The Daily Grind
02:57 Mon 23rd Oct 2006 (GMT +9 Seoul)
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As I about to sit down today and write a blog I was rudely interrupted by screaming and yelling outside. Just below my apartment was a taxi driver a guy and a girl going at it fists and all (hold there they go again). Never a dull moment in Korea. Well it finally rained clearing the sky's above Bucheon for the first time in a few weeks. I find that my mood, as I'm sure (everyone else does) tends to go with the weather. When we have the dull gray sky that is unfortunately a common occurrence due to the wretched pollution I tend to become a dull gray person. This makes the "Daily Grind" just that much harder.
I just finished reading a short story called "The Japanese Way" in the book The Best Travel Writing 2005" by Tom Miller. This was a reading assignment Katie gave me as part of an idea I had to teach each other more about the things we're interested in. She in turn has to listen to my favorite podcast "Internet Business Mastery." I'm getting off track.... Anyway so the story is about a teacher in Kyoto and how the Japanese way tends to take over and you can either fight it, or you can assimilate to it. After all as the writer said, "one person is not going to change thousands of years of culture just because its not what they are used to."
It's amazing the comparisons that can be drawn from the book about the Japanese and the daily struggles that can be had here in Korea. When you fight the culture, it feels like a huge wall goes up and everything just became 1000 times harder to bear, but "go with the flow" as they say and life isn't all that bad. Why am I writing this.... lets just say last week I tried to fight it, or got annoyed with the "Asian Way" making life much harder than it should have been.
Notes of the Day
A big happy birthday to Irish Tom, who turned the big 2 5 this weekend.
Check out a new and up an coming site called digg
Todays picture was taken by Katie while she was in Hong Kong for the weekend on a visa run.
