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Happy New Year!

Monday, December 31, 2007

It's 2008!My gin and tonic and I salute the new year and wish you all a good one....
My new year's resolution is to become a famous rapper. Below is my new "image" and my "rapper name." What do you think?

Happy new year! Much peace and love to all my fams and peeps on the...errr...street.

...Like A Sore Thumb

I finally made it to the doctor about me thumb. He took one look and sent my to the dermatologist upstairs who injected my thumb with some numbing drugs, did some doctor stuff while I didn't look, wrapped it up, gave me 3 days worth of anti-biotics and told me to come back on Wednesday. Yeah! My video gaming was really starting to suffer. That's unacceptable.

You can see how happy I am to have it on the mend. I'll post updates. Anyway, Little Miss Limelight here couldn't stand to have my handsome beard and glorious thumb bandage command so much attention in the pictures so she decided to butt in....


What a goober-head. :-p

We Finally Went Outside

Saturday, December 29, 2007

What I'm Listening To: The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance
Mood: My thumb hurts (more on this later)
Awesomeness Leve1 (1-10): 11

We get a few days off for New Years so that, along with some tickets we were given to the Seoul Museum of Art, got our lazy butts out of the door. We got some terrific pictures.

We started by getting our picture taken in the parking lot. Mom, you wanted some pictures of us:



Coming off the subway in downtown Seoul (the City Hall stop, Ryan) we made a wrong turn going to the Seoul museum of art and found the following cultural monument:



It was a fortress...or part of one. It stood as part of wall, with this being one of the gates.

We went to the Seoul Museum of Art because they were featuring a very high profile Vincent Van Gogh show. Since we couldn't take pictures inside, here is the one of me at the entrance:


The Van Gogh exhibit was neat indeed. Liz would be a little more verbose in describing his style and which pictures she liked. My favorite was Portrait of Joseph Roulin and even though this one wasn't there, I think that might have made it to #1. Van Gogh has some stuff I would love to put in my house. He's whimsical and amusing but I wouldn't call his paintings "moving." They're just too....bright. Eh, well, I like the movie Tommy Boy, so what do I know.

After the museum we went to a palace the Korean king once used, only we had to make a quick stop beforehand. First, we went to NUDL NUDL.
Apparently, here they have nudl nudl girls, and since I have never seen a nudl girl this was a great opportunity (it was supposed to say "nude"). Following that, we decided to chill at the Doobee building *wink wink*. Oh yes, the Doobee building. They have a whole building for that here. I think, though, that there is a secret passcode because when I walked in giving the guards high-fives and saying "Roll it up, bro!" they looked at me askance and quickly ushered us off the premises. Here is a close up:
After the great Nudle/Doob adventure we made it to the palace. Here you can see the entrance and a life size representation of Emporer...mmmm...I don't know his name...Palpatine.


It's hard to describe the grounds. The layout is a little complex and I'm not really sure what each building was for since I didn't read the pamphlet they gave us.



This ended up being one of my favorites:





The fire extinguisher was actually from the original palace. They were very advanced:


Here's a great shot. There were figures carved out of metal on each corner of the buildings:

As for my thumb, well, it doesn't seem to be getting better. I'm going to the doctor on Monday and hoping he can give me something to take care of the infection.