hmfk!

my trip to korea was a great success although was of course way too short. i got totally fucked by thai airways because of what was going on in bangkok but ended up on great cathay pacific flights which i can only recommend for your future travel arrangements. free beer, good meals, comfortable seats, and decent movies. i watched hancock on the flight back it was pretty sweet. the beer and wine were both delightful as both myself and my neighbor enjoyed both directions. not the same person, but the same enjoyment.

korea was really cool though. i met up with ace and we kicked it pretty hard for a few days. it would take a while to review everything that happened. ace has his own blog where he's so far reviewed our first 24 hours. my first night there i got in after 9, we went for food, continued to get pretty drunk and ended up at a jjimjil bang. here is where things got interesting. a jjimjil bang is like a man-sauna where people (both men and women) can go to spend the night. you pay something like US$4 and they give you sweats and a key. youre then to take your shoes and put them in a small locker (we were too drunk to do this) and then go on to a bigger locker down the hall where you can change and lock your shit up. here's how that went.....



ok so you get the idea. close enough. we made our way down two floors below to where it really started to heat up. literally. there were people sprawled all over the fuckin place. men and women spooning, people in rows, people in columns, just people like all over the place. it was hot as shit the heat was coming from the floor. a few hours later, ace and i [independently] woke up with no shirt [also independently] and confused. it was too hot to exist. we went up to the mens locker room which is basically an hour long shower with men. a guys afternoon in, if you will. we tried to nap on some kind of clean floor against a wall there but were poked to wake up. not a sexy kind of poke, just a poke. we returned down to the 1st underfloor and went back to sleep. this time, when we woke up, ace had no mat and i had no blanket. some motherfucker took my blanket while i was sleeping. i guess i was tired enough not to notice. but as a sidebar, that's fucked up. please don't ever take my blanket from me while i'm sleeping. it's cruel. and how did someone manage to take ace's mat from underneath him while he was sleeping? some fucked up shit goes on in those jjimjil bangs. to get a somewhat decent idea of what i'm talking about, check this video.



yeah i wouldnt recommend watching that whole video it might fuck with your head. im sure i could go on for a while about this place and the story surrounding it but this shit is already getting long. we did manage to sing karaoke twice (nori bang, i think) which was fun......



this may be the first actual footage of me karaoke-ing. and yes, i kicked the shit out of it. we also ate some bloody sausage at this bar playing dvds of korean pop bands doing concerts which was quite captivating actually.....



i know, i look fuckin psyched. the bloody sausage wasn't necessarily delightful. closer to less than enjoyable. everyone else at the table seemed to like it, so whatever works. i would have preferred some sweet potato caserole or some stuffing but we gave up on thanksgiving way before any of that happened. i also didnt bring the appropriate jacket to korea so now i have thoughts of the entire country being a freeze pot when in fact it's not really that cold.

i also picked up a new sweatshirt today from 8five2. these fuckers are the unofficial mayor and mayoress of hong kong, if you remember that earlier post.



hong motha fuckin kong, bitches!