Wesley's Tool-Box

After passing by multitudes of shops prominently featuring gulbi in front for a few minutes, we drove through rice fields that featured transmission towers scattered here and there. Then we noticed employee apartments for Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) and Korea Plant Service & Engineering (KPS), a sure sign that there's a power plant nearby. Eventually, a familiar dome-shaped building started appearing at the edge of the horizon.

As a part of the three-week training camp for the new interns at Korea Power Exchange (KPX), we were taken to actual power plant sites. I'm guessing that this was designed let us get the feeling of the real hardware behind the machineries that produce electricity for the nation. It would also double as a reviewing process for all the studies we did in the training sessions during the past week. Last week, we went to the Taean thermal power plant, conveniently located next to the training center we're staying for the second and third week of the training, Korea Power Learning Institute (KPLI). This week, we went to a place tad farther away. A place that shares a lot of similarities with a thermal power plant but also quite different in many aspects - a nuclear power plant.

Well, I'm writing this at a training center in Icheon. This is my first day at work in Korea Power Exchange, as the first 3 weeks of training is held at training centers in faraway location. I had much fun today with my teammates and all, but sadly the internet connection wasn't working on this computer I'm using at the lounge. So I'm using my cellphone as a temporary internet connection. Slow, but better than nothing.

I hope to tell more about the training as time and circumstances permit.

Here's an interesting movie project that I heard about from Andy a few weeks ago. It's called "The 1 Second Film" and the running time of movie's main contents is exactly one second long. However, because it is literally a huge collaboration effort from lots of people, running the ending credits alone is expected to take more than an hour. If you think this is outrageous and would be extremely boring, 'the making of' video is presented with the ending credits, making it worth watching. All in all, the movie's total running time is expected to be similar to regular movies.

While Korea beating Japan (again) in World Baseball Classic a few hours ago by 2:1 to secure a place in the semifinals alone was euphoric, this brief moment just before the game started (I recorded the whole game, by the way) was too hilarious to ignore. It was just a minute before these two sportscasters were to interview Seung-Yeop Lee (currently the most successful hitter in WBC). Byung-Hyun Kim, the pitcher who earned a win later in the game, couldn't pass up making his presence known while walking in front of the camera. Such a prankster. Enjoy the 8-second clip! You need DivX codec installed.