Just a little Sunday evening spread here. We had gone to the park in the afternoon and let the dogs run for a bit. Afterward, we came back to the house, cleaned up and went to a famous duck restaurant near our neighborhood. I love the Korean style dinner, with dozens of little side dishes – far from the the meat-starch-veggie routine of western meals.
In the center is a small gas stove cooking a red-pepper infused dish of cabbage, onion, garlic and duck. On the far back right side of the table is a bowl of dong-dong ju, a rice punch that has a bit of punch to it. We had two bowls of that (which is drunk from a bowl as well) and we all got lit.
With us is Su-ki(r) and Ok-dong, both doing the Korean wave. MyeongHee, half in the bag already, tries to act cool. Don’t believe it. The waitress took the above picture and somehow blurred it. The one below I took, and has a little better focus although Su-ki is waving herself out of focus.
That was our Mother’s day, although they don’t have such a thing here. It was Parent’s Day yesterday and Children’s Day on Wednesday. Here’s to everyone having a super-dee-duper Mother’s Day back home.
The only thing missing is ‘rithmetic. But I’ve been doing a lot of reading and even more writing. I haven’t written much on my 2nd novel, but lately that’s changed. I’ve been putting in few hundred words a day into it. I’ve still not broken big ground with the first one, but that’s fine. I don’t even have high hopes of doing it with this one, but it makes me happy to write.I might try the Lulu route to getting it published.
I had been spending time doing a lot of writing on my ulsanonline.com website but that has taken a back seat. I still write for it but I’m ok with getting in an article a week rather than 4 or 5 a week. These days, the movies section (translating the Korean theater listings of Hollywood movies into English) consumes more time than actually writing original material.
The reading has also been going at a fireball’s pace. I had been pacing myself, trying not to read too much and thus run out of material. But a friend gave me a few nice novels and I’m not so worried about exhausting my supply of prose.
Anyway, that’s all for now. Just wanted to poke my head in and say howdy to everyone.
I’ve taken a few clips of the pups and thought I’d post a bit. I know there’s some of you who just can’t resist a puppy (you know who you are, Peggy). Here’s just a few minutes from about 10days old upto 17 days. That’s a lots of changes in that week. Their eyes have opened and they’re beginning to walk, wrestle and bark. They still spend most of their time sleeping. And when not sleeping they’re eating or wrestling with each other before they eat.
It’s really quite a testament to a dog’s natural instinct for whelping and raising pups in that the bitch, SaTang, was motherless. Some time shortly after the litter was out, SaTang’s mother died and they were bottle fed. With no training, she’s figured out the whole thing – from birthing and cleaning and then feeding her pups to eating the pee and poop they excrete.
Sometimes, it’s just easier to start over. My other Korea blog developed some problems that made it difficult, if not impossible, to maintain. Editing articles sometimes worked, sometimes, didn’t. Users couldn’t comment. Constants weren’t. Variables didn’t. It was a mess.
And WordPress was no help. I can’t blame them. They give away their stuff for free, so there’s no one left to handle technical support. What support they do provide is only available through a public forum and there is no guarantee that anyone will answer your plea. Mine got answered but no solutions.
No big deal. Sometimes, starting over can help clear out the crap that accumulates in the corner, the papers left in boxes and folders that were never needed or even the unpacked boxes that simply got moved from one place to the next and never opened.
So, having said all that…Welcome to my New Korea Blog – Korea Redux
You’ll find all of the old articles and pictures and videos still available, but in a static state, here.
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