try waking up at 7am making your way down to boon lay at 9am for project meeting then going down to ulupok tuas area at 11am for project interview and interviewing nonstop till 530pm with like half an hour break only then making your way to someone's house by 730pm and film an video for the project and then edit the video for the project by the time the whole nightmare was over, it was 1230am the next day and then you are suddenly wide awake because you have been going nonstop for more than 12 hours without even a proper wink of sleep but you know you have to get some sleep because you cannot waste the day away and waking up at 9am to find that you are not feeling tired
welcome to my recess week
talkplaylove 11:03:00 AM
20080922
i had my remaining share of rest and fun before the recess week finally starts i rided on hindsight that recess week is going to be filled with projects, project AND MORE PROJECTS and turns out that i am right
met up with shuting at vivocity on friday! the highlight of the night was when shuting said "i want to get a tattoo on my lower back because when i am old and the tattoo is ugly, i cannnot see it" GOODNESS ME. i laughed like there was no tmr
my pose is inspired by dbsk's new mv. i am serious of course this is not inspired, this is pure unglamness
saturday night i went to lou's house to do IT project TORTUROUS and the highlight of the night was the power trip can you imagine we were drawing the disgusting IT flowchart halfway and the power trip so the laptop went blank i was completely stunned that i went wtf luckily we saved our work so the re-drawing part wasnt that much my goodness me, really a lesson learnt to ALWAYS SAVE YOUR WORK we slept at 3am and we didnt complete drawing the flowchart super tired lou's mum gave me a lift home on sunday morning i reached home, had breakfast and went for a swim i am amazed i can still think of exercising when i am tired the afternoon was filled with more flowcharts finally finished drawing at night and i was really positively ditzy alr my reward was of course dbsk's showcase
my boys are hot. PERIOD changmin is getting so tall. haha cannnot wait to see more of their performances in korea and of course listen to all the songs of the new album and to lay my hands on their album
their new official mv 주문 Mirotic not very good quality but love it!
recess week is going to be super busy tuesday-IT meeting + interview at the company wednesday - IT project thursday - 202 project friday, saturday sunday - study for 202 quiz, research for 201 project and do normal readings
BLEAH! please don't tell me i am the only weirdo that is so busy during recess week
talkplaylove 1:15:00 PM
20080916
i am really perturbed and pertrified of the fact that recess week is just next week how can 7 weeks of school just fly past so silently i am really horrified of the things upcoming from the start of recess week till the end of this sem
anw, blog abt what happened so far since the last entry
1) 201 test no other word to describe but FUGLY i managed to balance the thing this time but it was done forcefully so ya, i guess there are errors here and there managed to write at the speed of light which my hand almost died after notes to accounts but hopefully the results wont turn out too bad
2) AB228A last lesson of career foundations! wooohooo. now i officially have 4 day work week. wheeeees loved my teacher he is super funny and he talks in the same kind of language as me like how rare is that!
3) 1st IT interview was completely horrible, i am too lazy to blog and let the memories flood back and torture me once again but i am really starting to realize how horrible the IT project is and WILL BE well, i think our group progress is decent and how all things turn out DECENT
4) early birthday celebration with my 2 sec sch besties at chinatown
i was like unusually high when i saw that the streets of chinatown was closed due to the mooncake festival couldn't resist the urge to take photos because the streets of chinatown are ususally bustling with heavy traffic and we did some shopping at chinatown and i must say that there are good stuff there!
5) TWEN-TEEN birthday i feel old but rest assure i know i am forever young in my heart! thanks to all who has wished me thru sms/msn/fb and those who made the effort to give me presents!!
joy was asking me whether i will throw a korean theme 21st birthday party next year and i was stunned by the idea because i have never thought of it before something to consider for next year. hahaha
upcoming in the recess week till before exams
1) IT Project 2) 202 Mid Term Quiz 3) 202 Board Meeting 4) 201 Term Project - they just released the instructions a few days ago, out to kill us lor 5) IT Quiz 6) IT Excel Quiz 7) 214 Group Presentation
and of course on top of that the endless readings that may just strangle me to death 201 readings are really no joke! my goodness me i just wish to stay sane in face of all the work ahead!
on a lighter tone, the triangle album that i ordered has arrived am looking forward to the 4th korean album, which the cover was released today!
OHMYGOSH. i really like the design of the cover and the colours from afar but when i did take a closer look why is junsu slapping changmin's head! @*$&*&*($)(#*()#*% ohwell. nonetheless, i am excited about their songs, mvs and all!
i am super looking forward to SM Town BKK! i will be super busy spying here and there!
anw this blog MAY be abandoned for some time seriously too much is happening i am realllly lazy to recount
ok, till the next post!
talkplaylove 5:48:00 PM
20080907
many horrible and nightmarish incidents this week
1) was supposed to book tickets to bangkok last sunday night. so me and joy were happily discussing online. so joy told me jetstar promotion is ending that night and she asked whether we want to wait until monday to see whether there is new promotion so being naive and ignorant, we both agreed that we should wait and take a gamble for new promotion so monday when i was on my way to school, i saw joy's sms that jetstar DID NOT HAVE A NEW PROMOTION rather, the price increased what a nice horror for the start of the week our airfare increased by like $29 for each person my conclusion is, airfares increases as the date draws near so next time you are in the same situation as me DO NOT TAKE THE GAMBLE, just buy the ticket
2) tuesday was a horrible trip to school i'm sure many university students, esp NTU students have heard of the incredibly long bus 179 queue to school well, having to travel this sem, i can see that the bus 179 queue is always long i was really wrong abt my perception of LONG until i experienced what i did on tuesday i left my house at 845am for my 1030 class normally it takes 1 and 1/2 hrs to travel to school from my house i reached boonlay mrt at 955am and the sight i saw was really PHENOMENAL i saw students queuing alr when i walked down the steps of the mrt station but i refused the believe the queue was so long so i decided to walk infront ABIT to see whether it is really that situation AND OHMYTIANS, IT INDEEED WAS so i faster walk back and started queuing i joined the queue at the fruit stalls there la, and that's the place where you alight if you take the 179 bus from school to interchange MY GOOODNESS ME i was still telling myself, shld be okay la, i am early, will reach school in time WRONG AGAIN i stood at the spot for like 5-10mins and the queue didnt even BUDGE AN INCH and to make matters worse, the jurong point smell kept wafting in the air like how nice it was seriously it took me half and hour to board the bus YES SO I WAS LATE boarded the bus at 1030am can you believe it, thats the time where i am suppose to have my lesson it took forever because there was no 179A and sbs decided to be a bitch by nt sending out 179s even if it did, it sent out a single deck like HAHA. SO CONSIDERATE OF YOU my conclusion for this is i will never arrange a 1030 class to be my first class. i went school at 1030 that day because i didnt have my 830 morning class
3) i mistook the wrong question for presentation HOW NICE RIGHT so over the weekend i HAPPILY chionged through all the readings for IT to do my presentation qn somemore my presentation qn was like DIFFICULT it killed alot of my brain cells while trying to do it IN THE END, on tuesday when we met up to compile my group realised we did the wrong question ok, partly my fault since i kept insisiting we are doing that question i guess i was punished for my efforts and ironically or however you want to see it, the real question we had to present was actually much easier we managed to settle it on tuesday afternoon, just in time for wednesday presentation
4) wednesday's IT lesson was suppose to end at 630pm but the teacher released us early at 545pm so me and lou was so excited we wanted to chiong home so we can go home early for dinner when we came out from the classroom, it was raining but that DIDN'T really dampen our spirits yet because i had an umbrella so we walked to the bus stop and that was where the real horror begins WHY? because the bus stop was exploding we couldnt even squeeze into the shelter of the bus stop so we were left standing outside the bus stop with my tiny umbrella being shared by the 2 of us and with mr rain deciding to pour even more heavily within minutes, our shoes became swimming pools and our clothes started to get soaked to make the matters even worse as if its not enough, bus 179s that came were all PACKED to the brim and none of them stopped only NTU students will understand this. during peak hours, bus 179 would be packed like siao at the canteen A bus stop norm it wont stop at the innovation bus stop which was where me and lou were at that day so we deicded maybe we shld flag a cab to end our agonies BUT, ALL THE CABS WERE EITHER HIRED OR ON CALL GOSH and luckily we were smart enough we decided to take the shuttle bus that came to hall 1 cos hall 1 is the first stop of 179, sure can board the bus so we alighted at hall 1 and a few seconds after alighting, we were given a welcome by this amazing waterfall created by this car zooming past the busstop it splashed all over my bottoms la! @#*%$*^#&#(*#% so we decided to stand behind the seats at the bus stop so the water wont splash onto us even when cars zoom by the reason why the water was splashing because at hall 1, there was some mini flood so its inevitable that cars will make water splash so the next car came and i was ABOUT to gloat over the fact that we wont get wet and that was when the car zoomed past and THIS TIME, the water splashed onto my top, a little bit splashed on my face HOW GREAT IS THIS there were also other people at the bus stop den they said "OPEN UMBRELLA!" haha, so we opened our umbrella the next time a car zoomed past finally 179 came and it was quite crowded but we managed to find ourselves seats we have never been so thankful for a seat on a bus before
by the time we got to the interchange, it was 1 hour later meaning 645pm, considering we were being let off at 545pm if it didnt rain, we would also have reached the interchange at 645pm and we were in a very cui state because almost 80% of our clothes are wet our shoes are COMPLETELY WET and filled partially with water we were super cold and hungry so we deicded to get some food first before we board the train we saw food stalls at the interchange so we got our food and lou is damn funny pls, she buy her pau alr she told me "how i wish i can just hold the pau in my hands and not eat it" TRYING TO BE FUNNY LA seriously. haha so we gobbled our food and boared the train we managed to find seats also when we sat down, lou said "i'm thankful that the previous person that sat on this seat has a warm butt" upon hearing, i think i laugh until my stomachpain la seriously
ok, so i guess you are curious what time i reached home 745pm, took a full 2 hours and at paya lebar it rained also but i cannnot be bothered since i was just one step away from being completely wet you know at times like this, i wish that how nice it would be if i had a car and i have my driving license so i can drive home in peace or there was someone nice enough that offered me a lift home but ya, its a horrible incident i feel the thrills just recounting this here
ok, so thats all the horrible incidents that happened of course there are the happy sides
1) friday i went to orchard for some shopping i finally got that y-mail wallet from ysl, birthday present from my mum :D my mum is reallly nice i got a black headaitch from crumpler because my red topshop bag broke on monday i was so sad so i decided i need a SUPER DURABLE BAG for school
2) got my july work pay too on friday comission for the 3 months would be $100+ but its not payable to me yet and rena was nice to give me a lift from tiong bahru to kallang so that i saved time travelling on the train and i could get home faster
3) overloads of youtube videos from suju and shinee that made me happy
SUJU Happy & SHINee perform miracle together!
loved this performance because it was the first time i heard minho sing and he has good vocals in my opinion and he was also super cute during the moments he had with eeteuk and eunhyuk. ALLL MY LOVES :D
Eunhyuk & Eeteuk reading english fan mail on SUKIRA
this video got me laughing nonstop. pls watch their english was incredibly funny i was amused to high heavens. hahaha
4)DBSK's 4th korean album to be released on 24th September! WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO cannot wait and they also have a new jap single coming out EXCITING SEPTEMBER FOR ME! :D am deciding whether to pre-order the 4th album so as to get first press edition SHALL SEE HOW. :D
ok, a preview of what's up next week
1) tmr is 201 mid term test. in the previous post i mentioned the duration is 2 hours. nah i was wrong. only given 1 HOUR AND 40 MINS to complete a balance sheet, a statement of comprehensive income, a statement of changes in equity and notes to account my brain and hand MUST work at the speed of light
2) going down to the company for interview for IT project IT project is starting to reveal its true face i hope i can conquer it!
you know i am so numbed of school now that when i travel on the train to school and home, i no longer feel tired i have started to feel jaded of the endless readings that i am starting to STOP complaining about it and i no longer feel that i have to battle with the bed in the morning just to get up for school or to do my readings at least its a good sign i guess ahh, whatever
back to revision for 201 tmr
talkplaylove 2:00:00 PM
20080830
lucky me, i managed to survive the week despite being sick am almost fully recovered but i decided i need to or rather must stay and keep healthy till 21st Nov
202 presentation was SUPERB my teacher said if nothing goes wrong it would be an A+ grade :D teachers don't lie to you right, haha was super happy la and amazed at how well my team worked together despite the very first time working together i conclude as long as everyone puts in their effort for a project everything will go well hope we mainatin the same zest for our board meeting thingy!
am super lagging in my 201 because i forsaked it to do my 202 presentation i am really amazed by the amount of readings from 201 like FRS 1 has like freaking 78 pages and it's not some story book where you can read it leisurely and digest it well my goodness and the 201 mid-term will be another horror again i guess have to prepare adjusting journal entries, balance sheet, statement of comprehensive income, statement of retained earnings and notes to accounts in like 2 hours! not only must my brain work well, my hand must write at lightning speed! gosh, and i certainly don't welcome the fact of doing it in the lecture theatre because the tables are like so small i will feeel so confined by the space SIGH
IT readings is overwhelming, i just printed them and i was like rahhh but i think it will be okay to read them because i kind of enjoy IT this sem my next fave subj would be 202 but i think when we embark on the IT project, it would be totally another different story
4 weeks of school has just passed like that, seeeems duper fast and in like 3 weeks time recess week will come i can't help but think of the horros ahead time is travelling at the speed of light pls goodness me
ok la, school aside been infatuated with SHINee these days watched their reality show and i missed korea when they went to yongin everland and sat the t-express and all the lovely scenary secretly wishes i can just quit school and migrate to korea. haha eunhyukkie is still the same as always, my happy pill whenever and ever dbsk has been busying flying between japan and korea i am seriously worried for their health 4th korean album will be releasing soon am super happy they will release it in my birthday month i will be DELIRIOUSLY happy if the release date is my birthdate i will still be SUPER happy even if they release in sep cannnnnot wait loh, i am dying of anxiety actually it's been like almost 2 yrs since the 3rd korea album! sepaking of which SM Town Concert tickets is confirmed just that i dunnnoe where i will be sitting yet but its okay i will bring my binoculars cannnot wait seriously, will buy air tickets and book hotel soon :D
am super addicted to God Diva's dark chocolates now they are superb seriously cannnot wait to go to bkk again so i can get them at duty free price at the airport! will buy more this time! haha, very random
ok, shall go back to my endless pile of readings!
talkplaylove 7:02:00 PM
20080824
school hasn't been fun, like whats new but at least random and hilarious things happen and spice up my life
anw finally met up with the s46 girls after like zillion years or sth. it was good and we dined at the korean restaurant at fep! secretly wants to increase my korean vocabulary so that i can speak korean to the restaurant manager next time so as to get free flow of side dishes!
went to lou'c church drama play. was good watching the church members put up such a good drama considering the time limit and none of them are professional actors. was good also listening to the person preach, i felt more holy and peaceful
credit card fraud happened to me and all i can do was to curse at that person and wait for a new replacement card
met a die-hard boa fan in my class during the networking session. actually we are suppose to converse on the topic given by the instructor but dunnnoe what happen we ended up exposing our J&K pop madness. i was so proud and excited telling the boa fan that i went to dbsk's concert in thailand
fj: " yeah, i went to their concert, in thailand"
boa fan: "how come thailand?"
fj: " they held a concert there mah, so have u been to any of boa's concert?"
boa fan: "ya, in tokyo"
i felt totally thrashed and slapped. haha. to go japan/korea for concerts is like OMGOMGOMG ok i think its super random but i seriously found it amusing
the down part of this week, in addition to the fraud is that i have been sick TWICE. can you believe it. i was sick on tuesday and i had to endure through 2 positively disgusting seminars which i got a terrible headache after that. after school i even headed to ps in attempt to get some stuff that i need but guess what, couldnt find them at all. i went home with my head spinning and plunge into bed, luckily i recovered after a long 2hrs sleep and today i am sick again, at a larger magnitude den tuesday, flu and mild sore throat which i highly suspect is due to the random tantrums of mr. weather to be suddenly scorching hot and to suddenly rain cats and dogs and guess what i had to do, entertain guests that came to visit from abroad and compile my project presentation. i was like sneezing and blowing my nose while doing the ppt slides i alr ate medicine but i am still not feeling better! rah i need to recover at least by tmr! i got work to complete next week can! 2 major presentations and 1 minor one and on top of that, the endless readings!! sigh, seriously hate my body mechanism, it simply likes to shut down on me whenever i need it to stay strong!
alright, i shall go watch the olympics closing and probably rest early for the day i am so proud of Park Tae Hwan, the swimmer from korea. he's like amazing! (: hope he gets more gold medals next time!
i will do a proper update next time so sorry for this super random post
talkplaylove 8:33:00 PM
20080820
this post is for the overdue bkk trip i really wanted to blog about the details and all but there is no time and blogger is being a bitch by nt allowing to save my drafts properly so pictures will do the job
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anw one thing abt the trip was we were being mistaken for korean and japanese! i was secretly high la. 1) A korean woman came and talk to me in korean but i died halfway in the conversation because my korean is damn limited 2) pple at the hotel attempted to converse in japanese to us super hilarious
rah, many other random things but i'm too lazy to share! in overall bkk was hell lot of fun! :D
talkplaylove 12:51:00 AM
20080806
so i promised new pictures of my room here it is
entering it
ok, we shall start from my wadrobe. haha. tidying the clothes and all made me realise i do have QUITE SOME CLOTHES. considering i sold off a mountainous pile during the holidays. actually to be exact the pile of clothes is still with rena and she havent post them yet. but my point is. imagine if i didnt intend to sell them off
a look at the tops and dresses section
i dunnnoe whether this seems like alot to you all but i feel that my clothes are hung super close to each other. i feel like i am having some tiny mango or zara sale in my room though. AHEM. oh and i didnt hang all the tops in this space. my office wear clothes are under rent in my mum's wadrobe. haha
oh and some signs of fangirlism on the left! lol
ok next lets move on to the outwear, scarves and skirts section
eh, i think my outwear is sufficiently okay in amount la but then again, i have some hoodies and coats under rent in my mum's wadrobe too bcos i figured i wont be wearing them often unless i go to some winter country oh but i realise i do have little skirts, at the right hand side, mostly are denim and colour blue oh well. i seldom wear them anyway
ok. next to the truly bottoms section
on top are shorts, ok i think my shorts are a lil towering. behind my shorts are all my leggings and stockings. yup bottom is all my jeans and crop pants. haha. erm cannnot stack all together cos cannnot fit inside the height of the space. haha oh, i put my ties and my suspender here too because i cannot find any other place
lets move on to my bags. haha i think i have too much bags i have to seperate them into 3 categories 1) frequently used 2) will use 3) may use sometimes
so here they are
frequently used bags
on the top are bags that i will bottom are bags that i may use like laptop bags
of course luggage and travel bags are like in rent in my mum's wadrobe also. haha
ok moving on to my very nice super single bed!
i love my cupcakes bedsheets! so cute. hahaha. and my happy 3 friends. dongdong the pig, xiah the turtle and gom the bear
ok, next is my work area
its tidy!
love my new room alot its conducive to study i guess. i am just afraid that too conducive may induce me to fall asleep as the day goes by but for now i find my room good to study in
anw school has started am trying to get used to the travelling seriously i love how they take care of the welfare of NTU students we are located at the end of the EW line the buses to our school are located at the furthest end of the boon lay interchange how nice it is seriously, we go to the ends so as to go to school
monday i went to school early to buy my textbooks and notes i bought like $20+ worth of readings pls say congratulations to me. i suddenly feel like i am an arts student and i didnt buy all my textbooks cos it was kind of overwhelming i dont stay in hall anymore i haf no strength to lug that kind of loot back home bought my aa201 and aa202 accounting basic texts bought my ab214 comm fund text left out IT and this accounting book that was recommended by seniors because they were just ultra expensive. haha. KIV seriously
and i seriously think that the aa201 text EXTREMELY ENTICING
take a look at this fucking big and fat book enticing seriously. wth
i think i have a very exciting start to the sem
talkplaylove 5:08:00 PM
20080803
this should be the most nostalgic post of the 3 months holiday because this marks the end of the holidays and the beginning of another ferocious battle
well, shall blog abt things that happened for the last week of hols
1) finished tidying up my room, super duper neat now :D just waiting for the bed to arrive on tues and i guess pictures of my room will be up on wed i hope (:
2) watched money no enough with my mum
as usual jack neo films make me cry and laugh at the same time, one moment i was laughing and the next moment i was crying. i seriously think that money no enough was DAMN NICE so people out there stop stereotyping that singaporean films are nt nice and blah blah. GIVE IT A TRY. i rest assure you that you will not regret it
3) went back to NTU for professional photoshoot put full make up for the first time in my life this yr full make up meaning base, foundation, powder, eyeshadow, eyeliner, blusher, lipstick and lipgloss MYGOD. its not as singapore is not hot and humid enoughl. it would have been fine if i was in korea i guess. actually maybe not but anw, i was feeling even more hot den usual with full makeup on and trotting my way back to NTU is nothing fantastic seriously ok, i met lou and den we headed to the place and then i got irritated by the photographer which was just RUDE AND WEIRD he made me sit in such a weird posture and all that i just gave the whatever face and because of that, he asked me whether i understand english like WTH. what a rhetorical and redundant question that is seriously if you don't want to take photo for us don't take la! as if you are the only professional photographer around. RAH anw my big conclusion is my $3.50 spent for that photograph shld turn out weird and fugly. sigh. if its super hideous i guess i will go somewhere else and retake again. shall see
4) outingwith my 4f gang watched mummy 3 tomb of the dragon emperor
utterly disappointing. the previous ones are definitely much nicer. i just felt that the interaction between the actors were just WEIRD, esp the new woman who acts as the rick o' conners wife and the excitement in this movie was just so so. therefore my advice to people out there who haf no time, pls catch money no enough instead of mummy 3
after movie we went to eat at ichiban sushi
above orange was eaten by jingting this was eaten by yunhong, super big diff right. ahahaha happy pic before we left
5) dinner with my NTU mates me, stanley, poh lu and xiaoyuan met up today evening and dined at fish&co. waited super long for my seafood platter. seriously wth i was starving as i watched so many platters zoom past me but none is mine. but eventually i was satisfied after eating my platter. we walked around for a while at ps and den went home
6) finally got my mp3! haha, ya like dragged for so long i finally made my choice and i dont think i regret it (: so... i got the ZEN X-Fi. the sound is seriously superb i love it alot. the noise cancelling earpiece is like WOOHOO but the only pitfall is i carnt hear a single shit once i plug myself in. haha love the drag and drop thing too, i am so going uninstall iTunes soon its like ultimately irritating with its endless updates now the only thing left to do is to wait for the leather case to be out and i will order it online to house my x-fi. WOOOHOOO seriously $229 was WELL SPENT for a 8GB mp4 player and it came with a travel charger too! (:
7) i was in complete agony on saturday night because of the MTV Asia Award apparently miss jingting got VIP TICKETS. i repeat VIP TICKETS to MTV asia award la! OMG. JEALOUS TO THE MAXIMUM. i was damn depressed when she told me she saw super junior in real life and how small eunhyuk face is and how suju walk past her to go to their seats at MTV i was like at home alone staring at eunhyuk's picture in complete agony and that was when i decided I WILL GET MY ASS TO SM TOWN FESTIVAL AT BKK ON 29TH NOV 2008 BY HOOK OR BY CROOK seriously
this is like the reason why i must go! eunhyuk is ADORABLE :D i want to see eunhyuk in real person, see him dance live, see him rap live. OMG OMG OMG and of course the main thing will be my dong bang boys will also be there! HOHO :D and SHINee, secret lovers. it will be good to see them too!
ok enough of the excitement back to why this post is nostalgic because i haf to wake up early tmr morning to start the 1st assignment of the semester can you believe it, i alr have assignment before the sem officially starts suppose to be some pre-writing test the topic at all will be released at 9am and i haf to hand in on tues 5pm THANKS when i saw that email it took me alot not to curse at my luck so this post really marks the end of freedom and joy start of terror and endless readings oh btw i had a glance at the amount of readings i was suppose to do for one of my modules and i was just -__________- ok, i shant complain i shall just pray that i survive through this sem fine.
anw the 3 month hols was good travelling, working, meeting up with friends
i miss korea and bkk alot now i miss yongin everland i miss jeju island i miss authentic korea food i miss seoul i miss cheap stuff at bkk i miss the seafood and durain at bkk
well, at least the memories will stay forever and i hope i can go back to korea again
so cheers to the start of another battle
talkplaylove 11:56:00 PM
20080722
ok, life has been pretty much happening since the last post
1) Shopping day with my mum we went to vivo city to look around btw river island was extremely tempting but i resisted, please appluad for me had lunch at chinatown, frog leg porridge, kind of like a weird timing but extremely enjoyed it went to orchard for high end shopping basically we went to like all the branded shops, LV, gucci, burberry, bottega veneta, loewe, ysl etc saw some things that i liked and there was a sale ongoing for most brands my major pitfall was at ysl where i saw the wallet i have been eyeing at for a considerably long time ad my mum was damn nice she offered to buy that in place of the samsung phone she said the price of the phone will definitely drop, can buy it next time, now can get the wallet first since its kind of a limited edition thing cos its not a classic collection
anw a look at the wallet first, there are more different colours like black and gold but this is the only picture i can find online
my mum is damn nice i know but i rejected her offer because i was confused, like phone or wallet or mp3! and i alr haf such a big dilemma on the mp3 alone. gosh
yeah, so i went home with nothing except like 2 pair of socks that you can wear with pumps. HAHA
2) date with jingting met her at raffles city shoduku my first time there food was good i think but i think it would have been better if a larger group of people went so you can try out more kinds of food we ate until our stomach almost exploded but still we didnt get to try out all and something random we spotted zhengxi at shoduku like how small can the world get after that we went to ps area bought tickets for the red cliff at the cathay den shopped at ps bought a pair of black shorts from dp attempted to go fix my phone, had some prob with my memory card but couldnt cos phone memory would be wiped out and i havent back up alll my contacts are like saved in my phone, so no, didnt get it fixed but the next day my phone is miraculously okay. getting a lil conky
anw. red cliff was AWESOME love it, although some parts was just a lil bit draggy and lin chi-ling voice was super irritating i couldnt take it and then the ending was DAMN, they ended at the most exciting part cannnot wait for the second part to be out seriously
he was super funny in the movie la. haha
and guess what something even more coincidental zhengxi was also watching red cliff at the same theatre, we saw him when we came out. GOSH, how i wish i haf such luck with dbsk/suju but unfortunately no
den we went to orchard, shopped around and then went home i rmb-ed i was super reluctant to go home because the next day i had to work
3) WORK BORING, NOT MUCH SALES as usual many ridiculous stuff happen but i decided i shant be that bad since i no longer work there alr fri was my last day but i knocked off late because i had last min sales and supervisor wasnt around to sign my time sheet when i had to knock off but i did enjoy my time working at the airport i think it's a good environment to work in and i think i learnt quite alot from my job this time. ahha
4) pam lee's bday party on sat night
ok i concluded i put too much concealer on my eyebags that i look kind of sunburnt. hmmm. but anw i dunnoe why the pictures came out with orangey lines that weren't there but yes it was good seeing old friends
we left early like around 10 plus went to kembangan station with george and waited for zhengxi to come pick us up was going to late night movie with zhengxi and yunhong
so zhengxi dropped george at ps den we went to park at paradiz bought tickets for the dark knight, 1:45a.m. at the cathay den we went to laze around at ps starbucks while waiting for yunhong
anw dark knight was superb
but horrifying for me please i was like constantly shocked by their sudden sound effects of the bullets and joker was ultimately horrifying esp the antics that he does and there were some gross scences in my opinion that is RAHHH but ultimately its good the way the filmed the thing and all
after movie we went to simpang bedok for prata like 5am in the morning. totally thanks den after that went home and i zonked out
5) bedok 85 with colleagues went back to t1 on sunday night to meet rena we went to look around at t3 nothing much i think den we went to bedok 85 with another of our colleague to eat bak chor mee, chicken wing, stingray, tang yuan omg, i am such a gluttion but the food was good discussed our thailand trip and we took a midnight cab home
ok, tmr i am going down to collect my pay and i need to pack tmr flying off to bkk on wed morning, super early flight and it would be 5 days of fun at bkk shopping and eating pls hope i bump into dbsk there cos apparently they may hold a press conference, nt very sure and i am too lazy to check out and hopefully i dont overspend again at bkk, just sufficient loot will do
alright, till the next update abt the bkk trip (:
talkplaylove 12:27:00 AM
20080711
i had a taste of what the fastest finger game was like on wednesday seriously i admit i was like TOO SLOW. i was like blur and didnt know i had to press confirm when i click "add courses in stars" IN THE END
fugly timetable for me it ain't exactly THAT fugly apparently my AA202 tcher is good and i am in the same class as lou, some bit of comfort here and my AC213 tcher is good too. btw AC213 is IT so i need all the help i can get and again i know people in my cls like lou, poh lu, shanielle so its NOT THAT BAD on the contrary my AA201 tcher is supposedly to be not good according to sources and the timing is DAMN WEIRD and then there is a VACANCY meaning its kind of like an unwanted slot my AB214 tcher shld be okay since i have not heard anything but i NEEED to switch my AB214 class during add drop in hope of switching to a good AA201 tcher cos the timing OBSTRUCTS EVERYTHING AB228A cls is not so bad because at least i am in the same class as vivien, like the only one and its friday morning, not friday afternoon and it only last for 5 weeks but in overall i think my timetable is kind of sucky considering i have to travel next sem and all unless i cab like almost everyday my best hopes now is to get better slots during the add drop period seriously i conclude the fastest finger game SUCKS. PERIOD
ok the very best thing that i can do to cheer myself up regarding the timetable is that ultimately i still end my exams early and just in time for SM TOWN FESTIVAL CONCERT AT THAILAND AT 29TH NOV! HOHO. i hope joy and jingting can end their exams early or sth happen such that we can all go together!
now moving on the a big dilemma i had since the holidays started WHICH MP3 PLAYER SHOULD I GET?! i keep changing my mind over the holidays so i was thinking maybe readers of this blog can give me SOME help
1) Apple iPod Nano 8GB Red
Why buy? because i have been using the 1st generation and the design is pretty and small plus if i am really going to get it i will have it engraved online so i will have a pretty mp3 player and i have no problems navigating myself since i have been using it
Why don't buy? because iTunes is the ultimate irritant with it not being to read wma files and i have to convert everytime resulting in a bigger file size and hence less storage of songs and i am super lazy i hate adding music to iTunes it gets out of control and hard to manage. in addition you waste your computer storage space by having different file types of the same song plus iPod has NO RADIO, not that i need it desperately but sometimes u just want to listen to the radio when you get sick of your music or sth. plus iPod battery life really sucks like hell and i think i will get myself a travel adaptor if i get an iPod again since the battery runs out so fast plus iPod nano 4GB only comes in silver, a colour which i do not like. cos if i get the nano, the screen is so small i don't think i will put that many videos inside and i wont need 8GB memory, 4GB will be more ideal but i just don't like silver electronics plus iPod's earphones sucks like hell too if you dont keep them properly they just give you bad sound quality like my ipod now and the screen is super small la, strain my eyes only
2) Sony Walkman A728 8GB in either pink or white
Why Buy? Because i have staff discount i can get it at a price that is cheaper than the market, even the airport and i get a leather pouch that is tailor made for it, a LCD screen protector and a travel charger plus the battery life is DAMN GOOD. the best out of all the mp3 players i am considering so far plus i get the 13.5 ex headphones which are in-ear and noise cancelling. i particularly hate to listen mp3 at the bus stop because when the bus comes or sth, you just dont hear your music, i think the noise cancelling ones will make it better plus there is no need for any software, file transferring is drag and drop, in simpler terms u just copy and paste plus there is all the DSEE, clear stereo and blah blah sound technologies that make the music sound better plus the screen is big enough for me to indugle in my videos
Why don't buy? Because it had no radio and the file formats that sony can read is quite restricted, particularly the video part i think i have to convert my video formats or sth if i get this
3) Sony Walkman S616F 4GB in Black/White/Pink/Red
Why get? Because again i have staff discount and i can get a travel charger plus its like the iPod Nano, small and handy plus it has FM Radio, more enjoyment plus the battery life of the player owns any iPod hands down plus there is no need for software, drag and drop plus there is the DSEE and other audio technologies that enhance my songs quality
Why don't get because the screen is smaller than the ipod nano, making it even worse for me to watch videos and the file format issue
4) Creative Zen 8GB Black
Why get? Because it is CHEAP, i can also get it at staff discount since i know the creative promoters, getting it will mean that i am more likely to get my samsung F480 plus i get a travel adaptor too and maybe good earphone-negotiable plus the memory is exapandable with a SD card slot, so i can always put in a 8GB memory card and max it to 16GB or sth plus the resolution of the screen is the best out of all the mp3 players i am considering, good for viewing videos plus it supports many file formats, i think the most out of all mp3 players i am considering too plus it has all sorts of nonsense functions, most impt it has radio, plus voice recorder, organizer and alarm, seriously functions i wont use at all plus u can always change the background of the menu, which means i can have a dbsk/suju background! HOHO
Why don't get Because i do not like the design, its kind of plastic, doesnt feel solid enough and it only comes in black plus i dont exactly find the navigation buttons user friendly plus the battery life for videos is not very good, 5 hours only, sony models are like 10 hours plus i heard my colleagues say that there are some feedback saying that the player hangs sometimes and the startup time of the player is the longest out of all the mp3 players i am considering and there is a new model of zen that is launching soon which is the next model i am considering
5) Creative Zen X-Fi 8GB
Why get it? Because i can get it at staff discount, i hope, its cheap plus there is the X-Fi technology which makes the music sound as if it comes for a speaker which i actually suspect that it may not be very good for long term listening plus the earphone that come with it are in-ear ones which is noise cancelling plus there is a built in speaker so i can blast the music when i feel like it plus the design is a LITTLE bit nicer than the zen model, more solid and not so plastic plus the battery life is a LITTLE bit better than the zen, 36 hrs of music plus the memory is also expandable and the wide file format support and other good advantages that i listed under zen
Why don't get it Because i don't really like the design either, the 9 button thing is like WTH?! plus i don't like the navigation of the zen model, i doubt i will like the navigation of this either plus the battery life of videos is not that good again plus its a new model i am really not sure of what the feedback is like i don't like to be a guinea pig
ok, i hope you get why i am having troubles deciding which mp3 to get anw just to let you know that ipod nano should be the last choices of all, i think now i am waiting for the feedback of the ZEN X-Fi to see how is it, my first choices are probably the ZENs or the sony A728 if you can give my any advice, pls do so on the tagboard. THANKS (:
any work now sucks because there is no crowd. everybody suffers a drop in their sales and i have been doing randomly nonsensical stuff like helping customers add songs into their ipod, changing price tags and spying on koreans SOMETIMES. seriously just sometimes i like try to imagine what i will do if i suddenly see DBSK walking around the boarding area in front of my shop. my best conclusion is i will HECK care everything, even if i am serving some big shot customer and dash towards them and say hi or sth. haha. you see the crowd is like so little that i can fantasize about such NONSENSICAL and IMPRACTICAL stuff fortunately i have just 2 more weeks to go and then i will fly off the bkk with rena where we will have technically 4 days of food, shopping, relaxation, fun and laughter and then SCHOOL WILL START seriously i really dread a semester, it is always frought with work that will never be cleared and then my blog will be frought with endless complaints. its like 4 more semesters to graduation and i have survived through 2. i am just trying to tell myself that i am already almost halfway through so its not so bad. TRYING TO STAY POSITIVE SERIOUSLY
New - How do you get a guy to like you? was highly amused by this. anw this was the result that i got from my first try. PERFECTLY honest and the next few tries resulted in horrible results so i shant say. anw different result comes out if u key in ur name without ur sirname or different format of your birthday or like typing blue instead of electric blue that i typed and so on
ok, to the results of the quiz WHY IS YOOCHUN MY LOVER. i don't want anything scandalous or whatsoever to do with him since i only find him more handsome in real life than what i see in videos or picures. haha and WHY IS JAEJOONG MY HUSBAND. as much as i think that he is good husband material, better than changmin in fact, i still want changmin as husband because seriously he's like OMGOMGOMG. haha i was trying to imagine junsu as a brother and i just carnt help but find it funny. i probably will like laugh almost every minute of my life at this dorky and innocent brother of mine.
and i seriously like their new japanese single. DAMN NICE AND ADDICTIVE! Why did I end up falling in love with you - DBSK [English Subbed and Romanization]
oh anw i bought a canon multifunctional printer on tuesday. visited funan and found it at a good deal. got free items like 30 sheets of glossy photo paper and a targus laptop bag BUT due to the irritating window vista OS which i highly suspect my desktop cannnot recognise the printer driver and i cannnot use it at all except to photocopy stuff and print photos from SD card now. and calling canon was ultimately irritating cos i kept getting diverted to different people although all the people were friendly and nice talking to me and the conclusion was a service man will come down and look at what is wrong on monday afternoon
and i seriously need to do a complete makeover of my studyroom SOON. before the sem starts. its in a complete mess. my loot from korea is like lying around on the floor pls, have no time to tidy it up. SERIOUS. also need to shift some furniture here and there so as to make it conducive for me to study in the room next sem since i wont be staying in hall
ok, a pretty long post. pls give me advice on the mp3 players if you can. i need to get one before school starts. i don't want to die of boredom on the mrt rides
talkplaylove 4:45:00 PM
20080707
going to blog about some of the major events that have happened since the korea trip
1) collected my first pay for the holiday jobs that i have been working, $400+ dollars, not alot but at least to cover up some of the damage done during the holidays
2) went out with jingting like 2 days after i came back for some MOVIE MARATHON. caught the black book and SATC black book was FABULOUS. 5 stars rating please. as usual its war films that have this kind of effect on me but its more on like spies rather than warfare. really superb. i may get the dvd if its out alr SATC was nice too but black book was better for me. haha. and i know i caught SATC super late but i just didnt have the time and the company?
3) clubbed on one wed to celebrate dawn's birthday. beeeen a super long time since i saw the girls. clubbing wasnt really fun. we kind of left phuture at like 2plus. and the great thing was i still had work on thursday la! i almost couldnt crawl out of bed and i was like a living zombie during work. and rena ps-ed me. i had to continue working on friday. so on friday, i went home and ZONK OUT
some pictures taken
seriously this is the best retarded photo u can get of meiting la. haha!
4) i dyed my hair. guess what colour. BLACK. i was kind of sick of the 2 tone hair that i have so time to return to black but i guess i was kind of scared that i have TOTAL BLACK hair so i wanted to at least get some highlights plan was to highlight purple but the hairdresser told me my hair so black, must bleach to see the purple so i highlighted like mahogony in the end, which is kind of purplish red but more of red la i totally have a black helmet sitting on my scalp now. i am serious
5) went out with lou someday to shop. i know i am not suppose to shop but window shopping is afterall not a crime right. didnt find any clothes that i fancied. i guess korea has upped my standards when looking for clothes. but guess what i got that day, a pair of lacoste pumps. been eyeing it for a long time and suddenly that day i couldnt find it, it was either OOS of nowhere to be found so i quickly went to hunt for it and got it
6) suppose to go out with jingting and lishan one day but lishan ps-ed because her phone spoil. that day me and jingting had a huge korean spread of korean bbq and seaweed soup and the other small dishes until we were super full. i am still addicted to korea food seriously. haha. and we watched WANTED that day which is kind of a ridiculous show with a ridiculous ending but some parts are nice but i seriously think black book is the best movie i caught during the holidays
7) laid my eyes on the new samsung F480 touchwiz phone because its SO SIMILAR to the anycall haptic phone that dbsk endorsed. i bet samsung modified it for the singapore market 5MP camera and that user interface! i super cannnot resist la! gosh. i think sooner or later i will just succumb to temptation and get the phone but i am still looking at the prices. but to say the truth, i have alr decided to get the phone now the big question is WHEN. haha and u know my priority this hols was to like change my mp3 player. i need to like burn my apple ipod 1st gen nano in hell alr. its DAMN CUI. i am like listening to conk out music now and then. and if i get the phone i think i will go budget and go for the creative zen but then again i heard that creative is coming out with a new one so i guess i will wait first. haha. many decisions to make
8) met up with shuting today! its like almost a year since i last saw her. it was a short meeting but it was nice to just GOSSIP as usual abt the pple we know. TSK TSK.
9) rest of the days are either spent lazing at home or working. i am super into reading now i have no idea why. nowadays during my 1hr break at work u will find me at the lounge reading. haha. anw i kind of want to share some of the ridiculous stuff that i encountered during work
- initially i was neutral abt the iphone until i got discriminated by this guy at work. so he has an iphone and he came to the shop and asked "where can i find the iTrip?" my first reaction was "what?" seriously i have never heard of it, i am not THAT IT savvy let alone Apple savvy and den guess what he said to me "Can i pls speak to a guy?" seriously fuck. u think girls are not that IT savvy right. FINE. like i want to serve you like that pls. got iphone v big isit. wait till i get my hands on my samsung phone and SOOOOT u back la! and he went around testing the speakers with his iphone and when his songs played, he announce to like the whole shop "this works with iphone!" i seriously think my life is filled with the most ridiculous irritants u can ever find and because of that incident and also of my inbuilt devotion to samsung. i kind of condemn the iphone whenever i can now. haha =x
- some ridiculous guy came up to me and ask whether he could buy a mp4 player that cost less than S$50. seriously. u wait long long maybe one will drop down from the sky and u can get it for free ya. i mean the cheapest mp3 players cost around $70? and u want to get a mp4 player for less than S$50?! has he been like living in a cave or sth. ain't he aware that oil prices are rising? or maybe that guy think that when oil prices rise prices of mp3 players will drop. totally ridiculous
- and if you think the above was RIDICULOUS enough. wait till u read this. 2 guys actually mistook the ipod nano cover, that cost $36 for the real ipod. meaning the player itself OHMYGOODNESS GRACIOUS. i almost fainted when i explained to them its the cover and showed them the real stuff which costs like $222. when can these people ever wake up from their dreams?!
- enough of those people who live in denial. let me talk abt some pple who are like ignorant. some pple really have no idea what the ipod is. actually such ignorant pple think ipod = mp3 players. i have customers telling me " can i have a look at the samsung ipod?" it took alot for me to tell them that the one they are looking at is not the ipod and to show them the real ipod. seriously there is at least 1 ignorant customer everyday. it aint my mission to educate them on mp3 players ya?
- let's move on to the rich. recently i got this rich family who wanted to get ipod but don't know how it looks like. so when we showed them the ipod the father just threw his credit card at us WAHLAO EH. GOT CREDIT CARD V BIG ISIT. need to throw at pple! and then when we ask him which ipod he wants. he just continue pushing his credit card to us. WTF seriously and another ridiculous case i heard from my colleauge. some guy was buying the ipod classic 160GB. and then there was another guy. so guess what the other guy did. he asked my colleague for the exact same thing that the guy got. and when my colleague showed him. he asked my colleauge what is it. why is it so heavy. TELL ME. will u faint on the spot? throwing out like $500+ on something u dont know just because some other person got it? my goodness. pls dont anyhow throw ur money, you want you can like GIVE IT TO ME and rest assure i will put it to quality spending.
- another ridiculous thing i heard was pple mistook portable dvd players for laptops. again pple who live in self denial
ok, i know i am being a complete bitch here but u see these things are absolutely ridiculous to me and if i dont share it i feeel like its being cooped up in me. haha. ok. i know i will get the karma someday and thats all for this post
talkplaylove 11:30:00 PM
20080623
KOREA TRIP 15062008-22062008
WARNING! EXTREMELY PICTURE HEAVY
DAY 1 15062008
met the group at the airport at 0855pm (singapore time) for check-in upon checking in, we roughly walked around the dufry shops at t1 den we took the skytrain to t2 to find shimin, who is working there walked around t2 also me, joy and lou got a shock when some guy at the dufry shop shouted "annyeong haseyo" to us apparently, shimin told him that we were going to korea so much for being secretly happy that we looked like koreans. haha anw time passed super fast, it was time to go back to t1 for departure took skytrain back and ran to our gate upon stepping onto the plane, korea airlines it was the start of korean language bombarbment haha, even joy and lou couldn't understand what they were talking, so i am out of the picture
pictures before taking off
it was a night flight there slept abit but not much although i felt extremely tired from the week's work and all i guess it was all the hidden excitement and anxiety in addition the flight there was FROUGHT with turbulences the fasten your seatbelt sign flashed on and off zillion times during our flight there anw korea airlines didnt have a small tv for you so i just listened to the music watched abit of happy together on joy's viewty stoned here and there ok, shall move on to our arrival at korea
DAY 2 17062008
arrived at the land of korea! wasnt feeling very upbeat since i slept minimal on the plane but still the excitement was there we landed at incheon airport, which is a top ranking airport in the world
the plane that took us to korea
anw i felt that incheon airport was greyish and dull changi airport is still better to me because its more colourful i am seriously honest
we took our baggage and met our tour guide outside he looks like a typical korean guy, standing at 1.63m tall name was Chang Yuan Chang SUPER FUNNY NAME PLS he wanted us to call him xiao zhang, in an attempt to feel young himself anw, throughout our trip he was extremely hilarious and irritating at times. haha
a bad picture at incheon airport due to wrong position and then wrong lighting
the weather was quite cold when we landed, 18 degrees i seriously wondered whether it was summer at all. haha we got onto our tour bus and then xiao zhang started to blabber nonstop there was another guy who accompanied us during the trip his name was Oh Jong Wook i think, nt very sure but we called him xiao wu. haha his job was to help with miscellaneous stuff and to take photgraphs of us he was a super nice guy and we had like many funny moments with him anw back to xiao zhang blabbering nonstop he talked like some things we need to take note of and all and let us sleep, while we head to yongin everland which is the place where the filmed "hong dou nu zhi lian", the show that jang nara acted in yongin everland was situated on a mountain, xiao zhang said tha in the past, the theme park was a place where only the rich people could go since there was no transportation up there only the rich who had cars could make their way there
arrived at yongin everland weather was freezing cold too but xiao zhang said noon time will be 30 degrees so i took off my jacket and brought along my scarf only
entrance at yongin everland
we went inside at 0930 am (korea timing) and took a cable car ride down the hill basically the theme park is divided into 2 parts down hill and up hill
pictures on the cable car ride
upon reaching down hill, xiao zhang took us to the safari world we got onto a bus that was enclosed and drove into the jungle where all the tigers, lions, elephants, giraffees and bears were
some pictures that i attempted to take of the animals on the bus
i like the above picture alot, mr lion looks so friendly i think the bear has super nice fur the bird looks so small in comparison the bear was saying "annyeong" back to the bus driver "annyeong" is like hi in a cute way in korean CUTENESS OVERLOAD
after that we went for this amazon express ride its a water ride which bring you through a 580m long jungle the whole ride was damn funny because some parts you will get splashed with water we were like trying to hide inside the canvas sheet so as to not get wet we screamed and laughed throughout. haha. we totally enjoyed the ride ALOT
after which we went around seeing some other animals more animal pictures can you see joey? i think he looks super sad all caged up but nonetheless, still cute gosh, sleep until like that! he posed for me to take a picture, i'm serious lazy pok
then it was lunch time seriously speaking we were all quite hungry since only ate a feeble meal on the plane
place where we had our lunch
our first meal in korea it was SUPERB (:
after lunch we made our way to the very lovely gardens in yongin it was totally paradise
love all the pictures! they are so pretty (:
then it was our own free time we decided to go challenge the new ride that was only opened this year in march it was called T Express Korea's First WOODEN Coaster " Inclination of 77 Degrees, the highest in the world" "Tremendous speed of 104km/h" no words can describe how scared we actually felt seriously, you will only know when you are at the actual scene the queue was super long, we waited for like 30mins, hearing a zillion koreans screaming their lungs off and then finally it was our turn
on the way up the incline i was seriously slapping myself silently, like why did i subject myslef to this and you realise that except for going down that almost 90 degress incline and screaming your lungs off, you pretty have nothing much to do and i found the following video extremely amusing how did the person fliming this stayed so CALM and didnt scream at all
it a whole video of the ride of t express this is the closest i can get to letting you experiencing the fear i had bascially i screamed so much that when the ride was over, i couldnt close my mouth because my mouth was open and we were travelling on the coaster at such a high speed the wind was blowing fiercely at me my whole lips just dried or more like it froze so i had a hard time closing my mouth after that also when i got off the ride my legs were SERIOUSLY wobbly please couldnt walk straight at all but we all felt proud that we conquered a monster. haha
a picture of the t express
after that we took the cable car back uphill den we went for another ride which is famous in yongin everland it was called eagle fortress an ultra high-speed roller coaster it was not as scary as t express of course it was just super fast and twisty just screamed normally but i enjoyed the thrillness of the ride
den we headed to the gift shops i bought a deer hairband, will show you later and then time was up, we had to get back to the tour bus and head to gimpo airport for our flight to jeju
arrived at gimpo airport with a slight hope that i may see dbsk/suju there but NO haha our flight was 0555pm korea time
super cool right, we actually got to climb up to the airplane!
arrived at jeju at around 6plus korea time the hotel shuttle bus came and picked us up we arrived at Jeju Oriental Hotel put down our stuff and took a walk to a restaurant for dinner
seriously the weather at jeju was SUPER CHILLY i really wonder whether its summer at all and how cold it would be during winter and it rained for the 2 days we were in jeju
dinner was steamboat but no pictures because i was extremely tired from the long day but nonetheless it was super nice and eat until damn full den we took a walk back to our hotel and stopped by a mart to buy water and tidbits for the night we bathed and did the misc stuff and turned in early that night
DAY 3 17062008
we woke up super early like 6am korea time didnt have breakfast at the hotel we went to some restaurant by bus for abalone porridge quite nice but it was quite different from my expectations
after breakfast we took a walk to the yongduam rock basically xiao zhang said that jeju island was formed by a volcanic eruption so what's so special about the yongduam rock is that it resembles a roaring dragon rising from the sea must use a bit of your imagination to see that is resembles a dragon
on the way down does it look like a dragon head to you? the nice sea group photo MA SIWON! haha the cute little statues are supposedly to be the "tu di gong" of jeju. haha i think if womean touch their noses they will bear a son, according to xiao zhang
then we headed to sungsan ilchulbong peak when we got out from the bus, the wind was blowing so strong and weather was extemely misty that it looked like it was raining but actually it was not and we began climbing the peak seriously, its damn tiring to climb when the weather is cold we resembles kim sam soon when she was climbing some mountain. haha we were panting like mad after climbing for some time, we saw some shelter and though that it was the peak alr i was damn happy, climb super fast there only to realise that it was only a pit stop
pictures at the pit stop
and we looked up to see that there was another long flight of stairs up me and lou decided to stop because we were panting MADLY and we were tired
but joy decided to continue climbing up so we waited at the pit stop for her in the meanwhile we spied at countless of koreans and there was like a hoard of school boys i think in korea schools they have excursion for the school kids to climb mountains in order to train their determination actually i kind of like the way they educate the children although it will be quite tiring to climb the mountain its seriously so much better than the fixed education here in singapore but then again, the only mountain available in singapore is like the bukit timah hill? haha
after a very long time, joy finally came down den we went down the mountain together and went to the shops on impulse i bought like 7 packs of chocolates HAHA, i bought those special chocolates that were only available in jeju will try to let everybody i know try them
after that we went for ATV motor car ride we did the ATV ride in the quite heavy rain we were wrapped up from head to toe and i think the ATV ride was more fun in the rain due to the mud splashing and the thrill you get from accelerating your vehicle anw i liked the ATV ride alot like it convinced me that i will be a good driver! haha, secretly praising myself here
pictures! yes that's me all geared up
then it was lunch, KOREAN BBQ!
we ate black pork. my first time eating it but it was extremely delicious basically you wrap the meat inside the vegetables with the sauce plus garlic and any other stuff u want to put and you put the whole thing at a go into your mouth the feeling you get is DAMN SHIOK pls i think this was our most favourite meal throughout the trip we ate ALOT until we were damn full man haha
after lunch we went to Jeju Folk Village, a folk and history museum it is also the filming site of Dae Jang Geum where Jang Geum spends her exile in Jeju learning medicine personally i didnt watch Dae Jang Geum so i was not particularly fascinated with it furthermore it was raining quite heavily so pictures here are minimal
performers there, waved at us heart shape focus of the below pictures is the person in the middle and the building of course. haha
next we visited the Teddy Bear Museum i am sure many of you who have watched Goong will know what this place is so i shant explain further anw the place is SUPER NICE teddy bears overload man we didnt manage to explore finish the place cos it was kind of big and we were given a limited time anw i tried to take as many pictures as possible so here it will be quite image heavy
the time where there was automobiles titanic the first tv broadcast einstein family charlie chaplin snow white & 7 dwarfs tarzan & jane NORMANDY. MY FAVE :D parchuting down on d-day HOHO. we will fight all wars! disneyland elvis presley marilyn monroe the beatles bing ma yong knocking down of the berlin wall many bears more bears and more return of hongkong to china 1997 the futuristic world super happy bear don't you all agree? haha poker bears upclose mona lisa dunnoe who, forgot a korean helped us took this! haha many care bears winnie the pooh! EXPENSIVE LV BEAR. THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE MUSEUM! it costs like approx S$308,021. GOSH the various diff weddings around the world above traditional korean bears (: fashionista bears olden times bears traditional folk village another korean helped us! :D goong bears mr bear says "i'm going to school!" love is all around angelic bear place that sells teddy bears oh, we each bought for ourselves a bear, will show you the pictures later
and then we visited the Magic Road we experienced the strange phenomenon of going uphill when the bus engine was turned off seriously fascinating we also came down and did an experiment we tried rolling a bottle down hill but after rolling for awhile, it rolled uphill by itself HAHA i know why but i wont tell you why you must go and see for yourself :D
dinner was Ginseng Chicken VERY VERY overwhelming cos its like a WHOLE chicken served to you i ate until i almost wanted to puke and i couldn't the chicken tooo much i think guys who can eat alot will lovee the portion that they gave
after dinner we headed back to the hotel visited the E-Mart there, something like our singapore's Giant or Carrefour but seriously much bigger and more neatly arranged bought some stuff there checked out the haptic phone and the previous anycall phone that junsu/anyband endorsed SUPER PRETTTY PLS seriously if the phones are usable in singapore i will seriously consider getting one for myself they have so many colours la and the price wise is quite reasonable too but sadly to say, korean phones used CDMA instead of GPRS so they cannot be used in singapore
went back to the hotel it was kind of early so we decided to camwhore with our animal hairbands and teddy bears that we bought
the bear that i bought! SO CUTE RIGHT! with the deer hairband that i bought from yongin with our hairbands and bear bear family, lou bought the other brown bear, joy bought the goong bear and yes. it was time to sleep!
DAY 4 18062008
ate breakfast at the hotel den we headed to the jeju airport to prepare to fly to Busan the wind that day was super strong we had EXTREME difficulty walking straight towards the airplane seriously i zonked out before the airplane took off anw the flight was suppose to just be 50mins so i slept and then what feels like a VERY LONG TIME to be exact, around 1 and a half hrs later i woke up and found myself still on the plane i was SHOCKED and den i realise that due to STRONG WINDS, we couldnt land in Busan so the pilot is trying to land us in Daegu GOSH, first time in my entire life did i experience this so we headed towards daegu and due to BAD WEATHER again, we couldnt land OHMYGOD. TERRIFYING PLS so the pilot took us back to gimpo airport which is in seoul the flight took FOREVER PLS i was super scared that what if the plane ran out of oil we went to more places den we were suppose to go and the flight was SERIOUSLY bumpy thank god we landed safely in gimpo and our plans were disrupted we were supposed to land in busan and go sightseeing at the donghwa temple plus some shopping at jung angro street but we were back in seoul
and to sidetrack awhile the tour group that we went with consisted of 30 people initially our tour only had like 19 people but last min they decided to merge 2 tour groups tgt, forming 30 the 19 of us took korean airlines the other 11 took asiana airlines so the 11 who took asiana airlines left jeju airport half an hour before us they managed to land in Busan and went shopping at jung angro street while for the 19 of us, we got through an extremely long and terrifying plane ride and we were back in seoul while the other group was in daegu luckily xiao zhang arranged for us to have our lunch first, which was bibimbap and then take the KTS to daegu since there is no more flights available that day for us to fly to daegu KTS is like korean bullet train ok, look at the bright side, at least we got to sit the bullet train not exactly very exciting because i zonked out on the train too. haha some pictures at the train station
reached daegu in the afternoon den we headed to the daegu spa valley which was the highlight of the day but not exciting for me because i was bleeding which according to the schedule i was not suppose to so i didnt get to enjoy the spas except for the doctor fish spa so while the rest of the tour group went up to enjoy i sat at the doctor fish spa pool myself and let those little fishies eat my dead skin SERIOUSLY IT WAS DAMN ITCHY CAN! and you carnt move or else the fishies will go away almost wanted to faint there because there was only my leg and all the fishies just started attacking my leg like free enough said, pictures will tell the whole story
so cute la the icon of the spa valley. haha the doctor fish pond. looks deceivingly friendly attack of the doctor fish LOOK AT THEM ROAR! ITCHY!
in case u think i was exaggerating. you should see lou and joy's feet they came down after they had their spa and there was people with their feet inside the pnd so the fishes were more spread out so their feet was less attacked
SEE THIS so minimal the fishes but still itchy. haha
ok, after all the hooohaaa we had dinner there which was steamboat then after that we also had icecream there buying icecream was quite a hilarious experience because i made my order in korean to the guy and i think the guy wanted to show me that he could talk in english too so he replied me back in english HAHAHA but his english was limited he said SOME english and continued in korean which of course i didnt understand so in the end we did sign language. HAHAHA
and that day was our tour guide xiao zhang's birthday he said that he wanted to feel happy so changed our initial hotel which was 5 stars to a six star hotel which is Daegu Inter-Burgo Hotel the hotel was GOOOOOOD defnitely 6 stars man! enjoyed the night there
DAY 5 19062008
had breakfast at the hotel took some random pictures before we left
then we headed to the donghwa temple which we missed yesterday due to the terrible flight
i dunnnoe whether you all can see this but can you all see that the stones are stacked? koreans like to stack stones, if you take a random stone and stack on the pile i think it will bring you good luck or good results so of course i stacked :D
donghwa temple pictures below haha, you see that little boy wearing all black in the picture? he's in our tour group, 7 yrs old and super cute! you will see him later anw his name was jeremy but lou, joy and me secretly calls him dongdong! HAHA suppose to be 3 eggs but i doubt u can see it washing our hands! hoho! can you see the cute monk a picture before leaving
next we went to the traditional wine museum shan't explain, pictures will do the job
then we walked to our restaurant where we had lunch lunch was hanjeonsik, traditional korean meal on our way there jeremy with heidi! heidi is like a 2 year old baby girl who is super active and cute. haha they look so cute tgt!
little kids! extremely cute too and got 1 kid dye hair one sia different generation alr
pictures of our lunch!
after lunch we headed to maisan provincial park/tapsa temple
a happy picture before we started climbing the mountain
pictures on our way up like this picture! maisan in chinese is ma er san, means horse mountain in english can u see that the mountain resembles the head of a horse? use your imagination pls some big fishes we saw. haha reaching soon! couldnt resist taking picture taking picture with the lion cute little random animals. haha
can you guys see those stone made peaks? they were made manually with stones and they have survived the harshest weather! that is what so special about them super cool right. even typhoon didnt blow them away i was kind of infatuated with washing hand pictures jeremy helps heidi to wash hands. haha can you see the stones stacked up there? i wonder how they did it seriously YAY! finally reached the top. hoho! picture with jeremy :D the dog again on our way down
anw on our way down we were secretly high we blasted korean music and walked down haha. lots of fun having a sing along session in the nature
den we visited the ginseng farm not ginseng, but wheat plants real ginseng plants of course u carnt see the ginseng, they are buried underground
after that we headed to the muju tirol resort where we enjoyed grass sledding and we will be staying at the hotel for the night grass sledding is extremely fun and addictive!
we got like extremely wet so we got to our rooms and change first before we headed for dinner
our room was so nice right! i love hotel tirol! and because during winter people will come and ski the toilet bowl is not an ordinary toilet bowl i forgot to take picture. rah but it has like functions that keep the seat hot so during winter you can bake ur cake on a warmth seat HAHAHA
our nice dinner! lou swallowed like 90% of the jeon herself seriously haha
and i know i was crazy we were on top of a mountain and the weather there wasnt exactly very hot but rather chilly and we just had grass sledding which made ourselves wet so we had to change right but i didnt have clothes to change into so i changed into t-shirt and fbts yes UNDER THAT WEATHER i was reallly freezing
hello kitty shop wasnt open. so sad la went back hotel to put down some of the stuff we bought at the mart anw i forgot to mention that korea is an environmental friendly country when you buy things at the mart right, they dont give you plastic bags one if you want it, you have to pay for them and then u can return the plastic bag to them and get back ur money later the money they collect is actually the cost of burying the plastic bags and all so cool right but sometimes it can be troublesome when you buy alot of stuff
it was the place where they filmed summer scent i think. haha
and more camwhoring at the hotel
and then we bathed and turned in
DAY 6 20062008
breakfast at the hotel itself and some more pictures before we leave to go down the mountain
during winter the mountain will be covered in snow and you can ski! haha
we headed to Sangsoo Herb Land
HAHAHA. do you see what i seee yes. this is the rock as like penis touch different parts got different effects side is wealth, front is baby boy, back is baby girl and so on. haha thousand year old pine tree kind of small for an old tree upclose of the pine tree i think i look so angelic here nice picture lovely couple SARANGHAE!
after herbland we went to Nami Island, the place where they filmed Winter Sonata on our boat ride there took much pains to capture that bird. haha
finally we reached! nobody knows why there was a row of shirt. SERIOUS. even the tour guide nami island was having a book fair there, hence those funny things ard i like this picture. haha SO CUTE! ABCDEFG! GOSH WE SAW A LIVING OSTRICH! nice picture cute little 2-year old also on our tour. she loves me alot la. i am serious. joy and lou can vouch for that. everyday wave to me. haha heidi! nice jump shot take by our photographer. on his first try can! the below photos shows how NOOOB i am the below again taken by our photographer the series of jump shots photo landed us with FANTASTIC nicknames by xiao wu seriously SLAP SLAP in case u were wondering, the sun was BLAZING i was feeling goofy mr elephant looks like he wants to eat up lou or sth leaving nami island
headed to Dongdaemun Market! it's Korea's largest wholesale and retail shopping district the picture below was the closest i can get to Mnet. haha
anw i went bersek at dongdaemun i landed myself with 10 shirts and 1 skirt with the 2 hours time we got to shop there pls applaud me of course there are no shopping pictures didnt even have time to stop and eat or go toilet alr of course no pictures la! haha after shopping at dongdaemun we went for shabu shabu dinner on our way there to the dinner place, saw some car accident/strike. i have no idea
see the bus there? its actually the buses mobilized to control the crowd from a strike
after dinner we checked in at seoul garden hotel me and joy went out again to buy some groceries i drank starbucks green tea frapp which was much more expensive than singapore but i decided to give it a try and see the taste and arrived at the conclusion that it tastes the same so don't drink starbucks in korea pls. ahha den we had some crazy idea of calling up junsu's father pizza shop but didnt work out in the end slept quite late was awoken at around 4am joy vomitted so i gave her some pills den continued sleeping till morning
DAY 7 21062008
it was a super busy day in seoul morning we had traditional chinese breakfast of porridge and side dishes very normal after breakfast we headed to the Ginseng Monopoly Showroom xiao zhang manage to get us to the main outlet which he says is much better than the chain outlets but nah wasn't interested in getting ginsengs no pictures allowed at the showroom so haha, carnt show you any of the good ginsengs i bought like 5 boxes of citrus tea and 6 big packs of seaweed there haha, yes i was insane i bought so much until it was enough to pack it up in a box pls applaud me once again
after that we went down the building for kimchi-making session
in our aprons all ready to make kimchi that's xiaozhang btw. and sidenote. he only wore that nice that day because we had to go to the ginseng monopoly showroom. its some rule or sth la. other days he was in polo's and khakis pls. haha joy doesnt look sick at all. if i were here, i dont think i can even force a smile. lol ok i know this picture doesnt look like me but well. i dunnoe what happened
after that we got to wear hanbok, traditional korean clothing
i think i look suagu-fied with the hat/cap or whatever u call it yes, i was mischevious. i wore the guy's hat i really think i look demure here? haha
after that we drove past the presidential blue house where the korean president resided in but sorry no pictures allowed so let's move on
we then went to the Changdukgong Palace
the weather was blazing hot that i didnt even felt like taking a picture
BLAZING HOT! i couldnt even open my eyes for the photo. anw with our zodiac signs. DRAGON BABIES (: see that poky stuff there? try to guess what's that for! haha ask me if you want to know. lol it was damn hilarious, she kept picking stones from the ground and giving it to lou a proceeding showing how an emperor moves from one place to another i was like amused by their fake beards
yes no photos of me with the palace at all. TOO HOT
den we had lunch i just rmbed i loved the bamboo rice and we drank some weird drink that taste like ribena haha
after lunch we went to like this place which is like the "orchard road" of korea went bersek there despite being allowed like 1 hr plus to shop landed myself with many cosmetics products 3 leggings 4 tees from BANC, i just couldnt resist myself you see, dbsk and suju endorsed this brand before
den we headed to COEX Mall, an underground shopping complex went BERSEK there AGAIN we were only allowed 50mins this time but guess what i got myself 2 shirts from Polham the 1 of the shirt yunho wore before and the 2 shirts are in the movement to support eco friendly you should know the shit but they are super cute and then i got myself a tee from Buckaroo, since its like minnie's fave brand now i must get myself something from there too right! and then i got myself a logo tee from Evisu, a brand that siwon endorsed before i even helped myself to a magazine of siwon. hahaha once again applaud me for being able to buy 4 shirts when allowed with 50mins only
i was quite sad that there was not enough time cos apparently i think there was a CD shop and i would have bought some albums there if i had more time SIGHS
then we went to Lotte World, the filming site of Stairway to Heaven
can you see the date? so nice! and some pictures of the parade below we manage to catch the parade! xiaozhang told us where to stand and we had a good view. haha
anw dinner was by ourselves i had jajeoungmyoung for dinner. sorry dunnoe how to speel in korean. haha
after that we went to sit the monorail that goes one round around lotte world lotte is split into indoor and outdoor parks actually
ONLY 13. oh yes. haha. only suju fans will know what it means. took this scribbling while queuing for the monorail.
pictures i took on the monorail
another random scribbling picture
we left lotte world at like 9plus at night headed to our hotel which is the Seoul Grand Hilton Hotel GOSH, damn pretty pls. it's definitely worth the 6 stars but sadly enough we didnt get to enjoy the hotel much because a few of us on the tour group went for more late night shopping and yes we took our first taxi ride in Seoul xiaozhang said that taxi rides in seoul is not for the faint hearted and HE WAS RIGHT the meter jumped like nobody business and we hopped on the high end cab, like ther merz cab in spore so it was more expensive than the normal ones and me joy lou and another guy called min thought that the cab driver drove like a turtle although i did ask the cab driver to drive fast in korean HMMMMMMM haha, anw we went back to dongdaemun to shop
2nd time at dongdaemun wasnt really that fascinating din buy as much stuff i splurged on an expensive hairband one top that is quite expensive but it looks unique face rollers, hope that using them will make my face smaller. haha and a pair of sneakers that i like alot anw the sneakers range in korea is like WOW everlast there is damn pretty la, spore's designs are too boring seriously but its also bloody expensive i cannnot afford so i bought this pair of sneakers with star designs, cost around $40+ quite worth the deal
took cab back at around 2+ this time we hopped onto a normal cab and then we realise why there is a price difference firstly, the normal cab didnt on the aircon it was natural aircon secondly, the normal cab was blasting techno music the merz cab we took played like slow music thirdly, the normal cabdriver broke almost all the traffic rules as possible and drove SUPER recklessly lou was like complaining that she was having a headache from the techno music and unstable driving
anw on our way back to the hotel we encountered a strike so we had to take a detour eye opener like saw some people protesting far away or sth
ok back to lou and the techno music the cab driver is like in love w techno so he kept blasting den we came to this traffic red light and the music stop lou was like "let me enjoy this moment of peace" haha, so i kind of closed my eyes since i was super tired den after what seems forever, i opened my eyes and find us to be at the same traffic light surprised, i said " dont you think that the traffic light is taking FORVERE?" and at the same time i finished my sentence, the techno music began AGAIN lou was like blaming me for starting the techno music again i laugh until i die la. haha i dont think u will find this funny but if u were that at that moment, it is damn funny la pls
reached back hotel bathed and pack slept at like 345am
DAY 8 22062008
was woken up by Summer Dream we had a nightmare of dunnoe how many rounds of Summer Dream (song by dbsk) cos apparently joy forgot to off her alarm and went to the toilet, instead she snoozed or sth me and lou were still in bed and imagine some song ringing for dunnoe how many times at like 6plus in the morning we seriously had a nightmare from the song
anw we dragged ourselves out of bed, got dressed and den went for breakfast at the breakfast place we bought the korean utensils
den we went to the amethyst factory place where they sell purple gems i was seriously tempted BUT I DIDN'T BUY pls applaud me for resisting the temptation even when the person offered me a SUPER GOOOD discount
den xiaozhang brought us to the faceshop again where i splurged on MORE cosmetics bought like 30 packets of masks 10 packets of eye masks 1 purple mascara 1 purple stick eyeshadow if we stayed longer i may buy down the whole shop
den we went to Sincheon market which is nu ren jie, place where u find mostly women shopping again i bought myself stuff 2 bags, 1 fake longchamp haversack and 1 plain bag for next sem use 1 pair of suspenders and a dress anw the dresses at korea are all damn expensive all like $90 and above i saw this dress that was quite unique and going for $30+ so i immediately bought it haha wanted to get albums but sigh there wasnt the ones i wanted
anw some more fangirlism here, something i saw at sincheon suju endorsed skinfood! eunhyukie's signature!
after that we went to this big grocery store supposedly to buy tidbits but i didnt see anyone that i fancy there was free service of packing ur stuff into boxes so i packed all my loot into one huge box u will be surprised at how big the box was and it contained all my loot but sorry no picture
den finally it was time to say goodbye to korea we left for Incheon airport
RAH, really i was reluctant to leave korea
we took a photo with xiao wu, our photographer before we left see how conveniently we ignored xiaozhang xiao wu was way nicer anw, he took photos for us and made it nicely into albums i bought from him my photos for like S$120 VERY EXP I KNOW i even had to borrow money because i didnt have enough but he did a super good job on the photos and he was super nice to us so i bought them
ok, last picture of Incheon airport before we leave
pictures on our plane ride back she's damn adorable! seriously she made me love kids during the trip but somehow i think once i'm back in spore, i will go back to my "kids sucks" mode we shall see my cute bear! he was kind of tortured by thr 2 little babies during the plane ride so he looks kind of sad here pictures before landing at singapore
and yes, that pretty much concludes our korea trip and guess what, when we came back, joy told me on monday that actually dbsk had a flight at Incheon airport THE SAME DAY WE LANDED at 840am SO THEY WERE ALSO AT THE SAME PLACE AT AROUND THE SAME TIME! i was damn sad la so near yet so far seriously RAH RAH RAH nvm, i believe we have more chances of seeing them next time
in conclusion korea was damn good loved the food alot alot people got sick of korean food towards the end but i didnt haha and i manged to converse in korean! there were some funny episoides but still i enjoyed talking in korean to the koreans! haha haha and if you manage to read till here thanks alot for being so patient with this picture and word heavy post! will update about the week another day!
