Month: January 2013 (Page 5 of 6)

One Born Every Minute

2013/01/08 / Nic / 18 Comments

Haha ‘V’ is difficult to say! I don’t want it to seem like I’m constantly making fun of his English, but there is something so cute about substituting ‘B’ for ‘V’ and also when he uses the more scientific names for certain body parts very sincerely.

Since there aren’t a lot of words starting with V, that pronunciation issue doesn’t come up that often but he can only say the V sound if he really thinks about it an emphasizes it. Of course he is not thinking about it in that moment when he turns to look at the TV and sees a quite graphic scene of a baby being born. What is shown on Australian TV can be a lot more graphic and controversial than what is shown on Korean TV, so it surprises him sometimes.

I really like the TV show ‘One Born Every Minute’, both the U.K. and the U.S. versions. It makes giving birth seem a bit less scary.

Guest Post on Beyond Hallyu

2013/01/08 / Nic / 0 Comments

Hey guys, I wrote a guest post (and drew a comic) for the Beyond Hallyu site so head over there to read it 🙂

Click here!

Cheese?

2013/01/07 / Nic / 17 Comments

Mindy asks:

What is your favorite Korean meal and what is his favorite Australian meal?

Let’s start with my favorite Korean meal. I like a lot of Korean food. I really like samgyupsal (grilled pork belly) especially with kimchi. I do tend to order bibimbap a lot because I love all the vegetables. (Luckily I often take photos of meals I order so I can show some).

I also really like japchae and yukgaejang. And I love lots of side dishes!

While I do like a lot of Korean food I can still be picky. My husband orders this a lot but I refuse to eat it.

Yeah… pig intestines soup.

My husband is a lot less picky than me, especially when it comes to Australian food. The only major thing he doesn’t like is lamb, and I swear that’s just psychological, not to do with taste at all. He doesn’t have a particular favorite Aussie meal, he just likes almost everything. Something he has taken a real liking to here is cheese though. He said he hated cheese when in Korea, and having seen the cheese available in Korea, I can understand why. But here in Australia there is such a huge range of good quality cheeses so he has realised cheese is delicious. He also likes eating crackers with dips too, something not really done in Korea.

Over Christmas when we were with my family we had a lot of cheese and crackers. Now usually we set them out on the table for everyone to have for morning or afternoon tea, but my husband would just get them for himself and sit at the table stuffing his mouth. (I also drew my siblings in the background).

This is an accurate representation of our Christmas.

In particular he likes water crackers with Mersey Valley Cheese. (Seriously, Mersey Valley, we love your cheeses, they are the best).

City Hunter

2013/01/05 / Nic / 35 Comments

We usually have different tastes in Korean dramas. A Gentleman’s Dignity was one that we both agreed on and now we are watching City Hunter. While we are both enjoying it so far, he gets frustrated on those slower scenes with…. feelings and all that haha.

There’s a lot of dramas I’d like to watch but our internet has been terrible so it’s too frustrating (out of our control and hopefully we’ll move soon). My husband borrows some DVDs from a friend at work but most had such terrible English subtitles that I’d yell at the screen. Finally we got the City Hunter one and the subtitles are good, so slowly working our way through it.

What are you watching now?

(Also, I had to draw a very simple comic for this post because we are both sick with horrendous colds! It’s the middle of summer and it’s terrible being inside and sick like this).

Catch Me Catch Me

2013/01/04 / Nic / 10 Comments

I’ve met some of his friends in his home town so I certainly believe this! They are quite big competitive guys who maybe don’t understand romance that well…

It also reminds me of this scene on the TV show Scrubs.

Making Toast

2013/01/03 / Nic / 10 Comments

I’ve talked about how he doesn’t like me eating dried seaweed without rice before. But what about things I don’t like him eating in a certain way? Or things I find strange? A reader asked this on twitter 🙂

This was when he was working a job that started quite early in the morning. To cut time he thought it would be better to prepare his breakfast in advance. Unfortunately I don’t think toast that has been cooked and then put in the fridge for a few days is that tasty! Gross.

I think he realised quite soon that it was not the best way to have toast. These days because he starts work in the evening, we have breakfast together. He gets me to make him toast now because he says I make toast better than he does. I don’t know how you can mess up toast but I guess I do have a lifetime of making toast whereas he only started eating it in recent years. I actually always get him to put the rice on because when I make rice it’s never as good… even in a proper rice cooker! And he is like “How can you mess up rice?!” I guess sometimes it’s best to stick with what you know best.

Let’s talk about S…

2013/01/02 / Nic / 13 Comments

Seoul!

I have a question from a reader:

I will be going for a student exchange programme this march, at a university in jongno-gu, seoul. Is it possible if you could give an advice on how to find an accommodation in seoul? Any advice is also welcomed.

Since we don’t live in Korea yet I can’t give much advice on this BUT I have many lovely readers that I’m sure can help. For those living in Korea right now or have previously lived in Korea and can give advice on this, please leave a comment in the comment section. Thanks ^_^