Hanguk Habibi

No, this isn't a post about commuting by foot in the city.

It's currently 9:35am. I have been rudely woken - for the third day in a row - by Korean workmen drilling through the concrete/pavement outside my bedroom window. It's probably the 4th time that this has happened this year. I live on the second floor so the noise is VERY audible. There are even vibrations running through the building! Needless to say, since I have had about 3 hours sleep, I am less than impressed. The question pressing at my lips: "Why can't Koreans ever fucking do anything right?" Brand me racist if you like, but think about it. How many times you been fucked around - at the bank, immigration, government office, and elsewhere? Koreans in general have NFI what they're doing. HELLO? This is your JOB?! I don't understand this lack of general knowledge. Even Koreans complain about it...

I think one of the biggest problems is, they really don't give a shit about their job. They hate what they do, and their miserable existence. They shuffle through each day, dreaming of the day when they can leave Korea. [Am I wrong?] They are jealous of foreigners, with their [supposedly] perfect life. Foreigners are blanketly branded leeches, here in Korea to suck profit, only to have the freedom of going back to their wonderful country whenever they want. [The fact is that Korea is probably the most difficult country for a foreigner to live in Eastern Asia. Also, just as not all Koreans are totally incompetent, not all foreigners residing in Korea are social outcasts, attacking the purity of Korean bloodlines 'cause they can't get laid back home, here to make money then drink it away every weekend. No, not all foreigners are like that. But that in itself is worthy of another blog on another day. :) ]

As for the digging occurring less than five metres from where I am sitting, I don't know wth is going on there, but you can't tell me that the damn pipes are so inferior in quality that they need replacing four times in one year! Mind you, this being Itaewon, and generally lacking in services due to the high foreigner population [did you know that caller ID is not available in Itaewon? wtf?], I wouldn't be surprised if this "attitude" resulted in even lower levels of workmanship than usual. It could also be a case of just giving workers something to do. I was once told by someone that in the past, workers were contracted to build buildings only to demolish them on completion. Wtf? Crazy Korea.

Either which way, these ponderings don't help my current dilemma - slept deprivation. *yawn* Ciao, people.