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Beauty is skin deep, they always say. But in today’s generation, this quotation somehow no longer applies. The people of the world today are very concerned with outward appearance. They use every method possible and spend money to beautify their selves, buying and applying various high-end cosmetics brands and some even go beyond great lengths and end up having plastic surgery. Modern women ...

I recently bought a (second or third hand) Nikon D40x. My introduction to DSLR photography. It’s like falling in love – I keep uncovering parts of her. Admiral Yi Sun-Sin

Rocketman soon developed a fever and I had a quick lesson in Celcius. Fahranheit was out the door and all the ear thermometers registered in Celsius. My Korean friends, Hannah and Jennifer, came down from Seoul to be with us every night after work. It is the Korean way to have family with you when you are in the hospital and they truly are family along with Hellena who had to fly back to Qata ...

One thing that bothers me about South Korea is its restrictions on the internet. Although considered as one of the highest wired countries in the world and in fact one of the fastest, too, South Korea has restrictions on the World Wide Web. People may always think that South Korea is a great cuddler of technology; the country is still a conservative one in terms of internet usage.

South Korea is where east meets west. Obviously, the country has become one of the top destinations for people looking to travel or work or both. In my case, I do both. I travel and work at the same time. For several years, I’ve been teaching in Seoul while I enjoy exploring different travel spots of the country. Perhaps, it’s so easy to travel around a small country that has a very le ...

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This is a photo I took of Rocketman's hospital window which we called the "suicide window." We were told the window only opens a few inches to prevent suicides. When Dr. Ahn, the urologist, finally agreed to remove Rocketman's kidney stone he didn't garner any confidence with his choice of words. He told us that it would be a very difficult surgery since the stone was so close to the kidney b ...

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Rocketman had a few days where the pain from the kidney stone ranged from mild to pretty bad but with the urologist at Ajou University Hospital telling us that there was nothing he could do, we took it day by day. He had an appointment with the urologist on May 2nd but on the evening of May 1st, the pain took a turn to the unbearable. I tried to get Rocketman to go to the hospital but he chose to ...