what the fuck this vehicle does, but I sorely want to go on adventures in it

Haha!  I'm not REALLY a murderer of women!  Haha!

SALTICRAX!  From South Africa

It's pure!  It's piss!  It's Puriss!  Water.

Bliorg.

OhIWentToSeoul

 

Sweet bed chez PBM

BOH!

Decent poutine, but no 514

Endless wings and beer at RMT

Drunk Korean guy, haha funny funny 

Getting stupid with PBM's Expendables bottle opener

Namhansan

Hyeonjeolsa Temple

Desert Boots thrashed again

Smileys after the Ferruginous Duck

Hung out with PBM, ate shitty food, drank a few bevvies, and had a laugh, innit.  PBM showed me Peaky Blinders, a sweet show.  Ate Poutine at RMT - it was decent this time, not like the grey slime they served a few years ago.  Gosh I've been in the Korea for a long time.  Went birding at Namhansan but failed to spot a  Hazel Grouse.  Saw a Ferruginous Duck the next day in Seoul with an old friend, so it wasn't a total bust, bird-wise.  Things are looking up, because this is my last stretch in Korea.  ForEVER this time.  The future holds good things, mostly.  Whoops I almost wrote 'goof things'.  Shit I hope that doesn't mean anything.

First meal of 2014

 

Kimchi bokkumbap at Gimpo Airport.  And a Coke.  My first Coke in ages.  Oh, I went to Seoul.