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A 27 year old Australian KAD, currently in the midst of a biotech Ph.D at Seoul National University.
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Meeting the Mayor of Seoul: Courtesy of TNM Media

A good way to get in the firing line of serendipity is to seek out groups of people with whom one enjoyably chills. For me, those groups have been Toastmasters (a public speaking club) and Nanoomi, a...

07 feb 12

Part-Time Work in Korea

Long ago, a guy I once met told me that he liked baseball because it reminded him of life itself. For example, having a successful date would begin by first obtaining agreement from a second party th...

02 feb 12

Poop and Parenting

Life with a baby is a journey of discovery. Its mostly uphill, but every once in a while the view gets a little better. Childhood development is truly rewarding to observe, but a baby wailing at 3am ...

29 dec 11

Baengy Bathtime!

It could be said that babies are like an industrial processing system for milk, from which useful nutrients are extracted for growth and development.Liquid output is then excreted from every orifice ...

06 dec 11

Ken Wong Comes to Korea

"Were all passengers on the ship of life... and my ship is heading to the realm of old people."- in a recent letter to a friendAround 10 years B.B (before Baengy), one of my closest friends w...

09 nov 11

Strange Encounters of the Infant Kind

The other day at work, I was looking at photos of my daughter when my phone rang. The caller ID indicated it was my wife. I picked up the call but it cut off, so I rang back."Baengy dialled your ...

28 okt 11

Hey Cockalorum!

Aye 1 (also ay)noun.An affirmative vote or voter.Ex. The ayes outnumber the nays on this issue.Hey interjection.An expression indicating surprise, dismay, discovery, etc, or calling for anothers...

12 okt 11

100 Days After The Big Bang

The feeling of grogginess experienced by someone who has just awoken, but whose body and mind is in need of further sleep, is called sleep inertia. At the Farrand residence, sleepless nights precede ...

05 okt 11

Rain in Seoul

"Après moi le déluge"(After me, the flood)A person to whom I was listening was once talking about time management. The emerging point being that everyone tends to focus on time management, wh...

16 sep 11

An Auspicious Photoshoot

Incontiguous thoughts swirled, like milk in hot coffee.A lab meeting tomorrow. An experiment to reschedule. Some emails to send. I should really start learning Korean again. And start running too. Wh...

29 aug 11

Life feat. Lil Ashley

Last week I finally located my old middle school friend, Kenneth Wong on Facebook. Both he and I spent many an afternoon class at the Morialta campus producing various flickbook animations in our mat...

13 aug 11

Korea Toastmasters Conference 2011

The readers who occasion this blog from time to time are funny, smart, handsome and/or pretty. Or so I assume. Theyre also a forgiving bunch who digest awkward opening paragraphs with formidable skil...

19 jul 11

Our Daughters Birth

Our little one is just over a month old now. Shes with her mother in Busan, and Im heading down there every second weekend to visit. The past month has been a rainstorm of activity with KTX bookings,...

03 jul 11

Our Little One

Our 3.62kg baby daughter entered our world at 9:12am on Wednesday, May 25th. Shes healthy, beautiful and doing well. Heather also.Isnt she lovely? Were going to name her very soon.More details when t...

07 jun 11

Becoming a Father

Its taking a while to upload, but Im managing to stay online through a single bar of free wireless reception from someone downstairs. Whoever you are bon3F, I salute you for your ...

24 maj 11

A Little Calm Before the Storm

For some reason my Firefox browser is not on communicative terms with our hospital wireless connection, so Ive resorted to blogging with Internet Explorer. Its mildly disconcerting, although not quit...

24 maj 11

TAF Cafe, Sincheon

This blog has become a funny thing. Originally constructed as a diary for friends and family, it has now evolved into a kind of public way to talk to myself. As thoughts get tapped via netbook into B...

22 maj 11

Funny English #5

Things have been a little active in the Farrand household of late. Heathers pregnant stomach has expanded to new horizons of enormity that I previously thought only possible in cartoons. Shes feeling...

10 maj 11

Nanoomi Running and Cafe Monsieur

Running gear in backpack... checkRefillable bottle of Arisu*... check Supportive wife cheersquad... check*Delicious and safe Seoul city tap waterTo run or not to run? That was the question eventually...

21 apr 11

Rebecca and Anthonys Wedding

We recently found out that Big Baengy is a girl, and is due for her grand entrée into the wider world next month. She spends most of the day in suspended animation, enjoying the cosy confines of Heat...

09 apr 11

Times Square, Seoul

ice·break·er  (sbrkr)n.Nautical. A sturdy ship built for breaking a passage through icebound waters. Also called iceboat. Something done or said to relax an unduly formal atmosphere or situation...

24 mar 11

Change of Address

After an eventful and enlightening sojourn in the land of ice and maple, I hit the tarmac running upon return to Seoul. The past couple of weeks have been a whirlwind of activity, punctuated by short...

10 mar 11

A Toastmasters Evaluation of Ottawa

"Happy to have been here, and happy to go home as well." - what I was thinking in the departure lounge of Ottawa International Airport.Ottawas objectives for this particular project were to: ...

26 feb 11

Snowbot

"À Rome, fais comme les Romains."- A certain quote in French.In some of the great beehives of humanity around the world, one can be chased by raging bulls down city streets. In others, one ca...

16 feb 11

Enrobed Manotick Faerie Duck

"Tis not the ice or frosty winds, but shadows in the winter gloom,  That thicks mans blood with cold."- My Canadian respin of an ancient mariners rime Yet another Canadian dawn draw...

13 feb 11

Ice Hockey

Commentator #1: "For the Senators to make the play-offs, theyll have to win 24 of the next 32 matches. Yes, that could happen. Just like the next time my phone rings, it could be Scarlett Johanss...

03 feb 11

Too Much Electronics

"Maybe I need one more lab coat. This one is too much electronics." - Bao Kong, referring to his lab coats static electricity.The past week could be appropriately described as warml...

30 jan 11

Skating on Thick Ice

"No, you cant leave the laptop in the car. Itll freeze."- Professor Tsang to Dr Sridaran (highlighting climate differences between Canada and India)When the windchill is lower than minus 25 d...

23 jan 11

100K hits

Yesterday night, the hit count on this blogs overperforming sitemeter clicked past the 100,000 mark. An arbitrary value perhaps, but this little blog author welcomes any excuse for a celebration.A bi...

20 jan 11

Life in Canada

"As cold as cold can be, during the coldest of times, in a land of coldness."  &nbs p; - description of Canada experience, Lee Farrand, Jan 2011.Before coming to Canad...

16 jan 11

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