Monday, July 23, 2007

An evening for Seoul searching!

I wonder whether i am in a "foreign" and "prosperous" country. Atleast the subway ride didnt convince me that i am indeed in one of the few "developed" economies of the world. The stench at the subway [though a flavour different from the one that u would come across in chennai/mumbai]. The general crowd behaviour. The random beggar inside the compartment. Even the guy who sells those nifty things during a train journey. An almost rickety ride through the shantier parts of the country. [though the reasons for the last one are understandable]. Atleast you dont find the compartments jam packed. Nor would you be able to find that sack-in-the-corner where u ll try innocently, to rest ur ass.
Some nice things that you would find are pretty females wearing 4 inch long "shorts". And a heterosexual couple expressing their attraction towards each other more liberally.
It is also interesting to notice the density of shops in general. Even the Suwon subway station includes a massive shopping mall. The under-ground tunnels used to cross roads are massive shopping mazes as well. perhaps thats all cuz of capitalism, prosperity, higher circulation of money etc.
Perhaps the best[most embarassing for me as well] part of the day was when we banged into a korean who spoke much better hindi than i. he apparently had come all the way down to delhi university to pickup english and hindi language courses for 6 months. nice and exciting to meet a person who can speak hindi in korea. even more exciting when u bring in a dozen sweet looking females into the picture. they seemed all geed up to try their hand at hindi when they saw us.and seemed quite liberal about handshakes. and hugs. :) they were promoting some international youth film festival happening in the adjacent movie hall.
we got a free ticket to a romanian movie. which portrayed life and times during that communist/dictator/both ceaucescu's rule. movie was quite nice. [even excluding the juicy teenage sex that was part of the movie :)]not necessarily refreshing.
What was nice to see while we were returning home at 11pm was that it looked as lively as at 6pm. [Perhaps livelier. Especially when i noticed a bevy of women , standing in front of Hotel Ritz, twitching their feet the moment they saw us :D] [ I slept as late as 330am. :) ]
As u would ve noticed, i am struggling to end it in a half decent way. So. THE END. Huh!

PS: Even a Nike Showroom in downtown Seoul which looked like a proper man utd(read park ji sung) exclusive outlet doesnt have named jersey's for sale :( they apparently dont have the license to print the names or something like that.

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