watching galbi

I met this guy from Bristol; and somewhere i remembered reading that McLaren had a brief stint there as a player, you know,before he started coaching, and a small comment about the english national team's performance since the last euro when he was sacked and the italian took over, was enough to kick start a lively conversation with this guy.
Rupert, if i still remember correctly, his name was, he wouldn't forget mine though, he has it written down well and good, with my email id.
He too was wandering about somewhere, in the north eastern part of south korea, as i was, with two of my good friends. He was a teacher, he said, working for the past two years somewhere in a small town near Busan, teaching eight and ten year old kids English. South korea is slowly realizing the importance of teaching the younger generation the language, and guys like this Rupert are making hell of a lot of money out of it, as he himself admitted. But what with the political, cultural and military alliance with big uncle sam , only a small minority of all the foreign teachers hired were from his side of the atlantic.
Anyways why i still remember this guy so well, was because, may be ironically, he was travelling to India in the space of three weeks, when his teaching contract would end. His plan was to start somewhere near Kathmandu, and trek all the way to India, and finally land up in Banaras. How interesting a way to spend three weeks of vacation, isn't it?.
But what actually amused me more was the reason why he was travelling to Banaras. He seems to have gotten this idea from somewhere that Banaras was the site of some ancient nuclear war, and that it still showed some abnormal radioactivity in some places!!. I am not kidding here, he showed me some grave looking printouts and news clippings, which he later folded back meticulously and kept in his small bag.
I have since tried to do some research on this subject, but even genius of google does not seem well informed on it. Anyways I gave him my mail, to just let me know if he has any breakthrough on this subject, or if he ever planned to visit kerala in the foreseeable future.He seems to have done neither.

Mr Rupert is one of the many foreign nationals i have been able to interact with, during my brief stay here in south korea. Ever since i heard Hugo Weaving say it the way he did in the matrix, i have also always wanted to classify the human species!!. Hence based on my brief interaction with around a score of koreans, half a dozen americans, a chinese, two russians and this one brit , i would say that the americans are the most arrogant and boisterous, - actually i don't know about this; may be it is because most of them i met were in a heavily intoxicated state!! - koreans as perhaps the humblest, russians as loud mouthed, the chinese as indifferent, and brits as very learned. Of course i don't classify indians. We indians are better than all these people in all these respects.

By the way, Koreans just love eating galbi.