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• the day I got frass

  April 26, 2006

  Setting up my new home on the canal (I love it!) and unpacking my boxes from storage, I recently came across my cool painting from Bali, which reminded me of what happened the last time I returned to Australia, from South Korea: --------------------- Apparently I'm a bad-frass mama. A true s...

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• pornos and passports

  March 28, 2006

  So I'm at the video store. The one to which I belonged before living overseas. The girl behind the counter informs me I have an overdue fee for a late return (from nearly two years ago!)  I ask which movie it was. She told me and I heard, "Babe Laid."  I said, "Pardon? Is...

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• the queens are back Down Under

  March 14, 2006

  Yes, the jujuQueen is back home in Australia, and of lesser note, Queen Elizabeth is here as well to open the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne tonight. Inconceivable. Back in Australia. For almost four weeks now. What a whirlwind! It's been wonderful being home. Seeing friends and family agai...

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• one man’s trash..

  February 17, 2006

  .. is sometimes the same man's treasure. Last night (my last night in Korea) found me bent at the waist, hanging on the edge (half in, half out) of the huge industrial bin outside my apartment. Just another night, really. Actually, my friends and I had been looking at my passport and re...

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• I sounded like a lesbian stalker

  February 14, 2006

  How embarrassing. Yesterday I was waiting for some Korean friends at the bus terminal downtown, and out walked my friend from South Africa with his newly-arrived sister. It's her first time in Korea. We said hello and about five other words, and then they left. Today I called up my South African ...

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• the wind came up and blew them inagain..

  February 10, 2006

  So it's my last weekend in the Land of the Morning Calm. Is it too early in the day to be drinking? It's five o'clock somewhere, right? I dreamt last night of something that happened while I was at uni. I had been out late at the uni's computer lab, working on an essay and…

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• caveat emptor

  October 30, 2005

  "brah brah brah   1,500 W   brah brah brah" (That is, lots of Korean writing, with the big sale price of 1,500 Won.) 1,500 Won! What a bargain! My son needs new sneakers, I have less than 10,000 W on me, this is serendipitous! Those babies are mine! I choose the...

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• would you like a lapdance with that critique?

  October 22, 2005

  So today I went to our book club meeting, to discuss "We were the Mulvaneys". Instead of gathering in one of our homes, we met downtown in the 'Yang, thinking that meeting at a coffee house might be cool. So, we (inadvertently) held our book club meeting in a brothel. (An easy mistake t...

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• ramblings on rumblings

  October 13, 2005

  Guess which seafood phobic picked the wrong day to eat at the school cafeteria? "Oh.. it's fish today.. and look at those heads floating in there. "Oh.. relief! Is this a... it can't be! Is this a pasta salad?!!  Oh.. right. It's eel? Oh... "Do I want kimchi? Oh.. yes please. ...

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