I had a great plan for Monday evening to watch a Christmas movie and make Christmas cards. Christmas in Korea is not a huge event, although there are definitely hints of it here and there, it is not nearly the massive psychotic stupid over indulgence that one experiences in North America. It is excited to see a Christmas tree, some areas of Seoul are decorated in the Christmas Spirit, but around Ssangmun, it would be difficult to tell if you were in mid November or mid December; the weather is the same. Anyway, before this turns into a big “I hate the consumerism of Christmas but never fail to participate” rant. I shall continue with my story. I wanted to feel a little Christmassy and thought the best way to do that would be to watch a Christmas movie while I make cards with a the art supplies I bought earlier in the day.
Unfortunately, all the streaming sights conspired against me and I was unable to find Elf, Home Alone, or Home Alone 2. Everything was either blocked in my region (I’ll block your region if I don’t get to watch any Christmas movies), or the trusty sights wouldn’t load. Everything decided to stop working at once.
I spent so much time trying to find a place to watch Home Alone that I only barely started one card. It is gonna be an awesome card though. The people that I hang out with here, I guess I could call them friends, but is seems to early for that, picked secret Santa’s and I am making a card for mine (to go with the present). It is going to be a Big Bang themed card. I even bought a teen mag that featured Big Bang to cut out pictures. I am pretty pumped about it. Also, I read Big Bang’s Wiki entry today, and I highly recommend it to everybody. It is clearly written a handful of adoring ESL girls and is pretty damn funny.
Instead of watching Christmas movies, I decided to listen to Christmas music, but the only Christmas album I have is Sufjan Steven’s Album Hark! Songs for Christmas. A good album to be sure, but it is also the only Christmas album that hipsters can feel good about listening too. It’s an essential part of the Hipster Christmas; I have heard this album a lot. Another problem with Sufjan is that he is so nice and pleasant to listen to that when the album is over you just want to continue listening to something equally pleasant and generally just end up listening to more Sufjan. He starts to become a little repetitive after a while. Anyway, I choose Patrick Watson to follow up Sufjan. This album reminds me of Raeanne. She would always put it in when we were studying on the main floor, studying during breaks between Nintendo games. Now that makes me think of Christmas, the cramming at the beginning of December.
I have been feeling a little under the weather, a little sick. Being sick makes me crave tea and toast. Black tea with milk and sugar and toast lightly buttered to be specific. By black tea, I mean not green tea or herb infusions. Now, let’s all go on a scavenger hunt for black tea in Korea, black tea in the land of tea, black tea that doesn’t cost a million dollars a bag. I did finally find some Yellow Label tea, which brings me back to Guatemala where I drank Yellow Label by the bucket load. But before I found the Yellow Label, I was pretty desperate, I went to the one place I knew I would be able to find a cup of Earl Grey tea (not all the coffee shops have tea, in fact lots don’t even have coffee, just espresso, you have order an Americano if you just want a cup of coffee). I paid a lot for one cup of earl grey tea. It was worth it. I added milk and sugar and drank it with delight and with a green tea and cranberry scone, heated up with some butter. Although, I didn’t actually use the butter, but I put it in my pocket on the way out, along with the jam. I’m saving it for toast.
On Monday, Jaemin was wearing the most kick ass shoes. Black Puma high tops with a shiny black strip on the side. They had pink laces and pink polka dots there was a Velcro strop over the top part of the laces. They were super awesome. He was also wearing the tan skinny pants again, this time with a grey sweatshirt (very hipster). Over top of the sweatshirt he was wearing a black “vintage” Adidas jacket: red stripes down the sleeves. Also, he wasn’t wearing it, but he had a black knitted toque with pompom on top. Jaemin is my style icon.
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