Far East Cynic

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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Relationships

In my current funk, I’ve been coming to a slow realization. I’ve known it deep down all along, but the romantic in me has always wanted to suppress the reality of it.  Because when you accept the fact that relationships are not about sex-but about power and whose dreams get mortgaged

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Unpacking……..

As I have said before, nothing becomes Korea like the leaving of it. It is good to be home. Even it only is for a week and then I get to go back to the grind in the land of the morning calm, once again. Thank God for the Thanksgiving

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Someone has blundered……

That’s the title of a book I bought in HK. Its a history of calamaties of the British Army in the Victorian Age. It also could be the title of a short story about my current existence here in Korea.  The project needs to be done, but the guy who

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The time has come the Walrus said…..

“The traveller’s-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.”-Aldous Huxley. On this trip I am going to try to

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What its like……

To be working on this project I’m doing this coming month in Korea: Staying late working on drafts of things that will be rejected: And dealing with this guy: I can hardly wait to board the plane! 🙁

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No time to post.

Lots of phone calls tonight, cranky/bitchy S.O., working on resume, surfing Monster and dreaming of the Mid-Levels apartment I will never have-generally crying in my beer. FUCKING RED SOX! That sums THAT up!. More tomorrow. In the meantime, go read the other Skippy. He’s on a roll with this post.

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Somedays…..

You can just smell a lousy day coming your way when you get up………. Today is one of those days. Pusan weather has been nice-as for the city, well its a Korean city. It is what it is. Off to work now to see what bad news awaits me.

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The dilemma……..

Being here in North Carolina is a mixed review. Its nice to be with family and yet at the same time it is an accusation of sorts. Each time I return I can see that my mother is having a harder and harder time remembering things-yet one question she always

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