Love, Laugh, Live

I have just found a quite unique piece of history about the rivalry between Japan and Korea (both North and South).

It seems that when the Japanese conquered Korea (which was not yet separate back then), at the beginning of the 19th century…and they did quite a number of bad things to its inhabitants…culminating with the change of the countries name!!!

Korea was initially spelt Corea. But because the Japanese wanted to show their superiority even in the NAME!!…they changed it to Korea, so that in alphabetical order Japan would be in front.

And just to add a little bit of “American Presidents making an ass of themselves”, when Clinton came to South Korea a couple of years ago, he was quated of saying:”Japan is more developed than your country”.

Quite an conversation ice-breaker, don’t you think?

History lesson for tonight: Over and out! Thank you Tristan! (Tristan is the one who told me these things)

Just another mundane thing- you may say…but well, NOT quite!

I went to Japanese Barber Shop- a franchise one - first time I heard they even have franchises for Barber Shops!! And the thing they used as main marketing material: 10 minute haircut!! (it was added a bit smaller :More or less! )

Anyway…what struck me from the moment I got inside was how clean they are: all the scissors are put in a machine that sterilizes them, they wear some sort of mask on the face…they weren’t wearing gloves, but they had all the rest for a surgeon!

I even had a TV to look at!

And the coolest thing of all was in the end…when she finished…of course they had something to remove the hair that had fallen on my neck and cheek…a Vacuum cleaner!! I have never seen such a thing.

damn effective…I left without any drop of hair…no need to take a shower!

And on my way back home i was thinking how this would have gone in Romania: a barber with the same scissors that he used one year ago…sneezing on my head…etc, etc.

Oh well, let the HAIR GROW back! And us grow wiser!