Song: There is freedom within, there is freedom without

Randomness: Infinte Child

Ok that "Randomness" thing is something I'll be putting up once in a while. Basically random quotes or just some words that catch my eye and that I find interesting. Today's randomness was spied at work. It's the name of one of our customers.

I am finally updating! I've really meant to write but I've been so busy at work lately. Ok ok I've also been busy chatting away with "Chnandler Bong". Hee hee! =)

I had a couple of dreams that I wanted to write about but -doh!- I forgot to write them down. Now they are all forgotten.

Went out to dinner on Tuesday night for my ahjushi's mom's birthday. I think she's 74 now? Anyways we went to a new Korean restaurant that had just opened up the day before. The service sucked. I mean it sucked big ass. We were sitting there for 20 minutes without getting any water, tea or banchan. And when they finally brought out some banchan, they only brought out like 5 plates for the 7 of us! I think the owners of that place are new to the restaurant business. Everything was done very amateurishly. Is that a word?

Anyways I was noticing and really enjoying the manners of Korean people towards their elders. Since it was halmunee's birthday, we of course ordered the kinds of food that she liked to eat. We also ordered some soju. I have always liked the manners and polite gestures of Koreans when it comes to food and drink. When the food came out, nobody started eating until halmunee did because she is the oldest. During the meal everyone always urged her to eat more or gave her the most tastiest looking pieces of food. Drinks (alcoholic) are ALWAYS poured for her. Or any adult you're drinking with for that matter. Actually, you really aren't supposed to pour your own drinks. When you pour for an adult or someone older than you, you pour with both hands with the bottle in your right hand. When you receive a drink from an adult, you receive with both hands, with the glass in your right hand. When you drink, you turn away from the adult and drink with both hands on the glass. I happened to be sitting between my uncle and halmunee. In this case, I had to turn towards him when I drank even though he's an adult, because halmunee is older. All this may sound confusing and just too much to remember for such a simple act of eating and drinking. But I really like how polite and respectful it is. And I guess to me, this doesn't seem like anything because I've grown up with it.

Oh time to feed my belly.

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