Now it's the rainy season...

Hey!
This week has been a busy one.  I have been catching up on many of the household chores that were somehow ignored since I was sick.  Like the crazy amount of frost buildup in the fridge.  Ugh, it was starting to infringe on the minimal amount of space in my small fridge.

It's all gone now, phew!

I was invited to go to a Terror in a Toga party about a month ago.  It was a roman murder mystery theme, which was awesome!  A toga was required, among any other items that you chose to add to your costume.  My character was a detective.  I was just glad that I wasn't the murderer!

I made these out of yarn and cardboard!  They were really hard to walk in though.  

A full view of my costume!

These 'curbside blocks' were recemented after getting knocked over.

This is really random, but just something that has caught my eye as strange.  On the street up to my school, someone slapped some blacktop over the street without doing any sort of preparation to the road beneath.  Being that it is on a fairly steep hill, you can see that the whole slab of blacktop is literally sliding down the hill.  It just seems like a waste of money to me if it's not going to be done properly.

I had my friend Georgina over for dinner so that I could share my latest food craze with her.  On the left is a scalloped potato and carrot, if I can call it that when there's no cheese involved, only soy milk and I Can't Believe It's Not Butter.  

 On the right is a beef that is thinly sliced when I buy it, that I make on the stovetop (hob as my UK friends call it) and then slice up.  It is somewhat similar to eating out at a Korean BBQ where you grill the food yourself, except the price tag is a bit more my style.  Pictured with the beef is a hite beer and more importantly a sesame oil with a bit of a sea salt in the corner.  It has a lovely flavor that is great to dip the beef in.  

I had been craving Mexican food for quite some time, since before I was in the hospital.  But since the closest one is about an hour away I hadn't had a chance to get there.  We made an afternoon of it, having Mexican and then going to play Trivial Pursuit.  I decided on the nachos at the restaurant to go with my Dr. Pepper that I ordered.  Dr. Pepper is few and far between here, so I got one for the road as well.  It's currently nestled in my cupboard waiting for a rainy day.  The nachos were good, but I admit that I was hoping for a bit more cheese and a little bit less lettuce.  It was almost as if more work went into making it look delicious versus how it actually tastes.  I did fully enjoy it though, with a little extra cheese and great friends as company.  

I was invited to go to a Lotte Giants baseball game on Wednesday the 4th of July with some coworkers.  We had been trying to get to a game for the past couple months, so it was great to get out with them!   I had been hoping to find a hot dog, but I didn't see any.  We did however bring many snacks, in fact so many that we had a huge box of them!  I thought that we were lucky to have the guys with because they managed the heavy lifting.  :)  There was pizza, chicken, dried fish, nuts, beer, soju and coke.  Quite the mix.  

Pouring the beer. 

Wine is something that I don't often have, as I have to go out of my way to get it and I have to carry it home.  Perhaps it is better that it's not at my local grocery store because then I would have it all the time.  As I do like to use it for cooking, this poses a bit of problem.  So I did something to make it a little easier to have around the apt for cooking... i.e. not for drinking.  

This is a cold soup that I got to try today for the first time.  It's hard to tell in the picture, but the broth of this soup is actually sort of slushy it's so cold.  There is a pile of noodles in the middle topped with some chili paste, thinly sliced radish, julienned cucumbers, a hard boiled egg and sesame seeds.  

I was really nervous about trying it, as the idea of a cold soup sort of freaks me out and a slushy soup?  Well that's something that I haven't encountered before.  But my friend and coworkers helped me, showed me how to cut the noodles with the scissors provided and stir it all together.  Some grilled pork was served alongside the soup, and is meant to be eaten with the noodles/soup.  So I gave it a try and it was delicious!  I will definitely look for it again before the summer is over.  :)

One last thing.  If you've stuck with me this far, thanks and hopefully this last tidbit will be worth your while.  

There are so many couples that are dressed alike in Korea, it's so strange to see.  I guess that I just thought that they would happen to both like the same shirt or shoes and get the same ones.  But I saw a friend browsing a website the other day that caters to couples who want to dress alike.  I had no idea that such a thing existed!

Here's the website:  http://www.stylecouple.com/