Khimmy's Yaking

Thursday, July 28, 2005

PICT0019 copy

PICT0019 copy, originally uploaded by khimmy.

A bit edited

Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Hot Sunny Sunday at Starbucks

Been really hot and sticky... Vin and I decided that we need to stay indoor just to survive.... thinking this is how a polar bear would feel at 35 degrees Celsius outside....
Ended up staying in a local Starbucks for entire day.... Did some reading and photo shooting.... Vin's been watching some DVDs in the mean time.....

Friday, July 22, 2005

Regarding HP's New 8250 Inkjet Printer

"Everybody knows that the printer companies make most of their money selling cartridges, not printers. For H.-P. to claim breakthroughs in saving ink is like a fox declaring that it's thought up some new ways to guard the henhouse..."

Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Turkish Coffee Proverb

Saturday, July 09, 2005

From One Journal Entry While In Japan

June 28, 2005 7:55pm
Just got here at hotel.
I've had a great confusion with Japanese rail road system, hence took me a long time to get here [JAL hotel]. Let's just say that I passed a couple of train station, missing my get-off station.

Well, I didn't expect that Japan would be quite different from Korea. I was right in part, but there seems to be quite a difference after all. I mean I've just got here, so my experience so far may be only skin-deep.
Here are what I've found so far.

No kids. Where are kids?
Seoul is overflowed with teenagers. Train here is mostly occupied with 30's and 40's, suit wearing salary man.
Women here are generally, what's the word, "Sassy".
They know how to dress and present themselves with decent make-up and semi-business attire.
People here seem to mostly keep it to themselves. There's no loud talking on subway, or disturbing phone-conversations.
The city around here in Tamachi station has also a quite reserved atmosphere even though when I got here it was around 6 and people were busy getting to train station to get themselves home. No eating outside, drinking with co-workers, which are common scenes in Seoul around this time of the day. In fact, there doesn't even seem to be many eat-out restaurants.

I've just noticed that Japanese TV programs are quite similar to those in Korea.
Similar may be an understatement on my part. It may be an exact copy. I've also noticed that the Tom Cruise movie "War of Worlds" are titled 우주전쟁 (Space/Star Wars), which opens in Korea with the exact same title. I wonder who's copying who?

Over for now. I am hungry for anything. Heineken maybe?