Lately, Anthony and I have been taking shots at US Soccer in the wake of their embarrassing showings versus Italy and Brazil in the Confederations Cup. Not exactly the World Cup, but it’s still a stage for the U.S. to match up against the very best International teams in the world.
Personally, I had assumed that the US was eliminated from the event until I read the wrap up from the Egypt match which stated that the U.S. had moved on out of the group stage after an unlikely scenario arose where the U.S. beat Egypt by 3 or more (US 3 – Egypt 0) and Italy lost to Brazil by 3 or more (Brazil 3 – Italy 0).
I can’t put this on my Korea blog (esp with the recent dearth of posts) but with a return trip stateside about a month and half from now, I couldn’t help but think about stuff I will hop on as soon as I get home. One of those things will be the rest of Flight of the Conchords Season 2.
Here is a great clip from Season 1. The best scenes usually involve Murray, the wonderfully bungling manager and I don’t usually rate the songs as my personal high points from the shows, but this love serenade to Bret’s special lady always gets me. This scenes doubles as a “things I miss about NYC” memory too because its set with the globe at the New York World’s Fair Grounds in Queens in the background. Enjoy.
“I was talking about this the other day with my Grandfather. I don’t think pitch counts are all that important. If guys just got into the right shape, and learned to pace themselves, I think they could pitch more complete games.”
And so another correspondence was begun between me and my cohort Anthony. Sports Illustrated has taken the lead of ESPN and begun posting email back and forth based articles on their website. The following link is a recent article on the effectiveness of pitch counts.
More Korean Pop. Again, catchy as hell. If the “Sorry, Sorry,
Sorry, Sorry”’s don’t get stuck in your head then the perhaps the “Nekkid,
Nekkid, Nekkid”’s just might. Also, the boy band performing this song,
Super Junior, has approximately 22 members.
Since I have received a few emails from family and friends with concern after news of former South Korean President Roh Moo-Ryun’s suicide, I feel compelled to blog on this topic. Especially since his suicide was to have been reported internationally as having occurred in my Korean hometown, Busan (it is the closest large city to the cliff President Roh jumped off of).
I am in no position to comment on his politics or his successes/failures as a leader, but in conversations I have had with Korean people, President Roh was certainly a person that seemed to spark people. He was known as a clean politician as well, a reputation that certainly took a knock when allegations of he and his wife receiving roughly $6 million in bribes from a business man in Korea. Keep reading →
Yeah, I love my time in Korea to this point, but I am human and there’s definite stuff I miss about NY (do or die M-Fers, lol). Also, no mention of friends or family on this list because, obviously I miss those close to me from back in the states.
-Deli’s, Pizza Joints, basically anyplace where you can walk in and then walk out with really good food (besides fast food places).
-Being able to buy clothes pretty hassle free (6-4, 220 is not who Koreans make clothes for).
-NBA Playoffs, MLB (its not that I can’t follow it here, its just that a 13 hour time difference makes it real hard to ever see a game live).
-Real Hip-Hop (too many people here either dislike hip-hop or think that Soulja Boy is the best rap act going. No further comment needed).
-Miller High Life
-American Country Breakfasts
-non-Korean food (I love Korean food, but the non-Korean options in Korea just don’t match up in my opinion)
-Calling in sick for work (not really something you do here)
-American National Holidays (Korea has national holidays, but they have not yet figured out the benefits a firmly scheduled 3-day weekends. I will be very ornery on Memorial Day).
First post on Korean Pop Music. I don’t think I actually like this music, but its still gets stuck in my head.
This is my favorite pop song I have heard here thus far. I like bubble-gummy type stuff in general and the song is good and peppy. I am still uncertain how a girl group works when their are NINE MEMBERS. Destiny’s Child had much drama with first with 5 members and then with just 3 members. This is Girls’ Generation with “Gee”.
I have been sitting on this story for too long. Its not as though the tale surrounding my White Day (March 14, analogous to our Valetine’s Day) was real salacious, but it took me sometime to get the picture I needed to tell the story.
Also, this beginning with this post, I am going to try and get more posts up, with many more little things about life here as, I have find myself out of the house way more than I ever planned during my stay in Korea. I guess the primary reason for this is that I have been very, very active in pursuing a busy social life and as a result, I am out most every night. However, the reason for my aggressive social pursuits is directly related to my work life over the past few weeks. Things at my school have been less than ideal and as a result, I have found myself working harder and being more stressed at the job and my aggressive social pursuits serve adequately as a solid diversion. Keep reading →
