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Category: Random silly (Page 29 of 31)
Not sure why he thinks listening to comedy is a good thing to try and fall asleep to. He listens to something called ‘Cul2’ and it makes him laugh hysterically. But you know when you can’t hear what someone is laughing at, only the laughing, and it makes them sound like a maniac? Even worse is that he always sleeps with a cotton blanket over his head, so it’s just this weird mound laughing loudly.
Some days I think my husband doesn’t believe in clothes. He is incredibly lazy when at home and doesn’t see the point of wearing anything unless he is definitely leaving the apartment. So this wasn’t in the morning as he got dressed, this was while I was putting on makeup in the afternoon because I had to go out. It was lovely that he serenaded me with a Frank Sinatra song, it’s just that it was while he was only wearing old underwear! I’m not complaining, but I did have to laugh at his spontaneous underwear singing.
I was working on another comic last night but was having trouble with it so instead decided to just stop and try another one quickly. This was the first thing that came to mind.
We were arguing about something stupid (don’t worry, not a serious argument) and if you remember, I’ve quoted Mulan to him before. Well he decided to try and use this insult himself.
…and it backfired. Hehehe.
Sometimes he doesn’t get my movie references. Also his family lives on a farm in Korea, which was why he was insisting they don’t have a cow. Also I love (the Disney movie) Mulan.
So I bought 2 new books.The Korean Mind by Boyé Lafayette De Mente and Korean Thought and Culture by Chai-Shin Yu. I have a bunch of other books on Korean culture and Korean Thought but I like learning more and seeing how books on it differ. I’ve found reading these types of books helps me immensely as they just make things so much clearer. Learning about Korean culture from the average Korean only gets you so far, as they are not usually able to articulate certain aspects of Korean culture or even realise how something differs to another culture. It is actually quite hard to explain your own culture and it usually takes an either an outsider or someone who has studied extensively to adequately explain well to others. Which is why I really appreciate these types of books. They explain things that my husband can never explain to me. Sometimes things are explained that I was wondering about, but other times it’s something I hadn’t even consciously realised but once it’s explained it gives a much bigger picture of Korean culture. Which of course, benefits our relationship as my husband’s ‘Koreaness’ is a vital part of who he is and it’s not something that can just be separated from him.
Unfortunately there just aren’t enough books on modern Korean culture. South Korea has changed rapidly in the past few decades and I don’t think literature has really caught up properly yet. Even in the past 5 years Korea has changed a lot. I feel like I’m still waiting for a really good comprehensive book on the subject. That’s not to say there are no good books – there are – but I think they could be better. For example, The Korean Mind by Boyé Lafayette De Mente, this author is widely regarded as an expert on Asian culture and has published so many books. But when you open the book there are very obvious spelling mistakes in the Hangul. The idea of the book is to look at many different words in Korean and show how they relate to Korean thinking and culture. But with such big mistakes quite obvious as soon as you open the book, it makes you wonder what else is wrong in it. That is disappointing.
The big question is: Why is did he throw the books on the floor? Because he wanted to have a nap and was lazy and tossed everything off the bed. I think that’s just him and not anything to do with Korean culture.
Sometimes I don’t know whether misunderstandings like this are because of the language differences or because he just wasn’t really listening to me properly in the first place. Could just be a male thing and not a language thing.
I’m a little disturbed that he thought that I thought there is only 35 minutes in 1 hour! He said, “Because you are not good at numbers.” I told him I did complete Kindergarten!
And shout out to Jason, yes this was about your questions about noraebang 🙂
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