BigHominid's Hairy Chasms: this past Saturday in pictures

Monday, November 03, 2014

this past Saturday in pictures

As I mentioned earlier, I was out and about with my buddy JW—currently a resident of Pune, India, but here in Korea on business for a few days—and we did almost 30K steps of walking together this past Saturday. Here are a few pics. JW was looking remarkably thin, even though he's never been fat (hover your cursor over the pics to see the captions):

at the top of Namsan

we got a tourist to take this shot of us

I thought this was a unique approach to the jang-seung concept. Normally, jang-seung are two separate totem/guardian poles—one male, one female. This seems more like a 'unity of opposites' approach.

Blurry (sorry) pic of JW resting at an exercise park on the ass-kicking descending bus route. We had stopped here on our way back up to a second summiting of the mountain.

Back down from the mountain. A quick selfie at Dongguk's campus while I waited for JW to piss or take a dump or do whatever he was doing inside one of our buildings. (Probably smoke, knowing him.)

JW at Seorae, looking pensive and a bit detached as he contemplates being back in Korea after four years in the crucible that is India.

JW had a lot to say about life in India. Short version: he's had just about enough of Indian culture, and he's ready to return to Korea, but it's obvious that his time there has changed him in certain important ways. I'll be writing a "frank" post that goes into more detail about my interactions with JW regarding this and other matters.

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2 comments:

The Maximum LeaderNovember 3, 2014 at 11:10:00 PM GMT+9
You are looking thinner too. Bravo!
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Kevin KimNovember 4, 2014 at 1:18:00 AM GMT+9
Gracias.
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