I've got seoul!! Do you?

Phew, I haven't posted in awhile. From now on, I suspect 98% of my posts will start out that way. Really, the reason why I haven't posted is because I'm overwhelmed with how many pictures I've taken. These wacky digital cameras... first, I can take any crappy picture I darn well feel like, since I'm not wasting film. Then, it doesn't take like two years for me to actually take the roll in to be developed. But now I'm drowning in pictures to be photoshopped. Bluh.
Anyhow, what have we been doing the past few weeks?! Yes, I know you're dying to know.
Johan's been working out:

But I found out that it was only because he's cheating on me:

The bastard. But I forgave him and we're working through it. Because it would be stupid to have a blog named "Seoul-Mates" if I'm single.

We've also been singing a little Norebang (That's Korean Karaoke, mom!):

Oh! & I discovered an entirely new fruit a few weeks ago! The MANGOSTEEN!

It's totally wild. Apparently, they're ILLEGAL IN THE UNITED STATES!!! So, like, me posting pictures of them is probably going to mean I'm going to get arrested. In like a Mangosteen porn ring bust. Or at the very least, they're going to start tapping my parents' phone, in case I call with any Mangosteen information. Anyhow, mine were frozen, so they don't look as cool as the fresh ones. But my pictures are free! No membership or credit card numbers required.

The boring half

Hi I am Johan. I have been a long time reader of this blog and this is my first time posting. The idea is that Morgan and I will have this blog together, and write about interesting and exciting things that happen to us. Well tough luck everybody. I am the boring half of our relationship, so when I post you won't get any funnies, only boring details of our lives. Also I probably won't post as many pictures as Morgan, so if you want exciting and funny posts with pictures you will have to read Morgan's posts. If you on the other hand prefer boredom and plain text you will want to read my posts.
Thank you come again!
/Johan

Drinking is good for the Seoul

Yesterday, Johan & I went shopping. I bought this newfangled thing called a digital camera in Yongsan. It's a camera, but it doesn't need film!! I swear- what will they think of next?! At first, I was like, "What's the point?" Apparently, it's so I can take dirty pictures without having to worry about the film technician publishing copies on the internet. It's very pretty. It's a Nikon Coolpix S5, if you care about that. It's red! Then we went to Myeong-Dong (heh heh, Dong), and Johan bought some snazzy new threads at American Apparel. Because we support the American Economy! I mean, otherwise, the terrorists would win, right? Or they would've already won. Or we'd be terrorists. Or something. Freaking terrorists.

At night, we met up with a bunch of friends at Raw in Apgujeong, our favorite Sushi restaurant. It's on Rodeo Drive! Can you believe those bastards from Beverly Hills stole the name for their street from the Koreans?! I eat the sushi without fish, because I think it's wrong to eat fish. They are not put on Earth for us to trap in nets and brutally take their lives by suffocation and put their corpses on top of a ball of rice and seaweed. They're here so they can swim around in small bowls for our enjoyment. Plus I think it's weird that a lot of people don't seem to notice they taste like absolute crap. The people at Raw think it's hilarious when we order sushi with no fish. They really like us and always give us complementary deep-fried ice cream. We've been there twice this week. Whenever somebody comes to town from Johan's company, we go there.

Then we went to a place that had fruit soju. We had apple (which we drank out of hollowed-out apples!) and pineapple (which we drank out of hollowed-out apples!). Then we ate the hollowed-out apples! Then we went back to our friend Paul's hotel room for a bit (is there anyone who possibly cares what his hotel room looked like? No, I just like linking), then off to some club in Hongdae. Then to the water pipe bar next door!


It was cool, with a pond in the middle, and little tables and pillows all over. Some people tried to peer pressure me into smoking, but I just said, "NO!" I'm probably the only one the anti-drug campaigns have worked on that I know, but the only thing that's going into my lungs is good old-fashioned pollution.


Man, are we cute. See how I bought red contacts to match my eyes to my shirt? Because that's what ritzy people who eat on Rodeo Drive do.

Then we went home and Johan is hung over and sleeping still. THE END!

New Soles for my Soul in Seoul

On Sunday, Johan & I went shopping. We went to Costco (I hate to say it, but a big Western Store is one of my fave things about Korea... I suck), and spent three hours tasting samples, eating cheap hot dogs, and looking at all the pretty stuff. We got a bit tipsy off the beer & wine samples, grabbed like 20 oreos samples, and went wild. Here's Johan toting some of our finds back to my apartment:

We bought two kinds of cheese, a massive box of microwave popcorn, bagels, dill pickles, green olives, avocados, a lovely polo shirt for Johan, and some other stuff I can't remember.

We also went shopping in Yongsan, the electronics district, where Johan went hog wild, buying 3 video games for his Gameboy DS Lite (I would just say "Gameboy," but I'm pretty sure he wants everyone to know he has the newest, fanciest one (in fact he has not one, but two of them)), and an iPod nano. Nano technology is really big in Korea, so he figured they're probably much higher quality here than anywhere else. Here he is 2 seconds before he faints with excitement about the nano:

You can see his eyes rolling back in his head, and he's grabbing at his heart. He collapsed right after I took the picture, and this 90-year old lady who could barely walk had to give Johan her seat on the subway. It was pitiful.

Later, we went shopping in Dongdaemun, where I attempted to find a sewing machine. I failed miserably, so I consoled myself with some shiny new converse shoes:

Do you get it? My tongue is hanging out, just like the shoe's tongue. & that's where the title of the post comes in. There's got to be something better involving Soles and Seoul... I take my job of coming up with innovative, yet hilarious, usages of Seoul seriously, but unfortunately, that doesn't make up for my lack of talent.

Oh yeah, we also ate green pizza:

The line of yellow stuff, after the crust and the line of cheese is sweet potato. Yum, yum. It's called a "rich gold" pizza. This is the first one I've had that's green, which made me quite happy.