The unpleasantness of going to the immigration office today, dealing with a staff that cannot speak English — I think it’s silly to demand that in coffeeshops and restaurants but good grief, a basically monolingual staff in an immigration office? — and of course the long wait, sitting beside people who seem to think nothing of playing video games on their phones at full blast, regardless of whether the repeated bleeping noise might, you know, annoy others or not. Along with discovering that my phone, miraculously fixed, is probably unmiraculously note quite fixed at all (it shuts itself off, still, …
Month: November 2006
Pink Milk Helmet
Don’t ask. Just go read this.
My Girlfriend’s Grade
So my girlfriend informed me that she got her grade for her residency feedback. Though it wasn’t a “bad grade”, it was lower than I expected, and I have to admit that I was quite surprised. She had some trouble when doing her hospital work during her studies, because she tended to do things her way, and some of the staff at her earlier training hospital didn’t like that. But since coming to Seoul, people have really appreciated her work. More than one time, she’s been encouraged by a Department Head to specialize in his area, because she’s doing such …
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
As noted in my sidebar, I’ve finished Ted Chiang’s book of short stories, and here’s what I posted in the way of a review over All Consuming. As for the next book, I’m still (as always) reading a few at once, but the one I’m focused on now is Bester’s The Stars My Destination and it’s such a quick read I’ll probably stick with it till the end. Scary Good. The book isn’t scary, what’s scary is how well-written it is. One of my teachers said that these are simply some of the best stories written in the SF genre, …
Rich on Fundamentalist Islam
Interesting thoughts on Fundamentalist Islam’s cargo cult by Rich at Sharp Blue. Funny how I keep posting links to atheist/secularist discussions of religion under “politics” but it’s the category that makes the most sense.