Welcome to the Castle

This is Tittietopia.

Due to constraints, construction of the 4th wall has been delayed indefinitely.

In the figure below, 3 towers can be seen. An arch is in the castle's interior, however it serves absolutely no purpose. Points of interests are the Maoshouse and the Concubine Quarters.

Transformers

Transformers was a pretty good movie I guess. But I would much rather see Up.

They tell me once you try Korean style Chinese food, you'll never forget.

I'll never forget.

Cellularized!

Maos has joined the digital revolution! Landlines were so yesterday. I can make calls anywhere I want now! With my 60 minutes of talk time, I have just arrived in the year 1997.

My work place

Some of the dudes in electrical engineering were kind enough to clear out a table for me. So now I officially have post at the Advanced Signal Processing Lab. Awesome! I feel more purposeful already.

Strawberry milk time with Hello Kitty! She's even got a strawberry outfit on. Wonderful!

The great Genghis Khan once told his equestrian warriors before they charged into battle, "One does not know the true value of chicken dinner until don't have said chicken dinner."

As I sit here eating dry corn flakes, I truly understand those words. I wish I had not turned down 211's offer to order takeout. The Great Khan was wise like the bear.

I wish I had pictures but I guess just not today.

Like I said before, you can't always have what you want.

Pictures aside today could be considered another great success.

In terms of my research project, I went from not knowing what to do to knowing what to do, but too stupid to carry it out. Mr. Graduate Lab Man printed out an article and told me to read. I read and comprehended so poorly, I probably unread that article. Oh well, can't always have what you want. But at least I'm getting somewhere.

On a side note, I met up with my English group and all of us as a group implemented an alternative English improvement method. Highly effective, definitely recommended, will try again. More on that later, I need to pee, we drank way too much.

Greater than Red Lobster.

Today, we set out to redeem ourselves of the failure of the previous day and embarked on a journey that began with on Bus 105.

Similar to how riding the correct airplane eventually brings you to the desired destination, staying on the bus until the correct stop was called usually pays off. When the Lotte Department Store stop was called, we instantly knew that we had succeeded.

At Lotte, we discovered that Korean Mountain Dew retains its ORIGINAL AMERICAN STYLE TASTE!

Korean soft-serve also retains its original soft and servey properties.

After purchasing a pair of nice Asics sandals, we set off to the beach.

There we saw seaweed,

a man with his annoying cart, reminding us to do something,

a happy family,

dogs,

this guy,

and some very flat fish.

This picture proves that I was actually there, however a wave promptly washed it away. Conspiracy I say!

Hunger struck and we ate more or less the same thing as yesterday, only many times beefier and better.

It could be said that today was what that Red Lobster day was supposed to be, a complete and total success. No refund required, satisfaction secured, mission accomplished. With that said, we returned to Dormitory 16 DICE, short for the Dormitory for Indians Chinese Etc.

My first Saturday in Pohang.

Actually it would be also be my first Saturday in Korea as well.

It started out with me waking up sometime in the morning. I needed to go to the bathroom because Ihad a large amount of beer the night previous. Beer here is very cheap. It's 6500-won for a pitcher the size of a very large pitcher. In fact this very large pitcher is probably the capacity of multiple regular sized pitchers combined. This would probably mean it holds about 3-liters. All this information is interesting and all but in the end most likely useless for those of you not in Pohang.

Now, continuing on with the story, I wake up and a couple of us go to the gym to fulfill our manly duty of lifting some heavy objects. We finish up and have lunch, which looked something like this:

Special thanks to William Sheen. Lunch set A would not have been possible had he not been looking out for the younguns and given me the last set. You are a very kind soul, your actions will not go unrewarded.

I was hit with the most profound food coma shortly afterwards. I slid into a deep sleep after watching the Starcraft Channel on television.

After taking a nap we went exploring.

Egrets do not like rain, so they stay hide in trees.

Taekwondo is my favorite sport. I would not have the full Korean experience unless I sign up for classes.

Korea is actually exactly like Taiwan. The weather is exactly the same. It's like Korea is a Korean version of Taiwan. It's also like Taiwan is a Taiwanese version of Korea.

If you ignore the language differences, this generic street scene can be replicated with complete accuracy in Taipei.

Being the hungry people we were, we eventually became hungry and ate.

So basically today was the first day

After taking the 5:42 Korean Airlines bus to Gimpo, I found out that, oh no, my flight got pushed back an hour. Uh-oh uh-oh!

But I'm a problem solver, so I solve problems, and so I eventually made it to Pohang and to POSTECH. Quite excellent.

We passed by the kitchen and witnessed what might be largest woks I've ever seen in my life.

And in the end we still know what the most important flag is:

Arrival!

My cell phone doesn't work, I don't speak any korean, oh god my life is a mess. i should probably go to the booth and ask for an airport shuttle.

I should be packing...

...but I'm not. In a couple of hours I'm going to be hopping on a plane to Korea. If things go well, I'll probably make it there.