Archive for February, 2009
Almost decapitated
Monday, February 2nd, 2009
I was at Gagnam station at the back of the line. Everyone was pooring into the subway. Just as it starts to fill up all the doors slide shut. Normally they don’t just shut the doors as people are trying to enter. The guy to the right gets sandwiched right down the middle but squeezes out pretty easily. The girl to the left wasn’t so lucky. The doors shut right on her neck, and her head was stuck inside the subway. She couldn’t get out, so a few people pulled the doors open. Pretty funny I must admit, but wouldn’t have been so funny if that train had moved about 5 feet. Guard rail would have taken her head off.
Tags: gagnam, head, korea, seoul, subway, train
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Noribong superstar
Sunday, February 1st, 2009
Last night I was out with my Korean friend Hwan when he gets a call from a mutual friend of ours Milan. She says she’s at a noribong(karioke room) with a bunch of her girlfriends and invited us to join them. You didn’t have to ask us twice. When we get to the room it’s full of about ten very beautiful girls. All of them are like, “Wow, an American!” They are all asking me a million questions and were very friendly. Koreans are very interested in westerners, and I often feel like a a guest of honor in social situations.
So of course they want me to sing a song. There was no way I could do that, I don’t even like talking to large groups of people. I tried to say no, but they forced the song book into my hands and I started flipping pages. I was scared shitless as I looked for a song. I felt like I was choosing my own casket. I went with “One” by U2.
I remember doing that song before and it came out pretty good, but now it seemed to sound really good! Maybe it was the effect on the mic or some kind of pitch correction, I don’t know. Everyone was clappinng and oooooing and ahhhhing. I think that is the closest I will ever get to becoming a rock star.
Tags: noribong
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Started a fight! But didn’t get to participate :(
Sunday, February 1st, 2009
My friend and I had just sat down at a bar this weekend when a couple Korean guys sat down at our table to join us. One was sober and the other guy was drunk as hell. He was saying the dumbest things and his english was horrible. He was very loud and obnoxious.
So my friend was in the bathroom when the drunk guy spills his beer on the table. He just let the big pool of beer sit there. I suggested he clean it up, he didn’t reply. Then I tugged a little bit on his scarf and said he could wipe it up with that, he still didn’t respond. The beer then began to drip off the side of the table and almost go on my pants. Again I told him he really needs to clean it up before it drips on my pants. Then he got up and started walking to me saying, “Ohhh poor baby, beer on pants, so sad.” I stood up in his face and told him he better get back in his seat now! At that moment the bar tender ran up and the two of them began fighting. A couple overturned tables, broken bottles, and the bartender had to be held back as he tried to slam a chair down on the guy.
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