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New Digs
>Two weeks ago I moved. I’ve been meaning to blog about it but I thought I would wait until the memory had faded at least a wee bit. Moving always agitates me. Nothing ever goes 100% the way it...
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>Unnecissary pants parts
>So last week I bought myself some new underpants. And I have to ask: Is there any feeling the world quite as nice as putting on a new pair of underpants? More to the point, the pants I bought were...
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>Laundromat Love
>First; learning. Apparently a “self-service laundry facility” is called a laundrette in the UK. This is wrong. The British people should be chastised for making laundry sound feminine. A-holes....
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Positively Blogtastic? Blogtastically Positive?
>How often do I apologise for not blogging often enough? It feels like the majority of my posts address the fact that I’ve not been blogging enough. I’m not even sure most of the time who I’m...
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The Turbotastical Tales Challenge
>So I was thinking to myself: What should I blog about? And I came up blank. Utterly and completely blank. I wanna blog, I do. But my idea bank is as empty as my money bank. So I was thinking you...
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Little work joys
>A few of you know that I’m working at a new company. They are Headshift*, and so far I dig them supreme. It is a new way of working for me (from using a Mac to putting everything on an internal...
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>For Amy (aka ‘Return of the Buddies’)
>I have a feeling I’m going to regret this later. Writing this, I mean. This will come back to haunt me. I can feel it. Like that creepy ghost-seeing pre-adolescent wanker in Sixth Sense. This blog...
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Competitive nature + gamifying fitness = Captain Lazyass gets off the couch
Last week xkcd posted this comic: Which made me laugh. A lot of fitness tracking websites (I use Daily Burn and Runkeeper) miss out on some of life’s best activities. I probably would have had a...
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Who let me in the kitchen?
Yesterday Tyran bought this mixer machine thing. I’m pretty sure that’s what it said on the box. like the window full of herbs and lemons? There it is! It has other marvellous attachments (like a...
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Obsessive Compulsive Predicament
Although generally my obsessiveness with certain… perfections… can be helpful, there are times I worry that I go to far. I have been doing a detox for the month of February. And now, on the last day…...
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Happy Friday from Korea!
There are some things I loved and have found I still love about Korea. As my first week draws to a close, I’d like to share a couple of those things. Say Cheese!: Part One Tomorrow I’ll be going to...
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The Dirty Foreigner Test
Something massive that has changed since the last time I was in Korea (2005 – 2007) is that you have to get a “medical certificate” in order to get your Alien Registration Card (ARC). Also new is that...
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Get Yourself Alienated – Part 1
So a few weeks ago, after I got back the results of my medical testing, I was ready for step two in the process of getting my ARC (Alien Registration Card). Time to head to the Immigration Office in...
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Get Yourself Alienated – Part 2
This is going to be a lot shorter than part one, because getting to the Suwon Immigration Offices was the hardest part of the entire ordeal (thanks, Super). Had I been given all the information I...
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Banktastic
After ensuring I’m not a dirty foreigner and getting myself officially registered (part one and part two), the next big administrative thing to do was getting myself a Korean bank account. It was...
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Happy Friday from Korea!
There are some things I loved and have found I still love about Korea. As my first week draws to a close, I’d like to share a couple of those things. Say Cheese!: Part One Tomorrow I’ll be going to...
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The Dirty Foreigner Test
Something massive that has changed since the last time I was in Korea (2005 – 2007) is that you have to get a “medical certificate” in order to get your Alien Registration Card (ARC). Also new is that...
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Get Yourself Alienated – Part 1
So a few weeks ago, after I got back the results of my medical testing, I was ready for step two in the process of getting my ARC (Alien Registration Card). Time to head to the Immigration Office in...
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Something to Blog About
It is unreal to me that it has been more than a year since I’ve last added a post to the ‘Tales. Unreal, and a little sad. There was a time when I was a regular blogger, and I think the writing was...
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Apartment Hunting
I am afraid my post on apartment hunting in Hanoi isn’t going to be dreadfully informative. Perhaps more illustrative of just how damned easy it can be to find decent housing in this city. Like when...
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