Unlikely Candidates for Being Fought Over

Do you ever watch movies where an exceptionally ugly bloke has not one but two lovely women tearing at each others vital organs for the chance to dingle his dangle? Well such an unlikely event has occured in real life, although the bloke isn't quite exceptionally ugly and I unfortunately have no information on the girls. I won't name the fortunate chap but I will instead list the following facts -

1) He owns a bathrobe
2) He is evil (self confessed, of course)
3) He's from Fermanagh
4) He likes Star Wars
5) He is a nerd
6) No, he's really a nerd.

So, I hear you say, it's only right that they should be queuing up! Ladies, clear a space! I am much enthused by this recent news of said chap's endeavours because before he was something of a self-imposed eunuch with an adversion to touching (that included handholding and hugs) so this is progress if nothing else.

I may be a Tae-kwon do blue belt on Thursday - we're being skipped a gup because we're too good apparently - except we all know that it is to boost our flagging morale, a symptom of our class change and of everything getting - well - harder. We could actually make a claim of being fit now - our hearts no longer beat irregularly and there is a suspiciously hard substance beneath our skin. I have heard people refer to it as muscle. By the time I come home, I should be a brown belt which is, if I remember correctly, the same belt that (*nerd alert!*) Sarah Michelle Gellar (i.e Buffy) had. I am sure that should the occasion of kicking powdery vampire butt should arise, I will be more than ready for it.

Mike and I visited Seodaemun Prison, an imprisonment ground that was occupied by the Japanese for the 36 years that they ruled Korea. It was not a fun experience, let me tell you - they have wax work recreations of torture scenes in a basement, elaborately splashed with blood and replete with real screams. And children go there on education trips. It's basically just another anti-Japanese haven, where common words against said Asian neighbours include 'brutality', 'raping' and 'barbarity'. A balanced account, I'm sure you'll agree.

On an upnote, there were Korean 'celebrities' posing against the ivy-covered walls of the compound where nationalist compatriots were brutally executed. It's delightful to see that Koreans will make the most of their blood-ridden history for glamour.