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Today, I joined the Samamtb club for a ride to Kanweyeol Mountain near Eonyang.

The mountain is is 1,100 meters high! I didn’t know this when I turned up for the ride.
So with a sense of foreboding we started up with myself bravely guarding the rear (b/c I was too knacked too keep up). Fortunally various club members stayed behind to encourage me.

Once we got to the top it was all worth it

Quick break (well for me, not for them) for a snack, take in the view

Then down a rocky gravel forest access road until we met the main road.
Then we hit a small uphill section. I didn’t know how far the section was and my legs were spent from the climb so it was agony. But it was only a small section and to my delight we were then at the top of another mountain on the main road with 10 minutes of switchbacks ahead of us … yeee .. haaa ….

After that it was a mainly flat section back to the carpark. Halfway back we came upon the making of a giant bonfire. I would have loved to have seen this go up.

When I got back to Ulsan, I went to my health club and had a spa which was ever so relaxing. Then back home. An hour later I had a snooze on my bed and work up at 5am Monday !

Saw Kiss Kiss Bang Bang today. Haven’t laughed so hard for a long time. Its a great action / comedy movie

The ultimate example of Korean and Japanese cultural cooperation.

I have been experimenting with Flickr, a photo sharing website and how best to integrate it into my blog.

My blog software is WordPress 2 and I use the FAlbum plugin and the K2 theme which makes integrating Flickr much easier.

So far the Photos page works wonderfully. Now you can look at my Flickr sets from my website, but for some reason the sidebar preview does not work correctly other then in Firefox.

Just finnished watching the Shogun mini series from 1980. What a blast, a lot of fun.

Time to go to bed, in five hours I have to be ready for a 40 – 60 km bike ride with the local MTB club. Then after that to the gym and a spa and sauna.

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I have been here in Ulsan for two and a half years and I still have not been on the stupid ferris wheel.

I think it is about time I do so as the view seems to be quite nice.

Just finnished watch the entire first series of Lost.

I love it. Such a great show.

I decided that the characters I hate the most, commit their sins because of one common factor, love!
One for the love of a woman and her child, the other for his son.

I have now caught up to series two, having just finnished watching Episode 12.
Series two is every bit as good as the first, I just hope that unlike the X-Files this series finishes with a clear storyline intact rather then making stuff up as they go along b/c they never expected the series to last so long.

A Humid Flinders

Flinders Street station is my favorite landmark in Melbourne. It is the main train station for suburban trains
The picture makes me homesick. The pink sky looks so warm and inviting.
Only seven more months and I will see that southern sky again.

Went for a big ride on Saturday to Ilsan beaech, had subway for lunch.
Sunday I went with the MTB club for a ride. It was a lot of fun, but I gave up 3/4 of the way through the ride b/c I was hungry and I had run out of water.
I was also afraid of “bonking” (exhausting the glucose supplies in your body) so I turned around and went home.

My new iPod looks just like this one. The lanyard (necklace) is very useful. But I think they should have copied the Iriver lanyard design and let the earpieces attach to the lanyard.
But aside from that it is an excellent design I can control the iPod while riding my bicycle (yes, I know a dum idea, but …) easily.