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.
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