Feeds:
Posts
Comments

hmmm…kimchi anyone?

The smell  permeated  the room.

My  little niece went up to me and cheekily said- “What’s that? It stinks!”

“What stinks? I stink?” I teased her.

“So what are  you still  doing here in the kitchen?”  I told her…  she walked out the same way she came– cheeky and cute.

So, what can I do?  I craved for some of those sweet smelling stuff that makes  the mouth attractively pungent and the cheek color unabashedly red for the fair skinned.

I craved for it and I went ( even though I had to steal some precious minutes from my demanding layouting work– to sneak a trip to the nearby grocery store).

I am craving because one of my favorite eye candies plays a cook in a recently discovered drama that I am currently sinking my teeth into (excuse the pun)….Gourmet

They say that a way into a man’s heart is through his stomache .. here in this drama– the men are the ones wielding the frying pan and a lot more.  Maybe it’s because my husband is a Cook that I find myself more and more attracted to dramas that have to do with food– or maybe it’s just that the drama is a meal unto itself.

Kudos to the subbers, by the way.  The whole experience is quite magical because it seemed as if the Korean has turned  English aready while I was watching.  I don’t know how to explain the experience but it certainly didn’t feel as if I were watching something  and us reading the subs– I could taste the Korean as if it were my own language—

Ergo, the craving for Korean food.  I mixed the kimchi with my rice and stir fried it a little, didn’t have sesame oil and seaweed but it took  the edge a little from my hunger.

Now …. I want some more.

(You can catch it aznv.tv . If you want invites shoot me a message– haven’t invited anyone yet– but I could try.)

ta ta

I’m a little lost…

Ummm… WordPress has turned sophisticated on me, in my pretty long absence.  Ahem.

It’s kind of funny that my last entry was bannering the title..deliberating on my distractions…(part 1) I was determined to write the Part 2 but (sheepish)  I got so distracted that …well… I didn’t get around to emptying my thoughts here. Sigh.

I have become so rustied that I find myself groping for words. Tragic!

But I’m back.. hell yea… I’m back–

Currently,  I’m way in over my neck with my Korean students (not to mention bosses) and there– then again I am lost– there’s something about being lost that kind of attracts me and repels me at the same time— (Aside)  For spiritual folks out there– it’s going to be Good Shepherd Sunday soon– so please whisper a prayer for me– Let me not get lost anymore!—(Aside finished) Help me please find my way…

What’s going on?

Work leaves me  for the majority of the day in front of the computer– working with books and  having classes.  At the end of the day– I ask myself where have the hours gone to?

Needless to say. It feels good to be here.

I’ll run off for now though, and be on the lookout for material to think and write about…

Here’s to life…

Here’s to hello’s…

I’d like to divide my distractions as such:

DELIBERATE…

INSPIRED…

Starting off with my deliberate distractions…

DELIBERATE–

1 : characterized by or resulting from careful and thorough consideration <a deliberate decision> 2 : characterized by awareness of the consequences <deliberate falsehood> 3 : slow, unhurried, and steady as though allowing time for decision on each individual action involved <a deliberate pace>…      Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary says.

Come to think of it, can a distraction ever be deliberate? If so, might it not better to call it a hobby or an interest at the most? ( I digress and argue with myself…)

Well, it might have started as an interest or a hobby, and then transformed itself into a full blown distraction.

1. It was YI SAN, all 75 episodes of it as featured in this site.

(…and still going…)

What made me so distracted with it, that I decided day by day, deliberately, to wait oh- so patiently for the videos to load so that I can follow the drama?  Was it the costumes? Was it the cute boy who played Yi San? Was it the fat Dae Su, who tried ever so hard never to become an eunuch by protecting his um from being… you know.  Or was it the little girl who played Song Yeon with that sweet smile and crazily white teeth?

I don’t know what it was, but it caught me.  It wasn’t like the Coffee Prince mania- which by the way is going to be one year old this July 2008- that kept me awake in the wee hours of the morning till daybreak so I can watch it at Veoh.  It was more like a gentle charm that made me stay and wait for those buffering videos some more.

My back ache though, and the effect of those 75 episodes ( 1 hour each!) to my abdomen is something I do not want to DELIBERATE about, excuse me.  I lost a lot of hours, which I should have spent hip hop abs-ing myself into oblivion, so my boyfriend can say… wow… those abs!  But well… to each his own…

Friendship. Loyalty. Love. Betrayal. Hatred. TREASON…

Everything was there.  Love for a king is not a reality in my world.  I don’t know anything about it. I saw through Yi San though, how a subject can love his sovereign. It was DEVOTION that I saw.  It really made an impression on me.

I’m also touched by the delicateness of the love of the women in this drama.  Or their treachery…

I’ll return to this images— they’re worth distracting myself again– this time through remembrances…

Older Posts »