Month: January 2013 (Page 3 of 6)

Selca

2013/01/21 / Nic / 12 Comments

This is a reoccurring argument for us. When he takes a self portrait he always does the exact same pose and opens his eyes are far as possible. When I point out that he is doing it, he gets all annoyed and indignant. He thinks that I’m saying that his eyes are really small, but really I’m just saying he is trying to change them for the photo. The problem is that Koreans often insult each other by saying things like “You have small eyes!” There is this idea that big eyes are better somehow and so many people have a complex about the size of their eyes or their eyelids (hence the popularity of eye surgeries in Korea, but won’t talk about that right now).

HOWEVER, I love my husband’s eyes. They are beautiful. I think they are a lovely shape, and actually quite wide, and he has the longest eyelashes I’ve ever seen on a Korean guy. I just wish he would realise that his eyes are beautiful and that he doesn’t need to try and change them like that for photos.

Questions and Guest Posts

2013/01/20 / Nic / 17 Comments

Hi guys,

As it’s Sunday today, no comic but you can ask questions or suggest post topics. Just leave a comment here or on any of the social media.

Also, if you are interested in doing a guest post, please let me know at [email protected]. If you are in a similar situation to my husband and I and would like to share your experiences please let me know.

I’m still visiting my parents and I’m still in summer mode. I can’t remember when I last brushed my hair. Seriously it looks like this:

Yup that’s me right now. Unfortunately my husband is in Sydney working 🙁 That’s one of the reasons why I’m staying a while in my home town, because he doesn’t have much time off at the moment so we wouldn’t be able to be together as much if I was in Sydney anyway.

So he isn’t getting much of a summer holiday, BUT we are planning on going back to Vanuatu later in the year. We are hoping to film that as well. We are working towards starting videos by April. We want to do things properly so we are taking the time to organise properly. We don’t want to just upload crappy home videos, we want to show you some interesting things, for example: my husband experiencing Australian culture, me experiencing Korean culture, what it’s like for Koreans living in Australia, interviews with Koreans here, lots of things. So that’s the plan at the moment. Fingers crossed!

Misheard

2013/01/19 / Nic / 11 Comments

He swears he never really thought the train announcement was this, but I distinctly remember him saying he thought it was this…. for a long time haha. Now that his English is better he conveniently forgets the problems he had before.

What things have you misheard and not even realised you heard wrong for a long time? It can happen even in your own language and then one day it all becomes clear… and it’s like “Ohhh!”

His Name

2013/01/18 / Nic / 15 Comments

I’m visiting my parents right now while he stays in Sydney for work.

I did an interview with Ahn Junghyun for the radio program 1013 Main Street yesterday which will be on the show today at 11:30am. You can listen on the website or on the smart phone app.

I was a bit worried I sounded very incoherent because I had an echo on the phone meaning I could hear myself 1 second after I spoke, which was distracting. I was also doing it in 40 C heat (that’s 104 F for you Americans ^_^) so please forgive me if I sound rambling. Yes, Australia is very hot at the moment. Especially where my parents live.

So my husband was annoyed that I said his name in the interview at first, but very quickly got over it. His Korean name is Sunhong which should actually be spelled “Soonhong”, but when he first made his passport years ago he wrote it with a ‘u’ because it fit onto one line on the passport form. He has forever condemned himself to having his name read out as “SUN hong? SUN hong?” in Australia.

Koreans tell me his name is very countryside sounding, but of course not being a native Korean speaker, I can not tell that at all. His family often call him “Honga” or “Hongie” but of course when calling out to him drag the sound out. Many times at his parents’ house I heard them saying “Hongaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!” Hehe.

Walking around the House

2013/01/18 / Nic / 8 Comments

Okay this comic doesn’t have my husband in it. But I drew it because I’m visiting my parents right now. They go to bed at a normal time… but I don’t. In Sydney my husband finishes work at 4am, so I don’t usually sleep until he comes home. This means our sleeping schedule is pretty messed up and we have to sleep very late. I still kinda have that routine here at my parents’ house but I feel bad when I accidentally make noise at night. Everything seems so loud at night! And why do I drop EVERYTHING?

Anyway I’m sorry Mum and Dad, and Typhoon and Olivia (Korean couple who are living with my parents). 🙁

I was going to just put this one on the Tumblr but I thought I’d show it here too to remind you to check out the Tumblr sometimes. The Tumblr has most of the comics on here but some extra things as well. My husband thinks it’s just a place where I draw G-Dragon pictures…. haha.

Cheapskate

2013/01/17 / Nic / 8 Comments

He did then give me more money, he just wanted to annoy me. He is a lot more careful with money than I am and he knows being a cheapskate can annoy me sometimes. We prefer to just use our cards to pay for things BUT a lot of shops near us either don’t allow cards for small amounts or charge a fee. It’s so annoying. The Korean grocery store below our apartment building in particular has a $20 minimum. The other grocery store near us charges a fee if we want to use our savings cards. A lot of restaurants only let you pay with cash. So we are always asking each other “Do you have any cash?”

When I ask him that I mean an amount like $10… not $2. Haha.

Rainy BBQ

2013/01/16 / Nic / 19 Comments

My husband really wanted me to make a comic of this.

Haha, they had such a bad day. We’ve had very hot and sunny weather in Sydney – except for this one day. Unfortunately they had planned to go to the beach on the rainy day and it wasn’t a close beach, it was one far away. They had travelled all the way there so they didn’t want to let the rain ruin their BBQ. But, actually they were pretty miserable..

My husband said people were staring because they looked ridiculous. Everyone else left but they were still there huddled around the barbeque. The samgyupsal they were cooking got all wet, but they ate it anyway.