콩나물키우기

몇일 전부터 콩나물을 키우고 있다

목욕탕 한쪽에서 잘도 자라고 있다

콩나물국밥이 오죽 먹고 싶었으면...

이제 국밥 뿐만 아니라 콩나물밥에 간장 비벼먹을 수도 있고

콩나물무침도 해먹고

김치찌개에도 넣어먹어보고...

어서 어서 자라다오!

그리움만 쌓이네

요즘 몰골이 말이 아니다
방안은 고시원처럼 쾌쾌하고
여기저기 널려져 있는 복사물과 책들...발 디딜 틈이 없는데
그래도
가끔 창밖을 내다보면 좀 정신이 맑아진다
그럴때 생각나는 노래들...
시간이 흘러도 입에서 흥얼거려지는
그들의 생명력에 새삼 놀란다
가뜩이나 기억력 떨어져가는거 같아 기분 안좋은데
이런 것들은 어쩜 그리도 뚜렷하게 기억되는지...



다정했던 사람이여 나를 잊었나
벌써 나를 잊어버렸나
그리움만 남겨놓고 나를 잊었나
벌써 나를 잊어 버렸나
그대 지금 그 누구를 사랑하는가 굳은 약속 변해버렸나
예전에는 우린 서로 사랑했는데
이젠 맘이 변해버렸나
아 이별이 그리 쉬운가 세월 가버렸다고 이젠 나를 잊고서 멀리멀리 떠나가는가
아 나는 몰랐네 그대 마음 변할줄
난 정말 몰랐었네
오 나 너 하나만을 믿고 살았네 그대만을 믿었네
오 네가 보고파서 나는 어쩌나
그리움만 쌓이네

이 노래를 부르고 나니
문득 예전 드라마 '연예시대'가 보고싶어졌다
음악이 좋았는데...연기들도 잘하고...
유튜브에 돌아다녀보고
좀 건져 놓았다가
한가해지면 몽땅 봐야겠다

보고 싶은 올해의 전시들

돈 아끼지 말고 슬쩍 가서 보고 와야지.

서울 들어가면 온통 블록버스터 이벤트 전시로

그림 하나 제대로 보지 못할 게 뻔하다

입장객수 기록 세우려고 돈 쓴 전시는

괜히 기분 나뻐서 일부러 안가게 되니까

이런 전시들은 지금 안보면 안될 듯...

이렇게까지 했는데도 모르고 지나치면 할 수 없지만서도 ...

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만체스터의 '서울김치' 기사

Manchester Evening News 에 만체스터의 '서울김치' 가게 주인아줌마가 실렸다.

김치는 비싸다는 생각에 사먹어보지는 않아서 맛에 대해서 할 말은 없다. 전반적으로 이집 물건이 싸지 않다. 결코.

이 가게는 가끔 한국음식이 필요할 때 찾게 되는 곳이다. 이곳의 한인 아줌마들은 아직도 그곳 가는 길을 헛갈린다.

그 가게에서 내가 가장 사고 싶어하는 음식은 차돌박이와 갈치이다. 아 갑자기 침이 꿀꺽~

요즘 이곳에 음식이야기를 자꾸 쓰는 걸 보면

내가 몸이 허하긴 하나보다 하하하~

3일전부터 시작한 절운동으로 기를 보충해야지~

오늘은 40번만 해야겠다.

그런데 그 절운동하고 나서부터 부쩍 배가 자주 고픈듯 느껴진다. 윽...

A Korean "superfood"Victoria Holman 18/ 1/2008

THERE is a famous saying in Korea - "without kimchi Koreans cannot eat". Or so kimchi chef Byunghee Kwon tells me. And those of us trying to kick-start our ailing bodies after the season of over-indulgence could do well to follow suit. Kimchi - the Korean staple derived from cabbage fermented slowly over many months - may not sound like the most appetising delicacy, but the spicy and distinctive pickle has recently been named one of the world's top five `superfoods', up there with olive oil, soy, Greek yoghurt and lentils. And though nutritionists have some gripes with the term "superfood", there is no doubt that the dish is loaded with vitamins A, B and C, as well as "healthy bacteria" called lactobacilli, found in fermented foods like yogurt and thought to aid digestion.

It is certainly good enough for one young athlete - Manchester United player Ji-sung Park and his mum have been known to pop into Byunghee's Upper Brook Street shop Seoul Kimchi for a kimchi fix. And for many of the customers, who gather at Seoul Kimchi to eat Byunghee's hand-prepared kimchi and chat about their troubles the food is a little taste of home. "When I was a young girl in Seoul my father always encouraged me to make kimchi," she says. "My family had a specific recipe, it is not very strong - it is very fresh. Whenever I would make it he would say `good, well done.' "I am so used to Seoul food and every different place has a different taste. Southern Korean kimchi is very salty, in the northern part it is very fresh and watery - Seoul has a lovely medium taste."

But despite an early interest in the preparation of food, it wasn't until two years ago that Byunghee, who moved to Manchester to study at the university with her sons Minwhi Song, 25, and Hokwon Song, 22, in 1997, decided to open her shop. Some days international students from the university come to help her - it takes two days to prepare the kimchi, before it is left to ferment. "Everything needs to be either grated or sliced by hand so it takes a very long time, sometimes we might work into the night. The foundation is most important," says Byunghee. For two days vegetables - including cabbage, Chinese leaves and radish - are cleaned, soaked, grated and sliced, before adding a sauce using chilli, garlic, and ginger. Traditionally the kimchi would then be placed in a pot underground, where it would be cool but sheltered from the freezing winter weather, although modern chefs use specially-designed refrigerators.

But there is one good, old-fashioned feature of kimchi-making that Byunghee never breaks. She told me: "I stick to the traditional way, no MSG, no preservatives. "Almost all the products here and in Korea use preservatives but I don't, it is a matter of pride. It is a home-made family kimchi." And Byunghee can afford to take pride in her recipe, having taken special lessons at Korea's Kimchi Museum, in Seoul, where she learned a secret recipe. Like many Asian cuisines, Korean food is gaining popularity in the UK.Last year even the Queen took an interest in the cuisine, when she took part in a cookery class in Seoul, much to Byunghee's delight. Fit for the Queen and good for the waist? Superfood or not, it sounds good to us.

문득 먹고 싶은 것

소주가 가끔 생각난다.
와인이 그다지 비싸지 않고 종류도 많다.
자주 먹게 된다. 레드와인을 먹고나면 머리가 아픈 거 같아서 주로 화이트와인으로 먹는다.
맥주맛도 괜찮다. 역시 저렴하고. 위스키도 뭐 그럭저럭.
그래도 가끔 소주가 먹고 싶다. 사케를 소주라 여기고 먹곤 하지만 비싸기도 하고 많이 먹으면 느끼하기도 하고... 그래서 소주 특유의 쓴맛이 그리울 때가 있다. 아주 드물지만 신김치에 두부랑 파랑 송송 썰어넣고 돼지고기랑 푹 끓인 김치찌개 맛이라도 보게 될 때 특히 간절하다. 한잔 캬~ 물론 회 한접시도 함께 하면 더욱 좋겠지만 휴~

동네 목욕탕에 가서 때빼고 광내고
시원하게 팔대 꽂아서 먹었던 바나나우유가 가끔 생각난다.
언젠가 보니 바나나맛우유로 바뀌었던 것 같다. 제조회사도 많아져서 원조니 짝퉁이니 하는 말이 붙게 될 정도이니 아마도 나 말고도 많은 사람들이 바나나우유에 대한 추억이 있나보다
근데 왜 하필 바나나우유였을까. 그것도 그 항아리같은 곳에 담겨진...

콩나물이 먹고 싶다
삼성본관 뒤에 그 콩나물국밥집의 점심시간 풍경이
가끔 꿈에 나온 적도 있다
반찬없을 때 콩나물밥해서 간장에만 비벼먹어도 몇끼 해결할 수 있는데
콩나물 구하기가 쉽지 않다
키우려고 궁리는 해봤지만
콩나물콩의 유효기간이 그리 길지 않고
자주 들여다보며 관리를 해야한다길래 포기해야할 듯...
갑자기 아버지 생각이 난다
어려서부터 할머님께서 각종 콩나물 반찬을 하도 많이 해주셔서
언제부턴가 상위에 올라온 콩나물은 쳐다보시지도 않으셨다는데...
나는 그런 사실을 서른이 넘어서야 알았다
하긴 대학생이 된 이후, 아니 사춘기때부터...
함께 식사자리를 했던 게 몇번 되질 않았으니 그럴만하다
암튼. 콩나물이 무지하게 먹고 싶다

자. 그러면...
시원한 회와 얼큰한 김치찌개를 소주와 함께 듬뿍 먹어주고
늘어지게 푹 잔 후
느지막히 일어나 동네목욕탕에 가서 땀 흘리고 얼굴 좀 뽀해지고 나서
츄리닝과 슬리퍼 신고 슈퍼앞 파라솔에 앉아 바나나우유 하나 먹으면 되겠네
하하~

정말 notebook같은 laptop

Apple Unveils Super-Thin Laptop, Movie Rentals
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs took the wraps off a super-slim new laptop at Macworld Tuesday, unveiling a personal computer less than an inch thick that turns on the moment it's opened. Jobs also confirmed the tech giant's foray into online movie rentals, revealing an alliance with all six major movie studios to offer films over high-speed Internet connections within 30 days after they're released on DVD.
Always a showman, Jobs unwound the string on a standard-sized manila office envelope and slid out the ultra-thin MacBook Air notebook computer to coos and peals of laughter from fans at the conference.

At its beefiest, the new computer is 0.76 inches thick; at its thinnest, it's 0.16 inches, he said. It comes standard with an 80-gigabyte hard drive, with the option of a 64GB flash-based solid state drive as an upgrade.

The machine doesn't come with a built-in optical drive for reading CDs and DVDs, a feature Jobs says consumers won't miss because they can download movies and music over the Internet and access the optical drives on other PCs and Macs to install new software.
They can buy an external drive, however, that will retail for $99.

Trading in Apple stock was heavy Tuesday, the first day of the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. Shares fell $11.85, or 6.6 percent, to $166.93 in late afternoon trading.
Caris & Co. analyst Shebly Seyrafi said the MacBook Air's price tag "may have been higher than people would have hoped for."

Investors also may be "incrementally" concerned that Apple's iPhone was not updated so that it can connect to faster cellular networks, he said.

The new laptop, which has a 13.3-inch screen and full-sized laptop keyboard, will cost $1,799 when it goes on sale in two weeks, though Apple is taking orders now. The company's Web site is already touting the machine. The price is competitive with other laptops in its market segment.
The machine helps fortify Apple's already-sizzling Macintosh product lineup and burnish its polished image as a purveyor of cool.

Apple's Macintosh business hit record sales of 7 million units in the company's fiscal 2007, up more than 30 percent from the previous year.

After hovering for years with a 2 percent to 3 percent share of the personal computer market in the United States, Apple's slice has grown to almost 8 percent, making it the nation's third-largest PC vendor, according to the latest figures from market researcher Gartner Inc.
Other revelations during Jobs' keynote address reflected the Cupertino-based company's intensifying efforts to push deeper into consumers' living rooms with technologies that blend Internet technology into home entertainment devices.

The movie-rental announcement capped months of speculation that an Apple movie-rental service was in the offing. The service launched Tuesday in the United States and will roll out internationally later this year.

Apple will have more than 1,000 movies for online rental through iTunes by the end of February, with prices of $2.99 for older movies and $3.99 for new releases.
High-definition versions of movies will cost $3.99 and $4.99 respectively.

Users can watch instantly over a broadband Internet connection, or download and keep the movie for 30 days while having 24 hours to finish the movie once it's started.
Titles will be available within 30 days of their DVD release.
Apple is partnering with 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, Walt Disney, Paramount, Universal and Sony on the service, which will work on Macs, Windows-based machines, iPhones, iPods or Apple TV set-top boxes.

Jobs also unveiled a string of new features for the iPhone, showing how users of the combination iPod-cell phone-Internet surfing device can now pinpoint their location on Web maps, text-message multiple people at once and customize their home screens.
Jobs also said Apple has sold 4 million iPhones during their first 200 days on sale.
The crowd applauded when Jobs demonstrated mapping upgrades to the iPhone. Other features rolling out Tuesday included the ability to switch around icons on the iPhones home screen. Users also can create up to nine home screens.

Jobs also unveiled new software for the iPod Touch music player. New models will have be able to process e-mail and perform new mapping functions.
Apple's languishing Apple TV set-top box also got a software update, giving it the ability to download content directly from iTunes without an accompanying PC or Mac, and a price cut from $299 to $229.

Jobs began his keynote address with the introduction of Time Capsule, a stand-alone networked hard drive that also functions as a wireless router.
Macs and PCs can use Time Capsule to store and share files, and multiple Macs with the Time Machine backup utility can automatically back up to it.
aldedicated backup hard drive that can connect to several Macs via wired or wireless networks. It works with Apple's existing backup utility, Time Machine, but can also back up Windows-based PCs.

It also functions as a wireless router, eliminating the need for one more box in the house. The Apple Store was selling it for $299 for a 500GB model, $499 for a 1-terabyte (1,000-gigabyte) model.

Happy New Year

생활비가 여유가 없으니...
하고 싶은 걸 못할 때에는 많이 답답했다
그때마다 한국에서 살면 좀 괜찮으려나? 생각하곤 하지만..
그래서 독일에서 지낼 때에도 이곳 영국에서도 ...
복권이나 그냥 확 되버려라... 허망한 바람만 들어간다..
그래도 그럭저럭 버티면서 정해진 시간을 채우고 있다.
지금껏 그랬던 것처럼
하기로 했고 해야할 일이라면 죽어라 해내자
새로운 일에 욕심을 낼 만큼 강하지 않음을 잊지말자 올해는.
괜한 일에 마음 고생 안하고 시간 낭비도 안하고.
그렇게 집중에서 목표한 바 이뤄야한다!
시간이 많지 않다...