in search of redmango
23 Dec 2007 Leave a Comment
in food, frozen yogurt, reviews, seoul Tags: food, frozen yogurt, pinkberry, redmango, seoul
i am visiting my parents in seoul korea. the one thing i was looking forward to, other than seeing my family, was to try frozen yogurt at redmango (the original frozen yogurt that started pinkberry which then started other frozen yogurt stores across u.s.). i went to their website www.redmango.co.kr and tried to find the nearest store.
1. to search for a redmango in your neighborhood, you have to type in korean which is a pain for me since i hardly type in korea and can’t type in korean using my own computer anyhow.
2. when you look up an area, it either tells you the list the stores in that neighborhood or tells you no store exists in that neighborhood. why on earth would they not list nearby stores even outside of the specified neighborhood?
3. so next i typed in other neighborhoods i know of. (which i realize if you are a tourist, would have no idea what other neighborhoods to type in, if you knew how to type in korean and had access to a keyboard/program that let’s you write in korean.) that worked. but then the stores only had phone numbers, not addresses!
4. next i tried to leave a comment about the website and found that you can’t leave a suggestion unless you are a member. and you can only become a member if you are a korean citizen who has a citizen number! all that to say, for such a well known store, a store that i have heard of so many times, is kind of behind the times when it comes to marketing/website up-keeping!!! so i either have to mail in my comments about their website or fax it in. and guess what? my parents got rid of their fax machine!!!
hopefully later tonight, i can find one of the stores. i’ll have to call the store and ask for directions!!!
i believe – help my unbelief
23 Dec 2007 3 Comments
in christianity, philosophy, religion, theology Tags: christianity, doubt, faith, god, meaning of christmas, prayer, religion, theology, unbelief
wow. time is passing by fast even when i am visiting my parents in korea. today is christmas eve and it’s just another day, well, except that i’ll be spending the night at church.
yesterday at church, the pastor said the meaning of christmas was christ worship. and i wonder how many people even know that’s what the word means!
lately, i have been reflecting on whether, how much, and in what nature i believe in God. it’s been super difficult to pray to God. part of the reason is my recent struggles with depression. i seem to be doing worse, not better. and part of the reason has to do with what i’m reading/learning in my theology class. i was brought up to believe in god who wants to bless us, loves us, and cares about us. that is to say i believe/d in a personal god. but the more i study theology i realize that the god i believe in is boxed in my what i want god to be, and not actually who god might be. i mean who really knows what god is like anyway right? but some theories sound more convincing than others, that is for sure.
i still pray, prayers half-filled with unbelief. i go to church but reluctantly, wondering what worshipping an impersonal god means. can one maintain one’s faith while the conception of god which one previously held on to is going through radical change? it seems that there is/must be a kind of a suspension in belief. while the belief in god is going through radical revisions, it’s difficult even to know what one believes in.
so as for the meaning of christmas, to be honest, i’m not sure what i believe or feel about it. presents have been exchanged already in my family and tomorrow morning, we’ll rush to get to church and then head out for a family trip.
