You know I have not been blogging for a good part of 2010, I could come up with a few different reasons, but it really it comes down to one.
Writers block.
What causes that is different for every writer I guess, but for me, the mundane is my bane of existence. From factory work(an epic blog that I am currently working on)to my new job that I will simply call “The Facility”. What “The Facility” gives me is more than a paycheck…but it gives me that human interaction that gave me the ingredients to cook up the likes of FRONTLINE: an expat that’s back and IT IS WHAT IT IS.
So here is my first offering from this new kitchen.
The Bad Guys had it right
So a few weeks ago I was on facebook and my friend Borboleta had an interesting face book status that like most good facebook status if it can get more than ten or so more responses you know you have a good one. Well the long and short of it is that one of the responses was that “Disney movies gave me a horrible impression of what I should look for in men” or some shit like that.
I’m at work at “The Facility” and I am talking with my co worker about how having plans to have something to call an audible against is better than having no plan at all, my co worker is like “dude, having a plan is cool, unless you are on a road trip and no plan is the best way to go” and of course I am in agreement, but having no plan is in fact a plan. I started thinking, how over the last few years I have had plans that for some reason or another the wheels always came off. Then as we kept on with this seeming pointless conversation I said to myself, you know who else had a plan?
COBRA!
That’s right COBRA a ruthless organization bent on taking over the earth.
Seriously, every day as a kid I would watch COBRA and they had a plan, a plan while not nice for any reason the M.A.S.S device or even the B.E.T come to mind, they had a plan, and that is way more than what anyone else generally has when doing anything these days, and guess what happened.
G.I. joe comes right on in and ruins it.
What plan did G.I. joe ever have!!!!
That’s right, no plan. They waited, they waited until COBRA got there shit going and then they jump out with the monkey wrench.
You know who else does that?
Haters.
Not that I am saying that G.I. joes are a bunch of haters, but seriously haters wait around for you to do something, anything, so they can hate.
Anyway, my coworker was like dude! When you are that awesome, you don’t need a plan. I was like yeah, but –He’s like no, what you don’t understand is that DUKE was the plan.
Duke was the plan?
Wait, you mean to tell me that patience and planning will always give way to fast action and brash decision making? How messed up is that? I understand the concept of nothing ventured nothing gained, but you can’t go all in on every hand.
I get it though, you can’t plan everything out, but you can’t leave it all up to chance.
Amazing isn’t it.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
2010: New Years Resolutions, Reflections, and Hindsights
Wow.
Just Wow.
I made it through 2009 to see 2010, thank god. Not for nothing, 2009 really sucked balls for your boy, and when I finally publish the "What I did for summer vacation" blog you all will be able to experience through my writing the massive suckfest which was my 2009.
This year is going to be different. I just like everyone else that graduated with me in like May of 1998 will be hitting the big 3-0.
That's right, I am turning 30
I have done a lot of things but I have never turned 30. I have been 29 twice(seriously ask me about it, it was legit), but I have never been thirty.
I remeber back in the day a friend of mine was telling me how we were living in the "end of days" and how soon we will see the battle of the "Haves" and the "Have Nots". I can't lie, I meditate on where I am and where I am going to be, I even look at people that are younger and maybe a little older and I am like, "Damn, they really have their shit together"
Then I realize that the grass is always greener on the otherside.
So I don't dwell. I understand that everyones path is not going to be my own.
I have resolutions this year, which is different because I hate the whole resolution aspect of new years. Seriously, if you are a douche then why would you change the first of NEXT year, why not strive to not be a douche once it is known that you are a douche.
You can substitute douche for anything else you want...
Anyway, I just try to be better than what I was before, good or evil, I want to be better at it than before. Oh, I am digressing, I did decide that I am going to do some things this year
I am going to learn a new language
I am going to learn how to play an instrument
I know, this is a short sweet list. Most people use their resolutions as pavement to hell, but my road there is fine...just fine.
Well, I am acutally about six beers and three shots in and everyone else is asleep and I am still dtinking. I will have a little more later on, but right now I am just stretching out a bit.
Just Wow.
I made it through 2009 to see 2010, thank god. Not for nothing, 2009 really sucked balls for your boy, and when I finally publish the "What I did for summer vacation" blog you all will be able to experience through my writing the massive suckfest which was my 2009.
This year is going to be different. I just like everyone else that graduated with me in like May of 1998 will be hitting the big 3-0.
That's right, I am turning 30
I have done a lot of things but I have never turned 30. I have been 29 twice(seriously ask me about it, it was legit), but I have never been thirty.
I remeber back in the day a friend of mine was telling me how we were living in the "end of days" and how soon we will see the battle of the "Haves" and the "Have Nots". I can't lie, I meditate on where I am and where I am going to be, I even look at people that are younger and maybe a little older and I am like, "Damn, they really have their shit together"
Then I realize that the grass is always greener on the otherside.
So I don't dwell. I understand that everyones path is not going to be my own.
I have resolutions this year, which is different because I hate the whole resolution aspect of new years. Seriously, if you are a douche then why would you change the first of NEXT year, why not strive to not be a douche once it is known that you are a douche.
You can substitute douche for anything else you want...
Anyway, I just try to be better than what I was before, good or evil, I want to be better at it than before. Oh, I am digressing, I did decide that I am going to do some things this year
I am going to learn a new language
I am going to learn how to play an instrument
I know, this is a short sweet list. Most people use their resolutions as pavement to hell, but my road there is fine...just fine.
Well, I am acutally about six beers and three shots in and everyone else is asleep and I am still dtinking. I will have a little more later on, but right now I am just stretching out a bit.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Frontline Vol 10: I remember you, Bwahahahahah!
You know, I rarely do a blog on relationships. And anyone that dares say that they know everything there is to know about relationships is a liar. Human relationships are easily the most dynamic unearthed treasure in the world. So it is really impossible to talk about over all relationships, but it is quite possible to talk about certain universal aspects of them.
The other Monday, while enjoying the ritualistic domination of the mouth breeding masses by showing our intellectual dominance through the venue of “Trivia Night”. I saw something that reminded me of something else that was really funny.
The couple sitting behind me, this guy…Oh man this guy, he was sitting there with his girlfriend laughing, eating buffalo wings, staring into her eyes.
Having a good time,
Having a real good time.
I paused, and looked at my good buddy Bender the Great and said, “Hey, isn’t that the guy who was up at the mansion crying cause because our buddy Blake F(not “B”) fucked his girl”
The whole table stopped because everyone was like, “Damn dude, I would have never thought about that again ever in my life had you not brought it up”
Then we all remembered that night of nights when this man, this broken man was at the bar, drinking the liquid courage to build up his strength to confront the other man, the current bane of his existence, and the knowledge that his girl has been doing the freaky deaky with a guy whom he has no chance of besting in any type of competition.
You sir have been cuckold by a stronger male. We see it on wild discovery on the discovery channel and we don’t feel bad for the turtle, the baboon or the tiger, why should we feel bad for the human?
That night was hilarious, I don’t even think Blake F knew that he knew, and the swagga of not giving a shit only frustrated the young man who just knew that he knew. Me and the rest of the Wild Bunch sat on that day and laughed the way we do.
And then we all moved on with our lives.
Then many moons later on a day like any other he happens to be in a bar with a group intellectual thugs with a memory for remembering the damnest of all situations is sitting across from him.
Oh we got LOUD.
Everything was a set-up for a joke with this guy. “…damn Ken do you think about this shit all day?” my response was “well, it’s not like I am the only one, I am sure he thinks about it every day too!!!” Bender chimes in with, “I bet she does too”. I sat there and looked at the table at his friends, his compadres, amigos, chin-gu’s, fam, crew, whatever they want to call themselves and I shook my head. Cause they all know how dirty this chick did their boy, and they are all acting like it’s all good.
Key word here is acting, you know good and well that all of them got the same jokes we have, but we are the only ones throwing them in the air.
So All I have to say is that you don’t want to be that guy.
I mean because if you are they guy that knows then you can rest assure that everyone else knows too.
FACT
So what happens next? Well it is Carrollton and the “Wild Bunch” and I were out doing our Friday bar hop session and I ran into Blake and we laughed all over again.
See, when you are that guy people laugh in front, behind, and on the side.
What do you do with that?
Now, I have had girls and sometimes guys use the phrase, “Well, in the end he won…he is the one with her”
I hear that.
You know, he won the race, she with him, blah blah blah. I have an honest question “what did he really win?”
I think in my follow up to this, I will attempt to tackle that phrase He won phrase, that those type of women and those types of men will say.
Cause I think it’s bullshit!
The other Monday, while enjoying the ritualistic domination of the mouth breeding masses by showing our intellectual dominance through the venue of “Trivia Night”. I saw something that reminded me of something else that was really funny.
The couple sitting behind me, this guy…Oh man this guy, he was sitting there with his girlfriend laughing, eating buffalo wings, staring into her eyes.
Having a good time,
Having a real good time.
I paused, and looked at my good buddy Bender the Great and said, “Hey, isn’t that the guy who was up at the mansion crying cause because our buddy Blake F(not “B”) fucked his girl”
The whole table stopped because everyone was like, “Damn dude, I would have never thought about that again ever in my life had you not brought it up”
Then we all remembered that night of nights when this man, this broken man was at the bar, drinking the liquid courage to build up his strength to confront the other man, the current bane of his existence, and the knowledge that his girl has been doing the freaky deaky with a guy whom he has no chance of besting in any type of competition.
You sir have been cuckold by a stronger male. We see it on wild discovery on the discovery channel and we don’t feel bad for the turtle, the baboon or the tiger, why should we feel bad for the human?
That night was hilarious, I don’t even think Blake F knew that he knew, and the swagga of not giving a shit only frustrated the young man who just knew that he knew. Me and the rest of the Wild Bunch sat on that day and laughed the way we do.
And then we all moved on with our lives.
Then many moons later on a day like any other he happens to be in a bar with a group intellectual thugs with a memory for remembering the damnest of all situations is sitting across from him.
Oh we got LOUD.
Everything was a set-up for a joke with this guy. “…damn Ken do you think about this shit all day?” my response was “well, it’s not like I am the only one, I am sure he thinks about it every day too!!!” Bender chimes in with, “I bet she does too”. I sat there and looked at the table at his friends, his compadres, amigos, chin-gu’s, fam, crew, whatever they want to call themselves and I shook my head. Cause they all know how dirty this chick did their boy, and they are all acting like it’s all good.
Key word here is acting, you know good and well that all of them got the same jokes we have, but we are the only ones throwing them in the air.
So All I have to say is that you don’t want to be that guy.
I mean because if you are they guy that knows then you can rest assure that everyone else knows too.
FACT
So what happens next? Well it is Carrollton and the “Wild Bunch” and I were out doing our Friday bar hop session and I ran into Blake and we laughed all over again.
See, when you are that guy people laugh in front, behind, and on the side.
What do you do with that?
Now, I have had girls and sometimes guys use the phrase, “Well, in the end he won…he is the one with her”
I hear that.
You know, he won the race, she with him, blah blah blah. I have an honest question “what did he really win?”
I think in my follow up to this, I will attempt to tackle that phrase He won phrase, that those type of women and those types of men will say.
Cause I think it’s bullshit!
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
From the office of KenNitro: There is no good music
So there is no good music out there. Seriously, this summer has been the worst period for new music, so what I am going to do is give my readership some good stuff to jam out too when you want to get down with something that isn’t auto-tuned up or stuffed with swag and any other new term everyone in the music industry is using to pimp their played out agenda’s on a suspecting up apathetic population.
First up we have an all time favorite top five on anyone with a diversified musical taste a man that needs no introduction. So I am going to give you three of my favorites.
Henry Rollins.
Rollins Band - Love's So Heavy
Uploaded by jesus_lizard. - Music videos, artist interviews, concerts and more.
Now, that man knows how to get a message across to his.
Next up, is a mix. Of Apathy, Esoteric, and Celph titled. They all have solo careers but they and some others are apart of two super groups Demigodz and Army of the Pharaohs. What is cool about these cats is that they and a few other groups are attempting to keep hip-hop legit, and not this pop-hop that is all to dependent on a hook and a beat. Also, I did Apathy's ability to rhyme over 80's rock remixes effortlessly, Celph Titles skillz at consistently finding the most hardcore way to describe how many guns and what he is going to do with them.
Enjoy
Eso is also strong enough to hold a track on his own as well as handle ALL OF DEF JUX...yeah I said it.
Celph completely DOMINATING this track with no regard for human life
Switching gears, I personally enjoy anything by Kool Keith, Dr. Octagon, or any of his persona's.
This is one of my all time fav's right here, and it is also on my playlist simply entitled "Baby"
Here is some Kool Keith, don't get him confused with Dr. Octagon
Dr. Dooom. Now this was back when No Limit basically had the whole rap game on lock, a few rappers out there had the balls use satirical no limit(esque) album covers.
It is very important that you do not get the three mixed up and confused.
Wow, so this is a short glimpse of what is in the file folder called "Music" on my hard drive. So I hope you enjoyed this, if not, listen until you like it!
I'm pretty sure I may have another one of these again, but I am going focus a little bit more. Here is a hint
First up we have an all time favorite top five on anyone with a diversified musical taste a man that needs no introduction. So I am going to give you three of my favorites.
Henry Rollins.
Rollins Band - Love's So Heavy
Uploaded by jesus_lizard. - Music videos, artist interviews, concerts and more.
Now, that man knows how to get a message across to his.
Next up, is a mix. Of Apathy, Esoteric, and Celph titled. They all have solo careers but they and some others are apart of two super groups Demigodz and Army of the Pharaohs. What is cool about these cats is that they and a few other groups are attempting to keep hip-hop legit, and not this pop-hop that is all to dependent on a hook and a beat. Also, I did Apathy's ability to rhyme over 80's rock remixes effortlessly, Celph Titles skillz at consistently finding the most hardcore way to describe how many guns and what he is going to do with them.
Enjoy
Eso is also strong enough to hold a track on his own as well as handle ALL OF DEF JUX...yeah I said it.
Celph completely DOMINATING this track with no regard for human life
Switching gears, I personally enjoy anything by Kool Keith, Dr. Octagon, or any of his persona's.
This is one of my all time fav's right here, and it is also on my playlist simply entitled "Baby"
Here is some Kool Keith, don't get him confused with Dr. Octagon
Dr. Dooom. Now this was back when No Limit basically had the whole rap game on lock, a few rappers out there had the balls use satirical no limit(esque) album covers.
It is very important that you do not get the three mixed up and confused.
Wow, so this is a short glimpse of what is in the file folder called "Music" on my hard drive. So I hope you enjoyed this, if not, listen until you like it!
I'm pretty sure I may have another one of these again, but I am going focus a little bit more. Here is a hint
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Wise & Proper: The Best Clothing Line Ever
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For women her clothing enables its owners an experience of class and sophistication
that celebrates the feminine form. These clothes are chic, yet still leave something to the imagination. For men, we now have an all around winner for all things involving gifts ranging from birthdays to apologies and all things in-between.Currently her designs are available at over nine boutiques in the Vancouver –British Colombia area. Soon her website http://www.wiseandproper.com/ will have an online store available so that people worldwide can experience the dream that she is living.
With education and world experience, Elizabeth Law has larger plans for Wise&Proper,
while donating a percentage of her profits to the Canadian breast cancer awareness foundation, an organization that she has participated in to raise money before she was a fashion designer, she hopes that she will be able to do more than make people look and feel pretty. Elizabeth Law’s designs are the perfect balance of style, sophistication, and consciousness, guilt free fashion is what this is all about.
http://www.wiseandproper.com/
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Frontline Vol.9: I can't make this stuff up
So, this past Saturday I decided to check out the new bar in Carrollton “The den” with my buddy Dolph, this bar is like most others of its kind: Booze, a band, an assortment of women from scary skinny to scary over weight and then any combination of the two with prison tats and missing teeth. Nothing to out of the ordinary, but I digress
I sat there drinking a pitcher with Dolph and our insanely gorgeous friend Gina whom was already there laughing and catching up on summer adventures in the weeks since the mansion closed. Since that lovely establishments closed its doors everyone has been struggling to find a place to lose the loves that they have and find new ones…at least for the evening at least. None the less, I always enjoy hanging with the bar crowd, hell they made a show about it (cheers reference).
So anyway, there are this townie’s that fancy themselves as a dance group. AS IF. At most they are a group of guys that come to the bar to not drink but demand space on the dance floor with the promise of cool dance moves, when all I have seen is a bunch of shake dancing and ticking…. They have one legit b-boy in the group but that is about all they have. So as we are discussing the above mentioned one of the bartenders comes over and advises us that “It is soooo about to be on”.
What’s about to be on?
This was the question on my mind, lately I am all about watching bouncers do their job and cosigning the bravery involved in wrestling drunken adults to the ground, but this was so not what “it” was. What it was has no real explanation, and I have to qualify this before I go any further by saying this:
You know me, I say a lot of funny things, but this shit I cannot make up.
The answer to the above question was that the group of guys dancing was in fact beefing with another group of dancers because….WELL WHO GIVES A FUCK REALLY
But, apparently they use to be one crew and there was a split and now there are two groups and they don’t like each other and they could get to fighting. I looked over the bartender at the two guys dancing on each other and only two words came to mind.
That’s gay.
So, the sociologist came out and it was time for my favorite game. Participant Observation with control factor KenNitro, I wanted to see just what all this beef was about and how could a guy that was vogue(ing) and another guy that was popping and locking could find a way to actually start fighting. So as I stood on the edge of the circle I realized that I need to get in with this core group…
What could I do?
I had limited options of space and I’m not equipped to handle a b-boy outside of the 1st round, I didn’t have a partner to put their hands under my arms from behind and do jazz hands while I move my head from left to right, no one was c-walking.
Ladies and Gents, I was in the shit! I am out there in the circle with no way out but my wits and my mad skills that I got from every 80’s dance movie. So I did what any one would do.
I did the bill cosby.
Oh, you don’t know what that is? YOUTUBE ACTIVATE!!!!!!
Well…Gina pulled me out but the fact still remains
Men in dance groups that are beefing with other men and Va jay jay are not a factor in it is gay…or at least fairly odd.
To think, I was all but done with the frontline series. I guess I needed another bar to go to.
I sat there drinking a pitcher with Dolph and our insanely gorgeous friend Gina whom was already there laughing and catching up on summer adventures in the weeks since the mansion closed. Since that lovely establishments closed its doors everyone has been struggling to find a place to lose the loves that they have and find new ones…at least for the evening at least. None the less, I always enjoy hanging with the bar crowd, hell they made a show about it (cheers reference).
So anyway, there are this townie’s that fancy themselves as a dance group. AS IF. At most they are a group of guys that come to the bar to not drink but demand space on the dance floor with the promise of cool dance moves, when all I have seen is a bunch of shake dancing and ticking…. They have one legit b-boy in the group but that is about all they have. So as we are discussing the above mentioned one of the bartenders comes over and advises us that “It is soooo about to be on”.
What’s about to be on?
This was the question on my mind, lately I am all about watching bouncers do their job and cosigning the bravery involved in wrestling drunken adults to the ground, but this was so not what “it” was. What it was has no real explanation, and I have to qualify this before I go any further by saying this:
You know me, I say a lot of funny things, but this shit I cannot make up.
The answer to the above question was that the group of guys dancing was in fact beefing with another group of dancers because….WELL WHO GIVES A FUCK REALLY
But, apparently they use to be one crew and there was a split and now there are two groups and they don’t like each other and they could get to fighting. I looked over the bartender at the two guys dancing on each other and only two words came to mind.
That’s gay.
So, the sociologist came out and it was time for my favorite game. Participant Observation with control factor KenNitro, I wanted to see just what all this beef was about and how could a guy that was vogue(ing) and another guy that was popping and locking could find a way to actually start fighting. So as I stood on the edge of the circle I realized that I need to get in with this core group…
What could I do?
I had limited options of space and I’m not equipped to handle a b-boy outside of the 1st round, I didn’t have a partner to put their hands under my arms from behind and do jazz hands while I move my head from left to right, no one was c-walking.
Ladies and Gents, I was in the shit! I am out there in the circle with no way out but my wits and my mad skills that I got from every 80’s dance movie. So I did what any one would do.
I did the bill cosby.
Oh, you don’t know what that is? YOUTUBE ACTIVATE!!!!!!
Well…Gina pulled me out but the fact still remains
Men in dance groups that are beefing with other men and Va jay jay are not a factor in it is gay…or at least fairly odd.
To think, I was all but done with the frontline series. I guess I needed another bar to go to.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Han-gul people in Migu
I had a great conversation about one of my favorite topics
What I would do if…
This time the if was what if the Korean people that I know and love were to come visit me in the U.S. what I would do to keep them entertained. I imagine the first thing I would do is pick them up from the airport and take them out to get some Korean food. I assure you, that would be the last Korean meal they would have, but it would reassure my guest that there is food available is everything else disagrees with them.
First we would go to the Georgia Aquarium,http://www.georgiaaquarium.org, It is the largest one in the world with over with over 8 million gallons of water and whale sharks!!!! Depending on the persons attention span for sea creatures this could take up the better part of the day, but luckily there are tons of things to do at night.
Now since we are already in the downtown area, we might as well stop by the “World of Coke”www.worldofcoca-cola.com , here my Korean guest would learn the history of such a wonderful creation such as coca-cola and there they will learn to hate the vile pepsi and all of it’s evil offspring. I have never been here, so it would be an adventure for all involved, I think things are more fun that way.
No trip to the ATL can even begin to be had unless you go to The Varsity, www.thevarsity.com, the food is guaranteed to fill up your guts and destroy them all at once, but it’s about the adventure, so even though the food is horrible for you it still taste good going down.
Also, a visit to little five points, , it is a place that kind of exists in its own world, unlike any that you have seen. Who’s homeless or hipster is a game that I like to play while there, but there are tons of shops that have things you really couldn’t find anywhere else. Awesome restaurants www.l5p.com, even cooler bars surround you. Even just walking around is entertainment enough.
Centennial park, www.centennialpark.com, is also a gym of the city of Atlanta, there is always something to do and it is most likely always free. It is an awesome place to people watch and any visitor would have awesome time taking pictures and things of that sort.
What would a trip to Georgia be without going to a Braves game, http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=atl people put their lives on hold to watch this team play and the game is only half of the fun. Seeing it live you get to participate in events such as the Dance “Cam” where if the camera is on you, you have to get up and dance. The real game is to see how long you can keep the dance camera on you. Oh, and it is a site to see. As well as the Kiss “Cam”…well you get the picture
Now before we leave ATL, we got to go to the strip club. That would be an event within itself, showing my Korean friends some of the intrinsic differences between Booking rooms in Korea and Strip Clubs in the U.S. Then I would take it a little further and bring them to Strokers, www.strokersclub.com, or Magic City, http://magiccity.com, to give one aspect of Atlanta.
Now of course, I would have to bring them to Carrollton, in order to visit the place where I live, which would be more important to my guest than me(ask anyone that lives here). Here we would visit the university that gave me the piece of paper that enabled me to leave the country and teach in the first place The University of West Georgia, www.wesga.edu, and then we would venture to the square hopefully on a happening evening and demonstrate how the bar scene is really “Same Same, but Different” in the U.S. Of course, whomever that is with me will be immensely popular because they will be completely exotic to all those around and will spend lots of time answering dumb questions like, “Are you from North Korea?” and “How would you say my name in Korean?”(ok I made the last one up, but you get it).
Friends from abroad can’t the whole picture until you come to south Georgia, things are way different and a lot slower, and the air is better too, so a mini road trip would be in order to Waycross, Ga . Here not only would they be able to see where I lived, but I could seriously take them to see things such as an “American” farm and GATORS!!!!
That is right, I said GATORS, and Waycross has a national wildlife refuge called the Okefenokee Swamp. It is 700 square miles of un fragmented intact wilderness. People come from all over to camp, Kayak, and site see in this place. The kicker is that live gators still walk around, not trained by any means, but they are use to people walking around. Seriously, these gators roam freely through the park and this is what really gives the park something that other places like it don’t, A CHANCE YOU COULD DIE!!!! A person really can’t buy that anywhere else.
I think I have the site seeing covered.
As far as food goes, there are thousands of different places to eat, but I know of a few industries that we would have to partake of in order to truly give my guest a trip to remember.
BUFFETS!!!!!!!
Yes, I don’t know who invented it, but I am sure Georgia perfected it, there are so many of them , a person could be over-whelmed by the aspect of ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT. So a person has to have someone with them to guide them, and that would defiantly be me!
We would have breakfast at Golden Corral, www.goldencorral.com, the breakfast here is completely off the chain! They make Omelets right in front of you will everything you could ever want on them. The food display is also done very well and the servers almost make you forget that you actually had to go and get the food yourself this place is kinda of like V.I.P.s, except that you don’t have to buy a set in order to truly enjoy it.
After that, we would go work it all off at a gym somewhere, while I know I can eat buffet food all day and not break a sweat, My guest may feel the need to burn off some calories, because the carbohydrate load starts at CiCi’s Pizza, www.cicispizza.com. Unfortunately, there is no sweet potato on pizza’s in the U.S. but they have just about everything else and pizza is really expensive in Korea (at least I thought so),so an opportunity to gorge oneself on such things is always appreciated.
Wing night, MAN (and women), weekly put their issues aside for one thing, WINGS!!!! This would be great for the guys because they would be able to do some participant observation of a really big part of male culture in the U.S., the consumption of large amounts of wings and beer! Every man worth a damn has a story of how they ate more wings than anyone else or at least how they tried too. And now, you will too!
Sushi, this delightful dish is aplenty in the ATL and I have two places where I eat on the regular Hong Kong on Mondays for the dollar sushi night and Rusan’s www.ru-sans.com (this is the Nashville restaurant, but it is the same everywhere). It is the loudest sushi place ever and they have an all you can eat buffet for a few hours every day. The deal is that you have to eat the rice. You can even purchase a set of chopsticks that you can leave there for when you come back.
Of course there will be other meals involved, but these are the ones that my friends would have to have in order to get the full experience.
And to End the trip, we would do the only thing that could really end this trip, SIX FLAG, www.sixflags.com, Now I have been to songdo and I have rode the Viking, but I promise you the experience of outdoor rollercoaster’s at this location will be worth it. This would defiantly be an all day event because my friends would want to ride everything at least twice.
Now, if my guest happened to be some of the beautiful ladies that I met while abroad, then I imagine that I could take off the strip clubs or NOT, you know I’m flexible.
So this could be the KenNitro vacation package that changes your life. Now, I know I have friends literally all over the world(non-korean) and I don’t want you all to feel left out either, I promise if you come and visit me all this and more could be yours!
What I would do if…
This time the if was what if the Korean people that I know and love were to come visit me in the U.S. what I would do to keep them entertained. I imagine the first thing I would do is pick them up from the airport and take them out to get some Korean food. I assure you, that would be the last Korean meal they would have, but it would reassure my guest that there is food available is everything else disagrees with them.
First we would go to the Georgia Aquarium,http://www.georgiaaquarium.org, It is the largest one in the world with over with over 8 million gallons of water and whale sharks!!!! Depending on the persons attention span for sea creatures this could take up the better part of the day, but luckily there are tons of things to do at night.
Now since we are already in the downtown area, we might as well stop by the “World of Coke”www.worldofcoca-cola.com , here my Korean guest would learn the history of such a wonderful creation such as coca-cola and there they will learn to hate the vile pepsi and all of it’s evil offspring. I have never been here, so it would be an adventure for all involved, I think things are more fun that way.
No trip to the ATL can even begin to be had unless you go to The Varsity, www.thevarsity.com, the food is guaranteed to fill up your guts and destroy them all at once, but it’s about the adventure, so even though the food is horrible for you it still taste good going down.
Also, a visit to little five points, , it is a place that kind of exists in its own world, unlike any that you have seen. Who’s homeless or hipster is a game that I like to play while there, but there are tons of shops that have things you really couldn’t find anywhere else. Awesome restaurants www.l5p.com, even cooler bars surround you. Even just walking around is entertainment enough.
Centennial park, www.centennialpark.com, is also a gym of the city of Atlanta, there is always something to do and it is most likely always free. It is an awesome place to people watch and any visitor would have awesome time taking pictures and things of that sort.
What would a trip to Georgia be without going to a Braves game, http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=atl people put their lives on hold to watch this team play and the game is only half of the fun. Seeing it live you get to participate in events such as the Dance “Cam” where if the camera is on you, you have to get up and dance. The real game is to see how long you can keep the dance camera on you. Oh, and it is a site to see. As well as the Kiss “Cam”…well you get the picture
Now before we leave ATL, we got to go to the strip club. That would be an event within itself, showing my Korean friends some of the intrinsic differences between Booking rooms in Korea and Strip Clubs in the U.S. Then I would take it a little further and bring them to Strokers, www.strokersclub.com, or Magic City, http://magiccity.com, to give one aspect of Atlanta.
Now of course, I would have to bring them to Carrollton, in order to visit the place where I live, which would be more important to my guest than me(ask anyone that lives here). Here we would visit the university that gave me the piece of paper that enabled me to leave the country and teach in the first place The University of West Georgia, www.wesga.edu, and then we would venture to the square hopefully on a happening evening and demonstrate how the bar scene is really “Same Same, but Different” in the U.S. Of course, whomever that is with me will be immensely popular because they will be completely exotic to all those around and will spend lots of time answering dumb questions like, “Are you from North Korea?” and “How would you say my name in Korean?”(ok I made the last one up, but you get it).
Friends from abroad can’t the whole picture until you come to south Georgia, things are way different and a lot slower, and the air is better too, so a mini road trip would be in order to Waycross, Ga . Here not only would they be able to see where I lived, but I could seriously take them to see things such as an “American” farm and GATORS!!!!
That is right, I said GATORS, and Waycross has a national wildlife refuge called the Okefenokee Swamp. It is 700 square miles of un fragmented intact wilderness. People come from all over to camp, Kayak, and site see in this place. The kicker is that live gators still walk around, not trained by any means, but they are use to people walking around. Seriously, these gators roam freely through the park and this is what really gives the park something that other places like it don’t, A CHANCE YOU COULD DIE!!!! A person really can’t buy that anywhere else.
I think I have the site seeing covered.
As far as food goes, there are thousands of different places to eat, but I know of a few industries that we would have to partake of in order to truly give my guest a trip to remember.
BUFFETS!!!!!!!
Yes, I don’t know who invented it, but I am sure Georgia perfected it, there are so many of them , a person could be over-whelmed by the aspect of ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT. So a person has to have someone with them to guide them, and that would defiantly be me!
We would have breakfast at Golden Corral, www.goldencorral.com, the breakfast here is completely off the chain! They make Omelets right in front of you will everything you could ever want on them. The food display is also done very well and the servers almost make you forget that you actually had to go and get the food yourself this place is kinda of like V.I.P.s, except that you don’t have to buy a set in order to truly enjoy it.
After that, we would go work it all off at a gym somewhere, while I know I can eat buffet food all day and not break a sweat, My guest may feel the need to burn off some calories, because the carbohydrate load starts at CiCi’s Pizza, www.cicispizza.com. Unfortunately, there is no sweet potato on pizza’s in the U.S. but they have just about everything else and pizza is really expensive in Korea (at least I thought so),so an opportunity to gorge oneself on such things is always appreciated.
Wing night, MAN (and women), weekly put their issues aside for one thing, WINGS!!!! This would be great for the guys because they would be able to do some participant observation of a really big part of male culture in the U.S., the consumption of large amounts of wings and beer! Every man worth a damn has a story of how they ate more wings than anyone else or at least how they tried too. And now, you will too!
Sushi, this delightful dish is aplenty in the ATL and I have two places where I eat on the regular Hong Kong on Mondays for the dollar sushi night and Rusan’s www.ru-sans.com (this is the Nashville restaurant, but it is the same everywhere). It is the loudest sushi place ever and they have an all you can eat buffet for a few hours every day. The deal is that you have to eat the rice. You can even purchase a set of chopsticks that you can leave there for when you come back.
Of course there will be other meals involved, but these are the ones that my friends would have to have in order to get the full experience.
And to End the trip, we would do the only thing that could really end this trip, SIX FLAG, www.sixflags.com, Now I have been to songdo and I have rode the Viking, but I promise you the experience of outdoor rollercoaster’s at this location will be worth it. This would defiantly be an all day event because my friends would want to ride everything at least twice.
Now, if my guest happened to be some of the beautiful ladies that I met while abroad, then I imagine that I could take off the strip clubs or NOT, you know I’m flexible.
So this could be the KenNitro vacation package that changes your life. Now, I know I have friends literally all over the world(non-korean) and I don’t want you all to feel left out either, I promise if you come and visit me all this and more could be yours!
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