come play with us
The Torino Olympics is the first Winter Olympics that I was able to watch (at least on TV). South Korea being a participating team, events are being broadcast here (both delayed and live). Now I am watching Italian kids with halo singing (earlier it was Avril Lavigne) in what could be the closing ceremonies (or is this the rerun of the opening?)
Anyway, Korea ends up to be the only Asian nation in the top 10 of medal standing. It is the powerhouse in short track racing (5 gold medals of the 6 events); a very exciting game to watch, what with the possibilty of athletes skating off each other hehehe.
Korea is also bidding for the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Wondering where will I be when that time comes...
Picture above is the winter theme park of the Woobang Towerland in Daegu. They also offer begginer skiing slopes. That's Carlo after sliding down his board. 
20
Yesterday, as the Philippines marked the 20th anniversary of the People Power, the mass movement that put an end to a tyrannical leader, Becky said goodbye to American Idol, leaving 20 people behind to continue their dreams.
Having no cable TV, I watch the show via downloads, thanks to the high internet connection in Korea, the land of Kimchis and Saunas.
Pic courtesy of Maxim online, where Becky and her twin sister, being models, posed for the mag even before AI.
this will be the view in my window room by next month
The mountain nearest to my apartment which I have not climbed yet. Right now negotiations are ongoing about the changes in the room assignments of four of us (4 horsemen? hehe, I am watching the
Big Brother 5 Finale in my room as I am posting this) youngest batch of Filipino engineers (at least as of now, the next batch is coming this Saturday) in the company.
I will be moving to the smaller room of my current housemate
Mike, who will move to
June's apartment, where
Jay will be exiting and moving in my big room--the biggest I've ever had in my life.
Drew just won
Big Brother 5 and half million dollars
. Hope all of us horsemen wins in this change of housemates.
it's unFAIR!
Tonight is the last night of the
UP Fair, an annual shenanigan organized by the student organization of my university to provide concerts, rides, booze (yes I heard even drugs), etc all within the greenery of the
UP Sunken Garden.
Having missed the action for three years in a row, will I make it up by watching the Broadway musical
Grease in Busan? Still undecided.
Anyway, the photo above was taken from a cable car in
Woobang Towerland, a themepark in
Daegu, Korea's third largest city. That's a bird's eye view of the the park when I toured
Carlo and
Che.
Twas also the same weekend we watched
RENT.
Hmm, last year was for concerts. So, its musicals this time?
525 thousand 600 minutes
The Broadway cast of
RENT in Korea. The first Broadway musical I saw. It was awesome to see great performers on stage singing the songs you have been listening to only in CD.
What is more awesome is having your tickets upgraded for free just because you bacame friends with the usherette.
Talk about seasons of love.
Advanced happy Valentines day!
and it's beginning to snow
The once-a-year snow fall in our lovely island happened last Tuesday to my surprise. It's the first time in my stay here to experience snow on the way to the office, on the other occassions that it snowed, I was already in the office. And this was the biggest, or shall I say deepest snow our island have had in my stay here.
Being in the Southern part of South Korea, snow fall is very rare here unlike in the capital Seoul.
The snow was very timely indeed. Last week, before the snowfall, one of the lines in the broadway musical and now a movie
RENT is the one on the title.
Next blog would be, you might have guessed,
RENT!
tight pants anyone?
Have you ever worn a tight pants, so tight that the zipper broke down and the hole for the button was ripped? I did. This was the pants that turned into a disaster during the Lunar New Year. This picture though was half-year ago during my stint in
The Dish, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
So, was it the pants or my belly? Anyway, you know what I got for the new year. A new pair of brown pants. Yes, brown ^^
