You know how the movie Office Space starts out? Case of the mondays, machine gun sounds...yeah that was me, except the 'cock-gobbler' comments were there too. And who can forget the term that is always rolling off the tongue here NO-TALENT ASSCLOWN.
I am not sure how so many incompetent worthless people ended up in one place without being ELECTED!!! It is just mind boggling. I am so close to just screaming and telling everyone to take it and shove it up their ass sideways and twist it.
AUGH!!! Save me! SAVE ME!!! SAVEME!!! Sigh.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Busan!!! Finally, F@#$!!!
So, have been just trying to get my SH** together and get out, but in the interim, have some last nights of fun. One of those nights was jetting out of work early on a friday (early meaning 4:30!!!) and heading toward Ilsan and seeing a college hockey game. That was fricking awesome, and not just because I love hockey, okay...maybe because I love hockey. Anyway, the fans were rabid (rivalry game Yonsei University vs. Korea University) and totally loud. Just like the baseball game I went to with constant music, cheers, and just awesome. An over-capacity crowd...seats for 5,000 and like 8,000 in the stadium...made for just an awesome time. I loved it, and wished I could see more hockey while here. I have some pics and video, check it out.
On to my trip to Busan, FINALLY DAMMIT!!! I have planned 3 other trips to Busan, and each time failed because some no-talent assclown couldn't figure out how to do their job efficiently enough to plan for what they needed more than a day or two in advance. FUCK! BUSAN. I totally took the KTX (bullet train) and made it all the way up to 299 kph (124 mph). That was fun, really nice clean and easy. $87 roundtrip, and took about 3 hours from Seoul to Busan. The best part is, the train station is one block from my apartment, its where I get my bus to work, and shop for groceries, now that is RAD!!!
So I leave a beautiful and clear day in Seoul, one of the nicest I have ever seen, for the pouring rain of Busan, LAME! Kinda check out the beach in the dark take some photos, wander, and as the evening goes on, it clears and becomes quite nice. Walked all around, taking in a lot of the scene and carefully choose the bar I will go into. Its called Thursday, and actually is 2 bars separated by another store front, but are one in the same. I even order a beer, and the waiter tells me to go to the other one to get it. F that, whatever you have here.
Next day, power on out for a quick breakfast, and grab a slow boat from up north to tour south along all of the beaches, waterfront, and port areas of Busan way cool. Funny, on that part of the East Sea, the swell was like 1m on that day, and people were falling all over the place, pretty funny. Grab the KTX, and home. Not real exciting or eventful, other than watching the "dishwash" at lunch, after having started, garden hose in the alley, just a quick rinse, and plop it down on the table to use again. No wonder I have "issues" with Korean food at times. Check out the pics here!
Just a few more days, 6 days, 10 hours, 27 minutes and 3 seconds to be exact. Catch ya'll soon, and be sure to check out DiSS if you haven't yet.
On to my trip to Busan, FINALLY DAMMIT!!! I have planned 3 other trips to Busan, and each time failed because some no-talent assclown couldn't figure out how to do their job efficiently enough to plan for what they needed more than a day or two in advance. FUCK! BUSAN. I totally took the KTX (bullet train) and made it all the way up to 299 kph (124 mph). That was fun, really nice clean and easy. $87 roundtrip, and took about 3 hours from Seoul to Busan. The best part is, the train station is one block from my apartment, its where I get my bus to work, and shop for groceries, now that is RAD!!!
So I leave a beautiful and clear day in Seoul, one of the nicest I have ever seen, for the pouring rain of Busan, LAME! Kinda check out the beach in the dark take some photos, wander, and as the evening goes on, it clears and becomes quite nice. Walked all around, taking in a lot of the scene and carefully choose the bar I will go into. Its called Thursday, and actually is 2 bars separated by another store front, but are one in the same. I even order a beer, and the waiter tells me to go to the other one to get it. F that, whatever you have here.
Next day, power on out for a quick breakfast, and grab a slow boat from up north to tour south along all of the beaches, waterfront, and port areas of Busan way cool. Funny, on that part of the East Sea, the swell was like 1m on that day, and people were falling all over the place, pretty funny. Grab the KTX, and home. Not real exciting or eventful, other than watching the "dishwash" at lunch, after having started, garden hose in the alley, just a quick rinse, and plop it down on the table to use again. No wonder I have "issues" with Korean food at times. Check out the pics here!
Just a few more days, 6 days, 10 hours, 27 minutes and 3 seconds to be exact. Catch ya'll soon, and be sure to check out DiSS if you haven't yet.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Somebody tell me how it is September!
I may have said this before, but if one contracts/discovers they have a terminal illness…come work for the K-C PMC, it will be the longest days of your life, in effect prolonging your life to the point of wishing for the caressing touch of Death. I have no terminal illness, and would love to live my life elsewhere, regardless of how quick it may seem!
So about this gig. Wow, so I finally have a chance to breathe…meaning there wasn’t enough work for me to do when I got back, nice planning. The one thing on the horizon to keep me busy, my replacement, gets delayed. WTF? So I complain and get her in a week late. What is it she finds? Organized chaos. Some of my doing, I didn’t fully plan everything or document every little thing, because, well, I had no fucking time. Now that I do, documentation is happening, but I think she thinks I’m an idiot. Dammit, I hate this program. I don’t like their poor everything helping to make me look like more of a moron than I actually am. GRRR!!!
Good news though, I should have the option of learning some SDE, and Oracle. I know, nerd, nerd, nerd. Whatever! Bill Gates rules your pitiful world! :-P
Other news? Just biding my time until I leave. The countdown has begun, see you in 20 days.
So about this gig. Wow, so I finally have a chance to breathe…meaning there wasn’t enough work for me to do when I got back, nice planning. The one thing on the horizon to keep me busy, my replacement, gets delayed. WTF? So I complain and get her in a week late. What is it she finds? Organized chaos. Some of my doing, I didn’t fully plan everything or document every little thing, because, well, I had no fucking time. Now that I do, documentation is happening, but I think she thinks I’m an idiot. Dammit, I hate this program. I don’t like their poor everything helping to make me look like more of a moron than I actually am. GRRR!!!
Good news though, I should have the option of learning some SDE, and Oracle. I know, nerd, nerd, nerd. Whatever! Bill Gates rules your pitiful world! :-P
Other news? Just biding my time until I leave. The countdown has begun, see you in 20 days.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
You're not missing anything, believe me. I've looked into it. There's a gas shortage and A Flock of Seagulls.
So yeah. Birthday...weekend....work for two solid weeks...FLY TO HONG KONG!!!
So I totally disappeared Friday at noon for Hong Kong! It is fricking AWESOME! I mean, the airport is pretty damned ghetto for being almost new!!! The train to Hong Kong island, only like 40 minutes, that beats Narita to Tokyo, or Incheon to Seoul, so total bonus there. It is more expensive than I expected, but looking at receipts, not as expensive as I thought. About the same as Seoul and Tokyo. Go straight from terminal to train, train to subway, subway outside....OH SHIT!!! IT IS F-ING HOT, HUMID, AND JUST UGH!!!
One more thing that surprised me...tall and dense like I expected of Tokyo. But better than Tokyo, because the mountains and "outdoors" are literally just a few minutes walk away. The subways were even more crowded than the Seoul #2 line. And yes, after being in certain parts of Tokyo, Seoul is busier, but Hong Kong has them both beat.
So, stayed in Kowloon (Tsim Tsa Shui) and hung out nearby on friday night. Dinner at an awesome Szechuan restaurant that no whiteys were in. Perfect. It was fantabulous! Good Tsing Tao, and hot & sour soup. Well good everything. My stamp of approval.
Saturday, wake up...is that rain? OH YEAH! Not just any rain, but back end of typhoon/monsoonal moisture. Great. Well, nut it up and head out anyway. There is a break in it, and I just kinda wander Kowloon, check the market, take in the vertical. Pretty cool, CRAP, rain again! Screw this, hot, humid, rainy...why not go somewhere where it is better, the bellows of the subway? Crap!!! Well at least the cars are air-conditioned.
Head to Central (big, tall, symbols of Hong Kong). Lots of shopping and tall buildings. I mean they are tall, but man, I thought they'd be taller. Lots of photos, and I need some Dim Sum. So wander to the tram, and see where it takes me. It takes me far. When I stop marveling at the fun double decker trolley, I realize I am WELL off my map. Simple solution, get off and head back. Back on the map, I ask a couple of Police Officers the best Dim Sum around. They write two Chinese characters on my map, and give me directions. I SUCK!!! Walk by it twice, ask directions 3 more times from others...turns out they wrote the characters from left to right...apparently Chinese read from right to left. Does that sound right? I have never heard that before? TYSEN? Anyway, the place is totally packed, and totally won't seat me. So I wander up the street and go in the next promising looking place. Good Dim Sum, Monsoon in Seattle is still the BEST!!! One interesting note, there are two kinds of Guinness in Hong Kong, the kind we all know and love, and the kind I had with Dim Sum. AWFUL!!!
Wow, there is an escalator, cool! Ride it, and ride it, and ride it. Umm...got to the top, come on down...CRAP!!! The rains start, and in EARNEST! Well, luckily I scored a cheap umbrella, but I swear the rain is coming UP!!! So I hide for about 20 minutes under a building. Catch a cab to the Victoria Peak Tram. So caught a bus I thought was the bus to the tram, but instead, back down to the harbor. CRAP!!! So rode it back up to where I caught it, where the tram was. Went up the tram, and DAMN it is steep! Like 50 degrees! Whew. And amazingly, after hanging at the top, the weather cleared up! Awesome pictures!
Head down to the harbor and catch the ferry back to Kowloon, and the light show that is the buildings of Hong Kong. Pretty cool from on the water! Then wander to the ChungKing Mansions, and get harassed by 1000 Indian dudes to eat at their restaurant. Pick one from the book and go in. Awesome food, mostly Indians eating, score! Try some Indian beer, typical Indian food. Was good! RADICAL!
Totally knocked out and just crash, get up late the next day and fly home. I am SO GOING BACK!!! I really liked Hong Kong. Who's coming with me next time?
So I totally disappeared Friday at noon for Hong Kong! It is fricking AWESOME! I mean, the airport is pretty damned ghetto for being almost new!!! The train to Hong Kong island, only like 40 minutes, that beats Narita to Tokyo, or Incheon to Seoul, so total bonus there. It is more expensive than I expected, but looking at receipts, not as expensive as I thought. About the same as Seoul and Tokyo. Go straight from terminal to train, train to subway, subway outside....OH SHIT!!! IT IS F-ING HOT, HUMID, AND JUST UGH!!!
One more thing that surprised me...tall and dense like I expected of Tokyo. But better than Tokyo, because the mountains and "outdoors" are literally just a few minutes walk away. The subways were even more crowded than the Seoul #2 line. And yes, after being in certain parts of Tokyo, Seoul is busier, but Hong Kong has them both beat.
So, stayed in Kowloon (Tsim Tsa Shui) and hung out nearby on friday night. Dinner at an awesome Szechuan restaurant that no whiteys were in. Perfect. It was fantabulous! Good Tsing Tao, and hot & sour soup. Well good everything. My stamp of approval.
Saturday, wake up...is that rain? OH YEAH! Not just any rain, but back end of typhoon/monsoonal moisture. Great. Well, nut it up and head out anyway. There is a break in it, and I just kinda wander Kowloon, check the market, take in the vertical. Pretty cool, CRAP, rain again! Screw this, hot, humid, rainy...why not go somewhere where it is better, the bellows of the subway? Crap!!! Well at least the cars are air-conditioned.
Head to Central (big, tall, symbols of Hong Kong). Lots of shopping and tall buildings. I mean they are tall, but man, I thought they'd be taller. Lots of photos, and I need some Dim Sum. So wander to the tram, and see where it takes me. It takes me far. When I stop marveling at the fun double decker trolley, I realize I am WELL off my map. Simple solution, get off and head back. Back on the map, I ask a couple of Police Officers the best Dim Sum around. They write two Chinese characters on my map, and give me directions. I SUCK!!! Walk by it twice, ask directions 3 more times from others...turns out they wrote the characters from left to right...apparently Chinese read from right to left. Does that sound right? I have never heard that before? TYSEN? Anyway, the place is totally packed, and totally won't seat me. So I wander up the street and go in the next promising looking place. Good Dim Sum, Monsoon in Seattle is still the BEST!!! One interesting note, there are two kinds of Guinness in Hong Kong, the kind we all know and love, and the kind I had with Dim Sum. AWFUL!!!
Wow, there is an escalator, cool! Ride it, and ride it, and ride it. Umm...got to the top, come on down...CRAP!!! The rains start, and in EARNEST! Well, luckily I scored a cheap umbrella, but I swear the rain is coming UP!!! So I hide for about 20 minutes under a building. Catch a cab to the Victoria Peak Tram. So caught a bus I thought was the bus to the tram, but instead, back down to the harbor. CRAP!!! So rode it back up to where I caught it, where the tram was. Went up the tram, and DAMN it is steep! Like 50 degrees! Whew. And amazingly, after hanging at the top, the weather cleared up! Awesome pictures!
Head down to the harbor and catch the ferry back to Kowloon, and the light show that is the buildings of Hong Kong. Pretty cool from on the water! Then wander to the ChungKing Mansions, and get harassed by 1000 Indian dudes to eat at their restaurant. Pick one from the book and go in. Awesome food, mostly Indians eating, score! Try some Indian beer, typical Indian food. Was good! RADICAL!
Totally knocked out and just crash, get up late the next day and fly home. I am SO GOING BACK!!! I really liked Hong Kong. Who's coming with me next time?
Happy Birthday to me!
So, yeah, my birthday, like two weeks ago. Friday the 13th! Party...well, the plan. After a week of solid partying with the Boyds and the "other" Mr. Savage, why not start off by tackling 4000 cc's of beer? PERFECT!!! Why not add in BEER CAN CHICKEN!!!
REMEMBER FOLKS, KOREANS THINK THIS IS CLASSY, NOT TRASHY AND OH SO STEVE!!!
So after gnoshing on interesting food at a brauhaus, and making 8 more liters of beer disappear, take a LONG train ride to party-town! Well, good old Hongdae, waiting and ready for us as usual...unfortunately, the other friends were NOT ready and waiting! Grr! So after laying in the street for about an hour sobering up, we went to a sweet club that lets ex-pats in for free (they know we drink a lot, so they do that, Koreans are rookies when its not Soju). While here, the Boyds and the "other" Mr. Savage, as well as other friends decide that they all will buy me drinks. THANK GOD FOR BUDWEISER. So then the big boss shows up, and the other office birthday celebrant as well. SHE IS TANKED!!! Proceeds to dance, flail, then pass out on the bar. AWESOME!!! Hope to do that next year. Anyway, big boss, buys the Boyds and the "other" Mr. Savage drinks...after about 3 he asks Marty: "Do you work for me?" HA HA HA!!! Awesome, of course not, but cool anyway. He is awesome. Anyway, survive the night of drinking and dancing, and best of all, no illness the next day, hooray for beer.
More to come.
REMEMBER FOLKS, KOREANS THINK THIS IS CLASSY, NOT TRASHY AND OH SO STEVE!!!
So after gnoshing on interesting food at a brauhaus, and making 8 more liters of beer disappear, take a LONG train ride to party-town! Well, good old Hongdae, waiting and ready for us as usual...unfortunately, the other friends were NOT ready and waiting! Grr! So after laying in the street for about an hour sobering up, we went to a sweet club that lets ex-pats in for free (they know we drink a lot, so they do that, Koreans are rookies when its not Soju). While here, the Boyds and the "other" Mr. Savage, as well as other friends decide that they all will buy me drinks. THANK GOD FOR BUDWEISER. So then the big boss shows up, and the other office birthday celebrant as well. SHE IS TANKED!!! Proceeds to dance, flail, then pass out on the bar. AWESOME!!! Hope to do that next year. Anyway, big boss, buys the Boyds and the "other" Mr. Savage drinks...after about 3 he asks Marty: "Do you work for me?" HA HA HA!!! Awesome, of course not, but cool anyway. He is awesome. Anyway, survive the night of drinking and dancing, and best of all, no illness the next day, hooray for beer.
More to come.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
NEVER PLANNING TO GO TO BUSAN AGAIN!!!
SERIOUSLY!!! I have tried about three times to go to Busan, using the KTX (bullet) train. NO!!! I always end up having a shit-ton of work to do those weekends. It's like they know I am going to go somewhere. So instead of going to Busan last weekend....I a going to Hong Kong this weekend. In my opinion a better choice. HOORAY!!!
Work is the same, too much, stupid coworker who makes more work, clients that are unreasonably demanding, THE USUAL. Good news is, there is another Mr. Savage in to rescue me for a month and a half. The unfortunate thing, is he is just as surly as ME!!! Wow!!! It's like we are brothers or something! We clearly do share some Savage lineage somewhere down the line. Anyway, he works for the same company as me, in the group that does GIS, which everyone I have met doesn't suck...well except for whiny Davenhall. So its good to have reinforcements, even if it means they expect more work, because we can go get beers after work.
Have I mentioned that I STILL don't have that tailored suit yet? Man, its like I work, and sleep and work. WAIT! I DO!
Anyway, some fun is in there, Rocky Mountain Tavern, oh and birthday update. Yeah, I know, but I am tired and need that sleep, so out! Later.
Work is the same, too much, stupid coworker who makes more work, clients that are unreasonably demanding, THE USUAL. Good news is, there is another Mr. Savage in to rescue me for a month and a half. The unfortunate thing, is he is just as surly as ME!!! Wow!!! It's like we are brothers or something! We clearly do share some Savage lineage somewhere down the line. Anyway, he works for the same company as me, in the group that does GIS, which everyone I have met doesn't suck...well except for whiny Davenhall. So its good to have reinforcements, even if it means they expect more work, because we can go get beers after work.
Have I mentioned that I STILL don't have that tailored suit yet? Man, its like I work, and sleep and work. WAIT! I DO!
Anyway, some fun is in there, Rocky Mountain Tavern, oh and birthday update. Yeah, I know, but I am tired and need that sleep, so out! Later.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Soju? Again? Have I not learned?
Hello all! Well since I last left you, I got one re-enforcement sent to me from stateside. Mr. Mat Savage. Hmm. No apparent relation, but CLEARLY from the last name there is some shared genetic material, because he reminds me of all my male relatives on the Savage side, amazingly enough. Also, as seen early in the blog, my friends have come over from the US. So after arriving back in Seoul from Tokyo...sleep. Seriously, we are just D.U.N. Done. Tuesday, the Boyds wander the city, doing the tourist thing while I am at work. What better to do than go out in Itaewon after work? I can't think of anything. So dinner out the Outback Steakhouse. Yeah, all these folks coming from thousands of miles to have what they can have at home. Brilliant? Oh, did I mention, all you can drink beer for $5.50. Brilliant. Whoever came up with this promotion....not so brilliant. 7 or 8 beers later, party on. Well, why not go to an overpriced bar in Itaewon to offset any savings of being at the Outback!
I ended up feeling like I was being dared a bit to show everyone a good time. "Don't you know all the fun places to go?" Tuesday, not a huge party night that it is, lets get some Soju. Well the Soju place we went to was just right, soju, cow intestines and stomach (chewy) and we kept it flowing. A woman next to us was on a date, with a guy she didn't like, so she joined in. I was really having a hard time understanding her because she mostly spoke Korean to me. "Slow down" Anyway, that was really amusing, the boys were feeling the effects of soju, for sure. I don't really remember much, but I am told Mat got sent home by cab, and his mind is erased until he woke up at NOON on wednesday, thanks Mat. The Boyds also were a bit hazy, but not as bad as me, I paid and didn't realize it. And wow! did I pay. Anyway, I made my way to work just after 10am, and felt like "I am slowly dying" until about 6pm. That was a rough day of work.
Well, the Boyds just recovered all day wednesday, and we met up again for dinner. This was real Korean BBQ, and then a driving tour courtesy of Ms. Yeon Mo, all of our personal driver, translator, and party liason. In fact, courtesy of the soju, the Savages call her 'el Diablo' and our Korean clients call her the 'Axes of Evil.' Not sure why, she is nice, sweet, and doesn't wanna drink it herself, but she is always there for it.
Then super awesome sushi! Mmmm...and a quick tour of Seoul Tower, and its fantastic bathrooms. Check out the picture link below. Then to scenic and beautiful WA Bar. It's a 'Western Ice Bar.' Still trying to figure out if I have EVER seen something like it in North America, or the parts of Europe I have been....Koreans just made this theme up. Anyway, a table with ice in a tub, and beers in there. Not bad, open them yourself, and tally up when done. Totally awesome. I proceed to turn the big 29 in the bar, that was the start of a nice birthday!
Check out photos of the week here!
I ended up feeling like I was being dared a bit to show everyone a good time. "Don't you know all the fun places to go?" Tuesday, not a huge party night that it is, lets get some Soju. Well the Soju place we went to was just right, soju, cow intestines and stomach (chewy) and we kept it flowing. A woman next to us was on a date, with a guy she didn't like, so she joined in. I was really having a hard time understanding her because she mostly spoke Korean to me. "Slow down" Anyway, that was really amusing, the boys were feeling the effects of soju, for sure. I don't really remember much, but I am told Mat got sent home by cab, and his mind is erased until he woke up at NOON on wednesday, thanks Mat. The Boyds also were a bit hazy, but not as bad as me, I paid and didn't realize it. And wow! did I pay. Anyway, I made my way to work just after 10am, and felt like "I am slowly dying" until about 6pm. That was a rough day of work.
Well, the Boyds just recovered all day wednesday, and we met up again for dinner. This was real Korean BBQ, and then a driving tour courtesy of Ms. Yeon Mo, all of our personal driver, translator, and party liason. In fact, courtesy of the soju, the Savages call her 'el Diablo' and our Korean clients call her the 'Axes of Evil.' Not sure why, she is nice, sweet, and doesn't wanna drink it herself, but she is always there for it.
Then super awesome sushi! Mmmm...and a quick tour of Seoul Tower, and its fantastic bathrooms. Check out the picture link below. Then to scenic and beautiful WA Bar. It's a 'Western Ice Bar.' Still trying to figure out if I have EVER seen something like it in North America, or the parts of Europe I have been....Koreans just made this theme up. Anyway, a table with ice in a tub, and beers in there. Not bad, open them yourself, and tally up when done. Totally awesome. I proceed to turn the big 29 in the bar, that was the start of a nice birthday!
Check out photos of the week here!
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