Paul is coming!

This week Paul will visit us here in Korea. That usually means a lot of work and fun! The past weekend me and Morgan just loitered on the Saturday and then on Sunday we went for a little shopping spree. It was mostly me shopping, but Morgan did get a pair of really nice Converse shoes. Maybe a picture of those will find it's way to this site soon. The picture that goes with this post is a picture of Sunday's lunch. Pizza at the Pizza Mall. It looks tastier than it actually was, but that's not saying it was bad. Morgan and I also decided to work on a little project together. More on that later, now it is time to fill the belly!
/BucketBoy

Dinner party!

So the dinner party we went to last Sunday was really great! Lots of Indian food and lots of fun and interesting people. I had a really good time and I was totally stuffed when I got back home. Had to lay down in order not to explode.
Morgan is contemplating a career as a professional soccer player so she has been practising a lot lately as the picture shows.
I hope this dream works out for her.
What else is happening this week? Work of course and then maybe some more work, and maybe a music festival this weekend. We will see!

Morgan in the jungle!

Tonight we have been invited to a dinner party at this friend of ours. It is going to be exciting I think, Our friend is from India and there will be a lot of indians at the party.
Earlier today we went to the jungle (CarreFour) to cut down (buy) a plant and bring it as a gift. What do you think? Will they like the present?
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Working hard or hardly working?

This is my coworker Petter showing us all how you shouldn't be positioned when you work. I have to say though that I feel like being in that exact position as him but without the computer and with a pillow instead. Me and Petter had two hard days in Gumi and I am going back for more tomorrow. This weekend I think I just want to relax with Morgan and maybe go to the movies. Morgan mentioned something about Pirates of the Carribean 2. We will see what happens.
\BucketBoy

Quick post from Gumi

 
So I am back in Gumi again. I will spend the night and then work all day tomorrow and then take the train back to Suwon and then crash in my bed so that I can get up on Thursday to continue with some more work. Anyways I have Petter with me and that is fun. I think we will go out and have some dinner soon, just some quick email checking first. Oh yeah, the image is from Coex (a big shopping mall and convention center in Seoul). I saw these three cute little doll things...oh wait that one in the middle is Morgan my incredibly cute girlfriend!
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Rainy lazy Sunday

The rain just keeps coming down and that kind of weather makes me tired and lazy. Good thing it is a Sunday then. At the moment me and Morgan are hanging out in the bed. She is on her mac and I alternate between my new Macbook and my Dell work laptop. We are such nerds. I think we will just vege out all day, computing, playing video games and maybe watching a movie. Our coworker Petter arrived yesterday so I guess we should see him today as well.
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My first step into the Mac world

So there it is! My new computer. It works really well and it is fun to paly around with Mac OsX and all the iLife programs. Haven't really done much today. I went out and got this baby with Morgan. I have had a slight headache all day. I really hope I'm not getting sick.
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Rain, dead computer and maybe a new computer

It has been raining alot lately. This is actually the raining season here in Korea so it is not that strange. I read on the Korean Heralds webpage today that the rain has actual taken some lives.
My private computer gave up a couple of nights ago. It seems to be the graphics chip that is acting up. I am not sure how easy it will be to fix (if it will even be possible) so I have decided that I will buy this on Saturday. It will be my first Mac and I am really excited about it. I will trick it out with some more ram (2 Gb maybe) and then I will be ready to mac away. I will post some pictures of my new toy when I get it.
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My new toy

 
I forgot to write about this baby! They installed it on Saturday, but they did a crap job so they had to come back yesterday and fix it. I get really irritated when I think about the job they did so I don't really want to write about it. All that matters is that everything seems to be ok now and the thing keeps me cool and I can sleep again. Sweet!!!
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Omurice

 
Here is the picture of the omurice dinner that I had on Saturday. It is rice covered by a very thin omelette, and then I had a chicken kebab with mine.
Yesterday I just relaxed with my poor sick Morgan. We made tuna and eggsalad sandwiches and ate them with dill pickles and some chips (American style). It was good.
Today we have been working and now it is time for dinner.
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The weekend that was

 
So last saturday we went to the Seodaemun Prison in Seoul. This prison was used by the japanese during the japanes occupation of Korea. The prison was used to imprison Korean freedom fighters and it was known for its cruel torture and bad living conditions. I think the prison is well worth visiting but some of the showcases were pretty cruel so I wouldn't recommend it to small children (there were lots of korean kids, but you could see that some of them got scared by the exhibition).
The picure is of me in a standing coffin. They put prisoners in these standing coffins and after a few days people would be paralyzed, or at least that is what the sign said that described this torture device.
Later on we went to Gangnam and had some omurice for dinner. I will post a picture of that too.
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Hungry

After a long day working (it was quite a productive day) I am hungry as a wolf. Today I will go with Rasmus and have some Shabu Shabu. The link describes the japanese version and I guess the korean version is a little bit different. I find it really tasty and it is going to be a nice treat for my tired little brain and body. Maybe I will snap a picture of our dinner and post it here later.
/BucketBoy

North Korean missile launch

I forgot to talk about this in the last post. Well yesterday North Korea test launched 5 ( I think five) missiles at the same time as the US sent their spac shuttle up. I talked to some of my south-korean friends today and asked them what they thought about all this. It seems like most south koreans feel that this has happened before and that it will probably amount to nothing. I really hope they are right.
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It is going to be a cool summer

Today we went out and bought air conditioners. It was a lot harder to get what we wanted than I thought it would be. First of all I am not used to AC:s. I usually live in Sweden so I don't know much about how they work. I didn't know that you usually have to have one big fan for every little machine that you have in the house, but apparantely that is the standard way of doing it. Now there are fans that can deliver enough effect for two or three little machines but then everything gets real expensive.
Anyway we have finally bought AC and if we are lucky it will be installed this Friday. That is something I really like about Korea. They deliver things quickly and delivery and installment (if needed) is always included in the price. I wish it was like that in Sweden.
Tonight I will continue my quest to watch all seasons of Alias. I am at the end of season 2 so maybe I will finish all seasons by the end of the summer.
/BucketBoy

Instead of words you get a picture!

 
I thought maybe I would post a picture instead of writing a bunch. It is an old picture of a fruit plate we got when we were out a couple of months ago.
It was good!!
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So tired

I really feel like posting, but I am too tired to write anything that is worth reading. I will just link to my friends blog's: Paul Blomdahl, Klas Skogmar. Maybe these guys have more energy than I do today.
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Where did the weekend go?

So I am sitting here, it is Sunday night and I am wondering what happened to my weekend. We were going to go and ses the Suwon City Walls, but yesterday the weather was kinda crap so we just went for a couple of walks around the surrounding area. We went to this Outlet for designer clothes and I expected to see outlet prices. Boy was I fooled, it seemed to me at least that they had full price on most of the stuff they were selling.
Today I helped Morgan move some stuff to her new apartment. Her apartment is on campus at the Seoul English Village. It is all totally new, in fact they are still finishing up some things so there were a bunch of construction workers around. It sure will be nice when it is done though. They hadn't installed any warm water in the apartments yet, so Morgan decided to come and spend the night here in Suwon. We also went to CostCo. It is alot of fun to go there. They have some western foods that are hard to find in other grocery stores around here so you get all giddy when you se cheese and other things that you didn't really know you missed until you saw them again.
Ok gotta go to sleep now, I have a trip to Gumi tomorrow so I got to get up early.
/BucketBoy