Bribery works every time

Am talkining to Kat on msn when she starts bitching at me to update. Highly unusual for her I know but this time when repeated update, update, update via msn didn't work she bribed me with getting a book when she sends a apckage to Kaz. And you better deliver Kat, I still have your book on the steppe warriors remember.
Had my quiz last night. Calgary Sarah won and got a grand total of 7/20. Reike was very happy with the quiz, she didn't win the actual quiz but she did get 2 out of the 4 teasers and therefore made 4,000 won. Since the only thing I have any real clue about is Classics most of my questions were completely random ones such as how many countries are there in Africa, (there's 54 in case you care) what's the richest country(Luxumbourg) and other fun questions like that. Was impressed that I managed to limit myself to only 2 Classics questions. One, (what's
Athenas bird) has got to be the easiest question on Classics there is, I mean, this is me we're talking about here. How many owls do I have now? Heck, I even have an owl kite. Lindsay for some strange reason put down dove. Uh, no. That's that bimbo Aphrodite's bird not mine. Admittedly the other question was something of a mean one. Which goddess started the Trojan War. Calgary Sarah and Linds were sure it weas Hera, who although isn't the nicest of goddesses on Olympus can't take the credit this time. Although that theory ws better than the one Nig came up with which was Demeter. Only problem with that is Demeter is the goddess of the harvest, seasons etc. can't quite see her starting a war somehow. No, the somewhat dubious honour of starting the war goes to Eris, Goddess of trouble, strife and being ageneral pain in the butt. Kat was highly amused by the Demeter answer and the fact that noone got the right answer and that Nig got confused between Ares and Eris adn thought it was Ares who caused the war and that the question had been which god started it not which goddess. The whole thing was amusing for me anyway.
Nothing else is happening, have a long weekend this week because of Lunar New Year so get Monday off and plan to spend it doing absolutely nothing.
Get the joy of end of unit tests for 4 classes tomorrow which while it means I only actually teach 2 classes and just interview the others also means I have to write stupid comments for all the kids. Being me, and therefore lazy, I write basically the same BS for every kid, just changing the name, the order of the BS and a few words of it. Have done about 1/2 of the comments because I had a freee lesson today and will do the others before classes start tomorrow so will be able to leave on time if not earlier tomorrow night. The logic of doing the comments before class never seems to occur to my KT's so they end up haveing to stay for an hour or so extra doing them all. Of course logic isn't exactly a strong point of Korean culture as Kaz would no doubt agree...
Kat, seeing as this is a long post I expect a nice big classics book for the effort. Hint, hint

Sorry to dissapoint you Kat but this blog is not being updated because you complained about it in yours. It's being updated because I just won 15,ooo won from winning the quiz tonight at Billboard. Won by 1 point which I got because I was able to include D'Artangen as well as the 3
actual Musketeers. Knew knowing about him would come in handy one day. Did a heck of a lot better than last week when I got a grand total of 2/13 so went from my worst score to my best. Only problem is I have to make next weeks quiz and have been informed that I'm not allowed to have only Classics questions. Can't imagine why... If anyone has any ideas for questions email me, less work for me is all good.
Nothing much else is happening here and since I now have extra classes and have to get up early I'm going to bed.
Kat, you might be updating your blog but what about Dragon Butterfly? You're not even up to hshmhj yet or the sending Carrie away. Update!

Since Kat will no doubt start complaining about me not updating soon, here is the latest exciting update of life in Korea.
Got a grand total of 3/13 in the last quiz, worst one so far which is somewhat depressing.
Get a 3 day weekend this weekend because the director has for some reason decided to give us a holiday so have no problem with that at all.
Everyone hates Sue at the moment because she works at the university and therefore gets 10 weeks off so is going home to Canada for 6 weeks so had leaving party for her at Billboard last night, have a bday party for Marco tomorrow and the quiz night on Wednesday and there's usually something on Friday and the weekend as well. There's a reason we're Wong Chei's favourite customers...
Since have nothing else to sya I'm going off to read my new books from Singapore although I want to point out to Kaz that the Queen of the Gods is now living in Korea not Taiwan so she really should change that

Singapore is better than Korea

After spending a week in nice, sunny, snow/work free Singapore coming back to freezing cold Korea was not fun.
Got to Incheon Airport at 1am on the 24th and then got to wait hours til my flight at 7.15pm. When I finally got to Singapore it was 1am and again got to wait hours before I could check into the hotel and then had the problem of apparently not having a reservation under either my name or Kats. When she arrived the next day we managed to get it sorted then went off for the first of the many shopping trips.
Next 2 days were pretty much the same, have a whole heap of new clothes that I can't wear here because it's too cold and lots more owls then on Thursday we met up with Michael Perry and his girlfriend Evelyn and went to Singapore Zoo. Was highly unimpressed when it started raining. Of course as soon as I bought an umbrella it stopped raining. Was happy that it stopped raining 5 minutes before the elephant rides started. OK, so it was 100 metres up the track and 100 metres back but that's not the point, I got to ride an elephant so was very happy about that. And Kat was even able to get photos of me smiling!
Kat had to leave before me on Friday so wandered round Orchard Rd and did even more shopping and then went to Fort Canning Park for a couple of hrs.
Got back to Gwangju at 1pm yesterday and met up with Kaz for a few hours then went to Billboard for New Years where everyone was shocked to see me since for some reason they all thought I wasn't coming back til tomorrow.
Have done nothing today and am now off to watch the new series about Rome called by the very original name of Rome