Busan by bus

Pressed for time, I took the Busan City Tour hop-on hop-off bus and shot these along the way.

Boom De Ya Dah Too

Saw half of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World today, so I'm feeling a little geeky. Hence, the Justice League version of this song.

I wish I had seen this earlier. Bloody brilliant, even by non-fangirl standards.

Reform, you Comic Sans Criminal

Comic Sans Criminal [via PFSK]

Busan shopping detour

A taste of home in Busan's Chinatown







Souvenir hunting at PIFF (Pusan International Film Festival) Square

Work + party

A stroll

Or, an attempt to get rid of the blog backlog before the year ends.

the view from the hotel room


from a window on the opposite side


the hotel lobby


motel area


the road outside the hotel


the adjacent building


across the road


10 meters down


30 meters down


beach mode


Janie Walker (tagline here)


"Keep the beaches beautiful, sexual violence will not be tolerated"


MINI


eatery


shopping street


cafe

Repurposed greetings from Adobe + The MuseBox

Need a holiday soundtrack? Here's the free-to-download The MuseBox Festivus Mixtape. Donations to the Humane Society accepted.

Careful Guy

It took me two views to realize what the song was based on. Did anyone get it?

Meet the team

Meet my new fighting squad in Dragon Age: Origins - Awakenings. Not quite as engaging as the original, but I'm curious enough to know the ending to finish this over the holidays (I hope). Not that I'm in a rush. Dragon Age II (trailer below) won't be out until March 8.

This made my day

Received this in my work inbox today: a message from Bob Greenberg. It might be a simple Send To All message (and another R/GA contact sent the exact message to the general editorial address at work), but I still can't get over it. Lesson: kids, never forget your business cards.

Victory

Feeling like a Korean with Koreans in Korea.

For Jayjay, so that he will stop asking me to do the "V" sign.

Missing you

It's crrrunch time. And yet I cannot focus. Today was especially difficult. Aside from rehearsing for a Shakespeare play, I missed so many things: hearing Danish, watching the spectacular show (and spectacular flop) Lord of the Rings onstage, looking at the rapeseed fields and waiting at the Leicester Square red carpet. Even the German Christmas market in London is calling out to me.

I only have to look back at my blog archives and I am back in my room in Trekroner, in Hackney, in Islington. In the spare rooms of the Viv and the Bakers. On a plane over the offshore wind turbines. On a train system that actually works. Lugging around my huge red four-wheeler bag on the Tube and onto a red bus. Wandering around on my own in an unfamiliar city. And loving every minute.

I blame the costumes for the play for taking me back. I could dress like that every day again, but the reality is that I am riding trikes and jeeps in smoggy Manila, and queueing for bag inspections, too. If I had won the big lotto jackpot, I would improve the public transportation system before buying anything else.

I chose to be here, I know, subject to the frustrating commute and systemic violence. And yet I wish I could be somewhere far, far away.

Europe, I miss you.

Midnight musing brought to you by the letter M

Dear M,

I cannot live without you. What would I do if I lose you?

Me

Thought of You

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