We don’t need no water…
"I can't control it."
You ever feel like you're on fire? It's a mixture of that NBA Jam, 'nothing can stop me' and that 'burning out' feeling. I know I can't sustain it but even so I feel like I'm unstoppable. I just need to work on channeling that energy toward my goals in life.
I don't really have a long post to share. I just needed to let of a bit of this energy. While I'm here lets drop a few bits of info to update everyone.
Seven months and counting…
Something went horribly wrong along the way...
Seven months and I still haven't gotten in to a rhythm of blogging. I meant to make a lot of different posts. I never did take pictures of my Christmas swag. Nor did I...well I haven't taken enough pictures period. I'm going to change that. I wish I had some shots with last year's third graders. The group at my second school was a bunch of really cool guys. I need to take more pictures when I go out. I was at an awesome party the other day and I barely took any shots. Granted, I was having a lot of fun and didn't want to stop and pull out a stupid camera. Anyway, more pictures -- got it. Anyway, lets get you up to speed:
Where does the Steam come from?
This is how they get you...stupid frequent sales...
Answer: It's the evaporation of your liquid assets.
I'm hereby vowing to stop buying games (on Steam) for the foreseable future until I finish the ones I have. The list is impressive and must be dealt with. However, I will get my hands on CoD: Black Ops and FIFA 11 to play over here (on PS3). Not that I even need more games. I definitely don't. This is part of my grand master plan to cut down the amount of spending I've been doing.
I’m glad I missed the bus.
This is where you live when you achieve mini-baller status.
As usual, whatever group I'm with either has no sense of time or poor decision making ability. This isn't a shot at my local friends. This is more of a statement of empirical fact. Almost every time we decide to catch a train or a bus, we decide to leave about five minutes later than we should've and we end up hustling just to try and make it. Usually the gamble pays off. Unfortunately, when it doesn't you lose big.
This past weekend it was as if all the small victories I've acquired decided to get paid back with negative karma in an effort to quickly balance out the natural order. We tried to go to Jindo, we really did but we missed bus after bus and in the end were just not in the mood to watch the tide go out so we can get our feet wet.
iamcooking: The First Soup/Stew
So, I had some chicken that was going to go bad unless I figured out what to do with it. Being the lazy tard I am. I stuck it in the fridge since I had run out of freezer bags and we were on day 3. I had just lost a package of chicken breasts to this same incompetence and I wasn't about to lose a whole sliced up chicken.
STEW
That was my master plan to deal with a bunch of bone-in unskinned chicken. Cooking the chicken this long makes the meat fall off the bone and skin while making use of the bone in the first place. This is the part where I wish I had paid close attention to my mom's soup because that stuff is delicious. Then again, that soup requires me to make dumplings and slice yams (which I can't even get) so I guess it doesn't really matter in the end.
Studying Korean in Korea
Don't do it. Study Korean back at whatever home country you're in. Once you get here, I feel like you're slowly drained of motivation to study Korean. The more culture I absorb the more I feel like the pursuit isn't all the meaningful. I personally, see the business benefits but only as an entrepreneur.
Before I really talk more about this just read Jake's article: http://jakeinkorea.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/stop-studying-korean/
When Vacation Is Only A Dream: Winter Camp
I was caught remembering The Original Kings of Comedy speaking on Black people taking breaks at work: When we break, WE BREAK!
As pretty much everyone (who cares) knows, we have to teach what is called 'winter camp' during the time I normally consider winter vacation. Here's an update for Korean society that doesn't seem to understand the term vacation: when I go on vacation, I don't work. I don't even like to think about work. If I wanted to work, I wouldn't go on vacation. I understand, this is a different culture so I roll with it. However, really, this isn't vacation.
The continuation of a decade is just another year: 2011 Resolutions
Needless to say, I failed horribly at my New Year's resolutions for 2010.
- Produce six games I managed a total of zero
- Learn the top 1000 kanji I pretty much stopped studying after I left college.
- Read my Japanese textbooks (JSL/JWL series and Genki I) Didn't finish any of these. Stop reading after the first month
- Achieve Navy PRT standard Hahahahahahaha.....
- Cook and bake more Hey, I actually did this one. I'm sure I'm not where I wanted to be but I do cook more.
- Manage a post every week Definitely didn't even get half-way: 21/52
So, I managed 1/6. Really, I have more I didn't even share so my actual number is worse. This year lets try to make things a bit more achievable?
Things I Miss In Korea: Black Women
Imagine this guy with a black jacket and few less teeth and you have my mugger.
I'm walking the street and some old man literally grabbed me and then just smiled and waved. Don't misunderstand, he didn't run up and announce his presence. He did not tap me repeated on the shoulder. He casually walked past me and then yanked my arm as I trailed the group. Did I mention I was with a four-man set?
Dark Age of Eorzea
Ah so peaceful, this is what Eorzea will look like this time next year.
"You have broken me, all the way down..." (Glen Hansard, All the Way Down)
That's where we are now.
Gamasutra listed the launch of Final Fantasy XIV as the #4 biggest disappointment of 2010. With less than three weeks to go in the year. I'd say, personally, it was probably #3 (more about 2010 disappoints in a later post). I've been REALLY looking forward to the next Final Fantasy MMO. In my opinion, FFXI did nothing short of amazing in its initial approach to the MMO genre. Yeah it was lackluster in many facets but to be honest there's still nothing like it in the PvE MMO scene. It's right up there as my #2 best MMO ever (with #1 going to Dark Age of Camelot for a solid PvE experience as the foreshadowing of a great PvP environment for its time).