Last Sunday i traveled to 영등포 (youngdungpo) for the first time to meet Homin, whom i've been e-mailing with for a while now. The funny thing was she was standing behind the same pillar i was at when i texted her that i had arrived. As soon as i sent it she stepped in front of me. When i first saw her i was surprised to see how tall she was (she's about might height give or take an inch {i'm 5'10"}), because for no particular reason i thought she would be shorter than me. She was helping me shop for clothes for when i meet Sun-Mi later in the month. She took me to three different department stores, and suggested that i get something light to lighten my complexion. After a bit of window shopping she was finally hungry enough to have lunch with me. so we had some 갈비, with cider. After lunch we continued to window shopping, where i actually bought some clothes but nothing for my meeting with Sun-MiI told her earlier i had spent some money on a new camera because i wanted to take her picture when we met. But i told her that i would be returning in two weeks to buy what she had suggested for me. She said it sounded like fun and asked to join me again when i returned, of course i agreed. These are only a few of the pics that i took of her, there is one where she is wearing a Chicago cubs cap but she made me promise not to post it on facebook. I haven't posted it on facebook but i am considering posting it here. But if i do i'm afarid she'd get mad and won't let me take any more pictures of her in the future.

Photos coming soon

Last Night i went to 하이마트 (High Mart), and bought a new camera. Nothing special just something small and cheap so i can take pictures when i meet some people later this month. I ended up getting a Samsung VLUU ES60. I did a quick image search on yahoo.kr but couldn't find anything. I did find a few links that will show you my camera model. I really like the first link cause it has gundams with the camera. The only difference is that my camera isn't red, mine's black.

http://www.samsungimaging.co.kr/learn/forum/message/view.do?boardName=92&messageId=937&messageNumber=5#5

While i was looking for more links that would lead to pics of my camera (so i could show you which camera i bought), i came across this site for another samsung camera this one is for the Samsung VLUU PL150. I'm guess it popped up in the search cause it's a "VLUU" model (or series, whatever you want to call it). Anyway the reason i'm posting this link cause i thought the video was kinda interesting. I just happen to be a sucker for cute girls and i can never get enough of photos of cute girls. For any of yous who are reading this right now and getting excited don't, it's only a link of a girl taking a pic of herself while she's at a coffee shop.

http://popco.net/zboard/zboard.php?id=dica_forum_samsung&no=1862

First Day of School

Today was the first day of school, but my lazy butt still hasn't bought a camera since sports day last semester (sometime in August), when i dropped my camera and broke it. So this is a pic from when i first arrived at the school. As it turns out, the new first grade teacher, apparently my new "co-teacher/handler" has just informed me that english classes won't start until some time next week. So as for this week i'll be doing more in school studying. Which also means i probably won't be meeting my new "co-teacher/english conversation teacher" till that time.

But i've decided to buy a new camera this weekend for sure. Since i'm going to meet 호민 (Homin) for the first time (a person i met on KoreanCupid), so i would really like to document this meeting. I've decided that i would have to go to 용산 (youngsan) to find a cheap camera. hopefully one that is compatable with my memory card (but more than likely won't be). Also becasue later in the month i'm going to meet a friend from college whom i've haven't seen in almost three years. For which i would like to have a camera on hand as well. More than likely i'm going to have to use 삼성카드 (credit card) despite already owing 2.2 million won on it, but it's not my fault that i owe that much. When i set up the account they were suppose to pull payments out directly from my bank on the agreed date. Which they have not done, so as it seem i will have to make a payment via telephone. Anyway i'm a little nervous since i know that most people in 용산 want cash, but i'm saving all my cash for when i meet both people. Anyway, the sales people in Youngsan are vultures only wanting cash. Who are quick to tell people to go to an ATM to get cash. So if all else fails i'll go to 망우 to E-Mart to buy a camera and all the accessories needed.

An Introduction of sorts (more like explanaition)

I know it's been a long time since i wrote anything here, but that's mainly cause i don't digital camera to upload pics so you (whoever reads my blog) knows what i'm talking about. So what i want to do now is explain the name of my blog. First is "Shuf" which is shortened verson of my nick name, Sheffy. How "shuf" came out of sheffy i don't know, it's just what my friends called me alternating between sheffy and shuf. (sheffy was just one of the many nick name's i had, in High school i was called Kaneda, you know like from anime "Akira", okay lets get back to the topic) The reason i chose to use shuf in the title was also becasue i didn't want people to just google sheffy and find it. As for "Way Of The" is a parodoy of "Way Of The Samurai" and "Way Of The Intercepting Fist". I really like asian pop culture so i wanted to incorporate that into the title of my blog. Bruce Lee has been a big inspiration to my life becasue of awesome personality on film. As well as some of his philosphy as i got older in life (i'm not that old, i'm only 26 right now). Originally i wanted to name this blog "Last Of The Shufs", again another parody of a film title LAST OF THE MOHICANS. Instead i chose "Way Of The Shuf" becasue of Bruce Lee. Part of his philosphy in relation to teaching and learning, where one should teach what they "learned" as opposed to teaching what one has been taught. I orginally wanted to use this blog to not only say what i did during the day but explain myself as to why i made the decision that i did. From everyday things like why i bought a baseball hat (becasue team, color, or maybe becasue it was used as part of the costume for a character in a film etc). And Hopfully philosphy of my own would appear. I had been wanting to write a blog for a while but hadn't started one because many people were writing blogs and it seemed trendy to me, and if you know me you know i hate trends or that i get into them really late. But I already mention the person i thought was most responsiable for me creating a blog in my very first blog entry. Kei, whos blog i constantly read because of her cleverness and unique style. I find her blog very entertaining and only hope that readers will find my blog as entertaining as i find hers. Becasue i enjoy her blog so much she was listed as one of my "heros" in myspace (i say "was" because myspace changed it's format, which i hate and now i'm no longer sure if the heros section is still there, also i rarley log onto it anymore because i have more actual friends on facebook and Kei just happens to be one of them)

killing time

Yesterday a lot of students were absent from school. My teacher told me that it was cause lots of students have the cold, that afternoon the teacher had a meeting about closing the school for fear of the SWINE FLU (these people live in fear of that thing). Today i got picked up at 9am instead of the usual 8am for work. Which gave me about a half an hour to lift some weights. Today at school there weren't any students, yet all the teachers still had to come. I spent most of the day on the internet looking at movie trailers. One that caught my attention was "LOVE" which i thought seemed visually interesting. At the end of the trailers it said that it was and Angles and Airwaves film which i found even more interesting. Having not heard them for a while i decided to download some music from them. My favorite song from them being "Secret Crowds". Yet for some strange reason i felt really satisfied listening to it, it gave me a strange feeling of being at home. Writing about it now, i remember the first time i heard the song. I was walking in Carson Pirie Scott at Ridge Mall. The funny thing was i was in the women's section when i heard it and i actually stayed there the whole time while the song was playing. I'm actually listening to it now as i write this entry. Here's the video (i think it's a new one, the one i remember they were playing in a desert).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKCX_Mi0unI

Movie Review and More

(side note: i currently don't have any internet at my place. Only at the school i teach, and i'm only supposed to be on it for research for my class)

Today is the school festival at the school i teach, but i didn't receive a scheduel and missed my Advanced English class performance. So i decided to not watch the rest. Most of the day i've been in the teacher's office watching the K-1 world MAX
2009 final four matches. Congratulations to Giorgio Petrosyan for becoming the 2009 champion


Last Saturday i went to Yongsan station, like any big subway station in Korea there it was attached to a shopping mall. As i was shown what this mall had to offer i found a spot that sold bootleg DVDs. As i skimmed through the notebook of American movies i was surprised to find two movies i was looking for. The first being PUSH directed by Paul McGuigan who also diredted, LUCKY NUMBER SLEVEN and WICKER PARK. Having only seen "SLEVEN" i and the trailer to "PUSH" i had high hopes for this film. In the end i can't say it was awesome, or that it sucked but my price of 3,000won was well spent. I think i will pick up an original copy to see the making of the film to try to pick up some pointers.
The film quickly references World War II, where pepople with physic abalites are turned into soliders. I was somewhat dissapointed with the cinemagotraphy of this film. The shots seemd somewhat plain to me, and i didn't care for the close ups and two shots used throughout the film. Which was probably due that i really didn't find the characters too interesting so i didn't care for the drama they were going through. The one character i did enjoy was called "Victor" who was a "mover" the sames as Chris Evans' character, but you only see him in breifly in the film using his abalites. If you like Sci-Fi action movies might want to rent this instead of buying it. -As for my film review, it's more of my personal comment on the film. What i like is different from what you might like. If you watch the film you might enjoy it the first time, but if you skip it you won't be missing anything. Although they did leave it open for a sequel.

The one film that i was happy to find was THE SOLOIST. I remeber seeing the trailer before i left Chicago and when i heard that the DVD was out i asked my friends to mail me a copy (all of which told me to go to Amazon, what are friends for eh). When i picked up a copy the person who was with me told me that Jamie Foxx acted his ass off. I thought he was good, but not great. He's just another comedian turned dramatic actor. I'm not trying to put the guy down, i loved him in Peter Berg's THE KINGDOM and like him in MIAMI VICE. What i meant is that he's just another comedian turned dramatic actor, the best example i can think of is Tom Hanks. Anyway he's good in the film, and so is Robert Downey Jr. This film is about a journalist (Downey's character)who hears music, after seeing who is playing the music he decides to write a story about the homeless man (Foxx's character). He then decideds to help him by giving him a cello that he can play. As Downey interacts more with Foxx he slowly realizes that he needs help and more importantly realizes that there are many people in the streets of LA that need help just as much. There's a bit more to the story as well, Foxx's character is a bit unstable and Downey refuses to take full responsibilities. The film is good and i suggest you watch it and experience it for yourself.

Re-introduction!!!

a while ago i read something on my favorite blog (to which a link is found at the bottom of my blog). People who have blogs are slackers... or something to that effect. I'm not an exception when it comes to that.
Anyway i recently graduated from columbia college chicago, my major was cinematography. prior to graduation i took a trip to Korea becasue i was thinking of pursuing a career in the Korean film industry. I was offered a job but turned it down in order to graduate. When i returned with my degree the company had dissolved and no longer had a job waiting for me. I contaceted the few people i knew in the film industry, one of whom wanted to hire me but couldn't because my Korean is very limited. Now i found a job teaching english, trying to develop my Korean language abality (but have yet to really study) and hopefully after a year or two of teaching i'll then be able apply for a job in the film industry. So in the mean time this blog will be about my adventures in Korea. Granted some of the pics i might post will probably be a bit old since i recently broke my camera (i don't plan on buying a new one until November or December), on sports days at the school that i teach at.
In the meantime, read some of my old blogs and wait for new ones. If you have any comments pleas feel free to write them.!!!