I love how flat-out drunk Koreans get. The Korean Cultural and Language Meetup went to Crazy Hook in Ktown after seeing HaegumPlus perform downtown. Very cool evening. I remember passing Crazy Hook on a number of occasions and thinking “Wtf is that?” but never stopped to look. I had no idea it was a pirate-themed Korean bar.

If you’ve never been to Crazy Hook, and are looking for a good night of Korean drunkenness with a piratical theme, I suggest checking it out. Non-Koreans don’t get stared at.

They serve beer in these massive plastic “syringes” with a valve at the end.

Unfortunately, the waiters are not dressed in pirate garb…but are sexy nonetheless.

If you’ve never heard of HaegumPlus, I suggest checking them out too.

It’s interesting seeing the cross over in musical instruments across Asia. The Haegum is almost exactly like the Chinese ErHu but is considered a traditional instrument of Korea. The Haegum has a thinner, almost reedier sound, whereas the ErHu as a rich, deep, melancholy sound. Both are equally beautiful.

Anyways, onto business.

My confessional for the day is that I had 3 things I should not have had at all when I was at Crazy Hook.

3 tiny pickle slices
2 tortilla chips
8oz of dark beer.

The beer did the most damage. I had a pretty fierce tummy ache, even though it took me more than an hour to finish it. I am proud, and yet still sad that I didn’t give into my craving of the sampler that everyone bought.

This week has been a bit of a trail. I did not expect to feel HUNGER but I do feel it, for certain. I think I miss chewing and texture as much as I miss the taste for savory things. I’ve noticed that now that I am not eating as I usually do (healthfully, mind you!) I am craving things I normally never crave. Bad things. Smells drive me crazy even if it’s things I normally don’t eat (e.g. the vendor hot dogs you find scattered throughout town). Two more weeks of liquids and I can move onto mashed foods for a week. Then onto solids.

So far, if you use the weight I was at the morning of surgery at the hospital (292) I am down 5 pounds this week at 287. I obsessively weigh myself at different parts of the day to see where water weight creeps up. After a nap, I noticed I dropped another 2 pounds. After my protein shake dinner, I was up 2 again, and then an hour later teetering at 1 pound less. Now that I can actually use a scale I am interested in seeing how and when my body teeters.

Most people probably didn’t notice, but not very long ago commercially available scales used to reach only to 300 lbs. Any weight applied to the scale over that would result in an E for “Error” For the longest time I didn’t step on a commercial scale at all lest I think the US changed it’s methodology for counting to include the alphabet.

Now that the masses have increased in mass the weight limit is 330. I didn’t know this until recently when I saw the Wii Fit board (it’s on my wishlist!) goes up to 330. I shed a silent tear of thanks to Nintendo that day :)

I’m getting anywhere between 600 – 900 calories a day and walking at least 10 to 40 minutes a day. But with as little calories as that I am still guilt ridden of a few additions to the diet that should not have been there.

We can’t ever really be satisfied.