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It’s a little early I know but I just got this in a ‘forward this to 1000 people in 3 seconds or die a horrible death’ chain mail and, unusually enough, thought it was a really poignant piece of work. Apparently this was written by an Aussie peacekeeper in a far-away land one Christmas but feel free to replace all instances of Australia with your country of choice.
At least I think Lily Donaldson is from the UK (anyone care to correct me ?)
2 weeks and 2 days until I touch down back home in Brisvegas, hence I am busy trying to fit all of my shit in one sock (a years worth of accumulating stuff and I just cannot see myself making it under a 22kg weight limit - anyone know the best way to get 2 pairs of skis half-way across the globe ?) and I don’t have so much time for posting innane rubbish here for the disdain of the general masses.
I’ve been in dialogue with a mate of mine who knows about this stuff and it looks like I will have my very own website (not just a blog but actual server space to do what I want with) in not too long, I’m toying with www.hojuin.com or something similar … wadda ya rekon ?
This all brings me to the real point here, between packing, goodbye drinks, and other miscellaneous commitments I probably won’t post much here in the next month or so - maybe once a week or so.
Not that I expect a great outpouring of public grief at this news, I’m just saying it so we all know what’s going on :p
Hold your breath for my new site though, I have huge plans - it will become the leading repositry of undergraduate Legal/IR lecture notes and essays written by me on the internet (I’m afraid no essay work will be published prior to my submitting it though ㅋㅋ).
Dr Andrei Lankov is a professor at the Australian National University currently teaching (on sabattical ?) at 국민대학교 in Seoul. His resume list his main research interests as;
North Korean political and social history, with a special emphasis on the state’s formative periods (1945-1965) and the Soviet and Chinese policy toward the Korean Peninsula; the Modern Korean city and social and cultural aspects of modernization in Korea.
Last night he gave a lecture at the Royal Asiatic Society’s Correspondents Club lounge entitled, “The Death of North Korean Stalinism“. I was there with a few friends and I was most impressed.
Hunters shoot same elk - hunter and elk dead!
The title on this one caught my eye (I must admit to having a bit of a chuckle at the wording) and I figured it would make a great piece for my inaugural ‘lets try not to forget how to speak Norwegian’ post (in which I will try and translate an article of interest for your entertainment and my practice).
ok so I have actually never met the man but I just read the Metropoliticians latest scribble and, while I had been aware of a certain ‘less then flattering letter’ being written to the Korea times re: one of their articles I had not been able to find the original texts and as such did not really realise the true extend of the mans asswipeness (I’m sure he’d take umbridge at my poor use of idiom/grammar there).
The Metropolitician serves the full texts up in his latest post and I can only say I am nothing short of astounded - what a fucking retard this J.B. Toddsttoe is, he’s lucky INTS are playing in a tournament starting in about 20 mins or he’d be getting a much bigger mouthful from me.
What an ass.
I wasn’t sure, but the big Norwegian beside me was adamant
“you’ll be fine, I’m the shire representative, we’re practically related”
I looked across the barricade and saw the Prime Minister, standing as nonchalantly as a Scandinavian Prime Minister can, saying something to his wife – probably something important I thought.
“Once you clear the rope it’s only a short dash and you’ll be there”
Oranckay admits to being not so good at adding witty speech bubbles to interesting political photos and I was about to prove I’m not any different by trying to put a few on some of these pictures … until I saw this one - it’s an amusing speech bubble unto itself.
For the first time since 1978 (no that’s not a typo, it’s been 32 bleeding years) Australia has finally qualified for the world cup, good on ya boys.
I’ll not bother with a full roundup, a good one can be found here, as well as IJ’s succinct leadup and coverage at world inverted a dodgy one by the BBC can also be found here.
Very happy, very hungover.
As I’m preparing myself to leave this lovely country in but 4 short weeks (exactly, as of today in fact) I’ve come to reflect a bit on some of the more precious moments of my time here and, aside from the obligatory nights on the soju with pretty girls and the like, I’d have to say some of my fondest memories of Korea will be the times spent on the rock with good friends in all manner of overpopulated Korean crags (save for Chuseok, when we had the entirity of 선운산 to ourselves).
