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I am here for Friends

About Me

[written while ill so excuse the brevity]
-Irishman
-Teaching English in Korea.
-Music (local, national - THE NATIONAL - international)
-Justice (volunteer work for Amnesty International)
-Perceive & understand; philosophise
-Get battered and bruised along the way
-Fall asleep on the sofa in front of a documentary, or a movie I've seen five times before
-Remember the past, study it
-Drink too much, give up, smoke
-Smoke too much, drink again.
-Write letters to scare world leaders, stories of alienation and home, poems of romance and death
-Walk around aimlessly. Listen to music.
-Love and be loved in the process
Live in London, but leave before it makes you too hard. Move to Korea. Live a dream, of sorts.
-Laugh with friends as much as possible
-Change, neverending change....
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This isn't me. Looks like it, though, eh? It is in fact my doppleganger, Armando Riesco, a Hollywood actor best known as Zach Braff's rich friend in "Garden State". When I first saw it I got the fright of my shite. Watch the movie. It rocks. MyGen Profile Generator

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

GOD. That failing, anyone. Friends, lovers, intellectual stimulants, future arch-nemeses with whom I will some day rival for power of the world - most of all, individuals.
Not to sound snobbish, but I can't abide by anyone who doesn't have passion. Put another way, the people I call my friends, for the most part, grab life by the horns and shake it in their own way. If you don't feel passionate about anything, click away - thanks for coming. If you know what I'm talking about, read on - let me talk to you and learn more.
Ask me a question or give me an answer.

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My Blog

Korean Diary 2: The Doomsday Vegetable Trucks

In my previous diary entry, I explained the bizarre use of dance to promote a particular political candidate, and I admit to tripping over myself somewhat in trying to find an explanation for this phe...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:39:00 GMT

Korean Diary 1: Danceneering

It's cold in Korea. Bitingly, nastily cold. As soon as the summer humidity (and concurrent rainy season) has given way, in come the winds fresh from Siberia and chill you down to your nether-regions. ...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:24:00 GMT

A Batter Sausage and CHIPs

Ah, chips. Is there anything they can't do? Computer chips have given us innumerable benefits, not least of which is the ability to multiply 256 by 29 without having to resort to the madness of mathem...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:57:00 GMT

The Irish in Heroes (Season 2; minor spoilers)

Having scoured the internet for&well, about ten minutes now, I think it's safe to say I'm the first to ask the following question, pressing and important in our times: What is with the Irish accents ...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:39:00 GMT

Henry VIII’s Waistline

Has Sir Derek Jacobi nothing better to do with his time? It was recently announced that the lauded  yet apparently under-worked  actor has joined a group questioning the authorship of Shakespeare's ...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:01:00 GMT

A Life In Music

I went to see a fortune teller last Sunday. Her place of business  strangely enough, a Buddhist temple  was at the foot of the Changwon mountains and I was taken there by taxi, a fact of which my gh...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:41:00 GMT

Petition: End the Death Penalty in US & Japan

www.PetitionOnline.com/EU270807/petition.html "In the face of the ongoing state-sponsored killings and the three executions scheduled in Texas this week, the International Committee of the Texas Coali...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:52:00 GMT

SAVE CAMDEN! (because Camden saves)

Hello....   I'm appealing to anyone who might have a UK postal address to look at the below link.   http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/camdenmarket/   Camden Market as we know it risks extincti...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:58:00 GMT

Soundtrack of my Life (the next Grammy-winner)

Normally, I avoid these things like the plague, but this intrigued me... IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?So, here's how it works:1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Playe...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:53:00 GMT

A weekend on the mountain range

The below blog - an excerpt from an e-mail sent to a friend back home - describes my latest weekend adventure, which took place near Jirisan, a mountain range west of Masan/Changwon (where I live). It...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:24:00 GMT