Chemical castration is now legal in Korea.

This article via the LA Times says that Korea has just become the first country to legalize chemical castration as a method to punish child sex offenders.  If you didn’t know, it’s been legalized in a number of other places, including where I’m from, the state of California.  I only know so much about this because I did some research on it after seeing an episode ofLaw & Order: SVU or something like that a while ago.  I have mixed feelings on the issue and I feel that Korea jumped the gun on the issue, but I guess I can’t blame them for taking action against child rapists.

I came to work in style today.

I woke up this morning and it was raining.  Evan stole my umbrella and I keep my spare at work, so I was ready to just walk to work and get wet.  Luckily, right as I was leaving my apartment, the girl who lives in my building was leaving.  Her dad, a cab driver, was taking her to school so they offered me a ride, which I accepted without hesitation.  I've never actually seen the man before, so it was a really nice gesture.  Plus I made it to work dry and early and I had a free cab ride.

That's not cool.

So, the co-teacher I have trouble with pulled a weird surprise on me today.  For the first class of the day the bell rang and I said hello and all that to the class.  She then proceeded to just stand in the back of the classroom for the next few minutes while I'm standing in the front awkwardly waiting for class to start.  After a few minutes of this, she just says, "Can you teach the whole class by yourself?"  I do it, no questions asked but it was weird as fuck.  For one thing, it was a third grade class where she usually leads and I assist.  She also didn't tell me what we were going to be doing either.  Anyway, I get through the class using the textbook and some pictures.  When it's all over, she says that I did it all wrong and proceeds to pull out a board game from her desk and says that it's what we were supposed to do.  I just don't get it sometimes.

There's a manga for everything.

Like most things I take an interest in, I usually check to see if there is an anime or manga about it because I like animated stories telling me how thing should be in real life.  What makes me say this is because I just finished the manga Ping Pong today, which is about two childhood friends and the high school ping-pong team they're on.  To be honest, it really isn't that great.  The artwork is alright and the plot line is pretty linear.  However, it did teach me a few things about ping-pong, but most importantly, that I have to think, breathe, and live table tennis if I have any chance of becoming a professional.  Just take a look at this one panel from the manga:

That's right, it's blood on the handle.  It looks like I have chosen a rough path.

The USA is out of the World Cup

and so is Korea.  Now I can finally stop pretending that I like soccer and move on to more important things, like what happens in the world of professional table tennis.

Gyan...

the guy who scored the winning goal against the U.S. soccer team, looks a lot like Dikembe Mutombo.  He's even got the finger waving down.

2NE1 is in my 'hood.

I saw this picture of Park Bom on Sandara Park's me2DAY.  I'm able to tell because she's eating In-n-Out.  God only knows how much I miss the Double-Double.