Hugh has been out of Australia too long! He doesn’t remember the slang. He heard an Australian guy say this at a work event and then came home and repeated it to me. Unfortunately he thought it was “boom boom” instead of “whoop whoop”. Also, where I am from it’s not necessarily “out whoop whoop”. I am from a reasonably sized country city and it’s the much smaller places, that are further out, that we would say are “out whoop whoop”.
Hugh was also naked during the conversation last week but I drew some undies on him at least. (Some things never change). Yul also had no idea what we were talking about, but he still thought it was funny.
Living in Seoul we are surrounded by great BBQ Restaurants but as a family we don’t get to go out to them that often. It is usually a special occasion. So, Jisoo does get very excited when she sees the BBQ meat as she loves it. Already as a two-year-old she can tell the difference between cheap meat and good quality meat and can be fussy about it. Only the best meat for her apparently!
When Hugh was young and growing up in the countryside of rural South Korea, meat was still something of a luxury so he didn’t get to eat it every day. He remembers getting upset at his parents and grandparents when there was no meat in a meal. Meat was absolutely his favourite food. Yul will eat meat but doesn’t love it like that. In the comic (and in real life) he was only eating rice and the egg dish. I am also not a big meat eater and just like Korean BBQ occasionally.
I spent most of the meal having to frantically cut up the meat and cool it down for Jisoo, who spent the whole time yelling for more meat. We tend to use the Korean word “gogi” for meat at home, even when speaking in English, so Jisoo was mixing languages here too. This is her copying our examples, rather than her not knowing the difference.
These days Hugh has to be careful about eating too much meat because of health reasons, so it is still something for business meetings and special occasions. His former child self would be disappointed!
Hello! Comics are back! They will be regularly appearing here and on social media. The internet has changed so much since I first started this blog. It used to be that people would visit individual websites every day and now we all just scrolling through social media. So, I don’t know who is actually here reading this anymore. If you are, hello!
This is where I try to give more background to comics and videos. Also, videos will be coming back soon as well. Hugh and I are still in Seoul, and we have two children. A six-year-old and a two-year-old. Things have changed a lot!
We still live in the same area as the YG Entertainment building and sometimes I have to walk past it. I remember pre-children when I would walk past and would hope to see someone famous, and occasionally would. These days I am usually hurrying past in full mum mode and not wanting any Kpop star to see me like that! It has happened though. I saw and talked to an iKON member while a mess and picking up the kids from daycare. But the other thing about becoming a parent is you care a lot less about how you look. Age comes for us all! Both Hugh and I are in our 40’s now.
The past few years have been hard for a lot of reasons. It has taken me a long time to get into the mindset of even wanting to make anything. It’s been hard since my best friend Sara died. I talked about that on our YouTube channel. Possibly in the future I will talk more about grief in a video, but for now I am just finally glad to be in a head space where I can start to make some comics again.
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