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Raw Meat In Korea

authored on Monday, June 9th 2008

Raw Meat In Korea The closest to sushi I’ve gotten to in Korea was this redish thing. It is in conjuction with my previous post of the best meal in korea.

Upon great scrutiny, you’ll spot this dish on the array of the previous post’s picture.

Full of naivety, no one seemed to touch this dish and I was there gobbling it down as some kind of kimchi dish.

To my “horror”, it’s raw beef!

Good thing it’s korean cows, if it’s other country’s… bleh. MCD liao.

MCD? Mad Cow Disease. Lol. Swt.

In summary, our tour guide was terribly disappointed because this is the best dish of the whole trip yet none of them eat (all health conscious plus raw means live bacteria blah blah… but i’m still alive and well… whew!).

Catagorized under Food, Korea Trip • 3 bellows & a yawp »

Best Mouth-Watering Kimchi Meal

authored on Friday, June 6th 2008

Best Kimchi MealKimchi is the most common Korean banchan, or side dish, eaten with rice along with other banchan dishes. Kimchi is also a common ingredient and cooked with other ingredients to make dishes such as kimchi stew (kimchi jjigae) and kimchi fried rice (kimchi bokkeumbap). Kimchi is made of various vegetables and contains a high concentration of dietary fiber, while being low in calories. Kimchi is rich in vitamin A, thiamine (B1), riboflavin (B2), calcium and iron, and contains a number of lactic acid bacteria and it is not a highly exportable item from Korea because of its short shelf life, although there is constant researchgoing on to make it last longer. Kimchi is a very crucial part of Korean culture, as shown by the interestin it by the Korean Food Research Institute plus Kimchi is an absolute necessity in every Korean meal.

Koreans still use these ingredients today, but the spice most closely associated with modern kimchi is red pepper powder and they have eaten kimchi with their meals for hundreds of years. Koreans eat approximately 20 kilos of kimchi per person each year, somuch so that when Koreans have their photo taken they say ‘kimchi’instead of ‘cheese’. They make kimchi with their family on the first Monday of December. Koreans eat Tteok on special occasions, such as New Year’s Day, Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving day) and the 100th day of a baby’s birth. Koreans aretrained to use the spoon and the chopsticks correctly from childhood.

In conclusion, Kimchi is Korea’s spicy fermented vegetable dish. Made of lactic acid-fermented vegetable food, Kimchi is an exotic, super spicy side dish. An excellent contributor to the human body, Kimchi is never fickle where flavor is concerned & is becoming more popular around the world!

Catagorized under Food, Korea Trip • 2 bellows & a yawp »

Korean Recycling Demonstration

authored on Tuesday, June 3rd 2008

Recycle Plastic BottlesRecycling Used Drinking BottlesRecycling Plastic Drinking Bottles

I’ve been to Korea. They are hard on recycling. When you walk into a supermarket, u have to pay $0.50 in korean cash, for a plastic bag. In which upon returning the plastic bag (probably in usable conditions), they will fully refund you the $0.50.

Here’s an article on recycling that I rant off my head.

Recycling is the reprocessing of old materials into new products with the aims of preventing the waste of potentially useful materials, reducing the consumption of fresh raw materials, reducing energy usage, air & water pollution by reducing the need for “conventional” waste disposal and lowering greenhouse gas emissions as compared to virgin production.

Recycling is an excellent way of saving energy and conserving the environment and is one of the best ways for you to have a positive impact on the world in which we live. Ultimately, recycling is a creative act that involves thought and dedication to extend the life and usefulness of something that seems to have no more purpose once it has been used for its initial purpose.

Waste disposal experts are certainly coming up with ingenious ways of dealing with the increase in consumer waste that this century has seen, but ultimately we have to tackle the problem at the root: each and everyone of us. Waste may not be a resource, but the space it occupies is, or alternatively, the damage it generates to the environment is real (although I suppose reasonable people may want to argue statistics rather than just gross pictures):.

Plastic recycling is the process of recovering scrap or waste plastics and reprocessing the material into useful products. Plastic collected from businesses and residences is first be compacted and then baled. Plastic can take up to 500 years to decompose. Plastics make up a large amount of waste, since they are available in numerous forms. They include glass, paper, metal, textiles and plastics.

Recycling is one of the best ways for you to have a positive impact on the world in which we live. And because recycling is supposed to be about the conservation of resources, mandating recycling under those circumstances will do more harm than good. A fairer way to encourage recycling is to price the costs of disposal accurately.

This earth is all we have. I don’t think we’ll live past the age of staying on the moon. At least my wallet can’t afford it.

Catagorized under Korea Trip • 4 bellows & a yawp »

Korea Trip Day 3 | Nami Island Cutie!

authored on Sunday, July 1st 2007

Korean Beauty

Yay, finally something interesting to post! We were taking a group photo and my tour guide was holding my camera. He purposely took this picture upclose cropping the others out. Hehe, isn’t she pretty?

We found out she’s an upcoming newscaster. There was this guy who she’s following around as they find a good background for their shot.

I believe there are a few more shots somewhere in my collection… while I search, just post your thoughts k!

Catagorized under Friends, Korea Trip, Travel • 2 bellows & a yawp »

Korea Trip Day 3 | Some Misc Cool Ewww Wooo Things

authored on Thursday, June 21st 2007

 Yummy, Dummy, Lummy, Mummy! Cooked worms! Ewwwww….

Cooked Worms
The monument below is made of stones. No strings attached ;)

Would you believe if I told you that the stones are just piled one atop another without any adhesive help?

Monuments Of Stones

Of course you won’t, because I didn’t. Still, it looks odd though it’s unique. It almost seems that the construction workers there have nothing better to do.

Then again, all over Korea, you will see signs encouraging you to recycle. There’s a park somewhere where everything is made of garbage! Though not very pleasant to look at, but to see what they can come up with from junk, it’s amazing!
Quatz Stones

Stone. Durian stones. Or quatz… if that’s the way you spell it.

Nice to see,
Not nice to hold,
Buy already,
You want to throw!

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Korea Trip Day 3 | The Commercialized Caves Trip 3

authored on Sunday, June 17th 2007

On the contrary, there are some nice pictures that the digital camera can take! Below are the rest of them.

Korean Beauty

It looks like some kind of a haven to swim in. Where you can walk in and splash around all you like. But in reality, this is live size. You probably can’t put your head through the biggest hole there. It probably is a nice place to rest in if you are a Korean rat. ;)

Korean Tunnels

Ah, another haven and paradise. Rent a boat and go into the unknown! Yea, right. Once again, though you can put your head through this, your body can’t make it past that stalamite.

Korean Dungeons

This one is similiar to the picture shown a few posts ago. Look at how it had evolved! When I look at this, I feel like stuffing it with golf balls or something. It’s just nature giving me the creeps.

Korean Signs

And so we came to the end of our journey of the commercialized cave. “For a moment, look back, and then good bye” would indicate there’s a beauty to be seen only when you look back because as you look in front, it looks like an ordinary cave, but there’s one big huge giant stalamite dangling down for all it’s worth.

It is said that lime stones are sensitive to the human touch. And I mean it in a bad sense. If you touch a limestone, somehow the alkaline of your skin will react with the lime stone and make it stop ‘growing’. For instance, if you touch a stalamite, you can be sure a few weeks or months down the road, it won’t grow anymore. Yup, the power of the human touch.

Now go touch someone. hehe.

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Korea Trip Day 3 | The Commercialized Caves Trip

authored on Friday, June 15th 2007

 Have you been on a Nature Trip and find out that it was already commercialized? No more mud, a constant roof over your head and stalls on your left and right?

Below are a few pictures of the pile of digital photographs I have. These pictures were taken before entering the cave and I simply am glad that I took them before entering for inside, almost nothing very much nice to see besides stainless-steel bars and stainless-steel stairs and stainless-steel fence.

Korea Caves

Ahhhh… Stalagmite. A term unheard of since secondary school. Looks like some mutated beast mouth. Hah, better cut down on those horror shows.

Korea Caves 2

Wow, this is really errie. It looks like a brain of some alien. Clearly gives me the chills and goosebumps when I see this pic.

Korea Trip Visit

This one is nice. Looks endless but it probably ends where the light shines.

There are two more posters coming in the next post!

Catagorized under Korea Trip, Travel • 2 bellows & a yawp »

Korea Trip Day 3 | More And More Flowers (& economics?)!

authored on Friday, June 15th 2007

These two flower pictures are of the best of the four flower pictures IMHO. Still, despite the cold, an attempt has to be made to snap these pictures up.

Korea Flowers

The last blog post was all about economics and ‘no such thing as a free lunch’.

Maybe this is something God is trying to say to us humans!

Salvation is free but Jesus has to die on the cross.

Adam had the whole Garden of Eden to himself yet he has to rule over them, give the animal names and probably communicate to them!

The earth can take care of itself if left alone, but it’s our human responsiblity to not polute it beyond repair, in fact we have to conserve the only earth we have!

Is there something for nothing? Napoleon Hill says no. Marketers say no. Economists say no. But in essence, one can trade something for something and ROI can become the factor. Sell services for money, use money for service. Economical cycle.

Money can always be earned back. Friends & opportunities cannot be earned back. On the dying bed, no one says, ‘let me see my bank account one more time’, but ‘let me see my friends and family just one more time’.

Ah, some revelation is coming out of this lonely blog. Gagaga.

Here’s the second picture. Thank you for ‘tolerating’ me with my rant. I’m just giving you some service ;p

Korea Flowers

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The last blog post was all about economics and ‘no such thing as a free lunch’.

Maybe this is something God is trying to say to us humans!

Salvation is free but Jesus has to die on the cross.

Adam had the whole Garden of Eden to himself yet he has to rule over them, give the animal names and probably communicate to them!

The earth can take care of itself if left alone, but it’s our human responsiblity to not polute it beyond repair, in fact we have to conserve the only earth we have!

Is there something for nothing? Napoleon Hill says no. Marketers say no. Economists say no. But in essence, one can trade something for something and ROI can become the factor. Sell services for money, use money for service. Economical cycle.

Money can always be earned back. Friends & opportunities cannot be earned back. On the dying bed, no one says, ‘let me see my bank account one more time’, but ‘let me see my friends and family just one more time’.

Ah, some revelation is coming out of this lonely blog. Gagaga.

Here’s the second picture. Thank you for ‘tolerating’ me with my rant. I’m just giving you some service ;p

Korea Flowers

Catagorized under Economics, Korea Trip, Philosophy, Travel • 2 bellows & a yawp »

Korea Trip Day 3 | Ah…. The Smell of Fresh Flowers!

authored on Thursday, June 14th 2007

Anyohaseyo! Hah, if I spelt that correctly. We had a good breakfast and now, just outside the hotel, flowers are blooming! Well… if you don’t mind the weather, which was extremely cold… oh well.

Korea Flowers

Tulip season has just ended so if you can see tulips right now, it’s kinda rare because they are either dying or dead.

Korean Flowers

Ah, a pot. What the crap. I dare not get closer because the hotel door is just behind me. It’s that cold man. Though I’m a man, but I’m not stupid enough to stand outside there and catch a cold. Not on the 3rd day of Korea. Beautiful things come with a price don’t they?

Beautiful flowers for beautiful girls. Since beautiful flowers comes with a certain price, beautiful girls comes with a certain worth… and price.

Men? yea, nothing is free in this world. The more ‘valuable’ a man is perceived to be, the higher the bid. Hah, That’s the basis of economics! Everyone wants everything in the world or at least what their eyes and minds can fancy. But due to limited capability, and it’s usually finance, one has to consider what one has and what one doesn’t. Economics.

Okay, how did I get here? Learning economics is beginning to be very intersting these days. I wonder why. I wonder why…

Catagorized under Economics, Korea Trip, Life, Money • 2 bellows & a yawp »

Korea Trip Day 3 | Innovative Jam Despenser

authored on Monday, June 11th 2007

Innovative Jam Despenser

This is jam. Yup, in it’s true form and if you notice carefully in the middle of the jam holder, is a cross like mark. Looking at the pictorial instructions, if you turn the jam upside own, and squeeze both ends together, jam will disperse!

It might not fasinate you but these are the little things that make Korean who they are. Yea yea, Japanese have their technology and Chinese their traditions, and Korean with their innovation. No need knives, or messy tearing, just squeeze and spread.

There is another word for ’spread’, I just learnt it yesterday. Disseminate. So it’s good, disseminate the jam all around the baked flour for optimum taste sensation ;)

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