one month down

had to pay a fine today at the DVD place. my copy of, um, Hairspray was overdue by one day. ahem. so i was slapped a 1000 won fine.

yesterday i had my first Noraebang experience. loved it. off the top of my head i sang Wonderwall, Toxic, Heard it Through the Grapevine, Come As You Are, Somebody Told Me, Easy Lover, Abracadabra, Sexyback and two Maroon 5 songs. in a childish mood i also picked a few rap numbers - Nelly's Dilemma, Forgot About Dre and Gold Digger. this was a dumb idea, and i hadn't considered the issue of using the 'N' slur in the lyrics to the latter 2 tracks. felt really awkward when they came up. id never rapped Dre's verses in private you see, plus im more used to the Kanye West radio edit where he goes 'She aint messing wit no broke-broke', which sounds 10x cooler. so a word of warning there for everyone reading.

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with most places closed for Lunar New Year i found myself wandering the streets, craving spicy tuna/kimchi soup. as i peered through a window at one particular menu, scrawled phonetics on a note in my hand, a kind Korean guy came over to help. alas he went above the call of duty and i followed the guy up and down in the cold for ages as he rambled to himself looking for my particular dish. and i swear, every 2 seconds he was hacking up big globs of spit onto the road and spurting his nostril with one finger. it was ridiculous! luckily i had gloves on when he handed me back the note. i ended up eating at Uncle Tomato anyway.

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back to DVDs, i watched 8 Femmes today, a French murder mystery musical. loved these 2 numbers -