Can it really be? Oh my gosh! Yes! It’s Aaron’s doppelganger! Actually, it is a fellow New Zealander, cricketer BJ Watling. While I admit his profile picture doesn’t look much like Aaron, the photo above is a dead ringer for him. (Aaron is the one on the left) And it’s also nice to see the [...]

I was going through Aaron’s website the other day and noticed he took a trip to my old stomping ground, Andong. For all those who don’t know, I moved to Andong in late 2004 and first began working as an ESL teacher. It was my home for 3 years, and with a small foreign population [...]

A massive congratulations to my old flat, drinking, travel, and overall top mate, Aaron, who announced his engagement yesterday. Having seen Aaron progress through life over the last, what , 4 years(?), it’s just awesome to see he’s found a girl he wants to settle down with. I’m sure, at one point, he told me [...]

I can hardly argue with Aaron’s assessment of the first Ashes Test, Australia certainly didn’t do a good job bowling in the second innings, suffice to say after a promising first three days, the game died a slow and boring death. While one can say the English will walk away feeling somewhat happy that they [...]

I couldn’t help but feel the need to comment on Aaron’s post (it’s tough to get a link to a post when blogspot is banned here in China) from the other day. I’m still in a little disbelief that Aaron has nearly notched up 4 years in Korea. I vividly remember Aaron arriving in Korea, [...]

As I mentioned last week, Em and I went up to Seoul this weekend to catch up with Aaron, and take a bit of a last minute wonder around through some parts of Seoul. While we had a schedule of thing we wanted to do, we both agreed to take to take it easy and [...]

So the week has rolled on at full steam and here we are, nearly at the weekend. I’m rather amazed that I can only say that one more time, as this time in 2 weeks I’ll be doing something, somewhere, in Beijing. The whole gravity of the move is only starting to settle in these [...]

Yes Aaron, it is Dam (sic) Cold, although I’m glad to say it probably isn’t as cold down here in Daegu as it is in chilly old Wonju. While it hasn’t snowed a lot here, we did get a small flurry yesterday afternoon, indicated by my students running to the window, shouting, and pointing (which [...]

I have to admit that there isn’t a great deal to blog about these days. With impending moves and a slight cold to get over, I haven’t been going out much or doing anything very interesting. Even the news is rather slow, so not much worth posting about there. I guess the one big thing [...]

As mentioned yesterday, it’s going to be a very busy week and weekend. With that in mind I may not be blogging quite so much during the next week which I’m sure isn’t a huge deal for most of you. I have about 40 university papers I have to mark by next Thursday week. While [...]