on our second friday here, we decided to accept the invitation of a nice christian organization (IVF) based at korea university.
they took us to "enjoy delicious korean food" at some small street branching out from chamsari-gil (our favorite street which siege & i call 'pedro gil'). the chick on the left is joowon, the group leader, who seems like a stepford wife in the making. am not making this up. she's always perky & there's a lot of steel in that little backbone of hers. the big communal dish is cooked at the table on a hot pan/griddle of sorts. you can order beef or chicken or squid (which they seem to like a lot) and it is, of course, spicy. the one flavor koreans seem to like. but i could be very wrong here.
this is kalinga, a cinematographer from sri lanka. we got lost on the subway recently and i found out that he works & studies in colombo but is originally from anuradhapura (!!!), which means nothing to most of you reading this. but the polymath will likely remember that place from ondaatje's
running in the family. the chinese girl on the right is from some province in china. sorry but i've blocked her from my memory because she did something i still have nightmares about. call it culture shock.
siege and his chinese harem. note the sampaguita pictures pose of the middle girl. they're very friendly, i think, because they're engineering students. the whole V-sign thing that's big in north asia, i really don't get. it just looks strange to me.
siege and his korean harem after eating too much spicy food. i think the cold weather here compels people here to randomly make V-shapes with their fingers. or it could be a signal to the mother ship to please send some more kimchi.
this is us after dinner at a place called loveice. they just love ice cream here. especially in cold weather. we shared what looked like huge bowls of halo-halo, complete with nata de coco and red mung beans, but with swirls of softserve ice cream on top. they call em
bingsu hereabouts. the guy in green is tenzin the tibetan filmmaker who lives in india. that's me looking a little freaked out by what the chinese girl in blue had done a few minutes before the photo was taken.
they took us to "enjoy delicious korean food" at some small street branching out from chamsari-gil (our favorite street which siege & i call 'pedro gil'). the chick on the left is joowon, the group leader, who seems like a stepford wife in the making. am not making this up. she's always perky & there's a lot of steel in that little backbone of hers. the big communal dish is cooked at the table on a hot pan/griddle of sorts. you can order beef or chicken or squid (which they seem to like a lot) and it is, of course, spicy. the one flavor koreans seem to like. but i could be very wrong here.
this is kalinga, a cinematographer from sri lanka. we got lost on the subway recently and i found out that he works & studies in colombo but is originally from anuradhapura (!!!), which means nothing to most of you reading this. but the polymath will likely remember that place from ondaatje's running in the family. the chinese girl on the right is from some province in china. sorry but i've blocked her from my memory because she did something i still have nightmares about. call it culture shock.
siege and his korean harem after eating too much spicy food. i think the cold weather here compels people here to randomly make V-shapes with their fingers. or it could be a signal to the mother ship to please send some more kimchi.
this is us after dinner at a place called loveice. they just love ice cream here. especially in cold weather. we shared what looked like huge bowls of halo-halo, complete with nata de coco and red mung beans, but with swirls of softserve ice cream on top. they call em bingsu hereabouts. the guy in green is tenzin the tibetan filmmaker who lives in india. that's me looking a little freaked out by what the chinese girl in blue had done a few minutes before the photo was taken.
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