You Only Get One Chance | Typography

Words to live by my friends. Years ago when Markus and I lived in Florida, we used to watch heaps of Man vs Wild. We spent many afternoons following Bear Grylls and his adventures, hoping that one day we would do the same. One of my favorite episodes featured Iceland and we dreamed about visiting. I can't believe that years later we would have our own adventure in Iceland just like him!

Creepy Cinema 2014: Total Invasion

It's October and you know what that means over here at Ganda-Ganda, Creepy Cinema! This month is probably both my favorite and dreaded time of the year. I love that I can spend 31 days overcoming my fears and watching scary movies with Markus. This year's theme is Total Invasion, and we selected movies that are strictly focused on humanity being invaded by some inhuman element. I can't wait!

At the end of every week, I'll be posting reviews and informing you of the best and worst (in my opinion) of the lot. For your convenience, I've included the list of films that we'll be watching. Feel free to watch along with us, and enjoy this year's installment of Creepy Cinema! 

1. The Day the Earth Stood Still - 1951
2. Them - 1954
3. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes - 1978
4. Invasion of the Body Snatchers - 1978
5. The Fog - 1980
6. The Deadly Spawn - 1983
7. Day of the Dead - 1985
8. Night of the Creeps- 1986
9. Invaders from Mars - 1986
10. Critters - 1986
11. They Live - 1988
12. Seed People - 1992
13. Starship Troopers - 1997
14. Phantoms - 1998
15. The Faculty - 1998
16. Dark City - 1998
17. Evolution - 2001
18. 28 Days Later - 2002
19. Signs - 2002
20. War of the Worlds - 2005
21. Slither - 2006
22. Planet Terror - 2007
23. The Mist - 2007
24. Cloverfield - 2008
25. District 9 - 2009
26. Zombieland - 2009
27. Monsters - 2010 
28. Attack the Block - 2011
29. Big Ass Spider - 2013
30. Pacific Rim - 2013
31. I, Frankenstein - 2014

Oh Korea Quote #3

Despite the fact that I don't live in Korea anymore, I still have heaps of material for my "Oh Korea" series. I took a little break, but now they're back!

I really miss hearing all the random things that Korean people said. It was definitely a highlight of my life in Busan. For the third installment of "Oh Korea", I chose a really strange one. I've had loads of weird conversations, but this one was really out there. I was talking with a male coworker and I we were talking about health and sickness. Basically the conversation went like this:

Me: I get sick really easily.
Him: Oh really? You didn't drink mother's milk?
Me: ..... I'm pretty sure I did.
Him: Until when?
Me: I don't know, until I was 1?
Him: I drank mother's milk till I was 13. Plus I really like... * he put his hands in front of his chest.*
Me: Oh.....

At first I thought he was joking, but after a few more minutes of conversation I realized he wasn't. He was dead serious. I don't even think it's possible for someone to drink breast milk until that age, but I could be dead wrong. I asked a few of my Korean friends if this could happen. They said that because he grew up in the countryside, anything was possible. Apparently things are really different in the country. Either way, I'll always remember when a grown man told me he drank mother's milk until he was a teenager. Oh Korea, how much I miss you. 

You're My Favorite Destination | Valentine's Day 2014

Last year, I made Markus a super geeky Valentine's day card about time travel. For this year's card, I wracked my brain for something awesome. I started a few and they were awful. I was about to give up when a burst of inspiration hit me. As you know, Markus and I love to travel and have been to so many amazing places. I have to warn you, I'm about to get a bit mushy and cheesy. So if you cannot handle that sort of thing, just skip on ahead or admire my handiwork.

Markus and I have lived in South Korea. We explored the ruins of Angkor Wat in Cambodia. We walked the streets of Kyoto as a geisha and samurai. We've ridden emaciated horses to the top of Taal, an extinct volcano in the Philippines. We've walked the halls of Pemberley in England. We've traveled to so many places and experienced so many wonderful things together, but when it comes down to it, my favorite place in all the world is wherever Markus is. I know you're all cringing now, but it's the truth. We could be in the crappiest place, which has happened, but it's still worthwhile because Markus is with me. My life is so much better because of him and I can't wait to spend the rest of our years going on adventures and traveling to faraway lands.

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I can't believe that I've been consistently blogging since 2010. Looking back, I wish that I started on Blogger and not Tumblr, but it's okay. Tumblr was good to me, it just didn't fit my needs. I've been on Blogger for a year and it's been a wonderful one at that. So much has happened in the past 12 months. We finished our final year in Korea, we traveled to Cambodia and Japan and we finally moved back to the States. It's been a crazy year, but I wouldn't have changed a thing. 

Markus and I have decided that we wouldn't move back to Florida and instead we'll start the next chapter of our lives in Chicago. I wanted to commemorate all the changes in my life. So, I decided to completely re-design Ganda-Ganda. When I created Ganda-Ganda 2.0 and launched it on Blogger, I always had the intention of re-designing, but life took over. It happens, but I'm surprised that I found the time to do this in the past few months. It only proves that if you put your mind to it, you can do anything!

For this new site design, I created all the graphics on my own. Everything was written, sketched and inked by me. By no means am I an artist, but my dear and talented hubby is and he helped me a great deal. He encouraged all of my ideas and steered me in all the right directions. I'm actually quite proud of what I produced and I hope you do too! I hope to keep this new design for quite some time and look forward to creating more personalized graphics for future posts. Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think of the new layout!

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