Friday, July 10, 2009

Back Handed Compliments AKA WAY T.M.I

So, I suppose I should start this post off with the most exciting of news: I met a boy. he's not like the other boys I have met in Korea, he's a real boy. He's an out and proud, 6'5'', Australian boy, who I am quite taken with.


That news is bumps my other most exciting news to second. That news is of course that I am so fucking close to being out of this country, I can fucking taste it. I have all my visas, I bought my backpack, I've sent home more than half of the stuff I came to this country with. I have all of my plane tickets EXCEPT the most important one - the one home.


We had asked our director about getting the cash for our ticket, because our contract states that we get a ticket home, from Busan. But since we are going to be all the way in Bangkok, Thailand, we said just give us the money, and we'll pay the difference. For whatever reason she said that it was no problem, she'd buy our ticket for us. Now we did some investigating the travel agent said it would be something like 2,000,000 won (about $2000). She siad because the flight was outside of Korea, we weren't eligible for any discounts. Anyways we looked around and found an airline that would get us from Bangkok - Toronto for $1022 CAN. The only catch was that it had to be purchased on the internet.


Anyways we leave in exactly 2 weeks and - no ticket. Paitently waiting.


Anyways so the meat of the story - Z - not the Z of yester-post, but lets call him ZJ, his initals. It all started on Friday night when my posse and I said that we wanted to do something outside of the norm one Friday night. We heard about a bonfire at the faraway beach that we used to frequent last summer. So we rolled out there and were having quite an enjoyable time. However the girls couldn't help themselves and so they ditched and hit up KSU and our usual haunts. I hung back with one other girl and we continued chatting until I checked my phone for the time and saw the following txt msg: "JROLLO GAWAY PARTY AT KINO AT LEAST 5 GAYS" I grabbed my friend and put her ass in a cab with me and I told the driver Kino.


(gotta to my last class finish later)

We were got to the bar and I saw Kyle2 ( a skinny, blond, blading gay guy, who looks like my best friend from London, Kyle) and we chatted for a little bit. He introduced me to ZJ and said, "Hey you should take him home." I looked over at ZJ, sized him up and said, "Ok." The rest as they say is history. We've known each other 3 weeks and we spend A LOT of time together.

He's a really cool guy and we are both pieces. {WARING: Here comes to TMI} We are also both tops. When two queer meet, you have to figure out who's the top and who's bottom. It obviously doesn't work if you've got two of the same. Anyways, it took us a little bit to figure out what was doing. He took it first. I promised that I'd take it before I left. But, last night he took it again (It was glorious btw). We were in the shower afterwards and he says, "This is bad, because I kind of like bottoming for you." I cock and eye. "Well, you're not that big, so it doesn't hurt or anything." he says.

"Well you sure know how to make a guy feel comfident about himself." I said.

"You know what I mean," he said.

A back-handed compliment if I ever heard one.

This weekend, we're heading to Mudfest. We have heard about about this thing sicne we first got here. 3000 foreigners take over this beach town up north, roll around in mud, drowning in soju, and its supposed to be EPIC. I can't wait. We gotta get up at 6:45 am though, which is balls, then be on a bus for 3+ hours. Balls. But supposed to be EPIC. We'll see.

Also reports that school children who went last weekend got some sort of weird rash is dampening the atmosphere. Not hot. But again, we'll see. As if drunk foreigners would restain themselves for something as small as a rash.

Thats it (started drinking already, what's wrong with me) OUT

Monday, June 1, 2009

May: the month nothing went my way

So, I'm gonna go ahead and say thank god May is over. I tried my best to get things on track after Seoul, but shit just wouldn't go my way. Whatever, I'm over.

In case you didn't hear, I got right wasted on the 22nd and woke up with a gaint gash in my arm. My bedsheets were covered in blood, I looked at the whole and I swore I could see muscle. It was not hot. I'm glad I made the smart decision to go to hospital and get it looked at. I had to get 4 stitches (and a tetanus shot) at the cost of180,000 won (~$165). Fucking worst. Now the school will cover me for half, but still.

Gah! And I've started to more aggressively plan my exit strategy and I hate it because there are so many unknowns. It looks like now we'll be leaving for Vietnam from Japan. But bloodly Japan is so exspensive, not sure if it will be worth it to just fly back to Busan. And I bought a box, to send my shit home, because I can't travel with everything I brought. That means I'll have to sell (gulp - give away) my luggage. And then there's whole 'what the fuck am I gonna do when I get home?!'

Anyways I'm gonna just walk blindly into the future and hope that everything falls into place like I have been so lucky thus far to be my experience - except for May.

Oh yeah. I'm not getting laid ever again. I am gonna go fucking blind *shakes head*

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

I would...

I realize now the problem with my 90 day mission was the first day I gave myself a cheat. It was called perfection for a reason, but that really didn't mean that much to me. I'm over it which it good, but still got this beer gut which is bad.

Currently it is 7:46a.m. and I am waiting for my laundry to finish. I got up at 6:30 this morning to go for a run, my new attempt to stay in shape, but when I got down to the street it STARTED raining. When I was getting ready in my apartment it wasn't raining. When I left the buiding it was spitting. But when I got the light, it was totally coming down. I decided to turn around and call it quits because #1, I had my MP3 player on me (brand new, to replace the one I lost drunkenly) and #2, to avoid getting sick.

I can't believe it been so long since I last posted. Or I can because I have been running in the morning and that doesn't leave much time in the morning to do anything but get ready. You know me, once the sun goes down I'm closed for business. I can't rightly do anything. I have got the change that before I become an old man, but the truth is I get do so much during daylight hours, I think I deserve some time to myself.

Sure, sure, what could me more self serving than blogging. I just don't like to get my mind going at night, because I'm kind of neurotic and I could very easily see being kept up by my churning brain. And my sleep is very valuable to me. Very.

So what has happened since my last post. Lots of nothing. Went up to Seoul at the beginning of the month. That was fun. Homo Hill was a fucking dissappointment. Went to the DMZ. Fairly interesting though also kinda boring.

Dear god I haven't gotten laid since my last post either. April 11 - now is... 5 weeks and counting. I was at the bar last night and I said, if I go though all of June, I'm going to stop trying. Oh, p.s. I'm going home for the end of August.

Gotta go get ready for the school. I'll be back.

Monday, April 13, 2009

90 days to Perfection: Day 14 [Weekend Update]

So this weekend wasn't much different from last weekend. I cheated major hardcore. But the weekend was GLORIOUS.

Friday I went to the gym (yay me!), and then I went to glabi and got shittered. It was fun. Saturday we went for brunch on the beach. The place was really, really nice and had really good food. It was almost $10 a head, and of course I wanted nothing to do with that, so I drank beer instead. Then we proceeded to Heaundae beach and had such a wonderful day it was disgusting.

I drank lots of soju, played some kick ball, went for a dip in the freezing water, talked a bunch of shit to a bunch of people, just good fucking times. I remember being hammered and standing in the sun and being very happy with myself.

Saturday night was messy. We didn't get out until after midnight. Ended up at Ghetto bar, making out harcore with Matt. Almost the half the bar clapped for us. Terrible. Went back to his house, yada yada yada, I took the subway home Sunday morning.

The plan was to hit the beach again on Sunday, but plans were slow to come together so me and X decided to hit the jimgyobong. We went to Spaland, the one that opened recently in the new mega department store Shinshegae. It was really nice, cost like $14, but it was a full day experience so it was worth it. Ended up doing fried chicken and pizza and beer for dinner. Nice relaxing Sunday.

I skipped morning cardio Monday, went out for a few beers with the girls that night. But I'm not stressing. Things are going quite well, so I'm not going to beat myself up. Going with the flow.
Peace out.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

90 days to Perfection: Day 6 [Weekend Update]

So I totally cheated this weekend. And I am okay with that because I had a pretty awesome weekend.

I skipped the gym on Friday, and I tried my hardest not to, but it couldn't be helped. My friend Dawn got into teacher's college in Toronto (so excited) and so she wanted someone celebrate with, and there I was.

That was followed by Galbi, which was awesome. That was followed by Kino and Ghetto. Then I look at my phone and it was 3:30 and I paintball in the morning, so I called it a night. X, however didn't and drank til 7a.m. When I went to his house on Saturday morning at 11:15, he was hugging the toilet. So he missed paintball.

At paintball I spent the entire time getting drunk off soju/orange juice. Playing was a lot of fun too. I got fucking mascured, got some beautiful bruses to prove it.

Saturday night got off to a late start but had a wicked predrink and then went a bar that we don't frequent called U2 and had a blast. Then of course we ended up at Kino. Went to McDonalds on the way home. Glorious.

Sunday went to the beach. My widget said it was going to be 18, but it definitely wasn't 18. Nice but not 18. Played some frizbee, learned a new game called tips. Hard. My team was losing, and so I start sacrificing my body to make plays. I cut my leg open pretty nice on the sand. Had a hilirous conversation about licking the wound.

Sunday night watched a Canadian movie called Passchendaele. The first half of the movie was very questionable. It was a WWI "epic" (used very losly), and this soldier comes home from the front shell shocked and so he gets assigned to recruiting. Blah blah blah, falls in love, blah blah blah, gets sent back to the front. The battle that it showed was really really well done, and really puts into prespective what fighting a war is all about. The film itself was beautifully shot, and the acting wasn't bad. But the writing was fucking brutal.

Anyways, I am not going to say that I failed, because I didn't. I got up this morning to do my cardio. I'm going to the gym tonight. I am starting to look slightly better and its been two weeks. Gonna stick it out. Gonna get'r done.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

90 days to Perfection: Day 2

Lordy, lordy, nothing rally goes right for me eh? So yesterday was day 1, not bad, just like any other day. Glad I tried to "set a tone" last week. Woke up this morning and my shoulder fucking kills. I must have slept on it funny. But it fucked with my cardio this morning. Strange because I could do push-ups no problem, but when I was doing leg raises it was blindingly painful. And today is supposed to be my shoulder day.

Morning cardio is also starting to tire me out. Last week I felt awesome, but I'm starting to feel it at work. I think I have to be VERY strick with my bedtime. 12:00-12:15 I'm fine, but 12:15-12:30 I definitly feel it the next day.

Also the drinking temptation is too much. Its only Thursday and people are making plans and I'm like "resistance... is... futile..." The girls are all going out of town so it'll be just me and X and two (or three) other friends. But we're all good times, no one I know is boring. Luckily, one friend is doing a detox which doesn't end til Monday I think. So I will need to use her as cruch. Or I could just drink. But I had said I only wanted to have two cheat day per month. And Leanne's birthday is one at the end of the month. And I don't even have any money or anything right now (like I'm literally broke, gonna have to get a loan from Leanne til Monday).

Terrible. Trying to get my food-cheats under control as well. Yesterday was just a few cups of tea, which I'm not sure I will be able to give up. But there always seems to be treats showing up in the office, cakes or pateries or cookies. I wish they had rice cakes in this country.

And my weight keeps going up. I set a mental goal of wanting to weigh 169 pounds at the end of this, checked my weight yesterday and it was 79.7 Kg (175 pounds), up from 77..8 (171). I can't fucking win.

Whatever I'm trying, we'll see how it goes. Power through bitch.

March: By the Numbers

Number of times I went to the gym: 14/31 (j.c)
Number of days I smoked: 11/31
Number of days I drank beer: 9/31

So I got better on my non-beer and cigarettes days, but Jeez, didn't realize the gym was so bad. I guess the week of my birthday had something to do with it.

*As a note I was working on my 10k time, rather than lifting at the gym. I've got it down to 51:40.