Pink's was robbed at gunpoint.

The famous hotdog stand in L.A. was robbed at gunpoint. The employees couldn't get the safe open so all he made off with was the tip jar. He probably would have been better off coming at an earlier time and just robbing everyone in line.

Taken from the streets of Seoul down near Hapjeong Station

What I learned in Korean today:

Since I've decided to start taking Korean more seriously, I'm going to change the "What I learned in Korean this week" to a more regular feature. I won't be posting something new everyday but just whenever I decide to study. I'm also going to open this more up to rules about grammar and shit, instead of just vocabulary.

There's two things that I learned today.

1. I have to speak Korean with more feeling. I don't really consider voice monotone, but I'm not speaking with the proper intonations in Korean. This is the most apparent when I'm asking questions. When asking a question, you say the same thing as you would as a sentence, but sort of raise your tone at the end of the sentence.
2. Pronouns are often dropped when speaking in Korean, especially the word for "you." This makes things confusing sometimes.

Here's a good example of how both these things work.

Hangul - Pronunciation:

• 남자친구 있어요? - Namja-chingu isseoyo?

Translation:

• Do you have a boyfriend?

Translation when I say it without intonation:

• I have a boyfriend.

As you can see, no intonation + no pronouns = me looking gay.

I tried the Starcraft 2 beta.

Terra PC at the Arts Center in Incheon now has the Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty beta and I got to play it for a bit yesterday. It was a little tough playing since the game was in Korean. If you didn't know, Blizzard didn't make a language option for the first Starcraft, so they play the game in English. It's funny since a few of my kids know random English words like "supply depot" and "barracks" because of the game. Anyway, it was really tough playing the game because of it. I didn't get to try out all the units for each race since I couldn't figure out which structures I needed to make them. Even when I did figure out how to make them, I couldn't figure out where all their upgrades were and that sort of shit. I had fun playing against bots anyway. It's actually funny since they're programmed to say, "GG" when they've pretty much lost the game. I only played 4 quick games and I didn't understand any of the text, but here's a few things that I noticed while playing:

• The game looks really great. I can understand a lot of people saying they don't like the three dimensions, but yea, it still looks great if you like it or not. The terrain looks a little like Warcraft 3, but a lot better.
• Some units are entirely missing from the first one.
• With the graphics upgrade, the units were given whole new looks. One issue though, was that some of the units looked entirely different, like the Terran SCV's.
• I feel like the gameplay is a little slower. This might just be because the game wasn't running at its fastest and I didn't know how to change it in the options setting.
• Vespene gas is a lot more crucial. There were two geysers at each starting base on all the maps I played.
• The Terran supply depot can retract underground. It's going to make walling a whole lot easier for them.
• Cliffs can now be jumped by some units.
• Zerg buildings release some units after they're destroyed, a lot like those treasure chests that had beetles or some shit in them in Diablo 2. I'm not sure if this is an upgrade.
• Now there's an idle probe/drone/SVC button, which makes it a whole lot easier to keep track of them.
• The Terran structures have new attachments you can put on them, even the barracks.

Anyway, I'll probably try and go back later this week so I can sit and have more time with the game. You'll probably be seeing me in the top 10 of the Asia ladders when the game drops.

Pictures from the Seoul Pillow Fight

There were definitely a lot more spectators than participants.

This guy was definitely came prepared.

Sadly, the bear did not participate (at least from what I saw).

You can just see the enthusiasm.

He was chasing the high school girls.

Bathrobes and pajamas were aplenty.

There were Koreans participating too.

I wouldn't even know where to buy one of these in Korea.

There was a whole lot of pillow on the ground afterwards.

The event had a decent turn out, although definitely not as many people that the facebook event made it look like. I'm surprised that someone actually managed to organize the entire event. The funniest thing though, was that there was a Christian awards show that they were setting up for the entire time everyone was there.

It must be something I ate.

Galbi at some place I can't remember near Hongdae

I eat it all the time but this time but it was especially delicious at this place. Galbi's been my favorite Korean BBQ meat since I was a fetus.

It must be something I ate.

Galbi from some place I can't remember near Hongdae

It's been my favorite Korean BBQ meat since I was a zygote.