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On Saturday I went to Yongsan electronics market and bought myself a new toy. I picked up a Nikon D70s, Nikon 50mm F1.8 Lens and all the necessities to use the two together.

Since I bought it I’ve been running around taking shots of tons of random crap and trying to figure out how to use it properly. Doing is, in my opinion, one of the best ways to learn. It helps to have people who know what they’re doing as well so hopefully I can recruit Josh and Tarek to go on another photography walk.

Sunday I didn’t do too much but I did go for a walk around Anam, the place I live now, and take some shots of local people and places.

These two girls just started posing when I glanced over at them and I didn’t really think anything of it untill I looked back again and they were still doing it. So I snapped a shot of em

As soon as the shutter clicked these 3 other girls started sprinting their asses off from 30′ away to try and get in the next photo. This was a really bizarre experience but I felt good afterwards because as they were walking away they kept yelling “Handsome guy! Very handsome guy!”.

God damn right.

I thought that this was an interesting shot to take so here it is

I would love to hear what you think of my photos and I’ll put some more up as I take them. I figure that it’s the people whose blogs have photos are the ones I find most interesting. So I’m going to take a page out of Nara and Yan’s books and try to be a better blogger.

Comments are a blogger’s fuel so let me know what you think of the new layout as well

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My iPod battery just died on me again. At least it was kind enough to wait for me to get home today, last time it waited until 20 seconds into my 1st song to kick it. I’m extremely grateful that it lasted my entire trip in the park, it was a much needed chance to relax.

The past couple of days have been a bit trying on me. On Sunday, what I thought was a pretty butal hangover turned out to last 4 days and was in fact the flu. I went to the doctor’s with a Korean friend and got a shot in my rear. I then went to the pharmacy and got a nice long strip of meds.

My portable hard drive died a little while ago so I went to Yongsan, the electronics market, to found out what could be done about it. I found out the other day that the recovery might not even be possible and also how much it would cost for them to attempt to recover the data. To let them try to get the data back it’d cost me 550,000 Korean won, which is approximately CAD$680.

I died a little inside.

That’s all my music I ever bought downloaded, about 100GB of bboying videos, a lot which I’ll never get again, and ALL MY PHOTOS EVER. The loss of the photos is what will hit me the hardest and will somewhat explain the subject of my next blog post (don’t worry, it’ll have photos).

So going to the park to listen to some relaxing music really helped me to calm down and feel a bit better. Usually I just either mope around or try and go out and do something to ignore the feeling.
What do you do when you’re in one of those sad or depressed moods?

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I figured it’s been long enough that a post was required to keep the people I’m not in regular contact with up to date on what I’m doing.

So you may or may not know that my contract teaching little Korean devils English has finished. Nara has gone home and yet here I remain. I decided that I needed a vacation because believe it or not managing a room full of little kids that don’t understand you can be quite stressful. So I’m staying in Korea in a small one room apartment with a shared kitchen to relax, practice my bboying, and quite possibly see more of South Korea that I didn’t before.

I realize that my blog has fallen into disrepair and that I had promised to update more often and to add the pictures to my previous Thailand post but now I have an excuse… My beloved hard drive died. Pictures, music, bboy videos and all But there is hope and I will try and fix it myself and then my friends this blog will no longer be a rarely updated cesspool of text but a glorious oasis of shining media in the desert of shitty blogs.

Anyways last night it was my friend Han SangTae’s birthday so we all went to his house to celebrate. Now, one thing about Korean culture that’s different to Canada is that on your birthday it’s YOU that pay for everything. So the economically logical place to celebrate would then be at your house instead of a crazy expensive bar. So we all chipped in for pizza and Han broke out the soju which is cause for merriment.

So this brief post has been a while in the making due to a few blogging software updates but I promise photos and/or videos on the next post, so please be patient