Life in Korea

Andrew Holmes

Andrew Holmes

  • Age: 49
  • Sex: Male
  • Occupation: English Teacher
  • Member since: Sep 2004
  • Forum posts: 6
  • Skype manganeseuk
  • Login status: Offline

About me

I am from Leicester in England and I am a published analytical chemistry author with experience of running chemical processes involved in waste water treatment, electroplating and anodising and flue gas desulphurisation. After working as a chemist for the MoD in Wales I decided I'd had enough struggling and flew first to Taipei and thence to Korea to work teaching English, and so far, I have never looked back.

My work

Teaching conversational English, reading and writing to Korean schoolchildren.

Fast facts

  • At the movies I like to see:Science fiction
  • Last movie seen:Inglorious Basterds
  • Music I listen to:All sorts - classical, rock, jazz, blues, electronic, you name it
  • Best album right now:Still "Hold Your Fire" (Rush, 1988)
  • Favorite author:Probably Michael Moorcock
  • Last book read:"Drifting Into a Side-stream" by Hendrik Erasmus
  • Best game right now:Don't play games!
  • Favorite sports team:Not interested in sports!
  • I'm passionate about:Not being passionate about anything - that's mind control, folks!
  • I wish I could:Live a good life without having to worry about working as I get older.
  • Favorite travel destination:Still thinking about it . . . I rather liked Taipei when I was there . . .
  • On my vacation I..:. . . . tend to sleep rather a lot!
  • If I won 1 million dollars, I would:Invest it wisely.
  • If I were a super hero I would:Kick crap out of anyone who wanted to control me!
  • Fashion I rather not see again:Boob tubes
  • My worst purchase ever:A clapped-out Fiat Regata
  • I want my coffee..:As thick as mud - I need that jolt . . .
  • Food I like:Barbecued chicken a la IP (in Changwon, South Korea).
  • I don't like:Seafood! UUURRRGHH!!!! :P
  • Software I use:Mandriva Linux and KDE 4
  • Hardware I use:Dual-core Intel with NVIDIA graphics, small (black) keyboard, large (black) screen, black mouse . . .
  • I discovered My Opera from:. . . through using opera instead of other cack browsers for many years.

Why I choose the Opera browser

It's not M$ and it works in Windoze and Linux. Makes using Windoze a lot less painful!!!

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