How refreshing to have time again. To experience a momentary reprieve from working to pay bills.

The last week has been incredible. People will ask when I return to work: “what did you do?”. I’ll answer: “nothing, absolutely nothing”.

Actually my answer will be false, but it will be necessary, as in their eyes, I […]

in·er·tia /ɪnˈɜrʃə, ɪˈnɜr-/ [in-ur-shuh, i-nur-]

–noun

1. inertness, esp. with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.

I’ve got to break through this feeling of lethargy that has plagued me since I got to this country, Australia.

How can I explain it’s cause?

A lot can be explained through the changes from life […]

Korea has been referred to as the “hermit kingdom”. However, how fair is this comment? It’s often condescendingly used to reinforce ideas of an outsider’s concept of the insularism of Korean society. However, taken as a whole, the peninsula has embraced, for better or worse, almost everything that the world has had to offer.

There’s intensity […]

Last Sunday, disagreements about the statue of General Douglas MacArthur, in the city of Incheon reached physical violence. More than twenty people were hurt when demonstrators tried to reach the statue, ostensibly to remove or damage it, but were halted by thousands of riot police.

MacArthur was the U.N. commander in chief who, at Incheon, commanded […]

Despite the mass of voice and opinion about the New Orleans tragedy, I still find it necessary to briefly express my own pain and despair at witnessing this disaster. It’s traumatic to witness the suffering of others, and it’s even more disturbing to know that they’ve been left to their own devices in their time […]