Category: Updates

12.01.04

Well I’m on the WiFi network at Albany Intl. The trip got off to a wonderful start last night when I was waiting to put gas in my car and someone didn’t set their parking brake and their car rolled into mine. I figure good thing I stopped it after two feet or so instead of it rolling and hitting the gas pumps. I only had a small scrape on my door, but I have the contact information for the person that did it. I ended up driving to Albany last night and staying at the Quality Inn right across the street from the Korean Food Store. Yay! They were closed by the time I got there though, so no funky junk food for me. We put in a 4:30 wake up call and a request for a taxi at 5:15. The taxi arrived at 4:45 and the guy was pissed. “Jesus Christ, I’ve been here for half an hour and how am I going to fit six people and all this luggage into here?!?!” Not my problem dude. Then he tried to scam us for $18. The hotel room included the taxi fare so we told him to hike back to the hotel if he wants his $18. That’s about it so far. I should be able to jump on wireless networks for the rest of my trip, hopefully.

Another trip to the Korean Food store

These trips are the only times I buy junk food, and it’s from the other side of the world, so I figure it’s ok. And if you’re wondering we normally goto Kim’s Oriental which is on Rt. 5 in Albany, exit 2W off I87.

Milkis, orange flavor.

Rice Punch. I should also note that lots of Korean drinks have crap floating in them. Sunghee will not buy orange juice with pulp in it, but will down these pear “drinks” that you don’t so much drink as chew.

Grass Jelly. Now with banana flavor.

Yogloo, drinkable yogurt, now with Melon flavor. Honeydew melon is a very popular flavor for just about anything. Sort of like strawberry is here. Melon ice cream is very abundant.

Koala’s March. These are very good cookie things. There’s a vanilla cookie shell and the inside is a lot of fudge. I think Koala March would be a good name for a emo band.

Do you like the cracker and the chocolate of Pocky, but don’t really go for Pocky that much because it just seems wrong that the chocolate is on the outside? Well this is for you, Reverse Pocky! Now with the chocolate on the *inside*!

Chusok

We attended Chusok, Korean Thanksgiving, again this year at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens. Unfortunatly Ivan brought the rain and didn’t let us have much fun. They shut down the performances on the stage about 15 minutes after we arrived, which was late due to crappy MapQuest directions. (“Turn on to 95” “North or South?” “um, it just says 95”. “I don’t see any sign to 495” “Well it looks like 1st Ave. joins up with it after a couple of blocks, go on 1st Ave., ok this should be 495, follow it for 6 miles and look for 108th and take a left” six miles later “Ok, here’s 100th, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, wait! it’s one-way, I can’t turn left. I’ll have to take 109. These other Aves. don’t match what’s on the map.” “That map is for Queens, we’re still in Manhatten”.)

Here’s a cute police car Sunghee took a picture of.

Here we are!

Do you want the BBQ chicken on a stick or the rice tubes in the melt-your-face-off hot sauce?

I’m the only european person here,

Oh, both the BBQ chicken on a stick or the rice tubes in the melt-your-face-off hot sauce?

CJ did not like the super special health apple juice. (I thought I had the website for this stuff written down, but the domain I have written down is not registered, so no link for now.)

Dinner in Little Korea, 32nd and Broadway

Look at all these side dishes!

More!

Meat! Cooked on your table!

Peppers, with fried minnows. I’m serious.

More meat! It’s all beef, the stuff on the right is sliced, the stuff on the left is cubed.

CJ likes it.

8.11.04

The first part of Sunghee’s final hearing was yesterday. It was only supposed to be one day, but the other side took their sweet time lying and getting trapped in their own testimony. Here’s some of the highlights:

The other side presents a photo book showing how good of a father Chucky is, how he takes CJ out on trips and stuff. One small problem is that CJ isn’t smiling in *any* of the pictures. Another problem is that CJ therapist had testified that CJ must wear his braces at all times during the day, except when bathing or sleeping at night. Oh, he’s not wearing his braces in any of these pictures. Bad dad. There’s also pictures of them on a motor boat with nobody, including CJ, wearing life preservers.

Sunghee should not be allowed to have CJ on holidays because she’s from “another country” and doesn’t understand “American” holidays like Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving. Sunghee is Catholic. She is well aware of Christian holidays and Korean Thanksgiving is the same as American Thanksgiving.

Some mystery women, Mindy, who’s been Chucky’s “best friend for 14 years” testified about how bad a mother Sunghee is. Sunghee has never seen this woman before. Mindy also testified that she’s gone with Chucky a few times to pick up CJ and saw Sunghee assault him. Now, I’ve actually been in attendance every time CJ was dropped off and I’ve never seen anyone with Chucky except for his Mother and step-father. Chucky doesn’t even show up half the time. She also testified that she knew who I was because she saw me sitting outside the court room earlier. I was at work all day, I didn’t get called into court.

Audri Cox, who was CJ’s baby sitter for six months testified for the other side claiming that Sunghee never showed her how to take of CJ’s braces and that Chucky had called and told her that CJ must have his braces taken off when he naps. Wait, didn’t CJ’s therapist already say that the braces must be kept on during the day? Bad dad. She also testified that she stopped allowing CJ to come because Sunghee threatened her. The truth is that Sunghee fired Audri because CJ would get in fights with Audri’s nephew, who was also in day care, and Audri had too many kids so she couldn’t keep an eye on all of them. A month later Audri asked Sunghee to make her Christmas cards and gave her a picture of her and her family in front of their new pickup truck. I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t ask somebody that had threatened me a month before to make me Christmas cards.

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