Wednesday, April 28, 2004
A Bizarre Landscape
There are moments that make you sit up, startled, just as from a nightmare. Chills are running down the spine. Hearts are throbbing with fierce irregularity.
It's a rude awakening. Sort of. There are strange murmurs out there. Strange footsteps on the double, too. Tsa Tsao's troops have raided the town, haven't they? Bays from across the street have you shuddering right along.
Internet message boards are brand-new sites for human turf battle. There are new creatures, fresh hybrids and clones coming in armed with incredible weaponry and outlandish ammunition. It's a real bizarre landscape.
Humility is masked and done away with in a flicker of moment. He (or she) was shy and modest enough the other day with his (her) body stooping, eyes rolling and voice trembling, stepping in the gate and asking in a low voice, "Could you give me a favor or something?" He (or she) turns and scowls at you today, yelling, "What a fool!"
There are moments that make you sit up, startled, just as from a nightmare. Chills are running down the spine. Hearts are throbbing with fierce irregularity.
It's a rude awakening. Sort of. There are strange murmurs out there. Strange footsteps on the double, too. Tsa Tsao's troops have raided the town, haven't they? Bays from across the street have you shuddering right along.
Internet message boards are brand-new sites for human turf battle. There are new creatures, fresh hybrids and clones coming in armed with incredible weaponry and outlandish ammunition. It's a real bizarre landscape.
Humility is masked and done away with in a flicker of moment. He (or she) was shy and modest enough the other day with his (her) body stooping, eyes rolling and voice trembling, stepping in the gate and asking in a low voice, "Could you give me a favor or something?" He (or she) turns and scowls at you today, yelling, "What a fool!"
Monday, April 26, 2004
The Wonderful World of Blogs
How nice. This is a real fun. A new wonder and marvel. An utter new world. A happy surprise that I had experienced as a little boy when my dad had bought us a square match box. In a deep mountain valley. Long long time ago.
I'm thinking aloud and giving my legs a hard prick. Oops. I feel a slight pain in the skin. Oh, I must be not in a dream. This is reality. What a marvel that I could be a globe-trotting traveller. All alone. And without being bothered by anybody. Oh, Thank you, Mr. Bill Gates.
I'm always lost in the rain forest of blogs. The forest is so thick. Intrigued by links and other links, I'm coming to step deeper and deeper into the heart of the wonderland and I'm lost. I have a hard time getting me out.
I'm not being facetious this time but I'm a shy guy, and a little old at that. I'm a blushing type whenever I find myself in front of an American girl or girls. They are so proud and so young. Their anatomy is just great with pretty faces, long legs and oops navel bare.
Their looks are good to see and their tales and music are good to hear. And gratis at that. I feel shy and guilty and grateful for their great contributions at the same time. I feel sorry for all the trouble for Edit-me service for this clumsy navigator. Digital photos are new to me and I've to learn how to handle them. My sons are so busy with their office works. I have to learn how to handle dicas in the near future.
How nice. This is a real fun. A new wonder and marvel. An utter new world. A happy surprise that I had experienced as a little boy when my dad had bought us a square match box. In a deep mountain valley. Long long time ago.
I'm thinking aloud and giving my legs a hard prick. Oops. I feel a slight pain in the skin. Oh, I must be not in a dream. This is reality. What a marvel that I could be a globe-trotting traveller. All alone. And without being bothered by anybody. Oh, Thank you, Mr. Bill Gates.
I'm always lost in the rain forest of blogs. The forest is so thick. Intrigued by links and other links, I'm coming to step deeper and deeper into the heart of the wonderland and I'm lost. I have a hard time getting me out.
I'm not being facetious this time but I'm a shy guy, and a little old at that. I'm a blushing type whenever I find myself in front of an American girl or girls. They are so proud and so young. Their anatomy is just great with pretty faces, long legs and oops navel bare.
Their looks are good to see and their tales and music are good to hear. And gratis at that. I feel shy and guilty and grateful for their great contributions at the same time. I feel sorry for all the trouble for Edit-me service for this clumsy navigator. Digital photos are new to me and I've to learn how to handle them. My sons are so busy with their office works. I have to learn how to handle dicas in the near future.
A Big Crater in a Weird State
A territorial entity passing for a sovereign state by the name of DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) is a misnomer. It's shameful country. It's not been a bless to the people since it was born.
DPRK is not a republic because it has not been born of the people's general will. Despite the facade of a republic DPRK is but a hereditary monarchy and Kim Jong Il is a monarch. He has been a despotic ruler ever since his father Kim Il Sung died.
Kim Jong Il has been a failure as a ruler. Kim as well as his dead father Kim Il Sung had blown it. Their ballyhooed popular pledge of a decent life had turned out blank that would guarantee "a bellyful of rice and beef." He is alleged to have sent his one-million plus people staggering to death with famine and starvation.
Hasn't there been a success at all? If anything which could be called a success it might have been his bent for terrorism and his passion for collections, though. The Kim junior has especially been notorious for the latter.
He is known to have collected items and appreciated them with gusto. What kinds of items? The list has not just been long which has spanned anthropological and aesthetic areas but also expensive, which has claimed a huge number of popular lives. He is also known to have had the world-class inventory of vintage wines.
He is alleged to have collected beauties. "Pleasure ladies" are reputed to have been in wait for his "disposal." Once they had not sufficed he himself had sent a hunting party to the South. Actress Choi Eun Hee had been abducted accordingly in the early 1980s.
North Korea had a huge crater formed by a tremendous blast at Ryongchon Railroad Station a few days ago. Hundreds of deaths and thousands of the injured have been counted as a subsequent result of the tragedy. A murky disaster, which is clandestinely known to have been an attempt at Kim junior's life, might be an auspicious sign to do away with him and his evil regime.
A territorial entity passing for a sovereign state by the name of DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) is a misnomer. It's shameful country. It's not been a bless to the people since it was born.
DPRK is not a republic because it has not been born of the people's general will. Despite the facade of a republic DPRK is but a hereditary monarchy and Kim Jong Il is a monarch. He has been a despotic ruler ever since his father Kim Il Sung died.
Kim Jong Il has been a failure as a ruler. Kim as well as his dead father Kim Il Sung had blown it. Their ballyhooed popular pledge of a decent life had turned out blank that would guarantee "a bellyful of rice and beef." He is alleged to have sent his one-million plus people staggering to death with famine and starvation.
Hasn't there been a success at all? If anything which could be called a success it might have been his bent for terrorism and his passion for collections, though. The Kim junior has especially been notorious for the latter.
He is known to have collected items and appreciated them with gusto. What kinds of items? The list has not just been long which has spanned anthropological and aesthetic areas but also expensive, which has claimed a huge number of popular lives. He is also known to have had the world-class inventory of vintage wines.
He is alleged to have collected beauties. "Pleasure ladies" are reputed to have been in wait for his "disposal." Once they had not sufficed he himself had sent a hunting party to the South. Actress Choi Eun Hee had been abducted accordingly in the early 1980s.
North Korea had a huge crater formed by a tremendous blast at Ryongchon Railroad Station a few days ago. Hundreds of deaths and thousands of the injured have been counted as a subsequent result of the tragedy. A murky disaster, which is clandestinely known to have been an attempt at Kim junior's life, might be an auspicious sign to do away with him and his evil regime.
Sunday, April 18, 2004
The Real Reason behind the Impeachment
You don't know. The world doesn't know, either. World news agencies including AP, UPI, Reuter and AFP have little knowledge of ins and outs of Korean politics.
Procedures leading to Parliament's impeachment bill (two thirds of majority votes) and the subsequent suspension of executive prerogatives are different from those of the United States and other Western countries. The Parliamentary impeachment bill is not final but subject to the verdict of the bill by the Constitutional Court. (also needs two thirds of nine justices)
Ramifications behind the real reason for the Impeachment procedures are complex. Infractions of pertinent laws (National Assembly Election Law, etc) are minor and trivial in a certain sense. The general mode of his administration is the matter at issue. Psychological rather than legal.
Shows of instability (repeated announcement of the need for confidence votes), Shows of lack of focus (I can't handle the Presidency!), Too evident favoritism (He attends his fan club Nosamo, addresses them, and asks for their support), his view of justice in terms of comparison (I am one tenth as corrupt as major Opposition Party!) might have been major factors which had driven 193 Parliamentarians to decide to impeach the maverick President.
I wonder how other global pundits would think of our president who had "promised" and repudiated his public pledge, so often at that. Figuratively speaking, he had handled his people just like he had done his kids. After several confidence announcements he had declared solemnly that he would quit if slush funds from big businesses diverted into his party in the last Presidential election in the year 2002 would reach one- tenth limit of major Opposition GNP.
Once the amount had reached one eighth level he had had another excuse to use. "The calculation the media employed is different from that of Blue House," (the Presidential Palace of South Korea), he said. "The excess is not so big," he had declared at the same press conference. " "If the disparity would prove real big then I would quit," he had declared with finality.
You don't know. The world doesn't know, either. World news agencies including AP, UPI, Reuter and AFP have little knowledge of ins and outs of Korean politics.
Procedures leading to Parliament's impeachment bill (two thirds of majority votes) and the subsequent suspension of executive prerogatives are different from those of the United States and other Western countries. The Parliamentary impeachment bill is not final but subject to the verdict of the bill by the Constitutional Court. (also needs two thirds of nine justices)
Ramifications behind the real reason for the Impeachment procedures are complex. Infractions of pertinent laws (National Assembly Election Law, etc) are minor and trivial in a certain sense. The general mode of his administration is the matter at issue. Psychological rather than legal.
Shows of instability (repeated announcement of the need for confidence votes), Shows of lack of focus (I can't handle the Presidency!), Too evident favoritism (He attends his fan club Nosamo, addresses them, and asks for their support), his view of justice in terms of comparison (I am one tenth as corrupt as major Opposition Party!) might have been major factors which had driven 193 Parliamentarians to decide to impeach the maverick President.
I wonder how other global pundits would think of our president who had "promised" and repudiated his public pledge, so often at that. Figuratively speaking, he had handled his people just like he had done his kids. After several confidence announcements he had declared solemnly that he would quit if slush funds from big businesses diverted into his party in the last Presidential election in the year 2002 would reach one- tenth limit of major Opposition GNP.
Once the amount had reached one eighth level he had had another excuse to use. "The calculation the media employed is different from that of Blue House," (the Presidential Palace of South Korea), he said. "The excess is not so big," he had declared at the same press conference. " "If the disparity would prove real big then I would quit," he had declared with finality.
Churlish Korean Politicos
They are churlish, of course. That's plain to see. Korean politicos, ruling or otherwise, have been just like disobedient brats.
They used to stage sit-ins too often on the National assembly floor just like pouting children. Shave their heads so often just like sulking teens. Yell at each other and cry to their heart's content just like bad-tempered kids.
What drove them to go berserk? Why did they not learn to behave? Why not try to become more mature citizens? Because the grassroots people of the nation have nourished the atmosphere for the brats to be received.
The television audiences have viewed real weird footages during the last National Assembly election campaigns. Roles were reversed 180 degrees. The electorates, just like parents and older brothers and sisters, recommended peace (Don't brawl!) and gave advice (Work harder!) to repentant offspring.
They are churlish, of course. That's plain to see. Korean politicos, ruling or otherwise, have been just like disobedient brats.
They used to stage sit-ins too often on the National assembly floor just like pouting children. Shave their heads so often just like sulking teens. Yell at each other and cry to their heart's content just like bad-tempered kids.
What drove them to go berserk? Why did they not learn to behave? Why not try to become more mature citizens? Because the grassroots people of the nation have nourished the atmosphere for the brats to be received.
The television audiences have viewed real weird footages during the last National Assembly election campaigns. Roles were reversed 180 degrees. The electorates, just like parents and older brothers and sisters, recommended peace (Don't brawl!) and gave advice (Work harder!) to repentant offspring.
Monday, April 12, 2004
Ms Park Keun Hae Is Mobbed Everywhere
Handshakes with well-wishers got her hands bruised and swelled. Ms Park Keun Hae (52), President of Major Opposition GNP (Grand National Party), on her support campaign for the party's candidates for National Assembly of Korea (Republic of), has been mobbed by "cloud-like crowd" on every electoral district.
How come she was so enthusiastically mobbed? Partly out of sympathy for daughter of Former President Park Jung Hee, who had been orphaned in her twenties when the dictatorial president had been assassinated in 1979. And partly out of the gratitude for the efforts of the president to reconstruct the nation from the ashes of the Korean War.
But the major reason might lie in the reality that the majority of the Korean people have been very empathetic. Eureka! Cadre members of the beleaguered GNP have discovered the sensitive spot and have come to strike an emotive chord of the grassroots people, making it real big.
Hardly had the party caucus members elected Park Keun Hae as Party President when she has hit the road on the crusade to rescue the party from the pits of infamy and disgrace largely branded as "chattaekki dahng," meaning "the carload party." The High Prosecutors' Office had discovered to the nation's dismay that the party had diverted "the carload of slush funds from big businesses" into the last Presidential election campaigns.
Handshakes with well-wishers got her hands bruised and swelled. Ms Park Keun Hae (52), President of Major Opposition GNP (Grand National Party), on her support campaign for the party's candidates for National Assembly of Korea (Republic of), has been mobbed by "cloud-like crowd" on every electoral district.
How come she was so enthusiastically mobbed? Partly out of sympathy for daughter of Former President Park Jung Hee, who had been orphaned in her twenties when the dictatorial president had been assassinated in 1979. And partly out of the gratitude for the efforts of the president to reconstruct the nation from the ashes of the Korean War.
But the major reason might lie in the reality that the majority of the Korean people have been very empathetic. Eureka! Cadre members of the beleaguered GNP have discovered the sensitive spot and have come to strike an emotive chord of the grassroots people, making it real big.
Hardly had the party caucus members elected Park Keun Hae as Party President when she has hit the road on the crusade to rescue the party from the pits of infamy and disgrace largely branded as "chattaekki dahng," meaning "the carload party." The High Prosecutors' Office had discovered to the nation's dismay that the party had diverted "the carload of slush funds from big businesses" into the last Presidential election campaigns.
Sunday, April 04, 2004
The Man of NGs
He is the man of NGs
He always plays clumsy
Director cries, "No good!"
He is not good at memorizing lines
He stumbles, stammers and is stuck
He screws up everything about him
Director is pissed off, crying, "NG!"
He speaks the language of the street
He drives the cast up the wall
'Cause he drives wedges between the cast
The cast thinks loud, "Get rid of him!"
He is the man of NGs
He always plays clumsy
Director cries, "No good!"
He is not good at memorizing lines
He stumbles, stammers and is stuck
He screws up everything about him
Director is pissed off, crying, "NG!"
He speaks the language of the street
He drives the cast up the wall
'Cause he drives wedges between the cast
The cast thinks loud, "Get rid of him!"
No More Bows, Please!
No, thanks. Oh oh oh, no more bows, political gentlemen and ladies. Aren't you sick and tired of those monotonous workouts, misters and madames? Haven't you ever heard of an oft-quoted cliche of "Too much of a good thing"?
What the hell are they doing anyway? They have been doing nothing less than hitting the road for a cruise of bows, that is, the cruise of apologetic full bows. They make appearances before perplexed folks, stand at attention, kneel down and offer full bows, with their heads almost touching the ground. What for? They are seeking pardons for their past corruption, negligence and arrogance.
What motivated the weird crusade? Greed, of course. To get enough votes to be elected to become a National Assemblyman and woman and to get more seats enough to occupy the majority in the Legislature.
Who are heading the weird crusade? One man politician and two lady politicians. The male politician, Chairman of the Open Uri Party Jung Dong Young, in his early fifties, has been making really grudging efforts to make rounds of pardon-seeking visits to the national elderlies for his insulting remarks toward the old electorates. Insulting in what way? He had said in effect that the old people in their 60s and older age brackets didn't have to come to polling stations.
How have the electorates' responses to the crusade been? Responses? They have been: "Oh ho-hum." They might think loud: "Folks, don't bend your body too deep. Bend your mind deeper and deeper on the social, economic and mental security of the grassroots."
No, thanks. Oh oh oh, no more bows, political gentlemen and ladies. Aren't you sick and tired of those monotonous workouts, misters and madames? Haven't you ever heard of an oft-quoted cliche of "Too much of a good thing"?
What the hell are they doing anyway? They have been doing nothing less than hitting the road for a cruise of bows, that is, the cruise of apologetic full bows. They make appearances before perplexed folks, stand at attention, kneel down and offer full bows, with their heads almost touching the ground. What for? They are seeking pardons for their past corruption, negligence and arrogance.
What motivated the weird crusade? Greed, of course. To get enough votes to be elected to become a National Assemblyman and woman and to get more seats enough to occupy the majority in the Legislature.
Who are heading the weird crusade? One man politician and two lady politicians. The male politician, Chairman of the Open Uri Party Jung Dong Young, in his early fifties, has been making really grudging efforts to make rounds of pardon-seeking visits to the national elderlies for his insulting remarks toward the old electorates. Insulting in what way? He had said in effect that the old people in their 60s and older age brackets didn't have to come to polling stations.
How have the electorates' responses to the crusade been? Responses? They have been: "Oh ho-hum." They might think loud: "Folks, don't bend your body too deep. Bend your mind deeper and deeper on the social, economic and mental security of the grassroots."
Thursday, April 01, 2004
Slipping on His Own Words
You don't have to prove you're silly nor pick a fight nor incur conflict on your own, do you? An impulsive slip of tongue by a major politician has been a personal mistake at best and a political blunder at worst (It couldn't have been worse). One supporter of the Open Uri Party has fumed: "The Jung incident has gobbled 10 million votes."
It could have passed for humor at the best of times. But it's been the worst of jokes at a cut-throat time when two major parties are at loggerheads with each other over the helmsmanship of the Parliament in the forthcoming National Assembly election on April 15.
"Just relax. You'd better take a full rest at home," Chairman Jung Dong Young of the party is alleged to have said. He is alleged to have said in effect that the elderly people in their sixties or in older age brackets might as well be absent from polling . It has been a kind of emphasis put on the importance of the young votes, of course, but it has gone too far.
What an irony it is that the very butt of controversy has been a creation of a very popular anchor-turned politician of a major television broadcasting station, MBC. It's an irony because the holder of the title of an anchor is the very person that lives off the language. He has slipped on his words.
The Internet message boards of almost all the media of the nation are brimming with slurs and epithets directing toward Mr. Jung. "Have you been an illicit bastard?," one netizen jibed. The other netizen has posted a list of the candidates of the Open Uri Party running for the Parliamentarian seats who have exceeded the age limit of 60 Mr. Jung has mentioned. What was the number? It was 27.
You don't have to prove you're silly nor pick a fight nor incur conflict on your own, do you? An impulsive slip of tongue by a major politician has been a personal mistake at best and a political blunder at worst (It couldn't have been worse). One supporter of the Open Uri Party has fumed: "The Jung incident has gobbled 10 million votes."
It could have passed for humor at the best of times. But it's been the worst of jokes at a cut-throat time when two major parties are at loggerheads with each other over the helmsmanship of the Parliament in the forthcoming National Assembly election on April 15.
"Just relax. You'd better take a full rest at home," Chairman Jung Dong Young of the party is alleged to have said. He is alleged to have said in effect that the elderly people in their sixties or in older age brackets might as well be absent from polling . It has been a kind of emphasis put on the importance of the young votes, of course, but it has gone too far.
What an irony it is that the very butt of controversy has been a creation of a very popular anchor-turned politician of a major television broadcasting station, MBC. It's an irony because the holder of the title of an anchor is the very person that lives off the language. He has slipped on his words.
The Internet message boards of almost all the media of the nation are brimming with slurs and epithets directing toward Mr. Jung. "Have you been an illicit bastard?," one netizen jibed. The other netizen has posted a list of the candidates of the Open Uri Party running for the Parliamentarian seats who have exceeded the age limit of 60 Mr. Jung has mentioned. What was the number? It was 27.
