Here’s hoping the next decade is as good as the last.

Don’t forget the tequila shots.

Ah, the memories…

*A reference to Franz Ferdinand’s “Walk Away”.

And I hope you realise you’ll be missing a reprise of my soju-fuelled pogoing and Scottish nationalism when Travis take to the stage on Saturday night.

Scot-LAAAANNND!

Niels - Hey, what can I say? I tried to convince Mrs. Iceberg to go to Pentaport for our honeymoon.

Quin - Check your email.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QfU-4Y4_akY&eurl=http://www.facebook.com/home.php?

Great song. GREAT video.

*Contrary to what quite a few people think, not everyone in VN is struggling to get by. That includes the future Mrs. Iceberg.

Welcome back from the front doors of the castle. Here’s to hoping you make it through next time.

All the best,

Gregor Samsa

Why do you insist on faking other people’s identities? You racist piece of shit.

As in going into an independent record store, plunking down a copy of Tapes n’Tapes, and having the anemic thrift store party animal half-sneer at you.

yeah, buddy, I went to college, once. I’m not so dumb. I know things…

We’ve lost our edge.

Why not learn Mandarin Chinese online?

Find yourself in ancient Chinese characters, then turn them into tattoos.

http://www.zhongwenred.com

But what about…the beauty of the Chinese language and writing system? http://www.zhongwengreen.com

Miniskirts, padded bras, whitening cream, holding your eyes open really wide while taking a photo of yourself with your cell phone… a Jedi craves not these things.

(subtle?)

As far as “going through this craziness once”, I keep telling myself that. It’s the only way I can keep my sanity.

Sorry that you’re having so much trouble, but you’ll only have to go through this craziness once. And, now she knows how much crap you’re willing to go through to marry her. It’s proof of your love.

Fingers crossed!

I do know that early in the relationship guys will often call their older girlfriends “nuna” until they reach a point when they feel comfortable calling her by her name. It usually doesn’t take long.

I’m curious to know, when you speak Korean with Girlfriendoseyo, do you use “높임말” or “반말”?

So I addressed her that way once and she huffed and stormed away.

??? what’s going on?

Turns out, pretty much the only time a boyfriend would address his girlfriend as “nuna” is when he’s breaking up with her.

Even though I said it in total ignorance, her reaction was pretty visceral and, as with your class, it took a while for the mood to pick up. again.

thanks for the warning.

I dig the Costco salad, providing you add a hot dog and relish and hold the ketchup.

How do you like the famous costco salad? (ground onions with ketchup and mustard). I like to think of it as the American kimchi.

Nowadays I only go to Costco at like 11am on a weekday. I went once on a weekend, and once during an evening. I didn’t enjoy it. It was busy. The experience was somewhat less enjoyable than a bucket of AIDS in the face during my afternoon nap.

Take it easy.. and bring us some more ‘tales’. I like those.

(And this is my first time posting on a blog, so I mighta got it wrong, oh well.)

I worked with a German a few years ago who said that Asians have a narrower field of vision, less peripheral vision than Europeans. It has to do with a face that is a little more flat and the position of their eyes, he stated. My response was to say maybe that is true, and perhaps Jews have smaller brains than real Germans.

I wonder if it really is true, or people who live in such a crowded environment simply have the ability to tune out what is happening in the periphery.

Or perhaps if they do not know you, they cannot place you within the Confucian hierarchy, and therefore you do not exist.

Take it as you wish. That’s your prerogative.

As it were.

Somehow I doubt it…but…I no longer care.

Every time a guy tells you the number of girls he’s been with, divide it by three; every time a girl tells you the number of guys she’s been with, multiply it by three. In both cases, you’ll end up with something close to the actual number.

I think this gives you the final word on the debate over at Marm.

Pretty broad brush.

“…Koreans have enough pride to care what others think of them…”

Not sure how that’s related to pride, but okay.

Nothing wrong with concern for how one is perceived. The problem is when one tries to go to great lengths to cover up what is out there…while at the same time passing judgment on others who simply acknowledge that it’s out there. To be fair to Uri (to whom my comment that you quoted was addressed), I’m not implying that he/she was passing judgment on anyone. But he/she was making an (all-too-common, unfortunately) attempt to persuade people not familiar with Korea that this sort of thing is an anomaly - when in fact it isn’t.

“How many times I have wanted to slap a fellow foreigner…”

Care to elaborate how that is related to this post or the comments that follow?

That’s an interesting concept Iceberg. The main difference in point is that us foreigners are rude enough to not give a shit about what anyone else thinks of us, whereas the Koreans have enough pride to care what others think of them.

How many times have I wanted to slap a fellow foreigner for complaining about how Koreans don’t speak English in Korea! Yet the same foreigner will also complain when he comes across someone not speaking English in the foreigner’s home country. Blind arrogance.

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Okay, no more stupid tranny jokes. Srsly, congratulations!

Kevin, Damn! This marriage thing is gonna be hard.

Kevin

Mike, The paperwork is basically completed, but there’s always that lingering fear that someone’s going to say that some form is incorrect.

gbnhj, I imagine the insight will only grow - and I’m not even close to my wit’s end…hyuk, hyuk, hyuk. (See? Wasn’t that witty?)

Roboseyo, Thank you.

(Even till now you are still in my heart…. I’ll alway miss you U;nee!)

I’m not forgetting you…You will always be remembered by me U;nee!

I still listen to your songs in my car almost every single day…

REST IN PEACE my U;nee…..