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.
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I was asked if there was any food from my country that I dislike, but my husband likes, and if there any Korean food that I like but he dislikes.
First up, let’s talk about Korean food. The answer is:
EVERYTHING! I’m much more picky about Korean food. I eat most of it but there are still things I won’t eat, like intestines, and I can be picky about how I eat things with bones. His mother makes amazing fried chicken but she knows I don’t like eating chicken right off the bones, so she’ll make sure I get all the boneless or near boneless bits. It’s really sweet, she puts all the good pieces directly on my plate.
So what about Australian/Western food? What does he like that I dislike? The major thing I can think of is steak.
I’m not a big meat eater (and slip in and out of vegetarianism) and prefer my portion of meat to be small with lots of vegetables. What I love about Korean food is the smaller and thinner meat portions and the way it’s integrated into the food, instead of just a slab of meat as in a lot of Australian cooking.
However, because Koreans in general are used to smaller portions of meat in Korea, they can get quite excited about the large and cheap cuts of meat in Australia. Australia has a big meat industry and has the space to pasture feed livestock. So my husband really enjoys a big steak but I cannot eat that much meat at once. And it’s pretty boring to me.
I have been disappointed a few times before, when invited to dinner by other Koreans who are living in Australia because I’ve expected to eat Korean food. Instead dinner will be just big chunks of meat barbequed or fried. While they think it’s great to be able to eat this much meat at once, for me, because I’ve grown up with Australian barbeques and an excess of meat, it’s not that great. I’d much prefer to be eating a variety of Korean dishes and have the meat much more marinated or seasoned and with vegetables. But I understand why they focus on the meat when in Australia.
In order to answer this question I was going through some of my favourite Korean foods/drinks to see if my husband dislikes any of them.
Me: “Banana Milk!”
Him: “Everyone likes that!”
Me: “The potato pancake your mother makes?”
Him: “Everyone likes that!”
And it went on…. I just like the popular food and he likes everything anyway.
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.
‘Sticky Love’ sure changes the meaning! One of his favourite songs at the moment in Birdy’s version of Skinny Love. He accidentally calls it that ‘Sticky Love’ all the time.
My first thought when in this type of situation is that he hasn’t understood me so I usually repeat myself. Sometimes though, he understand perfectly and is making a joke. Because I always jump to the conclusion that he doesn’t understand, I usually miss the joke. Not only that, but often it’s a joke that may be strange or weird in English. Maybe those words together or that joke is hilarious in Korean but in English I just end up being confused.
Also a reminder that there is a TUMBLR now. I’m waiting to see if people are interested in submitting things to it so instead of it being a replica of this blog, it would have more of a community feel.
So yes, sometimes we play at the playground… BUT our closest playground is at Darling Harbour, which is kinda an amazing one. It’s not really just for kids and is right near lots of restaurants and other stuff, so at night once the kids are gone you’ll see a lot of adults there.
Anyway, I got stuck on one of the climbing things… because I’m stupid. Seriously, I’m not very agile. My husband knows me well enough to know when I really have a problem or if I’m just being a whiny baby. So he took the opportunity to rock the ropes and make me flail around even more and then wandered off and let me try and get out myself.
In conclusion, don’t climb on the ropes at Darling Harbour if you are clumsy.
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