I've changed job. From last week I work for online games development company as a client-side programmer. The project is just started.

I've just updated the resume on my website. Could you check it up, please?

Some time ago I read a news story from Khabarovsk city local news web-site. (That is the closest to Korea Russian city.) The story was that one night at 1 a.m. a group of drunken guys and girls on a big Toyota jeep came to visit their friend. They stopped the car in front of their friend's apartment building and called him out. Then they got out of the car, turned on the car's audio system to the full volume and started some sort of improvised drink-and-dance party on the street. Soon neighbours from other apartments started to complain and yell at them to shut off the music and get away. The guys didn't pay any attention to the neighbours and even made the music louder. Finally after half an hour of loud music, drunken screams, shouting and yelling someone threw an antitank hand grenade to the car. Yep, that is not a misprint. Antitank hand grenade. The jeep was blown up to shreds. By some miracle nobody was killed but all disturbers got into hospital with fragmentation wounds.

All people who posted comments under that news story expressed full support to the unknown person who threw the grenade. Some people wrote that they would use RPG or antitank missile if they had one. Nobody suggested that it would be better to call the police.

After several days of investigation police still could not find out who threw the grenade.

I remembered that story because yesterday I read an entry in bluecor's journal about Koreans and their attitude to weapons. I started some debate there. bluecor says that every citizen should have a right to possess firearms. I think that Koreans and Korean society don't need it. What do you think?

I got an e-mail from Russian Culture Centre in Seoul. They invite people to a party they gonna hold on Saturday, July 30. The entry fee is 20,000 Korean won. For that you get a table, one bottle of "Baltica" beer and you have a chance to win some prize in their lottery. For meals and more drinks you have to pay extra money. There will be some quiz games and live music from the same Russian band that performs on most Russian parties in Seoul.

I think the entry fee is a little bit high considering that you anyway gonna spend 20,000 ~ 30,000 on food and drinks in their restaurant. But anyway I will be there because I promised that to my friend who is a chief editor of one of Russian newspapers in Korea and co-organizer of this event.

The funny thing is that there are 3 places in Seoul that call themselves "Russian Centre". One is above mentioned RCCS. They have decent Russian Restaurant, library with Russian books, magazines, movies, Cds. Also they have Russian language courses for Koreans and Korean language courses for Russians. Other place is "Pushkin House". Actually that is Russian language school for Koreans but they also hold some cultural events sometimes and show Russian movies every evening for free. The third place is "Russian Center" near "Dongdaemun Stadium". Basically that is a very popular Russian store. They sell original things from Russia that you can't buy in Korean supermarkets. They have Russian food, drinks, books, magazines, video, DVD, CD and so on.