My miserable Halloween 2005

My first Halloween party. This is not my first Halloween that I spent in USA.
Last year, I rented a “orange pimp” costume. It cost me 80 dollars. I was very excited about one of the biggest American events.

But I had 3 hour long “Interpersonal communication” class at 7. I talked to the professor about my plan.

“Too bad” he said, “It’ll be an unexcused absence and you’ll have a quiz after the break. You’ll get C for class participation and 0 point for the quiz”
I went to the classroom, dressed as an orange “pimp”. After the first half of the class, I went out to talk to some of my friends where I was. I came back to classroom and the professor told me that I cannot take the test because I was late. “But you’ll be absent for the half of the class”
I walked out of the classroom. By the time I got to Georgetown, my friends were done with trick or treating.

The whole decoration in front of houses thrill me. This Halloween will be full of fun. “This time, it’s a payback”

I-commerce

I knew it. I should have known that an attractive- but- 40 year old woman is never attracted to an Asian.
She showed me a small pamphlet which showed how the ‘system’ works. It’s selling all the brand name product to other people. She told me that I need to be in a lecture next Monday to get more information.
She told me that she knows thousands of Koreans who became millionaires because of this “I-commerce”. She said Koreans are genius in selling stuff.

“Isn’t that just like the pyramid scheme?”
“no, it’s not” she said, “They go door to door to sell stuff. We don’t do that. We use internet to sell stuff”

Is there any Americans who fall for this type of crap? It’s so sad.

It was a very sad meeting at the Starbuck’s.

(some pictures of Smoky Mountain to refresh today's mood)

Cooking

I cooked today.
Donna called me. We set up a meeting at the Starbuck’s at 4 o’clock tomorrow.

BMWs

I went to Kroger’s for grocery shopping this afternoon.
I don’ cook usually, but to recover from the cold I have to eat something other than BMWs(Burger King, McDonald’s, Wendy’s)

I bought
Small chicken
4 Ramen
1 miso soup
4 onions
2 garlic
10 yogurt
12 coke in fridge pack
2 Ben & Jerry
3 frozen pizza

A nice woman came to me and asked where I was from.
She asked me for my phone number. She said she’s a business woman. She was looking for somebody who knows a lot about the Asian market.
I asked her how she knew I’m in marketing business
“I saw you dancing in the supermarket”

She maybe one of the ‘desperate housewives” who are lonely inside. She didn’t call today. She’ll call me tomorrow. I’m excited.


Do you know what's more fun than riding bicycle? Not -riding bicycle!

-> this is not fun either

bombing Korea

I sat at a bar in an Outback restaurant. I was exhausted from the 70mile trip I did today.

An old man sitting next to me, eating a Sirloin Steak, asked me where I came from.
I said “From Hongkong” to avoid any conversation regarding North Korea. I was tired of the reactions of Americans on the nulcear test.
"Why are the North Koreans like that?" "Why is Kim Jung Il so dumb?" "Your family still lives in Korea? Aren't you afraid about them?"



“So you must suffer a lot from the Communist China.” I said yes.

He started talking about China, using lots of 4 letter words. He was so drunk he didn't care what I said.
Then I got curious about what he thinks of North Korea.
“The damn North Koreans”, he said, “We should bomb that damn place and get rid of Kim Jul Il”
He said he served in the Marines and spent a year in the 50’s in the border between South and North Korea.
“Can you speak Korea?”
“Yes….well, I can think of only ‘Juriga’. ‘Iriwa’ to give orders to Koreas.

'Juriga' and 'Iriwa', which mean ‘get out’ and 'Come here", are not a polite way to speak to other people in Korea. He spent a year in Korea, and they were the only two words he could say?

I got very upset when he started talking about women in Korea. He said it was easy to sleep with Korean women.

"Wow, women were so cheap there?"
"Yeah. Koreans loved dollar. And they still do, I'm sure."
"But I heard US military has been causing lots problems there. Most of the prostitution started because of the US military. I also read an article about the crimes of US soldiers in Korea. They are bad people"
"Well, whereever there are people, there are always problems"
"But you know, a friend of mine told me that USA sends the dumbest soldiers to Korea. I think it was the same way 50 years ago"

I was very sorry after I said it. It's not because I hurt his feelings, but because he showed me what some of Americans think of my country.

And Insulting him didn't make me feel any better.

(This is not the bad guy. This is a good guy, Franky)

A Lost Bag

weather: rainy

It was pouring rain. I couldn’t leave this goddamn place! The elevator was broken, so I had to use the emergency stairways.
Then I found a bag, which was open and the clothes were thrown on the ground. It was obvious that somebody was robbed.
I went to the front desk and told them about this. The receptionist said, looking indifferent,
“We are not reported anything about the bag.”
“Now you’re informed”
“I’ll check that later”

I bought two boxes of Chinese food as take-out. They were my lunch and dinner. I don’t want to spend too much time outside.

I don’t think the rain will stop tomorrow. I’m miserable.