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7.194 The MIL’s Typical at Korean At-Home Meal

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17 (Sun) July 2016

The MIL’s Typical at Korean At-Home Meal

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by MIL

-Apgujeong, Seoul-

with DJ, IZ, and the In-Laws

The Home Stretch : Day 3 (see previously 7.193 Mineo Hoe).

At long last, the time has come.  Arrived in Seoul yesterday morning.  Will be here for a week to pack up and ship our stuff to the Philippines, where we’ll be reunited to live as a family after 2.5 years.  Flying back together to Manila next Saturday.

Earlier that afternoon, we happened to be driving by our first apartment, a third-story walk-up in Nonhyeon-Dong, which we’d called home for the first 9 months of DJ’s life.
His name is still in the cement, from when we’d poured a new driveway!

Bless her heart, the MIL insisted that she make dinner for me, despite my loud objections and clear proclamations that her cooking falls way short of my standards — she really believes that I’m joking.  Thanks to GMTD, I’m pleasantly reminded that I had to deal with this very issue during my final week before making the solo move to Manila in 2014 (see generally 5.109 The MIL’s Typical Korean At-Home Meal) — deja vu all over again.  The good news is that it should be the last MIL-meal for the foreseeable future.  The bad news is that I won’t get to enjoy these opportunities to gripe, which may be worth having to endure the subpar food.

By sheer coincidence, I met DJ for the first time exactly 9 years ago today, on July 17 — even though he was born on July 15, 3 weeks premature, while I was sitting down to a dim sum brunch, in Boston, during a research trip; another weird coincidence : I was staying with high school buddy HS, who was living there at the time in a condo unit #715; HS would eventually become DJ’s godfather.
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