Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • The final frontier…these are the voyages of…a crazy Korean adoptee living in foreign lands in search of her sanity…. Random? Yes, indeed. I’m away at a conference in Dubai. I left early so that I could leave early. Somehow I stayed longer than I would have liked, but mostly due to catching up with friends and talking to colleagues whom I don’t normally associate with much at work. Plus, I am going to…

  • Whenever I hear Lady Gaga’s song, “The Edge of Glory” I somehow feel like it’s talking about my life mantra. I am always looking for the next best thing because I am somehow dissatisfied with my current state. It is probably my own state of mind that I should be looking to improve, but in any case that’s a long process. So, the other day, I went to see Dr I and expressed…

  • Now, I’m not really the kind of girl that requires a man to bring her flowers. That’s not to say I don’t love it when it happens, but as R is not the romantic type, bringing me flowers is not on his list of things to do. Luckily, I don’t mind buying my own flowers when I want to add a little bit of life to the apartment. The other day I saw…

  • Not everyone is lucky enough to meet someone with a kindred spirit, but I definitely am. It is hard to believe that we met nearly 18 years ago and have been the bestest of friends ever since. We have truly been through just about every major event in someone’s life – marriage, births and deaths…. Although we do not live near each other now, I know that we will always be together in…

  • For some reason I took a bit of a break from working out regularly – or at least cardio workouts. I somehow got tired of the treadmill and convinced myself that I could make do without it. Instead, I joined Pilates and Yoga classes that are offered in my building. However, they don’t do enough to burn the calories since I continue to eat more than I should. No matter how much I…

  • Another Vine Mixer was not to be missed! This time the theme was Old World food – France, Spain, Italy and Wales – versus New Zealand wines. The food was definitely much more to my liking, though the wines did not quite live up to their fame. I’ve had a lot more pleasant wines from New Zealand, but they chose a different area than I usually buy from. All that aside, we had…

  • A while back, P and I went to a Korean restaurant in the Cristal Salam Hotel after getting massages. It is a new Korean restaurant and, of course, I wanted to try it out. It is good, perhaps the best in the city at the moment, but still not the real deal. It’s close, though. Anyway, while there, they also were advertising their new wine bar – Vertical Wine Bar. We weren’t interested…

  • It’s been a rather long week and thankfully today is the end of it. I cannot pinpoint what exactly has made it a long week as I imagine, like with most things, it’s a culmination of many things. So, to give myself a bit of a release, here are the various things that passed – *R hurt his back on Monday and has been out sick all week. This means that although he…

  • _Real World_ by Natsuo Kirino Last summer I was plowing through books like the world was going to end and so I put out a call on FB for some book recommendations. My high school Japanese teacher recommended _Out_ by Kirino, but as there was no Kindle version, I opted for _Real World_. As a side, I am all about the ebooks these days since moving around so much makes it difficult to…

  • The other night I was having a moan about stuff I swirl around in my head related to others in my life and my friend said how it must be a lot of pressure on me. I realized that she was totally right and that I don’t often recognize the toll all the swirling takes on me. I know there is a reason why I need a massage every week, but I am…

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