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Hotel Table

Not this Saturday but the Saturday before I went to the Intercontinental Hotel in Seoul for a food and drinks buffet. It cost around 23,000 won each, that's around £12, and was unlimited food and drinks. Drinks included red and white wine, sangria, champagne and sparkling wine. We thoroughly exploited this offer as this photograph shows, however this is not the total as the empties were often cleared from 7pm-9pm. We plan to return :)

Hotel Table

Not this Saturday but the Saturday before I went to the Intercontinental Hotel in Seoul for a food and drinks buffet. It cost around 23,000 won each, that's around £12, and was unlimited food and drinks. Drinks included red and white wine, sangria, champagne and sparkling wine. We thoroughly exploited this offer as this photograph shows, however this is not the total as the empties were often cleared from 7pm-9pm. We plan to return :)

It seemed about to rain all day. Glad it didn't, we accomplished a lot.

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Sorry, it's been a lame week for moblogging. I've been sick for most of the week.

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I manage to do a lot of wasting time. Yesterday I had the whole day off.

I watched 3 movies,

cleaned my floor (granted this involved sweeping and washing it on my hands and knees),

watched two episodes of Queen Seon Duk (Korean drama),

cleaned my bathroom,

slept in til 11am,

rearranged my clothes in the drawers,

sorted out all my coins,

took out my rubbish,

washed up,

did some ironing.

Actually listed out it sounds productive. But somehow my room is still messy.

Suggested by JM:

“Life is too short to read bad books.” I’d always heard that, but I still read books through until the end no matter how bad they were because I had this sense of obligation.  That is, until this week when I tried (really tried) to read a book that is utterly boring and unrealistic. I had to stop reading.

Do you read everything all the way through or do you feel life really is too short to read bad books?

I've almost always completed books that I've started.  Maybe because I usually read books that have been well-reviewed or maybe because I'm generally an optimist and that even after a slow start I hope that it might get better, or maybe I have a stick-to-it-iveness that says if you're going to start something you might as well finish it.

It

Stephen King

Speaking of of finishing it, that does remind me of one of the few books I didn't finish -- "IT" from Stephen King.  Clocking in at over a thousand pages and at the apex of his drug-addled, no-one-will-edit-him 80s long windedness (Steve: more isn't always better) -- I plodded along in this for about 400 pages and then said, "No mas!"

Oddly, I know several people for whom this book was one of their favorites, but I couldn't stand IT.