But somehow Korea is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. On instant coffee?‌

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We are visiting my mother-in-law in Seoul, staying in her apartment in Mok-dong. She throws nothing away, indeed, why should she, and the top of the fridge seems to be an appliance grave-yard. I stand on my tip-toes

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"I only have a couple of things." he explains. "I only have a couple of things." I show him.

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Richard, Jayda and Jack, as well as Jayda's sister Mal, and her boyfriend Chris (or Peter or Brad or something) come to visit. Jack is the only one that I invited, but he brought the others

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I go hiking south of Prague with Dirk, Attila, Mandi, and David. We walk for two hours, have lunch at a small village restaurant run by Michal Karonski, and then walk for another two hours. Attila is whining

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This month, the coffee in the office has changed from putting five crowns in a cup every time you have a coffee, to putting a tick by you name on a list stuck on a wall beside the

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Keevash gets the Birmingham post-doc. I get a NSERC post-doc fellowship.  It easily beats the Korean one, but how do I convince Eunjoo of this? I will spend 2 years at SFU. Turns out that Eunjoo expected this,

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I write "Get out of town!" on a brick and throw it through a randomly chosen window. Inside, a strong-jawed but gentle-eyed single father is sitting on a sofa making notes on stack of papers while

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