Month: November 2012 (Page 2 of 5)

Manner Man #2

2012/11/22 / Nic / 28 Comments

Finally a new Manner Man!

This is a pretty basic one. No shoes inside. Sometimes when you visit people you’ll be given house slippers, but not necessarily. Not only that, but when you go to the bathroom you have to use the bathroom slippers (I don’t like bathroom slippers).

In our apartment in Sydney, because we share with a Korean couple it’s strictly no shoes inside but when we go to my parent’s house we can wear shoes inside. The first time I went to Korea with my husband back before we were married, we went from the airport to a motel. My husband went with the receptionist to check what the room was like and walked in with his shoes on! He was so used to being in Australia he forgot to take them off. The receptionist was like “No no! You can’t do that!” He had to apologise and explain he’d been in Australia.

For those that don’t know Manner Man a super hero that helps with Korean etiquette. Actually the idea was formed when we were in Korea and eating dinner and drinking with Korean friends and one of the guys was concerned that some of the other Korean friends weren’t using proper etiquette and made sure they were being polite. Trying to explain the situation to me in broken English he said “I’m…. manner man.” Which sounded like a super hero to me…. though as you can see, a super hero is does the exact thing he is trying to stop.

Beast Giveaway Winner

2012/11/22 / Nic / 6 Comments

The winner for this giveaway: http://www.mykoreanhusband.com/beast-giveaway/

So the winner was drawn randomly:

Congratulations Harsha Pamnani!

Send me an email at [email protected] to claim your prize.

Remember how my sister-in-law sent me a huge box full of Kpop stuff for prizes for giveaways? It’s running low now… but there may be a few GD socks left if anyone is interested.

Ants

2012/11/21 / Nic / 15 Comments

Ugh I hate ants inside. I’m not scared of them, they are just annoying. I’m not really scared of creepy crawlies and usually just take them outside, but my husband is petrified of them. So I’m the one that deals with them ^_^

I hate mice and rats though, I’ll deal with all the spiders if he deals with any small feral mammals. Things like mice just gross me out, because they could be carrying disease and are not easy to catch. One time we came back to my parent’s house after being away for a few days and a mouse had somehow got inside and into the bath tub. So gross. My husband just put on some gardening gloves picked it up and disposed of it outside. So he can be so strong and manly in that situation but if it was a spider he’d be screaming and running away.

Ants though, just make me a psychopathic killer.

Hungry

2012/11/20 / Nic / 17 Comments

So I thought we could go swimming before lunch… that was a bad idea. Some people just completely change when they are too hungry… I might get a bit irritated when I’m really hungry but I don’t turn into a completely different person! He doesn’t even realise, like even now, after I just showed him this comic he is swearing he wasn’t like that at all. But he was! He was like a grumpy robot that doesn’t talk.

The quickest thing I could make was a toasted cheese sandwich, so he was happy after that. I always do the cooking because his cooking skills are… somewhat limited… but he does most of the cleaning (because I hate cleaning). Perhaps people who don’t cook much get even grumpier when hungry because they have to rely on someone else and feel out of control?

Do you get grumpy when hungry? Do you turn into a different person?

Sounds Serious

2012/11/19 / Nic / 7 Comments

It is easy to jump to the conclusion that what someone is saying in another language is something very serious. And often it’s not at all! I can understand enough Korean to sometimes guess what is being said, but I had no clue what this girl was saying so dramatically as we walked past. It ended up being not at all what I expected.

Twilight

2012/11/17 / Nic / 25 Comments

I always draw comics of things that have actually happened to us but this time it’s something different. I’ve decided that occasionally I may put our cartoon characters into a fictional situation/parody.

So in celebration of Twilight…………ending…… here is a Twilight themed comic.

(I am in no way insinuating that GD creepily watches people sleep either!)

For a second

2012/11/17 / Nic / 13 Comments

You know that scene in the drama Iris where TOP snaps the girl’s neck? Okay actually I never properly watched Iris. I just watched the parts that TOP was in….

Speaking of Korean dramas, if you’ve watched enough of them you might have noticed that Korean guys sometimes interact differently with girls than what you may be used to in your own country. Or maybe it’s similar, I don’t know. Not all guys act like that, but yes, sometimes things are like in a Korean drama. For me though, the things like the arm grabs (which I’ve mentioned before) and the sudden and dramatic grabbing and hugging can take some getting used to. I still flinch when I’m grabbed or hugged tightly because it still takes me a second to remember that it’s a passionate sign of affection and not something bad.