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Category: Australia (Page 22 of 22)

Medicine Misunderstanding

2012/07/28 / / 7 Comments

My friend (the wife in the comic) allowed me to make a comic about this. When she realised what her husband had sent her to get, with the vague information of it being for ‘skin care’, she was very angry! She had patted her face in front of shop assistant and told her that it was for skin care on the face. Needless to say, the shop assistant looked very shocked. When my friend discovered the truth of course she told others. So what her husband hoped to keep secret even from his wife was told to everyone at a barbeque! And now it’s on the internet!

For those that might not understand what her husband needed: he needed a cream for his…uh…. butt hole. I’m not explaining anymore than that!

Wedding Presents

2012/07/27 / / 10 Comments

This was for our Australian wedding. After everything finished we opened our presents. Some family and friends were with us as well and everyone laughed at my husband tearing open the presents while I sat reading the cards. His excuse was that it was difficult for him to read the handwritten English in the cards and he didn’t know who they were all from. He became interested when there was money in a card though!

Of course all our money is shared but he organises it. Traditionally in Korea (and Japan) the woman manages the money but we decided it is better that my husband does the managing. I’m a creative type and not exactly good with money (and we are poor newlyweds at the moment).

We got a lot of nice presents but haven’t used them yet, even though our wedding was months ago, because we haven’t found a new place to live in Sydney yet. We have them piled up in a spare room at my parent’s house. Sometimes I like to go in and just look at them and say “Mine mine! These are all mine!” Hehe, I’ve never owned such nice things before.

Your wedding in…?

2012/07/09 / / 19 Comments

Oh dear. This happened far too many times. At first I hoped it was just the slip of the tongue and they accidentally said the wrong name but really they knew we went to South Korea for our traditional wedding. Then I realised many people couldn’t actually remember where my husband was from, even though they’d met him and even had conversations with him. Is he just some generic Asian man to them? Asia is a country right?

The other disturbing thing is that people are assuming that somewhere like Thailand and South Korea are pretty much the same thing. This is so insulting to both Thai people and Koreans who have very different cultures. How are people this ignorant about other countries?

I know it annoys Koreans so much when people assume South Korea is some third world country. People who can’t think of one single thing they know about Korea while they watch their Samsung TV and then go drive their Kia car. While it’s easy to laugh at strangers who don’t know, it’s much sadder when it’s a good friend who is ignorant. Like a friend of my family who thought Japan was the capital city of China… even though my brother has been living in Japan for several years.

I really hope this changes. It is quite embarrassing how little some Australians know about the Asian region even though we are right next to it.

Tall Girls

2012/06/10 / / 16 Comments

It is no secret that Koreans in general aren’t that tall. I’m an average height for Australia but when I go to Korea people comment that I’m tall. When my husband sees very tall women in Australia he is often astounded at their height. He is in awe and fascinated at how tall some women can be.

 

In other news: I will be changing the comments system to the Disqus comment system which will hopefully mean it’s easier for people to comment and have conversations on this site. It can take up to 24 hours for comments to transfer over so don’t worry if your comments have disappeared. They will come back!

I have also ordered a tablet to draw comics with instead of the old fashioned way. I’m hoping this means it is quicker and easier. I try to have a new comic up every day but for every comic I first have to draw a draft sketch, then draw onto watercolour paper, then go over in ink and then paint with water colour. Then it has to dry and be scanned. It can take a while. Because I know how long it takes sometimes I have to sacrifice the quality of drawing in order to get something done quicker. Even though I used to work as an artist, I worked in oils and acrylics so watercolour was never my favourite medium anyway. So I’m hoping drawing with a tablet will work out well.

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