Showing posts with label Hong-Ik university. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hong-Ik university. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Chopsticks

Hong-Ik University
Korea

Diah had strong convictions on not eating pork while Sharaan absolutely shun beef as both meats were prohibited by the edict of their respective religions. At the dinner table, slices of pork and beef were grilled in the same sizzling hot plate. And since this was a Korean restaurant we used chopsticks, but we didn’t know how to use it, so morsels of beef and pork were flying all over the place! Diah and Sharaan were stunned but not us who found it wickedly amusing. “No worries” I said while carefully picking the errant morsels then plopped them to my mouth….

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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Mongolian Emperor

Hong-Ik University
Seoul, Korea



One chilly Autumn afternoon I took a walk around Hong-Ik University in sandals and windbreaker. I was wearing a colorful Mongolian hat that I borrowed from Baataar. I surely got the stares and giggles from native Korean girls. I was enjoying the attention for a while until the cold gets to my bones and I have to run back to IWO office before I freeze stiff.
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