Friday, October 30, 2009

臥牛 Stiegl.. a sexy Austrian Larger.. reminds me of Mozart.., Restaurant 'Allen' Danforth Street Toronto Oct 30 2009

Wow.. lovely taste of the Austrian Larger from Salzburgs..
and the calligraphic red logo was soooooo cute & sexy!!

I've been to Austria twice for customer seminars in Vienna
but still never been in Salzburgs.. a birthplace of Mozart..

The uniqueness of logo just reminds me of
the idiosyncratic creativity of the great genius.

오스트리아 라거맥주인 스티글 을 처음 마셔봤어..
어찌나 시원하고 맛있던지! ^,~

오스트리아엔 고객 세미나 때문에 두번 비엔나에 간적이 있었지만
모짜르뜨의 고향인 짤즈부르그엔 아직 가보지 못했지..

스티글 맥주의 독특하게 예쁜 로고와 글씨를 보니
그 위대한 괴짜 천재가 생각난다.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony No. 25 in G minor

for more..
http://petersbonappetit.blogspot.com/2009/10/lager-battered-hallibut-with-yukon-gold.html

Thursday, October 29, 2009

走馬看島 Running the Sea Side, West Sea Youngjongdo Island Korea Aug 5 2009

beautiful heritage of natural landscape
I'd glimpsed on my way to the airport for departure..


Debussy: Arabesque

凍土 Glittering Earth of Frozen Beauty, Saskatchewan Canada Aug 5 2009

優雅 Est-ce que vous êtes une personne élégante?, Cinema 'Coco avant Chanel' AMC Yonge-Dundas Toronto Oct 28 2009

It was dedicatedly her movie.. Audrey Tautou..
After the movie, a word had been lingering in my mind till I went to bed.

an Elegance..
.. a word for.. simplicity, uncompromising dignity, refrained passion, purity, hidden melancholy.. and maturity on top for all of those..

good game, my friends! , Dentonia Golf Club Voctoria Park Street Toronto Oct 28 2009

all-weather players.. Jim, Chris & myself.. ^,~

it was rainy in the morning..
it wasn't too bad though nobody in the course..

So, guess what, Dentonia was literally a private course only for three of us!!

Dentonia has par 3 holes only for whole 18 holes
which is really good for practicing short game.
I was just bringing three clubs only, pitcher, putter and 8 iron. ^,~

for more..
http://peterongreen.blogspot.com/2009/10/walking-into-late-fall-dantonia-golf.html

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

당신의 宇宙 Are you in the bigger universe than where they are...??, Seafood Restaurant Mapo Seoul Korea Jul 31 2009

at first, I felt pity as I was gazing at them
contained in the small container with oxygen for freshness
hopelessly waiting to be eaten at any time.

Right after the feeling,
I asked to myself..
hey Peter.. do you really think you live in the bigger container?
...
I wasn't sure..
...
as far as intellectual capability is concerned..
I mean all those emotional , logical, verbal, computational, geometrical, artistic and reasoning capabilities which have been physiologically hardwired on us together with such state-of-the-art access mechanism of short & long term memories..
I mean all those collective wisdom, individual free will and historical richness which could be good tools to broadening my horizon.

And at least, as far as the size of the volume of whole brain is concerned..
my earth is not big enough for me..
compared to the fishes contained in that size of water tank..

though it doesn't necessarily mean that I am not happy..

.. funny, right?

처음 저 수조속의 고기들을 봤을땐 녀석들이 불쌍해 보였어.

억지로 공급되는 산소공급으로 신선함을 유지하며
어느때곤 잡혀먹히길 기다릴 뿐일 녀석들을 보면서 말이지..

그러다, 스스로 물었지..
영건, 네가 살고 있는 세상은 쟤네들보다 더 크니?
..
그렇단 대답이 나오지 않더군..

우리가 가진 지적능력에 비해..
우리가 가진 감정적, 수학적, 언어적, 논리적,
기하학적, 예술적 능력에 비해..
우리가 우리의 지평을 넓히는 도구로 사용할수 있는 집단적 지혜,
개인의 자유의지, 인간역사의 유구함 등을 생각해 보았을때..

그리고 우리의 우수한 최첨단 두뇌의 부피나
그 기억소자들의 엄청난 정교함과 작동원리들을 생각해 보았을때..

저 물고기의 능력에 대비한 물탱크의 크기와
우리 인간의 타고난 지적, 생리적 능력에 비한
지구의 크기를 생각해 봤을때..

내가 살고 있는 지구는
결코 충분히 넓은 곳이 아니란 생각이 들었지..

그렇다고 이렇게 좁은 지구에 산다는 것이
결코 행복하지 않다는 것은 아니지만..

..웃기지..?

the Fugees: No Woman No Cry

Monday, October 26, 2009

樂士 Fiddlers in the Irish Pubs, Dora Keogh Danforth Street Toronto Oct 25 2009

Wow!! Just by chance, I found an authentic Irish Pubs last night
in my street of Danforth..

I liked the glossy brass table,
excellent taste of fresh Irish Larger,
the fast & dynamic traditional Irish strings..
and the very mood of Irish style..

lovely, lovely!!

John Kelly: Irish Feedle




for more.. ^,~
http://peterastorontonian.blogspot.com/2009/10/irish-pubs-danforth-street-toronto-oct.html

Sunday, October 25, 2009

뒷골목 Behind the Scene in the Downtown, Insadong Jongro Seoul Korea Jul 21 2009

Entanglement is always coexistent in the right behind
the clear cut facades of the pompous skyscrapers in the city.

For me it gives some level of comfort and feeling of balance
as life goes with the disarrangement and disorder
based on its inevitable complexity..

I see a man walking solely out of the back alley
and I feel sort of comradeship in life with him
than anybody else wearing silky dark suit with nice shirt
entering & disappearing to a gorgeous office building
through the glassy revolving door.. as I mostly used to do..

뒷골목의 뒤엉킴은
언제나 번쩍거리는 도시 경관의 바로 뒤에서 공존한다.

삶이 기본적으로 어쩔 수 없는 복잡성 위에서
무정돈하고 무질서한 채로 진행되는 만큼
이러한 뒷골목은 내게 어느 정도의 위안과 균형의 느낌을 갖게 한다..

골목에서 홀로 걸어나오는 한 남자를 보며
더한 삶의 동료의식을 느낀다.
번쩍거리는 양복에 멋진 셔츠를 차려입고
고층 사무빌딩의 회전문으로 사라져 들어가는..
나 역시 주로 그러했던.. 전형적 도시인들 보다도..

홍대앞.., Hongik Univ Ave Seoul Korea Jul 31 2009



ABBA: My Love My Life

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Light befriended with Fog under Darkness.., HW400 North Ontario Oct 23 2009

I love to drive on the highway
in the wet foggy night..

비안개 가득한 깊은 밤
하이웨이를 달리는 기분..

文學 Are you an Atheist?, Orhan Pamuk: Snow

2006 Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk is visiting Toronto now.
He had a communication session with readers at Harbourfront Center today.
Good to have him in the city. Welcome Orhan!

....

What am I doing in this world? Ka asked himself. How miserable these snowflakes look from this perspective, how miserable my life is. A man lives his life, and then he falls apart and soon there is nothing left. Ka felt as if half his soul had just abandoned him but still the other half remained; he still had love in him. Like a snowflake, he would fall as he was meant to fall; he would devote himself heart and soul to the melancholy course on which his life was set. His father had a certain smell after shaving, and now this smell came back to him. He thought of his mother making breakfast, her feet aching inside her slippers on the cold kitchen floor; he had a vision of a hairbrush; he remembered his mother giving him sugary pink syrup when he woke up coughing in the night, he felt the spoon in his mouth, and as he gave his mind over to all the other little things that make up a life and realized how they all added up to a unified whole, he saw a snowflake....

So it was that Ka heard the call from deep inside of him: the call he heard only at moments of inspiration, the only sound that could ever make him happy, the sound of his muse. For the first time in four years, a poem was coming to him; although he had yet to hear the words, he knew it was already written; even as it waited in its hiding place, it radiated the power and beauty of destiny. Ka's heart rejoiced. He told the three youths he had to leave them and hurried away through the snow, thinking all the while of the poem he would write when he was back at the hotel.

Chapter Nine: Are You an Atheist?
A NONBELIEVER WHO DOES
NOT WANT TO KILL HIMSELF.
Orhan Pamuk 'Snow'

幻想 Gravitational Ecstasy.. Roller Coaster, Wonderland Ruderford Ontario Oct 23 2009

do you still remember the feeling at the top.. ?
what a retrospective fantasy of childhood..

oh.. my lovely memory of those by far far gone days..
arising like mirage in spring time.. deep in my heart..
as I close my eyes..

At almost midnight, i was just passing by the amusement park
after picking up my daughter who enjoyed night fun in there.

저 꼭대기에 올랐을때의 기분이 기억나니?
.. 어렸을적 그 흥분된 추억이라니..

눈을 감으면.. 그리운 날의 기억

LAGQ Live!: Blue Echo (Chet Atkins)




자우림: 봄날은 간다

Friday, October 23, 2009

雪 Scallop Kaseri for Pamuk, Ouzeri Danforth Street Toronto Oct 23 2009

I just liked to taste different one I never tried before..
as I was reading the quite different novel of Pamuk.

Scallop Kaseri.. sounds different!

Later I found Kaseri is a sharp tasting Greek cheese
made from sheep's milk...
It was salty and very strong in smell
which I don't like much but the food was tasty.


Bach - Brandenburg Concertos No.1 - iii: Allegro