I tried to write something witty, and quasi entertaining for everyone to read... but I just couldn't... not today... there just isn't enough mojo in me anymore...
No, I'm not depressed I'm just not good... but I'm always good... I'm Drew... and as long as I'm alive I win... so come back tomorrow and maybe there will be a new fire...
but for now... I'm just done with it all... I'm just gonna win for today, you can go to youtube to get a laugh... Go read about Osama Bin Laden to get inspired, or about some wedding with retarded hats to fill yourself with hope...
I'm not gonna become who I am today, I'll just be me... at speakeasy, with friends, or acquaintances, or just a cold pint of Red Rock...
I just want a burger and a beer...
Cheers
Friday, May 6, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
I'm back....
So, I'm going to go back to this blog because the name is slightly less offensive... over the next few weeks I will update the look, but this post is just to let everyone know what is going to happen here...This blog is my blog... it is a way to express myself, and my feelings... I am not here for you... I am not alive for you... Some day, if I have a wife and kids maybe I will live for them. However, as far as I know I don't have any kids, and I don't remember getting married when I was in Vegas (no wife)...
One of the reasons why I have not Blogged much is because of all the flack my family gave me for swearing on my blog, and posting pictures of me smoking... guess what... I swear, I'm lewd and crude, I drink, I smoke, and occasionally (though not as often as I'd like) I engage in sex
(with women I promise)... So, family reading this... If I don't live up to your standards... well, you didn't choose to have me, so I guess you can now choose to reject me... That's all you!To everyone else... You chose to be my friend, or to read this thing... so if you've got a problem... get bent... You CAN post any comments you may have, and I may respond...
To everyone who wonders when I am going to come home and settle down and build a nest... Maybe NEVER!... maybe next week... ya never know where the world is gonna take you... I'm just riding my tide... Maybe another analogy will suit you better... When we were all walking through the forest, and I hiked off alone, I met some cool people... for a time they walk on a similar path, then we part ways... sometimes I feel like I'm walking alone, but it's ok because I'm walking on the path I choose. If you haven't been to college that is a reference to the poem by Bobby Ice -
| TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, | |
| And sorry I could not travel both | |
| And be one traveler, long I stood | |
| And looked down one as far as I could | |
| To where it bent in the undergrowth; | 5 |
| Then took the other, as just as fair, | |
| And having perhaps the better claim, | |
| Because it was grassy and wanted wear; | |
| Though as for that the passing there | |
| Had worn them really about the same, | 10 |
| And both that morning equally lay | |
| In leaves no step had trodden black. | |
| Oh, I kept the first for another day! | |
| Yet knowing how way leads on to way, | |
| I doubted if I should ever come back. | 15 |
| I shall be telling this with a sigh | |
| Somewhere ages and ages hence: | |
| Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— | |
| I took the one less traveled by, | |
| And that has made all the difference. | 20 |
I also would really appreciate if people would stop asking m when I am going to come home... to be honest, I DON'T KNOW!.. but the plan is probably next winter... some time... I'd like to be home for x-mas, but I don't think a lot of you understand... I have a JOB... I am not on vacation! and for some of the same reasons you wont come here to visit me, I cannot go there any old time I want.
Realistically I am never going to
be rich, but I came here in part to pay off the debt I had racked up trying to live the 'American Dream'... that debt is almost paid... now I'm planning to start living the Antarctic Dream (not going to antarctica... well, not yet, just a place where the people must have the same dream to travel and see all they can while they are young)
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
6 months later
Things I have learned in the last 6 months...
- Korean business men are all dishonest douche bags
- walking around korea in the middle of the night can get you cool stuff for your apt...
- There is no possibility that anything over 3 minutes old isn't growing mold...
- The ability to think has nothing to do with how long you go to school...
- drew should sleep more...
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
I would walk 500 miles...
... and I would walk 500 more, just to be the guy who walked 1000 miles to fall down at your door...
That song used to be one of my favorites, but since I am about half way to the chic's door (since moving to Korea), I have to say... SHE ISN'T WORTH IT!
I'll get to another night of walking in a moment. However, first we have to catch up on the times and randomness that is me...
So I was just waiting around to find out when i would be paid, so I could go to Seoul, on Wednesday when my head teacher came and told me he was quitting... on Friday... This was great since he was the only guy at my school who spoke English... Not a huge deal, I was just worried about who I will bitch to about getting paid... Then he told me they paid me... I thought that was pretty cool, so Thursday morning I hit the ATM and found out their version of 'paid' is far different than mine... I still have not been paid in full and I am due more cash on the 13th. So I asked around and there are more options for me out there if they don't/can't pay me on time... No worries people back home... all will work itself out in the end... The new teachers are pretty cool, and 2 of them speak good English. I did think it was odd though when I saw a brand new 60" Plasma TV installed in the entrance of my school... I guess the TV that they never use wasn't good enough...
I quickly realized that I was not where I should be but I thought I knew where I was going... then I found a river... I walked along the river for quite some while and then turned... I was thirsty so I went in to a market an bought a Powerade and a DemiSoda (apple soda)... this is where I ran out of money... I continued to walk... went into some special garden place, watched some Martial Artists training... walked more and found a street that was very steep and very wet... I must explain something here... I had been slipping on streets in Seoul all day the day before because it was raining and anywhere there was marble tile or paint it made a smooth surface. this smooth surface acts perfectly against the smooth surface of my tredless shoes to turn me into an ice skater... so I went to walk down this hill nd I slipped a few times but didn't fall, I was making my way to the dry side when I lost it and slid down the hill on my knee, then back... It was a very steep hill... I was then angry and wanted to go home... so I walked a bit, tried to find an ATM that spoke English, no Koreans would help and I was beat and bleeding... So I finally found the Subway... I had no money so I jumped the gate, got yelled at, got on the wrong train, got off, got on another wrong train, went past my stop... twice, got to the hotel, passed out and decided Seoul is not the town for me... But I kind of know my way around the subway, and parts of Seoul that I will probably never go to again... but if you get down by the river you should check out the boardwalk... it is beautiful...
Bus tickets - 50,000ish
Hotel for 2 nights even though i only stayed 1: 110,000
Food at the Mexican place: 35,000
Drinks at the first bar: 50,000
Drinks at the second bar: 100,000
Drinks at the third bar: what ever was left
Cab to nowhere: 13,000
McDonalds: 10,000
Other food and drink: 15,000
Total: 383,000 ish
What did I learn... at least I didn't get driven home by the cops (like Jessie), lose my bag (like Michelle), see an Elephant (like Stewie), or lose my walet (like John)... and I am sick of walkin so if a girl ever wants me to prove my love by walking 1000 miles she is going to be waiting a long damn time...
That song used to be one of my favorites, but since I am about half way to the chic's door (since moving to Korea), I have to say... SHE ISN'T WORTH IT!
I'll get to another night of walking in a moment. However, first we have to catch up on the times and randomness that is me...
So I was just waiting around to find out when i would be paid, so I could go to Seoul, on Wednesday when my head teacher came and told me he was quitting... on Friday... This was great since he was the only guy at my school who spoke English... Not a huge deal, I was just worried about who I will bitch to about getting paid... Then he told me they paid me... I thought that was pretty cool, so Thursday morning I hit the ATM and found out their version of 'paid' is far different than mine... I still have not been paid in full and I am due more cash on the 13th. So I asked around and there are more options for me out there if they don't/can't pay me on time... No worries people back home... all will work itself out in the end... The new teachers are pretty cool, and 2 of them speak good English. I did think it was odd though when I saw a brand new 60" Plasma TV installed in the entrance of my school... I guess the TV that they never use wasn't good enough...
Image by *Yueh-Hua 2009 via Flickr
I quickly realized that I was not where I should be but I thought I knew where I was going... then I found a river... I walked along the river for quite some while and then turned... I was thirsty so I went in to a market an bought a Powerade and a DemiSoda (apple soda)... this is where I ran out of money... I continued to walk... went into some special garden place, watched some Martial Artists training... walked more and found a street that was very steep and very wet... I must explain something here... I had been slipping on streets in Seoul all day the day before because it was raining and anywhere there was marble tile or paint it made a smooth surface. this smooth surface acts perfectly against the smooth surface of my tredless shoes to turn me into an ice skater... so I went to walk down this hill nd I slipped a few times but didn't fall, I was making my way to the dry side when I lost it and slid down the hill on my knee, then back... It was a very steep hill... I was then angry and wanted to go home... so I walked a bit, tried to find an ATM that spoke English, no Koreans would help and I was beat and bleeding... So I finally found the Subway... I had no money so I jumped the gate, got yelled at, got on the wrong train, got off, got on another wrong train, went past my stop... twice, got to the hotel, passed out and decided Seoul is not the town for me... But I kind of know my way around the subway, and parts of Seoul that I will probably never go to again... but if you get down by the river you should check out the boardwalk... it is beautiful...
Bus tickets - 50,000ish
Hotel for 2 nights even though i only stayed 1: 110,000
Food at the Mexican place: 35,000
Drinks at the first bar: 50,000
Drinks at the second bar: 100,000
Drinks at the third bar: what ever was left
Cab to nowhere: 13,000
McDonalds: 10,000
Other food and drink: 15,000
Total: 383,000 ish
What did I learn... at least I didn't get driven home by the cops (like Jessie), lose my bag (like Michelle), see an Elephant (like Stewie), or lose my walet (like John)... and I am sick of walkin so if a girl ever wants me to prove my love by walking 1000 miles she is going to be waiting a long damn time...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Slow walking, carying, Norie bus...
So I think I eluded to the trip to the Island previously... if not, i went to an Island.. with 45 of the people who typically spend Saturday with me at Speaks... This means we all drink... Anyway the bus ride there was pretty laid back, there was a lot of meeting of new friends (whom we have all met before... this is called the 'we've met at Speaks')...When we are about 40 minutes from the Venue they told us that this bus ride came with strings. We had to make nice and sit through the festival opening stuff.
This wasn't a problem when the group from the Ivory Coast was playin and dancing and stuff... but after that (10 minutes) Myself and John booked out while everyone was looking the other way... so we wandered a bit, (had our pictures taken by Koreans) and went to meet up with some others who departed early... We lost their trail about the same time we found a place that sold alcohol on the beach... Destiny... So we grabbed some beers and had a seat.
Time crawled by as the droplets of beer dried on the rims of cashed cans, slowly more and more of our troupe crawled by as well... in search of alcohol of course (we nearly cleaned out all their booze).. Every 5 who showed up left 3 behind to relax in the shade and take in the view of the smaller Islands just off shore... I must say it was a near perfect day, and as the time grew near to head back to the bus we just kept saying; 'hey, if we are late it isn't like the bus will leave us'.
So we headed back in time to be about 15 minutes late... where we came upon one of our members who needed to be carried back to the bus... kicking the whole way...
Some consoling of tears and explaining that drunkeness is not a reason to remove limbs... we got moving... I must say people in the states should seriously consider installing Flat screen TV's and Kareokee in buses... it makes for quite the fun inebriated trip home... The trip home is a blur of drinking, dancing, singing, and yelling...
Uppon arrival home, they were kind enough to drop us off downtown where alcohol and Pizza with corn were consumed in mass quantities... until about 5 am... when Frenchfries were added to the mix...
All in all, it was a great trip, very relaxing, filled with good times and good people... Lets hope the forcast clears up for this weekend so we can make the camping trip at the Parting of the sea festival in Jindo...
http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/SI/SI_EN_3_2_1.jsp?cid=293058
Friday, April 10, 2009
Last week...
Since I never got around to blogging about last weekend, here goes...
My weekend started with my realization that spending half a million won on a year gym membership left me quickly approaching being broke... so I did what anyone would do... figured I would visit a friend and drink at her place using the bottle I brought from the States... So a half hour cab ride later (remember this) I showed up, and witnessed my first accident in Korea... a few hours of drinking and talking about all ranges of movies with one of the few people who's movie tastes seem to be as eclectic as my own... It had become time to venture off in search of home... the easy way would have been to get a cab home, or to downtown, but when have I ever done things the easy way... So I decided to walk home... I wandered a bit and figured I would grab some water for my trek home, and ask the store clerk to point on my map where I was... This may seem like an easy task to a westerner who has seen a map of where they live... apparently this guy had never seen a map of Gwangju... so i showed him where we were (where I thought we were), and continued on my journey... Of course I thought I had gotten lost, but I wasn't... so I kept walking... and walking... and a little more walking... and then I found something on my map that gave me a clue where I was... so after an hour of walking I kinda knew I was on the right path... and I walked... and walked... then I walked a little more... now 2hrs in i started to see some stuff i had seen before... So I kept walking... and then I stopped to have a few drinks of water... then I walked some more... all the while taking pictures of random art along my trek... about 3hrs had passed and I could see buildings near where I lived, but I was not near them... I had somehow turned south... I live north... so i turned around and walked toward my house... ultimately I arrived a little over 3.5hrs after I had started... When I got home I was sober and tired... So I went to bed...
That night I decided to go to another movie... because 5000 won can keep me from spending 50000 won at the bar for 2 hrs... So I saw the new fast and furious movie... then i wandered to the bars... they were full of people I knew and people i had yet to meet... I met most of them and we decided we would continue the drinking at the Fish 'n' Grill... but not before i would be intorduced to the world famous 'Chicken Lady'... this mazing lady has a cart about 2 blocks from the foreigner bars on the path to fish 'n' grill... She makes some amazing food... like world class legendary cart food... anyone who visits me will be forced to partake in the 5am ritual of foregners dinning at 'Chicken Lady'... Lets not forget the video I took of the aftermath of the Koreans fighting on the corner next to her... of course the cops showed up about 2 minutes after the koreans all left... anyway on to Fish n Grill... where a group of us got Soju, some Soju blended stuff, and some beer... and we drank and made noise and laughed with the Koreans who showed up... slowly our party dwindeled down to 4, and we were about to pay when 2 guys said they needed to go get cash... apparently to some Americans this is code for 'we are gonna stick you with the bill'... anyway myself and Brad hung out for a little bit waiting for Andrew (the Notre Dame fan) and the other dude (sorry forgot your name) to show up... when they didn't we left... slightly angry... called some people and found out where they were... so we invited ourselves to join the party even though I'm pretty sure they didn't want us to... where I got a great video of Brad and Tony wrestling UFC style on a matress in the living room... at some point the videos will all be up on Facebook, but right now facebook is not liking them...
Anyway, it was well into the morning before we got to Tony's house... where Jimmy was trying to finish his 24hrs of drinking while watching the semifinals of the NCAA tournament... how he lived past 10pm, when I first saw him looking like a stroke victim, I'll never know...
Needless to say, last weekend I did a ton of walking, a little drinking, and had a lot of fun... Another good weekend in SK...
The next two weeks/ends are looking pretty good too... I am about to head off and check out the orphanage, then of course a movie and drinking... then next weekend looks like there may be a trip to an Island... so we'll see how that ends up...
My weekend started with my realization that spending half a million won on a year gym membership left me quickly approaching being broke... so I did what anyone would do... figured I would visit a friend and drink at her place using the bottle I brought from the States... So a half hour cab ride later (remember this) I showed up, and witnessed my first accident in Korea... a few hours of drinking and talking about all ranges of movies with one of the few people who's movie tastes seem to be as eclectic as my own... It had become time to venture off in search of home... the easy way would have been to get a cab home, or to downtown, but when have I ever done things the easy way... So I decided to walk home... I wandered a bit and figured I would grab some water for my trek home, and ask the store clerk to point on my map where I was... This may seem like an easy task to a westerner who has seen a map of where they live... apparently this guy had never seen a map of Gwangju... so i showed him where we were (where I thought we were), and continued on my journey... Of course I thought I had gotten lost, but I wasn't... so I kept walking... and walking... and a little more walking... and then I found something on my map that gave me a clue where I was... so after an hour of walking I kinda knew I was on the right path... and I walked... and walked... then I walked a little more... now 2hrs in i started to see some stuff i had seen before... So I kept walking... and then I stopped to have a few drinks of water... then I walked some more... all the while taking pictures of random art along my trek... about 3hrs had passed and I could see buildings near where I lived, but I was not near them... I had somehow turned south... I live north... so i turned around and walked toward my house... ultimately I arrived a little over 3.5hrs after I had started... When I got home I was sober and tired... So I went to bed...
That night I decided to go to another movie... because 5000 won can keep me from spending 50000 won at the bar for 2 hrs... So I saw the new fast and furious movie... then i wandered to the bars... they were full of people I knew and people i had yet to meet... I met most of them and we decided we would continue the drinking at the Fish 'n' Grill... but not before i would be intorduced to the world famous 'Chicken Lady'... this mazing lady has a cart about 2 blocks from the foreigner bars on the path to fish 'n' grill... She makes some amazing food... like world class legendary cart food... anyone who visits me will be forced to partake in the 5am ritual of foregners dinning at 'Chicken Lady'... Lets not forget the video I took of the aftermath of the Koreans fighting on the corner next to her... of course the cops showed up about 2 minutes after the koreans all left... anyway on to Fish n Grill... where a group of us got Soju, some Soju blended stuff, and some beer... and we drank and made noise and laughed with the Koreans who showed up... slowly our party dwindeled down to 4, and we were about to pay when 2 guys said they needed to go get cash... apparently to some Americans this is code for 'we are gonna stick you with the bill'... anyway myself and Brad hung out for a little bit waiting for Andrew (the Notre Dame fan) and the other dude (sorry forgot your name) to show up... when they didn't we left... slightly angry... called some people and found out where they were... so we invited ourselves to join the party even though I'm pretty sure they didn't want us to... where I got a great video of Brad and Tony wrestling UFC style on a matress in the living room... at some point the videos will all be up on Facebook, but right now facebook is not liking them...
Anyway, it was well into the morning before we got to Tony's house... where Jimmy was trying to finish his 24hrs of drinking while watching the semifinals of the NCAA tournament... how he lived past 10pm, when I first saw him looking like a stroke victim, I'll never know...
Needless to say, last weekend I did a ton of walking, a little drinking, and had a lot of fun... Another good weekend in SK...
The next two weeks/ends are looking pretty good too... I am about to head off and check out the orphanage, then of course a movie and drinking... then next weekend looks like there may be a trip to an Island... so we'll see how that ends up...
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Adventures in SK...
So, as many of you may have already heard, this weekend was quite eventful... I figured I wasn't going to go out on friday so I could do some stuff on saturday... that didn't work... I went downtown to catch a midnight show at the MegaBox in 'Bro center'... mind you, I was still slightly sick, but I was feeling better... Anyway, I went to see Push. It turned out to be a pretty good flick. so I figured I would stop in at the bars and see who was out... one drink lead to another and I ended up at the fish grill at 4:30am... again... So, some chicken and a bottle of Soju later I figured I would do a bit of early morning wandering around downtown...
this is where the fun starts....
So I wandered past a door and saw an older Korean guy, heard him yelling in korean, but didn't pay attention... a few blocks later I looked back and he was following me... still yelling in korean... I figured he was another random drunk pissed because my bald head was prettier than his... So I kept walking... couple blocks later, as I was about to get in a cab, he grabbed my shoulder... I was a bit confused, especially when he started backing up and bowing... so I bowed and a Korean kid(20ish) grabbed the old dude and another kid told me he was very angry and I should go... so I got in my cab...
Typically a cab ride from downtown is about 2500 won... my cab ride cost 4200 won... I had no clue where he took me, but the cabbie was a nartard so I got out... I walked around the street to see if I could locate anything I recognized, but it was now 5:35am... So I grabbed a seat on a planter and waited for the sun to come up... about 20 minutes later it got lighter and I walked down the street a bit further to an apartment building... I remember seeing a road turning down out of the mountains, and a sign for the 25 expressway, this allowed me to figure out exactly where the cabbie had dropped me off... but I still had no idea where I was... I knew I lived on a pretty high point in Gwangju, at the base of the mountains... So I walked the direction I would
I have started to kind of learn the language... I get really annoyed when people ask me what I know though... like they want to compare their 2 years of learning with my month... sue me, I can't carry on a conversation in korean yet... you sitting there speaking to me in korean isn't cute...
Hopefully I will be able to start using the gym that I paid 450,000 won for... having a cold is rediculous... and if these people understood personal space, or how to cover their damn mouths when they cough, I probably wouldn't be sick... for a country of mask wearing health nuts they have no clue what germs are... or that covering their mouths, and washing their hands would probably perevent half my students from being sick this week...
this is where the fun starts....
So I wandered past a door and saw an older Korean guy, heard him yelling in korean, but didn't pay attention... a few blocks later I looked back and he was following me... still yelling in korean... I figured he was another random drunk pissed because my bald head was prettier than his... So I kept walking... couple blocks later, as I was about to get in a cab, he grabbed my shoulder... I was a bit confused, especially when he started backing up and bowing... so I bowed and a Korean kid(20ish) grabbed the old dude and another kid told me he was very angry and I should go... so I got in my cab...
Typically a cab ride from downtown is about 2500 won... my cab ride cost 4200 won... I had no clue where he took me, but the cabbie was a nartard so I got out... I walked around the street to see if I could locate anything I recognized, but it was now 5:35am... So I grabbed a seat on a planter and waited for the sun to come up... about 20 minutes later it got lighter and I walked down the street a bit further to an apartment building... I remember seeing a road turning down out of the mountains, and a sign for the 25 expressway, this allowed me to figure out exactly where the cabbie had dropped me off... but I still had no idea where I was... I knew I lived on a pretty high point in Gwangju, at the base of the mountains... So I walked the direction I would
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I have started to kind of learn the language... I get really annoyed when people ask me what I know though... like they want to compare their 2 years of learning with my month... sue me, I can't carry on a conversation in korean yet... you sitting there speaking to me in korean isn't cute...
Hopefully I will be able to start using the gym that I paid 450,000 won for... having a cold is rediculous... and if these people understood personal space, or how to cover their damn mouths when they cough, I probably wouldn't be sick... for a country of mask wearing health nuts they have no clue what germs are... or that covering their mouths, and washing their hands would probably perevent half my students from being sick this week...
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