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don t seem to be actively learning as much anymore and a bunch of koreans who i mostly see at swing dances not the ideal place for talking i also need to stop being embarrassed by my korean writing the other day my korean co teacher at the school i work at saw my korean lesson papers from my saturday class and there were questions about the text where we had to write answers eg whether extra curricular learning classes hagwons were necessary or not and she started reading out the stuff i wrote while moving around the classroom to stop me from taking it back but if koreans don t read my writing and suggest improvements how am i supposed to get better at it so i started a blog on cyworld in korean unfortunately i m too embarrassed to tell any of my korean friends where it is fail i plan to take the next topik test basic level that ll be early mid april it s a korean language proficiency test any language learning experts around who could give me more tips on what i can do in the meantime for those who know some korean here s a joke q what did the small tissue say to the large tissue a you re huge ee hehehehe for those who don t get it huge ee is both konglish for huge koreans add ee to the end of a lot of english words like lunch ee and the korean word for tissue 휴지 1 comment posted in korea korean language tagged korea korean languages find the missing logic posted on november 2 2009 leave a comment most of the time i love korea sometimes though things make me want to hit my head against a brick wall please find the logic disconnect from an article in the korea times october 23rd 2009 title foreign pedophiles to face permanent deportation by park si soo staff reporter the ministry of justice said thursday it will revise immigration rules to ban foreigners found guilty of raping korean children from re entering korea permanently this is the latest in a series of government measures to keep sexual predators away from society if endorsed it will become the toughest discipline against foreign rapists the plan was made public during a parliamentary inspection of the ministry held in gwacheon gyeonggi province the government has announced a package of measures against sex offenders after the supreme court upheld a lower than expected prison term handed down to cho doo soon a 57 year old man convicted of kidnapping and brutally raping a nine year old girl cho given a 12 year term is now in prison for class a criminals in north gyeongsang province the victim widely known by her alias na young suffered incurable physical and mental damage in the inspection rep lee joo young of the ruling grand national party urged the ministry to tighten the rule on e 2 visa issuance arguing it s so lax that many convicted foreigners attempt to cross borders with legal residential status the legislator did not disclose the exact number of foreigners caught for the violation under the law e 2 visa applicants are mandated to submit records on their criminal histories and health checkups particularly on aids and drug use which are issued by their country of origin but the legislator said it still falls short of thoroughly screening out the entry of rogue foreign nationals many foreigners have been caught attempting to pass through the immigration process with forged documents indicating rules should be intensified further lee said in a related move lawmakers are making bipartisan efforts to establish tougher punishment against such criminals earlier this month a group of lawmakers of the main opposition democratic party dp proposed a bill which will make it impossible to reduce the punishment of sex offenders on the grounds that they were drunk at the time of the crime and thus unable to make sound judgment it also aims at removing the statute of limitations on rape cases at present it ranges from one to 25 years depending on the seriousness of the crime the ruling grand national party is also fueling the amendment attempt rep ahn sang soo floor leader of the ruling party has urged party members to collaborate to revise the law pss koreatimes co kr http www koreatimes co kr www news nation 2009 10 117_54081 html here s a hint in case you didn t find it cho doo soon the man who raped the korean child and who i agree needs a much stricter sentence it s ridiculous he only got 12 years is a korean man yet the article talks about foreign pedophiles and making e2 visas harder to get e2 visas are for foreign language teachers you already need a criminal check and a health check drugs aids test and a college degree can someone explain to me how stricter rules on e2 visas are going to stop korean men from raping kids head wall for the record i think that anyone foreign or not who is raping kids korean or not needs very strict punishment i just also have never heard of one case of a foreigner e2 visa or not who was convicted of raping korean children the closest thing was cpn who was teaching in korea not on an e2 visa though and got arrested for pedophilia in thailand that was why e2 visas needed criminal checks etc starting a couple of years ago the irony that he was not on an e2 visa and that he had previously had a clean criminal records check anyway was completely lost on anyone who had a say in the visa regulations i think it s good anyway but i wish that korea kept better records so i didn t have to submit things every year i want to work here i haven t been back to canada since i came here in feb you d think that maybe they would just require a korean criminal records check or how about not having to prove your degree is legit every year in case you know i ungradutate or something so i really hope they don t make e2 visas even more difficult to get because it s just going to be a lot more hoop jumping for me with no actual change where it really counts leave a comment posted in korea tagged head wall korea work fairly tasty failure posted on october 27 2009 leave a comment the 2009 october daring bakers challenge was brought to us by ami s she chose macarons from claudia fleming s the last course the desserts of gramercy tavern as the challenge recipe i think from this experiment i can conclude 3 things 1 macarons are hard to make 2 i suck at making them 3 they were pretty tasty anyway i ll have to try again in a few months when my baking pride has recovered i think my problem was that i overbeat it my macarons didn t crack but they did end up fairly flat had no feet and were too chewy the changes i made to the recipe were to use ground hazelnuts instead of almonds don t like the sweetness almonds combo and to add some cocoa powder to the shells the filling is a dark chocolate ganache and i dusted some of the shells with cinnamon before they baked as for the taste i found it good but too sweet i ll post pictures tomorrow i m going to eat rest up a bit and head out dancing tonight pictures coming soon sorry but i made them super last minute today challenge reveal date oy in any case this was a real challenge and i have to try again i won t admit defeat 화이팅 leave a comment posted in daring bakers food tagged baking daring bakers food back from the dead also daring bakers time again posted on september 27 2009 1 comment first this blog has been dead for too long so here is the eye candy of my last daring baker challenge that i ve owed you since forever not the most photogenic cookies but they were tasty so that s good and introducing this month s challenge vols au vent the september 2009 daring bakers challenge was hosted by steph of a whisk and a spoon she chose the french treat vols au vent based on the puff pastry recipe by michel richard from the cookbook baking with julia by dorie greenspan this was my first time making puff pastry though i have made danish dough for the june 2008 challenge danish dough is pretty similar to puff pastry the main difference is that the danish dough had yeast in it and the puff pastry dough relies only on the layers of butter to make the dough rise the actual making of the dough was really similar and i didn t have any issues because i made this at the beginning of the month it was still pretty humid and hot so i made generous use of my air conditioner and sent the dough on many trips to my fridge in between turns i m glad i made the full batch of dough i ve already used 2 3 of the dough and have another 1 3 in my freezer that i can t wait to break out again later and marvel at how quickly i ll be able to have fresh puff pastry treats and for the eye candy after cutting out shapes for the vols au vents assembly the caps baked mmmm flaky could have gotten more rise but it came out nicely cooling on the tray dressed for success banana cream and banana slices another beautiful vol au vent yummmmm the vols au vents were delicious light and flaky the banana cream filling only slightly sucked because korean dairy is so bad that it tastes like plastic i had used imported butter but not imported cream and i could really taste the difference the banana in the cream at least hid some of that after this first batch i made a second batch for my teachers fellow students at my saturday korean class it was really well received i am already thinking of other ideas of what i can do with this dough i still have a third of it left in my fridge hmmmmm thanks for the great challenge don t forget to check out the other daring baker blogs here next month s challenge will finish up my second year as a daring baker can you believe it s been almost two years now time flies 1 comment posted in daring bakers tagged baking daring bakers food july 2009 daring baker challenge milan cookies posted on july 27 2009 leave a comment the july daring bakers challenge was hosted by nicole at sweet tooth she chose chocolate covered marshmallow cookies and milan cookies from pastry chef gale gand of the food network actually the challenge was flexible enough that we could choose to do only one of the cookies if we wanted and so i did only the milan cookies i would have liked to do the marshmallow ones just for the interest in how to make them i don t actually like marshmallows too sweet but i actually had no idea where to find agar agar in seoul and with my friend amanda visiting me and with me travelling half the month i m typing this from herräng sweden right now it just didn t seem practical i went for the easier thing and made only the milan cookies unfortunately this will be a little on the short side cause i have no pictures to show you i have some but they are on my computer in seoul and not yet uploaded and because i have 18 minutes of internet left i will upload pictures in mid august when i get back to seoul if i forget remind me the cookies came out tasting really good the cookies themselves were a little on the sweet side but the chocolate ganache sandwiched between them took some of the sweetness away and i put lemon zest in both the cookies and the ganache so that also helped cut the sweetness a bit in any case it was a success and i loved them and so did my friends as i travel sweden and dennmark and wherever this month there probably won t be any posts for a while in the meantime check out some of the daring bakers blogs here for swing dancing friends i just got a couple of the new cangelosi cards cd and it is really good i also got to be one of the first 10 people besides the band to listen to gordon webster s new swing cd he has a blues one but just recorded a swing one last week there s actually no cd yet but he s got the mp3s on his iphone the cd is soooo good plus the songs are all of the happy bouncy kind that i love most i m not sure when the cd will be released but i ll let you know once i do happy summer leave a comment posted in daring bakers food tagged baking daring bakers food laaazy posted on june 28 2009 4 comments no daring bakers post this month sorry i haven t gotten around to making it i plan to do it but i m not sure when i ll get around to it i will definitely do july s before i go travel though i have done some baking lately i made some cookies i will be doing a cooking class for english camp when i come back from my vacation does anyone have a great recipe for sugar cookies using as much as possible basic ingredients and that doesn t need time in the refrigerator before rolling them out can be any cookie type really i just want the kids to be able to roll the dough and use cookie cutters sorry for the lack of posts on here more posts soon 4 comments posted in uncategorized yum quick and easy dinner posted on june 11 2009 2 comments i have to thank both teresa and dhruv for this one teresa brought me some yummy lentils last month usually my default is to make either a lentil salad or lentil soup but i asked my friend dhruv who i really need to find time to cook with sometime for a suggestion of what to do with them his food blog is linked on the side i will be looking through his recipes and making a bunch soon so my dinner tonight was this lentil recipe i ll post it below rice white rice with a handful or so of wild rice added and an israeli style salad cucumbers tomatoes onions and parsley with a bit of lemon dessert is watermelon cause a coworker and i bought one the other day to split lentil recipe 1 tsp cumin seeds 1 2 tsp garlic 1 2 tsp ginger 1 1 5 cups lentils water lentils water 1 2 3 4 tsp salt i used less 3 4 tsp cumin powder 3 4 tsp coriander powder 1 4 tsp chili powder carrots chopped saute the cumin seeds until they pop wash lentils thoroughly add garlic ginger to the cumin seeds fry a little add carrots add washed lentils fry a little add water add spices mix well cook on high until lentils are mushy 2 comments posted in food tagged food vegan language shyness and vacation plans posted on june 6 2009 3 comments where are the food posts you say or maybe not but anyway i have been baking and have made apple pie and cookies since making the strudel but i keep eating things faster than i can remember to take pictures of them i will try to fix that soon but there are now no cookies or tartelettes left for a while i ve been aware that i m very shy about speaking korean with people who speak english well but am not shy if people don t speak much english i know it s usual for multilingual conversations to drift towards the strongest common language but that still doesn t explain the shyness so recently i think i figured it out or at least came up with a plausible theory i think it s an empathy thing i know a lot of the koreans i know who don t speak english as well are shy about their english so i think it might be that there are also some exceptions my coteacher speaks english fairly well definitely better than my korean but i m not shy speaking with her because she s so encouraging and she really helps me learn all the time also i m sometimes shy to start speaking korean with people who i ve been used to speaking to in english from when my korean sucked more but i think that s just awkwardness of switch...