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Ah yes, the much anticipated parent’s seminar on Wednesday morning was much over-hyped (well by me at any rate) largly because everything was in Korean. Still, if, in the words of ‘The Boss’, it "increases the students" it can’t be altogether bad. Especially in terms of job security in what is possibly the worst Korean Economy since the IMF stuck their grubby little fingers in during 1997.
Where are the parents? I’m pretty sure they were out of London sometime last week and are lounging in the sun on a Greek island, rather than being syuck on the tube during yesterdays London ‘Terror attack’.
Truely disturbing Korean Childhood behaviour: In New Zealand and the states yopu have the wedgie, where ones undergarments are uncerimoniously pulled as far out of your pants as possible, and there are variations along the same theme in countless places. The Korean equivilant is somewhat more disturbing and involves the insertion of fingers in the anus of unsuspecting victims as far and as forcefully as possible. The trend seems to be an annual thing as I recall a speight of these Hopuati incedents taking place last year between the kids. Korean kids are pretty tough though. I’ve seen a couple of them come off their bikes. No tears (maybe one or two if noones looking). No running off to mum, they just pick themselves up and carry on. Well thats the boys. The girls are a completely different situation. My feeling is that girls in general are pretty pampered from an early age so any afront to their regular treatment and they burst into tears at a drop of a hat. On Tuesday night there was a documentary on Arirang TV about young korean women joing the army (which is quite out of the ordinary in Korea) as Nurse Officers. I mean if it were me I would expect a pretty rough ride if I joined the army. Needless to say they were all bawling like infants for most of the time.
Frankly it dosn’t bode well for me in terms of a certain little girl I’m going to have to deal with for the next 17 years (at least).
God I’ve let another week pass without posting - truely slack - and influenced by large amounts of alcohol imbibed over that time. Wednesday (after the parents thing and a truely horrible day when one of the kids decide to throw a few punches (she’s like 6 years old and all of about 3 feet tall - but I could take her)) I found my way to Ooops, rather than taking the time to post. Anyway it basically involved me practicing my (really) bad korean on all the new waitresses and sitting until 2am drinkning huge glasses of Kalua with Yunhee, who was really pissed that I stood her up last weekend for dinner. Ooops!
Last weekend saw a shopping spree in Seoul develop most unexpectidly and along with a hundred bucks worth of PSP games and a frickin’ awesome hard case for the expensive little game system I picked up a few more dodgy bootleg CDs. Thus the second installment of the Bimbo movie review ensues:
Sin City
Starring: The guy from Die Hard, The guy from 21 Grams and Frodo Baggins
Despite a promising write up in the Korean Times a couple of weeks ago and genuinly interesting storylines Sin City never lives up to the hype. The ’star studded’ cast lends absolutly no weight in terms of storytelling and despite much praise in the medis I found the visual presentation, black and white with occassional colour splashes, wholly distracting. The only interesting bit: Frodo cutting up people and eating them.
Bimbo rating: CRAP
Batman Begins
Starring: Christian Bale, Michael Cain, Tom Cruise’s girlfriend, Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson
I guess nothing will ever eclipse the first time Michael Keaton put on the bat-eared cowl, but Batman Begins does an alright job and is probably more consistant with the original DC comics than the Caped Crusader’s three (four?) previous outings. Christian Bale is a pretty good actor but I can’t get over his lines as a nine year old in the Spielburg flop "Empire of the Sun" ("Corsair-Cadillac of the sky!" he shouts to John Malkovich) And occassionally you wish he’d cut up Katie Holmes American Psycho style
Bimbo rating: NOT BAD
Mr and Mrs Smith (personal favourite of the new girl at Ooops)
Starring: Brad Pitt and the Tomb Raider Biatch
A so called romantic comedy some of the scenes are truely hilarious others dull and improbable but a well rounded bit of escapist fun in the end. Pitt and Jolie work well on screen (and off too if the ‘loids be believed). There are numerous references to both of their previous films for those of you who pay attention, Brad Pitt holstring his weapons Lara Croft style, A guy wearing a fight club t-shirt, Pitt’s Kevlar vest resembling his armour from troy, jolie in Tomb Raider-esq body suit and so on.
Bimbo rating: GOOD
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