Day 449: The Car & The Woman

My ol' buddy Luke is heading back home to Canada soon, and so he came up for the weekend from Chungju to hang out one last time. He trekked all the way out to Jungsan where he promptly sold his magical region-free DVD player to an eager Addie. After that I gave Luke a quick tour of LaFesta, and then we headed off to our day's main attraction - The 2005 Seoul Motor Show! It just so happens that Ilsan is hosting the car show this year, and one of my Preschool parents gave me two free tickets to go see it.

Luke and I walked down to KINTEX, which was the facility hosting the show. KINTEX was quite the spectacle in itself. It's a brand spanking new exhibition centre that is absolutely ginormous! It's as long and wide as a major international airport terminal or something! It's freakin' huge!! We were running a bit late and got in with just an hour left before things wrapped up. The show turned out to be quite the spectacle indeed...

Inside it was full of glimmering, shimmering beautiful new model cars by makes of all kinds. Kia and Hyundai, Ford and Jaguar, BMW and Volvo, Rolls Royce and Audi...quite the showcase indeed. And lemme tell you, this show was designed to shoot like an arrow straight into the heart of all males. Constructed scientifically to evoke two of man's greatest raw and primal urges, this show masterminded each key component perfectly to cut to the chase and go for the throat and leave you begging for more. What two ingredients were intertwined in such a symbiotic concoction that any and all resistance was proven to be absolutely completely mercilessly futile?

The Car and The Woman.

Each new car was perched up on its own revolving pedestal, laid out basking under the glow of a million headlamps, twisting and turning from the male audience as if to taunt and tease and just beg you to touch its smooth, lean, curvacious surfaces. And on top of each and every new model was a woman. But, not just any woman... On top of each and every new model was the most stunning, exotic, breathtaking heart-stopping pulse-poundingly beautiful woman that you have ever seen in your entire life. It was an army of supermodels. Clad in sleek and slender gorgeous gowns, crowned in glittering jewels, christened with hair and make-up as if they just stepped off the runway in Milan, these heavenly angels posed alongside and on top of each car with such a seductive pose and expression, staring each and every male straight into the eye, seeing their soul and deepest darkest desires with just a single glance, provoking such a primal yearning from within that with just a moment's pause you were immediately and unabashedly their captive prisoner, surrendering your dreams and fantasies with just a millisecond of eye contact, willing to hand over your heart and soul and body and wallet and anything else they could ever want, just to hold their attention. You didn't know why and didn't even care nor did you even fathom questioning it. All you knew was at that exact moment you were S-O-L-D and would do anything to get your hands on that model. It was intoxicating and hypnotic, and I too nearly fell under their spell.

Multiply this sensation by 467 for each of the new cars on display and that just about sums up the experience of that car show. All I can say is WOW! Hook line sinker nearly every male fell over like lemmings, staring and drooling, at the beautiful cars and the even more beautiful women. Wow.

Atter the car show we walked back to meet Addie at the Starbucks at LaFesta, and then the three of us went and met Katie for dinner at Aroi Aroi. We had a great Thai dinner and then went back to Addie's to play Trivial Pursuit into the wee hours of the morning. 2am and after serveral hours of the game and no winner we decided to throw in the towel and call it a night. It went to sleep with images of spectacular curves of both steel and flesh in my head.