we got hitched!
I'll reprint here an email I sent out.
We want to say a small thank you to those who came to our wedding. We regret not having had any time to actually sit down with you and talk.
For those of you who couldn't make it, we'd like to show you some photos of our wedding. Disclaimer: these are photos that friends took, so they are of questionable quality and pretty small for reasons we won't get into here.
For both groups of people, you can also see the so-called Wedding Slideshow (some pictures of us as babies, growing up, meeting, etc.). The people at the wedding hall totally screwed it up (the sound was not connected or functioning) so no one was paying attention. We're still bitter about that (esp. me). Anyways, you can see it here, too, in two sizes for the bandwith-lacking/impatient and for the bandwidth-plenty/patient. Please please please take the time to watch it because we spent a lot of time on it and the fact that no one saw it bothers us a lot. The more people who watch it, the better we'll feel.
We hope to get some good photos later on from people like my brother and perhaps the wedding photographer (though he shot everything on film...).
If any of you who came has good photos, please send them to this address. We want more more more!
Of course, here's where the photos are: http://www.magnetonic.org/gallery/wedding. Don't forget you can leave comments!
Fred and Jackie
Also there are pictures of our honeymoon in Jeju Island and our last day with my parents in Korea at 계룡산 (Gyeryong Mountain).
In other news, we are planning to stay yet a bit longer in Korea, for about a year from now. As such, we have found a new apartment. It's in an apartment complex called 수정타운 (Sujeong Town), where Jackie's sisters currently live.
We'll be moving into building 14, apartment 701. It's 27 평 (pyeong). One pyeong is 3.3 m², so 27 py = 89.1 m² = 959 ft². Where we currently live is less than 13 pyeong. So we'll be doubling our space.
The only problem is we have no appliances or furniture. We'll have to buy a refrigerator, an oven/range, a kitchen table and chairs, and a bed.
The last thing is somewhat unrelated, but the parking situation at the apartment is quite ridiculous. There are a lot of cars. People like to double-park. Anywhere. A lot. I've mentioned the driving culture in Korea before, I believe, but this place is very special.
There's this main roadway runs down the centre of the complex. This roadway is quite wide: about five cars wide. Now here's the thing, at the end of the day when everyone comes home, this roadway is packed. Cars are double-parked the entire length of the road. Opposing traffic cannot pass. I can't imagine the hassle people must go through getting out in the morning.
So here's a funny thing: people who want to park on the main roadway will — so as to not get boxed in later — double-park preemptively. So there are these cars that are out in the middle of the roadway. The other problem this causes is that cars cannot and do not want to willingly get boxed in. So parking spots are wasted.
I may never understand these people.