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T-Money, that is. I wrote about this special device that is used for subway and bus fares (some taxi's reportely will accept it, too) back two years ago. Well, yesterday this two-year old widget (it attaches to your cell phone) broke. It wasn't visibly broken, it just refused to work. I took it to the station clerk, and he tried it on his machines, and confirmed that it was dead.You know what's...

I saw an advertisement the other day on a post, it was promoting "HOT YOGA". I was wondering what exactly "HOT YOGA" was, until yesterday when a large banner on the next building.It explains is that the Yoga class is held at a temperature of 38 deg C, or 100 deg F, the humidity is held at 60%, and they provide fresh Oxygen! And the official name? "THE HOT YOGA". Not for me, than...

Toilet seat, that is. When I moved into my apartment over a year ago, the toilet seat was partially broken. Well, the inevitable happened and it broke completely last week. I wasn't quite sure how to get new toilet seats in Korea, but some friends suggested I look at the "mart" first (think K-Mart or Walmart). Sure enough, they did sell some at the mart. Quite a large variety, in fact. However,...

I think this stew is replacing soon-doo-boo stew as my favorite. But if I thought soon-doo-boo had a unappealing translation (raw soy bean curd stew, or unformed tofu stew), then this stew has a downright awful translation: soy bean curd refuse stew! The "refuse" is defined as the "edible residue left after the production of bean curd". The texture (and the taste somewhat) reminds me of grits,...

I broke my phone the other day, and had to revert to my older phone, which is a little bit flaky. On top of that, I lost the phone book contents. Well, not entirely. I have the phone book backed up on my computer, but the program asks me for a password and I have no idea what the password is! When I used the program before, the phone was always plugged in, and the password was the same as the...

I'm tired of always eating salmon with mashed potatoes and vegetables, even though I think those three really go together well. So tonight I decided to mix it up just a little bit, and made a salmon - vegetable - mashed potato casserole! As usual, I made too much, and there's enough for at least one more meal, if not two. That is, if I can eat it before it goes b...

I heard that the value of pork is on the decline, since the recent outbreaks of the swine flu (which we're now supposed to call 2009 H1N1 flu, named after the discovered of the virus, Dr. Samuel 2009 H1N1). Consider that they ordered the slaughter of all pigs in Egypt. Korea has strengthened inspections of incoming pork, despite the fact that eating pork is not known to transmit the flu (tip to...

So far, secretly following the life of my new cell phone stalkee via his credit card purchases has been extremely boring. Let's call him KJ (since those are his initials). So far he's only made two purchases, both apparently a pack of cigarettes. One Tuesday night, one again Friday night. That's all. He must be a very light smoker, or he also pays in cash sometim...

Made a surprisingly delicious burrito today. Beans, spiced tomatoes, and taco seasoning the The Stumbling Mom mailed to me last year. I used some Australian ground beef, and Korean ham (well, it's a ham-like product).Compared to a Korean, I go through my rice very slowly. So slowly, in fact, I can't remember the last time I bought a bag. Today as I was making the burrito, I realized that I had...

There was an interesting display outside the office this afternoon. The whole sidewalk was lined with cages of birds (and even one cage with rabbits).Apparently they were brought to the neighborhood by the bird truck:Here are some of the feathery fello...