I was watching TV while letting the flickr slide show for Osaka (大阪) run on my laptop. I kept on seeing picture after picture near Dotonbori (道頓堀).

I never really thought much of it before. I mean I knew I lived in a good part of Osaka but I never spent much time thinking about it. I guess I was too busy with real life. Yes, a few people who live in Shimanouchi (島之内) have real lives. Now that I think about it, the life I had was really, really amazing yet still awful. I tend not to think about the bad sides and remember just the good.

I highly recommend anyone to live there if you have the chance and the budget. It allows for some amazing experiences and unique perspectives. Although, I would never live there again.

I was just going through some old photos on flickr that need to be geotagged. I found a few photos from my trip back to my old neighbourhood after not being back for roughly a year and a half. The old parts of the neighbour hood had been completely demolished and there was now a large metal construction fence around a huge area of land where much of the neighbourhood used to be.

This was a shock for me at the time even though I had been living in Seoul for nearly 3 years and I thought I had grown desensitized to the constant reconstruction. However, this had fundamentally changed what I had first recognized as “Korea”. The market was not nearly the same as it used to be and that is where I have some of my earliest memories from. It was kind of like losing a memory

The point that I am getting at is that some places move very quickly. However, some places also move very slowly.

I have been in Saskatoon for nearly three years now. I was born here. I have lived here for longer, but not by much, than I have anywhere else in the world. I will always love it, but I am tired of it. It made me realize that hardly anything has changed here in 3 years let alone the last 15 months like I had experienced in Yeoksam-dong.

A while ago, Dick Cheney responded to a public opinion survey that showed that 2/3 of Americans don’t agree with the war in Iraq by saying “So?” Recently, a reporter followed up with him as asked if he wished to change his answer and asked him, “Does it matter if the public disagrees sharply with the wisdom of the war?” His response, “No” and then he goes on to explain his “So?” answer.

Hey idiot! You were put in power by the people to do what the people want you to do. Not the other way around. I can’t believe that Americans have allowed their country to be taken over by corrupt hillbillies… What a shame.

Here are some more details on Stupid Dick’s stupid response: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/02/cheney-so-revise/

This may be one of the funniest things I have ever seen…. Brilliant