Deja Vu

Chillin'/preppin' at a cafe like last week after catchin' the first subway at 5:40 again...certainly much more refreshed this time around wheee (see? training my body to become used to good habits)

Payday payday! Went shoppin' in Coex (big indoor shopping centre w/ famous MegaBox cineplex)...bought yellow eyeglass frames (perhaps inspired by the fashions of 2NE1...we'll see how they fly in the States)...hit Myong Dong yesterday after work (expansive indoor/outdoor district with lights! shops! action!)...found a few dresses that fit well but conflicts arose (either they would not let me try the clothes on....or once I did, they proved see-through. Yay!)...finally found one that fit well so of course, bought it & walked out the store wearing it...on our way back to Kangnam on way to a bar ran into a few of our students...in an ideal world teachers & students could be real friends with mutual respect and clear communication but since we don't live in a real word, awkward haven yaaaay...okay, so not that awkward but more of my obvious attempts to ditch them, leaving my friend/colleague in crime to chat them up...

The bar food is deeeelish here...but then again, pretty much any meat cooked into a ball of gooey-fried-goodness in some sort of sweet/spicy sauce would please the palate...I heart strawberry soju....afterwards roamed the beautifully radiant streets for some street games...these ranged from BB-gun shooting (for a long time couldn't find the hole from the backside....uh oh...that's what he....joooking :P), punching bag-one-"shot-ting" (to prove one's masculinity of course, which you all know how strongly I believe in such important values...funny thing is I tried it a couple of times...walked away feeling pretty "manly" given my close-to-highest-score...in my newly purchased dress and heels... =P), soccer one-kicking, dart-throwing & the likes....Kangnam dong certainly never fails to entertain even on your way from one entertainment venue to another....hit up Hookah bar (scraped my ankle climbing the steps & in the dark it looked beastly...thankfully the bathroom light revealed it to be much milder) & salsa club (damn, watching the dancers...some of them moved so smoothly...as if they were constantly moonwalking across the floor....RIP M.J.)

Work is going well :) The students are hard-working, though they certainly have their moments of indolence & trying to get out of as much work as they can...I've observed a sort of "stuck in a rut" attitude...a form of living unconsciously...I find myself wondering if this happens to most people in their daily life due to the repetitive onslaught of obligations/challenges...I can't help but feel a bit sad about the thought....

Ah, sorry, the above was bits of a stream of broken consciousness...oh oh so many of you know how much I LUUUV music, foreign music in particular recently...highly highly recommend Utada Hikaru's This is the One album (yes, I realize it has been out for quite some time but then again, speed was never quite my forte in this field), particularly the tracks "Apple & Cinnanmon", "Come Back to Me", "Dirty Desire", & "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence"....amaaaaaaazing!

xoSeoulxo,

C2

P.S. Apparently peeps around me have all seen stars...such as Hyori, Lee Min Ho, Yoona from SNSD, Wonder Girls, etc.....where the hell was I??? *Sigh*...DBSK is still in Japan completely their tour now in Tokyo Dome...