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Ryusei-R1
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States2106 Posts
January 08 2011 05:40 GMT
#21
It's things like this that make me miss more foreigners were still in Korea playing professionally.
Jaedong plz
TheMango
Profile Joined April 2007
United States1967 Posts
January 08 2011 05:47 GMT
#22
great blog, it's so nostalgic to hear some of those names again.
Moderator
Badjas
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Netherlands2038 Posts
January 08 2011 07:34 GMT
#23
On January 08 2011 01:24 Boonbag wrote:
Hope you enjoyed !

Sure did. Thanks a bundle for writing this all up this is awesome
I <3 the internet, I <3 you
ChaoSbringer
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Australia1382 Posts
January 08 2011 07:45 GMT
#24
I always loved reading these. Great stories.

Let's get boonbag back on top as the #1 rated blog.
Boonbag
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
France3318 Posts
January 08 2011 08:52 GMT
#25
On January 08 2011 12:05 Zona wrote:
I love stories like these.

How do you remember everything so clearly? Especially when you apparently like to write them when drunk?



Maybe because I was drunk the whole time I was in Korea. So when I get drunk I can connect back to these :D
TymerA
Profile Joined July 2010
Netherlands759 Posts
January 08 2011 11:29 GMT
#26
Awesome read =)

The next entry sounds like good fun... the agony of waiting.
nice.
LaptopLegacy
Profile Joined October 2002
Netherlands602 Posts
January 08 2011 11:57 GMT
#27
Very nice blog.

I just stumbled upon this latest installment today, but have gone back and read all 13 episodes now. Nice way to relive some of the memories from the early days of competitive Starcraft through the eyes of somebody who was at the epicenter of it all.

And brings back fond memories about my own humble adventures during those years as well. Thanks a lot for posting these blogs, and please write more!
Luctor et Emergo
St3MoR
Profile Joined November 2002
Spain3256 Posts
January 08 2011 12:00 GMT
#28
i loved this blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! good old bw!
Prophet in TL of the Makoto0124 ways
ShadowDrgn
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States2497 Posts
January 08 2011 12:05 GMT
#29
Your blogs are the best Boonbag.
Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
qwaykee
Profile Joined February 2010
Norway268 Posts
January 08 2011 12:41 GMT
#30
one of the first times i got on tl this blog was the first thing i read. i forgot about it and seeing it spotlighted now is awesome. quality blog for sure, thanks!
KawaiiRice
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States2914 Posts
January 08 2011 12:52 GMT
#31
^_^ <3
Cheers
looking forward to the next~
@KawaiiRiceLighT
s.a.y
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
Croatia3840 Posts
January 08 2011 12:59 GMT
#32
can't wait for part 2!
I am not good with quotes
Rampager
Profile Joined April 2010
Australia1007 Posts
January 08 2011 13:22 GMT
#33
Amazing. And so the tale, ever so slowly, continues
Jayson X
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Switzerland2431 Posts
January 08 2011 13:43 GMT
#34
Ooooh I can't believe I missed it when you started to write again!
Great read as usual!
Hautamaki
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
Canada1311 Posts
January 08 2011 13:49 GMT
#35
Awesome... It seems strange though how many of the foreigners you write about, and many of the foreigners I know about from other sources, could rape even top korean pros so hard on things like game-i and later wgtour and so on and yet still not get much results irl. Only Elky and Grrrr... ever really performed at the top level in real tournies and yet it seems as though lots of players, like for example Smuft that you've written about here, but even besides him there are many like Mondragon, Blackman, Draco, Testie, etc, who could make a fool of top Koreans online but never did that much in real televised games. Do you think that the foreigners just weren't as good at dealing with the pressure, or is it more that as foreigners they had too much added pressure and too many added distractions compared to most korean pros that made it that much harder for them to perform in Korea?
True learning is not the memorization of knowledge; it is the internalization of patterns.
RouaF
Profile Joined October 2010
France4121 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-08 14:06:16
January 08 2011 13:58 GMT
#36
Very cool blog, just strange it gets posted now :D This is what, 8 years old ? Also I don't remember your name at all in the french community Boonbag which is kinda weird. I'll try to find your older blogs to get a clue ;-).

edit: ok you're oTTer i get it
blahman3344
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States2015 Posts
January 08 2011 15:52 GMT
#37
This was a fun read. I loved the part with the Canadian-raised Korean; that was just so random. XD

I was acting the way some Korean chicks see and love European men

mind telling me how to act like that? o_O
I like haikus and / I can not lie. You other / brothers can't deny
Boonbag
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
France3318 Posts
January 08 2011 16:15 GMT
#38
On January 09 2011 00:52 blahman3344 wrote:
This was a fun read. I loved the part with the Canadian-raised Korean; that was just so random. XD

Show nested quote +
I was acting the way some Korean chicks see and love European men

mind telling me how to act like that? o_O



Can't unleash such secrets to the public.
deathgod6
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States5064 Posts
January 08 2011 18:31 GMT
#39
Sorry for asking such a seemingly obvious question but was your ID for SC Boonbag or something else?
4.0 GPA = A rank 5.0 GPA = Olympic --------- Bisu, Best, Fantasy. i ♥ oov. They can get in my BoxeR anyday.
Boonbag
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
France3318 Posts
January 08 2011 18:34 GMT
#40
On January 08 2011 22:58 RouaF wrote:
Very cool blog, just strange it gets posted now :D This is what, 8 years old ? Also I don't remember your name at all in the french community Boonbag which is kinda weird. I'll try to find your older blogs to get a clue ;-).

edit: ok you're oTTer i get it

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