  - Women.  You get emotionally involved with them,  and what do they do?  - They rip your heart out of your ass!
 Ever had a girl tell you she loves you?  Yeah?  Of course you have,  you handsome devil you.  Ever had a girl tell you she loves you on the same day she marries someone else?  So today was the wedding of my ex.
 Well,  I say 'ex'.  just read on,  and please,  any advice you've got,  leave a comment.
 Bonus points if you can tell me where the quote at the top comes from.  Story so far:  Nov '03 -  start going out Dec 23 -  she tells me she's accepted a marriage proposal from another guy Jan- Feb -
 break- up /  get back together x4,  5 ( lost count)  She says she's unsure about getting married because she doesn't love the guy March -
 she decides she'll marry him,  for her parents ( who already told everyone in Korea about it,  plus they spent 10 grand on a new car for the bastard back in January,  but guess who didn't find out about that until the end of March)  April -
 numerous occasions where she'd call me /  turn up at my place in tears because he's a complete cunt and she doesn't want to marry him,  but it's too late because her parents would " die of shame"  if they pulled the plug on the wedding now April 25 -  wedding day I originally intended to tell you all about the workings of the Korean wedding ceremony in all its gruesome vulgarity,
 but I took like 30 pictures and I don't want A- MOL bitching about loading times.  Don't worry,  there's still a shitload of pictures,  Haigh.  Heh.
 So,  this morning I received the following text messages:  The letters in Korean are the names of two of my female friends.  She gets really pissed off and jealous if I hang out with them,  yet she expects me to understand that she's marrying another guy.  Moving on.
 Before the ceremony ( yes,  before!  the couple poses for shots.  After I took this picture I got asked to pose with the bride,  and after waiting 15 seconds for me to smile,
 it finally dawned on the photographer that no amount of lively gesturing was going to make me smile,  so she took the picture anyway.  Bet it's great.  Clockwise from top- left:  Bride walking into the hall,
 having just seen me;  mothers doing something odd at the front;  minister /  MC getting ready while girls with odd hats tell the mothers to do something,  probably;  pretty crap blurry picture.
 I should apologise for the wild variations in lighting,  plus the fact that my crappy software blurs the pictures when I try to reduce the size.  The reasons for the crap lighting was this arsehole:  He was giving everyone the Nazi interrogation treatment throughout the whole ceremony,  fucking up most of my photos in the process.  Also note a)
 smug bastard,  whose facial expression didn't change throughout;  b)  how incredibly miserable she looks.  Want more proof?  The fact that she kept glancing over in my direction the whole time was a bit of an insight into her thoughts.
 Of course,  I was mightily pissed off all the way through,  but one thing did make me laugh.  The pic on the left shows the cake- cutting.  Note:
 a)  again,  pissed off;  b)  neither the bride nor the groom ( who we hate,
 by the way)  get to cut the cake.  This privilege is given to some random woman.  The pic on the right shows that only the top layer was a real cake.  Presumably they wheel out this fake cake for every wedding they hold there ( there was another scheduled 50 minutes after this one began)
 And,  for the girls,  here's one last picture of the wedding dress.  You can't tell,  but it was a kind of ivory colour.  Since the ceremony finished I've received a couple more texts from her along the same lines as the ones shown above.
 They're off on a weeks' honeymoon to Paris /  Switzerland leaving tonight,  and when they get back,  he's off straight to the USA for a 10- day work thing,  and she's invited me to stay at their new apartment while he's gone.
 I'm unbelievably pissed off and confused by the whole fucking situation ( hence the reason why I'm in a PC room on a Sunday afternoon spelling it out for you)  Any thoughts?  ______________________________________ In other news,  the Alkaline Trio /  One Man Army split CD is incredible.
