Tag: my korean husband (Page 110 of 128)

Cockroaches

2013/08/24 / Nic / 28 Comments

Australian native cockroaches are the nice ones! They don’t come into houses. It’s the European and American ones that are the dirty evil ones. Unfortunately those pest ones are in Australia and love our warm climate. You’ll sometimes find cockroaches even in super clean homes in Australia unfortunately.

My husband hates cockroaches even more than the average person. I know a few other Australian women married to Korean men as well and their husbands are terrified too. We always have to be the ones getting rid of insects and bugs. Maybe it’s because we grew up in Australia and are just used to creepy-crawlies… but doesn’t matter how macho our husbands think they are… we are the ones dealings with this stuff.

The other night my husband and a friend were watching cockroach videos on YouTube. I guess they like to terrify themselves. I managed to sneakily film some of their very extreme reactions and maybe we’ll show you sometime. Actually that’s why I wanted to see if we could see a native cockroach up close, because they can be quite big, and I think Mr Gwon’s reaction might be YouTube worthy haha.

Chai Lattes

2013/08/23 / Nic / 21 Comments

If you are a Korean living in Sydney: Be careful. Mr Gwon is probably listening in to your conversation!

We were just grabbing some chai lattes to drink while we walked home so I was happy to just stand waiting for them. Mr Gwon overheard this conversation and at first stood near them and then sat down next to them like a creeper. It was something about the military and politics and one guy was a “know it all” so Mr Gwon was giggling to himself. I then dragged him away.

X Factor

2013/08/21 / Nic / 13 Comments

“Take a sickie”, “Chuck a sickie”, “Throw a sickie” is Australian slang for pretending to be sick and not going to work but still getting paid. My husband used to be a hard worker until he was corrupted by the Australian workplace! He saw how much other people take sickies when they just want a day off and started questioning why he was working so hard.

He loves shows like the X Factor and there is a Korean girl this time so he’s been following it. But because he works at nights he will be missing a lot of it. He can just catch up later though. I’m not letting him stay home from work just so he can watch the X Factor!

The Sausage Guys

2013/08/19 / Nic / 16 Comments

For those who haven’t heard this saying: it means when you go out or are at a party and there are almost no girls at all. It’s especially bad if the guys are hoping to meet girls and there are only guys.

Mr Gwon knows this saying but sometimes says “sausage party” instead. He knows a bunch of guys who every time they go out are too shy to talk to any girls even though they want to meet girls. Mr Gwon and one other friend are the only ones confident enough to talk to girls but are also the only ones with partners and are not interested to talking to girls!

Even if Mr Gwon and his friend introduce girls to these guys, they just sit there in stunned silence. But then… the next time they go out they want him to go talk to girls and bring the girls over to them again.

Every time he goes out with these guys it has been a “sausage fest” but he has decided to take that saying and use it in a different way and now calls those guys “the sausage guys” because it will always be a sausage fest with them because they are incapable of talking to any girls at all. He gets really annoyed about it.

I think it’s pretty funny Konglish. I really hope it catches on and groups of guys who want to talk to girls but never make a move, and just stare awkwardly, get called “sausage guys”.

It’s even funnier when he says it with a strong Korean accent and it becomes “sau-sage-jeeee”.

My Australian Wife #6

2013/08/14 / Nic / 5 Comments

Mr Gwon’s turn….

Okay yes… I do like to inform bananas about what is going to happen to them. And I did make delicious muffins.

You can see the honey banana muffins I made on Mr Gwon’s What a nice site.

How to make Japaghetti

2013/08/13 / Nic / 5 Comments

Hope this helps those that were wondering how to do it! I’m sure some people will be like “You should do it this way blah blah” but this is how we do it and it’s fine! haha.

Student food!

Bridge

2013/08/12 / Nic / 39 Comments

European settlement in Australia began not much more than 200 years ago so what we view as old isn’t that old for most other countries! Aboriginal history is long and interesting and very important, but Aboriginal people didn’t build big structures that lasted, so something that is considered old in Australia… isn’t that old. I love history so I’m excited when I’m in Korea and see buildings that are hundreds and hundreds of years old. You just can’t experience that in Australia. Which is why as I walked past a bridge and saw the date it was built I thought that was cool. My husband was there to remind me about Korea though. Australia can’t win in this competition.

So what about your country?