beggars can't be choosers

i skipped breakfast again this morning in an effort to get to the gym early (i took my gummy vitamins), and i had a decent workout in my new asics - yay!  it turns out an asics factory is nearby, and my old asics had been shredded, so my agent made some calls, and poof, a new pair of asics appeared in my size yesterday.  i still miss my old gym, total impulse fitness, but at least i'm gymming.  today's workout: 45m elliptical, 25m arm workout, 40m walking uphill on treadmill = 900calories.  i'm still doing the tracy anderson workout every other day; my goal is to do for six weeks to see the improvement... i'm at about three weeks now... i should've taken a 'before' photo!!  recently i started to run a bit again (i haven't run since my accident in 2003), and i wanted to do a mini-run (3km-ish) today, but i've been having some issues with my knee, and it hurt too much today to run.  it hurt to walk as well, but not as badly as running.  maybe tomorrow.

for lunch, we went to this local korean restaurant, oasis, AGAIN.  i think i've eaten here about 30x since i got to china in december.  if we have lunch here, we always have doenjang jjigae, a soybean paste soup with tofu, which upon request is made not spicy for me.  i must be the only korean in the world that can't eat spicy food.  it's not the taste; it's the effect.  they still overload it with garlic, hot peppers, onions, but i can manage that; plus i was hungry.  it's not bad, but... they also have a pretty lacking variety of banchan... it's not my fave.

today, one of my agent's colleagues brought me for lunch because the rest of the office peeps had already eaten.  he only speaks korean and chinese (and he's from busan, so i'm about 50% lost when he speaks due to accent comprehension issues that i have), so it was an awkwardly silent lunch.  when he asked me if i'd eaten enough, i feigned fullness because i just wanted lunch to be over and done with!  but to be honest, i was hungry enough that i could've housed a steak.  or an entire grilled pork belly, mmmm.  now i'm eyeing these cookies on my desk, but the colleague is still hanging in the office, and i think it'll be too confrontational to nibble on them in front of him.  just my luck!

i'm heading to seoul tomorrow to visit my family, and i'm going to BEG for no doenjang jjigae.  i've totally OD'd.