Far East Cynic

Quote of the day…..

Comes from John Cole: As a side note, what does it say about your party when people are deemed unelectable because they oppose torture? QED!

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Why don’t you get it?

It is cold here in Seoul today. The kind of wet, sink to your bone cold that exists in a place where wet snow is frequent. It was sunny today, but its clear I did not bring enough of the right type of clothing. I should have packed my long

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Liberation day

I’ve never been so happy to see a train in my life. I took the train up to Seoul today. I have work up here for the next 3 days-I’m grateful for it, it gave me a reason to leave the project in Busan and Jinhae.Never in the history of

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Well, this explains it….

Why the Chinese government is bunch of commie prix……………… H/T to Hemlock!

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What they missed………

The guys on Kitty Hawk that is. I’m finally getting around to posting some of my pix from my foray to the fragrant harbor a couple of weeks ago. I sure wish I was there right now! Instead of being here watching people get frustrated producing a report that no

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No shape to post………

Only a moron would thnk that working till 5:30 pm when you have a dinner commitment with Koreans is a good idea…….. As for what we got done today? Well here is the story in three panels:    You want it bad, you get it bad!

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Back in Korea………..

This pretty well sums up my mood: What’s that you say, Bukowski did not write Peanuts? Well if he had, here is what it would read like: My female readers can probably relate! Read some more over here! Its pretty funny-especially when you are depressed about being in Korea! H/T

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Learn something new every day…………..

On my way back to Korea, to look for a new job to finish my part of the project. Saying I am depressed is more than an understatement. However one of the reads that cheers me up every day is from the Canadian Skippy who writes a snappy blog called

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This I believe………..( Part 1).

I go back to Korea tomorrow and I am not looking forward to it.  Posting may be intermittent for a few days. I’m behind where I should be because I deliberately let it slip this week. I just did not feel like doing it. Which,  has gotten me to think

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Thinking about KY……

No, not the KY that the Korea project leader forgot to use when he dreamed up the plan for the project I’m going back to on Sunday………………. KY is a new Japanese slang term. KY is short for kuki ga yomenai, (”can’t read between the lines” or “can’t sense the

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