I find the term “talent” (タレント), as applied to Japanese and Korean celebrities whose claim to fame is simply appearing on TV shows, to be very ironic. They don’t have any talent at all (singing, acting, etc), which is why their work consists of simply being guests on talk shows.
Actually, they may have one [...]
Entries from June 2007
June 30, 2007
Japanese and Korean “Talent”
June 29, 2007
I am Lani Lee, Monster
A video compilation of Lani doing her typical monster thing. Music in this one. Hooray.
June 28, 2007
A difficult area of Japanese
Japanese has a very limited set of sounds (compared to English, Korean, or Chinese), and that means there are a lot of words with the same sound but different meanings. Of course, this is not isolated to Japanese, just as we have “bear” and “bare”, “which” and “witch”, et cetera in English, but there [...]
June 26, 2007
My Korea
This is just a collage of photos I’ve taken over the past 4 months around our island. A lot of the shots are really abstract, but they’re all things that I associate with Korea. I’m going to try something like this again later, but with more direct imagery (i.e. more Korean text in [...]
June 26, 2007
My first “Weekly Assignment”
I decided to try my hand at a “Weekly Assignment” over at the photography site FredMiranda.com.
This week’s theme is “Almost Perfect”. Here’s my submission:
I named the shot Blank Canvas. At the time, I was imagining this wall in a large city, where it would not be nearly as pristine as this.
The submission deadline [...]
June 24, 2007
My new dictinanity.
I stole my wife’s dictionary. She thinks we’re “sharing it”, but who’s she kidding? It’s mine now.
It’s a Sharp PW-A8105V, which is basically the same thing as the PW-A8100.
And it has a hard-case.
It’s not a toy. It makes real cupcakes, with a 40-watt bulb. And there’s icing packets. But the [...]
June 23, 2007
Seoul in retro
We’re back in Geoje.
I mentioned what we did in the first 5 hours of our trip the other day, and now I’ll briefly explain the rest of our trip by days.
We went to submit Lani’s paperwork for U.S. citizenship, but, as I suspected it would be, it was incomplete. We’ll finish it by mail, [...]
June 18, 2007
Some Pictures in Seoul
I’m sorry, we’re Seoul’d out.
So, here are some pictures from our first day in Seoul. We just hung out, nothing special. Most of the pictures are of Lani, because my sister-in-law took them.
I should explain that my sister-in-law is a make-up artist who has been approached to become a model several times, so [...]
June 17, 2007
Back Again
I find myself back in Seoul.
The wife and I ran away from home for a week. I’m pretty relaxed with my hours and hours of free-time everyday, but the missus was getting hounded by my in-laws and she needed an escape. So, here we are in Korea’s capital.
Two amazing* things have happened since [...]
June 15, 2007
Journal Junk Box
I got a Korean driver’s license. The whole deal was just a bunch of jumping through hoops. It cost more for my two round-trips than to actually obtain the license.
The only license center near us that could issue a foreign-license-transfer was in this tiny boon-docks town. Everything there was dirty. I [...]
