Far East Cynic

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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Not so fast!

I’ll bet there are more than a few people pissed off here. Including every bar owner in Wanchai: U.S. aircraft carrier denied access to Hong Kong HONG KONG 21 Nov 2007-(Reuters) – China has refused permission for a U.S. aircraft carrier and accompanying vessels to visit Hong Kong for a

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Under the premise of, “That’s not funny! That’s sick!” The Muppets celebrate Thanksgiving in the alternate universe:

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Working your way up the ladder……..

I went out running this afternoon. Had spent the day in work trying to get some non-Korean related things done before I go back to the killing of trees in the name of allied unity. When your children are deprived of oxygen someday, and the sceptics have finally woken up

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The vanishing Blue Train…..

They are called Shindaisha in Japanese. It means “sleeper train”. A couple of days ago, in our morning Asahi Shimbun, the paper ran a front page article about diminishing ridership on these train lines. The trains which, with the exception of the opulent Casseiopea Train which runs from Ueno to

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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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