Surprise

2008. 11. 15

While Oh was on a call with a best friend of his, the friend blurted out that he is gettting married next February. And that just caught Oh off guard. At the same time, Oh was honored to be the first friend that received word.

After an hour, Oh was on another call with another best friend of his. They talked about the marriage of their best friend. But they were not quite sure about their friend's rather seemingly sudden decision.

The truth is it has been only 4 months since the friend and his fiancee met. And to Oh four months is such a short time for two people to get to know each other and conclude to tie the knot. On top of that, Oh's friend is so busy that the couple has met only weekends. Therefore, Oh thinks that while he needs to celebrate, he still casts some doubts on the decision.

Sure, love at first sight is and has been always possible. And the friend, whenever he started to date girls, publicized that he would like to meet something willing to take the whole thing to the next level (marriage, of course). Still, 4 months seems to be a bit short.

Nevertheless, the couple will be on a house hunting this weekend and there is going to be the first official encounter between in-laws. And after 3 months, they are going to get hitched. Oh wishes their best of luck, nipping all the negative thought in the bud.

Meeting in person

2008. 11. 14

While Oh was up in Ilsan, participating Gyeonggi International Tourism Exhibition, he paid a visit to someone that he has know only thru phone calls. Her name was Lee and she works at a PR department of KINTEX.

About a week ago, Oh received a memorandum that Oh needs to supplement some data or information as to convention industry in Gyeonggido. Since KINTEX is probably the one and only convention venue in Gyeonggido, Oh called KINTEX to get ahold of someone who might have the data, facts or photos of KINTEX. Since then, they have been talking to each other on the phone from time to time and exchanged thoughts regarding how to organize the data. And now they finally met. In person, of course.

After checking where the PR department was located, Oh headed up stairs to the place without any notification. As soon as he walked into the office, he spotted a lady talking on the phone. But he was not sure if that was her. And it was.

Introducing himself and laying out the reason for his rather sudden visitation, Oh talked to the lady very calmy. It was a business matter, so no flirtation or whatnot. They exchanged the name cards and talked a bit more. Then, Oh left the office and told her that he will get back to on the thing that they have been working on together.

Although it was brief, that meeting was pleasant. Oh bothered meeting her in person even though he did not have to. This will help Oh request any info he might need later and get some help from her.

Phone calls, internet chatting and snail mail are all great method through which you can communicate with people. But looking in the eye of someone and talking to him or her is more genuine and a better to convey messages. Human touch. That's what counts.

Compete against the trainer

2008. 11. 13

Although it was raining, Oh decided to hit the gym since he skipped yesterday. He really did not want to, but the trainer called Oh out of the blue and told him to bring his ass to the gym. So Oh gave in, thinking about working out is better than doing just nothing but making up for sleep depravation.And as promised the other day, the trainer and Oh had a showdown. At least, they thought they would. Since both of them were not feeling good, they just helped each other out in working on chest and tripcep.

Oh dared the trainer to bench 180 kgs while Oh was going for 100 kgs, which he has never pulled off. Thanks to the trainers assistant, Oh lift 100kgs. But it was so painful. The trainer did not go all the way to 180kg. He was satisfied with 160kg without aid from Oh. Still great.

Since it was a rainy Saturday, there were only few people at the gym. So Oh took advantage of it by hogging the trainer! Today's exercise was quite intensive, Oh has to say. There were no breaks, but constant lifting and sipping water. Also, the trainer and Oh were alternating, it was very conducive to raise the level of motivation by helping out and competing against each other. Although Oh was way out of the trainer's league, he was still trying to stay in the game.

After a succinct, but intense 60 minutues, they called it quits. No workout tomorrow. It would be weird no to work out. But since Oh was tired from a very long and stressful weekend, he decided to take it easy this weekend. No parties or whatnot

Meeting in person

2008. 11. 11

While Oh was up in Ilsan, participating Gyeonggi International Tourism Exhibition, he paid a visit to someone that he has know only thru phone calls. Her name was Lee and she works at a PR department of KINTEX.

About a week ago, Oh received a memorandum that Oh needs to supplement some data or information as to convention industry in Gyeonggido. Since KINTEX is probably the one and only convention venue in Gyeonggido, Oh called KINTEX to get ahold of someone who might have the data, facts or photos of KINTEX. Since then, they have been talking to each other on the phone from time to time and exchanged thoughts regarding how to organize the data
And now they finally met. In person, of course.

After checking where the PR department was located, Oh headed up stairs to the place without any notification. As soon as he walked into the office, he spotted a lady talking on the phone. But he was not sure if that was her. And it was.

Introducing himself and laying out the reason for his rather sudden visitation, Oh talked to the lady very calmy. It was a business matter, so no flirtation or whatnot. They exchanged the name cards and talked a bit more. Then, Oh left the office and told her that he will get back to on the thing that they have been working on together.

Although it was brief, that meeting was pleasant. Oh bothered meeting her in person even though he did not have to. This will help Oh request any info he might need later and get some help from her.

Phone calls, internet chatting and snail mail are all great method through which you can communicate with people. But looking in the eye of someone and talking to him or her is more genuine and a better to convey messages. Human touch. That's what counts.

Seoul

2008. 11. 10

Oh had to go up to Seoul super early today. For that, he actually had to stay at his parents house last night to directly go to Seoul in lieu of wasting 2 hours on the highway should he leave from Suwon. After taking care of his business, it was about 9:20 Am and he was in Myoungdong, one of the fanciest places in Korea.

Whenver he goes up to Seoul, one of his colleagues says that it must be so nice to go on a trip to Seoul because you will get to see cute and hot girls out there. But Oh does not care about how hot or cute Seoul girls are. It is just that the more he comes up to Seoul, the more disappointed he is with Seoul. While it is not crystal clear why, but it is certain that he does not enjoy just as much as he does Suwon or any other cities.

Anyways, on his way back down to Suwon, there was no one but him on the bus. Accordingly, Oh felf like he rented a limo at only 1,700 won and was cruising down to Suwon with a personal chauffeur. The shun was beating down on him and it was an earily morning, so the scenery was beautiful. He wanted to take ciesta because hwas a bit tried from only 5 hour sleep last night. But he couldn't since Oh is not good at crashing on buses or subways.
Then it was Suwon again. The city once he called a shithole, but now relishes so much.