Tuesday September 29
 
16:45
 
A cocky baby

Baby born with a second penis on his BACK.

Friday September 18
 
11:52
 
My ideal lens?

This is the lens I’ve been waiting for – an F2.8 lens with vibration reduction (image stabilisation):

Tamron AF 17-50mm F/2.8 SP XR Di II VC (Vibration Compensation) for Nikon

Released yesterday in Japan, with my 18-200 currently out of action and not going to be back from Nikon before my vacation this weekend, the lure of this lens proved difficult to resist.

But is it any good?

Click here to see some initial shots and find out what I think of this lens.

Wednesday September 9
 
17:10
 
Job discrimination is alive and well in Korea – even from Global Samsung!

4 excellent career opportunites from Times Search

this email is sent to koreajoblink.com members who have agreed to receive email alerts.
Pls read careffully before applying. The details can be found in the Job Opening Section in Koreajoblink.com.

TO apply: send your resume, coverletter and photo to :
haetahk@gmail.com

You must be in Seoul to apply for following positions.

1. Marketing manager – Samsung Joint Venture – age 30~40, female, English native speaker from N.America or Europe with bachelors’ or higher degree. Sales or marketing experience.
Full visa&! nbsp;sponsorship. Seoul Gangnam.
No Gyopos.
Salary: 4.8 mil per month. (if you have MBA degree, the salary can be further negotiated) plus sev. pay, insurance and other Samsung benefits.
Can start immediately.

2. US College Admissions Consultant
MN admssion consulting firm in Seoul, Gangnam
Gyopos only, Male or Female
age 35 or younger with bachelors degree from top tier private and state schools un the US.
Salary: 40 mil per year.

3. Overseas opportunity – Hong Kong
Korean or gyopos only
Sales in the financial industry experience
age! 30~35 ideal
perfect English and Korean
Salary: 150k USD per yr.

4. Overseas opportunity – Malaysia
Foreigners only – no korean or gyopos
Management and strategic consultant in K.L.
must have masters in business related major and from top schools from Europe or USA.

Salary 60K~100K USD (flexible depending on qualifications)

*do not reply to ask@koreajoblink.com

Because obviously you can’t market if you’re male, right Samsung? Sexist swines.

And obviously, 30~35 year olds are the most ideally suited for vague “Overseas opportunities”. Ageist.

The last two are the ones that really irritate me. Look at #4. A Korean born overseas – a gyopo – can’t apply for that job. To illustrate how stupid and racist that is, let’s take the case of two women: Milly and Mary. Milly and Mary are born on the same day at the same time in America, but Milly has US parents and Mary has Korean parents. Both of them graduated from the same top school in the USA. Both of them speak perfect English. Neither of them speak Korean. Milly can apply for job #4 but Mary can’t, because she’s a gyopo. Nor can she apply for Samsung’s job, #1. Why? It’s pure racism.

And #3. Imagine the case where a foreigner can speak perfect Korean and has lived in Korea for years. Why can’t he/she do that job? There’s no Korean visa issue – it’s Hong Kong. Again, racist.

I urge you to mail haetahk@gmail.com and ask@koreajoblink.com and call them racist, sexist, ageist, and, erm, appearanceist pigs. Oh, and mail samsungpr@edelman.com while you’re at it also.

Any if you have twitter, a tweet of this would be most marvellous.

All typos, &! nbsp;, etc etc, are exactly as sent on the email. Bold and red were added by me to highlight the objectionable content and the name of the Samsung company.

Saturday September 5
 
11:43
 
Shibuya, Tokyo through the fisheye

Tokina 10-17mm. Nikon D90. No colour, saturation, contast, etc postprocessing.