Thursday March 6
 
14:08
 
An American girl’s thoughts on why Americans want bigger knobs

I sent my American friend - a black American girl who used to live in Tokyo and had a Korean boyfriend while here - the content of my 2003 post “Do Koreans really have smaller penises than Westerners?” that I mentioned last week. I told her it reminded me of her ;)

Her reply was so funny, I have to print it in full here. Interesting she mentions India - it’s something that Steve mentioned in the comments last week (my American friend hasn’t seen the comments).

Here is her reply:

I am glad to hear recollections of me are associated with Korean penises as well. Flattering really. I like this American girl, she actually had the balls to ask a question I’m sure many people think about. I STILL need to know about Indian cocks but have yet to be provided with the opportunity to find out myself. I should just offer to drop my panties for the next attractive Indian male I come across.

You just HATE America. There are many reasons to contribute to your discovery regrading Korean/Asian penises versus American penises, I’ll contribute some of my thoughts for your American hating pompous British mind to ponder:

1) Korean and Chinese, (I’ll include Japanese as well) women JUST DO NOT tell their men that they have small penises, and choose the easier and more pleasurable alternative of sleeping around with gaijin men with more notable genitalia. That would also explain why they feel a strong need to obtain Black men with dicks of monstrous proportions.

2) American men tend to be overweight, and therefore have stomachs that hang over their cocks and gives them a smaller appearance, and also have poor blood circulation and low stamina that creates the reoccuring problem of limp dicks.

3) Americans are just power hungry, overly and unneccessarily masculine, greedy, and always want bigger, better, and stronger. This extends to the male genetalia.

4) American women are just honest and unabashedly can admit size does indeed matter.

If I can think of any more reasons I’ll be sure to let you know.

You’ve got to love this girl.

Oh, and I don’t think I HATE America. I just like to BASH it every now and then.

Wednesday March 5
 
17:57
 
Passion and Fire

When someone talks with passion and talks from the heart, you can feel it.
 
When they can talk with passion and from the heart, and they know how to drive knowledge into your mind such that you not only get it, absorb it, and internalise it, but you don’t even realise the process is happening - that’s motivational and inspirational.
 
That’s the kind of person I want to be.
 
I forgot that for a long time, but recently I’m remembering it. It’s why I started Lick The Lard, to get people who want to lose and maintain weight but are failing, to look at their lifestyles from new angles and have “Eureka” moments, because I have presented thoughts and ideas in ways that strike home to them.
 
That desire was fired even further today, when I attended a training course. It wasn’t a boring “let’s sit in front of books” passive training course, but an active, involved session, using a variety of techniques and analogies to drive messages home. I remember sitting at break time thinking: “Damn it, do you remember when you had a plan to be a motivational speaker, Alan?”
 
And then suddenly I realised: It’s not outwith my reach. I’ve done something about it.
 
I am starting to be someone that motivates others.
 
Lick The Lard may not seem much at the moment, but I have written (on paper) pages and pages and pages of techniques, ideas, stories, angles to make people think differently, and succeed where they have failed before - assuming they want to succeed, that is. It is the start. It is a seed.
 
My plan, until today, has been thinking as far as the website only. In the other side of my brain, I’ve also had the thought of wanting to create and do something that will become an alternative career to me, something that I enjoy. I realise now that they are one in the same.
 
Done right, I can take Lick The Lard - and some of the other projects I’m working on - forward to motivate, and develop motivation into a career that fires me inside, and fires others into action.

Side not: I never realised that “outwith” is Scottish English. Just shows that I’ve not lost all of my Scottish roots ;)

Tuesday March 4
 
09:45
 
What is going on with my phone?

For the last two days it appears that the 7am alarm has not gone off, but the 8am alarm goes off fine. I’ve confirmed the settings - volume, 10 minutes, snooze, sounds.

Now I have been known to sleep through the 7am alarm, despite that it goes off every 10 minutes. That’s why I have the 8am alarm, with a louder chime. The 8am alarm means “stop using the snooze, you 怠け者” (na-ma-ke-mo-no - Japanese for “lazy arse”).

Yesterday I woke up by the 8am alarm, so I couldn’t be sure that the 7am alarm didn’t go off - but this morning I woke up and checked the phone at 7:48. There was no message to say “in snooze mode”, which there should be.

I have had problems with this phone before when the internal speaker broke. In that case, the alarm went off, but no sound came out. In this case, however, there is was no message at all to even confirm the alarm went off.

Racking my brains on the way in, I can think of only these reasons:

1. It’s f*cked ( - that’s that technical reason of the set)
2. It’s a conspiracy (just like my weight rising today)
3. It’s a side effect of watching Lost last night, and so my phone passed out and thought it was in 1996 at 6.59am - 7:48am.
4. It’s a bug related to me switching my phone to Japanese menus.
5. I received a message at 7:23 which cancelled the alarm.

The last one I only thought of about 10 minutes ago, and while it seems like a stupid bug, I wouldn’t put it past the phone to have a stupid bug like that. Koreans make fantastic products, but they often have little bugs - for example, even though when my phone is set to English, it always defaults to Japanese when typing text on mobile internet.

However, out of all the reasons I can think of - it’s the only one that is remotely understandable. I need to test.

Monday March 3
 
16:58
 
The Korean Blog List - Revamped

The big new for me today is the release of the revamped Korean Blog List.

I set up The Korean Blog List years ago, when I was in Hong Kong. At that time there was just a handful of bloggers writing about Korea - but over time the number grew and grew, and The Korean Blog List struggled - the “one page” format scrolled on and on forever; maintaining the link quality was a nightmare; there was no possibility to search by location.

Over the last week I have completely recoded The Korean Blog List from scratch. It is now in a much better position to expand, with the ability to report bad links, bloggers to update their own listings, etc. As bloggers update their registration details to add where they are living and their nationalities, I’ll introduce browse/search by location and nationality.

I should have spent more time on The Korean Blog List before, but I didn’t have the time. Now I do, and I have some cool things planned.