Year in Review 2010

Just decided to write a quick reflection for the past year. Its been a interesting year that came with many new friends, memorable moments, low points, strange places and new experiences. Gonna have to make it quick as I dont have much battery power left on my laptop

Guess I should start off with the lowlights of 2010. There was really only one true lowlight for 2010 and that was getting into some arguments/disagreements with close friends. It didnt really accomplish much except for wasting time and creating bitterness. Its something I really regret and hope to take further steps to resolve in 2011.


There were many highlights to 2010. None of it would have really been possible with getting fired from my job sept 2009, so a big thank you to that dick of a manager, Corey at Bell. I met so many awesome people and thanks to the time off work I was able to enjoy some good times with them. Some of my favourites include the Wine Festival in Niagara with Jisu, Jhanny, Eriko, and Jeff, Ice Fishing, Having Coffee at Starbucks with Chloe, Muse, Thrice, GnR, Jisan Rock Festival, my trip spanning ten countries and finally living in a new country. I wanna thank all the people who made all these highlights possible again and hopefully we can have more good times in the future.

Quick Notes
Fav. Movie of 2010 - Probably would have been Jackass 3D but since its not showing in Korea, Id say its a tie between Machete and Inception.
Fav. Country - Nepal - The People and Culture were amazing
Best Concert - Guns N' Roses in January. Axl sounded really good and GnR were in the best form I have seen since coming back. An added plus is getting paid for my photographs from that concert

A 크리스마스 Story..

Happy Horidays! Its Chrisumasu time in Korea! Christmas in Korea is a bit different, from what Im told its a couples day and from what I see its a day to eat a Paris Baguette or Dunkin Donuts Christmas Cake. Its my first Christmas away from home and since im not in a couple and I didnt wanna eat cake at home by myself I decided to spend Christmas at my favourite hostel, Banana Backpackers.

I got to the hostel around 2pm on Christmas Eve and nobody was around at the time. I decided to go to Myeongdong which is a place to shop, shop, eat and shop some more. Myeongdong is usually pretty crowded and that days crowd consisted of mostly of couples, people offereing free hugs and people in cute fuzzy bear and Santa costumes. I didnt do much other than enjoy a warm on the outside, frozen of the inside street chicken kebab due to the -15 weather.

Skating @ City Hall

Myeongdong

I decided to go back to the hostel to warm up and to my Suprise I saw Mr.Hong Kong! I met Mr. Hong Kong 3 months ago at the same hostel so it was a real Christmas miracle sorta.. He also has the nickname Hong Kong "Rain" LOL cause he got some sick dance moves while singing a tune.. It was a fun night as we had some pizza, cake and soju bombs. I had my first soju bomb expertly made by Banana girl Seung Min which was really good! It was a pretty diverse crowd with an American, Singaporean, Japanese, Thai, Hong Kong, Korean and Canadian.

Christmas @ Banana Backpackers

Panarama

Christmas Day started out similar to Christmas Eve with another trip to Myeongdong with American David from the Hostel. After another uneventful day in Myeongdong we headed  back to the hostel to warm up a bit before going out for some korean bbq. It was followed by some more Cake and a gift exchange where David ended up getting ... some printer paper! courtesy Mr. Hong Kong. That night we decided to head for Hongdae where we aimlessy wondered in the cold looking for places to drink. Mr.Hong Kong really wanted to go to a sexy bar but the rest of us were not into that.We ended up going to Ho-Bar 7 or 10 which dissapointly for Mr. Hong Kong was not a sexy bar. Had some beers and Mr.Hong Kong hilariously tried to pick up some korean girls which didnt go half bad. In the end, Korean Christmas was saved. Now I have to figure out how to save Korean New Years....

LOL, The Dissapointment