Happy Black Day Losers!

Happy Black Day Losers!

Um...today is Black Day. What's Black Day you ask? Good question. If Valentine's Day was invented by Hallmark, Black Day was invented by take-out Chinese resturants in Korea. How do I figure this? Read on faithful reader! In Korea (like many other countries) Feb. 14th is Valentine's Day. Here on the 14th, ladies give chocolates to dudes they like. The following month on March 14th is White Day. On this day dudes give candies to girls that they like. Then on April 14th (are you seeing the trend here) is Black Day. I guess this day is for people who received no candies (because if you have candy then you get a girlfriend or boyfriend as well). On Black Day, this sad lonely bastards eat black foodstuffs, primarily jjajangmyeon (짜장면) which is pictured above. Now normally I would fall into this dateless loser category, but somehow I now have a lady, yet in keeping with my loser tradition we are going to eat jjajangmyeon for dinner tonight.
In other, more bizarre (if that's possible) news, tomorrow is election day and you know what that means...ELECTIONEERING! If you thought political campaigns were annoying in America with their, "John Culligan once took a crap in the woods...is that who you want in charge of the East Bumfuck City Council? Paid for my the friends of Carl Pokokoko," commericals, you haven't seen anything. Political campaigns here don't come with campaign promises, they come with song and dance routines. I'm not joking. Polticians, and their posses position themselves at key locations, such as right outside my classroom window, and from the inside of their mobile staging area (a van with a wall that flips up to create a moveable stage) they blast rediculous music and do dances. I don't know how any of this helps them get elected. If I were allowed to vote, I'd vote for the guy that doesn't play one song for 3 hours while I'm attempting to teach English to a bunch of kids who would rather be playing outside (박민수 [Park Min-soo]...that's not you buddy just incase you were asking). Since tomorrow is Election Day I'm pretty sure these fools will be out in full force today, so I'm bringing my camera with me to work in order to snap some pictures of these clowns. Seriously though, this country (and all countries for that matter) should adopt Darrell's Phallic Mass Governance, in which whoever has the biggest dong calls the shots (it's a little more complex than that, but for this issue that's all you need to know). If this form of government was installed I at least wouldn't have to compete with crappy song and dance routines from aged Korean politicos.


So I'm waiting for the subway to come and in the station it smelled like a 800 pound man ripped a serious of caustic diarrhea farts...christ alive did it stink!