Seoul Subway Line Map
- Seoul Subway Line Map
Above is a map of the Seoul Subway system, including line #9 that just started operating this year(2009). The interactive versions in English as well as Korean can be viewed here: http://www.seoulmetro.co.kr/station/eng/linemap.action
Farewell BBQ
Once in a while, I enjoy the thrill of organizing a mid-sized gathering of 20 people or more.
This time, the occasion was just right, as I was leaving a group of people that I care a lot about.
I set the guest count to 30, and prepared a dinner for this warm September evening.
Since cooking for 30 all alone was going to be overwhelming, I outsourced two dishes at the Korean super market.
The entire menu consisted of these items:
- Marinated Korean Beef Shortribs and Bulgogi (10 lbs)
- Sea food pan-fried in batter (ordered)
- Jab-chae (ordered)
- Cubes of fresh tofu topped with Katsuobushi(dried fish flakes) and soy sauce
- Bibimbap assembly line: sauteed carrots, cucumber, squash, white radish, shitake mushrooms, and egg.
- 13 cups of steamed rice
- Kirin Ichiban Beer
- Fresh watermelon juice
The watermelon juice starts out this way:
Pick the right watermelons – I lightly knock on the shell with my knuckle and evaluate the sound. If it sounds hollow, then the watermelon is ripe. I also sniff it from the outside and pick the ones that smell good.
cut the flesh into wedges, scrape out the seeds, and mash the fruit with a fork and a potato masher. I Did not use the blender, since I thought mashing by hand would create a better texture. After the watermelon starts looking like juice, I taste it and add some honey if it needs more sweetening.
Then into the jar goes the juice.
The vegetables is a whole other story.
There are eggs, white radishes, carrots, shitake mushrooms, cucumbers, and squash. All of these are matchstick-cut and cooked. The eggs are beaten, cooked like a crepe, and cut into slivers after it cools.
After hours of slicing and dicing and cooking, I was beaten up and tired. But when people started eating, it felt like I had just started a whole new day. The energy from people charged me up again.
The menu idea was inspired from last year’s JLS lunch that I and the Korean parents hosted for the faculty: http://emjaykim.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/gathering1-korean-parent-lunch/ Thank goodness I documented some of it.
painting
One of a series of strange abstract spaces. From 2007. This particular image no longer exists because I painted over it. 9″X12″ panel with acrylic.
how to fold a t-shirt
I learned this handy skill from a pdf on marthastewart.com. Now that I know how to fold, I wish I only wore t-shirts just so I could fold them and put them into drawers.
view from Whitehall ferry building
sketch from the ferry buildling looking southwest- statue of liberty on the right, one of Olafur Eliasson’s waterfalls on the left.
A good thing to do in New York city is to take the Statten Island ferry (for free) and take a round trip from the southern tip of Manhattan. Currently, artist Olafur Eliasson’s four waterfalls are on display as a public installation.
On this trip to New York, I left my weighty manual camera at home so I could draw more. I definitely end up with fewer images, but soak in more details through observing.
mother reading
mother reading on the couch. This is the only time I am able to observe her in stillness for long enough.
