initial impressions and random ramblings
November 4th, 2006 Stephen Lau
got in to the hotel last night @ around 20:30.
stayed awake the entire flight (watched 4 movies, synced up the PG gate to snv50, live-upgraded to snv51, reinstalled frkit, and failed miserably to write better documentation on the Teamware->Mercurial bridge. note to all fr4k users: lugging 3 batteries in your carry-on is totally worth it)
once i got to the hotel, i did some much-needed stretching/not-really-yoga (i say not-really-yoga, because i don’t think traditionally yoga is practiced while drinking beer) to get my back unkinked from the flight.
paid the ridiculous 25,000 W/day (~$28 US) for Internet access (what a rip-off. i should see when dp/jimgris get here if we can get adjacent rooms and use my travel wireless router i brought).
wandered into the COEX Mall late last night (~11pm?) to try and find some grub (of the edible kind, not the boot loader kind. wow. it was still pretty busy. ate some soba, and wandered through the arcade, where i had the following random three observations:
- is it common for couples to wear matching or identical shirts/outfits?
- girls play arcade games.
- why is everyone so dressed up?
i punched-in to Sun’s network, latency to sfbay is pretty reasonable… and was greeted by a flurry of messages through friday of various opensolaris.org machines being down, non-responsive, etc. etc. looks like i picked a good day to miss work
anyway. it’s 7:37am sunday morning here. i just had some great coffee at the breakfast buffet downstairs and i’m waiting for a friend to get here (who also happens to coincidentally be in Seoul this week) so we can go checkout the city.
i’m torn. should i go to the knife museum? or the kimchee museum? both are supposed to be wonderfully weird and wacky.
[tags: Korea]
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Geoff Arnold | November 4th, 2006 at 21:31
I hope your travels through Seoul take you near “lighting city”, a shopping area where just about every store sells interior lighting fixtures. At night it’s…. dazzling! (It’s not far from a street that I walked down where every store sells either wedding dresses or wedding photography services.)
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