Video Games
All games are priced the same at retail stores: Best Buy, Amazon, Circuit City, Walmart, etc.
Burnout Paradise (Xbox 360) $25
http://www.amazon.com/Burnout-Paradise-Xbox-360/dp/B000MUXLOK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1228523736&sr=1-2
Left For Dead (Xbox 360) $60
http://www.amazon.com/Left-4-Dead-Xbox-360/dp/B000QY9C90/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1228523770&sr=1-3
Tales of Vesperia (Xbox 360) $56.99
http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Vesperia-Xbox-360/dp/B0015HZLVA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1228523794&sr=1-1
Play and Charge Kit Xbox 360 - $14
http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-Black-Play-Charge-Kit/dp/B000OYMYZQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1228523536&sr=8-2
Battery Pack for Xbox 360 - $12
http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-Rechargeable-Controller-Battery-White/dp/B000B6MLSC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1228523847&sr=1-1
Musical
Acoustic Guitar Stings $6
http://www.amazon.com/Martin-Strings-Acoustic-Guitar-M150/dp/B0002CZT16/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=musical-instruments&qid=1228523916&sr=1-5
Distortion Pedal - Metal Muff
http://www.amazon.com/Electro-Harmonix-Metal-Muff-Distortion-Pedal/dp/B000MWWT6E/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=musical-instruments&qid=1228523455&sr=8-1
Electronics
8GB Walkman® Video MP3 Player
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&productId=8198552921665224910&XID=A:1225267:10396361:u0t0f0fp16201c0s525:CJ&ref=http://www.slickdeals.net/
$140 - $70 (with code WLKMN50) = $70 with free shipping.
PC Monitor (Widescreen) -> not sure yet which one
Other
Dirt Bike gloves (Blue) -Durhamtown/Amazon
Dirt Bike Helmet Durhamtown/Amazon
Water Pouch for Camel Pack Durhamtown/Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/CamelBak-Omega-HydroTanium-Replacement-Reservoir/dp/B0019D78IE/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=sporting-goods&qid=1228524169&sr=8-1
Tripod (any will be good)
Camcorder Battery $30
http://www.eastcoastphoto.com/nav/itempage.asp?itemid=6812
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Monday, August 27, 2007
So I make it into Seoul the city where the university i am attending is a couple of days ago.
I check into the hostel and go out to look for a place to eat dinner.
I walk for about 15 minuets and find that pretty much everything is closed. So after the 15 min, I start to hear music. I walk towards where that was and BAM! I find myself in the middle of an outdoor rock show.
There was a huge stage set up outside this shopping center and there were bands playing!!
A bunch of Koreans were out in front dancing and having a good time. Everyone was soaking wet since there was a hose that everyone used to fill up their waterbottles and just throw at everyone in front of the stage.
My post to bill sums it up
I just got back from an outdoor punk show.. it was sooo awesome. 4 bands, one rock, one ska, one heavy metal, and one really good punk rock band,]
since it was outside, someone got hoses and everyone kept filling up waterbottles andbuckets and drenching everyone. me and two off duty GI:s that i met showed them how an american rock show does it. we got a huge mosh pit going, then circle pits, had some hardcore dancing, and topped it off with some stage dives.
i skanked with sooo many hot chicks it was unbelievable.
haha i took my shirt off after half of the show and since korea is like it is, i had a couple of people come up to me and be like, you naked! and i:m like yeeeeah! then i threw my shirt up and would go start a mosh.
it was tight.
but i ate grinded pig earlier for lunch and that was a bad idea.
the grinded pig was pretty bad too. i:ll never eat that again.
The day after all this rock show madness, I went to a palace in seoul then met a guy when I was taking the subway back home. It just so happened that he is a real estate developer in seoul and we talked for about an hour about real estate and the politics and economics of seoul and korea.
I met him again today and he bought me lunch at this really nice place by my hostel. He used to work at a global company called SK Telecom until he quit and started his real estate company and during his employment at SK, he would often go to Guatemala to meet clients. He has been studying english for many years and graduated at Seoul National University (the top university in Korea) with a Masters in Textile engineering.
I just think it:s really cool that I`ve been able to meet two koreans so far who enjoy talking to me so much that they buy me lunch so that they can talk to me longer.
Haha, I told him some of my windsurfing stories about being in Cape Sand Blas and windsurfing with the stingrays and when I was in Busan and I saw the 4 foot wide jellyfish monster.
Today I went to the electronics market in Yongsan. What did I find there? The worlds largest collection of
#1 PC parts and componets and laptops and custom made video cards (made to your order!) and everything you could think of that relates to a computer including millions of styles of mice
#2 Pirated Dvds. I could not believe how many pirated DVDs there were everywhere in this area. You can pick up 6 for $10.00. It was just crazy. I also found tons of Ps2 games but I couldn:t tell if they were legit or not, but they probably were since I didnt: see to much console modding advertisted (although i could probably find it if I looked)
#3 Display laptops playing obviously pirated/downloaded movies. Every place that had a laptop was playing a movie on it and sure enough, it was obvious that the movies were illegally downloaded haha.
I noticed these two particually;
Rush.Hour.3.PROPER.TELESYNC.XviD-DELAY
and Next.DVDRip.XviD-DoNE
In perfect view above the movie are these filenames...I thought it was pretty amusing.
But after reading some info with a google search *korea piracy* I realized I should have expected it.
Tommrow I get to check into the university. That means no more pillows filled with woodchips (It:s like i`m treated like hobie!)
ps the ` is located in a really wierd place on the keyboard so it comes out as ; a lot
I check into the hostel and go out to look for a place to eat dinner.
I walk for about 15 minuets and find that pretty much everything is closed. So after the 15 min, I start to hear music. I walk towards where that was and BAM! I find myself in the middle of an outdoor rock show.
There was a huge stage set up outside this shopping center and there were bands playing!!
A bunch of Koreans were out in front dancing and having a good time. Everyone was soaking wet since there was a hose that everyone used to fill up their waterbottles and just throw at everyone in front of the stage.
My post to bill sums it up
I just got back from an outdoor punk show.. it was sooo awesome. 4 bands, one rock, one ska, one heavy metal, and one really good punk rock band,]
since it was outside, someone got hoses and everyone kept filling up waterbottles andbuckets and drenching everyone. me and two off duty GI:s that i met showed them how an american rock show does it. we got a huge mosh pit going, then circle pits, had some hardcore dancing, and topped it off with some stage dives.
i skanked with sooo many hot chicks it was unbelievable.
haha i took my shirt off after half of the show and since korea is like it is, i had a couple of people come up to me and be like, you naked! and i:m like yeeeeah! then i threw my shirt up and would go start a mosh.
it was tight.
but i ate grinded pig earlier for lunch and that was a bad idea.
the grinded pig was pretty bad too. i:ll never eat that again.
The day after all this rock show madness, I went to a palace in seoul then met a guy when I was taking the subway back home. It just so happened that he is a real estate developer in seoul and we talked for about an hour about real estate and the politics and economics of seoul and korea.
I met him again today and he bought me lunch at this really nice place by my hostel. He used to work at a global company called SK Telecom until he quit and started his real estate company and during his employment at SK, he would often go to Guatemala to meet clients. He has been studying english for many years and graduated at Seoul National University (the top university in Korea) with a Masters in Textile engineering.
I just think it:s really cool that I`ve been able to meet two koreans so far who enjoy talking to me so much that they buy me lunch so that they can talk to me longer.
Haha, I told him some of my windsurfing stories about being in Cape Sand Blas and windsurfing with the stingrays and when I was in Busan and I saw the 4 foot wide jellyfish monster.
Today I went to the electronics market in Yongsan. What did I find there? The worlds largest collection of
#1 PC parts and componets and laptops and custom made video cards (made to your order!) and everything you could think of that relates to a computer including millions of styles of mice
#2 Pirated Dvds. I could not believe how many pirated DVDs there were everywhere in this area. You can pick up 6 for $10.00. It was just crazy. I also found tons of Ps2 games but I couldn:t tell if they were legit or not, but they probably were since I didnt: see to much console modding advertisted (although i could probably find it if I looked)
#3 Display laptops playing obviously pirated/downloaded movies. Every place that had a laptop was playing a movie on it and sure enough, it was obvious that the movies were illegally downloaded haha.
I noticed these two particually;
Rush.Hour.3.PROPER.TELESYNC.XviD-DELAY
and Next.DVDRip.XviD-DoNE
In perfect view above the movie are these filenames...I thought it was pretty amusing.
But after reading some info with a google search *korea piracy* I realized I should have expected it.
Tommrow I get to check into the university. That means no more pillows filled with woodchips (It:s like i`m treated like hobie!)
ps the ` is located in a really wierd place on the keyboard so it comes out as ; a lot
Monday, August 20, 2007
So after I got off the bullet train I was in Kyoto. The whole station was soooo big. It was like a full scale shopping mall mixed with 4 train stations and a subway stop. I accidentally got off at the wrong floor and ended up lost in the middle of the station.
But this isn't like being lost in a train station that you would imagine, it was a full scale open mall. So I was lost in a sea of stores and clothes and mix and match english words and phrases.
After about 15 minuets of wondering about I actually find an exit. It may not sound like a long time, but I have my pack on and it is really really heavy. It felt like I was just going on and on for hours in a sea of high fashion clothes.
So once I get out I make my 50 minuet walking trip to the hostel (train station - subway - walk).
I get out at the wrong exit and have to walk through downtown super crowded Kyoto high fashion district.
Once I get to the hostel, I meet up with some people that were from Seattle and we go out with a english -> japanese pickup lines book.
Haha that was fun, going around the city at night with a whole bunch of pick up lines (clean and dirty). hahaha.
The next day we go out on bikes and see some temples and joke around.
The next night I hang out with these two guys from the hostel that were Canadian and from England.
We talked for a long time about the differences we have growing up like school cliqs clicks not sure how to spell it.
The guy from england was telling us all these stories about how the gypsies would beat everyone up at high school verses the jocks, and he had all these different British terms for these groups of people and it was awesome to hear.
So we kept talking for about 6 hours about this and that. It was really cool to be around these guys and compare how we were taught world history in school and stuff like that.
The day after that I found the scariest place in Kyoto on bike.
It was an 8 feet high storm drain that was about 12 feet wide.
I took my bike, and went through it. I probably went about 1/4 of a mile through it until I just couldn't go any farther. It was so freaking scary. It was pitch black and there were pipes running across the width of the place at times so I would have to duck my head while riding.
I tried to take some pictures and video, but they don't do justice to how scary it was. But I'll tell you this, it was freaking awesome. At some points in the storm drain there were adjacent pipes that you could look down into and see light, but the thing was you would see light so far away that it is barely a glimmer.
It was awesome. And scary.
Farther down (that day I rode the bike I rented for 6 hours straight right out of the city and into the rural mountains) I found a small dam and had a break at the creek. I sat down took some photos and enjoyed the pleasant weather that the sunset had brought.
The rural areas past the city were by far the best part of the city. I'm beginning to notice a pattern that the areas I like are rural in Korea and not the city areas. That goes for back home too, but I'm not surprised granted where I was able to grow up.
After I left Japan, I tried to go to Yeosu, but had to leave immediately after I got there since there was no tourist information center.
Without that I can't find out the bus schedule of get a map. So I had to leave and go to Mokpo.
I spent 3 days in Mokpo and the first was spent being sick and it was absolutly horrible, all I wanted to do was go back to Seoul and go to the dorm.
By the third day I felt good, climbed a mountain, filmed some video and headed off to where I am now, Jeonju.
Being sick just made me want to give up traveling and quit. I guess that just means that I need to try my hardest not to get sick so I won't feel that way.
But this isn't like being lost in a train station that you would imagine, it was a full scale open mall. So I was lost in a sea of stores and clothes and mix and match english words and phrases.
After about 15 minuets of wondering about I actually find an exit. It may not sound like a long time, but I have my pack on and it is really really heavy. It felt like I was just going on and on for hours in a sea of high fashion clothes.
So once I get out I make my 50 minuet walking trip to the hostel (train station - subway - walk).
I get out at the wrong exit and have to walk through downtown super crowded Kyoto high fashion district.
Once I get to the hostel, I meet up with some people that were from Seattle and we go out with a english -> japanese pickup lines book.
Haha that was fun, going around the city at night with a whole bunch of pick up lines (clean and dirty). hahaha.
The next day we go out on bikes and see some temples and joke around.
The next night I hang out with these two guys from the hostel that were Canadian and from England.
We talked for a long time about the differences we have growing up like school cliqs clicks not sure how to spell it.
The guy from england was telling us all these stories about how the gypsies would beat everyone up at high school verses the jocks, and he had all these different British terms for these groups of people and it was awesome to hear.
So we kept talking for about 6 hours about this and that. It was really cool to be around these guys and compare how we were taught world history in school and stuff like that.
The day after that I found the scariest place in Kyoto on bike.
It was an 8 feet high storm drain that was about 12 feet wide.
I took my bike, and went through it. I probably went about 1/4 of a mile through it until I just couldn't go any farther. It was so freaking scary. It was pitch black and there were pipes running across the width of the place at times so I would have to duck my head while riding.
I tried to take some pictures and video, but they don't do justice to how scary it was. But I'll tell you this, it was freaking awesome. At some points in the storm drain there were adjacent pipes that you could look down into and see light, but the thing was you would see light so far away that it is barely a glimmer.
It was awesome. And scary.
Farther down (that day I rode the bike I rented for 6 hours straight right out of the city and into the rural mountains) I found a small dam and had a break at the creek. I sat down took some photos and enjoyed the pleasant weather that the sunset had brought.
The rural areas past the city were by far the best part of the city. I'm beginning to notice a pattern that the areas I like are rural in Korea and not the city areas. That goes for back home too, but I'm not surprised granted where I was able to grow up.
After I left Japan, I tried to go to Yeosu, but had to leave immediately after I got there since there was no tourist information center.
Without that I can't find out the bus schedule of get a map. So I had to leave and go to Mokpo.
I spent 3 days in Mokpo and the first was spent being sick and it was absolutly horrible, all I wanted to do was go back to Seoul and go to the dorm.
By the third day I felt good, climbed a mountain, filmed some video and headed off to where I am now, Jeonju.
Being sick just made me want to give up traveling and quit. I guess that just means that I need to try my hardest not to get sick so I won't feel that way.
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Japan was really cool.
I left from Busan on a hydrofoil boat that moved almost as fast (maybe 3/4 the speed) of the bullet train.
After the three hour trip, I arrived in Fukuoka and walked around. Actually I was running as fast as I could to get to my hostel before 9:00pm when reception closes. I had a hard time figuring out where I was since the streets in Japan are hardly if ever marked. I have no idea how the people there get around when they go to a place they arn't familiar with.
The hostel was pretty nice and I scored a single bed, which I would later give up for 12, then 24 mixed bunked dorms later on my trip. The third hostel I stayed in was terrible too. It was so bad I was surprised when I actually had hot water when I took a shower in the morning (and we were limited to one shower pass per stay, so I had to choose wisely).
I found tons of cool arcades in Fukuoka though. They were AWESOME! They had everything and Konami was a major player so there were lots of trademark games like Devil May Cry Arcade shoots and the like. That place was so awesome. And it was on the top floor of a mega tech mart, so the whole place was full on all this new tech (cams tvs movies dj equipment, etc.) It was awesome.
To get to Kyoto I had to dish out some huge cash to get there by train (bullet train). So I get into Kyoto and I'm off to find the hostel I booked. It's soooo hot during the day that I'm starting to get dizzy and just had to quit walking after a while. Of course, not being able to read the street signs just made everything harder.
I'll have to continue later, I'm really thirsty.
I left from Busan on a hydrofoil boat that moved almost as fast (maybe 3/4 the speed) of the bullet train.
After the three hour trip, I arrived in Fukuoka and walked around. Actually I was running as fast as I could to get to my hostel before 9:00pm when reception closes. I had a hard time figuring out where I was since the streets in Japan are hardly if ever marked. I have no idea how the people there get around when they go to a place they arn't familiar with.
The hostel was pretty nice and I scored a single bed, which I would later give up for 12, then 24 mixed bunked dorms later on my trip. The third hostel I stayed in was terrible too. It was so bad I was surprised when I actually had hot water when I took a shower in the morning (and we were limited to one shower pass per stay, so I had to choose wisely).
I found tons of cool arcades in Fukuoka though. They were AWESOME! They had everything and Konami was a major player so there were lots of trademark games like Devil May Cry Arcade shoots and the like. That place was so awesome. And it was on the top floor of a mega tech mart, so the whole place was full on all this new tech (cams tvs movies dj equipment, etc.) It was awesome.
To get to Kyoto I had to dish out some huge cash to get there by train (bullet train). So I get into Kyoto and I'm off to find the hostel I booked. It's soooo hot during the day that I'm starting to get dizzy and just had to quit walking after a while. Of course, not being able to read the street signs just made everything harder.
I'll have to continue later, I'm really thirsty.
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