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Whoops, I wanted to write this way way earlier (I wrote the Korea part last December..), but I'd gotten pretty lazy. Anyways here's a bit of an update on my life
Korea 2013 Photos + Show Spoiler +In September of last year I went to korea for... the 4th or 5th time or sth (I feel like I always say it was the 4th time). We visited family for Chuseok and then burrowed a car and travelled to several Cities, Gyeongsan, Gwangju, Yeosu, Busan and Seoul. I made lots of photos and here are some that I like, I'll start off with some family pictures my brother took this photo of our neece my cousin and his children peekaboo! Reminds me of that meme of that young girl running away from things Baduk this is me enjoying some delicious red bean ice cream. There's nothing in Korea that can't have some red bean it. Green tea, green tea everywhere dat bamboo more bamboo This was our Hotel in Yeosu.. wonderful little city (~300k inhabitants) consisting of multiple islands It has some nice attractions like the dragon cave On my way there... And there it is.. yeah ok the pic isnt too exciting, being there was cool though, it's pretty big and it was quite stormy so the atmosphere was appropriate much more important though: the legendary Penis tree um, yeah, after rotating and cropping it like this I guess you can see what they were goin with.. Just as the sun rose dozens of (I assume fishing) boats came by, driving towards the sun, like moths to the flame. Yeosu in the morning Yeosu at night I really enjoyed my stay in Yeosu, having been an expo city in 2012 it has so many attractions, there has been so much money invested into it, but already a year after you can see that this was only very temporary, compared to how much there is to see there were so few people walking around that it just had this mystical, romantic feeling to it. boom, were in Busan now. horsey reminded me of TL Fishing in the metropolis My favourite photo of the trip Busan is such a cool city, you can chill and swim at a beautiful beach while being surrounded by massive skyscrapers. While this beach was actually much nicer than the following, on a teamliquid.net blog I of course cant leave out a photo of the legendary Gwangalli Beach! This is the wonderful beach at which the sea was graced with FBH's genitals Sorry for the shitty mobile phone picture though now onto something more spiritual Arriving in Seoul we were greeted by the Korean princess Photo of Seoul that I took in 2009 Photo of Seoul in 2013
My Korea Text blog + Show Spoiler +Overall it was a good experience, though I'm not gonna pretend it was all super fun and wonderful. My family has never been one that was extremely close, conversations are always held at a very superficial level and I have always found it impossible to "just be myself" around my family. There was a lot of tension between my big brother and my father, egos clashing and all that. My father's poor shape, having been quite obese was a hindrance for any kind of "sightseeing" as well, which often meant split up groups. The best time I had was usually by myself, just wandering out there into a foreign city and just experiencing it without falling into the same behavioristic patterns I do around others was a cool experience. Especially if I got good photos out of it. One day I was in a particularly bad mood, and I was walking alone through Seoul, one modern grey building after another, traffic noise everywhere, when I discovered a huge buddhist temple amidst all of this. There were maybe twenty people inside, quietly praying. As is always my first reflex I walked around taking photos (until I saw that taking photos was forbidden) Eventually I took my shoes off walked inside and meditated for half an hour. And *poof* all negativity was gone for the rest of the day. This isn't to say that the family experience was all bad though. I got along very well with my mother and I pretty much had the first really intimate conversation with her ever. To a lesser extent the latter is also true for me and my brother. After the korea trip things would go back to a more superficial level but I am very glad I had those conversations. Also my dad is in way better shape now than he was in Korea. But as I already said, experiencing cities I hadn't seen yet was really cool. Busan and Yeosu were my favourites, although Busan definitely has some ugly areas as well. Also all the stray dogs make me sad just look at this cute little fella... he wasn't aware that walking in the middle of the street with cars behind you wasn't a very smart idea. I managed to lure him away from it but he was scared of me, too. Eventually he hid in a small gap under a container.And seeing my Korean family is always nice - I still don't speak korean (I've finally started "properly" learning ~7 months ago) but it's always pleasant around them, some of them at least talk a little bit of English.
My Grandmother... + Show Spoiler +...passed away this month. She was in a bad state for a few days, then recovered again. My uncle was considering sending her to the hospital again, thankfully he didn't. After feeling better for a bit it all happened very quickly and instead of a hospital room alone or surrounded by strangers she died at her home, with her family. Like I said we have the obvious language barrier between me and my korean family but it is amazing how easily you could tell how much love my grandmother had for me and my brothers and how proud she was of us without understanding the language. And the way she moved and talked and laughed, it was all so adorable haha, I couldn't help but smile when she was around. To think that she raised a huge family of nine children, while her husband was busy getting drunk and gambling away their money is pretty amazing as well. I'm sad I didn't learn the language well enough to really talk to her before she died and wish I knew more about her and that long long life of hers but all I can do now is cherish the time we had and keep improving my korean so I'll be able to communicate with the rest of my family. R.I.P. grandma brother + grandma mother + grandma here she decided this monk needed an orange this was while my aunt was talking about how her dog died queen of korea
My Website + Show Spoiler +I have a "new" Website (like I said, I wanted to write this a whole while ago..) showing off some of my photos www.kyroba.com enjoy A short while ago I also created an account on 500px, I like the social aspects of that site, if you're on it plz follow, I only have one follower so far haha http://500px.com/kyroba
My Wedding Video + Show Spoiler +Well not of my wedding, but I did this video for friends of mine last year, I believe I haven't posted it on TL yet. Itt was a highly emotional bunch of days and I'm quite happy with the result (especially since I was fearing not having enough material since I was 99% focused on photos, not on video) http://vimeo.com/73733587
My State Exam Text Blog + Show Spoiler +In my last blog I talked about how I need to spend a lot less time on TL, the most immediate reason being that I needed to prepare for my state exam. My post count went down a whole lot although sometimes after a done day of learning doing some lurking on TL was nice + Show Spoiler [see your own post activity] + Those ~100 days of learning were actually a surprisingly nice time - from an academic point of view it's nice to be able to fill a lot of those knowledge holes I'd always had. And from an 'enjoying life' point of view it wasn't so bad either - I could wake up when I want, be where I want when I want, as long as I do my daily set of topics and questions. I live in a wonderful flat with my girlfriend and my dog now so getting to stay home while still feeling productive was pretty awesome Also during that time I have finally started taking (skype) singing lessons, which I'm really happy about, I've already learned quite a bit. And I haven't been all that bad at working out in my private tiny gym (=a bench and barbell+dumbbells) either. And like I said I've also finally started learning korean. In April I wrote the exams and I passed. I'm a bit disappointed about my grade but oh well there's enough need for doctors, it's unlikely I'll end up under the bridge. And despite of it this whole phase was good for my faith in being able to become a good doctor - I always had doubts because I was usually on the lower end of grades during all of university (say what you will about med students but they're pretty damn good learners) - but I've realized that I was really overthinking it. I always felt a bit insecure about my knowledge as a med student but at the end of the day it's the same with everything, whether it's Starcraft, photography or medicine - do something a lot and you'll get good at it - others might learn faster or more efficient but then you'll simply have to put more work in and you'll be fine. (Ignoring the rare breed of the 3k games Silver-ranked SC2 player) Also I wanna become a psychiatrist and I had every psychiatry question correct so that was cool. Oh and I can say I did the exam honestly and completely on my own - there was a lot of cheating going on in the toilets...certain people were freaking out asking for answers claiming they might fail otherwise when in reality they ended up having like 86% correct (which is a B, you need less than 60% correct to fail) Now my next steps are another half a year for working on my doctorate thesis, then my practical year, then oral exams (which noone really ever fails afaik) and then I'm a doctor. I could already be one but I'm glad I've taken it slow, the last year has been really good for me, and I'll be working for enough years in the future anyways. And hopefully during this time I will finallly be able to record some decent sounding music - it's been a long time.
Whether you read and watch it all or just parts of it - thanks.
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Oh shit I actually forgot to think of and change to a better blog title, didn't actually want it to have such an arrogant sounding one haha. Oh well Edit: SirJolt was nice enough to change it to a more appropriate one
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Awesome read, really wish I can manage to go back to Korea myself one day... How often have you been to Korea? 4 times over a span of 4 years?
And also, sorry to hear about your grandmother, just based off of the pictures, she looked like she could've been an amazing person overall.
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Hong Kong9136 Posts
followed you on 500px. be warned though that site is incredibly hipster, and thus all my artsy bullshit goes there.
also my condolences about your grandma.
edit: oh wow 500px looks way more appealing than it used to
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Good god that video is good! So impressed. Thanks for taking the time to write this thing, will read more as time permits...
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thanks for sharing bro... nice read
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I really liked the wedding video!
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On May 31 2014 10:11 SynC[gm] wrote: Awesome read, really wish I can manage to go back to Korea myself one day... How often have you been to Korea? 4 times over a span of 4 years?
And also, sorry to hear about your grandmother, just based off of the pictures, she looked like she could've been an amazing person overall.
I've been there maybe 5 times over the span of ~24 years.
On May 31 2014 12:30 CecilSunkure wrote: Good god that video is good! So impressed. Thanks for taking the time to write this thing, will read more as time permits... thanks
On May 31 2014 13:36 BigFan wrote:I remember your previous blog from back in August so nice to hear back about how things are. Those Korean Photos are amazing. The ones starting from the stairs up to the night picture with the romantic feeling left me speechless! Need more pictures! Good to hear that you're bonding with the family though I'm not as familiar with your past (other blogs explain it?) so I'm not sure how things used to be. Sorry to hear about your grandmother though At least everyone was around her when she passed away so there was the family atmosphere. As for 500px, I will create an account and follow you if you follow me The website does have a really nice layout which is surprising since I've never heard of it before (would be more popular I would think). Good stuff with the State Exam. Study hard! :D You can watch all 354 photos of my korea trip here http://kyroba.smugmug.com/organize/Unlisted/Vacation/Korea-2013-Komplett
I think 500px is getting more popular each day and tablets having gotten so popular only boosts that
I doub't I'll be a lot of studying anytime soon:p
On May 31 2014 10:16 itsjustatank wrote: followed you on 500px. be warned though that site is incredibly hipster, and thus all my artsy bullshit goes there.
also my condolences about your grandma.
edit: oh wow 500px looks way more appealing than it used to
I think it's really interesting, when you post, to see the "pulses" (views,likes,favourites, comments) of your different photos change. The photo I liked best wasn't nearly as popular as my 2nd bamboo photo, so that was fun to see.
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Magic Woods9326 Posts
You look so much more Korean when you are in Korea o_o, muh brain
Your grandma was baller in those sunglasses.
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Awesome stuff! I've been a photographer here in the States for about 3-4 years,most of my income is from weddings. Very cool to see others work here on TL.
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I always love your pictures and video editing skills. Mad jealous~
What's the breakdown of your family tree by the way? Half German half Korean?
Also, my post activity graph looks very very similar to yours. Nearly identical at many points of the chart haha.
Nice read overall. And sorry to hear about your Grandmother, she looked/sounded like a really sweet person
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Man your Korea photos are beautiful... There's something that one with the toddler in the blue shirt that just puts the biggest smile on my face, and yeah I'm not surprised that the bamboo photo is trending higher on your views and stuff, I was drawn to it when I took a peep at your 500px page. It's not only a beautifully taken photo, but its a subject matter that is mysterious and intriguing to a lot of people as well, as opposed to your skyline photo that you commented being your favorite, it is also beautiful but its much more familiar as well and so it doesn't draw me in the same way.
Thanks for sharing!
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I used to go around the general forum asking people whether or not they live in beautiful places...
Thank you
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konadora
Singapore66060 Posts
wow those are really beautiful photos! i'm a fellow photographer myself and i'm really really awed by your photos! i dont get to take much photos when i return to korea every year or so so these photos really strike a chord with me :') 5/5!
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On May 31 2014 23:52 Grobyc wrote: What's the breakdown of your family tree by the way? Half German half Korean?
dad's German, mother's korean. When are you coming to Germany btw?
On June 01 2014 05:02 imJealous wrote:Man your Korea photos are beautiful... There's something that one with the toddler in the blue shirt that just puts the biggest smile on my face, and yeah I'm not surprised that the bamboo photo is trending higher on your views and stuff, I was drawn to it when I took a peep at your 500px page. It's not only a beautifully taken photo, but its a subject matter that is mysterious and intriguing to a lot of people as well, as opposed to your skyline photo that you commented being your favorite, it is also beautiful but its much more familiar as well and so it doesn't draw me in the same way. Thanks for sharing!
yeah I'd realized that as well. And from my point of view the skyline photo was cool cause I put a bit more effort into it and was glad it turned out well, whereas the bamboo one was a very quick, simple shot.
Btw. here's a similar photo from someone else, this one had an extremely high pulse of 99.8 http://500px.com/photo/63170095/damyang-bamboo-forest-1-by-aaron-choi Cause he used a fisheye you can see trees in their entirety, looks really cool.
Thanks kona
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Everytime I see your name on TL it rings a bell. And after some thinking I remembered: I gave you your SC2 Beta Key! I'm glad I helped someone, who stayed so engaged with the game and the whole community, when I had the chance. I still consider this my biggest contribution. This was over 4 years ago! Congrats on finishing your exams and all the best wishes for the future.
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Germany2685 Posts
Cool stuff. Good job on the video.
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Good to hear from you / read about you. Your pictures are sick and it reminds me that Korea totally is on my travel bucket list.
Sorry about your grandma. She looks like a very happy person on your pictures. Happy in a very zen way. She's got that beauty in age that only few people possess I believe.
Hope to see you some time this year. Are you at HSC? If not, probably Gamescom : )
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fucking married. you seem do be doing well, I'm very happy for! : ) greatings from australia.
serenity
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happy you are doing welll :D
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On June 03 2014 04:10 7mk wrote:Show nested quote +On May 31 2014 23:52 Grobyc wrote: What's the breakdown of your family tree by the way? Half German half Korean?
dad's German, mother's korean. When are you coming to Germany btw? Show nested quote +On June 01 2014 05:02 imJealous wrote:Man your Korea photos are beautiful... There's something that one with the toddler in the blue shirt that just puts the biggest smile on my face, and yeah I'm not surprised that the bamboo photo is trending higher on your views and stuff, I was drawn to it when I took a peep at your 500px page. It's not only a beautifully taken photo, but its a subject matter that is mysterious and intriguing to a lot of people as well, as opposed to your skyline photo that you commented being your favorite, it is also beautiful but its much more familiar as well and so it doesn't draw me in the same way. Thanks for sharing! yeah I'd realized that as well. And from my point of view the skyline photo was cool cause I put a bit more effort into it and was glad it turned out well, whereas the bamboo one was a very quick, simple shot. Btw. here's a similar photo from someone else, this one had an extremely high pulse of 99.8 http://500px.com/photo/63170095/damyang-bamboo-forest-1-by-aaron-choiCause he used a fisheye you can see trees in their entirety, looks really cool. Thanks kona I'll be there in probably about a month or so from now. Not sure which area I'm stopping in first yet though. I think it will either in NW Germany after the Netherlands or come in around Munich after visiting my uncle in Austria. Where abouts are you?
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On June 03 2014 06:55 Mavkar wrote: Everytime I see your name on TL it rings a bell. And after some thinking I remembered: I gave you your SC2 Beta Key! I'm glad I helped someone, who stayed so engaged with the game and the whole community, when I had the chance. I still consider this my biggest contribution. This was over 4 years ago! Congrats on finishing your exams and all the best wishes for the future.
Yeah it only took me a second to realize what I knew your username from ;P
On June 04 2014 18:34 phos4 wrote: fucking married. you seem do be doing well, I'm very happy for! : ) greatings from australia.
serenity Well I'm not the one who married Thanks man, good to hear from you, hope you're doing well in Australia.
On June 03 2014 21:04 drooL wrote: Good to hear from you / read about you. Your pictures are sick and it reminds me that Korea totally is on my travel bucket list.
Sorry about your grandma. She looks like a very happy person on your pictures. Happy in a very zen way. She's got that beauty in age that only few people possess I believe.
Hope to see you some time this year. Are you at HSC? If not, probably Gamescom : )
Won't be at HSC, don't know yet about Gamescom. My passion for Esports is really low atm, don't care much about tournaments anymore. On the other hand seeing old friends again would be nice, we'll see.
On June 05 2014 16:54 Grobyc wrote:Show nested quote +On June 03 2014 04:10 7mk wrote:On May 31 2014 23:52 Grobyc wrote: What's the breakdown of your family tree by the way? Half German half Korean?
dad's German, mother's korean. When are you coming to Germany btw? On June 01 2014 05:02 imJealous wrote:Man your Korea photos are beautiful... There's something that one with the toddler in the blue shirt that just puts the biggest smile on my face, and yeah I'm not surprised that the bamboo photo is trending higher on your views and stuff, I was drawn to it when I took a peep at your 500px page. It's not only a beautifully taken photo, but its a subject matter that is mysterious and intriguing to a lot of people as well, as opposed to your skyline photo that you commented being your favorite, it is also beautiful but its much more familiar as well and so it doesn't draw me in the same way. Thanks for sharing! yeah I'd realized that as well. And from my point of view the skyline photo was cool cause I put a bit more effort into it and was glad it turned out well, whereas the bamboo one was a very quick, simple shot. Btw. here's a similar photo from someone else, this one had an extremely high pulse of 99.8 http://500px.com/photo/63170095/damyang-bamboo-forest-1-by-aaron-choiCause he used a fisheye you can see trees in their entirety, looks really cool. Thanks kona I'll be there in probably about a month or so from now. Not sure which area I'm stopping in first yet though. I think it will either in NW Germany after the Netherlands or come in around Munich after visiting my uncle in Austria. Where abouts are you?
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Ehehe i'm gonna play baduk now!
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Wow these photos. Are you a professional photographer?
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Sick video! Your friend is really lucky, good job !
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