Horrifying Words to Hear When you Go to Check In To Your Flight

Me: I'm here to check into our flight
Desk Person: Itinerary
Me (passes flight confirmation): Going to Bali
Me to Peter: See aren't you happy I organized everything? You are sooo lucky you have me
Desk Person: Um, your flight was yesterday
Me: Um no the date is right there, leaving Tuesday
Desk Person: Tuesday was yesterday
Me: Uhhh really?!

That was the worst feeling knowing that:
-I am an idiot
-I was trying to confirm that I am a full functional organized adult worthy of being wified up but alas I am not
-I could have been in Bali sipping cocktails by a pool at that exact moment

Getting paid to blog

So my 12 year old is late to tutoring as per usual. As I wait, I blog. I just made 50 bucks blogging. Finally....getting paid to blog.

I enjoy blogging, if only I had something more main stream appealing to blog about rather than Seoul which applies to only a small market of Korean Americans thinking of moving here or maybe no one? Let's be real I have 7 followers of friends who don't want me to feel bad.

I have tried to think of mainstream appealing things to blog about. I like to eat but that's been done by a million other fatties out there. I love celebrity gossip but then I realize I can never top Michael K of D Listed because he is pure genius. I enjoy fashion but am not fashion foward enough to really have a voice about it. Although Tom and Lorenzo's website slightly bothers me because they liked this look:

They say: "The hair's not right and the Wonder Woman poses aren't helping, but we actually like this dress. It's just striking and weird enough to be eye-catching without being too weird for the red carpet"
I say: "She looks like a tranny linebacker dressing up as a black and white cookie"


Sometimes I get guilty about blogging. How self centered am I to think people care about my experiences and random musings here? But then I get people tell me on FB how fabolous my blog is and how much they love it. How I inspire them to leave NY and move to Seoul. How I generally enhance their lives and give them a reason to get out of bed in the morning. And then I think maybe this isn't a total self serving activity. I am practically Gandhi inspiring the masses.

I also like how it is never my close friends but my acquiantances who keep up with my blog because let's be real, my friends are so over my constant self emoting. It is charming but only for the first month that you know me. So here's to you acquiantances. You guys are so much better than my besties. I will be having a shot of soju for you once my finger heals.

Korean TV

So I actually have not sat down and watched Korean TV until yesterday. So I got locked out of my bedroom, I tried to pick it with a bobby pin, tried a lotte points card, nothing. Where is a metrocard when you need one? I always feel those are perfect for carding doors, at least NYU dorm rooms.

So my roommate was on the way back from the country and I had to wait 2 hours before she got home. My only way of entertaining myself was TV.

I watched Music Bank which is a countdown show with all live acts (so took me back to middle school when I used to make my mom bring home VHSs of music bank from the Korean video store). Some thoughts:

Se7en is amazing and beautiful live

BoA annoys me, in fact all the girl acts annoy me somewhat

DJ Doc is sooo old and that one chubby guy is now legit fat. DJ DOC is still really good though I gotta say.

I also watched the Korean version of American Idol (Superstar) which was amazing. Kelly Clarkson was a guest judge. She looked confused throughout the whole thing. It was further proof that there are crazy, delusional people all over the world.

Then I watched a show called Hot Brothers which was really funny besides this one disturbing segment. So the cast are all comedians and singers. They have 2 celebrities go on blind dates with normal people but the celebrities are just avatars for other celebrities who 'control' their doings and sayings through a hidden mic. So needless to say the controller celebrities make the avatars do some ridiculous stuff and hilarity ensues.

This one segment though, was sooooo ridiculously racist I was amazed. They have this part where they make celebrities do uncomfortable things (like kiss scenes for a fake movie because kissing is a big deal here I guess?) and then monitor their heart rate. They made this guy put on a black person's hair wig, put on black face and eat a crap load of watermelon for a watermelon commercial. I was like what????? Ugh Koreans are not even aware of how racist this is. I found a picture of him sans watermelon. So ridic.

I am not excusing this segment, I just ask for leniency for my people because they are so homogeneous and unaware.

Anyway, it's offensive.

So my roommate couldn't find the bedroom keys. The locksmith came. He opened my door. He leaves. 10 minutes later, my roomate gets locked out of HER bedroom and the same guy comes back and makes killing off of our apartment.