It’s not a compliment. If you’re at a southern, South Korean bar and a guy comes up to you, saying that, to your face. It’s Busan. It’s a tight-knit ex-pat community down there, but still. It’s definitely not nice. It’s embarrassing if you’re there in a group of teachers from work. If that Irish colleague […]
May 28, 2014
It’s crazy how I just had to take a picture of this bucket in the food section at Winners. Made me think of bucket lists and the life I’d like to be living this Wednesday and just adding tequila would surely get me over the hump. Without having heard about Maya Angelou, I still thought […]
January 8, 2014
It’s better when you picture them as a happy parade. That’s what I won’t forget to tell my dad before he goes under. Because they are, a group of elephants is called a parade. I know this for a fact because I Googled it and got this reliably sourced information from Ask.com. And how are […]
January 8, 2014
If yesterday means anything, it means delays are divine. Delays are divine interventions that remind me: God is good, all the time. Jasmine, my mother, had an appointment with her trusted financial adviser at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce up near that Warden & Eglinton shopping complex. She had tripped, slipped and fell down […]
January 5, 2014
Initially discovered via Branch Magazine, excerpts copied & pasted from sadcore dadwave for my personal development. I Am Angry At Something Nonessential by Guillaume Morissette my dad was a dad when he was my age. the only thing I am a dad to these days is the amount of rice that I make, either an […]
December 30, 2013
The very best bits of a surprise email from a dearly missed friend after a looong time. So… where are you these days? I had a dream about you last night. It occurred in a place you and I have been to – some small town in the middle of Korea – which is the […]
June 4, 2014
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