My bike vs Korean drivers

I have a bike. Yay!!!!!

It is a bit odd really. I wimped out of cycling in London because I thought that I would be mowed down by a bendy bus but I have no problem cycling in a country where nearly all cars have a TV in the dash board. Seriously, they do. And the courts has just rejected the idea of fining taxi drivers who watch them whilst driving because of a law created in 1961. I would suggest that this law is of little relevance as korea still getting over the war and people didn't have much food, let alone a bloody TV in their car.

They drive along watching these ridiculous programs that all seem to be a 1970 like variety show that mocks the old, fat and mentally disabled. No-one seems to pay much attention to the road and it is very much each man for himself. I guess that the argument is that the TVs help people to reverse park as they show the rear view however I have already seen two cars merrily reverse into parked cars. It may be judgemental (and hypocritical) but Koreans are pretty crap drivers.
I love my new bike as it is all down hill on the way to work and it now only takes me about 5 mins. But what goes down must go up and that ride on the way back is a killer. I am sooooo unfit. I have to stop and have a little rest on the way back. Hopefully I'll have the arse of a god by the end of the year without the Chris Hoy (sp?) thighs.

Annoyingly I feel like I'm just about to get a cold. Bummer and just before my birthday (saturday in case you had forgotten). I have also come to realise that Korea is my enabler - drinking, smoking, shopping (amongst other things) are all too easy here. With the realisation of thsi fact I will celebrate by getting a little pissed.

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