The gate to the sea

It was another terrible day.

Even though I was sitting on the beautiful beach at Haewundae, Busan, watching the horizon far away as well as doves on the sand near, I was finally getting annoyed by a phone call from some of colleagues. It was for arguing for some communication mistakes I took. I'd missed some important procedure without an intention. Yes, it's true that it's my mistake, but I felt the unlimited, infinitive stupidity from... because I believed we shared its context.

Ah, the cloudy and foggy weather without the bright sun made me even sad.

(A gate to the sea)

Once I made a plan to visit to Busan with my family together in this week, my wife refused it due to SJ's picnic schedule on Saturday. Since we have good memories of weekend trips for Busan in the last year and the year before, I thought she would agree but it's determined to be wrong. I needed to consider kids' scheule now when planning something.

On this trip, I also wanted to go around Busan Biennale and George Lucas's STAR WAS exhibition at BEXCO while staying for three days. But I couldn't. I was trying to go there alone, but only about 5 hours were allowed in Busan today, and I had to spend almost of the time for the business.

Really a terrible short trip. The business result was not fine, too. While back to the office by KTX, I had quarrels with several colleagues for another lots of matters. Thus, I had to returned to my office at midnight and am writing this post at this hour.

I was too much annoyed or bothered these days, especially for the human-relationship at work and wondered if it's the time to find another job.

The Late Visit

OH, My GOD. This has been kept and stored as a draft for 5 days !

This is the last week story(Sept 24).

(6 kids from 3 families, Can you find who're brothers/sisters ? )

HR invited 5 families of college alumi to his house-warm up party at 6:00 pm on the last Friday. But due to the unexpected business trip to Daejon in that afternoon, I could arrive at his home at 9:00 pm. Terribly late and I couldn't take a picture for the luxurious dishes. Of course, I couldn't prepare a nice present, too.

My wife and kids went to there earlier(8:00pm, still late though) and fully fed when I got there.

All 6 kids were running, singing, shouting, and dancing together without a rest. It's really strange kids are getting close very quickly and very easily.

We left past 11:00 pm and got very tired when at home.

The Fall In the Country

There's a typhoon, and it's very windy and cold.

Since I was told mom had been sick last night, we went to my parents in the early morning. She looked not so fine but was getting better.

We stayed all the day, and enjoyed the fall there, especially its pretty colours.

(Believe they are chrysanthemums)

(Ground Cherry)

(Pumpkins in the Field)

(I found a tyny green frog at the porch)

(Bottle Gourd ?)

( Can you see the chestnuts on the tree? )

PAN Festival

When we had been to Heyri for the first time last summer, a cultural complex with arts and architects, we felt some sort of inconveniences. There were, of course, very nice modern buildings, fantastic cafes, and interesting bookstores, but they looked so polishing and refined- a little bit unnatural. Perhpase I didn't like the overcasted money here and there.

I've never thought we went there again so quickly. But KKK, visiting us in the last weekend, gave pretty nice concert tickets at Heyri. Cross-over music concerts with BBQ party at night as an event of PAN Festival.

Free admission tickets again!!

A jazz band and a mime. A modernized korean traditional band. And a famous jazz singer.
Nice musics!!

My little girl looked enjoying a lot. She was dancing on the chair all the time while the music went on.

We stayed there till late night even though my condition was terribly bad due to the overdrink of the day before.

(Nah, Youn Sun, A Famous Jazz Singer)

(I've never seen this kind of Moving Bank before)

A Little Bit Easier

I'm not a politician or a political guy and not interested in politics, but watching West Wing regulary these days. Interesting? I don't know. It was quite good at first, but now a little bit boring. It is because, instead of enjoying it, I'm studying it, I think.

One of friends once recommended it as a good text for the spoken english. According to him, a lot of phrases, implications, metaphors, satires and twists(?) were there, even though I'm not sure they really are. Moreover, conversations(actually quarrels) are too fast for non-native audience like me to be easily understood. So it takes quie long time and effort to watch one episode. Became somewhat a boring job.

By the way, I found a very interesting scene yesterday in episode 1/season 4. . Josh and Tobby met a normal mid-age gentleman at a pub, who was travelling with his daughter to look around the university she would go now. The gentlemen said, he never thought his and his wife's money would be short for supporting their kids. He said, the life should be a little bit easier. Easier to support kids to go university, and easier to enjoy life itself.

I totally agreed it. It was not a complain. It was not a grumble. It was a sort of inconvenience or missing, I felt. And we need to try to make it easier. ..

The last summer was not helpful for making my life a little bit easier. The weather was not helpful at all.



The hammer was broken by the heat, I thought, while I was trying to pull off nails from the wall for repapering. The joint of the tripod was broken by the heat,too, I though, while I was trying to adjust it for making a nice angle for photos at Vivaldi Park.

The season is changing right now anyway. The cool breeze in the morning, and the chilly night air say so.

I'm waiting, no, longing for much more colder days now.. And hope a little bit easier life.

The First Guest in Many Years

Yes, it's true.
It's true that we couldn't invite any guest to home for many years. No way.

Having two cute but little kids, we had no rooms for any other things except caring about kids so far. Hospitality for kids only. Recent successive parties with 4x4 members, however, gave some hints for how starting social activities with little kids, but we were not sure still it would work well. Anyway we were considering at the moment a mini-party at home in near future.

By the way in one day of the last week, one of my best friends, KKK called me and said suddenly he would like to visit to me on this Sunday. We couldn't meet each other for quite a long time, he would be a father in this Novemeber, and we were discussing about some future business in months, so it would be very nice to meet and talk at this time.

(The Lovely Cookies and Muffins Ms.KKK prepared for us)

So we invited them without a thought. That's fine to me, but to my wife it meant she had to prepare meals and drinks, which she had not tried for many years. As worried, it was determined later as a difficult thing.

At first, we had a mistake in time assumptions and scheduling. They arrived while I was cleaning home and trying to find proper places for laundries. Then, they had to wait almost an hour for lunch. The food was not so bad, but many of them was remained.. (I had to confess: actually my wife had prepared everything alone, and I didn't do anything. If I had helped, it would've been better. And if we finished the preparations in time, I could have got some photos for them. But it looked bad to take photo for late lunch, so I didn't take any.)


Instead, this was the photo on what KKK and his wife gave us as a present. Choco muffins and assorted cookies they made till the late night of the day before. Very delicious and fantastic. Bakery business looked to be possible for them. My two kids ate them greedily, forgetting to express thanks. We enjoyed a lot.

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After the rain at the day before, the weather was incredibly clear and wonderful. It tempted me to go out with saying:what were you doing here at home in this lovely weather. But we had a guest, and it was not bad at all. We had also a great time with them. But no nice pictures. So, I took the moon pictures again.

This was today's moon, a little bit disappeared at the right top. The time I took this was about one-hour earlier than the photo in yesterday.

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I don't know why I did this silly job again. Possibly for a fun. The bright moonlights on the living room and the bed room led me to the balcony to watch the big moon when we switched off all the lights to go sleep.

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Yup. Trimming and resizing was done, too, for this moon picture.

(The Moon's view from the city of Seoul, 2006.9.10. around 11 pm)

A Chill Day.

The temperature was dropping down pretty much for a couple of days. Looked like the summer went away. The rain in the morning made the temperature get down further, and I'd felt a chill for all the day.
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Due to the rain, I couldn't keep an appointment with a number of colleagues at work to go to Changkyung Place for taking photos, even though I got a message at 7 am the plan would be kept regardless of the weather condition. Of course, I said yesterday I couldn't be there if rained. Actually it would be impossible to do anything in the rain with my little girl anyway, and I didn't like to go to somewhere only for taking pictures, but they'd suggested to join in their picnic after they knew I 'd bought a sony alpha-100 and for me hard to refuse.. One more good bait. One of their members promised to rent his film-scanner for my test-purpose.
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( My Son in the youth's pool was trying to do something..)

Instead, in the afternoon, I went to an indoor swimming pool in neighbor with my son after his hate once-a-week english class on every Saturday. ( Ah, before going to swim, I dropped a Sony shop for a moment and got angry for their insincere manners. I'll write about this story later.)

The pool was not crowded at all but it's not so good day for swimming. If I went there alone, it would be nice. But the water was cold, the air in the pool was also cold, and I found it's really a cold day for my kid to swim. I was afraid if my son would catch a cold.

At least it's not in the summer, I thought. It's a little bit early to talk about the fall, because many of trees are still green, and I'd not seen or heard of this year's harvest- for example, rice or apples, yet.

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I took this for a fun.

Recently I saw a lot of the moon pictures at a website I've frequently visited to, and thought I'd try to some day. Looked they took the moon's pictures to show/check the performance of lenses, especially telescope ones. I didn't know such specific things but I did it tonight and I'd like to say it's not so an easy job and not so successful at all.

I could get this from a couple of dozens, and trimmed/resized it.

(The moon from the city of Seoul, around the midnight, 2006.09.10)

Hard-Boiled Peaches

Picking peaches from mom's field was fantastic, but there's some problem. Worms, I'm not sure the species still, but worms had nibbled the fruits too much, and it's hard to eat in normal way, though it smelled wonderful, and it tasted very sweet. Thus we decided to make HARD-BOILED PEACHES!!
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It's the peaches

After peeling and chopping them in proper size(yup, the korean measure, proper or any size you want), put them into a big pot, pour water till rougly they are sinking, and put sugar as you want.

Boiling the pot

Enjoy them after cooling.

You can make of sherbet, or pudding with them as alternatives, of course.

I read some different recipe in the Interet, in which that's just fine to cook in a double boiler, instead of direct heating. I'll try it later.

Recent Pictures

Well, I recently took these pictures, and all of them were original without post-adjustments except resizing. Please give me advices..


2006/09/03 Sunday

Frankly speaking, I had surrendered to Everland's marketing trick again. We went to the last summer splash party to get FREE water pistols. Two pictures are During-Water-Pouring and After-the-party, respectively. By the way, can you find my two kids and wife in those two pictures ? Have fun!

2006/09/02 Saturday

Yes, Picasso Exhibition. I'm not sure you can remember my old posting about SEMA, and the second picture is very similar to the photo in that posting.

The last one was taken at the rooftop of S departent store.

A little bit older pictures at 2006/08/05 at Vivaldi Park.

Hmm.. more than 13 pics at one posting. It's my new record, I think.

Have fun with this pictures

Picasso in Seoul

I was not sure my little kids could think about or feel any of something special from Picasso's works. But we'd got free admission tickets from KIA motors' promotion weeks ago and it's the last weekend of the exhibition-The Great Century Picasso, so we went to SEMA without a hesitation in the last Saturday afternoon.

( Exhibition-The Great Century Picasso - at Seoul Museum of Art)

More than a hundred works there, and my son was impressed on the ceramic plate(dish) with the title of Composition of Sausage and Egg Fries, wondering what would happen if the sausage and egg-fries were spoiled. My little girl, she went asleep in an hour in her baby carriage.

The exhibition was quite crowded, but we could enjoy it enough.

(Took this picture at the lobby of SEMA.
Trimming and color adjustment was done)

Leaving the museum, I took this picture of outside view at the entrance/exit..