I is kick-ass
October 10th, 2008
I challenge anyone to say I am not a kick-ass teacher after I tell you that the CD and poster is what I gave one of my favourite middle school students for his birthday today :D He bought me a 빅뱅 for my birthday and I thought it only right that I return the favour. I wanted to buy him the new 소녀시대 album but they’re too busy being ditsy on Factory Girl. He was really pleased with it and all the other boys in the class were jealous when he opened the poster. It was my first time seeing it and all I’ll say is that I might buy the CD just for the poster XD
Also, if you like 80s music, or even if you don’t, watch this and laugh.
[COEX] Shopping with 진선
October 6th, 2008




















I went shopping with 진선 yesterday and it was awesome fun as always. We took a lot of pictures of each other [read: mostly me] with our phones and there were actually some pretty decent pictures of me. We spent time in UNO, Smoothie King and Starbucks so there was plenty of time to take pictures. It was in Starbucks where we opened my new Korean book that I will talk about in another post. We were looking and came across a page with some example birthdays and 진선 noticed that the first was hers and then I realised the second was mine. Freaky XD You can see it in the middle picture, second row.
Obviously we did some shopping too. I personally managed to buy some shirts, some shoes, a t-shirt, a jumper and some trousers, and could have bought a lot more. I’m looking forward to the weather actually turning cold so I can buy some jackets and jumpers. Anyway, please look through the pictures and the gallery because this might be the only chance you get to see a moderately handsome Alex…and something resembling a zombie from Resident Evil XD

And as an extra surprise, look what 진선 have me :D It’s the poster from Epik High’s new LOVESCREAM mini album and it’s awesome [mostly because of Tukutz]. I think a caption competition is in order so anyone who sees this post can take part :D Mine is below:
Tablo “Look at the lens and say something stupid.”
Tukutz “Which lens and why do I have to say something stupid?”
Tablo “Just pick one and say something.”
Mithra *wakes up* “Uhh…what happened to your hair?…and is that an expression on your face?”
[27/28] Weekend in full
September 28th, 2008
I was too tired last night to write this up so I thought I’d bundle yesterday and today together in one big post.
Saturday 27th
Yesterday I travelled to 분당 early to meet 서영 at her school. Once again I was looking right at her but managed to miss her ^^” We haven’t seen each other for about three weeks so it was great to see her again and she was looking really good. We walked on to the bus stop and took it to 교보 Bookstore where we each bought MIROTIC [she gave me her poster, so I have two now :D], some books for her and some cards for one of my students’ birthday.
We were both a little hungry so we went to Minto Cafe and got some lunch. It was nice to spend some time together in a quiet place and just talk about things. In fairness, not a lot of talking happened as we were eating but when we were done, we went to the local Movie Room and ‘relaxed’. We watched two movies and I thought they were both rubbish. I wasn’t really paying attention but I would have preferred some other background noise :P
After two hours + an extra hour, we went to meet 주성, a friend from school and her partner in class. He was tall and friendly and although 서영 was useless at helping along the conversation, we had a good time over dinner. I’m really glad she has some good friends to help her out at school and be there for her when I can’t. It makes me feel a lot better and I hope I communicated that to him.

You’ll notice in the above picture that there have been two new additions to my wall. Obviously, there is the MIROTIC poster from my album purchase but also the 빅뱅 poster that my wonderful girlfriend acquired for me ^^ As I mentioned earlier, I have a second MIROTIC poster but I think it would be greedy to put it up. I’ll give it to one of my students I think.
Sunday 28th
I allowed myself two extra hours of sleep this morning because I was shattered when I came in last night and seeing as I have no plans today I thought it was OK. I had left everything where dropped it when I came in last night so I set about tidying the apartment after my morning Internet round up and went to inspect my leaking boiler. My previous apartment had a dodgy boiler too as I’ve written about before and I love to know what I do to make them break >_< Anyway, I had to move some of the furniture that was here when I moved in away from the boiler because it was getting soaked. My plan to put it on the roof to dry was almost thwarted when I realised how heavy the furniture was but using my immense strength and tactical cunning, I managed to get it up the ladder and onto the roof.
I went to the Lotte Super to get some food for the day and then threw in the washing when I got back. I still have some tidying to do out in the terrace and I have to mop the kitchen floor, but these can wait until I’ve had some time to finish listening to MIROTIC…oh, I just have :D
MIROTIC
I had read a comment this morning saying that there were perhaps too many love songs on the album so I was a little worried but my musical tastes have changed quite a bit and I was willing to give it a fair run. Well, there are a lot of slower tracks but I think they’re pretty good and the whole album has a nice feel to it. I definitely would have liked to see some more exciting tracks in there but I guess they’re still working off that Japanese vibe. I knew they should have released some digital singles before this album to get rid of any trace of their Japanese style but never mind. On to the performances! :D
[진선] Paddling in 광화문
September 7th, 2008




































The pictures are great today so I’ll try to keep the writing down :) Met 진선 in Smoothie King and then we took the train to City Hall and walked to 광화문. We were both a bit hungry so we went to 봉추찜닭, a little restaurant and had 찜닭. It was really delicious despite my spoon and chopsticks attempting to foil my efforts at every turn.
The real reason we chose 광화문 was because we could sit by 청계천 and dip our feet in the water. Well as you can see from the pictures above and in the gallery, we did just that. It was gorgeous because there was a nice breeze and the water was a pleasant temperature. We spent a long time just sitting and catching up before we decided we needed some coffee. Onwards to A Twosome Place!
We both had coffee and yoghurt which we finished quite quickly. As we still felt lazy, 진선 whipped out her Nintendo DS and we played Mario Kart DS and listened to music for ages. We did really well actually and I was quite proud because it was my first time playing it :D






I was accused of choosing only the most embarrassing pictures of 진선 for my blog so I thought I would post some more of me, and more specifically, my ‘Smexy Alex Shoot’. It’s definitely one for the ladies ;) Oh, and 서영, if you want to get out of the relationship now after realising how unattractive your boyfriend is, it’s cool. I totally understand :P *crawls under the desk*

This deserves a bigger picture because, well it’s Epik High. And let it be known, that if I can nab another of these, Sandy, I’ll put it in the post for you ;)
[서영] Another day in 분당
August 31st, 2008
I visited 서영 again today and it was really good to see her again after being corpse-like last weekend. We met at the usual place and today she had a friend with her. I know how to say her name but I won’t write it here in case I make a mistake T_T”
We went to Kyobo for her to pick up some more study materials and for me to buy leaving cards for Max and Sunny from work. Sunny is off to start her own academy and Max has to do his military service starting in October. They’re both leaving on September 5th so I’ll ask on Monday about the plans for going out.
The three of us went to Pizza Hut to have some lunch and then her friend left for home. We headed to a movie room where we watched Phantom of the Opera. I wasn’t sure I was going to like it but I wish I had managed to watch more than I did. After our 2 hours were up we went to Starbucks where I noticed that 서영 was really tired. I knew she was tired, but she was having trouble keeping her eyes open.
She had a piano lesson at 8pm so after we were done I told her she was going to go to the school early and take a nap before her lesson. I got her a taxi and sent her on her way. She was upset that I couldn’t stay longer but I’m worried about her health these days and she was cream-crackered so I think it was for the best.

I also bought 윤하’s new album, Someday. I’d already listened all the tracks and was pretty amazed that I liked almost every song on there, but more impressive, was the cover art. She looks stunning in every picture and the poster is gorgeous :D








I wasn’t expecting to buy this really but after I saw the poster and thought about listening to Gossip Boy in VBR, I couldn’t resist XD
Three more added
June 15th, 2008

Looks at what I boughts yesterday :D I was lucky to find them all in a little CD store on the way to 신촌 that I mentioned in my previous post.

Three more posters added to Alex’s ‘Wall of :D’. Super Junior Happy is just to my left as I type this, Wonder Girls are next to Sonyuhshidae and Battle are to the left of my bed.
[진선] 신촌
June 15th, 2008
It was strange not getting off the bus at Seoul Station as usual but 진선 was waiting for me there after her exam. She walked me to her university and we looked around the garden on campus.

The weather was really good so we decided to walk to 신촌 instead of taking the bus, but not before I picked up a little present for one of my students whose birthday is it next Tuesday. I also picked up the three CDs and posters I wanted in one shop. Pictures to come ;) Afterwards we headed to Starbucks for a quick pick-me-up. As you can see below, we are teh dorks XD

We walked on to 신촌 and had a look around at some shops. The Hyundai Department Store looked appealing to us because it has air conditioning so we looked around at the clothes. 진선 found some really nice Converse trainers that she wanted and so did I but they didn’t have our sizes >> We were not amused…

By this time we were getting a bit hungry so we started looking for somewhere to eat spaghetti and soon found a little place. We both had carbonara and it was really good. We had an annoying waiter who kept treating me like an idiot and speaking English. I hate when they do that.

We walked around some more and looked at a few shops, including one where I tried on a hat XD I don’t really agree with hats but 진선 said it looked OK and that I should really get some for Summer. It started to get dark and we had been planning to go to the cinema today so we went and got tickets for Indiana Jones which was really good as it happened. I’m going to see Kung Fu Panda next weekend too. We grabbed a drink in Starbucks while we waited for the movie.

Check out the gallery for the complete set of pictures :)
Alex’s ‘Wall of :D’
June 2nd, 2008
I was going to leave this until later in the week but I got the urge so up they went. There’s plenty of room for expansion which is definitely something that I’ll doing in the future. Bring on the Wonder Girls album :D



I’ll start filling in the gaps at the bottom next but I decided to go for greater wall coverage this time round because I don’t know when I’ll next be getting some good ones :)
[진선] 코엑스
May 26th, 2008
I arrived at 서울역 about 15 minutes early but 진선 and her friend were already waiting for me. I was treated to a strawberry and banana smoothie at Smoothie King where we chatted and I talked with her friend. It was good fun and the smoothie refreshed me for the traveling to COEX. We said our goodbyes and got on the train towards COEX. It didn’t as long as I thought it would and after one transfer we were there before I knew it.
COEX is a large mall and a great place to shop. We headed to Omuto Tomato for lunch which happens to be one of my favourite places to eat ^^ It was nice to have some food early and we talked about this and that before starting out on our shopping adventure.
I won’t describe every shop we went into but I will list what I picked up:
- 턔양’s new mini album + poster
- new tote bag
- exchanged super tight jeans for some that are marginally less tight :P
- new Converse shoes
We sat and had some ice cream from Cold Stone’s on recommendation from 진선’s friend and it was really tasty. I took some pictures of our feet because we both had new shoes while we were sitting and also some super-dorkable photos ^^”


Oh, and there are two little videos I upped. One was a dance competition and the other was use being lame :D As always the online gallery can be found here.
TBJ & Baskin Robbins
May 18th, 2008
I warned you yesterday about what was to come to please don’t be surprised or suffer from any illness because I will not be liable for any fangirling over these pictures :D

First up is my 빅뱅 poster from the Baskin Robbins promotion. It’s the biggest poster I have and obviously one of my absolute favourites. I was expecting this one which would have been awesome, but to get one with all 5 of them on it is too awesome for words :D

Don’t think this 원더걸스 poster is any less fando-gasmic though because this is the best of the 3 posters I have. I love the fact that this isn’t something you can just buy and shows the girls in full, looking stunningly gorgeous and good enough to eat. I’m not really sure what I think about the dogs but TBJ had them on pretty much everything so I guess it’s just how they roll.
I should probably expose this post to some communities now. I think it deserves to be shared ^^