I realized that I haven't written much about living in Korea lately. It's not that I've run out of things to write about, it's just that I've been here for long enough that everything seems normal now. Getting pushed around by old ladies in the subway? Normal. Being buzzed by motorbikes when walking on the sidewalk? Par for the course. Kamikaze cab drivers? I don't even bat an eye. Twelve bucks for a dinner for two... what the? Expensive!
My day to day life here is pretty much like at home. Go to work, go to the gym, eat, sleep, repeat until weekend. The only real difference is that I can't read most of the street signs and I can swear in public as much as I please because nobody can understand me anyways. I'm going to have to try and curb that one before I come back to save myself some trouble.
We've been lucky with nice weekend weather and have been out and about most days off. Last weekend we went to the Daegu Sports Museum (we happened to be walking by), which should have been called the World Cup Stadium Museum as it ignored some of the professional sports teams in the city and only dealt with teams and events connected to the stadium. There were a few interactive displays inside that were kind of cool, but otherwise it was a little on the boring side.
This thing timed your first 10m and averaged how fast you would be over 100m. yeah, it says 10.72. I felt pretty awesome about that until Lisa intentionally jumped the gun and ran 8.72. Whatever Lisa, why is everything a competition with you?
KOREANS GETTING ROBBED IN AMERICA!
The WEC put on their first pay per view card on the weekend. The event was pretty damn good, definitely better than any of the recent UFC or Strikeforce cards. Come to think of it, every WEC card that I've seen has been really good. I hope they got a good number of PPV buys. If the WEC can do a few PPV shows per year that do well it means that the smaller fighters can start earning what they're worth. For the first time this event had the same amount of bonus money for KO, submission and fight of the night as UFC events (65 g's) instead of the usual 25 grand that they get in the WEC. I also heard that fight money for this event was much better as well.
On a side note, Korean fighter Chang Sung Jung "The Korean Zombie" got robbed in a decision vs. Leonard Garcia. It was a bit of a slobberknocker to say the least. The fighters pretty much stood in front of each other and threw punches, kicks and knees at each other to see who would go down first. I watched it twice to make sure living in Korea wasn't giving me a bias towards Chang, but I don't think it did. Don't take my word that Chang got robbed though, check it out for yourself here and see what you think. On a side note to the side note. Chang Sung Jung beat my teammate Heung Kol, in the finals of the Korean "Super Tournament" a few years ago by split decision.
WORST PHANTOM PUNCH EVER?
Fedor's little brother Aleksander Emelyanenko is a pretty tough dude. He was a pretty good heavyweight in the PRIDE days. Unfortunately, Aleks has Hepatitis and can't get medical clearance to fight in countries or organizations that use legit athletic commissions. He still fights though. Usually against no namers in countries you'd be hard pressed to find on the map. On the weekend he fought a guy named Eddy Bengsston. He knocked the guy out with a jab that I'm pretty sure didn't even connect. If the guy was getting paid to take a dive he could have made it look a lot better than that. Even Emelyanenko looked confused when the guy went down. Here's the fight, go to the 1:35 mark to see the punch in question.
By popular demand... ENGRISH!
This one kind of makes sense... I see kids in my class eating bugers all the time. Props to Lisa for spotting this one.
Just in case it's your first day on your new legs and you need some detailed, colour coded instructions on how to WALK!
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