Breakfast

Today, me an my best friends met for breakfast at "the usual" place. You know, I have always been thinking that it's so cool when you're watching "Friends", you get this feeling like "damn" I wish my friend life was like this.

Well I just realized mine is as close as it is possible to that state. Of course we don't live together, but still - we eat out together, have drinks after work, send milions of e-mails. I mean how much better could it get.

Today one of the girls announced she's engaged. Boy did we have a topic to discuss.

Welcome Party

Wooooa!!!

That was a greeting my friends pulled off. I still cannot believe how much effort has been put into it. I got off the plane and got my stuff rather quickly and proceeded to the exit. I was greeted by Michal and Kasia with a flower and some pictures and then suddenly a big pink pig comes running up to me and pulls me toward some undefined direction. There I noticed 6 other friends waiting holding a huge banner and shouting a welcome sentence. Next up a red carpet is rolled out in front of me and I get served with a shot of vodka, a pickle and a "bulka z szynka" I've been so missing.

Everybody at the airport was looking at us :PPP

But that was not the end of it. We went back to my appartment to find out it has all been decorated with baloons and stuff like "WELCOME". The girls prepared more "bulka z szynka" and a cake and borsch. Once we all reassembled at my place, we had some drinks, talked and ultimately everyone left around 1.30.

Still can't believe it. I knew it would be great to see all of them - I never exepected it would be so great!!!!

Heineken

Well I'm in Amsterdam. As much as I like Asia, I think Europe has its traits. One of the things I really won't is beer and the feeling associated with it. Seems like everything in Seoul is in a hurry - do this, do that, go here, go there. I think our advantage is that we know how to let go and relax.

Ahh the Heineken lounge is sooo great. This is exactly what a needed. A couch, big pillow, view at the airport and a bottle of cold beer.



I just realized that I used 1 EURO to call my parents and 4 euros for the beer :PP

Friends will be friends

The trip home had been planned for over a month, yet until today when I got out of the train station, I still have not felt like I'm going home. Everything was done in such a rush I couldn't even grasp the idea that it's Poland I'm coming back to. I'm on the plane and feel the pain of coming back home - the slightly uncmfortable chair and the permanent sound of the engines and airconditioning :P

I've told some of my best friends I'm coming and I'm a bit afraid what's gonna happen at the airport. But I guess that's what friends are for :)

Actually my ex told me he was jealous I had such good friends. The thing is, I think in a sense friendships are the same as a relationship. Nothing comes for free - you need to committ the time and there has to be a mutual benefit - if those 2 things are not there - it most probably won't work.

Now I'm a bit torn between 2 continents. Wonder how things will go from December.

Suppose game

Lets suppose. What if there was someone you liked. What if you didn't know if that person was feeling the same, but you felt things were going the right way. What if you had a friend. What if this friend got drunk and started hitting on your target when you're not around. What if you found out about this from the person you liked after the whole thing.

Would you feel upset or would you just let it go?

Party time

So as we all know, Mattia came over and ... ummm ... i got drunk the first night. But that was not the end of it. On friday we went to 이태원 to meet some hot guys. On the way we picked up a friend who came from Busan to party with us. Due to my great idea of "let's take a taxi, we'll be faster and it'll be cheaper" we ended up late by 20 minutes and overpaid the taxi at least 3 times becaue MAciek forgot that it's friday off work time...

We met T at 동대뭔 운동장 and proceeded to the party place - 홍대 for a substantial drinking experience. And so we did. Some of us even more than expected. Halfway through the party 태환 started to get a bit out of control. A little more than a little. So Mattia, JK and I decided to take serious steps to minimize the risk by taking him home safely and going to party later on by ourselves. At the time the plan seemed perfect - Maciek pretends he's drunk and we all take a taxi home, drop off our drunken buddy home and go party.

Got on the taxi, dropped him off. And suddenly got sober. Went to 이태원 for the clubs only to meet T. 1 hour later. Bummer - I guess that was one of the most mishandled situations ever.

Talked a little about why things happened the way they did. Ad we set off in different directions.

I guess T. had his revenge at the end and posted really horrible pictures of me and Mattia from that night. I mean I know I don't look that great and stuff buy yhose are really ewww :) Anyways need to love the ugly side as well :)

A lesson from all of this - sure: check people out before you invite them to go out

AIRPLANE recap

Wow it's been almost 2 weeks since I have not written anything. I don't think I could have been busier than this - finals at school, master's thesis writing, visiting with friends, flight to Poland. Seriously I never exepected it to be like that, but I guess that's just the way I am - always on the run.

Since I'm on the airplane becoming sober it's time to recap.

Exams were horrible. I did not have the time to prepare nor the will to contribute the time to prepare. So in the end I think I will get a B. A B!!!! At KAIST getting a B is almost like failing only without the re-do the course part. Ppl stop talking to you and stuff :P It's so strange that even people in their mid thirties pay so much attention to grades. I mean, ok it's importan to get a good grade, but WTF. Feels like elementary school some days.

I could not have been relieved more after the exams. Mattia came over as I have already written and the fun started.

마티아 왔다!!!!!

Aaaaa Mattia came to Korea!

It feels so good to have one of my best friends over for the weekend. Yesterday I picked him up from the airport - ahem got there 45 minutes late but still. Aaaan we had a mandatory soju at night discussing of course everything about Korean and Chinese guys - haha beware :P

The sideeffect is a horrible headache I have today. My exam is starting in 25 mins - don't wanna study, don't wanna do anything just want to have Tylenol kick in cause otherwise I will die during class.

Today we are having a dinner at 홍대 - one of my again favorite places. Like it there cause of new places to see and hang out.

There's 4 guys, 1 liter of vodka, 1 camera and a lot of dancing to be done. It's good Mattia brought a small camera - we always get the best pics when drunk :P

1 week

I'm out of time, and all I got is 1 more week, 1 more week heeey
ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta

Heheh guess what song is that :). I'm into my final summer session exams - next Friday everything will be over. Moreover Mattia - one of my best friends on this side of the world is coming over, so gotta make sure I'm all up and ready for some serious partying. I have not done that for such a long time ... since Friday when "by accident" I ended up dancing and fooling around with a bunch of friends.

But hey, that's what having fun is all about :) I've given this part of my life for the past 7 months - how fair is that? Now I'm back in business.

Thursday - dinner and beer and then pick up Mattia
Friday - scheduled a "Let's finish up the 1 liter of Polish vodka I have left" party with some ppl - I hope everybody performs up to the expected perfomance level and the we go shake some a$$
Saturday - get sober and get drunk again master plan
Sunday - shed a tear at the airport and sleep

Enough dreaming ... now it's time to read a case, watch a movie and get my 4 hours of sleep :)

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Well I'm back to writing stuff. Actually I probably would not have started but for the past hour we've been having a class with someone famous - I guess 이대훈 but the problem is that it's in Korean - in other words NO FREAKING IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON.

I really would like to listen cause I think it's very interesting by the looks on other ppls faces but there's an a huuuge barier there.

NEEEED TOOOO LEAAAARN KORRRREAN...

Riight right and need to do a lot of other things as well - like thesis, class, gym, sleep, eat, homework and stuff. Next month next month all will change! Pleaaaase change :P