Confessions of a Dangerous Blogger:

Today I bought a dog. But it has no insides. Which makes it great for holding things like pencils. It’s my new pencilcase and I love it. I saw a kid in class today with it and I knew right away that I just had to get one. So instead of stealing it from my student (which was my first thought), I went down to the local department store and found one there. Its so cute. I know, you’re going to say that I am turning into a kid. Yeah yeah, I know. But the thing is, I was always a kid you just thought I was grown up.

While at the store I bought a stash of some other cool equipment. It consists of the aforementioned pencil case, new kick-ass headphones with wrap around ear technology, some tapes to record my exploits at those cool singing rooms and lastly a nice new mat for my floor. NOW its a home.

It is too late to do anything else now. I’ll watch an episode of 24 before I sleep and then try and get over this sickness. Today I went vitamin crazy and ate any vitamin that crossed my path. I bought a fresh pack of multivitamins because when I take these it seems to work. Anyhow, it’s about time I stopped putting this page together and write some more stories. I have to finish the Binary Bestseller, I mean I have the plot all worked out, all it takes is time to write it. Plus I have a fresh idea for a play, a comedy. Plus I have to write some additional Onion articles and make a note of some other stuff that came through my brain a while ago.

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What a day. I’ve been coming down with a cold I think. My throat and head feel strange and I’m guessing that tomorrow it will all hit me. I’m just enjoying the last hours of semi-normality. I have spent the whole night updating the photos page (due to popular request). With all of the html and picture editing, I am going to sleep well tonight.

Today I met a lecturer from NJIT (New Jersey Institute of Technology). It was interesting to talk a little about Computer Science with him as I had kind of forgotten what it was like to be doing my undergraduate degree in it. Once finished, its easy to look back and laugh, but at the time it was hard. I don’t know why. Probably becuase the lecturers were so bad at communicating ideas. Secondly because I had some trouble staying awake in lectures. I don’t know why. When I am bored I guess I just go to sleep. That’s my explanation and I’m sticking to it.

Later on, I watched a Korean movie about a guy who loved ballroom dancing and used to frequent these special booking dance clubs where he’d pick up lonely housewives, make them fall in love with him and then get money from them. It was really stupid. Really. I’ll never have those 20 minutes back that I actually sat watching the movie. The rest of the time I was walking around doing stuff saying “man, this movie is dumb”. But I guess at the very least it’s good for my subliminal learning of Korean.

Was going to put another song up today, but really today hasn’t been a song day. I haven’t had a particular song stuck in my head and plus there was no time what with all the picture formatting I’ve been doing.

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A great session in the No-Rae-Bang (singing room) and i’m feeling better already. There’s a certain perspective to be had from just not thinking and I think I just found it. Mind you, I’m still on about the cleaning. Sometimes I wonder what in the hell I am doing. Everything, every day. It seems to be too random and influenced by outside factors. People like randomness because it brings up new unexpected things, things you couldn’t have thought of, like meeting new people or the sponteneity of going somewhere at the last minute. But for a life to be like that means that there is no purpose. In a movie or a book, the main character does things for a reason. They take steps toward their goal because without purpose the book loses meaning. Well how about our lives? When we go to a random place what are we really doing? Or when we fill in time watching TV or movies are we fulfilling a purpose? I guess the answer is that we are just living as our ancient forefathers have lived before us: responding to external factors in order to survive. And that’s just not good enough.

On a lighter note, I went to Bricx in Itaewon with Keith and had a few drinks. I went there in the shadow of an argument and so was feeling kinda down, but managed to forget my worries for the time being with a dose of beer and randomness. It was probably what I needed, but I think maybe what I need is some good military discipline to get my ass into gear. I think that if the child me saw the real me, he would be quite shocked.

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A pretty good night last night clubbing in Hongdae even though my heart wasn’t into it. This was partly because I was tired and partly because our co-workers, who we had agreed to meet up with in Shinchon didn’t show or call and I was stuck waiting by myself in Shinchon for an hour. Luckily one of my other friends called and I just met up with them in Hongdae. I don’t understand why they couldn’t at least call and say that they weren’t coming. Is this usual Korean custom? Anyway, I came home early from clubbing and got the sleep I needed so bad. Today I woke up with an uncontrollable desire to improve my life. I kind of feel like everything is cluttered and that nothing is right. I have to simplify and throw out the unnecessary clutter so that I can see clearly into the future. Sometimes there are so many things which we do to take our minds off the real problems in life that we forget that there are any. More on my cleaning later. Right now, I have to go and eat. Me and Keith are going to sit down and have a serious talk about Life the Universe and Everything. Oh and by the way, I just realised that I never read the last Hitch Hikers book. Cool! But I can’t find it here. Damn! And did you know that if you go to google, and ask ‘What is the answer to Life the Universe and Everything?” it will tell you: 42. Sweet!

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