Just got back with contraband foodstuffs. Wait, is chocolate illegal for transport? Are cookies? Because that's what I brought back, basically. 1/2 the Church is passed out on my bed. I slept about 11 of the 14 hours of the trip so it was basically teleporation except I think my gum is infected. Or annoyed. Was it the tequila? Was it the spicy octopus? Whatever it was, it's telling me to stop eating these dried persimmons. Which I will not. I just dropped a bottle of balsamic 6 feet and stepped on a tiny shard and started bleeding all over. Maybe I should go to sleep.

I always think I am the most ego-centric person, therefore not capable of jealousy. Yet I am! I am so normal and regular and petty it's ridiculous. I just thought I was a selfish, self-centered asshole but no, it turns out that I am capable of wishing BAD THINGS TO HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE. By that I mean I am not happy for good things to happen to people, if you know what I mean. Which I do. Basically I can't believe that Berry and her German Yoshi are still together and happy! I hate happy international relations, romantic or otherwise. They even do healthy things like SIGHTSEEING and HIKING. This is probably because of my incapacity to sustain relationships, healthy or otherwise, with other people. I have learned that I can really only trust and count on myself because other people will fuck you over. Which is why I don't understand seemingly happy people like Berry and Yoshi. But PIEROGI turned out to have some fucked up stories as well...

Death Note Complete Set
Kamome Diner
In the Mood for Love
The Fox Family

The Pak Chan Wook set was ~$80 for 3 movies. WTF I got the Beat Takeshi box set of 10 for ~$60.

OMG JUST CHECKED CNN BOBBY FISHER DIED OMG!!!!!

1/2 the Church inflicted upon me the most cruel of all crimes. 1/2 the Church waited as I got the last two of my wisdom teeth taken out and then forced me to sit through a seven course meal. Meaning she and her friends gorged themselves and even ate dessert while I was sitting there in pain, watching them eat. They kept urging me to try something and I was all ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME I'M CHOKING ON BLOOD. Swiss Halmoni was all let me see your bloody napkin and then proceed to LAUGH AND PROCLAIM IT TO BE SALIVA. Anyways I was justifiably pissed.

We just spent another $300 on random snacks. -_- I love this face it just explains everything and nothing. By we I mean 1/2 the Church, of course. I think the only solution is to move here but there are way more drawbacks than gains. But tailoring is much cheaper here. I got a light jacket of my mine fixeed (1.5cm off the sleeves, 10cm off the sleeve widths, shoulder moved up 1cm) and it cost about $12 and took a few hours. Amazing! I love being a fanatic about clothing fit except in actuality I don't like trying clothes on. Like at Isabel Marant and I was being all desperate to buy something, ANYTHING. Today I ate:

boiled pork dumplings
ddeok
oyster jjambong (noodles) TWICE
chesnut croissant
almond croissant
mocha bread
yogurt flavored gelato
hallabong (citrus fruit)
strawberries, pomegranate, and 2 persimmons
6 macarons
fried soft shell crab
fried shrimps in chili sauce
braised oxtail
braised chilean sea bass (my fave)
shikkae (rice drink)

Obviously this was only possible because I visited a department store by myself. That is always extremely unhealthy because my innate greediness surfaces and demands that I devour and taste and savour everything in site. Which I proceed to do. Omg I LOVE persimmons they are like golden beautiful glistening jewels. I'm obviously talking about the soft variety which is SO superior to its crispy sister. Like the most heavenly nectar just waiting for me to gobble it up. Which I proceed to do. No but actually we went to the Chosun Hotel with Gisele and Swiss Halmoni. I never knew her other name is actually Gisele but that's a little too perfect. She was always the #1 student in her high school and university studies in Geneva but decided to become a concert pianist and then met her doom (her husband). Oh well she produced beautiful gorgeous skinny talented children so it could be worse. I'm so jealous of her children and they are like 10 years old!! Speaking French, German, English and Korean. UGH!!!!

Trials and tribulations...somehow things have been going awry quite often recently. People are consisting being incredibly rude out of the blue or being incredibly annoying. It's like a test of my temper. And I failed. But I'm trying!! Sort of.

I just got back from HK and playing with the Peawok. All my dreams have come true, I've seen Chungking Mansions, eaten street food like Tony Leung and taken a picture of the Biotherm ad of Takeshi Kaneshiro. Like, that's all I've ever wanted to do all my life. Except get those fucking GOLD COMME DES GARCONS BOW SHOES. OMG!!!!! Where can I get them?? They're so normal yet slightly off and perfect. But I didn't get to see the shady side of HK so much (except my hotel) so that was disappointing. I mean, where were all the women smuggling coke in their fake pregger bellies?

Also I cannot believe Peawok and I ate 6 times yesterday. I mean Gluttony is my most awful yet wonderful vice but come on!! Also I'm acting like we were in it together but it was all me. Damn it Peawok I wanted those rice cakes with the coconut sugar...they looked life-changing. Except I didn't want you to lock me in the 7-11 as a punishment for overindulgence. You're the one who said you were going to die of excessive consumption!! Can you imagine? It makes total sense. Me too.

I also noticed that 1/2 the Church eats an insane amount of food. It's so bizarre. I mean 1/2 the Church is totally sort of ano looking yet is annoyingly insistent about regular meals. Well personally I don't eat to fill my stomach I eat for pleasure. I don't think I ever eat anything I don't think tastes good. 1/2 the Church gets really annoyed but I'm sorry if I'm a misunderstood glutton.

Also had this dream where people were turning other people into monsters and I was watching it, you know, moving manuscript dream style. Then when the huge worms were eating up the world, you know, one guy stood up and said,"I hate myself!" and the whole world realized that everyone hated themselves and all the evil turned into stardust and that guy became a hot stud. Okay I think there is a message there but whatevs. Saw Roxanne of APC shopgirling it up again and the most beautiful garden ever. I love dreams except no one wants to hear about them because they are boring. Unless they're yours.

Swiss 할모니 pulled out two of my wisdom teeth two days ago. Like, no warning. I went to get my teeth cleaned and then she's all WTF you never had them taken out? Unfortunately in Korea they don't put you under, they just give you numbing shots. Holy shit it hurt so much when she pulled the bottom one out she was smashing my face and pulling simulataneously. I mean, it's Swiss 할모니 she's a 70 year old still practicing dentist monster. She sleeps at 1 am and wakes up at 5 am and exercises for 2 hours everyday. MONSTER! She knit me a scarf in 3 days...on the commute to work.

Omg I forgot about this great dream I had last night! I had two super star Japanese actors for brothers, one of them Matsuyama Kenichi, and I KNEW it was a dream so I took dream pictures on a dream camera. Then I woke up and the pictures were still on my camera! I was all omg parallel universe <3<3<3 Love dat shit (wow it took me so long to figure out to make those <3s). Except of course I woke up again again and it wasn't true. But that's okay because there were avalanches and many fatalities involved in an isolated ski lodge. Sounds very Agatha Christie, not surprisingly. OH also that would mean I was attracted to my brothers which is totally incest hot but very un-Christian of me.

Yaaaay all my dreams are coming true! First I went to China all Pearl S. Buck style and now I get to eat street food in Hong Kong like Tony Leung! How perfect can life get? 1/2 the Church and I went to Insadong yesterday where we picked up delights like air-popped barley and soba and ate jook for dinner. IE rice porridge. What a terrible idea for a restaurant but 1/2 the Church seemed to enjoy it. Then somehow I found this place that Singsing had taken me before. Terrible dirty and served us completely fried fish and jeon. It cost an amazing $18 and 1/2 the Church insisted they ripped us. Yes I assume so because she was acting like she was a deaf mute the whole time. Whatevs!

We also went to a museum of 1/2 the Church's old university-professor-peer. It was all about chickens. I think I need to make an emoticon right now. Like -_- or :/ but def not ^^. Very weird and totally all Koreanish. But she gave me this is weird fruit called a hallybo or hallybong or bongbong or bogeybo from Jejudo. It tasted like a tangerine but with the texture of a pommelo. Sad to say but this was the highlight of my day.

Omg the screaming the SCREAMING

"Happy families are all alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Well dis fam is fucking unhappy! SCREAMING it's like a siren. Cheeze I would have run away by now! Luckily I don't live in this swamp of doom on a regular basis. Bye bye!

In SOUL right now...and bored. Duh! None of my friends are here now except those chicks from textile design class and who knows wtf they're up to? I met up with JAPPY and JEW FRO tonight. The meeting of two very different, clashing, oil-and-vinegar, etc worlds. I don't think I like SOUL nearly as much as I used to, everything is kind of old now. I guess it is easy to get bored of anything eventually. Except the food floor of the department stores here. It's the one perfect place in the world (other than one's childhood home DUH). Beautiful, sparkly, CLEAN food by the gram. I worked out for like two days before I came here and everyone is saying I lost weight. That is sad because they're all "You look way better." What a fucking insult in disguise! I only lost like 5 pounds?? This would be the beginning of me having a fucked relationship with food but DUH I already have one.

At Intercontinental hotel:
raw oysters
brie and chevre with bread
bibim nengmyun
sashimi and nigiri sushi
zaru soba
shrimp gampoongi
stewed pork belly
jellyfish
mad Haagen Daaz ice cream

And Hyundai Depato's delicieux milk and coffee bingsus. I feel really sick. I also ate ddeokbokki on the streets with various fried animals mixed in with the red sauce. I feel really sick.