I finished watching this Korean Drama not too long ago. It’s called Couple or Trouble, or 환상의 커플. It’s by the same writers who made Sassy Girl Chun Hyang and My Girl. The story is about a very self-centered rich girl who, after causing much trouble to a hard-working guy, loses her memory. The guy sees the girl at the hospital, and decides to get revenge by telling the doctor’s she’s his girlfriend. He wants to put her to work as a caretaker/babysitter at his place for his nephews. There’s lots of comedy in this one, and i liked the main characters a lot. Most of it is predictable, but it’s still fun Yesasia did the subtitles and release of this TV series, and they did a very good job of it too.

if you haven’t noticed, i changed my website design around. it’s a bit random and abstract, but i like it i’m still tweaking parts here and there. i hope to make updates more often since it’s been a while since i’ve posted…

it’s been a while since i’ve posted. the big news was that i took a 2 week vacation in South Korea with my cousin back in February. it was lotsa fun even though i couldn’t speak or understand the language much at all. i can read the words (very slowly when i was there), but couldn’t understand most of what they meant. i picked up a couple books that i’ve been studying and can say some very basic stuff like 나는 한국어를 공부해요 (i study Korean), and 오늘은 날씨가 촣았어요 (the weather was good today). it’s pretty fun learning the language now we mainly stayed in Seoul and then 5 or 6 days in Chuncheon. met a lot of people my cousin knew when he was there on his church mission. i’m glad he was fluent enough to communicate, otherwise i’d have a 2 week trip at the airport… we stayed with a great great family in Seoul. they kept us fed and warm and comfortable in their cozy house i liked it there so much, that i’m going to try going back and live there for a while and attend Sogang University and take their Korean language program

some highlights of the trip:

• great nice people i met - they were all very kind and friendly
• got to meet up with one of my good chat friends and go swing dancing with her and her friends - swing dancing there is no different than here
• the food! i loved the food! well, most of it. only one thing was very very spicy, which i forgot the name of. the peanut butter roasted squid was a bit too squidy for my liking. the uncured bacon was probably my favorite, and everything else i liked was a very close second OH! and 번데기 (beondegi) are not “salty raisins” and are NOT good
• Seoul was very crowded, dense, and more or less an endless sea of buildings. but it seemed cleaner than big cities i’m used to (San Francisco) and safer too

Some pics from the trip:

You can check out more on flickr

my first Harry Potter comic! i’ve been wanting to make short webcomics for a while now, and came up with this last sunday at church–yes, i was listening to the lessons i was doodling Harry in the center, and tried drawing other faces of the main 3 characters and it just turned into a short silly comic. unfortunately, i used pen, so i scribbled out the extra faces that didn’t make the cut the next (of hopefully many) comics i’ll draw, i’ll clean them up and not have them look so quick and sketchy like this one

i can’t remember exactly when and where i sketched this, but i like how the outfit looks

happy new year! well, it’s a week into the new year already. during Christmas time, i spent about a week and a half at my sister’s place in Utah. she had her baby girl a couple of weeks prior and was more or less immobile to fly up to Washington where my parents live. it was nice there–colder than i’m used to with the snow and 30 and lower temperature. they kept the heater on so we all stayed warm inside. a couple days after Christmas, many of us got sick with some sort of flu. it lasted all day with us stuck in bed not wanting to move. and the day after was recovering from not eating much or sleeping very good other than that setback, the rest of the trip was fun and seeing my two niece’s and everyone was fun too. and i got to try my favorite cheap pizza, Little Caesars, again they closed all of them down here in the bay area so i was happy to see many of them in Salt Lake City when driving around–and a $5 large pepperoni pizza cooked and waiting under a warmer (all day) is a great deal! sure, it’s not the best pizza i’ve had, but i still like the taste even for being very cheap

i flew back home on the 31st of December and had the next day off of work. it’s been tough getting back into the normal routine here at work. i’m glad things have been somewhat slow at the moment. hopefully, it’ll stay that way for a while

I bought this Korean TV series, My Girl (마이걸), many months before i got around to watching it. The series was created by the same people who made Sassy Girl, Chun Hyang, and contains a lot of humor similar to Chun Hyang. The story is about a girl who is good at lying, and finds her self caught in a situation where she is asked to pose as a guy’s long lost cousin. The guy’s family believes the girl is the long lost cousin, and many funny situations occur. throw in the ex-girlfriend and another guy, and it’s a recipe for a great romantic-comedy series. i really enjoyed this series and laughed a lot at the various situations the characters get themselves in. the serious parts are dramatic, but predictable in most cases. i liked the main characters a lot too. and they all seem to have endless wardrobes–i think the characters never wore the same outfit more than twice. i recommend it to fans of romantic-comedies

it’s been a while since i made a post here. work’s been keeping me busy like usual. so what’s new? my sister had her baby the other day i’m going to go visit her and her family this Christmas. it’ll be nice to see the new baby girl.

my cousin and i are setting up a 2 week trip to South Korea in February i got the days off from work, but still waiting on my passport to arrive. my cousin knows some people over in Seoul and a couple other cities there. the plan is to hopefully be able to stay with them while we’re there. i’ve been learning some Korean from a book i got, but the language is pretty complex. my cousin knows the language very well from his church mission he took. and i know 2 of the people we’ll be visiting know a decent amount of english. it should be interesting communicating there–i’ll probably be asking my cousin to translate everything