The tremor

Ummm~ Feeling lethargic I rolled in my hot bed trying to shrug off the drowsiness from my eyes. With great effort I tried to figure out the hands of my table clock and recognizing that familiar angle between them, I turned a little and was about to get up when my mind told me that it is a Sunday. What a superb feeling it was. There was no need to leave that cozy environment. I once again thanked the old Greek philosophers to invent such a great division of the days. Every Sunday is a gift to me. I also thanked the technological advances made by humans, as I cannot find anything snugger than this hot mat. And I thanked my Korean friend to help me with my online transactions for this mat.

Having been thankful to a lot of human and abstract powers of the world, I finally got out of my bed. Not because I had any aversion to enjoy a Sunday morning nap but I had to install Hitman Contracts on my PC. For this game I had spent my precious three Saturday night hours and still I could not run it. Last night I went to bed after 3am but even then I have to get done with this before 11am for there was one wedding ceremony (my first in korea and that too of a korean friend) to attend in the afternoon. I recalled what I had done yester night. I could remember mirc, winiso, daemon tools, alcohol 120% and one site having step-wise-instructions to install this game. Stepwise instructions are very important. I remember once I was cooking Dam Aloo using online instructions and finally I ended up having a Aloo-bharta-curry "without tomotoes" just because of that "smash them properly" line.

Anyway, I strictly followed these step-wise-instructions this time and after spending my most precious two sunday morning hours (which would have helped me to explore some new horizons of my imagination during my comfy nap, lying on this precious gift from another like minded human's fabulous imagination) in front of my PC and finally ending up with lot of installed programmes, Trojans and adwares in the process of searching something I can not mention here and also losing two of my valuable EMPTY disks, I gave up on Hitman. The hands of the clock again had some unwanted angles between them and I decided to get ready for the wedding ceremony as it takes three quarters, at least, of a silent-hour (use a bus in korea and you will come to know about this silence thing) to reach the place.

I started with shaving and needless to say that the moment I entered the washroom the comsoul of Elvis Presley, Eric Clapton, Black Sabbath and Kurt Cobain apprehended me. (Comsoul is a term indigenously developed at the Neungpo apartments, korea and it simply means "the combined soul of", mind it its only one soul but has multiple personality...oops~ that’s the reason I do not watch Hollywood movies). Surprisingly my apartment mate did not make any noise and that means he was awake ^_^ (Don’t ask me, even I do not know this strange phenomenon). Having cleaned myself of some unwanted, God-or-else-biologists know why-always-growing hairs, I decided to trim my odd looking (people say so) arbit-shaped beard.

I was almost finished and was trying to create an optimum temperature of the water to wash my face when the door of my apartment mate’s room opened ajar with a bang and yelling my name aloud he ran out of the apartment. Before I could answer anything, a big gust from the apartment door (our apartment is at the top of the hill) rushed in and started shaking everything in the apartment, even the floor of the toilet. Bewildered, I looked outside the toilet (the door was open all the time) and had a glimpse of my computer shaking violently along with the table. I was about to get angry on my apartment mate’s strange behavior when all of a sudden my mind went blank. I was able to see, feel and listen everything but somehow the mind did not respond. The best way to explain this situation would be to compare my mind with a computer that was "hanged" because a lot of "heavy" information has been provided to the processor simultaneously. But thank God brains do not reboot ^_^. And I realized that the floor couldn’t be shaken by the wind. But till then it was over. My roommate came in and before he says anything I understood that it was a tremor, my first earthquake, which I did not experience at all.

Party Time

Another party~ yeah another party, second in the week, yet. But this was not just another office party. This one was special. Special in two senses: First the menu was pretty different than usual, routine office-party menu and second the occasion bein special in the korean culture. My colleague was celebrating the first birthday of his son and that is a big event. The koreans celebrate this event with great pompousness. Another similar event is celebration of the 100th day of the child. I have been to one such party also. We get some gifts for the child and sing birthday songs. The reason I said these parties are different first of all is a huge gathering in comparison to normal parties and then the menu. Ofcourse~ I was more interested in that only. Apart from normal kim pab (rice), meat and noodles there are different kinds of fried dishes, cakes, cookies and many other things about which I do not have idea (other than the taste).

The ride back to the apartment was in RETONA (REtun TO Nature) of my another colleague. Either he drives fast or the wheels are very high or whatever but it made me feel like i am just going to take off and so naturally I fastened my seat belt. And as usual grabbed the sides of my seat also. Before I could cry out in fear and anticipation of another phyeuntek episode the car banged into a lorry. It was a new
car and it being the second collision this year itself, the driver was pretty mad at himself. We tried to console him (given that I can speak a single sentence in korean but I can make good faces). It was fortunate for us also as we were also about to take off. But either my colleagues intuitions are quite sharp or my prayers sometimes really have some effect, but we managed to stop at a safe distance from the
two collided ones.